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nonathlon posted:You're not narrowing it down. Weird, it’s like my top two google results. Gotta love the algorithm. https://patch.com/connecticut/greenwich/uconn-prof-faces-car-vandalism-charges https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fo...02-957d38d4920a
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My bad - I missed some of the cases you were pointing out. That's a doozy.
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Aug 31, 2021 16:43
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Yeah, it’s bad enough that the last I heard he was doing research in Eastern Europe because no American university will touch him now.
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Aug 31, 2021 17:14
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:My grad school had a bunch of poo poo happen with this one professor that was baffling and horrible (not my department luckily). Was this at UMKC? If not I think it happened at my school too
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Aug 31, 2021 20:00
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Yeah, it’s bad enough that the last I heard he was doing research in Eastern Europe because no American university will touch him now. Dang, the most any of my UConn professors got was investigated by the FBI for inappropriately acquiring materials for his son to make explosives with.
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Aug 31, 2021 20:58
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Akumu posted:Dang, the most any of my UConn professors got was investigated by the FBI for inappropriately acquiring materials for his son to make explosives with. Wait when was that? It sounds familiar
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Aug 31, 2021 21:23
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Wait when was that? It sounds familiar This was in 2010.
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Aug 31, 2021 22:06
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Akumu posted:This was in 2010. That was the year I graduated, explains why it rings some bells.
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Aug 31, 2021 22:07
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A prof I almost did a postdoc with ended up murdering his boyfriend in some sort of hosed up sex-murder-suicide thing with a third party he met online. It's not surprising at all, academia is filled with crazy neurotic people
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Sep 1, 2021 05:53
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My company is out of stock into next year so badly they've already pre-emptively asked me to not do so much next year. They did, somehow, find stock to send me a sample unit (sans attachment) so I can stare at it I guess? Whatever its pretty and will look excellent on my mantlepiece as I regale people with tales of what it would be like to have to do my job to sell these.
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Sep 1, 2021 14:50
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Barudak posted:My company is out of stock into next year so badly they've already pre-emptively asked me to not do so much next year. Same. Except the company owner is trying to make me actively prospect for new customers. And we won't have stock for 95% of our items until February. The best part is that he's leaving to go to Croatia today for...idk. I don't know why anyone would fly to Eastern Europe in a pandemic. But he is. And I'll be long gone from here by February.
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Sep 1, 2021 14:54
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We have had backorders open since March 2020 that people are still expecting and I'm supposed to keep kicking the can down the road because my boss sees customers as ATMs and workers as bagmen.
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Sep 1, 2021 14:55
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Mormon Nailer posted:Same. Except the company owner is trying to make me actively prospect for new customers. And we won't have stock for 95% of our items until February. Croatia is incredibly beautiful and covid isn't bad there right now
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Sep 1, 2021 15:02
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Blowdryer posted:Croatia is incredibly beautiful and covid isn't bad there right now My boss is unvaccinated and very stupid, this is still a terrible idea.
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Sep 1, 2021 15:03
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I eagerly await him getting turned away at the border tbh.
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Sep 1, 2021 15:03
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Meanwhile, I have an interview for a WFH job that is more my wheelhouse and no sales, and I don't have to talk on the phone or go to meetings. I would very much like this job that has a normal schedule, with benefits and a better salary, so I don't have to ever leave my goon hovel again.
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Sep 1, 2021 15:05
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Mormon Nailer posted:Meanwhile, I have an interview for a WFH job that is more my wheelhouse and no sales, and I don't have to talk on the phone or go to meetings. I would very much like this job that has a normal schedule, with benefits and a better salary, so I don't have to ever leave my goon hovel again. I had a mandatory on camera call today and I actually swore under my breath as I rooted around for the clean business shirts I havent touched in years
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Barudak posted:I had a mandatory on camera call today and I actually swore under my breath as I rooted around for the clean business shirts I havent touched in years This is why I use a photo and tell them that for security purposes I cannot be on video. They generally don't question it because I worked for Big Infosec Firm some time ago for a long while and the people who demand on camera meetings don't genuinely understand that I'm being a poo poo.
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Sep 1, 2021 15:12
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Barudak posted:My company is out of stock into next year so badly they've already pre-emptively asked me to not do so much next year. You should just somehow sell all your stock through to retirement age and kick back for the next however many years.
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Sep 1, 2021 15:17
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I don't know why but the global economy getting upended by resource shortages leading to limitations in how much one can sell is just very funny to me All anyone ever planned for was increasing amount of being able to produce and getting sales rolling ahead of that, but not the inevitability of the opposite eventually occurring
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Sep 1, 2021 16:38
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StrangersInTheNight posted:I don't know why but the global economy getting upended by resource shortages leading to limitations in how much one can sell is just very funny to me We had a cold war to get here. Or a cold war to kill plan (command) economies
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Sep 1, 2021 16:45
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Coworker complained former dept member did too much to help another dept, then when they took over the other team wasn't thrilled with communication becoming hostile and work subpar. Like getting mad at postal customers when they aren't happy there's new person on the route replacing the friendly guy and mail begins disappearing or shows up soaking wet.
