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CCKeane posted:I usually use a terminating letter or number in order to tell, at a glance, if I am telling with something that is in the proposal stage, or something that has already been implemented. Wait, what?
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HiroProtagonist posted:Wait, what? "I use a very complicated and undocumented numbering scheme that only I understand to provide me with job security." Truly fitting this thread. At my workplace, where I am the onsite contact for an offshore team at the client site, the current project is a blueprint for future projects. The amount of on-site and offshore managers getting involved is about the same as the amount of grunts doing the work. Guys, you will get your status updates and just let us ensure we can deliver instead of going into my team and ask for additional information. While typing this, I realize it is probably my own doing as I only send out summarized daily status updates because gently caress that.
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Oct 1, 2013 07:24
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HiroProtagonist posted:Wait, what? This document is Manual 123.45.6, it's been established in this company and should be followed. Ah, but here we have Manual 789.10.11.A. That 'A' means it is merely a proposed manual and does not need to be followed, especially since further drafts will likely be forthcoming. By extension, you could bet that 789.10.11.Q has been around the block quite a few times and unless it's your baby, you should probably just leave it alone until it loses the letter and becomes official. Ninja edit: Think of the letter as baby teeth. One day the letter falls out and is replaced by an adult number. Then the letter gets tucked under the designer's pillow at night and if they've been good, the magical CEO will take the letter away and leave a bonus.
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Oct 1, 2013 11:59
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I had a conference call yesterday with the goal to finalize timings for a project. The person who is supposed to give direction to us in R&D as to where they want to take their product lines instead spent 40 minutes of an hour long call telling us in the most overly verbose manner possible that she can't actually make any decisions regarding where they want things to go, but we need to finalize timings anyway. We didn't get anything done, of course, because many of the early steps require decisions that that person was not equipped to make. Fun stuff.
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Oct 1, 2013 12:26
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HiroProtagonist posted:Wait, what? If a design terminates with a number, it's still in the design stage. If it terminates with a letter, that means it was already being produced. A similar format is used by many engineers who work in fields where document control is important.
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Oct 1, 2013 12:41
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CCKeane posted:If a design terminates with a number, it's still in the design stage. If it terminates with a letter, that means it was already being produced. A similar format is used by many engineers who work in fields where document control is important. That might work for version numbers, but my situation was outline section identifiers within an effective SOP. Like... 1.0 HEADER 1.0.1 SUBHEADER 1.0.1.3 GETTING REALLY DEEP NOW 8.6.2.1.1.4.6.15.A OH HOLY MOTHER OF GOD FIRE THE DOC DEPARTMENT ALREADY
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Oct 1, 2013 22:57
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ItalicSquirrels posted:...you could bet that 789.10.11.Q has been around the block quite a few times and unless it's your baby, you should probably just leave it alone until it loses the letter and becomes official. "Well, we just need to make sure it's right." "This is two months past the time we needed it, we're in a day-for-day slip because we don't have it." "But we just need to make sure it's right." "The issue you're trying to fix is a question of terminology, and you're the only one who even cares." "But we just need to make sure it's right." "There is no conceivable error-correction process that could cost as much as you're going to cost us by making us send this back through the entire review cycle." "But we just need to make sure it's right. Why are you being so stubborn about this?" And the hard part of the conversation is that he's right--in his own world. He gets dinged for after-the-fact change orders, but he doesn't get dinged for late production starts, so he has every incentive in the world to make things look like he wants and no incentive at all to get them out the door.
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Oct 2, 2013 02:33
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Sorry guy I already know the answer so what we're gonna do is instead follow sub-par arbitrary procedure 10.5.7.1.2.2.5.3.69.420.M.J and install the bedding material without addressing run-off.
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Oct 2, 2013 03:23
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Miss-Bomarc posted:pffft. There is nothing so well-developed (or so behind schedule) that a good reviewer can't find ten or a dozen major errors that need to be corrected immediately before he'll consider signing it. I just got out of a meeting where the attendants were trying to make changes to a planning document on a project phase that already started. First question: why did the work start without approval on this document? A: because you said timelines were ultimately the most important thing and any additional comment coming out of this meeting will not impact the way we do our work. Second question: But how about this *very important* thing that is completely out of scope for you but should be addressed NOW? A: We talked about this before and it will not be addressed. Third question: This is not acceptable and I will not sign off your document! A: Shall I go and tell the team to stop working and report to the VP and P that you refuse to sign off a document and that we therefor had to cancel all activities and you are willing to take full responsibilities for this? *grumbles and signs off* I should go into politics.
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Oct 2, 2013 09:59
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Spoke up in a meeting with our senior staffer in charge of morale. Mentioned that morale is horrible. Listed some reasons morale is horrible (micromanagement, lack of trust, etc.). Got thanked afterwards by three people for saying "what the entire department is thinking but is afraid to say" and for "speaking on everyone's behalf". Felt I owed the senior staffer an explanation (no, I don't know why) and wrote her an email further explaining my reasoning. In an hour I'm scheduled for a one-on-one with her for a discussion on my "perception on how actual change can occur". Wish me luck!
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Oct 3, 2013 14:48
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ItalicSquirrels posted:Spoke up in a meeting with our senior staffer in charge of morale. Mentioned that morale is horrible. Listed some reasons morale is horrible (micromanagement, lack of trust, etc.). Got thanked afterwards by three people for saying "what the entire department is thinking but is afraid to say" and for "speaking on everyone's behalf". Felt I owed the senior staffer an explanation (no, I don't know why) and wrote her an email further explaining my reasoning. In an hour I'm scheduled for a one-on-one with her for a discussion on my "perception on how actual change can occur". Congrats on your long vacation!  (Just kidding. I hope.)
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Oct 3, 2013 14:54
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It's good to take your exit interview seriously.
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Oct 3, 2013 14:55
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Handy inspirational video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psNuJuaYqVU
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That actually wasn't bad. I'm still here, so that's a plus. Meeting didn't go as I thought it would, but that's not surprising. Senior staffer did plenty of digging, pulled out some info from among the complaints (of which there were plenty), pointed some things out. Also toed the party line a fair amount, which I was expecting, but not as much as I thought she would, which was a pleasant surprise. Said I could go to her with any issues about senior staff that pop up (like the extreme reduction in discretion we've been seeing). Also helped me realize that I've been carting around a lot of anger from ten years here and that it's unfair to direct it against senior staff as a whole (most of whom weren't here even five years ago). I'm still holding it against the dickhead that told me if I was ever assaulted for any reason on the job he'd fire me, no questions asked. That poo poo's inexcusable. All told, not a bad meeting at all.
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Oct 3, 2013 17:03
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I had to fire a assembly line worker today. I caught her chewing gum on the assembly line and I asked her to throw out her chewing gum and she responded, "I don't care what you want me to do." Which is of course the right thing to say to your manager. Then, she kept chewing it. This is a FDA regulated medical assembly line.
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Oct 3, 2013 17:35
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Maybe she wanted to be let go
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Oct 3, 2013 18:27
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G-Mach posted:This is a FDA regulated medical assembly line. At least your CAPA effectiveness check is guaranteed to succeed? During the 180-day monitoring period, environmental monitoring group EM micro swabbing detected no presence of offending employee in any production line area, indicating employee termination successfully addressed the non-conformance. 
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Oct 3, 2013 19:45
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Hey morale guy. I have done what you've done. You cannot change the place on your own. Either change jobs or care less.
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Oct 4, 2013 01:14
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G-Mach posted:I had to fire a assembly line worker today. I caught her chewing gum on the assembly line and I asked her to throw out her chewing gum and she responded, "I don't care what you want me to do." Which is of course the right thing to say to your manager. Then, she kept chewing it. Reminds me of how a big pharmaceutical company in my town decided to use the cheapest temp agency possible for their assembly line work, only to get shut down by the FDA for numerous quality violations. They were also forced to recall a huge amount of product, making a major brand of OTC medication disappear from store shelves for months.
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Oct 4, 2013 01:36
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ItalicSquirrels posted:Spoke up in a meeting with our senior staffer in charge of morale. Mentioned that morale is horrible. Listed some reasons morale is horrible (micromanagement, lack of trust, etc.). Got thanked afterwards by three people for saying "what the entire department is thinking but is afraid to say" and for "speaking on everyone's behalf". Felt I owed the senior staffer an explanation (no, I don't know why) and wrote her an email further explaining my reasoning. In an hour I'm scheduled for a one-on-one with her for a discussion on my "perception on how actual change can occur". I have a new business director who's trying to pin the "morale officer" thing on me (even though that's not my job in the slightest.) I don't even know where to start. Request money to get people loaded every other week?
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Oct 4, 2013 05:22
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E the Shaggy posted:I have a new business director who's trying to pin the "morale officer" thing on me (even though that's not my job in the slightest.) If you dont know, why dont you ask the people that you are trying to help? They would have a pretty good idea about what they want, you can filter the bullshit ones out, and if there is an overwhelmingly common request, implement it.
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Konstantin posted:Reminds me of how a big pharmaceutical company in my town decided to use the cheapest temp agency possible for their assembly line work, only to get shut down by the FDA for numerous quality violations. They were also forced to recall a huge amount of product, making a major brand of OTC medication disappear from store shelves for months. Is that why I have to pay triple for my antacid pills?
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E the Shaggy posted:I have a new business director who's trying to pin the "morale officer" thing on me (even though that's not my job in the slightest.) "Morale officer" sounds like a way to make somebody that's not paid like a manager responsible for management-induced morale issues.
