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Varkk posted:Not being paid? Then I'm not at work. The job market was extremely poo poo at the time. Still is around here, I was just lucky a better opportunity came along. skooma512 posted:He's entitled to free work to fix his incompitance, but I'm sure he'll talk your ear off about how millennials are entitled and blah blah blah I got a very similar lecture from him when I asked for a raise. I was expected to pull double duty on the sales desk too, which effectively doubled my workload. Bargearse fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Sep 6, 2016 |
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Humphreys posted:I get an unpaid hour lunch break which I rarely take. If anyone comes to interrupt my lunch for something I just say "I'm not at work" or if it's a true 'h poo poo gotta fix' moment I then go back to lunch and add the time. Suppose it depends on the business culture, normally I shoot down everyone who tries to do a support drive-by otherwise I just extend my break for as long as much of my time gets taken up. EDIT: You know what I shouldn't have posted this, it must've triggered a question beacon because four people on after the other have rocked up bugging me for poo poo. EDIT2: Five people Super Slash fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Sep 6, 2016 |
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Varkk posted:Not being paid? Then I'm not at work. This is a tricky concept to enforce when you're salaried and overtime exempt.
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Super Slash posted:EDIT: You know what I shouldn't have posted this, it must've triggered a question beacon because four people on after the other have rocked up bugging me for poo poo. It's the day after labor day and everyone's coming back to work. Hold on to your butts people
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Sep 6, 2016 15:31
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mewse posted:It's the day after labor day and everyone's coming back to work. Hold on to your butts people This is probably why the planet standardized on two day weekends. Three days are just too much, people's brains turn to sludge and they lose any ability to remember what was happening last week and need emergency meetings and planning sessions to reiterate things that were set in stone previously.
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Sep 6, 2016 15:36
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Eletriarnation posted:This is a tricky concept to enforce when you're salaried and overtime exempt. Not really. Your employment agreement should spell out your compensation for X hours per week. I'm fortunate that I a) don't really get called on to work more the a couple hours extra here and there and b)when I am, I get comp time in return. I've had other jobs that have tried to pull the "you know you should be grateful" or "you really need to follow-through" guilt trips, but I've either stood my ground or taken a hike and found another job. If you keep letting them guilt or bully you into working ungodly hours, you're going to burn out young in this industry.
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xzzy posted:This is probably why the planet standardized on two day weekends. Three days are just too much, people's brains turn to sludge and they lose any ability to remember what was happening last week and need emergency meetings and planning sessions to reiterate things that were set in stone previously. Key....board?  flosofl posted:Not really. Your employment agreement should spell out your compensation for X hours per week. I'm fortunate that I a) don't really get called on to work more the a couple hours extra here and there and b)when I am, I get comp time in return. I've had other jobs that have tried to pull the "you know you should be grateful" or "you really need to follow-through" guilt trips, but I've either stood my ground or taken a hike and found another job. Yeah, I don't get the whole "work all the hours!" thing. If there's a major catastrophe, taking one for the team and putting in a bunch of extra hours is understandable and admirable. If there's an emergency every two hours, it's time to gtfo if at all possible (in some cases, I can understand why you would stay in the lovely job, but still....)
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Pissing me off: People knowing what is causing an issue that was emailed to the team, when said issue was a pretty big deal, and just not saying anything. Sure, it was on a weekend, but they admit to having seen the email and just didn't respond for whatever reason, which caused me and another developer to each spend a couple hours on Sunday looking into the issue(work for an insurance company so hurricane weekends have a lot of activity in the company). Thanks for loving wasting our time because spending a minute sending out an email explaining what is going on was too much loving effort.
