i wonder what it's like to go on vacation and not have to work through it because it's actually better than trusting anyone you work with
I'm actually really shocked when I don't have to worry.
When I got married, I gave my boss a to do list, and he fucken did it. I was impressed. I didn't have a whole pile of shit waiting for me.
How suspicious are you when there isn't a pile of shit waiting for you?
Incredibly suspicious.
My list was quite detailed and included the status of all my jobs. And he went through each item on there and the status, and the status of a couple jobs coming down the pipe line. It was quite refreshing, but for the rest of the day I felt like I do when I'm babysitting kids and the apartment gets completely quiet.
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TTODewbackPuts the drawl in ya'llI think I'm in HellRegistered Userregular
boston baked beans
Bless your heart.
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HonkHonk is this poster.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
We have no redundancy currently so any vacation needs to be planned around if you want to not waste time on projects.
Also means that if you get sick it’s often more relaxing to work at home rather than run into the wall when you come back. This is probably true for all offices nowadays I guess.
i wonder what it's like to go on vacation and not have to work through it because it's actually better than trusting anyone you work with
I just tell my office to get fucked on producing through my absence, this vacation is part of my compensation. Its going to be a legit vacation, not work light. Like the moment i leave my work this evening I'm on a 4 day weekend for PAX, and their problems become not my problems. I will not be checking my work email till Tuesday. I feel it is important to enforce strict work life boundaries.
We have no redundancy currently so any vacation needs to be planned around if you want to not waste time on projects.
Also means that if you get sick it’s often more relaxing to work at home rather than run into the wall when you come back. This is probably true for all offices nowadays I guess.
i haven't had a day where i was truly disconnected from work in 5 years
it's awesome
i told my boss already he needs a solution for the fact that i'll be in sweden for two weeks in september and i am not going to be in contact for nobody
probably the solution is i come back to a two week pile of work not done, but
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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DynagripBreak me a million heartsHoustonRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I have an urgent deadline but I was super fucking productive this week and I am ahead of schedule
then our field engineer calls at 6:30pm last night and tells me that the Contractor super mega fucked up one of their drilled shafts and holy shit what are we going to do
bro
bro
bro can you tell these guys to just
just stop
fucking hell
I forget which level off the process do you sit at? i thought you were just an engineer
i am a design engineer, my boss is the engineer of record for this bridge, but he's pretty busy being the boss so most of the ongoing construction issues fall to me
so any field changes during construction, issues with the plans, etc. have to go through us. and with a job this big and complex there's tons of things that come up.
who do I pray to so that I may pass the mech eng PE exam next friday? The ghost of James Watt?
We have no redundancy currently so any vacation needs to be planned around if you want to not waste time on projects.
Also means that if you get sick it’s often more relaxing to work at home rather than run into the wall when you come back. This is probably true for all offices nowadays I guess.
Lean Six sigma baby. Redundancy is waste.
Oh shit Jeff is leaving next week, who are we going to have take over for him, while the new guy is getting trained?
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HonkHonk is this poster.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
One nice thing is I’ve been adamant you can’t build physical things between June and August, because we rely on international sourcing and down in Europe factories literally close doors for vacation for a month randomly during that time. So ordering things is exactly impossible. So hopefully summer will be calm this year and I can just bugger off and play video games for 4 weeks.
PSN: Honkalot
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Hi I'm Vee!Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C ERegistered Userregular
I have an urgent deadline but I was super fucking productive this week and I am ahead of schedule
then our field engineer calls at 6:30pm last night and tells me that the Contractor super mega fucked up one of their drilled shafts and holy shit what are we going to do
bro
bro
bro can you tell these guys to just
just stop
fucking hell
I forget which level off the process do you sit at? i thought you were just an engineer
i am a design engineer, my boss is the engineer of record for this bridge, but he's pretty busy being the boss so most of the ongoing construction issues fall to me
so any field changes during construction, issues with the plans, etc. have to go through us. and with a job this big and complex there's tons of things that come up.
who do I pray to so that I may pass the mech eng PE exam next friday? The ghost of James Watt?
Good luck!
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
We have no redundancy currently so any vacation needs to be planned around if you want to not waste time on projects.
