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I went into the office today. I am supposed to do two days a week, I currently do one. Of the 26 people from my directorate based in my city, I was the only one there. I tried to coordinate my in office day with my coworkers but basically none of them are bothering. Like, at all. There's an excel sheet where everyone is supposed to fill in what days they'll be in the office and I'm the only one from my city bothering. Hooray for mandates.
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Xguard86 posted:How do you use GPT? Helps a lot with stuff like business requirement documents and bullshit boilerplate project management stuff. It's REALLY good at taking transcripts from long boring meetings and making summaries and action item lists. I don't code much, but when I have to, it really helps with TypeScript and SQL queries. I'm not kidding btw, I'm so overemployed it's insane. I don't understand why everyone that could do it, doesn't
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Oct 18, 2023 20:35
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Fil5000 posted:Friendly reminder is the best because if you have to start your email with that it's only because you've been an absolute unfriendly poo poo in the rest of it. Especially good if it's something you're bringing up for the first time, as opposed to any sort of reminder.
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Oct 18, 2023 20:38
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docbeard posted:Especially good if it's something you're bringing up for the first time, as opposed to any sort of reminder. Once someone submitted an initial request to me and cc’d irrelevant contacts and phrased their email as “just following up.” Infuriating.
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Oct 18, 2023 21:38
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Euronymous posted:Helps a lot with stuff like business requirement documents and bullshit boilerplate project management stuff. It's REALLY good at taking transcripts from long boring meetings and making summaries and action item lists. I don't code much, but when I have to, it really helps with TypeScript and SQL queries. Makes sense. Back when I was doing program/project management I probably could have done 2 or three jobs. Got a lot of grad school homework done at least.
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Oct 18, 2023 22:31
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dpkg chopra posted:The Mailing Wall Holy hell
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Oct 18, 2023 22:44
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Our local HR department has become nearly exclusively a party planning committee. They have been shoveling all routine HR functions onto Workday or back out to the individual departments to the point you could replicate their generalist’s job function with a nice sign that says, 'If you are having trouble with Workday please contact your supervisor.' This week corporate reorganized global HR and the new org chart has none of them on it lol
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Oct 19, 2023 00:41
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tactlessbastard posted:
Do they have to let each other go round robin style until the last one stands, like those peg games at bars? Or are they all in a conference room together while they all give the same speech together?
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Oct 19, 2023 00:53
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Look at it this way, HR being a party planning committee is probably the least amount of damage they can cause on any given day.
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Oct 19, 2023 00:57
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tactlessbastard posted:Our local HR department has become nearly exclusively a party planning committee. Maybe it's just my location, but when I hear "Party planning committee", I think of something different than what was probably intended.
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Oct 19, 2023 01:15
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Atopian posted:Maybe it's just my location, but when I hear "Party planning committee", I think of something different than what was probably intended. I exclusively will always think of this image: 
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Oct 19, 2023 01:22
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Democratic Pirate posted:Once someone submitted an initial request to me and cc’d irrelevant contacts and phrased their email as “just following up.” Infuriating. Quote just the “just following up.” Reply-all "No you aren't"
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Oct 19, 2023 01:26
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Vasudus posted:Look at it this way, HR being a party planning committee is probably the least amount of damage they can cause on any given day. You don't have fun enough parties.
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Oct 19, 2023 01:31
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One problem with the common use of passive aggressive phraseology is that it ruins the sincere use of the same language. I have to have a deliberately weird one-on-one conversation with each coworker to explain that I mean it when I say things like “no pressure.”
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Oct 19, 2023 01:55
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I've always found that to be an extreme challenge as a manager. A lot of the reports I've had have been very, very slow to grok that when I say things like "no pressure, just get me this at your soonest convenience," or "I will take responsibility for this when I talk to [my boss]" I mean it. And, I mean, I've worked for many bosses who would say the same things and absolutely not mean it, so I can't blame them. But it's jarring, and even for some people upsetting, adjusting to a boss who talks to them in English, not Weaselese.
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Oct 19, 2023 02:19
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Eric the Mauve posted:I've always found that to be an extreme challenge as a manager. A lot of the reports I've had have been very, very slow to grok that when I say things like "no pressure, just get me this at your soonest convenience," or "I will take responsibility for this when I talk to [my boss]" I mean it. Yeah, for sure. I have to have frequent conversations where I'll say "When something is urgent or important I promise it won't be ambiguous"
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Oct 19, 2023 02:22
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There's nothing to do for that but put in the time to establish your reputation. And thank you for trying.
