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mishaq posted:that dude owns yeah we just have donuts and meat pies every friday and those guys had a pole dancer
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 20:55 |
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it's kind of weird to read all these stories that boil down to "the work i do is so unimportant that i can be incommunicado for days on end and it makes no difference to anyone"
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 00:30 |
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Stymie posted:it's kind of weird to read all these stories that boil down to "the work i do is so unimportant that i can be incommunicado for days on end and it makes no difference to anyone" it's u lol
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 01:50 |
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mishaq posted:that dude owns gotta be tom shitfucker also this is probably my favorite thread. i thought i had it bad, but it turns out my company is just the tip of the corporate stupidity iceberg
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 02:09 |
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Buff Skeleton posted:my company is just the tip of the corporate stupidity iceberg just the tip
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 02:13 |
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Captain Foo posted:I have occasionally answered my phone but lol at voicemail my coworker just plain unhooked his phone and has never used it since joining the team
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 03:06 |
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Captain Foo posted:it's u lol i suppose the tradeoff of not being forced into mind-numbing teleconferences or being terrified of the phone is i occasionally have to suffer the indignity of talking to my coworkers in person and being productive woe is me
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 04:19 |
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Stymie posted:i suppose the tradeoff of not being forced into mind-numbing teleconferences or being terrified of the phone is i occasionally have to suffer the indignity of talking to my coworkers in person and being productive lol if you ever speak to anyone inside your office unless they have the power to fire you
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 04:47 |
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abraham linkedin posted:lol if you ever speak to anyone inside your office unless they have the power to fire you office work is not labour
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 18:17 |
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celebratory update: our telecomms people have agreed to set up my VM box to play a message (which i will record to tell people to gently caress off) and then not let them leave a message. i feel more productive already.
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# ? Nov 21, 2016 15:18 |
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Iridium posted:celebratory update: our telecomms people have agreed to set up my VM box to play a message (which i will record to tell people to gently caress off) and then not let them leave a message. this is actually very good
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# ? Nov 21, 2016 15:19 |
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in a conference call just now starting already had some random person call in ah good our line is double booked lmao
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# ? Nov 22, 2016 20:01 |
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sorry i cant get on the webex, im driving *queues up this youtube and points speaker directly at phone until asked to drop the call* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wq1-8P09FA
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# ? Nov 22, 2016 20:21 |
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you need a fan blowing directly at the mic as well
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# ? Nov 22, 2016 21:00 |
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Bloody posted:in a conference call just now starting pm books hour meetings back to back for individual projects. i call in for mine and hear a dozen people just screaming at each other. hang up cause it sure sounds like mine is canceled. turns out the previous one was as well and the current call is entering its third hour
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# ? Nov 22, 2016 21:04 |
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Cat Face Joe posted:pm books hour meetings back to back for individual projects. i call in for mine and hear a dozen people just screaming at each other. hang up cause it sure sounds like mine is canceled. turns out the previous one was as well and the current call is entering its third hour lomarf totally been there
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# ? Nov 22, 2016 21:07 |
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Cat Face Joe posted:pm books hour meetings back to back for individual projects. i call in for mine and hear a dozen people just screaming at each other. hang up cause it sure sounds like mine is canceled. turns out the previous one was as well and the current call is entering its third hour i have lived this there is one particularly toxic group where any call with them i just go ahead and block out three hours after it
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# ? Nov 22, 2016 21:28 |
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Cat Face Joe posted:pm books hour meetings back to back for individual projects. i call in for mine and hear a dozen people just screaming at each other. hang up cause it sure sounds like mine is canceled. turns out the previous one was as well and the current call is entering its third hour wow why do you still work there
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:wow i left in january
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# ? Nov 22, 2016 22:40 |
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Mad Wack posted:i have lived this why wouldnt you book something 5 minutes after when its supposed to end so you have an excuse to leave the meeting
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# ? Nov 22, 2016 22:45 |
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Bloody posted:in a conference call just now starting oh poo poo that reminds me in addition to my company's general conference line like the webex / skype poo poo, our phone system has several dedicated conference lines. no special access code is needed, it's for emergencies: if there's a massive outage, you can dial into just a basic phone number from anywhere at all and be on the bridge. they're not commonly used now (short of super severe network emergencies), but when i first joined the company and worked in operations it was the standard. each time we had a critical outage, they'd send out the alert and one of us would have to hop on. but this got to being a problem because absolutely everyone could call in, and the number would spread very quickly. the people trying to work on the issue would be trying to coordinate and do poo poo, but the 'problem manager' would want constant updates, and demand that everyone stop talking to update whatever other random middle manager hopped on and demanded info. as you'd expect, this became a complete clusterfuck, so they tried to implement a rule saying that people working the issue would be on line X, while anyone needing noncritical updates would have to call line Y, where the problem manager would pop over and provide updates. except guess what: the numbers never changed. so everyone would just call in to line X anyway and start making demands. on top of that, though, we discovered that in a few instances, former employees would call in for the hell of it now and then (there'd be something every day usually), with one that they discovered had been doing so for multiple years. a few managers freaked out but they didn't really have a way to stop him. he'd just sit and listen though so it's not like anyone cared. around the time i switched out of operations it had become standard for people working the issue to call in to line X on their desk line, then just call one another on personal cell phones to actually coordinate work. we'd get yelled at for doing so because 'everything is supposed to be open so nobody who might have a solution is left out'. didn't stop anyone.
