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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I totally agree that adopting is a big responsibility. Still, personalities don’t always fully come out in the shelter. We adopted a 15 year old to give him a golden basket. We were told he’s calm while withdrawn, while still at ease around other cats. What we got was a 15 year old acting like 2 year old. Absolutely races through the house and wants to play a lot with the other cats to the point they get annoyed, and is constantly and aggressively trying to steal from our plates. Frequently gets the zoomies at four in the morning which can result in facelicking. Still love him ofcourse, but I can imagine it’s harder to deal with if you’re in your 70’s and expected a cat that at least doesn’t try to use your legs as tree trunks on the way to food. Trying to find a family that matches the kitty’s personality doesn’t mean you’re a bad person imo. Throwing them on the street is evil of course.





  • I’ve read through the post and the comments again, and it’s also that he doesn’t seem to want to train his users. They’re familiar with Gmail so he wants them to be able to use it. His users probably use their mailbox as an archive, and he doesn’t want to train them into understanding this is a bad idea, and he doesn’t want the hassle of dealing with ever increasing mail storage. At my previous job, we had Exchange Online, so 50 GB of storage. I was still explaining to my users, they should store their handled mails in archives if they wanted to be sure they would always have them. (Obviously stored on parts of their hard drives set up to synch to the fileserver which had daily backups)

    All of these things are normal parts of an admin’s responsibilities. The only reason he’s getting away with his setup is because he owns the business and there’s been nobody there for the past 20 years to explain this would lead to problems down the line. (Or if there have been, he’s conveniently ignoring that)

    Now they’re here, he’s blaming Google for what is probably the least evil thing they’ve done this year.


  • I admit I know nothing about him apart from the linked wiki page elsewhere. But nothing I read there seems to indicate he can be a good admin.

    What you state he wants to achieve is what ignorant managers sometimes say they want without understanding how silly it is. I was in IT twenty years ago already, while still being green and unbearded, and even then this would have been an extremely bad and dumb idea.



  • Being good in one thing doesn’t make you good in something else. He is an inexcusably bad IT admin. The devs I work with don’t ask for my opinion on code and if they would, it would probably sound nice to someone who doesn’t know shit, but it’d still be a dumb opinion. Likewise I don’t ask for their opinion on how to create our IT infrastructure (beyond of course asking their requirements for testing servers and such). If they have an opinion on it, it’s generally not very coherent or founded in reality. Like the complaints of this guy. Though they’re generally not this dumb.




  • He competes, last I saw at white belt. And he has beaten (and lost to) other white belts who compete, and for sure we’re looking for a chance to beat one of the richest people in the world. People who don’t train don’t understand how bad they are at fighting. Even a casual white belt competitor in his forties would wreck an overweight 50 year old. It wouldn’t even be close.

    But to say he’s high level is pushing it though. If he keeps training and actually rolling without yes-men, he could become high level. I say that as someone who dislikes him though. But being an asshole doesn’t stop you from being good in Bij plenty of assholes and worse people are amongst the best.