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RocketMermaid posted:To be fair, the main lineup had been established early on and the test batches were made on a 1BBL pilot system before being scaled up to the 30BBL. Although we got confident enough in our techniques and methods that we started skipping pilot testing and just went for full batches, including when we started making kettle sours successfully. It helps having experienced professionals developing your recipes instead of a bunch of fuckhead amateur techbros. Fuckhead Techbro Presents: Hazy Milk Sour IPA Stout, aged in cherry wood sherry barrels, and octuple hopped because gently caress you. What other crimes against yeast and good taste will Fuckhead Techbro Brewing make? Oreo cookie and tobasco dark sour? Fruit salad summer shandy? An IPA with so many hopps that they put one in every bottle like the scorpion in the cheap 90s tequila?
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I was told to build x number of widgets this week for a commercial/large volume customer by the end of the week which was pushing it but I obliged. I worked overtime (yay) only to hit a dead end today because we didn’t have enough stock of one of the core pieces of the widget. The reason? Inventory management is done by eyeballing the supply room and praying to inventory Jesus that we have enough to do things. My company routinely has to cut orders short because we run out of boxes to put the poo poo in, or we run out of secondary components that pair with the finished goods we put in the boxes Inventory management is a lost skill at my job, apparently
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RocketMermaid posted:Honestly, the best thing most brewery owners can do is hire good people and get the gently caress out of the way. And hire dedicated managers who know how to manage a business instead of thinking being in tech makes you qualified to run and manage a business. My biggest complaint about my current employer is that the owners all have day jobs and think they can basically operate the brewery as a side hustle. Which leads to all sorts of logistical and communications hijinx. I think they sometimes start lines of inquiry and float ideas on Slack just because they're bored at their tech jobs, which is inconvenient at best when me and the other brewer are trying to, y'know, operate a brewery. 100%. That place with the crazed owner I keep taking about wasn't in tech, but I think he wanted to be, but he was just a rich guy. We communicated over Slack a lot. He'd always be out of town doing cycling events or whatever and would get loving pissy if I called him with questions because if we made decisions without him he'd get pissy. And lol at letting us stick to a production schedule.
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Desperado Bones posted:I'm leaving my workplace and not looking back. Literally walking out. I feel you dude. I think I got out of the graphics industry just in the nick of time. My last job working for a sign company had a standing procedure that "Design time" was fifteen loving minutes per job. Not a real problem if it's just a basic real estate or yard sale sign but salespeople, customers and most managers don't understand what "basic" means. Pixellated logos, bad photography, multiple rounds of changes to the art, finding previous files, rooting through servers to find the logos and instructions, clipping paths on images color matching. All kinds of poo poo. This was compounded and made worse by the fact that the "15 minutes" also consisted of me organizing everything in the server/job folder, moving everything around in the workflow manager, making notes, finding clip art or stock images, adding cut files for production, making separate "proof" versions of the art (that were different than the production art and placed on a template with specs and poo poo) plus god forbid I had any questions or anything. It also meant that any time I made a mistake or a change, I had to do it like three or 4 times (art file, production file, proof file, cut file) so 15 minutes goes really fast. Graphics companies want their shops to run like fast food drive thrus or like a Jimmy Johns but everything is a custom order so it doesn't work. It's made worse by the fact that most owners and salespeople have never done page layout or used ADobe for anything at all, ever. So it's like an auto repair shop run by a dude who's never fixed a car before.
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Outrail posted:Burn it to the ground Friendo. Yup. Long story short; I used to be in a front line technical support service desk that supported two different data platforms. Upper management decided that they wanted to restructure and split the team up into two sections, each of which would do full platform management for one of the platforms (i.e. uniting the policy and the technical support provision along platform lines, instead of having a shared technical team that could answer support questions about either platform and a separate team that managed policy.) As there was no pre-existing policy team for one of the platforms, the majority of my former team got turned into it, and therefore there's a wealth of technical knowledge in the team and they're coming to grips with new policy management stuff. I've been moved into a team that has only operated as a policy team, whose members do not understand the technical aspects of the platform. Guess where the preponderance of technical support work sits? Apologies for clumsy redactions and possibly whiny tone but I don't care anymore. quote:[$boss], I'm almost toying with ccing my boss' boss in on it.
