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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. We got a fancy pants Government level water quality pH probe and the thing still needs to be replaced on the reg. PH probes suck, gently caress em.
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Outrail posted:We got a fancy pants Government level water quality pH probe and the thing still needs to be replaced on the reg. PH probes suck, gently caress em. "We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works." -Douglas Adams
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May 27, 2022 04:30
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My department is undergoing a restructuring to more of a "flattened" structure. By adding a few extra layers of management and middle management.
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May 27, 2022 04:34
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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 Honestly not too bad? I find it weirdly relaxing.
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May 27, 2022 04:53
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Escape From Noise posted:"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works." Someone invent magic so we can have poo poo that actually works tia
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May 27, 2022 04:56
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Outrail posted:Someone invent magic so we can have poo poo that actually works tia Arthur C Clarke posted:
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May 27, 2022 05:03
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Outrail posted:Someone invent magic so we can have poo poo that actually works tia What if we invented no more work ever again?
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May 27, 2022 05:04
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To keep it work-related: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
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May 27, 2022 05:14
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Escape From Noise posted:What if we invented no more work ever again? That's easy, just needs a sacrifice of all your employees' chances of retirement
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May 27, 2022 05:27
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I'm currently doing a Nexonia to Concur migration, please feel free to share any major things with your concur implementation that piss you off so I can avoid them.
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May 27, 2022 05:36
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Outrail posted:We got a fancy pants Government level water quality pH probe and the thing still needs to be replaced on the reg. PH probes suck, gently caress em. What? That should definitely not be the case. Usually if you’re having to replace your probe a lot it’s because you’re using the wrong probe for the application… Either that, or someone is not maintaining it properly/storing it correctly when it’s not being used.
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May 27, 2022 05:46
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Outrail posted:Sometimes people ask me where I learnt some weird forums knowledge and I have to say something vague like 'oh yeah I just read a lot'. This is my answer too! Then hope there are no further questions about where I read it…
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May 27, 2022 05:58
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EarthboundMermaid posted:This is my answer too! Then hope there are no further questions about where I read it… I invited some goons to my wedding and I introduced them to my imminent-wife as "they're from the internet". They have yet to forgive me.
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May 27, 2022 06:05
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my company just split in half... we sold half the company to a third party... 2/3rds of employees were informed they would be joining that business we just sold to... with a 1 year contract guaranteeing employment and current salary/benefits... a lot of the biggest names are moving over. we also bought a smaller company and will be keeping the remaining 1/3rd of products and employees. a lot of really great employees including our key coders are staying along with me. no one knows what the gently caress is going on, everyone is freaking out and trying to guess if they got hosed or not. Did you want to be moved to the new team or did you get hosed for not being left with the old one? We likely won't know for another 10 months as we "continue out duties" during the "transition" wild Guess it's time to take a look at the resume for the first time in like 5 years.... at least i gained some skills in finance that should be helpful if I do need a new job.
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May 27, 2022 06:11
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Silly Newbie posted:I'm currently doing a Nexonia to Concur migration, please feel free to share any major things with your concur implementation that piss you off so I can avoid them. Names. Do not assume that you have a good list of names. Do not assume HR has a good list of names. And for fucks sake do not assume AD has a good list of names. During the pandemic, the company I work for decided to change travel agents. Which apparently wiped all of our info from the system. So they just grabbed names from AD and used that to populate our names in Concur. Except AD had a diminutive of my name. Not my name as it appears on my ID. Neither the airlines or TSA will accept that. Make sure the e-receipts are enabled. A number of services I use can send the receipts right to my account if e-receipts are enabled. Saves a fair amount of time for me, and it reduces the chance finance gets an expense without a receipt.
