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Escape From Noise posted:I may have convinced my boss that it'd be way more cost effective to just mix vodka and water in kegs and carb them then try making and fermenting a whole batch of hard seltzer. That's what everyone else is already doing
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Isn't that just a chuuhai at that point?
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Hear me out, Alcoholic Ramune! Six times the gimmick for 400 times the filling nightmare! I mean that'd be pretty easy. Just have to add simple syrup and flavoring.
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Dec 9, 2022 10:21
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Church Ladyboy posted:Isn't that just a chuuhai at that point? That's what they're using it for and we aren't canning or selling outside of the restaurant, so I think it wouldn't be an issue.
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Dec 9, 2022 10:21
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Tomn posted:Sure, but while you may want to try and argue the client into doing something more clever, after a certain point arguing too much means they look for a different advertiser instead to do what they want so you don't get the money and the client does the dumb thing anyways. Besides, it's advertising. "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, the problem is that I can't tell which half." It's pretty hard to objectively point at any given advertising campaign and say "This was directly responsible for the 10% increase in sales, which we have definitely isolated as being due to the advertising campaign and not due to changes in the market, the state of the economy, a new product release, pure dumb luck, etc." If you're into providing valued services to clients you're in the wrong line of work, half of the industry is bullshit artistry to convince the client that because they feel they got value, they got value. Part of the reason I got out really. Oh, I don't do marketing - I'm a software developer at a company that also does marketing. I already resigned and am currently working my notice
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Dec 9, 2022 17:16
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Somehow the Belgian dark strong I kegged yesterday is selling really well? This is sort of weird but nice. I wasn't expecting it to be a quick seller. More like a niche interest beer. I guess we have a weird customer base. They also seem to like the brown ale. I would have never put my money on either of those. Earlier today I saw a woman order a mug of the dark strong. I had a half pour last night and definitely felt it.
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Dec 9, 2022 17:23
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Barudak posted:I am getting an additional bonus this year for my performance in not selling things and for not being a problem. Freaquency posted:I am very happy for you and also hate you with every fiber of my being.
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Dec 9, 2022 17:28
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Barudak posted:This is the best. At my husband's old job, they had him write up a job description of everything he did... Once that was done, they laid him off and brought someone in part-time to do what he did in the department (because they didn't think he did everything that his job description said, and it certainly wouldn't be full time to do what he did.) Apparently, that lasted 3 very bad months before the part-timer noped out, and his job description (THAT HE WROTE) appeared on job search sites. It stayed up for another three months. He learned later on that not only could they not hire one person to do the job he had done, but then ended up having to break the job in two and hire two different people for it... full time. The company he works for now is pretty much 90% staffed by former employees of that company, and all of them pretty much spit on the ground when they say the name. I worked in academia, so while my work did dumb poo poo, it wasn't nearly as bad as his. Mine was completely different dumb poo poo.
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BrideOfUglycat posted:At my husband's old job, they had him write up a job description of everything he did... Once that was done, they laid him off and brought someone in part-time to do what he did in the department (because they didn't think he did everything that his job description said, and it certainly wouldn't be full time to do what he did.) Lol. Good for him. gently caress these jerks.
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Escape From Noise posted:Germany is responsible for peppermint schnapps. Checkmate. You mean the make hot cocoa awesome liquid.
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CitizenKain posted:You mean the make hot cocoa awesome liquid. I don't know how you misspelled dark rum but OK.
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Dec 9, 2022 17:49
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Pints of creme de menthe all round
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Magnetic North posted:Oh poo poo did the definition of foot change since England got a new monarch? Are you a surveyor? I recently had to fight a surveyor who didn't understand why unitless is a better dwg standard. Grid vs. Ground. The automagic conversion will ruin you every time. Damnit wrong quote. I was aiming for the poster above you. Phone.
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Clayton Bigsby posted:DM me if you can hook me up with a good deal on a Les Paul Sorry we don’t bottle that here
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I just got a new job after 6 months of unemployment! :celebrate: I checked back in with my old boss (who I like a lot) when I asked him for a reference for the new gig. Apparently everything is on fire back at my old company. The new system that they were touting went live and immediately shat the bed, turnover is at an all-time high, and all of the C-Suite refuse to acknowledge that anything is wrong. All of which started basically immediately after they canned me. Considering my new job pays more and is actually in a field I care about, I'm calling this a win all around! Except for my old boss, who I hope finds a better place to work ASAP.
