|
Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:Show him that diagram and say "Hey do you think we need to loosen this locking nut for the ram to move? Looks like it locks the piston to me, but you're the chief! " Oh I did that as soon as saw what he was doing, did I mention he’s a lunatic? There is no second shift, it’s just us. 
|
#
?
Aug 5, 2022 05:29
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 7, 2024 10:59 |
|
|
Gnossiennes posted:lmao I'd love to have a cubical again Powerful same. Every loving company I work for keeps moving the level you need to be up a rank to get an office so no matter how fast I climb that goddamn office is out of reach. I'm the head of a friggan department but only C-suite get offices in this org. I swear to you if I make CEO somewhere and the board says I can't have an office there will be blood. I'm also 99% certain my entire career trajectory and drive to succeed has been based on having the office so I can shut it on someones face, but if I have to be CEO to do that, is it rea--- no no, lets save the existential mental collapse of my foundation for later.
|
|
#
?
Aug 5, 2022 05:46
|
|
|
Have you considered blackmailing your superiors?
|
|
#
?
Aug 5, 2022 06:03
|
|
|
Barudak posted:Powerful same. Ironically I have an office, but am judged poorly for being in it.
|
|
#
?
Aug 5, 2022 06:30
|
|
|
I always get my own room, but that's because I teach science and no-one wants to be too near the stuff I store and use in there. Aside from students, of course, who would love to make things explode even more often than they already do, and I would love to help them, but sadly I am only ever given enough time to deal with the boring essential parts of the course. So I mean it *is* possible to guarantee your own room, if you're willing to fill it with things that can kill people in a variety of ways if mishandled. Like science teachers.
|
|
#
?
Aug 5, 2022 07:24
|
|
|
Mr Teatime posted:Oh I did that as soon as saw what he was doing, did I mention he’s a lunatic? There is no second shift, it’s just us. Sounds like someone is gonna get cut in half by couple bar worth of hydraulic fluid blowing out a flange. Is it acceptable to maroon people on your ship? I guess that's up to the captain.
|
|
#
?
Aug 5, 2022 11:32
|
|
|
Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:Sounds like someone is gonna get cut in half by couple bar worth of hydraulic fluid blowing out a flange. Are they technically marooned if you throw them in a life raft and tow them around?
|
|
#
?
Aug 5, 2022 13:38
|
|
|
Barudak posted:I'm also 99% certain my entire career trajectory and drive to succeed has been based on having the office so I can shut it on someones face, but if I have to be CEO to do that, is it rea--- no no, lets save the existential mental collapse of my foundation for later. One day you're going to be managing a multi billion dollar company. Your assistant will walk out of her corner office, down past your secretary's office to pop her head over your cubicle wall: 'So I spoke to HR and they said you were next on the list, but Jeremy in the mail room put in a last minute request. Maybe next quarter?'
|
|
#
?
Aug 5, 2022 15:53
|
|
|
Our CEO used to sit in open plan, in theory.
|
|
#
?
Aug 5, 2022 15:56
|
|
|
goatface posted:Our CEO used to sit in open plan, in theory. same, but it's a 100% empty gesture since this person will be in any given meeting room 99% of the time and get paid possibly 100x more than you
|
|
#
?
Aug 5, 2022 16:22
|
|
|
My work has been majorly less dumb lately because the 70-year-old head of maint/fac finally retired after his mom died, and the other guy took over and took care of the PLC on the wave fluxer that dude was bandaiding for 6 months. Granted, it was after it wasted like 100 gallons of flux and forced us to find an emergency supplier since Henkel Loctite's lead time on that particular 5 gallon bottle of flux is six loving months and the plant closes in March; but at least it is fluxing properly, using like a gallon a day instead of loving 12, and the boards are coming out soldered beautifully for the first time in a long, long time. Last night was the first time I didn't spend at least 3-4 of 8 hours doing rework on that particular board in almost a year. Just a slight tweak of personnel who don't give a gently caress about anything going away and now the thing that is required to finish 90% of our products actually works afuckinggain.
|
|
#
?
Aug 5, 2022 16:22
|
|
|
I've got my own office  But I'm such a good boss I share it with four other people in an open plan format to improve intra-team comunicaiton. That we can't afford anything else is immaterial.
|
|
#
?
