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Methanar posted:Edmonton goons I am 100% in to meet forums superstar Methanar. PM me.
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Oct 16, 2018 18:28
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Sickening posted:We are doing more commercials next week and the CEO decided to pay actors this time instead of trying to get the employees to wear office attire used in those office fetish porn shoots. We don't have to have employees burst into tears because she doesn't want to wear a top that she is overflowing out of. "I have the financial report you've been looking for. The numbers say... SEXY" *unzips pants*
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Oct 16, 2018 18:35
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I have an Outlook rule that delays everything I send by a couple of minutes so I have the opportunity to hit send on something and then change my mind.
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Oct 16, 2018 19:48
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vas0line posted:Two former bosses left for another company 6 months ago. Their new company is growing and now they need my position. I’m getting invited to drinks and dinner to meet the owners. It’s a financial start up with a ton of capital, so it will be one of those stress++ with money++ situations. Biggest thing: did you like those bosses? Would you be working directly under them? People don’t work for their company, they work for their managers. A stressful office can be less stressful than a cushy one if you have a good manager protecting you.
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Oct 16, 2018 20:11
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Thanks Ants posted:I have an Outlook rule that delays everything I send by a couple of minutes so I have the opportunity to hit send on something and then change my mind. I do this too, it's great and has saved my butt a whole bunch.
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Oct 16, 2018 20:21
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I just got out of my 1:1 and after discussing what I'd like to do with the IT dept here I am getting a new employee under me 
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Oct 16, 2018 21:03
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Sickening posted:We are doing more commercials next week and the CEO decided to pay actors this time instead of trying to get the employees to wear office attire used in those office fetish porn shoots. We don't have to have employees burst into tears because she doesn't want to wear a top that she is overflowing out of. 
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Oct 16, 2018 21:07
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Kashuno posted:I just got out of my 1:1 and after discussing what I'd like to do with the IT dept here I am getting a new employee under me That's awesome, congrats! First one or do you already lead a team?
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Oct 16, 2018 21:18
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Internet Explorer posted:That's awesome, congrats! First one or do you already lead a team? Thanks! Right now I manage 3 people; a business systems type role (mostly does SQL and automation stuff for business needs), an SAP tech, and a helpdesk tech. My helpdesk tech is very much into the whole infrastructure side of the industry, and I'm starting to assign them more advanced tasks. They handled our file server migration and are now implementing that DFS-N thing y'all told me about last week. We have tons of projects going on at any give time, so it'd be nice to be able to move my helpdesk tech into a dedicated IT infrastructure management role (migrate our old systems, get our stuff in real working order, etc), have my SAP tech and my SQL tech stay where they are, and have a new helpdesk tech come in to get up to speed and cover that. It'll give me some freedom from being in the weeds on projects. I like IT projects don't get me wrong, but when I'm trying to manage the department and have to spend a large part of my week working on projects directly it becomes hard to keep up. I'm excited.
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Oct 16, 2018 21:29
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Remember when that job seemed like his pod? Before the fat CFO started only hiring for people and the CEO started sexually harassing employees?
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Oct 16, 2018 23:34
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Kashuno posted:Thanks! I'm in the financial industry and that describes my role pretty well, and I've just been wondering where else that sort of stuff would be useful. I like my job quite a bit.
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Oct 17, 2018 00:37
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PBS posted:TL;DR: Any tips on not being toxic in IT?
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Oct 17, 2018 00:43
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I have all the patience in the world for users. They can be exasperating but it’s my job to help them. I wind up being short with other people in IT, especially the so-called application administrators who are basically level 1 support for the apps and expect us (the sysadmins) to maintain their applications for them.
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Oct 17, 2018 00:49
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Thanatosian posted:Out of curiosity, what industry are you in? We are in seafood; I think that skill set is pretty much useful anywhere. From supply chain traceability to financial analysis to cost of goods shipped,, having someone who can really dig into databases and identify what needs to be where and how to marry seemingly disparate data points together into something meaningful in an automated fashion is something any company could use
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Oct 17, 2018 00:56
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Welp, this is a long shot, but...does anyone here remember me? :v
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Oct 17, 2018 03:26
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Powdered Toast Man posted:Welp, this is a long shot, but...does anyone here remember me? :v I recognize your name and your avatar but I don't remember details, sorry. :v
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Oct 17, 2018 03:34
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Oct 17, 2018 03:35
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It's all good, it's been years since I've been on here. I'm an ex-Jehovah's Witness, if that rings a bell. I finally got what I'd consider my dream job at Mailchimp as a systems engineer, but I'm on disability leave for PTSD right now (thanks, loving JWs).
