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People are getting fired from my firm all the way around me at my just a few months old new baby job. Some of them are very good people who do great work and just got caught in the arm of the big ol' sweep to remove any trace of a former executive's hires. I am just sort of waiting and have decided, I'm fully licensed now and I have proven that I can survive things far worse. This is fine. The building is still on fire but at least I'm working from home. But hey no, for real, I passed the third finance hell exam today so I get a break for a few months to sort my life out and move cross country. Yay.
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Just found out my manager who I’ve had for nearly 6 years who leaves me the gently caress alone and doesn’t micromanage is retiring at the end of August. Her replacement is a well known micromanager. Guess I’ve got my notice to get my resume together.
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Jun 21, 2023 02:07
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20 Blunts posted:the willingness of local governments, and from there 501c3s/community orgs/mission based groups to just dump money on events and videography and even podcast production is pretty crazy I begged funds for a go pro and thought that was being a bit extra. Lol
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Jun 21, 2023 06:14
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History Comes Inside! posted:The last job I left desperately wanted me to stay so I did the exit interview explicitly to make it clear that I didn’t want to work there anymore because they were a loving awful company run by assholes. There’s a really good dick sucking factory joke in here somewhere but I’m just not seeing it
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Jun 21, 2023 06:18
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Volmarias posted:I know you don't want to talk too much about your industry to avoid identifying yourself but with each passing post it really sounds more and more like what you sell is "protection" from "accidents" or something jfc. when Barudak talks about selling less what they really mean is more *draws finger across throat*
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Jun 21, 2023 07:08
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I promise it is a normal industry and that I have never directly killed anyone. By the way, Yakuza aren't all illegal under Japanese law. The broad umbrella term for criminal organizations in Japan who can actually be punished by law is "Anti-Social Forces" which is frankly badass.
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Jun 21, 2023 08:57
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Barudak posted:I promise it is a normal industry and that I have never directly killed anyone. We are a humble neighborhood organization, with a side hustle in real-estate, all perfectly above board. No I don't know why most of my employees have such kickass tatoos.
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Jun 21, 2023 09:00
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A "perfectly legitimate business" you might say? If you sell too much, do they cut off a knuckle?
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Jun 21, 2023 09:00
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Barudak posted:I promise it is a normal industry and that I have never directly killed anyone. Have you ever indirectly killed someone?
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Jun 21, 2023 14:24
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According to Butterfly Effect theory, haven't we all? 
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Jun 21, 2023 14:31
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Smart poo poo your work does: We somehow managed to take a meeting that could have been an email and turn it into an email, cancelling the meeting.
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Jun 21, 2023 15:24
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20 Blunts posted:the willingness of local governments, and from there 501c3s/community orgs/mission based groups to just dump money on events and videography and even podcast production is pretty crazy Our equipment is purchased with something called the divca fund. It's designed to be used by public, education, and government tv stations to buy equipment. It's from the franchise fee that is levied by the cable companies.in California. We usually get in the low six figures a year from it. The catch is that it can only be used for equipment. My boss is the one that wants this new camera, I think it's a waste of money. Funny thing is after I told her about it, she asked if we could still use it for interviews. So she wants us to to put a gimbled camera designed for action shots on a tripod. Then again she wanted to get a professional drone for us, the only reason we didn't was the cost of training someone. That someone would have been the same guy that trashed the camera. And all this is for a newscast that gets about 400 views in a week. I would like to move away, but my girlfriend works for the federal government and she would have to go someplace they have an office.
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Jun 21, 2023 19:24
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Barudak posted:I promise it is a normal industry and that I have never directly killed anyone. When you get extremely specific about the language you use to describe a thing it pretty much 100% means you did the thing.
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Jun 21, 2023 20:40
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diremonk posted:Our equipment is purchased with something called the divca fund. … The catch is that it can only be used for equipment. I wish the DIVCA funds would pay for the guy who yeeted the camera into the river to become a certified Steadicam operator so your social media interviews could be shot exclusively with tracking shots.
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Jun 21, 2023 20:48
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Kibayasu posted:When you get extremely specific about the language you use to describe a thing it pretty much 100% means you did the thing. Came here to post this. 
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Jun 21, 2023 20:49
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Anti-Social Forces sounds like what some rich suburban kids would name their rap crew
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Jun 21, 2023 20:49
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Barudak posted:I promise it is a normal industry and that I have never directly killed anyone. When we got bought by a Japanese competitor, the most noticeable change in the mandatory yearly anti-bribery training was the specific inclusion of an item about not making payments to "anti-social organisations" and not buying "literature" from them. That latter is apparently how protection money is being disguised.
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Jun 21, 2023 21:49
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Barudak, do some people in your office wear lapel pins with a crest? Are any family crests anywhere?
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Jun 21, 2023 21:51
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One time during a slow day at work I took an hour long class on Japanese microaggressions. I do not speak Japanese, but my internal records now show that I am fully qualified to deal with microaggressions in Japanese.
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Jun 21, 2023 21:53
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TaurusTorus posted:One time during a slow day at work I took an hour long class on Japanese microaggressions. I do not speak Japanese, but my internal records now show that I am fully qualified to deal with microaggressions in Japanese. Baka gaijin.
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Jun 21, 2023 22:03
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McGavin posted:Baka gaijin. Good afternoon to you too good sir.
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Jun 21, 2023 22:06
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Dumb poo poo your work does: I have never directly killed anyone
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Jun 21, 2023 22:06
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This does not mean I'm going to stop calling out Barudak's bizzare opposite-world video game opinions. 
