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I wasn't expecting this, but my megacorp announced a COVID-19 vaccine requirement today. The messaging is that as a Federal Contractor we're required to do so, regardless of the OSHA rules coming down. They announced this in the middle of union negotiations, which feels like there was some resistance there and they went with the nuclear option. I sort of wonder how much upward mobility this is going to provide as there are a bunch of chud motherfuckers in the mid-to-upper levels.
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And now he told me 15 min before the end of the shift to find some molds. I found the pallet up on the shelf and he climbed up to count them. Told me there were only eight on the pallet and there were supposed to be ten so I needed to find the missing two. He wouldn't let me climb up the shelving to count them myself due to safety issues (but his 65 year old rear end totally could) and there were a bunch of pallets on the floor I would need to move before I could get the pallet down myself, so I just started looking everywhere for the two missing molds. After being unable to find them for an hour I said screw it and dug out all the pallets to count the molds myself. All ten where there. My boss can't count to ten. It cost the company like $70 in overtime and disrupted my afternoon plans to hangout with my wife at the local pool. loving pissed.
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Sep 15, 2021 21:43
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Machai posted:And now he told me 15 min before the end of the shift to find some molds. I found the pallet up on the shelf and he climbed up to count them. Told me there were only eight on the pallet and there were supposed to be ten so I needed to find the missing two. you had the perfect opportunity to "OSHA" him
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Sep 15, 2021 22:12
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Lascivious Sloth posted:you had the perfect opportunity to "OSHA" him Promotion via proactive measures. Taking the initiative. Move fast and break things.
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Sep 16, 2021 01:23
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Machai posted:My boss just denies reality when he doesn't like something or someone tells him he is wrong. My boss from a couple of jobs back got so overwhelmed with trying to manage his expanding business that he sort of went crazy. I would gather some customer requests bring them to him, he would approve them and I would write up the reqs and send them to the dev team. A week or so later I would give boss and update on how the new features were coming and he would just become enraged "Who approved this?!?" It happened so many times that it became a cliché around the office. We had to have him start actually signing off on pieces of paper the new features and even then sometimes he would be mad about them.
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Sep 16, 2021 14:57
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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.
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Sep 16, 2021 15:33
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Is your boss Jim Halpert
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Sep 16, 2021 15:36
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No, he doesn't glance over at places where a camera should be.
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Sep 16, 2021 15:52
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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. That's great.
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Sep 16, 2021 15:55
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Per my boss, the app is worth the $3 for the premium farts. Also I've learned that hearing an absolute cheek-slapper of a resonant fart actually makes my pants feel like they fit better.
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Sep 16, 2021 16:02
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We had a group meeting on Tuesday that involved about a dozen of us driving in from the tri-state area. Already dumb and I wasn't super excited about it, but whatever. My boss' boss showed up to speak, talks about the problems we're having with hiring people. "The problem is, you're getting paid more to stay home than you are to work right now!" Followed by, a few minutes later. "Yeah, my hobby is motorcycles, I have 5 of them." Just completely out of touch with reality and what real people spend the majority of their money on.
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Sep 16, 2021 16:21
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A Fancy Hat posted:We had a group meeting on Tuesday that involved about a dozen of us driving in from the tri-state area. Already dumb and I wasn't super excited about it, but whatever. My boss' boss showed up to speak, talks about the problems we're having with hiring people. How much does a station wagon cost? Like...a thousand bucks?
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Sep 16, 2021 18:36
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A Fancy Hat posted:We had a group meeting on Tuesday that involved about a dozen of us driving in from the tri-state area. Already dumb and I wasn't super excited about it, but whatever. My boss' boss showed up to speak, talks about the problems we're having with hiring people. ... but... you're employed... by him? And so you're not being paid unemployment benefits???
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Sep 16, 2021 22:36
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Olanphonia posted:... but... you're employed... by him? And so you're not being paid unemployment benefits??? Bold of you to suggest high-level management has the wherewithal to clap two brain cells together.
