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JHVH-1 posted:This guy I used to work with would go every year to Disneyland with his wife as grown adults and it was weird. Then he had a kid so now its not as weird.
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Proteus Jones posted:Yeah, either 1Password or Keepass are solid options. I prefer 1Password personally. A bit late to the party, but thanks to you folks, I let my paid sub Lastpass expire and actually ponied up (more $$) for 1Password. It had no trouble importing the records from LastPass, and I find the app and browser extensions much friendlier. In other news, we finally moved back to our newly renovated floor with the open office. I'm still not a fan, but it's not utter hell. We also just dropped several thousand dollars on privacy filters for the displays, of course. The standing desks are a nice change, at least. Literally the only person on the floor with an office is the VP of Finance. The *Legal* department is on this floor, and don't have offices. I'm not sure just how pissed off I would be if I was a corporate lawyer who didn't get an office, or how insanely concerned I would be about confidential documents on my screen...
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Schadenboner posted:Mrs. Schadenboner just texted me that she's reconsidering the wisdom of going to Disney World next year (in loving July) in favor of "just lying on a beach for a week somewhere". Disney in July sounds like hell. Wife wanted to go for our honeymoon a few years ago and we ended up going towards the end of October, much cooler and it wasn't crowded to hell.
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Aug 16, 2018 19:08
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Darchangel posted:The *Legal* department is on this floor, and don't have offices. I'm not sure just how pissed off I would be if I was a corporate lawyer who didn't get an office, or how insanely concerned I would be about FTFY. Knowing what I know about lawyers I feel as if my edit is more in line with their actual concerns.
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I definitely feel like there are Disney people, and not-Disney people. I've become a lot less comfortable with conspicuous consumerism over the past few years, and Disney really embodies that in a lot of ways. I suppose that makes me much less  .
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Aug 16, 2018 19:25
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We have a white noise system at our office, and it's the only thing that makes the open plan tolerable. It cost in the low five figures for an office of 200ish people. Highly recommended.
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Aug 16, 2018 19:27
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Mrs. Schadenboner is from  so I think it's, like, built up in their minds as being a lot more symbolically significant than it was (at least in my experience, I was there once when I was like 12 or so?)
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Aug 16, 2018 19:29
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Docjowles posted:I know where your new avatar came from, and it is goddam amazing No worries, my girlfriend is coming with so I doubt I’ll have much free time anyway. And I definitely get the introvert downtime thing. Being around people all day for days in a row is exhausting.
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Aug 16, 2018 19:56
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FWIW, every meal I ate at any of the Disney restaurants was very good. So make that count, I guess. Think about dinner while you're standing in line for hours.
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very stable genius posted:FTFY. Knowing what I know about lawyers I feel as if my edit is more in line with their actual concerns. I don’t know the folks involved well enough to judge, but I doubt that you’re wrong. Thanatosian posted:We have a white noise system at our office, and it's the only thing that makes the open plan tolerable. They have a white noise system, and your probably right. It doesn’t seem as noisy as I would expect, really. I know that the other floor that’s been converted to open definitely has a white noise system - I’ve seen it, and in certain spots, you can hear it. Sound like an HVAC air leak.
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Aug 16, 2018 21:41
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Yeah those white noise systems are pretty great and do seem to really make a difference. A few jobs back I was working for a smallish ISP. They got a screaming deal on some nice office space; previous tenant that went bankrupt had installed a white noise generator (no way this cheap-rear end company would have sprung for it). I was seated in the same cube farm as the call center folks and it really was shockingly not-awful. If I really needed to focus I still had to put on headphones. But it did a lot to hide the fact that I was surrounded by people on the phone all day and make it tolerable. We shut it off one day as a test and everyone simultaneously looked up in horror as the apparent noise level like tripled. An even better solution is to Not Have loving Open Office Layouts, but if you gotta have one, those things help.
