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For some reason the beer I kegged on Friday still isn't on tap 5 days later. Why not is a complete mystery to me. Especially when I'm in dire need of kegs.
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Jan 25, 2023 03:07
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Escape From Noise posted:For some reason the beer I kegged on Friday still isn't on tap 5 days later. Why not is a complete mystery to me. Especially when I'm in dire need of kegs. I was going to suggest renting a tiny van and just stealing the shits for internal use only, but that wouldn't make a difference now. Lol. That's it then. I can't even give you very, very bad, no good advice. All those years watching sales and delivery people apply every dirty trick in the book so I could avoid loving up or loving anyone over, for nothing.
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Jan 25, 2023 03:26
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Our accounting software poo poo the bed so hard my department hasn't been able to send invoices since September. We've had people working overtime for months sorting out the database and it's still a mess. We had to start doing our accounts in Excel, which we still screwed up. It's really embarrassing when our clients beg us to send them a bill and we have to make excuses. Some of my projects haven't billed dollar one, but somehow still show a profit in the system, because revenue is measured on the amount that's supposed to be billed rather than what's actually been collected.  I don't know how we're still in business, but probably has to do with the management only caring about how things look on paper because that's what determines their bonuses. The fact that we can still keep the lights on makes me wonder if the dragon just had a hoard of cash stored away, or if we're going deep into debt. Knowing this company, probably both.
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Jan 25, 2023 03:27
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I am wearing a cleansuit 4 sizes too large because my only other option was two sizes too small. I look like the Michelin Man as designed by JNCO.
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Jan 25, 2023 03:31
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madeintaipei posted:I was going to suggest renting a tiny van and just stealing the shits for internal use only, but that wouldn't make a difference now. Lol. I guess it's because I once again refused to share the amounts and prices of materials used. It was all free because it was a collaboration with our supplier.
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Jan 25, 2023 03:37
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TaurusTorus posted:I am wearing a cleansuit 4 sizes too large because my only other option was two sizes too small. I look like the Michelin Man as designed by JNCO. What's up, medium sized suit buddy?
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Jan 25, 2023 05:56
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BiggerBoat posted:There really needs to be some sort of federal paid sick leave law for every worker. And having to PROVE it within a certain timeline can get lost too. I don't have sick days so I'm gonna miss a day's pay AND drag my rear end to a doctor with a $50 co pay. The gently caress, man? What fourth world backwater shithole do you live in?
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Jan 25, 2023 07:03
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Since my last post I’ve gotten CC’d into an email chain, where I am by far the lowest in the hierarchy. I’m pretty sure this is in error, there is a tangential link to what I’m doing, but I think the head of ops doesn’t need my input on vendor quality.
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Jan 25, 2023 07:06
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BiggerBoat posted:What time was recess? And were you allowed to play D&D in study hall or did you have to pretend to read? You know, managers say they want 12 hour notification for stuff like that, but then they have the nerve to get pissed about it when you tell them "I'm going to be sick tomorrow"
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Jan 25, 2023 07:07
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Critical posted:My old boss sent an email saying "Would have liked you to stay longer so we could find a replacement." I once gave a job six months notice. I’d decided to move overseas, and I gave them as much notice as possible, because my job was a weird niche in tv production. The boss and sub-boss utterly failed to do anything about finding anyone to replace me. They ended up paying for Australia-Canada return plane tickets and accommodation for another 6 week stretch in January/February after my pre-Christmas resignation date because I am a sucker. I give the contractually required minimum notice now.
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Jan 25, 2023 07:32
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Outrail posted:What fourth world backwater shithole do you live in? The United States of Amurika, gently caress Yeah! I’ve been having fun watching a bunch of videos with a guy going off on the various corporate buzzwords for employees who set boundaries and expect to be compensated. He also tracks down the HR think tanks that come up with those words, which is not hard because these people are great at selling themselves while having absolutely no actual skills. Like this one, which is loving hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzpnTXZcZG0 I mean, not funny haha, funny gently caress these people. Edit: I’ve done no research on the dude that made that video, but I’ve also not heard a lot of these buzzwords because I do not watch the news anymore. Bored fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Jan 25, 2023 |
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Jan 25, 2023 08:15
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Bored posted:Edit: I’ve done know research on the dude that made that video, but I’ve also not heard a lot of these buzzwords because I do not watch the news anymore. I've seen his vids pop up occasionally and he seems like the right kind of a-hole. Don't know his politics, but he's at least reinforcing messages of "gently caress this corporate garbo" and "individual workers can demand what they deserve" sort of thing. Could be wrong, of course. It is the internet.
