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When I worked a retail job for the first time, ToysRUs of all things, I heard the cash register bell in my sleep for a while. It was really weird
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I work in a casino and have recurring dreams involving stacks of chips being perpetually wrong.
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May 26, 2022 07:53
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It turns out I'm a huge rear end in a top hat for requesting time off "last minute" when my bosses control the production schedule and constantly change poo poo last minute, and it was their last minute requests that made it so I worked through a weekend with no compensated time off, both for things I discovered could have been put off for later, one had to be. But I guess my boss works a lot without time off so it's okay. When I just responded with "okay" I guess that means I'm being a real loving shithead. Time to find another job.
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May 26, 2022 07:57
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Barudak posted:Folks, I have bad news. My numbers are too good. I am having an emergency meeting to make myself less efficient and become more wasteful. I have failed you all and the company by delivering unheard of value and performance. Outrail posted:Start a fire
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May 26, 2022 08:05
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Barudak posted:Folks, I have bad news. My numbers are too good. I am having an emergency meeting to make myself less efficient and become more wasteful. I have failed you all and the company by delivering unheard of value and performance. You need to develop a worst-practices guide not in collaboration with stakeholders in order to lower your team's productivity before the next quarterly review. I recommend a large meeting with no agenda, either 0 or 3 people taking minutes, output in the form of a printed-scanned pdf pasted into an excel spreadsheet then faxed to the department's sharepoint from before the reorg.
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May 26, 2022 08:22
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I loving love it when you tell a boss your worn out because you've had to work several days in a row over 5 and they respond with "I do that too! All the time! I know you're tired! I am too!" Cool.
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May 26, 2022 08:26
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Atopian posted:You need to develop a worst-practices guide not in collaboration with stakeholders in order to lower your team's productivity before the next quarterly review. I recommend a large meeting with no agenda, either 0 or 3 people taking minutes, output in the form of a printed-scanned pdf pasted into an excel spreadsheet then faxed to the department's sharepoint from before the reorg. I developed and made an automatic system that only I am trusted with. Even if I were to do nothing and tasked my team with sitting at the beach drinking mimosas it would still work well for a month or two before it would need recalibration. Literally, doing nothing won't make me less successful fast enough, so I am being told by C-Suite to throw as many shoes into the gears as I can. I need out of the box wastefulness, I need truly MBA-level bad ideas. Escape From Noise posted:I loving love it when you tell a boss your worn out because you've had to work several days in a row over 5 and they respond with "I do that too! All the time! I know you're tired! I am too!" Cool. My man, this is time for a new job kind of managerial obliviousness unless you're getting equity.
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May 26, 2022 08:39
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Atopian posted:You need to develop a worst-practices guide not in collaboration with stakeholders in order to lower your team's productivity before the next quarterly review. I recommend a large meeting with no agenda, either 0 or 3 people taking minutes, output in the form of a printed-scanned pdf pasted into an excel spreadsheet then faxed to the department's sharepoint from before the reorg. Wait where did you get a copy of our playbook?
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May 26, 2022 08:40
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Barudak posted:I developed and made an automatic system that only I am trusted with. Even if I were to do nothing and tasked my team with sitting at the beach drinking mimosas it would still work well for a month or two before it would need recalibration. Literally, doing nothing won't make me less successful fast enough, so I am being told by C-Suite to throw as many shoes into the gears as I can. Oh. I'm aware. It may take longer than I'd like though.
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May 26, 2022 08:45
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Barudak posted:I need out of the box wastefulness, I need truly MBA-level bad ideas. Have you considered putting it on the Blockchain? It doesn't matter what "it" is. The Blockchain will make it better for *rEasONs*. Outrail posted:Congrats, put 'engineer' on your resume (include the quote marks). I didn't put Engineer or list my type of degree on my resume or claim to be an engineer in my interview, but my boss and his boss have both made mention of my being an engineer and how that would help with understanding vendor production issues. I wouldn't lose my job if I corrected the notion, one of my coworkers is still working on some form of non-engineering degree, but it'll be an awkward conversation.
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May 26, 2022 09:08
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Might be time to go back to teaching English.
