"To be laid off", or even better "to be let go", are fucking euphemisms for "fired", "kicked out", etc.
That sort of vocabulary is typically used by HR to sound more benevolent, whereas when it's happening to you, you'll use the more aggressive terms.
FUCK whoever thought translating Excel formulas was a good idea. It is the most infuriating shit. Everything I learnt in English is now useless, without googling every fucking function every single time.
Fucking idiots.
It's the kind of testing my colleague would do. "well, nobody would be idiotic enough to enter something weird when they are asked for a number". And so he'd only write tests for numbers. That kind of stuff.
The unit tests I'm looking at in this latest jobs are some primo "dev testing" bullshit. Their sole purpose clearly was to be able to say "we unit test our code in our pipeline and it all passed" and that's about it. Ugh.
My favourite one was when I asked the user "can this happen?" (Some value being negative) and they reply "no never".
Then, of course, I get an occurrence the day of the live demo with the user and her boss.
I ask again, "uh, so is this normal? Has it ever occured before? Because I asked you if it could happen and you said never."
Now the boss replies "oh, we meant it's extremely uncommon. Almost never happens".
Turns out it happens once every few months, amongst hundreds and hundreds of transactions.
So I gently explained that the computer doesn't care how often it happens. If it can happen, I need to code it in otherwise things go wrong!
Thankfully I had planned the eventuality, so I had a nice error message, but still. A lesson was learnt that day.
Ok, now same question but for the Christmas lebkuchen and cinnamon stars and all the stuff I would stuff myself with all year round if it was available.
Kinda shows the unadulterated greed of companies, in general. Never let go of anything that could potentially bring money at some hypocritical point. Ever.
What a load of bollocks.
It's based on a french comic book, drawn and written by Spanish artists, so not really. It's a direct homage to Hollywood noir movies, but with anthro. It's played straight too, not a parody.
Think of it this way : should games that people pay money for be below average, ie, failures?
Anything below 60% shouldn't even see the light of day, really.
Seen like this, it seems a lot more reasonable to me that 30% of released games would be below 70%. In fact, I'd say it's still way too many games that probably should still be in the oven.
Its not a joke. I worked for a big european bank network and the software there didn't know how to translate from EBCDIC to UTF8 because none of the devs writing the software knew enough of the other side (mainframe vs PC) to realise this was an issue.
Their solution was "if the file has a ? in it when we receive it, it's probably a £".
Which of course completely breaks down the day you have any other untranslated character.
I spent fucking weeks explaining this issue and why this was abominable, but apparently this wasn't enough of an issue for people to fix it. Go figure...
I get the feeling that there is something like a "look at them laughing with us!" when really we are laughing at them, kinda situation... you know?
Like they think that so many mods being made is because we love their games, when a majority of mods are really the fans fixing shit that shouldn't be broken in the first place.
It sure comes from a place of love, perhaps, but it shouldn't be happening to such an extent in the first place! I shouldn't need a UI mod to play Bethesda games! Not should there ever be not one, but several Unnofficial Patches!
I'm literally chatting with a friend in China right now who received a phone call from her boss at 9:30pm for some last minute report she wanted my friend to write for the next day. The friend had previously blocked her number... So she used a different one.
Insane shit.
Not so much made as highly dependent on context. Ie, it depends what you're nodding towards.
But up and down... yeah, they've been pretty universal wherever I've been. Kinda cool, really!