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Our financial controller is a loving idiot. He's been having an email conversation all morning with some scammer who's impersonating another person who works at our office (the emails look like they are coming from tomjones@ourdomain.com but they're really going to like tomjones@ourdomain.spammerdomain.com). The whole email chain is "Hey can you do something for me? Can you send me a wire? I'd call you but my cellphone died..." and he's playing along hook line and sinker. Around 11:00am he puts a helpdesk ticket in saying the emails look funny. 45 minutes later he asks "should we block this person as spam" when he's STILL emailing him back and forth. I wrote back that we can't block every malicious email and we should be more careful about requests that come in to wire money (we never ever do this for people that work here anyway, he's not his personal finance manager) and we shouldn't be wiring money based upon email requests in the first place. He writes back on the ticket "Wow great advice thanks for your help" Get all pissy with me when you fall for textbook scams.  The best part is we had this same thing happen a few months ago with him falling for fake emails from the owner of our company.
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About 8 months ago there was a surprise mystery hire. A guy showed up requesting equipment and when I asked around I found out he supposedly had worked for Google and was going to do... something. His connection? He was engaged to the daughter of a friend of the CEO. I had no idea what he was doing. No one told me. The guy said he was working on "projects" for the CEO. The CEO directed me to buy him whatever he wanted. Equipment, domain names, etc. Just get it. The guy did drop by my office one time to ask about our bollixed Salesforce implementation. Today I get an email that he quit yesterday. No warning, just a "I'm off to do something else, bye!" email to my boss. Scrolling through the email I was forwarded by HR I see that whatever his project was the CEO only looked at it on Saturday for the first time and is now asking questions about it, how it works, how it will be maintained. It must be some sort of roll your own CRM since he said it didn't look any better than Salesforce. One of the VPs suggested pulling me in to a meeting since I'm in charge of technology and must know all about it. There's a reason I say this place is dysfunctional.
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Dick Trauma posted:About 8 months ago there was a surprise mystery hire. A guy showed up requesting equipment and when I asked around I found out he supposedly had worked for Google and was going to do... something. His connection? He was engaged to the daughter of a friend of the CEO. This has happened here like 4 different times. "I'm working on some projects for OWNERS_NAME while I'm at home/college/etc, I need full access to the file server and VPN login on my personal laptop"
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Sep 6, 2016 16:56
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Bob Morales posted:Our financial controller is a loving idiot. He's been having an email conversation all morning with some scammer who's impersonating another person who works at our office (the emails look like they are coming from tomjones@ourdomain.com but they're really going to like tomjones@ourdomain.spammerdomain.com). The whole email chain is "Hey can you do something for me? Can you send me a wire? I'd call you but my cellphone died..." and he's playing along hook line and sinker. Hey, when you make as much money as those guys, maybe then you'll understand how eating lead paint makes you smart! Bob Morales posted:This has happened here like 4 different times. "I'm working on some projects for OWNERS_NAME while I'm at home/college/etc, I need full access to the file server and VPN login on my personal laptop" On the other hand, when you finally snap and go all  on your friendly neighborhood managers, please video tape it for the thread.
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Dick Trauma posted:About 8 months ago there was a surprise mystery hire. A guy showed up requesting equipment and when I asked around I found out he supposedly had worked for Google and was going to do... something. His connection? He was engaged to the daughter of a friend of the CEO. So this is now like the second person who is clearly just taking money from your company for zero work. What the hell...
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LordVorbis posted:So this is now like the second person who is clearly just taking money from your company for zero work. What the hell... Seems like a pretty sweet gig for everyone but dick trauma. Gotta get me in on that.
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xzzy posted:Seems like a pretty sweet gig for everyone but dick trauma. It's the most I've ever been paid for the least work I've ever done. Too bad it's a terrible place. And the CEO for some reason has spent most of the last two weeks sitting in a cubicle on executive row. It's really strange. This morning he asked about a dock for his new Surface so he could use the two LCDs at that desk. I noticed he had both his Surface and his new iPad Pro on little stands in there, side by side. Dueling tablets.
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Dick Trauma posted:It's the most I've ever been paid for the least work I've ever done. Too bad it's a terrible place. Why? What use case needs an iPad and a Surface side by side? (And can you give him a stroke by placing an Android tablet next to the other two?  )
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Arsten posted:Why? What use case needs an iPad and a Surface side by side? (And can you give him a stroke by placing an Android tablet next to the other two? Catching pokémon on the iPad while you read email / look at porn on the Surface.
