Sheep posted:

If you think you've got it bad, consider this: my predecessor was the CEO's wife.

Humphreys posted:

Our sister company was audited by the main government agency in charge of Mining and Energy. I have limited knowledge of how it was operated but it ended with all management abilities was taken away from us. We essentially were relegated to just being contract laborers. I cannot explain it properly. But anyway, the CEOs sister in law which was part of the initial problem was rehired by the government in the exact same position. All the safety breeches that happened under her guidance in the last few years has me kinda scared as my house is inside the 'killzone' radius if the plant explodes.

Humphreys posted:

Our sister company was audited by the main government agency in charge of Mining and Energy. I have limited knowledge of how it was operated but it ended with all management abilities was taken away from us. We essentially were relegated to just being contract laborers. I cannot explain it properly. But anyway, the CEOs sister in law which was part of the initial problem was rehired by the government in the exact same position. All the safety breeches that happened under her guidance in the last few years has me kinda scared as my house is inside the 'killzone' radius if the plant explodes.

Bigass Moth posted:

Move

Agrikk posted:

What the hell? Why is the security guy asking for this?

GreenBuckanneer posted:

I wish I wasn't doing this job answering rote questions for idiots who know just enough to be dangerous, or the loving retards who think they know more than me yet are calling me for help.

Moey posted:

Bob Morales posted:

We have a web form that all managers are supposed to use for new hires. Tells us the name, department, what permissions they need, blah blah.

Instead I get this loving story submitted as a ticket.

Hello,

With me out Monday at a conference here is the plan for our new intern.

Carol Brady will be sitting in Accounting during the days she is here (M-W-F). She is here all day on those days. Her first day is Monday. She will be asking for the only person she knows at ABC Corp not in HR, John.

Please introduce her around to the admin area. She will be working with Jane all day with a stop in the HR department when they are ready for her.

Monday is a lunch for Halloween, if someone would invite her to sit with them (Mary and Sue and maybe Jane). She knows there is a potluck.

After that, so Wednesday and Friday and from then on she will be sitting in the accounting area either Jane's desk or Mike's desk. We will need to change the phone list so that people can find her at Jane or Mike's phone.

Thanks for all you guys do.

Bob Morales posted:

Let's get this shitshow started!

This new intern shows up today (Monday, month end for the accounting department, her boss isn't here, everyone is dressed up for halloween and they'll be loving off for a potluck for 2 hours today)

Where do they want her to sit? Not any of the places they said she would in the email. They want to put her at the receptionist's desk who isn't here on Mondays or Fridays (but she remotes from home) so she is going to flip the gently caress out when she finds out someone is at her desk/PC. Also she's going to get pissed off when she comes back to work on Tuesday and finds out someone has been sitting in her chair. She has a note taped on the chair that says "do not adjust this chair". Every time she comes in after not being here the day before she walks around the office interrogating people trying to find out who "touched her chair"

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Just out of curiosity; is that a special chiropractic/ergonomic chair for her back, or is she just crazy-obsessive over it?

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Just out of curiosity; is that a special chiropractic/ergonomic chair for her back, or is she just crazy-obsessive over it?

Khisanth Magus posted:

I had a super comfortable chair at my first job, that thing was just so great to sit in. Periodically someone would try to steal it and I'd have to go track it down and steal it back when that person left their desk.

Collateral Damage posted:

We solved that problem by giving everyone equally lovely chairs here.

quote:

She has a note taped on the chair that says "do not adjust this chair". Every time she comes in after not being here the day before she walks around the office interrogating people trying to find out who "touched her chair"

tactlessbastard posted:

That would absolutely compel me to gently caress with that chair at every opportunity

tactlessbastard posted:

That would absolutely compel me to gently caress with that chair at every opportunity

Thanks Ants posted:

If you create a page break in a Word template by pressing the return key a lot, then you are Hitler.

Humphreys posted:

Our sister company was audited by the main government agency in charge of Mining and Energy. I have limited knowledge of how it was operated but it ended with all management abilities was taken away from us. We essentially were relegated to just being contract laborers. I cannot explain it properly. But anyway, the CEOs sister in law which was part of the initial problem was rehired by the government in the exact same position. All the safety breeches that happened under her guidance in the last few years has me kinda scared as my house is inside the 'killzone' radius if the plant explodes.

Thanks Ants posted:

If you create a page break in a Word template by pressing the return key a lot, then you are Hitler.

D34THROW posted:

I actually twitched. How loving hard is Ctrl+Enter for people to grasp.

D34THROW posted:

I actually twitched. How loving hard is Ctrl+Enter for people to grasp.

Che Delilas posted:

Sure, there are design positions. User Experience (often abbreviated UX) Designer is probably what you're looking for. I'm a dev so I don't really know much about the tools they use but a very cursory glance at job postings shows me things like Photoshop, Illustrator and Visio. Stuff you can use to sketch out both user interface layouts and a user's path through a hypothetical program, I imagine.

Though unless you find a position doing that kind of thing that's also product/project management (possible in small companies), you aren't going to have any control over how long a product takes to build or what features get dropped on the floor. You're going to create a beautiful classical painting of a UI and the customer is going to throw a fit and demand that it be smeared with donkey feces, if they don't reject it outright and give you something they dreamed up while high or something they liked 27 years ago instead. And the product manager is going to tell you, "I know we pay you specifically for this, but we are going to ignore you and give the customer what they think they want instead. We like wasting money and producing sub-par products!"

If by some miracle your design gets accepted the devs are going to make compromises to get some MVP out the door before an arbitrary deadline. Some piece of your design that ties the whole thing together is going to get left out because function always trumps form (at least from the devs' perspective), and imposed deadlines are never far enough in the future to get both exactly where everyone wants them to be.

Obviously I exaggerate here, but this is the general reality of software development. Successful shops will accept this reality and find ways to work well within it. It usually involves being flexible and open to doing a lot of your work over again.

D34THROW posted:

I actually twitched. How loving hard is Ctrl+Enter for people to grasp.

Polio Vax Scene posted:

I think he wanted an actual Page Break instead of a bunch of new lines, unless that was

xzzy posted:

Until you get caught and canned for creating a hostile work environment.

In my experience the type of people who would think they need to put post-it notes on chairs are very good at playing the system and do not hesitate at all to go nuclear given the opportunity.

D34THROW posted:

Ctrl+Enter does put in an actual page break though? I hit Ctrl+Enter in a blank document and I get a new page and can type on the first page without offsetting the first line on the new page...

EDIT: Is is just Word 2013 that does that?

Bob Morales posted:

D34THROW posted:

Ctrl+Enter does put in an actual page break though? I hit Ctrl+Enter in a blank document and I get a new page and can type on the first page without offsetting the first line on the new page...

EDIT: Is is just Word 2013 that does that?

xzzy posted:

I guess I should rag less on my boss for printing out a single email once a month to walk over to my desk and asking me to clarify something in said email.

spog posted:

If you create an indent in anything by pressing the space bar a lot, then you are Goring.

wolrah posted:

FTFY. Tabs exist for a reason, and it applies just as well to code as documents. Computer sees one indent, the user sees however large of indentation as they want, everyone's happy. Someone who prefers two space indents and someone who prefers eight space indents can both have what they want without any risk of conflicts.