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Word for word what I was about to post.
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Dec 8, 2017 01:57
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RFC2324 posted:poo poo pissing me off: My wife is dead set that moving to Vancouver would be the best thing ever, and is now claiming that if we just pay 4k and wait 6 months, I will be given a job there. Can't you just print out all of CLAM DOWN's posts and convince her otherwise?
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Dec 8, 2017 02:14
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Tigren posted:Can't you just print out all of CLAM DOWN's posts and convince her otherwise? We need a CLAM DOWN real estate sound board
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Dec 8, 2017 03:38
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ChubbyThePhat posted:This is accurate. Especially the waterproof part. We can wash our money. Herp derp wouldn't that be money la- A Pinball Wizard posted:something something money laundering Awww 
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Dec 8, 2017 03:42
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Tigren posted:Can't you just print out all of CLAM DOWN's posts and convince her otherwise? she lived there 15 years ago as a college student and can't get her head around the fact that it may have changed and nothing will convince her of that this is coming out of a disastrous move to Florida because "everything there is so great"
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Dec 8, 2017 05:03
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RFC2324 posted:move to Florida because "everything there is so great" Wait, what?
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Dec 8, 2017 08:12
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I recently told one of LGs upper management to "gently caress off and leave us alone" as it was such a thick accent and sounded like the usual obvious telemarketer/scammer content. Oops! Granted I had a few calls in the last few hours that were scammers so anything slightly hitting on my radar was going to set me off.
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Dec 8, 2017 11:00
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Lol no it is not OK to just assume I want to work late one night on the week before Christmas and then try to guilt me into doing it by saying that you've already told the customer that it's going ahead.
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Dec 8, 2017 13:05
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That's one nice thing about where I work. When sales and management overpromise and we tell them "we can get about a third of that done in that time frame, make sure you got the priority list the way you want it," they don't get unreasonable about things. They get to go back to the customer and tell them that the thing they want is going to be significantly delayed and don't blame us (at least, not where we can hear it). Granted: they don't have a choice in the matter. If they come down on us at all the whole team will evaporate, and they know it.
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Dec 8, 2017 13:31
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Let's talk about the weather for the first ten minutes of this half hour meeting
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Dec 8, 2017 14:57
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Bob Morales posted:Let's talk about the weather for the first ten minutes of this half hour meeting Do I work with you?
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Dec 8, 2017 14:59
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Bob Morales posted:Let's talk about the weather for the first ten minutes of this half hour meeting GAH! That's when I start noodling with my Stab People Over VOIP Protocol. Once I get that perfected, I can retire on the licensing.
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Dec 8, 2017 15:04
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Bob Morales posted:Let's talk about the weather for the first ten minutes of this half hour meeting It's a 30 minute meeting to discuss a technical issue. It is scheduled to start at 11. 11:00 - My Chime has nagged me so I'm on the call. Usually alone. 11:02 - Another company SME joins the call. 11:07 - a few more cowokers join, plus maybe a customer employee or two. 11:10 - weather/sports/weekend chat begins 11:15 - topic at hand finally gets addressed 11:20 - when it becomes clear there is no agenda, conversation starts to ramble and fork 11:30 - scheduled meeting end, but we are finally into the meat of the issue 11:35 - people not related to the meeting start to drop off the call. Chorus of dropped call beeps and chimes commences. 11:45 - Account manager says, "Well good call everyone!" and drops 11:55 - Customer tech lead and I hurriedly come up with troubleshooting plan and/or action steps to be followed before next call. 12:02 - Schedule followup call and call ends.
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Dec 8, 2017 15:36
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Agrikk posted:It's a 30 minute meeting to discuss a technical issue. It is scheduled to start at 11. +1 Billable Hour e: Round up! 1:15 billable hours!
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Dec 8, 2017 15:38
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There I was thinking AWS to be somehow different to every office environment ever
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Dec 8, 2017 15:41
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Thanks Ants posted:There I was thinking AWS to be somehow different to every office environment ever It is! Instead of being a plain old VOIP conference, these meetings are a VOIP conference in THE CLOUD™. With THE CLOUD™, the off-topic ramblings and distracting side conversations can scale horizontally. So you can assign more deadweight to attend every call.
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Dec 8, 2017 15:50
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After some office remodeling, we are moving across the floor to new digs. They put me and my boss in a shared office so tiny we literally could not back our chairs out from the desks at the same time without crashing into each other. We politely complained, and that has started a shitstorm of people trying to pull seniority, demand different/bigger/solitary office space, and running to respective managers. It's been such a slog that we're 3 hours out from the movers showing up and I can't label my stuff because nobody will tell me where I'm going to wind up.
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Dec 8, 2017 16:05
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Thanks Ants posted:There I was thinking AWS to be somehow different to every office environment ever Only that the "Office" is eight to ten guys all telecommuting because  Humans are humans regardless of where they work.
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Dec 8, 2017 16:09
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The Macaroni posted:After some office remodeling, we are moving across the floor to new digs. They put me and my boss in a shared office so tiny we literally could not back our chairs out from the desks at the same time without crashing into each other. We politely complained, and that has started a shitstorm of people trying to pull seniority, demand different/bigger/solitary office space, and running to respective managers. It's been such a slog that we're 3 hours out from the movers showing up and I can't label my stuff because nobody will tell me where I'm going to wind up. The C-levels have been opening talking about an office move in the last few weeks and while I'm OK with getting out of our old, stodgy office, the prospect of another office move might make me quit.
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Dec 8, 2017 16:10
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The Macaroni posted:It's been such a slog that we're 3 hours out from the movers showing up and I can't label my stuff because nobody will tell me where I'm going to wind up. I once worked at at moving company. They moved a department ACROSS THE STREET with our own movers and they managed to lose the box with all the computer power cords in it. 