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Oct 29, 2022 13:30
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holy poo poo dude no one is going to read that, I'm sorry
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Oct 29, 2022 15:52
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never send an email that long to anyone
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Oct 29, 2022 15:53
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If all that information is absolutely essential, split it into documents attached to the email, and make the email a series of summaries of the contents of those documents.
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Oct 29, 2022 16:04
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95% of us work from home now. There are about 20 of us in the office, for one or two days at most. They put up Halloween decorations in the rooms that are no longer used by anyone.
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Oct 29, 2022 16:10
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Estates staff must be really bored without people to organise useless guff for.
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happyhippy posted:95% of us work from home now. No longer used by anyone so far.
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boar guy posted:holy poo poo dude no one is going to read that
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Oct 29, 2022 16:18
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Maybe they're holding a secret haunted house to make some extra money.
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Breetai posted:Apologies for clumsy redactions and possibly whiny tone but I don't care anymore. Succinct
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Oct 29, 2022 16:25
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Halloweened again!
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happyhippy posted:95% of us work from home now. I think I posted about this last year, but we set up the Christmas tree in our area again and decorated it with Halloween poo poo
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Breetai posted:TL; Half-read I imagine the writing of that was cathartic. Now don't send it. Try: Hi, I'm applying for department X, position Y, as we discussed in my development plan. Even if I don't get the position, we need to work out a plan for getting more help with A, B, and C. (Insert SHORT explanation of why you need help, and specific issues you hope to resolve by getting help) Let me know if you have questions. Thanks! They may not do anything. But it'll be more effective than that overwrought tirade, and make them less likely to torpedo you moving to the new position.
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Atopian posted:If all that information is absolutely essential, split it into documents attached to the email, and make the email a series of summaries of the contents of those documents. Yeah, put it in a letter and attach the PDF. The email should be bullet point summaries.
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if I'm a manager and I get that email I am immediately looking for ways to offload that person and hire someone else you care about your job far more than they do. if you leave they will hire someone else. that's it
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It is excellently detailed documentation, but slamming somebody with a wall of text like that is a non-starter. Do keep it handy though.
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RocketMermaid posted:I guess it doesn't help that all those folks literally worked in a separate building and rarely rubbed shoulders with us filthy machine-touchers. The only time I saw them blink was when me and another brewer gave our notice on the same day that we were going over to Lagunitas, and I saw the CEO (this was after John Hall left) pushing all the managers and HR into a conference room, and I thought, "About loving time." Oh man white collar employees who sneer at the blue collar employees who generate all of the product/profit are the worst. We had one who had never worked a shift and was proud of having not set foot in one of those locations for years, as this person was paid six figures to administer Myers-Briggs tests to management.
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Oct 29, 2022 18:53
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Oh man white collar employees who sneer at the blue collar employees who generate all of the product/profit are the worst. We had one who had never worked a shift and was proud of having not set foot in one of those locations for years, as this person was paid six figures to administer Myers-Briggs tests to management. Oh, you mean a business astrologer?
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Oct 29, 2022 19:33
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If I'm asked to take a personality test by an employer I drop the interview process immediately. If it's ever sprung on me after hiring that's the first day I'm looking for a new job.
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Serious_Cyclone posted:If I'm asked to take a personality test by an employer I drop the interview process immediately. If it's ever sprung on me after hiring that's the first day I'm looking for a new job. The last time I saw one of those that wasn't a meme was in 2002 when my friend and I were taken to some "We'll help you decide your future" class by our moms our senior year. I don't remember the personality test but the other results were that I should go to school to learn how to be an X-ray Technician and the job I should have was lawnmower repair. I think our moms got scammed, there's just something fishy about it. 
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Yeah, fair point. That was the result of me sitting down in a fit of pique and cathartically vomiting my feelings onto a page in a single uninterrupted and unedited stream of consciousness. Gonna have to turn paragraphs into sentences.
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Oct 29, 2022 21:31
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Goose Island made me take one of those tests during the hiring process and it made me lol.
