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Non Krampus Mentis posted:Told my boss at the staff meeting that I was feeling overwhelmed because the procedures for recipes keep changing. That's too much bullshit to put up with in a kitchen. My processes change quarterly and that's in turbomachine engineering.
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Non Krampus Mentis posted:Told my boss at the staff meeting that I was feeling overwhelmed because the procedures for recipes keep changing. no one wants to work anymore
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Non Krampus Mentis posted:Told my boss at the staff meeting that I was feeling overwhelmed because the procedures for recipes keep changing. I'm a chef and there's rarely ever a good reason to change an established recipe/process.
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Apr 12, 2022 18:27
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Lol it took me a while to realize many of my IT coworkers were socially dysfunctional and hate talking to end users. I know that's nothing new and an old stereotype but my manager was telling me other depts kept mentioning they liked how I would answer their emails promptly and didn't mind talking on the phone which I guess put me in the top 1%? Part of it for me was that I could explain how to do things to people where they could both understand it and not feel like I was calling them an idiot. Referring to processes or UI elements as "counterintuitive" did a lot of heavy lifting for me.
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Apr 12, 2022 19:29
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Found out today that our company's process for dealing with computers that have possibly been hacked is to tell the user to... Leave it on their home network for weeks while the security uses it as a honey pot. Also they don't tell us and use a completely different ticketing system that in no way looks like our tickets, so when the user asks us for a new PC they'll give us a ticket number that sounds completely made up! 
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Cthulu Carl posted:Found out today that our company's process for dealing with computers that have possibly been hacked is to tell the user to... Leave it on their home network for weeks while the security uses it as a honey pot. Also they don't tell us and use a completely different ticketing system that in no way looks like our tickets, so when the user asks us for a new PC they'll give us a ticket number that sounds completely made up! Don't residential ISPs lock down internet service for customers serving up malware?
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Apr 12, 2022 20:17
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Zil posted:Don't residential ISPs lock down internet service for customers serving up malware? Possibly? Either way, my team settled in the process of "gently caress it, take it into the office and put it on the network, because some user will do it anyway." The process before we got bought was "turn that poo poo off, yank the battery, and generally handle it like nuclear waste to pass it to Info Sec to quarantine it in arcane wards and sigils."
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Apr 12, 2022 20:28
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pile of brown posted:I'm a chef and there's rarely ever a good reason to change an established recipe/process. I’m not a chef, and this reasoning is constantly used to justify not changing things that are clearly completely loving stupid at my work. “There’s a process” is something I hear daily when I question why something has gone badly wrong and why we didn’t do something differently when it was obvious what was happening
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Apr 12, 2022 20:59
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Scientastic posted:I’m not a chef, and this reasoning is constantly used to justify not changing things that are clearly completely loving stupid at my work. The comeback to that is "well the process is broken, if your recipe keeps making burnt cookies, it's not the baker's fault"
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Apr 12, 2022 21:06
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pile of brown posted:I'm a chef and there's rarely ever a good reason to change an established recipe/process. In this case, I can’t find one. We were doing chocolate chip cookies by first making and freezing the dough, then baking that dough on a daily basis so cookies were fresh every morning. Now we’re just baking the whole batch at once and freezing the baked cookies. It’s stupid, it takes up more freezer space, I’m pretty sure the cookies aren’t going to taste as good, and my boss gave no goddamn reason for the change. And as I was leaving, my boss says “I know you don’t want to do any new recipes but how about if we try a completely new pie and a new scone recipe this weekend?” My brain feels like it went through a cheese grater.
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Scientastic posted:I’m not a chef, and this reasoning is constantly used to justify not changing things that are clearly completely loving stupid at my work. I said rarely, because sometimes there is a good reason to change a recipe or process, and when there is, I do. Usually though it's someone who is lazy and doesn't want to do something tedious so they create an inferior process instead. I already tested the recipe and streamlined it for production, it's a rare case when a cook with 2 years experience can improve it. That said, I do always welcome input from my team that interacts with the recipes/pickup multiple times a day, sometimes they do find something I hadn't seen. pile of brown fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Apr 12, 2022 |
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Why not cook a 1 cu ft cookie to save space, freeze it for longevity, and carve smaller cookies off it as needed? *taps eyeball*
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Outrail posted:Why not cook a 1 cu ft cookie to save space, freeze it for longevity, and carve smaller cookies off it as needed? You could be the person to invent cookie shawarma!
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Volmarias posted:You could be the person to invent cookie shawarma! I think I could get high enough to make this seem like a fantastic idea.
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Outrail posted:I think I could get high enough to make this seem like a fantastic idea. The only thing stopping this from happening is you
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Apr 13, 2022 01:47
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Employee appreciation pizza is the worst kind of pizza.
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Apr 13, 2022 01:57
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Sanctum posted:Employee appreciation pizza is the worst kind of pizza. Why because it is always from the cheapest place imaginable and is always cold by the time it gets to the office?
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Apr 13, 2022 02:07
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One of the benefits of living in a state with Costco. Their pizza is cheap and amazing.
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Jelly posted:One of the benefits of living in a state with Costco. Their pizza is cheap and amazing. I like those coffee machines they have in some food courts. $1 for a decent latte, heck yeah.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I like those coffee machines they have in some food courts. $1 for a decent latte, heck yeah. I should go grab a hot dog soon, making myself reminisce.
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:I'd gently caress it if they'd pay me enough Buddy... e: Zil posted:Why because it is always from the cheapest place imaginable and is always cold by the time it gets to the office? And it's always that ultra thin cardboard crust type that they cut into squares instead of slices 
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Sanctum posted:Employee appreciation pizza is the worst kind of pizza. One place I worked tried to pull that poo poo with like Dominoes, I told them we were ordering from the *good* pizza place even if it cost more. It was a way better time.
