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titty_baby_ posted:I couldn't do both jobs at once. Im worried about the seasonality of it and its likely I wouldn't get as good of benefits (I essentially work in govt so my bennies r gr8). It's also way out in the countryside on lovely roads and will put a lot of wear and tear on my car. If you can get that weed farm job locked in, do it, you'll feel better doing something physical and outdoorsy and the commute might be good too
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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. One day the department boss, some major or something, walks in and tells us we need to find out if anyone is storing porn on their computers. This was back in the 90s, so way before streaming services. We just set up a network-wide search for images and video, and let that poo poo run for four hours. Then I get to manually sift through the results to determine if any of it was porn. Dunno who though that having the 16-year-old intern watching porn as part of his work practice was a good idea. Didn't find anything too weird, but most of the poo poo I did find was on the major's computer. Maybe he put it there as some weird trap, to see if we were doing our job, or maybe he just thought we wouldn't look at his computer.
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Can we talk about corporate wellness programs?  Maybe I'm too cynical but forcing me to sign affadavits that I got a flu shot and dental cleaning, track how many vegetables I eat, and do courses on mental stress to get a discount on my insurance premiums sucks. Pretty sure I'm not going to have any epiphany jumping through these hoops.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Can we talk about corporate wellness programs? "and we're going to ask you to step outside your comfort zone a bit" yeah, you did that when you tied my health benefits to employment, we were never in the same neighborhood as anyone's comfort zone
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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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titty_baby_ posted:I am legitimately considering leaving my job to work on a weed farm. The pay is slightly higher and the commute is further, but i think I'd feel better doing agricultural work then "working from home" and lying to my employers constantly if i knew about it id already have taken it from you i got a ton of heavy equipment experience and landscaping background, show me the way to weed farm
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Back when I was doing my PhD, the students on my lab found out that our research group director, a guy going on his late 60's, had a veeery specific fetish: he watched non-sexual videos of women shaving their heads. And accessed fetish sites catering to that. In the lab. How'd we find out? Well, the public use PC he used for that broke, so he moved into a labmate's PC. Said labmate was less than amused when the PC started suggesting he tried searching Google Academics for "bald nude women". Then we went into the search history and oh boy  . And the webs were accesed way after we'd gone home for the day.Some time after that, I (woman in my 20s) would arrive early some days, wrangle with the door to fit my bike in, just to find him staring at the bald women on the screen. He'd just close it nonchalantly. Shellception fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Mar 4, 2021 |
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e: all resolved and no longer an issue. Rare sight!
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Lol wow. I had a friend whose wife's last name was Muhammad. She got randomly chosen for heightened airport security checks every time. She's a Boeing engineer with a masters, if you built the plane maybe someone should get a pass. So what you're saying is she knows all the weak points
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Last job I had was with an consulting firm. We got paid fulltime even if we weren't on assignment fulltime (though we got a small bonus if 90% or more of our hours were billable) - which was one of the reasons I stayed at that job for as long as I did. See, I guess my boss either didn't know or didn't care what I was doing. The vast majority of time I spent there, I had 25% assignments or less. I'd go weeks or even months working like 4 hours a week, and the rest of the time I'd just read SA or watch youtube. I wasn't part of any team either, so no-one at the office had any idea what I was doing, and the company was big enough that no-one would notice if I was there or not. One time I just entered 40 hours of "Internal, miscellaneous" into my time report and didn't bother to show up to work for a week. That might sound sweet, but the realization that I could literally walk out the door and no-one at work would even ask where I was until my time reports stopped coming in was depressing as hell. Also, since I spent most of the time just sitting on my rear end, once I had to do actual work I was rusty as hell, unmotivated as hell and had completely failed to keep up with the developments in my field. By the time I quit my skills were like ten years out of date.
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teen witch posted:Legit hearing the head manager of the office ripping into the office manager about toilet paper and how we use too much. Good lord
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Office Microwaves: I've freelanced at many different places with variations of printed A4's by them that say DO NOT MICROWAVE FISH, most of them in Comic Sans. Like anyone takes any notice of that, place I've been on & off at for 14 years, our mezzanine is above the kitchen. Between 12:30-14:30 all you can smell is fish or burnt toast.
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I work in mechanical engineering and design a lot of poo poo. The amount of contradiction I have gotten on a daily basis from my previous job and the one I am in now is infuriating. "We need you to take more ownership and initiative and dive into these things on your own" *designs something* "Wait no, not like that. Do it like this very specific idea in my head I was assuming you would telepathically pull." Also, current job. No free coffee. Who doesn't have a community coffee pot in this day and age? Who doesn't have a community coffee pot even if this were the 1930s or some poo poo?
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No coffee (or worse, bad coffee) is a loving sin and should not be tolerated.
