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I didn't think to count all my unread emails before the big "open, acknowledge there's nothing I need to do with this, move on" purge but I'm at 81 after that. I'm usually super plugged in but when I upgraded my phone in October, my work email de-synced during the iCloud restoration and I used it as an excuse to completely ignore stuff the week of Christmas.
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MY NIGGA D-LINK posted:Maybe it's just a matter of course for my industry, but I have to accessible 24/7 unless I'm on vacation. It's not unusual for an architect, board member, private client or inspector to call, text or email at odd hours.  but even on vacation. This is a dead period so nothing ever comes up, also why I do all my longer vacations at end of year. I'm still off until monday and ill probably come back to a thousand unread useless emails though rip. The bigger thing is gonna be catching up on all the slack channels
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Jan 2, 2019 17:27
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Master Stur posted:
If you're required to respond to work emails on vacation, then you're not on vacation. I can't even imagine any normal job that requires a 4 hour response time, not matter when the emails is sent. I hate how smart phones have completely changed how we think about work hours.
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Jan 2, 2019 17:39
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I didn’t have to respond to a single email the last 12 days I was off because I am the greatest sys admin who ever lived
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Bird in a Blender posted:If you're required to respond to work emails on vacation, then you're not on vacation. I can't even imagine any normal job that requires a 4 hour response time, not matter when the emails is sent. I hate how smart phones have completely changed how we think about work hours. My company is a 9 figure per year construction business where the average project is $15mil. Not defending blurred personal/work times, just saying that people in charge of spending that much money expect return calls/texts/emails. Not everything is expected to be resolved within 4 hours, but you gotta respond.
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I can’t imagine completely unplugging, which isn’t to say I don’t (hard to worry about work email when I’m in the woods and two days from electricity), but I try to keep my phone with me even on vacation, since personal relationships with clients are pretty crucial, and you never know when they might only want to talk to you and no other workers, plus teens have a tendency to go days without responding, so I’m usually best served getting a text to them when I know they’re answering. That said, I also feel no compunction about ignoring calls or texts that I don’t believe crucial if I’m not on the clock, a habit assisted by how of the roughly 100–150 emails a day I receive, only about 5-10 actually matter to me, so staying accessible is rarely time (or brain space) intensive.
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Ehud posted:I didn’t have to respond to a single email the last 12 days I was off because I am the greatest sys admin who ever lived I dunno my sysadmin doesn't respond for 12 days either to emails and he sucks
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I dunno my sysadmin doesn't respond for 12 days either to emails and he sucks not in his mind tho
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MY NIGGA D-LINK posted:My company is a 9 figure per year construction business where the average project is $15mil. Not defending blurred personal/work times, just saying that people in charge of spending that much money expect return calls/texts/emails. Not everything is expected to be resolved within 4 hours, but you gotta respond. I work for a 9 figure per year construction company too, although our average size job is smaller than $15mil. I'd go nuts if I had to respond to every email within 4 hours.
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Jan 2, 2019 18:02
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I think D-LINK is one of the owners though?
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Bird in a Blender posted:If you're required to respond to work emails on vacation, then you're not on vacation. I can't even imagine any normal job that requires a 4 hour response time, not matter when the emails is sent. I hate how smart phones have completely changed how we think about work hours. I agree but currently nobody else can properly manage and do what I do so is what it is. Thankfully end of year is so dead i maybe have to check once or twice in two weeks. 2019 has a lot of planned hires which will let me actually unplug and stop receiving email/slack/txt alarms daily 
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I don;t have to be at work today but I came in anyways to impress my bosses #elite
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The only way my company knows how to contact me is via my work phone, which goes on do not disturb from 4:30 PM to 8 AM every single weekday (unless I'm on OT), and weekends. They had to reach me on vacation a couple years ago to give me very good news (that my transfer to the new office was approved) and had to call my wife, who is my emergency contact. I'm unreachable outside of business hours, and I gotta say... it's good, folks.
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As a trucker I don't have to respond to emails for poo poo, but if I'm "under dispatch" like I am today I have to keep my phone handy for any text or calls. Last Wednesday my boss called to see if I wanted to pick up some extra work but I had a long day of watching movies with my brother in law so I cancelled out. If he calls today I'll go in. My boss is the guy juggling texts and emails from Pittsburgh and Charlotte and blah blah
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oh poo poo tell us trucker stories we want trucker stories
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The nice thing about anesthesia is that once I get my patients out of the OR, they aren't my responsibility, so I never get called at home. All calls and emails are either about scheduling or some broad change in policy.
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The Puppy Bowl posted:
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Intruder posted:I think D-LINK is one of the owners though? Sorta. It's family owned and operated, so my brothers and sister all have stock, but we're all salaried. I still see my dad as the owner even if he's retired.
