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told the client facing team that "customized reporting for our customers is not actually something we should offer to do and is actually a pretty huge liability. If they insist we should at least invoice them for our time etc..." and they acted like I suggested we burn down their office which means they almost certainly already promised it for free in two days or some poo poo. Meanwhile a bunch of new automated metrics have been implemented to see where our time goes etc.. but it doesn't have a data point for, "doing poo poo for free based on a promise from someone in client support" which would probably be useful information.
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Apr 2, 2021 16:27
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in a job market where qualified people are backed out the door and around the corner, metaphorically, for any opening whatsoever and we can get the pick of the crop we got a temp that lasted two days. l o l I complain about this place a lot but times like this it loops back around into hilarity.
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Apr 2, 2021 16:29
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dick wizard posted:told the client facing team that "customized reporting for our customers is not actually something we should offer to do and is actually a pretty huge liability. If they insist we should at least invoice them for our time etc..." and they acted like I suggested we burn down their office which means they almost certainly already promised it for free in two days or some poo poo. Lol just lol if every single new client doesn't involve customizing huge aspects of your system because sales says yes to everything.
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Apr 2, 2021 16:39
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Our previously approved intern was just cut from the budget. Need to free up some more money to expand the marketing team by another 50%!@
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Apr 2, 2021 16:45
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ben shapino posted:any particular recommendations? or just start with my gut and throw monday.com out there?
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Apr 2, 2021 16:48
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nexus6 posted:I'm sorry, did you work here in the 70s? Some things are timeless.
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ben shapino posted:question since this seems to be the kind of thread that might have suggestions for this kind of thing I’ve been beta testing hive for our org and i like it so far. Asana plays well with jira and its pretty good. Stay the gently caress away from Rally PPM
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Apr 2, 2021 20:38
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My employer is insanely stingey about software licenses. I have made myself indispensable to our client-facing operations because I can edit PDFs.
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Apr 2, 2021 21:31
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Rent-A-Cop posted:My employer is insanely stingey about software licenses. I have made myself indispensable to our client-facing operations because I can edit PDFs. Ah, a fellow practitioner of the dark arts of the PDF! I also do basically anything that needs doing in Adobe suite. Even though I really don't know poo poo about it and everything I do know I just taught myself in the moment. People act like it's some kind of mystical knowledge known only to a select few
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Apr 2, 2021 23:31
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Outrail posted:Well, I assume this is correct. When you feed an animal it'll eventually get full* and refuse to eat. At this point it's 'fed up' and just not interested in eating and will refuse to take any more. https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/fed%20up posted:The phrase comes from the idea of being overly full, or "satiated with food." It became popular in the eighteenth century to describe lazy rich people as being fed up, or "fed up to the eyeballs." The sense of having too much of something extends to today's fed up. So, close!
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Apr 3, 2021 00:01
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Probably fake, but lol nonetheless.
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Apr 3, 2021 01:19
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A year and a month since we started working from home. Company decides to send out a 'how to work from home safely' video. We can only assume that someone had an accident recently, and this is their way to dodge any future claims.
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Apr 3, 2021 01:48
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happyhippy posted:A year and a month since we started working from home. *video of a coworker sitting in the tub, work laptop plugged and floating on a dinner tray* "Do not do this."
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Apr 3, 2021 01:56
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Batterypowered7 posted:Probably fake, but lol nonetheless. Someone finally changed the world from the inside By god
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Apr 3, 2021 03:33
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dick wizard posted:told the client facing team that "customized reporting for our customers is not actually something we should offer to do and is actually a pretty huge liability. If they insist we should at least invoice them for our time etc..." and they acted like I suggested we burn down their office which means they almost certainly already promised it for free in two days or some poo poo. lmao If you're in a company like mine where we have thousands of customers, we flat out tell every single person that we won't do any custom reporting. happyhippy posted:A year and a month since we started working from home. What was the content of it
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Apr 3, 2021 04:14
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stump collector posted:Someone finally changed the world from the inside I want it to be real and I want it to be about a video game.
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Apr 3, 2021 04:53
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AHH F/UGH posted:lmao If you're in a company like mine where we have thousands of customers
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Apr 3, 2021 06:15
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dick wizard posted:We're in the top 10 on the Fortune list and have over 40k customers. People who agree to things like this without actually checking with the department that would have to do it deserve to be fed into a wood chipper. Legs first.
