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Cheesus posted:I'm a programmer. These are my favorites. My life. You've just described it in perfect detail.
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When my current corporation implemented Six Sigma a while back, my boss then went crazy over it. I was just an intern at the time and it just seemed so completely outrageous to me, it bordered on the surreal. He started using the term "value added" more every time he went to a 6S conference or whatever. It cracked my poo poo up in 30 Rock when they showed that the Six Sigma are actually six aging white men who completely embody the virtue they represent. One of them was "handshakefulness". Anyway, I don't mind my corporate job at all right now. I think corporate jobs have the same ups and downs as smaller companies, it's just when you have a lovely work environment at a corporation there's some obnoxious smiles-and-big-words campaign to help you decide to quit. I have great bosses and decent coworkers now so it's not too bad. That being said, I've grown pretty tired of things like, "I just wanted to touch base with you," because it usually means, "I don't remember the things you've been telling me every day for 6 months." The bonus is that I get really good at expressing the same like 4 or 5 thoughts really eloquently and my bosses, since they have forgotten altogether, are impressed every time.
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Where I have worked in New Zealand "Jeans Days" seem to run Monday through Friday (though to be fair as a nation we have a pretty scruffy standard of dress). To curb this, the office where I work now has a uniform. Which in summer, the female staff match with the obviously professional footwear known as "jandals"* to their skirts and suit tops. Pregnant women, who can no longer fit their uniform can come in to work in mufti. For "mufti" read "trackpants". Awesome. *or flip-flops or thongs (not the underwear, well, maybe, but I'm not asking) for non-kiwis
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Apr 21, 2010 22:30
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Oh, the big wigs are coming down to stare at us for a couple hours and talk behind our backs? Your work area better be clean. Look busy at all times. Don't use the lunch room. We're shoving you into a small corner so you don't embarrass the owner on your break. And don't use first names; only sir, miss, and last names. It's a Friday too? gently caress YOU NO CASUAL FRIDAY
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Apr 21, 2010 22:34
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At my old job, whenever something went wrong, my boss would ask us "So... what would YOU do in that situation?" Oh, I don't know, the THING WE DID YOU IDIOT!!! Clearly we did what we would do. Because it's what we did. That thing, that we did.  She also told us to forward any difficult calls to her, and then reprimanded us whenever we did. I guess a guy threatening you and swearing at you isn't "difficult" enough. I hated that job so much  but I have a better one where my only complaint is that I get called "little lady" by one person and it irritates me. Also having to watch Fox News at lunch, but I deal with that by slowly turning into a stinking liberal hippie or something, so that's ok.
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Apr 21, 2010 22:40
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Abbeh posted:Also having to watch Fox News at lunch, but I deal with that by slowly turning into a stinking liberal hippie or something, so that's ok. Military contractor?
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Apr 21, 2010 22:41
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Corporate is a good place for clusterfucks of competent people being controlled by an idiot, resulting in a department that should be awesome, being totally useless.
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Auracounts posted:I absolutely detest professionals who believe that being abusive towards others is some sort of entitlement you receive along with their degree. I'm a professional and I don't walk around screaming at everyone about what they hosed up. Honestly, I've found that it's way easier to get my secretary to perform "rush" jobs and fix other things on the fly simply by being nice (not to mention, most of them will do poo poo for me on the fly before they do it for some other people, simply because I treat them with as much respect as I would want in return). My wife runs into that a lot - she works for a small dental practice. One of the dentists (the owner) is super chill and a very easy guy to work for. The other, who is a contracted employee, is a little Hitler. One you can address on a first name basis, the other MUST be addressed as DOCTOR or he has a little hissy fit. His wife's an attorney and she's just as bad. I've never met a pair of people who are as bad about letting their degrees go straight to their heads.