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# ? Nov 23, 2016 00:38 |
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Iridium posted:oh poo poo that reminds me holy poo poo lmao
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# ? Nov 23, 2016 00:56 |
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Iridium posted:oh poo poo that reminds me you buried the real gem there in the penultimate paragraph there lmao
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# ? Nov 23, 2016 01:00 |
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Iridium posted:on top of that, though, we discovered that in a few instances, former employees would call in for the hell of it now and then (there'd be something every day usually), with one that they discovered had been doing so for multiple years. a few managers freaked out but they didn't really have a way to stop him. he'd just sit and listen though so it's not like anyone cared. lmao what kind of clown operation do you work at
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# ? Nov 23, 2016 01:09 |
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mishaq posted:lmao what kind of clown operation do you work at a corporation on target to hit $20bil this year, with subsidiaries that most of you have heard of and many of you use on a daily basis. but we're the parent company, so since we don't have actual revenue targets to drive a goddamn thing, we're an incestuous cesspool of stupidity (but with loving great benefits and pay, because the divisions keep meeting our financial targets lol)
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# ? Nov 23, 2016 01:13 |
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Iridium posted:a corporation on target to hit $20bil this year, with subsidiaries that most of you have heard of and many of you use on a daily basis. but we're the parent company, so since we don't have actual revenue targets to drive a goddamn thing, we're an incestuous cesspool of stupidity (but with loving great benefits and pay, because the divisions keep meeting our financial targets lol) tbh this probably describes a lot of the workplaces of the particularly goofy nonsense here because a large enough corporation just cant move smoothly for coordination
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# ? Nov 23, 2016 02:21 |
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Iridium posted:oh poo poo that reminds me Impressively bad
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# ? Nov 23, 2016 02:21 |
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our emergency lines will test points of contact occasionally but since theres sometimes a delay in response theyll spam all your personal lines and emails and texts at once it is literally woof from the office
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# ? Nov 23, 2016 02:22 |
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post the number
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# ? Nov 23, 2016 03:53 |
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Penguissimo posted:post the number
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# ? Nov 23, 2016 03:54 |
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Penguissimo posted:post the number
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# ? Nov 23, 2016 03:59 |
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Penguissimo posted:post the number no, and besides like i mentioned they moved away from it to using skype bridges. though i do still call into it once in a while if i know network issues are going on. but nowadays it's reserved for network outages so hardcore it takes down all our skype messaging stuff. fortunately rare (and regardless, not my loving problem anymore lol)
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# ? Nov 23, 2016 03:59 |
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Iridium posted:oh poo poo that reminds me lol have you guys read the pheonix project? this sounds like a silicon valley version of what could be taken out of the early part of the book
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# ? Nov 23, 2016 04:09 |
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the phoenix project is a really dumb book "i work for a lovely company! i know, devops!" "gently caress you im your lovely boss and devops is stupid" "lol i quit" internal monologue: "wait i cant quit im a marine marines dont quit" "lol hi im back" "oh yay you're back. im still a lovely boss but i realized i have no idea what to do while you were gone. lets walk through the factory" "ok" "wait now i know! kanban! devops! change control meetings!" "yay everything is better" "and my wife didnt leave me for being married to my job." ~*~ le fin~*~
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# ? Nov 23, 2016 04:21 |
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sure, but you left out the entire storyline where he learned the 4 computer chakras from the mystical sock n sandals sv guru. also, the part about the whole book being transparently IT middle-manager self-insert fan fiction
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# ? Nov 23, 2016 04:28 |
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Iridium posted:oh poo poo that reminds me
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# ? Nov 23, 2016 04:34 |
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lol our marketing people send prospects copies of the Phoenix Project to illustrate how we can help them devops or paas or k8s or whatever it is the gently caress we do these days
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# ? Nov 23, 2016 23:01 |
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although at this rate I imagine every Fortune 500 it purchasing manager or cio has like twelve loving copies of that book
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uncurable mlady posted:how we can help them devops wot does this mean
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