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The only time I've ever evacuated a building was at my first job. It was summer and the AC stopped working, in fact all of the HVAC stopped working. That building happens to be across the street from some kind of organic waste dump, and the awful smell filtered into the building. Everybody just got up and left.
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My sister is a video editor. She sent this screenshot with a caption like: "This is what you get when teenagers try to keep track of the versions!"
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Feb 26, 2021 17:09
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Play posted:Ooooo, points! It's like dollars except completely useless!! 
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Feb 27, 2021 01:44
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Outrail posted:My new hire starts today, what dumb poo poo should I have her do to make her hate me as quickly as possible? Ask her if she has stairs in her house, and if she knows the terrible secret of space.
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Mar 2, 2021 20:12
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AHH F/UGH posted:coffee is overrated, just dose caffeine in your eyelid from a medical vial in an eye dropper
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Mar 5, 2021 03:26
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I once worked a six-month temp contract at a Fortune 600 company (they later made the 500 and have remained in the low 400s as far as I can tell). This was late 2006-mid 2007, and just about everyone used Windows 2000 with Office 97. Getting Windows XP was a perk reserved for VIPs.Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:I hope it got hung in their cube. Someone autoscale printed a document on our plotter and now it's their cube wallpaper. ~Coxy posted:
Reminds me of the oversized boarding pass prank videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94C_xBp7S3g
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Mar 16, 2021 15:48
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Play posted:I think I'm going to bring this into the real world and just start repeating "thumbs down" whenever a meeting is wasting my time or someone asks me to do something 
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Mar 18, 2021 02:05
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It can be upgraded every year so it's never obsolete
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Mar 23, 2021 16:55
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Animal-Mother posted:My boss decided to chew me out today and halfway through his rant I realized, "This is just bullshit. He's just wrong." Instead of arguing my case, which I suspect he would have enjoyed shooting down, I just nodded along and calmly said "Yes sir, I'll fix that, I'll take care of it." I had one boss who liked to yell at me, and eventually I figured out I could neutralize him by yelling back. He'd apologize in his own way later, after he'd calmed down. Sometimes he'd even take me out to lunch!
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Apr 1, 2021 19:08
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True, though in fairness it was a 2-person company (me and him) and I knew he couldn't afford to lose me.
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Apr 1, 2021 19:24
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a hot gujju bhabhi posted:For context, the place I used to work one of the two CEO's (yes, we had two CEO's) punched a client at a work gathering. That's the kind of place we're talking about here. Were these two the CEOs? 
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Apr 7, 2021 18:47
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My boss, my co-worker and I have a happy hour on Teams every Friday with booze and Jackbox.
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Apr 7, 2021 23:44
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I've got a user whose laptop I've remoted into and he's had porn open. Except it wasn't pictures and it wasn't videos. He had Word files with stories copied and pasted from Literotica. To me, that was funny enough to not bother reporting him.
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Apr 26, 2021 22:27
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nexus6 posted:The Basecamp drama really should have its own thread and not a derail, but the way I've read it is that senior management's response to "why did you knowingly do nothing about a racist internal joke for years?" was "What? No. That's political talk. No political talk (other than politics the founder approves of). If you don't like it you can get out". Update from the Schadenfreude thread: nexus6 posted:The Basecamp implosion is pretty schaden-y
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May 5, 2021 03:51
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My first job out of college ended up being IT helpdesk at a non-profit (in fact the national headquarters of a major church). One of the departments had a young guy who was fairly tech savvy, and all the olds began to turn to him for help instead of going to helpdesk - understandably so, as helpdesk was often chaos. But that's a whole other post. I worked there 2004-2006, and ended up visiting a few years later when I worked at an MSP and was on a client visit. That guy had become the helpdesk manager 
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Jun 8, 2021 23:43
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Tarkus posted:That's something I learned in grade 1 or 2. They used to describe it as 'the alligator eats the bigger number'. I wonder if they still teach that in schools. For me it was "Pac-Man eats the bigger number" 
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Jun 11, 2021 03:41
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"All my files are in Word!"
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Jun 23, 2021 14:42
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zedprime posted:The Buddha called together his directors for a root cause analysis on the recently cancelled software project. I love this
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Jun 26, 2021 03:58
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Volmarias posted:But also let THEM make the first offer. 
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Jun 29, 2021 00:45
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quote:Hi TK69, Her company is "redacted" and mine is "redacted2" We don't make software. At all. We're a recruiting firm.
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Plebian Parasite posted:I have a german last name, and let me tell you, it does not help. Tell him to get your number changed to nein.
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Outrail posted:Were you pegged to be pegger or peggee? 
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Nov 2, 2021 04:30
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I thought Escape From Noise is in Japan?
