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our company emptied everyone's personal bins every day even if there was 1 piece of trash in it consolidating to the kitchen meant somewhere around 10000 less plastic bags being wasted per year also healthy to move around
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Blowdryer posted:our company emptied everyone's personal bins every day even if there was 1 piece of trash in it The sensible thing would be to empty them once a week or when they start to look full.
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May 18, 2022 22:55
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Blowdryer posted:our company emptied everyone's personal bins every day even if there was 1 piece of trash in it We waste so many plastic bags like this, but I know the custodians have no choice because they'd get yelled at for not doing their jobs if they didn't empty them anyway.
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May 18, 2022 23:07
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I had to put in a special request for a trashcan that isn't emptied daily by the custodian. It's just a normal trashcan but they still had to replace my original one (same design, just darker shade of gray) and I get occasional reminders that I have a special trashcan.
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May 18, 2022 23:08
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Machai posted:Just pretend that HR does not exist. When confronted, act all incredulous and say you have never even heard of "Human Resources? You mean 'people'?" We don’t have HR at my company. We have a People Department. Through what I’m sure is a total coincidence, you can reach the People Department by emailing HR@company.com.
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May 18, 2022 23:09
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Before People Department it was called Human Resources, and before HR it was Personnel, and before it was Personnel they just let people assault each other at work openly
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May 18, 2022 23:26
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naem posted:before it was Personnel they just let people assault each other at work openly It was okay though, because there were no women to see and everyone was drunk.
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May 18, 2022 23:39
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naem posted:Before People Department it was called Human Resources, and before HR it was Personnel, and before it was Personnel they just let people assault each other at work openly The good old days, where men were men, women were also sometimes men (so they could enter the workforce), there was a typing pool of lonely single young women, and if you thought your boss was a piece of poo poo, well the parking lot's secluded enough for your purposes.
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May 18, 2022 23:40
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Question for someone in a big company - why do suppliers refuse to create work orders without a PO number? Is this just a computer thing? I've just started creating my own numbers them happy ... "uh yeah thats PO 0001"
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Animerapist update. Talked to my partner last night and convinced her to do something ASAP. This morning she had a meeting with her supervisor, her big boss, and HR. She laid it all out and her bosses were horrified and supportive, HR was all “hmmm yes, well did you ever message him back?” And ended with “well technically this does not constitute harassment it’s misuse of company equipment”. They asked her what she wanted done and she basically said she doesn’t want him to be able to interact with her under any conditions if he remains at the company. Also, HR admitted they didn’t know he was a rapist because a 3rd party company did the background check. Also they suggested a resolution of having the supervisor hold a meeting “to remind everyone to stay focused and not misuse company equipment!!!” It sounds like they’re going to try and sweep it under the rug, but her managers have her back. I told her to get it all in writing and confirm that while the company may not consider it harassment, she feels harassed and reported it as such. I told her to make sure she goes through whatever reporting systems they have and get her manager to sign on so it’s in the system. I know plenty of lawyers and if this keeps up we’ll just let them handle it. I doubt they’ll fire him unless he lied on his background check and they find out, but we’ll see.
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May 19, 2022 00:29
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naem posted:Before People Department it was called Human Resources, and before HR it was Personnel, and before it was Personnel they just let people assault each other at work openly Whenever I hear "personnel" I can't help but think of this scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ELKHGOZ6M&t=27s
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May 19, 2022 00:33
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:Animerapist update. Go to a lawyer now for consultation, do not wait. They just admitted to hiring a rapist without knowing it and their response isnt an immediate "whoa nelly what the gently caress????"
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May 19, 2022 00:39
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evilpicard posted:Question for someone in a big company - why do suppliers refuse to create work orders without a PO number? Is this just a computer thing? With PO number: Automated invoice comes in from supplier saying "10 widgets PO 12345 please pay $10". Some middle manager or entry level employee that had absolutely nothing to do with any of this but is for some reason involved in this process: "What's this? I'll look up the PO in our system, oh it exists OK I press money button" (please note this is an idealised scenario) Without PO number: Automated invoice comes in from supplier saying "10 widgets ordered by NAME from DEPARTMENT on DATE please pay $10". Some middle manager or entry level employee that had absolutely nothing to do with any of this but is for some reason involved in this process: "I don't know what this is or what it's for so I will deny payment and not ask or tell anyone about this ever" Everyone actually involved in raising the PO: "Why has our supplier stopped returning our calls" Splicer fucked around with this message at 01:08 on May 19, 2022 |
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May 19, 2022 00:39
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Instead of hiring new people Im going to try and promote people on my team. If successful every single person on my team will have gotten a promotion since I joined. The downside is they have to work for it and I want to believe they can do it but this is a genuine sink or swim moment due to my companies policies, if they don't succeed I can't put them back where they were before.
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May 19, 2022 00:41
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evilpicard posted:Question for someone in a big company - why do suppliers refuse to create work orders without a PO number? Is this just a computer thing? A purchase order is a legal document that you and the supplier have agreed to a price for the goods and/or services being rendered, and you agree to pay them whatever was agreed upon. They collect costs under your purchase order to charge back as NRE and tooling charges, which should be under or equal to the estimate provided.
