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Iridium posted:fuckin A, nice. Your first mistake was telling your manager that you were replaceable with a script
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KoRMaK posted:our office on the 4th floor got flooded, what e: oh, a pipe. i was thinking of some day after tomorrow level flood.
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dragon enthusiast posted:Your first mistake was telling your manager that you were replaceable with a script seriously, if you're at a job where you can appear to do work with very little effort, do everything you can to maintain that illusion and then work on side projects at work all day
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Jan 31, 2017 01:12
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oh god, or get a job at a place that you care about do that instead
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KoRMaK posted:oh god, or get a job at a place that you care about lol if u care about a company
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my long term partner works at a non-profit regaarding humans rights issues in central/latin america and indgenous peoples it kind of shines a light on how much personal value you could get out of a job. You could also get a lil bit of that out of a company too. Something like less than 50 people big I guess, i dunno. I care about mine but i guess im lucky
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Jan 31, 2017 01:20
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KoRMaK posted:oh god, or get a job at a place that you care about lol if you care about making someone else's dreams come true for pennies on their dollars
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Jan 31, 2017 01:20
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make your dreams, their dreams!
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KoRMaK posted:make your dreams, their dreams! fuckin lol the solution is cool coworkers and a slow day, so you can still deliver and impress but spend most of the time bullshitting. it doesnt hurt if you find one or two things nobody else can do and corner that. not a bad way to fill your day, enjoy what you do, and be valuable without overworking basically just give up on trying to fight for general quality and enjoy your niche while finding some cool skills and friends
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I really shouldnt talk too much i guess, i brought my quiet electric guitar into my office and bought fruity loops and also unrelated have unity installed on my computer along with the kinect sdk but i swear i havent used any of it for months! i been so busy!!
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Corla Plankun posted:lol if you care about making someone else's dreams come true for pennies on their dollars that depends. can you get a steady job out of it? isn't that what you want? do you really want to be the ceo just so you can make as much as he does? at the end of the day, i bet you don't ofc i'm not saying you should care more than you're being paid to, but there's nothing wrong with having a decent time at work and actually caring about the quality of your output while you're there. especially since we all work hella cushy jobs itf. not such a bad deal imo
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Corla Plankun posted:seriously, if you're at a job where you can appear to do work with very little effort, do everything you can to maintain that illusion and then work on side projects at work all day nah the scripted piece almost only ever happened out of hours and was a tiny part of what i did. during they day they had me handling loads of other poo poo. my script would have cut down on 90% of the after hours poo poo i had to do that was exclusively an annoyance due to a badly built product.
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Jan 31, 2017 14:14
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Iridium posted:after hours poo poo i had to do such an american phrase
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KoRMaK posted:my long term partner works at a non-profit regaarding humans rights issues in central/latin america and indgenous peoples this is similar to what my wife does. it can be extremely emotionally traumatic sometimes but she's very happy there and can't see herself leaving i make like three times as much as her and wish i was dead every moment of every day lol
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Cat Face Joe posted:i make like three times as much as her and wish i was dead every moment of every day lol hell, same but without the figgies
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the big new employee site that we've been building is accessible from production right now for a beta period, so that we can get eyes on it from the internal marketing teams that need to make use of it. we're mostly keeping it under wraps: the URL to the system isn't easily found but technically anyone could get to it right now, and that's not a huge problem for us if a few strays show up, but generally as we're getting the performance tweaked and content finalized. we'd had a note to turn on a shorter, less obscure domain name to get people to it. weeelllllllllllll, the communications team that owns the site also owns the quarterly employee magazine (weak propaganda) that goes out. i just got my copy. it has a two page spread about the site, what neato new features it has, says to look for it in spring of 2017, and of course is plastered with the friendly domain, etc. my spider sense tingled so i decided to try it... and it's already live. i expect i'm gonna see a big spike in the metrics overnight as people decide to check it out. i dropped a line to the product manager and i look forward to the freakout i'll find in the morning
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twist ending: metrics stay exactly the same, no one reads the magazine
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DuckConference posted:twist ending: metrics stay exactly the same, no one reads the magazine i guarantee people read it and the following two things are incontrovertibly true: 1 - they have no business doing anything on the site 2- they are the least competent users of anything in the entire organization
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uncurable mlady posted:i guarantee people read it and the following two things are incontrovertibly true: 3- they are absolutely desperate to use every last bit and will report to their boss and yours anything that doesn't work the way they think it should
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watchin hidden figures, re-installin kerbal space
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A Pinball Wizard posted:3- they are absolutely desperate to use every last bit and will report to their boss and yours anything that doesn't work the way they think it should
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KoRMaK posted:watchin hidden figures, re-installin kerbal space Why did you uninstall it??? wth
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maniacdevnull posted:Why did you uninstall it??? wth new computer
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KoRMaK posted:watchin hidden figures, re-installin kerbal space who brings a laptop to a movie theater? 
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Guess it must be oscar season or somethihin
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KoRMaK posted:Guess it must be oscar season or somethihin 
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Cat Face Joe posted:this is similar to what my wife does. it can be extremely emotionally traumatic sometimes but she's very happy there and can't see herself leaving  some days I want to put this up next to my desk and see what my manager says
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Elysiume posted:
same but also 
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Cold on a Cob posted:same but also Sometimes I need all that time to procrastinate to become innovative e: Im in the wrong thread....
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KoRMaK posted:The guy in that diablo GDC video mentioned how the pressure of a deadline helps there are no wrong threads in yospos* post what you want where you want, no mods no masters *except the catte thread, don't troll the catte thread
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Elysiume posted:
lol if you haven't already done this + printed out copies for all your coworkers too
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I was on a cc that ticked all the boxes today -1 other party showed up 15 min late, and only after being e-mailed to ask where they were -another party never showed at all -both sides tried to set the meeting agenda themselves to two very different goals -45 minutes to say 4 min worth of actual meaningful words -I was completely unneeded and literally did not speak after being introduces -was in a conference room with a higher up so could not spend entire call on phone -beats doing real work I guess
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A Pinball Wizard posted:I was on a cc that ticked all the boxes today nobody put the call on hold for fifteen minutes, voted one
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FrozenVent posted:nobody put the call on hold for fifteen minutes, voted one i was on a call that was 30 minutes long and was delayed 18 minutes waiting for the host to fix their screen share before they rescheduled and told nobody
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A Pinball Wizard posted:
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Rex-Goliath posted:pm : stay closer to your mic you keep fading out
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wanted to share this wonderful sound from conference calls circa whenever att still had edge networks
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Agile Vector posted:wanted to share this wonderful sound from conference calls circa whenever att still had edge networks ohhh thats what that sound is? i figured it was some kind of out of band signalling that was leaking into the call
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A Pinball Wizard posted:ohhh thats what that sound is? i figured it was some kind of out of band signalling that was leaking into the call our desk phones are rolms that are literally older than i am and they make this sound every time my phone gets too close
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not heard that sound in ages. are phones getting better at rejecting it or was it a gsm/2g thing? some of our newer polycoms advertise a feature where they can reject it but i have no idea how that works.
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