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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:oh it wasn't a workflow, it was the graphical environment. I deleted a big graphical bill of materials and the thing crashed. I have 10 years of TC experience and have never seen someone delete a full BOM. NX, maybe. TC I didn't know you could.
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This stupid loving beer is never going to stop dogging me. I recently had to change the hops I was using in it due to supply chain issue from Europe, now I guess we can't get one of the yeasts (Philly Sour), so now I guess we need to go back to using a lacto sour pitch, witch is fine I guess, but costs more. There's a possible domestic product, but that might be even pricier. I would say "Whatever, if that's what they want, it's their loving money!" but they've already told me I won't get a raise from them unless my beer makes a profit. All these changes will probably mean another slowdown in production and a further delay on outside sales too. Rad!
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May 14, 2022 19:44
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Regarding Walmart stocking stories there were articles a few years back about how they were absolutely barebones for store staffing to minimize payroll but pushed it too far where most of the shelves were bare and they’d have almost no cashiers. It was interesting how even from a heartless MegaCorp perspective they found they really did have to have some employees. I also did back of the envelope math and confirmed the Walton family could give every employee $100k and still be billionaires. They probably won’t.
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May 14, 2022 19:58
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Regarding Walmart stocking stories there were articles a few years back about how they were absolutely barebones for store staffing to minimize payroll but pushed it too far where most of the shelves were bare and they’d have almost no cashiers. It was interesting how even from a heartless MegaCorp perspective they found they really did have to have some employees. They need that money for defending themselves from vehicular homicide charges!
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May 14, 2022 20:03
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Regarding Walmart stocking stories there were articles a few years back about how they were absolutely barebones for store staffing to minimize payroll but pushed it too far where most of the shelves were bare and they’d have almost no cashiers. It was interesting how even from a heartless MegaCorp perspective they found they really did have to have some employees. We couldn't keep people between the low pay and the psuedo-cult atmosphere around Sam Walton. If you've seen Severance, the cultish aspects of that office are only a degree or two less extreme than real life walmart.
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May 14, 2022 20:04
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I very briefly worked for a moving company called Two Men and a Truck. They were desperate for warm bodies and would basically hire anyone. I was desperate for anything so I took it and had to watch this orientation video and it was about how these scrappy brothers, with the truck they borrowed from their dad and a little bit of elbow grease, started this giant company! And their mom designed the logo! How sweet. At the end of this bullshit the guy interviewing me asked me what my favorite part was. I just said the last thing I remembered as my soul left my body.
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May 14, 2022 20:10
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Charity Porno posted:We couldn't keep people between the low pay and the psuedo-cult atmosphere around Sam Walton. Oh man that would be bad to be expected to worship a founder while getting paid nothing. My MegaCorp’s founder is well regarded and wealthy but there are no pictures of him up and he’s mostly a boring guy. It’s weird seeing photos of Henry Ford at dealerships, would not be fun to see that when he used to have dealerships hand out hate literature. Severance is indeed a fantastic show was surprised how well thought out that was. Between that and Ted Lasso and For All Mankind, Apple has a good lineup.
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May 14, 2022 23:20
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Severance is indeed a fantastic show was surprised how well thought out that was. Between that and Ted Lasso and For All Mankind, Apple has a good lineup. Check out Mythic Quest too
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May 15, 2022 00:20
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Working at Amazon, they have this story about how Bezos listens to his workers because then they started all they had was a warehouse full of books (it did start originally as a book selling site after all) and he was working alongside everyone in the wild, wooly start days putting books into boxes on the warehouse floor. He gets up, bitches that he needs to get knee pads for himself and everyone because working on the floor like this sucks. One of his nearby workers pipes up "Dude, we need desks/work benches!" and Young Jeff is all "You're right!" and got them all desks to work on. And that's a story about how Jeff Bezos totally listens to the workers and totally wasn't a rich kid who had never done real physical labor before that point.
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May 15, 2022 03:55
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And he kept listening to his employees forevermore and never treated them like soulless assets, right?
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The thing is I'd absolutely believe it if the Young Jeff story was a real thing, but it doesn't mean he's not a Lex Luthor parody who treats people like consumables now. Getting mega wealthy changes people and removes them from the kind of poo poo that makes them treat other people with a scrap of empathy.
