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Reminds me of that old commercial: "Now guaranteed 100% free of sawdust."
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You can’t get any cleaner than scraping off the whole thing tbf
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Oct 3, 2023 20:11
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i was planning on taking a day off since i have to internationally travel tomorrow to do a specialist type thingy for work for a week. naturally this morning my phone explodes at around eh 5am with a major site being out and on site dude is completely beyond his depth.  its as patched up as i can do it given the time i have, but holy gently caress not the way i had intended to spend my day
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Oct 4, 2023 00:04
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Two weeks ago: Hey Hotel Kpro here's 128 power supplies that need new Not Calibrated stickers on them Last week: We need 4 of them calibrated Today: We need 12 more calibrated Also today: You need to help out other sections because they have too much work Also last week during some meeting that I missed: Everyone needs to work harder, the backlog keeps going up! Also also today: You had more production than anyone else, but we need you to do more
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Oct 4, 2023 04:10
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Killingyouguy! posted:Nvm I have determined what I'm gonna ask Hardware Santa for I assumed this was a joke but googled just to see...what the christ.
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Oct 4, 2023 04:23
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I'd have thought the trackballs would get stuck
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Oct 4, 2023 04:51
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Outrail posted:I'd have thought the trackballs would get stuck Shredding the mouses' balls hasn't been a problem for decades, fortunately.
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Oct 4, 2023 05:22
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Volmarias posted:Shredding the mouses' balls hasn't been a problem for decades, fortunately. Obligatory Gunshow (NSFW I guess?) https://gunshowcomic.com/607
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Oct 4, 2023 11:13
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The shop got a snazzy new website for free last year when an apprentice joined, made by her GF while she was switching offices (very nicely). So that apprentice is in the other shop now, and the site was due for renewal on WIX, we'd been using their messaging system to tie the 4 or 5 ways to contact us into one inbox, it was very helpful, site also had it's own form I got a heap of bookings from. Note I'm using the past loving tense here, because the boss forgot her god drat password about 2 months ago, complained endlessly to the person who set things up, but then at the last minute before her GF stopped working for us, refused to let her help out because she was "busy". She's been back, emailing the boss about how she wont be able to pay for the site going forward, obviously, and finally at the last possible second the boss was like "well the site is broken anyway" and now we don't have a website and all our website related correspondence is gone. She's so loving good at this. She hasn't made enough money to cover my wages this week, I think mine + comms last week wiped her tattoo incomings. The ship isn't sinking yet but it's starting to list dangerously. I had to hold the side of my desk until a panic attack ended there. I'm going to be ok, I just have to wait a little bit longer. I have to learn to enjoy watching someone's business implode
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Oct 4, 2023 12:26
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Sloppy posted:I assumed this was a joke but googled just to see...what the christ. There was an era when biology was 'blend up the whole thing'. Then it became 'exise an organ and blend up the whole organ'. Now there are other methods
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Oct 4, 2023 13:19
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Sloppy posted:I assumed this was a joke but googled just to see...what the christ. Disturbingly weird boasts about products are a tried and true advertisement method. The first pressure cookers were advertised as "Bone Digestors" because you could use them to essentially melt the bones from fish instead of painstakingly remove them. Bone Digestor is really just an amazing metal band name.
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Oct 4, 2023 13:30
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Operations doesn't know how to create an industrial plan with associated staffing requirements. What the gently caress you dumbasses. Last place had problems but this joint is a loving clownshow. This is not a small company, and my last place is part of the same group. The new place won't modernize or change process because we mainly provide engineering services.
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Oct 4, 2023 13:33
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:engineering Root cause analysis compete
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Oct 4, 2023 13:39
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ben shapino posted:yyyyyeah if you could just go ahead and make the change to that PO that'd be great, okay? Ok thanks. As I typed out my last response I got a "what do I need to do?" email and just told the guy to give me either a requisition number or a charge line and I could make the rest happen, with the caveat that I believed that his team already sent the parts for processing and he was already too late. I'm not going to make this easy for anyone. Not out of spite, but because I can't have randoms stepping up and demanding action be taken on stuff they aren't supporting correctly. That's already happening too much.
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Oct 4, 2023 13:47
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Outrail posted:Root cause analysis compete I'm one myself, but I was a machinist first so I can run circles around most everyone in ops and engineering. It's a bit like Cassandra must have felt I bet.
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Oct 4, 2023 13:56
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Already got a DM asking if the shop had shut down over the website being dead
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Oct 4, 2023 14:11
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We have apprentices starting who will spend four years working with us while they get their engineering degrees. Until they're qualified they aren't allowed to do, or be trained to do, the job they are officially an apprentice of. This is fine and normal, apparently.
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Oct 4, 2023 14:20
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I love it when we take a little break from our big business meeting so the engineers can talk history and politics.
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Oct 4, 2023 16:30
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Perfect time to switch off and visualise a better life.
