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    ToniCipriani

    @ToniCipriani

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    • Safety first. Always use jackstands when working on your car.

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      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • Great news...

      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.

      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • How's things? [Personal]

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      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.

      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • Work Related Rant

      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)

      text

      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • Another form of Stay-At-Home Order

      Started like this:
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      And now like this:
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      ... and I have summer-only tires. Guess I'm not going anywhere today.

      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • RE: Dude we should totally have an Oppo buy/sell page

      Should we call ours Bids and Cars?

      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • RE: PSA for New Year's - Don't drink and drive

      Or better yet, just stay home.

      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • Lockdown Project Car Complete

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      Porsche 911 Targa M491 "Turbo Look"

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

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

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      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.)

      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • RE: Oh God... Making It A Race Car Didn’t Help

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      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • Argh, I hate this weather.

      Today it's like 18C... I miss my convertible.

      But next week...
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      I was going to get Kristin back from the storage next week and get on with the needed repairs. Now I don't know, my rule of thumb is 4C overnight consistent before I let the summer tires touch the road.

      Oh and did I mention I miss my convertible?

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      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani

    Latest posts made by ToniCipriani

    • RE: License plate GT III

      @WilliamsSW ehh... around my area these are people's winter cars, lol. All-wheel drive, bruh.

      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • RE: Officially Dead: Next gen RWD Mazda 6

      @facw Reading between the lines in the press release for the platform, I have a feeling there might still be the alleged RWD Mazda 6, just that it won't be called such and maybe China only. They still like their sedans there. The Cadillac CT6 is still alive and well there, for instance.

      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • RE: Officially Dead: Next gen RWD Mazda 6

      @facw said in Officially Dead: Next gen RWD Mazda 6:

      @Chariotoflove Conceivably they could still do a FF/AWD next generation 6 that shared a platform with a crossover. That would greatly reduce the resources required. Might be a step down, but contrary to what you might have heard, it is possible to build a premium/luxury sedan without RWD.

      It's not that they don't have a platform. They literally just released the RWD CX-60.

      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • RE: "mint condition"

      I am ashamed to admit that I wanted that flip trunk thing back in the days. But then what do I know, I had a loud exhaust back then too.

      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • RE: It’s warming up!

      Drats. Now I have to go brake parts shopping.

      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • RE: BMW is acquiring Alpina

      @Exage03040 They always has been, at least in Canada. BMW Canada had been importing B7s dating back to the E65s.

      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • RE: New Alfa Romeos will come with NFTs for maintenance records

      @forsweden said in New Alfa Romeos will come with NFTs for maintenance records:

      @nermal said in New Alfa Romeos will come with NFTs for maintenance records:

      How will it be updated by presumably a dealer but not a regular jagoff doing an oil change at home?

      Presumably each dealer will have a crypto wallet to sign the record with?

      I won't pretend to be a blockchain expert, but this seems like a decent idea.

      Cryptocurrency is just a use case of blockchain. Main thing about blockchain is that it's an immutable ledger.

      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • Paging Peter_Black

      https://jalopnik.com/triumph-is-one-step-closer-to-an-electric-sport-bike-1848503292

      Electric Triumph.

      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • RE: What's for dinner Oppo?

      @classicdatsundebate that's what I thought initially when I was told about the sale, but apparently they don't do that with the cryovac'd whole roasts. It actually has the meat packer's packaging with a label of theirs.

      Otherwise I'd never buy meat from them. Costco started doing that tenderizing thing as well so I stopped buying from them too. So I guess sticking with whole cuts like this is a safe bet.

      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani
    • RE: What's for dinner Oppo?

      @classicdatsundebate thanks... if I told you this was from Walmart would you believe it? 😛

      posted in Oppositelock
      ToniCipriani
      ToniCipriani