Also means that if you get sick it’s often more relaxing to work at home rather than run into the wall when you come back. This is probably true for all offices nowadays I guess.
i haven't had a day where i was truly disconnected from work in 5 years
it's awesome
i told my boss already he needs a solution for the fact that i'll be in sweden for two weeks in september and i am not going to be in contact for nobody
probably the solution is i come back to a two week pile of work not done, but
Don't ask for the moon, just go for "Can you try to keep the fires below knee level?"
i wonder what it's like to go on vacation and not have to work through it because it's actually better than trusting anyone you work with
I just tell my office to get fucked on producing through my absence, this vacation is part of my compensation. Its going to be a legit vacation, not work light. Like the moment i leave my work this evening I'm on a 4 day weekend for PAX, and their problems become not my problems. I will not be checking my work email till Tuesday. I feel it is important to enforce strict work life boundaries.
I am like this. I consider it part of self care. Though my work can call or text me in an emergency.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
We have no redundancy currently so any vacation needs to be planned around if you want to not waste time on projects.
Also means that if you get sick it’s often more relaxing to work at home rather than run into the wall when you come back. This is probably true for all offices nowadays I guess.
i haven't had a day where i was truly disconnected from work in 5 years
it's awesome
i told my boss already he needs a solution for the fact that i'll be in sweden for two weeks in september and i am not going to be in contact for nobody
probably the solution is i come back to a two week pile of work not done, but
Don't ask for the moon, just go for "Can you try to keep the fires bellow knee level?"
but i am the fire extinguisher
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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Hi I'm Vee!Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C ERegistered Userregular
We have no redundancy currently so any vacation needs to be planned around if you want to not waste time on projects.
Also means that if you get sick it’s often more relaxing to work at home rather than run into the wall when you come back. This is probably true for all offices nowadays I guess.
i haven't had a day where i was truly disconnected from work in 5 years
it's awesome
i told my boss already he needs a solution for the fact that i'll be in sweden for two weeks in september and i am not going to be in contact for nobody
probably the solution is i come back to a two week pile of work not done, but
Don't ask for the moon, just go for "Can you try to keep the fires bellow knee level?"
but i am the fire extinguisher
Sounds like they need to come up with alternate solutions while you're gone.
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
I have an urgent deadline but I was super fucking productive this week and I am ahead of schedule
then our field engineer calls at 6:30pm last night and tells me that the Contractor super mega fucked up one of their drilled shafts and holy shit what are we going to do
bro
bro
bro can you tell these guys to just
just stop
fucking hell
I forget which level off the process do you sit at? i thought you were just an engineer
i am a design engineer, my boss is the engineer of record for this bridge, but he's pretty busy being the boss so most of the ongoing construction issues fall to me
so any field changes during construction, issues with the plans, etc. have to go through us. and with a job this big and complex there's tons of things that come up.
who do I pray to so that I may pass the mech eng PE exam next friday? The ghost of James Watt?
you got this bro. just relax and answer all the ones you can quickly answer first, don't waste forever on something you don't know. come back to those at the end.
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
I have an urgent deadline but I was super fucking productive this week and I am ahead of schedule
then our field engineer calls at 6:30pm last night and tells me that the Contractor super mega fucked up one of their drilled shafts and holy shit what are we going to do
bro
bro
bro can you tell these guys to just
just stop
fucking hell
I forget which level off the process do you sit at? i thought you were just an engineer
i am a design engineer, my boss is the engineer of record for this bridge, but he's pretty busy being the boss so most of the ongoing construction issues fall to me
so any field changes during construction, issues with the plans, etc. have to go through us. and with a job this big and complex there's tons of things that come up.
who do I pray to so that I may pass the mech eng PE exam next friday? The ghost of James Watt?
you got this bro. just relax and answer all the ones you can quickly answer first, don't waste forever on something you don't know. come back to those at the end.
