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Hyrax Attack! posted:Keep hearing my MegaCorp's IT headcount is ultra limited and we've had to defend posting for positions when people leave the dept, and adding new people just doesn't happen as management stares vacantly when the terms "zero backups," "unable to fix costly issues," and "hoping we don't get caught" come up. I genuinely want to know what company you work for so I can buy the stock and then start pressuring the board to fire all of these people
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I just had to exchange 5 emails with IT regarding getting a new mouse (mine is 5 years old and the buttons are worn out to death, clicks register half the time). This exchange cost more than the actual mouse if you just count the salaries, not to mention the cost of opportunity of actually getting some poo poo done instead of wasting time. Before I leave this place I am going to start rumors that IT is gonna be outsourced soon because of WFH.
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We're very aggressively rolling out a new program at work, so there are a LOT of questions from people on a very tight timeline for implementation. We had a conference call on Tuesday and someone asked who they need to contact if their dedicated "Subject Matter Expert" is on vacation or tied up with someone else's issues. "Go a step up the chain on the posted hierarchy." Okay, that makes sense, we can follow that. Well I guess a lot of people emailed up the chain because we had a call today where we were now told NOT to do that, because the people up the chain are "Being bombarded with questions." So now we email our subject matter expert and hope they get back to us before the deadline, which is next Friday. And yes, they made a major deadline like this on a holiday week.
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Sep 2, 2021 14:52
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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 Strategy manager - tells strategy officers they need to make the good numbers go up and the bad numbers go down Strategy officers - tells product associates they need to make the good numbers go up and the bad numbers go down Data quality analyst - tells strategy directors when the good numbers go down and the bad numbers go up Product associate - tells the people who actually make or do the thing that change the numbers to make the good numbers go up and the bad numbers go down Just kidding. Mostly.
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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 Absolutely normal. There's a bunch of them around here and as near as I can tell, they have meetings and do PowerPoint decks. One of them applied for a job with my team and looking at their CV, I still can't tell what they did, what skills they bring to the table or why they thought they'd be a good candidate candidate. Especially anyone with 'strategy' in their job title nonathlon fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Sep 2, 2021 |
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Sep 2, 2021 16:33
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Yeah completely normal. Sometimes we get a "so and so is out of the office next week" emails and while I assume they are someone important because otherwise why would they email, I still have no loving clue who these people are and I've worked here for a decade lol
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Sep 2, 2021 16:39
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Sometime back in July, we got something that is essentially big rear end Surface on a wheeled easel. There was no explanation other than "it's for meetings" (we have something like 40 conference rooms in our building, all rigged for teleconferences, none user because of covid). We've been using it to stream Netflix because gently caress it, no one's here. Today a corporate communication email came through letting everyone know that there's this Surface cart thing available for meetings in a building where there's only like 50 people here. The email end with "the Workspace team is looking to understand the value that roam boards bring, so we'll be sending out surveys!" So we apparently spent thousands with f dollars on a device that's not going to be used and whose benefits are completely unknown to the people making the decisions.
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Sep 2, 2021 17:21
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Boss update: lol he's stuck in NYC indefinitely in the aftermath of a hurricane and he has done this entirely to himself Enjoy trying to get to Eastern Europe now I guess
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Sep 2, 2021 17:24
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Cthulu Carl posted:Sometime back in July, we got something that is essentially big rear end Surface on a wheeled easel. There was no explanation other than "it's for meetings" (we have something like 40 conference rooms in our building, all rigged for teleconferences, none user because of covid). We've been using it to stream Netflix because gently caress it, no one's here. Synergy.
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Sep 2, 2021 17:28
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SkyeAuroline posted:Titles tend to be meaningless. Anyone who's more vested in their title beyond 'What title will make people listen to me so I can do my job' is most likely a useless fuckwit. I've started asking people what title they want when we make the job offer. Nobody cares. In past jobs it was customary to change your title depending on the client/email recipient/amount of coffee consumed/phase of the moon.
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Sep 2, 2021 17:34
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Cthulu Carl posted:Sometime back in July, we got something that is essentially big rear end Surface on a wheeled easel. There was no explanation other than "it's for meetings" (we have something like 40 conference rooms in our building, all rigged for teleconferences, none user because of covid). We've been using it to stream Netflix because gently caress it, no one's here. Please put the following steps in order: Buy the thing Deploy the thing Research the thing Decide if you should buy the thing
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Outrail posted:Please put the following steps in order: They're already in order (  I assume)
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gschmidl posted:They're already in order. This guy is management material for sure.
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Sep 2, 2021 18:00
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Our entire business model is dependent on us demonstrating significant discounts vs MSRP to get customers to buy from us. Management has made the call that we will no longer be allowing customers to view MSRP nor disclosing the amount we discount. This is totally fine and totally won't be walked back in days when the obvious problems emerge. (Oh and all those MSRPs have to be taken down by hand. No word on when we're expected to make time for that.)
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Sep 2, 2021 18:31
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My job title is hilariously vague, but not in a typical business-y way (Sr Assistant Vice President, etc) or a trying-too-hard way (Fun-gineer or something), or even a “call everyone an engineer” way. It actually makes me sound way more industrial than my actual job. Unfortunately it’s also unique enough that I’d rather not say it. When I first applied the job listing said it was for a Sr [my profession], but when I got to the interview stage they said “Sorry, we had to pick that in our HR system to get the right pay rate. It’s actually more like [variation on my profession that would typically pay less].” Fine by me, I was getting burned out on the parts that are different between the two anyways and they were offering way more than my old job for mostly easier work. I didn’t learn about the actual title until later. I asked why it was called that and was told the previous job title was basically just “employee who uses a Mac” and it evolved from there.
