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My coworker microwaved fish. To make matters worse, he threw some of it in the trash. On a Friday.
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The power move was to microwave fish next week as well.
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Marking his territory.
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priznat posted:The linkedin things where they try to get "experts" to answer questions like "how would you debug an automotive processor" or whatever is just bizarre. Is this just harvesting lovely answers to train AIs or something? The one I got today was "How can you troubleshoot a USB port that isn't working on your PC?" Absolutely inane bullshit.
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~Coxy posted:The one I got today was "How can you troubleshoot a USB port that isn't working on your PC?" It’s so weird because any useful answers are going to take effort to write up and anyone who actually knows probably won’t waste their time. So you get a lot of folks who kinda sorta know some stuff and give the most useless answers possible. Also I noticed LinkedIn now doesn’t have enough posts from people or companies I follow to show me anymore and they just start showing me random people’s stuff without even the “suggested” title on it.
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After I added my new job title (which is some incredibly anodyne corporate speak) I get spammed with connection requests from random people, mostly recruiters or people trying to sell consultancy services. But also I occasionally get this celebrity dentist guy adding me, twice he's done it now! Jokes on him though, when I finally got my teeth fixed it was by a dentist that went on to get in some fancy magazine for being really good.
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Crossposting from retail thread:Cowslips Warren posted:got my employee review last week, and we went through the entire loving 15 minute deal until the very end, when my manager realized he had gone over another employee's review instead of mine. Whoops.
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If only the thread title could be that long.
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Dammit I made a note on my calendar and everything but I still managed to miss it--gonna do it now anyway. Happy 5th anniversary (a month ago) to the greatest post in this thread's venerable historyMidjack posted:EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A LOGFILE INTO THE NETWORK. IT’S YESTERDAY'S ACH TRANSACTIONS AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE MOVES ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN BANK HSBC. I LOOK AT EVERY TRANSFER AND I LOOK AT EVERY TRANSFER HARD. MAKIN WHOOSHING SOUNDS WHEN I SLAM DOWN SOME RTGS PAYMENTS OR EVEN WHEN I MESS UP RECIPIENT ACCOUNTS. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY LAUNDERED THE WORLDS MOST DANGEROUS CASH. I CAN. I SAY IT AND I SAY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE IN MY AML COMPLIANCE DIVISION AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE PEOPLE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE CAN STILL BE IMMATURE JEKRS. AND IVE LEARNED ALL THE SWIFT CODES AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY APARTMENT LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING EM ALL. 2 HOURS INCLUDING WIND DOWN EVERY MORNIng
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Our quarterly town hall this morning has a list of questions people submitted. One is (paraphrased) "Our stock price is low, but execs know things we don't. When do you think it will go up?" In other words, please help me do insider trading.
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Good-Natured Filth posted:Our quarterly town hall this morning has a list of questions people submitted. One is (paraphrased) "Our stock price is low, but execs know things we don't. When do you think it will go up?" It's always frustrating when I see one of the dumbest people on the planet yet they somehow make more money than me. Always makes me wonder how they got there.
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We got an email saying "submit your anonymous questions for X, send an email to the team here, don't worry, we won't use your name!" lol nice try.
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Had an urgent call yesterday because one of the VPs had been speaking with the CEO, who was complaining that the market reacted negatively to the quarterly results. Please ignore that revenue outperformed and the actual negative news was that he fired 10% of the company. The takeaway is, of course, that we have to defy physics and biology to get clinical results even faster.
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Good-Natured Filth posted:Our quarterly town hall this morning has a list of questions people submitted. One is (paraphrased) "Our stock price is low, but execs know things we don't. When do you think it will go up?" "So, uh, you guys gonna be doing any vibe based layoffs too or nah?" is a more generous read.
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Talked to current boss more about my departure, and I told him about the amount of risk in my staying (not being in charge of things I’d need to fix/improve, etc), he did make some good points about taking a leap to be happy and not living to work. Still told him no, it’s more money now from new place. Then I found out that he’s been getting in to crypto day trading…… possibly another red flag to calibrate off his risk preferences? 
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Tnuctip posted:Talked to current boss more about my departure, and I told him about the amount of risk in my staying (not being in charge of things I’d need to fix/improve, etc), he did make some good points about taking a leap to be happy and not living to work. Still told him no, it’s more money now from new place. Not a red flag because you are leaving anyway. RIGHT???? Once you make the decision to leave you should probably stop talking to your current employer about it.
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Jordan7hm posted:Not a red flag because you are leaving anyway. RIGHT???? I’ve tendered my resignation and have not withdrawn it, despite boss going hard on counter to get me to stay. I’m an idiot so I’ve actually gave it honest consideration and it’s torn my brain up for the past week. Because I’m an idiot, just not so massive of one to accept the counter. And a bunch more poo poo was broken on my day off…..
