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Not my work but thought you guys might like it: https://twitter.com/itkeekz/status/1499075108912181248
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2022 02:05 |
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# ¿ May 17, 2024 09:19 |
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Atopian posted:Leave the shirt pocket dangling below the cut, as a final gesture of contempt.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2022 11:14 |
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e: misread
Splicer fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Mar 17, 2022 |
# ¿ Mar 17, 2022 15:22 |
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Volmarias posted:I understand very little of your beer-mans jargon, but I do very much understand "ugh gently caress this poo poo" and encourage you to post more of it
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2022 15:32 |
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sootikins posted:this is amazing, I am gonna remember that one for a while. e: every so often I'd explain what the issue was and how to avoid it, but they'd always just panick and send me a Dropbox link instead. Splicer fucked around with this message at 13:45 on Mar 19, 2022 |
# ¿ Mar 19, 2022 13:25 |
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MarxCarl posted:Work is trying to figure out why people are leaving, and why new people won't work here. *bingo game attendance now
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2022 15:10 |
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xdice posted:I struggle with this one at times. I chalk it up to the difference between doing something tangible, as opposed to the intangible nature of a lot of IT work. Cooking, making coffee, things like that, there's a certain satisfaction in doing that task well. For me, if I build a hundred vm's perfectly, it's still an intangible thing to my brain and doesn't bring the same satisfaction as say, cooking a perfect grilled cheese sandwich. If your job is to monitor track 3 of the cup making machine's output line for defects then where's the feedback? There isn't any. So it's very important that you get regular, direct, positive feedback on your work in other ways. And no a monthly pizza party in lieu of a wage increase with a generic "good job everybody" banner does not count.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2022 16:31 |
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Meh, I was just trying to do my job - wasn't my fault if people wanted to freak out on me. CaptainSarcastic posted:My personal game Aramoro posted:Posts like this are always puzzling. Power fantasies about sticking it to the minimum wage service worker.. CaptainSarcastic posted:I understand people not liking call centers, and the nature of the work being done definitely plays a role for me. Like, I hated anything close to collections calls. Anyway everyone relax and listen to Lenny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgbhpgO_AbM&list=PLduL71_GKzHHk4hLga0nOGWrXlhl-i_3g&index=579
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2022 17:19 |
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Your all be a lot more relaxed if you were listening to people calling Lenny
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2022 01:04 |
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Start getting mad at him if he doesn't say good morning first
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2022 13:06 |
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Well that escalated alarmingly
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2022 14:26 |
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Stab and dismember him with his own knives and seal his corpse in one of your vats and gift the chef corpse beer to his family to serve at the funeral. As a jape!
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2022 14:42 |
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Dress up as his wife as a pleasant surprise
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2022 15:38 |
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"It must be nice to have all your mistakes just go away at the end of the day. Some of us have to think ahead."
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2022 15:48 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:The only acceptable greeting is a swift kit to the groin, delivered without warning 6.1 Gifts are an act of aggression.
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2022 15:48 |
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Escape From Noise posted:I don't think I could handle the business side
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2022 22:00 |
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A company doesn't collapse like that because Carol the Company Carrier is earning 30% more than Steve the Seat Warmer. It collapses because Steve the Seat Warmer is earning 30% more than Carol the Company Carrier oh and also Steve is the boss's useless nephew. The budget for new hires expecting the new hires to be paid more is both extremely common and was the absolute death knell. Saying the problem was knowing each other's salaries is like saying the problem with Theranos was those damned whistleblowers. e: Atopian posted:It's not the transparency that's the problem, it's the loving.
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2022 12:43 |
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Outrail posted:And yet while they could have simply said 'okay okay you got us, heres a new fair rate' they instead let the company flounder because hey, that's paying less!
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2022 18:38 |
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Escape From Noise posted:Another bottling day and once again I am having violent fantasies about throwing the bottling machine down a hill and savagely beating it with sticks and stones.
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2022 13:24 |
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Tex Avery posted:No, they absolutely are not. HR is there to mitigate circumstances that might allow an employee or former employee to sue the company. HR is not your friend. While they can do good things, they are no substitute for a union. HR will not negotiate a new contract to establish working conditions; they will merely enact a new contract without having to get input. The fact that this can happen is why you need union representation.
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2022 18:25 |
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Critical posted:Welp just got told there are to be no checks cut this week due to "internal balance movements" and we have a "town hall" teams meeting with the president on Thursday. I estimate a 30% chance I get shitcanned via a teams call and 50% I get it on Friday.
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# ¿ Apr 25, 2022 18:44 |
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Animal-Mother posted:We get to have a big department meeting to address our communication problem. There is no communication problem, but we can't say that to the boss or he'll get mad he spent weeks of emotional energy on a non-existent problem. So we have to pretend to have this problem and then pretend we are solving it. This is a waste of time, but at least it makes me laugh.
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2022 00:04 |
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Unfortunately, no one can be told what Agile is. You have to see it for yourself.