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Cheesus posted:Ok, when you're programming, any interruptions are bad. Having to switch your mental gears away from what you're working on is very hard.  Hey, I've got a question. OK, I'm in the middle of something, is it a big issue? Well, *blah blah problems* That sounds pretty complicated, I'll stop by your desk once I'm done here. This doesn't work no matter how good you are at switching tasks if the person is a time-thieving rear end in a top hat though. Then I just start getting more and more rude until I put headphones on and they leave. My biggest problems are an intern whose parents never him taught him to act right and who thinks it's a good idea to shoot illegal immigrants and all our design specifications being made by committees that don't understand technology.*edit: grammar* sudonim fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Apr 21, 2010 |
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Thank you for this thread! I've been Admin for 15 years, starting as an innocent, wide-eyed Receptionist and working my way up to jaded and fed up Executive Assistant with temping inbetween. A few tales for now. I worked for a few years at a Graphic Design and Printing company, small, privately owned and competing with places like Kinko's and Staples and The Printing House in the print end. We had one major client and stacks of smaller clients. The company was run by a man who was the worst micromanager I have ever had the bad luck to run into. I started out as Fulfillment Assistant in that company, working on shipping out POS items across North America for our one major client. One day I came into work to find my computer was utterly hosed up. Turned out that one of the utter idiots in Accounting had received an email with an attachment that appeared to come from the company's bank. She forwarded it to Big Boss Man, who thought it most wise to forward said email to my email address, go to my computer (which had been left on for defrag overnight), since I had a PC and he had a Mac (don't ask, cause I don't know) and OPEN THE loving FILE. Broke my computer and let a virus run through the entire system. I just lost it on him, as did the IT Manager and my direct Manager. Somehow managed to keep my job. Still at same company, during the massive East Coast blackout. I live in Toronto, during the blackout, Municipal, Provincial and Federal government was begging anyone who was not part of Essential Services to stay home. So, I did. (by this point I was Pre-Production assistant in the Printing end of the company). When I came back into work after the power was fully restored to the city, Big Boss Man tore me a new one for obeying my elected officials during an emergency, and I tore him one back for running the loving presses when I had NO power, no food, no money for three days, despite what government and emergency services was asking everyone to do. I essentially equated him with the strip joints on Yonge Street who were also up and running during all this. Oh, and my married name is German, although I myself come from an Anglo-Irish background. My husband's family emigrated to North America (first the US, then up to Canada) back in the 18th century. Big Boss Man was Jewish, and his father was a Concentration Camp survivor. For some reason, his father came in and puttered around the office once a week. Once he learned what my last name was, he had it out for me in a big way. Big Boss Man also had a bad habit of hiring qualified people to do a job, and then prevent them from actually DOING said job. Like the sales guy he hired because of his ability to bring in major clients. However, Big Boss Man did not want to do anything that potential clients wanted to do to decide on us as a vendor. And then poo poo on the sales guy for not bringing in the million dollar clients. He also cut the Graphics department down to essentially two people and threw a shitstorm if they dared to work on any client project that wasn't the one major client we did have. Oh, and then there was the time he wanted me to help out sales with cold calls, and gave me the list for Quebec. I don't speak a word of French. He knows this. He also would ask me to do something, then poo poo on me for not reading his mind and making changes or adjustments that he thought of but never told me. Thanks to him, I now demand any and all requests be emailed to me in detail, any changes or adjustments emailed and I save the drat things for years. I hate that man so very much. Temping? Let's see, once I got contracted out to a major insurance company, essentially to fill a desk while the bigwigs from the US head office came in for two weeks. I had more than a few positions where they somehow decided that it was more cost efficient to temp out the entire admin staff on 6 month contracts, and then bring in a brand new temp admin staff at the end of that 6 month cycle. One of these places was a major Canadian Mutual Fund company. (This same company also had a Financial Advisor who came to me three days into my contract with a loving shoebox filled with 6 months of expense receipts, crumpled, faded, stained with coffee and next to nothing to tell me what I was supposed to code the poo poo under) Wow....that's long. More later I suppose.
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Auracounts posted:I absolutely detest professionals who believe that being abusive towards others is some sort of entitlement you receive along with their degree. I've essentially reached a point where I no longer even give the impression that I'm bending over backward to meet their outrageous demands. Can't give me enough time to get something done? Don't be surprised when it's not done within your imaginary timeframe. Yelling at me will not make instant adjustments to time and space. They will only cause me to move anything you ask me for to the very bottom of my priority list, no matter what it is.
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On the whole my gripe with corporate in general is this: I work to live. They'd rather it was the other way around. That pretty much covers any and all corporate complaints, because most of the reasons we dislike working for corporate are to do with our employers expecting us to behave like our jobs are the most important things in our lives.
