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Gear Grinding 8: I Got A Lot Of Problems With You People!

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BMW drivers who mock-run you when you're crossing the street to find your Uber ride, just to express their annoyance that you're not crossing fast enough for them. Then have the nerve to roll down the window and yell, "Get your head out of the screen!" Yeah? Well get yours out of your arse and I'll think about it.
 
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Rewards credit card "gamers" who recommend stupid sh*t like gift card churning, hugely overpaying your taxes (then collecting your refund later), and giving out thousands of dollars in Kiva loans, all to "manufacture" more CC spend/get more points. :rolleyes:
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Rewards credit card "gamers" who recommend stupid sh*t like gift card churning, hugely overpaying your taxes (then collecting your refund later), and giving out thousands of dollars in Kiva loans, all to "manufacture" more CC spend/get more points. :rolleyes:
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I don't understand half of what you just said. The logic, I mean, not the words.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
BMW drivers who mock-run you when you're crossing the street to find your Uber ride, just to express their annoyance that you're not crossing fast enough for them. Then have the nerve to roll down the window and yell, "Get your head out of the screen!" Yeah? Well get yours out of your arse and I'll think about it.
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A couple weeks back I was crossing, a couple other people were also crossing in front of me. There was a car waiting to turn right and the truck behind him was angrily waving for people to walk faster so the guy in front could turn. We weren't walking lackadaisical or anything, just a regular walk. So I waved back like I was saying hi and watched him say something to his wife before he drove off at a normal speed from the light. Didn't seem like he was really in a hurry or anything.

Some people are just impatient.
 
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St. Clown said:
I don't understand half of what you just said. The logic, I mean, not the words.
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Basically get a bunch of store credit cards/airline credit cards that offer rewards or cash back, use them enough to get a bunch of rewards, then cancel them before fees kick in. Use your ill-gotten gains to rinse and repeat ad infinitum.
 
Twitch Boy said:
Basically get a bunch of store credit cards/airline credit cards that offer rewards or cash back, use them enough to get a bunch of rewards, then cancel them before fees kick in. Use your ill-gotten gains to rinse and repeat ad infinitum.
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Oh no, that's not even the half of it. At least CC churning is not fraud. Dumb when overdone, but not fraud.

I'm talking about the guys and gals who go out and buy 10 grand worth of vanilla gift cards (preferably using a credit card that gets 2x or 3x points), then take them to Walmart and social engineer the cashiers at the service desk to let them buy a bunch of money orders using the gift cards like debit cards, then deposit the money orders into a checking account that they use to pay off the card. Thereby being out only the cost of the gift card and money order fees.

There are people doing $50,000+ a month of this, using spreadsheets to track it all. Such a ridiculous waste of time, not to mention the risk of shutdowns and the impact to your credit score.
 
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Even at 2%, that’s only $1,000/month. Not worth it.
 
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The drive thru has a Braille menu. Should I be concerned?
 
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Clients that think they're doing Agile development, when they're doing Waterfall with a veneer of Agile. :rolleyes:
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Clients that think they're doing Agile development, when they're doing Waterfall with a veneer of Agile. :rolleyes:
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Project managers who fixate on one or the other when good practice is good practice and a rigid application of B-school concepts is lunacy. See also: OO.
 
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Kepler said:
Project managers who fixate on one or the other when good practice is good practice and a rigid application of B-school concepts is lunacy. See also: OO.
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And then they decide to break the rules on account of title. :rolleyes:
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
And then they decide to break the rules on account of title. :rolleyes:
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One of the great lines in history, from Sun when they controlled Java:

"Because we control the standard that means we can change it..."
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That went over real well at OSCON that year.
 
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Kepler said:
Project managers who fixate on one or the other when good practice is good practice and a rigid application of B-school concepts is lunacy. See also: OO.
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I played Scrum poker, unironically, for the first time ever on this project - in a room of 15 voters. These people are idiots.

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How about anyone that claims they're doing Agile? 99.999% of them aren't.
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Easily your best post in months.

unofan said:
People who use terms like Agile when they aren't referring to actual dexterity.
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OK, that's good. :D
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
How about anyone that claims they're doing Agile? 99.999% of them aren't.
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On almost every project I've been on, "Agile" has been code for "we slipped that feature because our initial estimate was bullsh-t so we just dumped it into the next iteration. Repeat as necessary." Since this is actually accepted by management (!) it removes the one incentive estimators had to push back against "bid to win," the anticipation of them crashing and burning during execution. That is, assuming estimators are even the people doing the work later, a whole other gear to grind. I've worked proposals where I knew I would be back at my program safe from any consequences when the award came down, but I would face backlash at red team if my estimates seemed pessimistic. Now I'm as-s enough to go ahead and lengthen my estimates in those situations just to punish the proposal manager for putting me in that position, but there is huge pressure to fold, especially if you are young and committed to your career (I am neither).
 
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