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Oct 4, 2023 16:38
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goatface posted:We have If your cheap labour becomes employable they'll just expect more pay when they become fulltime employees.
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Shoehead posted:She hasn't made enough money to cover my wages this week, I think mine + comms last week wiped her tattoo incomings. The ship isn't sinking yet but it's starting to list dangerously. "Can't cover payroll" is usually a sign that the ship is nearly under the surface and will suck down anything still nearby when it's finally gone. I think you are beyond the listing stage, if you haven't pulled out I hope it's because you have a compelling reason to stay for the end. Volmarias fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Oct 4, 2023 |
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Shoehead posted:Already got a DM asking if the shop had shut down over the website being dead
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Killingyouguy! posted:There was an era when biology was 'blend up the whole thing'. Then it became 'exise an organ and blend up the whole organ'. Now there are other methods There’s still very much a place for blend up a whole organ, particularly in cancer research.
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Oct 4, 2023 18:37
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I was just discussing our policy regarding a customer's contract and a coworker disagreed with me, bringing up the mass shooting at the customer last year as grounds for an exception. This would result in the coworker being paid more for landing the contract. It's not fair! How am I supposed to counter an argument built around mass murder? William Bear fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Oct 4, 2023 |
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Oct 4, 2023 18:50
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William Bear posted:I was just discussing our policy regarding a customer's contract and a coworker disagreed with me, bringing up the mass shooting at the customer last year as grounds for an exception. This would result in the coworker being paid more for landing the contract. Arson?
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Oct 4, 2023 19:05
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Why would that make their contract more valuable?
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goatface posted:Why would that make their contract more valuable? Why would mass murder?
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Oct 4, 2023 19:20
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The coworker wants an exception to apply so they get more money. I assume this is normally used when the contract landed is exceptionally valuable. Or are they asking for hazard pay because working with these people is still a risk?
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goatface posted:Why would that make their contract more valuable? I don't want to give away too much information about my job, the company's business model, or the client, but this is a useful analogy for understanding what happened. Imagine if senior executives offered a heavy discount out of sympathy for the customer's mass shooting. The deal would not have happened without this discount. And the person on the ground who implemented the deal is asking to be credited as though there was no discount.
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Does he happen to be associated with the mass murderer? Or perhaps even have a surprising likeness with the police sketch of the murderer based on witness testimonies?
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OH, they disagreed with you bringing it up as an exception to the normal process. I was reading it as they disagreed with you about some aspect of the contract processing, and then they brought up the mass murder as a justification why they should be paid more.
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So if your clients experience workplace violence you'd get a hefty bonus? This seems problematic.
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Oct 4, 2023 20:02
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Unrelated I'm now offering my services as a violence doer.
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I just remembered a dumb thing my old employer did. One year they decided to give everyone a Christmas bonus. It was great! Everyone got $500, and then an additional $500 that they had to give to other coworkers in $100 increments (everyone privately emailed their picks to HR). So if everyone hated you, you at least got $500, and if you were helpful to everyone, you could get a boatload. The next year, both amounts were dropped to $300, which was disappointing but I was still happy. The third year (and last year I worked there), the guaranteed amount was removed entirely, so essentially the company gave everyone $300 and said "give it to someone else and hope." There were several people who just didn't get anything, not because they weren't liked, but because they weren't anyone's top 3 favorite people, which then made everyone feel bad. It would've been better for morale if they hadn't given anyone anything.
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Friend posted:I just remembered a dumb thing my old employer did. One year they decided to give everyone a Christmas bonus. It was great! Everyone got $500, and then an additional $500 that they had to give to other coworkers in $100 increments (everyone privately emailed their picks to HR). So if everyone hated you, you at least got $500, and if you were helpful to everyone, you could get a boatload. The next year, both amounts were dropped to $300, which was disappointing but I was still happy. why would you not just collude with 3 of your coworkers to each give each other $100 
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Serious_Cyclone posted:why would you not just collude with 3 of your coworkers to each give each other $100 The co-worker's dilemma.
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Serious_Cyclone posted:why would you not just collude with 3 of your coworkers to each give each other $100 Collude with multiple groups of 3 coworkers and hope none of them had the same idea.
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Oct 4, 2023 21:16
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Friend posted:The third year (and last year I worked there), the guaranteed amount was removed entirely, so essentially the company gave everyone $300 and said "give it to someone else and hope." There were several people who just didn't get anything, not because they weren't liked, but because they weren't anyone's top 3 favorite people, which then made everyone feel bad. It would've been better for morale if they hadn't given anyone anything. What the gently caress, that is dumb as poo poo. It cost them exactly the same as giving everyone $300, but with the added bonus of turbofucking morale for everyone. Even the people who got loads of money would feel pretty lovely about it.
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Not to mention the fact that people could have gotten the Christmas bonus from coworkers for reasons that had nothing to do with job performance. For example, if I was a young woman working there, and I got gifted thousands of dollars from my largely male coworkers, I would feel gross.
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