If they're the type of manager that's in meetings all day I could see it being a tough ask, but it's also their job so idk. I find the dichotomy of the "pay attention to detail" remark + the "I can't read 80 pages a day" quite large there though
Sounds like maybe they should have been working on it since it was available on Tuesday.
If they're the type of manager that's in meetings all day I could see it being a tough ask, but it's also their job so idk. I find the dichotomy of the "pay attention to detail" remark + the "I can't read 80 pages a day" quite large there though
Two different bosses unfortunately otherwise it would be quite funny to me
Talked to my boss and got confirmation that yeah, the whole thing where they have rotating on-call investigation teams who get one investigation and then tag in the next team is how they want to do it and that the teams themselves are supposed to work out how they want to do weekend/night coverage based on who is expected to be up in the rotation. Given this is being run through safety and my boss is basically just a middleman, I can't really do much about it, but I'm going to reiterate that if safety/management would at least assign weekend duties in advance we could plan around things instead of, inevitably, having everybody just work with partial teams because people aren't going to cancel all their March plans just because they're maybe-on-call.
I ate an engineer
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minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
I will say that the whole idea of spending dozens (if not hundreds) of hours of work drafting, reworking, and refining an expansive project, only to have your manager glance through it, get super hung up on one typo out of thousands of lines of original copy, and use that to act like you really need to pay more attention, is definitely something that feels very familiar to me.
I also left that job and have never been happier. So…
Everything looks beautiful when you're young and pretty
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
I remember the glory days of partition management when you could load up PQMagic and just slide partitions around on a drive, extend and shrink them as you desired, and just have everything fucking work.
But no, I'll sit here and clone a drive for a second time because I fucked up the sizing the first time and left unallocated space at the end where I can't use it, that's fine
I will say my one joy right now is the fact that this report is basically a collation of 30 different reports and each of those reports is based on a form I called the Project Information Summary Sheet or PISS for short
If they're the type of manager that's in meetings all day I could see it being a tough ask, but it's also their job so idk. I find the dichotomy of the "pay attention to detail" remark + the "I can't read 80 pages a day" quite large there though
Eighty pages in a day is roughly ten pages an hour...which seems very doable?
I'm sticking with the idea the manager can't read.
If they're the type of manager that's in meetings all day I could see it being a tough ask, but it's also their job so idk. I find the dichotomy of the "pay attention to detail" remark + the "I can't read 80 pages a day" quite large there though
Two different bosses unfortunately otherwise it would be quite funny to me
ah that makes much more sense, thank you
i'm sorry you've got to deal with all of these headaches oghulk, that sucks
Heh, we spent the past two weeks or so coming up with 3 different options for a double monitor podium setup to present to the provost as part of the "next gen" installation push that we're gonna be starting this summer. Professors want the second monitor in addition to the Wacom tablets we have, and they want to be able to have different sources on each monitor, and also want to be able to sync and control our projector systems with their own tablet/cell phone as they move around the classrooms.
The problem is, they already approved and ordered all the new AV processors for these rooms back during the COVID shutdown times, but the whole global manufacturing delay meant we're just now receiving around ~50% of the order. And in the meantime everyone has moved back to in person classes, and what was originally just "hey here's some money to upgrade the equipment in our classrooms" has, over the past year or so, turned into a whole thing where every department knows an upgrade is coming at some indefinite point, which means everyone has their own feature requests they'd like to see added to the project.
So yeah, we can kinda, sorta, almost do what everyone wants, but there's gonna have to be some give somewhere (due to IO limitations on the equipment that we've already bought). So we rigged up two demo podiums to show off to the provost, plus a diagram/presentation of what we'd do if given Infinite Money to make everything hella nice and future proof.
My department ran into the same problem when we were planning to upgrade our AV podiums in five of our smaller seminar rooms (adding a 2nd podium monitor, integrated front and back IP camera for Zoom, back wall confidence monitor, ceiling microphone array, and replace aging AV podium switcher and accessories). The timeline went something like:
- Started planning and ordering parts in Summer/Fall '21 for a Summer '22 install
- Spring '22 we were told by our AV supplier that the switcher parts were not going to be available until Q3 '23, maybe.
- Big Boss decided that we really, really need to replace our 14+ year old podium and the AV gear that lived in it sooner than later, made our AV engineer (my direct boss) go back to the drawing board to find a working formula of gear that will play nicely with each other and our network.
- Prototype built and tested throughout Summer/Fall '22; get the rest of available parts once confident with prototype
- Podiums and gear installed during Winter Break; got everything tweaked and functioning in time for classes starting Spring '23
Needless to say there were some tense moments between my bosses over the last several months but so far all of the podiums are holding up, so, yea team!