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Arsten posted:What use case needs an iPad and a Surface side by side? He is the CEO. 
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Maybe he's doing an in-depth comparison of the two platforms. I'm sure his exhaustive report will make it to Ars when he's done.
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A year or so back I got an ABC Warehouse ad with a $79 Android tablet circled and the note written "Every one of our service technicians should be using one of these"
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Bob Morales posted:This has happened here like 4 different times. "I'm working on some projects for OWNERS_NAME while I'm at home/college/etc, I need full access to the file server and VPN login on my personal laptop" My $AWFUL_JOB was full of stuff like this. Someone would just show up with the boss/owner, and we'd be told this person is going to partner with us to make $DREAMS_COME_TRUE and they needed all this stuff that had to be setup instantly. Sometimes I'd stay all night or work a weekend to get something setup for them, and then two days later they just never appear again and we never talk about it.
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Bob Morales posted:A year or so back I got an ABC Warehouse ad with a $79 Android tablet circled and the note written "Every one of our service technicians should be using one of these" Nice
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mewse posted:Nice Eh, doesn't have ethernet input, can't connect a serial cable, can't run ssh, telnet, or tracert. Gold, jerry, gold!
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Arsten posted:Why? What use case needs an iPad and a Surface side by side? (And can you give him a stroke by placing an Android tablet next to the other two? He needs to look important and special and how look how much work I must have to do with 2 tablets side by side and 10 screens.
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skooma512 posted:He needs to look important and special and how look how much work I must have to do with 2 tablets side by side and 10 screens. Don't give DT's CEO any ideas. DT will be on the ladder trying to setup the new 10x10 desktop monitor array.
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Dick Trauma posted:He is the CEO. Has he been thinking about getting a new chair for his office? Has anyone pointed him at the emperor?
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ookiimarukochan posted:Has he been thinking about getting a new chair for his office? Has anyone pointed him at the emperor? Our EOC needs those.
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Eletriarnation posted:This is a tricky concept to enforce when you're salaried and overtime exempt. 1 hour of work means one hour of PTO banked for later use. If there's no compensation at all for extra time spent at work I'll be out the door the very minute I'm scheduled to leave. In reality I've only had one job where my boss was a hardass. That was when I secretly got a new mobile number, and left the company phone on silent in a drawer at work. Every other place have been smart enough to realize that if their employees get flexibility, they'll return the favor.
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Crowley posted:1 hour of work means one hour of PTO banked for later use. If there's no compensation at all for extra time spent at work I'll be out the door the very minute I'm scheduled to leave. As a salaried and exempt worker, I shoot for 35 hours a week. If I have to do overtime some weeks so be it.
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ratbert90 posted:As a salaried and exempt worker, I shoot for 35 hours a week. If I have to do overtime some weeks so be it. Live like a Frenchman. 
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Crowley posted:Live like a Frenchman. I would, but I can only eat so much cheese. Also I don't think my back would take it.
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ookiimarukochan posted:Has he been thinking about getting a new chair for his office? Has anyone pointed him at the emperor? I'll take my $9000+ chair, I need it for my robot ears and to eject people out of the room.
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Pissing me off today: the US banking system and how loving behind it is in the whole "send money electronically" business compared to the rest of the world. The insurance company I work for is going to be implementing EFT payments as a way to pay out to customers, and the process is manual as all hell. There is a federal standard for the file format, which is good and fine, we can generate that just fine, and that is the one good part. After that everything is manual as all hell. The file our system generates has to be manually uploaded to a web site by a person, which is then processed by the bank the next day. A person has to manually check to see if any payments were rejected(due to bad bank account number or whatever). If we had to ask for the money back that is also a manual process. There is so much loving human interaction required in this process it is just beyond dumb.
