Cthulu Carl posted:

It could really be anything.

Multiple wifi networks (The one for regular use, the one meant just for executives - that my team uses for our phones - and the old one that's still around) went down a few weeks ago at like 9 AM. By 3 PM they were still down and the bridge call that had been open since about 9 was the networking team hemming and hawing about why they can't come into the office to actually fix things.

OPAONI posted:

Oh hey I think I figured out this mystery. Nobody who can do it lives within 100 miles of the place anymore.

Barudak posted:

Discovered a nice, quiet, out of the way bar that specializes in Amontillado

I will be inviting people there from now on.

Barudak posted:

Discovered a nice, quiet, out of the way bar that specializes in Amontillado

I will be inviting people there from now on.

Barudak posted:

Discovered a nice, quiet, out of the way bar that specializes in Amontillado

I will be inviting people there from now on.

Lazyfire posted:

office bullshit

Barudak posted:

Discovered a nice, quiet, out of the way bar that specializes in Amontillado

I will be inviting people there from now on.

blackmet posted:

I'm looking forward to a 1500 parking space office with zero public transportation anywhere nearby trying to hold 2400 employees in a couple of months. Even if there was, there's none in my neighborhood anyway. My schedule has me starting a tiny bit later than a lot of people (830-5). This is going to be such fun.

I'd push more on not going back in, but I have a partner who is unemployed at the moment, so, I'm pretty much stuck.

Takes No Damage posted:

Hyrax Attack! posted:

lol new WaPo editorial by Bloomberg demanding return to office. He’s got billions would imagine his commercial real estate portfolio could survive a hit.

SubponticatePoster posted:

Is it in Singapore?

Hyrax Attack! posted:

lol new WaPo editorial by Bloomberg demanding return to office. He’s got billions would imagine his commercial real estate portfolio could survive a hit.

rotinaj posted:

I was just walking through my science lab and stepped on a no-slip foam pad

It slipped, because someone had apparently picked it up to mop the floor, then tossed it back down with the floor still wet, and i wiped out

Ow

Lol

Lmao

Lazyfire posted:

My wife randomly asked me what my location was listed as on HR site and confirmed that, yes, I'm listed as completely remote. Then she didn't respond, but that's kind of normal for our conversations. The reason behind the question became apparent yesterday when there was a sudden Supply Chain all hands. I should have guessed we were getting the dreaded Return-To-Office message. A LOT of people were pissed in the Anonymous Q&A chat. The basics are that if you live in "reasonable distance" of your home office you are expected to be in the office at least a couple days a week. Yes, the terms are all vague, this isn't even being rolled out through a email or anything, just individual departments telling everyone officially to expect to be back in the office starting September 1st.

We're short staffed, just had a re-org get started and now we're going to be pushing people back to office work after three years of WFH and being told multiple times there were no plans to force a return. Adding insult to injury, the person telling us we were coming back forgot to put a background on and you could see she was doing the call from her bedroom. My question about how often she had been back in the office if it is so great didn't get answered. My question about if they were planning on hiring once people start quitting over the policy also went unanswered. I get the feeling that this is just not popular in our management and they fully know it's going to lead to people leaving. I moved 300 miles from the office last year, and people that are listed as fully remote like myself are "encouraged" to come in as frequently as possible while "Hybrid" listed employees are getting forcibly changed to on-site.

Pissing some people off is that the company doesn't plan on ending the wider net cast for employees over the last few years where we were hiring people all over the country that never went into an office since they started. There were some serious anger in the chat because we have management talking about how great being in the office is and how it helps you collaborate and blah blah blah, but apparently not for people who just happen to live further away. I can't imagine the company stopping all remote work/positions because a bunch of us did move when it looked like WFH was here to stay and there wouldn't be a justification to just fire all of us, so even if they don't like the idea of not having us where they can see us all the time there's an understanding that you can't expect to get full staffing without taking advantage of our ability to work remote. I don't get why, besides the paternalistic stuff of keeping an eye on the workers, they are starting this up now. We kept the remote work as primary policy for much longer than a lot of the other companies in our industry, but you could see from a lot of the job postings that Remote was disappearing from the site list over the last year or so, and I had guessed this was possibly coming. I just can't believe how incredibly bad they were at announcing it and how little information we have on the particulars.

teemolover42069 posted:

I know I'm patting myself on the back here but damnit I did a great loving job with this group and I helped make their jobs easier and more comfortable and showed them how to move on to the next paygrade and I'm proud of that. it's coming to an end and I will have a new team of agents soon, and could even get moved to a department I'm not even familiar with. so who knows how it's gonna go down from here but I'm happy as hell with how it's gone so far.

