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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:There are several areas where you must report strange things but DO NOT take initiative to help because you WILL make it worse. Gotta admit I'm curious about this one now. Is it stuff like "there's a guy acting strange in the electrical substation" where you might get zapped if you walk in the wrong spot, or "there's a guy acting strange near this prison" where you'll get popped if you try to do anything?
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StrangersInTheNight posted:If you aren't freezing your first columns/rows in an L-shape for easy browsing, are you even spreadsheeting? Wait, how the hell can you freeze an L? I thought you could only pin 1 axis at a time
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thisusedyet posted:Wait, how the hell can you freeze an L? I thought you could only pin 1 axis at a time I'll pin your axis, buddy.
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thisusedyet posted:Wait, how the hell can you freeze an L? I thought you could only pin 1 axis at a time Select cell B2, hit “freeze cells” and both A and 1 will be frozen (anything up and left of the selected cell)
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FreshFeesh posted:Select cell B2, hit “freeze cells” and both A and 1 will be frozen (anything up and left of the selected cell) Fancy. Thanks, will have to try that out later.
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So many kegs to clean today. Used up 2 of my 4 CO2 canisters, so I ordered more. So I got to use the fax today. Man...we really need more kegs. I'm kegging tomorrow and the next day and that's like all the available kegs. Thing is I really need to clear another tank by the first of next month at the latest. I mean, we may have enough kegs by then, but it'd be nice to have more. They're talking about renting, but we don't really do outside sales so I think in the long run we'd be better off just buying more. It's not my money so whatever.
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thisusedyet posted:Wait, how the hell can you freeze an L? I thought you could only pin 1 axis at a time Fantastic post username combo
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Salami Surgeon posted:Boss sent me a meeting for 2023 goals, no heads up, no details. Wonder if I'm getting PIPed. At least at my job, they made a bunch of level and comp changes, and then to pretend like you have any actual control over your own fate, you have regular career goal meetings with your manager. So, it could be regular old bureaucratic nonsense mandated by Boss+3 or something and your boss just needs to tick a box.
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Jan 18, 2023 07:53
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My company is switching from Zoom to Microsoft Teams soon. I hate Teams. 
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Jan 18, 2023 08:33
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So I'd be low on kegs with all the ones we ordered didn't have valve issues but around 20 ten liter kegs are missing. Apparently our liquor supplier just...took 'em and is denying it or someone somehow misplaced 20 kegs because we don't do any outside sales really. FFS.
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William Bear posted:My company is switching from Zoom to Microsoft Teams soon. Out of curiosity, why? Not an argument. I’m forever a peon, so they are pretty much equal to me when I have meetings two times a week, max.
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Old boss is now in effect enacting a stop to all work. Former coworker (and final person in the team with the knowledge to address even the simplest technical question in relation to the helpdesk) who is 1 1/2 weeks away from getting out of her team forever reports that she has disallowed him from touching anything and is taking on responsibility for all client interactions herself, but at the same time is not responding at all to helpdesk requests, is not processing requests for access to our enterprise data warehouse without at least a director intervening once the user gets tired of not being able to do their job because she's just sitting on them, and is radio silent in response to a constant slew of complaints from all sides including from her own superiors. This is apparently explicitly a strategy she's employing to not get any work done at all and then argue that she needs more staff due to her area's 'excessive workload'. He knows this because she explicitly expressed it to him in as many words. Even if this shithouse gambit paid off, all that would happen is that she'd be left with a staff of complete newbies, nobody to train them once my former colleague leaves, and no technical knowledge of her own in order to actually train them with the ability to respond to technical enquiries. Back when my old team was under their previous structure/manager everything worked perfectly and seamlessly and everything was turned around or at least responded to within an hour of being raised with us. We had a superb reputation for responsiveness and for getting people the tools/assistance they needed so that they could get to doing their job in a timely manner. The difference is just so jarring and there's not a person who doesn't know that this is entirely down to her. People are openly poo poo-talking her in the hallways, from programmers to divisional directors, with the topic of how much she's managed to gently caress things up being a commonly shared topic of inter-team gossip She is a deeply stupid person.
