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Emails with cutesy fonts and background texture images like it's loving 1996, except the texture is now a high-res, billion colour piece of poo poo.
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Feb 17, 2021 13:22
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I remember a conversation with an NHS psychologist talking about how she was allowed to use their network to access whatever pornography she wanted to discuss body dysmorphia and sexual hangups with patients, but she wasn't allowed to use it to access YouTube because that could be used for shirking.
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Feb 17, 2021 20:23
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The manual doesn't exist, the code they have available is probably without comments. The guy does everything by traditional witchcraft and he has no idea what the common patterns are. He is un-sackable because all the recipes are locked up in his failing brain and he refuses to write anything down. This is normal.
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Feb 17, 2021 22:54
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The prospect of having a task in front of you that is absolutely in your control and immediately of obvious purpose, consequence and value. Gloriously simple. You'd probably end up spending half your time working on advertising it and the other half managing a system to organise inventory, sales and delivery.
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Feb 20, 2021 13:12
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Sounds like some serious mental decline to me. Properly unhinged thinking. Were there no regulatory bodies you could shop him to on the way out?
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Feb 22, 2021 13:29
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Reminds me of the time I was being trained about group mailboxes and picked a random one from the list to see what the "you need to request access" error looked like. Instead I had full access to a shared inbox for director level reports etc because loads of them had the wrong permissions. This was about a month after a big data security push. I bet they loved that little security breach report I had to fill in.
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Feb 22, 2021 17:46
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NapalmWeasel posted:lol that's great. I'm sure your reaction was more like "gently caress. Now I gotta fill out paperwork so I don't look like I was intentionally trying to glean information I shouldn't have access to." P much. After that and a few other procedural snafus I was involved in unpicking that year, legal now know who I am. I'm not sure if that's good or not.
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Feb 22, 2021 18:43
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Just add a few dozen more digits and let probability do its thing.
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Feb 23, 2021 23:08
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Yikes. Are we in COBOL country?
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Feb 23, 2021 23:13
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Good luck.
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Feb 23, 2021 23:21
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Someone at work asked if we needed to have a mechanism to purge all Teams and Yammer data more than 7 (maybe 10, I forget) years old like we do serious business emails. I think the committee is still arguing about that one.
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Feb 24, 2021 21:12
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Post the podcast. We can review it and send them some pro bono market research.
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Feb 25, 2021 15:44
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That is basic management skills, get your name on the thing, get the project out the door, claim the credit, gently caress off before anyone realises it falls over if month ends on a Sunday. It's like playing the stock markets. Pump and dump and hope you never get caught. The fact that you got the plaudits/money is proof that you are trustworthy.
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Feb 25, 2021 20:49
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Everyone sane does. It's just unfortunately profitable to be a professional psychopath.
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Feb 25, 2021 21:53
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Our office is talking about far, far fewer people being in the office full time generally, but that's mostly the admin side people. There were already people doing my job and living 400-odd miles away who only ever came to the office for a day every 3-6 months. It is at the point where it might push bodies down so low that discussions are ongoing about conversion of some open plan back into offices for the people who want a permanent desk for F/T work in the building. They'll probably just compress everyone down and search for tenants though.
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Feb 26, 2021 18:56
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At least my work hands out vouchers redeemable at a variety of places that are steadily going out of business.
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Feb 26, 2021 23:38
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The Butcher posted:I'm actually switching out of IT, it's driving me crazy. Want to do something useful even if it's for less pay. I'll miss my crow friends though. Leave a trail of peanuts so they know where to find you.
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Feb 27, 2021 00:18
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Nah, that's pretty standard across government. Probably funding an external contractor to provide the basic services who need to price gouge to ensure their 50% slice off the top is worth having.
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Mar 1, 2021 16:48
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Bright Bart posted:In some (or all?) EU countries it is standard to have your picture on your CV. That is not only annoying but also makes printing what will likely get thrown into the bin (or if you're lucky shredded) much more expensive as colour is expected. I know that in the UK including a photo will commonly get you binned unread. I had never considered that it might just be to keep the Europeans out.
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Mar 1, 2021 18:01
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Latin roots are strong in the legal section of the language.
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Mar 2, 2021 14:18
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George H.W. oval office posted:I remember friends talking about group interviews for working at the mall Hollister and Abercrombie because they very quickly needed to weed out a bunch of uggos Was that policy the one they got sued for or the one their CEO just openly admitted to because he was an idiot who didn't understand public relations?
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Mar 2, 2021 16:45
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I dunno man, Boeing ain't the best example for "safe planes" recently.
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Mar 4, 2021 18:35
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Mr. Sunshine posted:Way back in high school, we had this one week of "work practice". Dunno what the US equivalent would be, like an internship but part of your studies. Think we got paid, but can't remember. Anyway, my dad set me up with the IT department of the local marine regiment, doing ultra-basic computer maintenance stuff. Pretty sweet gig. The maintenance team was me and two twenty-year-old conscripts, and we'd spend most of the time eating snacks and watching pirated movies. He probably just wanted to know if anyone had anything worth seeing.
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Mar 4, 2021 22:09
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We don't get free tea and coffee because
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Mar 5, 2021 15:48
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Are you replying to each of them as they arrive? A nice "thx hun x x x" perhaps?
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Mar 5, 2021 18:48
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I have no idea how you stay sane with such minimal holiday per year.
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Mar 8, 2021 17:39
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You should burn that place to the floor.
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Mar 10, 2021 13:49
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It's machinery, but turbo.
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Mar 10, 2021 18:33
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One place I worked had little RFID stickers on the walls for the security staff to swipe on their rounds. The first time they put them up they didn't tell anyone else in the building about this new system and so the next day the cleaners went round the building peeling all the strange stickers off the walls and chucking them in with the rest of the rubbish.
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Mar 11, 2021 16:57
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I really don't like the lack of distinction between home and work spaces. I much prefer it being in another building entirely. Might be my location on the spectrum, might just be a sign I need a shed office at the bottom of the garden.
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Mar 12, 2021 18:03
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Ugh. Qine
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Mar 12, 2021 18:03
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d) attempt to seize control and make it about whatever thing you're working on instead
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Mar 13, 2021 11:58
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drat, that's some fine liquidation.
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Mar 16, 2021 00:08
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I have seen threats to ban all those auto response things "if people won't stop being so negative". But the hug-box echo-chamber is a myth.
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Mar 17, 2021 17:51
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The correct number of monitors for a job is always one more than the number you have.
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Mar 18, 2021 13:53
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SkyeAuroline posted:New entry in the saga of "poo poo my work pulls". Consider burning it to the floor.
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Mar 18, 2021 15:52
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I worked in factories during the summer in my youth. I remember a guy getting fired because they found a few empty cans of Stella balanced on his machine (can't remember if it was in the printing works or the injection moulding plant) that he forgot to take away at the end of his night shift.
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Mar 18, 2021 19:58
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I think my reply would have involved four letter words and graphic imagery and probably resulted in a caution from hr.
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Mar 19, 2021 17:01
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Plant MONSTER. posted:my boss doesn't know computers or her point of sales software that well and I while I'm not a computer person, I certainly know a lot more but she says I click too fast You should have listed your pro APM on your CV.
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Mar 21, 2021 16:44
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You need to classify it as a medically hazardous interaction and demand danger money.
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Mar 22, 2021 23:01
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