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Barudak posted:I had perfect team review scores last year so I spent weeks dodging other department heads because why would I waste my time telling you how to listen to feedback, as per your survey results. AS PER MY PREVIOUS SURVEY
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My team is hiring & someone in a dept we work with frequently applied, but for various reasons no way we’d take him. Fortunately he didn’t meet the posted qualifications so could cite that when declining to interview to avoid wasting time, and out of character management deferred to us telling them this. Then management changed their mind and decided an interview was needed to avoid offending anyone so got to waste an hour, then the candidate moved to the 2nd round of interviews with managers, then after being rejected he scheduled a follow up meeting with managers to find out what went wrong. Great use of everyone’s time.
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CIO decided that we should switch from Zoom to Teams. Were the Zoom and Teams admin staff involved in this decision? Of course not! Just a CIO lark! Now figure out how to make it work. Oh there’s like a decade of content in the zoom system? Well I’m sure you can figure it out. Oh and he decided to drop our contract with Support for our biggest product and replace it with…a chat bot! Because everyone loves getting help from those things! Squack McQuack fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Jun 29, 2023 |
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Jun 29, 2023 16:37
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Hyrax Attack! posted:
Oh this reminded me of something. I had a month long contracting gig at this place. The full-time employee I was paired with showed me his drawer full of burned CDs with executives names on them. Says he “can never be fired because this is porn and other blackmail material found while fixing their computers.” A couple months later I get a call wanting me to come take over full time working there to replace the blackmail guy who was just fired. Fired for threatening another employee with a framing hammer. Guess his cds didn’t save him. Anyway, five years later I’m now lead on that team and we’re hiring and his resume gets dropped on my desk. I’m like “you guys know who this is right?” Management is like “he’s perfect he already knows everyone here”. Me: he attacked someone with a hammer, and they still work here”. Management: “ he already knows the job” Me: “he kept blackmail material on the executives. Also he ATTACKED someone with a HAMMER.” I bit my tongue and did a normal interview of the guy. Then management was very surprised when I did not choose to proceed to a second interview. They were so sure they picked a winner.
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Jun 29, 2023 16:40
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Squack McQuack posted:CIO decided that we should switch from Zoom to Teams. Were the Zoom and Teams admin staff involved in this decision? Of course not! Just a CIO lark! Now figure out how to make it work. Oh there’s like a decade of content in the zoom system? Well I’m sure you can figure it out. uh oh sounds like the shareholders aren't getting enough lard in their tea
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Jun 29, 2023 17:22
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Well, that was fun. Exception to continue working from home denied. Get to go in 3X a week starting in October. Despite being literally the only person in my company that works in my department in my location. I might feel better about it if I had teammates here, or the office wasn't an extra special combination of hot and dirty. Like, literally, it's 80 degrees in there, and my choices for hoteling the last time I was there consisted of "desks with no power or docking stations" or "desks that looked like someone took a literal dump on them." I will give it 3 months after going back and see how I feel at that point. But I have a feeling that I will mostly be sitting at my desk never talking to anyone, wearing noise cancelling headphones, and feeling like I did looking for a table to sit at in the middle school cafeteria.
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Jun 29, 2023 18:28
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You should get a headstart on looking now.
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Jun 29, 2023 18:37
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blackmet posted:I will give it 3 months after going back and see how I feel at that point. You have three months starting now
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Jun 29, 2023 18:51
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I'm supposed to give a presentation to my coach team about using our speech analytics software effectively as a coach today. This was scheduled several weeks ago and I typed up a couple thousand words and examples that I'm planning on using. I went to go run through it all this morning when I logged into work and there was an update to the system that the speech analytics software is a part of and my access to it got accidentally removed and will take at least a day to fix.
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Jun 29, 2023 18:53
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Space Kablooey posted:You should get a headstart on looking now. Probably. I actually like this particular position (only been at it 2.5 months), and I'm wary of jumping ship so soon after a promotion. The job is fine, my team is cool, my manager is decent. I don't mind being on an island. I don't mind being in a crowd. I hate being on an island in a crowd.
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Director of 25 years has given a 1 years notice and is already so done with the company's nonsense she's spilling Tea so old that the owner was in highschool when it was brewed and her father had just founded the company. The next 11 months are going to be amazing.
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Jun 29, 2023 18:58
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Every possible minute spent in the office should be focused on finding a new job, if they're dragging you in then they can pay for your job hunt.
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Jun 29, 2023 19:41
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blackmet posted:Well, that was fun. You're lucky. I have to go in 4 days a week. And yeah, the exceptions are incredibly stingy. I was basically told that they were only going to be given to people previously allowed to move away from an office (3+ hours). Or someone who was the only person who could do a particular job and would quit if we didn't let them continue remote. “But you should work on training their replacement before the exception renewal in 6 months”
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Jun 29, 2023 20:02
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Hewlett-Packard? That's what I immediately thought of. I worked at HP in the early 90s, at a division making CAD software. The workstation salespeople, who were in a different organisation, would quite happily sell their workstations bundled with our principal competitor's product.
