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Escape From Noise posted:Fair enough. I haven't lived in NM since around 2006. Things were cool until the last couple years, rent is outpacing wages fast and I'm legit living in the warzone because I can't find a place outside of Berna or the Rathole and I am not living in or commuting from either of those places.
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MrQwerty posted:Things were cool until the last couple years, rent is outpacing wages fast and I'm legit living in the warzone because I can't find a place outside of Berna or the Rathole and I am not living in or commuting from either of those places. I lived in Santa Fe for a bit when rent was like $500 a month. Then I moved to Portland where rent was about the same. Weird how that went.
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Anyone else who works from home doing contract work starting a collection of company laptops that former employers never asked to have returned? I'm up to 2 now and it's not my fault because I don't really want them and I actively reach out repeatedly to the recruiters who placed me to see if anyone is going to send me a return label It's baffling
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Jul 19, 2022 18:36
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the laptop my company gave me is shittier than my kids' chromebook. i haven't turned it on in 15 months of having it and i can't imagine them caring about getting it back
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Jul 19, 2022 18:54
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It's fascinating to me how computers are now almost throwaway appliances. I'm not even in IT but I have like 3 laptops and 2 desktops that have found their way into my possession through work. My GF's work is being bought out so she's taking a computer as well.
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Jul 19, 2022 19:18
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Re-integrating used computers within a company requires a non-zero amount of internal labor that is, ironically, not performed digitally. It is therefore intolerable.
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Jul 19, 2022 19:26
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part of what my company does is AVR for schools and we are about to take a HUGE writedown on a pile of poo poo laptops and chromebooks that even third world countries don't want shipped to them free by the container
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Jul 19, 2022 19:51
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Small brewery owners need to stop using the brewery's equipment as their personal toolbox and then misplace things that are vital to us doing our jobs. This poo poo is infuriating and it happens at any place that isn't a massive corporate brewery.
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Jul 19, 2022 20:12
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Tarkus posted:It's fascinating to me how computers are now almost throwaway appliances. I'm not even in IT but I have like 3 laptops and 2 desktops that have found their way into my possession through work. My GF's work is being bought out so she's taking a computer as well. When I worked for an MSP a few years ago, this is how I got some relatively decent rigs to piece together & sell on Craigslist  even scored a couple old Dell laptops that ran Windows 98 & pieced them together into a decent little retro gaming setup
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BOOTY-ADE posted:When I worked for an MSP a few years ago, this is how I got some relatively decent rigs to piece together & sell on Craigslist The last MSP I worked for were brutally tight; we had loving 1st Gen Xeons running Mandrake they would carefully dispose of rather than let you get away with taking anything home. They wouldn't let anyone take monitors home at the start of Covid. There were only 5 chairs in the office that wouldn't obliterate your spine and people used to stick labels on them and they still got stolen. I know of at least 2 cases where greasy repulsive sales reps (who were gods and untouchable) sexually molested interns and it was thoroughly covered up because in a good Christian company you don't have any loving terrifying sexual predators plying 18 year old school grads with way too much alcohol and loving locking them in your company Audi because they won't suck you off. Hated myself for staying in that place for as long as I did (only 2 years).
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cynic posted:The last MSP I worked for were brutally tight; we had loving 1st Gen Xeons running Mandrake they would carefully dispose of rather than let you get away with taking anything home. They wouldn't let anyone take monitors home at the start of Covid. There were only 5 chairs in the office that wouldn't obliterate your spine and people used to stick labels on them and they still got stolen. I know of at least 2 cases where greasy repulsive sales reps (who were gods and untouchable) sexually molested interns and it was thoroughly covered up because in a good Christian company you don't have any loving terrifying sexual predators plying 18 year old school grads with way too much alcohol and loving locking them in your company Audi because they won't suck you off. Hated myself for staying in that place for as long as I did (only 2 years). What in the gently caress.
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TheSpartacus posted:What in the gently caress.
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cynic posted:The last MSP I worked for were brutally tight; we had loving 1st Gen Xeons running Mandrake they would carefully dispose of rather than let you get away with taking anything home. They wouldn't let anyone take monitors home at the start of Covid. There were only 5 chairs in the office that wouldn't obliterate your spine and people used to stick labels on them and they still got stolen. I know of at least 2 cases where greasy repulsive sales reps (who were gods and untouchable) sexually molested interns and it was thoroughly covered up because in a good Christian company you don't have any loving terrifying sexual predators plying 18 year old school grads with way too much alcohol and loving locking them in your company Audi because they won't suck you off. Hated myself for staying in that place for as long as I did (only 2 years). Did you work for goonfleet?
