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Charles Bukowski posted:I think a pretty sweet job would be listening to podcasts and chopping wood. No politics, just a splitting maul and a fine hard stump for your base. Holy poo poo does this speak to me. When people ask me what my perfect job would be like and I'm being honest I always reply chopping wood. Just chopping wood. Good honest physical work, constant progress, and regular satisfaction when you finished splitting a good and heavy piece. Also a question on the salutation thing to y'all, I'm not a native English speaker so my office English is rudimentary, what's a good all around salutation set for every day business mails? I've been going with dear x, or just hello x if we've reached a more informal level to greet, and either best regards or regards when closing. Is that alright?
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Feb 16, 2021 23:18
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My salutation is "sup motherfuckers"
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Feb 16, 2021 23:23
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Son of Rodney posted:Also a question on the salutation thing to y'all, I'm not a native English speaker so my office English is rudimentary, what's a good all around salutation set for every day business mails? I've been going with dear x, or just hello x if we've reached a more informal level to greet, and either best regards or regards when closing. Is that alright? Bingo. There’s also an informal hierarchy as to closers “best regards - we cool, regards - dead to me” I use “greetings” about 90 percent of the time and every time I do, I hear it in LGRs voice.
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Feb 16, 2021 23:23
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Personally I feel "Hello [name]/[All]" and "Best, [my first name]" to be the most bland, and therefore best.
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Feb 16, 2021 23:28
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teen witch posted:Bingo. There’s also an informal hierarchy as to closers “best regards - we cool, regards - dead to me” 
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Feb 16, 2021 23:29
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teen witch posted:Bingo. There’s also an informal hierarchy as to closers “best regards - we cool, regards - dead to me” Great, thanks! didn't know about the hierarchy. If you don't like these things I can recommend getting some business partners in Denmark/skandinavia, they go directly for the "hi first name... Regards". It's very relaxing as they mostly don't give a gently caress.
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Feb 16, 2021 23:31
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Its funny how ingrained formal email responses are. My boss asked me to ask the other director in our office for some training on a particular subject, and in the email they wrote everything very formally explaining how my boss has the wrong idea but that they could train me in a semi related thing. I know if I asked them in person they'd say "yeah your boss doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. That's not related in the slightest." and then we'd probably talk poo poo about him around the water cooler for another 15 minutes
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Feb 16, 2021 23:35
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teen witch posted:Bingo. There’s also an informal hierarchy as to closers “best regards - we cool, regards - dead to me” My hierarchy is: 😀 posted:Hi [name], 😐 posted:[name], 😠 posted:[extremely terse content]
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Feb 16, 2021 23:40
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I only say "Hello," as a salutation and "Regards," as a sign off, unless I'm asking for something and then its "Thanks,". I'm an engineer tho so I feel I get away with robotic email
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Feb 16, 2021 23:48
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Dumb poo poo: Sit through 10 hours of mandatory online training about how terrible it is to be a bully, sexual harasser, or bigot, as well as “don’t buy nice poo poo for clients to bribe them into buying our poo poo, also don’t bill company A for work done for company B goddammit” ethics training. Like the fact that this is even necessary speaks volumes about the amount of lovely poo poo going down regularly. Cool poo poo: 300$ allowance for buying office supplies every half year so i can get me a non garbo keyboard finally. Yay.
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Feb 17, 2021 01:32
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fresh_cheese posted:Cool poo poo: christ, and my boss and I both had to fight for months to get less than $100 authorized after a diagnosed RSI while rejecting my doctor's "bring in occupational health for an evaluation" instruction unless she came in in person and did it despite it not being her field. Cherish the cool poo poo. I'd sit through the dumb poo poo monthly for that.
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Feb 17, 2021 01:37
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Very jealous of all of you who can work from home. I work for the power company in NYC and you would think we would be considered essential workers (we're not). Thankfully i qualified for the vaccine because of health issues. with that being said, many of my coworkers don't wear masks and think it's "just the flu". Even though pretty much everyone knows of family or friends who have had covid and a few who have even died. yet it's still a hoax and MY FREEDOM!!! This includes a coworker who wore a half face respirator back in march/april 2020, but now made fun of me for wearing a surgical mask, while he wore nothing. gently caress people. edit: masks are to be worn at all times if social distancing is not possible. signs posted everywhere....but can't complain to anyone since even the supervisors don't follow these rules. Some Guy From NY fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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Feb 17, 2021 02:10
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I teach 7th and 8th grade science. Remotely, right now. I like it for a couple of reasons and hate it for whole bunch more. -My commute usually takes about an hour. I miss my audiobooks and concerts, but I have saved about $2,000 in fuel costs since March 13. -I am reasonably safe from COVID, since I stay home most of the time. (This may change, when they decide to push us back into the classroom. I know that I had 9 tables in my classroom before, each holding 4 students. They have added 9 more tables to my room. There is now about a foot between tables, but they are fairly large, so one kid per table would be OK. Just no room to move around.) -One thing I hate is the fact that we are doing Google Meets. Our district does not allow us to demand that the students turn on their cameras, so I only know if they are there if they voluntarily turn on their camera (about 4 kids out of 175), or if they respond to a question from me. About half of my students log in, then go off and watch TV or play X-box. I'm not allowed to penalize them for not actually being there, as long as they log in. -The biggest thing I hate is the fact that I can't do any labs or demos . The best I can do is maybe find something on YouTube that is related in some way to what we are learning. However, I am getting paid, and I get to spend more time at home, which is not bad at all.
