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Had a 4 hour technical briefing on the latest technology coming to our company. One of the guys up front coughs through most of the presentation. When he does his part, he apologies of having to cough, but don't worry, he doesn't have COVID as he's been tested for it. So it's ok to come into work and cough over 50 people in an enclosed room! Wonderful news!
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Work meeting put up a sheet to measure your mental health. Rate out of 1-10 things such like: Have completed 180 minutes of exercise Had enough sleep Had time to connect with friends Had time to connect with family I'm sure morale went up. I know mine went in one direction very fast.
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Alkydere posted:So I go through managers on a regular basis. Nothing exactly surprising, it's just that Amazon is expanding and my facility is one of the better FCs so corporate really likes to promote from the FC in hopes they'll bring whatever dark magic keeps a medium-sized building that's 5 years old (literally ancient in Amazon terms) in the top ten network wide to wherever they move to. If you get on the management train you're guaranteed to be moving up here. In the 4 years I've worked here I've had like...15 managers and only 1 has gotten fired vs. being promoted. Why would the locations success be based on the manager when the manager is getting promoted so quickly they don't actually have any impact? Sounds like it's the low level workers there (the ones not being promoted) who are actually doing the work, but will never get noticed because they aren't management. Dammit, I've been reading too much r/antiwork. quote:Last year I spent the better part of a month developing a climate adaptation project for some government fund that gave us a month's notice to submit a 'new, shovel-ready project with a budget of more than $100,000' for some economic stimulus thing. Turns out they funded about 1% of applicants. Literally hundreds of people spent weeks frantically trying to pull poo poo together because they'd been encouraged to and it was all for nothing. Literally, hundreds of thousands of dollars of people hours wasted, plus the time someone had to trawl through all those applications. The majority of that effort could have been avoided if they asked for 1 pager expression of interest. I'm sure most of those applications got a 20-second glace before being discarded. We are desperate for funding and have no choice but to jump through these inane hoops for no good reason. It's disrespectful. Is this in Australia? Because we're going through corruption investigations with an ex-state leader who has revealed in secret phone hacks that the entirety of conservative state and federal government funds is being sent based on corruption and/or political seats of the conservative party only and the direct mates of representatives. Who then reimburse 1% of the funding they got, back to the conservative political party. So the 1% that are being funded is to have the other 99% act as cover for the corruption. Though I suppose now every government is like that. 
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`15 years ago or so I had to do a group interview for a level 1 tech support role. Everyone else wore suits for some reason. At the end we split into groups and 2 of us had to tell 1 other person how to put together a lego police car. I failed the test, at least I didn't get the job. If anyone ever asks me a stupid question like the PB&J one, here is my answer. quote:Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it. I have it memorized if such an eventuality should ever occur. Comstar fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Apr 8, 2022 |
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5 or so jobs ago in the late 90's I worked at an ISP. Near the end, multiple people asked if I has ever seen Office Space and identified with this character. I had not seen the film at that time - I didn't get the joke. Everyone else thought it was hilarious I didn't get it.  Also, someone kept taking my (black) stapler. And my desk would keep moving around. We didn't have a basement to move me too. And I was the one who fixed the printer when it didn't work. And train anyone new because no one else would. And I missed on some celebration cake because I was stuck helping someone. Eventually the company went bust, the owner fled to China with huge debts, and after I was retrenched, the place collapsed completely when everyone else left was laid off. The office did not burn down, but the owner's house got fire bombed at some point. I saw the movie on a streaming service many years later, and those comments made a LOT more sense. Sadly, I've worked at places that were worse. The good news is, I took the advice from the job thread and quit my last job and have currently got the best job I've ever been in. Thanks, Job thread. Comstar fucked around with this message at 15:20 on May 7, 2022 |
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Atopian posted:Would you say you, uh, connected to a contract database? idgi ?
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I did 3 days of Cybersecurity training and saw our Cybersecurity alert list. Oh god. How does ANYTHING survive long enough not be hacked in any work environment, I don't understand. You want to protect against that level of threat with the lowest possible cost. Everywhere. The dumb poo poo your work does is assuming you'll never be hacked.
