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Re: thoughts and prayers Do the 0.5%ers not understand that "thoughts and prayers" has become a stupid cliche that everyone else laughs at now? Is it speechwriters/publicists trying to sabotage their overlords? I mean I know that they're all pretty badly out of touch, but "gently caress your thoughts and prayers" has been the refrain of a whole lot of the population for years now, it's not exactly a niche idea.
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Atopian posted:Wouldn't matter, they're going to get that pay docked for not promptly clocking out themselves, or returning work equipment and uniform. When Saddam took loads of Westerns hostage to form the human shield in the run up to the Gulf War it included a bunch of UK Civil Servants. The Civil Service helpfully let the media know that the time being held hostage would have to count against their vacation days - for real. It did get overturned after some outrage in the media but just the mindset of even uttering that statement...
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Re: thoughts and prayers The base they want support from still loves the phrase. The people who think it’s shameless and hollow pandering don’t like bezos or amazon anyways.
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It’s kind of like those people who are religious and act like they can just have their sins absolved by saying so and everything is okay, instead of actually feeling bad about doing something wrong and making amends for it. Once you say thoughts and prayers you’ve done your job and that’s it
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Baconroll posted:When Saddam took loads of Westerns hostage to form the human shield in the run up to the Gulf War it included a bunch of UK Civil Servants. Holy gently caress
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Re: thoughts and prayers I don't think you understand just how protected these people are from any kind of criticism. And even if Jeff Bezos got on twitter and actually read the outrage himself, he wouldn't care because he's a sociopath who looks down on everyone.
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Dec 17, 2021 18:35
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imo take Bezos' soundbite where he goes all "thank you, YOU are the ones who made this all possible" about his jerkoff space tourist flight and play it over the ruins of the distribution center.
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Dec 17, 2021 18:59
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Elephant Ambush posted:I don't think you understand just how protected these people are from any kind of criticism. Yeah, plus those MegaCorps probably have nine or ten figure budgets for quashing meaningful dissent. Was it last year they got caught astroturfing twitter accounts about how much they loved working in amazon warehouses? How much of that is going on more competently? Plus they can always just buy the Washington Post. Meme Poker Party posted:imo take Bezos' soundbite where he goes all "thank you, YOU are the ones who made this all possible" about his jerkoff space tourist flight and play it over the ruins of the distribution center. It would have been interesting if when he did his warehouse visit during peak covid to chat with employees if an unauthorized hourly employee wandered a foot too close to watch his security detail tackle them/rush Jeff to a waiting escape chopper.
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My boss got sick of approving credit card payments all day, so the responsibility was offloaded on to me, and to help I got my own Amex to pay with so I don't have to bug her. Anything under $2k I can approve myself as long as all the paperwork ducks are in a row. Today I get an email from an obvious one person subcontractor. Invoice# is a single digit, email is a gmail address, etc. Sent us an invoice a week ago and was checking to see if it was paid since his paypal was acting up and declining people. Invoice total: $125.00 Invoice was missing billing info (only had the agent's email, we need the company name on the invoice for auditing purposes), asked for it to be fixed and he did it immediately. So instead of making the poor guy wait three months I paid it. Added it to our spreadsheet with all the paperwork, get a Teams message in five minutes from the VP of finance asking if I was approved by my boss to pay that. I paid $7k worth of invoices last week on this thing and this is the one you're up my rear end about? And if I have to get everything approved why the gently caress did you give me a card in the first place? I swear these fuckers think "Who have a not spelunked up the rear end of this week?" before getting to work. I have 3 business days left before a 5 day holiday break, kindly gently caress off. Edit: On the non-dumb side I got a glowing 60 day review this week. No raise (this was expected) but everyone on the team likes me apparently. Must be my charming, sunny disposition. Critical fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Dec 17, 2021 |
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Yeah, plus those MegaCorps probably have nine or ten figure budgets for quashing meaningful dissent. Was it last year they got caught astroturfing twitter accounts about how much they loved working in amazon warehouses? How much of that is going on more competently? Plus they can always just buy the Washington Post. Amazon got caught faking letters from their customers to lawmakers as part of lobbying campaigns. Just taking people's names and addresses to use for their astroturfing.
