ChiwaWithMujicanoHat

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I know of a certain big company that has a bug report UI in one of their main products that literally goes nowhere, it used to go to a table in the db, then they removed the table since it was not really used and they wanted to get more storage, so someone quick fixed the bug report to go to a Google sheet

    Nobody really checks that sheet and it is not automated or used for anything at all, the person that created that sheet was also deprovisioned some time ago.

    Also since many things have changed the only thing that is pulled to the sheet is the first field to specify the category of the bug, all the descriptions, files, photos, logs and more granular items are just not going anywhere.

    When this was reported the only reply from management was “QA will check it later” this was 2 years ago so…yeah



  • I think this is a completely wrong take on my reply, not sure why you’d see that giving practical advice on what OP can do about their situation and also how to deal with the stress is telling them to pull themselves by the bootstraps and me saying the system is ok, we all know the system is rigged and pretty much RNG. Most good jobs are gotten through networking by knowing the right people, not merit-based so I’m just trying to give OP some options based on how I’ve dealt with being broke.

    I think just complaining about the system won’t achieve much, unless it’s an actual collective action that does elicit meaningful change.


  • 2/3rds the things you suggest, he’d had 0 access to

    Can you specify which ones? I’m genuinely interested in what would be difficult to access here. I think maybe the therapist would cost a lot if you don’t find a cheap or even free option, but life planning and journaling are completely free to do on your own, looking for a better job can be done for free on LinkedIn, studying can be done for free in Youtube, getting a part-time job can be done if you have extra time, checking Upwork I think costs now because of the connects but there are probably other free alternatives for task-based gigs.

    Going to another country legally should also not cost as much if you prepare for it, but I guess it could be challenging if you don’t have any chance to save any money at all, but going to LATAM should be relatively affordable to Americans and Canadians.

    my dude how rich are you?

    I wouldn’t say I’m rich although I live a frugal albeit comfortable lifestyle, I went to Asia (1 month) and Europe (3 months) last year while earning $6 per hour, I just had to save for a few months, I was renting studios in city centers so not even going to hostels and eating crackers. I’d say I spent around $3k on that trip


  • You can try for customer support, legal assistant, virtual receptionist, virtual assistant, scheduler, appointment setter, or just go into sales if you are good at that, all of those pretty normally don’t require any experience at all.

    If you have some good tech skills you can also go for help desk or it technician.

    Btw school would be ideal to learn something but it’s not the only way to learn, you can try Udemy or just YouTube to learn a lot of stuff that could help you land a new job.


  • You can try to check which expenses could be avoided, look for a better job, study to get a better one in your spare time, get a part time job, do some random tasks in Upwork, etc

    You could also legally move to another country and work remotely, earning $1k USD/ month should suffice to have a decent lifestyle almost anywhere, although gentrification is becoming an issue in some places.

    Coming back to the stress, you could talk to a therapist and see what could help that situation. Maybe some journaling and life planning could help you identify what’s going on with your life and how you can deal with it.








  • I worked creating mass content for lots of websites, from product descriptions, to reviews and posts messages. We just inserted random typos after running Quillbot on the text and added ellipsis here and there sometimes.

    I think someone in the team had a list of words they purposely changed in MS Word so that they could be misspelled all the time.

    Now that ChatGPT let’s you insert your custom global instructions I’m absolutely sure they are asking for it to misspell about 2% of the words in the text and talk in a more coloquial fashion.

    As things stand right now, I don’t think there is a discernible way to see if something was written by AI or not and relying on typos is not a wise thing to do.