Aug 5, 2022 16:30
|
|
|
I've had an office with a door exactly once in 23 years, for about a year and shared with another person. The job I have now is by far the highest paying I've ever had, and it comes with the smallest cubicle I've ever had, but not by much. I really dont care right now as I'm doing the vast majority of my desk work at home in a much better office.
|
|
#
?
Aug 5, 2022 16:40
|
|
|
Back when I was the lone IT person at a company of 100-ish salespeople, I had an office with a door. Doesn't matter that it had no window and was the smallest room in the building -- smaller than the larger-size cubicles, in fact. Or that technically it was the storeroom where the boxes full of extra computer junk were kept. Or that the servers and network switches were all on a rack in the corner. There was just enough space left over for me and a desk. So yeah, I had an office. 
|
|
#
?
Aug 5, 2022 16:48
|
|
|
Outrail posted:One day you're going to be managing a multi billion dollar company. Your assistant will walk out of her corner office, down past your secretary's office to pop her head over your cubicle wall: 'So I spoke to HR and they said you were next on the list, but Jeremy in the mail room put in a last minute request. Maybe next quarter?' The amount of dead board members and shareholders following this conversation would be, and I mean this in a literal sense, legendary
|
|
#
?
Aug 5, 2022 16:56
|
|
|
The amusing thing is, most of what I do isn't actually that dangerous, but because I am very public with my annual gunpowder competition near the start of every year, everyone assumes that all the other stuff I do is equally exciting / risky to be next to. I mean, some of the crystals I form could be offensive while the initial reaction is going, or if treated with insufficient respect, but otherwise it's quite tame.
|
|
#
?
Aug 5, 2022 18:26
|
|
|
Barudak posted:The amount of dead board members and shareholders following this conversation would be, and I mean this in a literal sense, Atopian posted:The amusing thing is, most of what I do isn't actually that dangerous, but because I am very public with my annual gunpowder competition near the start of every year, everyone assumes that all the other stuff I do is equally exciting / risky to be next to. Every now and then walk through the teacher's lounge with a box in two hands and ask someone to get the door for you because 'I don't want to jostle this too much, thanks'.
|
|
#
?
Aug 5, 2022 23:27
|
|
|
Finished up here. Got paid. Suddenly have 3 extra weeks of holidays I can take whenever. Got some fuckin backpay for something else I don't remember. Got another tentative job interview this Monday morning if it doesn't fall through again
|
|
#
?
Aug 6, 2022 18:08
|
|
|
I just took a new job working in a poker room. Wednesday late afternoon I started to feel really achy in my hips and back which is not entirely unusual since I have arthritis and a history of pain. That night, when I got home, I had some mild nausea, runny nose and a touch of diarrhea along with problems getting to sleep. I woke up the next morning with my sheets really wet having presumably sweated out a fever but felt OK to go to work that day. Worried about covid, I told everyone that I was symptomatic yesterday but felt OK now and that I would go home, quarantine or mask up if any of my co workers were worried. Thursday night, I started to feel funny again. Mild symptoms, but still consistent with C19 so I took a test that came up positive. Oh, poo poo. I took a photo of the test, alerted my supervisor and coworkers and posted it to our employee message board. I was told that I had to mandatory miss five work days on a positive test (fair enough) but that in order for those days to be excused, I had to be diagnosed by a "medical professional". I informed them I have only been there 5 weeks and don't have health insurance yet. So, I'm not paying out of pocket for a doctor AND missing five days or work unpaid that YOUR COMPANY mandates just to prove I've not a liar. Had to drag my rear end to a CVS for a drive through test and hope that qualifies as a "medical professional" It pisses me off. No "take care and hope you feel better. Get some rest and keep us posted" or "thanks for notifying us. Here at _________, we CARE about the health and welfare of our employees and want to keep them safe." It immediately went into "corporate policy" and how "unfortunately, we cannot accept (free) at home test results" I guess because certain people screenshot them to get out of work (?) I just feel like I'm being punished for getting loving COVID, not allowed to work for 5 days and earn money and then being made to prove I've not a liar. ... Which leads me to a different subject. SO MANY loving companies - all of them near as I can tell - routinely punish the entire workforce for the transgressions of the 2 or 3 gently caress ups that do dumb poo poo instead of weeding out the idiots that should be fired or disciplined. Like, I dunno...some rear end in a top hat puts chewing gum under a table and now, all of a sudden, no one is allowed to chew gum. Bad example, maybe, but I'm sure you guys know what I'm talking about. Some guy has his ear buds on in a safety area. So now? Nobody can listen to music or podcasts. Some chick routinely spends 20 minutes in the bathroom, bleeding her break time and loving around on her phone. Guess what? No phones on the floor and you can only take a poo poo at 10am or 2pm.
|
|
#
?