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May 19, 2022 00:42
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Barudak posted:Go to a lawyer now for consultation, do not wait. They just admitted to hiring a rapist without knowing it and their response isnt an immediate "whoa nelly what the gently caress????" 
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May 19, 2022 00:47
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I worked for a company once that would literally barter for goods and services, (think, we will give you 1,000 miami dolphins tickets seats 200 level in exchange for 250,000 in applebees giftcards which we will exchange for TV spots and a local media spokesperson to be named later) so our system had a button that I won't call a fake PO button but it seemingly generated a number out of the ether whose only job was to point back to the current document saying what you were getting.
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May 19, 2022 00:49
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:A purchase order is a legal document that you and the supplier have agreed to a price for the goods and/or services being rendered, and you agree to pay them whatever was agreed upon. Relatedly the main point for asking for your PO is so they can add it to their SO which will assist SOX auditing or let them find the transaction with a reference you have handier than any of their document keys if you call in reference to the transaction and it's often a mandatory field in an ERP tracking all this crap so poo poo like your verbal authorization to order doesn't get lost in the ether. But similar processes existed when POs and SOs existed physically. OP is basically doing the right thing in just giving any number they want in other words.
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May 19, 2022 01:42
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PO's are useful for accounting. If accounting is on its toes it can prevent scams or wildly out of range bills from being paid. Most companies won't pay an invoice without a PO hence why suppliers demand them. Lots of times scammers will send invoices to companies with a PO number or the name of somebody they've talked to at the company for something innocuous like lights. If accounts payable isn't paying attention and simply pays the invoice, the scammer wins. edit: in the same vein, if your erp or accounting is set up properly it can prevent unauthorized purchases from within the company or help point them out. Tarkus fucked around with this message at 01:56 on May 19, 2022 |
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May 19, 2022 01:52
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naem posted:Before People Department it was called Human Resources, and before HR it was Personnel, and before it was Personnel they just let people assault each other at work openly Ah, the Blizzard method of management
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May 19, 2022 02:04
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naem posted:Before People Department it was called Human Resources, and before HR it was Personnel, and before it was Personnel they just let people assault each other at work openly The annual budget meeting takes place in a sand-floored arena, with each director bringing their finest warriors. To the victor, the prize! To the loser, the minutes.
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I'm taking a course and we are posting on a discussion board about a hypothetical project where you need to migrate some individual physical servers into virtual servers and one part of the response asks what project management methodology we would use and almost everyone else chose Agile. Why the gently caress would that be a good fit when the project scope is a set thing? Isn't Agile about being...agile...and responding to changes in the project?
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May 19, 2022 02:19
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naem posted:Before People Department it was called Human Resources, and before HR it was Personnel, and before it was Personnel they just let people assault each other at work openly Sometimes the old ways are still the best  Machai posted:I'm taking a course and we are posting on a discussion board about a hypothetical project where you need to migrate some individual physical servers into virtual servers and one part of the response asks what project management methodology we would use and almost everyone else chose Agile. Why the gently caress would that be a good fit when the project scope is a set thing? Isn't Agile about being...agile...and responding to changes in the project? Question 1: 10 pts What project management methodology would we use? Question 2: 90 pts Why?
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May 19, 2022 02:39
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Splicer posted:As someone who dabbled in purchasing in a MegaCorp in a previous life: That makes sense thanks. I am the middle manager in this scenario, AP loves to try sneaking past 4 year old invoices so they don't have to admit mistakes or fix underlying problems lol. Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:A purchase order is a legal document that you and the supplier have agreed to a price for the goods and/or services being rendered, and you agree to pay them whatever was agreed upon. I don't ever use purchase orders for anything I'm buying unless it's a new contruction. Once a supplier accepts me as a client I'm just calling and ordering parts/service as needed. If they really needed to go after me they would have an email from me saying "I approve this estimate"
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Machai posted:Isn't Agile about being...agile...and responding to changes in the project? you still have so much to learn
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Machai posted:I'm taking a course and we are posting on a discussion board about a hypothetical project where you need to migrate some individual physical servers into virtual servers and one part of the response asks what project management methodology we would use and almost everyone else chose Agile. Why the gently caress would that be a good fit when the project scope is a set thing? Isn't Agile about being...agile...and responding to changes in the project? Not necessarily, it's used in other fields like manufacturing too (Toyota) but it doesn't really matter because there's no such thing as a software project with fully defined requirements. People often don't actually know what they need until after you deliver them the wrong thing, which was exactly what they told you to make Stuff always changes, so it's more about empowering the team responsible for the work with being able to decide how to divide and prioritize it, and tightening the feedback loop with the customer
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tak posted:Stuff always changes, so it's more about empowering the team responsible for the work with being able to decide how to divide and prioritize it, and tightening the feedback loop with the customer The traditional problem being, in many (most?) workplaces the management would rather rip off and eat their own thumbs than empower their teams of workers, so the actual implementation involves doing all the parts that aren't this. And on the one hand, yes, this means that those people just weren't doing agile right, but on the other hand *everyone knows this is the situation*, so it seems sort of irresponsible to keep running into obvious traps like "trying to implement agile in any workplace where things are bad enough that people even have to think about it".
