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MickeyFinn posted:Is the font on the pills wrong? Nope. Operators couldn't figure out why the equipment wasn't running right, and I got to spend all day (now multiple days) fixing it. 2:05 AM and I just got home. Total shift: 8:00 AM yesterday to 2:00 am this morning. I wish I could say it was my worst shift ever, but I worked a 72 hr shift at my last employer.
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Did anyone else read the story from the poster being investigated by the state because they fell asleep during their shift as an in-home care provider? None of their coworkers would come relieve them, so it was a 100+ hour "shift."
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May 3, 2015 02:57
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Halloween Jack posted:Did anyone else read the story from the poster being investigated by the state because they fell asleep during their shift as an in-home care provider? None of their coworkers would come relieve them, so it was a 100+ hour "shift." No. No you by any chance have a link? Honestly by hour 16 I'm just walking out. No job is worth that kind of bullshit.
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May 3, 2015 03:55
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ladyweapon posted:Your coworkers may think you're incredibly depressed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc
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May 3, 2015 12:07
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readingatwork posted:No. No you by any chance have a link? When "walking out" means someone might die, that becomes a harder choice.
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May 3, 2015 13:47
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Tomorrow, at 8am, I am handing in my notice after being on vacation for 2 weeks. I am so excited I can hardly sleep. Unfortunately, I have to stay there for another 4 weeks so they pay out my vacation 
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May 4, 2015 03:44
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Speaking of notice, should I give mine at the start of the day or the end of the day? I was thinking of telling my supervisor at the end of the day tomorrow, and then HR and whoever else on Tuesday morning.
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May 4, 2015 04:21
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C-Euro posted:Speaking of notice, should I give mine at the start of the day or the end of the day? I was thinking of telling my supervisor at the end of the day tomorrow, and then HR and whoever else on Tuesday morning. If your company treats giving notice as "leave the building immediately, we'll pay you the next two weeks just don't show up." then deffo quit in the morning, you get an extra paid day off.
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May 4, 2015 06:33
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less than three posted:If your company treats giving notice as "leave the building immediately, we'll pay you the next two weeks just don't show up." then deffo quit in the morning, you get an extra paid day off. Honestly I have no idea how it treats this sort of thing, we've had a ton of people leave this year and it seems about half of them are "give notice, leave after X days" and half are "give notice, get escorted out of the building 15 minutes later". They even have asked a couple people to write actual letters of resignation, as if that really makes a difference. I think my reputation is such that they wouldn't just give me the boot immediately but I would love for them to pay me to sit at home packing and applying for jobs. I even joked to my fiancee about volunteering to work this Saturday, then just going in and browsing Indeed/Glassdoor/et. al since I rarely have other people in my department showing up on Saturdays  E: I come back from a three day weekend to find that not only did we have resignation #19 while I was gone (one of our top Sales account managers, no less) but over the weekend someone popped a virus into our shared network drives that makes it impossible for my department to do anything today. Also Payroll doesn't know I requested time off on Friday even though I can still see the pending request in our payroll database  A comedy of errors if ever there was one.
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May 4, 2015 12:53
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Happy Monday! Fun task of the morning: Review a 552-page paper for GDP errors and correct them. This is clearly what I went to grad school for.
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May 4, 2015 15:20
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Sundae posted:Happy Monday! I want it done and on my desk by noon. *Goes on week long golf trip*
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May 4, 2015 16:08
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Your avatar always makes my morning, Renegret.
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May 4, 2015 16:19
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I'm sorry Gorman, QA can't approve document 15-2783 for release since it references unreleased document 16-7666. I'm sorry Gorman, QA can't approve document 16-7666 for release since it references unreleased document 15-2783. To be fair a quick phone call cleared it up, but what a day to start the morning  .
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May 4, 2015 16:26
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Sundae posted:Your avatar always makes my morning, Renegret.  Once I come up with a custom title to go with it, I'll be changing it. e: I'm quite attached to it as it is, though.