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Working as a court reporter for a social security disability court. I transcribe verbatim what's going on which take a lot of 'brain off' in-the-zone typing. This particular case is by remote video-- but since I only type spoken word, I typically have the video conference behind 20 other windows. So there's a case starting, and there's the boring lawyer-talk reading of issues opener so my brain is especially off, when the claimant's representative says "Oh, I attached a picture of the claimant's [injury/disease], it's sort of a rare thing so I attached a medical doc to help explain to the court what we're looking at." typetypetype Judge: "Eh it just looks like a smudge? What am I supposed to get from this?" typetypetype "Oh looks like it was added to the case file incorrectly, I have a printout of it here... let me hold it up to the camera" typetypetype Judge: "Wow, oh my God! That's grisly!" typetypetype wait huh "Yea can you see it over the--" "YES I CAN! Oh gosh! That sure is..." I frantically dig through my windows, but when I get it up the lawyer was putting the picture away  "Yea the VA says that it's the largest [injury/disease of this type] they've ever seen, let alone outside of a warzone"My whole day was ruined
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You missed out on an IRL goatman sighting? Condolences.
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I had a department all hands lunch/meeting late last week. It was at a fairly nice hotel ballroom with some pretty good food, so that was nice. Got the usual random prepared comments from some VPs talking up random stuff about how the Project Management department is growing, and how good everyone did this year about hitting the budget. The usual random generic positive feel good stuff. Then one of the VPs briefly pivoted to the corporate survey results, which just came in a couple weeks ago. She commented that “We hear you about compensation, but it takes time”. Which must mean that universally they got horrible results about pay and raises. To absolutely no one’s surprise. And I am sure executive emails a few months ago making a big deal about upcoming 4% (as opposed to 2%) raises in March 2023 is probably not helping things. But just that what seemed to usually be a pat everyone on the back for all the completed projects type of event, to throw that in there kinda stuck out to me. Like they are laying the groundwork to do absolutely nothing and blame something or another as to why they couldn’t do more than the 4% while cutting other benefits.
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Lord_Brand_X posted:Are you a surveyor? I recently had to fight a surveyor who didn't understand why unitless is a better dwg standard. Grid vs. Ground. The automagic conversion will ruin you every time. Not exactly. I do fieldwork that usually involves my own surveying. I tend to survey my work in whatever means the easiest way for me to make a map/deliverable. I'm not a licensed surveyor. Last night I had to convert state plane to utm feet. WTF uses utm feet? Some American engineer who is working for an Aussie mining co.
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Orvin posted:I had a department all hands lunch/meeting late last week. It was at a fairly nice hotel ballroom with some pretty good food, so that was nice. Got the usual random prepared comments from some VPs talking up random stuff about how the Project Management department is growing, and how good everyone did this year about hitting the budget. The usual random generic positive feel good stuff. I feel like, in order to be a successful executive, you have to be cool with telling easily debunked lies. Like, even if the manager is at a level where they aren’t paid much and work hard in their role, they convince themselves that this is how it should be and it’s okay to feed their subordinates bullshit about why they should be grateful to receive the pittance the company continues to pay them for doing the work the company is paid to do.
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It's Christmas time which means time for excessive back-patting while quietly cancelling bonuses. This year's focus is an AI cracker-joke-generator that makes unfunny jokes. Head of the project sent a company-wide email thanking the people who worked on the project congratulating about 15 people, only one of whom is actually a developer so must have built and deployed the whole thing by himself. I'm sure the contribution by the 3 people in the marketing team was just as valuable, maybe they mentioned it in an email or a tweet.
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They came up with the idea and most of the jokes and then forced someone else into doing all the work.
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Why the does anyone but a cracker company need an AI cracker joke generator?
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diremonk posted:Have more stories from that job, but they are all old. Still fodder for the thread? Yes, please and thank you
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I spent the first 2 hours of today trying to sort out a catering order I had made for mandatory workplace holiday. Fun that somehow did not get transmitted to the restaurant through their online ordering app. But I spent most of my day at work trying to complete a deadline that got shortened by a week because when people were figuring out deadlines, they accidentally used the organization wide timetable and not The department timetable, because of course we need to get our bullshit done so we can pass it on up to the next person in the chain. And late to the other job. And I will have to ask a co-worker if they can drop me off at my car that's parked on the other side of town in a parking garage where I don't hope they don't tow me.
