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Gotta love an all employee meeting where they announce your company made over 140% of the budget for this year, and follow it up with the rest of the companies in the division only made 40%, so no bonuses!
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My teaching colleague at the university just absolutely flat-out refuses to use an email client and instead routes everything through his Yahoo mail account. About four times a year one of his emails (either sending or recieving) gets blocked by the school's mail server and doesn't arrive and someone has to send him an SMS to ask about what time the exams are tomorrow because nobody got his mail. These are just the incidents that I know about, there must be more because he's inserted himself into various positions of minor authority and has to send a bunch of emails to multiple recipients in the school. It's been three and a half years of this poo poo and today he made fun of me in front of our boss for caring that his emails regularly go undelivered. I'm just going to print everything and stick it in his mailbox in the teachers room from now on, gently caress that guy.
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greazeball posted:I'm just going to print everything and stick it in his mailbox in the teachers room from now on, gently caress that guy. That's probably what he wants. Does his age start with a 6, or maybe a 7?
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Dec 16, 2019 20:25
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http://conferencecall.biz/ you're welcome
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Ughh thanks for reminding me that I had three conference calls on Friday, and all of them had the neverending echo thing in addition to people playing hold music etc. One of the calls is recurring, and th echo has happened to this woman multiple times because she never mutes herself. Pretty sure she has a medical degree and a PhD. If you're going to HOST THE MEETING, MUTE PEOPLE
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Dec 16, 2019 20:40
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jfc that conferencecall.biz site is amazing
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hmmxkrazee posted:jfc that conferencecall.biz site is amazing i listened to it for half an hour and it's fallen off a bit due to user submissions imo we used to do the conferencecall.biz challenge: put it in a conference room, sit around the table, nobody can talk or do anything. last person to leave the room "wins"
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Dec 16, 2019 21:27
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Somebody check Sundae's post history for June, cause he was obviously feeling a lot more optimistic about the world then.
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Dec 16, 2019 21:30
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All day agile training today and tomorrow someone please kill me.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:i listened to it for half an hour and it's fallen off a bit due to user submissions imo This is a war crime
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Dec 16, 2019 21:32
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Tiax Rules All posted:All day agile training today and tomorrow someone please kill me. Tomorrow is Mandatory Fun Day. 'Funny' Christmas jumpers are suggested.
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Volmarias posted:This is a war crime it's not a war crime if you get consent and have a safeword
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Dec 16, 2019 21:44
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Eric the Mauve posted:That's probably what he wants. He's in his 40s, he's just lazy and doesn't want to change from his precious webmail. He also can't print from the networked copiers "because he has a mac". The Sean posted:This is likely illegal per FERPA. If your university has some type of anonymous complaint/compliance line you can probably get that checked out. If they don't act on it then you can let the media or a watchdog org know and this person will possibly get hosed. Oh yeah, I'm not in the US. I could literally read the grades out in class and nothing would happen.
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Another goodie which I'm sure has been discussed to death are the insane amount of upper management titles (?). I swear half these teams are filled with some combination of Manager/Senior Manager/Director/Senior Director/VP/EVP and there's only like a handful of team members. Some are just a bunch of Directors/Senior Directors (who is everyone directing??). I'm sure it's just how it ended up with the job title progression and perhaps this is the norm while I came from a smaller company that had a hierarchy that was more clear cut.
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Shut up Meg posted:Somebody check Sundae's post history for June, cause he was obviously feeling a lot more optimistic about the world then. I don't know whether to be honored or disturbed.  Edit: Sundae, on June 20, 2019 posted:Shut up Meg. quote:My current job is "babysit the decisions because they're gonna be stupid" due to most of the people not having the background needed for the decisions they're making, plus a little actual real work, plus a bunch of "hey, we need to figure out how to undo this decision someone made three years ago that they didn't have the background to..." Oh sweet jesus, yeah that changed fast. lmao. Sundae fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Dec 16, 2019 |
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Dec 16, 2019 22:23
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Sundae posted:
I don't know whether to be honored or disturbed.
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hmmxkrazee posted:First time working at a big company and conference calls are basically What about the perennial favorite “phone unmuted while driving on the highway”
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Tiax Rules All posted:All day agile training today and tomorrow someone please kill me. Been there   just try to keep it crystal clear in your mind that said agile training will never actually be useful in your entire life because agile is pointless dumb garbage and nobody ever going to actually follow the process correctly no matter how much experience or training a team has in it. It's not even a resume booster because anywhere that would be looking for that agile training is a place you'd want to go work for.So you are, actually, fully wasting two days of your life. They will be gone, you'll never get them back, and it will all be for nothing. Once you've crystallized this realization in your mind, I recommend you zone out for the whole thing and focus on something fun you plan to do once it's over.
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greazeball posted:He's in his 40s, he's just lazy and doesn't want to change from his precious webmail. and/or he wants to be able to pretend he never received any email that says anything he doesn't like.
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Sydin posted:So you are, actually, fully wasting two days of your life. Consider this... you're wasting every day of your life that you work
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My Rhythmic Crotch posted:Consider this... you're wasting every day of your life
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Dec 16, 2019 23:24
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My body and mind are ready for my happiness progress evaluation.
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Tiax Rules All posted:All day agile training today and tomorrow someone please kill me. Tell them you'll do one day of training this week and finish the rest over the next 6 months
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I spent over an hour today in a meeting arguing with QA about whether or not a box with a lid counted as "covered storage." 
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Tiax Rules All posted:All day agile training today and tomorrow someone please kill me.
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greazeball posted:My teaching colleague at the university just absolutely flat-out refuses to use an email client and instead routes everything through his Yahoo mail account. People that do hiring, what are some ways you could identify someone like this during interviews? Like acting like a special snowflake to gently caress over their team. Or are these people identified but hired anyways? Mantle fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Dec 16, 2019 |
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Sundae posted:I spent over an hour today in a meeting arguing with QA about whether or not a box with a lid counted as "covered storage." As in not being rained on covered storage? Propose all cardboard boxes not marked covered storage required be moved to a parking lot “out back”.
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PhantomOfTheCopier posted:This training process does not sound "agile".
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Hey, has anyone here ever had to deal with Matrix Absence Management? They're knee-deep in trying to gently caress over my wife and her FMLA/ADA coverage, currently by misleading her doctors and misrepresenting their answers. Her employer's HR hasn't done anything yet, but I'm starting to get concerned. If there's a better thread for this sort of question, let me know.
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Eric the Mauve posted:and/or he wants to be able to pretend he never received any email that says anything he doesn't like. maybe, but he also sends me panicky emails when he can't find the poo poo I sent him 2 weeks ago so I think he's one of those I-was-only-pretending-to-be-stupid guys because he knows how to do the bare minimum, he just enjoys pissing me off. I think I'm just going to either filter all of his emails to spam or start manually marking them as spam and hope his address somehow gets blocked system-wide Mantle posted:People that do hiring, what are some ways you could identify someone like this during interviews? Like acting like a special snowflake to gently caress over their team. he teaches a full courseload, never gets sick, hands in his marks on time and sucks up to the deans, so that's basically everything they want. tbf, there are worse freaks here too, it's just that he's in my department so I have to deal with his poo poo.
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Tnuctip posted:As in not being rained on covered storage? Cardboard is actually straight-up illegal under the code of federal regulations for our area classification. For extra clarity: An audit complained that we had equipment parts sitting out on carts and shelves in our manufacturing processing area. Because they weren't covered, they posed a risk of cross-contamination if operators failed to remove them or clean them prior to the next production run (think: change parts that are optional depending on how we've tooled the equipment). Our draft response basically said "okay, we'll remove the large ones from the room for permanent storage and put all the smaller ones into labeled plastic storage boxes with lids on the shelves." QA then said NO NO NO, LIDS AREN'T COVERS. IF THEY WERE COVERS, THEY'D BE CALLED THAT INSTEAD OF LIDS. I'm all in favor of leaving each and every asinine QA nutcase "out back" as well.
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Sundae posted:Cardboard is actually straight-up illegal under the code of federal regulations for our area classification. If the rule literally says “covered” then buy a cheap insurance policy for them and and then point out how they are technically in covered storage See how far you can push the stupid word games
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We've hired 4 people from my old place since October including myself lol
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I love Liz Ryan. That’s a real good twitter follow.
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This is so true. I worked for a small company and interacted with the c-suite all the time. My personal highlight was having to explain multiple times how we couldn't just add percentages together for metrics with different denominators. Like 10% of used cars + 20% of houses does not mean you have a 30% overall rate.
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SpartanIvy posted:This is so true. I worked for a small company and interacted with the c-suite all the time. My personal highlight was having to explain multiple times how we couldn't just add percentages together for metrics with different denominators. Like 10% of used cars + 20% of houses does not mean you have a 30% overall rate. My general experience is that they're the most credulous motherfuckers on the planet and will believe basically anything, but also they will throw you under the bus without a second's hesitation to make themselves look better
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Shugojin posted:My general experience is that they're the most credulous motherfuckers on the planet and will believe basically anything, but also they will throw you under the bus without a second's hesitation to make themselves look better That's how they got there in a lot of cases. And yes, being at strategy meetings and seeing execs get so caught up in the wording of something they waste 30 minutes arguing semantics will definitely change your opinion on their level.
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Is it normal in the US for people to gently caress off for vacation a week before Christmas and just leave their work undone? Someone on my project team has done this and her boss has as well. The outsourced work they manage is ongoing and the vendor is WTFing. I'd expect to get fired but the boss has just emailed saying "there is no cover"
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