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Pope Mobile posted:There are, maybe, five cars in the parkning lot today. The lights keep turning off because they're not sensing any movement. Currently Blasting Lamb of God over my speakers. I love it when no one is in the office. Why are you in the office?
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I was allowing myself to get all worked up over the fact that there's a document that needs to be finished before I leave (Friday is my last day in this office). I can't work on it at all until another team member sends me some stuff, and he was supposed to have it done by now. This was really getting me freaked out. Then I realized something: if that document is not finished by Friday, there are no consequences for me. Of course I will still make every effort to ensure that I am not the reason it doesn't get done...but that realization really set me free from my anxiety.
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Nov 28, 2011 19:43
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Sundae posted:Why are you in the office? Working on holidays and weekends is pretty awesome, I did both the week before last. There are several reasons, as far as I'm concerned:
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Nov 28, 2011 21:49
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mobby_6kl posted:[*]nobody to tell me not to ride the IT equipment cart like a skateboard  Living the dream.
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Nov 28, 2011 23:13
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mobby_6kl posted:There are several reasons, as far as I'm concerned: Fair enough. I was not entitled to either of those if I worked holidays / weekends / extra time, so I didn't think of those options. (I also just outright refused to work weekends and holidays, but that's another issue.)
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Nov 29, 2011 00:49
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I am getting sick of co-workers showing up at my office door or calling me asking if I've had a chance to read that email yet, you know, the one they sent 30 seconds ago? If it's that time sensitive, and you are able to call or come over, just talk about it then. You are already interrupting me.
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Nov 30, 2011 17:20
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The Aphasian posted:I am getting sick of co-workers showing up at my office door or calling me asking if I've had a chance to read that email yet, you know, the one they sent 30 seconds ago? Sorry Bob, I only read e-mail once a week, and you missed the deadline by three hours. Maybe next time!
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Dec 1, 2011 01:13
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Welp, following up on my bitch from page 50 about our sales staff over-committing our dwindling resources, it continues to happen and we are now going to be eating poo poo until Christmas (and beyond). The kicker is that these gigantic projects we are doing, with end clients who are reporting profits in the billions of dollars, are being discounted loving 50% as an "introductory" offer to our clients who are bringing them in. What that really means is we are working poo poo hours for basically no profit at all, and will continue to do so because our chicken poo poo salesman will never have the balls to push the costs up from the "introductory" offer. (and because he still makes whatever % commission off the sale itself, regardless of whether or not the company runs in the black on it) So our client is probably absolutely skull-loving the end-client on costs, then paying pennies to us to do all the work. Great loving job, sales team. Oh what's that, we're also receiving two emails a day about how we're not reaching our revenue targets? No loving way! Well gosh I guess the only option available is for the operations team to double the amount of projects we run!
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Dec 1, 2011 18:15
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Well, lets see, I've been pushed out of my project, and I couldn't be happier, it's such a cluster gently caress thanks to an incompetent engineer, and no one in authority willing to call him out on his bullshit. In his typical fasion, there were some very important things on his plate due on Friday, and he called in sick the next two days. In the past some engineers that left for greener pastures would (begrudingly) pick up his slack, now that he's on his own, he's poo poo out of luck. In other news, we have a new buzzword, that our parent company overlords have used to replace "downsizing," and that word is "resizing." Do they really think that we're stupid enough to know that doesn't mean "layoffs?" It's not like they'll rollout "resizing," if/when they start hiring again.
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Dec 1, 2011 18:33
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Iron Crowned posted:In other news, we have a new buzzword, that our parent company overlords have used to replace "downsizing," and that word is "resizing." We've had 'rightsizing' before. It really doesn't get any more insulting than that.
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Dec 1, 2011 18:50
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rolleyes posted:We've had 'rightsizing' before. It really doesn't get any more insulting than that. Hi there rightsizing buddy. Yeah, that's an awesome turn of corporatese.
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Not only did we have Rightsizing, but we're also forbidden to ever use that word ever again. It's literally forbidden from being spoken on pain of death or something. Rightsizing? Nope, never happened. It's truly 1984-esque. And I feel for anyone who's also being squeezed by the Donut Slingers A/K/A Sales Staff. They're the highly rewarded over compensated giveres of more work with less resources, and rates that either haven't increased in a decade or are so stupifyling low that we actually manage to lose money on new clients because nobody has ever, once, done a cost analysis on what it costs us to do what we do. Even better is new clients who because they're new dominate everyone's day to day and leave little time for existing clients who, you know, actually make us money. The future? What's that?