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Critical posted:My boss got sick of approving credit card payments all day, so the responsibility was offloaded on to me, and to help I got my own Amex to pay with so I don't have to bug her. Anything under $2k I can approve myself as long as all the paperwork ducks are in a row. Make out an invoice to a local escort agency and put his name in the comments then "Accidentally" CC it to his wife.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Yeah, plus those MegaCorps probably have nine or ten figure budgets for quashing meaningful dissent. Was it last year they got caught astroturfing twitter accounts about how much they loved working in amazon warehouses? How much of that is going on more competently? Plus they can always just buy the Washington Post. You know the most disgusting thing? That poo poo wasn't entirely astroturfed. For a while it was a job that they asked for volunteers for: "Social Media Ambassador". The job? Spent a month or so running an Amazon twitter account where you get to tell the world how much fun you were having at Amazon. The pay? gently caress all. You did this all out of the goodness of your heart and were paid in exposure and brownie points to try to leverage into a promotion. Partly because the company is cheap and likely partly because they'd have run across some law or have to disclose something if they did pay the Social Media Ambassador. Haven't seen flyers for that poo poo around in a while so hopefully the public outcry when that stuff got the light shined on it finally killed it for good. Another nasty part of the mess is the whole "Ambassador" name: at Amazon your co-workers that train you how to do your job are called Learning Ambassadors. While being a Learning Ambassador doesn't give someone any pay it does give you a vest and a role that has a considerable amount of unofficial clout. The vest tells new people "Hey, I know poo poo: ask me questions!". The vest + a kindle tells manager "Hey, I know poo poo: I'm busy working so ask someone else" (while in reality I'm just walking around to try to hide the tears that it took 30 minutes to teach someone how to build a box). Yes, I'm a Learning Ambassador at an Amazon Fulfillment Center, I legitimately like teaching people. And not just because it makes less work for me in the long run (No, no, no, you put the tape on length-wise, not sideways!) Anyways, calling the "Be Bezos's Twitter Bitch" job a "Social Media Ambassador" meant every time there were at least a few new people who'd see the flyers they put up by the timeclock and start talking to me all excited about being an Ambassador and I'd have to explain the difference between wearing a nice vest and answering questions from new hires...and spending my personal time, at home, licking the boots of Amazon's corporate masters, for no loving pay.
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Dec 17, 2021 22:22
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There is someone in my org who needs to replace the battery in their smoke alarm and doesn't know how mute works so when we have work from home all hands meetings we get hear it chirping every 15 seconds or whatever.
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Dec 18, 2021 04:03
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Alkydere posted:You know the most disgusting thing? That poo poo wasn't entirely astroturfed. Lol holy cow. That’s like when Disney figured out superfans would work for almost nothing to help staff parks. Verdugo posted:There is someone in my org who needs to replace the battery in their smoke alarm and doesn't know how mute works so when we have work from home all hands meetings we get hear it chirping every 15 seconds or whatever. Hahahah that was a recurring gag on Loveline. If a caller asking for relationship advice didn’t have their life together enough to make the effort to swap out a battery the hosts rightly knew no way the guy was going to listen to advice.
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Dec 18, 2021 05:13
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Manager has been responding to some of my coworkers’ DM’s on Slack by writing in a public channel instead of the private 1-1, leaving the responses up until someone calls them out, then @here’s everyone to say “Oops.” Three times this week. Maybe I’m just feeling petty but it’s pretty annoying!
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Verdugo posted:There is someone in my org who needs to replace the battery in their smoke alarm and doesn't know how mute works so when we have work from home all hands meetings we get hear it chirping every 15 seconds or whatever. "There is" meaning this is ongoing? Who the hell can live like this?
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gwarm01 posted:"There is" meaning this is ongoing? Who the hell can live like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phKAYe9T08A
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Verdugo posted:There is someone in my org who needs to replace the battery in their smoke alarm and doesn't know how mute works so when we have work from home all hands meetings we get hear it chirping every 15 seconds or whatever.
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Dec 18, 2021 15:00
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gwarm01 posted:"There is" meaning this is ongoing? Who the hell can live like this? A goon on this forum mentioned his dad drives the entire time with the car blaring its warning the seatbelt is't buckled
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runchild posted:Lol Kronos got ransomwared so now we (and god knows how many other companies) can’t clock in and out. Corporate assured us we’ll still get paid so no sweat off my back, but lmao. Does anyone not use Kronos? This is kinda funny.
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Dec 18, 2021 15:44
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Super glad we moved to Kronos Dimensions last year
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Dec 18, 2021 15:58
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Cowslips Warren posted:Does anyone not use Kronos? This is kinda funny. We use some japanese software called King of Time and everytime I deal with it I feel like I've become a mediocre anime's middling Dio Brando knockoff filler villain
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Lol exactly Barudak posted:A goon on this forum mentioned his dad drives the entire time with the car blaring its warning the seatbelt is't buckled A friend refused to deal with their car’s oil light. When we tried to tell them they really really needed to change their oil they feared it had been so long the mechanic would be mad at them.
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duffmensch posted:Super glad we moved to Kronos Dimensions last year "Lines that work equally well for discussion among businessmen and among demons."
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Rent-A-Cop posted:We make an annual pilgrimage to my fiance's mom's house to celebrate Christmas and replace all the smoke detector batteries because apparently everyone else there is too deaf or oblivious to hear the beep. Do you also push the button to test the alarm and see if they can hear it? Make sure you have an alarm the residents can actually hear so they can escape in time.
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gwarm01 posted:"There is" meaning this is ongoing? Who the hell can live like this? One of the guys in my wife's MBA program spent like two months with the warning beeps going off all the time while he was attending classes remotely. He's one of the more vocal people and it annoyed another guy so much that he brought a nine volt into the next class for the other guy.
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Barudak posted:We use some japanese software called King of Time and everytime I deal with it I feel like I've become a mediocre anime's middling Dio Brando knockoff filler villain Dang. That sounds cool as gently caress. I don't know what we use. I don't have to clock in anymore and can basically come and go as I please so long as I put out finished product.
