Cthulu Carl posted:

Different kind of dumb poo poo, but my boss setup a Bluetooth speaker in our area and has been playing fart sounds through it everyone someone walks by.

Hyrax Attack! posted:

one of them tried to have a friendly coworker fired after he caught a major problem they were trying to push into production, they can try their luck with the help desk.

Cowslips Warren posted:

Hey I just got one of those emails from the CEO too, about how important the next few months will be, and how he appreciates what we do. Not mentioned at all is how many yachts the shareholders will be getting from our insane work.

Dumb poo poo at work: say you are scheduled 7am-3pm. Now, I work in delivery, so yeah, I might not get off on time every day. But our dispatch software adds on an extra 50 minutes at the end of every delivery and shift for...some reason. So our daily routes change by the minute, depending on what new priority orders come in, and contacting dispatchers directly leads to them saying they can't change anything because it's been on route for more than 30 minutes, so they can't take anything off. The only way to get off even close to on time is to contact the manager on staff and say hey, I can stay till 3:30 (maybe you just don't want to be a Not Team Player) but need to be done by then. Every. Single. Day. You need to contact the manager every day to say what time you can stay until, and your actual end time, per manager speak, is Fluid.

You have to clock in and be on route within 10 minutes of your start time. But for end time, 3, 330, 5, it's all the same.

Outrail posted:

It's not project management it's Sigma-level Agile Scrumming, idiot.

StrangersInTheNight posted:

Honestly, I manage creatives who aren't tech savvy and who are fairly stubborn, and IT emailing them a list of complicated instructions each time there's an infrastructure transition (which we've been having a lot of lately due to several mergers), it is a hilarious clusterfuck each time.

No matter how much I explain you can email these folks instructions and it won't do poo poo, they are busy and will ignore it and we should plan support for that happening, IT will still be like, nah this is it, the one way we do it, each Man is and Island, and we're still going to be shocked about it when this method of sending email blasts out doesn't work seamlessly and blame the users when the inevitable happens.

In the end, part of my job is to make enough noise to force IT to just remote into these folks desktops and make their computer go for them, rather than trying to teach them how to do it themselves, bc don't try and fix them into the end user you wish they'd be, I just need them working. loving A.

StrangersInTheNight posted:

There's a lot more going on than that and the issues are actually separate but good job once again assuming you know poo poo without listening to people, IT guy.

Enfys posted:

people are faking vaccine cards and getting caught as well as scammed

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/11/fake-covid-vaccine-cards-scams

DreadUnknown posted:

The key to survivng an active shooter is, unsurprisingly, not being seen.

MagusofStars posted:

Just remember that it’s not merely a list of options, but is actually ordered by priority - RUN if possible, HIDE only if you can’t safely run away, FIGHT is your last resort if you can’t do either.

My first job post-graduation didn’t have fire drills. I was in a shared office with another junior staff. One day when the fire alarm went off, my office mate and I looked at each other not entirely sure what it was. He actually said “is that the fire alarm? should we evacuate?” and I shrugged and said I wasn’t sure if it was the alarm, but I guess we probably should just in case. So we casually strolled out the back door in zero hurry (conveniently located like 20 feet from our office door) and on the way, glanced to the side and saw one of the side hallways filling with smoke.

We got outside to the parking lot and were two of the first dozen or so people to pay attention to the alarm…and there were only a dozen or so more people who joined us outside. So 25-ish total people bothered to evacuate during an actual fire with visible smoke out of a floor with 100-ish people on it.

So yeah, I totally buy that some people would be too caught up in work to evacuate.