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Sep 1, 2021 20:08
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Mormon Nailer posted:My boss is unvaccinated and very stupid, this is still a terrible idea. Dumb poo poo your work does - My boss is unvaccinated and very stupid
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Sep 1, 2021 20:15
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StrangersInTheNight posted:I don't know why but the global economy getting upended by resource shortages leading to limitations in how much one can sell is just very funny to me I've been telling my team for a couple years that they need to build more lead time into their schedules because the stuff we normally buy, off the shelf electronics and computer components, were going to become scarce. I also started telling anyone who would listen that some of our older designs were going to need to be reworked as companies were going to stop producing low-sales items if supply chains tightened. Nothing changed and the end result is that we're constantly late because a part that used to be a two week lead time now takes three months and companies have been sunsetting equipment made to the older standards like gen 1 firewire connectors, so we're redesigning a bunch of assemblies while on the clock to deliver completed builds. I get over 100 emails a day and at least a third of them are project managers asking why I put in such long lead times on parts they need in a day or two. In terms of other dumb things my work does, we're buying a crazy number of End Of Life/Not for New Designs programmable power supplies because the successor part "doesn't work the way they said it does." What that means is that if we set the newer unit up the exact same way with the same software we cooked up as the previous model it won't function right. Instead of looking into where the problem is or contacting the manufacturer our team just insists the manufacturer lied and that the supplies aren't capable of the thing they are meant to do. I finally had enough the other day and asked the department manager if he thought that the manufacturer was just knowingly distributing non-functional hardware at a couple thousand dollars each and opening themselves up to a bunch of lawsuits from customers who had catastrophic failures caused by their faulty parts (the particular issue we were seeing could have possibly fried $10,000 of equipment if we weren't careful), or if it was possible that we were the problem. After 20 or so seconds of awkward silence I got "We may be the issue, it's possible. We don't really have a budget to find out, though." We apparently do have the budget to buy a dozen unusable power supplies and accessories, though.
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https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/true-name
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My work is GUNS A BLAZING EVERYONE BACK TO THE OFFICE IN SEPTEMBER NO EXCEPTIONS. They've reintroduced a few groups the last few weeks. There has been 6 positive covid cases in the last 2 weeks. There was 6 the last 6 months. NO, we are not delaying a return to work. NO, we are not forcing people to get vaccinated. Also, since schools are open, if your kid needs to isolate? Well gently caress you, you're still not allowed to work from home. Hope you have vacation time left, or come into the office if you want to get paid. "it’s important to understand that some will experience discomfort with the change, but reintegration is only taking place with the health and safety of all employees in mind." You CANNOT eat lunch in the break rooms though. Problem solved.
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manpurse posted:My work is GUNS A BLAZING EVERYONE BACK TO THE OFFICE IN SEPTEMBER NO EXCEPTIONS. If I were you I'd mitigate my "discomfort" by polishing up my resume and taking as many interviews as you can get.
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Atopian posted:"I'm sorry Bob, your numbers are the best in the department. You made ten sales this afternoon. We have to let you go." That reminds me - stupid stuff my wife's employer did. She was the best sales person in her department by a long distance - financial sales so her numbers were EAP (estimated annual profit) and she had EAP numbers in the multiple millions. Things they did to try to stop incentivising her;
She eventually burnt out, gave up and retired early but holy poo poo this is a company worth billions with trillions in assets just loving pay her. We did get a whole bunch of nice holidays and other perks out of it before they stopped everything.
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cynic posted:That reminds me - stupid stuff my wife's employer did. She was the best sales person in her department by a long distance - financial sales so her numbers were EAP (estimated annual profit) and she had EAP numbers in the multiple millions. Things they did to try to stop incentivising her; Stop! You're making us too much money!
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:Stop! You're making us too much money! Yeah, but she's a woman, so it's still bad.
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September 13th the whole office starts back. I loving hate this so muchquote:As we embark on this next phase of return together, the Agency looks forward to welcoming everyone back in person and to working together to continue to keep each other safe. "As we embark"? What the gently caress?
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TontoCorazon posted:September 13th the whole office starts back. I loving hate this so much as you embark on the train to death, fueled by nothing other than management's need to maim their employees for no reason other than butts in seats and micromanagement
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Lmao our managers just laughed and went "yeah, no return to office until delta dies off" I can't believe a giant rear end MIC is this cool about everything.
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We are going permanent wfh/hybrid. We own one building and lease two others in the complex. The leases won’t be renewed and we are gonna remodel the main building to have more collaborative spaces for groups to come in and work together. When they surveyed everyone the answer was pretty overwhelmingly WFH or come in just a couple days a week. we were already heavily cloud focused so nothing skipped a beat when everyone was sent home a year and a half ago. Turns out listening to your employees can save you money!
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Is it normal to have no loving idea what most of the job roles mean in your workplace. Wtf is a strategy officer or a strategy manager or a data quality analyst or a product associate. I just constantly hope these people don’t talk to me
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devmd01 posted:We are going permanent wfh/hybrid. We own one building and lease two others in the complex. The leases won’t be renewed and we are gonna remodel the main building to have more collaborative spaces for groups to come in and work together. Lol my company signed a 10 year lease on a one and a half floors in a second building of the office park we're, spent god knows how much on sit-stand desks and PC setups there, and opened it in November 2019. Now we've stripped it of anything useful and the official position is "Um... I guess it's really expensive storage space??"
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Cthulu Carl posted:Lol my company signed a 10 year lease on a one and a half floors in a second building of the office park we're, spent god knows how much on sit-stand desks and PC setups there, and opened it in November 2019. 
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Haha we signed one of those leases in February 2020, fully furnished it, telecom wiring, set up redundant internet coming in, trenched fiber across the parking lot to our main building, etc. There have been maybe 15 people going in to that building for any reason since we got told to got home.
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Prism Mirror Lens posted:Is it normal to have no loving idea what most of the job roles mean in your workplace. Wtf is a strategy officer or a strategy manager or a data quality analyst or a product associate. I just constantly hope these people don’t talk to me Titles tend to be meaningless.
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