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BaronVonVaderham posted:There was a good 10 seconds of silence on the line from both ends when it just worked first try. My only concern is that I just accidentally set the bar way too high because there's no way I can live up to that miracle. You know what? I believe this.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:For real. I don't think I have ever had code work the first time. Big 
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I wrote a three line powershell script with a for-each loop that worked perfectly the first time. I refuse to believe anything more complicated than that runs on the first shot without errors.
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Antioch posted:I wrote a three line powershell script with a for-each loop that worked perfectly the first time. I refuse to believe anything more complicated than that runs on the first shot without errors. Yeah, likewise. I've had some piddly little tiny automation scripts work right the first time, but anything beyond that is always a missed brace or semicolon or something somewhere.
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Just got pulled into a room earlier today by the CFO, who is taking charge of Engineering as we are losing our VP of Engineering. I was terrified I was about to get a talking to about some recent somewhat abrasive behavior of mine. I got a 25% raise. I am now celebrating with bourbon.
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buttchugging adderall posted:Just got pulled into a room earlier today by the CFO, who is taking charge of Engineering as we are losing our VP of Engineering. I was terrified I was about to get a talking to about some recent somewhat abrasive behavior of mine. P. Sure that abrasive behavior just got you a promotion. VPs love that poo poo.
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The Iron Rose posted:P. Sure that abrasive behavior just got you a promotion. VPs love that poo poo. I wasn't even that abrasive, I just told a guy (who normally is very high performing and quite smart) that no, no he really shouldn't do something he really wanted to do. Which I had to do quite a bit, because he was being quite stubborn about it.
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Jun 27, 2019 21:14
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I was probably pretty abrasive toward the rear end in a top hat leaving today. I sincerely hope that contributed to his choice so I can take at least some credit for driving off that parasite.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I refuse to believe it is possible for code to compile correctly first time without so much as a missed semicolon or unclosed bracket Once in college I was working on an assignment writing a string reversal in assembly. I was doing the assignment during my work study when I didn't have access to a computer, so I wrote it out on a piece of paper. Later that night I typed it in and wouldn't you know, it worked right the first time. I knew from that moment on, everything else was going to be downhill.
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I worked in Korea for a few years and the intraoffice gossip culture there is insane, out of control. I was mostly safe as a westerner but I definitely saw people (mostly our Korean staff) let go for spurious reasons or hearsay
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MF_James posted:I always feel bad for people that are around me when I'm in the office and on the phone; I am the loudest person on the phone and 100% am aware of it but if I lower my voice everyone complains they can't hear/understand me so wtf am I supposed to do? Obviously I don't know your voice etc., but maybe it can help doing some vocal training. Practice modifying your voice intentionally, e.g. raise/lower pitch, more or less nasal, being aware of your tongue and how it affects the sound and clarity, controlling your speed, practice distinct pronunciation of phonemes that can sound similar over a phone, stay aware of adjacent sounds that may muddle words together and add pauses to keep them distinct. The office environment, microphone, and voice codec used for the phone can obviously also affect what will be the most efficient way to improve your clarity, but I'd like to think there are probably methods other than being loud that can help.
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a Loving Dog posted:I worked in Korea for a few years and the intraoffice gossip culture there is insane, out of control. I was mostly safe as a westerner but I definitely saw people (mostly our Korean staff) let go for spurious reasons or hearsay 
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Way not pissing me off: About 18 months ago we found out that our marketing team was using google smartsheets for "reasons". I had a meeting with them, explained this wasn't supported and IT would have no involvement in it. Fast forward to last week, they fired the person in charge of it without notice and walked her out of the building. She changed the password on it. They opened a ticket today asking for help. I responded: "Per our previous discussion, this is not an IT owned or protected resource, we cannot and will not help with this."
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DigitalMocking posted:Way not pissing me off: Hope u did this irl after hitting enter, cuz I fukin would 
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DigitalMocking posted:Way not pissing me off: I bet it wasn't even a corporate google account.
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Can you explain a bit more because I have a feeling I know what you're talking about but never in my life have I encountered anyone using "Google smart sheets"
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HiroProtagonist posted:Can you explain a bit more because I have a feeling I know what you're talking about but never in my life have I encountered anyone using "Google smart sheets" Its googles version of excel. You can create a document with a free google account, share it with your colleges, and then change the password on the document when you get fired and there is nothing your company can do about it. If you let your employees use free google accounts for things instead of corporate ones, there is no recourse when you leave.
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Sickening posted:Its googles version of excel. You can create a document with a free google account, share it with your colleges, and then change the password on the document when you get fired and there is nothing your company can do about it. Except that's just Google Sheets. Google suggests that smartsheet is some kind of product that works on top of GSuite?
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Unsurprising development: I'm moving on to the last round of interviews with that place with the miracle code run. Definitely not pissing my off today: Waking up and trudging to my desk only to remember I don't have to deal with the two assholes anymore. Felt great to enjoy that revelation all over again. Pissing me off, though: I woke up and I'm sick 
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nielsm posted:Obviously I don't know your voice etc., but maybe it can help doing some vocal training. Practice modifying your voice intentionally, e.g. raise/lower pitch, more or less nasal, being aware of your tongue and how it affects the sound and clarity, controlling your speed, practice distinct pronunciation of phonemes that can sound similar over a phone, stay aware of adjacent sounds that may muddle words together and add pauses to keep them distinct. We had a problem with our conference bridges where people would have to talk louder/yell or they'd have voice clipping. We'd just recently merged so half the company was on one bridge system and half was on the other. Once I heard the issue I talked to the guy that managed it, found that he had silence suppression set too aggressively and turned it down. It's been great since. So to tack on, could be lovely VoIP settings too.