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Jan 25, 2023 13:00
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The network chud might have finally overstepped his mouth-running because apparently yesterday while he was in our area talking about how awesome he is, he told the lady on our team he should hire her as a secretary because obviously she'd be good at taking notes (because she's a woman). My boss has been doing a VERY good Isaacs-As-Zhukov "I'm smiling, but I'm very loving furious" about it since. Also network chud thinks I should be fired simply because I don't talk to him. That's it. He's trying to say me not saying good morning to him at 7AM Monday and answering "no" to him asking if my boss was in should be a fire able offense. I think there's only one guy on my team not entirely sick of this dumb chud. Shockingly, it's another chud.
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Jan 25, 2023 14:51
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Cthulu Carl posted:he told the lady on our team he should hire her as a secretary because obviously she'd be good at taking notes lmao holy poo poo
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Jan 25, 2023 14:56
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Magnetic North posted:I've seen his vids pop up occasionally and he seems like the right kind of a-hole. Don't know his politics, but he's at least reinforcing messages of "gently caress this corporate garbo" and "individual workers can demand what they deserve" sort of thing. Could be wrong, of course. It is the internet. Maybe he eats orphaned children in his spare time but these days we take our heros as we find them.
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Jan 25, 2023 15:03
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Cthulu Carl posted:He's trying to say me not saying good morning to him at 7AM Monday A woman in my office is definitely not a morning person. Fine and happy and chatty for the rest of the day, but you'll only get grunts and scowls before 8am.
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Jan 25, 2023 15:30
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I would be pretty loving furious if you wanted me to be in the office at 7am.
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Jan 25, 2023 15:32
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Yeah, that's the really weird thing - I don't come in at 7. Also the conversation he said he tried to have, uh.... Didn't happen. I remember it, he rolled up like he owned the place and my boss started giving him poo poo about the network being poo poo. I think he hates me and wants me fired based on an entirely fictional event, in which case, lmao, even if it was true my boss wouldn't dream of firing me for it.
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Jan 25, 2023 15:38
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There's a woman in my company that like, has to say hello to everyone she sees She interrupted my coworker, with headphones visibly in and stocking the communal coffee machine, just to say hi 
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Jan 25, 2023 15:40
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Yeah so that sounds like a legitimate case to report sexist/belittling behavior coupled with intimidation and unacceptable workplace conduct. Normally it'd be pointless to try and address that without some kind of incident, but if the boss and rest of the team are also sick of his poo poo maybe ask the boss if they want to lodge a complaint and establish a paper trail.
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Jan 25, 2023 15:42
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Jan 25, 2023 15:43
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Outrail posted:Yeah so that sounds like a legitimate case to report sexist/belittling behavior coupled with intimidation and unacceptable workplace conduct. Normally it'd be pointless to try and address that without some kind of incident, but if the boss and rest of the team are also sick of his poo poo maybe ask the boss if they want to lodge a complaint and establish a paper trail. We're trying to talk the lady into taking it to HR since he actually said it to her and I guess she was the only one on our team there at the time. Given my boss's reaction, he's gonna have his own talk with the dude. He's ex-Navy and knows how to reduce someone to ash with just a few words. Me, I'm just gonna keep on keeping on. Maybe be a little more obvious at putting on headphones when he shows up. He seems to really hate that.
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Jan 25, 2023 15:50
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BiggerBoat posted:What time was recess? And were you allowed to play D&D in study hall or did you have to pretend to read? I mean, dude, I sympathize with you (I'm 38 and have a compression fracture in my spine, and nerve and muscle tissue death in both legs because of undiagnosed blood clots seven years ago, so I live in pain all day, every day), but you work for a casino. You're working in one of the most bloodthirsty industries on the planet, an industry designed to grab and save every single penny it can.
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Jan 25, 2023 17:07
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DrBouvenstein posted:My work is changing mileage ( and, in fact, ALL travel/expense related items) yet again. They are combining four different reimbursement policies, which, to be fair, seems excessive, into a single cohesive one. Your contractual place of work is your HR location of record for default income tax reporting. If that's your client location (or you've been working at that location for a year) you usually won't get mileage because most income tax laws and especially the feds call that commuting which makes mileage taxable income for you and your employer. If there's meant to be a perk in these situations it ought to be a company car or carpooling in a company van or something as a tax advantaged benefit. Using the office as the basis of a starting point is a common "fair" idea managers have on a twisted capitalist idea that we can choose where want to live and it's not fair your coworkers making choices to live 2 hours away from the office get extra mileage. There's kind of 2 ways this can be meant to be interpreted which your managers are checking on for you it sound like. Either it can be an explicit obtuse obstacle that your trips should be starting daily from the office, often with the idea of forcing in manager mandated carpooling. Else you're just meant to submit mileage on the basis of office to destination even if you're starting at home, your kids school etc. Mileage (and company cars, and most sorts of work transportation perks) seem to be quickly going extinct as the accounting and tracking doesn't get paid for by the tax advantages especially when the feds or even local municipalities are going over every travel expense with a fine toothed comb for signs of commuting. I'd be ready to start talking and planning for what the company can do for you instead especially if your mode of working is always commuting to singular client sites cause if the current policy change doesn't rule out your situation the next one will.