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MY NIGGA D-LINK posted:Sorta. It's family owned and operated, so my brothers and sister all have stock, but we're all salaried. I still see my dad as the owner even if he's retired. Well my point was you have more of a stake in the company than "I work for them"
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MY NIGGA D-LINK posted:Sorta. It's family owned and operated, so my brothers and sister all have stock, but we're all salaried. I still see my dad as the owner even if he's retired. the pittsburgh construction mafia
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Spent my first two years in manufacturing as the engineer in charge of a few different product families which required being on-call 24/7 to answer questions. The people who called were good about trying to solve stuff on their own, but I probably averaged one after-hours call every other day or so, including in the middle of the night. A lot of those calls were just a minute or so, but I do not miss that part of the job.
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swickles posted:The nice thing about anesthesia is that once I get my patients out of the OR, they aren't my responsibility, so I never get called at home. All calls and emails are either about scheduling or some broad change in policy. Yes, this and the 15 weeks a year of vacation. My buddy is finally living the good life, albeit after 13 years of waiting.
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Intruder posted:Well my point was you have more of a stake in the company than "I work for them" Oh, mos def
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Flikken posted:I loving hate you. Oh man. I haven't even gotten into the extra week of vacation I get this year on top of all the comp time. Get a union folks. It's great!
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Mel Mudkiper posted:oh poo poo tell us trucker stories  WEED California" tee shirt.Yes there is a town called Weed CA and they lean into and it's right at the foot of an enormous picturesque mountain. Get your "I BEAVER Utah" shirts along I-15 in the middle of fuckall at yet another Flying J.CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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Blowjob Overtime posted:Spent my first two years in manufacturing as the engineer in charge of a few different product families which required being on-call 24/7 to answer questions. The people who called were good about trying to solve stuff on their own, but I probably averaged one after-hours call every other day or so, including in the middle of the night. A lot of those calls were just a minute or so, but I do not miss that part of the job. I was a manufacturing engineer, but moved back to design. I do not miss getting support requests from third shift that required remoting in to end of line test equipment, and after a long troubleshooting session, realizing they just read the bill of materials wrong.
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weed is a sick band if you're in california do you have to run the 17 between san jose and santa cruz? that's gotta be terrifying in a truck
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CannonFodder posted:Heading south on I-5 in Southern Oregon / far Northern California, there is a scenic view exit where you can take some lovely distant pictures of Mt Shasta rising alone over the plain. While driving towards it, as the mountain looms ever closer, there is a small hill and the only real civilization around, with a Flying J truck stop and some fast food places. Be sure to stop there, because it's the place to buy a "I I-5 narrowly missed out on being routed through the much more scenic US 97 there, which is kind of a shame.
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Week or two back I'm driving in the middle lane slowly coming up on a truck in the right lane. Just as I'm approaching its bumper, I catch a glimpse of a car coming in on an onramp that's cutting the truck off while going like 30 mph slower at least and see the truck about to panic shift into my lane. Luckily I just shot my eyes to the rear view and was able to cleanly move into the fast lane, but I'm pretty sure if I die in the next twenty years it'll likely be to a truck turning me into a red smear.
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^^^^ Thanks for being aware, I hate that poo poo too. The worst is when I'm leaving enough space in front of me, the person on the onramp is getting right up to the road and the space I have left, then I watch them look over their shoulder while hitting the brakes. THE GAP IS RIGHT THEREhifi posted:weed is a sick band Also I don't go to California anymore but I fondly remember seeing Mt Shasta like that. I also distinctly remember all the goddamn traffic from LA to San Bernardino. That's why I won't be back in a truck. CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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CannonFodder posted:As a trucker I don't have to respond to emails for poo poo, but if I'm "under dispatch" like I am today I have to keep my phone handy for any text or calls. Last Wednesday my boss called to see if I wanted to pick up some extra work but I had a long day of watching movies with my brother in law so I cancelled out. If he calls today I'll go in. What sort of trucking do you do? Long haul? I work for an ocean freight company that moves a shitton of containers so I'm curious if you've moved any of our stuff.
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hifi posted:im laughing at this image A new setup for the OU Sucks punchline. E: Walmart got a patent for tracking biometrics through your shopping cart for "health reasons" https://www.retaildive.com/news/walmart-files-patent-for-stress-tracking-cart-handle/538495/
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Intruder posted:Well my point was you have more of a stake in the company than "I work for them" OK yea, fair enough. I guess I get really angry about those sort of demands from companies, and see it as another intrusion into our personal time. If you have an ownership stake, or are very high level management, then that equation changes significantly.
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Joey Freshwater posted:What sort of trucking do you do? Long haul? I work for an ocean freight company that moves a shitton of containers so I'm curious if you've moved any of our stuff. FedEx Ground Doubles linehaul from SC to Dallas to Florida, two loops on a regular week, driving team so the truck keeps moving. If you have containers going into Savannah then some of those containers get emptied into other warehouses and then sent to FedEx and I sometimes take those trailers up to Spartanburg or Charlotte. CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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Went into work this morning super chill. After scheduling meetings, it's panic time again. Go go crazy work schedules.
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Oh good, mere hours after getting all of my various applications and files open and ready to go a mandatory restart message pops up on my work computer because of newly installed software. Joy
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Shamelessly stolen from D&D https://twitter.com/urvillageidiot/status/1080377410267172865
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hifi posted:im laughing at this image Time to build a wall
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