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Renegret posted:Imagine all the stupid deadlines and pressure from C levels to do the impossible, except now it's quotas (that we swear don't exist guys) on traffic tickets. I know, I've decided that the best way to release stress is to abuse my position of power to stoke my ego. I think I'll just shoot someone and then say that I thought they had a gun pointed at me, it'll feel really nice to just let it all out, you know? Just a regular human thing that we all just accept as necessary in society, right? It's ok, because our position means it probably won't happen to us, so out of sight, out of mind, right? Volmarias fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Apr 9, 2019 |
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Volmarias posted:Just a regular human thing that we all just accept as necessary in society, right?
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ACAB you god drat morons. Boiled Water posted:I know I would be too if I constantly had to deal with the worst parts of society I had no hand in creating. gently caress off with this line, nothing counts before the but
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Boiled Water posted:all cops are bastards Cops don't regularly deal with corporate executives though?
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My former manager, the one whose quitting, is calling in all her favors from the last 20 years working here to try and make sure everyone who worked under her now has job offers from other departments. I'm not sure how much of this is her looking out for her team versus trying to sabotage the VP's re-org on the way out, but I'm not complaining.
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paragon1 posted:Cops don't regularly deal with corporate executives though? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZZhhA87d6g
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There are tons of professions who deal with the same "worst parts of society" and yet somehow don't end up as idiot jackboot thugs. Like a social worker will spend two hours trying to talk down a crazy dude to get him to sign some papers so he can collect a benefit/help/get shelter and probably get attacked, but a cop will roll up on some dude just sitting under an overpass and decide he needs to be tazed to death in 45 seconds. That's not your job environment at work.
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paragon1 posted:Cops don't regularly deal with corporate executives though? Yeah, they usually just deal with the bagmen.
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Keetron posted:So they managed to deploy the heap of untested, rushed crap to prod? Wouldn't have it any other way!
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Guys I submitted a facilities ticket for the broken trash compactor. They closed it and nothing was fixed.
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Lysandus posted:The war room was dismantled with a slow fizzle yesterday. New PM put their week old box of doughnut holes in the kitchen, as if anyone wants to eat little balls of concrete. Can't spell fragile without agile
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So one of my jobs is running QA checks on our QA analysts to make sure they are catching the mistakes that they are supposed to be looking for. When I give them their results, they are supposed to update their work to reflect any extra findings that I have found so that it is reflected in the audit results we release. This morning I found out one of our senior analysts failed to do this with several high severity findings last quarter, and she's playing dumb about it. I found out because a different audit group is auditing our audit. My boss is upset with because I should have made sure everyone understood the requirements even though they have been discussed in several meetings, and they have been told in writing several times too. This isn't even the first time this has happened with one of our analysts so she really ought to know already. This comes after everyone poo poo on me for their own poor showings on the audit of their work I conducted, and I was told I need to handhold them more and use a phonecall instead of an email so that the process is more personal. The reason I use email is so there's a written record of what I told them to do. Apparently I need to wipe their loving noses for them as well. Now I have to implement a process to prevent this ever happening again, which probably means I have to go back and make sure that each one of the 10 or so people I am reviewing has followed my instructions, or else get someone else to do it. My boss just keeps saying "This can't happen again " but has not taken any disciplinary action against anyone.
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But who audits the auditors auditors audits? Ask not for whom the spreadsheet recalculates for, it recalculates for thee.
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Tnuctip posted:But who audits the auditors auditors audits? Uhh no it doesn't you clearly have a circular formula
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I can only imagine the game of corporate telephone that occurs when auditors audit the auditors of the auditors.
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Boss's Boss (B.B): "Hey, Sundae, Sundaeboss, Sundaecoworker #1, Sundaecoworker #2... I'm out sick and am supposed to be giving a presentation to a bunch of visitors from Switzerland today, then a tour of the facility. Can you guys sort out coverage for this?" Sundaeboss: "OOO Reply" Sundaecoworker #1: "OOO Replay" Sundaecoworker #2: "You sent me to New Jersey this week, remember?" Sundae: "Well okay then. Guess I'm giving a tour! Please tell me you have a slide deck ready?" *prays for ten minutes as e-mail chain is terrifyingly silent* B.B: *e-mails a slide deck* Oh thank god.
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 sorry for the derail, I'll try to refrain from getting drunk and posting cop stories itt.  In more banal office drone news the weather in the bay has finally taken a turn for the beautiful and I'm very mad about being cooped up at my desk with nothing to do when I could be doing nothing outside and at least enjoying beautiful weather. 