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Please leave
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If acting like you're considering it keeps the peace for your last days there, that's fine, but yeah, leave and don't look back
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Tnuctip posted:I’ve tendered my resignation and have not withdrawn it, despite boss going hard on counter to get me to stay. I’m an idiot so I’ve actually gave it honest consideration and it’s torn my brain up for the past week. Because I’m an idiot, just not so massive of one to accept the counter. 
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docbeard posted:If acting like you're considering it keeps the peace for your last days there, that's fine, but yeah, leave and don't look back This'll also help preserve your relationship with your boss, so in the future he can invest his FAT CRYPTO STACKS into your new business
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Tnuctip posted:I’ve tendered my resignation and have not withdrawn it, despite boss going hard on counter to get me to stay. I’m an idiot so I’ve actually gave it honest consideration and it’s torn my brain up for the past week. Because I’m an idiot, just not so massive of one to accept the counter. If your boss really wanted you to stay, he would have offered you shares of Dogecoin.
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Jordan7hm posted:Not a red flag because you are leaving anyway. RIGHT????
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At the town hall this morning, they mentioned that an update to the "flexible" work policy was coming and to keep an eye out because it will impact folks working remotely. The e-mail just came from the head of HR. The policy update is that the radius to be classified as a remote employee was increased from 50 miles to 100 miles. This means if you live within 100 miles of an office, you can't be remote without 2 levels of management + HR approval for an exception. Still doesn't impact me because I'm 600 miles from the nearest office, but loving . They really want to lay people off without laying people off. Obviously getting my resume in order and paying more attention to openings elsewhere. Because the company is increasingly hostile towards remote employees.
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Good-Natured Filth posted:... if you live within 100 miles of an office, you can't be remote without 2 levels of management + HR approval for an exception. 3-5 hours of driving every single day, no big deal
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Baddog posted:3-5 hours of driving every single day, no big deal It's good for the culture, obviously. All that time sitting in their car, they'll be able to think of so many ways to contribute to the organization!
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Maybe I’m biased living in the Boston area, but the amount of stress and psychological damage incurred by requiring a commute probably shaves a year or two off of your employees’ lifespans, before even considering the more tangible risks.
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woof my commute is a little over 40 miles, is absolutely hellish, and has been recognized as one of the worst in the department. 100 miles, that's a solid lol from me. That's almost the entire length of long island
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However, today I tried to swipe my badge to open the motion sensor to the bathroom door. So if I find out anyone saw me do it, unfortunately I'm going to have to ghost my job in embarrassment.
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I had a recruiter ask me if I'd travel 80 miles each way once a week. I said no.
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Anonymous Robot posted:requiring a commute probably shaves a year or two off of your employees’ lifespans Yes but at that point they will have left the workforce so it's a non-issue!
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Magnetic North posted:I had a recruiter ask me if I'd travel 80 miles each way once a week. I said no. I had a ~100 mile commute once a week for 2 years. The only thing that made it manageable was getting mileage for it. Even then I got a hotel most weeks because the drive was easily 3 hours one way with morning traffic.
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Trabant posted:Yes but at that point they will have left the workforce so it's a non-issue! 
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I don't commute anymore. When I first started I would metro for at least an hour each way (bus down the street to the metro, then the metro from VA into MD) that sometimes turned into two hours based on whatever disaster was happening with metro at the time. Five days a week for four years. Then I changed contracts to another location and my commute cut down to 30 minutes, but still required a bus and a metro connection and was still five days a week. Did that for a year. Changed contracts/client again and bought a house - commute cut down to a single 10 minute bus ride, but again five days a week on-site (or more like 1-2 days a month remote maybe). Pandemic happened and nobody was allowed on-site period. We managed to make it work, and the spell was broken. If people want me they can get me for MAYBE a single day a week, probably for a half day, and only if it's something that absolutely needs to be held in-person like a whiteboarding session or anything involving classified content. I've reached a level of seniority in my field that I have the luxury of outright refusing to commute and being able to demand people bend their schedules to accommodate my travel restrictions. It's pretty nice, you just have to be in complete agony for a decade to get the juice.
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I have a 70km commute each way, opposite direction to the traffic, I sit in my nice car and listen to a podcast for 40 minutes. The Swiss suck at driving but even dealing with the incompetence is no big deal. Honestly less stress than commuting the same duration by public transport in London.
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100 miles without accounting for traffic also. My first job in LA was 11 mi from my apartment and could take 45m-1 hr to get home from when traffic was bad (which was always).
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