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Feb 17, 2021 03:21
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Son of Rodney posted:Holy poo poo does this speak to me. When people ask me what my perfect job would be like and I'm being honest I always reply chopping wood. Just chopping wood. Good honest physical work, constant progress, and regular satisfaction when you finished splitting a good and heavy piece. Easy answer? Good day, (good for weird timezones) Good morning, Good afternoon, Good evening, --- I work with the Fed gov't, and the military. I did my time, so I typically go with a Sir / Ma'am / Chief. But holy hell when an officer that is an rear end in a top hat does not get addressed by their rank / sir. Some of them flip the gently caress out. "DID YOU JUST ADDRESS ME AS DAN, CHIEF?! I'm a Lieutenant! and will be addressed as such." (Chiefs are enlisted, LT's are officers.) and I just sign off with v/r Blight Then some people still reply to me with Mr. Rhino, even though i kind of expressed I'm good with just Blight. That's mildly annoying. Mr. Rhino is my Dad! Ha Ha. I'll also admit to being like that science dork on the Simpsons where he says Good Morning to Homer (or whoever) and Good Afternoon to Marge. If you say good morning to me at like 1205, i'm going to have thoughts about that. That I'd never bring up, but still. Thoughts. But, I can be highly regarded. blight rhino fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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Feb 17, 2021 03:35
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Genesplicer posted:I teach 7th and 8th grade science. Remotely, right now. I like it for a couple of reasons and hate it for whole bunch more. Yeah, half the coolness of being a Science Teacher is doing all sorts of random explosive demonstrations and what not
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Feb 17, 2021 03:41
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God I never even thought about trying to teach science remotely like that. And the student experience trying to learn science that way.  Science class was so amazing due to the hands on nature of it, the access to equipment and chemicals and everything. That's awful.
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Feb 17, 2021 03:49
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Gene how far away from your job do you live to spend $2,000 a month on gas???
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Feb 17, 2021 04:45
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He said 2000 since March 13th
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Feb 17, 2021 05:23
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Oh in that case he spends like nothing on gas, drat
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Feb 17, 2021 05:43
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Son of Rodney posted:Great, thanks! didn't know about the hierarchy. Always down with the mvh
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Feb 17, 2021 07:02
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Gene if you want to make sure they're there can't you randomly say 'everyone put on the chat box what's 2+2' and if a kid takes longer than 20 seconds three times in a row fail them? Or is that bullying now?
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Feb 17, 2021 07:48
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Genesplicer posted:Teacher thaangs. My brother teaches 7th gr. Remotely and in person at school because covid isnt real i guess according to the charter school mgmt. He has probably 3-4 students who actually show up and do anything at all. 20 ish who log in and turn some BS in with 0 effort. 20 who have literally done nothing at all this goddamn year. I dont know how he, or you, stays motivated, but i am proud that he ( and you?? ) does. I have a seventh grader in a different district and i swear to god good teachers are literal saints among lesser people. I listen to my kids teachers doin their teacher thaaangs over Teams while i do my BS computer touchin thaaaangs over webex for work and they are putting in way, way, way more effort than i am and i am shamed for it. Youre people makin me look bad in front of my kid, is what im sayin Gene. Keep it up.
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Feb 17, 2021 07:49
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SkyeAuroline posted:christ, and my boss and I both had to fight for months to get less than $100 authorized after a diagnosed RSI while rejecting my doctor's "bring in occupational health for an evaluation" instruction unless she came in in person and did it despite it not being her field. Shiiiiiiit.... my man here had rsi so bad he couldnt drive into work for the work from work for great collaboration!!! mandate and eventually got “administratively separated” for his trouble. Hes fine now. Got +70% moving to an exclusive WFH deal for a NGO of some kind or other. Me ive got the Stockholm syndrome so these nice bits of decency are plenty enough and im legit thankful for it because I know it is literally the least this bigass company can do. My keyboard really is poo poo tho - rubber domes bleh gross it sucks. Hope the new one actually has cherry reds like the catalog said. Is it sad im looking forward to a keyboard? Yeah. Yeah it is. And thats ok.
