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slurm posted:We have a guy who gets furious if he can't work 0600-2000 every single day. He was angling for 0400-2200 iirc What? How tf do you live on three or four hours of sleep?
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Outrail posted:What? How tf do you live on three or four hours of sleep? Depends on what scares you the most
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Outrail posted:What? How tf do you live on three or four hours of sleep? The CEO/owner of my first job did this, and was proud of it. Every higher up told us all it really meant was he was utterly useless after about noon and would go in and out of intermittent microsleep fugue states where he was unable to approve or do anything useful until he went home.
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Xlorp posted:Depends on what scares you the most I did this and after a month my skin felt like a parasitic entity attached to my feeble flesh.
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I'm supposed to do inventory at the end of the month or the beginning of the next. No big deal. Yesterday I had my health check and needed to clean the brewhouse. I was also really beat and asked if I could put it off until today. I'm not using any materials today, so that's okay. The restaurant manager is fine with it. Okay. Last night I suddenly wasn't feeling great after getting home. Just a headache and a stuffy nose. I shoot off a text and boss says take it easy so I sleep in today and wake up feeling fine. I make my way to work and ask the restaurant manager about the inventory sheet. "Just a minute.". Uhoh. I hear this every time I check in over the next few hours. Now he's saying he won't be able to print it out until 17:30. I asked if we should just do it tomorrow. No. It's better we get it done today. THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU PRINT IT YESTERDAY OR THIS MORNING? Dude seriously needs to learn how to prep things.
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Update: He printed it out an hour ahead of schedule. It's not the biggest deal but he always does this. Just print the goddamn thing out the day before or whatever! It's not like it's gonna go bad!
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I'm doing inventory and realized one of the unopened hop bags had literally nothing printed on it. Fortunately, I knew exactly what it was. Normally it'd be whatever but the supplier we got it from is such a clown shoe rear end operation I'm not surprised. At least they stopped mixing leftover older hops with newer ones and delivering decade old bags of malt. You still have to check with them though.
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Outrail posted:What? How tf do you live on three or four hours of sleep?
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Dance Officer posted:You don't, not for long. Nah, 4 hours is my minimum but I prefer 5/6, not too bad
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Feb 2, 2023 12:56
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I do miss working four tens. Three day weekend every week!
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Feb 2, 2023 14:27
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Today it is 1.30pm and I am just about to log on and start my theoretically 9-5 job. Flexi is good and more people should have it.
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goatface posted:Today it is 1.30pm and I am just about to log on and start my theoretically 9-5 job. Flexi is good and more people should have it. Right now my schedule is pretty flexible. I guess I'd normally start at 9 tomorrow but I have nothing to do so I'll probably get there at around noon.
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Feb 2, 2023 14:34
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Eight days of strike starting next Wednesday unless something happens.
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Sorbus posted:Eight days of strike starting next Wednesday unless something happens. School bus drivers in Alaska (Teamsters) dropped their kids off at school, then immediately went on strike. Every single parent in a district the size of West Virginia had to emergency organize picking their kids up that afternoon. Good for them. gently caress republican school boards.
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When my sister was a student teacher the district she was at went on strike, as they didn’t have a levy passed since the 80’s and things reached a breaking point, and the solution they wanted to try at first was bunch classes together and have the student teachers teach.
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blackmet posted:My department had basically unlimited voluntary OT for about, oh, 4 years. Oh man, unlimited overtime was a trip. In my last company we had the option to work four 10 hour days or five eight hour days and then optional Saturday time if the company "needed" people. However, we were all encouraged to work ten hours a day, five days a week and then at least four hours on Saturday. People built their entire personal budgets around the idea they'd never work under 50 hours a week if not more, and everything over 40 hours was time-and-a-half. I refused to spend more time than I had to at work and would only do a 40 hour week and take on four hours of OT on occasion. My wife rarely wakes up before noon on weekends and so I would usually get home around the time she got out of bed on those Saturdays I worked (we started at 6AM). That attitude pissed off so many people in management because we billed the government by the manhour worked, so me just being at a desk for a few extra hours was a boon to the company. I didn't need to do anything in that time, just dick around on the internet. The problem was that I was bored out of my mind an hour into the day most of the time and the thought of overtime filled me with dread, even if it would be more money in my pocket. Walking out at 2:30 in the afternoon and having time to do whatever I wanted was far more appealing. Johnny Truant posted:Nah, 4 hours is my minimum but I prefer 5/6, not too bad That's me, I get up at 3 and go to sleep around 8:30 or 9. I thought I would have more trouble with the schedule as I got older, but I'm eight years into it and I'm not planning on changing.
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Got a bunch of client/vendor VIP's today so were all asked to not enter through the front door and instead use the side entrance. Heaven forbid someones gets sight of the help.
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Super Waffle posted:Got a bunch of client/vendor VIP's today so were all asked to not enter through the front door and instead use the side entrance. Heaven forbid someones gets sight of the help. VIPs: *Christ no wonder this place is going under there's no one working here*
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Subject: Difficult News to Sharequote:I have difficult news. We must let go approximately 100 employees across the business and, unfortunately, your role has been eliminated. Today will be your last day. And the day after my application for a new apartment gets accepted! 
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Did they signal this might be happening or was it a totally out of the blue shafting?
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gently caress you, Robert!
