JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Hell yeah, first full weekend since the beginning of November.
It's 10:30 and I've been to the grocery store, the coffee shop to pick up my fancy-lad coffee beans and a breakfast burrito as a reward for what a brave boy I'm going to be getting my allergy shots, the allergy clinic, the liquor store, the Asian grocery store to pick up some things they didn't have at the first grocery store, the spice shop, and the gas station.
This concludes the pants-wearing portion of my weekend.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
I got a damage claim filed against me today! Client said I sat in her chair and now the cushion is compressed and won't come back up anymore. It took all my self control not to email Sedgwick back a "are you seriously wasting my fucking time with this?" response.
File a counter claim on the client for weight related harassment.
Please, I work for a major retailer. You think they ever stand up for their employees? We have to stand up for ourselves.
When I had a client who wanted cameras installed to protect their literal hoard, I noped out and notated the hell out of the order. Papers and clothes damn near floor to ceiling, the distinct smell of urine everywhere, sagging floors, the works. When my boss's boss conference called me to ask why I wasn't doing this expensive install through a combination of yelling and threatening my job, it took my saying "you go wade through a goddamned hoard then you fuck!" to finally get through to him that no, I would not be returning, and no, I wouldn't let the other installer here be subjected to it either.
Things have gotten better since then for us, but man they will always side with the client.
Such an act would be in violation of the Code of the Substitute.
A violation of the sacred oath of the substitute.
You and I both know there’s no code and no oath, now did you or did you not find and pilfer the goods?
I am a professional!
Yeah, people, get off Zonugal's back. Like he says, he's a professional.
Of course he found and pounded the vodka.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
Actually my immediate reaction to being told to hunt for a hidden bottle of vodka by my 7th grade math teacher was to tell him I'd prefer if it was schnapps.
Oh no, he sounds bipolar in the middle of a hypomanic episode.
My first thought was that he sounds like a bog-standard case of Dunning Krueger coupled with the confidence of someone who takes their own value (in the mercenary sense) as a given and therefore learns exactly the wrong lesson from every encounter with reality.
Yer basic White Man On The Internet, in other words.
Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
Every time I have subbed at the junior high we have started the day off with Zoom-based complications.
Before I left on Friday I poked my head into the vice principal's office, told him that I was scheduled to work at the school next Thursday & Friday, and then very earnestly recommended we conduct a morning test of the Zoom classroom connection before students arrived.
Oh no, he sounds bipolar in the middle of a hypomanic episode.
My first thought was that he sounds like a bog-standard case of Dunning Krueger coupled with the confidence of someone who takes their own value (in the mercenary sense) as a given and therefore learns exactly the wrong lesson from every encounter with reality.
Yer basic White Man On The Internet, in other words.
Well yes, I can't be sure what is going on there. Full on crazy and/or full on delusional.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Worksona
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
So a lot of emotions going through a work email about a white elephant/yankee swap gift exchange. "Oh huh that sounds cute I like thos....150 dollars are they FUCKING INSANE I AM GOING TO WRITE TO...oh they are reimbursing. well that's a nice use of the party budget all in all." So, got the lego kit for the saturn V rocket coming. Separates into 3 pieces. Has a lander. About a meter tall. Why yes I AM ok with ending up with it, thank you for asking. Luckily everyone in my pod is sensible enough to see this idea and go "yes lets get ridiculous but nice things" Rather than some goober being a spoiler and getting some junk.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
A white elephant with $150 gifts seems like a good way to irrevocably destroy some work relationships.
I mean, probably only slightly more dangerous than a $10/junk drawer one, but still.
Abbbsolutely. I would/will be rightly pissed if someone brings garbage when it's company dime like this. Everyone should get something nice. At worst I'll jump on the grenade if it happens. If two people do it I'll be shocked though.
I actually love the cheap white elephant gift exchanges. It's low pressure, lets you get weird stuff at the dollar store, you can make a funny themed bunch of really cheap things. I also have huge soft spot in my heart for the little "grow crystals!" or similar dollar store science kits. Mom still gets me one or two every year. And every year I set them up.
