Get on shift, back in the psych area. A dude who was my patient a few days ago is still there. He's a hoarder and will swipe shit and stores it in his pants and under his mattress. I ask the night nurse if he searched his room last night. He's like "no, why?" There is an FYI that pops up every time you open the chart warning about his behavior and to search the room every shift. The note on the tracking board I put there 3 days ago warning the same thing is still there, as are the various notes in the chart saying the same thing. Like, wtf was this nurse even doing? Anyway we toss the room and find 2 medication scanners, a phone, and a tons of random trash. Like $1000 of missing equipment easily. At least he wasn't wearing a thong he found in the trash anymore.
They had a big manager meeting we had to sit through minutes of. The big takeaway? They have a new system to recolonize peers and departments that do well. They have an acronym, now if you get a recolonized for doing an excellent job your a CLIFF STAR (I did not pay attention to what this actually stands for).
So if you do good you go off the cliff and become a star.
Guys...guys....thats not a great way to put it, at all.
They had a big manager meeting we had to sit through minutes of. The big takeaway? They have a new system to recolonize peers and departments that do well. They have an acronym, now if you get a recolonized for doing an excellent job your a CLIFF STAR (I did not pay attention to what this actually stands for).
So if you do good you go off the cliff and become a star.
Guys...guys....thats not a great way to put it, at all.
CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
edited January 2020
Good news for me: I talked to my current manager about me getting placed back in the department I was in originally (Compute was my old department), and he said he would look into it. I would so much prefer that department, as I feel I'm way over my head in the current one.
Cambiata on
Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart
On my sleeve, let the runway start
The social aspects of online FPS games can be amazing
Playing Black Ops 1 and Destiny 1 with some forumers and friends got me through the some dark days
Some friends from college (graduated 12 years ago!? oof) and I have started up a weekly L4D/L4D2 game again lately. It is largely just us shooting the shit on voice, making fun of each other, and laughing hysterically as we sabotage one another or the Director hilariously fucks us.
For literally YEARS, a group of friends and I basically had a nighly L4D2 VS game where one person would boot the game and everyone else would race to try to get a lobby spot.
...this just reminded me one of them uploaded some video clips from it on youtube. Man, this is bringing back memories.
The social aspects of online FPS games can be amazing
Playing Black Ops 1 and Destiny 1 with some forumers and friends got me through the some dark days
Some friends from college (graduated 12 years ago!? oof) and I have started up a weekly L4D/L4D2 game again lately. It is largely just us shooting the shit on voice, making fun of each other, and laughing hysterically as we sabotage one another or the Director hilariously fucks us.
For literally YEARS, a group of friends and I basically had a nighly L4D2 VS game where one person would boot the game and everyone else would race to try to get a lobby spot.
...this just reminded me one of them uploaded some video clips from it on youtube. Man, this is bringing back memories.
I didn't play much L4D2, and no VS for it. I'd moved to a place and didn't have very good internet for a while right before that launched. Lots of single player just to go through the campaigns and such.
But we preordered L4D and played the shit out of it. Completed all the campaigns on Expert, played almost exclusively at that level, etc. All the VS play I got in L4D was with the PA L4D group though.
Now though? We occasionally lose somebody on Normal. Granted, sometimes that's due to shenanigans but there've been a few times when we're like "Damn, we suck"
Good news for me: I talked to my current manager about me getting placed back in the department I was in originally (Compute was my old department), and he said he would look into it. I would so much prefer that department, as I feel I'm way over my head in the current one.
Sorry to say that "i'll look into it" is normally management speak for "this will be the last you hear of this". But I could be wriong in this case.
Good news for me: I talked to my current manager about me getting placed back in the department I was in originally (Compute was my old department), and he said he would look into it. I would so much prefer that department, as I feel I'm way over my head in the current one.
Sorry to say that "i'll look into it" is normally management speak for "this will be the last you hear of this". But I could be wriong in this case.
It's possible. But the reason this came up at all is because of what he wrote on my yearly review - that he was concerned that my skills were not those of a "Senior SRE" which is what is required of someone in my position (first I'm hearing of this, but he did take over from another manager and the job shifted somewhat when he was brought on board), and even after I got the engineering degree I'm pursuing I'd still be a "junior engineer." I said this also concerned me and I felt I'd be a better fit back in Compute where I could learn more and continue pursing my degree, and he said he'd look into it.
So maybe he's just saying that, but the preceding convo makes me think he could be serious. Also, my previous manager in Compute told me when I left for this new department that I didn't have to worry about my job if the new department fell through, because I could just come back to Compute, so I know my old manager would be cool with it.
Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart
On my sleeve, let the runway start
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MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
They had a big manager meeting we had to sit through minutes of. The big takeaway? They have a new system to recolonize peers and departments that do well. They have an acronym, now if you get a recolonized for doing an excellent job your a CLIFF STAR (I did not pay attention to what this actually stands for).
So if you do good you go off the cliff and become a star.
Guys...guys....thats not a great way to put it, at all.
Is this a goof or just two extremely fortuitous autocorrects?
They had a big manager meeting we had to sit through minutes of. The big takeaway? They have a new system to recolonize peers and departments that do well. They have an acronym, now if you get a recolonized for doing an excellent job your a CLIFF STAR (I did not pay attention to what this actually stands for).
So if you do good you go off the cliff and become a star.
Guys...guys....thats not a great way to put it, at all.
Is this a goof or just two extremely fortuitous autocorrects?
Auto correct. I guess I use the work recolonize more then recognize
They had a big manager meeting we had to sit through minutes of. The big takeaway? They have a new system to recolonize peers and departments that do well. They have an acronym, now if you get a recolonized for doing an excellent job your a CLIFF STAR (I did not pay attention to what this actually stands for).
So if you do good you go off the cliff and become a star.
Guys...guys....thats not a great way to put it, at all.
That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about stars to dispute it.
The social aspects of online FPS games can be amazing
Playing Black Ops 1 and Destiny 1 with some forumers and friends got me through the some dark days
Some friends from college (graduated 12 years ago!? oof) and I have started up a weekly L4D/L4D2 game again lately. It is largely just us shooting the shit on voice, making fun of each other, and laughing hysterically as we sabotage one another or the Director hilariously fucks us.
For literally YEARS, a group of friends and I basically had a nighly L4D2 VS game where one person would boot the game and everyone else would race to try to get a lobby spot.
...this just reminded me one of them uploaded some video clips from it on youtube. Man, this is bringing back memories.
I didn't play much L4D2, and no VS for it. I'd moved to a place and didn't have very good internet for a while right before that launched. Lots of single player just to go through the campaigns and such.
But we preordered L4D and played the shit out of it. Completed all the campaigns on Expert, played almost exclusively at that level, etc. All the VS play I got in L4D was with the PA L4D group though.
Now though? We occasionally lose somebody on Normal. Granted, sometimes that's due to shenanigans but there've been a few times when we're like "Damn, we suck"
Yeah, I played some original L4D on xbox, but L4D2 was when we went all-in, and since they ported all the old maps, that was kinda our "standard." We preferred the original maps, but the new game.
By the end, we were playing on...whatever the hardest realism one, if we could get a full team (not getting randos filling in slots) because everyone enjoyed playing as the zombies more, but with full voice chat so both teams were talking with one another. We mostly just enjoyed tearing one anothers' teams to pieces.
I'm sure if we went back to it, we'd such so much. I keep hoping for L4D3 to come out so we could do a revival.
....and this conversation made me mention it among that group, and apparently 5 or 6 people have been getting the itch lately, so we may start playing again this weekend or something.
I still have not gotten my W2 or my 3 years of back taxes from the state. It's a joke of which will come first my state id, I find my military id, my state returns the w2 or I get a job
I got called in early to work, so I went in at open (10am) rather than 12. It was to be a 9 hour shift either way, so I was gonna leave at 7. It was dead all day, we work with a customer for a while to make a deal, they leave in the afternoon on the fence wether to buy anything.
6 rolls around and the family comes back in, they need 4 cell phones all transferred to different carrier and with data transfers. I realize quickly I am not leaving at 7. I finish up the majority of it around 8 and head home, 10 hour shift. My boss, who asked me personally to stay and make sure the transaction goes smooth, leaves promptly at 7 despite being there helping me make the sale...
I find out later there's an issue with that same customer, two phones didn't finish activating properly (probably because they didn't do their pincode correctly when asked). So I came in early, stayed late, and then still got chewed out by my boss for messing up two phones. I'm just exhausted...
I got called in early to work, so I went in at open (10am) rather than 12. It was to be a 9 hour shift either way, so I was gonna leave at 7. It was dead all day, we work with a customer for a while to make a deal, they leave in the afternoon on the fence wether to buy anything.
6 rolls around and the family comes back in, they need 4 cell phones all transferred to different carrier and with data transfers. I realize quickly I am not leaving at 7. I finish up the majority of it around 8 and head home, 10 hour shift. My boss, who asked me personally to stay and make sure the transaction goes smooth, leaves promptly at 7 despite being there helping me make the sale...
I find out later there's an issue with that same customer, two phones didn't finish activating properly (probably because they didn't do their pincode correctly when asked). So I came in early, stayed late, and then still got chewed out by my boss for messing up two phones. I'm just exhausted...
Your boss, who...
yeah, fuck that.
