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Potato Salad posted:what the hell kind of stupid facilities are you working in where the fire marshal / insurance decided you need to assign primary school hall monitors Emergency volunteer "hall monitors" are a thing here too. But departmental volunteers only have to worry about their own departments. It's just so that someone know's who was in or out of the office at the time of the emergency and if someone is missing that can get reported to rescue services.
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We had a fire drill before anybody told me what we're supposed to do. Apparently I went out the wrong door, despite it being the closest one. I also had no idea what the meeting point was. And all of us with offices are supposed to close the door behind us, to indicate that there's nobody in there. Never mind what happens if the door was already shut and you're passed out behind it! Oh yeah and that first drill came right after somebody came around and told us there was going to be a test and to ignore the alarm. Good job.
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Aug 13, 2019 18:28
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i dont know who the fire marshall is on my floor. i am a remote employee and come into the office every 2 to 4 weeks for human interaction (and to stock up on sparkling water/diet coke). if there is a fire alarm i am royally hosed. I am the AED/CPR person on my floor before i became a virtual employee, hopefully people can wait until i come back to the office when theres an emergency
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Aug 13, 2019 19:19
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CPColin posted:And all of us with offices are supposed to close the door behind us, to indicate that there's nobody in there. Never mind what happens if the door was already shut and you're passed out behind it! Is that the reason they gave? My understanding is that closing doors helps restrict the flow of air that the fire needs to grow.
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Aug 13, 2019 19:22
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We have those here too. They also get emergency response training. Last job even had a rule that meant you couldn't work overtime alone. Atleast with a second person Say if one of you had a heart attack or something. The other could respond on time instead of the 1st person to find you in the morning
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Aug 13, 2019 19:24
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My old boss, Jon, quit back in April and kicked off this whole debacle. They finally hired someone for his spot (which is the engineering manager, a layer between the team leads and toxic boss) in the middle of July; his first contribution to one of our repos on github is dated July 16th. He already quit 
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Aug 13, 2019 19:31
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Is that the reason they gave? My understanding is that closing doors helps restrict the flow of air that the fire needs to grow. That is indeed the reason they gave. I hope that if a real fire happens, they don't just take it as a given that offices with closed doors are empty!
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Aug 13, 2019 19:38
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Well you generally want closed doors as it can help slow down fire/smoke spread. The offices here have glass doors, and over the years people have tried to find some privacy by covering up their glass with posters and poo poo. Eventually safety boss guy comes through and demands they take it down so that in the event of a fire, rescue teams can find people easier.
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Aug 13, 2019 19:42
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xzzy posted:Well you generally want closed doors as it can help slow down fire/smoke spread. but then how do you work with no pants on in your office?
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Aug 13, 2019 20:50
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Our glass doors/walls are frosted from about 18" up to about 18" from the top, so you can't really see anything just walking by normally. Seems like a good compromise that still lets someone glance in to see if a meeting room is in use without interrupting anything.
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Aug 13, 2019 20:59
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Low self esteem guy just told me I'm not allowed to use semicolons in UI strings.
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Aug 14, 2019 09:19
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Joda posted:Low self esteem guy just told me I'm not allowed to use semicolons in UI strings. Send back something snippy about the inputs being properly sanitized.
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Aug 14, 2019 09:29
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I think he just doesn't know that the semicolon has an actual grammatical function in English which is fair enough; it's not our primary language, but it'd be nice if he wasn't being such a massive smart-rear end.
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Aug 14, 2019 09:58
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Joda posted:I think he just doesn't know that the semicolon has an actual grammatical function in English which is fair enough; it's not our primary language, but it'd be nice if he wasn't being such a massive smart-rear end. "I used to use colons until I realized we could increase computing efficiency by switching to the relatively unknown semicolon"
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Aug 14, 2019 15:57
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Moving away from the colon also helped make the code less lovely.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Moving away from the colon also helped make the code less lovely. Just remember to flush the cache after execution is complete.
