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Super Waffle posted:- They ordered lackluster subs Of all the things on your list, this is the least forgivable
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I just talked to a friend that works as as the head nurse at a long term care unit. The owner refuses to get vaccinated or even ask any of the employees to vaccinate. They have some how only had 1 case of covid with a patient since the pandemic but had several employees come in to work positive for covid-19 and be asked to leave. She says she will close the business before she has a vaccine mandate. Thing is she gets a ton of money from the government to float her nursing home and she would lose that. Full blown brain worms going to shutdown a quality clinic and has way to much debt from being a "small business owner" trying to keep up with the jones'. Then they found carlson tucker and literally every minute they are awake with fox news on a tv somewhere they can hear. She's actually a rich white lady small business owner in the literal middle of america and scared of poor people. Which she keeps poor so she can get a new RV that she will hardly use. in my head I was like maybe remove the bumper stickers and stop being a complete rear end in a top hat and it won't be an issue you absolute monster Wendigee fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Oct 22, 2021 |
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Jaguars! posted:I have finally found a way to have specific, measurable achievements during my working from home days. Every day I listen to an album from the Motorhead discography. Today I'm up to Bomber. I've gone through several artists doing this exact thing. R.E.M. was the first one just because I'm a big fan of their 80's stuff but had not really gotten into anything past Monster. I know a lot of you seem to have a lot of problems with Agile but when it's done right it works really well. I worked for 11 years at a company with zero development methodology and that sucked more than I realized at the time. My last job may have had it problems but we ran SAFe and ran it well and it worked. Where I am now we run a version of Agile and everyone is on board and it's really pretty good. I guess there's always the opportunity to call something Agile and then just not follow it and I can see where that would suck.
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Local Weather posted:there's always the opportunity to call something Agile and then just not follow it and I can see where that would suck. "well, this doesn't really work for our product or goal, but we're gonna give it a go because it is popular! "contines waterfall with a bunch of extra bullshit on top""
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Local Weather posted:My last job may have had it problems but we ran SAFe and ran it well and it worked. SAFe is "waterfall with Agile terminology", hth.
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Janitorial services are cancelled until the budget mess is solved by congress. Our boss literally sent out an email that said "BYOTP".
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Is it a common thing office airheads with unlimited free time are perpetually taking online training to learn Photoshop? We've got at least 3 of those.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Is it a common thing office airheads with unlimited free time are perpetually taking online training to learn Photoshop? We've got at least 3 of those. It unlocks the prestige option at work to get a mac, thats all its for
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It lets them perform their vital internal comms roles of providing the best possible thumbnails for the in-house podcast and touching up pictures of the senior management to put in the annual report to the shareholders/grindr.
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Motronic posted:SAFe is "waterfall with Agile terminology", hth. This man SAFe's. You'll find SAFe at basically every shop with a super strong PMO and wants to become agile but also loving *loves* putting dates on poo poo.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Is it a common thing office airheads with unlimited free time are perpetually taking online training to learn Photoshop? We've got at least 3 of those.
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secular woods sex posted:If you’ve got the free time and they aren’t going to fire you for it, might as well learn a new skill. *Deepfake involving the boss and copier* *Shops up a fake diploma of business ethics*
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goatface posted:Aren't they all fake anyway? Ethics certainly is The boss was actually loving the copier but I changed it from a Canon to an HP.
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goatface posted:It lets them perform their vital internal comms roles of providing the best possible thumbnails for the in-house podcast and touching up pictures of the senior management to put in the annual report to the shareholders/grindr. Haha you're right about the in-house podcast thumbnails but they don't write annual reports. Did I already mention it takes eight of them to write an internal online newsletter that's maybe 2 double spaced pages a month, and is unpopular enough they have to bribe people with gift cards to read it? secular woods sex posted:If you’ve got the free time and they aren’t going to fire you for it, might as well learn a new skill. Oh agreed learning new skills is a good use of time. But when it's seemingly the only thing they're doing and they never become adept or begin applying the lessons it feels like we're paying then $80k a year to cargo cult what they think a useful person would do. I know I shouldn't care too much if office workers do nothing, but gets frustrating when we keep hearing about headcount and metrics.
