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Angry Pie posted:Sure but you can still see the blinking through a post-it, I recommend electrical tape instead. This is exactly what I did.
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Nail Rat posted:Yeah seriously don't answer your phone. My (halfway true) excuse is that if there's not a name (there never is), it's 90% certain to be spam from a telemarketer, phisher, or vendor of some kind. You want to talk, just loving email. My little call-back panel for missed calls on mine reached "999" and hasn't moved since then. I believe I've maxed the system.  I also never set up my voice mail when I moved into my cube, so haha good luck just e-mail me you dopes.Also, I've gotten some really great questions about project timelines this week. We have one that is delayed because a recovery method (analytical swabbing approach to find out how much of a chemical is on a piece of equipment) isn't finished yet, and because the raw materials going into the batch arrived damaged from Switzerland and had to be rejected. It spawned these wonderful questions...  : "How long until the method is finished?" : "The validations keep failing, but they're working on it. They'll be done ASAP, but I can't give you a good date." : "When will they be done with the validation? Why is it failing? The team wants a date." : "If they knew why it was failing, I don't think it'd still be failing. They're not done. No hard date yet, but it's their top priority."and... : "What about the materials? When will we receive a set that isn't damaged?" : "When I open the box and it doesn't shower me with powdery confetti. I told them how to package it and they didn't believe me. No better timeline, but your next shot is in 2 weeks when our accelerated shipment gets here." : "Will the package in two weeks be damaged?"  : "Magic eight ball says...."Some fun details about that material: We have a very light, aerated material which arrives at Switzerland and gets sampled for release testing before it comes to us. They take a razor and slit open the side of the bag, pull out a powder sample, and then put a piece of tape over the razor-slit before throwing the bag in a box and sending it to the airport. From there, it is put into a depressurized cargo hold for transit to California. Thanks to the lovely combination of DEPRESSURIZED CARGO HOLD and AERATED POWDER MATERIAL, the pressure differential causes the bag to inflate relative to the environment, and the pressure blows the piece of tape off, scattering powder all over the inside of the box. Then it arrives to me and my QA group receives the material, rejects it outright, and takes a big old poo poo on my project timeline. This has happened three times straight because Switzerland doesn't believe me that their single piece of tape isn't going to hold back pressure differentials for shipment. 
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Jun 13, 2018 18:58
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Angry Pie posted:Sure but you can still see the blinking through a post-it, I recommend electrical tape instead. Just tried this, five stars highly recommended.
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Jun 13, 2018 18:58
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Sundae posted:
I always love questions like this - because you and I can totally see the future, right? (My usual answer of "I'm not clairvoyant, nor am I paid well enough to be even if I was" usually goes over well enough.)
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Jun 13, 2018 19:16
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Sundae posted:This has happened three times straight because Switzerland doesn't believe me that their single piece of tape isn't going to hold back pressure differentials for shipment. Sounds like you do know the answer to this: quote:
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Jun 13, 2018 19:17
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Nice My boss just assigned me a task that was due an hour and a half in the past and was literally impossible given the tools I have available.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:19
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Renegret posted:Nice
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Jun 13, 2018 19:27
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Hoodwinker posted:Just try your best. good thing I already set that bar pretty fuckin' low
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Like any good post, I left out the part that makes it a completely reasonable request. He only asked me for help because he couldn't figure it out himself and wanted a fresh perspective. I confirmed what he already suspected, the only way to do it would be more of an incomplete best guess that would have needed to be ran manually and would have taken an entire day. He didn't notice the time frame, so when I pointed it out he said "oh well, if it was that important they would've said something by now" and we ignored it. Then I went back to shitposting on something awful. Our change control process is awful.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:33
