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MBAs, baby https://twitter.com/Devin_G_Pope/status/1482056063134404610?s=20 https://twitter.com/Devin_G_Pope/status/1482061921306263555?s=20
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Jordan7hm posted:MBAs, baby This is one of the behavioral classics. If you offer thanks people will give blood for the better of their community. If you put a dollar amount on it people become acutely aware what their bodily fluids are worth
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champagne posting posted:This is one of the behavioral classics. If you offer thanks people will give blood for the better of their community. If you put a dollar amount on it people become acutely aware what their bodily fluids are worth https://twitter.com/Devin_G_Pope/status/1482056065181171713?s=20
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Jan 15, 2022 17:16
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welp serves me right for trying to remember what I heard on This American Life years ago
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Jan 15, 2022 17:18
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If a professor asked me an 'obvious' question like that in a psychology class, I would assume it was a trick question. And it's not a crazy prediction - everyone has heard about the daycare that started charging a $50 fee for picking up your kid late and saw the number of late pickups increase.
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Jan 15, 2022 17:18
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I don't know who Devin Pope is but he really sounds like a insufferable jackass in those tweets.
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Jan 15, 2022 17:24
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Lockback posted:I don't know who Devin Pope is but he really sounds like a insufferable jackass in those tweets. Well yeah, he teaches an MBA class, it's a prerequisite for that job
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Jan 15, 2022 17:26
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Don't coronavirus vaccination rewards and lotteries provide good data on this? As I recall the lotteries worked for about a week or two then people expected to be paid, so grocery stores and stuff started giving out coupons. When I got boosted I was surprised to get a 10% off coupon, so they backfired on that one because I went and stocked up near the coupon limit, but went there trying to find a booster not a coupon. When I was reviewing the tradeoffs between the old and new job I really only compared salary and validated that health care wasn't going to jump $500/mo or something. Honestly though I slightly goofed (for the better) because the new place has better phone reimbursement and buys us lunch more regularly, which over the course of the monthly budget actually becomes measurable. ps Speaking of blood, I'm over making GBS threads up the PYF Mhmm thread with incentive-based blood drives for gay men now that they are considering a shortage-driven donation rules change.
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Jan 15, 2022 17:29
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Saw a great tweet the other day: https://mobile.twitter.com/CarlaNotarobot/status/1481458190722207747 Incredibly accurate 
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Jan 15, 2022 17:40
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priznat posted:Saw a great tweet the other day:  My database wipe from a few years back is still the measuring stick for fuckups in my unit and the example used when teaching new hires the importance of regular backups.
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Jan 15, 2022 18:19
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I was investigating database performance issues once and (after an hour or so of narrowing things down to hardware IO and the disk not the bus) I turned on scsi debugging to get more data. That wasn't yielding much so I added another flag. Still nothing, let's see if this works at all, so I enabled all the scsi debugging flags. (insert scene of Dave heading into the monolith in 2001) After the 30 minute outage the database had been rebooted and all was well!
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Jan 15, 2022 18:43
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priznat posted:Saw a great tweet the other day: There was the time I accidentally zeroed out the entire forecast in the financial planning system at a Fortune 100. Over the next 6 years I got promoted three times
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Jan 15, 2022 19:06
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It is honestly kind of heartwarming in a “oh my sweet summer child” way when a jr employee is freaking out about loving up and you can tell them it’s all good don’t sweat it. Everyone has a story about how they hosed up way worse than you just did myself included.
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Jan 15, 2022 19:19
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That time I banned explorer.exe on 45,000 endpoints. Yay automation scripts!
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Jan 15, 2022 20:33
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My coworker was all upset the other day because I’d misspelled the name of a supplier in an email. I was like “is anyone going to die? Are we losing money? No? Go back to bed.”
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Jan 15, 2022 21:04
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FrozenVent posted:My coworker was all upset the other day because I’d misspelled the name of a supplier in an email. "How does your mistake compare to (1) blocking the Suez canal for a week, (2) spending 20 years and $trillion only to replace the Taliban with the Taliban, or (3) kicking Hitler out of art school? Not even close? You're doing fine."
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Jan 15, 2022 21:28
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Last FT gig my Boss did a production update to a billing system at 9pm that overnight billed customers for about $5m incorrectly. I had to clean it up because he was “sick”. He wasn’t fired and in fact was promoted not long after.