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Like 80% of the responses are Agile. I think they all just googled lists of methods and took the first one because they all list Agile first.
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Anyone who's not already in the field is only gonna recognize the styles with advertising behind them. It's like how non audio nerds only know about, like, Beats, Bose, and airpods.
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Anytime I interview someone who has "Agile" on their CV I ask them what it means, about 20% of the time they don't actually know, about 75% of the time they say it means you run the project in sprints and have daily standups.
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Does the old critical path method count? Can Agile wizard people get away without having to calculate one?
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evilpicard posted:That makes sense thanks. I once had AP pay an invoice from our Cisco consultants for $2500 without my approval. They hadn't provided their deliverable, and for some reason after getting paid for nothing they stopped answering my calls. I'd be a lot more put out if I'd lasted more than another month in that job.
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Oh my loving GODDDDDD this company's corporate structure makes getting the simplest loving orders a whole thing! I started using a genetically modified yeast that creates lactic acid in the tank prior to fermentation without the use of lactobacillus, so it can be used in a regular brewery without a risk of contamination. Before this I was using a sour pitch (lactobacillus starter) pre boil as per a Berliner Weisse or gose for souring. It was okay but a bit more tart than was wanted and breaks up the brew into two days. Due to supply chain issues that souring yeast is not available at the moment, but this company's management only cares about producing this beer so we ordered sour pitch for another batch. That's fine, but I want this beer I'm shackled to to at least run smoothly so I tried thinking of another solution and remembered that there's a Japanese company that started fairly recently that sells bee yeast (?) that can sour in tank without contamination. We'd talked a bit before so I contact the guy to see what's available and he calls today. Long story short, the guy offers to send pa commercial sample, enough for a batch of beer, along with data sheets and commercial samples of products for the price of shipping (about 2k yen). In exchange he'd like whatever feedback I can give. No purchasing commitment or anything like that. I say it sounds good but I need to check with my boss. I explain the situation and, of course, I'm met with hemming and hawing about whether or not it would be possible. We'll need to run it up the chain of command. For basically free yeast. The sour pitch is like over 10k yen per batch. Jesus Christ. Edit: Sorry for the novel. Just felt I should explain some sorta technical stuff. By way of an apology, plz enjoy this amazing album cover. 
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May 19, 2022 07:15
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Escape From Noise posted:Oh my loving GODDDDDD this company's corporate structure makes getting the simplest loving orders a whole thing! So I know a lot more about microbiology (plenty) than I do about brewing (almost nothing), but can't you keep using a yeast strain once you have a sample of it?
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Atopian posted:So I know a lot more about microbiology (plenty) than I do about brewing (almost nothing), but can't you keep using a yeast strain once you have a sample of it? Yes, but it's hard to get in the quantities you'd need for industrial brewing. You'd also need to be really on the ball in regards to cross contamination with different strains, which most brewers aren't.
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Atopian posted:So I know a lot more about microbiology (plenty) than I do about brewing (almost nothing), but can't you keep using a yeast strain once you have a sample of it? To a certain point. Unless you have a serious lab set-up though, most places stop re-pitching after about 5 uses because there's a risk of mutations. There are solutions for this with much larger breweries. It also depends what you're making. Yeast used to brew something fairly high in alcohol is not likely to be viable afterwards. You also want to avoid taking yeast from a darker beer for use in a lighter one as it could impact flavor. Same with going from hoppy to less hoppy beers (say IPA to stout) as the hop character could carry over. This beer is also fruited and double dry hopped, with one hop charge thrown in along with the fruit during fermentation, so any yeast left at the end of fermentation is mixed with fruit puree and hops, making it unusable for a second fermentation. There can also be issues with viability collecting yeast from kettle sours (Berliner Weisse, gose, etc. Beers soured with lactobacillus prior to the boil and transfer to the fermentation tank) due to the low pH of the finished beer. This is why production schedules can save you a lot of money. By planning out what beers you make, and what beers you can make from yeast harvested from previous batches you can save a lot of money on yeast. This is also why bigger places often invest in yeast propagation tanks, centrifuges, laboratories, microbiologists, etc. Escape From Noise fucked around with this message at 07:36 on May 19, 2022 |
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Answers appreciated!
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Atopian posted:Answers appreciated! No worries! I'm not good at science. I wish I was though. I find yeast stuff pretty interesting but I'm pretty dumb.
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Jaguars! posted:Does the old critical path method count? Can Agile wizard people get away without having to calculate one? I keep a waterfall schedule as a list of 'all tasks that need to be done to complete our project' and charted the critical path through that. It helped by making it easy to scope the correct minimum of work that sprint, then we could pull in tasks to help go faster. Once we nailed down the scope we abandoned agile completely because we're working to standards now.
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Watching the yearly prerecorded department meeting. Presentation key points includes a list of names of every senator and house representative we lobbied this year to kill the tax bill. Good stuff.
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