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I had to have a raccoon euthanized by animal control today and I feel pretty bad about it.

I tried to find a place to take him in but they wanted me to get him in a box and drive him there. I feel bad that I didn’t do enough for him. I think he was hit by a car, or something like that, based on the gash on his head.

Rip in peace poor wild buddy I never knew ❤️

Oh you want to feel bad? We once had some scratching in the ceiling of our condo and the pest control people put out traps. After catching a couple of neighborhood cats, they got a raccoon and the scratching stopped. It was taken to some woods and released apparently.

Well a couple of days later we found a couple of little starving and injured baby raccoons on the front lawn after they fell out of the spot under the second story eaves where they were living after we took their mother away. Yeah, we took the one that survived the night to a wildlife rescue but I don't think it made it.

Anti-climactic CHAT LOG PROOOOOOF:
https://gonorthdesign.com/PACMAN-VS-MARIO.png

Last week I shared about my performance review being conducted by someone who was not my manager (a designer who has only been with the company a couple of years, I’ve been here over 7 yrs), who didn’t know I had accepted a promotion and brought me a 3% merit increase.

As an aside: My new boss shared with me that he got my new direct report a 4% raise.

So I pushed back to both my reviewer and my new boss - the reviewer agreed with me and did what he could (not much), in addition i pushed back to my new manager, who also didn’t get much done. So I’m at 3%. I also reached out to the SVP who came to me with the promotion and asked for advice “I agree you need to fight for your salary!”

So everyone I’ve approached has agreed - 3% is bull.

Also on the day of the announcement of my promotion - which wasn’t shared company wide like most promotion announcements - one of my major stakeholders - a SVP - panicked and reached out to my skiplevel worried I’d no longer be serving them. “Don’t worry he will still be owning those tasks as well”.

Well that stakeholders entire department won an achievement award for performance today. I wasn’t mentioned there either.

My new boss came back to me yesterday and said “it’s locked in but I’m confident we can do something about it this year”.

So even though our COO, and SVP of enterprise marketing picked ME for this managerial role, and another SVP who is a major stakeholder freaked out when my promotion was announced, I have to prove myself to my new skip level.

Quitting Facebook, hitting the gym, sprucing up my portfolio, resume, LinkedIn and looking for a new Graphic Design Lead job. It was great while it lasted.

Btw, are you hiring? =P Got laid off on Friday ( https://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=42362081#item_42362081 )... I'm a veteran SaaS dev w/ 12+ yrs of experience in backend development (10yr w/ .NET, 2yrs w/ Java, 3mos w/ Kotlin, 3mos w/ Python). I can pass fizzbuzz. =P

Sometimes they’re forced to ask those questions. “Standardized” or “structured” interviews make legal folks believe we are less likely to get sued.

The new Grocery Protection Act mirrors prior efforts from 40 years ago to require the following:

Six-months notice prior to close of a neighborhood-serving grocery store
Requirement to meet with community members prior to closure
Requirement to explore a replacement supermarket

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/san-francisco-supervisor-wants-to-resurrect-1984-law-heres-why/

San Francisco has had so much success with housing policy being dictated by community input that now they’re looking to expand the practice to controlling the development of private companies too. You’ll be legally required to run your business at a loss with money you don’t have I guess.

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Star Trek: Discovery S5

Oh dear lord, the extremely bad writing continues...

Thank god it's the last season.