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Escape From Noise posted:Yeah. That's why I ordered two hydrometers. What was the cost per hydrometer?
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carrionman posted:Dumb poo poo from work: Lol dang. A buddy is a university professor & is not a fan of his institution’s policies, especially the honor code. A student can get caught plagiarizing the second time in a semester and the professor knows the most he can do is give them a zero for the assignment but pointless to try to get them kicked out of the graduate program if they’re paying full tuition. And even in egregious cases the student would be allowed to write a teacher evaluation that weighs heavily on the professor’s chances of getting tenure, with no note attached mentioning a reason the student was disciplined. For salary chat we have a useful team member trying to get a deserved promotion to the next rung of the pay scale, and has been having a rough time getting management to take it seriously. We’d be in a rough spot if this person left, and it’s frustrating to know my company has spent more than twice this person’s salary for a week of consulting from a low level TED talk figure.
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Escape From Noise posted:drat it. Lol. Of course I'm writing it wrong! Wait is that this book? In that case I see the relation.  I don't even brew beer, and Lars' blog is fascinating ... and I kind of want to go buy some kveik now. I see my local wine monopoly actually has some truly weird raw ales with juniper and high fermentation temperatures and the lot. Hmm. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Jan 13, 2023 |
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Computer viking posted:time the brewers also designed more specialised tools for yeast retention - stirrers with more nooks, and eventually "beer wreaths"; complicated wooden chains with a lot of surface area and nooks for yeast residue to stick to. (Which sounds like the antithesis of modern brewing equipment...)
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:Get him tea and packs of sugar. Maybe Diabetes can solve this Sweet Tea is not tea with sugar in it, it is sugar with tea flavoring.
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Jan 13, 2023 05:48
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Machai posted:Sweet Tea is not tea with sugar in it, it is sugar with tea flavoring. Truly you are wise in the way of the southerner.
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Outrail posted:What was the cost per hydrometer? Like ￥2000.
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Computer viking posted:Wait is that this book? In that case I see the relation. Oh yeah! That's the one.
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I just love when the previous shift doesn’t leave passdowns. Why is this plugged here? Why is the turbo pump running? Why is the toxic gas box routed backwards? Is any of this intentional? 
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Called our supplier for German malt and European hops. They're cleaned out until March and are taking preorders. I'm probably going to try and hoarde Saaz like a nutcase. But just no Golding this year. At all.
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Escape From Noise posted:Like ￥2000. But how much exactly? It's very important
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Outrail posted:But how much exactly? It's very important Uh...UHHHHHHHHHH...
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TaurusTorus posted:I just love when the previous shift doesn’t leave passdowns.
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Working for a subsidiary of a major global news outfit we were greeted by a message from The Office Of the big kahuna's bitch on the ground admonishing us all (in a continent far far away) how much better we perform when we observe 'visual cues' and 'body language' in the office irl that simply can't be replicated in our 'awkward screen-based' workspaces, therefore insinuating that not coming back to the (very expensive, now worthless real estate) office is somehow letting the team down. The fact that we who remain after a 50% chop in people in 2020 are more efficient and deliver better content (a lot of dead wood got cut), and less of the costly rubbish that was commonplace would suggest that the only reason you want to get your geriatric rear end bumping into young interns is indicative of how little you have learned and have paid attention to the post-pandemic world of work, and the world in general. Edit: Its a real estate scam. Overcomitted pre-pandemic, and now need bums on seats to justify the costs. Grandad getting to bully the upcoming douchebags in person is pure luck. BastardAus fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Jan 13, 2023 |
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Jan 13, 2023 08:57
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Tomn posted:I feel like every graphic designer in the world just sighed in sympathy. One of my good friends is a designer and was once asked to make something "20% more urban".
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BastardAus posted:Working for a subsidiary of a major global news outfit we were greeted by a message from The Office Of the big kahuna's bitch on the ground admonishing us all (in a continent far far away) how much better we perform when we observe 'visual cues' and 'body language' in the office irl that simply can't be replicated in our 'awkward screen-based' workspaces, therefore insinuating that not coming back to the (very expensive, now worthless real estate) office is somehow letting the team down. I'm glad the company I work for just ate the cost of breaking the lease of the second office down the road they'd opened in November of 2019 instead of trying to just force people to use it. Not just because of the pandemic, but because I hated the days I had to be over there in the little IT closet... Was fun to just ignore the people knocking on the door though...
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djk posted:One of my good friends is a designer and was once asked to make something "20% more urban". Between this and the "dirty pots found in employee shower room" from the health department report in the restaurant thread I think I'm having a stroke.
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Escape From Noise posted:Between this and the "dirty pots found in employee shower room" from the health department report in the restaurant thread I think I'm having a stroke. Nah, you're just blissfully unaware of how bad most people are at anything, and especially at doing their job.
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satanic splash-back posted:Nah, you're just blissfully unaware of how bad most people are at anything, and especially at doing their job. I think it's just more the employee shower room coupled with dirty cookware.
