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loving figures there'd be a run on noble hop varieties just as I'm supposed to brew a Berliner weisse, a German pils, and a Biere de Mars.
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So the management wants more fruit beers. I'm fine with that but when it comes down to scheduling the manager I work with usually puts things in another direction. I've pitched a few and this summer I plan to make more. I have it in the schedule to make a fruited Belgian golden strong. Originally I wanted to do pomegranate. I thought it'd be unique and work well with the style, provided that we could get the puree. I'm not sure we can, but that wasn't the reason management rejected it. They wanted me to use "cute" fruit...WTF IS CUTE FRUIT??? I hate trying to decipher management speak... So far the list includes: strawberry (bad for brewing), cherry, mango, and passion fruit. IDGI.
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Jan 12, 2023 16:27
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is pear "cute"? I always get a pear note from the duvel yeast already
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more falafel please posted:is pear "cute"? I'll have to ask the manager. More than likely I'll tell him to stop saying "cute" and give me a list or something.
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Jan 12, 2023 16:47
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I have nonstop back-to-back meetings from 2 to 5:30 today so rip to getting any actual work done
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mangosteens are up there on the cute fruit list https://www.eater.com/2019/8/1/20750501/a-ranking-of-cute-fruits
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Jan 12, 2023 19:58
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It's friday of the most [australian word]-y week and I am beyond exhausted, goons 
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I do my job, another lady's job, have to be the expert on multiple systems, do all the administration, organise and run the training, write the ad copy, oh and did I mention I started in October???
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Jan 12, 2023 21:48
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I am profoundly sad in my bones and idk what to do about it lol
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Jan 12, 2023 21:55
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Chewbecca posted:I am profoundly sad in my bones and idk what to do about it lol oh man that is a heavy burden to bear in january, the saddest of months
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Dr. Honked posted:oh man that is a heavy burden to bear in january, the saddest of months I am gonna lie in bed before I try to will myself to my desk 
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Jan 12, 2023 22:05
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Fortunately, I'm pretty much done for the week. Although I need to figure out what hops I can and should order to sub for the noble hops I cannot get.
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Jan 13, 2023 03:42
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I am done for the week and boy does work fucken suck dicks!!!!
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gently caress. This European hop shortage is loving killing me. Just no Golding available this year. At all.
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Chewbecca posted:I am done for the week and boy does work fucken suck dicks!!!! i'm just starting on friday and i'm hoping for a smooth slide into the weekend
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Why are tables so awful in Word?? Doing even simple tables is a pain in the rear end. I thinnk the secret is to import them from excel as a jpeg. Otherwise formatting them sucks |
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[In Steve Albini voice]: Tables!
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Why do some places still require you to take a personality test as part of the application. What possible benefit does it give |
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Farecoal posted:Why do some places still require you to take a personality test as part of the application. What possible benefit does it give Meyers-Briggs? https://www.askamanager.org/2014/12/im-being-asked-to-take-the-meyers-briggs-test-as-part-of-applying-to-a-training-program.html Everywhere, everyone is red and green |
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Farecoal posted:Why do some places still require you to take a personality test as part of the application. What possible benefit does it give Interviewer: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without your help, but you're not helping. Farecoal: What do you mean I'm not helping? Interviewer: I mean, you're not helping. Why is that Farecoal? -- They're just questions, Farecoal. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response. -- Shall we continue? Describe in single words, only the good things that come in to your mind about... your mother. |
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xcheopis posted:Meyers-Briggs? The ones I've seen have all been "pick which statement describes you best", and half of the time the options are between "I love to lick customer's yummy boots" and "I am a lazy subversive who hates people do not hire me" Finger Prince posted:Interviewer: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without your help, but you're not helping. Listen I hate these tests for perfectly legitimate reasons 
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Farecoal posted:Why do some places still require you to take a personality test as part of the application. What possible benefit does it give i'm just going to take a wild guess here - they're idiot hell fuckers who suckle on the teat of bullshit like lil babbys?
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Dr. Honked posted:i'm just going to take a wild guess here - they're idiot hell fuckers who suckle on the teat of bullshit like lil babbys? Its this
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Dr. Honked posted:i'm just going to take a wild guess here - they're idiot hell fuckers who suckle on the teat of bullshit like lil babbys? The answer was in my heart all along |
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It's amazing how many CEOs cling to personality tests despite the fact they've been thoroughly debunked.
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Escape From Noise posted:It's amazing how many CEOs cling to personality tests despite the fact they've been thoroughly debunked. I don't think of it as necessarily clinging to it as them being sold a line by some consulting group that promises if you just do this one weird trick that hiring managers hate, you'll be magically blessed with the most perfectest motivated workforce imaginable because it does away with all that ugly guesswork of human interaction. |
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I've been really stressing myself out over suddenly having to ramp up production and put a production schedule together with a ton on bottlenecks. Then I realized I'm mostly just stressing myself out and things are mostly fine.