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My boss, the micro-manager, freaked out a few weeks ago about the way a warranty was handled. His response was to say we were scrapping the entire process and he would write a new procedure then I would adjust the paperwork and my spreadsheet -- that he never actually uses -- to follow it. This was URGENT! Had to be done NOW! It's been a little over two weeks and he has done nothing. Same as always. Meetings with him have phrases like, "I can't be expected to be in charge of everything" and "I shouldn't have to know that" yet he gets annoyed and combative when he isn't in charge of everything and he doesn't know something. You can't point this out, of course, because he'll say "you need to let me finish my thoughts" when he is in the middle of ranting about something that isn't even tangentially related to the problem we're trying to correct. I need hazard pay for going into the conference room with him. It's psychological torture.
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Dec 1, 2011 20:54
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Third email this week asking me why a batch of charts for deceased patients has not been sent to our Medical Records department yet. Oh, let me count the ways: possibly because you stuck me with 74 LIVING patients, and a trainee, and then I went on vacation and my work was apparently ignored by the other secretaries while I was gone, and I've only just now caught up, and my team is treating me like the manager because now SHE'S on vacation, and I've got phone calls and bullshit requests (from writing letters to changing fax numbers to helping fix Outlook for other users) and incompetence (like people leaving company letterhead in the GODDAMN FAX MACHINE) and other people just plain not doing their jobs to clean up after as per usual? Could any of that be why? These charts are not even two months' old. Their holders are not getting any deader. In my former location - way busier than this one - we'd hit five or six months before starting to panic.
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Dec 1, 2011 21:11
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Dec 1, 2011 21:18
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Cluricaun posted:
You must work for every single large-scale vendor in my line of work (Instrumentation).
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Jason Sextro posted:You must work for every single large-scale vendor in my line of work (Instrumentation). I'm afraid not, I suspect that this is something that happens in far too many places and lines of work.
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Dec 1, 2011 22:32
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Rodent Mortician posted:I got the big office. 
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Dec 1, 2011 22:42
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Cup of Hemlock posted:Third email this week asking me why a batch of charts for deceased patients has not been sent to our Medical Records department yet. Oh, let me count the ways: possibly because you stuck me with 74 LIVING patients, and a trainee, and then I went on vacation and my work was apparently ignored by the other secretaries while I was gone, and I've only just now caught up, and my team is treating me like the manager because now SHE'S on vacation, and I've got phone calls and bullshit requests (from writing letters to changing fax numbers to helping fix Outlook for other users) and incompetence (like people leaving company letterhead in the GODDAMN FAX MACHINE) and other people just plain not doing their jobs to clean up after as per usual? Could any of that be why? I can sort of relate to this. I just realized one of the nurses was using cards with incredibly old and outdated information for appointment cards (only the phone number was right). I'm sure all of our patients know where we are but I don't want to have to deal with that one rear end in a top hat who makes a fuss. I work at a specialist office, so unless a family member calls we don't usually know a patient has died. I did, however manage to get a list from our provincial provider of patients my doctor had billed during their life time. I'm now pulling all of their charts to put into a permanent archive. There are a lot of them to say the least and I'm the only one pulling them. Thankfully theres no rush or anything, I'm just doing it to make looking for charts easier. I pull the charts when I'm avoiding doing real work.
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Dec 1, 2011 23:02
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Sundae posted:Why are you in the office? Late reply, but I came in on my day off to build hours for this week. I was gone from Saturday to Thursday. On a similar note- this place really would fall apart without me (maybe only for a week or so). None of the reports got done. QA decided to gently caress around and not finish until the day before I was supposed to get back, putting the guy filling in for me way behind schedule. A bunch of errors popped came up that, apparently, only I know how to fix despite me telling the higher up about them several times over the past few months. Now here I sit (stand) with a work load that should have been finished late Wednesday but is barely started. I have today to finish it. Looking at it in a positive light, it's an easy way to show my "value" to the team. I slack off plenty and have no idea how no one can do what I do, especially when there are step by step walkthroughs for it.
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Dec 2, 2011 17:51
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I get to write technical manuals now, because no one ever replaced the tech writer who quit a few years before I even started. As an added responsiblity, do I get an increase in pay? No.
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Iron Crowned posted:I get to write technical manuals now, because no one ever replaced the tech writer who quit a few years before I even started. This is about the time where you start taking longer lunches, naps in the server room and spending lots of time 'researching' on the internet.
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modeski posted:This is about the time where you start taking longer lunches, naps in the server room and spending lots of time 'researching' on the internet. I don't have a key to the server room, but do I do take naps in the bathroom occasionally.
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Dec 2, 2011 23:19
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Rodent Mortician posted:I got the big office. The pawn has been promoted to Queen. Gratz!