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Outrail posted:Anyone who's more vested in their title beyond 'What title will make people listen to me so I can do my job' is most likely a useless fuckwit. Unfortunately, it matters a lot when looking for new jobs. I was a “Program Assistant” for years, and when a bunch of staff left and I picked up new duties I requested I be called “Program Coordinator” (along with a pay raise). I have a LinkedIn profile I only engage with when starting new jobs, and an Indeed resume I only update when I get new titles or whatever. Literally a week after I updated both those things from “Assistant” to “Coordinator” I started getting headhunted. Ended up finding a new job during Covid (which sucked but paid more), and that job led me to my current job which pays even more and loving rocks. So yeah, titles within companies vary in their meaning, but always push for a better title cause it’s a big help when you’re looking for new work.
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Yep, the title I had at my last job opened so goddamn many doors for me, getting EHS Specialist instead of something medical related (which is what I was initially hired to do) let me really branch out.
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Sep 2, 2021 20:20
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Does anyone's company have interest based slack/teams channels? Like for people who want to teach themselves python or like to crochet or whatever?
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Sep 2, 2021 20:37
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CarForumPoster posted:Does anyone's company have interest based slack/teams channels? Like for people who want to teach themselves python or like to crochet or whatever? We just have a handful of public channels no one is allowed to post in.
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SkyeAuroline posted:We just have a handful of public channels no one is allowed to post in.  but not because they can't but because the boss is in there as well so it's just another work panopticon
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Sep 2, 2021 20:42
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Cthulu Carl posted:Sometime back in July, we got something that is essentially big rear end Surface on a wheeled easel. There was no explanation other than "it's for meetings" (we have something like 40 conference rooms in our building, all rigged for teleconferences, none user because of covid). We've been using it to stream Netflix because gently caress it, no one's here. Do you work in my company? We got some of these as well and they are pointless.
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Sep 2, 2021 20:45
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CarForumPoster posted:Does anyone's company have interest based slack/teams channels? Like for people who want to teach themselves python or like to crochet or whatever? I don't know about chrocheting or hobbies in general, but we do have at least one engineer chatter channel, and cat and dog pics channels.
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Sep 2, 2021 20:53
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Having unconscious bias training from HR and of course some CHUD has to chime in and say that people aren't gonna be able to speak candidly for fear of offending someone and that this type of discussion should be kept outside of the workplace (because we're here to work). Buddy, the only people afraid of speaking their mind are people that know their opinions are garbage.
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lol "can't speak candidly" you see the difference between black people and ni
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It's hard to work if you have to keep track of a bunch of slurs you're not allowed to say
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Kuros posted:Do you work in my company? We got some of these as well and they are pointless. Like I said, ours has been handing for streaming poo poo to watch in this empty building. I got to ruin some dude's day because he wanted a file recovered. That file? His saved passwords in Chrome because "the help desk tech deleted my work and personal passwords without my permission!" He didn't like my offer to pass the ticket up to Information Security so they can chime in on storing corporate credentials for a major financial institution on an unauthorized third-party service.
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Unauthorized 3rd party is no good but your company (all companies) should be mandating some sort of password manager with different strong (16+ character alphanumeric) passwords for every account. I used to like KeePass but its iOS app was hot garbage ~2 years ago so I jumped to BitWarden. By default it’s another 3rd party site but apparently you can spin up your own server and point clients at it. https://bitwarden.com/help/article/install-on-premise/
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Unauthorized 3rd party is no good but your company (all companies) should be mandating some sort of password manager with different strong (16+ character alphanumeric) passwords for every account. Yeah, Keepass is the one we're supposed to use. Didn't stop people whining when they got upgraded to Windows 10 because it didn't have Sticky Notes by default and "But I use those for my passwords!"
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Cthulu Carl posted:Yeah, Keepass is the one we're supposed to use. Ugh gently caress sticky notes. I never figured out what the point of that was. Other than saving my passwords, obviously.
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Nobody is going to the website with the QR code we put on the product! Thats not my problem, I sell the product not the QR code and I don't manage the site You've got to fix this Hey it looks like the QR code doesn't go to an active website and just sends you to an error page <silence>
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Barudak posted:Nobody is going to the website with the QR code we put on the product! "Measure once, cut twice" in action
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Sep 3, 2021 01:28
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Barudak posted:Nobody is going to the website with the QR code we put on the product! Lmfao
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Barudak posted:Nobody is going to the website with the QR code we put on the product! I feel great joy
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Betazoid posted:Ugh gently caress sticky notes. I never figured out what the point of that was. Sometimes you need to jot down a quick phone message or to-do list. 
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Sep 3, 2021 02:47
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My job has said we must only wear masks they supply to us. Said masks are trash-tier blue masks that fail the candle test. I'm still using my own because if I get written up for wearing an N95 I'll print out the email and have it framed.
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Pekinduck posted:My job has said we must only wear masks they supply to us. Said masks are trash-tier blue masks that fail the candle test. I'm still using my own because if I get written up for wearing an N95 I'll print out the email and have it framed. It's not quite as dumb as you think; Mandating a certain mask stops the fuckwits that decide a face shield is a mask, or any of those stupid "I'm technically-wearing-a-mask  "-masks. It's just undercut by someone buying crap in bulk for cheap.
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I’m still seeing those stupid beads-on-string masks in public so I get the motivation. Leave it to CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY to miss the point entirely and ban N95 masks though.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:I’m still seeing those stupid beads-on-string masks in public so I get the motivation. What What are beads on string masks?
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AHH F/UGH posted:What I’m guessing like those beaded curtains hippies use instead of doors but for your face.
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AHH F/UGH posted:What I was going to assume those masks sewed by crafters that feature a bead on the elastic loops to adjust it for fit. Like this:  But maybe it’s something worse?
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