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I used to work at a place that instituted a "Meeting Free Friday" policy. Predictably, it lasted about a week.
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My big bosses keep on scheduling big company meetings for 0830, and then cancelling them at 2030 the night before, meaning I don't know about it until AFTER I've rearranged childcare and got myself sorted for the day.
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Jan 29, 2021 20:29
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Our, admittedly unofficial, policy is that you're expected to be available for meetings from 9 to 12, then 13 to 15, and then again 15:30 to 16 for emergencies (can't interrupt the fika). Earlier or later than this would raise eyebrows and anyone clicking "can't make it" despite their calendar not having anything in it would not be asked to explain, we'd just find another time or go without them. Meetings after lunch on Fridays are unheard of.
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Jan 29, 2021 21:38
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I went from 3-5 meetings a day to 0 at the start of the month. Night shift rules. I actually have time to do my job now!
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Jan 30, 2021 01:02
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I went from 3-5 meetings a day to 0 at the start of the month. Night shift rules. I actually have time to do my job now! If attending the meetings wasn't "doing your job", why did you?
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Jan 30, 2021 09:29
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Modern computers covering up the boot-up information (including what key to press to get to the BIOS setup) with a completely pointless and meaningless logo screen. I know you can turn it off, but only by going into the BIOS - which you now need to look up how to do on the internet because the line telling you what key to press is concealed by a stupid loving logo.
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Jan 30, 2021 11:45
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i didnt know you could turn that off ill turn it off now
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Jan 30, 2021 11:50
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Tiggum posted:Modern computers covering up the boot-up information (including what key to press to get to the BIOS setup) with a completely pointless and meaningless logo screen. I know you can turn it off, but only by going into the BIOS - which you now need to look up how to do on the internet because the line telling you what key to press is concealed by a stupid loving logo. Wait, what? I don't think even the library computers at my high school had this feature enabled. Weird. I hope it doesn't start coming standard like the non-verbose "oops we're sowwy we'll twy hard to find the pwoblem and restart :((((" Windows blue screen messages.
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Jan 30, 2021 14:03
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Video players which pause whenever you click the video itself. I guess this applies primarily to tablets, as you can't just wibble the cursor over the video to get the info you need.
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Jan 30, 2021 14:20
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CJacobs posted:Wait, what? I don't think even the library computers at my high school had this feature enabled. Weird. I hope it doesn't start coming standard like the non-verbose "oops we're sowwy we'll twy hard to find the pwoblem and restart
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Jan 30, 2021 14:22
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(((" Windows blue screen messages.
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Yeah, my current motherboard is from 2011 and pulls that poo poo. The whole BIOS menu is mouse driven too, which is a fun thing to figure out when you're doing a first-boot test, don't know it's mouse driven, and only have a keyboard connected.
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Jan 30, 2021 15:03
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my bios doesn't have that option, it did have an option for making the splash logo animated
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Jan 30, 2021 15:11
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Phosphine posted:If attending the meetings wasn't "doing your job", why did you? you've never experienced, nor heard of, nor can you even imagine, pointless-yet-mandatory meetings at work? where have you been working all your life and are they hiring
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Jan 30, 2021 15:37
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Phosphine posted:If attending the meetings wasn't "doing your job", why did you? I work safety, but for a giant corporation that loves their metrics and wants to grill the safety department about numbers and has a hard time realizing that by wasting our time doing so, they are stopping us from actually being effective. Not that the rates aren’t important, but we’re safety professionals. We are all over those rates anyway. But we need to go out and actually do stuff to make changes, and that doesn’t really click with the upper management who usually haven’t actually worked a day as an EHS specialist. But basically, InediblePenguin posted:you've never experienced, nor heard of, nor can you even imagine, pointless-yet-mandatory meetings at work? where have you been working all your life and are they hiring
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Jan 30, 2021 17:11
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I'm trying to learn Blender because I thought it'd be fun, and it is, but every lesson I can find online is almost useless because each update fucks around with the UI so much that all of the options are in completely different, buried places and fixing the smallest issues is a hassle when every answer online is to use an option that was either drastically changed or straight up gone. It's free, and I'm admittedly dumb, but it's still frustrating.