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Jul 19, 2022 23:03
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honda whisperer posted:Did you work for FTFY
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A Festivus Miracle posted:Its not something you should do frequently, but I highly recommend quitting on the spot at least once. It is a magnificent feeling to be like "hey doucheboss,can we talk?" in the middle of a rush, forcing him into his office and then calmly telling him to eat your entire rear end. I quit my first job (still living at home with parents, I was 16) like this. I started feeling physically ill as I moved my hand toward the “Ready” button on my phone. Weird poo poo, don’t do call center work unless you’re going to starve. I grabbed a piece of printer paper and wrote a 1 sentence resignation letter, put it on my boss’ desk, and walked the gently caress out. Joke’s on me and my liver, I spent 14 more years in tech call center hell after that.
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I worked in 2 call centers in college, the second was way way better than the first and the better one was still way worse than any other job I've ever had. Call centers loving suck. Never let a job that has you in a phone queue all day tell you it's not call center work either. Some are worse than others, outbound sales calls, debt collection, poo poo like that is obviously the worst, but everything loving sucks.
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McGavin posted:Any job that requires you to sell credit cards can suck dicks in hell. Better (aka worse): outbound cold calls to businesses to switch merchant service (credit card processing) accounts. Your typical inbound tech support call center has 50-75% alcoholism rates. That one was 100%, including the supervisor. E: One dude told me he was going to go grab his boss but hold on, then left the phone on the counter for 30 minutes. It was the best 30 minutes of my time there. goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Jul 20, 2022 |
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Jul 20, 2022 04:04
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RocketMermaid posted:Small brewery owners need to stop using the brewery's equipment as their personal toolbox and then misplace things that are vital to us doing our jobs. This poo poo is infuriating and it happens at any place that isn't a massive corporate brewery. Oh dear GOD gently caress that poo poo! I really don't think many realize how time sensitive a lot of the processes are.
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I've finally found what is probably the best call center job in history, only because they don't record anything and are chronically short staffed, so its almost impossible to get fired and they have us WFH 3 days a week. The trick is to disassociate as much as possible at all times during working hours. The pay is also not terrible and they've given me a 5 percent raise every year for 4 years. Still pays kinda crap though. I applied to hundreds of of similar wfh call jobs for more pay online last summer and got no response at all though.
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Prince Reggie K posted:I've finally found what is probably the best call center job in history, only because they don't record anything and are chronically short staffed, so its almost impossible to get fired and they have us WFH 3 days a week. The trick is to disassociate as much as possible at all times during working hours. The pay is also not terrible and they've given me a 5 percent raise every year for 4 years. Still pays kinda crap though. I applied to hundreds of of similar wfh call jobs for more pay online last summer and got no response at all though. My first job out of college was a "call center" (it was tech support but I was the only person doing it at a small company) that didn't record calls and my life changed when I figured out that when someone starts getting lovely with you, just hang up on them while you're in mid-sentence. They'll call right back, but they'll assume the call dropped for some other reason and will be much calmer. Just "I understand your frustration that you don't understand voltage drop in your job of running wires, in order to get that model of camera to work, what you'll need to -" *Punch disconnect button* Worked every time.
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Escape From Noise posted:Oh dear GOD gently caress that poo poo! I really don't think many realize how time sensitive a lot of the processes are. Are they nicking smaller tools like screwdrivers and socket wrenches and poo poo? Buy your own set and put it in a locked box when you're not at work (also engrave your name on everything). It's nice just to have your own tools you can take home whenever you feel like it. Or the next time a tool is missing let things go catastrophically wrong and lose ¥¥¥ worth of stock. Tell the boss it's because someone took the tools you needed, again. "I told you this would happen. Now it happened. This will happen again. I can't stop this from happening. You're the boss. This is the your problem to solve. What are you going to do to ensure we don't lose stock in the future?"
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Just been thinking about my job at a computer supply/repair shop in 2005. One day the boss was an hour late to work because he sat down to take a poo poo in the morning and noticed a “massive spider” between him and the door. He was so afraid of it that he just sat there for an hour afraid to move even though he had to come and unlock the store lol.
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Jul 20, 2022 22:30
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As a former resident of Australia, don't knock it til you've been there. Spiders do not gently caress around.
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TheSpartacus posted:What in the gently caress. The owners belonged to a literal cult and everyone had been either been working there for 30 years or less than 6 months nothing inbetween and it was the creepiest place I've ever worked. They made us wear suit and tie at all times (even WFH during Covid) left_unattended posted:As a former resident of Australia, don't knock it til you've been there. Spiders do not gently caress around. When I lived there, the locals never, ever let a giant venomous spider get in the way of anything at all. One time someone turned up to a party with a spider bite on their head and just asked for a cold can of beer to hold against it to keep the swelling down (bite from from a golden orbweaver bite if I remember correctly - big spiders, but not one of the dangerous ones)
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left_unattended posted:As a former resident of Australia, don't knock it til you've been there. Spiders do not gently caress around. This was in England so I guarantee you could have picked this spider up with a bit of tissue.
