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Dik Hz posted:Can I just rant for a second.... I've been hearing (and probably using, occasionally) de-risking for at least a couple years. Consulting yay. Speaking of bad words that I hate: utilizing. JUST SAY USING FUUUUUUUUUUUCK
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I've never heard of it before, but I can't wait to start utilizing "de-risking" in my day-to-day.
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Jun 11, 2021 16:59
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knox_harrington posted:I keep getting approached to work at the clinical research unit of Philip Morris. "It's cancer. It's always cancer."
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Jun 11, 2021 17:00
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knox_harrington posted:I keep getting approached to work at the clinical research unit of Philip Morris. Yikes
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knox_harrington posted:I keep getting approached to work at the clinical research unit of Philip Morris. "OK, but what if we check and THIS time it DOESN'T cause tumours?"
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knox_harrington posted:I keep getting approached to work at the clinical research unit of Philip Morris. if you work for PM you get a free pack of cigarettes or snuff a day, so...
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Owlspiracy posted:if you work for PM you get a free pack of cigarettes or snuff a day, so... Work for, volunteer to be a lab rat for, whatever.
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My first internship interview during grad school was with Altria. In the final interview, dude pulls out his dip and starts spitting right there. They were shocked I turned them down.
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Jun 11, 2021 18:04
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rafikki posted:Work for, volunteer to be a lab rat for, whatever. at least as of a few years ago you got a special card that you can use on the tobacco vending machine once a day (it was tracked) and yes people openly smoke/dip in meetings
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Jordan7hm posted:Speaking of bad words that I hate: utilizing. JUST SAY USING FUUUUUUUUUUUCK blessings be upon you
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knox_harrington posted:I keep getting approached to work at the clinical research unit of Philip Morris. Mission Winnow for us all. I’d hope this has come up in here before, actually. If you want the most incredible goldmine of meaningless buzzwords, it’s hard to find something better. In case it hasn’t: https://www.missionwinnow.com/en/what-is-mission-winnow-/ One teaser, but the whole site is great: quote:Mission Winnow is a PMI-driven initiative to demonstrate our commitment to continuous innovation and development of new solutions that can expedite positive change for society. Inspired by the drive and dedication of our partners, it articulates how we are transforming our business through science and by adopting a new way of thinking and exploring every option.
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Banzai 3 posted:Mission Winnow for us all. This website is violence.
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Omne posted:My first internship interview during grad school was with Altria. In the final interview, dude pulls out his dip and starts spitting right there. I went to business school with a women that worked for Altria. She got a lot of side-eye from classmates.
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Jun 11, 2021 18:24
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One of the covid vaccines in trials uses a genetically modified tobacco relative to grow the base vaccine and was developed by a tobacco company lab.
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Jun 11, 2021 18:31
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Smithwick posted:I went to business school with a women that worked for Altria. She got a lot of side-eye from classmates. Yeah they actually did hire a few interns for that summer, and one of them went to work full-time. For what he was interested in (market research and analytics) Altria is pretty top-notch; you're just using that knowledge to convince more people to keep killing themselves and others.
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Jun 11, 2021 18:37
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altria is pretty evil, but i know someone whose job was to help design guidance software for cruise missiles at a defense contractor
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Smithwick posted:I went to business school with a women that worked for Altria. She got a lot of side-eye from classmates. I do not believe for a second that business school students would judge someone for being logistics director at Auschwitz, let alone just working for a cigarette company.
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Jordan7hm posted:Speaking of bad words that I hate: utilizing. JUST SAY USING FUUUUUUUUUUUCK On the other hand, it can be safely said that companies are only ever using their employees.
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Thanatosian posted:I do not believe for a second that business school students would judge someone for being logistics director at Auschwitz, let alone just working for a cigarette company. nah people will be super judgey while simultaneously making excuses because they know that there's a good chance they would "have to" do something similar in the future
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Jun 11, 2021 21:19
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strawberrymousse posted:Boy, that A/B plan almost lasted a whole week--that's a new record for my org! Quoting myself again because at this point even I can barely keep track of where the goalposts started out. My supervisor asked us all to provide feedback about how valuable we find WFH. Said she was going to press the point with my boss to at least have 1-2 WFH days a week. Today my supervisor asks if she can talk to me for a minute, and literally the first words out of her mouth are "So, I thought your feedback was really great but I just want to make sure we're establishing the correct baseline here. It sounds like you consider WFH [that you have done for 15 months now] to be the baseline. WFH has been a great treat for us all but being in the office is the baseline." Then proceeds to let me know that she'd like us all to have 1-2 WFH days but this means we'll have less coverage of "essential tasks". So if someone calls out on no notice, she reserves the right to call someone in on no notice to cover. Those who may encounter transportation issues are encouraged to take an Uber on their own dime, because "the car is not in my possession right now because you told me I was WFH today" will not be considered an excuse. I love how no matter how lovely my org is behaving, somebody there can always find a way to make things even more poo poo. Inspiring.