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May 26, 2022 12:56
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Spend some weeks compiling extremely detailed info dossiers on each of your customers that nobody will ever look at. Bill it all as market research and try to hire some consultants to make sure you're doing it right. Then classify it all as a data protection hazard and tell everyone who will never read it that you have to restrict access to anyone without clearance, and they don't have it. Spend another few weeks dealing with people demanding they be allowed to see the secret files.
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May 26, 2022 13:04
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Barudak posted:I developed and made an automatic system that only I am trusted with. Even if I were to do nothing and tasked my team with sitting at the beach drinking mimosas it would still work well for a month or two before it would need recalibration. Literally, doing nothing won't make me less successful fast enough, so I am being told by C-Suite to throw as many shoes into the gears as I can. Start a project to improve speed, efficiently and customer responsiveness by moving your workflow to Agile and Scrum. Talk non-stop about the business benefits and savings of being Lean. Then randomly take the entire system offline during busy periods, at least once every three days. EAch time, send a memo explaining that the system is now 1.3% more effective. Never define 'effective'. Also, you'll need 5 more underlings to help you with the transformation into a customer-focussed, market-optimal, future-proofed business unit.
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May 26, 2022 13:30
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Run some hypothetical wargames that will explore how the company would function if your key suppliers and contacts were subject to govt sanctions and there was a national truck driver strike.
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May 26, 2022 13:39
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Escape From Noise posted:Might be time to go back to teaching English. Jesus, I've done that (Korea not Japan though) and if you're looking at going back to that poo poo things must be bad
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May 26, 2022 13:43
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Cyrano4747 posted:Jesus, I've done that (Korea not Japan though) and if you're looking at going back to that poo poo things must be bad I didn't mind most of the job with JET, but I have a really hard time putting up with managers loving yelling at me. Maybe I could teach while I get poo poo together for opening my own place. I still have a lot of work I need to get done for that though.
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May 26, 2022 13:45
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Barudak posted:I developed and made an automatic system that only I am trusted with. Even if I were to do nothing and tasked my team with sitting at the beach drinking mimosas it would still work well for a month or two before it would need recalibration. Literally, doing nothing won't make me less successful fast enough, so I am being told by C-Suite to throw as many shoes into the gears as I can. Have you considered doing nothing and task your team with sitting at the beach drinking mimosas for a month or two? But really if you've got that much stability and slack in the system take your team on a
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May 26, 2022 14:16
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Tuesday is booked for karaoke with an intention to leave them so blitzed they can't work wednesday Edit: if we maintain course they get first class tickets to a resort in another country and I've already said if we beat goal before year end theres no further reward so I've told them I don't care about productivity (or where they decide to "work remote" from) Barudak fucked around with this message at 14:39 on May 26, 2022 |
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May 26, 2022 14:36
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Barudak posted:Tuesday is booked for karaoke with an intention to leave them so blitzed they can't work wednesday You need a project engineer? Jesus that sounds sick.
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May 26, 2022 16:41
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They pushed back the ERP system rollout until 8/1, got at least 15 meeeting invites for last minute training and "Week 1/2/3/4 success overviews" Every single loving one of them is between 12-1.
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May 26, 2022 18:22
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Critical posted:They pushed back the ERP system rollout until 8/1, got at least 15 meeeting invites for last minute training and "Week 1/2/3/4 success overviews" Sounds like you have a prior arrangement you can't skip.
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May 26, 2022 18:30
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Invite the people that organized those meetings to a bunch of 5pm Friday meetings every week and don't show up yourself.
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May 26, 2022 19:55
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Noon meetings is probably going to be the least of your indignities during a rollout.
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May 26, 2022 20:06
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lunch and learn "the dangers of stress eating" lunch will be provided.
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May 26, 2022 20:35
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It is Pizza Hut or Little Ceasers?
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May 26, 2022 20:39
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i didnt go, but it was probably subway
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May 26, 2022 20:40
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zedprime posted:Noon meetings is probably going to be the least of your indignities during a rollout. already singlehandedly fixed an import issue that would have crippled the entire ap cycle. brought up a couple others, no idea if they're being worked on or not i'm planning on throwing it on mute and having lunch during pretty much all of them.