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Apr 3, 2021 06:19
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AHH F/UGH posted:People who agree to things like this without actually checking with the department that would have to do it deserve to be fed into a wood chipper. Legs first. Absolutely agree and tbh they probably will. The client services/sales/marketing teams all have huge turn over because those jobs attract people who think they need to prove themselves and they try to make waves/take the Initiative and get things done which is pretty much the last thing you should be trying to do at a company like this.
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Apr 3, 2021 06:46
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AHH F/UGH posted:What was the content of it Work if you can in a quiet area. Work at an office like desk if you can. Keep your work and personnel life separate. etc No, no mention of any help from us, just do these no matter the state of your house or possibility.
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Apr 3, 2021 12:57
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Reporting time is really fun, I've spent today running a search that takes about 5 hours in our SIEM program to work out how many logs were collected total last month for a single item on some goofy chart in a report no one will read, this is very important and has crashed the last 4 times i tried to do it usually in the low 30% range of completion. this is going to have to be done by nights lol.
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Apr 3, 2021 14:57
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Meme Poker Party posted:I want it to be real and I want it to be about a video game. This McRib obsession has gone too far.
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Apr 3, 2021 15:08
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I've decided I'm putting in my two weeks Monday. I don't have another job lined up and I don't give a poo poo. I have enough in the bank to ride out the rest of the year if needed, and I'll be able to find temp work quickly enough. I know its stupid to leave a job without another lined up, but im in such a bad place mentally right now that I need to make some sort of change. I dread going into work and have so much anxiety and grief from it that leaving is necessary for my well being.
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Apr 3, 2021 21:28
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titty_baby_ posted:I've decided I'm putting in my two weeks Monday. I don't have another job lined up and I don't give a poo poo. I have enough in the bank to ride out the rest of the year if needed, and I'll be able to find temp work quickly enough. I know its stupid to leave a job without another lined up, but im in such a bad place mentally right now that I need to make some sort of change. I dread going into work and have so much anxiety and grief from it that leaving is necessary for my well being. Glad you're taking your mental wellbeing into consideration. I hope you find a better job quickly so you don't have to stress about that too much.
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Apr 3, 2021 21:39
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titty_baby_ posted:I've decided I'm putting in my two weeks Monday. I don't have another job lined up and I don't give a poo poo. I have enough in the bank to ride out the rest of the year if needed, and I'll be able to find temp work quickly enough. I know its stupid to leave a job without another lined up, but im in such a bad place mentally right now that I need to make some sort of change. I dread going into work and have so much anxiety and grief from it that leaving is necessary for my well being. I did that last January and immediately found a job with better pay, more interesting stuff to do, and a way better atmosphere. It's worth it, my anxiety and general happiness have both improved tremendously since then. Good luck!
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titty_baby_ posted:I've decided I'm putting in my two weeks Monday. I don't have another job lined up and I don't give a poo poo. I have enough in the bank to ride out the rest of the year if needed, and I'll be able to find temp work quickly enough. I know its stupid to leave a job without another lined up, but im in such a bad place mentally right now that I need to make some sort of change. I dread going into work and have so much anxiety and grief from it that leaving is necessary for my well being. If your account can 9 months of job hunting you'll be fine. Just avoid the he temptation to burn bridges if you might need them later. Goon speed!
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Apr 3, 2021 22:18
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Jeza posted:Currently contracted to the largest company I've ever worked for. Big billions and offices in scores of countries etc. Honestly pretty surprised how not terrible a lot of stuff is, but they have this bizarro thing where there are so many overlapping internal software processes. Like multiple document sharing/editing methods and so on. And part of that is they have like 5 ways to contact people, and different generations of employees have personal preferences, so you have to have like 3 chat apps, comment notifications and email open at all times.
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happyhippy posted:Work if you can in a quiet area. I'm guessing someone got carpal tunnel from using a laptop for 8 hours every day while slouched in bed or something titty_baby_ posted:I've decided I'm putting in my two weeks Monday. Excellent news. 
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titty_baby_ posted:I've decided I'm putting in my two weeks Monday. I don't have another job lined up and I don't give a poo poo. I have enough in the bank to ride out the rest of the year if needed, and I'll be able to find temp work quickly enough. I know its stupid to leave a job without another lined up, but im in such a bad place mentally right now that I need to make some sort of change. I dread going into work and have so much anxiety and grief from it that leaving is necessary for my well being. This is incredible, good for you. I wish I had done this as soon as I knew helljob was hopeless, and when the mental and emotional health effects started happening / worsening. Batterypowered7 posted:Glad you're taking your mental wellbeing into consideration. I am practically begging those people lurking this thread or actively posting in it, if you are in these kinds of situations, please, please consider your mental and emotional health. Abusive, terrible workplaces - as well as the self doubt and insecurity you may have within yourself already - will twist you into thinking that you have no other options, that your resume isn't good enough, that you have to put up with what you've got. No amount of money is worth it - I know that's a privileged thing to say, as there aren't always better jobs available that pay what you need to survive - but please evaluate how much that money would really do, versus what the job is taking from you. I am currently working through the worst period in my life right now, and part of why I am is that I put up with helljob as long as I did, and it worked with my self esteem issues and paranoia and fears and made them considerably worse. Thankfully I've found a great therapist, and I hope it isn't too late to salvage the aspects of my life that living in that situation caused so much damage to.