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No jury would convict you. Well, maybe a jury of boomers.
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At that point why bother? Those places are clearly not going to permit working from home, period. They'll use it as an excuse during annual reviews (but of course being in the office won't actually improve your scores). They won't even want you to work from home when you're sick, so expect routine flu spreading starting... now. (Since they announce every month as flu season since about 2016).
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Thanatosian posted:I do not believe for a second that business school students would judge someone for being logistics director at Auschwitz, let alone just working for a cigarette company. We had a guy that worked there in our class. He was at school to exit the job/industry so he didn't get a lot of poo poo. Like a lot of us, he got the job he could in the recession and had worked there since.
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PhantomOfTheCopier posted:At that point why bother? Those places are clearly not going to permit working from home, period. They'll use it as an excuse during annual reviews (but of course being in the office won't actually improve your scores). They won't even want you to work from home when you're sick, so expect routine flu spreading starting... now. (Since they announce every month as flu season since about 2016). We just had an email come out today with the bulletpoint "Coming back to the office shouldn't be seen as a punishment"
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Xguard86 posted:We had a guy that worked there in our class. He was at school to exit the job/industry so he didn't get a lot of poo poo. I feel like the bolded could use a bit more specificity, given the quoted post....  
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I work in physical security. So some days I get asked to do some ethically good stuff, and sometimes people have asked me to do some shady as gently caress poo poo. Sometimes the shady as gently caress poo poo is alright, like the time the CEO of a company asked me to help design and set up a camera system for the place that runs his underground card game. Sometimes it's reading between the lines and realizing that I'm asked to make a system do some racist poo poo. There were repercussions for declining that, but sometimes being diplomatic about things can lead to confusion. Where as telling them to go gently caress off you racist piece of poo poo has the advantage of clarity. The biggest issue with shady poo poo was when some rear end in a top hat would point someone with clearly untreated mental illness my way. They clearly have paranoia issues that need to be addressed by a mental health professional. But they won't seek one out. Discouraging them without feeding their issues was a challenge.
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Paracaidas posted:I feel like the bolded could use a bit more specificity, given the quoted post.... Hahah. Well you know back in '35 there weren't too many options...
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Paracaidas posted:I feel like the bolded could use a bit more specificity, given the quoted post.... Technically, the Era of Warm Beer was a recession...
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I just can't imagine why you'd pick business school when your entire skillset is following orders.
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apparently everyone sassily sharing that bloomberg article about people quitting rather than returning to the office on linkedin has begun shifting my place's plan from a 1 week in/3 weeks home structure to "well the 1 week in the office can be more like 3 partial 10-2 days if you want"
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Tobacco companies pay well do not the most evil place to work especially as they pivot towards pot and other drugs. It’s not working for an investment bank or oil company (which I did)
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Last minute wfh change here No more hybrid. Everyone's going back to the office like nothing ever happened. The mass exodus already started lol
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Renegret posted:Last minute wfh change here Luckily my supervisor basically told me that I can wfh as long as stuff is getting done.
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My company started half opening offices with hotel desking, thank god my manager lives in another state and we've been hiring other employees remotely from out of state. I think I would quit before going back in
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I'm frustrated because I really like my job and the only reason I'm even surviving the graveyard shift is because of the WFH. It's already taxing my body to the limit, and that's without the 1 hour commute each way. I'm gonna get forced to leave a job I love
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Renegret posted:I'm frustrated because I really like my job and the only reason I'm even surviving the graveyard shift is because of the WFH. It's already taxing my body to the limit, and that's without the 1 hour commute each way. When the pandemic lockdowns first started, I thought the massive change in everyone's daily lives was going to force businesses to confront all the problems they'd been ignoring this whole time. Maybe this would represent a turning point in modern society. Once I figured out how naive that was, I thought that at least the allure of cutting costs would accomplish something. Why pay for offices and equipment when you can have the employees do it? Yet as it turns out, even improving the bottom line isn't as important as making sure the frogs are jumping on command.
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Jun 12, 2021 03:38
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Yeah 100% the most important thing for most executives is being able to directly enjoy their control over people.
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My boss just ordered the whole team docking stations to use at home. I'm so confused. Why am I getting a docking station a year after WFH started, a month before we're set to end.
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Renegret posted:My boss just ordered the whole team docking stations to use at home. For the new mandatory on-call they'll be announcing next week. Since you proved you can do your job from home might as well have you do it from the office AND at home. Efficiency!
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Motronic posted:For the new mandatory on-call they'll be announcing next week. Since you proved you can do your job from home might as well have you do it from the office AND at home. Efficiency! We already have mandatory on-call rotations. In the almost a year I've been here I haven't been called a single time, so it's a free $300 every 4 weeks.
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