Remember, when someone wants to control you “for your own good” it will almost never be actually good for you — whether it’s the government, a software developer, a conservative, a feminist or any other person on group.

Any time you hear that or “security” or “for the children,” someone is nearly all of the time trying to con you, gain power over you, or lead you down a bad path. Just a useful general heuristic for life.

I am a unicorn, as they put it in corporate terms; I can do everything from level 1 help desk to very complex network design to compliance under multiple national and international frameworks to security to contract negotiation meetings with difficult customers. And far too many more to list here.

In my field, maybe 0.0001% of people at my level have a comparable skillset. This is not (just) to toot my own horn. It’s in the service of expressing something else and that is: no matter how glorious and resplendent a unicorn you happen to be, it most often works against as you as the more you can do, the more you are expected to do.

There was an earlier post where I said I had 14 different job titles. That’s actually now (and even was then) incorrect. It’s expanded to about 22-25 and still growing.

It’s become clear that I am going to have to do something about this as it’s not sustainable, but not sure what yet.

When it comes to reading people’s thoughts on Israel and Ukraine, often I am totally unable to tell if it’s a leftist or a MAGA nutter anymore. And I don’t care to research. I just ignore the rabble gabble and continue on as best I can.

I don’t think anyone should be allowed to claim they were “groomed” if they are 20 or older. It’s mostly women who claim this, for whatever reason. Men could never get away with such obvious BS.

The only people who can be groomed are children and the mentally retarded. Which one do full-grown women wish to be classified as again? Choose wisely.

I think the idea is fucking absurd that a 31-year-old woman can be “groomed.” Liberals really do want to make women into children again. Perhaps we should just go ahead and declare that the age of majority for women is 40? 45? Would that make them happy?

Why many women seem to want to be infantilized I haven’t a single clue. Guess it removes accountability and responsibility?

Why do people make dogs their whole personality? People like that are just terrible. They make me cringe. I guess it’s a sign of the loneliness and alienation of our times, but damn those people are honestly fucking creepy.

This is correct. Always has been and always will be. Which is why so many people are completely and totally fucked forever.

All the people who do nothing while working from home are the same ones who do not a goddamn thing in the office as well. It’s just that there, they are better at hiding their lassitude by gladhanding, ass-kissing and faking being busy.

A lot of managers just crave a false sense of control. In my experience, a crap worker is a crap worker anywhere. The noisy extroverts, though, hide it better.

Ok, when I say “Send me an email,” I do not mean to put it in Slack. Slack is worthless to me. The search feature is useless and finding anything in there after a few days is impossible. Any vital info in Slack means it’ll never be unearthed again.

Slack is where information goes to die.

I am so fucking glad no one can ever make me go into an office again. I have a combination of skills and certs that maybe 0.0001% of my peers have to my level, and that means I can demand a lot of things. So I will and I do.

And my expenses are only about $800 per month. Can’t nobody make me do shit. I spent my life doing smart enough things to get to this point. Many, many people said I could not get here, yet here I am.

Bully for me!

People, people, “pore” and “pour” do not mean the same thing. You’re doing a poor job of using the English language and you should pore over some grammar books before pouring your thoughts out on the page.

It’s an odd idea that because some women get bothered sometimes in public by the worst 1% of serial-harassing men, that no one should talk to anyone in public ever.

We always seem to come up with the most dumbass and harmful solutions possible to problems that are in fact easily solvable.