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May 15, 2022 17:15
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Alkydere posted:Working at Amazon, they have this story about how Bezos listens to his workers because then they started all they had was a warehouse full of books (it did start originally as a book selling site after all) and he was working alongside everyone in the wild, wooly start days putting books into boxes on the warehouse floor. But they didn't have money for real desks, so they bought doors and put them on sawhorses and they were door desks!!! Which is why Amazon's software engineers up until like 2005 (honestly not sure when) had desks that were made out of doors. I don't think the story is untrue, honestly. Nor do I think he doesn't listen to people. The problem is that he'll listen but decide to be lovely anyway, because his goals of "become Lex Luthor" aren't necessarily compatible, and he doesn't really care about other people beyond being means to an end. The reason the Amazon front page was terrible for so long was that he really liked the layout, even though it was objectively bad for everyone else. BTB has a fun episode on him. He's definitely actually put in the work and effort for the money, but that doesn't mean he's not a turd.
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May 15, 2022 18:46
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My takeaway from that story is Bezos was apparently crawling around on the floor on his hands and knees filling orders because he was too dumb to grasp the use of elevated work stations like tables or desks to expedite shipments. Am i missing something?
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May 15, 2022 18:49
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Escape From Noise posted:My takeaway from that story is Bezos was apparently crawling around on the floor on his hands and knees filling orders because he was too dumb to grasp the use of elevated work stations like tables or desks to expedite shipments. Am i missing something? It’s an eve poorer and scrappier version of starting in a garage
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May 15, 2022 18:53
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Volmarias posted:But they didn't have money for real desks, so they bought doors and put them on sawhorses and they were door desks!!! Which is why Amazon's software engineers up until like 2005 (honestly not sure when) had desks that were made out of doors. I'd make the argument that once you get that rich, even if you DON'T want to be an exploitative jackhole, it ends up happening because your empire is too big and there's no way you can watch every corner of it. Also your accumulation of that much wealth is immoral on its own if you're actually holding it and not constantly donating almost all of it to worthy causes. This isn't to say he's not intentionally terrible, because he clearly is. I'm just saying anyone would be in his position even if they didn't mean to
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Volmarias posted:
No he hasn't. That much money can't be earned, only exploited.
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:I have no idea why that dude took us down there, I heard he was let go immediately. Next day we came in and no one mentioned it ever. Pretty sure Chuck was trying to kill you all, OP... 
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Volmarias posted:But they didn't have money for real desks, so they bought doors and put them on sawhorses and they were door desks!!! Which is why Amazon's software engineers up until like 2005 (honestly not sure when) had desks that were made out of doors. Oh yeah, in the warehouses, any desks on the floor are still called "Doors" and are all standing desks. Well, officially they're called Doors, everyone just calls them desks. And yeah I'm sure the story is 100% true. I just laugh because holy poo poo everyone calls Bezos a genius when the first time I heard that inspirational story I had to bite my lip from laughing because, well this was my takeaway and the one I was trying to imply: Escape From Noise posted:My takeaway from that story is Bezos was apparently crawling around on the floor on his hands and knees filling orders because he was too dumb to grasp the use of elevated work stations like tables or desks to expedite shipments. Am i missing something? I can see it especially because when I finally dragged my rear end out of university with "A degree in graduating" I was the confused, white moron in the kitchen for a few months. I obviously got better, and I had for a lawn care service for a couple of summers so I had some grounding previously.
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Alkydere posted:I can see it especially because when I finally dragged my rear end out of university with "A degree in graduating" I was the confused, white moron in the kitchen for a few months. I obviously got better, and I had for a lawn care service for a couple of summers so I had some grounding previously. I got a degree in mechanical engineering, and before going back to school for more degrees in mechanical engineering, I worked for a construction company for a few months as (extremely) unskilled labor while job searching for a career in my field. One day my boss comes up to me and says, "You get to drive the bobcat today" and gave me a quick tutorial on the basic controls, i.e. this is the key, these are the wheel controls, these are the bucket controls. I asked him if there was anything else I needed to know. He said, "You're a mechanical engineer, right? You know hydraulics, right? It's like that." Then he walked away before I could ask any follow up questions. Later, I was trying to lift the bucket high to dump some garbage in the dumpster, and it's shuddering and moving slowly. He comes running up to me screaming "No, no, no!" I shut it off and ask what's up, at which point I get told, "You need to turn this dial to increase the hydraulic pressure! I thought you knew hydraulics!" He never did give me the chance to explain that knowing how to do the math on a simple hydraulic system wasn't the same as knowing how to operate heavy machinery.
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Charity Porno posted:This isn't to say he's not intentionally terrible, because he clearly is. I'm just saying anyone would be in his position even if they didn't mean to It seems like what you're saying is anyone who finds themselves with a great deal of money becomes an objectively bad person and can be safely woodchippered without any further ethical considerations. 
