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Outrail posted:Keeping track of the various entities we have dealings with was getting difficult so I made a simple sheets document so people could jot down a few notes on each company/person. The intent is to have somewhere that has concise notes on the current status of people so we know where we are with various negotiations. This will save me a lot of time. Stay safe spreadsheet CRM goon you might be able to improve the situation by constraining the acceptable values in as many cells as you can get away with... though yeah, this is literally why CRMs are a thing.
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poisonpill posted:Rotating through a ton of SVPs this year. Still, profits are up somehow Haven't been there long enough to start changing anything but the upper deck chairs, meaning people can just focus on their work? honda whisperer posted:Eh I don't hate the guy or anything, and overall the jobs great so don't poo poo where you eat in this case. It's 90% he makes more work for himself.. if the guy who runs the laser wants to I won't talk him out of it. To be clear, if he didn't do this... would he have enough other things to do to not just be outed as deadwood? Or is he salary and this is making significant unpaid overtime so it's not likely
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Been out of a job for a few months, reading this thread as a form of exposure therapy so I'm ready for office bullshit again.
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Sanguinary Novel posted:Been out of a job for a few months, reading this thread as a form of exposure therapy so I'm ready for office bullshit again. Or, y'know, motivation to live as a wild man in the forest.
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Tarkus posted:Funny thing was that they had a big fancy ERP system that they used every day An erotic role play system? F.A.T.A.L.?
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Machai posted:An erotic role play system? F.A.T.A.L.? Enterprise resource planning. I had the same reaction the first time I heard it in a professional context.
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My previous job was a "crown entity" (similar to a govt agency but with differences you can google if you want). I came from the private sector but got hired for this newly created position where commercial experience was key. After being in the role for a while they were doing another round of hiring and a few people in the organization applied. Two of them approached me about the role and what they looked for in the interview process - both were people who I thought could handle it and, if hired, would take less time to get up to speed than I would (already knowing how things operated, in-depth knowledge of the systems, and good people skills). Neither progressed to a second interview because they lacked "commercial experience". Two months later they had both left for higher paying and less stressful roles elsewhere. Did I mention they were two of the highest performers in their department? Anyway this kept happening. Internal applicants were passed over for people outside. I would understand this if there were some key skills that these people lacked but the emphasis on "commercial experience" seemed to be far down the list of things an applicant would need. Since leaving that role* I found out that this was just an excuse to not progress the applications further. This was because my managers were pressured by their managers to not "steal" star performers. Is was easier for our division to keep hiring external applicants that deal with the internal politics. The irony was that these star performers left each and every time within months. So they were gone anyway. (I hope that made sense - I am trying to the keep the organization and nature of my work secret) *Had a few drinks with former colleagues including a manager who may have said more than they should have.
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Apr 26, 2021 11:51
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So my work is now making us put in our login information before using the internet. Never have had to do this before. Everyone is freaking out about them monitoring our search histories now. One person was like "what if someone searches something weird under your login??" I'm just afraid people will realize that I, the veterinarian, google diagnoses and treatments all the time (there are legitimate vet websites out there with professional level info I'm not going to petmd or whatever but still)
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Apr 26, 2021 12:07
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It's standard for companies to know who searches what on company computers. Unless you are all sharing some without logging in first.
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Sounds very familiar to my previous place of work. While it was part of a government department, all the senior leaders were trying to turn it into a company and brought in consultants to recommend completely impractical management and HR changes. One of the changes virtually eliminated the incentive to get promoted within the organisation, so most of the capable people left for industry or another government department.
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Apr 26, 2021 12:42
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"Commercial experience" is a good excuse for why they just hired someone from the same consultancy firm that they used to work for.
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Apr 26, 2021 14:01
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If you're on a company owned PC on a company network they already have your connection history based off your MAC address.
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zedprime posted:If you're on a company owned PC on a company network they already have your connection history based off your MAC address. If you're using your own device on a company network, always use a VPN. If you're using a company device on a company network, only use it for work. Rules to live by.
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does anyone here admin a slack instance by chance. i am curious what kinds of snooping and passive text search they offer to companies to track their employees communications. i think obvious admins could read any private conversations they want to but does it go further than that even? obviously dont say stuff on slack you wouldnt wAnt your bosses to read but im wondering what exactly they have on offer
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Apr 26, 2021 14:34
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Given a decade ago a company I worked at went through company chat logs to find enough evidence of "not being a team player" to fire someone they didn't like I would assume with the progression of technology slack knows where you buried the body.
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Dixville posted:So my work is now making us put in our login information before using the internet. Never have had to do this before. Everyone is freaking out about them monitoring our search histories now. One person was like "what if someone searches something weird under your login??" I'm just afraid people will realize that I, the veterinarian, google diagnoses and treatments all the time (there are legitimate vet websites out there with professional level info I'm not going to petmd or whatever but still) I have some bad news for them about their search history from before this as a sysadmin
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ElectroMagneticJosh posted:I came from the private sector but got hired for this newly created position where commercial experience was key. This happened to me but it was several companies with non-poaching agreements. It's illegal and the company pressuring others in the area not to poach continues to hemmorage skilled staff because they promise the moon but can't offer anything people want. Once you're in it's difficult to leave because half the competition has this agreement and won't will take hires from the them so everyone leaves the area.
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Apr 26, 2021 14:46
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My search history is recorded, but given the amount of time I have spent streaming sport while working I don't think they give a poo poo. Maybe if it was porn they would.
