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  • fired two months ago for bombing out of a PIP* and I feel so incredibly seen by this article. all my motivation and passion for making the linux and the kubernetes and the cloud things has evaporated and I have no fucking idea what to do next, thankfully I can also take some time off and I’m leaning into music as well, kinda in a cover band and likely joining another cover band.

    *a PIP that my shithead of a former manager put me on the literal instant I returned to work from a double-whammy bereavement leave of first my grandpa dying, and then having to euthanize our beloved 12 year old dog. and the PIP’s core requirement turned out to be technically impossible anyways, and yet here I am




  • Yes but make sure you get a really solid labor warranty. We got a State branded hybrid water heater and the heat pump failed in the first year. Had it failed after one year we’d be on the hook to pay foe the labor to replace it even if the water heater itself was covered under warranty.

    Thankfully the replacement has been flawless so far, hopefully it was just a fluke.

    It’s so neat walking into the utility room and feeling the air is noticeably cooler and dryer, especially with my modest almost-homelab setup in the same room. I love being able to feel that its doing its thing, and that’s also how I knew the previous one had its heat pump fail, it was immediately obvious when walking into the room after no hot water.

    Even when the last one failed, it was one button press to make it fall back to the resistive heating (I run mine in pure heat pump mode full time) and that worked perfectly fine until the replacement installation