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Aug 16, 2018 21:58
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Docjowles posted:Yeah those white noise systems are pretty great and do seem to really make a difference. A few jobs back I was working for a smallish ISP. They got a screaming deal on some nice office space; previous tenant that went bankrupt had installed a white noise generator (no way this cheap-rear end company would have sprung for it). We have an expensive, complicated layout of white noise systems. We have tried every one ever made at this point. While it does help there are just some things that aren't possible right now. For one, conference space in an open office office concept all fall flat on their faces once you try to use a speakerphone for calls. Nothing on the market is going to keep these spaces from being a total interruption for 100's of feet around them unless the spaces has walls, a roof, and a closed door. My company has tried and failed on using mobile wall setups for these conference room spaces and none of them do even a passable job at containing noise.
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Aug 16, 2018 22:12
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Well yeah that is just loving dumb. It's not the dang Get Smart "Cone of Silence". If your office has no conference rooms whatsoever that is a special level of hell.
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Aug 16, 2018 22:19
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The company I work for hired a new CIO and they did a quick intro call for everyone in IT, and you could submit a question anonymously if you like. Barely 3 days on the job and people are asking about organizational issues that have been a problem for years. I just don't understand, they don't know anyone, and have probably barely finished filling out the paperwork. Not the time to start slamming them with complaints about the dysfunction between silo'd groups in the company.
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Aug 16, 2018 22:21
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is the deal with white noise that you just tune it out easily and it's loud enough to mask off other sounds?
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skipdogg posted:The company I work for hired a new CIO and they did a quick intro call for everyone in IT, and you could submit a question anonymously if you like. Barely 3 days on the job and people are asking about organizational issues that have been a problem for years. I just don't understand, they don't know anyone, and have probably barely finished filling out the paperwork. Not the time to start slamming them with complaints about the dysfunction between silo'd groups in the company. On the contrary, now is the time to do it before he/she gets entrenched and gotten-to?
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Aug 16, 2018 22:22
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Thanks Ants posted:is the deal with white noise that you just tune it out easily and it's loud enough to mask off other sounds? Yes, and it works incredibly well. My ceiling creaks and groans constantly when my above neighbors move around. I have one by my bed, and while it doesn't drown out everything, it's a lot better.
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Aug 16, 2018 22:56
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My company is doing a summer picnic thing which is neat, it's at some golf and sports park with some arcade games, volleyball, and lots of other stuff, which is neat. It's from 2p to 6p on a Tuesday and for EMPLOYEES ONLY, which is incredibly dumb. I'm only going because it's free and I would be working the whole time anyway.
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We have one of those coming up this Saturday. We're encouraged to bring family members, there's going to be a couple bounce houses, a raffle, catered bbq and other garbage. I'm mostly only going because it's a chance for my son to run around for a couple hours with minimal supervision.
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Aug 16, 2018 23:06
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We have something similar next week, doing Escape Room (which I've never done before but sounds fun) followed by Dave & Busters.
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Aug 16, 2018 23:48
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I'd love to do an escape room type scenario
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Aug 17, 2018 00:13
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escape from your co-workers, sounds like a normal day for me, except do it while poo poo faced. I'd prefer to go paintballing or something that will allow me to inflict the physical pain equal to the mental pain (some of) my co-workers cause me.
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Aug 17, 2018 00:14
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An escape room with coworkers may end up with some dead coworkers.
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skipdogg posted:The company I work for hired a new CIO and they did a quick intro call for everyone in IT, and you could submit a question anonymously if you like. Barely 3 days on the job and people are asking about organizational issues that have been a problem for years. I just don't understand, they don't know anyone, and have probably barely finished filling out the paperwork. Not the time to start slamming them with complaints about the dysfunction between silo'd groups in the company.