Aug 6, 2022 21:49
|
|
|
Because lovely managers won’t manage individuals because it’s easier to have someone make a policy, blanket enforce it and throw up your hands that there’s nothing to be done sorry that’s policy.
|
|
#
?
Aug 6, 2022 21:54
|
|
|
BiggerBoat posted:consistent with C19 so I took a test that came up positive. 
|
|
#
?
Aug 6, 2022 22:21
|
|
|
JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Because lovely managers won’t manage individuals because it’s easier to have someone make a policy, blanket enforce it and throw up your hands that there’s nothing to be done sorry that’s policy. I was going to post this, but then you posted this, so.
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 02:51
|
|
|
Lazyfire posted:Technically my wife's work, but we're with the same company: Ok, so apparently this is resolved. Wife went and talked to the GM again before she left on Friday and apparently he had a conversation with wife's boss' boss about the job. One of the weird things our company does is that we will post internal positions for five days to give other people the managers may not be aware of to apply. I fell victim to a couple of those while applying to internal positions earlier this year and should have remembered that and it looks like when the role opened up the site GM didn't realize that was the case either. Barring some random unicorn finding and applying for the job before Wednesday or so (weekends don't count for part of that time somehow?) she has the job. She didn't think to tell me any of this happened so I only found out all of this later interaction happened because her mom asked her what her start date was today and she ran over the details.
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 04:25
|
|
|
Shoehead that's great news, congrats on your resignation and best of luck with the interview! BiggerBoat posted:
Oh yeah, we have one of these kicking on in my organisation right now. I'm not sure exactly who is responsible for this policy, Property claim it's IT, IT claim it was Security, Security think it was Property. After the first lot of lockdowns ended and employees started returning to the office, apparently a lot of monitors didn't return along with them and thanks to the org's piss poor asset management, these monitors remain unaccounted for. So some bright spark decides that the solution is to cable lock every monitor and dock onto the desks. Workplace health and safety isn't consulted before the implementation of this new policy, because if we had been we would have pointed out that we have a lot of employees with vision loss who need to be able to move their monitors around on their desk to be able to use their assistive tech, or just be able to sit at a distance to the screen that is appropriate for their comfort levels. Sure enough, complaints start rolling in about the cable locks messing with ergonomics and physical safety (one employee who is blind kept hitting their hand on the lock) but Property outright refuse to remove any locks because *policy* and hold their stance until one of the wh&s department leads tells the property officers that he's pretty sure the cost of a stolen monitor pales in comparison to what an employee off duty on worker's compensation costs the organisation.
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 08:48
|
|
|
Your company actually allowed people to take company monitors home with them to work on during the lockdowns? That's seriously a problem waiting to happen coming from a loss prevention background.
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 09:24
|
|
|
Justin Godscock posted:Your company actually allowed people to take company monitors home with them to work on during the lockdowns? I mean, if my employer wants me to have a home office, they're paying for it. And if they don't want that, they can accept the productivity consequences. Although admittedly the kit should remain theirs, be documented, and be returned afterwards.
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 09:36
|
|
|
I wasn't working there at that point, so I really don't know. It's a federal government department so I'm going to go with no, I can't see them being OK with that. The policy now is that if you want to work from home, you are responsible for setting up your at home workspace and purchasing anything you need to do that outside of your company issued laptop.
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 09:47
|
|
|
Justin Godscock posted:Your company actually allowed people to take company monitors home with them to work on during the lockdowns? Mine sent me home with my computer (Surface), two monitors, docking station, other peripherals, and a chair. They'd have sent a desk and a printer if I asked for them. But they are v good at asset tracking, so it wasn't a huge concern.