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Sep 16, 2021 23:15
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I got a new boss who is above me, but below the CEO who was my previous acting supervisor for over a year. Now I only have to interact with the CEO around 30 minutes a week max, and I've started to realize I actually kind of like my job. Best of all is that my check-in meetings with my new boss involve her spending about half the time kvetching about what a nightmare the CEO is to deal with and how 90% of the other staff in my position were on the verge of quitting because the CEO is so horrible. So now I get the absolute psychic balm of knowing that I wasn't crazy and this person actually is just a huge jerk. edit: just realized I've already made this post
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Sep 16, 2021 23:32
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I got a new boss who is above me, but below the CEO who was my previous acting supervisor for over a year. Now I only have to interact with the CEO around 30 minutes a week max, and I've started to realize I actually kind of like my job. Best of all is that my check-in meetings with my new boss involve her spending about half the time kvetching about what a nightmare the CEO is to deal with and how 90% of the other staff in my position were on the verge of quitting because the CEO is so horrible. So now I get the absolute psychic balm of knowing that I wasn't crazy and this person actually is just a huge jerk.
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Sep 17, 2021 05:47
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A Fancy Hat posted:We had a group meeting on Tuesday that involved about a dozen of us driving in from the tri-state area. Already dumb and I wasn't super excited about it, but whatever. My boss' boss showed up to speak, talks about the problems we're having with hiring people. Not a boss, but the other day at work one of my fellow employees was lamenting why things were so hosed up because of how short-handed we are, culminating in the usual "people make more money collecting unemployment than they do working", to which I cheerfully replied that the federal unemployment assistance benefits thing ended not that long ago, so even if it had been true, it no longer was. She was genuinely shocked, she legitimately thought that Biden was just going to just give out free unemployment checks to people indefinitely so they'd have no incentive to work and would just stay home instead (no doubt as part of some nefarious, if ill-defined, plot that would somehow allow communism to spread across the country).
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Sep 17, 2021 07:36
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Not a boss, but the other day at work one of my fellow employees was lamenting why things were so hosed up because of how short-handed we are, culminating in the usual "people make more money collecting unemployment than they do working", to which I cheerfully replied that the federal unemployment assistance benefits thing ended not that long ago, so even if it had been true, it no longer was. I've been getting paid to barely do anything by my current company for nearly a year and a half. I was supposed to brew our first beer on Monday but it got pushed further out again.
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Sep 17, 2021 07:47
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Company owner of my previous job put most of the company in partial unemployment related to COVID "because there is less work" (a special measure by the gov. to help companies stay afloat, mainly aimed at restaurants and places that had to be closed - not for our industry at all). Then repeatedly complained that he himself had way too much work. Completely tone deaf. Cue people leaving.
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Sep 17, 2021 07:48
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Spatule posted:Company owner of my previous job put most of the company in partial unemployment related to COVID "because there is less work" (a special measure by the gov. to help companies stay afloat, mainly aimed at restaurants and places that had to be closed - not for our industry at all). Then repeatedly complained that he himself had way too much work. Completely tone deaf. Cue people leaving. Lol. Once again, the people taking most of the government handouts and gaming the system are the wealthy. My former boss took so many loving grants and poo poo.
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Sep 17, 2021 07:59
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My company started the vaccine mandate roll out yesterday and in true megacorp fashion they hosed up the link and no one could log in to certify their vaccination status. They fixed it and I was able to upload my card and everything without any trouble this morning. I didn't realize it at first, but there's almost no time to register; you need to submit something by October 15th and be fully vaccinated before the end of the year. All new employees starting after November 15 have to be fully vaccinated. This is all with full remote work being an option for office employees in perpetuity as it's been wildly popular, though some managers have required on site work for their people at least once a week. Apparently the mandate is also going to apply to our contractors, so this morning we had our first vaccine rage quit when our part time project manager announced he was retiring rather than getting vaccinated. He will not be missed.
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Sep 17, 2021 14:46
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I've found the people who resist getting the vaccine are generally just difficult and hard to work with.
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Sep 17, 2021 15:28
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Imagine that.