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Jan 18, 2023 13:48
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goatface posted:Yet not fired. My previous former boss (the one who I worked for before she stole half of his team) and I reckon she's got blackmail video of her own manager fellating a goat - it's the only logical explanation. She's getting increasingly off rails though, and everything is escalating. I'm giving it a month before she's straight up recreating the bunker scene from Downfall with the topic of conversation being the integrity of her career prospects.
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Jan 18, 2023 14:17
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William Bear posted:My company is switching from Zoom to Microsoft Teams soon. I hate zoom, teams for lyf. honestly though i dont only use it for meetings. They are going to save some coin if they already pay for office 365. Escape From Noise posted:So many kegs to clean today. Used up 2 of my 4 CO2 canisters, so I ordered more. So I got to use the fax today. I do ariba implementations so that made me twitch.
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Jan 18, 2023 14:34
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Frankly all of the various video / chat / conferencing / etc. applications are more or less the same. What loving sucks is changing one. We moved from Skype to Teams a while ago and while the new software is fine we're still finding fun ways that it broke various integrations and just hosed up stuff that was working fine for years.
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Jan 18, 2023 14:42
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Volmarias posted:Gotta admit I'm curious about this one now. Is it stuff like "there's a guy acting strange in the electrical substation" where you might get zapped if you walk in the wrong spot, or "there's a guy acting strange near this prison" where you'll get popped if you try to do anything? Report, keep people away, stand back as far as reasonable until someone else can take over. Or flee and call later if the situation demands. I'm just a construction guy, but you can foul stuff up quick by not exactly following procedures here. Dumb poo poo my work does, they just laid 2 people off for lack of work, but are already talking weekend overtime work the same week. I'm on at least 12 jobs just waiting on funding, a part, piece of equipment, or paperwork, some of these projects are 2 year projects I've been waiting on for 3 years.
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Jan 18, 2023 14:45
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If there's a hazardous material spill just mix in another hazardous material. They'll cancel each other out and can then be safely shop vacced.
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:Dumb poo poo my work does, they just laid 2 people off for lack of work, but are already talking weekend overtime work the same week. Drug factory did that constantly, while also stating that the shift was at 120% staffing while 15 people down from when I started.
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Jan 18, 2023 14:56
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RoboBoogie posted:I hate zoom, teams for lyf. honestly though i dont only use it for meetings. Yeah. It's not even like we need a ton more kegs (especially if we can get those 16 kegs that were somehow lost or "lost"), but we still need a fairly significant amount. I don't know when it's going to happen though because kegs aren't cheap and any purchase is going to require a lengthy review from higher-ups. It's just annoying because I've been saying we needed more for like a year.
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RoboBoogie posted:I hate zoom, teams for lyf. honestly though i dont only use it for meetings. Unless our IT just didn't implement it, the one thing Zoom is better for is recording meetings. Teams is alright but it's been a mess watching thousands of people who have apparently never used threaded chat before use a chat program. Despite pointing everyone at best practices, the proliferation of random teams and channels was almost instant. At this point it's impossible to manage the amount of stuff I've been added to. I will give Teams credit for the sharepoint integration, calendar integration, etc. As you said, if you use 365 it's silly to not use Teams.
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Blue Moonlight posted:At least at my job, they made a bunch of level and comp changes, and then to pretend like you have any actual control over your own fate, you have regular career goal meetings with your manager. Could be just normal corporate stuff, just new to us. We did recently have some C-level musical chairs, so maybe there's some managerial changes being dictated from on high. But no one's communicated about any changes. I've never had one of these in any other group I've been in that hasn't been "make your year's objectives based off of these that have already been determined from the top and we'll pretend to have a discussion" or even "here are your objectives". HR isn't on the invite though.
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JJVH posted:Unless our IT just didn't implement it, the one thing Zoom is better for is recording meetings. Teams is alright but it's been a mess watching thousands of people who have apparently never used threaded chat before use a chat program. Despite pointing everyone at best practices, the proliferation of random teams and channels was almost instant. At this point it's impossible to manage the amount of stuff I've been added to. Zoom also has some security features that has made it a favorite of government and USG contractors who need to share information in calls. That was, at least, the reason we moved from WebEx to Zoom despite already having converted to Teams for most internal file sharing and IMs. The problem has become that we went from unlimited Zoom accounts for all to limited accounts for most. That means every new employee gets a max meeting time of 45 minutes and can't record, do polls or have over 100 people. That restriction came down on a bunch of other people, including myself, if we didn't host more than a set number of meetings per week. It's really annoying when you have a call that's approaching time and there's still stuff to cover because you need to set up a new session instead of just extending the one you were using. If someone sends you a link to a Teams meeting here it actually attempts to open Teams in a browser instead of using the open app. Even if you tell it to open links in the app, even links sent over Teams, it still pops up a browser window. Pure insanity.