I will say that the whole idea of spending dozens (if not hundreds) of hours of work drafting, reworking, and refining an expansive project, only to have your manager glance through it, get super hung up on one typo out of thousands of lines of original copy, and use that to act like you really need to pay more attention, is definitely something that feels very familiar to me.
I also left that job and have never been happier. So…
My boss was not AS passive aggressive in messaging about it, but it was more "hey I need you to review this technical info and or make the big decisions on whether we allocate resources to this" and all you get back is spell check? Didn't really read this did ya?
My other favorite was pinging me like 15 min before a meeting "hey do you have info ready for our upcoming meeting with X?" Why yes, yes I do, and if I didn't for some reason, how much do you think I could pull together in the next 14 minutes and 30 seconds that your "reminder" left me? This clearly isn't a CYA because you don't have anything ready for X despite being the person nominally in charge of it.
As a wise person once said
I also left that job and have never been happier. So…
Me: "Hey, devs, how do you want to set up your communications so that we can share ideas as smoothly as possible across teams?"
Director: "Our standard is using Microsoft Teams, don't deviate from that now."
Me: *ugggh but it suuuuuuccccks for what we're trying to do!*
We switched from Slack to Teams last year and I haaate it
Curious what the differences are that you hate. never used Slack, teams seems to work fine for how we use it but getting teams engaged in group channels has been tough so it's really a glorified IM + zoom
There were a few things that helped me overcome the imposter syndrome.
I was called "trusted" on a topic and I was like "holy shit, dying of embarassment".
You see that little post I made last week about being asked to "review" a process guide for a policy type I knew nothing about on a system that I don't have access to and have never used?
Guess who was cc'd into an email last thing friday asking when our "team SME" (me) would be available for the thing they want doing.
Yeah that's right, a hasty 20 minute review of one process guide for a process that's quite literally well above my pay grade, and apparently I'm an "SME".
I have sent an email explaining that I don't think we should be representing me as any kind of SME to this other team, but I have very little faith it will do any good. At least it's in writing that I've asked for training (lol) from an actual SME (double lol) before engaging with this very technical process for modifying policies which are surrounded by regulatory rules which I just don't know. (I only know that there are a bunch of rules from my breach-logging days because boy howdy, that product area generated more and more diverse breaches than the other three combined).
nope nope nope nope nope nope
Grats on your promotion I guess!
Sweet summer child
+7
AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
Nice having a meeting with the project sponsor and hearing my own words about "Why am I here" voiced back to me... always a fun sign.
When everyone recognizes what the problem is and yet no one will fix it...
Oh things could get spicy now. How best to phrase "I'm not going to lie when someone asks me a question..." and how much will it push against my ethics.
Edit: Time to start screenshotting Teams chats. Yes, I know where the logs go and what gets recorded. But I'm definitely in CYA mode.
Talked to my boss and got confirmation that yeah, the whole thing where they have rotating on-call investigation teams who get one investigation and then tag in the next team is how they want to do it and that the teams themselves are supposed to work out how they want to do weekend/night coverage based on who is expected to be up in the rotation. Given this is being run through safety and my boss is basically just a middleman, I can't really do much about it, but I'm going to reiterate that if safety/management would at least assign weekend duties in advance we could plan around things instead of, inevitably, having everybody just work with partial teams because people aren't going to cancel all their March plans just because they're maybe-on-call.
Still a hugely unreasonable ask for the on-call stuff. Suggest back that because this is new and your first spin up you'll need Safety personnel to be present for the initial two calls in before anything can be done.. You don't really feel safe with the process until you have one of their staff guaranteed to be there. You're sure they'll have no problem with working out the on call situation.
Someone jas filled the freezer part of the upstairs refrigerator with more than 50 frozen bananas
it's smoothie time
I guess, but it's really bizarre, almost surreal to see that many frozen bananas in the place, especially because they peeled them and wrapped every one of them in foil
And we're not allowed to have appliances at our desks, there is no blender anywhere to be seen
I have so, so many questions.
- Are the bananas intended for consumption or as part of a prank?
- What kind of foil? Thick or thin?
- How effectively are they wrapped?
- Is banana bread an option and can I have some?
- Why won't you let me have banana bread?
- Is there a banana bread committee and how do I get on it?
The list could go on, but I think you get the idea.
I had to go into work on Sunday and I, a department manager, was invited to partake in the eating of the fitters’ freshly made banana bread. Probably the highlight of my time here so far tbh
AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
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Director: "Best to avoid project status stuff and route through [the assistant director/secondary project manager]."
Me: "So I'm clear, you want all my project communications to the project sponsors to go through them?"
