Imagine spending that much money specifically to not contribute to society. And not being willing to pay for the public resources you use more than your share of.
I get it. Its basically a heated waterbed.
The zero dollars I'm willing to give Amazon is going up zero percent
I'm the VP who actually knows how the things work. So after I solve your problem I:
Write the instructions in an email for the 4th time and send it to everyone involved (your name was probably in CC list, sorry about that)
Double check the internal documentation and add a bit about windows update going rogue
Notice the logs say I'm the only person to ever look at this doc
Send a second email about reading our documentation (now you're also in the BCC list too somehow, sorry about that)
Get a text from my wife to see if I've left work yet
Email our Microsoft rep and CC IT to chastise them about the update but also to see if this violates our SLA so we can get some credits
Check on the status of the SSO epic, since none of this would have happened if that had gotten finished in Q1 '22 like it was supposed to
See no one has been assigned to any tickets in that epic since the last time something like this happened 15 months ago
Spend 10 minutes daydreaming about opening a bike rental shop in Amsterdam
Email the DoE about making sure the SSO epic ends up as an OKR in Q3
Sure, Jenny's around 70 by now. I'm sure cancer is something on her mind.
This is like 101 stuff. You quickly learn to keep your cyanide in a false tooth and leave your cold dead heart at home.
It's either pleurigloss (the color of a solider returning from war and seeing their dog for the first time) or hooloovoo (the super intelligent shade of blue).
France only stopped using the guillotine for capital punishment 50 years ago. I'm guessing there is some basement somewhere full of still maintained "prison equipment"
Japan is experiencing its first sustained inflationary period in many years. So these drives are seeing prices go up when they haven't done so for much of their careers, and now their pay is dropping too.
Bird leaf is less upsetting than tree feather.


We must be close to the sort of flexible eink display that will finally make Rorschach's mask a thing.