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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I only lasted a month there because I’ve never worked anywhere more openly morally bankrupt than a casino. Once a patron straight-up assaulted an employee and they only got a day’s ban. Ever since they brought sports betting back in Arizona our radio stations have been flooded with ads for Draft Kings and all those other fantasy football betting apps. It will be a 2 minute long exciting ad talking about all the free betting money you get by signing up and how if you bet $1 you win $100 in free bets no matter who wins and blah blah blah. Then at the very end of each of them there is a 1-2 second long clip, required by law, that says these words and nothing more in a sped-up voice: "Gambling problem? Call 1-800-whatever-hotline" It's gross
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Ughhhhh Someone around here got a hard-on for the ANDON process I now carry a radio and a WIFI phone poo poo sucks captain
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My company has been planning an in-person week in the office all next week—thankfully not mandatory, and I was planning to skip out anyway since I have to get actual work done and I can't focus with ten million people chatting and catching up in an open office. My company has also more than doubled in size since the beginning of the year, and would have been flying people in from all across the US as well as internationally. Oh, and people could bring their families. A couple hours ago, we got an announcement from the CEO that the in person week was being canceled, at the absolute last minute, after people have presumably made arrangements. Despite finally doing the right thing in the dumbest possible way, the Slack is full of sad reactions. I don't understand people sometimes, and I'm glad to have gone into the office exactly once since I got hired 3 months ago.
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Dec 1, 2021 00:20
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For more people than I care to accept, work is an escape from home life and being forced to stay home and do double-duty and/or having to interact with their family is punishment to them. Also some people need that structure to keep working properly.
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Dec 1, 2021 00:25
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ThatGirlAtThatShow posted:I work in the eldercare field, we lost 50% of our staff in November due to leaves for this reason. Our facility is for people who have VERY deep dementia, Alzheimer's, etc... Tons of 'elopement risk', tons of wildly violent behaviors, a good half of our residents are also some level of bariatric patients as well. So we're already stretched pretty thin when we have a FULL staff. We are down to 3 people on NOX shift, 1 caregiver, two aides. For 75 patients. I've heard most of these care places pay their staff in packing peanuts while chargin exuberant prices to the eldery and families that little to no other options other than leaving grandma to die. I bet they could fill all those open slots in a week if they offered an extra 5 or 10 an hour, and could likely afford it too.
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Dec 1, 2021 00:48
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Tarkus posted:For more people than I care to accept, work is an escape from home life and being forced to stay home and do double-duty and/or having to interact with their family is punishment to them. Also some people need that structure to keep working properly. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Do you even really love your family if you're not away from them as much as humanly possible?
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Dec 1, 2021 01:22
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I went to a job interview today, and it reminded me that when I applied for my current job the interview ended with a pop quiz on the fundamentals of accounting. They gave me a page of multiple-choice questions and had me sit alone in the board room at a small classroom-style desk.
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Dec 1, 2021 01:32
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Batterypowered7 posted:Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Do you even really love your family if you're not away from them as much as humanly possible? I'd say something but I moved to the other side of the world from mine. It works.
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Tarkus posted:For more people than I care to accept, work is an escape from home life and being forced to stay home and do double-duty and/or having to interact with their family is punishment to them. Also some people need that structure to keep working properly. Cool time to do this bullshit again, can't wait to be told exactly what I actually think once again.
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Dec 1, 2021 02:01
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Volmarias posted:Cool time to do this bullshit again, can't wait to be told exactly what I actually think once again. You actually also hate your job and are only a wage slave and if you say otherwise you’re just deluded and stupid. Sorry that’s how it is. If you enjoy anything about your job it just means you either bought into the company koolaid or you’re a blithering idiot but really what’s the difference.
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Dec 1, 2021 02:11
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MA-Horus posted:Ughhhhh As in the component of lean manufacturing? Andon isn’t a process per se, it’s how you notify people poo poo is hosed up. Historically referring to the “andon cord” literally a rope someone pulls to stop the Toyota production line due to quality issues. Andon isn’t an acronym it’s a Japanese word. Giving line workers authority to stop production due to quality issues is a good thing.