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2022 01:19 |
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Escape From Noise posted:The issues had practical fixes that people who liked it wouldn't have noticed. For example: using canned fruits in brewing is a bad idea because the fruit is in a syrup made from cane sugar. Cane sugar added to secondary, or at too high of a percentage in the boil has a very negative impact on the flavor, leading to a harsh, acetic sourness similar to white vinegar as well as an astringent bitterness. On top of that, the processing was running several cans of peaches through a lovely home use blender, slowly filling buckets, until it was done, then putting it in the tank, which risked contamination on top of the flavor stability concerns. The use of canned peaches in a different beer ruined the flavor so badly we had to dump it. I told them we needed puree but they'd convinced themselves otherwise. It's not my brewery and I get you have to slop the pigs, but there's a way to do things as safely as possible, mitigating contamination and flavor stability risks. I kept asking to change to puree so he told me to contact another brewer at a larger brewery and he'd contact another. Both said we should absolutely use puree. I think he was convinced they'd say it was fine.
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2022 12:02 |
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Hyrax Attack! posted:You think you're exaggerating
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2022 14:03 |
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Escape From Noise posted:Sorry. I had a pretty headache inducing meeting.
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2022 10:14 |
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:Why are business people so averse to talking about bad things with appropriate language? "Our company has dozens of opportunities" implies the status quo is good. Doing nothing is fine and taking advantage of an easily progressed glaring opportunity is a green mark on your sheet come bonus time. Would you prefer to tell shareholders about the three dead engines or advise them of the flight's exciting opportunity to progress to a multi-engine environment? Splicer fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Apr 27, 2022 |
# ¿ Apr 27, 2022 13:07 |
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Barudak posted:Ive got better news, we're building the plane while its flying
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2022 14:50 |
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Crackbone posted:Fun times at my job, which is normally pretty chill.
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2022 15:26 |
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rotinaj posted:The fact that I’m making better pay than I ever have before,
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2022 11:40 |
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Surely you want the bad beers there so yours looks better by comparison?
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2022 11:45 |
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Atopian posted:Potential for a dark comedy-farce where someone working at $megacorp has to depress enough co-workers that one of them kills themselves every day for a week to cover for a friend's absence.
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2022 11:46 |
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MarxCarl posted:Back in 2000, the fire alarms went off, and we had to evacuate the building at the company i was at. Come to find out, someone had come in to check out the Halon system in the server room and hit the button. The Halon system released the gas, and immediately cut the power to the servers. That guy was not invited back into the building.
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# ¿ May 12, 2022 18:52 |
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Outrail posted:How much time was wasted on those 15 mins per person vs the cost of paying someone to reinstall the big red button? Much less the cost of someone loving up again. e: We'd have needed to have moved ducts and stuff to get a clear space. It was an incredibly cramped and claustrophobic room but also a good place to hide and look busy. e2: I suppose the dumb poo poo my old work did was decide to keep all our servers in a single 2.5m x 2.5m x 2.5m cube like a badly written SCP article. Splicer fucked around with this message at 09:46 on May 13, 2022 |
# ¿ May 12, 2022 22:33 |
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Scientastic posted:We have a thing at work where any project has to be scored based on the time it will save the workforce, which is then multiplied by how much they are paid for that time, as an estimate of how much the project is worth.
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# ¿ May 13, 2022 09:52 |
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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 |
# ¿ May 19, 2022 00:39 |
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Batterypowered7 posted:Work is now implementing some sort of hybrid seating where you don't get a dedicated cube if you're not in-office at least three days a week. Instead, areas are going to be sectioned off for each director in the company and workers just pick a station to work at for the day or two they are in the office (no idea what this setup looks like). The thing is, the company owns the buildings we work at, so I'm not quite sure what this accomplishes. Like, if we were renting two buildings and decided that eliminating dedicated workspaces for each employee meant we could downsize to only renting one building, then that would make sense. I'm just not sure what the goal is here ultimately. My wife thinks maybe the company's gonna rent out the empty space to smaller companies, but I don't know. From a "somewhat real cost efficiency" perspective there may be some way for the company to get government money or save on insurance if they can mark a floor as "unoccupied", or there may be a reduction in OSHA or regulatory requirements. From a "complete bullshit cost efficiency" perspective they might be able to do weird accounting like marking them as "underutilised rental facilities" and oh look now they're a potential profit generator and the company's paper value just jumped 10% at the next stockholder meeting bonuses all around! e: the other benefit of an empty floor is you can refurbish the building with minimal disruption by refurbishing the empty floor then shoving everyone from the next floor into it Splicer fucked around with this message at 15:16 on May 22, 2022 |
# ¿ May 22, 2022 15:02 |
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Elephant Ambush posted:It blows my mind how uncreative and unimaginative people are e: I haven't seen no way home yet so maybe they're more well known than they used to be
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# ¿ May 22, 2022 15:09 |
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Escape From Noise posted:I'm gonna check with the equipment supplier about a solution.
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# ¿ Oct 21, 2022 01:04 |
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# ¿ May 17, 2024 09:19 |
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Desperado Bones posted:I'm leaving my workplace and not looking back. Literally walking out.
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# ¿ Oct 25, 2022 17:50 |