cynic posted:

Yeah, that might not work, my current company has people who have been there 40 years but they only did that by switching off the parts of their brain that feel joy. These people are to be celebrated and idolised for they have abandoned all that makes them 'them' in return for a pathetic paycheque and a weekend break in Europe (flights and accommodation only). People have died here before receiving their 2 nights in a 3* hotel in Barcelona! People with a soul quit at around 6 months - 4 years depending on their stamina and how long they need on their resume.

Son of Rodney posted:

Deffo a thing in Germany but might be on its way out. Stuff like birth date, family status (single/married) and hobbies are also common. I was quite surprised to learn that many jobs outside of Germany don't expect stuff like pictures, age, and all that. I'd love for that to become standard here, I even heard about some places not wanting gender, heritage or even names and it's sound so much better.

nexus6 posted:

I'm sorry, did you work here in the 70s?

Suspicious Lump posted:

I have a question guys:
How the gently caress do I deal with people who have checked out? You know the kind, the ones who have a job for life (I work in what is essentially government), they're cruising along not wanting to rock the boat, change the status quo or do anything beyond the bare minimum?

A Festivus Miracle posted:

You're complaining about people not giving a gently caress about you giving a gently caress. The solution is obvious: stop giving a gently caress

TacticalHoodie posted:

It's the same as Human Resources. We are the bane of everyone's existence because we have to enforce corporate's mandates and policy if we like to or not. My role, Payroll Accounting. is a pure support role but I have to people to do things like go on vacation or lose x amount of hours at the end of the fiscal year or punch in and out during their shift to be paid properly. We are told to change the workplace culture when the workplace culture actively refuses to follow along with the rest of the company.

This is why everyone hates HR!

mayday mayday posted:

My work has the option to print single-sided disabled on the printers themselves, so you can freely select single-sided and it appears to work, but when you go to pick up the 800 individually-addressed letters they’re all double-sided. We have high enough turnover that this happens to someone every few weeks, or more frequently, if someone forgets. Then you shred those 400 pages and send the print job to one specific printer in another building (three-years-plus old timers like me can tell you which one) that can print single sided. This is to save paper.

I work at a museum, so our dumb poo poo is sometimes fun dumb poo poo, like:

-Coworker didn’t want to wait for the freight elevator when transporting a mounted bear, so he wedged it into the passenger elevator. It tipped over and slightly mauled him (like four stitches)

-One of the curators realized that the weird sound he’d been hearing for a while was a historic geiger counter in the collections going off and we had to evacuate

-We don’t have nearly enough storage space so access corridors are frequently filled with taxidermy (and other large relatively low-value exhibits: player pianos, etc). Debate continues over whether the moose outside the first aid room constitutes a serious safety risk

-Last year one of the techs fell through the ceiling into a gallery during open hours, stood up, and walked out the main exit. Never came back as far as I know

Sometimes our dumb poo poo is just horrible c-suite people being sexist racist scumbags, terrible policies that make people less productive and managers abusing their employees like anywhere else though! Our ex-CEO once flipped out at my coworker (a fairly regular occurrence), shouted “I’ve taught on twelve continents” and then stormed out. Someone made up a little “Professor of Geography, University of Atlantis” sign but no one was brave enough to do anything with it

Spatule posted:

Re: commuting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_hypnosis#:~:text=Highway%20hypnosis%2C%20also%20known%20as,of%20having%20consciously%20done%20so.

For many people it's meditation, an actual dissociative state, and it's really nice.

Steakandchips posted:

More companies need to realise this extremely basic stuff.

Lascivious Sloth posted:

are bonuses an American thing? sounds like a really tricky cheap way to screw over your workforce by having a "bonus" that you may or may not get but was probably taken from your original salary package.

Scientastic posted:

Are these the cubes that bosses forbid you from decorating with any personal items, to make sure they stamp out any expression of personality so you become a corporate zombie?

Barudak posted:

IT responds to you when you email them???

SkyeAuroline posted:

I've been given a project with an estimated timeline of "well, we expected this to take years, so anything faster is good". Taxing my Excel skills to their limit to figure this poo poo out. But boy is this a nicer experience than just mindlessly plugging data into the system.

Good poo poo your work does: respect you enough to give you real work
Dumb poo poo your work does: not give a deadline

the heat goes wrong posted:

In Excel???

wilderthanmild posted:

I don't think I've seen a job in software making $12/hr ever. While lots of job markets are hosed up right now, software development is a particularly good job market to be in.

What stack are you working with/have experience with that this is what you're left with? Are you looking in some very middle of nowhere market? Have you explored remote jobs?

CarForumPoster posted:

Lmao at the people saying IT and software dev is a hard to break into industry with bad pay. Nah the problem is you. Get over to the resume threads in BFC or YOSPOS and we’ll get you on your way. Lots of hiring managers in there.

Barudak posted:

On one hand these all feel stdh, on the other I've absolutely had these people as bosses and the change in economic conditions does make it possible.

StrangersInTheNight posted:

my boss constantly forgets conversations we've just had and I frequently have to remind her where we left things, and it's just because she's overworked so I try to have grace, but part of it is overworking herself bc she focuses on tiny poo poo and misses the big stuff and so it's a lot of grabbing her head and forcing it up from whatever small task she's dallying in to see the oncoming freight train and then she looks down again to continue her task and immediately forgets the freight train is coming

you cannot stop the reply-all stop-replying vortex, it is eternal, if you find yourself in one double check if you've accidentally died and fallen into limbo

Spatule posted:

Honestly, this is an IT problem. These things should be stopped automatically, it's not new, it's not hard to implement.