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gvonpaul posted:So I decided to go back to being a paramedic. If I'm going to be poo poo on, I'd rather it be literal than figurative poo poo. Your story, and this thread in general, make me so happy to be a paramedic. My department might not be perfect, but drat rarely am I all that stressed about work.
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I work for a borough which is run sort of like a corporation and aside from the fact that I might be losing my job soon because the assembly is pretty keen on cutting basically everything to appease certain segments of the population, I really can't complain. I get to where jeans and generally look like poo poo everyday, I can eat at my desk, and take naps in my car during lunch. It's a pretty sweet gig. Plus, I've made a lot connections with higher ups in governement which is why I wanted the job to begin with. I guess the main things I don't like would be first how it's like everything it a huge secret around here. Like I wish I had the time to keep up with what every assembly member thinks about stuff so I'd know how in danger my job is. But I just don't really have the time. Also, there are the usual busy body types, the rear end kissing types. All that sort of thing. And of course there's not the sameness that comes with having a normal CEO. Our CEO could be gone next year and the new guy that comes in could want to take our "company" in a completely different direction. Oh, well though. Like I said I really don't have anything to complain about after reading some of the other stories. It's all nice because today is admin appreciatiion day and the food table is right across the hall from my office.
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This is a great thread because I've found myself venting about my job in other threads that have absoloutely no relevance to what I'm ranting about. First off, right out of college I went into Law Enforcement. It's what I always wanted to do and I was thrilled to get into it. But after being passed over for a promotion, I got a little disgruntled but kept in and didn't let it affect my work. One day, a friend of the family asked me to do some work on his computer for a marketing campaign that his company was doing and offered to pay me a few bucks. Since I knew Adobe, I dove right in and came up with some stuff that apparently impressed his boss. They called me in and offered me a job as the head of marketing and to send me to get my MBA. Being young and naive, I jumped on it because "Wow, loads more money automatically means awesomeness, right?". I've been at the company for 6 years. It's a relatively large manufacturing and service firm in a niche market that is doing pretty well. Unfortunately, we are run by a bunch of incompetent jackasses that continually make things harder than they really should be. We have a VP that is constantly micromanaging every little thing that we do, but can't keep himself organized to save his life. Keeps key information to himself for days without forwarding it to the appropriate people to you know, actually act on it. Then gets pissy and blames it on everyone else in the office for not taking care of a project or customer on time - all the while he was the one that sat on it for a week. He has a family that lives in a different state and he's very open and forthcoming about how he has never had any role in his families life (Wife & kids) and how he expects everyone in the company to be the same way. He's been there three years and he hasn't even gone home to visit his family for Christmas. Just sends checks to keep his "marriage" and kids happy. Then we've got the usual jackasses who don't do anything during the work day aside from give their work to everyone else in the office. One guy started giving me quotations, contracts, and work orders to do. I made the mistake of doing one, "being a team player", and he started piling it all on me. I refused to do his job and I got called out on it because I wasn't being a "team player". So now not only do I handle marketing, but all of the quotes, contracts, and pretty much any customer interaction that they have with our company. While the guy sits at his desk playing with his laptop and telling fishing stories to everyone that walks by. We've got the whole "when something happens, fix it and then pretend like it never happened" approach down to an art form. The VP is constantly adding new layers of needless bureaucracy to even the most trivial task, making something that should take 5 minutes take literally hours. Want to send a quote or just a mere response back to a customer? Send it through 5 people to get their approval before you do it. Then send it to him and he may or may not get to it within a day or two. Hold meetings about every little thing that goes on during day to day operations that last for hours and everyone spends the entire time going in circles or just trying to figure out what the meeting is about and what the guy really wants. I've actually started filing applications for federal and state law enforcement jobs. I traded one bunch of incompetent blowhards for another, even larger group of completely idiotic blowhards, and I regret it. Money or not. Furious Mittens fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Apr 21, 2010 |
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For a year I worked in an office with 6 women. I had my own office in a little out of the way corridor of the building. I didn't have a ton of interaction with the rest of them during the day except at lunch when we all ate in the lunch room. Then the colour printer arrived! There was no more room for this monster laser printer in the main office so they stuck it in the corner of my office and whenever someone printed off something they needed in colour, they came to my office to pick it up . . . and bitch about the other women in the office. I don't know what it is about women, but they love to bitch to guys about the other women they are friends with. I'd be plugging away at my work and giving the occasional "uh-huh" and "yep" while they would complain about the other girls. One day the boss show up (we're a satellite office) and comes into my office, she closes the door and starts telling me about my inappropriate conduct. Seems the 35-50 year old cows who I worked with would complain to me, then go to the person they complained about in the office and tell them how I don't really care for them. I guess a few of them complained higher up, hence the visit from the boss. I spent a good hour talking about this situation, and how I don't really know any of them that well, and given the 15-30 year age difference, plus the gender difference I don't really find anything they have to say interesting. Luckily she believed me, gave me a company required verbal warning, and left some workplace pamphlets on appropriate office behaviour. Before she left, I asked if I could move the printer to the main office. She agreed and we put it there. Working with women (as the only guy there) really sucks, and if you're not super vigilant it can cost you your job.