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Goose!That's me, honeyShow me the way home, honeyRegistered Userregular
I'm getting a decent return, but I have to wait until Friday to file my state return because of dumb thing VA does
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MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
They had a big manager meeting we had to sit through minutes of. The big takeaway? They have a new system to recolonize peers and departments that do well. They have an acronym, now if you get a recolonized for doing an excellent job your a CLIFF STAR (I did not pay attention to what this actually stands for).
So if you do good you go off the cliff and become a star.
Guys...guys....thats not a great way to put it, at all.
Is this a goof or just two extremely fortuitous autocorrects?
Auto correct. I guess I use the work recolonize more then recognize
WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
Somebody pulled a fire alarm in my building.
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
I was asleep because I'm getting up for work at 0330. Fire department came out, fire panel has a fault. They disarm it, leave me the notice of violation to pass on to the property manager who doesn't currently live on-site, and they leave. Five minutes later, alarm goes off again, I have to call them back out. I'm gonna be a salty boy in the morning.
....and this conversation made me mention it among that group, and apparently 5 or 6 people have been getting the itch lately, so we may start playing again this weekend or something.
Thanks!
Fuck, now I'm jonesing. Realism versus was such good fun, especially with alltalk enabled.
It's not doing to be fun when I get a job because eating once a day or twice {small meals} really did a thing to my body
I know I was impressed that back on the horrible day of nov 20 I was able to run 5 miles and do the obstacle course after just eating a peanut butter sandwich and some tea and other dumb things like my crappy ride I did twice on my bike trying to get my ID
Basically my summer on has been some perseverance porn
Got a free hot dog and soda at my job because I work safe or something. Yay.
Someone post that drowning high-five meme.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
You accidentally drop the bottle cap, and someone slips on it.
The safety manager sternly slaps the hot dog out of your hand.
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
Got into work and one of our vendors refers me to a rep from the Seattle Sounders for a nice deal on season tickets. This may just end up making up for dealing with that fire alarm crap in the middle of the night.
eh, toilets are usually cleaner than people's desks or so I've been told.
sort of. Back in bio lab we did culture swabs. I did one in a bathroom (not in the toilet but around the bottom of the rim) and a phone. The phone had way more bacteria but it was harmless stuff, the toilet had less growth but it was gross smelling pitch black bacteria that ate through the blood culture at a crazy rate.
3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
It really depends on how you define "clean." If you mean sheer amount of bacterial biomass present, your skin is disgusting as fuck, far grosser than any toilet or door handle.
If you mean potentially pathologic (a far more useful definition IMO), the toilet's pretty damn bad - the bacteria in feces can make you sick if you ingest them accidentally. If there's any leftover urine in the toilet that's also full of stuff that you don't really want on your skin or in your mouth.
It really depends on how you define "clean." If you mean sheer amount of bacterial biomass present, your skin is disgusting as fuck, far grosser than any toilet or door handle.
If you mean potentially pathologic (a far more useful definition IMO), the toilet's pretty damn bad - the bacteria in feces can make you sick if you ingest them accidentally. If there's any leftover urine in the toilet that's also full of stuff that you don't really want on your skin or in your mouth.
Unless thats your thing and hey, thats totally ok! Just be safe and maybe eat a lot of yogurt to keep your internal biome healthy.
3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
I cannot recommend strongly enough that no matter your kinks, you do not actually ingest urine. Despite what Bear Grylls says it is not fine and it will make you sick.
Six months or so ago, I was filling out the internal wiki for one of our major products, and when it came time to make the overall home page, at the very top of it I put the inscription from the gates to Hell from Dante's Inferno, which was also a link to the music video for R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts", because, you know, I fucking hated the product and working with it made want to die. That part of the wiki was 99% for my personal use, and anyone else who dipped into it knew that it would be full of my bullshit, which people tolerate because of the Irreplaceable Weirdo Principle (IWP), which states that the amount of eccentricity an employee can get away with is directly proportionate to how much difficult-to-transmit knowledge they possess.
So today I learned two things. First, the kid who's been creating the new customer-facing wiki for the same product has just been copy/pasting all of my internal pages. Second, our VP of Marketing speaks Italian.
Realizing lately that I don't really trust or respect basically any of the moderators here. So, good luck with life, friends! Hit me up on Twitter @DesertLeviathan
God I hate when someone asks me a question about something in an email as I reply like "blah blah it's screwed up shit because people area stupid blah blah" and then they copy paste that in an email reply to someone.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
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So if you do good you go off the cliff and become a star.
Guys...guys....thats not a great way to put it, at all.
You will ASCEND
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Yes, but you're a bad person if you do it.
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On my sleeve, let the runway start
For literally YEARS, a group of friends and I basically had a nighly L4D2 VS game where one person would boot the game and everyone else would race to try to get a lobby spot.