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May 4, 2015 16:29
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A guy in my department needed access to a certain database in our lab, which is currently down but also has a backup copy on a thumb drive. I hand him the thumb drive and he looks at me, then at the drive, then back at me and says "I don't know how to use that". WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT  The worst part is that the department will probably be fine even after I leave, as they've been slowly dumbing it down over the past six months or so. I too find myself wondering why I went to grad school yet ended up here. E: Gave notice today and didn't get fired immediately  I think I made my supervisor cry, or at least he looked like he wanted to. And my department head gave me his personal e-mail and said he would make a couple calls to people he knows in our industry to try and help me get a job where I'm going, which was really nice of him. But most surprising is that, according to our HR director, the president of our company wants to schedule some one-on-one time with me this week 
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May 4, 2015 19:21
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Managers meeting in a few weeks. I have to fill out a 12 page Enneagram test to discover my personality type. I said last page that I was called Blue all the time, now I guess I get to prove it? God drat these questions are so vague that I am going to check off either every box or none.
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May 5, 2015 13:44
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Yesterday my boss was complaining about people who were offended by Duck Dynasty. It seemed so random I can only assume he was dogwistling hard. In other news, a new dev manager has been hired. The director and other managers have been calling him "BMV" which stands for British Miami Vice. Having seen and heard him I see why they call him that. The real question is, will some Brit be more or less reserved and assholish than your average software dev?
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May 5, 2015 14:09
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Some new PM apparently started yesterday so naturally nobody has talked to them nor has any sort of notification gone out about it. Need out of this department so hard.
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May 5, 2015 14:54
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C-Euro posted:I hand him the thumb drive and he looks at me, then at the drive, then back at me and says "I don't know how to use that". I read this thread for the little things.
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May 5, 2015 15:14
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Cup of Hemlock posted:Yeah. Not every company reads Dilbert (but every company should read Dilbert). 1500quidporsche posted:Even if this was something being formally presented to clients at worst it should be approved with a recommendation to change the font instead of holding up the entire process.
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May 6, 2015 06:13
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Good news all my co-workers and boss are sick bad news so am I. Now everyone who normally emails my boss about poo poo breaking is now emailing me. Never felt better to shut off my laptop.
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May 6, 2015 15:39
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An email came in..
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May 6, 2015 18:19
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Cock Democracy posted:An email came in.. This seems like a good way to to get something done.
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May 6, 2015 18:20
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Cock Democracy posted:An email came in.. I'm going to go and guess that it was never broken to begin with.
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May 6, 2015 18:34
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Here is my list of guesses: 1) It's not broken, the person just doesn't understand how it is supposed to work 2) This issue has never been raised or discussed previously 3) The person receiving this email is not responsible for the thing and possibly not even connected to it 4) This email was accidentally copy-all to an entire department/company 5) Nowhere in the email does it actually say what 'this' is or what is broken
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May 6, 2015 18:41
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Ashcans posted:Here is my list of guesses: 6) All of the above
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May 6, 2015 18:49
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Cock Democracy posted:An email came in.. Juat reply "try again."
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May 6, 2015 18:57
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Nail Rat posted:Juat reply "try again." "Please restart your computer and launch the application again. If the problem continues, please file a ticket with <relevant help desk>"
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May 6, 2015 20:39
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So its mental health week at work. Care to guess how they're getting us all involved in this serious issue? They've put out a bunch of badges with different "feelings" on them in the kitchen area, we're encouraged to wear the badge that reflects our current feeling the most.
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May 6, 2015 20:50
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Just photocopy the "Murderous Rage" badge over and over and give it to everyone.
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May 6, 2015 21:05
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Find (or alternatively, create ) the "Patronized" badge, and wear it for the whole week. If somebody mentions to you that you're supposed to change it to reflect your current mood, just tell them it's the strangest thing, but you just can't shake the feeling. Alternatively nod, reach into you pocket, and pull out the "Putting up with children" badge.
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May 6, 2015 21:07
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Am I a dick for reporting work completed today for the next day in order to make me look busy? I'm planning to do it back to back so I've got nothing to do friday when I work from home.