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May 26, 2022 20:46
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If it's epicor have fun
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May 27, 2022 00:02
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sneakyfrog posted:If it's epicor have fun I used to work for a company that installed epicor and epicor related products No, they did not use it themselves.
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May 27, 2022 00:07
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Critical posted:They pushed back the ERP system rollout until 8/1, got at least 15 meeeting invites for last minute training and "Week 1/2/3/4 success overviews" A question I legit ask in job interviews these days is "if you have a weekly meeting for the (unit of organisation), when is it scheduled?" If they say anything like "lunchtime" or "last thing Friday" then I know they don't have their poo poo together. If they don't know when, then it's lunchtime or last thing Friday. Unfortunately my current workplace lied about that at interview. Seriously though, a place that can't manage time well enough to find a legit place for something that reliably happens on a weekly basis is either disorganised or understaffed, and either way I'd like to avoid that.
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May 27, 2022 00:40
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Guess I'm gonna have to do a kettle sour without a loving pH meter since mine broke months ago and this company is too loving cheap to buy a decent one and/or replace it. loving whatever.
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May 27, 2022 02:42
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I have a meeting until 12:30 every friday. My fridays also end at 12:30 so I've made peace with this
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May 27, 2022 02:49
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Escape From Noise posted:Guess I'm gonna have to do a kettle sour without a loving pH meter since mine broke months ago and this company is too loving cheap to buy a decent one and/or replace it. loving whatever. You can get reasonable accuracy from cheap (~$20-equivalent) ones these days, although you do need to calibrate them appropriately for the use environment, and I have known cheap ones to drift over time for no reason I could figure out. Got to be better than nothing though.
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May 27, 2022 02:56
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Atopian posted:You can get reasonable accuracy from cheap (~$20-equivalent) ones these days, although you do need to calibrate them appropriately for the use environment, and I have known cheap ones to drift over time for no reason I could figure out. I think you're underestimating how loving cheap this company is and how many levels of corporate approval I have to run every purchase through in order to get it done.
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May 27, 2022 02:57
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exmachina posted:I work in a casino and have recurring dreams involving stacks of chips being perpetually wrong. I sometimes have dreams I am back working in bookstores. At Waldenbooks on Sundays I'd get shelving shifts. Come in as the store closes, me and two other people just shelving books. Full control over the music, no customers, it was pleasant. A bit mindless until you find a really cool book and take a moment to read a few pages, maybe set it aside if it's good. Back to shelving. Barudak posted:I developed and made an automatic system that only I am trusted with. Even if I were to do nothing and tasked my team with sitting at the beach drinking mimosas it would still work well for a month or two before it would need recalibration. Literally, doing nothing won't make me less successful fast enough, so I am being told by C-Suite to throw as many shoes into the gears as I can. People have given you solid suggestions. But you need to gently caress this up at the MBA level. So time to call in the professionals. Deloitte has an office in Japan.
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May 27, 2022 03:18
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Critical posted:already singlehandedly fixed an import issue that would have crippled the entire ap cycle. brought up a couple others, no idea if they're being worked on or not And then leave for your "lunch break" at 1:00pm, NICE!
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May 27, 2022 03:25
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Who here here uses concur and how much do you enjoy spending 4 hours a month entering your expenses God drat
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concur is quite a step up for some of my branches that do expenses by manually entering spreadsheets with pdf receipts or oracle that being said. gently caress concur
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evilpicard posted:Who here here uses concur and how much do you enjoy spending 4 hours a month entering your expenses God drat You can set concur up to do OCR, then just throw pdfs at it till it breaks. preferably scans that are just tilted a bit
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evilpicard posted:Who here here uses concur and how much do you enjoy spending 4 hours a month entering your expenses God drat Concur tends to be as bad as your finance people want it to be. I create a new expense, snapshot the receipt and select a few things and done. Select the ones I want in the report, set the business reason and put my class info in the title. With the connectors enabled, my flights, hotel and rental car stuff gets added automatically. With receipts and breakdowns. If you're having to do that much work, hound your finance people.
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