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StrangersInTheNight posted:My boss two days ago: add X to this document then send back to me One of my first bosses would do this constantly. Even better was when she’d give you verbal instructions that she’d then forget about until half-remembering them later, and get annoyed that what you’d done didn’t match her new idea of what you should do.
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blackmet posted:I was sitting on a conference call earlier today. Basically, there were 15 of us watching one guy on Teams make a phone call about a specialized account opening to an absolutely massive client for training purposes. Everyone is on mute, cameras off.  They disabled recording of meetings like a year ago.
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blackmet posted:I was sitting on a conference call earlier today. Basically, there were 15 of us watching one guy on Teams make a phone call about a specialized account opening to an absolutely massive client for training purposes. Everyone is on mute, cameras off. Jeffrey Toobin strokes again
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Ceciltron posted:
We had a guy who had that same kind of temper, but instead of taking it out on coworkers or themselves, would get spun up, go their boss and scream "gently caress YOU I QUIT." Then try come back the next day. Except that didn't work, and he'd get fired constantly.
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Zero One posted:
Snagit will record audio and screens of Teams if you set it up right, and there are people in my department who are almost obsessive about recording live trainings using that method and trading them like Grateful Dead live concert mixtapes. It's extremely strange and I don't take part.
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If you put it on the internet, someone will record it.
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Was anyone else scandalized when they realized Snagit video recording is just Camtasia without real video editing? Mostly just because I want to see a little "unregistered Camtasia" watermark in the corner of those illicit training videos like I'm watching a Mario video in 2009.
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TehRedWheelbarrow posted:this so loving hard. Capitalism creates competition between the worker and the company, where it's in the workers best interest to do as little as possible for as much money as they can earn. Meanwhile, the company is constantly trying to pry more work out of them at no extra cost because it improves the bottom line. Think like you're another company, not like a worker - you want to get as much as you can, for as little effort as you can muster. I mean, that's literally how your bosses are thinking so why not turn it back around on them and take your life back? Boss makes a dollar when I make a dime, I'm not going to give the company extra time. I'm doing enough work only just barely get up to my dimes-worth - or even less, if I can get away with it. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Mar 2, 2024 |
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Zero One posted:
Teams did? Or maybe just by default? We record our managers meetings every week.
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at the tenant level you can block recording or set specific permissions for folks.
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Pirate Radar posted:One of my first bosses would do this constantly. Even better was when she’d give you verbal instructions that she’d then forget about until half-remembering them later, and get annoyed that what you’d done didn’t match her new idea of what you should do. I'm mentally writing up a short presentation for my staff that can be distilled to: 'Before you start doing something, make sure you have communicated with every relevant person to ensure the venn diagram of the following is a circle: What they want, what they need, what they asked for, what you think they want, what you think they need, what you think they are asking for. If it is not a circle, continue communication until the venn diagram is a circle. If you are doing the work, you are responsible for ensuring the venn diagram is a circle, because you will be responsible for doing it again'.
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Edit: beaten but lolOutrail posted:I'm mentally writing up a short presentation for my staff that can be distilled to: 'Before you start doing something, make sure you have communicated with every relevant person to ensure the venn diagram of the following is a circle: What they want, what they need, what they asked for, what you think they want, what you think they need, what you think they are asking for. If it is not a circle, continue communication until the venn diagram is a circle. If you are doing the work, you are responsible for ensuring the venn diagram is a circle, because you will be responsible for doing it again'. You're reminding me of this classic: 
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Interesting how they changed the captions.
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When I was googling for it I found several variations. Pretty sure the one I posted is the one I printed out and put up in my cubicle at my first job ~20 years ago.
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I forgot about this. Yoink. Working title: 'Expectation Management and preventing stupid people from wasting your time' Outrail fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Mar 2, 2024 |
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Mar 2, 2024 21:30
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My workplace in a nutshell.
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The "now in my job description" thread reminded me: Had three coworkers doing site work about 8 hours from the office. They drove in a work truck. While on site #1 had a heart attack. Other 2 go on standby a couple days while everyone figures out a plan. I got a call from #2 employee: "I'm being told one of us has to wait here another day so that I can drive Heart Attack home (can't fly). But I don't think that's my problem. #3 agrees but wanted me to be the one to stick my neck out." He quit not long after that. I never told Heart Attack that part of the story, especially since #3 still works with him.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Capitalism creates competition between the worker and the company, where it's in the workers best interest to do as little as possible for as much money as they can earn. Meanwhile, the company is constantly trying to pry more work out of them at no extra cost because it improves the bottom line. This is the way 
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I don't do it so much anymore but getting paid to drive for 8 hours was always wonderful. Id volunteer for it tbqh
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Yeah I enjoy long drives. If I could get paid what I do now to drive all day I'd probably go for it.
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Invited to a meeting that is purely an excuse to demonstrate wealth to the wealthy. Hope its nice to be the lowliest at the palace of pleasure.
