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The plague isn't here, but its shadow remains
2020-Aug-05, Wednesday 19:08
It's been delicious fall weather for the last couple of days in Chicago, coming right after a week of 30°+ (35° counting humidity) days. It feels amazing and I've had the windows open almost round-the-clock. There's a cool breeze blowing onto my legs right now, as I sit with my new laptop desk that work sent me, and while it'll get warmer later today and be back up to 33° on Monday, I'm going to enjoy this weather while it lasts.
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sashagee does not have the plague! She got her test results back on Monday, and immediately her work went from "two negative COVID tests or quarantine for two weeks" to "well I guess you can come back immediately." And because she didn't have coronavirus, they're trying to make her use her ordinary sick days instead of the special plague sick days, meaning she'd be out of a week of sick days after being ordered to stay away. Sounds like a great way to ensure that the plague spreads because people come to work sick, but that's food service for you--the entire industry would collapse without the massive exploitation of workers that fuels it. So if you're going out to...hmm, a particularly widespread chain of coffeeshops, let's say...be aware that a worker there might have coronavirus but be at work because they're incentivized to be there. Which, again, food service, massive exploitation of workers.
She threw out her neck waking up this morning and is going to the doctor instead of work today, though, so when it rains it pours.
( Farmer's Market dinner )
I just finished a project at work where I was literally copying and pasting out of a spreadsheet. After the year-long, million-dollar database revamp that we did earlier this year, this is what it's come to. Now I'm working a project in the old database, custom-build for our use cases where keyboard commands are possible, so I'm flying through records whereas I can do a handful an hour in the new database what with all the clicking and copying and pasting and waiting for loading bars and losing my work from clicking the wrong button and not having any search results saved. It's completely impossible to achieve flow when I'm constantly running into sandpaper-level UX friction.
sashagee keeps teasing me about avoiding work and she's half-right, but a lot of it is the equivalent of loading times in a game. A third of my playtime is taken up by loading screens or moving between rooms. I brought this up in beta, of course, just like I brought up all the problems with the last database upgrade, and I was ignored, and the result is that we're just falling back on the old database again, just like we did last time. Eventually they'll stop with the half-measures and pay for a custom-designed program to handle our use-case. Hopefully.
On the other hand, I got another copy-out-of-spreadsheet project to do, so that's on the horizon.
sashagee does not have the plague! She got her test results back on Monday, and immediately her work went from "two negative COVID tests or quarantine for two weeks" to "well I guess you can come back immediately." And because she didn't have coronavirus, they're trying to make her use her ordinary sick days instead of the special plague sick days, meaning she'd be out of a week of sick days after being ordered to stay away. Sounds like a great way to ensure that the plague spreads because people come to work sick, but that's food service for you--the entire industry would collapse without the massive exploitation of workers that fuels it. So if you're going out to...hmm, a particularly widespread chain of coffeeshops, let's say...be aware that a worker there might have coronavirus but be at work because they're incentivized to be there. Which, again, food service, massive exploitation of workers. She threw out her neck waking up this morning and is going to the doctor instead of work today, though, so when it rains it pours.
( Farmer's Market dinner )
I just finished a project at work where I was literally copying and pasting out of a spreadsheet. After the year-long, million-dollar database revamp that we did earlier this year, this is what it's come to. Now I'm working a project in the old database, custom-build for our use cases where keyboard commands are possible, so I'm flying through records whereas I can do a handful an hour in the new database what with all the clicking and copying and pasting and waiting for loading bars and losing my work from clicking the wrong button and not having any search results saved. It's completely impossible to achieve flow when I'm constantly running into sandpaper-level UX friction.
sashagee keeps teasing me about avoiding work and she's half-right, but a lot of it is the equivalent of loading times in a game. A third of my playtime is taken up by loading screens or moving between rooms. I brought this up in beta, of course, just like I brought up all the problems with the last database upgrade, and I was ignored, and the result is that we're just falling back on the old database again, just like we did last time. Eventually they'll stop with the half-measures and pay for a custom-designed program to handle our use-case. Hopefully. On the other hand, I got another copy-out-of-spreadsheet project to do, so that's on the horizon.