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Sundae posted:Boss's Boss (B.B): "Hey, Sundae, Sundaeboss, Sundaecoworker #1, Sundaecoworker #2... I'm out sick and am supposed to be giving a presentation to a bunch of visitors from Switzerland today, then a tour of the facility. Can you guys sort out coverage for this?" Oh man I love walking tours through my building. Usually, 10 minutes before they come in, a C level runs in and tells me to set the room up for a tour. So I pull all of the useful but boring/ugly monitoring boards off of our display server and throw up some really cool looking yet meaningless charts, graphs, and maps. Then we work hamstrung for a few hours until the tour walks in incredibly late. I thought we were just trying to impress executives from other companies but they made me do this for take your child to work day last year. Because impressing a bunch of 4-16 year olds is important I guess. e: That tour was unintentionally creepy because the C level decided it would be cool to show off one of our tools that overlays the RF/Fiber plant over google maps. So he had me collect a bunch of kids addresses and put them up on the big screen. Renegret fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Apr 9, 2019 |
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A non trivial component of my job is touring buildings, usually things are pretty normal, but now and then we see some crazy poo poo like a guy who had a commercial gym’s worth of equipment in his second story, 2 bedroom apartment.
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New management cheevo unlocked! Brought subordinate to meeting and dumped all the action items on them!
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Dick move.
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edit: gently caress this thread
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Sounds like english probably is not Guy's first language
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Sydin posted:
The cop story was fine, the collective "well they have a hard job, they should be allowed to beat someone vulnerable now and then" wasn't.
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Volmarias posted:The cop story was fine, the collective "well they have a hard job, they should be allowed to beat someone vulnerable now and then" wasn't.
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Hoodwinker posted:Literally nobody said this. Settle down, Beavis. Several of the posts after the story about pigs talking about wanting to physically beat homeless people were in the line of "well it's understandable because the job is just sooooo hard you guys  " though?
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Nobody gives a gently caress. Both sides need to keep it out of the corporate bitching thread.
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Looks like most of the thread gives a gently caress, going by the posts. 
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therobit posted:So one of my jobs is running QA checks on our QA analysts to make sure they are catching the mistakes that they are supposed to be looking for. When I give them their results, they are supposed to update their work to reflect any extra findings that I have found so that it is reflected in the audit results we release. I feel like there was a somewhat recent change of operational management, and the prior boss was a valley guy who loaded the place up with call center drones in skilled positions because he wanted to minutely compartmentalize complex roles and turn them into assembly-line stuff just using volume to face-tank any audit landmines. The new management are a little more old school and want to go back to more industry-standard stuff like hiring experienced people instead of trying to turn noise into signal. FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Apr 10, 2019 |
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paragon1 posted:Looks like most of the thread gives a gently caress, going by the posts.
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Trash compactor door no longer locks. Now I can't force it to compact by holding the door shut.Renegret posted:Today, all of our garbage cans disappeared and was replaced with a single trash compactor. Certainly nothing bad could possibly happen with this. 4 months. It took 4 months for us to break it.
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Renegret posted:Trash compactor door no longer locks. Now I can't force it to compact by holding the door shut. Look, we told you how to do it faster and with style. But you didn't listen to us.
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Thomamelas posted:Look, we told you how to do it faster and with style. But you didn't listen to us. I'm sorry for my transgressions. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me and my vindaloo covered hands. someone had to reach into the garbage so it stopped spilling on the floor, after all.
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That is really crazy to me. I've worked in two corporate offices and both had maintenance staff and good chairs. My mom had been in corporate America about half my life and the same applied there - as well as small biz America... Maintenance replaced a very loving loud magnetic (I think that's what its called?) door lock three times with different models to find us a quieter one earlier this year. Took maybe one day for the first replacement and 2 days for the other two as they ordered different models to see if they'd be better. We now have a silent lock. We have a selection of chairs and you get your pick as to what you find most comfortable. Everyone has motorized sit/stand desks now, but it was easy to request them before all desks were replaced. Same with other other corporate environment I was in. Oh I am forgetting one: I did work at a Xerox call center for a month or so, while they had a few chair models and no broken trash issues, that place did suck. They wouldn't give me a standing desk even with a doctors note. I don't really consider a call center corporate America though, but maybe I should.
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We need approval from a VP outside our direct line of reporting and H&S to get our chairs replaced.
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I have been waiting for my new chair to get ordered and delivered to me since I started. I am currently on sorta busted chair #2. I started Oct 1 lol.
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I have a standing desk, but it's broken. To raise or lower it, you need to touch two exposed wires together like you're stealing a car. Facilities stopped maintaining them two years ago as a policy, is what I've been told.
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Our maintenance staff hosed up the wiring when doing routine electrical repairs and now all the light switches on the first floor of my building are somehow wired together. Everybody knows this by now and yet somehow the lights still go out about a dozen times a day because somebody exiting a conference room or bathroom turned the lights off out of reflex.
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SiGmA_X posted:Oh I am forgetting one: I did work at a Xerox call center for a month or so, while they had a few chair models and no broken trash issues, that place did suck. They wouldn't give me a standing desk even with a doctors note. I don't really consider a call center corporate America though, but maybe I should.
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