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Oct 19, 2023 02:33
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Discendo Vox posted:One problem with the common use of passive aggressive phraseology is that it ruins the sincere use of the same language. I have to have a deliberately weird one-on-one conversation with each coworker to explain that I mean it when I say things like “no pressure.” I make it a point to explicitly say "no is an acceptable response to this request" when it is.
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Oct 19, 2023 02:45
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I’ve had no less than three direct reports tell me “when you said you don’t micromanage you meant it”.
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Oct 19, 2023 02:52
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Midjack posted:I make it a point to explicitly say "no is an acceptable response to this request" when it is. My current skip-level told me that like day 4 of my current role and it took ten tons of stress off my shoulders.
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Oct 19, 2023 03:36
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Eric the Mauve posted:I've always found that to be an extreme challenge as a manager. A lot of the reports I've had have been very, very slow to grok that when I say things like "no pressure, just get me this at your soonest convenience," or "I will take responsibility for this when I talk to [my boss]" I mean it. Really, all you can do is make the reputation by acting. Talk is cheap, and everyone has been burned by a bad manager or (being generous) maybe one who meant well but found out the hard way that their spine isn't as sturdy as they thought it was. Once you act, they'll see it. You don't even need to act for each individual report, because your reports will probably talk to each other. Everyone loves a good gossip, and "holy poo poo, Eric fell on his sword for me today," is a good piece of juicy gossip. Just pair the talk with the action and the rest will sort itself out. 
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Oct 19, 2023 05:03
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I started writing a pharma story but it spans five years and might end up being a full loving book chapter. Do I  or is that too long for people's interests? Office politics in hiring, racism, accusations of sexual involvement with a direct report, and a series of well-meaning decisions by managers resulting in kind of lovely outcomes for the direct report.Any interest? I stopped writing for tonight after realizing maybe nobody wants a loving monster of an office story. or  ?
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Oct 19, 2023 05:56
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Atopian posted:Maybe it's just my location, but when I hear "Party planning committee", I think of something different than what was probably intended. Tovarisch, comrade Inner Light posted:I exclusively will always think of this image: It’s this tho
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Oct 19, 2023 06:01
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Sundae posted:I started writing a pharma story but it spans five years and might end up being a full loving book chapter. Do I 
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Sundae posted:I started writing a pharma story but it spans five years and might end up being a full loving book chapter. Do I
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Oct 19, 2023 06:08
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Sundae posted:
Also write the actual book. Fictionalize it of course, but you just might end up with the Kitchen Confidential of pharma.
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Oct 19, 2023 06:16
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mllaneza posted:Also write the actual book. Fictionalize it of course, but you just might end up with the Kitchen Confidential of pharma. Bitching Confindianapolis
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Oct 19, 2023 08:10
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Sundae posted:I started writing a pharma story but it spans five years and might end up being a full loving book chapter. Do I "Hey guys I started writing a masterpiece with all of the things that will make you want to read it, but I don't know if it's just TOO MUCH CONTENT for the thread, maybe I should just post nothing?" Besides, we already know you wrote many full loving-book chapters, you can give us one where the loving is mostly (but not entirely!) metaphorical.
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Oct 19, 2023 08:33
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Sundae posted:I started writing a pharma story but it spans five years and might end up being a full loving book chapter. Do I You're not going to use up all the infinite canvas of the internet. Just post.
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Oct 19, 2023 09:30
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Yesterday I got so fed up with what is now about the 5th hour long call (that was supposed to be 30 minutes) going round and round in circles that I just announced "I have to go" in chat and went to the pub. There are (it seems) two ways to solve a particular problem and nobody can explain what either of the two options mean in practice and what the comparative risks are because both will gently caress something up but maybe one less than the other. It ends up being the same two people just going back and forth and more and more get dragged into the calls to sit there, then afterwards one will send a huge email of thoughts that doesn't answer any of the questions and another call gets set up to try and make sense of it and here we go again. This has been going on for at least three weeks now.
