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Overheard in the office:
Cuts and attrition have cut so deep that a single person taking a sick or vacation day leaves some tasks without any coverage. Managers are handling that by calling on people to cross-train, but that piles on additional mental load onto a team that was already stretched thin.
#OfficeWorkerGripes #Burnout #WorkplaceBurnout #WorkplaceCulture
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I got into an argument with #Microsoft #Copilot today.
I asked for PowerShell code to trim the first N digits from every filename in a directory. Testing showed it actually removed 2·N characters. When I reported the bug, Copilot insisted that was impossible and said I must have run it twice.
I knew the cause and the fix, but I treated it as a learning exercise to see what it would take to get Copilot to correct itself.
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I got into an argument with #Microsoft #Copilot today.
I asked for PowerShell code to trim the first N digits from every filename in a directory. Testing showed it actually removed 2·N characters. When I reported the bug, Copilot insisted that was impossible and said I must have run it twice.
I knew the cause and the fix, but I treated it as a learning exercise to see what it would take to get Copilot to correct itself.
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I got into an argument with #Microsoft #Copilot today.
I asked for PowerShell code to trim the first N digits from every filename in a directory. Testing showed it actually removed 2·N characters. When I reported the bug, Copilot insisted that was impossible and said I must have run it twice.
I knew the cause and the fix, but I treated it as a learning exercise to see what it would take to get Copilot to correct itself.
1/4
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I got into an argument with #Microsoft #Copilot today.
I asked for PowerShell code to trim the first N digits from every filename in a directory. Testing showed it actually removed 2·N characters. When I reported the bug, Copilot insisted that was impossible and said I must have run it twice.
I knew the cause and the fix, but I treated it as a learning exercise to see what it would take to get Copilot to correct itself.
1/4
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I got into an argument with #Microsoft #Copilot today.
I asked for PowerShell code to trim the first N digits from every filename in a directory. Testing showed it actually removed 2·N characters. When I reported the bug, Copilot insisted that was impossible and said I must have run it twice.
I knew the cause and the fix, but I treated it as a learning exercise to see what it would take to get Copilot to correct itself.
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I heard from a colleague that a system was just identified with a y2k bug.
Wait, how is that possible?!
A system was using 2 digits to store and transmit the year. To resolve the initial y2k problem, the system employed the date window technique, where that window ended with 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_windowing
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I heard from a colleague that a system was just identified with a y2k bug.
Wait, how is that possible?!
A system was using 2 digits to store and transmit the year. To resolve the initial y2k problem, the system employed the date window technique, where that window ended with 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_windowing
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I heard from a colleague that a system was just identified with a y2k bug.
Wait, how is that possible?!
A system was using 2 digits to store and transmit the year. To resolve the initial y2k problem, the system employed the date window technique, where that window ended with 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_windowing
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I heard from a colleague that a system was just identified with a y2k bug.
Wait, how is that possible?!
A system was using 2 digits to store and transmit the year. To resolve the initial y2k problem, the system employed the date window technique, where that window ended with 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_windowing
1/2
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I heard from a colleague that a system was just identified with a y2k bug.
Wait, how is that possible?!
A system was using 2 digits to store and transmit the year. To resolve the initial y2k problem, the system employed the date window technique, where that window ended with 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_windowing
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Given the record-setting layoff pace of 2025, the pressing etiquette question of this time:
What is the respectful waiting period after a highly valued colleague is fired before you can delete your recurring 1:1 meeting from your calendar?
Joking, not joking.
#OfficeWorkerGripes #ScottHumor #JokingNotJoking #OfficeHumor
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Given the record-setting layoff pace of 2025, the pressing etiquette question of this time:
What is the respectful waiting period after a highly valued colleague is fired before you can delete your recurring 1:1 meeting from your calendar?
Joking, not joking.
#OfficeWorkerGripes #ScottHumor #JokingNotJoking #OfficeHumor
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Given the record-setting layoff pace of 2025, the pressing etiquette question of this time:
What is the respectful waiting period after a highly valued colleague is fired before you can delete your recurring 1:1 meeting from your calendar?
Joking, not joking.
#OfficeWorkerGripes #ScottHumor #JokingNotJoking #OfficeHumor
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Given the record-setting layoff pace of 2025, the pressing etiquette question of this time:
What is the respectful waiting period after a highly valued colleague is fired before you can delete your recurring 1:1 meeting from your calendar?
Joking, not joking.
#OfficeWorkerGripes #ScottHumor #JokingNotJoking #OfficeHumor
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Given the record-setting layoff pace of 2025, the pressing etiquette question of this time:
What is the respectful waiting period after a highly valued colleague is fired before you can delete your recurring 1:1 meeting from your calendar?
Joking, not joking.
#OfficeWorkerGripes #ScottHumor #JokingNotJoking #OfficeHumor
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True story time. ~7 years ago, onsite team meeting
New hire said when starting job, they thought "model" in job description meant we take photos, wondered where the girls were. Initially sounded like joke, but as they kept going, I realized they were serious. Next few years confirmed laziness, lack of curiosity.
How do you see "model" in #DataAnalytics job & not research it enough to know it means "predictive model" before interview?
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With a job change, I've spent the last 2 years learning Hadoop and Python. For reasonsâ„¢, they are replacing the Hadoop component with something else. Ugh. At my career stage, I'm a little annoyed to have spent time and energy learning something that likely won't have any long-term benefit to me. I'll roll with it, though, because I have no other choice.
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With a job change, I've spent the last 2 years learning Hadoop and Python. For reasonsâ„¢, they are replacing the Hadoop component with something else. Ugh. At my career stage, I'm a little annoyed to have spent time and energy learning something that likely won't have any long-term benefit to me. I'll roll with it, though, because I have no other choice.
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With a job change, I've spent the last 2 years learning Hadoop and Python. For reasonsâ„¢, they are replacing the Hadoop component with something else. Ugh. At my career stage, I'm a little annoyed to have spent time and energy learning something that likely won't have any long-term benefit to me. I'll roll with it, though, because I have no other choice.
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With a job change, I've spent the last 2 years learning Hadoop and Python. For reasonsâ„¢, they are replacing the Hadoop component with something else. Ugh. At my career stage, I'm a little annoyed to have spent time and energy learning something that likely won't have any long-term benefit to me. I'll roll with it, though, because I have no other choice.
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With a job change, I've spent the last 2 years learning Hadoop and Python. For reasonsâ„¢, they are replacing the Hadoop component with something else. Ugh. At my career stage, I'm a little annoyed to have spent time and energy learning something that likely won't have any long-term benefit to me. I'll roll with it, though, because I have no other choice.