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vyst posted:This man SAFe's. SAFe is a grift and I hate it Nobody who is considered a leader in the agile world endorses it. It's "agile in a box" for bad executives who don't want to fundamentally change anything but want to say they're agile now, and then they charge exorbitant fees for their worthless "certifications" on top of that.
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All this talk about business classes that are tortured acronyms that I barely undertand is making me feel a lot better about the beer awards that you pay for and pass off as legit.
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Last year before I got promoted I spent my Saturdays on overtime when I was covering the flight line taking Defense Acquisition University classes which enabled me to get an edge on my resume and interviews into this current, and much cooler job. My previous lead then tried to file a complaint with my old supervisor and then the department head saying I was "abusing overtime", and needed to be written up and punished even though I no longer worked for them. Luckily, both my lead and supervisor had worked the flight line before and know it's kind of a feast or famine work situation and that I was actually doing them a favor by covering it all day every Saturday instead of having a life, so they told him to gently caress off. Last week my old boss came to me asking for help with an issue I had completely set up for success before I left to the point where all that had to happen was the correct person needed to fill out one piece of paperwork and the whole issue would be solved. The correct person was my previous lead who wanted me written up. He didn't do it at the time because it would have made my job easier and he didn't like me. Before I was even enlisted to help, he had claimed no knowledge of the issue and that nobody in the department knew anything about it. My "help" ended up being producing all the emails with him and the relevant people on copy instructing them how to solve the problem last December.
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nvidiagouge posted:Last year before I got promoted I spent my Saturdays on overtime when I was covering the flight line taking Defense Acquisition University classes which enabled me to get an edge on my resume and interviews into this current, and much cooler job. My previous lead then tried to file a complaint with my old supervisor and then the department head saying I was "abusing overtime", and needed to be written up and punished even though I no longer worked for them. Luckily, both my lead and supervisor had worked the flight line before and know it's kind of a feast or famine work situation and that I was actually doing them a favor by covering it all day every Saturday instead of having a life, so they told him to gently caress off. I hope your email had the requisite level of passive-aggressive snark.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Haha you're right about the in-house podcast thumbnails but they don't write annual reports. Did I already mention it takes eight of them to write an internal online newsletter that's maybe 2 double spaced pages a month, and is unpopular enough they have to bribe people with gift cards to read it? I'd be pissed about this but I know the guy who scammed himself into the job of being in charge of the dumbass podcast and he's a cool dude. He does basically nothing since his team's only responsibility is two newsletters and a 30 minute podcast every month. Since he got the job he has become a much better drummer and I still occasionally go to see his band play.
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Elephant Ambush posted:Nobody who is considered a leader in the agile world endorses it. It takes a special kind of wanker to validated by the opinions of other wankers Look again at the phrase “leader in the agile world” and think about what happened to bring you to this point
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AgileDefender420 vs AgileStomper69
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Im too young for it but I had a boss get very worked up over a "we're going agile" and was like I will not be Six Sigma'd again and immediately planned their departure and exited the company. We, obviously never actually implemented agile
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SAFe: focused on delivery of value, if by "delivery" you mean "hours upon hours of pointless meetings," and by "value" you mean an "early grave"
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I usually leave a job when they start rolling out a bunch of new poo poo too but I wait until it's actually rolling out and I see what a shitshow it is. I hate agile from a software development perspective, not necessarily the concept of using it as an org structure, agile just leads to poo poo software, it's designed to, because the entire thing was literally written by programmers who wanted to make their jobs "fun" so they decided things like "Don't write documentation because documentation is a major bummer!" are good rules for all programmers to follow. But in my experience when companies roll out new poo poo like (lean) six sigma it means that they're failing and they hired some kid fresh out of an mba who just kind of sputtered it out of their mouth during an interview because it was a name that they remembered from their mba program and the hiring manager goes "I have heard those words before, you're perfect! Roll it out now!" and then starts sending out emails to other managers about how "I got us a lean six sig expert and they're going to shake this whole place up!" so the MBA comes in with some xeroxed printed-out PDFs of pirated copies of lean six sigma training and goes to town e: My view may be largely biased by only having ever worked for tech startups deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Oct 23, 2021 |
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Escape From Noise posted:All this talk about business classes that are tortured acronyms that I barely undertand is making me feel a lot better about the beer awards that you pay for and pass off as legit. This happens in lots of industries. My favorite was a company getting an award (that they bought) for their latest software release. A point release that was bug fixes and had no new features. The award was for innovation.