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Jun 21, 2023 23:04
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Kibayasu posted:When you get extremely specific about the language you use to describe a thing it pretty much 100% means you did the thing. "John McAfee has never been convicted of rape and murder, but—crucially—not in the same way that you or I have never been convicted of rape or murder."
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Jun 22, 2023 02:55
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TaurusTorus posted:One time during a slow day at work I took an hour long class on Japanese microaggressions. I do not speak Japanese, but my internal records now show that I am fully qualified to deal with microaggressions in Japanese. When we got bought out by a Japanese company there was an optional course on “Japanese business culture” and I did it on a boring Friday. It’s tough to remember the specifics but it really felt like school level fluff: gift giving, bowing, naming. I still put it on my accomplishments for that year. Us grunts don’t interact with the Japanese parent at all so it was wasted on me, however whenever some c-suite talks about their recent trip-to or visit-from Japanese big bosses they always add the -san honorific, so I guess it worked for them.
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Jun 22, 2023 05:00
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RocketMermaid posted:Dumb poo poo your work does: I have never directly killed anyone Lol 
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Jun 22, 2023 05:10
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I had someone refer to me as Barudak-tono and I had to look up what that meant, but I can't lie it absolutely made my day.
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Jun 22, 2023 06:59
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Someone has started throwing experimental AI/LLM-generated legal observations at us. They seem both relevant and coherent so obviously our management are now a bit panicked and working out how we can make them stop.
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Jun 22, 2023 11:38
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TaurusTorus posted:One time during a slow day at work I took an hour long class on Japanese microaggressions. I do not speak Japanese, but my internal records now show that I am fully qualified to deal with microaggressions in Japanese. Calling it microaggressions just because they tend to be shorter seems pretty rude.
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Jun 22, 2023 13:16
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DRINK ME posted:When we got bought out by a Japanese company there was an optional course on “Japanese business culture” and I did it on a boring Friday. It’s tough to remember the specifics but it really felt like school level fluff: gift giving, bowing, naming. I still put it on my accomplishments for that year. I remember a guy who always used san when talking about the Japanese guy in our multi company project. He got promoted to c-suite, so that checks out. Afterwards he kept using san whenever possible, which was very embarrassing when was introducing him to Jason the famous (in our field) Scotsman of Korean descent.
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Jun 22, 2023 14:25
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Barudak posted:I had someone refer to me as Barudak-tono and I had to look up what that meant, but I can't lie it absolutely made my day. *googles it* Wikipedia posted:Tono (殿 との), pronounced -dono (どの) when attached to a name, roughly means "lord" or "master". It does not equate noble status. Rather it is a term akin to "milord" or French "monseigneur" or Portuguese/Spanish/Italian "don", and lies below -sama in level of respect. Huh. How many chickens in your company?
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Jun 22, 2023 15:22
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One of my coworkers spent four months working with a team redesigning a long standing product. First they tried to turn an aluminum construction into a hardened rubber design, that got rejected by everyone that was consulted due to the heat constraints. OK, so we'll change it to a welded and brazed design similar to what is already in service on both programs. Well, the engineering team wasn't happy that the only vendor to say they would be interested still stipulated they would need to send pieces out for some of the operations needed. This is completely normal and usually not a problem, but Engineering decided to pitch a fit despite having exactly nothing to do with source selection. They then went to a casting and my coworker went to three different vendors who came back with weight estimates way above expectations and planned on using the vendor Engineering had just rejected to weld and machine pieces. As of last week the engineers went back to the weld-and-braze. This morning a complete stop work was issued on both products. Someone higher up in the company found out this was happening and decided it made no sense to redesign something just because it hadn't been reworked in a long time.
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Jun 22, 2023 20:40
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I don't know about Japanese law, but "I was under orders to sell less by any means necessary" is not a very solid defence
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Jun 23, 2023 00:37
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Darkest Auer posted:I don't know about Japanese law, but "I was under orders to sell less by any means necessary" is not a very solid defence This would make an absolutely fantastic episode of Law and Order.
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Jun 23, 2023 00:58
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Darkest Auer posted:I don't know about Japanese law, but "I was under orders to sell less by any means necessary" is not a very solid defence "The trap wasn't fatal! All he had to do was not pay, if he paid, he died! You have to believe me!"
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Jun 23, 2023 01:00
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Okay, so Barudak is obviously in the Yakuza on Bizzaro world, running an anti-protection racket where he pays to freshen up wrecked businesses.
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Jun 23, 2023 11:39
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Multiple games in the Yakuza/Like a Dragon franchise have sidequests that allow the player to do just that I therefore choose to believe that Kazuma Kiryu is real and good friends with Barudak
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Jun 23, 2023 11:49
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How about a quarterly meeting where it's announced we had hired almost 50 new employees in the first quarter of the year, and more than 50 had quit. Substandard pay and benefits for the industry, and no chance of improvement until the collective bargaining agreement expires in three years. Good luck. The place has been in the news in the past, its only a matter of time before its in the news again.
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Jun 23, 2023 13:02
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"hey come to this exciting Friday meeting, we have tons of news, also we're going to announce that we fired your boss." Hooray I've been unable to talk about this for an entire week.
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Randy Travesty posted:"hey come to this exciting Friday meeting, we have tons of news, also we're going to announce that we fired your boss."  Congrats on the regicide
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