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happyhippy posted:You overload your boss with info. My old boss got me to do it twice- both times I now believe it was to try and catch me out slacking off. Both times I sent a dozen pages of excel files filled out with everything I did in 10 minute increments including links to tickets completed. Mysteriously, nothing happened both times and he was curiously disinterested in actually reading my notes. The 3rd time he just put me on a Personal Improvement Program that included such requirements as "Stop what you are doing and smile and small talk to senior management whenever they walk past the cubicle" and "Be less passionate". I resigned the next week after taking the obvious advice given in the careers thread. End result was I now work less hours, for more pay, with a commute 1/4 the length and have much less stress. Op Success. Comstar fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Sep 4, 2022 |
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star eater posted:he thought you were slacking off but also too passionate?????? The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Dumb poo poo your work does - My boss I can't really explain it. I do know he was getting pushed by senior management to increase our ticket totals, because hiring more staff is more expensive than actually letting people work to fix problems - any MBA will tell you that. I suspect he wasn't actually aware of how much work I was doing (despite sitting 10 feet from him) and was suspicious I wasn't actually working but at the same time, was too lazy himself to check the logs showing the work I was doing. Then get annoyed when I spent the extra time he asked for to document *everything* I did in 10 minute blocks. I included the time doing that. It would take months to get someone to replace who left or got promoted to another department - and this was pre-pandemic! Getting extra workers was seemingly impossible for reasons. Comstar fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Sep 6, 2022 |
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Everett False posted:Tomorrow I get to ask some old men if any of them remember what the hell is back there or how to get to it, and if the answer is no I guess we're having someone cut the padlock off? So far, coworkers who've been here upward of twenty years also have no idea what that door goes to. Why do we have a mystery room. Why doesn't anyone have a floor plan of this building. You will find...roll d66! If it's not UXO, Aliens or dead bodies, we will all be disappointed. Maybe an ancient IBM 370 that's still running the bases Nuclear Alert Warning System that once disconnected will alert NORAD of impending Soviet missile strikes inbound.
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Sywert of Thieves posted:
Investment firms only buy things to make money. Making life bad and firing staff is how they do that. Update the resume and prepare to abandon ship.
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CitizenKain posted:We had a fire alarm test at the place I worked at years ago. It was initially just the alarms in the work space, but they wanted to check every room. So we had people escorting them, as it was the datacenter for the place I worked. One of the guys wanted to test the alarm button in the server room and was reaching for it when the building manager grabbed him and pulled him away. That button would kill power to the room and deploy the halon. So I can only presume it’s never been actually tested and will fail completely when needed. To be fair I don’t know how you test that.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z27Ey_FczY&t=473s James Clarke, CEO of Clearlink Technologies in Utah, addresses employees who were given two weeks’ notice to return to the office. Clarke praises an employee for getting rid of the family dog to get back to office and refused to answer the 98 Slido questions employees asked in advance of the meeting. Clarke tells employees who work from home while caring for children that the arrangement is “neither fair to your employer, nor fair to those children,” then tells workers that they’ve mistaken his kindness for weakness and that the executive suite is the place for vigorous debate. The exec team are the only ones who get a say in you having to sell your dog. Good to know.
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Combo posted:I'm secure where I'm at, I make decent money, I'm incredibly valuable to the company and valued by my boss and everyone else, so I'm not like going anywhere or anything, it's just sometimes the owner tosses out a curveball and expects people to deal with it, and I guess it's my turn. Trust me when I say this: EVERYONE thinks this right at the moment you get fired. If you're that valuable you would be getting paid more somewhere else. Because any owner who does that, will toss our a curveball of you losing it, and expect you to deal with it. Sorry about the bad news
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Chewbecca posted:How many of you guys have ever resigned from a job with no other job to go to? And if you did, what was your 'breaking point'? My last job before this one: I was put on a PAP. Everyone on here said to prepare to abandon ship. I did the PAP for one week, meet all the requirements and got told I needed to improve all my requirements. I quit the next day. 2 other people in other cities in the same department quit the same day (though one may have been fired). The manager who put me on the PAP then quit themselves 2 weeks later which makes me wonder what was the point of it all. The commute sucked. A few jobs before that I was in a small team of 4 people in one city and the other office with the owner in another. I was being told to do one thing by the owner and another thing by the local manager and had way too much work to do in too little time with no support. The day I quit 2 of the others said they were going to quit the next week. I learnt to never work for a MSP. The commute sucked. Management has no and will never have, any loyalty to you. Currently I have a much improved commute, so that's nice.
