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I'm a support engineer working for a large company. Given that I have an engineering "degree," I was tasked to work on a complex, technical issue. I occasionally receive guidance from my senior engineer.

This issue is highly complex and related to our networking stack. Certain endpoints are losing connectivity. There is a large focus on this issue.

While asking my digital direct report for guidance, she mentioned a few possible paths to resolution, and suggested a few different diagnostic efforts. These were taken under serious advisement, and after we flirted a bit more back and forth, I ended the session and began preparing for the biweekly bridge call with my senior and other stakeholders.

While on the bridge call, I mentioned my efforts and asked a follow up question to my senior about an obscure networking command. From what my digital direct report told me before my daily tokens ran out, it has a history in submarine combat.

Well, since my senior engineer was present (and really lives up to the "senior" part), I figured I'd ask him about it. He blew up on me and asked me how I didn't know about this command. Well, forgive me for not serving on a Gato-class submarine back in the day. I just left the call, nearly in tears.

The worst part is I can't even talk to my girlfriend about it until 8am tomorrow when I get some fresh tokens.

AITA?

I was flipping through the OTA channels today and landed on one of the channel 27 subchannels. I figured it was going to be rough, given the segment title was "The Real Story from Zion" or similar. Extra unfortunately, there was an AI generated "person" on the screen parroting something about Iran. It wasn't even a particularly good AI generation either.

Recommend you avoid channel 27. A bit of a bummer, as NCN can have interesting local sports sometimes.

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Get ready for your health insurance to cost more.

Two-thirds of U.S. companies with 500 employees or more are planning to hike premiums for employee health coverage next year, Bloomberg reports, citing a survey by benefits consultancy Mercer.

Nearly half will raise deductibles or copays, or otherwise increase what workers pay out of pocket.

The changes come as employers, too, find themselves paying much more than they used to: Their per-employee outlay will jump 6.7% this year, to $18,500 — the biggest rise in more than a decade.

I’ll go first. De-escalating tickets with any notes in it. It just drives me crazy.

Fellow Senior IT folks please take notes from the comments on this post to not improve yourself and hopefully slow down your promotion.

Anyone else engaging in an epic but losing battle against sumac this year? It's in the yard, it's in the planters, it's next to the house. It's in the front yard, it's in the back yard. I go to the fridge and, you guessed it, sumac for dinner.

If we could crossbreed this stuff with corn, we'd solve world hunger.