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Edit: beaten but lol Way back in the early 90s, when I was 8 or so, my grandfather gave me a computer for Christmas - he worked at a community college, and they were retiring the Swedish BASIC-in-ROM computers from 1979* in their computer lab. They were from a "teach the kids coding" program a bit like the BBC Micro, and I got a stack of books with it - starting at 10 PRINT "Hello" and ending somewhere in "how to write a joystick driver in assembly". On the way they had chapters on how to write software for customers, and they had a version of that drawing subtitled in Swedish - I was surprised when I saw the original pop up on the internet decades later. Also, I have to give credit to those long retired Swedish authors, it really was a decent introduction. * An ABC80, for those curious
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Today was a good day. Whatever chemicals they put in the tanks smelled like maple syrup and the corrosion was very pretty.
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Ceciltron posted:This was a mediun sized family-owned business on it's second generation of ownership in Canada. Oh god, the only thing worse than working for a family business is working for a second generation family business. First gen are still around to tell you nothing you're doing is right and second gen are so far up their own arses that you can't tell them anything.
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Is there anything more satisfying than your boss doubting you on something that's your job and going to check in on if you're doing it right, only to have to come back and admit to your face they were incorrect and you were indeed doing it right? put this poo poo into a needle and inject it into my veeeeeins
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Barudak posted:Invited to a meeting that is purely an excuse to demonstrate wealth to the wealthy. Mock them with their pathetically high sales numbers.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Is there anything more satisfying than your boss doubting you on something that's your job and going to check in on if you're doing it right, only to have to come back and admit to your face they were incorrect and you were indeed doing it right? When I get a manager that does this I make sure to give positive reinforcement, like giving a dog a treat for not dragging their lovely rear end in a top hat on the carpet
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Our Mac guy called our boss's boss on the "help get this Apple Vision Pro working in our environment" thing. Apparently the boss had no idea what a Vision Pro was and once its purpose (and price) was explained, put the kibosh on it all. From what the Mac guy told me, this dude bought a Vision Pro with his own money and is flailing to get it working in the environment so he can expense it to the company.
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Probably the first thing at my new job that has been dumb: if you write detailed notes about a specific weird case so that anyone working the case can quickly get up to speed with what's weird about it, the policy is to just assign you to the case since you're already familiar with it. So the minmaxed move is to not leave notes about weird cases and let people fend for themselves so you don't get extra work put on ya deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Mar 4, 2024 |
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deep dish peat moss posted:Probably the first thing at my new job that has been dumb: if you write detailed notes about a specific weird case so that anyone working the case can quickly get up to speed with what's weird about it, the policy is to just assign you to the case since you're already familiar with it. The reward for good work is always more work.
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Barudak, we fear your costs are too low, let's discuss. It turns out Ive been delivering at half the cost the system set as a goal for the year, so now I gotta have someone deep dive the numbers for me to figure out how much to put in there. If anybody needs me Im gonna go yell into the void about what a currency conversion is.
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Double the number of hours you put on your timesheet.
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Barudak posted:Barudak, we fear your costs are too low, let's discuss. It turns out Ive been delivering at half the cost the system set as a goal for the year, so now I gotta have someone deep dive the numbers for me to figure out how much to put in there. Baraduk, you sell too much, and you spend too little. Shameful, the company will be too profitable!
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Barudak posted:Barudak, we fear your costs are too low, let's discuss. It turns out Ive been delivering at half the cost the system set as a goal for the year, so now I gotta have someone deep dive the numbers for me to figure out how much to put in there. What are you? If they sent you to Singapore you'd come back alive and rich
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deep dish peat moss posted:Probably the first thing at my new job that has been dumb: if you write detailed notes about a specific weird case so that anyone working the case can quickly get up to speed with what's weird about it, the policy is to just assign you to the case since you're already familiar with it. Once upon a time I wrote a guide explaining how to fault find and diagnose problems on a particularly loving tragic piece of equipment. Many years later I had this very same document waved in my face by one of my bosses as he argued with me that I clearly didn’t understand the instructions in the guide.
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It turns out, Barudak's work is a completely normal office. He's just so ultra proficient effective and fast. People from outside look at the company and assume that they must have a sweatshop with 50 people in the basement to reach his quota. Obviously, such insinuations are bad for business, that's why he has to slow down. It turns out when he switches jobs he'll run into the same problems. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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Catastrophe posted:We had a bad helpdesk in our IT dept at a previous job. They had zero troubleshooting or even critical thinking skills. Little things they'd do would irk me like one of them would search for things on the internet by going to the address bar, typing in https://www.yahoo.com and then searching from there. We told her you can just type what you're searching for in the bar without going to "www.yahoo.com" first every time. She said no, she preferred that method. I dunno... I feel targeted here... I don't like typing my queries straight into the address bar either. It's for URLs only!
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RocketMermaid posted:
Pretty sure my boss has 400 chrome tabs open at any single time. No he can't utilize it, no he can't organize anything, when he's tried it becomes a complex folder hierarchy that nobody else understands including him. Only way to use it is search, which TBH is what you should do. Of course he dont search.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:My boss two days ago: add X to this document then send back to me This happened to me during an interview once! Instructions: write a program that takes in ASCII and outputs etc etc Me: limits the program to ASCII input The interviewer: I ran a bunch of different test cases on your work and it doesn't accept Unicode characters :/ this is a limitation :/ Luckily this part of the interview process was over email so I could directly cite the instructions, but God drat, you knew what assignment you were giving me
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