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RocketMermaid posted:Honestly, the best thing most brewery owners can do is hire good people and get the gently caress out of the way. And hire dedicated managers who know how to manage a business instead of thinking being in tech makes you qualified to run and manage a business. The best thing I've learned at my current job is that hiring adults and then giving them responsibilities and resources works. So does treating the person doing the work as the SME for that work. I am left alone to do my work and to come up with more things that are my responsibility. There's good reason why we hit single digits in a "Best places to work in IT" survey recently.
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boar guy posted:holy poo poo dude no one is going to read that, I'm sorry This. That is an email that should be a meeting. They absolutely will not read it.
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mllaneza posted:The best thing I've learned at my current job is that hiring adults and then giving them responsibilities and resources works. So does treating the person doing the work as the SME for that work. I am left alone to do my work and to come up with more things that are my responsibility. There's good reason why we hit single digits in a "Best places to work in IT" survey recently. Oh and I bet when a dept is created for a specific limited scope project that team disbands when it is completed, rather than sit around for years with nothing to do? 
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Breetai posted:Yeah, fair point. That was the result of me sitting down in a fit of pique and cathartically vomiting my feelings onto a page in a single uninterrupted and unedited stream of consciousness. I read the whole thing and I think you clearly have all your thoughts in a coherent order and your conclusions flow from your points. Still, I would agree with making this a meeting rather than an email to ensure your audience actually digests it.
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My reticence towards making it a meeting stems from the fact that when stressed during meetings, including leadership forums, my boss starts ugly crying uncontrollably.
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Breetai posted:My reticence towards making it a meeting stems from the fact that when stressed during meetings, including leadership forums, my boss starts ugly crying uncontrollably. Jesus Christ. What a great trait for someone in a leadership position.
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I've got a loud, pro-cop, pro-trucker convoy, never-shuts-the-gently caress-up Joe Rogan wannabe coworker who took my concerns with Elon buying twitter as his moment to shine yesterday. I always knew he was a bootlicker, but after he finished his rage-induced, hands-trembling diatribe against rules being put in place to function as the fundamental barricades of a functional society (wherein he also dismissed January 6th as being anything but a valid form of protest against 'tyranny'), I said "So what you're telling me is that you're pro-fascism?" It snapped some sort of synapse in his brain. Imagine a surly, bald, 46-year-old white dude who looks exactly like Bill Burr, foaming at the mouth with that wide-eyed insane-person stare that only the dangerously idiotic get, locked directly on me, and trembling with rage as he spits out something to the effect of (paraphrasing): "I NEVER said that. Plus, you think you know what fascism is? You can't possibly know what that word means because you've never lived under fascism." Imagine Bill Burr saying that to you one-on-one, menacingly, as he shakes uncontrollably, and you'll have a pretty good picture of the situation. Like, okay dude, sure. I get it. Being an Albertan under the Trudeau Prime Ministership means you are allowed to understand and interpret fascism however you want, and any other interpretation is not only wrong, but unknowable. Right. Okay.  And somewhere in the middle of all that bullshit and phoney bravado alpha male posturing garbage, he springs this sage wisdom onto me: "You wouldn't survive 24 hours if the lights went off. I know that for a fact." Like, my guy, is this a thinly veiled threat or something? As if his imagination that my will to survive is somehow lesser than his, based on absolutely nothing, which, again, falls under the banner of fascist tendencies, wherein rules aren't a thing and it's all a matter of who is *cough* strongest. I tried to point this out to him and he just kept talking over me and trying to pull off as many bullshit stream of consciousness rightwing whataboutisms that his brain could conjure up until I finally just had to exit the situation. Boenhoffer was right, there is no reasoning with stupid people. This same guy had a mental breakdown two weeks back because another coworker accidentally did a job that another department was supposed to do, and in his mind this meant we'd be stuck doing it forever, rather than just admit we made a mistake followed by an assertion that we won't be doing it again. His reaction was to fold like a paper crane. This man is all show, zero backbone. TL;DR: I work with Bill Burr's long lost twin and he's a monumental idiot.
