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DrBouvenstein posted:I assure you, I have tried drat near everything. I try to only go down there two or three times a day (oh, and have I mentioned I've got persistent bursitis and tendonitis in my foot since July and I'm currently wearing an orthopedic boot? Cause I do and I am. So it's really annoying for me to make these frequent trips.) Tried reading this post but halfway through my eyes glaze over and I'm consumed by thoughts of death and the sweet release of the void.
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Do managers have it in their programming to always assign a new task that can easily wait on an afternoon before a holiday weekend? Yes I will scramble to get this thing done immediately that no one will look at or need for a week.
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Dec 22, 2023 19:59
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My brother worked at the same medical facility as me with a desk directly next to mine, for a while. One time, he was installing a new PC for a neurologist and the guy was talking down to him in an insulting fashion every time my brother asked him a question about the installation details. He eventually got sick and tired of the dude's attitude and started giving attitude back. The guy ended up saying something like how my brother is a spikey-haired punk who should shut up, my brother finished up, came back, and filed a complaint with management. Even though that dude was a partial owner of the attached clinic at that campus, he was dragged into a sudden meeting with other owners and was told he will not speak to or treat other employees in that fashion ever again. My contractor brother came out on top of a confrontation with one of the place's owners who ended up getting a figurative spanking because of it. (I always hated working in that guy's office. He was such a self-absorbed prick)
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Dec 22, 2023 20:10
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Do managers have it in their programming to always assign a new task that can easily wait on an afternoon before a holiday weekend? They’re trying to get *their* work done before the holiday weekend which means assigning you tasks. They’re assholes.
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Who the gently caress pisses on the toilet flusher handle?! I understand pissing on the seat, pissing on the floor, god help me pissing in the sink, but the handle? It’s higher and further back than anything else, you have to be tall and have a powerful stream, or else straddle the toilet to reach. I work with monsters.
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Dec 22, 2023 23:52
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Maybe they pissed all over their hand and then flushed
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Dec 22, 2023 23:55
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The owner feels like this chaos has brought us all closer together as we push through this trial. Ma'am we haven't spoken in 3 months the only thing this has brought me closer to is blogging.l and taking up smoking again. Also, we are indeed making more money from the savings account that the early payment discount. It's a not insignificant amount of money. So kudos to them, but also, why would you say that up front so people aren't sowing panic? goatface posted:Maybe they pissed all over their hand and then flushed Pissed into their hand then threw it. Same as the monster that gets poo poo on the wall.
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That's got to take a lot of commitment. I mean sure "these people are terrible, they deserve to have poo poo all over their wall" is at least understandable in theory, but that's a step 2 to the step 1 of "I will poo poo into my hand now", which... hm.
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Dec 23, 2023 00:38
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Wait. How do you wipe?
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Dec 23, 2023 00:40
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Ravus Ursus posted:Wait. How do you wipe? I use the 3 sea shells like a civilized person.
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I poo poo in the shells and chuck it at the toilet, counting my score. In WFH words, I work for a large world-spanning concern(I think that is the English word as well) and since Covid we have had full WfH for everyone who wanted. Offices are there in several locations but optional. Excep now my boss, after pushing relentlessly, have managed to get a forced 2-days in the office for our company only, including me. His motivation is the old "Water-cooler talk" bullshit except that where I work, no one else from my company work here, only people from other companies in the concern. I literally just sit in my office chair, sometimes my old(chill) boss shows up since he likes to get into the office together with an old coworker and a support guy. Every single other person I could possibly actually have a reason to work with directly lives and works literally 3-5 hours away lol. Yes I am increadibly salty.
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Dec 23, 2023 01:18
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Yeah, we're back in the office for the magic of "collaboration" too. Nobody else on my team is at my location so I'm still staring at a laptop all day and talking to everyone via Teams. Except now I have to commute two cities over and do it in a cubical for some reason.
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Dec 23, 2023 01:31
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There have been talks about response times on chat as well but if it is that it sucks even more since I am literally always on chat during work hours, and always keeping an eye on it off hours due to the kind of responsibilities I have. 
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Dec 23, 2023 01:41
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The business tradition of treating the symptom and not the issue remains strong. How many of your company's would function better if a quarter of the staff was removed. I'm pretty sure we could cull 10 people in this building and we'd actually see increases in productivity and morale. I mean, it would be for the people we fired, but that's progress.
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Dec 23, 2023 07:12
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Ravus Ursus posted:The business tradition of treating the symptom and not the issue remains strong. It’s always like that, and you’re right about nine of them. But one is the only person left who knows what’s going on with exception 7(c) in the mandatory annual audit for [largest client], and nobody doing the culling knows which one of the ten it is.
