Good News: I just got promoted! From Analyst to Engineer, and now I'm a pod lead with a few folks under me and leading a migration project.

Bad News: Workday chewed my paperwork. Promo can't be finalized until I accept it on Workday. Sent me a notification that I need to sign the offer, but it throws me an error when I click on the link...

Been waiting for this since last November, they went on a huge back and forth until now (scrambling for a head count, trying to expedite by re-hiring me, then back out of that to give me a "proper" promo, all the HR yada yada, etc.), and now this. Sigh.

Long-roof Alpina for your time.

Hope everyone's still doing good during these unprecedented times(tm).

Things aren't bad, just got paid my year-end incentives (yay), but the promotion I asked for a few months back as a counter-offer didn't go through yet. They said they are aiming for next month "pending a market research by HR to try to get me a better rate". They did however made me a team lead now since our team is expanding, now I'm leading a few guys.

Only problem here now is I'm having a serious case of impostor's syndrome here, getting a bit fearful on what might come. Looking back, it felt like a flash. It wasn't that long ago I was still on Kinja writing a post venting about getting let go, and in just 2 years I've switched disciplines and leading some projects now. Not exactly small ones either, we're talking datacenter migration type of projects. Deep down though I still have a voice telling me I'm not quite cut for it yet. i just gotta find a way to deal with it, I guess, but it just feels like I'm about to lose control of things violently.

Really hope that promotion gets through though, at least it gives me a bit more comfort that my income is back to where it used to be. Part of me is still beating myself over wasting 10 years at my previous job and letting myself go stale, it feels a bit like redemption.

Release Manager: We need you on a call. You have a change going out.

Prod Support: (asks a bunch of questions that my team already answered on a meeting last Friday)

Me: Repeats Answers

Release Manager: (keeps calling me, asks the same questions over again)

Should we call ours Bids and Cars?

Or better yet, just stay home.

Started like this:

And now like this:

... and I have summer-only tires. Guess I'm not going anywhere today.

Porsche 911 Targa M491 "Turbo Look"

Has the wider Turbo stance but still has the standard engine.

Kit is missing 4 elbow pieces to build the kit this way, so had to improvise a bit.

So these are the 2 pieces I need to fix it up, shouldn't be too hard to find.

(...but lockdown is still not over, btw.)

Bottle of C4 Corvette cologne in the 70s.

Sorry just saw this... unfortunately work has been brutal lately.

@bicyclebuck That's because you're bottoming out. An MX Brown with O-Rings and doing touch typing is plenty quiet.

@highlander Technically 5G is the real 4G, AT&T's marketing renamed even HSPA 3G to 4G...

@facw Tell that to our security team...

@cb fun fact: Microsoft just got rid of passwords.

And they've been recommending Azure admins to get rid of password change policies.

I'm just glad the PPC didn't get shit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/pu4ne7/failed_ppc_candidate_for_oshawa_getting_arrested/

I still hate the fact that vaccination is a political issue.

@cb

Voter turnout is consistently dropping. I'll admit... this is my first time voting, like, in my life.

Didn't one of these showed up for Cash for Clunkers and made the news?