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Well, it only took 2+ years of starving and inflation, but I finally got a 5% pay increase. Now instead of only slightly falling behind on my bills every month and depending on my tax refund to save me, I can actually break even!
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Started my new AP position at the same company last week, had a teams call today with the department where my boss swore at me in front of about ten other people for making a simple mistake saying "you need to loving pay attention, this is not difficult, a grade schooler can enter an invoice." I don't think she was prepared for me giving my notice as soon as the words were out of her mouth, as I was pretty sure this was not going to work out anyway. (We process 2k invoices a month during the summer and I would be the only person handling them as well as keeping my old position afloat.) She tried to walk it back saying it wasn't personal, at which point I told her we could discuss it after the call but I had made my decision and signed off. Apparently the rest of the call was trying to transition my workload onto others while they politely demurred as she got increasingly panicked. We did not discuss it after the call as I went offline in Teams and sent an email saying as a professional courtesy I was willing to stay until 2/1 to help clear the current backlog of invoices, but I was not interested in discussing it any further. No response. So I may be there for a couple more weeks or may get canned tomorrow but gently caress it was worth it. I have a decent amount in savings so I could survive for over a year if I had to, but I'm sure I'll be able to grab something after taking a couple weeks to myself, even if it's temp to perm to start.
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:I have over 170 training modules and most are yearly, a few are every 2-3 years.  I did a very brief contract stint at Aerojet Rocketdyne. They gave me this plastic placard (god i wish i still had it!!!) as a reference for the siren warning system. There were something like 8-10 different categories, with one of them clearly being 'drop whatever you're doing and run for your life downwind'  Lazyfire posted:Zoom also has some security features that has made it a favorite of government and USG contractors who need to share information in calls. That was, at least, the reason we moved from WebEx to Zoom despite already having converted to Teams for most internal file sharing and IMs. The problem has become that we went from unlimited Zoom accounts for all to limited accounts for most. That means every new employee gets a max meeting time of 45 minutes and can't record, do polls or have over 100 people. That restriction came down on a bunch of other people, including myself, if we didn't host more than a set number of meetings per week. It's really annoying when you have a call that's approaching time and there's still stuff to cover because you need to set up a new session instead of just extending the one you were using.  Teams loving suuuuuuuuuuucks as a collaboration platform, but MS has effectively bundled the licensing in with 360/Office, and for like 99% of the business world there is nothing but Office. Also different  I did a consultant gig with a medical manufacturing company, to help them migrate away from their on-premise phone system to a cloud provider. This was maybe six months into covid, so everyone had been sent home but overall WFH policy hadn't really been established yet. As part of my fact finding I had to meet with all the individual business unit leaders and find out what their requirements were for the new phone system. I had a conversation with a doctor leading an engineering lab, and ever since they'd been sent home (and obviously didn't take the handset off their desk) they had been using a Zoom trial account and making people call into the 800 number when they wanted to speak to them I mean,  for not giving up and using your personal cell phone for work, but yeeeshProbably more for a Career thread, but my new job is very much not . I've been either unemployed or underemployed for three+ years now, and somehow I found a job that pays a really nice salary (the bonus structure is so bad its insulting) but the actual work is literally the same dumb poo poo I was doing fifteen years ago. I know that this dumb work is pointless and goes nowhere, because I had to work my rear end off to find a job outside of this dumb niche industry (federal IT poo poo) ten-ish years ago, and somehow I'm back here  Its really weird to me that IT careers are somehow super location dependent? 
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Critical posted:Started my new AP position at the same company last week, had a teams call today with the department where my boss swore at me in front of about ten other people for making a simple mistake saying "you need to loving pay attention, this is not difficult, a grade schooler can enter an invoice." Quitting rules
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Critical posted:Started my new AP position at the same company last week, had a teams call today with the department where my boss swore at me in front of about ten other people for making a simple mistake saying "you need to loving pay attention, this is not difficult, a grade schooler can enter an invoice." lol  Congrats on every part of that
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Critical posted:Started my new AP position at the same company last week, had a teams call today with the department where my boss swore at me in front of about ten other people for making a simple mistake saying "you need to loving pay attention, this is not difficult, a grade schooler can enter an invoice." 
