Moving house is always fun. Particularly when getting hold of packing boxes. Moving companies charge for them if they're not going to be returned. There's a place advertising itself as the Box Shop which has "Boxes from $1!" all over its website, by which they mean "There's a beat-up box sitting out the front of the store exposed to the weather ( Read more... )

Website designer has decided that as I'm not paying for broken goods, they're sending my account to collections. Good luck with that. I wonder if their collection agent knows that their own website (by the same designer) is also standards-incompliant ( Read more... )

There's nothing quite like being told bluntly at a job that significant proportions of their code are royally screwed ten ways to Sunday because they previously hired someone who (a) couldn't program, and (b) decided to hide this fact by creating the most convoluted, spaghettified, fragile, bug-ridden code around ( Read more... )

Some of this is universal. A lot of it, however, is simply that the way things are done at the current workplace is massively incompatible with my own psychological preferences ( Read more... )

One of the problems with a workplace which has long suffered from a lack of leadership, lack of funding, lack of intelligence, and lack of attractiveness for a wide range of potential employees is that a significant proportion of the people who remain there for any length of time are - how should I put this - not necessarily the most brilliant ( Read more... )

(continuing from yesterday's count: FOUR of five ( Read more... )

But work and travel and sleeping and paperwork are taking up most of my hours. And days ( Read more... )

It seems the current workplace is a flaming straitjacket full of fighting fish-licences.

There is just so much that needs fixing it's not funny.

This year's stress attack in five, four, three...

Heh. The interview team who my ex-employer had decided to contract to talk to me about coming back to assist them decided on the spot that they weren't going to recommend someone who dominated simulated group exercises ( Read more... )

Ugh ( Read more... )