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Aramoro posted:Wait where did you get a copy of our playbook? There's a government field manual for that. https://www.openculture.com/2022/01/read-the-cias-simple-sabotage-field-manual.html sneakyfrog posted:lunch and learn We did a session on "Avoiding Burnout" late in 2020. Someone mentioned I had my camera off (I did not have a camera for WFH until this week). I said "Nobody wants to watch me eat brunch. So that got the session kicked off nicely with most of the participants admitting to not being able to make to to just eat. Now we're officially Back To The Office.... with Covid precautions back up to Code Yellow, and a Site Contact Advisory every loving day. I miss being scared and stressed out about vague things, not "we're putting more and more people in close proximity, good luck."
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Thomamelas posted:Names. Do not assume that you have a good list of names. Do not assume HR has a good list of names. And for fucks sake do not assume AD has a good list of names. During the pandemic, the company I work for decided to change travel agents. Which apparently wiped all of our info from the system. So they just grabbed names from AD and used that to populate our names in Concur. Except AD had a diminutive of my name. Not my name as it appears on my ID. Neither the airlines or TSA will accept that. Oh poo poo, this is incredibly important, as we're going to leverage concur travel hard and our people travel a lot. Thank you for bringing this up, it would have totally flown under my radar.
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May 27, 2022 07:13
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Oh cool! My stupid dipshit boss hosed up on ordering and got twice as much parasitic acid as I asked for and got no nitric acid! Guess I won't be cleaning off scale this time and I have him getting lovely with me over his loving mistake to look forward to!
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May 27, 2022 07:17
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Escape From Noise posted:Oh cool! My stupid dipshit boss hosed up on ordering and got twice as much parasitic acid as I asked for and got no nitric acid! Guess I won't be cleaning off scale this time and I have him getting lovely with me over his loving mistake to look forward to! boss: but they’re both acids! sounds like your boss is doing some learned incompetence and weaponizing it
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May 27, 2022 07:22
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champagne posting posted:boss: but they’re both acids! I may also be overreacting. I'm not in a good mood in regards to this place lately and seriously considering major changes and it doesn't feel great.
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May 27, 2022 07:57
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Escape From Noise posted:I may also be overreacting. I'm not in a good mood in regards to this place lately and seriously considering major changes and it doesn't feel great. Nope that's a perfectly normal reaction since not being able to clean leads to not being able to produce food before your boss realizes
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May 27, 2022 09:23
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sneakyfrog posted:lunch and learn Is this amateur hour here? You schedule a meeting called 'All Hands' with no agenda but only invite some people to it, provide lunch and then say it's Lunch and Learn "the dangers of stress eating".
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May 27, 2022 09:58
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Our company is trying to schedule a no zoom day where you just do stuff no meetings. It clashes with the Mental Health workshops which are on Zoom.
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May 27, 2022 10:05
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Atopian posted:I invited some goons to my wedding and I introduced them to my imminent-wife as "they're from the internet". Genuinely laughed out loud at this, thank you.
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May 27, 2022 10:11
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Escape From Noise posted:parasitic acid lol. Peracetic acid?
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McGavin posted:lol. Peracetic acid? Lol. Yeah. I should have known! loving voice to text and I should have noticed this. I suck at spelling! Nooooooooo!
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May 27, 2022 11:28
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Wendigee posted:my company just split in half... we sold half the company to a third party... 2/3rds of employees were informed they would be joining that business we just sold to... with a 1 year contract guaranteeing employment and current salary/benefits... I went through this over ten years ago. A few years later, the original company (that I stayed with) "died" on the eve of a "put all chips on a buyout" that was abandoned. For me, splitting of the company was way more stressful, anxiety filled, and frustrating than the company actually going out of business.
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Cheesus posted:
Sounds like there's not better time to quit your job (or just show up and apply for new jobs) than when a company is split
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Scientastic posted:What? That should definitely not be the case. Industry standard YSI Pro DSS pH probes cost about $300 and have a 12-18 month lifespan whether you use them or not. This is for environmental monitoring so maybe it's different for food stuff?