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Dec 23, 2023 07:27
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Got a fairly significant promotion this year, which has been great and the challenges are formidable but manageable. But I’m now more involved with HR and it feels like this most of the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDfz7T3fMH8
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Dec 23, 2023 08:58
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Ravus Ursus posted:The business tradition of treating the symptom and not the issue remains strong. We have 10 folks at our office and if we got rid of the one dogfucker driver who is a miserable piece of poo poo then yes our morale would shoot up. One of our techs is happy to go back to being a driver and is the most pleasant, thorough, smart person to deal with dispatching when he does cover driving. Our manager was recently promoted from another role and he doesn't have the heart to tell this waste of oxygen to ship up or ship out so we gotta live with it until he eventually pisses off a huge customer before anything will (maybe) happen
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Ever since WFH became an option for everyone 70% of all staff do it. They consolidated and moved people from different buildings closer together to create "neighborhoods" and the only result from my point of view is my cubicle is right next to the EVP office and two other high level people so I can hear all their conversations through the wall we share. Getting some good gossip but I also hear this one goober talking to himself, whistling, and humming all day. I think the real reason they did it was to save money, but someone told me they can't lease the empty buildings because of security concerns. I'm not sure if that's true because security just sent a reminder to not let the wrong person into buildings because of "new tenants." Not sure if that means we will actually be leasing or if they mean contract staff who used to work at an offsite place they are no longer leasing. I used to work there, and it was common to get your lunch stolen and people would be fighting in the parking lot so it will be interesting to see how that works out on the big fancy main campus. That place was a completely different environment. I suspect the biggest challenge will be that you could smoke in the parking lot there and main campus is 100% no smoking.
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The utility I work for had a poorly received rate case filing with the commerce commission in a quasi regulated state. The executives have been blasting emails about it all week. They are refilling an appeal, and the following bullet point caught my eye. quote:[company] pension asset must be recognized and the company should recieve a return on that shareholder-funded asset, consistent with the last 18 years of practice. New company employees lost access to pensions only maybe 15 years ago. And all the union field workforce still has a pension. So that is a pretty big slush fund. But at the same time, I love how the company just wants to treat it as a fun time asset to play with, and not something that is owed to its ex-employees.
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Well the government will bail them out or it’ll go bankrupt, either way not their problem.
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Ravus Ursus posted:The business tradition of treating the symptom and not the issue remains strong. A quarter? No. We did lay off about 8% a year after the big merger. You naturally get redundancies when you merge four orgs into one big one. A lot of those people are good, but we just had too many people in those roles. Those folks will land on their feet. Then there's the folks impacted by what the HR rep at one of our chapter-wide meetings described as "mindset". That's a pretty vague term to describe part of how we're evaluating people for layoffs. Or so I thought. Someone posted an anonymous question, "Why should we make the effort to skill up if we might not be around to employ those skills long-term?" Oh, mindset. You just know that whoever asked that question, their manager knew exactly who that was.
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Apparently before I got to my current job there was a merger in the 90s. It didn't work and recently they started the process to de-merge. I have two email addresses with both domains and half the people I need to talk to are in one system and half in the other. It's dumb.
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Ravus Ursus posted:I couldn't tell you because they're so tight fisted about about information being shared, but the corporate card is saved on like a dozen peoples browsers and the passwords for everything used to be stored on an open excel file on the shared drive. Not even hidden, just in the accounting folder and labeled 'passwords'. Hmmm, yes yes. And what would you say the IP of the shared drive is? Just professionally curious.
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Considering until summer our 'server' was a 2tb hard drive attached to a all in one pc that was in the "Internet closet" I'm sure it's poorly secured. Also, the Internet closet now has an actual server in it. But I'm pretty sure squeezing a 3x3 server into a 4x4 room violates a few health and safety issues.
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Was it a Buffalo?
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Ravus Ursus posted:Considering until summer our 'server' was a 2tb hard drive attached to a all in one pc that was in the "Internet closet" I'm sure it's poorly secured. Going to remember this the next time my tabletop group give me poo poo about "20x20 dragon in a 30x30 room". Maybe he was just agoraphobic, Tom? Ever think of that?
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Machai posted:Hmmm, yes yes. And what would you say the IP of the shared drive is? Just professionally curious. 192.168.1.69
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Atopian posted:Going to remember this the next time my tabletop group give me poo poo about "20x20 dragon in a 30x30 room". He wants a cozy lair, without being strangled. Put some cushions in there, some piles of gold, it's the perfect bedroom.
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Atopian posted:Going to remember this the next time my tabletop group give me poo poo about "20x20 dragon in a 30x30 room". wizards abandon their baby dragons in the sewers all the time, then they grow up and get big
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They actually get dripped on by the same ooze that gave Daredevil his powers.
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IUG posted:192.168.1.69 Oh no.
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Atopian posted:Going to remember this the next time my tabletop group give me poo poo about "20x20 dragon in a 30x30 room". What species of dragon evolved into a perfect square?
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Outrail posted:What species of dragon evolved into a perfect square? deez nuts
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Outrail posted:What species of dragon evolved into a perfect square? Themberchaud, the gooniest of dragons quote:Massive even for a dragon, Themberchaud was visibly overweight. He had scales as red as lava and bright yellow eyes.[1] His head alone was estimated to be some 20 feet (6.1 meters).[9][note 1] By the late 1490s DR, he was barely able to walk; he was unable to fly, only hop and flap his wings helplessly like a chicken; and he often only belched flammable gas when he could not produce flame.[8][11] A younger, trimmer Themberchaud in his prime: 
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Cyrano4747 posted:Themberchaud, the gooniest of dragons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j07oBogifs
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Draco Chonkus was one of the highlights of that film.
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Splicer posted:Draco Chonkus was one of the highlights of that film. I continue to sing the praises of that movie as the dramatization of the writers' tabletop campaign. Much Too Fat Dragon is magnificent. Edit \/\/\/ I spotted that, it was a nice little Easter egg. I also appreciated them bringing out the Gelatinous Cube. Volmarias fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Dec 24, 2023 |
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I had a good laugh at the callback to the D&D SatAM cartoon.
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More hosed up work stories please
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peanut posted:More hosed up work stories please Everyone moved on to a good job, there are no more stories
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