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Dec 2, 2011 23:32
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Iron Crowned posted:As an added responsiblity, do I get an increase in pay? No. I've been at my company for 12 years. I last saw an increase in pay in 2005, and that was $4k a year. I've taken on what would fairly and without exaggeration be at least five levels up from where I was and the full time jobs of three other people who've left. For nothing. Not even a lie filled promise. I'll do just under $10m in personally accountable money for the company this year and I make just over what the local hot dog place pays their junior managers.
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I almost wept with joy today when my new boss called to tell me my office is ready for me - they gave me an office!? I have a door...that already has my name on it?! And I have a window. Today was my last day commuting into DC, and despite being utterly exhausted from the longest week ever, I am so excited.
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Cluricaun posted:I've been at my company for 12 years. I last saw an increase in pay in 2005, and that was $4k a year. I've taken on what would fairly and without exaggeration be at least five levels up from where I was and the full time jobs of three other people who've left. For nothing. Not even a lie filled promise. I have to ask - why are you still there?
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RazorBunny posted:I almost wept with joy today when my new boss called to tell me my office is ready for me - they gave me an office!? I have a door...that already has my name on it?! 
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modeski posted:I have to ask - why are you still there? I ask myself that same question, and it's a sad mix of entropy and the fact that at age 33 I'm slightly terrified that it's the only thing I know how to do.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Honestly I kind of pictured you walking into your office and collapsing with tears of joy in the middle of your office, door on one side and window on the other. I haven't seen it yet, it might be a broom closet. But I definitely did a little dance standing in my old cube,
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Cluricaun posted:I ask myself that same question, and it's a sad mix of entropy and the fact that at age 33 I'm slightly terrified that it's the only thing I know how to do. Chances are you can do just under $10m in personally accountable money for another company. I know how you feel though.
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Slopehead posted:I saw this article on engadget today about the layoff of 17K people by Nokia Siemens and thought you would enjoy the doublespeak in the quotation from the company explaining why: 3 years of pseudo-management and I've heard all of these, in fact, I mostly understand it. Just. Shoot. Me. In fun local news, my department is moving buildings and everyone in offices now with the exception of senior management will be rocking cubes. How disheartening, after struggling up to the light of a door and a window, to be cast back into the pit of gray fabric and the sound of your cube mates chewing. As a consultant I enjoyed years of hot desking so I have low expectations, still, it stings a bit.
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Edit: Nothing is permanent.
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It really depends on your manager; can you tell him that you've got too much poo poo on your plate without feeling like he'll just think you're lazy and want less work, or will he understand what task creep is and look for a solution? Hope you're blessed like me and have the latter. E: Were I in your position, I'd pretty much say "[Manager], I don't mind things changing here and there with the task. It happens, and I'm fine with it. However, it's gotten to the point where there's simply too much on my plate for one person to complete. I've got [all these important projects] that I work on and a few small things here and there that have added up. [Telephone example and how it makes us look bad when we don't get back to customers promptly]. Is there someone else who can take on [telephone task] who's at their desk more often than me so it still gets done and I have more time to do a higher quality job on [important projects]?" Then again, my manager's cool and would understand. its all nice on rice fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Dec 5, 2011 |
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Dec 5, 2011 23:06
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Ever since I stopped really doing anything I've stopped getting yelled at. Now we are so backed up that we are actually at a stand still with a piling backlog. Ive been looking for administrative work in the bay area, but only for full time. Then I realized even if I took part time work I'd make the same I do now (subtracting commute costs and using the low end average of what people on Craigslist are offering.). Time to throw my resume into the critique thread and see what they think. Congrats to the poster who got a door and a window. May you drink many a latte while looking/being important.
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Oh Jesus gently caress the old lady that should have retired
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2508084 posted:Ive been looking for administrative work in the bay area, but only for full time. Then I realized even if I took part time work I'd make the same I do now (subtracting commute costs and using the low end average of what people on Craigslist are offering.). Time to throw my resume into the critique thread and see what they think. Fewer hours is the best raise you can get. Seriously!
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Pope Mobile posted:Oh Jesus gently caress the old lady that should have retired I'd suggest hiding them, but I've seen first hand how much of a poo poo storm one missing trinket can cause in an office environment.
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Pope Mobile posted:Oh Jesus gently caress the old lady that should have retired Fight back. Then when it gets so irritating, it's easy to blame her and turn off the device. "Huh, since you removed your poo poo the beeping is gone." Actually, bring it back after the new year for additional fun.
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2508084 posted:Ever since I stopped really doing anything I've stopped getting yelled at. Now we are so backed up that we are actually at a stand still with a piling backlog. This is a great idea. Thank you! Same area, same field - I'll try not to compete for the jobs you apply for though. 
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