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Chewbecca posted:Question for everyone: What is the best job you ever had, and what made it the best? Was it a good job objectively or just tolerable in ways you could stand? Current job. I went from 2-3 hours commute each day to 30 minutes a day. Not a patch on WFH so many other people have these days, I know. No crawling in traffic either. I can park outside the office for free and not kilometer down the street. I went from an endless list of tasks I could never finish to being able to do the work each day and actually complete it. I can clear out my inbox and it's usually empty of emails I need to respond to at the end of the day, A boss who understands the work load and is able to cover for me when I'm not in the office. They also do not overload me with too many tasks and never enough time to do them. A boss who doesn't micromanage but is also available for assistance if I get stuck and will often be happy to solve the issue I couldn't see. No hot desks and a large desk with 2 screens and I can fit a 3rd if needed. Not working nights or weekends. No meetings (the boss handles all of them). The pay is slightly less but the decrease in stress levels is off the charts. It's not *perfect* but it is good. Perfect would not needing to work at all - my pay did NOT increase to meet inflation
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When I worked at $megacorp the entire 300+ IT team would fill in surveys every 4 months and the results would sent to everyone. Every single one had “stop bring idiots and let us do our jobs” and things got worse over the years. We did get more layers of management but that didn’t seem to help.
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I was asked in an interview for a tech support role on what was the most recent book and magazine I had read. This was back when magazine's actually existed. My mind went completely blank and I could not think of an answer so out of context to the preceding tech questions. I eventuality after 5 minutes of trying to think of any book name I stammered out Time Magazine. I did not get the job. Jokes on them, they got bought out a short while later and the local tech support all fired to offshore. Jokes on me, because my next job ALSO fired all the tech support and off shored it, but I'd been promoted before then (as everyone else had quit and I was one of the most experienced people left, and they didn't want to pay for someone who actually knew what they were doing) so the job lasted nearly 10 years before they got bought out and fired everyone else. I'm much happier at my current job.
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teemolover42069 posted:one of the agents that reports to me got a bad customer survey where they rated her as badly as they could in every category and said in the comments 'racial slurs/harassment close my account'. Maybe the customer just hates doing surveys and hates anyone who asks them to do it. I hate the pop ups that come up on dell and HP asking every ducking time when I just want to do a driver update. My survey answer is always I hate doing this survey.
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I need access to THE Outlook Folder. What is the name of the mailbox you need access to? Its the same folder as XXXX has. What is the name of the mailbox and can you please include your managers authorization to it? Manager: Give them access to THE mailbox. What is the name of the mailbox? It's the same folder XXXX has! They send me a screenshot of Outlook showing a mailbox with the name of a different department in the format of a mail list (not mailbox) but it gives me enough of a clue to work out what Mailbox they actually want. They never actually tell me the name.
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ben shapino posted:hmmm showed up at work and the building isn't there anymore, there's just a big hole in the ground Head as far south as you can. Try and avoid Israeli missiles and bombs. Wait for further instructions from the State Department or your own Goverment if not a US citizen. Alternatively, if you are in Ukraine, surrender to the nearest Ukrainian Armed Forces drone.
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cynic posted:Just found out that our new CEO wants to implement stack ranking in our department That's your hint that you need to get out, get out now. Get to the Choppa. The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Boo-poo poo > our new CEO wants to implement stack ranking in our department.
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I don't understand why the guys who want to go to a work place don't just save the money they are spending on commuting and eating out to not just use the money to build a prison grey or feces brown cubicle in their living room instead. Like, this is a wage cut from working from home right, all the commute cost and time.
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Work: We value your feedback! Me: Provides feedback. Work: Not like that! My mistake was thinking they wanted feedback. They just wanted praise. I'm dumb but I thought the place was better than that.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:You should be able to tell whether or not someone is productive without that. So like, do they have employees who otherwise could just do nothing and no one would notice? Yes they call themselves Managers.
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Mr Teatime posted:Sister ship also on the Israel calling shitlist got struck by a missile just now, our complete dipshit of a company security officer needs to be fired out of a cannon. I’m finding this out here and not on any news sites. If you die I’m sad to say you won’t get a welcome by the sec state detailing your online gaming exploits.
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BigHead posted:My job has something called SmartHealth. It's an app to track your workouts and healthy habits. We're getting spammed with emails to start the new year in a healthy new kick! You're supposed to do healthy things and eat healthy and walk the dog and stop smoking and whatever else and input it all into this tracking app (so they can sell it to marketers) every single goddamn day. I have no idea who the target audience is for this, it seems so incredibly insane. This is the scene in 1984 where the protagonist does his daily exercise in front of the HR lady and yells at him for not doing it right.