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I'm on another trip with my boomer coworker. He got mad when he saw I was wearing a mask in the airport. At the rental car counter, we learn that he doesn't have a reservation there. That's because no cars were available when he tried to book, so the travel agent reserved one at the off-airport location. Instead of getting a taxi to the off-airport location, he insists on going to other counters and asking if they have any cars, learning that no cars are available, throwing a mini tantrum, then getting a taxi to the off-airport location. He insisted I drive and he navigate (by speaking the location into his phone and letting Siri give directions). After he complains about being sent around our rear end to get to our elbow, I figure out that he has avoid highways set. I follow the signs to the highway, and he complains about me missing all the turns. At least there's no XM this time, so I only have to endure the occasional rant about the CIA and FBI suppressing information about Hunter Biden's laptop.
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Salami Surgeon posted:I'm on another trip with my boomer coworker. I think this could be worked into a sitcom. Maybe a porn slasher, maybe. Idk
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Salami Surgeon posted:I'm on another trip with my boomer coworker. 
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Salami Surgeon posted:I'm on another trip with my boomer coworker. 
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In September I started working as call center tech support for a cloud-based email protection service. Training was weird because they were trying to return to the office specifically citing how weird and isolating training is from home (Don't disagree), but they faced several delays while the new one was up, so I ended up watching videos on my own for 2 weeks anyway and never got the beneficial effects of going back to the office in a still-raging pandemic! Now, about 3 months after I've been hired, they're having all the new call center support spend the better part of a week on training again, this time in person, spending each day on a different service. Hopefully everything stays slow and nothing goes out again! Normally I have to go in 3 days a week and have the option to work from home Tuesday and Thursday, but now I have to go up every day. I have a near hour-long commute and the slightest hiccup can extend that 10-20 minutes near Ann Arbor. I am not looking forward to when it snows. So on one hand, I don't have to take calls. On the other, my hour-long commute is now mandatory, and I have to sit in a meeting room and pay attention for 7 hours a day re-learning things I learned 3 months ago. Also, they were really bad at letting us know this was happening. God, I feel weird being miffed about a development that means less work for a few days. This is all after just last week when we had a new hire symposium where all the people hired over the last few months spent two hours a day for three days in Zoom meetings. Right before the first one, the server that does encryption for all our customers' outgoing emails went down. That was a fun mess to leave behind and come back to. And a couple before that, Amazon Web Services had an outage that caused us to be flooded with calls from customers who weren't getting email. So now we're shunting our casework onto our coworkers and hopefully everything stays slow as it does during the holidays and nothing goes down again!
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Escape From Noise posted:Just saw one of the label's from one a former breweries latest beers and... Well?
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Outrail posted:Well? Okay. Let me see if I can black out some things so I don't risk doxxing myself more than I already have.
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Okay. That was easier than I thought. Here it is: Possibly  
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Is their plan that you need to get blackout drunk to forget seeing that?
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I doubt it'll raise as much of a reaction as it maybe should. He's already done a few other questionable ones but he sorta usually manages to approach the line without crossing it in a way. The thing is I know he's a massive creep after working with him. This was his avatar on Slack when I worked there. It was weird (although not entirely surprising) to find out a few years after I left that one of my beers was named after a pornographic manga/anime about sexual assault.
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There is some bullshit beer awards event coming up here in February and they're asking me what I want to enter and I really don't give a poo poo. The reason I don't give a poo poo is because the "awards" are like Monde Select, you get an award if you enter and pay the fee. It's literally meaningless. Like it might help if we did more bottling maybe, but nobody cares. On top of that the judging at these events isn't the greatest. I once got judge's notes back for my gose saying it was awful because it was sour and thus clearly contaminated. So it's just throwing money in a hole. I keep telling the restaurant manager that what's going to build are sales is nuts and bolts poo poo like working more on marketing over social media a bit, forging relationships with other breweries and vendora, and responding to email requests for orders and that basically nobody gives a gently caress about these awards. His response is that if we win gold or keep winning a few awards over time it'll build up interest (it won't). If you are reading this and are a brewer who's won awards, I'm not making GBS threads on that. I congratulate you with all sincerity. I'm just saying that it's a nice feather in your cap, but it's not what carries the marketing. Fuckin hell!
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