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thathonkey posted:does anyone here admin a slack instance by chance. i am curious what kinds of snooping and passive text search they offer to companies to track their employees communications. i think obvious admins could read any private conversations they want to but does it go further than that even? obviously dont say stuff on slack you wouldnt wAnt your bosses to read but im wondering what exactly they have on offer This might be outdated now but it wasn’t as simple as the admin being able to snoop on private convos, they have to do a data export which probably wouldn’t happen unless there was some legal requirement. So your DMs are actually relatively private. Admins can snoop on locked group chats though, causing much hilarity when employees think their group bitch/banter sessions are private
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:I have some bad news for them about their search history from before this as a sysadmin Everyone uses different computers throughout the day so no one computer is tied to anyone. I just think it's funny that they think people are gonna secretly search for porn or something under their user info.
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Dixville posted:I just think it's funny that they think people are gonna secretly search for porn or something under their user info. Oh you sweet summer child
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Dixville posted:Everyone uses different computers throughout the day so no one computer is tied to anyone. I just think it's funny that they think people are gonna secretly search for porn or something under their user info. Are we not supposed to do that?
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Dixville posted:I just think it's funny that they think people are gonna secretly search for porn or something under their user info. Hey, uh, buddy, we need to have a chat.
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Dixville posted:Everyone uses different computers throughout the day so no one computer is tied to anyone. I just think it's funny that they think people are gonna secretly search for porn or something under their user info. Lolllll
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Dixville posted:I just think it's funny that they think people are gonna secretly search for porn or something under their user info. So this was a LONG time ago, but one of my first jobs was at a manufacturing plant. I was only a month into the job, when corporate IT has me grabbing various PCs and hooking them up in a secured area. Long story short, literally everybody in the facility (except for HR and me) was emailing and storing huge amounts of porn on their work computers. They figured it out because somebody emailed a huge zip of porn to so many users at once it crashed the server.
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Crackbone posted:So this was a LONG time ago, but one of my first jobs was at a manufacturing plant. I was only a month into the job, when corporate IT has me grabbing various PCs and hooking them up in a secured area. The only thing that's baffled me about this sort of thing is how anyone below upper management has enough privacy to do this and not immediately get caught, if not by managers then at least by a coworker. But maybe that's just me and my lack of a dedicated office. On that note, time for yet another move of desks this week. Maybe if I'm lucky I won't be directly under a loudspeaker pointed directly downward and playing a 4 hour loop of 80s "hits" (occasionally swapped for a 3 hour loop of stadium country), like I have in the last four locations I've gotten moved to.
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Crackbone posted:So this was a LONG time ago, but one of my first jobs was at a manufacturing plant. I was only a month into the job, when corporate IT has me grabbing various PCs and hooking them up in a secured area. Did you work at a porn manufacturing facility?
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TotalLossBrain posted:Did you work at a porn manufacturing facility? Every business is a porn manufacturer if you've got the right kink.
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Minor issue but my larger dept that uses a shared Google Calendar but can't handle simple out of office events. If you're out of the office you just need to set an event to all day, label it "Hyrax out of office" (no need to specify what dental procedure is being done on which tooth), and everyone else sees a small note on that day. Boom, done. You do not need to create an eight hour event that shows up in red for the entire day, or in the case of half my team, provide zero notice and assume they'll figure it out (it was fun seeing a rare rebuke from a director to a toxic coworker about that).
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SkyeAuroline posted:The only thing that's baffled me about this sort of thing is how anyone below upper management has enough privacy to do this and not immediately get caught, if not by managers then at least by a coworker. When I say everybody except HR and me, I wasn't kidding. The shift supervisors, line managers, and site managers included. The HR rep was a woman, and I assume I was just too new to get included in the group.
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I know that in the past when people used their work PCs to search for gun ammo and stuff they got told off. I use my personal PC for all my work stuff now, and at work the worst thing I'd search is videogame wikis and stuff, which I think the IT guys either appreciated or most likely didn't give a poo poo about. We also get cell phones and it's well know that people are constantly using them for gaming, porn, personal texts, whatever. Those can't be monitored like the work PCs can, however.
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Apr 26, 2021 16:41
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Twitch is blocked on the VPN but Youtube and Facebook aren't.
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One of the warehouse staff hid a body in the attic of one of the warehouses a couple years ago. I can only imagine the type of porn they were looking at on the computers...
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when my company expanded into the US one of the employees they brought over got caught looking at porn so weird that they stopped monitoring our work laptops entirely, although that was two acquisitions ago and very much not still the case today dude didn't even get fired or anything but if you ever brought up what they found on the computer to someone who knew they'd get this thousand yard stare and kind of trail off, honestly what a loving flex
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Fried Watermelon posted:One of the warehouse staff hid a body in the attic of one of the warehouses a couple years ago. I can only imagine the type of porn they were looking at on the computers... Wait what? was this in the US?
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Wait what? was this in the US? Considering we had someone die and get put in a walk-in freezer in a place near where I live (not necessarily in that order, but I'll have to look it up for detail), it wouldn't be unprecedented for the US.
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Batterypowered7 posted:Twitch is blocked on the VPN but Youtube and Facebook aren't. all the upper level managers use the unblocked things
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lol i got complete, admin level access to my work's salesforce, marketo and wordpress installations, on my home equipment and network, with no VPN, within 72 hours of starting there i'm glad they trust me and all but uh, seems a bit sloppy
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can i get an account
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thathonkey posted:can i get an account hell naw this is a sweet gig
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