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Gin_Rummy posted:I work in mechanical engineering and design a lot of poo poo. The amount of contradiction I have gotten on a daily basis from my previous job and the one I am in now is infuriating. We have no community coffee pot right now... because people are loving dumb with shared food and drink implements in (current situation). So the machine is set up, provide your own container. I think we still have free coffee beans at least. I don't drink coffee so I don't know for sure.
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SkyeAuroline posted:We have no community coffee pot right now... because people are loving dumb with shared food and drink implements in (current situation). So the machine is set up, provide your own container. I think we still have free coffee beans at least. I don't drink coffee so I don't know for sure. yeah they even shut down the shared fridges/freezers in my office space. Vending machine is still there, but that's it.
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drat, I've never worked anywhere with free coffee. The closest I got was the shop floor, where one of the old-timers maintained a donation jar to keep the cabinet stocked. I just drink a liter of cold brew a day that I bring in myself 
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20 Blunts posted:if i knew about it id already have taken it from you Move to northern California and look at job listing lol. Its probably the same anywhere else that's having a boom, though I'm at the heart of it
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Zarin posted:drat, I've never worked anywhere with free coffee. The closest I got was the shop floor, where one of the old-timers maintained a donation jar to keep the cabinet stocked. 12 oz coffee was $4, I don't blame anyone for following my lead.
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Lazyfire posted:The two poorest companies I've ever worked for had free coffee, the two richest made everyone pay. I got sick of the crap quality stuff I could buy and ended up bringing in a French Press at my previous job because there was free boiling hot water. Weirdly, that kicked off a French Press trend in the office despite me not being super well integrated into the office. Pretty much my experience as well. This company is multi-billion dollar revenue level, so it tracks that they make the peons get their own coffee.
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My work has multiple kitchenettes in my building, each with a coffee machine, and also a Starbucks on the first floor  Oh and the commissary in the building right next to the Starbucks also makes coffee.
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Mr. Sunshine posted:No coffee (or worse, bad coffee) is a loving sin and should not be tolerated. coffee is overrated, just dose caffeine on your tongue from a medical vial in an eye dropper
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AHH F/UGH posted:coffee is overrated, just dose caffeine in your eyelid from a medical vial in an eye dropper
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Poop on top of the ceiling tiles reminds me... One time, someone has a grudge. A personal grudge. I dont know who had the grudge, but i know who it was against. One day walking through a hall between points A and B i smelled the faintest waft of .... piss ??? Why would i smell piss here? The bathrooms are like 100M that way WTF? I thought nothing more of it and went on my way and all was well. I went through that same hall like 2 weeks later and the faint waft was now a definitive piss odor. A month later and that hallway reeked of piss. Another month later and there was an obvious dark track on the carpet in the middle of the hallway which absolutely smelled like the alley next to the worst dive bar you have ever imagined. The hallway is now officially called the piss hall by basically everyone. Oh yeah. By the way, this hall is not empty. It is lined with offices of people who all work from work. This was in the beforetimes when you had to go to a specific place to do things. A month after /that/ ( which is like three months since initial piss detection) and the dark pissy track is now obviously connected to the door of a specific office with a single occupant. It was unbearable just to walk though that hall. I, and basically everyone avoided piss hall now. Even the ancient codgers whos offices were in piss hall started working from home. This may have been what got management attention, honestly. Eventually, like 6 months into the pissening , that one persons office door started showing the bleaching where some strapping individual would sally up at odd hours and whizz alll over the doorknob. Like 8 months in, maybe??, word came down that security had done deep analysis of the building door video tapes and keycard records and identified our hero. Our hero sauntered off into the sunset to piss on other doors. We never knew the name of our hero. Nor did we know the specific crime of the doorknob pissee. The carpet got replaced another 3 months after that. Also the door. It still smells like piss in that hall. I still avoid it. Most who remember do.
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Rockman Reserve posted:what the actual gently caress lmao You may also be interested in Attack of the Mad Shitter http://www.panix.com/~msaroff/shitter.shtml
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irpoweroutlet posted:You may also be interested in Attack of the Mad Shitter Hilarious timing that you post that, as I work in one those buildings. Maybe the Mad Shitter should make a return to protest the coffee policy...
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AHH F/UGH posted:coffee is overrated, just dose caffeine on your tongue from a medical vial in an eye dropper ah yes, that's when you "eyeball" the amount per that old TCC thread right
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i work IT at an outsourcing company. I got the gig when the last IT guy, who was my only teammate on our last contract (which was for Mozilla, that company is a loving bureaucratic mess, lmao) quit suddenly, so I got his job, and while it's dead easy, the only real complaints I have are I'm massively underpaid (go figure) and recruiting is constantly dropping the ball on our hiring contracts, forcing us to scramble in the final week of onboarding to ship a couple dozen computers across the entire country and costing us thousands and thousands of dollars in shipping costs alone. God forbid we have any other seemingly random last-minute hires before our next batch of computers shows up at the end of the month. 
