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Shoehead posted:It literally sounds like Charlie Brown's parents talking to you, it sucks rear end. This is how I used to describe it! Thankfully it doesn’t happen to me anymore, but when I used to teach high school pre-diagnosis, I thought I had hearing loss and told my students that on the first day of class. Then I realized it only really happened when I was stressed out (which is all the time when you teach), trying to do something but being interrupted by a student needing something, and fighting to hear them over the background noise of the rest of the class (like when they were doing group work, for example).
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Volmarias posted:I especially hate, hate, hate voice only phone calls. Video calling is the absolute best and I absolutely prefer it whenever possible, and I'm glad that it exists. Video calls with ugly people, really? Have you actually dealt with that before? Gross. E: honestly video calls are great. Replace with phone calls imo. Makes the entire lovely impersonal workday feel like you have a real job in an actual city. Outrail fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Apr 28, 2024 |
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Aramoro posted:Quoting this post but could have been one of a few here. In the US the employee is also expected to inform their employer of their need for accommodation, if they want one. The employer can then request medical documentation, if they want, and then potentially dispute the reasonableness of the request. The catch in the US is that the company explicitly does not need to adjust their performance goals or expectations as an accommodation for someone's disability. You seemed to suggest that your HR would take the disability into consideration when evaluating the employee's performance, which is awesome if true. In the US, the goal is to find the employee a "reasonable" accommodation that allows them to meet the same performance expected of a non-disabled peer. It's not perfect, but in the context of American employment law, the ADA is a real gem, and I'm continuously amazed that it even came to be. There's no chance the ADA would pass these days.
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disabled people crawling, with great effort and visibility, up the steps of the capital building was a hell of a tactic back when the country still had shame.
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Thesaurus posted:The catch in the US is that the company explicitly does not need to adjust their performance goals or expectations as an accommodation for someone's disability. You seemed to suggest that your HR would take the disability into consideration when evaluating the employee's performance, which is awesome if true. In the US, the goal is to find the employee a "reasonable" accommodation that allows them to meet the same performance expected of a non-disabled peer. It's a complex area for sure, if the accommodation is reduced hours then that's easy because performance scales to your working hours. So for me personally it's about adjusting goals to match what the person is best suited to doing. So for a senior engineer we would expect them to mentor junior engineers, now that might not work for an individual so would just drop that requirement and instead look at other ways they can help, maybe it's technical documentation which would fulfil the brief of communicating with colleagues. Or if it's someone had peaks and troughs in thier performance then looking at how we judge that performance as a whole rather than focusing on the bad times. Perhaps getting better at recognising when things aren't great and getting them off the critical path to avoid stress. It's all a conversation with the employee. This is all easy to do and justify if the employee has engaged with the business. I would say I work in the UK but for an American company and I think in general we do a good job with this stuff.
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kazz posted:This is how I used to describe it! Thankfully it doesn’t happen to me anymore, but when I used to teach high school pre-diagnosis, I thought I had hearing loss and told my students that on the first day of class. Then I realized it only really happened when I was stressed out (which is all the time when you teach), trying to do something but being interrupted by a student needing something, and fighting to hear them over the background noise of the rest of the class (like when they were doing group work, for example). My wife suspects she had ADHD or a similar condition because she'll unintentionally just talk over other people about completely unrelated topics. She claims she simply didn't hear the other person saying anything. The worst part is when it's just the two of us and she interrupts me with "can you believe he did that?" and I have to work out who he is and what he did as she seems to believe I can read her mind when she isn't speaking out loud. She has literally invited me to going away parties for her coworkers in her head, but nowhere else. I had to remind her that her co-workers coming through town tomorrow specifically demanded I show up at dinner despite the fact she told me five different times I was required to be there in the last week. Like, I copied and pasted our IMs about it. We've been married for ten years, I'm used to it by now. Our new friends ask if she has some sort of head injury due to her inability to listen or focus. I arrange all our events because of this problem, she literally forgot I was DDing a bunch of us this past weekend despite a 40 reply text chain. This woman has an MBA; it's not like she can't apply herself or set goals. She's now concerned that getting a diagnosis and medication may slow her down after 37 years of just dealing with it, which I can understand. At the same time; Jesus Christ, how effective could you be if you were able to pay attention to people talking to you?