So a lot of emotions going through a work email about a white elephant/yankee swap gift exchange. "Oh huh that sounds cute I like thos....150 dollars are they FUCKING INSANE I AM GOING TO WRITE TO...oh they are reimbursing. well that's a nice use of the party budget all in all." So, got the lego kit for the saturn V rocket coming. Separates into 3 pieces. Has a lander. About a meter tall. Why yes I AM ok with ending up with it, thank you for asking. Luckily everyone in my pod is sensible enough to see this idea and go "yes lets get ridiculous but nice things" Rather than some goober being a spoiler and getting some junk.
So a lot of emotions going through a work email about a white elephant/yankee swap gift exchange. "Oh huh that sounds cute I like thos....150 dollars are they FUCKING INSANE I AM GOING TO WRITE TO...oh they are reimbursing. well that's a nice use of the party budget all in all." So, got the lego kit for the saturn V rocket coming. Separates into 3 pieces. Has a lander. About a meter tall. Why yes I AM ok with ending up with it, thank you for asking. Luckily everyone in my pod is sensible enough to see this idea and go "yes lets get ridiculous but nice things" Rather than some goober being a spoiler and getting some junk.
How much are bad dragons?
Swear to god on a call with friends last night, "So what would you get for this price for a white elephant? And no huge dildos, it's for work."
$150 is way beyond anything that could be called White Elephant. I'd even say anything over $20 is too much for that kind of thing when the whole purpose is a fun gift exchange with relatively cheap gifts. Also if someone is a cheapass it doesn't sting quite so much beyond emotionally.
At least the company is reimbursing for these but yeesh I don't even want to imagine the kind of damage a goober at regular White Elephant could do by replicating their behavior on a $150 exchange.
So a lot of emotions going through a work email about a white elephant/yankee swap gift exchange. "Oh huh that sounds cute I like thos....150 dollars are they FUCKING INSANE I AM GOING TO WRITE TO...oh they are reimbursing. well that's a nice use of the party budget all in all." So, got the lego kit for the saturn V rocket coming. Separates into 3 pieces. Has a lander. About a meter tall. Why yes I AM ok with ending up with it, thank you for asking. Luckily everyone in my pod is sensible enough to see this idea and go "yes lets get ridiculous but nice things" Rather than some goober being a spoiler and getting some junk.
How much are bad dragons?
*takes notes*
PSN: jfrofl
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
Ugh. A guy in another team we're working with for a project keeps trying to get my team to change our development process to match their process but it doesn't actually make sense from our perspective to do so, because our application and development have a different focus and tracking our progress on a task doesn't align with how they'd track progress. Like yes, I can get why that might be nice from both their and a project perspective, but it's doesn't match any other development for our application and isn't the best fit for how to develop in our context.
I spent 20 minutes on Friday writing a firm but polite "no, but we will continue to be transparent about our development and help you wherever" and he's gone for a political sidestep, ignoring that answer and trying to bypass our team to escalate to the project lead.
Trying to decide if I'm irritated enough to drop a "per my previous email" into this new email chain or whether I should be magnanimous because it's Christmas.
Ugh. A guy in another team we're working with for a project keeps trying to get my team to change our development process to match their process but it doesn't actually make sense from our perspective to do so, because our application and development have a different focus and tracking our progress on a task doesn't align with how they'd track progress. Like yes, I can get why that might be nice from both their and a project perspective, but it's doesn't match any other development for our application and isn't the best fit for how to develop in our context.
I spent 20 minutes on Friday writing a firm but polite "no, but we will continue to be transparent about our development and help you wherever" and he's gone for a political sidestep, ignoring that answer and trying to bypass our team to escalate to the project lead.
Trying to decide if I'm irritated enough to drop a "per my previous email" into this new email chain or whether I should be magnanimous because it's Christmas.
I understood just enough of that to admire the craftsmanship.
...not to excuse the attackers, of course, because yikes. But also some neat stuff in there from a purely technical/aesthetic perspective, imho.