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Anybody who claims they can do everything they need to solely in the web apps offered by G Suite is a liar
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Thanks Ants posted:Anybody who claims they can do everything they need to solely in the web apps offered by G Suite is a liar Nonsense. Many people simply don't do anything of worth in the workplace.
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Thanks Ants posted:Anybody who claims they can do everything they need to solely in the web apps offered by G Suite is a liar Some of us just don't have complicated needs from an office suite. The only thing I fire up Libreoffice for is working with CSV files, which sucks in its own way in LO or MS Office but is particularly annoying in GSuite. If I didn't have to work with them regularly I'd never use a desktop suite.
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Thanks Ants posted:Anybody who claims they can do everything they need to solely in the web apps offered by G Suite is a liar G suite is an surprising example of google app abandoning despite being a revenue source.
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Thanks Ants posted:Anybody who claims they can do everything they need to solely in the web apps offered by G Suite is a liar G Suite apps are all inferior copies of Office applications, and the fact that I cannot use the tab key to add a loving indent into my email in Gmail enrages me to an irrational degree.
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Seriously, I've had plenty of execs who live in email and occasionally have to acknowledge that a spreadsheet exists. In terms of usability & functionality, I've found it to be: 1. Excel 2. LibreOffice Calc 3. Colored pencils and graph paper 4. Google Sheets
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Wallet posted:Except that's just Google Sheets. Google suggests that smartsheet is some kind of product that works on top of GSuite? SmartSheet is a GApps add-on for forms and Gantt charts. It's actually really useful in project management terms. My particular GApps heresy is a belief that 80% of the workers at your average large corporation could get along just fine with GApps instead of MS Office. Your short-term productivity hit from having to learn a new thing will be more than made up for in collaboration, change tracking, and cloud storage. In return, you get about 80% of your Office licensing costs back.
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bring back google wave you cowards
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mllaneza posted:SmartSheet is a GApps add-on for forms and Gantt charts. It's actually really useful in project management terms. My university uses GApps as its primary collaboration tool, while also paying for Office licenses and Office365 CALs for every single student, staff, and faculty member. 
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Jeoh posted:bring back google wave you cowards Microsoft Teams is the spiritual successor to Google Wave. mllaneza posted:collaboration, change tracking, and cloud storage. You get all of these things in O365 too. Dropping your licensing costs is literally the only benefit gsuite has over O365 The Fool fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Jun 28, 2019 |
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Jeoh posted:bring back google wave you cowards
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The Fool posted:Microsoft Teams is the spiritual successor to Google Wave. It's a question I've been asking everyone I interview with: "You guys don't use Microsoft Teams, do you?"
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After some of my last contracts and their complete lack of messaging capabilities, I've had to step it up to "Do you have some sort of messaging or collaboration application?" e: Things not pissing me off: Getting a call from a previous employer that wants to bring me back as a contractor for a short term project to update some of their queries and reports during my time off from my regular job (regular 3 day weekends). duffmensch fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Jun 28, 2019 |
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DigitalMocking posted:Way not pissing me off: Gotta love shadow IT.
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Could only deal with the disgusting office microwave for a month. Apparently it is not part of the janitorial staff duties to clean it, nor did anyone else in the office step up to the plate. Why do I always end up being the person with the lowest tolerance for grime on the team? The fridge has year-old almond and soy milk, along with a tuna sandwich of undetermined age but with bread that is hard as a rock. Guess I'll attack that next week.
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Sirotan posted:Could only deal with the disgusting office microwave for a month. Apparently it is not part of the janitorial staff duties to clean it, nor did anyone else in the office step up to the plate. Why do I always end up being the person with the lowest tolerance for grime on the team? Don’t forget to send a high-priority all-users email about it.
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Weedle posted:Don’t forget to send a high-priority all-users email about it. I think I'm going to just deep-six all of it without telling anyone, because I'm sure some disgusting slob would get mad if they knew I threw out their expired-two-months-ago yogurt.
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Gross. I think the normal behavior is just a sign on the fridge that says "everything gets thrown out on Thursday at 5" or whatever. (and then ideally a facilities person who does the throwing out, but either way the CYA is helpful for deflecting mad idiots)
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Thanks Ants posted:Anybody who claims they can do everything they need to solely in the web apps offered by G Suite is a liar Google sheets is plain rear end and I say this as someone with a hatred for Excel that borders on the pathological. If you've never encountered a brain genius that suggests you "work collaboratively" in a spreadsheet only to have someone accidentally change a cell value without realizing it and spending the next few hours chasing down the source of it, then I envy you.
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Extremely pissing me off: rear end in a top hat just posted JUST KIDDING in the general channel. Talking to a friend, he did have another job lined up for sure. There has to have been some 11th hour bullshit. If he was given a promotion and more money to stay, I'm loving done.
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