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Killingyouguy! posted:My manager very clearly has undiagnosed and untreated ADHD and so simply doesn't understand the problem for normal people when he asks for things from us at the absolute last minute. Because to him that's fine and his usual work style anyway Our plant manager has random panics at 3AM and sends out texts about whatever the thing is, which we don’t have to respond to till we get to work but I have to keep my ringer on at night since I have to answer if there is an emergency and they wake me up half the time.
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not the company, directly but -- that Mental Health emailer from the healthcare company you're about to lose, the day after you are told you are being let go
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Jul 12, 2023 19:34
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:Our plant manager has random panics at 3AM and sends out texts about whatever the thing is, which we don’t have to respond to till we get to work but I have to keep my ringer on at night since I have to answer if there is an emergency and they wake me up half the time. sad fist bump smiley dot gif
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Jul 12, 2023 20:21
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:Our plant manager has random panics at 3AM and sends out texts about whatever the thing is, which we don’t have to respond to till we get to work but I have to keep my ringer on at night since I have to answer if there is an emergency and they wake me up half the time.
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Jul 12, 2023 20:23
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even so, the work person who messages in the middle of the night instead of holding onto it until morning is, absolutely most decidedly, an rear end in a top hat. sometimes i get insomnia and then I pick up my phone and blammo work stuff and while i ignore it until morning, now it's just THERE floating in my mine for like 6 hours before I need to be thinking of it and certainly not helping with the insomnia!! it's just a terrible thing to do to a worker. whatever you need to do to set a reminder to follow up in the AM instead of burdening people in the middle of the night, do ittttttt stop just spraying out thoughts when they come to yoooou
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Jul 12, 2023 20:25
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You can schedule messages in advance now so there's really no excuse
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Jul 12, 2023 20:26
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:Our plant manager has random panics at 3AM and sends out texts about whatever the thing is, which we don’t have to respond to till we get to work but I have to keep my ringer on at night since I have to answer if there is an emergency and they wake me up half the time. Time to start ignoring emergencies due to alarm fatigue!
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bizwank posted:Most modern phones allow you to set a "do not disturb" schedule where your phone won't make any noise, but you can whitelist specific numbers or contacts that bypass it. Guess who is one of the most likely to call/text me if there’s an emergency! I may just set his text sound to nothing though. But then he gets mad if we’re at work and he sends a message and our phones don’t make a noise because he wants us to respond in five minutes good loving god does saying some of this poo poo out loud make me realize how terribly I need to leave.
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Jul 12, 2023 20:54
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You can allow/disallow calls and messages separately for each contact. Just mute texts from him during non-work hours and allow calls whenever you should be allowing calls. But also maybe look for a new job lol
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Jul 12, 2023 21:00
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Another great visit from my boomer coworker. Gas prices are so high because Jimmy Carter won't let us drill. Sick of all this hottest day ever BS, ya know people say we're headed for another ice age. More talk about all his retirement revenue sources, including how he's drawing Social Security soon. Somehow my suggestion that he could actually retire sooner than later turned into him telling me all the places he's been around the world with topless beaches.
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Salami Surgeon posted:Another great visit from my boomer coworker. Gas prices are so high because Jimmy Carter won't let us drill. Sick of all this hottest day ever BS, ya know people say we're headed for another ice age. More talk about all his retirement revenue sources, including how he's drawing Social Security soon. Somehow my suggestion that he could actually retire sooner than later turned into him telling me all the places he's been around the world with topless beaches. I can picture him very clearly.
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Jul 12, 2023 21:05
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lol 4x overtime pay over Amazon Prime day(s) to hang out in Slack and provide 'support' for our sales team and nothing happened and no-one sold poo poo because prices are 40% higher than they were this time last year anyway, so you can cut all you want, no-one is fooled.