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David_TA fashion yes-man is no good to me.Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered Userregular
Had a talk with my boss today. He ended the call with "Oh hey, real quick, how'd you do the thing with the cards?" *silence* "Alright, just thought I'd try". Apparently I got him good.
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It's 10:30 and I've been to the grocery store, the coffee shop to pick up my fancy-lad coffee beans and a breakfast burrito as a reward for what a brave boy I'm going to be getting my allergy shots, the allergy clinic, the liquor store, the Asian grocery store to pick up some things they didn't have at the first grocery store, the spice shop, and the gas station.
This concludes the pants-wearing portion of my weekend.
I am a professional!
Please, I work for a major retailer. You think they ever stand up for their employees? We have to stand up for ourselves.
When I had a client who wanted cameras installed to protect their literal hoard, I noped out and notated the hell out of the order. Papers and clothes damn near floor to ceiling, the distinct smell of urine everywhere, sagging floors, the works. When my boss's boss conference called me to ask why I wasn't doing this expensive install through a combination of yelling and threatening my job, it took my saying "you go wade through a goddamned hoard then you fuck!" to finally get through to him that no, I would not be returning, and no, I wouldn't let the other installer here be subjected to it either.
Things have gotten better since then for us, but man they will always side with the client.
Yeah, people, get off Zonugal's back. Like he says, he's a professional.
Of course he found and pounded the vodka.
*zips onto freeway*
*company phone lurches over seat into chasm between seat and door*
*phone starts ringing*
Shit on a shingle!
*gets off freeway, mines for phone, and misses call*
FUCK! Hello? Yeah, you just call me? Yes, I am. Where? Fucking A!
*goes back opposite direction on freeway to bank alarm a quarter mile from the last site he did*
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Why no bluetooth? I do security patrol work and I have literally no idea how I would function without it.
My first thought was that he sounds like a bog-standard case of Dunning Krueger coupled with the confidence of someone who takes their own value (in the mercenary sense) as a given and therefore learns exactly the wrong lesson from every encounter with reality.
Yer basic White Man On The Internet, in other words.
3 freaking phones, the one not in my pocket.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Before I left on Friday I poked my head into the vice principal's office, told him that I was scheduled to work at the school next Thursday & Friday, and then very earnestly recommended we conduct a morning test of the Zoom classroom connection before students arrived.
Remote learning! Its a lot of fun! A real hoot!
Well yes, I can't be sure what is going on there. Full on crazy and/or full on delusional.
Your moonlighting as a hitman for hire is unrelated!
*gets caught lying on my resume*
... technically that was my LARP character...
...
I hate that idiom.
Fake it until you get thrown in jail for practicing medicine for without a license.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Heyooooo
I mean, probably only slightly more dangerous than a $10/junk drawer one, but still.
I actually love the cheap white elephant gift exchanges. It's low pressure, lets you get weird stuff at the dollar store, you can make a funny themed bunch of really cheap things. I also have huge soft spot in my heart for the little "grow crystals!" or similar dollar store science kits. Mom still gets me one or two every year. And every year I set them up.
How much are bad dragons?
Swear to god on a call with friends last night, "So what would you get for this price for a white elephant? And no huge dildos, it's for work."
At least the company is reimbursing for these but yeesh I don't even want to imagine the kind of damage a goober at regular White Elephant could do by replicating their behavior on a $150 exchange.
And like, one Lemonhead mixed in there somewhere, gratis.
*takes notes*
https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive-attacker-leverages-solarwinds-supply-chain-compromises-with-sunburst-backdoor.html
big ol' yikes
I spent 20 minutes on Friday writing a firm but polite "no, but we will continue to be transparent about our development and help you wherever" and he's gone for a political sidestep, ignoring that answer and trying to bypass our team to escalate to the project lead.
Trying to decide if I'm irritated enough to drop a "per my previous email" into this new email chain or whether I should be magnanimous because it's Christmas.
Dunk on that fool.
I understood just enough of that to admire the craftsmanship.
...not to excuse the attackers, of course, because yikes. But also some neat stuff in there from a purely technical/aesthetic perspective, imho.
Job bad