[Skydiver]

Had an IT Townhall meeting this afternoon and heard that large swathes of IT within the company was getting outsourced to one of our long time vendors. Those jobs who are affected will be given an opportunity to interview with the vendor so that they can start working for them rather than our company. The 50% not hired by the vendor will get a severance benefit and some placement aid.

Although, I'm not directly affected, I feel that management has been a little two faced when they said they had been working on this deal for months, considering that just late last year, everybody was required to take the company culture training and one of the things they discussed was as part of the new culture, we are going to start in-sourcing rather than outsourcing expertise.

[jon.kiparsky]

Yeah, that's pretty fucked up. Not a place I'd want to be staying at, for sure.

[modi123_1]

Beh.. company furloughs were extended until the end of July, and I was just brought back on board. Maybe benched again. Meeting this morning about, I would assume, that.

Though it's nice to get back to a few projects I had to drop in March. Yeppie skippy - data munging!

[jon.kiparsky]

Pagerduty went off at 2:09 AM, just as I was falling asleep. Found the problem, it was trivial. Now I've been waiting for half an hour for the all-clear from my counterpart in Switzerland so I can go back to sleep.

It's going to be a beautiful Monday.

[Skydiver]

Good news: Yesterday afternoon, I discovered that one of my inner walls is not a load bearing wall. If I wanted to expand my downstairs to become fully open concept, I could.

Bad news: My plan for installing crown moulding in a room hit a major snag when I got to that wall: no top plate in the wall for me to nail the moulding into. Had to breakout the stud finder and find all the studs and joists so that I could find where to nail stuff into. What was going to be. A quick 30 minute install and finally be done with that phase became a 4 hour project. To make matters worse, it was that run of crown which is the one most people will see and it has the most holes from where the top plate nails were supposed to go, as well as where the actual nails went.

Also, I now have to rethink my attic storage plan since most of the weight was going to be over the non-load bearing wall. Will the trusses be strong enough?

[DarenR]

how old is your house? mine is over 100 years old and has what are called balloon walls-- none have top plates.

https://www.hometips...se-framing.html

This post has been edited by DarenR: 11 May 2020 - 07:04 AM

[Skydiver]

House was built in 2014. I'll have to go poke around in the attic to see if they used a 20' or 30' studs, in which case that wall is load bearing and holding up the roof. My general sense of the house is that they essentially created the second floor so that could make a large finished room over the garage, and put the furnace and hot water heater in the attic.

[DarenR]

they use 30' boards to cover a span? dang

[supersloth]

codin'

[no2pencil]

Whatcha codin' on there, SuperSloth?

[supersloth]

just updating some invision board sites. patching em up with the latest version of PEE 8TCH PEE.

[Skydiver]

Sounds like symptoms of a venereal disease: pee, itch, pee.

[supersloth]

yeah that explains most invision board sites pretty accurately

[modi123_1]

Found the hidden 'sleep 1 second' that was causing row inserts to be painfully slow.

Someone threw that in thinking it was something else and ignoring the giant for loop. *groan*

[Skydiver]

... very likely since most real world code reviews prior to checkin are actually just looking at the diffs and not the code as a whole, whomever the reviewers were also didn't realize that the changed code was inside a big loop.