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Jul 12, 2023 21:08
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DrBouvenstein posted:But due to weird rules that the MSP I work for has...I'm not supposed to have that company's email on my phone. So I never got that email until i saw it...after driving in over an hour to get to the office. Thankfully, I bring my own water and lunch anyway, so I'm fine there, but what a fuckin pain. And here's the kicker: We have Everbridge at work, and it seems to mainly alert managers and very few of the actual employees. We had a problem once and someone got on our department's rear end about the alert, and why we weren't responding. When they first setup the system, they only had put in so many people. Anyone who was skipped initially was never added on. The worst part about this is then someone will start THE WAROOM call. Which is a fancy name for a conference call. They try to involve multiple people from every department, if you leave to actually work on the problem, someone will tattle about your number leaving and they'll call you.
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Jul 12, 2023 21:13
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Killingyouguy! posted:Time to start ignoring emergencies due to alarm fatigue! Reminds me of when we got a new EMS (Energy Managey System) when I was a Transmission Dispatcher. This time around our corporate overlords decided that all the utilities under the holding company should get the same new EMS at the same time. And since all the other utilities were smaller, they all wanted audible alarms for every little thing. So of course at the big utility I work for, the first thing everyone did on the day the new EMS went live was to silence the PCs running the EMS. The unending noise that first day was miserable. Then fast forward to me being on a standardization committee for new issues brought forth and to align issues between all the utilities. I can’t count how many times I had to explicitly state that until the audible alarms became customizable, or shrank down to two very specific cases (Fire Alarms and Transformer Major Alarms) my utility would not be turning the audibles back on. And every time people from the other utilities would be baffled. Sometimes I miss being on that committee and being able to tell managers 1 and 2 levels higher than myself “Oh hell no, that ain’t happening” in only slightly nicer language.
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Jul 12, 2023 21:31
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Job just laid off a fuckload of people. Most were superfluous bigwigs n such but they also took our entire reprographics group so now there are dudes making 6 figs in the repro shop trying to learn how to use spiral binders and the gigaprinters. Also they nixed the spot that was supposed to come on to assist me Ive been short for 3 years since my boss yeeted himself from some equipment and I became the boss. They have money ofc but we'd rather spend that on fancy buildings n poo poo instead of people. Can't wait till im finally making enough to be comfortable, knowing full well that'll put me on the block to get cut and replaced by someone cheaper/more desperate
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Jul 12, 2023 21:35
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Anchor Wanker posted:Also they nixed the spot that was supposed to come on to assist me Ive been short for 3 years since my boss yeeted himself from some equipment and I became the boss. Uh. By accident or in response to having to work there?
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Jul 12, 2023 21:52
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Anchor Wanker posted:Also they nixed the spot that was supposed to come on to assist me Ive been short for 3 years since my boss yeeted himself from some equipment and I became the boss. Congrats on that promotion. I don't want to know if Barudak helped you get it.
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Jul 12, 2023 21:55
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Cyrano4747 posted:he thinks he's king of the world because he owns a local widget distributer and HR is his wife. Are you sure you haven't worked in the brewing industry before?
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20 Blunts posted:not the company, directly but -- that Mental Health emailer from the healthcare company you're about to lose, the day after you are told you are being let go I got a call a few weeks back, from the healthcare navigation company that my company works with, letting me know that they're there and if I have any problems to just call. I was laid off 6 months ago. Thanks for the offer though, it sounds like you got better than your disastrous launch a year ago! 
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The MSP that handles Hardware Lifecycle for us has laid off 8 people in the past week, including two close personal friends. FTE layoffs are rumored to be announced first week in August. Boooooooooooo!
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Salami Surgeon posted:Congrats on that promotion. I don't want to know if Barudak helped you get it. Got to get those sales numbers down one way or the other
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:Guess who is one of the most likely to call/text me if there’s an emergency! You read your posts out loud?
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You don't?
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Outrail posted:You don't? Sometimes I even do voices. Your posts are in a thick Bronx accent.
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madeintaipei posted:Sometimes I even do voices. Can someone please tell me if I've been insulted or complemented.