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slurm posted:We have a guy who gets furious if he can't work 0600-2000 every single day. He was angling for 0400-2200 iirc Wow, how'd you get Vince McMahon hired at your company? 
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Detheros posted:Wow, how'd you get Vince McMahon hired at your company? He didn't say he gets furious if other people can't do so as well. Or if they sneeze in his presence. Escape From Noise fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Feb 2, 2023 |
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Escape From Noise posted:gently caress you, Robert!
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YeahTubaMike posted:Subject: Difficult News to Share This doesn't seem like a very high-velocity strategy to me, nor is it excellently executed!
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How many times do I have to say it? Gotta Go FAST!
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goatface posted:Did they signal this might be happening or was it a totally out of the blue shafting? No, this wasn't even the first wave of layoffs! If you look at my post history in his thread, you can see it coming. 100 people got laid off today, including my supervisor, and while I'm not happy that this happened to her or anything, I'm definitely relieved that I didn't just get laid off because I was low-key too dumb and/or lazy to continue working there. The overhiring was absolutely out of control, and for a solid four months, it was blind leading the blind, because the entire QA team got hired in late March (me) or late April (everyone else). Tomn posted:This doesn't seem like a very high-velocity strategy to me, nor is it excellently executed! I know right? smdh And tl;dr: Escape From Noise posted:gently caress you, Robert!
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Robert is such a great name for clueless mid-high level manager. Don't be a Robert
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Escape From Noise posted:I do miss working four tens. Three day weekend every week! I work nights at Amazon and doing Four Tens makes me never want to work a five day work week ever again. I'd prefer four eights if I could get it obviously. Angling to get on a Three Twelves shift and have more weekend than week.
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Lazyfire posted:That's me, I get up at 3 and go to sleep around 8:30 or 9. I thought I would have more trouble with the schedule as I got older, but I'm eight years into it and I'm not planning on changing. When my sleep isn't hosed up by having to drive me partner to/from the hospital (she works there, only one car, and our winter weather is not conducive to biking rn) yup I'm like 11/12 until 4, maybe 430am. Getting poo poo done in the AM is the loving jam. I do play catch-up on the weekend though, waking up normally, dicking around on my phone for like 30 then going the fuuuuuck back to sleep is my favourite weekend activity.
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Johnny Truant posted:When my sleep isn't hosed up by having to drive me partner to/from the hospital (she works there, only one car, and our winter weather is not conducive to biking rn) yup I'm like 11/12 until 4, maybe 430am. Getting poo poo done in the AM is the loving jam. I get up at 3 so I can walk the dog and then run before logging in for six. I can't sleep more than six hours, even dead drunk. I've legit thought my wife was dead because 2PM would roll around and I hadn't heard her move all day and she had been in bed by 10. No idea how someone stays out that long. The guy who replaced me on a bunch of my vendors is using shorthand in emails and so now I'm CC'd on a bunch of "Pls let me knw what is next" communications and I'm realizing I probably should have vetted his communication skills a bit better.
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Lazyfire posted:I get up at 3 so I can walk the dog and then run before logging in for six. I can't sleep more than six hours, even dead drunk. I've legit thought my wife was dead because 2PM would roll around and I hadn't heard her move all day and she had been in bed by 10. No idea how someone stays out that long. Yeah a good buddy of mine can't sleep more than 4 hours in one go, but he makes the most of it Sucks that dementia is correlated with amount/lack of sleep, but eh, can't do anything about that so
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YeahTubaMike posted:Subject: Difficult News to Share No MLK quote. 3/10
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Escape From Noise posted:gently caress you, Robert! 
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YeahTubaMike posted:Subject: Difficult News to Share Escape From Noise posted:gently caress you, Robert! God I can’t believe how hard people are pounding the drum on a still non-existent recession as an excuse to cut people (I can actually totally believe it)
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COPE 27 posted:A lot of recruiters will be dumbfounded that I don't want to take a salary cut to change jobs, because it doesn't look good to only focus on salary. I legitimately don't understand this. The money is the reason people do jobs. People do a job so they can take the money and do other things they enjoy in life after paying for necessities and comforts. A company is there to make money. How a company tells me I matter is by paying me. How a company tells me I don't mean gently caress all is by giving me a title or a pat on the back and not paying me. My priorities for a job are pretty much only how much I would enjoy doing it (including the job itself, commute, and bullshit) and how much I am being paid to do it. To pretend otherwise is just lying or some kind of con. BitBasher fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Feb 3, 2023 |
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Another recruiter email, gushing about my qualifications and "experience portfolio" and then try to push a Jr engineering job on me. Something about that isn't connecting. Edit:. Not even a contract recruiter. They work for the outfit directly.
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BitBasher posted:I legitimately don't understand this. The money is the reason people do jobs. People do a job so they can take the money and do other things they enjoy in life after paying for necessities and comforts. I suspect the theory that recruiters are trying to sell is that while you may be making less now, if you get promoted you can end up making more later. And how do you get promoted? By showing that you're keen and full of mustard and focused on things like culture fit and personal growth opportunities and the corporate mission statement and all the various intangibles that mark you out as a good team player, rather than something as pedestrian as your salary. If you don't, you might end up being stuck in your current position forever and where's your upward mobility then? There might also be a certain degree of classism involved too - someone whose trust fund paid for their Harvard degree can afford to genuinely care about the intangibles over their salary, and doing so may be a sign in certain management circles about whether or not a job candidate is the "right sort."
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