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Cake day: October 16th, 2023
  • Frostbeard@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•When you work for a company owned by a A..hole
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    3 days ago

    Thats a great feeling. I did extremely low level tech support for other students while at uni. in 2003 (Think issuing user names, filling copy paper, sorting out storage space allocation on the shared drives.) Small part time job that paid for boze. A girl came in with a 3.5" floppy disk on the verge of tears and said she couldn’t get the file on it. It was her master thesis and the only place she had stored it. We still had floppy disk drives and I slitted it in and used a dos shell to acess a: but nothing. No disk in drive. I took the floppy out and noticed that the metal protection of the actuall disk (that soft plastic circle) didn’t slide properly. To me it looked like the spring was just to worn and had no tension. Took it off and could then access the files on it. Error was that the spring wasn’t able to slide the metal protector away when inserted into the reader.

    Copied the files to her “home” area, sent a copy by email and gave her a new floppy with the files and told her about the importance of back ups.

    The sheer look of relief and gratitude was priceless.

  • Frostbeard@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.world•Throw away your children’s future for an overpriced metal boxEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Tbf I have more respect for enthusiast car ownership than many other types of cars.

    I walk most places, take the train and limit the use of my own car. (mazda6 estate) Hard to do now that I have a three year old.

    I would love an El Camino with an 400hp xl engine. A completely useless car that will be mostly tinkering and some summer driving. A Shelby is a nice car, and if cars are a hobby I say go for it.

    I have more issues with oversized cars clogging up my town on what could have been done with a bike or by foot

  • Frostbeard@lemmy.worldtoEurope@feddit.org•I landed a remote job for a European company, and now I'd find it hard to go back to a US-based company — I feel spoiled by the perksEnglish
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    25 days ago

    I live in Norway and have 21 sick days. That means days that I can self report as sick. (Influenza and such) I can do this for three consecutive days I think. Then I have to get a physician to write a sick leave. For anything serious you have one year on sick leave before more long term solutions will have to be found. Sick days does not include doctors appointments (its their own quota) or home with sick child (10 days) Pregnancies are their own thing, but often you go on sick leave before birth because being pregnant while not an illness makes you feel ill. We have one year of paternity/maternity leave first three months are reserved for mother, then shares but both parents MUST take three months. (Can get around by company paying for the leave of the one supposed to go back to work.) Father gets two weeks just after birth to settle things at home.