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Aug 14, 2019 16:27
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My old team lead during that discounts project with fuckface? He just resigned They're never going to pull out of this tailspin.
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Aug 14, 2019 16:36
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BaronVonVaderham posted:They're never going to pull out of this tailspin. At least you're about to jump out of the plane before it crashes. 
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Aug 14, 2019 17:02
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It'll be nice to not see the word "fuckface" in every one of your posts. I am happy for you.
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Aug 14, 2019 17:17
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Kyrosiris posted:At least you're about to jump out of the plane before it crashes. My entire final two weeks here is going to be MichaelJacksonPopcorn.gif, this is entertaining  I'm talking to my old team lead and he actually took a job I had interviewed for and withdrew (wasn't on board with having to fly to Columbus, OH, just as frequently if not more so than I did for Nashville here). But the best part is he had the same exact idea I had and called up Eventbrite. He didn't get past the phone screening I got to fill him in on why.
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Aug 14, 2019 17:24
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BaronVonVaderham posted:My entire final two weeks here is going to be MichaelJacksonPopcorn.gif, this is entertaining Did you narc on him?
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Aug 14, 2019 18:49
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I just want to know how bad the glassdoor review is going to be! Do people still use that?
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Aug 14, 2019 18:58
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Sickening posted:Did you narc on him? If you mean on fuckface, yes. Eventbrite was where he burned that bridge so hard they want nothing to do with anyone from this company again. My old team lead was like, "Yup, that would explain it, and cements my decision to leave." He's also not a fan of that guy or toxic boss. I'd say I'm stirring the pot this week, but it's already stirring itself and people are coming to me unprompted to talk about poo poo. I've had a few people from QA message me to ask if the company I'm going to is hiring for QA by chance, I think that department is going to start its mass exodus next. I think we're going to have a riot by the end of the week about the PTO nonsense.
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TheParadigm posted:I just want to know how bad the glassdoor review is going to be! Do people still use that? People do, but not a lot. There are a few here that are clearly from the first few to bail back in March and May: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Smile-Direct-Club-Reviews-E1043560.htm
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Aug 14, 2019 19:06
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BaronVonVaderham posted:If you mean on fuckface, yes. Eventbrite was where he burned that bridge so hard they want nothing to do with anyone from this company again. My old team lead was like, "Yup, that would explain it, and cements my decision to leave." He's also not a fan of that guy or toxic boss. The acquiring company probably wants that. It means they don't have to pay severance/unemployment. Late capitalism is bullshit.
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I don't really know why people expect to be able to predict things like storage costs when they have nothing in place for managing the lifecycle of their data and no idea of how much content they are going in ingest on a monthly basis, but those people seem to have decided to talk to me about it.
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Pissing me off: one of my coworkers put in his notice a couple of weeks ago (it was a bit more than two weeks). He's moving away (back to his hometown), and was going to be making enough that his wife was gonna start worrying about a job once she got there. Today, it was announced that he won't be leaving, but that he'll still be moving, and getting full-time remote work. There's no way they didn't give him a giant raise with this, as well. In the meantime, the rest of us are being told that we're moving our upcoming hardware upgrade window from 2:30pm on a Saturday to 4:00am on a Sunday, and our upcoming software upgrade window from 8:00pm on a Saturday (finishing up around midnight) to 11:00pm on a Saturday (finishing up around 3:00am). The latter wouldn't be that big of a deal if we didn't also have to be up at 7am on Sunday, after which I need to babysit a bunch of tasks off and on until 8:00pm the next day, and again expected to be at work at 7:00-7:30am on Monday, all in order to mitigate customer impact. Of course, the guy who just got the big raise doesn't work on those systems; his job is strictly internal-facing, which is also probably why they made a counter-offer (which they pretty much never do), because he works directly with the board and c-levels, and they like him, while the rest of us are sitting on 2% annual raises. On top of all this, about two-and-a-half months ago, I made it clear that it couldn't always be my schedule that has to give when it comes to scheduling meetings (pretty much always me coming in early, meaning I miss sleep, rather than others staying late, meaning... they have a longer drive home, I guess?), given that I'd been told two causes of my high blood pressure were likely "lack of sleep" and "stress." So far, that has resulted in one meeting being rescheduled... and the above. I really like my team, I generally like my immediate bosses, and I like the work I do; it's interesting, and a lot of different stuff from day to day, but senior management loving sucks. And to be clear, I am not in the least mad at the guy getting the raise; we're good friends, he's taking what he can get, and more loving power to him. But the rest of the context of it is bullshit, and I think I want to bail on this place before I start to hate it.
