I have two separate projects with two different subcontractors where, in both cases, I can't actually speak directly with the technical person working on my project. I have to put my questions and requests through a non-technical "project manager" who just forwards on the question verbatim most of the time.
With one of those subcontractors, the project manager at least forwards the response back over to me (with identifying information stripped out.) The other one waits until our next meeting and reads the response aloud.
Gee, this is a good use of everybody's time.
I love knowing that PM makes probably twice what I do
My favorite is when I outsource a project and to get a few hours of a technician's time, I have to talk to a salesperson who forwards it to a project manager who sends it to a dispatcher who gets in contact with the tech, and the response back is like "the only time the tech has open is between 7am and 10am two weeks from Thursday"
and I'm like
Do you just run your whole business around one Cisco guy and everybody else is just a bureaucrat hanging on to him?
I'm on the other side of this conversation, I'm currently in the tech role
the tech is overcommitted on other projects and your account turns out to be the one at the end of the queue. that is something to bring up with the salesperson. nobody else in the chain can do anything about it.
Yes, I know. It's obvious. The tech is overcommitted. But the salesperson can't or won't do anything either. He isn't in charge of hiring techs or retention.
It's the same basic disease that afflicts universities and hospitals. They'd rather hire more administrators and officer workers instead of more of the teaching/medical/technical people who actually add value.
client manager is normally in charge of the overall manhours that the PM is allowed to allocate to the department for the dispatcher to fling around
that number doesn't increase unless client management says so, because everyone else is a cost center. if the dispatcher doesn't have people, all s/he can do is keep giving longer and longer deadlines. if the PM isn't allowed to deprio other projects, then all the dispatcher can do is also keep giving longer and longer deadlines. the feedback loop only closes if the client goes screaming to client management.
this is something my clients don't seem to get either. "why can't you do X" "I cannot do X. Maybe you should escalate this." "but I don't want to escalate this. Just do X." "Uh... No?"
(That's not Coyote Brown tho that's FDE with the OD Green Multicam base you fkn scrubs)
When I used to PUBG competitive there was actually a bit of discussion where I thought about picking that up and doing a charity stream wearing bab in that while I played
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
Ugh.
I don’t care about ugh I just wanted to be purple
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SummaryJudgmentGrab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front doorRegistered Userregular
Ugh.
What I should do is find if someone makes a MOLLE attachable carrier rig and just pick up an actual plate carrier like I want
(That's not Coyote Brown tho that's FDE with the OD Green Multicam base you fkn scrubs)
When I used to PUBG competitive there was actually a bit of discussion where I thought about picking that up and doing a charity stream wearing bab in that while I played
You'd be making so much money as a tacticoool pubg dad streamer.
the tacticad purse, if it has molle, is something I could almost buy if I had a kid
it's really nice to not only have a billion pockets, but be able to customize where those pockets go
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
Ugh.
The going through the non technical PM is likely a contract requirement.
The person on the other side is either a Govt person or a different contractor. If it is a govt person there is a contract provision that forbids identifying them on cleared contracts.
it's the very essence of low-effort PM and HR where everything is a reactive function on the size of the client account and how likely it is to walk out in a huff - where PMs and department projections of their resource needs are all irrelevant because nothing is allocated until the client demand is already confirmed and signed in blood. there is never any buffer.
which... makes sense, I suppose, for outsourced/vendor work where clients hint that they want something done as a way to avoid having to talk to their own resource depts for budget approval. this happens way too often.
although I feel like a baby carrier being a whole harness isn't using the system enough
really it should just be an attachment for regular plate carrier vests
^ This
Yeah I mean, you've already got the rig and good ones are going to distribute weight better and have better materials and sewing than thab the novelty one ever would
I could actually imagine the utility of snapping on a pre set up medicine compartment or whatever
For some reason I want to backlash the backlash
I am always backlashing the backlash to this particular issue
1. Because I actually like the aesthetic of things that have over-the-top marketing to men
2. Because I think often even though the marketing is ridiculous, men’s stuff in traditionally female spaces is nice, like yeah not only women clean or care for babies or eat yogurts or whatever, and it’s cool for men to do that too
3. Because for all that men can feel comfortable using female-coded shit, it’s also ok not to. Your preferences for presentation and accessorizing are up to you!
4. sneering about ‘fragile masculinity’ is sorta dickish cause, frankly, male self-expression it seems like a pretty narrow and fraught path to navigate. Plus, personally, it makes me shrivel up a bit cause you know how hard it is to try to do some sort of masculine presentation/expression when you aren’t actually male? Talk about fragile—I have to care a lot about what sort of image is projected by various behaviors, fashions, etc, cause otherwise no one perceives me the way I want to be perceived.
Steam, LoL: credeiki
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SummaryJudgmentGrab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front doorRegistered Userregular
Ugh.