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Oct 17, 2018 03:57
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Yeah just reschedule that 10am meeting for 4pm at 09:58 why don't you 
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Oct 17, 2018 09:59
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Powdered Toast Man posted:It's all good, it's been years since I've been on here. I'm an ex-Jehovah's Witness, if that rings a bell. My wife is an ex-jw. From what I have heard from her about the inside, I’m sorry 
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Oct 17, 2018 10:42
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Sirotan posted:My previous org sent everyone at the middle manager level and up to an event where they passed out that book and had an two-hour long talk/exercises about it. Less than a week later my boss blew up at me and screamed "What the gently caress do you think you're doing, young lady?!"
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Oct 17, 2018 10:43
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Sirotan posted:My previous org sent everyone at the middle manager level and up to an event where they passed out that book and had an two-hour long talk/exercises about it. Less than a week later my boss blew up at me and screamed "What the gently caress do you think you're doing, young lady?!" I recall one time, the dude next door needed a print cartridge, he asked me because the admin person that works for him, usually takes care of it, was off at the time. I said, IT don't do print cartridges, just ask stores for whatever you need and they will bring it round "for fucks sake angry armadillo will you just sort out the loving print cartridge" ... in front of 4 colleagues. My response at the time was just Dude I suggest you leave my office now. I waited until everyone was out and told him never to even think about speaking to me like that again and he squirmed a bit which was amusing. I've since moved out of that office (partially because things like this tend to happen), I have discovered 3 people have been investigated for potential disciplinary since I've been gone as they all threatened to fight this dude for one reason or another, but I think they all got a warning along the lines of "we can't tolerate threats of violence at work, but, well, erm, it seems you were provoked so we have to factor that in." No one will tell me what they are saying to the dude about it but I presume someone has had a word 
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Oct 17, 2018 11:02
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I once had the COO of my org have me come to a meeting they were in to fix an issue. As I worked on it I let them know quietly I would have to close their outlook. They then loudly interrupted the meeting to turn to me and said “wow that’s completely loving unacceptable can’t you just do your job” which caused multiple other members of management to stare at this going on. at the time IT reported to the COO. I just left the thing where it was, walked into the CEO’s office, and told them to transfer management of IT to the CFO or I was quitting on the spot. I have no patience for being treated like poo poo. Our CEO is always super nice about everything even if it’s a frustrating situation, and even if people are mad I don’t tolerate a public call out for doing what I need to solve an issue. Multiple senior management folks came to me after and were like “what the gently caress was that about”
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Oct 17, 2018 11:19
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Yeah at the time I was too scared of losing my job so instead of walking directly to HR or telling my boss to never speak to me like that again, I spent the next hour letting him vent over whatever completely inconsequential thing he had blown up over. I spent a lot of time agonizing over whether I should go to HR over all his lovely behavior, but in the end I jumped ship to get away from him. The evironment at my new job is great, and I feel confident that I now could do either of the above and not worry about a lovely boss making my life miserable because of it.
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Oct 17, 2018 12:20
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I keep wondering how all these sociopaths with mental illness got into management in the first place...
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Oct 17, 2018 13:21
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Vargatron posted:I keep wondering how all these sociopaths with mental illness got into management in the first place...
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Oct 17, 2018 13:33
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Vargatron posted:I keep wondering how all these sociopaths with mental illness got into management in the first place... throw people under the bus while sounding confident. Do it enough times and boom
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Oct 17, 2018 14:38
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Kashuno posted:throw people under the bus while sounding confident. Do it enough times and boom Also being a generically good looking white dude helps enormously in this endeavor.
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Oct 17, 2018 15:05
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Sometimes you just inherit the local business from your dad or marry into said family. Sometimes when I'm interviewing at a smaller local business I think about asking how many of the executives are related to the owner just to avoid the environment I'm in now.