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titty_baby_ posted:I dread going into work and have so much anxiety and grief from it that leaving is necessary for my well being. Congrats. I hope you take a couple days to treat yourself. I'm starting to job hunt because of the same feeling as well as talking with some coworkers about a side gig. Even that has been a breath of fresh air. In the mean time I'm stacking the overtime and saving my pennies for the future.
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I know I've said this like three times already but every time I open this thread and read new posts I immediately go to my online training program and complete a new module, then I throw out a few hail mary applications. Better to get this certification poo poo done before I need it and get the full-on titty_baby experience. Please keep regaling me with stories of how horrible your jobs are because it feeds my drive to never go back to an office ever again if possible. A story from me, not horrible - Yesterday: Once again, as per usual, our newest department hire was off loving around and not paying attention to the Slack channel when our boss messages us:  Me and my supervisor (the only other people in our department) get on the Slack call and my boss just immediately goes "Well I'm not waiting for (newest member)" and just lays out the news: The wife of one of the department directors had passed away suddenly. He seemed pretty choked up because apparently their two families were quite close. He says to keep that in mind when dealing with his department or if you're having any communications with them in the future that things might be delayed for a bit. As we're saying goodbye I can hear him kind of choking back some sorrow. My supervisor and I have told our boss how sorry we are and how if anyone needs anything to let us know, the usual pieties. A few minutes after the call is over - newest department member sends a message through Slack: 
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My boss hosed up a hiring process so now I'm doing interviews this weekend, including Easter Sunday morning.
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I get where you're coming from about New Guy being a dipshit, but that image really doesn't say that to me; he could have just been taking a dump or something. Granted, if it's like that all day every day forever, then I totally see where you're coming from! Then again, I feel like my workplace has a culture of "I'll answer your IM when I feel like it. Maybe." so I just assume that if I'm IMing someone, there's a 50% chance I'm just tossing that message into the void.
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they responded less than 10 minutes later that seems more than reasonable to me ??? im not available for impromptu meetings that fast either generally
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SirPablo posted:My boss hosed up a hiring process so now I'm doing interviews this weekend, including Easter Sunday morning.
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zedprime posted:Please to be telling them "you agreed to interview on a easter Sunday? Disqualified, don't agree to stupid poo poo is a core tenet of this position" Oh yea I wouldn't hold it against them at all. Same time, the power structure is that you (applicant) can't afford to say "gently caress outta here with your Sunday interview".
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Zarin posted:I get where you're coming from about New Guy being a dipshit, but that image really doesn't say that to me; he could have just been taking a dump or something. It literally happens every. single. time. She constantly misses the slack calls (we are supposed to be at desks all day basically) and we have to start without her. Plus we all have the app on our phones. And I don't know of a single soul on earth who doesn't poo poo without loving around on their phone in 2021. This coworker does virtually nothing all day except update a few excel sheets when various emails come in from what we can tell so it's not like they're pressed for time or in another call. edit: I know I complain about this useless person but at the same time their existence is, for me, the greatest job security on earth. AHH F/UGH fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Apr 4, 2021 |
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AHH F/UGH posted:It literally happens every. single. time. She constantly misses the slack calls (we are supposed to be at desks all day basically) and we have to start without her. I don't doubt your assessment of New Person, no worries. Just more of a "whomst among us" kinda moment haha
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If you're getting indignant about someone not being available for slack calls immediately the problem is not the coworker, what the hell? I'm a busy person when I'm working, maybe I'm finishing up an email, maybe I'm looking for documentation, maybe I'm talking to someone else, or maybe I'm just taking a break and making myself a drat coffee like a human being. If a boss or coworker can't wait 10 minutes for me to be available then gently caress that. Sounds like the boss was pretty distraught but I'd be pretty offended if my team members left me out of meetings just because I'm not playing whack a mole with requests at my computer all day. The coworker sounds pretty annoying from what you've been describing but you maybe need to relax a bit more as well.
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