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Oh, home team outshoots in 2nd

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 lol.... I have 1st and 3rd on both of my cards

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Bit of 4 on 4 here

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 Penalty while one being served

Oh, home team outshoots in 2nd

I have thorny on exactly one card...the same card that I just un-dabbed "LOL".

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Different work-related topic.... after the big announcement yesterday that we are losing a couple of big contracts, I had a meeting with my manager today. He starts out by saying "I just want you to know that I'm aware of how this affects you, and I wouldn't blame you if you decide to leave. If I was still a developer, I would be looking right now too"

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Do you think he was trying to {wink, wink} "You should be looking" {nudge, nudge}?

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 Nah.  I'm the #1 performer in my department.  They even gave me a retention bonus in RSU's this year that don't vest for another couple of years yet.

I'm pretty tight with my manager, I think he just knows the same as I do that the way our department is trending is not the way for me to advance my career.... and I'm not ready to call it "good enough" yet.

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That's cool, a manager who understands it's a transactional agreement and not a blind-loyalty commitment. 

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 Yeah.  This is literally the first time that I've actually been leaving a job because of the job, and not because my manager sucks.

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Dammit... I don't even have the LOL square.

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 LOL

I have it on one of my blackout cards, but that's it.

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 ooooh.... instead of calling it an LOL, we could use the Thorny player square

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 You know what, that is actually more appropriate and I can fully get behind that! I say this without knowing if I have that square.

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Different work-related topic.... after the big announcement yesterday that we are losing a couple of big contracts, I had a meeting with my manager today. He starts out by saying "I just want you to know that I'm aware of how this affects you, and I wouldn't blame you if you decide to leave. If I was still a developer, I would be looking right now too"

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Do you think he was trying to {wink, wink} "You should be looking" {nudge, nudge}?

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 Nah.  I'm the #1 performer in my department.  They even gave me a retention bonus in RSU's this year that don't vest for another couple of years yet.

I'm pretty tight with my manager, I think he just knows the same as I do that the way our department is trending is not the way for me to advance my career.... and I'm not ready to call it "good enough" yet.

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That's cool, a manager who understands it's a transactional agreement and not a blind-loyalty commitment. 

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Dammit... I don't even have the LOL square.

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 LOL

I have it on one of my blackout cards, but that's it.

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 ooooh.... instead of calling it an LOL, we could use the Thorny player square

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Different work-related topic.... after the big announcement yesterday that we are losing a couple of big contracts, I had a meeting with my manager today. He starts out by saying "I just want you to know that I'm aware of how this affects you, and I wouldn't blame you if you decide to leave. If I was still a developer, I would be looking right now too"

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Do you think he was trying to {wink, wink} "You should be looking" {nudge, nudge}?

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 Nah.  I'm the #1 performer in my department.  They even gave me a retention bonus in RSU's this year that don't vest for another couple of years yet.

I'm pretty tight with my manager, I think he just knows the same as I do that the way our department is trending is not the way for me to advance my career.... and I'm not ready to call it "good enough" yet.

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Dammit... I don't even have the LOL square.

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 LOL

I have it on one of my blackout cards, but that's it.

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Tampa player going a "chicken wing" gesture at a Panthers player as he's going off the ice at the end of the 2nd..  Is that considered funny? 

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I hate Maroon, he's a dumb thug who lucked into back-to-back cups. I find it more annoying than funny, but if it were someone else...maybe. Andy set the bar pretty high on that square.

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 And then Chara.... they are definitely going to make others work hard for funny

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Oh yeah, forgot about that since I didn't see it live. Based on those two, I'd said Maroon didn't make the cut. But since we're still beta testing...anything goes!

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And it's been a very low-dab game.  Nights like these we tend to relax the rules a bit.  lol

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 I just don't like the man.

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Different work-related topic.... after the big announcement yesterday that we are losing a couple of big contracts, I had a meeting with my manager today. He starts out by saying "I just want you to know that I'm aware of how this affects you, and I wouldn't blame you if you decide to leave. If I was still a developer, I would be looking right now too"

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Do you think he was trying to {wink, wink} "You should be looking" {nudge, nudge}?

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Tampa player going a "chicken wing" gesture at a Panthers player as he's going off the ice at the end of the 2nd..  Is that considered funny? 

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I hate Maroon, he's a dumb thug who lucked into back-to-back cups. I find it more annoying than funny, but if it were someone else...maybe. Andy set the bar pretty high on that square.

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 And then Chara.... they are definitely going to make others work hard for funny

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Oh yeah, forgot about that since I didn't see it live. Based on those two, I'd said Maroon didn't make the cut. But since we're still beta testing...anything goes!

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And it's been a very low-dab game.  Nights like these we tend to relax the rules a bit.  lol

My video feeds are freaking the eff out. NYI-PIT was running the background, switched to it during intermission, didn't notice it had rewound 90 minutes.

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Tampa player going a "chicken wing" gesture at a Panthers player as he's going off the ice at the end of the 2nd..  Is that considered funny? 

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I hate Maroon, he's a dumb thug who lucked into back-to-back cups. I find it more annoying than funny, but if it were someone else...maybe. Andy set the bar pretty high on that square.

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 And then Chara.... they are definitely going to make others work hard for funny

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Oh yeah, forgot about that since I didn't see it live. Based on those two, I'd said Maroon didn't make the cut. But since we're still beta testing...anything goes!

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Have to wonder how often it happens that someone goes into work one day and says "You know what we should do? Switch to AWS. I saw their logo on the ice in a playoff game last night"

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You joke, but I have a friend whose (former) employer pretty much did that. "Move everything to cloud!" Literally everything, no on-prem data center.

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 with no plans on upgrading bandwidth and provider redundancy

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Bingo! (wait, no, you know what I meant)

Part of my job is doing telecom audits for clients, current audit I literally said to the client service manager, "Their lack of diversity is terrifying." (It's a financial services company)

**And** they're rolling their own data center, in a building equidistant between an airport and a train station. So there's only one provider and they charge $$$$$$$$, because they can.

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Current client is a critical Canadian client.  We build a whole new resilient environment. Still several apps to migrate over. 

DataCenter in Ontario, Quebec and BC.  Apps/Servers can move freely between ON and QC sites. One can go completely offline and everything will still work. BC site is if there's a catastrophic failure at Ontario and Quebec sites. 

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I would like to know how the CIO convinced the CFO the cost was worth it. Like, I literally want their script to add to my work files. 

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Let's say money is not an issue due to criticality.  Supposed to be done at the end of the year, but still lots of work to do. They have a clause that a consultant can only have a 3 year contract or else they have to hire full time. I'm not a direct consultant to them, but my they're a client to my company. 

I like it there and would like to see it finished and frankly they can't lose resources like the 3 on my team with 3 years experience building the environment from the ground up. There are others on other teams as well. We're started working with the group that support the legacy environment a few months and they're like "Oh man, there's a lot here" They don't want to see us go".

We'll see what happens. 

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Homer wrote:

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Tampa player going a "chicken wing" gesture at a Panthers player as he's going off the ice at the end of the 2nd..  Is that considered funny? 

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I hate Maroon, he's a dumb thug who lucked into back-to-back cups. I find it more annoying than funny, but if it were someone else...maybe. Andy set the bar pretty high on that square.

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 And then Chara.... they are definitely going to make others work hard for funny