Honestly /k/ has some great threads on stuff like that and they've largely told /pol/ to fuck off back to their containment board
it's the very essence of low-effort PM and HR where everything is a reactive function on the size of the client account and how likely it is to walk out in a huff - where PMs and department projections of their resource needs are all irrelevant because nothing is allocated until the client demand is already confirmed and signed in blood. there is never any buffer.
which... makes sense, I suppose, for outsourced/vendor work where clients hint that they want something done as a way to avoid having to talk to their own resource depts for budget approval. this happens way too often.
Literally every govt contract I’ve worked on had the govt trying to get something out of scope for free.
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Element BrianPeanut Butter ShillRegistered Userregular
my gf volunteers at the library and i asked her if i could volunteer sometime and read books and she said 'sure i'll just describe you to them as a loveable doofus' and i think it clicked to for me that i'm the dummy husband in a kevin james sitcom
my gf volunteers at the library and i asked her if i could volunteer sometime and read books and she said 'sure i'll just describe you to them as a loveable doofus' and i think it clicked to for me that i'm the dummy husband in a kevin james sitcom
it's the very essence of low-effort PM and HR where everything is a reactive function on the size of the client account and how likely it is to walk out in a huff - where PMs and department projections of their resource needs are all irrelevant because nothing is allocated until the client demand is already confirmed and signed in blood. there is never any buffer.
which... makes sense, I suppose, for outsourced/vendor work where clients hint that they want something done as a way to avoid having to talk to their own resource depts for budget approval. this happens way too often.
Literally every govt contract I’ve worked on had the govt trying to get something out of scope for free.
it's like
I don't mind giving it to you! I'm paid by the hour here. But I'm not gonna do it unless you talk to the guy who can talk to the guy who can tell the guy in charge of my hours to give me more hours to spend on you
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APPARENTLY ITS ENOUGH TO GET YOU A CHAT THREAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_V6y1ZCg_8
Which one of you is responsible for this
chanus
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I could actually imagine the utility of snapping on a pre set up medicine compartment or whatever
For some reason I want to backlash the backlash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSK3maq8Cyk
Jesus Windows 10 is blasting me with tinkly update and alert noises every 2 seconds though
client manager is normally in charge of the overall manhours that the PM is allowed to allocate to the department for the dispatcher to fling around
that number doesn't increase unless client management says so, because everyone else is a cost center. if the dispatcher doesn't have people, all s/he can do is keep giving longer and longer deadlines. if the PM isn't allowed to deprio other projects, then all the dispatcher can do is also keep giving longer and longer deadlines. the feedback loop only closes if the client goes screaming to client management.
this is something my clients don't seem to get either. "why can't you do X" "I cannot do X. Maybe you should escalate this." "but I don't want to escalate this. Just do X." "Uh... No?"
https://www.amazon.com/Mens-Baby-Carrier-Mission-Critical/dp/B01BZE2WLY?th=1&psc=1
(That's not Coyote Brown tho that's FDE with the OD Green Multicam base you fkn scrubs)
When I used to PUBG competitive there was actually a bit of discussion where I thought about picking that up and doing a charity stream wearing bab in that while I played
You'd be making so much money as a tacticoool pubg dad streamer.
he's like a ninja
it's really nice to not only have a billion pockets, but be able to customize where those pockets go
The person on the other side is either a Govt person or a different contractor. If it is a govt person there is a contract provision that forbids identifying them on cleared contracts.
really it should just be an attachment for regular plate carrier vests
sometimes you need to carry STANAG magazines on your person, sometimes you need to carry a baby or three
adaptibility is the name of the game
which... makes sense, I suppose, for outsourced/vendor work where clients hint that they want something done as a way to avoid having to talk to their own resource depts for budget approval. this happens way too often.
This is the nerdiest twitter thread ever and I love it.
^ This
Yeah I mean, you've already got the rig and good ones are going to distribute weight better and have better materials and sewing than thab the novelty one ever would
pleasepaypreacher.net
I am always backlashing the backlash to this particular issue
1. Because I actually like the aesthetic of things that have over-the-top marketing to men
2. Because I think often even though the marketing is ridiculous, men’s stuff in traditionally female spaces is nice, like yeah not only women clean or care for babies or eat yogurts or whatever, and it’s cool for men to do that too
3. Because for all that men can feel comfortable using female-coded shit, it’s also ok not to. Your preferences for presentation and accessorizing are up to you!
4. sneering about ‘fragile masculinity’ is sorta dickish cause, frankly, male self-expression it seems like a pretty narrow and fraught path to navigate. Plus, personally, it makes me shrivel up a bit cause you know how hard it is to try to do some sort of masculine presentation/expression when you aren’t actually male? Talk about fragile—I have to care a lot about what sort of image is projected by various behaviors, fashions, etc, cause otherwise no one perceives me the way I want to be perceived.
this chat deserves multiple ughs
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
I have very strong opinions about stats as the end point of highschool math instead of calculus.
checks out
it's like
I don't mind giving it to you! I'm paid by the hour here. But I'm not gonna do it unless you talk to the guy who can talk to the guy who can tell the guy in charge of my hours to give me more hours to spend on you
There's a propper time for everything, including diarreha.