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 11:56
|
|
|
back in the day Sandia National Labs let people check out computers and stuff, my dad brought home this sick one that ran Win 3.11 and had a big old Bernoulli disk drive that was loaded up with games and was lightyears ahead of our AT&T-branded Olivetti M24. One day it disappeared while I was at school and my mom told me, very matter-of-factly, that Sandia had rescinded the checkout program because, "a bunch of engineers couldn't stop looking at porno on Sandia's property."
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 12:54
|
|
|
Justin Godscock posted:Your company actually allowed people to take company monitors home with them to work on during the lockdowns?
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 13:15
|
|
|
Barudak posted:Powerful same. My home office has a door a least, but I can only shut it in my cats' face. JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Because lovely managers won’t manage individuals because it’s easier to have someone make a policy, blanket enforce it and throw up your hands that there’s nothing to be done sorry that’s policy. or in my dysfunctional org's case: numbers are up, but we want people to report to the office instead of wfh - so we'll implement policies to hurt metrics to force people back into the office, and use a lack of productivity as justification. Verdugo fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Aug 7, 2022 |
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 13:26
|
|
|
The impossible loss prevention riddle of taking monitors home. We couldn't possibly barcode or serial number them in an asset management system or account them off as opex. Nothing we can do but adorn the office with their turned off visage.
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 13:56
|
|
|
MrQwerty posted:back in the day Sandia National Labs let people check out computers and stuff, my dad brought home this sick one that ran Win 3.11 and had a big old Bernoulli disk drive that was loaded up with games and was lightyears ahead of our AT&T-branded Olivetti M24. They were just researching the Big Bang.
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 14:46
|
|
|
Shoehead posted:Finished up here. Got paid. Suddenly have 3 extra weeks of holidays I can take whenever. Got some fuckin backpay for something else I don't remember. Got another tentative job interview this Monday morning if it doesn't fall through again I am so happy for you. Reading over the last few posts, it's clear your boss had gotten way too enmeshed and lost sight of proper boundaries, she thought of you more like family or a partner than an employee. That convo where she said she feels like you blame her instead of helping her is one you have with a partner, not someone you manage.
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 14:52
|
|
|
zedprime posted:The impossible loss prevention riddle of taking monitors home. We couldn't possibly barcode or serial number them in an asset management system or account them off as opex. Nothing we can do but adorn the office with their turned off visage. Or, you know, just deal with that they might lose a few 200 dollar assets in order to keep their tens of thousands of dollar employees productive and happy.
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 14:54
|
|
|
zedprime posted:The impossible loss prevention riddle of taking monitors home. We couldn't possibly barcode or serial number them in an asset management system or account them off as opex. Nothing we can do but adorn the office with their turned off visage. i'm just going to assume someone got tasked with 'we need to stop people from stealing this' and didn't care enough to actually figure it out, because if i imagine the sort of person who does this voluntarily because it sincerely bothers them that their coworkers are stealing monitors, i just get really sad
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 14:57
|
|
|
Ours are so old and lovely you wouldn’t want to steal them anyways.
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 15:05
|
|
|
Justin Godscock posted:Your company actually allowed people to take company monitors home with them to work on during the lockdowns? Ours did and yeah like Invalid Validation said they aren’t the type you’d be boosting to build a gaming rig and I doubt they have much resale value. When we switched to a hybrid work model I just bought another one for home rather than try to carry one home all the time as that would get old fast.
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 15:24
|
|
|
I worked somewhere that used those locks in the past. they were glued on so impossible to remove from the desks without taking the laminate with them. oh the other hand it was easy to get them off the equipment.
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 15:58
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 7, 2024 10:59 |
|
|
kdrudy posted:Or, you know, just deal with that they might lose a few 200 dollar assets in order to keep their tens of thousands of dollar employees productive and happy. Glued to a desk is the simplest form of physical inventorying required to keep these on the books as a depreciating asset which the accountants really want to do so that the expense hits the books some time after the operating manager promotes out or retires and cash flow looks better now and later is somebody else's problem. Alternately they can get an asset management program in place that can do the requisite inventorying to not get dinged in audits but that's so much effort you know? Cheap electronics as opex is fine I guess. Just throw our cashflow at vendors like amateurs but then we don't need to worry about inventory any more than opex supports the replacement budget.
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2022 16:12
|
|