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Jan 25, 2023 17:46
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Push all the boundaries and hope it's coming from a budget nobody is precious about.
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Jan 25, 2023 17:51
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really considering bidding on these when they auction off the factory https://www.tequipment.net/JBC/JTSE...L0aAiSOEALw_wcB https://www.weller-tools.com/we1010na/ but the old model of the power station, bigger and different design because it's 20+ years old but that's it I wanna bid on a scope too but lol there's no way I don't get killed by my girlfriend if I buy a giant microsoldering microscope with nowhere to put it they coulda offloaded a lot of stuff for the max they're gonna get for it to the people working here but, "it was easier to just go with one source for the entire sale"
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Jan 25, 2023 17:54
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If they can reduce the whole process to one contract agreement and a single line of accounting, I can understand them choosing to do so. The employee hours saved probably balances it out.
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Jan 25, 2023 17:58
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goatface posted:If they can reduce the whole process to one contract agreement and a single line of accounting, I can understand them choosing to do so. The employee hours saved probably balances it out. oh yeah, for sure. I fully understand WHY, but I also wanna buy a rework station minus scope for like $200 max  I got some mods I wanna make to my dreamcast and an aliexpress scope will do just fine as long as I have pro tools MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Jan 25, 2023 |
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Jan 25, 2023 17:59
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goatface posted:Push all the boundaries and hope it's coming from a budget nobody is precious about.
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Jan 25, 2023 18:00
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zedprime posted:This is good advice for everything but travel and expenses which are poured over by lawyers and accountants for tax adherence and if you stick a toe out of line uncle Sam knocks on your door looking for back taxes with interest in addition to the companies. Why do the US tax office care about that poo poo? Everything about US employment seems deliberately designed to be as tedious as possible.
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Jan 25, 2023 18:05
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goatface posted:Why do the US tax office care about that poo poo? Everything about US employment seems deliberately designed to be as tedious as possible.
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Jan 25, 2023 18:09
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BiggerBoat posted:What time was recess? And were you allowed to play D&D in study hall or did you have to pretend to read? It was just not a good union. They cared about keeping people in the union and nothing else. They would move heaven and earth to keep your job, but terrible and dumb practices, but rules departments placed that went counter to union-company agreements were below their care. I'm pretty sure that if you got too many writeups for calling out "late" you could just get the union to come down and have them removed from your record, so they were good on that front, but until you get to that point they pretended you didn't exist. Like I said, the Union was not good at actually advocating for us most of the time. It just resulted in a lot of people disliking the union and thinking we would be better off without them. It's a big reason why I really hope anyone trying to form retail unions or Amazon warehouse unions start from the ground up instead of bringing in some established union to manage the unionization process or write the rules. A lot of the legacy unions are the reason people have a negative perception of them in the US because of their weird decisions on what to help people with.
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Jan 25, 2023 18:29
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Cthulu Carl posted:Given my boss's reaction, he's gonna have his own talk with the dude. He's ex-Navy and knows how to reduce someone to ash with just a few words. I've always loved the understated British term for this sort of precision military rear end chewing: a meeting without coffee.
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Jan 25, 2023 18:46
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JohnCompany posted:a meeting without coffee. 
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Jan 25, 2023 19:15
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Timby posted:I mean, dude, I sympathize with you (I'm 38 and have a compression fracture in my spine, and nerve and muscle tissue death in both legs because of undiagnosed blood clots seven years ago, so I live in pain all day, every day), but you work for a casino. You're working in one of the most bloodthirsty industries on the planet, an industry designed to grab and save every single penny it can. That sounds like a Casino problem not a union worker problem
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Jan 25, 2023 19:52
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Taking some very important and instructive workplace safety training via an online course that is definitely not just designed to rubber stamp you a certificate so your employer can check a box.
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Jan 25, 2023 20:43
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lmao
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Lmao none of those are the correct answer.
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Jan 25, 2023 20:48
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Entropic posted:Taking some very important and instructive workplace safety training via an online course that is definitely not just designed to rubber stamp you a certificate so your employer can check a box. I will never forget a proposed answer on my driver‘s license test. The situation: a ball rolls onto the road in front of you. How do you react? A) speed up so the dangerous situation will be over sooner 
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From the same quiz:  I’ve taken a bunch of these kind of online learning safety course tests over the years and every single one of them has exactly four types of question on it: 1) basic common sense question anyone can answer with a moment’s thought 2) same as 1) but worded in a hilarious way where they could not even be bothered to come up with a half-plausible “wrong” answer (see examples above) 3) go look something up from a chart you will forget the instant you close this tab. In the quiz I just did they straight up pasted the table into the question without formatting??  4) regurgitate some corporate jargon or our precise mission statement definition of some process that doesn’t matter ( this is the only one of the 4 it’s possible to get wrong) 
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