carry on then posted:

same, my desk phone is literally older than i am

A Pinball Wizard posted:

Support management invited the entire company to a webinar about our recent salesforce rollout

Somehow 700 people joining a meeting at the same time didn't work....

Necc0 posted:

we were in the middle of working through a lab and someone broke the silence by screaming real loud and now it's quiet again and no one seems to want to acknowledge that just happened

Captain Foo posted:

https://twitter.com/bea_ker/status/700161865192615936

Mad Wack posted:

at my job every conference room is owned by a department and assigned to the admin of that apt - this leads to you booking a room and getting a decline plus form email from the admin. there is no structure across the company for how these rooms are booked and each admin comes up with their own process so depending on what room you try to get you may just have a short im convo or you may be logging into lotus notes to submit a form to a database or even doing a transaction or two in sap. its really cool and good because every dept has way less rooms then they need so you get tribal warfare over rooms and hidden conference rooms.

my mind was blown when i went into finance and was introduced to the "cave" a conf room that looks like a group of cubes but the walls have been removed from the inside so people can meet. then after befriending the us controller i learned that the cave had a hidden cave that was actually a full conference room marked as a mother's room hidden in the back of the cave. also another group successfully lobbied to move the company convenience store to the cafeteria so they could turn it into a meeting room but they kept the keys with their admin so nobody could steal it. my dept (it, what a shocker) consolidated our data center and ops room into one room so the old noc became a hidden conference room that you need retina scanner access to get to and its forbidden to bring anyone outside the dept to it


so yeah people get weird about conference rooms and meeting titles


oh forgot one other thing, all our official conf rooms have those little touchscreens where you can book the room but one day global changed the corp directory backend without consulting the vendor so now for four months they just say "error: unreachable host" and flash between red and green

i don't really pay too much attention to any of this as i am currently consumed in the coffee room wars

Shaggar posted:

setting up a secure transport between you and an unknown party is literally impossible so faxing provides a workaround.

KoRMaK posted:

oh god, or get a job at a place that you care about

do that instead

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.

Iridium posted: