So while navigating through our departmental intranet full of serious business, numbers and policies I came across an inexplicable photo of some girl dressed in a pikachu onesie standing in one of our offices.
Picked up some work a few weeks ago, warehouse gig. Pick up boxes, stack boxes on pallets, put pallets in dispatch and repeat ad nauseum. It is without a doubt the most boring thing I can remember doing for a living. But it is at least a job, given how long the commute is i have been looking for something better/closer almost as soon as I started. Wouldn't mind something outside but I can't afford to live on a trainees wage for three years right now.
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So while navigating through our departmental intranet full of serious business, numbers and policies I came across an inexplicable photo of some girl dressed in a pikachu onesie standing in one of our offices.
Our IT staff didn't transfer part of my laptop when they mirrored it to the new one, so they took control and navigated to the network share where they temporarily store laptop data. They had a rip of the fourth Transformers movie and The Marine 3 (WWE) in the root folder. He rapidly deleted them and I just started laughing. I didn't think anyone would believe that of all the movies stored on the IT servers of a multi-billion corporation, you would have just that on there.
This is for an assignment, does anyone know of any organizations or resources that help people with job skills or job finding? At this point I'm tempted to just put JoeUser on this assignment as a resource.
Um, this is a little late, but the Gary Job Corps is a thing here I've seen
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This is for an assignment, does anyone know of any organizations or resources that help people with job skills or job finding? At this point I'm tempted to just put JoeUser on this assignment as a resource.
Um, this is a little late, but the Gary Job Corps is a thing here I've seen
Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development was the first thing I thought of, and I think most states have a department similar to this. They handle unemployment payments, help find people jobs, and help people get the skills to find better jobs.
Can't have more than three letters. We do have som JAM, though.
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Guys how do you know when friction between colleagues has gone too far?
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lonelyahavaCall me Ahava ~~She/Her~~Move to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
so.
at our company our customers can generate their own usernames. I mean, we're an ISP. of course they can.
We've never had any restrictions, really. Other than like, between 3-18 characters. But that's it.
About half of our customers can create their accounts and sign up online, without having to talk to anybody in our call center.
Which is exactly what has led us to the current situation.
When we place orders for our customer's fibre connections, we use our internal order number-username. So G.###-lonelyahava as an example.
A customer of ours placed an order for fibre and we then placed that order with our vendor in our usual manner. Completely on autopilot and not even looking at the username.
This has now come back to kind of bite us a bit, as our vendor sent us a letter asking us to consider what we have as references, as they found the reference for this customer to be rather rude.
Which, once we looked into it, well, yeah. Ok, I suppose so. But, it's fully use generated and how can we just now start placing restrictions on them?
Oh? What was the username?
fucktelstra
Yup. Telstra being one of our bigger competitors.
So, good on you buddy. way to go with sticking it to the man. You may have just ruined it for everybody else.
I had a meeting with my manager. It turns out a few people have complained to my manager about how I'm always browsing the internet and not doing any work.
I go through all my projects with him and explain that I'll have frantic 1-2 hour blocks but as a IT project coordinator I spend a lot of time waiting on the order managers (my provisioning management team) to do things/reply to my emails. But I'm doing all I can and am just filling dead time, which to be fair is quite a lot. He agreed.
I then asked who had made the complaints.
It was the order managers.
I gave him a "really...this is happening?" look.
His reply was "Karl, it's about perception"
Jesus, fine.
I've got a 26 tab project plan now that I've agreed to update and send out daily. That should kill some time.
Meeting with my poor team leader this morning. She's only had us 2 - 3 weeks as our manager and already has had to deal with the fallout from one massive billing issue, and now I get to tell her I've found another issue that is already at least a $20k issue.
I have to help at a Happy Hour event for work tonight.
This sounds fun except I get zero free alcohol for it and the coordinators who actually deal with the students and should be there to meet them always find excuses to not show up. So I get stuck hanging out there all night because I don't want to abandon the person there that planned the damn event.
First day back to work after 6 days of vacation. So much accumulated work that I really don't want to do today. Had a meeting with HR first thing too, to go over our "corporate engagment survey." Not really my thing, but I had to go to make the department look good.
My "cube" mate didn't go to the meeting this morning. He's very old school (I guess?) and doesn't really like HR because he equates them with corporate bullshit. He's currently being chewed out by our manager in a conference room across the hall.
I had debated not going to the meeting. The meeting was the better option.
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I'm at a big education technology conference today and tomorrow. It already seems boring and a bunch of the breakout sessions seem like they would be useless to me. I'll go to this Apple one since it is being done by Apple itself and maybe they'll give out cool things?
I am slowly going slightly mad* on this project, if the manager I'm working for wasn't coming back from overseas next week I might have snapped because its really hard to work on something as described by cave drawings and hand gestures by proxy. Also all of the other double talk and confusing misinformation coming from other assets makes this trying and extremely confusing as to who is doing what and what is being done.
Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
This keynote speaker already has some pretty heavy Nintendo copyright infringement. Though there is at least one Mario up there that is some crazy third party Mario.
So the one Graduate Assistant that I like (not the one who accused me of having a tone with him) is graduating in a few weeks.
Brought me a cronut today and he showed me his suggestions for streamlining the office. Apparently, before he leaves any job he writes up a list of suggestions for what would make things easier around the office. He had a meeting with his supervisor and it went well.
Sassafrass, that is not an event but an opportunity to blackmail the slackers who don't show.
Break them for their treachery.
The problem is that there is no punishment for not participating in things. They have nothing to threaten anyone with.
Then we'll just have to invent some punishments then, won't we? Also, I still have a paperback copy that is a brief encyclopedia of tortures and executions lying around in case we get some writer's block.
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So the one Graduate Assistant that I like (not the one who accused me of having a tone with him) is graduating in a few weeks.
Brought me a cronut today and he showed me his suggestions for streamlining the office. Apparently, before he leaves any job he writes up a list of suggestions for what would make things easier around the office. He had a meeting with his supervisor and it went well.
Dang I love this kid.
Hopefully he brings up those suggestions earlier in his career... I know some people don't like hearing them, but honestly improving things is something everyone should be for.
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So the one Graduate Assistant that I like (not the one who accused me of having a tone with him) is graduating in a few weeks.
Brought me a cronut today and he showed me his suggestions for streamlining the office. Apparently, before he leaves any job he writes up a list of suggestions for what would make things easier around the office. He had a meeting with his supervisor and it went well.
Dang I love this kid.
Hopefully he brings up those suggestions earlier in his career... I know some people don't like hearing them, but honestly improving things is something everyone should be for.
Over the last year and a half that I knew him he definitely got better about speaking up. There were some things he brought up that his supervisor was surprised to hear were issues because she just doesn't know what their day can actually look like. I hope they listen to him because he had a lot of good ideas that they could start using right away.
I really hate all of the drama that comes with working in an office.
One of my peers is upset because they told her she won't be considered for any movement because she isn't meeting her productivity goals.
Of course, they are moving me and I've never even had productivity goals because I'm too new.
She's been here for like 10 years in the same position and everyone is talking about how unfair it is and blah blah blah.
I didn't say anything because frankly, it's not my place but I'm thinking... Why don't you just work harder and meet goals?
I wouldn't expect to me moved either if I'm not doing a good job.
I think everyone in this office hates me but I really don't care.
Some people get the attitude of "why is he working so hard, now we all look bad" then get mad at you for doing your job. These people are safe to ignore. They suck at their job and in a year when you're far removed from the meaningless shit they work on, you won't ever have to see them.
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Our IT staff didn't transfer part of my laptop when they mirrored it to the new one, so they took control and navigated to the network share where they temporarily store laptop data. They had a rip of the fourth Transformers movie and The Marine 3 (WWE) in the root folder. He rapidly deleted them and I just started laughing. I didn't think anyone would believe that of all the movies stored on the IT servers of a multi-billion corporation, you would have just that on there.
Um, this is a little late, but the Gary Job Corps is a thing here I've seen
Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development was the first thing I thought of, and I think most states have a department similar to this. They handle unemployment payments, help find people jobs, and help people get the skills to find better jobs.
@timspork's ghost
http://bostonabcd.org/jobs-and-job-training.aspx
and
http://jobtrainingalliance.org/
I give it two weeks before somebody had managed to shoehorn TROWEL and RAKE into it.
at our company our customers can generate their own usernames. I mean, we're an ISP. of course they can.
We've never had any restrictions, really. Other than like, between 3-18 characters. But that's it.
About half of our customers can create their accounts and sign up online, without having to talk to anybody in our call center.
Which is exactly what has led us to the current situation.
When we place orders for our customer's fibre connections, we use our internal order number-username. So G.###-lonelyahava as an example.
A customer of ours placed an order for fibre and we then placed that order with our vendor in our usual manner. Completely on autopilot and not even looking at the username.
This has now come back to kind of bite us a bit, as our vendor sent us a letter asking us to consider what we have as references, as they found the reference for this customer to be rather rude.
Which, once we looked into it, well, yeah. Ok, I suppose so. But, it's fully use generated and how can we just now start placing restrictions on them?
Oh? What was the username?
fucktelstra
Yup. Telstra being one of our bigger competitors.
So, good on you buddy. way to go with sticking it to the man. You may have just ruined it for everybody else.
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I'm doing it because on some level I'm still 14 and mad at the world.
But it's made for some interesting/fun conversations the last few days at work.
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I go through all my projects with him and explain that I'll have frantic 1-2 hour blocks but as a IT project coordinator I spend a lot of time waiting on the order managers (my provisioning management team) to do things/reply to my emails. But I'm doing all I can and am just filling dead time, which to be fair is quite a lot. He agreed.
I then asked who had made the complaints.
It was the order managers.
I gave him a "really...this is happening?" look.
His reply was "Karl, it's about perception"
Jesus, fine.
I've got a 26 tab project plan now that I've agreed to update and send out daily. That should kill some time.
You are a classy gentleman, Mr. Salazar; don't you go changin'.
is fuck telstra a fair sentiment y/n
Telstra is essentially Australia's equivalent to AT&T, so I'm going to go with "yes".
This sounds fun except I get zero free alcohol for it and the coordinators who actually deal with the students and should be there to meet them always find excuses to not show up. So I get stuck hanging out there all night because I don't want to abandon the person there that planned the damn event.
Break them for their treachery.
My "cube" mate didn't go to the meeting this morning. He's very old school (I guess?) and doesn't really like HR because he equates them with corporate bullshit. He's currently being chewed out by our manager in a conference room across the hall.
I had debated not going to the meeting. The meeting was the better option.
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The problem is that there is no punishment for not participating in things. They have nothing to threaten anyone with.
Also there is a drawing for an apple watch.
Brought me a cronut today and he showed me his suggestions for streamlining the office. Apparently, before he leaves any job he writes up a list of suggestions for what would make things easier around the office. He had a meeting with his supervisor and it went well.
Dang I love this kid.
Then we'll just have to invent some punishments then, won't we? Also, I still have a paperback copy that is a brief encyclopedia of tortures and executions lying around in case we get some writer's block.
Hopefully he brings up those suggestions earlier in his career... I know some people don't like hearing them, but honestly improving things is something everyone should be for.
Over the last year and a half that I knew him he definitely got better about speaking up. There were some things he brought up that his supervisor was surprised to hear were issues because she just doesn't know what their day can actually look like. I hope they listen to him because he had a lot of good ideas that they could start using right away.
on the other hand mmmm cronuts yes please I will take your bribe
One of my peers is upset because they told her she won't be considered for any movement because she isn't meeting her productivity goals.
Of course, they are moving me and I've never even had productivity goals because I'm too new.
She's been here for like 10 years in the same position and everyone is talking about how unfair it is and blah blah blah.
I didn't say anything because frankly, it's not my place but I'm thinking... Why don't you just work harder and meet goals?
I wouldn't expect to me moved either if I'm not doing a good job.
I think everyone in this office hates me but I really don't care.
Thank you, Chrome, for causing a panic.
Edit: Oh you're just late.
Some people get the attitude of "why is he working so hard, now we all look bad" then get mad at you for doing your job. These people are safe to ignore. They suck at their job and in a year when you're far removed from the meaningless shit they work on, you won't ever have to see them.