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CitizenKain posted:The worst part about this is then someone will start THE WAROOM call. Which is a fancy name for a conference call. They try to involve multiple people from every department, if you leave to actually work on the problem, someone will tattle about your number leaving and they'll call you. I was on a conference call for a P2 where the issue was Software X tries to connect to Database Y, but intermittently gets an authentication timeout and the connection fails. The "network team" would run commands like ping -n 100 DatabaseServer.Corp.CompanyName.Com and then say "Nope, Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 100, Lost = 0 (0% loss), the network is fine!" [fake spoiler] Weeks later it was determined that the problem was the network (of course it was.)
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Outrail posted:Can someone please tell me if I've been insulted or complemented. As my buddy Freddie would say, "Faaahhk Awwwf." Which is how you knew he cared. 
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Today at the "your boss is leaving so you need to divvy up their work amongst yourselves" meeting, my team was informed that although my boss will be replaced at some point, the powers at be will not be filling the other two open positions on my team due to budget cuts and "prioritization of other needs." I have been doing the work of two people since last fall and was hoping we may get some relief soon, but no, 5% budget cut instead. No merit raises this year either and cost of living increase limited to 1.5% (maybe 3% 'if things turn around') due to the "economic climate."
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Outrail posted:Can someone please tell me if I've been insulted or complemented. That depends on what part of New York you're in. If you're not from New York, both.
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Don Karnage posted:Today at the "your boss is leaving so you need to divvy up their work amongst yourselves" meeting, my team was informed that although my boss will be replaced at some point, the powers at be will not be filling the other two open positions on my team due to budget cuts and "prioritization of other needs." I have been doing the work of two people since last fall and was hoping we may get some relief soon, but no, 5% budget cut instead. No merit raises this year either and cost of living increase limited to 1.5% (maybe 3% 'if things turn around') due to the "economic climate." quit
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yeah time to start doing the bare minimum so that poo poo can function, polish up the resume and gtfo
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Jul 13, 2023 12:28
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If your boss gives you two extra jobs to do without compensation, reduce your actual work by 2/3rds. Work slower and worse.
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MonkeyHate posted:sad fist bump smiley dot gif My boss will text me questions shortly after he arrives, generally around 0615. I leave work at 0230, and try to be in bed by 0400. Sigh.
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tactlessbastard posted:My boss will text me questions shortly after he arrives, generally around 0615. Have you thought about murder
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Don Karnage posted:Today at the "your boss is leaving so you need to divvy up their work amongst yourselves" meeting, my team was informed that although my boss will be replaced at some point, the powers at be will not be filling the other two open positions on my team due to budget cuts and "prioritization of other needs." I have been doing the work of two people since last fall and was hoping we may get some relief soon, but no, 5% budget cut instead. No merit raises this year either and cost of living increase limited to 1.5% (maybe 3% 'if things turn around') due to the "economic climate." There's your problem. It looks to your bosses like the work of one person.
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tactlessbastard posted:My boss will text me questions shortly after he arrives, generally around 0615. Add 2 hours overtime every time he texts, and also Jack-Off Lantern posted:Have you thought about murder
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I used to get freezer alarm calls/texts at all hours from my last job and I can't lie, I was 50% annoyed that they were dumb as poo poo and hadn't updated my contact list or gotten their poo poo under control, and 50% vindictively happy that their poo poo is failing without me, lol
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Set up a roster for our team on my Google sheets and a few months after I quit they send an email 'hey the timetable isn't working can we get access back?' Lol no
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Outrail posted:Set up a roster for our team on my Google sheets and a few months after I quit they send an email 'hey the timetable isn't working can we get access back?' Yes, my one time flat fee is $69420 
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Outrail posted:Set up a roster for our team on my Google sheets and a few months after I quit they send an email 'hey the timetable isn't working can we get access back?' The answer to this is "sure, who do I send my consulting rate to?"
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