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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

immensely

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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

eh worst parts are that our config is fundamentally hosed. no persistent conversations, broken chat rooms. completely useless

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

minivanmegafun posted:

hipchat is okay. not great. but okay. better than Skype for B which is trash garbage

I would have to coerce IT into deploying that. I keep hoping its coming as we use Jira and confluence more but so far no dice

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

ahmeni posted:

just use slack

can't its blocked in a zillion different ways and also a violation of a bunch of stupid policies

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

the closest thing were doing to anything even vaguely modern is rolling out a project life cycle management suite of tools which is certain to be a horrific pile of rear end that were paying a deece eight figgies for and I cannot loving wait for it to be just as terrible as the fresh hell of a share point dumping ground that it is replacing / n+1ing

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

we will likely continue to not have a slack /hipchat /usable communication tool

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

mod saas posted:

you have n problems, which you'll solve by replacing them with 1 knowledge base

now you have n+1 problems, which you'll solve by replacing them with 1...

+1

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

adulthood is emailing back and forth "sorry for the delay!" until you die

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013


oh my god

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Iridium posted:

so the director of my group (manager's boss) is in charge of our bullshit Innovation Team. i've participated in this team for several years because it's easy, and yet looks good to everyone else.

that's in spite of the fact that we're basically three people that do nothing but set up a now-annual hackathon. said hackathon doesn't really accomplish anything: it's just a big showcase to make it look like all our divisions are working together, and to be a sort of fun reward for the devs that get involved with it.

we're working on setting up this year's and we're struggling to find a theme. we keep it broad so that the different levels of expertise with the divisions can find ideas for new products and poo poo, while the devs here at the parent company can still come up with employee focused poo poo. but the themes get so loving ethereal that it's like, why bother.

alors.

director has apparently been listening to TED talks to look for ideas for a theme and has now encouraged us to do the same. this is the list of videos that greeted me when i fired the site up to start listening this morning, and at least half of the titles alone make me want to stab myself in the eye.



rejected-clickbait-titles.txt

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

anthonypants posted:

sam hyde did a tedx talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yFhR1fKWG0

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

we had to call the consultant on a cell phone to tel him the call in number for our conference call with him that is just us and him. idk why we didn't just call him directly.

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

I am in a conference call I anticipate it being bad

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

good too see dilbert jokes circa 1995 are still in

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

political action conference calling with a bunch of fellow socialists

from each according to their inability to mute their phone, to each until it becomes a screech of feedback

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

why

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

health care

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

quit your job

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

quit

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Bulgakov posted:

*huffs and puffs into scene*

actually, they used pencil!

and the pencil was a terrible piece of poo poo that left little bitty graphite shards all over the drat place hope you wanted your air filters to get hosed up

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

mishaq posted:

the only rockets currently capable of flying humans into space are soviet

or chinese

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

altho there's plenty of other rockets that could put people in space they're just not for various reasons

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

mishaq posted:

aren't those just heavily based on soviet design?

idk probably but theyve been making their own for quite a while now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_(rocket_family)

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Shaggar posted:

space launch wasn't a natural monopoly though, it was litterrally the law that only the government was allowed to launch rockets. as those restrictions let up, private space launch companies started creating their own rockets designed for competing in the market to launch stuff into space rather than emulating government rockets which were designed to meet political production goals, with space launch being a tertiary concern.

its almost like bigass rockets are indistinguishable from weapons systems and are treated as such

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

on a company wide call but we can't call in to the apparently external (probably webex) conference bridge because we don't have enough phone lines for the company to all call out at once

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Mad Wack posted:

hi team, please describe conference calls using just three words as this is best practice

BARK BARK BARK

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Rex-Goliath posted:

qa : join this webex plz
me : what's up
qa : you're working on the source code fix, right?
me : yeah it's been done for a while but i keep getting pulled into meetings and haven't put in the merge request yet
qa : ok don't put in the merge request there's another issue that's come up- did richard reach out to you about it?
me : we just talked about the fix i just put in like- 30 seconds ago....
qa : no no- it's about the u.g.h. fix
me : the what?
qa : you-gee-aich
me : i'm searching all our transforms for that field and i'm not seeing it anywhere
qa : maybe it still had to be added- hold on i have richard joining the webex
richard : what's up
qa : i saw your message about the ugh issue. rex is saying he's ready is your fix ready as well?
richard : .... what?
qa : the ugh. you-gee-aich. the other thing that had to be fixed
richard : no i was saying 'ugh' because someone said this was fixed like last week but it wasn't so i had rex do it
qa : what
richard : like- ugh. you know? ugghhh- you spell that 'ugh'
qa : oh so we're good then

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

webex is good

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013


I want to die

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Beast of Bourbon posted:

at my last office job the 4 number did not work on my phone and they never fixed it so I couldn't dial in to like half of the meetings

blessing

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

the heck is 211

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

PCjr sidecar posted:

the 91x area codes predate 911

they should just reassign them

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

webex doesnt seem that bad. idk maybe i only work with competents

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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Rex-Goliath posted:

webex is fine the problem is people not bothering how to learn very easy features despite using it for years.

'huh every time i have an all hands call it's a shitshow because no one mutes their line. oh well- guess that's that.'

we do this ownage thing where we mute all attendees then at random points ask if theres any questions on the line w/o unmuting anyone. we do this literally every time. idk if its intentional or not but i love it

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