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Oct 4, 2013 14:53
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Morale Officer sounds like some sort of Soviet-era position who is actually responsible for snitching out unhappy workers/friends/etc. to the party so that they can be sent to the camps or killed. It should come with a pistol and a warrant for summary executions.
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Oct 4, 2013 14:59
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MORALE WILL IMPROVE OR THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE! That's what I'm picturing.
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Ashcans posted:Morale Officer sounds like some sort of Soviet-era position who is actually responsible for snitching out unhappy workers/friends/etc. to the party so that they can be sent to the camps or killed. It should come with a pistol and a warrant for summary executions.
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Oct 4, 2013 16:12
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mystes posted:I imagine it coming with a clown nose and silly hat. It is now your job to entertain your coworkers! "HEY GUYS! I'M SLAPPY THE CORPORATE CLOWN!"  "Did YOU know that keeping a delighted smile on your face increases shareholder value by 0.68 percent? Keep those smiles working to deliver value, everyone!"
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Oct 4, 2013 16:18
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Sundae posted:"HEY GUYS! I'M SLAPPY THE CORPORATE CLOWN!" Where I work they bought everyone little desk mirrors that say "Smile! They can hear it!".
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Bugamol posted:Where I work they bought everyone little desk mirrors that say "Smile! They can hear it!". I think that is actually worse than being shot at.
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Bugamol posted:Where I work they bought everyone little desk mirrors that say "Smile! They can hear it!". Someone once used the phrase "they can hear you smile over the phone". I wanted to punch that guy in the face and tell him to suck a fat dick. In case that seems like an overreaction, this guy also introduced me to the phrase "soup to nuts" along with a whole bunch of other bullshit corporate terms. This was at a small time professional services company that thought it was as awesome as McKinsey. Before that I worked in one of the largest and oldest corporations on earth and had never encountered those bullshit phrases.
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Sundae posted:At least your CAPA effectiveness check is guaranteed to succeed? That's a thing of beauty. We somehow managed not to fail the last one, so possibly. (But not the one before that.) Konstantin posted:Reminds me of how a big pharmaceutical company in my town decided to use the cheapest temp agency possible for their assembly line work, only to get shut down by the FDA for numerous quality violations. They were also forced to recall a huge amount of product, making a major brand of OTC medication disappear from store shelves for months. This is pretty typical. I have had to manage a single work order (5000 quantity) that due to temp gently caress ups had to be torn down and rebuilt three times so far. These are medical devices that could kill someone if they aren't made correctly and the people that put it together make $8.00/hr. Pureauthor posted:Maybe she wanted to be let go Considering I heard she doesn't have a dollar to her name due to getting drunk and crashing her car two weeks ago. I'm probably going to go with thinking she thought she could push me around since I'm still pretty new.
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Ashcans posted:Morale Officer sounds like some sort of Soviet-era position who is actually responsible for snitching out unhappy workers/friends/etc. to the party so that they can be sent to the camps or killed. It should come with a pistol and a warrant for summary executions. Cut along the dotted line and fold along the solid black line! 
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Oct 4, 2013 21:29
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Konstantin posted:Reminds me of how a big pharmaceutical company in my town decided to use the cheapest temp agency possible for their assembly line work, only to get shut down by the FDA for numerous quality violations. They were also forced to recall a huge amount of product, making a major brand of OTC medication disappear from store shelves for months. Sudafed?
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Oct 4, 2013 22:03
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Betting $5 it's one of my company's products.
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Oct 5, 2013 00:54
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I was referring to Excedrin, but it's hardly unique.
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Konstantin posted:I was referring to Excedrin, but it's hardly unique. I lose.  (My company did exactly that, is under CD now, and has so many products pulled off the market that the recalled/discontinued list is larger than the currently distributed list by about 3X.)
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Cut along the dotted line and fold along the solid black line! quote:
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visceril posted:Someone once used the phrase "they can hear you smile over the phone". I wanted to punch that guy in the face and tell him to suck a fat dick. As a sometime freelance voice actor, I can speak to this from experience. I really can hear a subtle difference in tone when I smile while speaking, even if it is a fake smile. But yeah, gotta love corporate BS phrases. There's this one guy at my company who says "deep dive" and "under the covers" (meaning "behind the scenes" or "within its inner workings") so often that I started keeping a tally sheet during his training sessions.
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I had a very interesting week. I went on vacation and came back on Monday to a meeting about department cuts. So the people that would be effected by the cuts (me and the other five people in my department under 40 started to look for new jobs). My boss hears about this and goes to our director who then blows up at the VP about having to get rid of the only people his his department of 250 that can't retire in 10 years. The layoffs where then can called and the 6 of us got raises to make sure we stayed.
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Sundae posted:I lose. I work for a smaller company that deals with FDA related matters. I always said "I bet over in those BIG COMPANIES they do it right and don't have to deal with these issues!" I see I am mistaken.
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