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Dec 1, 2021 03:21
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I have a co-worker story. As I've said before, I work for the government. I recently got promoted into the more white collar side of things. They assigned this guy to train me. He's 28 and pretty good at the job, writes SOPs and has been training me fairly well. Here are a list of other things he does: Once he found out I PC game too he let me know he plays League of Legends a lot but mostly "just to troll". He's the guy that sits in base and just pings the map and talks poo poo in chat. This amuses him greatly. Things progressed into him asking me advice for dating apps because he hadn't had any luck and just mostly used those "to troll" as well, and complained that only weird girls talk to him. A week or so later he asked me if I had ever read the book "The Secrets of the Pick Up Artists" and that he was now reading it. He went to a huge rave in Vegas to "try and meet girls" and then did a bunch of blow and E and texted me "I'm an ugly Asian boy" repeatedly at random times throughout the weekend. He makes like 85k a year and still lives with his parents, which he says is ok because he's Asian. He tells me all of this on Teams even though he sits right next to me. Today he told me that his friend asked him to be the best man at his wedding but he said no because the bride was 200 pounds and had 2 kids. He said he would never stoop to that level. At first I felt bad for him and tried to help but now I cannot help myself any longer. I just make fun of him without mercy. I told him that only weird girls talk to him because he lives at home with his parents, needs to get contact lenses and has the haircut of a 1990s FOB. I told him only a loser would need to read a book to learn how to be an rear end in a top hat to women with daddy issues. I told him that there aren't enough drugs on earth to make girls want to gently caress him, and no woman in her right mind is going to come gently caress him at his mom's house in his childhood bedroom he spends hours playing MOBAs in. I told him I didn't believe what he told me about the wedding and when he admitted it wasn't true he asked me if I knew it was false because it was too mean. I said no, I just don't believe you have a friend. I told him he can't pretend to have standards about women when he's probably never hosed one. A person starving to death isn't a vegetarian until they actually eat something. OK, that's my incel co-worker story.
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Everett False posted:I went to a job interview today, and it reminded me that when I applied for my current job the interview ended with a pop quiz on the fundamentals of accounting. They gave me a page of multiple-choice questions and had me sit alone in the board room at a small classroom-style desk. been working in accounting (payables) for about 5 years and I would miserably fail that test my first ap job made me pin up a gaap list on my cube wall and i never looked at it. i'm glorified data entry and I know how to professionally bullshit vendors looking for money. i can't even keep credit and debits straight since it all seems backwards as gently caress and my eyes slide off any page trying to explain it.
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Dec 1, 2021 21:57
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nvidiagouge posted:I have a co-worker story. lol if true, double lol if fake
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nvidiagouge posted:I have a co-worker story. Quoting for the future murder investigation.
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nvidiagouge posted:I have a co-worker story. and the coworker's name? albert einstein
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CarForumPoster posted:As in the component of lean manufacturing? The TPS can huff the farts straight from my rear end, I'm so sick of hearing about it. It works GREAT for Toyota. It doesn't work great for all manufacturing.
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Cthulu Carl posted:A member of our lovely userbase submitted a ticket that was basically "This isn't working, Tim says someone needs to fix it." What "This" is, in what way it is not working, or who Tim is was left a mystery. IM the user through Teams, mention the ticket number and ask what is happening, the user asks what the ticket number is... This'll go great. I realized today I hadn't asked my boss what happened with this lady because my ticket for her disappeared and I guess I assumed he closed it. Turns out he didn't close it. He didn't even reply to her messages and decided to ignore her because she's a piece of poo poo. Turns out she cancelled the ticket I had with her, opened a new one, got lovely with another person on my team then cancelled THAT ticket too, sooooo... She's probably never getting this mystery issue resolved!
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As opposed to getting any kind of holiday bonus, I will instead be taking a substantial pay cut. I work at a community college doing contact tracing. It's 40 hours a week, but entirely dependent on students actually being IN class at the time. It's also through a temp agency. The school will be closed from December 23rd until January 3rd. The entire office I work in will be closed as well, so no accounting, no HR, no marketing, no one. I am the only person who isn't on salary, and on top of that already make substantially less than literally everyone else. I bring home like $1600 a month... I asked my temp agency what could be done. They said "well holiday pay is typically reserved for people who have consecutively worked for us over 1200 hours" so yeah, a goddamn year before that kicks in. I said something like "okay, so I'm going to be missing a quarter of my income this month, during the holidays. Got anything for me?" and all they could offer was "well you should ask your supervisor if those hours can be made up." Yeah okay, let me just find like 60 loving hours of extra work somehow. So I'm trying not to show my annoyance, but even today most of the office is out in the common area just having an absolute ball decorating and my boss made some joke like "Yeah Grimdude there is just keeping his eyes on his monitor and hoping we don't ask him to help!" and thankfully my mask probably hid how annoyed I was and wanted to answer "Yeah I'll help decorate when someone loving pays me." Instead I just sort of shrugged while they all did their over-the-top office laugh together.
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nvidiagouge posted:I have a co-worker story. He got mad that I didn’t want to put in a good word for him where I work now. Noooooope. We are convinced that he is actually going to off himself some day when he burns bridges with the next friend and that sucks. I don’t hate the guy and he used to be fine, but we don’t really know what to do about it. He had his poo poo together a couple years ago and then fell into a deep depression.
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I interview with amazon for a good job on Monday and I am scared
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kntfkr posted:I interview with amazon for a good job on Monday and I am scared Getting it or not getting it are both probably scary, given Amazon.
