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An annoying thing I am noticing in job listings. Remote role, unless you live in London (I do), then we're hybrid and you need to come in 2 days a week. I pay a ton of money for my home in London, don't make me leave it.

Behind but major flaw in ST5 Holly would be a product of stranger danger. She would have had NEVER EVER EVER EVER talk to a stranger drilled into her brain from birth. Strange man approaching her in the library? She would have never made friends.

Honestly 2025 was downhill after my honeymoon in May. I was SO dissatisfied with my job that I never got back into things after I took 3 weeks off. Probably early stages of burnout. If I wasn't so bitter about the drop in salary I've had to take, and the lack of settlement money I would be grateful

I didn't even attempt this. I am not a dancer.

I did not do this but I did get to the boss battle once.

Final day of unemployment tomorrow, so let's review if I achieved anything. 1 - Sort of. Finished 2, DNF'd 1. Still reading last. 2 - 9/30 hour course. I want to get back into this. 3 - 1 time. There's nothing I want to see. 4- ✅ 5 - Sort of. I find it hard when it's cold, and it has been.

Went to see My Neighbour Totoro on the West End last night. Dare I say, more magical than the original film because of the puppets.

The popularity of Heated Rivalry is very interesting to me, as a hockey hating Canadian. It is SO fictionalised. Hockey players are a bunch of rich white boys, which leads to exactly the type of behaviour you'd expect. Hockey Canada has an internal fund to pay off sexual assault victims . . .

a year and 11 months of Crips for eSims for Gaza ;-; waiting for you to see this post, Alice! T_T #ConnectingGaza bit.ly/eSimsRUs

Funemployment (yes I found a job, I start in January) means going full in on the Christmas cooking and baking. ✅ Crispy Crunch (cereal treats) ✅ Cinnamon swirl snickerdoodles Sugar cookie bars Scottish Shortbread ✅ Homemade Cranberry Sauce ✅ Get ahead gravy Do I add another cookie to the list? 🤔

I understand that teams are busy right now and things are stressful. But gosh the mistakes, and then incompetence leading to confusion I've received from customer support when trying to correct. Just let me spend my money and provide the thing I've purchased, can't believe it's so difficult.

Everyone freaking out about Friends leaving Netflix... BUY THE DVD GET A DVD PLAYER Physical media is the only (legal) way to ensure you always have access to your favourite media

As opposed to extremely serious parties who base themselves wholly on real issues like, say, Reform who claim that all of the country's ills are caused by a few thousand refugees and want to solve this by deporting every Brown person in the country.

"Alt text is the gateway drug to accessibility. And I'd like to get everybody hooked." - Stacy Kess #Quotable from our upcoming #A11yShow episode, Making News Accessible. Coming to your podcast player December 15!

'Chat GBT' 'Chap GPT' If you can't even say or spell it correctly you shouldn't be using it

When your old, cheapskate company makes a tiktok and with AI and you get to relish in all the comments being 'Ew, AI'

Just learned I'll probably be furloughed from work for the last two weeks of the year so here's to starting the new year with none monies if u know any copywriter jobs especially in UX hit your girl up I'm very good and I'm dying here

Not loving the current 'marketing via apology' trend going on right now. Especially since these companies do have things they probably should be apologising for

Royal mail checkout doesn't use Cloudflare but Mastercard 3D Secure does 🤦

Exemplifying the "yes, you can just do things" approach @prisonculture.bsky.social encourages, @thellpsx.bsky.social, @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and Alice Wong started Crips for Esims for Gaza. Unpaid, and w no formal organization, they've raised $3,000,000 US chuffed.org/project/crip...

Final day of work tomorrow. My goals for unemployment (besides find employment again of course) Finish the books I have started Find a Data Analysis course to take, and take it Go to the cinema Do the annual Christmas deep clean of the house Workout

Interesting how in the CS I was brought forward for an interview at a G7 role, but only scored 2.33/5 for a HEO role. Application process for the 2.33 was very different from standard, it was through a system called "Applied" and did not follow the usual CS format.

I've noticed speaking with other UXers lately that, like myself a few weeks ago, there were plenty of people who haven't been interviewing in several years now. I've started interviewing this week after not doing so seriously since 2023, so here's my experience 🧵

You can't convince me GTA 6's delay is not related to Rockstars union busting behaviours www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reminding myself of previously effective job applications things from other times in my life. For example, sending a thank you note to the interviewers after the interview, just making yourself available for more conversations and maybe reminding them of your existence has worked well for me before

You know, maybe I CAN kind of understand why people might think that birds aren't real.

Just came across a research spec where one of the requirements for the participants was continuous speaking for the full 45 minute session with gaps in speaking of only 2 seconds or less allowed. WTF, awful companies running unethical garbage. But we don't need UX Researchers anymore . . . 🙄

Another week of job applications. Postings have slowed, hit the "red" in my applications numbers today. I do have another civil service job to apply for but the applications take longer and they don't have the "rush to get first" thankfully so I'll tackle it after my Interview on Monday. #uxjobs

Had an awful introductory call with a UX Career Coach last night. Can't believe their course sells for $3000. And they kept pushing it could be financed! Lots of respect lost for the individual running it.

Hey folks. I was impacted by the layoffs at Amazon today. If you or someone you know is in need of a UX Researcher with multiple years of experience leading or supporting research initiatives, games or otherwise, please DM me or reach out to me on LinkedIIn. www.linkedin.com/in/cdwheelock

Welp it only took 2 weeks but I seem to have maxed out on the backlog of jobs to apply to. Thankfully it looks like there's some junior roles available which is a good thing for the market and a positive sign for the UX Research industry in general.

Oof, service design fail for the Nectar QR code rollout

In a world of 0 responses to applications, it's nice to see some candidate friendly design on certain platforms #ux #jobapplications

My cats are not handling the clock change well. Eldest cat was already begging for food 30 minutes to 1 hour early. They are both very distraught at our sleeping in the past 2 days.

Jobs applied for Sept/Oct: 38 Rejections: 6 No response (so far): 32 Longest ghosting (so far): 38 days That doesn't include jobs I applied for before I started tracking again. I still have pre-COVID unresponded to applications out there for sure.

it does seem like some kind of something-something sign of our engineer brain dominated times that Literally Everything is Made by Asshole Engineers Now

I wish salaries were still public. I've probably wasted the past 10 months, especially the past 2 weeks, asking for too much because my current package is benchmarked to the salaries in 2023, and salary surveys are a year behind. I'm looking at a 20-30% drop. I've been asking for 0-15%.

New challenge for the foreseeable: Keep this cell out of the red (turns red at >15)

New record. 1 hour 10. But it was definitely a human written reply.

Maybe the redundancy consultations benefit certain fields and jobs but oh my gosh do I wish I could just walk away with a lump sum right now instead.

I'm glad the UX community, despite the fragmentation and stress the past few years, continues to be supportive

Quickest rejection I've ever received. 3 hours from application

I'm at risk for redundancy so if anyone is hiring a Senior or Lead UX Researcher remote or in London hybrid let me know! Open to perm or contracts

Once again the old white men of UX stating something out of touch

Conspiracy I'm choosing to believe after TSwift release of a flop album after her breakup with Alwyn. He wrote the other albums.

While Attenborough's narration and commentary was excellent as always, I found the Our Story exhibition to be underwhelming visually. Too much CG and animation. Nothing I haven't seen before as a nature doc lover. 360 room didn't do anything new. Should've been released on TV instead.

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