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zedprime posted:Teaching the general population about PrtSc or the Snip tool is the worst genie wish ever. I don't know why screenshot OCR isn't a thing yet. I know this is a month old, but it's such a good idea I can't stop wishing it was real. They could call it "What the Snip?"
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Imagined posted:The people who won't learn at 60 weren't any different at 20. They were lazy assholes who learned the bare minimum skills necessary to exist when they first became adults and never learned a single thing beyond that, only growing more and more out of date. People who want to learn never stop. People who don't want to learn never start. I still see people at stores trying (and failing) to use EFTPOS. Once I had sympathy for them because they're usually in their 60s, but cards have been around since the early 1980s. If you can't learn something that's been around for almost half a century, that's on you. Hell, I'm about to hit 50 and I'm still learning all the time Some people just don't want to. They finished highscool and just stopped developing as a person.
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Enfys posted:It's hard to work if you have to keep track of a bunch of slurs you're not allowed to say In the early 2000s I had a tolerance seminars with a bunch of STEM poisoned chemists and engineers and there was the inevitable very long argument between them all about how bullshit it was to not be able to use "technically accurate" terms, and I'm sure everyone can imagine just how fun that was to sit through. So I asked the person giving the seminar if the company could provide a list of acceptable slurs for staff to use. Turns out, no, they could not.
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SkyeAuroline posted:
You can get them on eBay for about $3. If you can't find the key number on the lock itself, just buy a whole new lock for about $5.
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Sep 10, 2021 11:58
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Obviously the best response to "How do I identify someone?" is "Ask them." But as someone who is literally on the other side of the world from the Americas, what is a good general way of referring to 'people from Central and South America'? Because I'd go with that unless someone told me otherwise.
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Oct 2, 2021 09:35
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Space Kablooey posted:I'm not sure how actually useful it is to lump us all together, but "people from Central and South America" should do it well enough if you really have to. At that point though, you might as well lump everyone from the continent together and call everyone American :p I was actually asking myself "When would I ever even need to refer to that part of the world while still being so incredibly vague?" because, yeah you're right, it really isn't that useful. But the conversation was saying "Don't use this" so I wondered what could be used that would be acceptable. And thanks to all the posters who helped answer that question.
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Oct 4, 2021 04:48
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Cthulu Carl posted:I had a job that did that. It was only as I walked out I realized after a year and a half there that THAT's what the tiny conference rooms in the lobby were for. "Execution chambers" is what I've heard them called. Theoretically they're for short meetings with venders and whatnot where it's not practical to bring them in past all the security theatre. But, yeah, they for loving over staff and getting them out of the building in the most efficient way possible while still trying to keep it a surprise beforehand.
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Oct 14, 2021 12:44
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Local Weather posted:It seems to me that the over-arching goal of office spaces seems to be to make people wish they weren't there. I mean when I was a kid visiting my dad at work so many people had offices, then when I went to work at a corporate job there were cubes. After a while they did away with the cubes and made "bullpens". Now there aren't even cubes, just rows of tables with people sitting next to each other, even managers and senior people. I'm so glad it's not (yet) that bad where I am. When I first saw Rita Ora's Your Song video, I thought she was just making use of a corridor and just shoved business type extras in there to fill in space. Turns out, that's literally how a lot of people work now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsELrcVNzG0&t=80s Seems like a living nightmare. Find an uncomfortable stool at a bench, plug in your laptop and spend the next 8 hours wishing you were dead.
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Oct 15, 2021 14:33
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happyhippy posted:The new system was designed by a group of fuckwits that missed simple UI stuff. That's what happens when systems are designed by people who will never use it and have no idea how it actually needs to be used.
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Oct 19, 2021 15:19
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MA-Horus posted:The TPS can huff the farts straight from my rear end, I'm so sick of hearing about it. It also needs a management culture which respects their workers, their experience and their opinions. Speaking of not listening to or respecting workers, the Musk thread was just talking about companies doing surveys about why they can't keep staff and no one wants to work for them. I've done more than one such survey and, in each case, anyone who was naive enough to mention anything negative about the company was talked to by management. "Yes we're haemorrhaging staff, but how loving dare you suggest this company's practices, pay and culture are, in any way, subpar. That is not what this survey was for."
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CitizenKain posted:I actually wonder what my direct supervisor does. I know that they have a lot meetings with other groups, and probably management things, but this guy is something else. A previous manager would still have a one on one once every two weeks, along with a weekly team and weekly group call. Not to mention would just chat occasionally. They're schmoozing up to their bosses, trying to get a promotion.
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Dec 11, 2021 04:07
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Takes No Damage posted:Is this a regional/USA thing? Here 90% of smoke detectors just have a 9v battery. In Australia we're moving over to totally sealed units with a 10 year battery. You pull the tab out to activate it and write the date on the side.