Director: "No, but I'm trying to avoid confusion with people working angles and taking you from the critical path. And the next thing they'll indicate you said it is possible.. so you need to be more careful."
Me: "Understood."
*puts away the match while looking at the bridge he just covered in gasoline*
Edit: I should probably shut up here as I don't exactly hide who I am and this is very traceble back to me. Of course, I'm very much in DGAF mode, looking for any excuse to rescind the charity of "hanging in there" I decided on last week. We are on the 5th or 6th chance at this point. And it can all be traced back to at least 1 problem point.
Capitalism is paying someone for something you lack the time, skill, or tools to do.
I made this bread from scratch and made a glorious sandwich with technique. But i lacked the time to [verb] the vinegar or mix deli mustard or turn turkey into pastrami.
I value the labor of the people who prepared those ingredients because they were delivered to market by people who had what I lacked and everyone involved should be rewarded with sick days, benefits, and paid family leave.
Except Bob who abused the cows that supplied the milk for swiss cheese. Fuck that guy
Me: "Hey, devs, how do you want to set up your communications so that we can share ideas as smoothly as possible across teams?"
Director: "Our standard is using Microsoft Teams, don't deviate from that now."
Me: *ugggh but it suuuuuuccccks for what we're trying to do!*
We switched from Slack to Teams last year and I haaate it
Curious what the differences are that you hate. never used Slack, teams seems to work fine for how we use it but getting teams engaged in group channels has been tough so it's really a glorified IM + zoom
I don't have super strong opinions about teams, and have never used Slack, but from the year or so that my org used teams it felt very much like a problem of one app half-assing like 7 different things and never feeling really good at any of them.
Me: "Hey, devs, how do you want to set up your communications so that we can share ideas as smoothly as possible across teams?"
Director: "Our standard is using Microsoft Teams, don't deviate from that now."
Me: *ugggh but it suuuuuuccccks for what we're trying to do!*
We switched from Slack to Teams last year and I haaate it
Curious what the differences are that you hate. never used Slack, teams seems to work fine for how we use it but getting teams engaged in group channels has been tough so it's really a glorified IM + zoom
I don't have super strong opinions about teams, and have never used Slack, but from the year or so that my org used teams it felt very much like a problem of one app half-assing like 7 different things and never feeling really good at any of them.
That just describes most of what Microsoft makes. Usually "make it super easy for someone to add this feature!" which results in a lot of janky functionality forced into a tool that doesn't really support it. I call it the SharePoint problem.
That's not true. Bing is excellent at finding porn.
More seriously it definitely describes teams and sharepoint but in general I've got no issues with their other office software (okay Outlook is sometimes cursed) or Windows generally.
My org has been using teams for 3+ years now. I don't have any issues with it. I have not used Slack extensively so maybe I am just unaware of what I am missing.
+4
CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Anyone who says "that job isn't worth that pay" is probably an old person who doesn't understand inflation, the housing market, and the general economic conditions.
As of right now, anyone not getting compensated over 1 million a year is getting underpaid, based on housing prices alone.
And anyone carping that someone other than a CEO is "getting paid too much" is an ass in any case, and their opinions are invalid.
Yeah; as I said on the last page, IMO it's much more likely that generic-you aren't getting paid enough to do/put up with all that. The job isn't worth that pay, it's worth more.
Commander Zoom on
Steam, Warframe: Megajoule
+2
Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
I 3D Printed a Babel Fish for my Arthur Dent costume for work tomorrow.
I spent about five minutes painting it so excuse the sloppy job. Going to do better on the other ones.
Me: "Hey, devs, how do you want to set up your communications so that we can share ideas as smoothly as possible across teams?"
Director: "Our standard is using Microsoft Teams, don't deviate from that now."
Me: *ugggh but it suuuuuuccccks for what we're trying to do!*
We switched from Slack to Teams last year and I haaate it
Curious what the differences are that you hate. never used Slack, teams seems to work fine for how we use it but getting teams engaged in group channels has been tough so it's really a glorified IM + zoom
Slack was better about just having multiple chat rooms, plus we had a huge searchable log of previous info in there that was nice. Teams has the weird "conversation" aspect to it and generally just seems less user friendly. I had basically just gotten used to Slack when we changed and so I am probably extra bitter for that.
Me: "Hey, devs, how do you want to set up your communications so that we can share ideas as smoothly as possible across teams?"
Director: "Our standard is using Microsoft Teams, don't deviate from that now."
Me: *ugggh but it suuuuuuccccks for what we're trying to do!*
We switched from Slack to Teams last year and I haaate it
Curious what the differences are that you hate. never used Slack, teams seems to work fine for how we use it but getting teams engaged in group channels has been tough so it's really a glorified IM + zoom
Slack was better about just having multiple chat rooms, plus we had a huge searchable log of previous info in there that was nice. Teams has the weird "conversation" aspect to it and generally just seems less user friendly. I had basically just gotten used to Slack when we changed and so I am probably extra bitter for that.
