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In my story, he was not really fired. But a new hire in my company was handed his computer. Seeing it was on Windows, he asked to work on Linux instead. IT told him that Windows was mandatory so he resigned on the spot.
Based af, but he didn’t even enjoy the burrito he ordered for lunch :(
There’s a famous story at my job about this.
The hiring team kept saying they had trouble finding designers and developers because nobody wants to work on a Windows computer.
And the owner went. “So why are we forcing everyone to use windows?”
And then one department pointed fingers at another, to another, to another. Apparently a decade ago, some IT dude got Microsoft kickbacks and left the company. The next month, the whole “Microsoft” rule faded away and now my department is running Linux laptops, the designers and devs have their macs, and the accountants are using windows.
Yeah, the guy in my story was to be a developer as well. Clearly it’s way more confortable to work on Linux. The justification in my company is that the security protocols are already built for Windows so they don’t want to redo the job on Linux. Handling to OS’ would increase their work load.
I wish I had the half the resolve of that man. I had the choice between two evils, windows and mac, which resulted in me getting a mac, mostly out of curiosity. I hate it
When I joined up at my current job, they asked whether I wanted a Linux or Mac laptop. I, of course, took the Linux laptop. The recruiter laughed and said “no one ever picks Mac.”
Now Macs are the only option because the IT department doesn’t want to run any tool other than JAMF.
What boggles my mind is one of the execs who was there long before I was. He selected a Mac, then used Parallels to run Windows on it.
I also use a mac at work after being offered a choice between that and Windows. I hate it. But the MacBook Pro they provide is objectively more powerful than the HP windows laptops they provide, so here I am.
I switched to Mac about 15 years ago because I started writing iOS apps and you can only do that on a Mac. As a lifelong Windows user I was initially pretty dubious, but I soon came around. Now I hate MacOS and Windows equally.
and you can only do that on a Mac
Why is that?
Windows and Apple both desire 100% control over their ecosystems l, including custom tooling and languages that may not exist elsewhere.
Reliance on other people’s stuffeans less reliance on the OS provider. Hence why they have competing, well everything.
That’s laughable. Windows does not demand 100% control over their system. Windows is a you think you can do it let’s see you go ahead and do it and fuck shit up. And when you do fuck it up you’ll have a much more difficult time fixing it. On Linux it’s a yeah go ahead fuck shit up Good luck here’s a log should be easy to fix it but you got to make it work in the first place. On a Mac it’s you’ll get it from this space install it in this way or you won’t use it at all.
To sell more Macs
I was hoping for a technical explanation.
I can cross-compile on Linux to Windows.
Why must i develop for Mac on a Mac?You can develop the app (as in write the code) on any platform but Apple made it so iOS apps can only be compiled from Apple devices. There’s no particular technical reason I’m aware of just they’ve designed their proprietary compiler that way and haven’t released it cross platform.
I don’t mind using a Mac at work. It’s just a BSD with a proprietary UI; it’s close enough if that’s the choice IT gives me.
I thought that’s how it would be too, but I’ve got to admit that the UI gets on my nerves much more than I expected.
Sounds like a man who has never been so disgusted in his life.
That’s a first round interview question for me
A new, young PC technician was hired and from the get go he was practically blowing himself with claims he’ll be promoted quickly, he could do the job of 2 people, nobody works harder than him. Less than 2 months into the job someone calls the dept asking where he is because he was supposed to swap out a PC for a director at an off-site location. His manager called his cell and asked where he was. He told em he was just finishing up Cathy’s PC and he’ll be back on site.
Manager: “Cathy just called me asking why you haven’t shown up yet. So I’ll ask again…where the hell are you?”
Turns out he was hung-the-fuck-over and napping at home. He got canned very quickly.
The people that scream the loudest about being hard working or intelligent usually aren’t. If someone is good at something, they don’t need to point it out.
Or they feel so much imposter syndrome that they keep quiet.
I mean I am probably not even good enough to have imposter syndrome, its probably the Dunning Kruger effect.
The people that scream the loudest about being hard working or intelligent usually aren’t.
Oh absolutely 110%. I could count on all my and your fingers and toes the number of coworkers I’ve had who spent half the day walking around chitchatting that they were the hardest worker, first in last out…they undeniably never were.
No later than 2 weeks ago a new marketing guy thought the best thing once he got his laptop was to start a thread of memes on Teams with everybody. People were already leaving left and right when I started paying attention to it. Unfortunately for him, when he sent an animation of a cartoon character doing a nazi salute I called him out on it saying that’s not ok, the HR manager was still in the thread. Dude lasted half a day on this job.
