Grumpy Old Man
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@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
I have someone trying to sell me some onboarding process shit
How exciting!
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@nostrildamus yep, I read the first 2 lines of about, who knows how many lines, several paragraphs anyway.
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@Smudge said in Grumpy Old Man:
@nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:
@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones LinkedIn is like Facebook, but less trolls
not sure what your view of LinkedIn is like, but it seems to be turning into over hyped up self-marketing "Metaverse Dreamcaster" "GenAI early career pioneer" etc
A guy I know has his description as "unwinder of thorny issues". Yuck.
I joke my last role title should ahve been 'professional coffee drinker' mixed with 'firefighter'
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less "Grumpy Old Man" and more probably sad/out of touch old man, but, has the internet, and the ability to access everything, everywhere, all at once, robbed kids of the excitement of a new "scene"?
I watched an (admittedly poor) documentary on the rise and fall of the Seattle and Grunge bubble last night. Brought back huge memories of those days as a 15/16 year old discovering all these bands, watching literally everyone get a copy of Nevermind/Ten (while the cool kids like me had Badmotorfinger and Facelift). Flannel. Docs. It was new and exciting and most importantly, shared.
I consider myself lucky to have seen 3 distinct (possibly 4 if you count Nu Metal) musical/cultural movements emerge, Grunge, the rise of Hip Hop and Hip Hop culture, and at the end of the 90s (in NZ anyway) the emergence of DJ culture, and house/trance/dance music.
I guess my question is, do these things happen any more? Is there just so much fucking content, and the ability to access it so easily, that there is no chance of it happening any more, and the shared experience is dead? I have kids of the right age, but i do not see it there. My eldest listens to modern hip hop, absolutely loves it. But nothing these guys are doing is new in any way. And there is no extended culture around it.
Has music been over taken as the main social driver by, say tik tok? And is this totally fine and i am just a sad old Gen X-er reminiscing about a youth lost? Or are our youth missing a possibly important social phenomenon that genuinely connects them to others at a crucial time?
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@mariner4life Definitely an Old Man Rant
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you must have enjoyed the emergence of swing music and the revolution that came with it.
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@mariner4life to go to your point - shared experiences are largely dead. Linear TV is dead. Limited music chioces on the radio are gone. It's the new society where everyone is living with their own, curated information feeds.
Is it better? Dunno - but grumpy old man me says damn kids get off my lawn
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@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
Jazz is the original grunge for all the cool cats.
I was thinking of posting that grunge apart from the introspection and angst wasn't all that original but figured you were already disappointed enough.
fuck here we go
Nothing is ever really new. just arranged in a slightly different way.
I'll take my discussion elsewhere.
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@mariner4life said in Grumpy Old Man:
I'll take my discussion elsewhere.
That's one kid removed from @nzzp's lawn...
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@Smudge said in Grumpy Old Man:
@nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:
@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones LinkedIn is like Facebook, but less trolls
not sure what your view of LinkedIn is like, but it seems to be turning into over hyped up self-marketing "Metaverse Dreamcaster" "GenAI early career pioneer" etc
A guy I know has his description as "unwinder of thorny issues". Yuck.
i.e. a real prick?
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@mariner4life said in Grumpy Old Man:
Has music been over taken as the main social driver by, say tik tok? And is this totally fine and i am just a sad old Gen X-er reminiscing about a youth lost? Or are our youth missing a possibly important social phenomenon that genuinely connects them to others at a crucial time?
I totally get where you're coming from. The distinction between audio and video is completely blurred even if kids like my daughter are using headphones a large part of their waking hours. Maybe that all started with MTV. Now that it's all hand-held and - as you say - readily available, it becomes even easier to consume.
We might have had walkmans, but the batteries ran out on those fuckers, and you couldn't carry unlimited CDs and / or cassettes.
Growing up in rural NSW we didn't get an FM station until the late 80s. We had 2 TV channels until about the same time.
The nearest music store was 50km away and who could afford new-release tapes anyway?But when you got hold of one it was eye-opening. Appetite For Destruction was a fucking revolution. That's what kids miss out on these days: sustained wonder. They access, consume, and move on from shit way faster than we ever did - because they can!