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Dec 8, 2017 16:17
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The good news: I have been assigned my own office. The bad news: I'm the newest guy and the people who've been here for years but got stuck in cubes or shared offices are going to have a poo poo fit. I would've been fine with a cube.  Bob Morales posted:I once worked at at moving company. They moved a department ACROSS THE STREET with our own movers and they managed to lose the box with all the computer power cords in it.
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Dec 8, 2017 16:45
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Went to a former employer to do some side work yesterday. I must have drank enough while I worked there to have forgotten about this:
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Dec 8, 2017 16:46
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The Macaroni posted:drat. Did you just wind up buying a bunch of new cords? We had enough laying around so it wasn't a huge deal. But it was funny watching the lowest-level helpdesk tech blow the gently caress up on the VP of the actual moving department and then get almost shitcanned and have to beg for his job.
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Dec 8, 2017 16:48
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Bob Morales posted:We had enough laying around so it wasn't a huge deal. But it was funny watching the lowest-level helpdesk tech blow the gently caress up on the VP of the actual moving department and then get almost shitcanned and have to beg for his job. A pile of old kettle leads is not a hill to die on.
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Dec 8, 2017 16:56
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Proteus Jones posted:GAH! That's when I start noodling with my Stab People Over VOIP Protocol. Once I get that perfected, I can retire on the licensing. Is that via Kickstarter, or an actual venture-capital investment, because I want in on the ground floor. At least let me beta-test  .
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Dec 8, 2017 19:00
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Bob Morales posted:Went to a former employer to do some side work yesterday. I must have drank enough while I worked there to have forgotten about this: Underneath the electrical tape is where The Magic happens! 
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Dec 8, 2017 19:07
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Bob Morales posted:Went to a former employer to do some side work yesterday. I must have drank enough while I worked there to have forgotten about this: Please please please tell me the wires are just twisted together and folded away from one another, instead of being soldered.
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Dec 8, 2017 19:09
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Welp department got outsourced, can reapply for another position at same company, but as of 30 mins ago I am unemployed. Merry Christmas to all!
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Dec 8, 2017 19:11
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Please please please tell me the wires are just twisted together and folded away from one another, instead of being soldered. Scotch Locks is my prediction
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Dec 8, 2017 19:22
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Zil posted:Welp department got outsourced, can reapply for another position at same company, but as of 30 mins ago I am unemployed. Bummer, man
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Dec 8, 2017 19:59
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Zil posted:Welp department got outsourced, can reapply for another position at same company, but as of 30 mins ago I am unemployed. That sucks dude.
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Dec 8, 2017 19:59
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Zil posted:Welp department got outsourced, can reapply for another position at same company, but as of 30 mins ago I am unemployed. Sorry. Fuckheads doing this poo poo for year-end financials. Not thinking what it means to the staff.
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Dec 8, 2017 20:39
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Zil posted:Welp department got outsourced, can reapply for another position at same company, but as of 30 mins ago I am unemployed. That really sucks man. I hope you can find something good relatively quick.
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Dec 8, 2017 21:09
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Proteus Jones posted:GAH! That's when I start noodling with my Stab People Over VOIP Protocol. Once I get that perfected, I can retire on the licensing.
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Dec 8, 2017 22:16
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Zil posted:Welp department got outsourced, can reapply for another position at same company, but as of 30 mins ago I am unemployed. Any kind of severance?
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Dec 9, 2017 01:11
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Any kind of severance? Likely paid to the manager who orchestrated it as a holiday bonus for cost cutting. What's the compensation differential between your old and potential new employer for the same job?
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Dec 9, 2017 01:16
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Bob Morales posted:Let's talk about the weather for the first ten minutes of this half hour meeting This is why I've been going to meetings late or just skipping them outright to get work done at my job. 90 minutes, once a week, and at least 40 minutes of that time is bullshit and fluff that has no bearing on our job. I don't give a gently caress about your mom, dad, kids, wife, husband, drinking habits, or other garbage, just cut the loving meeting down to 45 minutes and get it over with. Boss tried rescheduling with me today but with moving a dozen people around, dealing with software errors from a botched update push, and getting 3 new hires prepped, I managed to avoid him.
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Dec 9, 2017 03:24
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Bob Morales posted:I once worked at at moving company. They moved a department ACROSS THE STREET with our own movers and they managed to lose the box with all the computer power cords in it. We have Corovan on-campus to move stuff, because by god Big G loves moving groups around. Last year was our turn to get hosed over by moving into impractically small spaces (my neighbor to my left has to move his knee when I want to open my filing cabinet). We packed, we labelled, we secured our valuables our own drat selves. At the end of the day, my phone hadn't turned up anywhere. I sent them an email. The next afternoon, after not hearing from them I followed up. They respond "nope, we moved everything, order another phone." Ten minutes later I get another email, "Dave will be right down with your phone."
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BOOTY-ADE posted:This is why I've been going to meetings late or just skipping them outright to get work done at my job. 90 minutes, once a week, and at least 40 minutes of that time is bullshit and fluff that has no bearing on our job. I don't give a gently caress about your mom, dad, kids, wife, husband, drinking habits, or other garbage, just cut the loving meeting down to 45 minutes and get it over with. Boss tried rescheduling with me today but with moving a dozen people around, dealing with software errors from a botched update push, and getting 3 new hires prepped, I managed to avoid him. Holy poo poo dude. Are you so terrified of human interaction that you won't seize the opportunity to take a break and chat to your coworkers like you're all human beings for 40 minutes a week? Or do you feel so overworked thst you can't take 40 minutes, once a week. Either way that's just really sad.
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Cat Army