peter banana posted:

well I read How to Win Friends and Influence People and it's a lot of common sense. Plus I question how applicable it is to modern business settings. Most of the problems I've had in careers wouldn't have been solved by saying someone's name reassuringly.

Renegret posted:

I wish I knew this when I was younger so I could have decided to take up a trade like plumbing or something. Maybe I should try sell myself on the street corners.

peter banana posted:

oh good! All of my coworkers who live in the suburbs are now saying horribly offensive things about the local homeless in the part of the downtown core our office is located in! This doesn't make me want to puke at all!

Aquatic Giraffe posted:

I got flown out for an interview for my first "real" job out of college. Depends on the company/industry.

Today I was introduced as an intern by the guy I was working with to someone. I'm not a goddamn intern. I'm a contractor who happens to be in their 20s in a sea of middle-aged people. There's a difference. I didn't say anything because it was irrelevant to the situation and the people who matter know what function I have in the company so it doesn't really matter, but I found it to be kind of demeaning and insulting. Argh.

jkk posted:

On a typical day, I work on projects for at least half a dozen clients. Some of them get billed based on actual hours worked, some don't, but we need to keep track of how much time is being spent on everything. I keep track of my projects in 5 minute intervals. Random non-project related stuff and coffee breaks get charged to "Admin".

jkk posted:

I dunno. The budgeted time for most projects is in 5 minute intervals, ie. I'm expected to spend 15 minutes per day on this and 45 on that. Why would it need to be convenient decimals?

The system can handle either "1.5" hours or "1:30" though. I just find it easier to track 5 minute intervals myself, especially if I'm not doing the whole 45 minutes in one go.

Renegret posted:

Someone who has been wearing jeans and a t-shirt for 8 years, that's who.

Magic Underwear posted:

I'm going to steal your lunch money and give you a swirly, nerd. There is no reason to have a real dress code if you aren't meeting customers.

Lawlicaust posted:

Completely agreed. I am our overseas teams to confirm factory addresses and supplier phones/emails all the time. We have a database with all of that in there but it could not have been updated. Similarly, even if I have a factory website in front of me, I never assume the address is correct. Always ask the in country team. Always.

However a link is acceptable and he was a dick for reporting you.

FrozenVent posted:

Every one of those I've seen was "anonymous".

But then it asked what site you were assigned to, your position, how long you'd been with the company, your age bracket...

Radio Talmudist posted:

What are the bonuses based on? Money saved? I guess that would be an incentive to cut hours, ha.

ladyweapon posted:

Keetron posted:

There are a few things to keep in mind here, one is the perceived cost of operation and the other is the overall cost of quality. I am not sure if it is in this thread that I argue that the amount of bugs while testing is unimportant, it is the amount of production incidents that are disrupting the normal process. These are what counts not only for your end user satisfaction but also drive up maintenance costs.

In theory, outsourcing is cheap, you get the same amount of hours for half amount of the money (or less). However, when poorly executed, it will drive companies into bankruptcy but when properly executed, it is only some 20% or less cheaper due to the added overhead, increased timelines and added complexity.

But anyway, it is quarterly figures that matter and when they look good, someone gets a bonus and when they look bad, the market is to blame.

gently caress, I hate ignorance when it comes to outsourcing.

peter banana posted:

This comes down to who is managing the output of the outsourced team though and most managers don't have the skills to handle it. If they do, they can command a higher salary and more support for their in-house team to deal with outsourced problems. This is rarely put in place because most companies I've worked for just see outsourcing as a panacea that can just be dropped in for a low, low cost without any concern to quality. Also, high quality is promised by the outsourcing companies, so the;re's a bit of dishonesty there as well.

EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:

I am super super happy that my contract includes a clause that says that I am not permitted to work more then 200 7.5 hour days a year.

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

Does every organization have this constant, lovely political slapfight between IT and Accounting?

Keetron posted:

Working with a few from India that can apply for a European passport when working here for about 5 years, it came to light that the mothership is actively monitoring that people don't work in the same European country for more then 2 years to prevent this.

Shadowhand00 posted:

My new boss loves to print out everything. EVERYTHING. Calendars, JIRA charts, etc. etc. This is done daily so that she can carry this around all the time.

Its just a waste of paper. i think she's really organized and she seems really nice, but this is a lot of paper to use and throw away every day.

FCKGW posted:

Rumor is that we're having a shotgun blast of layoffs in 2 weeks to stop the bleeding and then a complete company restructuring in September

Our last quartly results were poo poo, our market is circling the drain, our competitor is eating our lunch and every single one of our new products is currently on a stop-ship. We poured hundreds of millions of dollars and literally years and years of development into a product every single one of our customers rejected, after our competitor delivered it a year before us and cheaper. The only reason we've had jobs for this long is that we bought out the only other competent company in the market. Unfortunately we haven't bribed China enough so they've been holding our merger hostage for the last 4 years and it's seriously hurting our business now.

I also had a meeting with my boss to give me some sort of recognition for single-handedly increasing efficiency in this department at least 25% and his response was "Well, some other people might be upset if I promoted you" because he's a spinless sack of poo poo.

Only 2 more years of work paying for my school and then I'm out of here. Even if I get bounced in the next round of layoffs my school debt is forgiven and I get a sweet severance package

crazypeltast52 posted:

Why would anyone ever stack rank general labor like that? Turnover is going to cost you more than any gains you might see from that, either things are working or they aren't.

spog posted:

Remember this?

Well, we've just had a funeral. Guess what happened?