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On a conference call right now, with a client talking to a bunch of us staffing firms about an opening. They ask everyone to put themselves on mute unless they have a question. 2 minutes into the call someone puts the conference call on hold, playing loud hold music to everyone on the call for several minutes. They just now managed to stop it. The most amazing part is that the person doing it fessed up to it. I'd never admit that was me if that happened. Edit: Ohhhh the hiring manager is legitimately mad. Like not even laughing it off, he's pissed, I can hear it. Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Jun 13, 2018 |
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Jun 13, 2018 19:34
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Renegret posted:Like any good post, I left out the part that makes it a completely reasonable request. Ftfy This afternoon I'm going to have a nice career talk with my boss. This could be what breaks my faith in my management so far, but he also just acknowledged the amount and importance of the work I've been doing wrt our core processes so I'm hopeful. Wish me luck
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Jun 13, 2018 19:39
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Had a good laugh about that voicemail post. Seriously tho phones are still super useful when vendors keep ignoring a particular part of your email. Or to get a quick answer internally. I’ve been in a buyer position since last (edit: this feb, like 3.5 months ago) feb. ive gotten over 14,000 emails in that time.  never thought I would miss banking
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Jun 13, 2018 20:06
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I was on a notification clearing spree one Friday afternoon and managed to reset my voicemail PIN to my desk line. This is a desk line number that is never given out (I mainly go to client sites and I have a cell phone), so the only person who had left me messages was a headhunter who somehow found the number and left me 24 bi-weekly messages that all started the same way. “‘eyyyy man how’s it hanging it’s”-*delete*, “‘eyyyy man how’s it hanging it’s”-*delete*, “‘eyyyy man how’s it hanging it’s”-*delete*, “‘eyyyy man how’s it hanging it’s”-*delete*, “‘eyyyy man how’s it hanging it’s”-*delete*, “‘eyyyy man how’s it hanging it’s”-*delete*, “‘eyyyy man how’s it hanging it’s”-*delete*,
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Jun 13, 2018 23:56
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I literally lolled at that one
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Democratic Pirate posted:I was on a notification clearing spree one Friday afternoon and managed to reset my voicemail PIN to my desk line. This is a desk line number that is never given out (I mainly go to client sites and I have a cell phone), so the only person who had left me messages was a headhunter who somehow found the number and left me 24 bi-weekly messages that all started the same way. Dang, you coulda been poached by Anthony Scaramucci?!
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Sydin posted:There is a salesperson I'm currently dealing with for a product we're trying to upgrade who does not have an email. Just a phone number. I have tried numerous times to cut them out of the loop and just talk with the vendor directly but apparently we have a service agreement with this distributor and I have to go through them and this goddamn dinosaur who refuses to get an email address. Public Sector, ladies and gentlemen. I work in medicine and one of my hospital counterparts nearly consistently refuses to email me. For very binary requests. She expected me to call a main, public line and get bounced around to find her. I put a kibosh on that but quick. I'm not spending 15 minutes of bullshit that could be solved in ~2.5 minutes.
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Jun 14, 2018 01:25
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Eventbrite has opinions about my interests: Thanks guys 
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Jun 14, 2018 03:52
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I quit answering my phone since the only calls I ever get are for the person who used to sit in my cube. After almost a year they still haven't updated the number. I figure if it's important enough they'll send her an email. I just got an email from my boss asking me about a document that I didn’t write, referenced in an email from two months ago. What. The. gently caress.
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Lol if you actually have a desk phone in TYOOL 2018 and aren't a sales person
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What advice do people have for learning on how the heck to train people? I’m somehow now directing 2 people on programming on a platform they’ve never touched. It’s pretty obvious I’m incapable of explaining the nuances without suddenly devolving into minute technical jargon. I’d like to get better at this, but subjecting people to my trial and error attempts to learn how to explain should probably be a war crime.
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VanguardFelix posted:What advice do people have for learning on how the heck to train people? I’m somehow now directing 2 people on programming on a platform they’ve never touched.
