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No, recruiters.

I do not want to be part of a “challenging” team.

I’m in my mid-50s. I want to be part of a “mature” team, a “powerful” team with a large and well-managed “throughput”, a “structured” team that knows how to use processes to quickly and accurately handle the Same Stuff Happens Every Week so that when someone else comes screaming in with their ass on fire babbling about something someone else broke and We Need To Document This Thing NOW NOW NOW, one or two of us can calmly turn from our current tasks, neatly and quickly handle La Emergencia, and calm the panicked person’s heartrate without raising our own.

I’m old. Fuck “ambition”. I just want a good paycheck and no dumbass “this REALLY could have been avoided” hasslepanic.

—@thelaughingmuse

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Get in fedizens, we’re doing Wednesday. And I haven’t done one of these in a little while.

First, welcome to all the new people checking out the fediverse by way of Mastodon and of course Lemmy and KBin. I know a lot of you are coming from Twitter once again, and while I think you and the communities you’ve built deserve way more than death by a thousand fuck-ups, I think you will be able to make a home here.

Second, I’m glad the Fourth is over. The fireworks have been going on here since over the weekend, and really, people who insist on setting them off for days seriously annoy me at this point. I mean hell, we’ve had absolute shit air quality here and you want to fucking add to it because muh freeeeeedom!? To say nothing of all the damn noise. Also you probably spent two-weeks’ salary on them and in less than 5 seconds you’ll be complaining about how expensive gas or groceries are.

Also, 303 Creative. I’m still furious about it, and I’ll probably write all my thoughts down in an article later because it’ll take way more than 500 characters to address. And no, it will not be civil.

Maybe some baseball later on today, and also, it’s hot out there Mr. Bigglesworth. Air quality seems to have calmed down though so there’s that.

40° 47.4 N -77° 51.007 W

87 °F Scattered Clouds