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Alkydere posted:when I finally dragged my rear end out of university with "A degree in graduating" I was the confused, white moron in the kitchen for a few months. I obviously got better, and I had for a lawn care service for a couple of summers so I had some grounding previously. this put into words something I’ve thought about and felt for some time thank you lmao
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I used to work at Nickelodeon. One day I came into work and noticed my trashcan was gone. And my office mate's. And then my friend came in saying everybody's trashcan was gone. We got an email an hour later saying this was to "reduce waste from bin liners" and not to, you know, cut back on janitorial staff or anything. They took our goddamn trashcans and told us to use the communal bin in the kitchen. So any time you had a leaky nose, you'd either have to pile your snot rags on your desk or leave your workspace each time you wanted to drop a tissue in the bin. "Nah, just bring your own trash bin or bags!" You might think! They confiscated them. And then we got a snide email about people needing to do this because we're saving the earth, you small-minded plebs! and everyone's just gonna have to get used to it. Anyway, sometimes I wonder how that worked out with covid and all.
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Das Boo posted:I used to work at Nickelodeon. One day I came into work and noticed my trashcan was gone. And my office mate's. And then my friend came in saying everybody's trashcan was gone. We got an email an hour later saying this was to "reduce waste from bin liners" and not to, you know, cut back on janitorial staff or anything. They took our goddamn trashcans and told us to use the communal bin in the kitchen. So any time you had a leaky nose, you'd either have to pile your snot rags on your desk or leave your workspace each time you wanted to drop a tissue in the bin. Oh man we had the same thing at my MegaCorp, the Sustainability Club got our individual trash cans taken away so now there's only one per cubicle. We still generate the same amount of trash but you have to awkwardly walk it over to someone else's desk. We got condescending communications from the Porsche driving sustainability club leader about how this will save the MegaCorp a trivial amount of money. Then the pandemic hit and easily over a million gallons of gas weren't burned by employees who could now work from home but oddly that hasn't been a corporate priority as they try to bring people back.
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Outrail posted:It seems like what you're saying is anyone who finds themselves with a great deal of money becomes an objectively bad person and can be safely woodchippered without any further ethical considerations. Pretty much, I hope it didn't come across as me soft selling.
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Das Boo posted:I used to work at Nickelodeon. One day I came into work and noticed my trashcan was gone. And my office mate's. And then my friend came in saying everybody's trashcan was gone. We got an email an hour later saying this was to "reduce waste from bin liners" and not to, you know, cut back on janitorial staff or anything. They took our goddamn trashcans and told us to use the communal bin in the kitchen. So any time you had a leaky nose, you'd either have to pile your snot rags on your desk or leave your workspace each time you wanted to drop a tissue in the bin. Huh. Back in about 2006 the hospital I worked at did this, but ONLY for non patient care areas like medical records and only for anyone not a manager because they wanted to spend less on "environmental services". This was after the hospital got bought by CHS; other such galaxy brain ideas implemented were "if you clock in a minute late it's considered a no call no show" and you'd get written up if you clocked in early. Two ICU nurses were shitcanned and the rest of the patient care staff had a mutiny. There was also a bomb threat called in on the parking garage. Shortly after this my department got outsourced, and while I was smart enough to have secured an adjacent position, there was so little work for me to do I was filing charts out of sheer boredom. I got to watch as the hospital hemorrhaged providers who were sick of bullshit until I also left I'm guessing that your situation was before a massive layoff?
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Das Boo posted:I used to work at Nickelodeon. One day I came into work and noticed my trashcan was gone. And my office mate's. And then my friend came in saying everybody's trashcan was gone. We got an email an hour later saying this was to "reduce waste from bin liners" and not to, you know, cut back on janitorial staff or anything. They took our goddamn trashcans and told us to use the communal bin in the kitchen. So any time you had a leaky nose, you'd either have to pile your snot rags on your desk or leave your workspace each time you wanted to drop a tissue in the bin. Hah, I used to work at a big tech company that did largely the same thing. They removed all the individual garbage cans and said that the move was intended to “foster collaboration,” as though the Next Big Idea was going to happen while two colleagues dumped their garbage in the communal bin. If you brought in your own, they didn’t confiscate them, but workplace services would harass you and your boss about it until someone gave up. To be fair, “rogue” cans did cause problems - sometimes cleaning staff emptied them, defeating the true purpose of the exercise, and sometimes they didn’t, and cans would be ignored until they were a problem for an entirely different reason. I don’t think anyone would have given it a second thought if they had just said, “Hey, we’re going to get rid of the individual garbage cans to reduce costs,” but because they had to gin up bullshit about it, I still remember it six years later.
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:Like 15 years ago I was working at a cement plant doing manual labor. The place had a kind of intern program where if you worked there and had a child enrolled full-time in college they could come make like $20 an hour over the summer. It was me and about a dozen other teenagers whose parents worked there, and they just had us doing manual labor. It was hard work but the pay was great. This is a gnarly rear end story, I love it. Def post it in OSHA if you haven't yet 
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Outrail posted:It seems like what you're saying is anyone who finds themselves with a great deal of money becomes an objectively bad person and can be safely woodchippered without any further ethical considerations.