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Alkydere posted:Yes, I'm a Learning Ambassador at an Amazon Fulfillment Center PORKCHOP SANDWICHES
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duffmensch posted:Super glad we moved to Kronos Dimensions last year
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Company Zoom holiday party was yesterday afternoon. The fun started when somebody hosed up timezones and the invite for 2 didn't actually start until 3. Upon finally joining the call we were all greeted by a group of strangers dancing into their webcams. Turns out somebody thought it would be a good idea to hire some kind of corporate comedy/improv troupe  One of the guys on my team accidentally put 'what the gently caress did I just walk into?' in the meeting chat  This was primarily for technical staff by the way, tech support, project management etc. It was the most concentrated distillation of the concept of 'cringe' that I think I've ever seen IRL. The first thing they did was take us through 10 minutes of 'facial warmup exercises' where they wanted us to make exaggerated expressions and do poo poo like shout the thing we wanted most in life up to the sky. Then, THEN, they kicked everybody out into a series of Zoom Rooms with one of the staff and apparently we were going to workshop some improv, then presumably join back in to the main meeting and perform it for each other? I don't know, that that point I put my headset down and walked off for a bit. When I got back I noticed a bunch of people had already jumped ship and joined a different meeting to just chat and drink, so I spent the rest of the afternoon watching people share drunken xmas karaoke and Japanese all-girl rock band videos from Youtube. NGL, I'm kind of OK with this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uds7g3M-4lQ
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Hyrax Attack! posted:A friend refused to deal with their car’s oil light. When we tried to tell them they really really needed to change their oil they feared it had been so long the mechanic would be mad at them. Pffft, why would the mechanic be mad at them? The mechanic would be drooling over extra business. Had the sensor that watched the oil level in my car die so I didn't realize how dry I was running until my engine outright seized up and died at a light right outside of a gas station and mechanics shop. A mechanic and the shop/station's owner came out and helped push my car out of traffic and up to their shop. The moment they checked my oil and found the gauge bone-dry both of them lit right up. Apparently those little bottles of motor oil are nearly pure profit for such businesses.
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Takes No Damage posted:Company Zoom holiday party was yesterday afternoon. The fun started when somebody hosed up timezones and the invite for 2 didn't actually start until 3. Upon finally joining the call we were all greeted by a group of strangers dancing into their webcams. Turns out somebody thought it would be a good idea to hire some kind of corporate comedy/improv troupe Mary's Blood are way better
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Takes No Damage posted:Turns out somebody thought it would be a good idea to hire some kind of corporate comedy/improv troupe "This is what employees do for fun, right?" I wonder to myself from my chalet in Aspen. "gently caress it, I don't care."
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Me applying for ecommerce/online marketing jobs:
Employers at lovely furniture stores that are "desperately hiring" an ecommerce/marketing manager: "We're a little worried about your lack of recent success, but we're willing to take a chance on you, we're offering $35,000/year." deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Dec 18, 2021 |
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deep dish peat moss posted:Not able to share the huge amount of work I did for them in my portfolio because it is "internal" and "proprietary" as per the company that bought us out after I did it all Are you choosing not to share it because they said so, or because they control the access to it and have shut it off? Also, the lovely store was going to use any excuse to pay you that $35k offer, I hope you replied with "that's cute, if you're serious let's pretend that was 55k and work from there"
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Rent-A-Cop posted:We make an annual pilgrimage to my fiance's mom's house to celebrate Christmas and replace all the smoke detector batteries because apparently everyone else there is too deaf or oblivious to hear the beep. I already told the entire staff at the office that if they would speak up privately to me and say that they had the smoke alarm that didn't work I would personally go to their house with the battery. We had ours go out in the middle of the night once and I drove to Walmart at 230 am tor replace it because gently caress I am not having that chirp every minute.
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Volmarias posted:Are you choosing not to share it because they said so, or because they control the access to it and have shut it off? They control access to it, I quit in a fit of frustration after 3 weeks of the payroll and workforce teams both saying "We don't see any issues with your pay or work status, check with (payroll/workforce)." and missing 2 paychecks in a row so I didn't think through all the things I should do like backing it up, and they shut off my laptop within minutes of me saying I resigned, lmao They considered me "on leave" after rejecting my request for leave and were questioning the fact that I had even been working for the last 3 weeks, despite all of my work from those 3 weeks being clearly visible with my name on it.
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deep dish peat moss posted:They control access to it, I quit in a fit of frustration after 3 weeks of the payroll and workforce teams both saying "We don't see any issues with your pay or work status, check with (payroll/workforce)." and missing 2 paychecks in a row so I didn't think through all the things I should do like backing it up, and they shut off my laptop within minutes of me saying I resigned, lmao Did you at least have the foresight to slash the tires of the payroll/workforce people and whomever was responsible for the "on leave" stuff?
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Verdugo posted:We had ours go out in the middle of the night once and I drove to Walmart at 230 am tor replace it because gently caress I am not having that chirp every minute.
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