People can just produce their own music or film now on a laptop and an iPhone and get it out on YouTube. Grow your followers. Get the likes. That's your job now.
There is so much more variety and genres are always emerging. So much information...
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@nzzp said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Smudge said in Grumpy Old Man:
@nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:
@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones LinkedIn is like Facebook, but less trolls
not sure what your view of LinkedIn is like, but it seems to be turning into over hyped up self-marketing "Metaverse Dreamcaster" "GenAI early career pioneer" etc
A guy I know has his description as "unwinder of thorny issues". Yuck.
I joke my last role title should ahve been 'professional coffee drinker' mixed with 'firefighter'
Isn't it funny how that's what you get the most credit for? Fixing fuckups I mean. They might even be your own fuckup, but when the shit hits, people are more thankful for fixes than the stuff you work on that never breaks.
Mrs TA sent me this - pretty much sums up what I do but without the "Power BI" bit:
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
The best Grunge band wasn’t even from Seattle. They were from San Diego
STP?
You got it. Have had a real period of rediscovering them lately, fuck they are good
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@nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:
@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones LinkedIn is like Facebook, but less trolls
not sure what your view of LinkedIn is like, but it seems to be turning into over hyped up self-marketing "Metaverse Dreamcaster" "GenAI early career pioneer" etc
I've got two jobs on Linkedin, just not for me but for friends/colleagues.
I quite often get contacted by recruiters or the organisations themselves about jobs. I always respond just in case I need them in the future and will give them the details of people I know who are looking at moving on.
I've never been contacted while I've been looking for work though.
Luckily in my sector of work the wanky stuff isn't too prevalent.
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
End of year conversation with the boss yesterday. Some Senior managers - who I barely interact with - saw me having a grumpy day or two, so they wanted to give me an adverse performance review.
My boss said "no" to his credit, as the work I produce is top notch - which nobody disputes. But it came with a warning.
I've figured out I'm just a grumpy old man who has been at the same place for 17 years, and need a change. After all, the top notch work I'm producing to help them drive change is not being used by them to drive change, which is extremely frustrating.
Haven't touched my CV since 2015. Yeesh.
My boss, the CEO, missed out on a hefty part of his bonus due to not meeting KPIs for the smooth running of corporate boards and sub-committees. This was due to the fact the secretariat staff left and the CB wouldn't allow the immediate hiring of a replacement due to EOFY reasons. Every other KPI, especially the ones to do with finance and regulatory compliance were massively exceeded yet they focussed on a slightly late agenda and docs for a meeting.
What was worse was that the main owner was willing to pay the full bonus but the Academic Board chair (I've discussed having issues with her on here) led the charge against it and managed to rope in another board member so it wound up taking 50 minutes to discuss.
Anyway CEO threatened to walk over it and they renegotiated a non bonus contract at a much higher rate to keep him happy.
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@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
Anyway CEO threatened to walk over it and they renegotiated a non bonus contract at a much higher rate to keep him happy.
Legend.
Another reason I'm considering a move is one of my team resigned recently. Very specialty area he works in, and he's fucking good at it, even if he isn't a raucous self-promoter like some of the useless fucks in the teams around us.
After he accepted he gave me the whole story:
- Trying to get a pay raise for 4 years above the company standard %
- Working his arse off in a niche field to ensure stuff worked
- Wanted more clarity around his role and to move onto stuff outside BAU
- He was on $X in his current job. The new one added 26% on top of $X with more responsibility
Our lot tried to keep him and came back to match the new figure which is more than I'm getting (!), but wouldn't give any more clarity about the role. He couldn't pass up the opportunity (which I'd also pointed out to him don't come along often in his field), so he walked.
I'm not the kind of person to say "pay me this much or I'm out" because you have to follow through on it
and I'm lazy.But AI is the current buzzword, so I'm going to wait until I get my September bonus, do a bunch of AI courses in the meantime, and bullshit my way into the pay bracket I deserve.