I've noticed during my practice tests a tendency to be stubborn and I'll stay too long on a problem that I can solve but like not fast enough. I feel like I have a solid grasp on the material but need to refine the use of my reference material, like fully review the contents of my binders, which are a hybrid of last year's class, this year's, and then stuff from other sources, like Schaum's outlines. I think I've picked up some easy points that I wasn't able to get last time, such as project management & engineering economics, hopefully statistics too. When I got my feedback on how I did on my first attempt I was a little surprised how poorly I did on the components section. I feel like that's actually a strength but perhaps I'm delusional. Taking all of next week off for the home stretch. Day before the test I'm going to keep it as light as possible and just try to get into a zen state of mind. The awful night's sleep before the test last year was a huge handicap. My brain gave up with like 2 hours to go.
We have no redundancy currently so any vacation needs to be planned around if you want to not waste time on projects.
Also means that if you get sick it’s often more relaxing to work at home rather than run into the wall when you come back. This is probably true for all offices nowadays I guess.
i haven't had a day where i was truly disconnected from work in 5 years
it's awesome
i told my boss already he needs a solution for the fact that i'll be in sweden for two weeks in september and i am not going to be in contact for nobody
probably the solution is i come back to a two week pile of work not done, but to never come back
if i figure out a way to never come back from sweden i will do it
i mean that doesn't involve evading authorities of two countries for the rest of my days
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this is the dream
just
just to have other people not be idiots who can't tie their own shoes when you're gone
How suspicious are you when there isn't a pile of shit waiting for you?
About as suspicious as when you write a program and it runs with no errors the first time.
Woah.
That's really cool! Hope it works out!
It is awesome.
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Because fuck you thats why answered the average Bostonian
My list was quite detailed and included the status of all my jobs. And he went through each item on there and the status, and the status of a couple jobs coming down the pipe line. It was quite refreshing, but for the rest of the day I felt like I do when I'm babysitting kids and the apartment gets completely quiet.
Also means that if you get sick it’s often more relaxing to work at home rather than run into the wall when you come back. This is probably true for all offices nowadays I guess.
I just tell my office to get fucked on producing through my absence, this vacation is part of my compensation. Its going to be a legit vacation, not work light. Like the moment i leave my work this evening I'm on a 4 day weekend for PAX, and their problems become not my problems. I will not be checking my work email till Tuesday. I feel it is important to enforce strict work life boundaries.
i haven't had a day where i was truly disconnected from work in 5 years
it's awesome
i told my boss already he needs a solution for the fact that i'll be in sweden for two weeks in september and i am not going to be in contact for nobody
probably the solution is i come back to a two week pile of work not done, but
who do I pray to so that I may pass the mech eng PE exam next friday? The ghost of James Watt?
This is like... what we offer as a standard
Everyone prepare to entertain me later this morning please
Oh shit Jeff is leaving next week, who are we going to have take over for him, while the new guy is getting trained?
"What? But we finished that project awhile ago, what could possibly have happened?"
"Uh, well...."
How many dank memes do you want?
Good luck!
I am like this. I consider it part of self care. Though my work can call or text me in an emergency.
but i am the fire extinguisher
Sounds like they need to come up with alternate solutions while you're gone.
you got this bro. just relax and answer all the ones you can quickly answer first, don't waste forever on something you don't know. come back to those at the end.
I really hope this doesn't go the whole hour.
take a bunch of amphetamines before so you can answer things really quickly
I've noticed during my practice tests a tendency to be stubborn and I'll stay too long on a problem that I can solve but like not fast enough. I feel like I have a solid grasp on the material but need to refine the use of my reference material, like fully review the contents of my binders, which are a hybrid of last year's class, this year's, and then stuff from other sources, like Schaum's outlines. I think I've picked up some easy points that I wasn't able to get last time, such as project management & engineering economics, hopefully statistics too. When I got my feedback on how I did on my first attempt I was a little surprised how poorly I did on the components section. I feel like that's actually a strength but perhaps I'm delusional. Taking all of next week off for the home stretch. Day before the test I'm going to keep it as light as possible and just try to get into a zen state of mind. The awful night's sleep before the test last year was a huge handicap. My brain gave up with like 2 hours to go.
What are you getting done?
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if i figure out a way to never come back from sweden i will do it
i mean that doesn't involve evading authorities of two countries for the rest of my days