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Tnuctip posted:The most useful and honest job of any poster in this thread.
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Sundae posted:Sure, you can take the week off! Just have that week's work done before you leave! "Oh good, I've got another kidney stone, that means I don't have to go to work today and can just be at the hospital" was the thing I said to myself which forced me to reexamine my career with that employer
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May 20, 2024 23:07
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I really, really hate how places redefine "vacation" in a way to make it meaningless now.
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Back in my law firm days I gathered a bunch of fellow associates and we went to investigate why we could hear music through the ceiling. Turns out Diageo had moved in and every Thursday they turned their conference room into a bar with free booze. I scored us a standing invite. It was good times for a while until apparently it got too rowdy and they shut it down.
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Volmarias posted:"Oh good, I've got another kidney stone, that means I don't have to go to work today and can just be at the hospital" was the thing I said to myself which forced me to reexamine my career with that employer Serious OOF energy there, but I get it.
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May 20, 2024 23:10
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Sundae posted:One of the best days of my career, in a way, was deleting their texts and voice mails when they started calling me with questions after I quit. A silent "gently caress you, figure out where I left those papers yourselves you shitbirds." POV: *An owl feeding chicks nesting on shreds of quality reports* *A sealed bag floating in a water tank* *A conference room ceiling covered with the pages of an audit procedure guide* *A box covered with the dust of years, labeled "EMPLOYEE SUGGESTIONS"*
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May 20, 2024 23:32
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Volmarias posted:"Oh good, I've got another kidney stone, that means I don't have to go to work today and can just be at the hospital" was the thing I said to myself which forced me to reexamine my career with that employer
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Atopian posted:POV: Corporate Megathread: *A box covered with the dust of years, labeled "EMPLOYEE SUGGESTIONS"*
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Jenkl posted:Corporate Megathread: *A box covered with the dust of years, labeled "EMPLOYEE SUGGESTIONS"* nothing beside remains
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Tnuctip posted:Are we really sure though that we aren’t the schmucks, working hard (relatively) while BS artists rise up the ladder so fast? I’ve seen people rise up and maybe dip down after being found out a few times, but not fall hard and have trouble getting back at it, albeit in 1-3 yr stints. This seems like a good opportunity to link The Gervais Principle. The author spends quite a bit of time entirely up his own rear end in a top hat, but it does describe some corporate dynamics creepily well, and the contrast between earnest shmucks and lazy, BS-spewing ladder-climbers is one of them.
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May 21, 2024 12:31
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Ironically Ricky got promoted to his level of incompetence, standup comedian
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Jenkl posted:My god damned idiot (leader) has the audacity to book a tuesday-after-long-weekend 9am meeting with me at 330pm Friday, and when I tell her I'll need to work over the weekend to be ready goes "oh are you sure? I'd really rather you didn't work overtime." She cancelled the meeting at 8am. Deep breaths, Jenkl. Deep breaths
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Jenkl, I just want to say how much I love your av. Makes me chuckle every time I notice it.
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May 21, 2024 13:41
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The new break room microwave doesn't have a +30 second button and, not gonna lie, I have no idea how to use it now.
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May 21, 2024 13:42
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Put it on popcorn mode until you smell burning.
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Renegret posted:The new break room microwave doesn't have a +30 second button and, not gonna lie, I have no idea how to use it now. It could be worse, we have one that has a dial only that is super annoying because it does 5s for like 10 clicks then if you keep turning it goes to 30 seconds then like a minute per click so you overshoot then have to tick back 5s at a time. It's also like 1500 watts so it burns the poo poo out of everything and you have to scale times to like 3/4 of what is listed and actively monitor it. It also knocks out WiFi.
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May 21, 2024 13:53
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in a well actually posted:
this is a pro, imo
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An old old company of mine had one of those old microwaves. 20' away on the door to the kitchen area was a big sign warning people with pacemakers to stay far away And I absolutely believed it It needed 2k watts because the lack of shielding meant everyone near it was getting a not insignificant percentage of that too.
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The Fool posted:this is a pro, imo The conference room next door to the break room was unusable from 11:30-1:30 every day unless you had Ethernet.
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May 21, 2024 14:08
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You just keep stacking up w's
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in a well actually posted:
lmao
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raminasi posted:This seems like a good opportunity to link The Gervais Principle. The author spends quite a bit of time entirely up his own rear end in a top hat, but it does describe some corporate dynamics creepily well, and the contrast between earnest shmucks and lazy, BS-spewing ladder-climbers is one of them. i feel like this is a really meandering and roundabout way to work in a ton of The Office analysis in to something that is quite simple and transparently obvious to anyone who has been in a corporate setting for more than ten seconds and it always gets linked like its some Incredible Wisdom
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:i feel like this is a really meandering and roundabout way to work in a ton of The Office analysis in to something that is quite simple and transparently obvious to anyone who has been in a corporate setting for more than ten seconds and it always gets linked like its some Incredible Wisdom Maybe I was just dumber than the average bear--maybe I still am!--but reading The Gervais Principle was a moment-of-enlightenment experience for me personally. It made a lot of stuff I aaaalmost but not quite understood click soundly into place. I also mostly enjoyed Rao's meandering philosophical digressions even though he is definitely a long way up his own rear end and even though usually I can't stand that poo poo. Just something about that particular group of essays worked for me I guess. I tried reading some of his other stuff and didn't get far.