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Randy Travesty posted:I got the note yesterday that says "don't sell anything else this month." There's 5000+ unprocessed tickets that are now my fault because I sold too much. So you're the one selling Boeing planes that the door's fell off. Stop doing that!
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Breetai posted:Like, what was their reaction? They said they tried that. Trust me, IT uses the force. Our very presence resolves issues.
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diremonk posted:I end up agreeing to go over tomorrow and hook up some of the gear, but I'm also going to send an email saying essentially that I've taken time off of work and spent my off time doing research /talking on the phone to NBC. If he wants to continue using me to do his engineering work then he is going to start paying me. ON one hand I feel very mercenary about that stance, on the other he has been getting a free ride. My rate at my real job is about 35 an hour, any ideas on what I should say my after hours under the table rate is? Why are you doing all this work for free in your free time while the owner is getting angry at YOU for not doing work for free??? Charge him $100 a an hour. The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Dumb poo poo your work does: Sorry, I can't work for free but I'll do it anyway
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diremonk posted:Unfortunately I've already agreed to go over to do the install. And if he is off air, then no money coming in so I'm in the same place I'm at now. But next time I speak to him I'm going to say that I'm not doing anything else until I get paid for my time. I've probably spent about 10 or so hours dealing with this over the last three months, so I'm going to tell him that I need to be paid for the work. If he doesn't like it he can find another engineer. The only reason I feel kind of bad is he lost his mom and sister two months apart last year and then had back surgery. Dude, you could lose your entire family to cancer, have the same cancer yourself and he won't care. He won't pay you. You're in an abusive relationship being taken advantage of, and this will continue until you are dead, or he finds someone cheaper. Alter the deal. What's he going to do, fire you or withhold your wages hes not paying you??? Comstar fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Feb 22, 2024 |
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diremonk posted:You think that would be bad enough, but a sales guy that I work with came by yesterday and we got to talking about that whole situation. Turns out, and I should have noticed, the station is missing one or two required pieces of equipment. Like fines and possible taking of the license kind of missing equipment. I'm not a vindictive kind of person, but it would amuse the hell out of me if something were to happen. I have worse news: He's setting you up as the fall guy. You were at the location, have a grudge now (as he hasn't paid you) and the knowledge to take what would be needed. So you have means, motive and opportunity. They won't need Lieutenant Colombo to work out who did it once the owner gives them all the "evidence". You're only hope is that a gang of teenagers with a talking animal can unmask him in time. Comstar fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Feb 29, 2024 |
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CitizenKain posted:At an old branch, a VIP office had a hidden door that opened to a private bathroom. There was a coat hook on the wall that lower then normal, and you had to pull and slightly turn it and surprise, bathroom. That's not a bathroom, it's a hidden sex dungeon. Today I got written up for swearing too much at work. I'm not swearing at people, just Microsoft, outlook and a lack of information. I need to start using some words instead of swear words. So far I've got "Blast", "Ugh", "Curses" and "Drat". I fear these might be too harsh though.
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Sloppy posted:Well, we know how this ends Fire the workers.
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I deleted my Glassdoor account. Sorry future employees of places I worked at that sucked. You're on your own. I googled Fishbowl and the entire first page is links to a fast food Chinese Restaurant. I found a link to a Fishbowl app (they don't have a website?) that proudly says "Have anonymous conversations with other professionals who aren’t self-promoting". So Glassdoor decided to kill their company's entire and only resource (ex-employee's telling stories about crappy places they worked) for "anonymous" conversations? Anyone want to signup with fake details and can revel some amusing stories from the company boards? I'm sure the Boeing board is full of fun stuff.
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Thesaurus posted:The book "bullshit jobs" talks about this subclass of bullshit job. It sounds perfect on the surface, but it eventually drives people completely insane because you feel like you have no purpose My purpose at a job like that would be posting to every thread on SomethingAwful.com
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Me: Our customer payments system is missing a configuration option but I'm not sure which one of the 100's of undocumented one fixes it. Payment System tech support: We will only provide tech support to OldCFO account owner - Mario. Me: Mario resigned a year ago. Payment System support: You cannot transfer it to NewCFO without creating an entire new account and setting up every up payment account from scratch. NewCFO: Call them back in 1 minute. NewCFO: It's-A-Me! Mario! Payment System support: Thank you, we will now provide the tech support to It's-A-Me-Mario. No, we won't actually verify that you are actually It's-A-Me-Mario. He actually said It's-A-Me! Mario! and it worked. I think NewCFO is going to look at changing our customer payments system for someone else.
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