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Jan 15, 2022 21:49
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Our service team sent us a spreadsheet of demo accounts they needed locked out, asked us if we can automate it. Sure, no prob. Oh great, can we send you all the EU ones to do too? Sure no problem. The next spreadsheet was a spreadsheet of all EU accounts, and they simply hid the rows they didn't want closed. We were running a quick script that didn't give a poo poo if the hidden flag was set, and when we opened the spreadsheet looked like all demos to us! "Hey, Lockback, we're getting reports from a bunch of EU clients they can't login? Any idea?" "Uhhh, small thing. No biggie, give us a second" 
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Jan 15, 2022 21:59
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lmao. i was incidentally wondering if there was an excel macro command for hidden rows/columns the other day had to send a spreadsheet to the govt that included stuff that had already been sent but with the rows in question hidden and was thinking if there was a way for scripts that automatically extract that but ignored those then again, it being the government, yeah
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Eric the Mauve posted:Did you work at the same company as Handsome Ralph? Old post but lol. I think I mentioned it at some point but my company got bought out by a bigger company. So far they’ve kept all of us and it seems likely that they’ll just get rid of redundancies in HR, accounting, etc. and leave product teams alone. The one bit of good news is it seems all but certain that the new bosses are going to tell people they are fine to just WFH full time, which is funny considering my history with this job/prior company. That and our benefits are better than they were before. Cheaper too. With all of that said, one of my colleagues is retiring at the end of the month, because in his words “This job was fine when it was just a job, and I didn’t have to deal with so much bullshit. Now, I don’t need to bother with whatever Agile bullshit they are pushing on us for whatever reason along with the constantly changing expectations and responsibilities I didn’t sign up for.” This is mostly due to our unit director basically pushing Agile and JIRA ticketing onto editorial teams where it makes zero sense to do so and constantly shuffling people around instead of just letting us get our work done. Like I’m all for learning new things, but it gets really loving old having to constantly train random people who get put on my team on a temp basis so they can just “learn things” and vice versa. Anyways the news of this opened the floodgates between myself and my other colleagues sans my boss. And it was clear from chatting with them that I wasn’t alone in my desire to bounce the gently caress out last year. With the holidays over, I need to renew my job hunt. I just wish it wasn’t so draining, I sent off like 25-30 apps last Fall and only got one interview out of it. Or maybe I’ll get lucky and one of the redundancies will be the director constantly trying to micromanage people to the point of frustration.
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theHUNGERian posted:"How does your mistake compare to (1) blocking the Suez canal for a week, (2) spending 20 years and $trillion only to replace the Taliban with the Taliban, or (3) kicking Hitler out of art school? Not even close? You're doing fine." Number (1) was a great tool for calming down junior staff for about 3 months. "OMG, this partner is going to kill me" *sends meme* "If the answer is no, just tell them how you're planning to fix it and get on with your day"
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Tibalt posted:If a professor asked me an 'obvious' question like that in a psychology class, I would assume it was a trick question. And it's not a crazy prediction - everyone has heard about the daycare that started charging a $50 fee for picking up your kid late and saw the number of late pickups increase. Not only that, but who knows whether the same change to incentive creates the same behaviour in the blood donation context compared to the daycare pickup context. It's a huge disservice for a prof to just say OMG THE ANSWER IS SO OBVIOUS loving MBA STUDENTS ARE DUM
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I don't know. In all honesty, and I hate to say it, but the MBA students may have answered correctly. Of course once they obtain an MBA their answers are wrong (by definition) (sorry present company excluded), but perhaps as students they remember their employers giving them "rewards": Thank you for the awesome year! One lucky employee (out of 100) who fills out the survey will get a $10 (coffee) gift card! The team with the lowest outage time for the year gets a free lunch! (We bought them one of each of eight half sandwiches from Subway) We've created a team reward area. When you feel you've done a great job, go get your reward! (bowl of Skittles) Friday afternoon party! (Please continue answering phones and responding to tickets and email, especially if you're on call) (no liquor) Rewarding a large group of people is expensive, and when half of them are expecting an all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii, and they want you to cover daycare for their kids that whole week, and it should be on a cruise ship too by the way, but one-way flight back because by that point they "don't want to deal with it", a twenty person team is going to cost you $100-200k... because they produced a few more widgets this quarter? It would be easier to reward them by hiring additional headcount like they've been complaining about. So yeah, $10 for my blood? "Maybe someone else will pay more!" (insert scams)
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PhantomOfTheCopier posted:
You're not wrong, but there's a large gap between a slice of lovely cheap pizza and a week in an all-inclusive resort in Hawai'i. As an example, here's a few tips for rewarding 20 people outside of regular bonuses that you can have for free: "As a thank you for your hard work in making more widgets, there's an extra $500 bonus in your next pay." 10 grand, everyone's happy. "As a thank you for your continued efforts, this coming Friday we're closing the office at 12 noon with everyone receiving full pay for the day." A few grand, depending on individual salaries, everyone happy. "As a little pick-me-up today, there will be an ice cream van out front during lunch with all-you-can-eat soft serve." A couple hundred bucks, happy people. There are SO many options to go just a little above and beyond for your team, but YOU need to go to bat for them as their manager and demand budget for out-of-cycle staff rewards.