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If she's using her MBA, then this behaviour is an asset.
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Lazyfire posted:My wife suspects she had ADHD or a similar condition because she'll unintentionally just talk over other people about completely unrelated topics. She claims she simply didn't hear the other person saying anything. The worst part is when it's just the two of us and she interrupts me with "can you believe he did that?" and I have to work out who he is and what he did as she seems to believe I can read her mind when she isn't speaking out loud. She has literally invited me to going away parties for her coworkers in her head, but nowhere else. I had to remind her that her co-workers coming through town tomorrow specifically demanded I show up at dinner despite the fact she told me five different times I was required to be there in the last week. Like, I copied and pasted our IMs about it. Have you considered that perhaps she just does not want to be seen with you in public?  More seriously, it wouldn't hurt to talk to someone more professional than poo poo posters on the something awful dot com forums.
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Imo I think about anything I've done without medication and I wonder how much I could do on it. Like Goku taking off his weighted training clothes.
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:If she's using her MBA, then this behaviour is an asset. 
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peanut posted:Every event/task gets written on a big paper calendar pinned in a very prominent place. I actually really prefer this (plus being able to cross off each day provides a lot of affordance) but the online calendar is much better for being able to see it and make updates from anywhere.
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~Coxy posted:I actually really prefer this (plus being able to cross off each day provides a lot of affordance) but the online calendar is much better for being able to see it and make updates from anywhere. Make one of those smart mirror type deals so you have the best of both worlds
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I'm on a team meeting, and we invited someone from the IT Security team to chat with us about the Distribution Groups we have here. He asked how many distribution groups we thought were here. None of us were even close. It's over 90,000. To put it in perspective, this place has under 1500 employees and maybe another 800 contractors. Edit: But it's an insurance company that sells through independent agents, so that's the main reason there's so many. Agents comer and go and get put on one DG over here, another over there, whole groups are functionally empty, but no one ones that job to go through them all cause...yeah.
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DrBouvenstein posted:I'm on a team meeting, and we invited someone from the IT Security team to chat with us about the Distribution Groups we have here. 
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DrBouvenstein posted:I'm on a team meeting, and we invited someone from the IT Security team to chat with us about the Distribution Groups we have here. powershell delete my homie.
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I would be skeptical that the quoted number is actually the number of security groups (aka plain old AD groups.) It could also be the sum of distribution groups and security groups, since the easiest way to see the number is to login to Azure Portal and look at the "groups" number.
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As often in this thread, I'm glad I don't know what any of this means
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Thesaurus posted:As often in this thread, I'm glad I don't know what any of this means I think somebody opened a bunch of tabs and never gets around to closing them
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Would you believe that my boss wants another $500 of the same peach jelly
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Do y'all cry at work?
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Chewbecca posted:Do y'all cry at work? Do tears of laughter count? Cause if so then regularly
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Chewbecca posted:Do y'all cry at work? Only when I work from home. So 3-4 days a week, tops.
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Barudak posted:Do tears of laughter count? Cause if so then regularly I mean, sure Wish I cried from laughter instead of from despair, that sounds cool as hell
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Chewbecca posted:I mean, sure Sounds like somebody doesnt want a new job, they need a new job.
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Barudak posted:Sounds like somebody doesnt want a new job, they need a new job. That may well be true, but given I only started this year I'm not sure it would look too crash hot on the CV 
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You just tell the interviewer at the next place that you didn’t feel you fit culturally and leave the “because they were an rear end in a top hat clownshow” part out.