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Khisanth Magus posted:Pissing me off today: the US banking system and how loving behind it is in the whole "send money electronically" business compared to the rest of the world. The insurance company I work for is going to be implementing EFT payments as a way to pay out to customers, and the process is manual as all hell. There is a federal standard for the file format, which is good and fine, we can generate that just fine, and that is the one good part. After that everything is manual as all hell. The file our system generates has to be manually uploaded to a web site by a person, which is then processed by the bank the next day. A person has to manually check to see if any payments were rejected(due to bad bank account number or whatever). If we had to ask for the money back that is also a manual process. There is so much loving human interaction required in this process it is just beyond dumb. Our bank doesn't have a SWIFT code. Try explaining that to a foreign company who wants to give you money.
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Khisanth Magus posted:Pissing me off today: the US banking system and how loving behind it is in the whole "send money electronically" business compared to the rest of the world. The insurance company I work for is going to be implementing EFT payments as a way to pay out to customers, and the process is manual as all hell. There is a federal standard for the file format, which is good and fine, we can generate that just fine, and that is the one good part. After that everything is manual as all hell. The file our system generates has to be manually uploaded to a web site by a person, which is then processed by the bank the next day. A person has to manually check to see if any payments were rejected(due to bad bank account number or whatever). If we had to ask for the money back that is also a manual process. There is so much loving human interaction required in this process it is just beyond dumb. All of this is very true and it's a huge pain. What you should do is ask your bank for an API to use to transmit the data to them. Most banks have some form of method to get the detail to them without needing a person, even if that is just "Upload to this FTP site and our server will pull the details "
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Arsten posted:All of this is very true and it's a huge pain. What you should do is ask your bank for an API to use to transmit the data to them. Most banks have some form of method to get the detail to them without needing a person, even if that is just "Upload to this FTP site and our server will pull the details The bank doesn't generally do EFT, we are the only customer they do it for(our life insurance department has always done it but with their own little system, now we are going to do it with our company-wide system), so they don't have any automated systems in place for EFT, and no real desire to implement any such thing. Although I am concerned that the full company doing EFT might overwhelm their manual systems, since instead of the occasional life payout there are going to be a large number of payments daily.
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Gounads posted:Our bank doesn't have a SWIFT code. Try explaining that to a foreign company who wants to give you money. Are you sure it's a bank?
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Khisanth Magus posted:The bank doesn't generally do EFT, we are the only customer they do it for(our life insurance department has always done it but with their own little system, now we are going to do it with our company-wide system), so they don't have any automated systems in place for EFT, and no real desire to implement any such thing. Although I am concerned that the full company doing EFT might overwhelm their manual systems, since instead of the occasional life payout there are going to be a large number of payments daily. Get a new bank. I don't mean like "omigaw, they suck sooooo much because that's just stupid" type stuff, I legitimately mean that this bank is either a horrible clusterfuck of all the worse problems and you are about to crush it's daily operations like the gnat they are (and get sued for your troubles by using them as they told you to do!) or: Steakandchips posted:Are you sure it's a bank? It's a Russian mob front.
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Arsten posted:Get a new bank. I don't mean like "omigaw, they suck sooooo much because that's just stupid" type stuff, I legitimately mean that this bank is either a horrible clusterfuck of all the worse problems and you are about to crush it's daily operations like the gnat they are (and get sued for your troubles by using them as they told you to do!) or: Well, yeah, a company that just hit $1 billion in revenue recently probably shouldn't be using a tiny little 2 branch local bank, but that is a decision made by people with 1 or 2 more digits to their paycheck than I have.
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Khisanth Magus posted:The bank doesn't generally do EFT, we are the only customer they do it for(our life insurance department has always done it but with their own little system, now we are going to do it with our company-wide system), so they don't have any automated systems in place for EFT, and no real desire to implement any such thing. Although I am concerned that the full company doing EFT might overwhelm their manual systems, since instead of the occasional life payout there are going to be a large number of payments daily. Get a new bank. Even our tiny bank, headquartered in a village of a thousand something people, gets things like EFT service. It isn't in house, they go through a bank that just provides this sort of thing to smaller banks. Or forward this to them http://www.ufstech.com/what-we-stand-for
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