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We had a client that didn’t give coffee to employees. Two ladies had a complete grip of the Keurig market selling pods for a dollar a piece. Absolutely ruthless in blackballing others that tried to butt in their market
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irpoweroutlet posted:You may also be interested in Attack of the Mad Shitter Whenever I deal with Texas Instruments products I think of this story.
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George H.W. oval office posted:We had a client that didn’t give coffee to employees. Two ladies had a complete grip of the Keurig market selling pods for a dollar a piece. Absolutely ruthless in blackballing others that tried to butt in their market Just... Buy your own pods :?: Also seriously, what kind of office job doesn't provide free coffee?? I've worked a few lovely jobs so far and even those had simple drip machines, bean to cup machines are the average and ironically the most soul crushing and toxic place had a full blown automatic system with cocoa, milk powder and two kinds of beans by the time I left. I'm lucky enough to be in a secure job market for now and no coffee machine would legit be a reason not to take a job for me. Not because I'm entitled enough to make this a deal breaker but because a place like Tha tobviously doesn't give a gently caress about their employees.
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Son of Rodney posted:Just... Buy your own pods :?: Im gonna guess they worked in HR or other positions where they could leverage their status to make hell for the non-compliant. And years ago there was a goon who posted how their office switched to a company which charged for coffee in all change that nobody used, then got mad when no one used it and instituted a no-outside coffee policy, which lead to illicit under desk coffee pots, and then finally them doing the math and realizing the company was now losing more money to not provide coffee than they were when they paid for coffee
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Gin_Rummy posted:Pretty much my experience as well. This company is multi-billion dollar revenue level, so it tracks that they make the peons get their own coffee. When I worked in an office for a multinational plumbing supply company, they wouldn't even spring for salt and pepper in the lunch area of their new million dollar Gensler-designed office. You want condiments and seasoning? Pay for it yourself or get hosed.
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Crazy stories about poop and piss reminded me during my apprenticeship I worked at a warehouse with office space adjacent. The system had a internal mailing and notification system and one day someone send a mail to everyone. The reason: Someone took a dump, and instead of using toilet paper or anything else, they took the towel of the nearby sink, wiped their rear end with it, and put it back where it was. The writer of the mail was the one to find it first and they in lovingly detail described what they found and how disgusted they were by it. Of course, this was the same toilet where eventually signs were hung on how to properly sit and poop as some people had trouble not missing with it somehow. The worst part is that amongst my fellow apprentices there were at least two who I would trust to do that kinda crap  Don't think they ever found out who was responsible.
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My job, a company of over 30,000 people, uses Lotus Notes.
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My work canteen insists that you must pre order your lunches in the morning. Yet I've just turned up to get my preordered lunch and have to wait while my colleague just zoomed through, picked her food from what was on offer, paid and left with her lunch while I have time to make this shitpost 
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teen witch posted:Legit hearing the head manager of the office ripping into the office manager about toilet paper and how we use too much. We have three flavours of tea for our boss alone. And two flavours of "tea" that's just us pouring red bull/V into a mug because we're not allowed to drink anything but tea or water in front of patients, because 90% of our pts are weight loss surgery pts he tells have to stop drinking energy drinks, and everything except water, but I'm like... I will actually die if I can't have a tea in the afternoon and a caffeine suger free monstrosity in the morning. The office manager had a conniption today about how we use too more toilet paper now .... after spending all of last week and this week in the toilet with diarrhoea but refusing to go home.... But refusing to see the connection with how we're going through tp so fast, and told me and the other receptionist to not be so wasteful in a big twenty minute lecture about wastefulness?
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Son of Rodney posted:Just... Buy your own pods :?: Nowhere I've worked in the federal government offers coffee or literally anything complimentary. Taxpayers wouldn't stand for such an obscene waste of tax dollars! Coworkers chipped in to buy a microwave for the break room. The pens, stationary, etc are all manufactured by blind people via some kind of government sponsored job program, which is good on a social level, but the pens themselves are crap and are widely avoided
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Marmaduke! posted:My work canteen insists that you must pre order your lunches in the morning. Yet I've just turned up to get my preordered lunch and have to wait while my colleague just zoomed through, picked her food from what was on offer, paid and left with her lunch while I have time to make this shitpost Ignore the pre-order bullshit then and just rock up and zoom through like your colleague.
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lamb posted:My job, a company of over 30,000 people, uses Lotus Notes. How did you make a post from 2003?
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