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Che Delilas posted: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). Don't work for any large company in any industry, I guess.
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^^ My thoughts too. Do you not ever speak with colleagues who are based at a different site? I never speak with customers, but my team is scattered across the world, so a phone (or headset) gets a lot of use every day.
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Jun 15, 2018 04:23
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Trabant posted:^^ My thoughts too. Well I work at a small company for one thing, but we have several remote people and have no problems coordinating when necessary. That's handled mainly with asynchronous forms of communication like email and slack, and when phone calls are necessary we have conference phones for large groups and cell phones for one-on-ones. A desk phone is a sign that one of my primary duties will be answering that phone, and that's simply a waste of time.
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Jun 15, 2018 04:29
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For us (a major corporation) it's Skype or conference phones for inter-office calls, and reimbursed cell phone bills for client calls. Desk phones are increasingly not a thing.
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Jun 15, 2018 04:30
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If a cowroker never answered the phone or told me they wouldnt accept calls in some form, including joking, I would lose some respect for them.
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Jun 15, 2018 04:35
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Che Delilas posted:Well I work at a small company for one thing, but we have several remote people and have no problems coordinating when necessary. That's handled mainly with asynchronous forms of communication like email and slack, and when phone calls are necessary we have conference phones for large groups and cell phones for one-on-ones. Eh, when I was in-office last I had a desk phone, and I liked it better than the usb headset and soft phone I have now. Honestly I didn't have to answer it very much at all, because the two people I wad working with ther most were in the office with me and we could just talk face to face. Now that I'm remote again, I have to answer the drat softphone several times a day.
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Jun 15, 2018 04:38
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I like the option to have desk phones because sometimes cell connections are absolute poo poo even if you have a major carrier that is headquartered in your drat city.
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Sydin posted: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. Suck up to the department head; do anything necessary to follow her on her quest for world domination.
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Jun 15, 2018 06:15
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Democratic Pirate posted:I like the option to have desk phones because sometimes cell connections are absolute poo poo even if you have a major carrier that is headquartered in your drat city. Pretty much the same thing here (minus the HQ thing). There is terrible cell reception on my end of campus unless you're in the vicinity of the AT&T repeater (and god help you if you're not on AT&T - you're looking at "No Service" all day then), so those desk phones are lovely to have. I just don't bother leaving people messages on them. That's what texts and e-mails are for. 
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Jun 15, 2018 06:19
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I'm a customer-facing contractor with a desk phone. No, you don't need my (personal) cell. One of my favorite things I've done in my career was to start offering new hires a phone on their desk or a corporate DID number forwarded to their cell. Saved sooooo much work on the aging, white-box PX a consultancy built for us. Most people were pretty happy to have a number on their business cards that wouldn't follow them later. Sundae posted:Pretty much the same thing here (minus the HQ thing). There is terrible cell reception on my end of campus unless you're in the vicinity of the AT&T repeater (and god help you if you're not on AT&T - you're looking at "No Service" all day then), so those desk phones are lovely to have. I just don't bother leaving people messages on them. That's what texts and e-mails are for. And the phone system here loves to read numbers out. Voicemail from AAA-BBB-CCCC... Recipient... XXX... YYY... ... ZZZZ. Yeah, I loving knew that, that's MY EXTENSION, the one I'm checking messages for. What kind of use cases did these poor bastards get assigned to handle ? mllaneza fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Jun 15, 2018 |
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Jun 15, 2018 06:26
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I'm going on two years of my calls showing up as "Breakaway Table" when I call people. I'm ALWAYS a surprise. 
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Jun 15, 2018 06:38
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Bobby Tables Sundae?
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crazypeltast52 posted:Bobby Tables Sundae? Oh yes, little Bobby Tables, I'm called. I think someone just grabbed a phone from a random meeting room and threw it on my desk without reprogramming it before I started here. I just don't care enough to fix it and it does have its advantages.
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Jun 15, 2018 06:52
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Don’t lie Sundae, you have three normal desk phones that you juggle to seem busy, and an extra red one under a glass in the corner for when you want to be Urgently Busy.
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CarForumPoster posted:If a cowroker never answered the phone or told me they wouldnt accept calls in some form, including joking, I would lose some respect for them. That's more than a bit of a leap from what I said but sure okay.
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Jun 15, 2018 08:28
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CarForumPoster posted:Don't work for any large company in any industry, I guess. Don't work for small companies either
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Jun 15, 2018 11:21
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I like having a desk phone because I like to actually hear other people on calls.
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Jun 15, 2018 11:53
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They're resurfacing one of the fountains in the lobby  But I work on the 28th floor and only have to hear the jackhammers and marble-cutting saws for the brief time I'm walking to the elevators. 
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Jun 15, 2018 12:40
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Hoshi posted:Ftfy We had to push this back but it's definitely today. Maybe I'll find out I'm really lovely at my job. Maybe I won't. Who knows
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Jun 15, 2018 15:42
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When I went home Thursday I had one meeting scheduled for Friday. Somehow, I've been in six today and it's not over. 
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Jun 15, 2018 22:30
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After a year of promise and another year of planning I am two weeks away from them announcing the changes in our department. I’ll be going from essentially a SharePoint service owner with a few devs to work on technology strategy and roadmaps with no direct reports. No more on call!  Oh yeah, after we make the announcement we still have to advertise, recruit, fill, and train my replacement. I’m guessing another 6 months.  Boy large corporations move slow.