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Oct 17, 2018 17:02
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Vargatron posted:I keep wondering how all these sociopaths with mental illness got into management in the first place...
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Oct 17, 2018 17:33
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Vulture Culture posted:I guess I'm That Guy today: lots of people in management have mental illnesses and are not total fuckups If they aren't total fuckups how did they wind up in management hrm?
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Oct 17, 2018 17:45
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I've worked with plenty of bosses where were functionally good at what they do, but total tyrants to actually work for.
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Oct 17, 2018 17:57
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A few jobs ago was the most toxic environment I have ever been in and solidified in my behaviors that would land me in recovery a few years later. There was an rear end in a top hat VP of IT operations who was one of those types who pulls the “do you know who I am?” card at restaurants. He was petty, vindictive and spiteful. Around him was a coterie of hangers-on and sycophants - friends and colleagues- who traveled with him from job to job and adopted his brash and petty style of leadership. If you weren’t in that circle, you were yelled at publicly, berated and mocked and generally made to feel like poo poo. I was a few years late to this startup so I was definitely on the outside, but I was a budding alcoholic who could literally out drink everyone and my drunk self was ruder, louder, more caustic than everyone, and when I turned it on this group thought I was funnier than hell so I eventually fit in. Eventually I was an accepted part of the inner circle though I made many enemies within that same group because I wouldn’t suck up to the VP. So I was among friends/enemies and I would go out drinking multiple times mid-week and risked a DUI every time I went out. But I learned a poo poo ton of tech, drove massive projects to completion and launched my tech chops into the stratosphere. I developed a caustic view of people and never hated as hard as I hated then. That job is safely in my rear view mirror and I’m over six years sober, but I remind myself of that job because that job reminds me of what it is like to sell your soul for acceptance.
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Oct 17, 2018 18:09
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Agrikk posted:A few jobs ago was the most toxic environment I have ever been in and solidified in my behaviors that would land me in recovery a few years later. poo poo I know that story. I used to stress about either not being in the in-crowd with senior management or stressed to make sure I stayed with the in-crowd. Yeah, I had the problems with after-work "drinks" turning into benders, but I was lucky enough to be able to walk away from all that. Even today, I'll order a soda water or diet cola after a beer or two. I have zero desire or energy for that. I'm glad you were able to recognize and get help. Now, I'm either old enough or skilled enough to no longer give a poo poo. Being somewhat frugal helps since that really adds up over time. Not needing to live paycheck to paycheck is liberating. I do my job to the best of my ability, and no longer let that poo poo get to me. But I will absolutely call a bluff (or not bluff if that's the case), life's too short to have that sort of Sword of Damocles hanging over me. "Oh, you're threatening my job? OK, let me just get my stuff. I'll just call a couple recruiters who have been bugging the poo poo out of me to make a jump and have a new job in two weeks to a month" Of course it helps if you can actually back that stance up with knowledge, experience, and skill. And also have that not be your default stance with everyone. I'm fairly genial and accommodating if I'm met halfway.
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Oct 17, 2018 18:23
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Absolutely the best thing you can do for your job is to live on that YNAB step 4 and have a healthy 6 months living expenses saved up. Hate your boss? Cool I’m out
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Oct 17, 2018 18:33
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I want that so bad. I’ve definitely had times where I would have sent a boss a video of the song “Take this job and shove it” and walk out on the spot if I knew I could survive it financially. Probably still wouldn’t be a good idea, but so satisfying in the moment.
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Oct 17, 2018 18:43
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I won't say that my employer is perfect, but it's sure been a breath of fresh air. It's the first place I've worked in 15 loving years of IT where my boss wasn't a piece of poo poo. They seem to be very good at hiring selectively to eliminate assholes, including engineers. If you're in ATL, NY, or LA I'd definitely recommend taking a look at our jobs. We're a CentOS linux shop moving in the direction of a homogeneous Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and we're growing fast.
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Oct 17, 2018 19:42
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haha PTM back from the dead. welcome back
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Oct 17, 2018 20:26
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All these cool Linux jobs, why did I ever get into Azure? 
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