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Sep 17, 2021 15:53
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Lazyfire posted:My company started the vaccine mandate roll out yesterday and in true megacorp fashion they hosed up the link and no one could log in to certify their vaccination status. They fixed it and I was able to upload my card and everything without any trouble this morning. I didn't realize it at first, but there's almost no time to register; you need to submit something by October 15th and be fully vaccinated before the end of the year. All new employees starting after November 15 have to be fully vaccinated. This is all with full remote work being an option for office employees in perpetuity as it's been wildly popular, though some managers have required on site work for their people at least once a week. lol my partner's in the heat and fuel delivery business and two major contractors just stated they aren't letting anyone on site who hasn't been vaxxed I wonder what the drivers unions who have been content to be antivaxx are gonna do (this is in BC)
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Sep 17, 2021 16:30
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Well, back to the office Monday except for the sick people who continue quarantining. Let's hope for no second wave, huh.
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Sep 17, 2021 16:39
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Pyrtanis posted:
They had vaccines 2000 years ago?
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Sep 17, 2021 16:45
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Had a Executive VP unironically ask for a white version of a client's logo on a white background. Not transparent. White. The designer went to clarify the request and was told to "just do it".
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Sep 17, 2021 17:15
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Outrail posted:I've found the people who resist getting the vaccine are generally just difficult and hard to work with.
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Sep 17, 2021 17:34
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armchairyoda posted:Had a Executive VP unironically ask for a white version of a client's logo on a white background. Is your VP Master Shake?
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Sep 17, 2021 17:35
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Escape From Noise posted:Is your VP Master Shake? The just do it part makes me think Nike
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Sep 17, 2021 17:44
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One of my first jobs was working at a shop building and repairing PCs. My cousin owned it. He was incredibly abusive and greedy and would often brag to us about how much money he made while paying us under minimum wage. He also absolutely refused to pay overtime pay for the mandatory overtime he demanded from us and would threaten to fire us regularly if we took a lunch break. So I applied to another job that paid almost 4X more, had benefits, etc. When I called him up to tell him I was quitting, he went into a rage about how "this family only cares about MONEY!" and was insulting me and threatening me until I started crying. I told him I NEEDED to find a better paying job in order to make rent but he didn't care. In later years, my family tells me that that cousin of mine has calmed down and become a much better person than he used to be. I do not give a single flying gently caress. gently caress him.
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Sep 17, 2021 17:45
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Escape From Noise posted:Is your VP Master Shake? Everything must be white like the STORM OF JUSTICE.
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Sep 17, 2021 18:30
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Armitag3 posted:Everything must be white like the STORM OF JUSTICE. "Well well well! Look what has happened. Where's your poncho now?" 
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Sep 17, 2021 19:50
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SkyeAuroline posted:For what it's worth I have no problem with people loving around on company time, it's whatever, I do it too (hell, I'm doing it right now being on SA). The only reason I take any issue with them is because they keep getting all the work I need to keep my metrics stable and not lose my job and then they don't even do it. My work gives me work amounts that would take tea drinking cat ladies 8 hours to finish but I just make a few mouse macros and I’m done in 30 minutes. Then it’s just napping, YouTube and answering the occasional email.
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Sep 17, 2021 20:49
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Livin the dream.
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Sep 17, 2021 20:51
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armchairyoda posted:Had a Executive VP unironically ask for a white version of a client's logo on a white background. I hope said designer also made a version with a dark outline, or a drop shadow, since that's probably what the client wanted.
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Sep 17, 2021 21:02
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Catastrophe posted:One of my first jobs was working at a shop building and repairing PCs. My cousin owned it. He was incredibly abusive and greedy and would often brag to us about how much money he made while paying us under minimum wage. He also absolutely refused to pay overtime pay for the mandatory overtime he demanded from us and would threaten to fire us regularly if we took a lunch break. If he's a better person now he'll pay you the overtime he stole from you, or at least apologise for treating you like poo poo. He'll refuse to do either
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Sep 17, 2021 21:33
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Oh my loving GOD. Someone just sent out an e-mail with a blank body and the subject "request to be in this group" to the entire loving company. Now idiots can't stop reply-alling and even the loving company president replied with, "I have no idea what this is." Holy poo poo. People just won't stop replying.
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Sep 21, 2021 16:27
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Better take the rest of the day off just in case.
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Sep 21, 2021 16:31
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Over 150 people replied before I could set the e-mail to ignore. My connection to Outlook actually went down and I'm not sure if that was just a coincidence.
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