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Unless you are jobless or live in your own filth collecting dogecoin all day for your 40k miniatures, you are probably working for a company/someone else. This thread is to complain about the dumb poo poo your management does and makes you do. I've got a couple to start with. 1. Whenever we make an engineering change against design documentation we have to create "change pages" detailing what things are changing. The problem is, we are not given engineering tools. So we have to make drawing changes in MS Paint, write out a detailed description the best we can, or if you wanna get real fancy, use something free like draw.io. These change pages then all get applied to the applicable drawings (as attached files), and once they reach a certain threshold (like maybe 5 to 10 changes) a designer who actually DOES have engineering drawing tools, will incorporate the changes the best they can to the original diagrams/schematics. It may take more than a decade to actually reach the threshold, even though the change pages are official changes to the design. So in the meantime the field has to review the original documentation and get all of the change pages and spread them out like they're trying to solve a cold case murder by connecting the evidence, and determine what the actual current configuration should be. Yes there are errors made. 2. There has been an ongoing company anti-phishing campaign, where IT is essentially trying to trap employees into clicking email links they shouldn't, so that they can be publicly humiliated by their peers. Which is fine. However, every time a fake phishing email gets sent out, it's followed by other emails from leadership in our management chain to everyone telling us to NOT CLICK THAT LINK IN xxxxxx EMAIL. It kind of defeats the purpose of trying to increase awareness of the Dangers of the Internet, and to always have your guard up. I guess it doesn't seem to matter though because there's always some boomer clicking the fake phishing links, despite the dire external email header warning and the numerous emails from leadership warning of the email. They're probably thinking they missed their USPS delivery of medications or something, who knows. What is comical about it is our Cyber Security department has the worst metric for falling for these fake phishing attempts in the company. Let's hear some dumb stuff that I can laugh about and continue to ignore my work duties. 
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Jan 29, 2021 19:06
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A Fancy Hat posted:I had a zoom meeting last month and for the first 10 minutes they played music and told everyone to dance. Like a half dozen people were doing it (out of a few hundred) and they just kept that music on loop for the whole time. At the end of the meeting they said they didn't have enough "dance footage" and told everybody to put their cameras on. Ah yes we too have had virtual celebration. Gotta love hearing a manager say enthusiastically so what is everyone excited about for our accomplishments this past year? I think someone coughed but uncomfortable silence from 75+ people is funny. Another manager saved him.
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Jan 29, 2021 19:38
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Are we sure we don't all work at the same place
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Jan 29, 2021 21:17
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DickParasite posted:A few months ago we spent a half day doing mandatory Office 365 training. In case you're wondering you open a Word file exactly the same way you did in Office 2016. We had the same thing. But there are old people at my company that are very scared of the move, and everything in general. These are the same people who work everything out of their C drive and then when the computer dies or they retire and IT takes the PC all of the work is lost.
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Jan 30, 2021 14:26
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Friend posted:I work for a small home decor retail company with two stores. They recently moved to a new inventory management system from the old one that was "copyright 1997-2003" and changed how they defines SKUs. So there's a likely possibility that the inventory is really messed up. Probably a lot of one offs or odd amount of any one option that's gonna sit around forever.
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Jan 30, 2021 21:54
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Noblesse Obliged posted:Oh hahaha. Ya mattec. I love running the coms cable right up tight to the main 3ph 1000amp bus bar. Saves a bunch of space and looks better. As a controls engineer this makes me shudder.
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Jan 31, 2021 18:25
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Someone got hurt working from home so we had a briefing where they taught us how to sit in chairs and open drawers. vvvv they cut their hand vvvv Full Metal Jackass fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Feb 1, 2021 |
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Feb 1, 2021 18:10
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A Fancy Hat posted:My boss has been my boss for roughly 3 years now. I have never met him in person and for the last 8 months he hasn't had a single conference call or meeting with our group. I've spoken to him for about a combined 3 hours in the entire time I've worked for him. Lord I pray for a boss that would be non-existent.
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Feb 1, 2021 21:41
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Tetramin posted:We use Webex teams for chat and my group is the only one in the company who has IM, which I absolutely love, not getting daily requests over IM from someone who thought to look me up in the chat system. I use jabber everyday. Oh and also teams. And webex. This is my life.
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Feb 3, 2021 00:36
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Riatsala posted:The General Manager decided that this all sounded pretty "faggoty" and went back to napping in his office. I got canned a week later, also for being "faggoty" (technically accurate, but not the term I prefer) but there was still 2 months on the contract so they had to cut me a check for all of it on my way out the door. Uh what the hell?
