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 So, ok, I did send a friending request on linkedin to William, but so far he did not respond. Ok, whatever.

Meanwhile, I did find a solution for controlling cron job on kube, and successfully made it run once a day. IRL, Raghav etc, our pardners, seriously want us to just stop it for good. So I also have a pr for kicking out this part of code. But Karen wants to keep it. The Chinese don't throw out anything, it's a known cultural feature. We have probably about 100 build tasks in Jenkins that did not run for several years. Just try to remove it. Objections!

We have a "test automation" meeting, where Priyanka demoed her big pile of tests. I got a feeling she hired a big team in Africa or in India. She does not even answer my repeated questions why tabs are 8 characters in her scripts. But anyway, if she can do it, cool. It works, really.

Then had a 1-1 with Jacob. First we talked about lake Michigan and huge sand dunes, but then there was this "perf review". In my view, the purpose of this shit is not to promote anybody, because we are not growing anyway. So he gathered, together with a lot of good stuff, a lot of bad stuff. Like, in one cell it says that I'm the most qualified Scala expert at the company, and in another it's that I by mistake told Qian that his code can crash in certain conditions, and it cannot. How the fuck toes he know, right? Do I have to write a test for that? Well, whatever. I know the purpose of it, it's all about salary and promotion.

I don't fucking look for salary raise or promotion, I'm fine with what I get, and my main income is on stock market anyway, which, btw, grows like crazy these days (not all stock, of course, but patience, patience).

What's good in this review is that Jacob failed to properly hide the sources of bullshit. So I know now who's my friend and who's my enemy (as if I care about enemies, I don't have that sense, I just don't see enemies until they assault).

What's interesting, I asked Karen about this fix in "collections service", but she ignored it. For an obvious reason of never getting into a conflict of opinions. Let idiots keep their idiotship. Well, ok, it's not my company, right? I have some of its stocks, but it's really pathetic. It will grow some time... maybe.

Anyway, no mood for working today. In that table, with review, there's a column for my comments. I copied the table, so I wrote and edited my comments there. Will reread them, and maybe tomorrow, or Friday, will copy-paste them for Jacob to see. 

Jacob looked like he's sorry, almost guilty. He's a nice guy. I imagine his face when he decides to fire me (eventually, when the company does a layoff... I was never laid off, by the way... and it's probably too late for me). I will try to tell him politely that I don't fucking care about opinions of people like Chris or even Qian (whom I actually respect). But explaining to him that I don't fucking care about career (never was) may be challenging.

Anyway, all this gives me tons of free time, so we went to the optometrist, then to Lowe's, then to the pharmacy (where they mixed me with my wife, and said they never saw me before... but that's a different story).