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Jumpsuit posted:Jesus Christ. I thought I was going to get actual work done today, but instead one of my staff members has decided, on her last day before going on parental leave, to flip her poo poo over not being allowed to take her work laptop on leave with her. Turns out she had a sneaky plan to delay her computer upgrade until her final week, got a brand new Macbook Pro from IT and was planning on taking it home with her for the next year, which would leave her replacement with no device. Sundae posted:As someone who has seen maternity leave layoffs and firings plenty of times now, I’m more amazed that she’d even risk the potential of being seen as “performing work duties” during her leave. This was my confusion, though if they're not in the US laws are generally different to what I'm expecting. It definitely feels weird to insist that you need a new laptop to do payroll and whatnot, and more so that you feel you need one when you're on leave and specifically NOT supposed to be doing work. I would be inclined to just let it go but the fact that it kind of dicks over another person is kind of a bigger issue. E: Barudak posted:We are a fully Krompliant workplace so the only hiring question is the riddle of steel This is actually somewhat more concerning coming from you than anyone else here...
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If you put everybody on a pip, they can't fault you for putting the pregnant lady on a pip
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Corporate Megathread: Pregnancy Impaired Peons
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May 4, 2024 00:16
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Forget this pip silliness, I allowed a mom to pursue other career opportunities the week after she came back from baby leave. Right before mother's day. Massive layoffs, I was lucky I only had to lose one person that round. And I had all the numbers to back it up, she was by far the worst (before parental leave). Would have been massively unfair to cut anyone else. It sounds to me like jumpsuit has an equipment budget, and only gets a new computer per employee every year or two, and she was trying to leave the replacement headcount with the old very obsolete laptop, unable to do work. I'm sure she could have taken her old one home? Unless they have a policy against taking work machines away on long leave. Btw, the base model macbook pro is still $1600 (and goes up over 3K), I dunno why people are saying a couple hundred bucks? Y'all macbook fanboys have no idea how much they actually cost, do you?
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Tomfoolery posted:If you put everybody on a pip, they can't fault you for putting the pregnant lady on a pip when everyone is on a PIP, no one is on a PIP
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OKR: meet conditions of PIP PIP conditions: meet all OKRs
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Renegret posted:Well the good part is that my posting can't get any worse Come now. Have you thought about posting how no matter where you go, you're the life of the party and get free drinks and food everywhere because you're such a sparkling conversationalist?
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Your posting can’t get any worse in absolute terms because I still post. What the gently caress is wrong with me (please don’t make this into a 5000 page megathread)
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Renegret posted:Well the good part is that my posting can't get any worse https://youtu.be/lKfupO4ZzPs?si=ziGwPuCIHR7r39Do
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May 4, 2024 02:24
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<Picard>Computer, make a poster capable of posting worse than Renegret <computer> 
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mllaneza posted:<Picard>Computer, make a poster capable of posting worse than Renegret Data: Computer, make a poo poo poster terrible enough that even I would hate it, and disengage safety locks.
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Renegret posted:Well the good part is that my posting can't get any worse ^ the words of a goon that has not opened the door to cspam
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Volmarias posted:Data: Computer, make a poo poo poster terrible enough that even I would hate it, and disengage safety locks. You think this would end up with the poo poo poster trying to escape the Internet but in fact it would just be constantly trying to end itself.
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CancerCakes posted:I'm interviewing today, can someone give me some interview questions that might actually give the candidate an opportunity to show their value, other than the poo poo ones I got from hr. Please?! When was the last time you waterboarded someone on the executive board? At what time during the waterboarding did you realize that no intel of value was to be had? How did you dispose of the reorg?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ONXuyvZrw Can we make a video a thread title?
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I'm in a company wide management meeting and everyone's Teams icon is a headshot, most in business formal, and there's one guy who has a yin and yang icon where yin is on fire and yang is frozen. He is of course an IT engineer.
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Hey all, I have a question…my career trajectory has been proposal coordinator to proposal manager. I’m interviewing for a job that is listed as proposal coordinator, but the salary and duties exceed what a coordinator would typically have. In fact, it pays considerably more than my current position and offers more responsibility. I guess I’m worried about how that would look on my resume though, since on paper, based on title alone, it looks like a step backwards? Is the title something I can try to negotiate if I make it farther in the interview process?
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remigious posted:Hey all, I have a question…my career trajectory has been proposal coordinator to proposal manager. I’m interviewing for a job that is listed as proposal coordinator, but the salary and duties exceed what a coordinator would typically have. In fact, it pays considerably more than my current position and offers more responsibility. I guess I’m worried about how that would look on my resume though, since on paper, based on title alone, it looks like a step backwards? Is the title something I can try to negotiate if I make it farther in the interview process? Absolutely try to negotiate for a better title. Some places may be more rigid than others, but I would imagine the literal title is something every executive negotiates. I mean most of us in this thread are filthy non execs, but I got my title changed from “product development engineer” to “program manager” at my new shop. I will be doing the exact same work either way.