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May 6, 2015 21:39
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1500quidporsche posted:Am I a dick for reporting work completed today for the next day in order to make me look busy? I'm planning to do it back to back so I've got nothing to do friday when I work from home. Nope. Carry on. Make sure you have beer for Friday.
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May 6, 2015 21:45
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1500quidporsche posted:So its mental health week at work. My obvious choice: 
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May 6, 2015 21:47
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Really? Not  or  or  ?
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May 6, 2015 21:55
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1500quidporsche posted:Am I a dick for reporting work completed today for the next day in order to make me look busy? I'm planning to do it back to back so I've got nothing to do friday when I work from home. I just read a good article in Harvard Business Review about how people/men in high-hour industries consistently fake how hard they actually work and it has no appreciable impact on output or performance reviews. So I say go for it.
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May 6, 2015 22:01
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Zero Gravitas posted:Really? 
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May 6, 2015 22:29
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So I've been spending a lot of time at work just dicking around pretending to be busy 'cause I've got jack poo poo to do. Yesterday I was called into a meeting with both my bosses and was like "oh poo poo they're going to terminate my contract" Instead I got a glowing review (no raise of course because contractor, although I'm going to try to re-negotiate my contract for higher pay when it's up for renewal soon) and I mentioned my computer was super lovely compared to everyone else's and less than 24 hours IT is working on procuring a fancy-rear end faster computer for me. Slacking off really does work I guess.
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Xandu posted:I just read a good article in Harvard Business Review about how people/men in high-hour industries consistently fake how hard they actually work and it has no appreciable impact on output or performance reviews. So I say go for it. Link?
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Sure boss, I'd love to stay late and play catch-up on data entry because the guy we have assigned to it right now is too lazy to do the bare minimum of his job. Now what's this, I'm looking at the pile now and these are actually sampled that have been data-entered and just need to be archived, a job that takes 1/10 the time and can be done by a single person if you just delegate? What's that you say, you don't actually know anything about the lab you're assigned to lead? How did I forget, I'm such a silly goose.Xandu posted:I just read a good article in Harvard Business Review about how people/men in high-hour industries consistently fake how hard they actually work and it has no appreciable impact on output or performance reviews. So I say go for it. You really can spend a lot of time dicking around at work if you know how to be efficient when you are in "work mode" and you know how to prioritize well. I've talked about him before but there used to be a guy in my department who ran our auditing programs and our plant safety group. Half the time I would look over at him on his computer, he would be farting around on Imgur or Wired or wherever. He would be the last person to get to the lab every day and one of the first to leave each evening. And he actually would sleep on the job, and had been seen doing so by people outside of our department. However, one of my company's most prized possession is the pristine face it puts on for any outside entity that comes to visit, so this guy knew that he had to be extremely on-point for customer audits and the like. And, to his credit, whenever an auditor came through he was like a completely different employee. He did such a good job he even managed to get promoted, off of maybe 10 hours of work each week on non-audit weeks. To be less snarky about it, I've seen a number of management/leadership training articles that stress the importance of knowing what to focus on and when to focus on it. Of course, this can also go horribly wrong. There's a guy in my lab who does bust his rear end for 40 hours every week, often putting in 10 - 12 hour days depending on his current assignment(s). Unbeknownst to our managers (but known to pretty much everyone in the lab, and several people outside of our lab), he has to put in 50-60 hour weeks because he is just plain stupid and does everything in a horribly inefficient manner. But because my boss only sees "Goobertron eventually followed through on this thing I gave him" and "wow Goobertron stays really late all the time", he's in line to get promoted soon. And because I'm leaving he's about to get that promotion! I shudder to think of what he's going to look like when he's given 40 hours worth of tasks each week, instead of the 20 or so he struggles with right now. There's another lesson in here- you don't have to be the best to get ahead, you just have to be the last one standing. Funny enough, that's exactly how my current supervisor got promoted. This place is so screwed after I leave that I'm almost sad I'm moving so far away, and I that I probably won't keep in touch with too many people here.
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