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BaronVonVaderham posted:People do, but not a lot. There are a few here that are clearly from the first few to bail back in March and May: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Smile-Direct-Club-Reviews-E1043560.htm Glassdoor has become Target #1 for HR departments and shady companies to astroturf with fake reviews to pump their numbers up. Some are especially brazen about it. Ask me how I know... 
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AlternateAccount posted:Glassdoor has become Target #1 for HR departments and shady companies to astroturf with fake reviews to pump their numbers up. Some are especially brazen about it. Ask me how I know... Clearly, things so greatly improved in Q1 of 2019 that everyone immediately noticed!
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AlternateAccount posted:Glassdoor has become Target #1 for HR departments and shady companies to astroturf with fake reviews to pump their numbers up. Some are especially brazen about it. Ask me how I know... My boss at $AWFUL_JOB asked us to go online to forums and sign up for accounts with our customer's names and post good things about our company. I guess he came across a few clients posting (100% true) nasty things about us and he wanted to astroturf the form posts.
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You're going to gently caress your health if you don't push back on this. Especially if your doctor has identified a problem and a likely cause.
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Thanks Ants posted:You're going to gently caress your health if you don't push back on this. Especially if your doctor has identified a problem and a likely cause.
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AlternateAccount posted:Glassdoor has become Target #1 for HR departments and shady companies to astroturf with fake reviews to pump their numbers up. Some are especially brazen about it. Ask me how I know... Edit: the score fell right when I left, maybe my departure had that big an impact! (Not really.) The Macaroni fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Aug 15, 2019 |
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Aug 15, 2019 20:08
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Lol they're still moving forward with this "hackathon" crap next week (it's now on a Thursday and Friday instead of the weekend). Mysteriously, after myself and others quit and voiced how we felt excluded as remotes, they're suddenly making these kits for remotes who obviously can't be downtown for the event and asking for addresses to mail them to.  On the one hand, that's adorable and credit where it's due for trying to be inclusive. On the other, just EDIT: And now there's a pizza party tomorrow....... 
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Aug 15, 2019 20:24
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The only thing I'm opening at midnight is another bottle. If work wants to send me one, good on them!
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Aug 15, 2019 20:53
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I loving hate pizza parties even if I'm hungry. It's such a slap in the face. I'm a grown up, I can just go buy a pizza whenever I want.
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Aug 15, 2019 21:01
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I'll eat lunch in the office if the company is ordering in, but I'll also leave the office for an hour to have my lunch break when I'm done
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Aug 15, 2019 21:02
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I will always accept free food, just not as a substitute for a good work environment and decent pay.
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Aug 15, 2019 21:15
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It was nice when I was there last, we had catered lunch every day. I do the same thing where that isn't a substitute for a break, I'm not eating at my desk and working through lunch. I think because there are half as many mouths to feed now they did it twice as often as they used to. But the nice part is it meant since I just got a coffee in the morning, I could blow my entire per diem on an epic dinner.
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This made me chuckle at work today, thought you guys would get a kick out of it too. We have shelves above where our interns sit. Above this intern was a box of serial serial cables. I go over there and ask him to pass me the box of serial cables. He hands me the box of fruit loops he was snacking on.
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