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left_unattended posted:As a former resident of Australia, don't knock it til you've been there. Spiders do not gently caress around. As another former resident, if it's small you can kill it easily with a boot, so who cares. If it's large it's easy to hit with a boot, but you gotta be very sure you get it with the first hit. Also make sure you're in a position to fling it across the room and run shrieking when it survives and runs up the boot.
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Outrail posted:Are they nicking smaller tools like screwdrivers and socket wrenches and poo poo? It doesn't happen to me here, but I'm not spending my own money on work tools either.
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Outrail posted:If it's large it's easy to hit with a boot, but you gotta be very sure you get it with the first hit. One time I went to smash a wolf spider with a hammer. I missed and proceeded to chase it around my room trying in vain to smash the thing until I finally got it. The sound must have been absolutely wonderful for my house mates. *Wack* "gently caress gently caress" *WACK* *WACK* *WACK* *WACK* *WACK* "gently caress" *WACK* *WACK* *WACK* "gently caress" *WACK* *WACK* *WACK*
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wilderthanmild posted:One time I went to smash a wolf spider with a hammer. I missed and proceeded to chase it around my room trying in vain to smash the thing until I finally got it. That's where you hosed up. Wolf spiders are catch and release, not kill on sight.
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Spray butter and a lighter solves the spider problem.
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wilderthanmild posted:One time I went to smash a wolf spider with a hammer. I missed and proceeded to chase it around my room trying in vain to smash the thing until I finally got it. I once went fishing with my uncle and my dad and there was a wolf spider in the boat. I know it was a wolf spider because my uncle smacked with something and it basically exploded into baby wolf spiders. Thankfully it happened when we were on land and not while we were in the middle of the lake...
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A coworker of a friend sent out a team wide message letting them know he was hacked by scammers who threatened to reveal his porn habits and videos of him whacking it so if you get emails from him just ignore them. Can't decide if the man is just honest but dumb or his passion for taiwanese karaoke themed porn is a cover for his fetish of telling other people his porn habits.
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Barudak posted:A coworker of a friend sent out a team wide message letting them know he was hacked by scammers who threatened to reveal his porn habits and videos of him whacking it so if you get emails from him just ignore them.
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Also, while ownership of porn isnt a crime in the country in question, distribution and production are so my man here is just swinging for the fences at 9am
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Don't hate the player...
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Tarkus posted:It's fascinating to me how computers are now almost throwaway appliances. I'm not even in IT but I have like 3 laptops and 2 desktops that have found their way into my possession through work. My GF's work is being bought out so she's taking a computer as well. Think I'm up to 4. One is an old Win7 laptop we used for on-call, one is a newer Win8 that they replaced everyone's desktop PCs with, one is the same laptop but of a guy who left the company, and one is a slight upgrade to that I only use when actually working from home. I'm refusing to give up my desktop because it's the only place I still have local admin  Plus an old Dell PC I pulled out of recycling and put Peppermint on to run RetriPie and turn into a classic gaming station. e: Azuth0667 posted:Spray butter and a lighter solves the spider problem. What they're frying at state fairs is getting out of control! On the other hand... 
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The state rents out all the computers and monitors we use. So some computer company has a sweet rear end contract to buy lovely old computers and rents them out for years and years for a comically large amount I’m sure.
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Wife got a company iPhone but instead of giving her just a wired charging cable, they gave her some wireless charging pad that either never works, or we're too stupid to figure out where to exactly place the phone on it. So her phone is always dead and she panicks because she might be missing out on important calls and messages . I told her to either buy a charger cable and comp it, or have her work buy her one, and stop bitching.
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I guess the head chef is mad at me because I'm not working as hard as him. I mean...we have two different jobs. His work is directly affected by the number of customers, operating hours, etc. I can plan my poo poo out and because of our volume and capacity, there are days where I have very little or nothing to do. It's really cool to be asked about my shift meal with such contempt. I really try to stay out of the kitchen staff's way because I know that their job is difficult, but like...am I supposed to kiss rear end and self-flagellate over this poo poo? If all I have going on is showing our equipment supplier's clients around the brewery and stuff at around noon and a meeting with a client at a beer bar at 2, then why the gently caress would I show up at 9 like I usually do. If my bosses don't give a poo poo about when I show up and leave as long as I deliver on product, why wouldn't I take advantage of that poo poo? Especially after having several busy weeks in a row for the summer rush. gently caress offffffffffff!
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Always look busy, even if you're not busy. Especially if you're not busy. I like to mutter 'what the fuuuuuck' every hour or so, to make sure people know how busy I am. Barudak posted:A coworker of a friend sent out a team wide message letting them know he was hacked by scammers who threatened to reveal his porn habits and videos of him whacking it so if you get emails from him just ignore them. Nothing but respect for the dude who isn't bothered by people seeing him whacking off to hosed up porn, but is horrified at the prospect of bothering other people with unsolicited emails. This is a societally minded man with his priorities in order.
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