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skipdogg posted:The company I work for hired a new CIO and they did a quick intro call for everyone in IT, and you could submit a question anonymously if you like. Barely 3 days on the job and people are asking about organizational issues that have been a problem for years. I just don't understand, they don't know anyone, and have probably barely finished filling out the paperwork. Not the time to start slamming them with complaints about the dysfunction between silo'd groups in the company. That's exactly what one should A blunt, open readout of "Here's what's broken and needs fixing." As a chief officer, it's your job to fix what's broken, improve efficiencies & processes, and ensure the continued viability of the company. 3 days in is a fine time to get a baseline reading of what's broken imho
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Internet Explorer posted:An escape room with coworkers may end up with some dead coworkers. I know exactly who, too.
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Sniep posted:3 days in is a fine time to get a baseline reading of FTFY I'd say it's a 50/50 on who's right in this situation; regarding how it will be viewed by the receiver. Although I suppose it's anonymous, but whatever, point stands!
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Internet Explorer posted:An escape room with coworkers may end up with some dead coworkers. This may happen. My first "team building" game I did at my company a few years back involved the creation of a free-standing structure. You're basically put into teams and given a bunch of objects that you have to use to build the tallest tower you can. Duct tape, cardboard paper roll, string, pipe cleaners, poo poo like that. The team I was on...of course they go the obvious route that a class of small children would try. Let's build it straight up!! The solution is so obvious we can't lose!!!! Needless to say I just stood there  while literally every other team had some sort of tower build and my team couldn't even get it up over a foot in height. I suspect we'll see the same at escape room.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kb5KjDAN_o
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skipdogg posted:Morimoto's to eat. Souvenir shop before I go home. I grab the kids some candy from Goofy's, and some stuff from the big Disney store for my wife and friends. We're big Disney fans, so I get that most people don't understand. We took the kids to Disney last year and ate at Morimoto’s. He was actually back in the kitchen supervising and came out, greeted guests and took a picture with our family. Super cool guy and very gracious. Welp that’s my Morimoto story.
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I’ve actually really enjoyed escape rooms with my department. Even though we lost both times.
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MF_James posted:FTFY This would be an absolute culture clash non-fit in my book, if someone in a position of leadership/authority were to treat an open airing of issues, real or percieved, as "people being whiny bitches" instead of "valuable feedback to consider and act upon" I'd leave or they would, if it were the case, at least.
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AlternateAccount posted:FWIW, every meal I ate at any of the Disney restaurants was very good. So make that count, I guess. Think about dinner while you're standing in line for hours. I know someone who goes to Disney World for just that reason every few months - they live down around South Florida and spend most of each trip getting trashed and chowing down at the good restaurants.
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Aug 17, 2018 04:45
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Escape room owns. Did one with the previous company I was at. It's fun Internet Explorer posted:An escape room with coworkers may end up with some dead coworkers. lmao
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I spent 10 hours in the past couple of weeks scheduling and creating an orientation presentation, only to have 2 people show up. One per session. Oh well, at least I got a good recording of it.
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Docjowles posted:An even better solution is to Not Have loving Open Office Layouts, but if you gotta have one, those things help. This. Why won't it DIE?! It doesn't work for anything at all, ever. Everyone always hates it, even the people that think they like it actually hate it, they just don't know it. I know part of it's me. I have a hard time tuning out audio and visual noise. People walking through my eyeline constantly is SUPER distracting, but I raised my monitors up high enough to mostly solve that. I end up listening to headphones all day. If we have you create all these barriers/boundaries on our own to counter the lovely office layout, wtf is the point?
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AlternateAccount posted:This. Why won't it DIE?! It doesn't work for anything at all, ever. Everyone always hates it, even the people that think they like it actually hate it, they just don't know it. Cheaper. Work still gets done. Same reason people outsource poo poo to whatever-stan.
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quote:Ops Manager: Am I about to get fired for not working on my day off? And in the dentist today I found out I need a root canal. Oh yeah, and this is after what happened yesterday afternoon, where he always forgets I work an early shift in a different time zone, and I told him I couldn't do something because I was cooking dinner.
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Lmao at the you could helped instead of answering me line. gently caress that.
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