My one used to do the same.

She’d get excited if I was walking in the direction of her bowl and jump up onto the table and wait for me to enter the room.

Then purr while eating but only when I walked right up to her.

Some of their art seems to have a signature, some not.

Here is their profile: https://bsky.app/profile/falseknees.bsky.social

I once worked with an engineer from Glasgow and I had him at our logistics depot in London so I could do some training with him.

Somehow, no idea, but he just wandered off and found the one other person from Glasgow in the whole building. Turns out they were even from the same area.

Sniffed him out. Came back to me with a smile on his face and said it was great being able to speak to someone without having to put on an accent just so they could understand him.

Bonus story.

Him and I were walking to the store to get some lunch and he was telling me about all the London stereotypes he heard of and he mentioned rats. Rats everywhere.

I told him I’ve never seen one, but I have seen a few mice here and there running around on the tracks in the central London tube stations and just a few seconds later, this bloody fat rat ran across the path in front of us and into a bush.

THERE THERE, SEE! THERE! he yells.

Dammit… of all the times I see a rat in London it had to be with him.

Remote, hybrid and on-site… everything. I am applying for everything.

Basically, I am applying for any role I have done previously and recently.

Junior, mid and senior roles.

There are loads of IT roles that overlap, so a lot of different things I can do.

I went all out applying in about August last year and I am at about 550+ applications.

I’ve probably put in about 30+ today alone.

I’ve had about 6 interviews and only 2 of them were from applications I made, the rest were organised by recruiters that contacted me.

Spoke to an old colleague of mine that did a similar job to me, he got the axe from our company after I left and it took him about 300 applications to get 3 interviews and then finally a job.

Unfortunately for me, I took a role in a niche area because I needed a visa at the time and moved onto another role afterwards but I have too little experience in that area to land another role in it.

So, my main focus is too long ago to land a role, my latest experience is too little to land a role, and my main experience is too niche for me to find any roles.

Speaking to a few recruiters and they all say the same thing, 300+ applications on every role they advertise.

I have a few saved cover letters that cover certain role types.

I either copy and paste that in or attach them.

Regardless, getting nowhere with the job search. The job market is cooked.

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and this just popped up in my feed.

My old boss called me, said please come to my office… my laptop will not turn on and I cannot figure it out.

I get there, he tells me to please help him, he is probably being stupid.

I look at his laptop, I see his charger plugged in, I follow it down the desk, across the floor all the way to the wall socket where the plug lies…

He had walked the charger’s plug to the wall socket and just left it on the ground.

I plug it in, he sees me do this, laptop turns on, I leave.

Someone writing on that show had to have worked IT at some stage.

A lot of things that happened in that show resonated with my IT support experience.

I saw some clips on YT where they removed the laugh track.

It’s really hard to find the show funny when they take out the bit where it tells you when to laugh.

I’m at 200+ applications and only a few rejections, nothing else.

The job market is cooked.

My first thought was he clearly was not being the best he could be, because he was not the one that brought in the jam filled donuts.

I miss my Voodoo 2 3000 AGP card.

I got an ABIT Siluro/ Geforce 2 MX400 after that and Diablo 2 ran worse, the frame rate tanked. I was gutted.

Back in the day I tried to play Morrowind but every time I moved my mouse the game would crash, I started removing hardware until I found out it was my soundcard giving me issues, was an old ISA slot. Got a PCI soundcard after that and no issues.

Those were the days.