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MonkeyHate posted:Oh this reminded me of something. What happened to the CDs? Seems like a wasted opportunity.
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Jun 29, 2023 21:33
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Outrail posted:What happened to the CDs? Seems like a wasted opportunity. The fatal flaw was assuming executives are capable of feeling guilt and shame, the CDs were worthless all along
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Jun 29, 2023 21:34
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History Comes Inside! posted:The fatal flaw was assuming executives are capable of feeling guilt and shame, the CDs were worthless all along The only thing executives care about is money and their jobs. Send the material from an anonymous account to the parent company's HR department and BCC 'all staff'. It's not about blackmail it's about making the best of a bad situation.
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Jun 29, 2023 21:51
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I’ve been fully remote for 6 years and if they suddenly revoked that I’d quit immediately
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Zero One posted:You're lucky. I have to go in 4 days a week. That means we have one person that qualifies. Who is obviously not me. It could be worse. I don't even want to think about what my previous group would have subjected me to. "Since you have to go to the office anyway, why don't we make you the team lead of this BRAND NEW hotline team we created! Under a brand new manager! Oh, but please keep handling all the complicated questions and escalations of two other teams too! You can do it! Please don't break!" This group is more like "Um, well, we know this is dumb and we don't really have a place for you. I guess we'll try to find you a seat with your great aunt's kids that you've never met? Anyway...keep up the good work, and let us know if you need a name tag!"
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When I worked at $megacorp the entire 300+ IT team would fill in surveys every 4 months and the results would sent to everyone. Every single one had “stop bring idiots and let us do our jobs” and things got worse over the years. We did get more layers of management but that didn’t seem to help.
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Jun 30, 2023 06:19
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Dumb poo poo your work does: We keep adding layers of management but it's not working?
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blackmet posted:Well, that was fun. just don't go? if there's nobody on your team/department there, who would know your schedule
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Jun 30, 2023 12:38
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Alright well today marks the finish line for 3 projects we sold for quick cash and getting our foot in the door with a Fortune 500 company for future jobs. Were all three profitable? Maybe? Did they make us miserable? Yes. Did they actively interfere with 2 ongoing long term projects? Absolutely. Will we do it again? Oh for sure.
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Hey, gang! Today's my last day of at 7-Eleven! The other day a customer came in and shouted FIVE! TEN! TWENTY! TWENTY-FIVE! I loving hate you all! I'll loving kill you all! But then he went about shopping like normal, just occasionally shouting gently caress I loving HATE YOU I'LL KILL YOU. When he got to the register, he was super calm and said, "I'm very sorry about that, man. Can I get some light-blue Spirits?" and was super cordial and one of the most had-his-poo poo-together customers of the day. I wish more customers were like screaming murder man 
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Jun 30, 2023 14:00
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Steal as many taquitos as you can
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Here’s a relatively minor annoyance from the new job: We have more employees than parking spaces and the overflow garage is far enough away to require a bus ride. So, they took about 75% of parking spots and gave them to employees with seniority. The rest of us need to fight over the remainder. Nice perk for sticking around. But, this is a real hire-to-retire kinda place so you can’t get a spot until you’ve been here for literally 20 years. Heres the dumb part: we’re now 3 years into mostly working from home so the parking lot is always half empty. Despite this, they have not gotten rid of the reserved spots so now I still often have to go park in the overflow garage and bus into a building that has more than enough empty spots for everyone. Just acres of unused parking places and I’m hot, sweaty and late for my meeting. Oh and yes, they do prohibit people from letting others use their space, and yes, they do pay security to drive around and verify the right cars are in reserved spots. Parking tickets apparently go into your employee file and get brought up during reviews and when deciding on promotions.
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Chill day today, dayshift blew out the cooling water system, flooded the bay. Now none of our chambers are high priority, because of course you can’t do poo poo without water. The burst pipe has been repaired, but we still got a reprieve because of the “water park” situation in the back.