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Crosspostin' from the Reddit r/relationships thread cos I know you'll all get a kick out of this one:quote:after an employee died, her team has driven off anyone we hire to replace her
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From the months and the required hiring time they're probably about a year later. Tell them to calm the gently caress down or gently caress the gently caress off imo.
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what's the chances that problem is mostly just a few that realised they could use the death to block anything they don't like because their managers manager will enable it. then management won't want to deal with it and just reorganise the department out of existence.
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Zil posted:Is this the same boss that was flying to Europe a few weeks ago? The very same. My bonus is being paid over the next 4 paychecks instead of all on this one. I'm now having to wait it out longer. May not be worth it honestly.
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Thomamelas posted:This happens in lots of industries. My favorite was a company getting an award (that they bought) for their latest software release. A point release that was bug fixes and had no new features. The award was for innovation. For sure. I "won" a few.
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Mormon Nailer posted:The very same. That's some Grade A Bullshit. gently caress a job.
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Thomamelas posted:This happens in lots of industries. My favorite was a company getting an award (that they bought) for their latest software release. A point release that was bug fixes and had no new features. The award was for innovation. Boards will get upset over missing quarterly numbers, but can be mollified if the VP of marketing can follow up with all of these "prestigious" awards that were won. I'll be honest; twenty years into this I would probably be just as clueless if my first boss, who owned two companies, the product based company I worked for and the trade show company for our space , hadn't explained that, yeah all of those awards are totally bought. It's a kind of fun and depressing game. When your company announces the "major award" internally, see how long it takes for you to follow the crumbs to see how much the company paid for it.
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Rent-A-Cop posted:At my job HR will send you lovely emails if you don't join the weekly management jackoff meeting where we're all forced to listen to the podcast we won't download. I don't know about your company necessarily, but in every company I have worked HR is not your boss. Most of the time they have a over-inflated sense of importance and get to make their own work, but they don't control your time in any way.
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stinch posted:what's the chances that problem is mostly just a few that realised they could use the death to block anything they don't like because their managers manager will enable it. Yeah the real problem is Janes ex manager for encouraging that. Transfer them to another team and give the rest of the team an ultimatum. Of it's as bad as the ex employees say it could be worth breaking up the team entirely.
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~Coxy posted:I don't know about your company necessarily, but in every company I have worked HR is not your boss. HR is basically the office cops and if they decide to get involved it can be hard to tell them to gently caress off.
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~Coxy posted:I don't know about your company necessarily, but in every company I have worked HR is not your boss. Oh for sure, if an anti-harassment training video could last either 15 minutes or 4 hours with the exact same content, they’ll pick 4 hours every time to show how serious it is. Kinda funny how they’re jerks to anyone below them but the most terrified of any executive above them and the most prone to name dropping.
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Cheesus posted:"major award" 
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Rent-A-Cop posted:At my job HR will send you lovely emails if you don't join the weekly management jackoff meeting where we're all forced to listen to the podcast we won't download. Am I reading this right? There is an entire team of people at your job, whose sole responsibility is a podcast and a newsletter? I’m familiar with ‘bullshit jobs’ but that’s another level entirely.
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irpoweroutlet posted:Am I reading this right? There is an entire team of people at your job, whose sole responsibility is a podcast and a newsletter? I’m familiar with ‘bullshit jobs’ but that’s another level entirely. Yeah there's been a few posts about it and my brain just files it under 'Unlikely but not worth calling them out a out it'. But who would lie about a company zine team? I'm not calling OP a liar, it just seems so loving weird.
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