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Feb 5, 2021 21:21
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Without knowing your situation, that did sound like it had sexist undertones, even before I read your last part where your actual manager mentioned it. It reeked of it tbh
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Feb 9, 2021 18:05
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genericuser posted:As a result of a re-org devised by madman, I report to three separate directors. They all scheme against each other and refuse to speak to the other two directors. We reorged at my company too to save money and become more cost efficient. The general staffing structure is frontline-> supervisor -> department manager -> director -> VP. We have many department managers and directors without reports. They don't fire or demote people. They keep cutting down frontline and having sections do more with less but high six figure salaried managers remain around for "special projects" or other nonsense. These are people that should have very many reports under them. We have an anonymous reporting ability in our corrective action system where frontline employees keep pointing this out but they keep getting closed lol.
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Feb 10, 2021 15:13
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Forced move to onedrive - check Lock everyone out of older network drive before getting to move files over - check
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Feb 10, 2021 18:37
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There's a bunch of people absolutely throwing a fit about having a 10 year retention limit for files on the new onedrive. I guess it's based off of each file's last modified date. So to satiate the crowd they are asking IT if there is some kind of script they can run to mass modify every file's last modified by date, once they allow all the boomers access back to the network drive to move over their gigs worth of year 2000s PDF'd emails they've never opened in 15 years.
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Feb 10, 2021 18:45
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Lazyfire posted:My company moved to Office 365 a few weeks back and just started encouraging people use Microsoft Planner to set up action items, road maps and what not. Hail satan
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Feb 10, 2021 19:46
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~Coxy posted:We're a cool, hip, carefree company! Feel free to have a beverage during the meeting! My job is WFH right now but they do a thing where they randomly call you up to come in for a drug and alcohol test during work hours. Once you answer the phone and engage in convo they spring it on you and you have 2 hours to come in and take the test, otherwise it counts as a failed test. This has gotten two people fired so far for failed breathalyzer (has to be 0.0).
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Feb 12, 2021 03:20
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CarForumPoster posted:I have to know, what job can be done WFH that would have this as a requirement? Nuclear power. 1redflag posted:Just don’t answer the phone. So simple One time I didn't answer the phone so my boss called me on teams and I didn't answer the teams call so he messaged me saying "it shows you're online???" Woops. Full Metal Jackass fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Feb 12, 2021 |
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Feb 12, 2021 05:29
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Theres many people at my job who have meetings the entire day. I'm not aware of them producing a single thing though. They are making a career out of meetings and "staying engaged." God bless em
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Feb 12, 2021 14:58
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InternetJunky posted:I'm currently on a project that is in a phase where we have to have 6-8 hours of meetings a day with the customer and then another 6-8 hours a day of actual work. It's just the reality of how these things work and I, and my fellow co-workers, have seen this cycle many times and accept it. This week we were under a crazy deadline to finish up our main deliverable, and had just left a meeting where we were told by a project manager "do whatever it takes because this deadline isn't going to move." We went into our next meeting, where a newer employee who wasn't part of the previous conversation asked "when I book my time do I just put in 8 hours for the day or do I put in the actual 12-14 hour number?" The same project manager responded "you should not be working more than 8 hours a day, you are expected to maintain a healthy work/life balance." This isn't a salaried position?
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Feb 13, 2021 14:55
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To work through a specific process at my job, you need no less than 4 procedures open that guide you through the administrative part and requirements for the final documents. You need more open if working on slight variations of this process or if it's more complex, which is common. The procedures are complicated and intertwine steps between one another both directly and indirectly. They randomly get revised to fix issues or change requirements so you have to follow through the latest revisions each time closely. The people that own and write these procedures haven't done the process in many years so this ends up with conflicting procedures or steps that simply won't work. This year we are adding a new procedure to the mix. Efficiency is not the name of the game.
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Feb 15, 2021 18:39
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InternetJunky posted:You guys are making me feel super self-conscious about my emailing now. Just don't end emails to coworkers with "respectfully yours" or I'll think you're a dumbass.