I used to work in a large fishing ship as an engineer, there I became an atheist. Once there was a huge storm and we had to balance the ship to make sure it wouldnt roll, the guy who had to do it was praying and didnt have time to balance it, we almost died because he had mandatory pray time. From than we had a rule that there is no religion on the ship, once we come back to land than you can believe.
From what I hear of Islam on e.g. fasting it tends to be quite a practical religion. I’d not be surprised if that guy could in fact have not been praying at that moment and still stuck to all the teachings of his religion.
Yeah this is not at all how praying works in Islam. Of course you don’t pray if you’re practically unable to do so safely.
It is also considered a sin if you choose to fast under circumstances that put your health in danger.
Apparently (I’m not a scholar but was curious) in dire situations that require immediate action they could’ve prayed while helping out, even shortening it out as long as the short (verbal?) prayer is done in honesty and the situation absolutely demands it. Apparently it’s even outright disallowed to not safe yourself or others during life-and-death situations even if it prevents you from the mandatory prayer because preserving people’s lifes and your own tops those rules, at least that’s what I read so far. If that boat story is actually true that person probably was a dipshit who happened to break his own religion’s rules.
Also looked up fasting: There seems to be even more leeway on that. Just do it later if you can’t do it right now due to illness or similar, or pay “fidyah” (give poor people money for food). Though I’m kinda curious how it’s handled when someone is too old to fast but also poor as fuck, not a situation where you’d want to also feel guilty about this.
There are different disciplines in that religion
Sure. I’m skeptical that any of those disciplines except perhaps extremely minor, strict ones teach that you have to continue praying, in your knees, in an emergency.
The sea is your only god here
Nobody gets a jackoff closet. But no one ever asks for that.
Earn your own office and close the door. Ez.
This guy was only a “new co-worker” because I was the new employee, but: my first day on a new job I watched a guy get escorted out of the building by security carrying his shit in a cardboard box. His story ended up on the local news. Turned out he was running a prostitution ring from his office, using his work computer even. He had an 800 number that redirected to his office phone, and he kept track of his girls and customers on an Excel spreadsheet on his Windows desktop. The only reason he got caught was that the company upgraded everybody’s computers, and they had techs check through all the old machines to make sure no important documents got deleted, and they found “CallGirls.xls” or something like that right on his desktop. Security through dumbassery.
Stories like this piss me off because they convice me that i would be an absolutely incredible criminal; did this dude not know about usb-sticks?
did this dude not know about usb-sticks?
Even before that, dude didn’t even try to make it look plausibly legitimate so it didn’t invite suspicion for when someone inevitably stumbled on the file.
Dude was definitely never a kid with only shared access to a computer, that’s for sure…
Could have named it GroceryList.xls and would probably still be working there 😂
Any mid to large size company has the USB ports of their desktop PCs disabled, disconnected or even glued shut. At least the ones that take security seriously.
I can’t imagine doing my job with a computer like that. I need to be able to plug in scanners and label printers and other specialty equipment and swap out peripherals as they break like how would that even work?
Normally those are pre-approved by IT and you wouldn’t be the one swapping those out. You would put in a request saying hey this item is broken can you please troubleshoot it and somebody would come out troubleshoot it and swap it out as needed.
Then IT needs to be onsite 24/7 and that’s just not realistic for a looot of places. Especially not rural med but I’m in in a hospital in a mid to large size city I’m just in 50 bed or so location that’s in a part of the city nobody GAF about.
I do a lot of work for a hospital system in the intermountain West. They do have rural locations. And they do have IT stuff that is on call 24/7 at every single one of their locations. So it’s not unheard of it’s not unusual it’s pretty normal. I do a good chunk of the work I do for them which is mainly network and systems upgrades as well as Wi-Fi and access points. And I do most of it overnight with one of their IT staff.
I know someone who got his dream job in Brazil. His plane landed and he asked his local host where he can get some halal lunch. He was told that there didn’t seem to be any halal food options in the city that’s the host knew of. Guy got on a same day flight and flew back home. This was 20 years ago.
Left the dream job? Bro, just cook at home. Damn.
If they’re eating halal for reasons they dont seek to change (religious or otherwise) it can be extremely difficult to “cook at home” because you need to secure halal food sources, which if there aren’t even any restaurants with halal food, it may be extremely difficult to secure halal ingredients
Fish, seafood, fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, legumes like rice, wheat, beans, and lentils … all default halal, no?