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.

Hyrax Attack! posted:

Oh yeah, I’m not an exemplar of Protestant work ethic but I want what I do to have some meaning and it is rewarding to help other depts or fix problems, and to learn new software and tools. I don’t want to be on a podcast team that to borrow a description someone posted long ago, is daycare for adults.

Yeah those folk are nice but the situation feels like working a register in a supermarket the week before thanksgiving and half the other tills are closed with lines back to the freezer section, and management shakes their head about how we couldn’t possibly budget for more cashiers and anyway nobody really likes doing that work, as a dozen coworkers sit in the office watching YouTube for a week to find inspiration for a morale building video.

Outrail posted:

Yeah it's more of the second. The thing is we have weekly status updates/meetings to talk about what's going on. If they don't have time to do things that's one thing, we can reshuffle or redelegate but instead of saying 'this is on my to-do list but I don't have time to do it' it never gets brought up until the deadline has passed. So I'm going to be forced to micromanage people like children but I honestly don't have time for that.

We have a lot of things to keep track of and lots of moving parts to multiple projects and it's almost impossible for one person to keep track of everything on their own. This is things like 'When it starts raining we need to put the equipment out for data collection' or 'Can you please send x to y' and they just forget about it until it's too late. It's partly a communication problem.

Agoat posted:

My work is having a staffing shortage (tons of auto claims came in), and they're also trying to fire a ton of people.

Like, what

bee posted:

Oooo one of my ex employers did this. They were short about thirty part time & casual staff, but were firing existing staff members at a rate of about one per fortnight. To make it more fun, they refused to allow new or existing staff any flexibility when it came to what shifts/hours they could work, it was basically "you will work these shifts, you cannot swap them, or you can quit". So staff were jumping ship for other organisations that had flexible shifts.

I was in charge of recruiting, but then I got fired because I failed to magic thirty new employees out of my arse during a nationwide labour shortage. Good times!

tractor man posted:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59263300

Portugal making it illegal to do stuff all my bosses wouldnt have batted an eye at doing.

Jack-Off Lantern posted:

Doesn't help, they still do it, especially in minimum wage jobs..

One of my bosses called me at 6am on my day off just this week.

Texts too, obviously. They called after I didn't respond

Jack-Off Lantern posted:

I do have Rechtsschutz. But yeah, usually your employer will find a way to get rid of you, even if you win. You might get a severance out of it, but at that point you should have lined up a job somewhere else.

It can also take forever for it to go through court, until then you have to work at a job you're sueing or be "sick"

Tarkus posted:

What is the job market like there? I'd imagine it's pretty tough to find a new job or has job seeking become easier over the years there? I know that back in the 90's it was somewhat taboo to leave a job, especially a career oriented one.

Batterypowered7 posted:

I thought the Japanese just put people they wanted to fire in a room in the back doing nothing in the hopes that they'll just leave on their own.

Barudak posted:

Yeah Im in Tokyo-rear end Tokyo, Ginza/toronomon hills area.

We could do virtual golf? gently caress, finding a neutral fun activity sucks

Enfys posted:

interwhat posted:

I wonder, could it ever be possible to create a social media group for non-management people to voice their concerns and come together as a group to push back against the corp, without them actually finding out? My suspicion is that a mole would get in immediately, or some boot licking loud mouth will just screenshot everything to management.

deep dish peat moss posted:

I have no idea how to contact them to do this. They're one of those big tech startups that is waaaaaaaaaaay too big for itself, no one whose contact information I have is still there. I worked for a company that they acquired and I was part of the acquisition. They never gave us any information about organizational structure or who to reach out to about what, we had no access to the company directory, etc. We were even on our own separate Slack instance lmao. Absolutely zero public contact information. I guess I could certified mail it to their HQ office but they're still not in-office there and likely never will be.

Machai posted:

Take a other four, as long as you get your work done.

Outrail posted:

I'm guessing the problem is if companies say 'you need to request time off and also it must be at least a week/month in advance and also we're going to deny your requests for very good reasons'.

Elephant Ambush posted:

Most people are terrible at facilitating effective meetings. Tons of people will ask the question "Is everyone OK with this change?" and since tons of people are either barely paying attention because the meeting is boring or because they're messaging someone on the side or doing other work they don't say anything.

Takes No Damage posted:

This is just the way things are. My sister did a college internship at ATT in like 2002 and in one day she was able to use one of the programs there more efficiently than some career employees. Her secret? She read the manual

zedprime posted:

If you have any unused flanged ports on your top head there's plenty of dip tubes of variable length you can get from the equivalent of Granger Supply. Without doing ill advised things to your pressure release, you can get a dip tube about as long as your pressure release liquid lock is tall. Ex. If you have a hose going to a garbage bin like most brewers your size, you can get a dip tube a little less long than the trashcan is tall.

If you have any flanges free in your bottom head you can get a dip tube reaching up and use gravity but you need to blow those out somehow or you get even scummier samples, also a bitch to clean just between batches.

If that doesn't get you in the sample territory because of headspace you can get a longer dip tube but now you get into the ill poo poo where you are looking for more back pressure than your airlock gets you. Make sure your pressure gauge is good, close your valve going to the airlock. You need half a PSI for every foot your dipstick is long plus losses to friction. Get your sample then burp it back to normal. I'm not responsible if you blow a flange or wall out.