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Baggins posted:"As a thank you for your continued efforts, this coming Friday we're closing the office at 12 noon with everyone receiving full pay for the day." A few grand, depending on individual salaries, everyone happy. Unless you work in some kind of manufacturing facility or environment where hours directly = revenue, there is a good chance this is a zero cost benefit, because you haven't changed any deliverable timelines or expectations. You're paying people for what they produce not how long their butts are in their seats.
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Jordan7hm posted:Unless you work in some kind of manufacturing facility or environment where hours directly = revenue, there is a good chance this is a zero cost benefit, because you haven't changed any deliverable timelines or expectations. You're paying people for what they produce not how long their butts are in their seats. I mean, there's always changes to deliverable timelines so it's a matter of how much headwind you are adding but generally I've found doing things like early fridays or comp time usually don't "cost" nearly as much as the benefit you get out of them.
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Jordan7hm posted:Unless you work in some kind of manufacturing facility or environment where hours directly = revenue, there is a good chance this is a zero cost benefit, because you haven't changed any deliverable timelines or expectations. You're paying people for what they produce not how long their butts are in their seats. Of course, but for people in those careers there are other things you can do as well. Buy lunch that isn't a single slice of the cheapest pizza you can find, tell them in 1-2-1s that you are appreciative of their efforts, go to bat for pay rises and bonuses, work with production managment to schedule downtime and prorate the productivity targets... Stop claiming that you can't appreciate your staff in ways beyond cheap poo poo. You CAN, you just don't want to.
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Baggins posted:Of course, but for people in those careers there are other things you can do as well. Buy lunch that isn't a single slice of the cheapest pizza you can find, tell them in 1-2-1s that you are appreciative of their efforts, go to bat for pay rises and bonuses, work with production managment to schedule downtime and prorate the productivity targets... I don't think that's what he was saying.
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Baggins posted:You CAN, you just don't want to.  I was saying two things, but as far as corporate, correct, they aren't interested in bothering to come up with rewards. "Your continued employment with our gracious holy corporation shall be predicated upon your infinite praising. Your reward is that you are granted an audience (us) to praise."
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We need to make a payment to a supplier overseas. Bank - rightfully - insist that we confirm the banking information verbally with supplier before sending the wire. AP is not allowed to make long distance call, so they have to get the company controller involved. We are a billion dollar company.
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FrozenVent posted:We need to make a payment to a supplier overseas. lol what the hell
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FrozenVent posted:We need to make a payment to a supplier overseas. This is triggering. Years ago when I was an engineer in a client-facing role we hit this around a call to Canada of all places. I was like 24 and I frickin LAID INTO our prob 50 year old facilities person who was stuck in a 1980s "Of course long distance calling will get abused, how else can you talk to people overseas?" while a go-live on a 6 figure deal was in jeopardy. If I remember I think I found some kind of old-school call conferencing that I signed up for a free trial to make it work, but jfc that was such a great example of penny-wise, pound-foolish.
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FrozenVent posted:We need to make a payment to a supplier overseas.
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evil_bunnY posted:Can you not hop on loving zoom, JFC Please fill out the requisition form to have IT install software on your laptop signed off by your manager with business justification and one director-level executive approving budget and someone will respond to you in 2 days to schedule an appointment with you
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Mantle posted:Please fill out the requisition form to have IT install software on your laptop signed off by your manager with business justification and one director-level executive approving budget and someone will respond to you in 2 days to schedule an appointment with you at this point like even the worst corp environment has some kind of web conferencing software
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:at this point like even the worst corp environment has some kind of web conferencing software
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evil_bunnY posted:Can you not hop on loving zoom, JFC We don’t have Zoom, we have Team. Even when we used Zoom, only managers had licenses, the rest of us had to content with the free version. Our Team doesn’t do VOIP, so she would have had to send her contact over there an email invite, defeating the whole verbal confirmation thing. We have about 300 employees, this isn’t a twelve person family shop. It’s amazing.
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My company recently told us to stop using usb memory keys to 'prevent hacking attempts on the corporate network'. It's a pain in the butt because I regularly have to receive large files from our vendors that cannot be saved on any external file site due to another corporate policy. My computer lacks a DVD drive and purchasing an external one is out of the question. If anyone wanted into our network they could easily do it by email phishing--I've seen many people (most of whom are over 50) gladly click on any random email attachment sent to them.
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John Kelly posted:My company recently told us to stop using usb memory keys to 'prevent hacking attempts on the corporate network'. It's a pain in the butt because I regularly have to receive large files from our vendors that cannot be saved on any external file site due to another corporate policy. My computer lacks a DVD drive and purchasing an external one is out of the question. This is very common at F100 companies, I'm honestly not sure if it's against our policy here (we have 100s of policies) but I would myself try not plugging in flash storage to avoid unwanted attention from security. The policy needs to be tied with other ways of storing files like a robust SharePoint, Dropbox or OneDrive setup.
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Just pick up that thump drive with a label like “personal pics” or “patent filing documents” and plug it in at work it will be fine.
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