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Fuckhead Techbro Presents: Hazy Milk Sour IPA Stout, aged in cherry wood sherry barrels, and octuple hopped because gently caress you. Oh please don't give Stone that idea, that is exactly the sort of poo poo they'd love. Hyrax Attack! posted:Oh man white collar employees who sneer at the blue collar employees who generate all of the product/profit are the worst. We had one who had never worked a shift and was proud of having not set foot in one of those locations for years, as this person was paid six figures to administer Myers-Briggs tests to management. My boss's boss's boss (boss and his boss are in a straight line org wise) is like this, she can see us working through the window at her desk, and had been present while we're doing some of the most vital possible work for the company's future, but she's never once said hi to me or any of my techs, never once introduced herself. I've met and chatted with her boss (a VP) multiple times, he always says hi, greets me by name, gives me a fist bump, and usually greets a couple of my techs by name. I'm one of like 15 supervisors that work for her, and I guarantee she doesn't know my name, she had to call my boss to tell me on Teams to go yell at someone for wearing shorts. She also had done nothing useful or helpful ever, she tried to make all my techs wear two sets of gloves while handling hardware because there was one hidden burr on one part that caused an injury that required a whole band-aid to fix. Also my company cut my headcount by 20%, I don't have enough technicians to accomplish work in a timely manner, but we've added (by my best guess) $750,000 in C-suite people in my direct hierarchy. Unless they're going to come down and start turning wrenches or machining parts, they're not going to help get production back on schedule. The factory I'm visiting is even worse, they have half the techs for an even higher workload, and none of them know what the gently caress is going on (which is why I'm here) I almost hit triple digit hours this week desperately trying to make up the difference. Their headcount is also frozen, in a brain genius loving move. They're located near the largest pool of talent for our industry in the entire world, they could bump their pay rates $5/hr and poach people who know what they're doing like candy. Note: the 90+ hours on my time sheet is because I'm a loving idiot, no one asked me to do that, I actually had to ask for multiple exceptions to our fatigue management program to even do that.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Oh and I bet when a dept is created for a specific limited scope project that team disbands when it is completed, rather than sit around for years with nothing to do? We're in a split model now. Chapters and Domains. Chapters are made up of Sections by specialty and are meant to contain people. Domains have Product people, the Business liaisons, and all the work that needs to be done. The idea is that we put all the database people in a bucket, all the backend people in a bucket, etc. This puts all the specialists in groups so they can be managed as group by someone attuned to dealing with that specialty. Section Leads do all the people manager stuff, and liaise with the Domains to provide people for Squads and Agile Teams to manage ongoing or new service work. On the Domain side lives the Product people, the PMs, and the Business Liaisons. When the business needs something, the Product Owners and Managers send a PM to make a plan and then go to the Section Leads to request We had a pre-existing commitment to SAFe, so the outcome of the reorg was always going to have to be a structure built to support Agile practices. I think my leadership came up with a pretty clever way to manage the people you'll be forming Agile teams out of.
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Impossible, I was a Navy Nuke for 12 years, they cannot touch the poo poo I've had to deal with. For real though, I probably would have quit when they were forcing me to work 12 hour shifts 6-7 days a week, if I didn't love the job, or love the people who work for me, and they didn't throw crap-tons of money at me (I'm in the highest-paid hourly position in my company). For now that makes up for the bullshit, and there's an actual end in sight. If they're still pulling this poo poo at a year in, I will 100% put in my 2 weeks. As I almost screamed at my director when he told me my guys "were mostly veterans, they should be used to it" we left because we never wanted to miss out on 6 months of our lives ever again.
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:An IPA with so many hopps that they put one in every bottle like the scorpion in the cheap 90s tequila? How about an IPA that's so full of hops it looks like Yerba Mate and you have to drink it through a filtered straw? I can see this being really popular with the hipster crowd.
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Atticus_1354 posted:How about an IPA that's so full of hops it looks like Yerba Mate and you have to drink it through a filtered straw? I can see this being really popular with the hipster crowd. I mean people already call the fruit puree sticking to the side of the glass after drinking smoothie sours "fruit lacing", so why not?
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