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Feb 15, 2021 18:53
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Tarkus posted:One thing I hate is when people make their email signature a page long like putting announcements for deals and stuff from their company along with 15 forms of contact. Some mail clients hide the signatures properly, some don't, so sometimes I have to see the see the same page of text over and over again as a scroll through a thread. Name, Company, position and 2-3 forms of contact at most is all that's needed. Oh and wildly varying colored text and fonts bug me too. What about people with multiples quotes in their signature? Or the admin who makes her email background a watermark of flowers. Then that flowerly background stays for subsequent replies and pretty soon you have a director sending emails with flowery backdrop lol
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Feb 15, 2021 20:47
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remigious posted:Email etiquette is simple, and based on your position in the company. Lowest on the totem pole? You had better have meticulously crafted emails that are super polite. VP? Can respond with “k thx” or not at all! Email reply from a director or above to you after you pour tons of effort and research into an email full of requested info: "k thx Get Outlook for iOS"
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Feb 16, 2021 18:10
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Lol at signing off with "warmly".
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Feb 18, 2021 03:33
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To all, This morning the bathroom on the 2nd floor flooded and all staff is advised to relocate to another building or work remotely, as a health hazard has been declared. It will take a few days for cleanup and sanitation due to sewage backup. Warmly, Department Management
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Feb 18, 2021 03:42
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Sk8ers4Christ posted:My manager tried to deactivate the fire alarm when there was an active fire in the building. This is the good poo poo right here.
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Feb 18, 2021 03:57
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Ngl, Frank is kind of a badass.
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Feb 20, 2021 01:32
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Time_pants posted:This is violence. It triggered me and when I finally forgot about it you brought it back up. 
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Feb 26, 2021 15:50
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Received a thank you card for employee appreciation in the physical mail. 
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Mar 9, 2021 06:04
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At my work place you have to fail horribly and cost the companies thousands/millions to move up.
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Mar 27, 2021 20:17
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Inzombiac posted:Because of our structure, we literally cannot move faster than our slowest member. Every phase of a project must be reviewed and approved by at least one specific person and they can't seem to grok that we are all waiting on them to click a button. If it's even slightly important or time sensitive I don't even mess with these people anymore. I immediately get their management involved to compel them.
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Mar 29, 2021 17:44
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Saalkin posted:I'm currently in a big rear end teams meeting for my department and their talking about privacy poo poo and gently caress I'm not paying attention to this trash. The person presenting in my team's meeting right now has apologized because we can very clearly hear his cat attacking its scratching post/home thingy but he won't move rooms.
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Mar 31, 2021 15:30
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Every project has change orders.
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Apr 7, 2021 04:10
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A contract company writes the spec, for an AE to do the project, which has aspects farmed out to smaller contract companies. What could go wrong? Oh right, the customer getting something that doesn't work.
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Apr 7, 2021 04:14
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Outrail posted:But did they get what they ordered? Lol
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Apr 7, 2021 05:32
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Inzombiac posted:My boss on Monday: Hey, get this in by the end of Friday. I won't have time to review it until next week. I hate this stuff. Procedurally we have corrective action program due dates that differ depending on significance. But then we get hounded constantly to be completed on dates much earlier than what is in our procedures due to "metrics." Each group wants to look better than the others on the metrics charts during the management meetings. I have had the argument more than once that if they want those dates then put them in the procedure. It's the Office Space pieces of flare argument in real life.
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Apr 11, 2021 17:37
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illionaire posted:I was in an online meeting today and when the presenter shared their screen I saw the Something Awful forums on their browser's shortcuts page. I just want that person to know that I know their shameful secret. This is a mystery that must be solved.
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May 5, 2021 21:46
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Just got an email from our CNO that someone got fired for charging HUNDREDS of unearned PTO hours. Our payroll system also requires leader approval for time exception like PTO. The email states the leader was approving the hours and didn't ensure the individual had accrued them. We get like 120 hours a year and cant roll it over so this leader is an absolute dipshit or in on the scam and gets no repercussion. I'm sure they'll be promoted soon.
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Jun 4, 2021 17:52
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I hate giving estimates on when something will be done because the easy part is controlling my portion. The difficulty is trying to compel everyone else to do their part to finish the project. So I'm always so wishy washy on that. I'm always reassured that "don't worry this just so I have a ballpark; it's not a hard deadline." It always ends up becoming a hard deadline that I failed to meet lol Edit: to clarify this is for internal teams or organizations. I don't work with outside customers.
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Jun 10, 2021 00:43
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Spatial posted:One of my friend's coworkers regularly throws screaming tantrums at others over the slightest most insignificant things. We're talking straight up red faced spitting rage for ten minutes straight, which is so extreme and so loud it even disturbs people on the other floors of the building. What the hell?
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Jun 10, 2021 19:59
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