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History Comes Inside! posted:Being explicitly told to “dress for the real job you wanted” is a missed opportunity for fuckery that I wouldn’t have been able to resist in my early 20s In my early 20s I had a pope hat for a very low-effort Halloween costume. I definitely would have worn it to that job if my boss told me that
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Jul 19, 2023 17:37
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History Comes Inside! posted:Being explicitly told to “dress for the real job you wanted” is a missed opportunity for fuckery that I wouldn’t have been able to resist in my early 20s yup. saxophone eurovision guy, david bowie, satan......so many possibilities.
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Jul 19, 2023 17:46
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goatface posted:Turn up in full sports kit Years ago I had a job with charity dress down days where you had to pay a nominal fee to a charity and then you got to dress to the theme instead of wearing your uncomfortable business casual bullshit. One week was “wear your favourite sports shirt” and since I didn’t have a favourite sports shirt, but still wanted a good excuse to not dress in uncomfortable business casual bullshit, I just wrote SPORTS on the front of a white t-shirt in sharpie.
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Jul 19, 2023 17:54
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TehRedWheelbarrow posted:yup. saxophone eurovision guy, david bowie, satan......so many possibilities. Not nearly inappropriate enough. Full fetish gear. Soviet military uniform. Ted Kaczynski cosplay, post-arrest. Ted Kaczynski, unibomber hoodie. Clown, but weird and disturbing, maybe full John Wayne Gacy makeup.
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Jul 19, 2023 18:00
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A bathrobe and speedos, for your future job as trophy husband
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Jul 19, 2023 18:32
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Biplane posted:I did a short stint as a call center drone a decade or so back, slinging iphones to retirees, and the scumbag boss started "Formal Fridays" where we had to "dress for the real job we wanted" which I think is psychological torture? loving suiting up for 8 hours in a call center on a friday? Insane poo poo. Scumbag boss was exempt of course, he already had a "real job". And his chief underling spent all day every day trying to rope us (a bunch of 18-22 year olds) into some incredibly shady real estate thing he had going on in Brazil??? Come in naked and say the job you want is to be a pornstar
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Jul 19, 2023 18:54
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Jeans and tee-shirt because the engaging, fulfilling, high paying job I want doesn't give a poo poo what I wear.
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Jul 19, 2023 20:25
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Apparently a nickname for Enrique is the same as a racial slur against Jewish people that is very similar to the word kite. One of our techs uses this nickname so there are some folders in our backup drive that are just a slur with numbers after it. Also we built a new wall in one of the offices and he signed his name on the wooden beams before the drywall was hung so we also have a racial slur with a smileyface written inside an office wall. E: also our founder and our COO are both German
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Jul 19, 2023 20:33
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History Comes Inside! posted:Being explicitly told to “dress for the real job you wanted” is a missed opportunity for fuckery that I wouldn’t have been able to resist in my early 20s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRdur8GLBM
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Jul 19, 2023 20:55
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Machai posted:Apparently a nickname for Enrique is the same as a racial slur against Jewish people that is very similar to the word kite. One of our techs uses this nickname so there are some folders in our backup drive that are just a slur with numbers after it. Also we built a new wall in one of the offices and he signed his name on the wooden beams before the drywall was hung so we also have a racial slur with a smileyface written inside an office wall. Generally it's spelled with the accent mark over the e but yeah, that's unfortunate. If it makes you feel any better it's pronounced pretty differently, basically the same that the back half of Enrique is.
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Jul 19, 2023 21:02
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Just lol if your Enrique doesn't casually go by an ethnic slur instead of his full name.
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Jul 19, 2023 22:30
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Cthulu Carl posted:At least I learned to never be a contractor ever again. I posted earlier about a coworker who attacked another coworker with a hammer. Well the other side of the story is the guy who was attacked had actually started the fight by blasting his music to deliberately provoke hammer guy. When hammer guy came around to threaten him, music guy was waiting with a baseball bat. Anyway hammer guy was a contractor so they fired him immediately while baseball bat/music guy was an FTE so suffered no consequences. Lesson learned.
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Jul 19, 2023 22:32
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Cyrano4747 posted:Generally it's spelled with the accent mark over the e but yeah, that's unfortunate. If it makes you feel any better it's pronounced pretty differently, basically the same that the back half of Enrique is. There’s a baseball player that goes by that name and let me tell you it threw me for a loop the first time I saw it pop up on the screen.