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Everyone in this thread has this book, yes? Get it if you don't, it's hilarious (and depressing at the same time).
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BullProofMonk posted:Hey Mr. IT guy, I need you to make a change to the production environment. Cool! Passive-aggressiveness is definitely the way to a successful career, rear end in a top hat.
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My favourite parts about the corporate world: - Retarded lingo: synergy, "it is what it is", touch base, verbage, etc. These buzzwords are often used by clueless people running board meetings who forgot to put the Powerpoint together. - The people who do the "busy walk", act all frazzled, and put on the fake gung-ho act ('Hey so what if we have higher targets guys?? We can do this!') despite the fact that they're the least productive employees on the floor and never meet their sales and performance targets. - Getting pulled off the floor for the mandatory performance review/impromptu meeting/bake sale organized by HR, only to be told that we weren't paid for the time they pulled us off of the floor. - The people who bitch and complain day-in-day-out about their headache, how bored they are, and pretty much act like this is the worst job anyone could ever have despite the fact that we work in a clean, air-conditioned environment and are F/T employed with benefits. Yes, I know that I'm bitching here but at least I can clam up about it when I'm at work. - Being forced to work with Windows 2000 (yeah, you read that right) and IE 6 because the IT department doesn't feel like doing a bit more work. Orgophlax posted:The worst part about a corporate office is when you realize how much like high school it really is and how people don't really grow up. melon cat fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Apr 21, 2010 |
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Millstone posted:Cool! Passive-aggressiveness is definitely the way to a successful career, rear end in a top hat. Cool! Ignoring documented policy and/or procedures and throwing a hissyfit when it backfires is definitely the way to a successful career, rear end in a top hat. Both of those actions are stupid. Unfortunately the second one often seems to work. edit: I should also point out that I don't think BullProofMonk was being passive aggressive and you really ought to look up the definition of that term. He told the guy what the procedure was, and the procedure is there both to protect the company and to cover his own rear end. If whatever this change was (to the production environment - you know, the one which make you haemorrhage cash if it breaks) goes wrong and the only documentation is that "Bob told me to do it while I was taking a piss" then who's going to get the poo poo for it? Not Bob, that's for sure. V--- this too rolleyes fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Apr 21, 2010 |
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Millstone posted:Cool! Passive-aggressiveness is definitely the way to a successful career, rear end in a top hat. It's called following corporate policy, not passive=aggressive. I suspect you are one of those very types he's bitching about. edit: beaten
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I cringe at all the corporate buzzwords used by everyone in an office environment. You'd think you were working in some crypto-military situation room. * Do you have enough bandwidth for this project? * Let me circle back to you later. * Fire off a memo. * Shoot me an email. * Ping me after your meeting. * I can't get to it, I'm putting out a fire here. * Put it on the front burner. * I had to fall on my sword on that one. * Keep the project on your radar. * We need to circle the wagons. God, there are hundreds of these stupid phrases. And we have war rooms. War rooms. It's just a place we store boxes of related documenst. loving war room!