...this just reminded me one of them uploaded some video clips from it on youtube. Man, this is bringing back memories.
Agree, but shooters are also less combative than most of the conference calls I've been on.
I didn't play much L4D2, and no VS for it. I'd moved to a place and didn't have very good internet for a while right before that launched. Lots of single player just to go through the campaigns and such.
But we preordered L4D and played the shit out of it. Completed all the campaigns on Expert, played almost exclusively at that level, etc. All the VS play I got in L4D was with the PA L4D group though.
Now though? We occasionally lose somebody on Normal. Granted, sometimes that's due to shenanigans but there've been a few times when we're like "Damn, we suck"
Sorry to say that "i'll look into it" is normally management speak for "this will be the last you hear of this". But I could be wriong in this case.
Every time someone disagrees with me on conference call I ask them what their K:D is and tell them to shut their scrub ass up and let me carry.
It's possible. But the reason this came up at all is because of what he wrote on my yearly review - that he was concerned that my skills were not those of a "Senior SRE" which is what is required of someone in my position (first I'm hearing of this, but he did take over from another manager and the job shifted somewhat when he was brought on board), and even after I got the engineering degree I'm pursuing I'd still be a "junior engineer." I said this also concerned me and I felt I'd be a better fit back in Compute where I could learn more and continue pursing my degree, and he said he'd look into it.
So maybe he's just saying that, but the preceding convo makes me think he could be serious. Also, my previous manager in Compute told me when I left for this new department that I didn't have to worry about my job if the new department fell through, because I could just come back to Compute, so I know my old manager would be cool with it.
On my sleeve, let the runway start
Is this a goof or just two extremely fortuitous autocorrects?
Auto correct. I guess I use the work recolonize more then recognize
Yeah, I played some original L4D on xbox, but L4D2 was when we went all-in, and since they ported all the old maps, that was kinda our "standard." We preferred the original maps, but the new game.
By the end, we were playing on...whatever the hardest realism one, if we could get a full team (not getting randos filling in slots) because everyone enjoyed playing as the zombies more, but with full voice chat so both teams were talking with one another. We mostly just enjoyed tearing one anothers' teams to pieces.
I'm sure if we went back to it, we'd such so much. I keep hoping for L4D3 to come out so we could do a revival.
Thanks!
I still have not gotten my W2 or my 3 years of back taxes from the state. It's a joke of which will come first my state id, I find my military id, my state returns the w2 or I get a job
Almost certainly going to owe again, but thankfully less than last year.
Fucking IRS tables.
I got called in early to work, so I went in at open (10am) rather than 12. It was to be a 9 hour shift either way, so I was gonna leave at 7. It was dead all day, we work with a customer for a while to make a deal, they leave in the afternoon on the fence wether to buy anything.
6 rolls around and the family comes back in, they need 4 cell phones all transferred to different carrier and with data transfers. I realize quickly I am not leaving at 7. I finish up the majority of it around 8 and head home, 10 hour shift. My boss, who asked me personally to stay and make sure the transaction goes smooth, leaves promptly at 7 despite being there helping me make the sale...
I find out later there's an issue with that same customer, two phones didn't finish activating properly (probably because they didn't do their pincode correctly when asked). So I came in early, stayed late, and then still got chewed out by my boss for messing up two phones. I'm just exhausted...
Your boss, who...
yeah, fuck that.
Freud is nutting in his grave I'm pretty sure
Fuck, now I'm jonesing. Realism versus was such good fun, especially with alltalk enabled.
I know I was impressed that back on the horrible day of nov 20 I was able to run 5 miles and do the obstacle course after just eating a peanut butter sandwich and some tea and other dumb things like my crappy ride I did twice on my bike trying to get my ID
Basically my summer on has been some perseverance porn
Someone post that drowning high-five meme.
The safety manager sternly slaps the hot dog out of your hand.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
sort of. Back in bio lab we did culture swabs. I did one in a bathroom (not in the toilet but around the bottom of the rim) and a phone. The phone had way more bacteria but it was harmless stuff, the toilet had less growth but it was gross smelling pitch black bacteria that ate through the blood culture at a crazy rate.
If you mean potentially pathologic (a far more useful definition IMO), the toilet's pretty damn bad - the bacteria in feces can make you sick if you ingest them accidentally. If there's any leftover urine in the toilet that's also full of stuff that you don't really want on your skin or in your mouth.
Unless thats your thing and hey, thats totally ok! Just be safe and maybe eat a lot of yogurt to keep your internal biome healthy.
Good luck, you'll nail it!
So today I learned two things. First, the kid who's been creating the new customer-facing wiki for the same product has just been copy/pasting all of my internal pages. Second, our VP of Marketing speaks Italian.
You're gonna crush it!