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There also some differentiation between companies of different sizes. In my industry, a way smaller companies entice people to join is with a bit of job title inflation, and likewise people often have to accept deflating a grade to join my current company. It's often worth it to get the big name on your CV.
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I appreciate the input, Knox and Tnuctip. This would be for a small company, so it definitely sounds like something worth negotiating if I can get that far in the process.
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SpartanIvy posted:I'm in a company wide management meeting and everyone's Teams icon is a headshot, most in business formal, and there's one guy who has a yin and yang icon where yin is on fire and yang is frozen. He is of course an IT engineer. One of my favourite people here uses an animated chicken. She of course is the one with decades of experience and the only person who knows anything about some of our ancient admin systems. Fire her if you dare.
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Jenkl posted:One of my favourite people here uses an animated chicken. ... Paging forums user ChickenOfTomorrow
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I have a teams pic of me upside down it was a pic taken by my phone from inside a server case when I was trying to take a photo of a DIMM label and got myself, and thought it was funny. I get a lot of comments like “your picture is upside down” etc. I don’t know why I keep it on there tbh.
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May 6, 2024 20:13
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Jenkl posted:One of my favourite people here uses an animated chicken. My icon is a little cartoon animal. It changes from company to company but it's never my headshot. It gets commented upon by a subset of co-workers and management at each company I work for, but usually they just want to know where it's from; I've never received anything negative or instructions to change it. I've been fortunate to mostly work for people who have a basic capability to recognize when something doesn't loving matter.
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May 6, 2024 20:19
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My picture was taken in graduate school. It is over 10 years old, I went from looking like a child to santa claus with a big grey beard. I enjoy the surprise people experience when I pop on camera.
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Everyone I see in my org either has no picture (the majority), a reasonable photo of them (maybe a third, including me), or they are the person with a picture of Kino from the 20-year old anime of Kino's Journey.
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I use a headshot of our CEO.
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May 6, 2024 22:34
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I work with a guy who uses the gigachad picture as his profile pic. He's pretty cringe so it suits him.
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Boris Galerkin posted:I work with a guy who uses the gigachad picture as his profile pic. He's pretty cringe so it suits him. I feel like that one could go either way tbh.
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SpartanIvy posted:I'm in a company wide management meeting and everyone's Teams icon is a headshot, most in business formal, and there's one guy who has a yin and yang icon where yin is on fire and yang is frozen. He is of course an IT engineer. Go all the way. Have a picture of the grim reaper with a pair of smoking desert eagles against a background of flames and some text that's too small and compressed to properly read.
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This would make a good teams avatar https://www.wickedclothes.com/products/youve-got-mail-shirt
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I have that exact shirt and have posted it here. I love it. 
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Had a person who took a blurry photo of their dog dressed as Yoda as a team photo and would use it as a filtering tool when people would ask her about her "kid"
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I have the classic Superman S-shield as my Teams avatar, and I’ll never change it. I get “oh yeah you have the Superman avatar” frequently and get compliments whenever I help people so it’s good to sometimes get that nice feedback.
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I got locked out of my work PC Sunday morning after I changed my password. When I called IT to unfuck me, they asked for my PIN. What PIN? "Your government issued PIN" ....huh? You mean like my employee ID? "no, please reach out to your supervisor." So now it's 5AM on a Sunday and I'm waking up my manager for the dumbest poo poo possible. And of course, while I'm on the phone with him, my PC magically unlocks. Apparently he had no recollection of the phone call until I brought it up today to figure out what the gently caress IT was talking about. Apparently they validate your identity through the last 4 of your social, but some people were getting really upset at IT having access to the last 4 of their social, so IT changed the wording to it to "government PIN". They're not allowed to call it your social, or even hint to it being that. You, as a user, are just supposed to know what they mean, and since nobody says the S word everything is perfectly okay. I've been at this company a very long time. I've seen a lot of dumb poo poo. This definitly ranks up there with some of the dumbest poo poo I've had to deal with.
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Nah that's just recency bias. It really probably isn't even in the top 20 dumbest poo poo you've seen in your long tenure there.
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Renegret posted:Apparently they validate your identity through the last 4 of your social, but some people were getting really upset at IT having access to the last 4 of their social, so IT changed the wording to it to "government PIN". They're not allowed to call it your social, or even hint to it being that. You, as a user, are just supposed to know what they mean, and since nobody says the S word everything is perfectly okay. Someone in IT gunning for the executive track, or possibly marketing. Rebranding fixes everything.
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Renegret posted:I got locked out of my work PC Sunday morning after I changed my password. When I called IT to unfuck me, they asked for my PIN. 
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it's always a surprise when you find sovcits making the rules
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Che Delilas posted:Someone in IT gunning for the executive track, or possibly marketing. Rebranding fixes everything. A high level exec got phished and IT fell for multiple social engineering attacks so really I think it's more them scrambling to save face. Renegret fucked around with this message at 16:30 on May 7, 2024 |
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