Some days I am reminded that IT is just the first and last letters of the word IDIOT

Log into tech support community website...

Get prompted to change password because my current one is too old...

Paste in the same password I already am using...

ACCEPTED!

My phone just tried to locate me using GPS and gave me an answer that was "uncertain" by 1500m

That's helpful.

Y'know, I'm really not all that good at this.

Bug them right back.

True story: I once had a manager who was so much more of a people person than I will ever be and she managed to get the PMs to slow down and let us work by taking every thing we said about the project back to them in friendly, yet annoying, terms.

Once they got a taste of their own medicine, and she pointed out to them that's what they were doing to us, they suddenly stopped being jerks.

I'm thinking of a number between...6 and 8

Strava announced this morning that their app will no longer support direct BTLE or ANT+ syncing with heart rate sensors or bicycle speed/cadence sensors.

They say this is because it is causing the app to crash.

And they suggest we use a different app instead and then upload the data to Strava.

I read this as "We don't have competent developers who can solve this issue so, please, go use a competitor's product"

All in favor of deleting old code from a git repository to make it neat, raise your hand.

And yet the question is in binary...

The latest version of Chrome and Brave on OSX are throwing Aw, Snap! messages on pages like Gmail when left alone for several minutes.

WTF Google?

When your website developer is trying to use Google maps on the cheap...

I signed up for an account at an online retailer a few months back and used an extension to my gmail address using the + symbol. I do this so I can track who is selling my address to what spam^h^h^h^h marketers.

Since then I've been getting a few too emails from this retailer so I clicked the unsubscribe link on one email and was told that my email address, with the + in it, is an invalid email address so I can't unsubscribe it.

Someone needs to get their code on the same page. Or...perhaps this is a feature designed to not let clever folks like me be too clever?

To stay relevant and productive until I retire.

Yeah, pretty prosaic but that's just me.

Typos are the bone of my existence

Four letter word for "Windows 10 won't boot. Fuck you"

UEFI

Hate it when a website asks for a phone number and throws this error at you:

Please correct the following errors:
Phone please use the format 555-555-5555.

LEARN TO FUCKING PARSE!

Those artificial "hair on fire" moments.

You know, those moments where a supervisor or executive walks into your office and says that something needs to be done "right away" but without any real business reason behind it other than they want it RIGHT NOW! Frequently subverts current work with real priorities which causes other "hair on fire" moments down the road.

As a former co-worker once put it, it works like so:

Step 1: Manager comes in and lights your hair on fire
Step 2: You run around a bit
Step 3: You set a coworker's hair on fire
Step 4: They run around a bit
Step 5: They set their manager's hair on fire
Step 6: Manager runs around a bit

Proceed at your own pace once you get the gist.

You know it is going to be a bad morning when your coffee goes cold before you get a chance to drink it.

Walk in on the first day and am told: "We don't have a computer for you yet and we're not sure where you're going to be sitting so just hang around for a bit."

"Ok...what will I be doing?"

"We're discussing that."

"So I'm to be spackle, then?"

"Huh?"

"You'll use me once you see a hole that needs filling."

I've hopped jobs more than getting promoted but my last promotion was when I moved from a desktop support engineer to the team's sysadmin only to be forced out with --get this-- an 8 month notice because they had promised the job to someone else.

Long story short, I found a new job in 4 months and gave them just 5 days notice. Manager said, "We need two weeks." I said, "No." He said, "I understand."

How do you convince a server administrator who thinks he knows all there is to know about networking that he really doesn't and should talk to someone who does?

Just updated macos to Mojave and I'm not liking the look so far.

The menubar text fades too much on inactive monitors. Inactive text in other apps fades far too much. The dark mode is too dark.

Guess I'll get used to it. Eventually

Enabled TFA on one of my utility accounts a few weeks ago.

Two days ago I started getting SMS texts from that utility with my "access code". I had no idea what was going on.

The next day I get an email from my bank that eBills have stopped working for this company.

Disabled TFA.

Today I learned a new word. I learned how to say "Go fuck yourself" in Java.

It's "deprecated"

I had a nice Java method using POI 3.13 which replaced a sheet in an existing Excel workbook with a sheet from a different file. Worked well except for a specific type of calculation cell.

So, we decided to try POI 3.17.

I have to rewrite about 20% of my code due to deprecated methods and variables in POI.

I have gotten so used to editing files in vim that I invariably type vim commands into editors which don't use them (which is pretty much every other one.)

I can't count the number of times I've sent ZZ or :q to a colleague in Slack or typed /word in an email or even D when I was trying to delete a line.

Then I spend time outside of vim and find myself using the cursor keys or mouse to move around.

Curse my slow code-switching brain and faster muscle memory!

I generally consider it a good day when I've learned something new related to my job that I didn't know yesterday. I also generally consider it a very good day if I can also teach something new to a coworker in the same day.

Team dynamics are built this way. The team I'm on now is fantastic in both ways. None of us is afraid to make a comment or ask a question because we all seem to have the attitude that we may learn something where we wouldn't if we kept silent.

Had my phone working just the way I wanted it but one little, annoying issue caused me to research how to root my phone.

Found a page quickly, simple instructions but missed the warning that read "This process includes wiping everything from your device, so make sure you have a backup before you begin."

Shit.

Note to self: Coffee in an open mug goes cold much faster than coffee in a closed Tervis.

Is there any way I can globally rename my email junk folder to Crap Trap?

Sux Security: Banking site asked me to set up 3 "security questions" for validation purposes. When I typed in my responses they were obfuscated behind asterisks.

When I log in later, from a different computer than usual, and am prompted for the answer to one of the security questions my answers appear in clear text.