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It's worth linking because it just puts into words something we've all internalized. And personally I'm not very good at putting my thoughts into words. or having worthwhile thoughts.
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edit: there are too many fuckin words though dude needs nine editors to be fair i hated The Office and thought it was stupid so anyone trying to use it as some kind of Sagacious Media is going to lose me instantly
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Yeah I don't really enjoy cringe comedy, for me The Office is like 20% brilliance and 80% a waste of time. Selfquoting to elaborate: Eric the Mauve posted:Maybe I was just dumber than the average bear--maybe I still am!--but reading The Gervais Principle was a moment-of-enlightenment experience for me personally. It made a lot of stuff I aaaalmost but not quite understood click soundly into place. Stuff like: Why the kind of people most middle managers are get promoted to be middle managers even though they're so bad at managing Why there are so many lifelong middle managers who don't move up as they age Why there is just so goddamn much bureaucratic bullshit at any mature company Why C-suite executives are so invariably the kind of Machiavellian people they are Why I personally have almost always failed to fit into human social groups (because I am not quite a Sociopath, but close enough to it to understand how Sociopaths' minds work, and can't take the mutual-delusion theater of most social groups seriously) Etc. I hasten to add that The Gervais Principle doesn't contain a single really original thought that I can recall. It just ties together a bunch of the thoughts and observations of other smart people. Does a good job of it though, IMO. e: the concept of the Hanlon Dodge might not be original to Rao per se, but the has distilled and explained it better than anyone else. That may be the most significant thing TGP accomplished. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 15:55 on May 21, 2024 |
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I've been wondering this for a while but why do some people, when going on vacation, say they're "out of pocket"? Is Out of Office or On PTO not accurate? IME out of pocket means like the money you have to pay for medical coverage yourself or something like that Where did this weird phrase come from?
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Its not that uncommon, it has a couple meanings but it also means "I'm not available", usually I'd read that to mean "Even if you want to get a hold of me you can't" https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/out-of-pocket/ quote:Out of pocket can also mean unavailable or unreachable. For example, a person who is on vacation from work and isn’t answering any calls or emails would be out of pocket to their coworkers. This usage of out of pocket is more common among older generations.
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I always assumed it was because US holiday laws are poo poo and you can find places only willing to let you take unpaid leave, specifically because any time someone from the USA has tried to recruit me they talk about "paid vacation", which implies that "unpaid vacation" must also exist.
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Tnuctip posted:The most useful and honest job of any poster in this thread. That means a lot to me, coming from you two. Thank you.
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I always kind of interpreted it, in professional services, that you were on your own dime and covering your costs out of pocket rather than billing to the client. I still think it’s weird and there’s a 99% chance I made that up in my mind.
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I think the unavailable meaning of "out of pocket" is from pool. You arent in the pocket, you're running around willy nilly. Maybe even off the table, on the floor.
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Baddog posted:I think the unavailable meaning of "out of pocket" is from pool. You arent in the pocket, you're running around willy nilly. Maybe even off the table, on the floor. I prefer this
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Huh, that's interesting. I never took it as OOO and also unreachable but that's good to know And yeah in a Boomer context that makes a lot more sense
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I always thought of it as "I'm working from out of my pocket" which for white men is where their phone usually lives Which means to me that the person isn't available for anything more than quick messages.
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I use the phrase out of pocket a lot when referring to people being completely unavailable but I'm also former military and work in the MIC so we're weird about that. "Jim is out today" "out? like out of pocket out?" "Nah we can still text him" "I'm going to be out of pocket this Friday to next Wednesday. Don't bother me"
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Out of pocket seems to have become the phrase du jour of the last few months, I've seen people use it to mean something/someone is bad or unavailable and up until now I'd only ever seen it used to mean "I have lost money on this endeavour".
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I'm glad we double clicked on this out of pocket situation.
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Motronic posted:I'm glad we double clicked on this out of pocket situation. Wait what?
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Vasudus posted:I use the phrase out of pocket a lot when referring to people being completely unavailable but I'm also former military and work in the MIC so we're weird about that. This aligns with my take, I hear it used by paramilitary fetishists almost exclusively.
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Thanks for your note. I am on a family beach trip until 5/31 and am unable to respond as my swimsuit does not have pockets for my phone. Please reach out to Chester for urgent issues.
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