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tomapot posted:After a year of promise and another year of planning I am two weeks away from them announcing the changes in our department. I’ll be going from essentially a SharePoint service owner with a few devs to work on technology strategy and roadmaps with no direct reports. No more on call! Sorry in advance for the “business needs” email delaying your transfer that will come through 1-2 weeks before the planned move date.
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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. *REDACTED* obviously has a history of job cuts, and I think they're gonna get hit hard by all the crazy consolidation going on with how small they are. Honestly, the whole industry is probably in big trouble.
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tomapot posted:After a year of promise and another year of planning I am two weeks away from them announcing the changes in our department. I’ll be going from essentially a SharePoint service owner with a few devs to work on technology strategy and roadmaps with no direct reports. No more on call! I was going to have sympathy but then I clicked the spoiler.
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FrozenVent posted:I was going to have sympathy but then I clicked the spoiler. I know it has a reputation and on SA it gets bashed a lot but at least my company recognizes it is a critical business application and spends a lot of money on supporting it.
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tomapot posted:I know it has a reputation and on SA it gets bashed a lot but at least my company recognizes it is a critical business application and spends a lot of money on supporting it. A company spending a lot of money on Sharepoint is not a good thing, it's a red flag
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Jun 18, 2018 14:38
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Sharepoint is garbage and yet we still pay contractors to build applications on it that rarely work correctly and then heap praise on the people who had the idea. I hate Sharepoint/Agilepoint
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Jun 18, 2018 14:39
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One of my client companies sent me a nepalese singing bowl as a 'gift of synergy'. On the one hand, its a little eye-rolling corporate fluff, but on the other hand it's kind of a nice bowl and also literally the only gift a client has sent me, so I'm a little pleased.
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Ashcans posted:One of my client companies sent me a nepalese singing bowl as a 'gift of synergy'. On the one hand, its a little eye-rolling corporate fluff, but on the other hand it's kind of a nice bowl and also literally the only gift a client has sent me, so I'm a little pleased. See how many times you can make it sing before your colleagues get pissed off at you. Bonus points if you do it out of sight, so they never find out what is making the sound.
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Ashcans posted:One of my client companies sent me a nepalese singing bowl as a 'gift of synergy'. On the one hand, its a little eye-rolling corporate fluff, but on the other hand it's kind of a nice bowl and also literally the only gift a client has sent me, so I'm a little pleased. Break it open to check for passive listening devices
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Ashcans posted:One of my client companies sent me a nepalese singing bowl as a 'gift of synergy'. On the one hand, its a little eye-rolling corporate fluff, but on the other hand it's kind of a nice bowl and also literally the only gift a client has sent me, so I'm a little pleased. These things are cool and good and I would appreciate it as a gift.
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edit: gently caress this thread
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Jun 19, 2018 14:26
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The Sean posted:I'm not living Sundai levels of awesome (at work, at least) but for the past few work days I've been playing a lot of Switch at work. Nice. I can get away with a fair amount but I have too many interruptions to be able to do anything more involved than browsing the web. Even working on homework is hard because I struggle to pick up where I left off. One of our new hires got canned today because "he wasn't a good fit". They created a new position for him and originally hoped that I would grow into it. No thanks!
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I have large swathes of time to fill at work that are only sometimes and/or intermittently filled with actual work, so I end up reading a lot of books on pdf and planning for my D&D game. As a result I have extremely detailed games because why not spend 5 hours coming up with a web of political and corporate espionage?
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My day is 2 hours setting up a professional webcast and taking attendance then 2 hours of a lunch with actuaries from a few different functions
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My day is 8 hours of having nothing to do and asking my supervisors for more and greater responsibilities. Mixed in those 8 hours, is being told that there's too plenty of work that needs to get done and surely you can find something? Look! An e-mail just came in that requires 30 seconds of your attention. See! Renegret fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Jun 19, 2018 |
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I've toyed with the idea of setting up a RDC to my home PC so I could play factorio during the more boring days, but that's my job if I'm caught, period. I'll just stick to shitposting on SA. At my last job we actually fired an intern because one of the first things he did after being issued his laptop was install steam and start downloading like 500 GB's worth of games onto his machine with the company internet.
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My day is 8 hours of writing up Change Requests for other teams on the platform because everyone is on fire and no one wants to be responsible for their own messes, and then an hour of our MD telling the head of the program that our group isn't ready for prime time because we're the ones with a laundry list of open CRs. The only reason we have a laundry list of CRs is because they're for everyone else and we're the only group that got all our poo poo together months ago. Our MD has no idea what's going on but loves using us as the fall guy because the IB is trying to poach us so rather than just let us go, to win his pissing match he tries to make us look as bad as possible at every opportunity. Edit: Still love my job and once this is all ironed out we'll be in a much better place (not reporting under him for starters).
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If it makes anyone feel better, not everything is rainbows every day here. I'm currently drafting up a 500+ page installation testing protocol with no project team to support the testing, and where the approval matrix assumes I have five distinct team-members performing different roles in the process. 
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Around this time tomorrow I’ll be turning in my badge and
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