nekomattaOver two decades in tech and I’m still running into insecure manbabies who are petty and whiny as they are unkind. Just to be fair, I’ve run into the female equivalent as well but that’s currently at a grand total of one (maybe two?).
These people with small crayon energy ending up in management roles are the reason why we absolutely cannot have nice things in the world.
We collectively suck and need to do better.
And that is their collective hate towards people in marketing. I finally understand why.
SY: Design skills are translatable, just need to have a lot of common sense AND always design with a purpose
SY: Design is not guessing
Me: I threw the designer’s credibility out the door when she said she’s pretty good about designing without content
Note: also the same man who told me to straight up lower my expectations ðŸ«
I’ve noticed that I get very fidgety when my title gets brought up even though I don’t believe in titles (read: I don’t care what your title is, please just get your shit done).
My current title has the word “director” in it and it just feels odd every time someone else uses it.
Cybersecurity expert on phishing: “Did you receive the email at an unusual time? If you receive an email outside of normal business hours, this is a red flag.”
Guess everyone in ad agencies are potential scammers.
Why are all the people who own online (expensive) jewelry stores exceptionally difficult to work with?
It’s just this one specific niche.
Especially the ones who talk so much smack but have nothing to back their shit up with when everything starts falling apart.
Trash.
2021 edit–
I still love telling this story about the shady techbros (words like shocking and appalling come to mind).
Something you’d have to hear in-person purely for the hand gestures and facial expressions.
After the week I’ve had, I just want to roll around and do absolutely nothing.
That literally translates to, “I’m going to roll around and compulsively check Delta and cry over all the potential mooning coins I don’t have fiat to buy.”
Such is life.
2021 edit–
The beginning of my crypto affliction.
I don’t remember any of my past site launches being so chaotic.
But yesterday’s site launch has given me an important/amusing insight: everyone, and I mean EVERYONE COLLECTIVELY, is afraid of the IT guy.
Mental note to have a scary Russian chap man the servers in the future.
2021 edit–
Putin people in their places, eyyy.
2022 edit–
That Putin pun did not age well at all.
I wrinkled my nose at him, “This lady is super impressive. She’s got thirteen units that she’s renting on out AirBnB! Talk about being enterprising!”
He blinked. “Shit. We’ve wasted our lives. We must do something about it this year. Like making a baby.”
I stared. “Wait, what?”
“You said we’d be making our own product this year,” he replied nonchalantly.
“That’s not exactly the product I had in mind…”
2021 edit–
On today’s episode of #truenerd! I chuckled at how clever it was.