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Oct 19, 2023 10:05
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Sundae posted:I started writing a pharma story but it spans five years and might end up being a full loving book chapter. Do I if it's gonna literally be a book chapter size you could also make a new thread, if you want
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Oct 19, 2023 10:39
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mllaneza posted:Also write the actual book. Fictionalize it of course, but you just might end up with the Kitchen Confidential of pharma. Extremely this 
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Yesterday I got so fed up with what is now about the 5th hour long call (that was supposed to be 30 minutes) going round and round in circles that I just announced "I have to go" in chat and went to the pub.  Well done, admin
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Oct 19, 2023 12:41
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pmchem posted:if it's gonna literally be a book chapter size you could also make a new thread, if you want
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Oct 19, 2023 13:02
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:It ends up being the same two people just going back and forth and more and more get dragged into the calls to sit there, then afterwards one will send a huge email of thoughts that doesn't answer any of the questions and another call gets set up to try and make sense of it and here we go again. This has been going on for at least three weeks now. That’s hellish. At the next one of these, open it by loudly inquiring “Who has the D?” While everyone is confused and thinks you’re pulling some sort of oblique sexual harassment, explain that you need to identify the Decision maker, in order to make real progress on the call. Then drop at the allocated time saying you trust the Decision maker to come to the right conclusion. Yes this is real corporate terminology someone shared with me. As seen in the Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2006/01/who-has-the-d-how-clear-decision-roles-enhance-organizational-performance YMMV
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Oct 19, 2023 13:21
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Sundae posted:Really, all you can do is make the reputation by acting. Talk is cheap, and everyone has been burned by a bad manager or (being generous) maybe one who meant well but found out the hard way that their spine isn't as sturdy as they thought it was. Once you act, they'll see it. You don't even need to act for each individual report, because your reports will probably talk to each other. Everyone loves a good gossip, and "holy poo poo, Eric fell on his sword for me today," is a good piece of juicy gossip. Exactly this. It took me a few months and a few incidents with my reports in this latest role. And on the flip side I just had one of them come to me to say "I screwed up" with data they/their team provided and that I had already reported to the executive team. We came up with a plan and the information I need to mea culpa it along with a "here's what we've put in place so this never happen again". Because of this 2-way trust neither of us will get any crap as I make this notification before anyone even realizes there was a mistake to begin with. Treating professionals and adults like professionals and adults. Who would have figured this would work out for everyone?
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Oct 19, 2023 14:10
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brainwrinkle posted:That’s hellish. At the next one of these, open it by loudly inquiring “Who has the D?” While everyone is confused and thinks you’re pulling some sort of oblique sexual harassment, explain that you need to identify the Decision maker, in order to make real progress on the call. Then drop at the allocated time saying you trust the Decision maker to come to the right conclusion. yeah decision rights are good to think about
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Oct 19, 2023 14:40
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brainwrinkle posted:That’s hellish. At the next one of these, open it by loudly inquiring “Who has the D?” While everyone is confused and thinks you’re pulling some sort of oblique sexual harassment, explain that you need to identify the Decision maker, in order to make real progress on the call. Then drop at the allocated time saying you trust the Decision maker to come to the right conclusion. Funnily enough this is kind of what I said; "if you're giving two options then either you make the decision and explain why so that we have justification when it inevitably causes a problem, *or* you explain what will happen in either case clearly so that someone else can make that decision". Instead we just have "well maybe this or that or this but maybe that but neither but maybe *other thing that someone else jumps in on and says won't work*" and round and round. For today I just decided to ignore the whole thing and do something else.
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Oct 19, 2023 16:16
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Has anyone else been getting smoke signals from execs that they are starting to expect a downturn from the recent US House of Rep clusterfuck? We had an all hands meeting the other day with them talking about reduced future profits and bonuses, and last time we had an all hands it was all "great year, big numbers, expecting another pile of high bonuses". I'm just kind of curious seeing as the current CR has about ~4 weeks left. Company people didn't give a reason, I'm just speculating for a potential cause. Anecdotally, I also noticed a couple of companies I regularly check for job openings went from some to zero in the last few days. Lot of seeing patterns that might be unrelated and speculation here, so feel free to blow up this hypothetical.
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downout posted:Has anyone else been getting smoke signals from execs that they are starting to expect a downturn from the recent US House of Rep clusterfuck? We had an all hands meeting the other day with them talking about reduced future profits and bonuses I can cut you off there. They just want bigger yachts, and they'll do it by cutting your bonus.
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