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Tomn posted:I feel like every graphic designer in the world just sighed in sympathy. I've been in graphics for decades and it is incredibly frustrating trying to basically read somebody's mind, I agree. I took to calling what I do "visual dictation" rather than "design". Over time, I used some workarounds like asking a customer for examples of other work that they like, color schemes they want, logos they appreciate, or link them to a font library and things like that but I'm still usually inundated with endless "minor" changes (that aren't minor at all most of the time) coupled with tight deadlines. I got out of the field except for freelance work because, increasingly, every manager I work for has incredibly unrealistic parameters for how much time things take. My last job at a sign show allotted 15 loving MINUTES per layout as a baseline. That can work for a yard sale sign or some poo poo but, hell, that's barely even enough time to pick out some fonts, set up the template, find some clip art, clean up the lovely low res cell phone logo and generate a proof on the company proof sheet where I had to input all the specs (dimensions, job#, etc.). And again, EVERY customer makes changes to poo poo. It's loving ridiculous. They treat the design process like a fast food joint or a Jimmy Johns.
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djk posted:One of my good friends is a designer and was once asked to make something "20% more urban". I have a singer friend who was hired for a commercial. During the recording session, the client asked him if he could do another take, but put a little more denim and cheese into it. I'll bet session singers have lots of these types of stories, since they're not allowed to be told to sing in the style of some established performer, where they would open the client up to a copyright lawsuit. So the clients and ad directors have to use obscure hints that don't make sense to point the performer in some direction.
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Somehow that reminds me of one of the more interesting drinks I've had on tap - a mead that had used a lean enough water/honey mix to end up not much sweeter than a lager. "Honey without the sugar" is not a common taste profile - but it was quite nice. (Served at a metal festival with adjacent viking market, incidentally.)
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Computer viking posted:Somehow that reminds me of one of the more interesting drinks I've had on tap - a mead that had used a lean enough water/honey mix to end up not much sweeter than a lager. "Honey without the sugar" is not a common taste profile - but it was quite nice. Honestly, that's a flavor I associate with a good Bohemian pilsner like Pilsner Urqell. It has a slight hint of malt sweetness, but this really amazing honey scent and flavor (minus the sweetness). I love poo poo like that. We used this experimental French hop for a Biere de Noël (French Christmas beer. Done Ina few weeks. Lol) that gave the beer these honey characteristics.
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Make a Durian fruit beer plz
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Outrail posted:Make a Durian fruit beer plz Anthony Bourdain described eating durian as "Like making out with my dead grandmother". I can't imagine what drinking fermented durian liquid would be like.
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Outrail posted:Make a Durian fruit beer plz No
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djk posted:One of my good friends is a designer and was once asked to make something "20% more urban". Just increase the density of housing and lower the proportion of people employed in agricultural jobs by 20% each, duh.
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djk posted:One of my good friends is a designer and was once asked to make something "20% more urban". This can mean anywhere from "uh" to 
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DreadUnknown posted:Holy poo poo is the previous shift literally Muppets or something? This explains so much! Although, if I recall correctly, most muppets are competent except for the ones that aren’t. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3JNNsThK08 Yep. Checks out. Too busy making music to make sure they don’t route the toxic gas box backwards. (That sounds like a very dangerous thing to gently caress up.)
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I work for a federal agency. Very rarely do we take in any significant amount of cash, but the powers that be have decided that any cash we take in must be deposited at least weekly. Someone paid a dime for a one-page copy last week? That’s all we got? Deposit it! We can’t get a courier to take the deposit, because lol couriers don’t waste their time on a once-a-week run. So they get an employee to do it. They get someone paid $50/hr to go deposit a couple of bucks. Your tax dollars at work.
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DamnCanadian posted:I work for a federal agency. Very rarely do we take in any significant amount of cash, but the powers that be have decided that any cash we take in must be deposited at least weekly. Someone paid a dime for a one-page copy last week? That’s all we got? Deposit it! You wouldn't believe how much time and money I waste telling my funders how much time and money I waste telling my funders how much time and money I waste instead of actually doing something productive with their money. On second thought you absolutely would believe it.
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Bored posted:This explains so much! Although, if I recall correctly, most muppets are competent except for the ones that aren’t. Look man, the toxic gas WAS the product they were collecting, and it just makes sense to run the separator backwards if you wanna retain that sweet sweet H2S.
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djk posted:One of my good friends is a designer and was once asked to make something "20% more urban". Jesus, this is like the Poochi focus group
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Old boss is Finding Out - on top of all of her woes from everyone just loving leaving she's getting complaints from all of our internal teams regarding turnaround time and quality of service, had a meeting to discuss complaints with her boss and one of the Database Admin team, and has recently started fielding very serious complaints from our parent Department who has gotten the Departmental Secretary involved (something that I explicitly warned her would happen if she hosed around with providing them with service). Apparently at the latest team leader meeting she was uncharacteristically completely silent (she often monopolizes 95% of the meeting's runtime with off-agenda rambling meaning that precious little actually gets discussed) until right at the end when the person chairing the meeting asked if anyone had anything else they needed to raise, and she piped up out of nowhere with: "gently caress all of these acting Directors in (the city where she works)." Ostensibly it was directed at someone who sits close to her who is a bit loud and annoys her by talking all day (as if that excuses it). It's interesting that she apparently forgot that her boss is an acting director in the city where she works. I think the wheels are coming off. Breetai fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Jan 14, 2023 |
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Today I did get a passdown, but it failed to mention that the plasma source had the wrong cable harness installed making it nonfunctional. I spent a solid hour pouring over last shift’s correspondence with the engineers to figure this out when they could have added a second sentence to the passdown. Also, unrelated, day shift gets waffles, I just noticed the breakroom has two big hotel style waffle irons that I’m not allowed to use.
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Breetai posted:"gently caress all of these acting Directors in (the city where she works)." Please tell me you know this because she tried to backtrack with exactly that excuse, in public.
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