I can’t wait for people to get back to IRC!

Or exposure.

This has a Freddy vs Jason kinda vibe. Asshole fighting assholes, sorta thing. Love it.

New presidential couches?!

I’m honestly surprised Eggsex, looking like a coke head as he does, has preferred to blow boats up than to seize them.

Because life is suffering.

Only Outlook drives more insane : the fucking looking up of every single fucking email in the address textbox, just so it can put some fucking status badge or some other dynamic shit I don’t care about. It’s atrocious. And it’s so well done it does it for every address every time you add an address. It’s so slow I will literally write addresses in notepad so I can just paste them all in one go and endure that lookup only once.

What a bloated monstrosity >:C

Many things are better than Teams. So many things…

Ye gods I lived exactly through this. We had Mattermost installed on test server and it was like night and day with Teams. But as you say, the bean counters don’t care if you’re happy. “We already got Mattermost at home!” they said. And so Mattermost was abandoned for Teams which is indeed already present in the ecosystem and isn’t going away any time soon. Like herpes.

We are supposed to work from home two days a week, but we must sign an agreement that it will be such and such day. Or we can have one single moving day. Can you smell the bullshit? In practice I never signed anything and we all do as we fucking please because fuck HR. So right now I’m in the office alone because it’s great to have a big desk and good light with a beautiful sight on the countryside, and I get free heating.

But yeah, we have a few contractors right now and we have no idea what they are doing or if they are useful at all. Which would be fine, except when we do get to see their work, it’s usually all over the place in terms of quality and we often have to rewrite a lot of it.

But that’s not an issue with remote, that’s an issue with managing people, I think. If they’re shite at their job and we gave them one, we have to teach them to get better. Which is easier and more efficient on site, sure, but you can’t really be sitting next to them checking their screen all day. At some point you gotta trust them and judge them on results.

Oh I guess you read “it’s tough” as me being depressed of being alone while everybody else is having fun together in the other office? Shit, hahaha! That’s sweet of you.
But no it’s not about me, it’s about my managers having difficulties keeping our team together because it’s split across France, and even the other site, they are mostly working remotely. There are like one or two people on site at one time, while a dozen of us work remotely from each other.

Anyway my point is we still get the job done because we don’t need to be a happy family, since we’re just doing a soulless job. You can be a cave troll and still do Devops, nobody cares.

One thing that everybody does agree on, though : it’s much easier to work together on a project when you’re sitting next to each other. It helps if you enjoy each other company, which we do.

So some managers must think, well, we must force people to sit together in an office since it’s positive. Which is completely stupid. It’s like they don’t understand human nature at all…

I’m not sure why you got from all this that it was about me but apparently you’re not the only one, so okay I guess.

You know, I wanna hate on big corpo breaking our balls about working on site juste because, but I gotta admit it’s super difficult to have any esprit de corps without some physical presence. I’m one guy alone on a site, and the entire rest of the team is like a dozen people in Paris and it’s tough.
When people are not used to working online and communicating it’s like they don’t exist. You’ve no idea if they are indeed doing anything, sometimes, when for example their domain is not touching yours. I dunno but I can see how this is a big hassle when you’re head of a team.

Shit, my mate is exactly in this situation : he is the head of a team, and having worked with him, I know he’s a great team leader. And he’s been struggling in his new post for a whole goddamn year because it’s a similar situation : he’s the new lead but all the team is in Paris and he’s not. They don’t give a fuck what he says. So now they found a solution, he has to go there in person every fucking month. So yeah, I can see how you don’t want everybody to be working remotely when he bothers to fly 500km just to show he is a real dude every month.

But I think ultimately all it shows is how soulless it is to work at such a scale, and how it clearly impacts the final result.
I don’t know what size Keen games are, or Moon Studios, but those games are so fucking full of spirit. No way a big ass AAA can produce something like they do these days.
They fucking wish, though.

If you tested whether those files had healthy seeds on the Net, that would actually be a pretty cool idea. But I have some rather rare Linux ISOs that definitely don’t get seeded anymore so those I would want to not lose and actually backup.

Opens Hell Menu? That sounds like fun.

That’s because they all adapt to local workers laws. That’s how you know they would absolutely fuck us every which way if they could, hence why we (French people) need this sort of reminder.
Alas I doubt this would even show up in the news.

That’s the way it works in France (and other EU countries, I assume?). We literally have to have a workers reprensative council past a certain number of employees.

Eh, we are already unionized in France. The difference is we have laws protecting workers so they can’t just shut a studio down willy nilly.

Oh no, poor AI won’t know where to feed anymore. Anyway…

Oh dear. That sounds like a super-villain origin story. “I just wanted to develop an AI capable of bringing back my dead child to life!” Another broken soul with too much power…