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Sundae posted:Speaking from experience, this is how you get a 7AM-5PM workday. In practice it hasn’t worked out that way. It helps to be west coast based with most stakeholders to the east. Sometimes I have a late meeting and that sucks, but it’s rare.
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Awkward Davies posted:In practice it hasn’t worked out that way. It helps to be west coast based with most stakeholders to the east. Sometimes I have a late meeting and that sucks, but it’s rare. This is how I manage it. I'm on the west coast and hq is in cst, so I just work cst hours.
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Awkward Davies posted:In practice it hasn’t worked out that way. It helps to be west coast based with most stakeholders to the east. Sometimes I have a late meeting and that sucks, but it’s rare. What's happened to me is that I'm west-coast with stakeholders in Basel, SF and Shanghai. My meeting times are hilarious some days, but my management at least understands that and doesn't throw a fit when I text them "had meetings from 1AM-4AM, not coming in today."
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Re: the recent thread bullet dodge, I've often wondered about the thought process behind the "just one quick (disruptive) question" person right as a fraught meeting is drawing to a close after unexpectedly righting itself. Obviously I can't ask such people what the gently caress is up in meetings, but I can here. So, uh?
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A lot of people thrive on having the last word.
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Atopian posted:Re: the recent thread bullet dodge, I've often wondered about the thought process behind the "just one quick (disruptive) question" person right as a fraught meeting is drawing to a close after unexpectedly righting itself. Personally I consider myself a teacher
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Solid 80% of my meetings I don't say anything but "thanks, bye"
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dpkg chopra posted:A lot of people thrive on having the last word. and/or just plain ol' stirring poo poo.
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Atopian posted:Re: the recent thread bullet dodge, I've often wondered about the thought process behind the "just one quick (disruptive) question" person right as a fraught meeting is drawing to a close after unexpectedly righting itself. It's the adult equivalent of reminding the teacher she forgot to assign us homework.
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gently caress automation and their complete lack of any process to control their method revisions. They discovered a vendor software bug today (copy pasting method steps loses any variables in the step) for a change that went out in June under a change control. When asked how they would change their release process to ensure this doesn't happen again, they didn't have an answer and stammered something about code diff reviews. I have to get someone high up to force them to actually build a process externally becasuse they're incapable of doing so internally. This is the same dept whose director had the zoom porn game incident. I should not be surprised but I am.
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Part of my job is researching regulations for contractors licenses. Contractors licenses are not like drivers licenses. Just because I have my HVAC license in State A doesn’t mean I can move to State B and start working. Generally I would have to apply for State B’s HVAC license, pass their exam, follow any rules, ect. Some states have reciprocal license agreements. All this reciprocity means is that I can skip the exam. I still have to pay licensure fees and get a State B license, but I can show my State A license as a way to skip the exam . . . if State B will accept State A’s license. Today I spent three hours researching whether or not two states had a reciprocal licensing agreement. A trusted third party source says yes. Primary Source from State A says no. Primary Source 1 from State B says no, they have reciprocity with 3 other states. Primary Source 2 from State B says they have no reciprocity at all. Primary Source 3 says reciprocity is on hold for two states, but in effect for a third. I called all the regulatory bodies involved. State A had me on hold for more than an hour and never picked up. State B forces you to accept a call back from an agent and it hangs up on you if you try and stay on hold. Can’t wait to do it again tomorrow.
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Democratic Pirate posted:Oooh. Productivity aka payroll auditors. Nice one. Right now I'm thinking "pathway" or "paradigm"
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Awkward Davies posted:Waking up late is for suckers. My first meeting is at 7am. I can safely be done with work between 2 and 3pm and then I do whatever. Everyone in the US is insane with the mornings, my entire department except for like two of us being out there is perfect for me because my mornings are quiet, they all appear at 1pm and I work up until 6 (sometimes a bit longer if I want to score some points) I've seen people doing stuff at 5am and why would you do that to yourself. e: I should note that I'd be working until 6 anyway as that's the standard here. Unless I go to the pub. Powerful Two-Hander fucked around with this message at 08:45 on Sep 22, 2023 |
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Atopian posted:Re: the recent thread bullet dodge, I've often wondered about the thought process behind the "just one quick (disruptive) question" person right as a fraught meeting is drawing to a close after unexpectedly righting itself. You need to up your game here: stealth into the meeting and right at the end ask a question that upends the entire thing.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:You need to up your game here: stealth into the meeting and right at the end ask a question that upends the entire thing. Only if I can expense the subsequent smokebomb.
