Iridium posted:

we have a guy in my office that I call wordydev.

wordydev has been with us for ages now and he's loving brilliant, great guy to work with. company has worked hard to keep him on hand and rightly so.

wordydev has a problem though, in that he's the God King of explainer-land. he starts covering a concept and feels like he has to go way the gently caress down the rabbithole trying to explain to everyone with no regard whatsoever to the need to explain it, or the need that it be understood. room full of business peeps so he can hear what they need doing? he'll start explaining how he'll do it down to the code level while they get bored or wander off to get coffee. this is such an issue that he told me once it was part of his annual performance objectives to try to stop pulling that poo poo. didn't work.

the problem is much, much larger when he's not there in person to pick up on the cues that he's going on too long, making conference calls a chore. few people are willing to remote-mute his line when he goes off on one of these tangents, and because he's busy talking, he rarely hears people shouting to tell him to stop, we got it.





a few weeks ago, wordydev went to working 100% remote.

Shaggar posted:

webex works ok I guess but I have weird audio issues w/ it.

mishaq posted:

meetings exist to justify their own existence

JewKiller 3000 posted:

diet soda is literally flavored sparkling water, optionally with caffeine

mishaq posted:

actually its good

Cocoa Crispies posted:

graph posted:

"upper management loves AWS until they get the first bill"

FrozenVent posted:

holy poo poo our official, regulatory compliance approved sop still says and I loving quote "facsimile is to be the preferred method of communication, where cost is not prohibitive"

are you loving kidding me

like the whole thing doesn't even mention email wtf

FrozenVent posted:

ooooh i love those meetings

"our product totally meets (regulatory requirement)!"
"Uh the requirement hasn't been published yet, can we see a copy?"
"well no but er see this technology is expected to work."
"what about XYZ condition?"
"err... well uh ah... well... as long as it's warm enough."
"you realize this is canada right?"

Mad Wack posted:

i have a direct report from one of these groups and her compensation is listed in my manager portal as NaN

Shaggar posted:

only because we pay them to. and we only need to pay them to because our incompetent government couldn't build working rockets once they let politicians start setting production goals.

meanwhile our capitalist system has created much cheaper launch systems that will be filling the gap our failed government systems could not.

anthonypants posted:

https://twitter.com/oleivarrudi/status/849604199314857986

KoRMaK posted:

I interviewed at a place recently that was going to use blockchain in the online voting app the were developing as a means to have ensure security and integrity. Seemed like a pretty decent use of it. right?

Glans Dillzig posted:

lol yeah lemme give out my personal cell number to my coworkers pause not

Sniep posted:

90% of all meetings in my company are over hangouts

Thanks Ants posted:

all conference room av systems are hot garbage unless they cost large amounts of and even then that just lowers the temperature of the garbage. agreed?