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Critical posted:Started my new AP position at the same company last week, had a teams call today with the department where my boss swore at me in front of about ten other people for making a simple mistake saying "you need to loving pay attention, this is not difficult, a grade schooler can enter an invoice." Is this the sort of place where HR would give a poo poo? I’d hope “manager said something abusive that a direct report immediately quit over” would be the sort of straight line they could follow, but I’m sure many reps would check out as soon as they were sure the company wasn’t liable for anything.
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Blue Moonlight posted:Is this the sort of place where HR would give a poo poo? I’d hope “manager said something abusive that a direct report immediately quit over” would be the sort of straight line they could follow, but I’m sure many reps would check out as soon as they were sure the company wasn’t liable for anything. I can't get HR to actually help me with my birth leave at all. They keep directing me to 'people services' which is the HR group mailbox.
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Blue Moonlight posted:Is this the sort of place where HR would give a poo poo? I’d hope “manager said something abusive that a direct report immediately quit over” would be the sort of straight line they could follow, but I’m sure many reps would check out as soon as they were sure the company wasn’t liable for anything. Nah I had to fight with them to get identity protection after we had a data breach, they're going to give negative fucks. I don't have the energy for that battle anyway. I did hear later that the calls were getting spicy lately because people were starting to push back against her poo poo. This was my first call with the dept, she tried to test me immediately and lost. Maybe she'll learn something but I doubt it. My old idiot boss actually offered to try to get me back in my old position, but she has the final say and is well aware of how small my workload was for months, zero chance she lets me move back after I made her show her rear end. I could use a couple weeks off anyway.
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Again, Tertiary education. We just had some online awareness and responsibility training around student behaviors. Basically imagine some poor bastard trying to explain online culture, memes, to crusty old builders who don't even have smartphones. Complete waste of time, but drat it's one of the most entertaining hours I've ever had at work.
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Breetai posted:My previous former boss (the one who I worked for before she stole half of his team) and I reckon she's got blackmail video of her own manager fellating a goat - it's the only logical explanation. Helpdesk inbox has a new auto reply message. "Current turnaround times in the xy platform management team is up to 10 business days" .
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Critical posted:Started my new AP position at the same company last week, had a teams call today with the department where my boss swore at me in front of about ten other people for making a simple mistake saying "you need to loving pay attention, this is not difficult, a grade schooler can enter an invoice." Keep going I'm almost there Critical posted:Nah I had to fight with them to get identity protection after we had a data breach, they're going to give negative fucks. I don't have the energy for that battle anyway. Hnnnngggh
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I got screamed at to go gently caress myself by a vendor because someone told him to go to the wrong place and I showed him where he was supposed to be. He didn't even need to move, just slew his crane around. The guy alternated weirdly between being super polite and screaming profanities all day as increasingly senior people berated him, with no rhyme or reason. Not really what you want in someone operating heavy machinery.
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slurm posted:Not really what you want in someone operating heavy machinery. Yet almost invariably what you get from someone operating heavy machinery.
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COPE 27 posted:Yet almost invariably what you get from someone operating heavy machinery. We've only started getting this attitude from these guys in the last month. They've been uniformly very professional as long as anyone can remember (30 years in some cases) and now this twice in three days.
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Toxic Mental posted:depending on my tax refund to save me Fix your withholding! How much better off would you be if you had that money on every paycheck instead of as a lump sum that comes when you're behind on bills and already out of pocket for some late fees? A tax refund is the IRS paying back an interest free loan you've been giving the government every paycheck. If anyone owes or gets refunded more than $100 either way, they need to sit down with payroll and make some adjustments. Your money, your pocket, every payday. It's a sad fact that the only saving most Americans do is over-withholding and getting a tax refund. Anyone who ever pays a late fee on anything can stop doing that. That's money that could go into savings, or buying something that will save you more money, or even an IRA, which reduces your taxable income saving you more money! mllaneza fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Jan 19, 2023 |
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