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Jul 19, 2023 22:38
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If I find out which bartender keeps changing keg pressures and loving things up I'm going to goddamn suplex them. I keep making notes of it in Slack and putting signs up, but somebody keeps loving doing it. Comedy option, it's probably one of the owners who acts as taproom "manager".
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Jul 19, 2023 23:32
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I mean it totally is an owner
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Jul 19, 2023 23:47
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MonkeyHate posted:I posted earlier about a coworker who attacked another coworker with a hammer. Well the other side of the story is the guy who was attacked had actually started the fight by blasting his music to deliberately provoke hammer guy. When hammer guy came around to threaten him, music guy was waiting with a baseball bat. Leave no credible witness. Gotcha.
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Jul 19, 2023 23:51
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RocketMermaid posted:If I find out which bartender keeps changing keg pressures and loving things up I'm going to goddamn suplex them. I keep making notes of it in Slack and putting signs up, but somebody keeps loving doing it. After a couple of weeks bring the confession list to your least stupid boss.
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Jul 20, 2023 00:17
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Salami Surgeon posted:Boss has been really stressed because he scheduled work for three projects to happen simultaneously this week. So he (we) have been juggling allocating space in the lab and babysitting several vendors. He's given up on attending many of his meetings, namely project management meetings. Oh well, no way to prevent this. Techs in the lab are hella pissed at all the work that was dumped on them at the last minute so I've been doing damage control and trying to triage to push whatever I can to next week. At least I'll have them on my side.
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Jul 20, 2023 00:54
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Splicer posted:Put up a keg pressure log sheet with columns for previous pressure, new pressure, time of change, signature, and initials. Switch to giving out about people not filling in the sheet. *Everyone ignores sheet* E: There is no least stupid boss. They're all the most stupid.
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Jul 20, 2023 01:04
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3rd-round on-site interview tomorrow at company headquarters with about 800 people there. The email they sent said this at the bottom: 😎
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Jul 20, 2023 01:18
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It's not necessary. They'll just judge you if you don't wear one.
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Jul 20, 2023 01:21
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goatface posted:It's not necessary. They'll just judge you if you don't wear one. I read it as this is the round where people see if they can work with you or if you're some weirdo square. Everyone there dresses casually and if, after being told, I still dress in a business suit they'll be like "this guy does not gently caress" and recommend a no-hire!
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Jul 20, 2023 01:32
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First meeting back in office, stole another teams project and immediately made it clear I would take their employees next. Dont gently caress wirh me or my people, and sure as gently caress dont think you can make territory expansions cause Im out of office.
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Jul 20, 2023 01:32
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You could ride in on a skateboard to balance it out
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Jul 20, 2023 01:33
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I knew that times had changed when I was asked to remove my tie in an interview.
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Jul 20, 2023 01:51
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Made the terrible mistake of trusting another teams works. Now I need to have our customs broker refile 950k worth of incoming product because some idiots classified pens as knives, a USB thumb drive as magnetic storage and a novelty noisemaker as a RECORDING DEVICE. Our Amazon account has been reinstated after we apologized and promised it would never happen again. Then explained to the owner that the "the internet police" are a thing called the FTC and will come down on us for review manipulation if we keep posting fake five star reviews on our own poo poo.. The income statement is currently negative 1.5 million. We have 20 million in product in warehouses without a single commitment to buy. The owners have decided to save money we need to turn of the auto renew subs for staff don't use those services. It's a total of 100/month per person. The company is sub 100 people. The same owner bought just over 1k in new bras on the corporate card. I'm aware of the link that I was referred to. I wanna see how long the ride lasts. This is fascinating.
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Jul 20, 2023 01:51
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MonkeyHate posted:I posted earlier about a coworker who attacked another coworker with a hammer. Well the other side of the story is the guy who was attacked had actually started the fight by blasting his music to deliberately provoke hammer guy. When hammer guy came around to threaten him, music guy was waiting with a baseball bat. At a previous company one of the guys from my department saw a designer he had some longstanding disagreement with in an Aldi's parking lot and attempted to run his work nemesis down. The union, for its many faults, protected every job it could and so three months later the guy was back at his desk. I wouldn't have believed it if the police report didn't get forwarded to everyone in the department. Cthulu Carl posted:Probably but a few months later the had another FTE opening, had all the contractors jump through the application hoops, then on the last day to submit an application, sent out an email saying the job posting had been pulled and they wouldn't proceed in the selection process. Then s few hours later, the supervisor who was going to be running said selection process sent out an email saying that Steve on some other team would be transferring over to our department (and working under this supervisor). This is incredibly common in a lot of large firms. I know that we are required to keep positions open for at least 24 hours, consider at least three candidates and have two or more interviewers so it isn't just someone with power building a series of cronies. You can absolutely abuse everything about it if you want to, both my wife and I got hired to our current jobs because the people who posted the positions knew who they wanted and tailored everything to us, but it's nearly impossible to tell from outside when a posting is meant for a specific person. Before I had this position I applied to a couple internal positions that mysteriously closed or selected a candidate within a few hours of me applying. One thing I found out over the years is that if you are a contractor or outsource labor and are considering applying to jobs at the company you are serving you absolutely have to have been told what to apply to by a hiring manager because word will travel that you are looking to jump ship and your firm will find a reason to move you somewhere else or just let you go instead of let you become a FTE.