Sanctum posted:

Wendigee posted:

zil may be right lol... just a random vent... it was pretty funny to randomly land in smoke alarm chat though... I had a chuckle

Strategic Tea posted:

I dunno my job is the holy grail for home working being poo poo:

- Client focused where everything slows to a crawl if you can't just talk to them
- Small, super close teams where everything slows to a crawl if you can't just talk to them
- Every week is a new project so you're never just sitting head down doing rote work.
- We are located in a properly run city :europe: so thr commute was never that bad and never by car.
- Lots of junior staff rapidly learning the ropes, which they can't do if you can't just talk to them (now we're getting people who have been here a year and just never learned to do essential tasks because their seniors did it themselves rather than teaching)
- Massively social company who are mostly 20-30 and actually want to get lunch or drinks together

Karia posted:

Not a personal story, but a poem from the product description of this dress:

I think the model just about sums it up:

Escape From Noise posted:

I think I may have to dump my brown ale because I underpitched my yeast. Didn't realize British ale yeast had weaker diastatic power. I told my nosses and they were understanding and didn't yell at or belittle me. WTF?

Pekinduck posted:

I agree it'll probably never be a problem but I wonder if there's some legalese way to say "hey I have your property, come get it or I'm trashing/selling it" if you really want to CYOA.

Pondex posted:

It's almost impossible to make a man understand something if his paycheck relies on him not understanding it, like H.L. Mencken said.

Pondex posted:

Huh, turns out neither of them.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/

DiHK posted:

I don't show the suction side until the next page.


I don't like the balloons because of the redundancy. Rather than a single (Stud)(Nut)(Washer) ... So (Stud)(Nut)(Washer)(Washer)(Nut) except point to the stud, list the nut first and the stud last.

Escape From Noise posted:

I'm just saying I've visited a dermatologist, a GP, and an ENT

Escape From Noise posted:

My body is falling apart. Make it stop!

Karia posted:

So? Do you have a diagnosis?

Diagnosis? No. We have only just finished collecting... insurance information.

Dr. Faustus posted:

no no no no no no no no no

McGavin posted:

At least the Germans got the 1516 purity law right.

TacticalHoodie posted:

Diethylene glycol wine anyone?

Lazyfire posted:

I think they were thinking of pre 1939 German Purity here.

Zopotantor posted:

That was the Austrians.

Escape From Noise posted:

Mostly I just died. Buckwheat character came through in the wort at least! We'll see how much it remains in the finished beer.

honda whisperer posted:

Did you work for goonfleet Groomfleet?

Escape From Noise posted:

IMHO

boar guy posted:

probably doesn't help that the first beer i had after basically quitting drinking after college for 11 or so years was a blind pig, one of the best in the genre

boar guy posted:

all the ladies say I'm pretty fly (for a boar guy)

boar guy posted:

all the ladies say I'm pretty fly (for a boar guy)

Motronic posted:

Well, enjoy your "work family" I guess.

I suppose I have enough socialization outside of work that I'm not in need of treating employees like children and bosses like parents.

Lots of families have no sense of boundaries too, so I guess this all tracks for you.

Elviscat posted:

We just had a dude on another shift pass away, and his supervisor calling emergency services was what got the Staties to find his car at the trailhead and initiate SAR for him.

I understand that calling the police can be a big moral issue, but if I've been calling you and your emergency contact for a couple shifts, I'm at least going to make sure you're alive one way or another, again, because Motronic refuses to recognize any context clues in a heavily abbreviated story, after exhausting all other forms of contact.

Like, all you have to do is text me, or one of your 20 peers, or my boss or whoever else you have contact info for "can't come in, sick" or "gently caress you I hate you, I quit and I'm not turning in the computer".

Pyrtanis posted:

In my experience with this sort of crap, they just look to see there's something there and move on. I've had this happen twice and it was ignored unless there was no Stuff Entered, and nobody ever had their entries questioned. This of course led to people finding ways to either auto generate it or filling out the whole thing right before it was due to be submitted.

A fantastic waste of time!

Lazyfire posted:

They'll work against their own interests because they are worried anything different than what they've always known will somehow be worse than a bad situation.

BiggerBoat posted:

Middle managers just like to FIND poo poo to bitch about, IME, no matter what the job is.