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Rich people think that struggling to survive inherently has value in how it shapes people, what they don't realize is that they're inadvertently proving it by becoming irredeemably warped by having so much stability and free time, leading to a strange boredom and detachment from their fellow man that drives a growing cruelty.
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Pyrtanis posted:Huh. Back in about 2006 the hospital I worked at did this, but ONLY for non patient care areas like medical records and only for anyone not a manager because they wanted to spend less on "environmental services". This was after the hospital got bought by CHS; other such galaxy brain ideas implemented were "if you clock in a minute late it's considered a no call no show" and you'd get written up if you clocked in early. Two ICU nurses were shitcanned and the rest of the patient care staff had a mutiny. There was also a bomb threat called in on the parking garage. Shortly after this my department got outsourced, and while I was smart enough to have secured an adjacent position, there was so little work for me to do I was filing charts out of sheer boredom. I got to watch as the hospital hemorrhaged providers who were sick of bullshit until I also left Fuuuuck, my time as a CNA was met with similar clock-in-to-the-minute bullshit. Of course clocking out late was only counted in 15 minute increments (rounded down), so 14 minutes of OT would count for zilch. Our raises were a quarter every six months, yippee skippy. But yeah, Nick was changing heads at that point and a lot of poo poo was unceremoniously getting axed. My project managed to squeak by into just getting shelved, but I remember the entire Glitch Techs crew getting the pink slip on 5 PM Monday, the first day back after the Christmas holiday. Apparently the new head didn't want two action shows and Rise of TMNT had a built-in fanbase, so Glitch got killed. Then TMNT got killed a year or two later, so
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They like to play at being bootstrapping cowboys when 99% were just given money by their rich families. I think that pisses me off more than just accepting you’re an evil twat.
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Das Boo posted:Then TMNT got killed a year or two later, so I'll never forgive them for axing the 2012 series for Rise
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Das Boo posted:I used to work at Nickelodeon. One day I came into work and noticed my trashcan was gone. And my office mate's. And then my friend came in saying everybody's trashcan was gone. We got an email an hour later saying this was to "reduce waste from bin liners" and not to, you know, cut back on janitorial staff or anything. They took our goddamn trashcans and told us to use the communal bin in the kitchen. So any time you had a leaky nose, you'd either have to pile your snot rags on your desk or leave your workspace each time you wanted to drop a tissue in the bin. My company put tiny individual trash cans for tissues and gum wrappers on each desk, which you were to later dump in the big cans located at the front of every other cubicle row. I felt bad for the lady who sat at the cube right behind the trash can in our group, who got everyone's empty soda cans, snotty tissues and smelly food boxes tossed out in front of her.
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blackmet posted:My company put tiny individual trash cans for tissues and gum wrappers on each desk, which you were to later dump in the big cans located at the front of every other cubicle row. In our cafeteria they put up signs above the trash cans lecturing us about annual garbage bills when compared to composting or recycling. They forgot to incentivize this so it wasn't like "if we reduce our garbage bill 20% everyone gets a bonus vacation day," so it's just them posting a utility bill that gets ignored after a week. Even in elementary school if we reached a food drive goal we'd get pizza or an extra recess.
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If we reduce our garbage bills by 2% our CFO gets a 10% bonus, try to think about someone other than yourself please.
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I am asked to host a town hall for new graduates and sell them on the company I work at and get them to apply even though we do not have any open positions I am doing this because dinner and drinks are provided and my speaking time is 10 minutes, sorry graduates suckered in but I can be bought!!
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Barudak posted:I am asked to host a town hall for new graduates and sell them on the company I work at and get them to apply even though we do not have any open positions Is this also the same company that is trying to reduce its sales because it can't meet demand?
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Zil posted:Is this also the same company that is trying to reduce its sales because it can't meet demand? It is! I have been told Im too successful and should look to be promoted out of this country or leave the company. Wheeeeee!
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I got my garbage can confiscated at work once. I work at a place that builds vending machines, including coffee ones. Turns out the overflow buckets that catch all the drips are just cheap plastic trash cans. They have to be a particular size and shape, of course. Our company buys them by the thousands, so they’re also in all the offices. One week they got a shipment of the wrong kind of bins in, but they had some orders that absolutely had to go out that day. So the coffee team ran around to every office and stole every trash can they could find. They power washed them, stuck ‘em in the machines, and hoped no customer complained. As far as I know, they got away with it.
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Barudak posted:It is! Whats it like in your dream pod? I mean not throwing any shade, it just boggles my mind that a company like that exists.
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