Other What's ruining your life right now?

Really? I've got a Scythe Slip Stream 120mm on a modded service lid on my laptop and a modded power supply with an adjustable buck currently outputting 12V... Maybe I'll up the voltage it a lil bit.

Anyway, we digress, this thread is for life-ruining moments, please stay on topic (though I wish for everyone be off topic in this case).


My employer said they'd look into having me work remotely from the US. Knowing my employer, I didn't think much of it, and I was right. They gave up on the idea after a week, but it didn't occur to them to let me know they weren't pursuing this alley any longer. They never cease to amaze me. Oh well, 3 and a half weeks to go.

 

Not sure if this belongs here or the awesome thread, but here goes anyway...

Got to work this morning to find that last nights "major system upgrade" has failed 100%
We can see files, but not load them or otherwise act on them.
To top it all, my failing work PC has been replaced with a shiny new Windows 10 system
with only a partial install of our required software, so I'm fighting that too!

 

Thankfully I have never had to have dealings with that particular arm of the NHS, however, I do know people who have (including my wife) and have dealt with a lot of people with a similar way of thinking (cough diabetes nurses...). The way that I imagine their brain working is a lot like a flow chart. Any response that doesn't fit the options that they are expecting throws up an interrupt error and they default to "no idea, take these pills and lose weight - NEXT!!"

The way that I work them is to start thinking the same way, try and plan out the encounter for next time, try and work out answers to each question that you think that they will ask you and answer them before they get a chance to. Last time I went for a big diabetic review I got to see the specialist who is far more human than the condescending flow-chart nurse that I have had dealings with before and we got to a point where she said "you came here with a plan, didn't you?". My response was "Given the people I have had to deal with so far, I thought that was best". I came out of that meeting with the medication that I wanted and a decent plan of what to do.

 

Asplodes? Is that doing a really big, noisy fart?

 

Current go to night fan is a cooler master 20cm fan on a 5V USB power pack, silent and wafts air nicely over you.

Other options include the four 80cm deltas and a 12V power source, but I'd like to sleep.

 

I had a couple of the 5500RPM 120x38mm Delta's a few years back. While I was waiting for a loop to bleed in a new rig, I made a snazzy little hovercraft with the mobo box, fans and tape... The mobo box still had the motherboard and all the accessories in.

I remember putting them on a TRUE in push-pull as well, that was a chilly QX6850!

 

That's 'assplodes', the extra 's' is important.

 

So, as I suspected, I barely slept a wink last night. I predict more of the same tonight. And I have part 2 of an interview tomorrow.

 

2 borked pcs... 0 full working pcs worth of parts between them... 0 chance of fixing either...

 

Thanks for the offer... i'll see what i can scrounge together closer to home first.... if i can't bodge a working pc from the ashes then maybe...

between the 2 PCs -

PC A

PSU - Dead
GPU - Dead
CPU - Probably dead
Mobo/Ram - ???

PC B

PSU - Making funny noises, but technically not dead
Mobo - Dead
CPU/RAM - ??

 

RedFlames, I can probably scrounge up some parts for you too, a PSU without a doubt and probably some DDR3 if its of any use.

 

Schedule for the week after being "volunteered" by the wife to help tech the show she is directing this week:

5:45am: Alarm 1. Snooze.
6:00am: Alarm 2. Creak and pop my way out of bed.
6:20am: 10 mile cycle to work.
7:00am (ish): Working (BUSY).
3:00pm (ish): 10 mile cycle home (WARM).
3:45pm: Shower. If time permits, snack.
4:30pm: In car, fight through Cambridge traffic to get to theatre.
5:00pm (ish): Go through tech notes, make adjustments to set, touch up paintwork, get props and stuff in position. If time permits, snack.
7:30pm: Show starts, be on feet whole time, do set changes and whatnot.
10:00pm: Show ends. Gather all props and set pieces, help sound guy collect and pack mic packs, try to find wife...
11:00pm: Theatre kick out time, spend half an hour trying to drag wife away from chatting to every production member on the way to car.
11:30pm: Get home. Eat. Hurt.
Midnight: Bed time.

So a full week of 18 hour days yaaaaaaay.

 

Good luck @Wakka

 

Employment here is rubbish for me, I want to continue studying as a mature student to make myself more employable in the field I enjoy (aeronautical engineering) trying to work around it is near impossible in this city, attempting to go it alone but obviously trying to gather the small capital required is difficult. Relocating isn't possible due to my partner being in law and having to remain here to complete her work and my current employers screwing me over by closing up shop within 2 weeks. It kills me that I went from working on salary, to working 3 jobs to working one job, so now I'm searching for a suitable job to pull on £200 per week, which is buttons!

First world problem, I know .

 

Think I just totally f'ed a job interview.

On the positive side however I am not actively looking for a new job; I will be gutted if I don't get this job, but my current one isn't entirely terrible so it's not like I'm desperate to get away.