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Dumb poo poo recruiters do: I've had two recruiters message me on LinkedIn explaining how they need be to apply to this ME position. My profile is pretty clear that I'm an EE. Is this a lazy, poorly automated script? I also got another recruiter messaged me to apply for a job with the weapons group at LANL. Lolwat gtfo
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I still get contacted by recruiters from a career and country I left 8 years ago. I've told them multiple times I am not there anymore. They just fling poo poo at the wall and hope something sticks.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Dumb poo poo recruiters do: I've had two recruiters message me on LinkedIn explaining how they need be to apply to this ME position. Recruiter: One engineer is as good as the next
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mllaneza posted:There's a government field manual for that. We just had our RTO this week for my team. My manager is out for 4 weeks. He likes going into the office, but basically told me before he left that he doesn't give a poo poo about RTO rules until he gets back. I'm acting as manager in his stead and 500 miles away, approved for full telecommute. I'm obviously not going in. I basically asked that anyone that isn't full telecommute approved and/or already going in (we have one who prefers in office work and goes in 90% of the time, and three more that go in 2-3X a week) go in at least once to make sure things are working for them at their desks, because there is more floor support than usual this week. Only one did, and was IM-ing me two hours in about how much she hates it. This is so not a job that needs to be done in person. Can we just go "hey, work from home as much as you want, come in if you prefer to or your internet is down for the day or something?" I think we're heading there anyway...
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Mechatronics. It's a spectrum.
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Outrail posted:I still get contacted by recruiters from a career and country I left 8 years ago. I've told them multiple times I am not there anymore. They just fling poo poo at the wall and hope something sticks. Tech recruiter here, and even when we are careful in our search for qualified candidates, we have to contact a LOT of people to find the right fit (correct experience, correct area, correct seniority level, correct compensation, looking to move jobs). So yeah, many recruiters, usually the big ones (that may possibly just be an overseas cube farm), will just send messages to everybody that fits enough keywords, usually based on an old resume you uploaded to Monster or Indeed and then forgot about years ago. I still get emails recruiting me for $20/hr Admin Assistant jobs in a city I'm 400+ miles from now.
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Coworker praised their dept's daily standups as it is a wonderful way to get movie and restaurant recommendations.
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I'm sorry if I missed this, but does anyone else work at a company where they hired waves and waves of new people so it ended up that there were whole departments of people who had -- at most -- 4-ish months of experience? Currently I work at a company where there are four QA people on my team (myself included) -- my boss has a year of experience being a boss altogether, today is my two-month-iversary, and the other QA people got hired like three weeks ago. THEY'RE asking ME for help, and it feels very "blind leading the blind"-y. There's also the fact that onboarding took about a month, and part 1 was for marketing-centric, and part 2 was dev-centric, so I spent about a month learning very little that would actually help me do my own job.
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YeahTubaMike posted:I'm sorry if I missed this, but does anyone else work at a company where they hired waves and waves of new people so it ended up that there were whole departments of people who had -- at most -- 4-ish months of experience? Yes, the last startup I was in once it went public. It was never clear to me what business value these departments created other than empire building by sheer numbers for various VPs and SVPs. I heard from someone who it still there just this morning that they are closing what sounded like 1/3 of their global offices and probably getting rid of most of the people who used to report to those offices. To be clear, I was employee number 3xx, we went public with like 6-700 and two years later we had nearly 2500 people. It was ludicrous. Other than sales and increased admin staffing I'm not sure any of it impacted our gross. But it sure did impact net. Motronic fucked around with this message at 17:33 on May 27, 2022 |
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YeahTubaMike posted:I'm sorry if I missed this, but does anyone else work at a company where they hired waves and waves of new people so it ended up that there were whole departments of people who had -- at most -- 4-ish months of experience? This was me lol. I came on as a automation QA with no experience. I was told to learn C# and teach others. It was hilarious. I'm ok at it now but it sucked for a long while
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goatface posted:Mechatronics. It's a spectrum. The company I work for are all either Electrical Engineering Technology (EET), Mechantronics, or no degrees. PLC, HMI, and SCADA work. Even the Bosses/Owners only have EET degrees, no masters or fancy EE here!
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