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melon cat posted:My favourite parts about the corporate world: The big lingo phrase at my office is "the thing being is" prefaced before any sentence that comes out of the President or VP's mouths. It's as if they just chose it at random and decided that it would make them sound smarter and more authoritative. And we've got one guy that runs around going "Shhhhew, I'm all covered up" whenever anyone asks him a question or just in random conversation. The dirty little secret is that he doesn't do anything during the day aside from surf the internet for material for his church sermons. Yes, he's a preacher and the worst loving employee in the entire company - and he's the "Office Manager".
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I'm one of those God-complex secretaries people complain about. To be fair, when you control every aspect of several peoples' schedules, are the first face the client sees on entering the premises, are directly responsible for what the entire company ingests, breathes, is supplied with and knows, giving you the power to misdirect, agonize, and subtly kill every single employee should your omnipresent mind decide... ahem. It requires a certain kind of mind. You either kind the kind, comfortably commanding mother hen, you get the quietly competent nerd, or you get The Fuhrer. I think I'm too young to be the first on that list. I keep wanting to do this. Instead, I have to tell people that, no, I cannot inconvenience a dozen other folks in order to move your appointment time up half an hour. And wrestle with the mother hen secretary, who has tenure and a crippling phobia of computers, which also makes me the front-line IT nerd. And try to catch up with the (often poor) people who slip through the monthly billing process. And then I go home and torture Sims.
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Do Not Resuscitate posted:Buzz words... Sense of urgency. Ugh. We all need to have a sense of urgency because we've laid off half the staff and you guys have to do twice as much work now. mmkay? Thanks.
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The manager (who I refuse to refer to as my boss) asks that I provide presentations, proposals, updates and statistics on any project I implement. The first time he asked me for a written proposal I spent the entire day writing one up (12 pages to say "I'm building us a second website") sarcastically. He read it, scheduled a meeting for two days later (because the four decision makers who were all in the office at that time could not just turn around in their chairs) and informed me that he loved my style. After that I pretty much just stopped caring. I haven't done much "real" work in months. They hired a guy who does the "busy walk" and is completely useless. I am struck with every buzzword ever, all day long. After explaining how what they want is inefficient or impossible I am told to do it anyways. After getting it in writing I am yelled at for doing it months later when it's found to be a waste of money. If I hadn't family obligations to this place I would burn it down and watch them all roast.
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Umbilical Lotus posted:I'm one of those God-complex secretaries people complain about. To be fair, when you control every aspect of several peoples' schedules, are the first face the client sees on entering the premises, are directly responsible for what the entire company ingests, breathes, is supplied with and knows, giving you the power to misdirect, agonize, and subtly kill every single employee should your omnipresent mind decide... ahem. It requires a certain kind of mind. You either kind the kind, comfortably commanding mother hen, you get the quietly competent nerd, or you get The Fuhrer. I think I'm too young to be the first on that list. Yes, yes and YES! (Well, I go home and knit, but still.....). I fall between Quietly competent nerd and The Fuhrer, depending on where the sun is in the sky or how much I'm getting poo poo upon at any given moment.