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Escape From Noise posted:I've been really stressing myself out over suddenly having to ramp up production and put a production schedule together with a ton on bottlenecks. Then I realized I'm mostly just stressing myself out and things are mostly fine. yes!!!! i have discovered over the years that 99.9% of my anxiety has been pointless it's still hard to get over it though. one meaty chunk of my brain just wants to worry about stupid poo poo for no reason
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Dr. Honked posted:yes!!!! i have discovered over the years that 99.9% of my anxiety has been pointless I think a lot of it is that theoretically things could have run more smoothly had I been able to finalize things the first week of the month. But even then it's also me getting way too concerned about little things.
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I'm really glad that the restaurant manager has no say in the production schedule and beers I make, and I can ignore his bizarre and awful suggestions. It is a bit frustrating sometimes, because it would be nice to be able to talk to the person who sells product about what's selling and isn't, get an idea of what might sell well, work together to promote the beers, and maybe plan a bit out together. Instead I have to deal with a guy who just has has these ideas based on...I don't know what like "You should make a beer with Peruvian ginseng!" because it's a boner herb. Which I guess is going to be great because it's "interesting". Recently he's been saying I should make a milkshake IPA which...no because a. I hate them b. They're gross and c. They're not even popular anymore. You need marketing to get the word out on that kind of poo poo. He thinks it'll be popular because our customers don't know beer and it's sweet and fruity. The kind of customers who are interested are usually pretty big beer geeks and a lot of times the big selling point (as with NEIPA) is using new hype hops, but it's more niche that NEIPA because of the fruit and lactose. Anyone who doesn't know beer but is interested is probably going for a pale ale, lager, IPA, or more traditional fruit beer (kettle sour or blonde) IMHO. It's just this thing where he thinks that we just need to make This One Weird Style and it's gonna sell like crazy when the truth is even if I just cranked out nothing but super hype styles like pastry stouts, NEIPAs, smoothie sours, and modern/mountain/whatever-the-gently caress-it's-called IPAs, sales wouldn't take off because this place cannot market for poo poo or figure out outside sales. These places that blow up making popular styles do so because they make those styles well, sure, but they put a lot into marketing, graphic design, etc. But yeah. Let's make a milkshake IPA when even NEIPA is starting to wain in popularity. Well. That certainly became a rant because a guy mentioned making a milkshake IPA.
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Finger Prince posted:What a loving shitshow this morning, and I'm not firing on all cylinders on account of the poo poo sleep I got. What happened, goon?
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Dr. Honked posted:yes!!!! i have discovered over the years that 99.9% of my anxiety has been pointless Last Friday I was so angry and anxious about a schedule I had to put together, with a bunch of administration tasks attached. Yesterday I was like....oh its mostly done
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Would be nice if our meat chunks conspired to help us....but anyway!!
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Chewbecca posted:What happened, goon? Everything all at once. |
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It's just a huge pain in the rear end to fit all the logistics together ATM.
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Work is poo poo, but I have a pencil that does this https://i.imgur.com/2QIXqAo.mp4 Which is immensely satisfying. |
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I think one of the unsheltered people I was helping back in 2020-2021 has either died or been forcibly removed from his camping spot. The neighbors and his ex-wife worked hard to get him services and he did get into transitional housing but then found out his "stuff" (which included rotting food) was being cleared away and bolted back to the neighborhood, where his hoarding situation dramatically worsened. (This tends to happen when long-time hoarders have everything taken from them all at once, with or without support from behavioral health professional but especially without.) I went to work Friday and there were all his carts, spread all over and piled high with literal garbage, came home and everything was gone. There are very small signs of fire but it was pouring rain much of the day and an out of control fire would have left a lot more damage to the surroundings. But, there had also been a bad car accident some time the prior evening or early in the morning (evidenced by a very smashed up car still on the sidewalk), and maybe he was somehow involved, as a victim? I need to ask the street health teams if they've heard anything. I hope he's ok. Everywhere, everyone is red and green |
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Today in asinine corporate logic, my expense report got returned because the hotel rate was above our company's "reasonable rate". This is bullshit because: 1) The client is paying for it, and they give zero fucks whatsoever. This client will pay pants-shittingly absurd travel expenses, even without receipts. The reason the client gives zero fucks is because they are already paying double that nightly hotel rate for each hour for my time, at an 8-hour per day minimum. The reason they are paying so much for my time is because I was solving a problem for them that has been costing them upper five-figures a day, so this is just quibbling over pocket change. 2) It's not unreasonable for a hotel at all, especially for an airport location in a major city (the client office is right near the airport). 3) We have a preferred account with this hotel, and I got a way better deal than I would have gotten at any of the other hotels nearby. 4) This "reasonable" hotel rate is a mystery that was not communicated in any of the extensive policy documents or training sessions related to expenses that I was required to go through. 5) I had to book the hotel through our company's internal travel service, which means they knew the rate when they booked it, and could have said something at the time but didn't. 6) Apparently spending $15/day for a hot meal is also considered too extravagant. 7) Did I mention the client is happy to pay for 100% of it? 8) gently caress this company so hard. |
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Buttchocks posted:Today in asinine corporate logic, my expense report got returned because the hotel rate was above our company's "reasonable rate". This is bullshit because: Resubmit, but for the approving manager, select the director of the guy who rejected it, then send an email to said boss saying "fixed a huge costly problem for Client Moneybags, need this approved ASAP please. Was rejected for some reason." |
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