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My work just had a dumb teamspace meeting where they announced a highly anticipated policy that was silently neutered in the worst way. We're a construction-adjacent inspection company so there's a couple times a year (usually when it's either way too hot or way too cold) where there's no work being done so there's no work for us to do, and since we're hourly employees that bill to projects that basically means we don't get paid during that time. I've never considered it a huge deal cause we have so much freebie overtime opportunities that you can just work extra when the work is good and save some cash in anticipation of the 1-2 weeks a year where it's an actual issue, basically I've always treated it like a flex time vacation. However, a lot of people are bad with money so there's always grumbling and the project managers finding something for people to bill the time they aren't working. Our megacorp doesn't like it when the managers do this because it's not really the intent of our system so they've been hinting at a coming new PTO/accrual system that will handle slow periods. The info we were getting suggested it was basically gonna be like sick time but for bad weather, which is a good idea and surprisingly generous sounding. Turns out the policy is that, except you're only allowed to use it if you're already burned most of your vacation, which means if you saved your vacation in anticipation of a trip or w/e, you basically never get to touch it. I clarified in the meeting that this applies even if you've gotten prior approval to use your vacation elsewhere, like say in january you book a week or two off for some spring trip that's already in the system and approved, but there's a snowstorm in feb, you're SOL. At the end of the day since it's an extra thing it doesn't change anything from the system we've had and I've been fine with and I can just ignore it's existence, but somehow they made what was meant to be a new incentive and turned it into me just feeling bitter it's something I won't realistically have any access to. I'm also vaguely worried it's gonna crop up in annual raise/promotion discussions as "look at how many extra weeks of PTO you can get a year, we're gonna pretend we expect everyone to use 100% of it and factor it into their annual compensation".
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MA-Horus posted:The TPS can huff the farts straight from my rear end, I'm so sick of hearing about it. TPS, Six Sigma, Lean, Agile, Kanban I assume they can all be good but people just cargo-cult the name and/or ceremony.
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~Coxy posted:TPS, Six Sigma, Lean, Agile, Kanban I assume they can all be good but people just cargo-cult the name and/or ceremony. Managers should really adopt Lean Sigma, or LIGMA for short.
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Grimdude posted:As opposed to getting any kind of holiday bonus, I will instead be taking a substantial pay cut. IIRC reduction in regular hours counts for unemployment insurance. Get it in writing and slam dunk it.
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~Coxy posted:TPS, Six Sigma, Lean, Agile, Kanban I assume they can all be good but people just cargo-cult the name and/or ceremony. They can all be applied piece meal in a ton of scenarios I'm just so sick of the fetishization of the TPS as the be all end all perfection.
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MA-Horus posted:They can all be applied piece meal in a ton of scenarios Idk man I had an 09 Corolla, most reliable appliance ever
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Batterypowered7 posted:Managers should really adopt Lean Sigma, or LIGMA for short. I always preferred Business Oriented Facilitation of Activities but different things work in different businesses.
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MA-Horus posted:The TPS can huff the farts straight from my rear end, I'm so sick of hearing about it. It also needs a management culture which respects their workers, their experience and their opinions. Speaking of not listening to or respecting workers, the Musk thread was just talking about companies doing surveys about why they can't keep staff and no one wants to work for them. I've done more than one such survey and, in each case, anyone who was naive enough to mention anything negative about the company was talked to by management. "Yes we're haemorrhaging staff, but how loving dare you suggest this company's practices, pay and culture are, in any way, subpar. That is not what this survey was for."
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Yeah, as with my current employer, no point in answering surveys when the truth is "you desperately need to replace the entire upper management team with people who have a clue, or at least people who are willing to place organisational success ahead of personal whimsy / ego". I mean, what's going to happen? "Wow you're right, we'll be off to fire ourselves now!"
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Goddamn. gently caress a job.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:It also needs a management culture which respects their workers, their experience and their opinions. There was one that went around a few months back and I filled it out to bitch about the lack of bonus and raise this year and to call out our boss's boss for insisting we come into the office 5 days a week when he is 100% remote while living a similar distance away from the office as some on our team. Apparently I wasn't alone in using it to poo poo on everyone I could because my boss had a meeting with his boss where they went over some responses and while my boss was able to pick out our responses from our writing styles (Or at least mine), there was some mystery person who apparently wrote a dang manifesto or something.
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Space Kablooey posted:and the coworker's name? albert einstein I swear it's true and even for a while I was like "is this guy loving with me"? I had to check if he was a goon first before I posted here but he said he hangs mostly on Reddit. It was crazy because he was just this living embodiment of every negative nerd stereotype I've seen raged about here on the forums in different places and it was kind of like finding a reverse unicorn or something.
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Outrail posted:Is a reverse unicorn a horse with a butthole on its forehead? I thought horses were all rear end in a top hat.
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Escape From Noise posted:I thought horses were all rear end in a top hat. Hmm, thats true. Maybe a horse with a horn coming out of its butt?
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The reverse unicorn horns are flared at the bottom.
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