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I'm a client and internal trainer for a financial software company and, overall, I like my job and coworkers. Still, coming from being a TA at a university to Corporate America has been a huge adjustment and there are some things that baffle me and piss me off. 1. Why is there an acronym for every goddamn thing under the sun? Sometimes meetings turn into alphabet soup, it's ridiculous. When I first started my job, I had to learn and certify on the basics of our system, its infrastructure, modules, etc. No problem. I also had to take three tests on acronyms. The first was a match test, the next was a fill in the blank test, and the third was an oral test. My mentor had to read out the word, and I had to explain it in my own words. Everything has an acronym. Departments, job titles, the software names, absolutely everything. People can have the same acronym for completely different things across departments. How we manage to understand each other, I don't know. 2. Somebody in the thread already said this, but I'm gonna reiterate that this is like high school 2.0 sometimes. On my floor alone, there are 5 married couples. They hold hands, get lunch together, and IM each other over our internal IM client. Eventually, after a few years of this, they cheat on each other--with someone who works at the same company. A few weeks ago, someone's husband found out that his wife was cheating on him with someone else from our company. He vandalized her car with acronyms related to our company such as ("Name of company" adulteress, I'm a "name of company" whore, etc.). A few days after this, he pistol whipped her and, thankfully, is in jail now. Usually it doesn't get to that point, but the amount of "Musical Spouses" here is unreal. I honestly don't understand how people do it. It would cramp my style if my hypothetical spouse worked in the same building, floor, and department as I did. One of my coworkers will IM her husband all day if she doesn't have anything to do. 3. I hate being a default project manager when other people drop the ball. If I were asked to do some of this stuff in advance (send documentation to the client, set up a location for the training, etc.) I wouldn't mind...but the day before? Or even the day of, in same cases? If I'm gonna project manage, at least pay me as if I were a project manager. I also hate meetings where very basic questions such as "So where is the training gonna be? How many clients will be there? What type of education do they want?" are all answered with "I dunno.  " I also hate it when project managers promise the client the moon and the stars and then are nowhere to be found when the client is pissed that they didn't get all the things that they were promised. Some of that could have happened if I and the other trainers had been informed in advance that the clients were expecting certain things, but when I don't know that there are these high expectations, I can't really make that happen. 4. I also hate how everything is training's fault. Didn't get that development you wanted? Blame the trainer. Didn't get everything that the project analyst and manager promised you, even though they have no loving idea what training will do? Yeah. Training's fault. It goes on and on. It's annoying, and you just have to suck it up because the PM and the PA aren't there. You are. Other than those complaints, I like my job and my coworkers. v v
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melon cat posted:- The people who do the "busy walk" and act all frazzled, despite the fact that they're the least productive employees on the floor. My favourite people are the upper level managers who have not had any actual work or real responsibility since the late 90's (due to better technology automating stuff) and have realized that the recent economic disaster might mean someone in the company could find out they're being paid upwards of $200,000 a year to do a redundant job (stamp a seal of approval between two other layers of approval). My cousin works at some manner of trading firm as a section manager or something. He takes his section's work, double checks it, makes sure it meshes with the other section's work, does his thing (usually coordinating with another branch or company) and then sends it up the ladder. His boss's only job is to stamp it and send it up the ladder. The guy is literally that dude from office space who made the "jump to conclusions mat". Realizing this, he's added a whole bunch of useless steps to his job which requires everyone under him doing 50% more work just so he can have a few more papers attached to whatever project with his signature on it. These papers are chocked full of redundant information that's already included in the actual work, but requires people under him to sift though countless pages, cherrypicking stats and numbers to plunk into his stupid graphs and charts.
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I don't know if it's been mentioned but... The meetings to discuss what we're going to do as a "team". Usually, the first meeting is missing a few people so we end up having another planning meeting even though the missing people don't matter in the slightest. Once we've planned things we have another meeting to assign action items. All action items go to the 1 or 2 people that actually do things and could be doing things if they weren't in meetings. A follow-up meeting to check status at least twice a day and see how we're "tracking". Red, yellow or green? OK, it's either Red or green. I'm either waiting on someone else or I'm actively working on it. Do I know if it's going to be completed on time? Yes, it is because I gave you a date that was much longer than I had anticipated it taking because I've learned in the past that you will supplement your requirements after the fact to add much more work.
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loving meetings. I'm a software contractor and I do a lot of work with large businesses and local governments. Every single business larger than 25 loves to have pointless meetings. Right now I am working with a local government client that has countless layers of middle management. I am 100% convinced that these people (who make $200k+ a year) do not do a single shred of work ever. No, instead they schedule and sit in pointless meetings about pointless poo poo all day every day until they can retire at 55 and collect a fat pension. I am not kidding. We had a meeting last week to discuss the outcome of a meeting we had a couple days before. The outcome was that we would not start a project until after the third week in June. For some reason, I needed to drive a hour round trip, sit with 10-12 other people and say "We decided 2 days ago that we are not starting this project until June xx." This, of course, took over an hour because we needed to rediscuss nothing, apparently to fill the time allotted for this meeting. I loving hate meetings.