Cthulu Carl posted:

Actually a few of them do and come in about once a week.

But if something needs done outside of the days they come in, the only thing getting done is them trying to get us to do it for them while we explain "Nope, not our poo poo, not our problem."

Maybe one day I'll agree to do whatever they're asking, but bungle it and just unplug a bunch of poo poo.

Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:

We have an assembly with a cover over an IR source and there's a shim between the cover and the main housing. The nominal gap between the shim and cover/housing is set at 1 thousandth of an inch.

WHICH MEANS THEY DESIGNED THE loving THING TO TORQUE ONTO THE IR SOURCE.

I rewrote that step in the traveller myself.

Morons.

teemolover42069 posted:

I'm an adult, I know what those words mean. You can't prove that I don't.

Smuggins posted:

So 2 weeks ago I made a promise to myself to not stop until i work somewhere else and I am surprised how many actual companies are making the effort to talk to me. I have 2 interview set up for next week on top of all the video calls. All have a default raise I should have persued 2 years ago or so,. Boy I feel dumb.

MonkeyHate posted:

For his job, my brother has to work alongside a loose group of really big real estate people here in the city (and yes they are all human trash). He overhears them talk constantly about how their commercial buildings are all losing money and for like a year now they have been talking about a commercial real-estate crash being imminent.

I also learned from him that because the utility needs(?) and codes are so different it’s really not possible to convert commercial high-rises to residential here so instead they focus on pressuring companies to force workers to RTO.

So anyway if anyone wonders who really benefits from return-to-office there you go.

Methylethylaldehyde posted:

Nah, bump the fiber lines hard enough to break one of the strands.

teemolover42069 posted:

my favorite agents at work are all promoting to higher paygrades and it's happening so fast I don't get to do one more 1:1 with them. that kinda sucks a little. I've been with these agents as their coach for 6 whole months now, and it's my very first time ever being management at any job, and it's gone so loving well that more than half my team is getting promoted and every single one of them independent of each other has said something giving me credit for it and I am a little verklempt over work

Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:

We have an assembly with a cover over an IR source and there's a shim between the cover and the main housing. The nominal gap between the shim and cover/housing is set at 1 thousandth of an inch.

WHICH MEANS THEY DESIGNED THE loving THING TO TORQUE ONTO THE IR SOURCE.

I rewrote that step in the traveller myself.

Morons.

Methylethylaldehyde posted:

Nah, bump the fiber lines hard enough to break one of the strands.

Elviscat posted:

Oh engineers and tolerance stacking

Elviscat posted:

I'm the night shift supervisor, and I've kinda made peace with the fact that everyone I train and promote will eventually request a transfer to day shift, and I'll have to give it to them or they'll leave the company entirely.

Fortunately I have a few night shift loyalists who are excellent, experienced techs and will help me train that continuous revolving door of people.

MonkeyHate posted:

For his job, my brother has to work alongside a loose group of really big real estate people here in the city (and yes they are all human trash). He overhears them talk constantly about how their commercial buildings are all losing money and for like a year now they have been talking about a commercial real-estate crash being imminent.

I also learned from him that because the utility needs(?) and codes are so different it’s really not possible to convert commercial high-rises to residential here so instead they focus on pressuring companies to force workers to RTO. I don’t know what that entails exactly but they have met with the mayor as a group about it a few times and have more or less extorted my brother’s employer to bring people back into the office (even though none of those ghouls own that building).

With all the connections these leeches have I expect they are why more places here have been demanding more in office work.

As an aside, it’s kind of funny how these big real estate dynasties all absolutely loathe each other and all fight really dirty to one-up each other. Like for one example there’s this huge lawsuit that has been going on for ages between two of them about who gets to put their name on a charity endowment and while it’s going on neither of them is paying what they promised and so the people they ostensibly wanted to help instead continue to go without. There are another two families who won’t talk to each other so in face-to-face meetings they pretend they can’t hear each other and instead talk through intermediaries like bratty children.

Every time my brother has to put out some kind of press release or promotional material or whatever that involves these assholes a bunch of lawyers get involved to argue out which names get listed in what order and it takes forever to resolve.

So anyway if anyone wonders who really benefits from return-to-office there you go.

teemolover42069 posted:

I'd take a night shift job at my company easily, you get a 20% pay differential for it and it's mostly dead except for total whackos and people calling at 2:39 AM after the bar closed because their card is declining and poo poo like that and I have no problem handling those calls. And my entire actual day where things happen is free? sign me the gently caress up, sure I'll sleep crazy hours, who cares.