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Takes No Damage posted:Buddy... Thin crust is the best crust Pizza and luckily we have enough higher end pizza places near our office that one is always an option for lunch.
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"Please note, the social gathering will now be occurring on April 21st. It's still out back by the dumpsters! Please no contractors, employees only!" I have attained different employment and will not be able to attend this amazing get together. I am hopeful one of my former co-workers will light a dumpster or two on fire to really set the ambiance and mood of the place.
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Lol found mail on my desk this morning no one had bothered to deliver until now, glad this correspondence from August 2021 wasn’t critical. I don’t mind walking somewhere to pick it up but concerning admin didn’t mention it had arrived.
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Takes No Damage posted:Buddy... 
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I have always found people appreciate a make your own fajita bar way more than pizza ordered from the worst place in your area.
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pile of brown posted:I'm a chef and there's rarely ever a good reason to change an established recipe/process.
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Today I came in and not only is the dishwasher broken, the plumber is here and turning the water on and off. In related news it’s day 2 of devoting most of my mental energy to not having a full neurodivergent You hosed My Entire Routine meltdown at work.
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Non Krampus Mentis posted:In this case, I can’t find one. We were doing chocolate chip cookies by first making and freezing the dough, then baking that dough on a daily basis so cookies were fresh every morning. Now we’re just baking the whole batch at once and freezing the baked cookies. It’s stupid, it takes up more freezer space, I’m pretty sure the cookies aren’t going to taste as good, and my boss gave no goddamn reason for the change. Speaking from experience in my current job, it's more efficient space wise to make the cookie balls then freeze in a vertical stack rack (each of ours can hold sixty half trays with two dozen balls each and still be reasonably mobile). Then you just portion into individual dozens and throw em in the oven. We do this weekly. gently caress your idiot boss.
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Non Krampus Mentis posted:Today I came in and not only is the dishwasher broken, the plumber is here and turning the water on and off. In related news it’s day 2 of devoting most of my mental energy to not having a full neurodivergent You hosed My Entire Routine meltdown at work. Don't decompenasate at work, but if you do, do it all over your bosses desk. Especially wherever they keep recipes.
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Compressing six hours of emails and calls: A customer asked me if they should expect parts in today or if they need to wait to Monday. I checked with the manufacturer who was really confused because the next order they were aware of wasn't due in until June. This kicks off an investigation that takes forever because or supplier portal is so incredibly slow and bad at processing information it's not uncommon to need three hours for even incredibly targeted searches. I run a search in our purchasing system at the same time and find the answer much faster. There is an order for the part in question due in today, but the person who put in the order hosed up and hit a couple things she shouldn't have, so it never appeared in our tracking or demand lists. The vendor never saw there was an order and so production was never started. These are six-month lead time parts and the order was issued in July of last year. I didn't create the order so I'm technically blameless, but I expect I'm going to be yelled at a lot when everyone comes back from the long weekend.
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Minor update on my wrongful termination negotiations (I feel like I maybe posted this already but I'll be brief): The company came back with a totally predictable "what medical issues are you talking about" "here's $2,500 to go away" response. They asked a couple stupid, belligerent, leading questions. I wrote out my own responses and supplied them to counsel. She held a bunch of ammo back and just cited basics and then... she just casually dropped in the worst part of the discrimination case into the demand letter as a quick throw-away sentence at the end of a paragraph. It's literally the smoking gun in a discrimination case and the casual way she mentioned it without actually giving away anything specific had me rolling. The lawyer who receives this is going to have to go find out what the gently caress are they talking about! and guess what... I now know most of those HR people have been fired or quit since January. I mean, it was just a mic-drop moment presented in a way if you weren't being careful you might gloss right over what it means to the EEOC and to your liability. The rest of the letter just lowered the lump payout by a good-faith (about 8%) amount based on current damages. Speaking of which, my EEOC claim was filed officially with the demand letter that was sent back to the company yesterday, so there is no doubt any longer that if they don't settle we will meet in Federal Court. In like a year. I considerately had my counsel provide them a courtesy copy of the EEOC filing.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Minor update on my wrongful termination negotiations (I feel like I maybe posted this already but I'll be brief): Finally, a feel good story 
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Mister Facetious posted:Speaking from experience in my current job, it's more efficient space wise to make the cookie balls then freeze in a vertical stack rack (each of ours can hold sixty half trays with two dozen balls each and still be reasonably mobile). Then you just portion into individual dozens and throw em in the oven. We do this weekly. We squish the cookie balls down just a little bit so they're lower than the lip of a sheet pan. Fit about 140 per pan and don't need any space between pans in the racks. Can freeze thousands, pull out hundreds whenever we want.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Minor update on my wrongful termination negotiations (I feel like I maybe posted this already but I'll be brief): gently caress 'em up!
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Animal-Mother posted:We squish the cookie balls down just a little bit so they're lower than the lip of a sheet pan. Fit about 140 per pan and don't need any space between pans in the racks. Can freeze thousands, pull out hundreds whenever we want.
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Animal-Mother posted:We squish the cookie balls down just a little bit so they're lower than the lip of a sheet pan. Fit about 140 per pan and don't need any space between pans in the racks. Can freeze thousands, pull out hundreds whenever we want. We only have two people making them ata time. Doing thousands many would interfere with all the other bullshit that makes us get out late every single day since i joined this place :-/
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Mister Facetious posted:We only have two people making them ata time. Doing thousands many would interfere with all the other bullshit that makes us get out late every single day since i joined this place :-/ Sounds like they need to hire more staff. Or bank cookie overtime once a week to get on top of poo poo?
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Director of Operations? Director of operating a loving email to the effect of nothing
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