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vampchick21 posted:It's called following corporate policy, not passive=aggressive. I suspect you are one of those very types he's bitching about. Nah it seems like a small detail. You could just do it. The passive-aggressiveness that is so adored by IT is usually not warranted. Joe 30330 fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Apr 22, 2010 |
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Apr 22, 2010 00:05
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Millstone posted:The fact that the manager is his manager should be a loving clue? Ummm....nothing in his post even mentions that it was a manager who made the request, never mind it being his manager. Maybe you need to learn to read? And it still isn't passive aggressive. It's called FOLLOWING POLICY. (nice edit to save yerself. Policy still needs to be followed or poo poo hits the fan.)
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Apr 22, 2010 00:08
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ODC posted:Anyone else eagerly anticipating Friday? I can't wait to wear jeans. Haha! ...God I hate my job.
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Apr 22, 2010 00:12
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Cheesus posted:I'm a programmer. These are my favorites. Oh god, how I hate this. In my profession, any time I hear someone say they will be "brief," or anything of that ilk, I immediately know they are about to drone on and on for the next 45 minutes. To me, it's the verbal equivalent of writing the word "clearly" in a document. It almost always seems to mean the exact opposite.
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Apr 22, 2010 00:16
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monsieur fatso posted:Haha! Casual Fridays own, gently caress the haters.  I started my job in September and, in that time, we've had 1 month of casual days. One week for employee appreciation, another week immediately following that for United Way ($5 donation), the last two weeks of December were casual, and next week will be casual as well ($5 donation to our scholarship fund for children of employees).
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Apr 22, 2010 00:18
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I hate to post in this thread again, but you know what I absolutely hate the most? The questions that people come and ask me that would literally require ten loving seconds of research for them to find out on their own. TEN. SECONDS. Today: "Do you remember what this system was designed for? "WELL LET ME PULL UP THE SPEC SHEET, OH HERE IT IS, RIGHT WHERE IT SHOULD BE, AND LO, IT DESCRIBES PRECISELY WHAT THE SYSTEM WAS DESIGNED FOR! BOY I'M GLAD I WASTE MY TIME MAKING THESE!" Also, our assembly line builds things. I created massive amounts of instructions on how to build said things. Well, they don't follow those and instead go by memory. Why? Because the Production Manager has them locked up in his office. Great idea! No wonder they come to me with questions on how to build them! I'm becoming bitter  On the plus side, I loving OWN casual fridays. I wear jeans all week long (I'm routinely in the plant and found I tear up nice pants within days). So on friday I wear my most awesome heavy-metal band shirt I can find (as long as it's not offensive of course). Megadeth? Nile? Amon Amarth? gently caress yeah. I've been doing it for years and nobody says a thing. Then again my boss wears a Harley shirt most days, so... yeah. We don't have a strict dress code.
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Apr 22, 2010 00:24
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Doctor Butts posted:What is the point of 6S anyway? No one ever loving uses it. Do Not Resuscitate posted:* Do you have enough bandwidth for this project?
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Apr 22, 2010 00:29
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I think I really need to get out of this corporate environment. I work as a geologist at an engineering consulting firm and it's slowly sucking the life out of me. I have made many friends there, and every single last one of them also hates the place with the intensity of a thousands suns and they are all attempting to get the hell out. The place is full of "good ol' boys," hypocrisy abounds, dicks swing to and fro, and every day I die a little bit more inside. Every day I am exposed to endless corporate propaganda about employee ownership, benefits, stock prices, company culture, and the promise that if I love my company enough and make enough selfless sacrifices for the good of the company, the good of the other employees, and the good of myself, that I will be rewarded (with more money). My company began laying off a large number of people recently due to the economy. But that's alright. According to one of our VPs, they all "owed it to us." Yes, our coworkers and peers owe it to us to get fired so that the rest of us may live comfortably and our stock price will remain the same (it actually went up $6 a share after all that  ). Ignore the fact that these people were all hard working individuals who were professional and good at their jobs. But thanks guys! Way to take one for the team. You are a true employee owner!I just hope I can get my poo poo together and have the loving balls to quit soon and pursue my true dreams, lest I become an anxious, fat, bald, alcoholic, pasty, overworked, depressed, divorced, empty shell of a human being.
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Apr 22, 2010 00:36
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As someone who was an intern, I literally ended up having to spend several hours a day doing nothing more than proofread my boss - her insipid emails, her articles, etc. Nothing to make you feel horrible like being a human spellcheck.
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Apr 22, 2010 00:38
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