Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Maxperson]

"No, we gotta fire Who!"

Last time I saw Who, he was getting to first base. Check there.

 

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[Umbran]

If someone asks you to be a project manager, even in passing, even if they're just dropping a hint, immediately flip the table and run. Run away as fast as you can. Run like the devil himself is chasing you, and don't look over your shoulder lest you be turned into a pillar of salt.

Or, just don't be a project manager where the PM is responsible for billing.

 

[Hussar]

Love this, but, I WISH Japan had gone the direction of cyberpunk future. Good lord this country is backward when it comes to technology. ATM's that turn off after business hours. This year a prefecture finally stopped using floppy disks for storage. It's the bloody dark ages here sometimes.

 

[MNblockhead]

Pro tip: you do not want to be a project manager.

You might think you do, you might have been led to believe that it's a rewarding career decision with good pay and reasonable hours and a modicum of respect but it is all lies. It is a trap, and everyone will be laughing at you behind your back if you ever agree to the role.

You do not want to spend countless hours of every day arguing with clients about every single hour billed to every single task on every single contract document. You do not want to deal with the bruised egos, the in-fighting, and the conflicting schedules. You do not want to hear about why Bobby the Intern got lost on the way to the job site and drove in circles for eight hours, then billed the mileage. You absolutely do not want to have to explain to the client why Billy the Engineer submitted an expense report for almost five figures, but somehow lost all of his receipts. And contractors [REDACTED] until the [REDACTED] [REDACTED] with bandsaws and [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and the backhoe they rode in on.

If someone asks you to be a project manager, even in passing, even if they're just dropping a hint, immediately flip the table and run. Run away as fast as you can. Run like the devil himself is chasing you, and don't look over your shoulder lest you be turned into a pillar of salt.

Further pro-tip, if you ARE a project manager, don't have an affair that leads to the woman you had an affair with giving birth during an important project deadline:

Locke (film) - Wikipedia

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As someone who worked for years as a project manager (not in constructions, but I could still relate), my experience of the movie was very different than my wife's. She just couldn't appreciate the riveting drama around the cement pour.
Yeah, baby, yada, yada, father issues, yada yada, ARE THEY GOING TO GET THE MIX RIGHT!?

 

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[Thomas Shey]

The flipside of that is you don't want to have to deal with a project manager. My organization seems to have a revolving door on project managers, most of which don't seem to want to do the task of managing a project. They keep trying to fob their job onto my coworkers, who handle communications infrastructure, rather than obtaining the information from them and, you know, managing it.

Many years ago, when I was working as a contract tech writer, I had a project manager do his very best to try and fob off most of his job onto me. You know, the guy from outside the company who was spending all the time he wasn't spending writing and editing talking to engineers to make sure he was actually understanding the texts he was working on properly so that his edits weren't changing important meaning, and sure as heck did not have the time to try and nudge people who he had no actual authority over into doing things they needed to.

Fortunately, being a contract worker I could just ignore most of what he implied or outright told me to do and get my actual work done.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Many years ago, when I was working as a contract tech writer, I had a project manager do his very best to try and fob off most of his job onto me. You know, the guy from outside the company who was spending all the time he wasn't spending writing and editing talking to engineers to make sure he was actually understanding the texts he was working on properly so that his edits weren't changing important meaning, and sure as heck did not have the time to try and nudge people who he had no actual authority over into doing things they needed to.

Fortunately, being a contract worker I could just ignore most of what he implied or outright told me to do and get my actual work done.

Notes in Work File: "Not a team player."

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

I was assessing the use of AI to generate a gamebook like story and as I decided to take a few days rest in an inn:

Kaelen grins faintly, his glowing sigils flickering in the light of the late afternoon. “Finally, a sane idea. I’m not going to argue with a real bed and some warm food. Just try not to pick a place crawling with shady types—or worse, bards.”

I think a certain crusade finally bore fruits!

 

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