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Nov 12, 2021 22:01
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CaptainJuan posted:https://twitter.com/Gawker/status/1466892673248378881?t=5rl-xu3uSJGya7husyRAQg&s=19
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Alkydere posted:Reminds me of a pic someone shared from a Best Buy employment quiz. The question was "Do we greet customers coming into our store?" Person answered "Yes" and the quiz went "Incorrect, we welcome customers into our store." Part of this: https://twitter.com/VeryBadLlama/status/1469756987105763333
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My company will occasionally acquire smaller companies in the same industry, typically 2 to 20 people in size. We knew the latest acquisition (2 so far, maybe 5 people tops) was coming and they would be onboarded on 1/31. Today, on a Friday at 4:30 p.m. HR sends in a helpdesk ticket saying they are now starting this Monday, 1/24. I reply in the ticket that it's rather short notice, but I can at least create their accounts since that can be done in a few minutes. Laptops and other equipment will have to wait until next week though. On top of that, the server that houses the tool I use to create accounts (ManageEngine) is down 
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Atopian posted:Fertilisation can be a challenge though, since a casual glance at the port configuration will reveal that the vast majority of worker laptops are female. Something something keyboard goop
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Feb 19, 2022 16:34
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THEY NEED TO DO WAY INSTANTIATE NISSAN
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I don't think this is dumb, I think it's amusing. Spotted in a thread where quoting is blocked: .https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3932360&pagenumber=11&perpage=40&userid=0#post522072374
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Thank you both! Just phone posting in between playing my St. Pat's gig so I didn't want to do much digging.
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DreadUnknown posted:Goddamn that guy is a dumb idiot, how the gently caress does he survive putting pants on? 
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I follow @employeetears on Instagram and this Twitter thread was shared, here's the text of it:quote:A friend of mine has been trying to hire a new employee for her department in a medium-sized org. After advertising several times with few applicants, and a couple of rounds of interviews, the new employee is less than great. Then she discovered there were other applicants ...
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One neat trick to hide bleach stains!
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HR sent out the "Return to office expectations and plan" email today: - Phase 1, starting in May, come in one day per week, Tuesdays strongly encouraged in effort to spend time with colleagues - Phase 2, starting in June, come in two days per week, Tuesday and Thursdays for same reason above Afterward, phases to be reviewed each month. All mask and vaccination requirements will be based on local state laws. I would not be surprised to see more than a few people walk.
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Tex Avery posted:American railroads are so god awful right now that, as we speak, the CEOs of four out of the five major railroads that operate in the US are sitting in a hearing with the Surface Transportation Board to explain the fuckery. They've been providing such terrible service to customers AND driving away employees at a record high rate of turnover that the chairman of the board didn't give said CEOs a choice, but rather TOLD them they had to be there. The one railroad whose CEO wasn't required to show up only got a pass because the railroad was bought by a Canadian company a few months ago, and the STB is giving them a chance to clean up instead of punishing the new owners for dumb poo poo the old management did. I'm guessing the CEO that got a pass is KC Southern since it was acquired by Canadian Pacific? So the others would be BNSF, Union Pacific, CSX, and Norfolk Southern? Coco13 posted:Any sites following this closely? It’s the first I’ve heard of it, and I’m sure others in the thread would love to watch it as well. I would hope that Trains magazine is. Also, probably worth cross-posting in the Locomotive Insanity thread in AI.
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I liked geology better when it was underground. When it was about the rock, man. Anyway, if I had to name a team I'd suggest "Barbershop Quartet In Skokie"
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I suppose I should finally contribute. I'm in the IT dept of a medium-sized, global recruiting firm. I've been here over 6 years, and for the last 2+ (since my old teammate got fired, and rightly so) I've handled the bulk of helpdesk, and especially new hire stuff including account creations, laptop setup and shipping, ordering user equipment, and IT orientation as part of new hire onboarding. The past two years were heavy but we finally hired a junior helpdesk guy in December. He happens to be a friend of my manager, they both used to work at the same MSP. I was assured by manager that he's good. In February, manager allows newbie to take a half-day every day for three weeks straight to attend an online class that leads to certification. Bad timing as the workload was heavy and I was doing the bulk of it again. It got so stressful, for the first time I noticed hairs on my pillow after waking up in the morning. Then the class is over and newbie decides he's not going to even do the exam, because it costs $1,200. Motherfucker, you may as well pony up the cash and do it now - the company paid for your classes, get it done before you have to do the class again down the road. Did I mention I've never taken a class? Nor do I have any certs. I unloaded all of this to our director (above the manager), and he told me he was glad I said that. So that's something, I guess. We also retain an MSP for helpdesk overflow, as well as evening/weekend/holiday coverage (plus some NOC stuff). This past Friday was a half day for our US offices due to the holiday weekend. Newbie had a ticket for an executive who was having laptop trouble in the form of mouse cursor jumping around so badly she couldn't work. She had a proposal for an RFP due by 5pm on Friday. Newbie replied to her ticket once that morning, then didn't bother to escalate the ticket to the MSP before clocking out at 1pm. Understandably, she was pissed that there was no response or even escalation. There was no extension available for the RFP deadline, so our company is out of the running. Not only did we lose out on potential business, but she missed a chance at a five-figure commission. She is wanting to speak to someone about escalation policies and procedures. I advised newbie to escalate to director, since manager is at an onsite. TITTIEKISSER69 fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Jun 1, 2022 |
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Megillah Gorilla posted:The muscles that move the fingers are in your forearm. Truth 
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Has anyone had the coworker type "Sends Unrequested Vacation Updates Instead of Enjoying Vacation?" Had a manager like that a few years ago who would send multiple lengthy PDF files of what they were doing in Italy that must have taken hours to type up. In current role a coworker on a tropical island keeps posting to a group chat and I'm wondering why they don't wait to share photos until after they return? Hope I never get broke brained enough to be unable to go without a work Gchat group for a few weeks. To me, that's exactly what Yammer is for since nobody looks at it
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