Super! [DOT 20/3/21]

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1. I’m not sure 10 grand a month is enough to make me move to California
   Not that it matters as going by role value, creativity, design, applicable experience and skillset it sounds like they are looking for an office wonk

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   • Ten grand a month but also ‘free rent’ (quote marks theirs.) What does this mean? You have to share a bed with one of the owners? Is the owner hot, so this might not be a bad deal? Or do you sleep in a tent in the vineyard, perhaps self-supplied? 
      
     Sonoma is very beautiful, if you’ve never been. Not during the rainy, foggy season, maybe, but there are far worse places in this country to live, ten grand a month or no. 

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     • Yeah but just reading the word California puts California love on a loop in my head…I’d go mad if I lived there….
       Sides California is too close to the sun

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       • Healdsburg is a really cool town (well, not in the summer when it get into the 100 degree category).  Besides a ton of great wineries, Russian River Brewing is there with what has been called the best beer in the world (Pliny the Younger).  I really love their beer but not willing to call it the best in the world.  If I was much younger and single, I would definitely apply for this job.  Much of this area though has been devastated by the last few year’s fires and add to it that young people are not drinking wine any more.  I think that might be the bigger point of that request for people to apply, free advertising and push younger people to think about wine.  Corona virus hasn’t helped things either.  I try to do my part to help but have to share the love by supporting my favorite breweries and wineries.  I only have one liver goddammit!
          
         https://www.svb.com/trends-insights/reports/wine-report#
          
         https://www.winemag.com/2020/03/25/california-wine-coronavirus/
          

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         • Yep, I had a coworker that went to Sonoma every year for vacation and in either 2018 or 19 had to cancel because their favorite place burned to the ground 🙁

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2. That Bloomberg story about Citibank accidentally sending out hundreds of millions is more interesting than it looks. It was sent accidentally but perhaps not mistakenly, which is two different things. It involves a somewhat complicated debt deal they worked on for Revlon (I did not realize Revlon is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy) and there were some VC and PE investor groups involved. They’re the ones who got the money. There are problems with this deal, and the investor groups have been pushing back against Revlon and Citibank, to little avail thus far. A judge decided that the investor groups were, indeed, entitled to this money, but what happens is the facilitating bank, in this case Citibank, sets up a dummy account using its own assets to provide the liquidity and the back-office work necessary for these kinds of debt deals. So Citibank took the hit and is fighting it, but the investor groups hate the back dealing and obfuscation and roadblocks Citi threw up in their faces over the course of this deal, and Revlon is probably pretty happy for this windfall (it would take a huge chunk of debt off its books)…it’s all very interesting.

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   • Oh ya, it’s definitely a show! Even if a wire is sent to the wrong account there’s no guarantee you’ll get it back as you might need to rely on the recipient to send it back. Add a hostile party there who believes and can probably show they are entitled to the funds and, well, I feel sorry for the ops person in Delaware who pulled the trigger on that! 

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3. …the “things I do not ever need to hear about a shooter” is a demoralizing litany in that the points that get trotted out are so predictable that you could almost use a chart of which get deployed to figure out most of the characteristics of the shooter…although the shorthand that if they survived arrest they’re more or less certain to be a white guy seems to put the whole correlation-is-not-causation principle to the test…but I suspect trying to get into it further might overlap with the commentary about that promising young woman movie so I’ll leave it at that

   …but yes, that piece about the bear spray does make it sound like it might well be the primary cause of the death of that officer…so I probably ought not to suggest that it seemed like maybe it might be the sort of fate deserved by those who think assaulting women is acceptable?

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4. Work problems. 
   It seems that there are issues with the three shifts within the department I work for.  For those of us who are aware of these things, it’s a no shit kind of deal because the teams were picked by the supervisors.  One supervisor mostly picked “his” people.  One supervisor didn’t know anyone got a mixed bag but a lot of scrubs.  The last supervisor picked people he had worked with and knew who worked–he got the best end of the deal and I don’t say that because I am on that team.
   Now the same supervisors are shrieking because two of the teams are only teams in name, but that’s what you get when you pick based on racial lines and when you don’t know anyone.  My shift hums along smoothly.
   So they want to shuffle the teams around.  Sounds good?  Naw.  I like most of the people on my shift and have no issues with them outside of one.  However, it doesn’t matter what I and others on my shift think.  We’re getting punished because the manager and the majority of her leader hires can’t lead people worth shit.
   I’ve learned in my many years working that there are no bad regiments, only bad colonels.  However, that bit of knowledge doesn’t go over well on the bad colonels who think they’re fucking awesome.
   When these shuffles happen I’ve been on the losing end.  First time, the then supervisor basically threw everyone I ate lunch with out of his team–I don’t know why he kept me except to try and make my life miserable.  The joke was on him because those were the guys who did the job and his shift went from first to worst. He wanted me to help him and I openly laughed at him (yeah, and no one should ever wonder why management doesn’t like me.)
   The last time I got shoved onto a team where I was the senior most tech.  I ended up clashing with a bunch of them because of egos involved (mine and theirs.)  I endured though.  Just was very happy to get the fuck off that team.
   I’m pretty sure that I’m getting moved again due to my “cult of personality”.   It sucks going from a team of work friends to being surrounded by frenemies.  Oh well.

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5. On the other hand I might not have to suffer the stupidity of my current employer much longer.  I got a surprise interview this week.  We’ll see how things go with the video portion before I take my laptop to the Apple shop.

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   • …good luck with the interview…sounds like a change of scene might be just the ticket?

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   • Good Luck, Manchu!!!
     I hope your Apple repair brings you LOTS of excellent benefits, & a higher pay grade, with much less bickering & stress!😉😁💖

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6. Not sure if this linky thing wil work…but…
   Lol 
   https://www.instagram.com/p/CMnhhjcna2N/?igshid=azhsh7p7a6qm
    
    

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