I have no idea. Wikipedia says
Made, produced, manufactured, processed, and stored using machinery, equipment, and/or utensils that have been cleaned according to Islamic law (shariah).
i don’t know enough about Islamic law to say whether or not are default halal. They could be. I dunno!
Its not just cooking style, it starts with how the animal is butchered IIRC
If I got my dream job and it required me to be a pescatarian, vegetarian, or vegan: my diet would change immediately.
I get liking meat but damn.
If your job asked you to eat dog would you do it?
Because thas what your asking.
Halal isn’t a preference, its a standard for how meat is killed and prepared all the way to your food to your plate.
I think you got the post you’re replying to completely backwards.
They’re saying in that man’s shoes, they’d adopt a diet like pescetarianism or become vegan, which would allow them to practice halal even without needing dedicated halal meat sources.
That’s a very poor strawman analogy.
A better analogy is, if your dream job said you could no longer eat steak or chicken, would you do it? If your dream job required you to eat a vegan or vegetarian diet, would you?
OP wasn’t suggesting that the person eat non-halal meat, they were suggesting they just don’t eat meat.
Yeah i missed that, but that’s still a huge ask of people, and they have the privilege of being able to do that…
The privilege of being vegetarian or vegan would probably increase the health of our society quite a bit, as well as our environment if everyone adopted that standard.
Either way: if I’m getting my dream job out of it I’ll go full vegan gluten free hard mode yo.
There’s a simple way to sidestep that issue
Give up your morals?
I think they meant going vegan?
What city would that be? In São Paulo there’s plenty of halal restaurants, in Rio there’s a couple. In other parts of the country could be more difficult.
Were those halal options operating 20 years ago? Because this is an old story, and the guy really couldn’t wait that long for lunch.
If you can understand a smoke break, you can understand a prayer break. It’s not that hard.
I think we shouldn’t have smoke breaks, but non-smoke breaks instead…
And if smoke breaks are allowed, have a snack break
I used to lie and ask for a smoke break and go have a snack outside
I used to get fresh air breaks.
It was at some point, I worked at jobs that didn’t give a shit if you disappeared for 15-30 minutes every hour, as long as you got your shit done.
I recommend everyone find those jobs.
Yeah, seems to be what I have found. Small companies with a skilled workforce so far in my experience have been the best.
Absolutely! Everyone wants to knock on small office jobs. The Office TV show is was a great example. Half the time it’s people doing enough to keep the company running. The other half was dumb shit. Nobody was tracking your piss times or micromanaging how many M&Ms you ate.
But I absolutely had my ass micromanaged when I was working in a warehouse or a restaurant.
i’ll be damned, prayer does work
I worked in phones a decade ago and a new hire that I thought was cool lasted a week. I got a callback from a foreign client that was just hung up on after being slurred and insulted for not speaking fluent English by the new guy. We had call recording. It was very awkward to have to tell my boss about it and unfuck the client relationship.
A newly onboarded guy told everyone over lunch that the next day was going to be a bank holiday where he is from, so he won’t come in to work. We told him that it’s not a bank holiday around here. He became quite upset about this. Then the line manager got wind of that.
He didn’t turn up the next day… or on any day after that.I was training a new hire. She was good, better than me in some respects.
But one day she came in and did no work, just sat there shaking… insisting she was fine.
Turns out she was tweaking, she came in high.
She was given a final warning but then she came high again and was fired.
I worked in a restaurant where a server would shoot up in the bathroom before her shift. She didn’t last long.
That’s funny, considering how many people have told me that most of the people in food service are high due to how stressful it is. Maybe heroin isn’t the drug of choice, though.
Weed. It’s easy to just hit a pen in the bathroom, and it relaxes you without making you literally incapable of doing the job. I’m sure other drugs are common in food service too, but the one I saw regularly was weed.
I worked as a tester for an embedded system, and there was a whole team of us. Our work was handed out in these big 3cm thick packets of testing sheets, with tables and graphs and instructions on how to test the system to make sure the code was safe for production.
A coworker was evidently not wanting to do his work one day, and “finished” a packet the same day it was handed to him. Now a single page of those tests could easily take you a half hour, assuming the arcane instructions were even clear to you. And miraculously, every test was a pass, which was really strange because projects at that company typically had to go through dozens of rounds of testing before we’d be done.
He “quit” before the next day.
Worked in a lab where this lady sat down to read some SOPs and within an hour said “I’m not feeling it” and quit in that moment.
Lol I love it when this happens- title actually fit this time (just my app being silly btw, nothing to worry about on your end)
i love looking at old pictures of people pointing at signs and imagining them making that wojack face