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Jul 20, 2023 01:52
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Barudak posted:First meeting back in office, stole another teams project and immediately made it clear I would take out their employees next. Fixed
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Jul 20, 2023 02:15
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We had another town hall meeting, and the good news is that we met our goals and we're no longer in the bottom ranks. And I won a $15 gift card during a team building game. The general manager of the hotel did pop off with "stop worrying about things you can't fix, don't complain about things, stress about the things you can fix" and cited the elevators as a specific example. The thing is, everyone has been complaining about the service elevators because there are legitimate issues with them - one hasn't been able to reach the ground floor for over a month (meaning anyone who wants to use it to go above the restaurant level needs to transfer), and the other is poorly ventilated and making deeply worrying noises when it descends. And people have gotten stuck in both elevators, multiple times. So that bit honestly came off as dismissive at best. But I at least got lunch and a Tim Hortons card out of it.
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Jul 20, 2023 03:39
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Re recruiting. I once flunked a job interview because my choice of hamburger toppings wasn't adventurous enough. Told me by the old friend who recommended me for the job. Honestly, any job where my sandwich toppings are scrutinized is no job for me. So no loss.
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Jul 20, 2023 04:09
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Showed up on site to a location to look at a problem with a video unit they've been having trouble with. So much trouble that they've been emailing both my direct boss and his boss about it. I get there, room is busy, so I wait about 15m for people to finish a meeting. Get started looking, checking cabling in a nearby room, and a person says "Oh by the way, we have a interview in here in 15m, so you have to be out of here." Thankfully issue was easy to solve once I had eyes on it, seems like a someone in the past had plugged an old Dish receiver into an input port on this video unit, and it would NOT let go of using it. 4 hours of driving, 15m of work.
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Jul 20, 2023 04:50
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Re recruiting. I once flunked a job interview because my choice of hamburger toppings wasn't adventurous enough. Told me by the old friend who recommended me for the job.
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Jul 20, 2023 05:19
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My burger topping is recovering three sacred stones from the thugee cult.
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Jul 20, 2023 05:26
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I once got hired during an interview and when my would be boss went to tell her boss that she filled the position, she was told that she was going to hire her boss' nephew. My would be boss was best friends with my then current boss who had arranged the interview because my contract was coming to an end. That was fun.
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Jul 20, 2023 05:29
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Re recruiting. I once flunked a job interview because my choice of hamburger toppings wasn't adventurous enough. Told me by the old friend who recommended me for the job. Are you anything other than a white male? Because from where I'm sitting this sounds a lot like "we decided not to hire you once we saw you but no one wants to say why you weren't really hired." edit: I mean, feel free to ignore this or not answer, internet gonna internet.
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Jul 20, 2023 13:20
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Tetrabor posted:Sinclair makes me laugh because you can tell when their reporters are having an aneurysm from reporting on these types of events. When I was helping an elderly relative who had somehow navigated to a website with a blaring alarm warning them to click now to stop their computer from being hacked, better believe some quick checking found out Sinclair doesn’t have the best policies about who they let buy ads for their news websites.
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Jul 20, 2023 13:31
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:3rd-round on-site interview tomorrow at company headquarters with about 800 people there. The email they sent said this at the bottom: That's ok, you can wear a suit anyway
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Jul 20, 2023 13:44
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Dept is hiring, candidate A sent a short email introducing themselves and asking relevant questions about what the work entails. Candidate B invited themself to job shadow me for an hour without bothering with asking if that’s ok or considering I might not want to have a total stranger hovering around. Also sent a questionnaire to fill out about why I chose this career & to provide a list of teams I regularly work with.
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Tell them you have no time to answer questionnaires because of the immense work pressures and constantly changing, arbitrary management decisions.
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