even though she never was my supervisor, she acted like it.

Did you clear this up with your actual supervisor? I’ve had plenty of cases where I’ve been given work by people not my supervisor, but my supervisor wanted me to help the other person out. And that no one wanted to hear your side of the story seems to suggest that this could be the case. You seem to be focusing on the popularity of your coworker rather than giving information on the reporting structure of your company.

It sounds like you aren’t happy in your given role at work, so you might as well leave. However, it seems like there may have been a different understanding to what your job is than what you thought it was.

Welcome to Costco. I love you.

It depends on what you define as lazy and popular.

I’ve had staff that were visibly not working harder than other staff, but their work was of significantly higher quality than others. Since the “lazy” worker produced more and could be counted on to do the work with less supervision, I gave them more flexibility in the office. I was playing favorites, but the favorite was more valuable as an employee.

And I’ve had other staff that would be considered more popular, but that was in part because they would help others at work doing coordination and mentoring tasks. I would also offload some of my managerial tasks to them if I was overwhelmed even though they didn’t have the title. If I offload the management of a task to someone else, I expect people to treat them with the same respect they treat me. I’ve seen that expectation not get followed and I’ve had to step in to remind staff that they need to coordinate with others, not just me.

I find that a lot of people who “do their job and go home” don’t end up doing any of the coordination or communication required for their job, even though their job is technical design. They end up being worse than they think at their job because it is so hard to work with them and won’t chime in on cases where there is shared responsibility.

Yeah. I don’t like people in my place.

There are a lot of VR centric games out there on other platforms. Yet demand for those VR systems are also very low.

VR in its current form doesn’t seem to be worth it and the additional AR capabilities don’t seem worth it either.

I don’t think it is even a software issue. The problem is the use case. The VR market just isn’t that useful outside of gaming and even within gaming, it isn’t worth it.

Factors of safety are defined to deal with the probability of things going wrong in a manner that is acceptable to society based on a body of knowledge and experimentation. You can’t just define your own.

Also, just because something is designed for a specific load doesn’t mean it will fail at that load.

They aren’t streets ahead.

The intent behind a American bachelor’s degree wasn’t just to provide a knowledge base in a given subject, but to also help train the student to be a leader. This is part of the reason why there are so many clubs and other organizations in college; you are supposed to be practicing to lead. It is also the reason why you take classes in a broader range of subjects, as there are additional skills you need as a leader that may not get taught in technical classes.

If the degree doesn’t impart useful knowledge, you are still supposed to be taught these skills in college. A lot of colleges today have gotten worse on teaching this part to students as funding and rankings don’t really focus on teaching students how to be leaders, but this was the intent of college.

New Jersey has Rutgers, NJIT, and Stevens Institute of Technology. New Jersey in general is positive to women and all schools have programs in place to be inclusive to women in engineering.

It really depends on the tastes of the time. For instance, the 90’s were generally really colorful.

Phone, wallet, keys, Leatherman, and watch.

When I travel, I generally lose my Leatherman due to TSA and I have travel wallet independent from my normal wallet. The travel wallet is a lot slimmer, has RFID protection, and carries a lot less.

Still hosted by MTV’s Dan Cortese.

They would have rescheduled for that.

That is if there is still an optical drive market in the future.

Sony never made a big deal of how the PS5 can play Ultra HD disks the way they did with DVD and Blu-ray. Ultra HD sales seem a lot smaller than previous renditions. You also have a lot of content being kept behind the streaming paywall rather than getting released.

I don’t think there will be a large enough market to support 8K, backed up by the fact that a specification has been written but no one wants to go forward with making the disks and drives.

MTV’s Spring Break would be a lot crazier.

It depends on the person.

I think they, for the majority of people, there is a rough number that could be derived from a standard of living they would want and not have to work. It isn’t a common number across people as people want different things.

That said, there are some people for whom there isn’t a number to satisfy them. Wealth becomes a high score to measure against others. For them, there is no good enough.

It is funny how people have criticized American tech bros and praised Chinese development when it appears that they were both using the same fundamental investment philosophy.

Part of the issue with the value of college isn’t that it educated, but that it acted like an ordeal to overcome and filtered out people who didn’t have the makings of being a leader. Not all of that is due to educational ability.

I don’t know. I’ve had this issue with some adults as well.