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Dec 20, 2021 13:35
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Natural immunity - It worked with the black death!
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Dec 22, 2021 04:01
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It's the smallest things that are the most annoying. We started to use ipads a while ago for a bunch of stuff and they have a bunch of annoying issues. The worst ones stems from whenever software updates come from Apple. We're not allowed to accept it until IT makes sure all our poo poo is going to continue working. That's not the bad part on its own because it does make sense. The problem is that the update notification randomly pops up a dozen times a day when you're trying to do poo poo and it steals focus from your tasks and stops you from doing anything until you tell it to gently caress off. And, of course, it takes forever for IT to give us the go-ahead to update. We're currently on week five of "Software Update!" Every time we've complained and asked them to turn off the notifications we've been told that it has to be this way.
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Dec 24, 2021 05:26
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BitBasher posted:I think the real Dumb poo poo your work does is using iPads at all without having enterprise management tools already in place to solve this, assuming there is such a thing for iPads. If not then the real problem is using woefully improper tools for an enterprise use case. We did have proper management tools and great equipment. Then they took them all away and gave us iPads.  EDIT: Motronic posted:There are at least 2 flavors of common and easily available mobile device management that work on ipads that would completely solve the issue. Of loving course. Now the question is whether IT is just lazy, lovely or underfunded. Answer: It's all three Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Dec 25, 2021 |
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This is literally why I typed out instructions for everything we do in the lab, laminated it and put it in folders next to the appropriate work area.
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Powered Descent posted:~~~just work-from-home things~~~ I just bought a cheap analogue clock to make a mouse mover. Got the instructions here Buy cheap clock off ebay:  Print out 'static' pattern:  Cut pattern to fit and stick it to the second hand:  Magic: 
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Shoutout to all the poor fuckers currently working for Netflix who are currently speedrunning "stupid poo poo your works does" right into the loving ground. Next week there will be a bunch of C-suits standing around a smouldering crater wondering why their obviously brilliant ideas didn't work*. Sorry for the memey image, but this puts everything they're doing all together in one place:  * then they'll shrug, take their golden parachutes and move straight into another company owned by some guy they went to school with or play golf with and make millions of dollars a year and never look back.
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Apr 26, 2022 05:26
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goatface posted:Make a crab stout. Like oyster stout only with pubic lice. One thing I learned from watching the Hannibal series is that you can brew beer from meat. Now, I'm not suggesting the beer goons kill their employers and brew a lager from their corpses but it certainly seems to me it would be solving more problems than it would cause.
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Apr 26, 2022 13:01
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McGavin posted:The muscles that move the fingers are also in the hand. Fingers are pretty much just bones and tendons. The muscles that move the fingers are in your forearm.
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Jun 1, 2022 12:20
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Outrail posted:'Give me my monitor and I'll submit a trivially easy ticket once a month.' You say this as a joke, but I may just do this at my work. KPIs exist solely to gently caress with.
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IT changed the icons for all our in-house programs. I do not know why they did this, but I want to set them on fire. No, the programs themselves weren't updated. Yes, the programs still have the names under them* but it's loving with everyone's work process. All the old icons were very Windows 3.1 in appearance, but you could move to any workstation and see which program you needed to open instantly, no matter how the regular user had set poo poo up. We were told there was going to be an update, but didn't realise how pointless and stupid it was going to be. * except for the ones on our lovely ipads. They have the new icons and no text
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Jul 8, 2022 15:30
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Escape From Noise posted:No. I know it's really bad. Someone could have easily died. I cannot believe he burnt through two or more loving gas canisters like that. I'm not in a position to really do anything. The head chef was (rightfully) pissed. They need to buy a CO2 alarm. Immediately. How is there an enclosed space with CO2 canisters and no CO2 alarm 
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Sep 25, 2022 10:55
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So glad Australia mandates that you must have alarms if you have CO2 in a non ventilated area. Australian Standard AS5034-2005. loving insane that some countries* don't. * The US. It's always the US
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Sep 25, 2022 16:26
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Motronic posted:Incorrect, but nice research-free assumption. I know OP's in Japan, but assume all the other poster aren't. Besides, whenever horrible unsafe working conditions are mentioned, assuming it's America is a pretty safe bet.
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Ceciltron posted:This was a mediun sized family-owned business on it's second generation of ownership in Canada. Oh god, the only thing worse than working for a family business is working for a second generation family business. First gen are still around to tell you nothing you're doing is right and second gen are so far up their own arses that you can't tell them anything.
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Ravus Ursus posted:Lol. Lmao even. Every time I've tried to teach someone a better way I've been reprimanded for interfering with their workflow by their managers after the person I taught complained. This is why I don't read this thread too often, because I'm sitting here screaming. I've worked with people like that and, dear loving god, do they make me want to pull my hair out or just shake them until all the stupid in their heads falls out their ears.
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