I don’t think I had seen a Wes Anderson movie until about 3 years ago when I watched one with friends.

It was ‘The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou’, and my reaction to it prompted a friend of a friend to suggest that maybe I should watch more of his movies.

Now, I am no fan of certain directors or produces and know/recognise their work. I just like a movie because I like the movie.

So I cannot say if this is a good one to start off with or how good it is compared to other works of his.

Edit:

Wait, I lie.

I watched The Grand Budapest Hotel a few years before The Life Aquatic and I enjoyed that one as well.

I didn’t realise that was one of his as well, but I had a hunch and looked it up.

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.

My guest mug is my face photoshopped onto some buff dude dressed up as a unicorn.

I don’t, but my coffee mug does.

First thing I thought as well, there are a lot of issues in the photo.

Not even sure what that thing is on the floor to the left, the letters look wrong and so do the buttons and stove knobs.

I’ve seen people post about how black cats are not popular because they do not photo well.

I disagree, I think they photo well.

It’s just a solid colour with eyes floating there. They make great photos.

You’ll be sitting there wondering… where is my cat and then the TV opens its eyes.

and more.

You have no idea what my keyboard looks like right now, may have to replace it.

Man… I used to listen to Lost Prophets a lot in college.

Never again, can never revisit any songs ever.

There is a radio version and uncut version of the song.

The uncut version has some extra… vocals in the bridge which is what this post refers to.

Starts at about 3:26.

https://youtu.be/RzxuknbQ5VY

Starting at said time:

https://youtu.be/RzxuknbQ5VY?t=206

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.

edit -

and this just popped up in my feed.

Pros: I don’t have to sneak around like a criminal just to get a plant.

Yup, cat got its stuck in a vase, it broke and now they are at the vet.

https://imgur.com/gallery/friends-cat-got-its-head-stuck-vase-freaked-out-broke-vase-was-left-with-this-kwZFyk8

Not me, but I used to work a role at a company that provided IT services and hardware/support.

We had a team that sat right behind me, basically they supported customer accounts, and they got a new team leader/manager.

She came in on a Friday I believe and the rest of the team were out, Thursday night is party night so most people worked from home Friday.

The next week comes in, IT puts all her equipment on her desk, she isn’t there. The next day or so comes around and she isn’t there but her team is and someone else strolls over to chat. He mentions he heard they got a new lady boss, where is she?

I say she was in last week, I saw her.

“Is she a looker?”

… this bloody place. Asks nothing about her other than her looks.

Later that week IT comes along and collects her equipment, she had left in under a week. I have no idea what happened but that was the quickest I have seen someone leave and on average we had a very short staff turnover time.

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.