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You really need to quit your job. Not directed at anyone specific, everyone. gently caress this poo poo it's not worth it
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JFC. This should be the easiest job in the world, if we would all pitch in just enough to get everything done. The district manager came in this morning on a tear, citing a bunch of stuff that nightshift should have done correctly, or at all. One of my coworkers came in completely out of uniform (solid red shirt, solid color long pants or skirt below the knee, nametag: not difficult stuff), which pissed him off even more. The night manager came in when I did and got an earful from the day manager, so they got all pissed and started snapping at the customers. Whatever, I wasn't there last night and no blame attached to me. That's stuff that'll happen every once and a while. The dumb poo poo today was that night manager decided they'd actually carry their weight and try to get us out of trouble. Project no. 1: Starting with no particular plan, they tore down and rebuilt a display, taking up all of our teeny tiny buggies and a solid 16sq.ft. of floor space right infront of the doors. poo poo everywhere, in no order, including the poo poo they pulled from the display. I guess I could have given some advice on how to do it efficiently. Wasn't asked for advice though, and had my own work to do. The section got reset, badly and messily, with four buggies full of product left over. Then I was asked to do something about it, namely to "find a home for the left over product". The gently caress? Finish the job you started! I wandered over, noted down what product it was, found where it went on the shelf, and handed them my list. Again, I got poo poo to do. My response sent them out to their car to sulk for 15min, but they came back in and moved all that poo poo to where it was supposed to go. Success, I guess? Project No 2: We have little signs to put up, telling customers about new sales and coupons, right there where the product is on the shelf. Great, no one has done that for a good while. I get handed a sheaf of the signs to distribute, but the sales start on the second of next month. Go out to the shelf with our little price scanner and confirm the product is not on sale yet. "Have you put out those signs yet?" "No. I don't think that's a good idea. The prices wouldn't be correct." "Okay. You work tommorow? You can put them out then." No, I don't think we will. Inbetween and around these projects, the manager had the out door propped open in 90°F+ weather, was still too cold, set up shop in a camping chair right where we exit the registers, and played with their phone for over an hour. Whoa, power move! They got tired of getting out of the way to let me help customers, and sulked in their car for another 15min. During the pouting breaks, I could hear them (open door and all) call and complain to someone with no authority over me, only to be told to work it out between us. They even did some of the closing work I usually do, out of spite(?) Ain't making me look bad there. Like, gently caress it. We aren't paid enough to do everything perfectly. Be a little lazy if you want. Be a lot lazy if you want. You start getting in the way or getting other people in trouble though, and there are going to be problems. It. Ain't. That. Hard. Make a plan, divide the work, do it. We'll still have enough downtime to smoke half a pack of cigarettes per shift, as long as we work together. The real dumb poo poo is employing this person as a warm body when all they do is make poo poo harder to accomplish. I'm gonna ride this poo poo out just to watch the dominoes fall. gently caress. Anyways, besides that I really like the job. It's very easy. It's 5min from my house. It's in my very favorite neighborhood. I know half the customers personally, despite just getting back into town from 15 years in another state. They are great: friendly and respectful. My previous work experience makes me massively over qualified, which means I can easily help our customers with almost anything. The actual time involved in doing it means I can go out to the parking lot and fix a loving car every once and a while.
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I'm self-employed lmao
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Outrail posted:You really need to quit your job. Can confirm. Don't even care about lining something up. Judging by the caliber of work done in this town, I'm way ahead of the game. peanut posted:I'm self-employed lmao I've fired myself multiple times. Taking a break is worth it every once and a while.
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Unfortunately I had to ask my boomer coworker a question today. He was listening to the radio about the Supreme Court, so he's all riled up about student loans, wedding websites, and classified documents. Kept going off on rants. "If they tried her for treason and set up gallows on Capitol Hill, I'd sell everything I got to buy a lottery ticket to be the one to open the trapdoor." WTF Didn't get my question answered either.
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It seems the head of our division insisted against the advice of literally everyone that we take on a project we absolutely did not have the resources for because "it's a new customer and we must diversify" (They're not really a new customer, just a new middle man between us and one of our old customers). I got assigned to it, because what could go wrong with assigning the senior subject matter expert who is already 110% fully booked to this super important strategic project? I busted my rear end to barely achieve the first deliverables deadline and then the project got canceled because the real customer ran out of funds. Now I don't have to cancel my vacation altogether, only postpone it to catch up on all the other work I had to defer.
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MonkeyHate posted:Here’s a relatively minor annoyance from the new job: Get a bunch of co-workers to bike to work and you can all park in the CEO's spot
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Salami Surgeon posted:Unfortunately I had to ask my boomer coworker a question today. He was listening to the radio about the Supreme Court, so he's all riled up about student loans, wedding websites, and classified documents. Kept going off on rants. "If they tried her for treason and set up gallows on Capitol Hill, I'd sell everything I got to buy a lottery ticket to be the one to open the trapdoor." WTF Who is her? Hillary?
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RC Cola posted:Who is her? Hillary? Got it in one
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Salami Surgeon posted:Got it in one Dude needs to up his chud game. Pretty sure whining about Hillary is passé. Now it’s all about AOC and Tlaib.
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Salami Surgeon posted:Got it in one But her emailssssssssss
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Cyrano4747 posted:Dude needs to up his chud game. Pretty sure whining about Hillary is passé. Now it’s all about AOC and Tlaib. Pretty sure they're still angry at Jane Fonda
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Cyrano4747 posted:Dude needs to up his chud game. Pretty sure whining about Hillary is passé. Now it’s all about AOC and Tlaib. There are always people being added, and never people being removed.
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