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Chewbecca posted:That may well be true, but given I only started this year I'm not sure it would look too crash hot on the CV If its the first time you have job hopped inside a year, noone is going to give a poo poo. If its the 10th time you have job hopped inside a year, people will give a poo poo
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Mzuri posted:Only when I work from home. So 3-4 days a week, tops.  NPR Journalizard posted:If its the first time you have job hopped inside a year, noone is going to give a poo poo. Last role scraped in at 12 months, org before was 16 months across a few different roles (and they definitely wanted me to stay). I am actively looking cos when you have a job it's easier to get a job (truism), but this role was hard enough to get. It's brutal out there. I'm actively looking but idk goons 
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Pirate Radar posted:I think somebody opened a bunch of tabs and never gets around to closing them I actually know a few people who have hundreds of tabs open in their browser at any given time. It seems to work for them but I'd get lost trying to find anything.
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Lazyfire posted:She's now concerned that getting a diagnosis and medication may slow her down after 37 years of just dealing with it, which I can understand. At the same time; Jesus Christ, how effective could you be if you were able to pay attention to people talking to you? Respectfully, life with my partner medicated isssss so much better than unmedicated, I now feel so much more like I have an equal partner, it is absolutely worth it. Also re: auditory processing issues, this video does a good job of expressing what it feels like, as well as the fact it can be frustrating for the listener who is mishearing just as much for the speaker https://youtube.com/watch?v=wg5TTPAZrNU
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Chewbecca posted:Do y'all cry at work? Twice. Once was when my dog got diagnosed with cancer and my boss took me into a meeting room and we both cried for a bit and talked about dogs before he told me to just work from home to spend more time with mine. The other time was when a boss sent me home the day after i was out for a stomach bug, but that wasn't so much genuine emotion as it was lack of sleep, dehydration, and lingering fatigue from trains leaving both stations hourly all night.
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Chewbecca posted:That may well be true, but given I only started this year I'm not sure it would look too crash hot on the CV
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My workplace has an "Employee Assistance Program" - a thing in Australia (and probably elsewhere) where your company pays an external company to provide counselling and whatever. A feel good nothing thing usually. Anyway I had a phone appointment with a counsellor and I'm crying and the lady is doing the usual spiel. I'm telling her events from just the last 3 weeks and I poo poo you not, she moves away from the motivational speech and starts floating finding another job as the best option. "this isn't a dress rehearsal, this is your life. At a certain point you have to ask yourself - is this what you want to spend your time doing?". I was on the phone like  She's right, I just didn't expect her to say it. In fairness, she gets paid either way so why not.
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Outrail posted:E: ^^^ or that I got the majority of my master's and doctorate degree done on company time this way 
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Chewbecca posted:My workplace has an "Employee Assistance Program" - a thing in Australia (and probably elsewhere) where your company pays an external company to provide counselling and whatever. A feel good nothing thing usually. I had a similar experience with a management coach hired by my company he was just like "You know, work is not that important, you need to set boundaries and probably reduce your availability for work, Maybe just turn your work phone off" 
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Chewbecca posted:My workplace has an "Employee Assistance Program" - a thing in Australia (and probably elsewhere) where your company pays an external company to provide counselling and whatever. A feel good nothing thing usually. I love situations like this, where the company is just providing X service bc it serves as a good culture band-aid to say you care about your employees, and then the service actually does care and ends up loving up the company's jam
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Dance Officer posted:I actually know a few people who have hundreds of tabs open in their browser at any given time. It seems to work for them but I'd get lost trying to find anything. Chrome has a dropdown menu with all your open tabs and recently closed tabs. There's a search field! It's the downward-pointing arrow above the settings menu.
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Chewbecca posted:My workplace has an "Employee Assistance Program" - a thing in Australia (and probably elsewhere) where your company pays an external company to provide counselling and whatever. A feel good nothing thing usually. When I used my company's referral service the first time like 10 years ago, I ended up with a counsellor that was so good I saw her for many many years after out of my own pocket. Two years ago when I tried to ask for help finding a grief counsellor due to many deaths in my family, I got a workbook webpage on Grief that had balloons and fireworks after every segment you completed. No idea if that's still the case but I did get a nice apology from HR and the other company as well after I lost my poo poo at them. Nothing says we care more than a light show after pouring your heart out.
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