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Volmarias posted:Lol if you actually have a desk phone in TYOOL 2018 and aren't a sales person The presence of desk phones among prospective co-workers is a major red flag for me when I'm looking for a new job. (I'm a software engineer so it's generally a bad idea for me to speak with customers. I'll tell them the truth. And that right there says something about the state of corporations and how they do business, if you ask me).
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VanguardFelix posted:What advice do people have for learning on how the heck to train people? I’m somehow now directing 2 people on programming on a platform they’ve never touched. My best advice to you is to know when to quit if they're just not getting it. I was exhausting myself trying to explain basic MS Office functionality to an admin assistant we hired (I'm kicking myself for taking her at her word and not doing a basic skills test as part of the interview). If your company needs those people to use that program, it's up to them to put up the time and money for them to be trained on it.
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Nail Rat posted:Yeah seriously don't answer your phone. My (halfway true) excuse is that if there's not a name (there never is), it's 90% certain to be spam from a telemarketer, phisher, or vendor of some kind. You want to talk, just loving email.
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Jun 14, 2018 18:26
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INTERNS MICROWAVED FISH my cube smells overwhelmingly like tuna Kill me
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Hoshi posted:INTERNS MICROWAVED FISH Kill your interns more like.
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Hoshi posted:INTERNS MICROWAVED FISH Uh, I think that's the part where you sit the interns down and explain to them office etiquette. Ignoring it only makes them think it's okay, like letting a kitten play bite you because it's cute.
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Sydin posted:Uh, I think that's the part where you sit the interns down and explain to them office etiquette. Ignoring it only makes them think it's okay, like letting a kitten play bite you because it's cute. no It's too late for them. The only solution is murder.
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Jun 14, 2018 19:31
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It’s not murder, it’s self defence.
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Jun 14, 2018 19:32
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Jordan7hm posted:It’s not murder, it’s self defence. Capital punishment.
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No jury would convict.
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Attempted suicide by coworker.
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Legally, interns are not even people, so it's actually just a civil matter.
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edit: gently caress this thread
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I actually came into the office today, randomly got a call on my desk phone and it was a client who's always emailed before.  It's a weird day.
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Had a nice discussion with my supervisor about the future of this company and my role in the department. He flat out called our manager a loving idiot so I don't think the future's looking so hot. The second my plane lands from my honeymoon, I'm sending out more job apps.
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Renegret posted:Had a nice discussion with my supervisor about the future of this company and my role in the department.  on non optimismI decided to try to find out if the donuts we sell are even as profitable as the little debbie poo poo they are probably stealing sales from and discovered that I literally can't because the invoices for the entire prepared-by-us foods department all get processed as one giant lump with no item distinction, so now I am trying to fix this whole situation before the owner gets it into his head to ask me something affected by that problem what a stupid shithole I work at
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Renegret posted:Had a nice discussion with my supervisor about the future of this company and my role in the department. Congrats on your marriage regardless!
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I’ve somehow managed to end up in corporate retail and it’s no that bad so far beyond the weird poo poo in training that’s for store staff not for office staff, and of course because our corporate offices are above one of the stores they decided to pipe in the store music.
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Renegret posted:He flat out called our manager a loving idiot so I don't think the future's looking so hot. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of my new job is that a few days in I met with the department head who's sort of my boss but not really (it's complicated) and he just looked at me and flat out said "So heads up, [CTO] is a loving idiot. He's a doddering old man who got the job handed to him because he's been around since forever, and hasn't the slightest clue about anything. That said he loves to think he's in charge and will constantly jump levels to directly tell you to do things: just tell me or [manager] instead and then ignore him. If you have any high level concerns come to me, not him. I am the one who actually runs this department."  Sure enough CTO stops by my cube at least once a day to tell me to look into something completely random like machine learning or how we could use AI to enhance our SCADA network (I don't even touch that!) and the handful of friends and allies I've made in the office since I arrived here have confirmed that the department head is the real brains of the operation. It's definitely an interesting dynamic.
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