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Jan 31, 2021 18:57
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I feel like half the software development industry is just pumping out needless GUI updates every so often to remain employed
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Jan 31, 2021 19:02
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InediblePenguin posted:you've never experienced, nor heard of, nor can you even imagine, pointless-yet-mandatory meetings at work? where have you been working all your life and are they hiring God help me I can't complain about mandatory meetings enough.. Nothing ever happens, you have no input, they're rambling and pointless. It's usually all about sales, nothing about operations. If you speak up, you're chastised for it by your boss. They turn on that projector, turn the lights off, and give you death by Powerpoint. You end up spending the whole time trying not to fall asleep and just wanting to get back to actual work. You come out of the meeting, your entire staff has been slacking that hour you've lost and you have to run around kicking peoples asses to get them back in gear. Then, as a middle manager, it's all your fault according to the big bosses even though they're the ones that caused the problem.
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Feb 1, 2021 21:05
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I feel like half the software development industry is just pumping out needless GUI updates every so often to remain employed
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Feb 2, 2021 04:31
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I don't mind organising events. I'll book the table or whatever. But if I ask who's interested and six people immediately say yes, then when I ask you what days you're available, you need to give me an answer. I'll make it really easy for you. I'll put up a poll on Facebook so you can just click a check box on the days that work for you. I'll tag you in the post and send it to you on Messenger. And yet people still have to be asked and reminded and reminded again and hassled and even then there'll still be people who'll just show up on the day and go "oh, well any day was fine with me so I didn't bother answering." JUST loving ANSWER THE loving QUESTION. 
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Feb 2, 2021 07:12
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mostlygray posted:God help me I can't complain about mandatory meetings enough.. Nothing ever happens, you have no input, they're rambling and pointless. It's usually all about sales, nothing about operations. If you speak up, you're chastised for it by your boss. They turn on that projector, turn the lights off, and give you death by Powerpoint. You end up spending the whole time trying not to fall asleep and just wanting to get back to actual work. That just reminds me of one of the best things COVID did for me, the end of the monthly all hands meeting. I'm all for transparency, but 90% of it is about things that are out of my control. I can't effect sales, and I can't effect production, so the two things that drive profit are out of my control. Weirdly this is the first place I've worked where those meeting aren't dire, and we're actually making profits regularly, the bigger issue is, our parent company lumped us with two other companies, one of which just tanks the whole division, again something that's out of my loving control (we apparently made 300% profit last year, but because of them, we get no bonus, yet again). Now I get a power point in my email, that I can take 5 minutes and skim, instead of having to listen to someone elaborate on each and every single line item, so it's not so much of a peeve anymore.
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Feb 2, 2021 14:20
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youtube videos or anything where the narrator swears but it's bleeped out. why bother swearing if you're going to censor it
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Feb 2, 2021 16:05
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Shibawanko posted:youtube videos or anything where the narrator swears but it's bleeped out. why bother swearing if you're going to censor it We live in a horrible orwellian society now, so if you swear in the first few seconds to minutes of your YouTube video it will catch it during audio processing and will demonetize the thing. Yes, I'm being completely serious.
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Feb 2, 2021 17:41
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i’m glad they’re protecting us from swears while nazis are free to post what they want
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CJacobs posted:We live in a horrible orwellian society now, so if you swear in the first few seconds to minutes of your YouTube video it will catch it during audio processing and will demonetize the thing. Yes, I'm being completely serious. In other words, nishi koichi posted:i’m glad they’re protecting us from swears while nazis are free to post what they want
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Feb 2, 2021 18:29
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nishi koichi posted:i’m glad they’re protecting us from swears while nazis are free to post what they want  trumps all Youtube is also perfectly fine with tipping off chuds as to how to avoid youtube ban waves, like how they gave out explicit instructions for how to 'discuss' the 'stolen election' without getting their videos taken down. Something like claiming there was voter fraud, -or- the election was stolen, but never both at the same time, I think? If you claimed both at the same time your video would get hit, but they happily dance between technicalities to keep the chuds up and monetized because of the engagement/revenue they generate.