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Atopian posted:Re: the recent thread bullet dodge, I've often wondered about the thought process behind the "just one quick (disruptive) question" person right as a fraught meeting is drawing to a close after unexpectedly righting itself. Renegret posted:It's the adult equivalent of reminding the teacher she forgot to assign us homework. or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHCdKb5UWc&t=56s and i've 100% done that when some assholes are threatening to waste engineering time I need/use on useless bullshit I can run interference against. evil_bunnY fucked around with this message at 12:48 on Sep 22, 2023 |
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Monday: US west coast. Tuesday evening and all of Wednesday: fly to Asia Thursday AM: arrive in Asia 6am, calls until 12.30am Friday. Friday: near-death state
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From a friend:quote:I'm sitting on a meeting set up ages ago waiting for the host to join and I just realised she died in the interim, nobody is saying anything. Very rude for the surviving family members to not cancel the appointments imo.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:From a friend: dire
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I just got finished with a two day team conference thing and because I booked a later train so I wasn't in a rush I had time to help with the cleanup at the end. This turned into a bit of a debrief on the event in which multiple people stated it was good that a lot of people got up and presented but there were still a few people that had not really wanted to and we needed to work on that. I found myself explaining to a group of adults that there were a bunch of people in our finance/accounting function that were employed for their ability to sit in a corner and do maths and follow processes to the letter that, you know, might be on the "please leave me alone to do my job" side of things and maybe we shouldn't focus on making those people stand up and present to fifty people if they didn't want to? Maybe?
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:From a friend: Nobody wants to work anymore smh
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Fil5000 posted:I just got finished with a two day team conference thing and because I booked a later train so I wasn't in a rush I had time to help with the cleanup at the end. This turned into a bit of a debrief on the event in which multiple people stated it was good that a lot of people got up and presented but there were still a few people that had not really wanted to and we needed to work on that. I found myself explaining to a group of adults that there were a bunch of people in our finance/accounting function that were employed for their ability to sit in a corner and do maths and follow processes to the letter that, you know, might be on the "please leave me alone to do my job" side of things and maybe we shouldn't focus on making those people stand up and present to fifty people if they didn't want to? Maybe? But if we don't judge every single Fin/Atg new-hire on whether or not they are - someday, maybe - CFO material, why would we want them touching our numbers anyway!??!??
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gently caress introverts, they are defective people and should be publicly shamed for it. -every executive
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If you’re not climbing the ladder you’re taking up a spot for someone who will - an MBA stuck in the 1950s I’m late to time zone chat but have none of you experience the glory that is Newfoundland?
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Corporate Megathread: The meeting host has died. You are now the host.
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I ZOOM! I DIE! I ZOOM AGAIN!
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Live by the weekly meeting, die by the meeting invite
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FrozenVent posted:If you’re not climbing the ladder you’re taking up a spot for someone who will - an MBA stuck in the 1950s Taylorism and up or out is a hell of a drug.
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Discendo Vox posted:Corporate Megathread: The meeting host has died. You are now the host.
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Discendo Vox posted:Corporate Megathread: The meeting host has died. You are now the host.
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Discendo Vox posted:Corporate Megathread: The meeting host has died. You are now the host. The host is dead Long live the host
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Discendo Vox posted:Corporate Megathread: The meeting host has died. You are now the host.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:From a friend: Insta-seance!
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priznat posted:Insta-seance! That would easily be the most interesting meeting on my calendar.
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Hey team, just a reminder to mute your mics before dying so that your decomposing remains don't interrupt the speaker.
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priznat posted:Insta-seance! Microsoft teams new ouija board plugin
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Discendo Vox posted:Corporate Megathread: The meeting host has died. You are now the host. 
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Discendo Vox posted:Corporate Megathread: The meeting host has died. You are now the host. 
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Deadite posted:Microsoft teams new ouija board plugin That's exactly what I said to him.
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priznat posted:Insta-seance! How would you bill ghosts though, to the estate? If I become a ghost any pro boo-no work is gonna be of my choosing
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