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Feb 17, 2021 08:05
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fresh_cheese posted:-One thing I hate is the fact that we are doing Google Meets. Our district does not allow us to demand that the students turn on their cameras, so I only know if they are there if they voluntarily turn on their camera (about 4 kids out of 175), or if they respond to a question from me. About half of my students log in, then go off and watch TV or play X-box. I'm not allowed to penalize them for not actually being there, as long as they log in.  My kids' (elementary school) teachers absolutely call them out for having the camera off if they're supposed to be "present" for the lesson (as opposed to 'you're done the assignment, goof off for the next 10 while others catch up' time). At that point I feel like you should just tailor the lesson to whoever's actually going to listen and make it like a 1 or 2 person class with a bunch of randos sitting in.
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Feb 17, 2021 08:30
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Oh my god it is 2021 do not embed a massive image in an email please lord Satan
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Feb 17, 2021 10:22
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I've done a few science demos on camera to classes. It goes fine if you rehearse first and know your setup. Then again, I wasn't doing it for fortyfuck pissy middle schoolers.
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Feb 17, 2021 10:54
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teen witch posted:Oh my god it is 2021 do not embed a massive image in an email please lord Satan  but PowerPoints Actually don't email me files at all
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Feb 17, 2021 12:52
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Emailed a power point with a video in it of them presenting a different PowerPoint presentation. 
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Feb 17, 2021 13:01
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Emails with cutesy fonts and background texture images like it's loving 1996, except the texture is now a high-res, billion colour piece of poo poo.
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Feb 17, 2021 13:22
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goatface posted:Emails with cutesy fonts and background texture images like it's loving 1996, except the texture is now a high-res, billion colour piece of poo poo. Jeffery make a blink and scrolling tag.
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Feb 17, 2021 13:26
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teen witch posted:Oh my god it is 2021 do not embed a massive image in an email please lord Satan luv 2 come into work and get an email from a customer titled "machine broken?" that is just 5 blurry full res phone pics and a "sent from my samsung galaxy 8" for context
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Feb 17, 2021 14:03
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:luv 2 come into work and get an email from a customer titled "machine broken?" that is just 5 blurry full res phone pics and a "sent from my samsung galaxy 8" for context yup, i get the same here except it's "part no fit". i'm lucky if i get the blurry pictures because i can usually figure out why part no fit if there's at least a picture and go from there.
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Feb 17, 2021 16:14
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I'm going to start writing my emails in word, screenshot it and send the jpg. I bet I can send three of them before someone notices.
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Feb 17, 2021 16:26
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my boss literally once told me I have too much personality in my emails and took away a bi-weekly meeting that I organized and hosted because i made it "too fun" true story i need a new job
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Outrail posted:I'm going to start writing my emails in word, screenshot it and send the jpg. I bet I can send three of them before someone notices. You joke, but I knew a guy who would do something like this. He would take a screenshot of his 2 monitor display, zoom it in on the thing he had issues with, save the picture and then print it out, scan it and email it with handwritten comments explaining his problems. Our scanners could email direct to people so you would just get this thing with the subject line "sent from a Xerox printer" and open up this PDF that looked like a conspiracy theorist circling things that proves we never went to the moon.
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Feb 17, 2021 16:37
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A friend of my boss sent an unsolicited nude to one of my coworkers. My boss said he couldn't do anything about sexual harassment because it took place outside of work hours. Wtf. If that had been a man sending a woman unsolicited nudes, he would have been fired on the spot.
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Scathach posted:A friend of my boss sent an unsolicited nude to one of my coworkers. My boss said he couldn't do anything about sexual harassment because it took place outside of work hours. Wtf. If that had been a man sending a woman unsolicited nudes, he would have been fired on the spot. This probably turns into a can of worms unless they can prove the boss knew about it or endorsed it. E: To start with find out where the nude sender works and make a complaint to that company? Outrail fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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Feb 17, 2021 17:01
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Scathach posted:A friend of my boss sent an unsolicited nude to one of my coworkers. My boss said he couldn't do anything about sexual harassment because it took place outside of work hours. Wtf. If that had been a man sending a woman unsolicited nudes, he would have been fired on the spot. Your boss is full of poo poo. A receptionist at a job I held many moons ago sent an unsolicited nude to a client after hours, and her rear end was on the street 15 minutes and one incensed phone call to the owner later. Your coworker needs to talk to an attorney immediately.
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Feb 17, 2021 17:10
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The person who sent the nude can be dealt with by making a complaint to the company. I think the bigger issue is the nude sender's friend (the boss) is effectively endorsing the action and won't be admonished for it. The buried lede here is if the coworker gets the boss friend in trouble/fired then they'll be in the bosses sights in the future.
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Scathach posted:A friend of my boss sent an unsolicited nude to one of my coworkers. My boss said he couldn't do anything about sexual harassment because it took place outside of work hours. Wtf. If that had been a man sending a woman unsolicited nudes, he would have been fired on the spot. I'm a little confused. If the sender doesn't work for your company, how could your boss fire them on the spot?
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