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Feb 2, 2021 19:12
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how the gently caress do people buy products in 2021 I'm trying to find a reputable solar power bank and my options appear to be a two-piece system from anker or a million copies of the same 3 dropshipped products googling 'best solar power bank' returns a million review blogs that only exist to siphon amazon affiliate link money off the dropshipped products hell one of them even recommends the same product under two different brand names searching youtube for them returns video reviews that look paid off or also only exist to siphon amazon affiliate link money i would like to not start a fire, please return products that won't start fires
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Feb 3, 2021 00:21
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oldpainless posted:Why not use this 1 hour you’re demanding on Friday afternoon to prepare for the Monday meeting? More like oldgetfuckedmanagementscum I feel you on the meetings, comrades, and gently caress these bootlickers who assume every corporate shithead runs perfect relevant meetings every single time
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Feb 3, 2021 00:25
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Meetings are a perfect time to do the laundry, eat some lunch or play a little poker. I love meetings.
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Feb 3, 2021 01:31
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The Perfect Element posted:Meetings are a perfect time to do the laundry, eat some lunch or play a little poker. I love meetings. Same. An hour to chill with my cats, enjoy a cup of coffee and shitpost on SA.
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MightyJoe36 posted:Same. An hour to chill with my cats, enjoy a cup of coffee and shitpost on SA. If you're not doing that the whole 8 hours, you're doing it wrong
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Feb 3, 2021 14:08
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Killingyouguy! posted:how the gently caress do people buy products in 2021 I know and it sucks that online shopping is completely inundated with scams, dropshippers and clone products, it's a complete mess. Obviously the option of going to physical store is not available currently, so you can't check out the products in person. Part of the reason why I've cut down on how much stuff I buy (other than trying to escape consumerism) is that shopping is so full of poo poo now. Either go premium with something purpose-built for backpacking/wilderness use or roll the dice and take a chance with something cheap/affordable. It depends on your needs (maybe you don't even need the solar panel if the power bank is beefy enough).
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Feb 3, 2021 14:26
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KozmoNaut posted:Part of the reason why I've cut down on how much stuff I buy (other than trying to escape consumerism) is that shopping is so full of poo poo now. I've found that since the pandemic, I've gotten into backing Kickstarters. Prior to 2020, the last Kickstarter I backed was in 2015, since 2020 I've backed 9 so far.
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Killingyouguy! posted:how the gently caress do people buy products in 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-portable-solar-battery-pack/ The Wirecutter might be the best thing the NY Time does. I think they were independent and got bought by them, for at least for now it's free and doesn't require any NY Times subscription/login. V V V Ahhh, drat. At least they're generally a good place to start. V V V DrBouvenstein has a new favorite as of 16:27 on Feb 3, 2021 |
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Unfortunately The Wirecutter is not above being influenced by which products they get kickbacks on. Some time ago, they recommended a dual-hose portable AC units over single-hose models because there's a clear difference in efficiency, which they backed up with data. Then a year later they were recommending a one-hose unit while stating that "there is a difference, but it's negligible", which goes completely against what they said earlier. Thermodynamics haven't changed, so obviously something else changed their mind. That said, they do go into pros and cons of the products they review, but remember to read about the competing products and not just their top picks, and don't trust them blindly.
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i hate reading stuff thats made for "visual learners" and is all messy and weird, just look at this crap: this is a page from a book i need to read, the illustration on the left page serves no god damned purpose and interrupts the text, on the right page there's more "examples" of stuff but again it just interrupts the text. just give me a single flowing text of prose not this kid's dinosaur book stuff
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Feb 4, 2021 03:01
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Related to meeting chat...if you're going to schedule a meeting from 4-5pm, you better have at most 60 minutes of material. Don't bullshit for 30 minutes about how these meetings are weird now because of covid, and don't trust people to cover 30 slides each in 30 minutes. A meeting that runs over time by a full hour is unacceptable. What if I, hypothetically, had something else to do? I didn't, but still, what if I had a life?
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Feb 4, 2021 04:49
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It’s a pandemic. No one really has a life right now.
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Feb 4, 2021 05:00
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CelticPredator posted:It’s a pandemic. No one really has a life right now. That's still no excuse to extend a work day for no reason other than they didn't schedule an appropriate amount of time for the meeting.
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Feb 4, 2021 05:08
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Wait a couple of minutes after 5 PM passes then say "I have other thing scheduled" then close the window. It's 100% their fuckup so gently caress 'em.
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Dip Viscous posted:Wait a couple of minutes after 5 PM passes then say "I have other thing scheduled" then close the window. It's 100% their fuckup so gently caress 'em. Good idea except I want to keep my job.
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