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We'll see what type of company they are.

Do they waste people's potential, in the middle of an ostensible *apprenticeship*, just to serve some weird punitive control-freak "paying your dues" bullshit? Being aimed in the wrong direction is not paying your dues, it's just stupid.

Or do they genuinely want to match people to their passions, as they say?

Just for once, I want a company to act what they claim.

Yesterday, after I let the manager know the process we were using was unwieldy, he agreed (he'd been through it himself when he started), and asked me if I knew what "baptism by fire" meant.

And I'm just. This little privileged cis techbro, half my age.

I told him patiently that I did in fact know what it meant, that this was more like "baptism by upended chamber pot".

At least he laughed.

We'll see.

Politely told my manager that the arena of work to which I've been assigned has never been my jam, and is now making me actively miserable. I've asked to be reassigned to a different project -- anything.

He can't say he doesn't know, now. He said himself my job was secure. I hope this doesn't threaten that. But I'm almost past caring. There are people out there who'd kill to do what I'm doing, and people in my company who'd kill to be let out of the thing I want to do. Shuffle us around! We all want it!

We'll see.

Things are lovely otherwise. How bout y'all?

Spent yesterday and today doing maintenance on sites...only to learn, an hour and a half before the end of my work week, they were the wrong sites.

I hate this shit. I hope every one of those bloated animated sacks of dolphin dicks crashes and flames. 🌈

Fuck everything about Wordpress.

TFW a coworker abruptly takes a better job with two days' notice, and your work is preempted by an ongoing project that you despise doing, for the forseeable future.

This is not cool.

This is gorgeous.

https://wgno.com/news/artist-terrance-osborne-creates-beautiful-front-line-art-piece/