Friend of mine over at Microsoft just let me know about an undocumented teams feature:
if you type "/find" into the search bar, it'll ask you a context you want to search for, then what you are looking for. It's SO much faster than the generic "search everything you have access to in Teams" that happens when you type up there in the first place.
I have no flippin idea why this isn't the default search behavior.
Yesterday was odd. Because of the high winds and gusts they did not do deliveries from the warehouse 225 ish miles away
SO they had us dump the backroom to work that freight so it was a just weird day as being my Friday I did not have to see the fallout of double trucks today
Me: "Hey, devs, how do you want to set up your communications so that we can share ideas as smoothly as possible across teams?"
Director: "Our standard is using Microsoft Teams, don't deviate from that now."
Me: *ugggh but it suuuuuuccccks for what we're trying to do!*
We switched from Slack to Teams last year and I haaate it
Curious what the differences are that you hate. never used Slack, teams seems to work fine for how we use it but getting teams engaged in group channels has been tough so it's really a glorified IM + zoom
Slack was better about just having multiple chat rooms, plus we had a huge searchable log of previous info in there that was nice. Teams has the weird "conversation" aspect to it and generally just seems less user friendly. I had basically just gotten used to Slack when we changed and so I am probably extra bitter for that.
Friend of mine over at Microsoft just let me know about an undocumented teams feature:
if you type "/find" into the search bar, it'll ask you a context you want to search for, then what you are looking for. It's SO much faster than the generic "search everything you have access to in Teams" that happens when you type up there in the first place.
I have no flippin idea why this isn't the default search behavior.
This is pretty much true for all Microsoft products (and increasingly Google too!)
At this point I'm convinced every team in microsoft hates the others and passive-aggressively makes things different and hard for no reason but to spite the other teams.
+14
AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
At this point I'm convinced every team in microsoft hates the others and passive-aggressively makes things different and hard for no reason but to spite the other teams.
While I have no insights, I bet you are right. There's such a massive culture shift going on over there, between the Azure / GitHub / DevOps teams and the traditional Windows/Office productivity folks. Like I see things like VS Code and Azure Container Services and my jaw hits the floor at how progressive they seem to be. And then I look at everything else and.. well, you get glimpses of it, but the huge monolithic systems refuse to move.
Anyone who says "that job isn't worth that pay" is probably an old person who doesn't understand inflation, the housing market, and the general economic conditions.
As of right now, anyone not getting compensated over 1 million a year is getting underpaid, based on housing prices alone.
And anyone carping that someone other than a CEO is "getting paid too much" is an ass in any case, and their opinions are invalid.
Given that our increases in productivity are not linked to salary and our buying power has been relatively flat (and is currently in a STEEP decline), I would argue that nearly all jobs aren't worth the pay, because they are worth more but aren't being compensated at a fair value.
At this point I'm convinced every team in microsoft hates the others and passive-aggressively makes things different and hard for no reason but to spite the other teams.
While I have no insights, I bet you are right. There's such a massive culture shift going on over there, between the Azure / GitHub / DevOps teams and the traditional Windows/Office productivity folks. Like I see things like VS Code and Azure Container Services and my jaw hits the floor at how progressive they seem to be. And then I look at everything else and.. well, you get glimpses of it, but the huge monolithic systems refuse to move.
Eh, it's not just the old stuff. Culturally they need to stop pretending their shit doesn't stink and prioritize quality of life stuff. The fact that PowerBI dataflows require full admin console access to see the full list of error messages (not just the random one they select to display) and you can't share ownership of a flow is completely asinine. Not to mention doing the same thing in powerquery, DAX and Excel is 3 different scripting languages, none of which really play nice with any of their other stuff like powerapps or their new framework. I'm betting they're incentivized and compensated on new products.
+1
Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
Took the VR rig down to the special ed classes. They have been learning about landmarks and each student picked a landmark and I flew them there in Google Earth for them to look at. They all liked it! Most of them were so in awe that they just stood still despite me telling them they could turn around and look all over.
At this point I'm convinced every team in microsoft hates the others and passive-aggressively makes things different and hard for no reason but to spite the other teams.
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Sounds like maybe they should have been working on it since it was available on Tuesday.
Two different bosses unfortunately otherwise it would be quite funny to me
I also left that job and have never been happier. So…
But no, I'll sit here and clone a drive for a second time because I fucked up the sizing the first time and left unallocated space at the end where I can't use it, that's fine
Eighty pages in a day is roughly ten pages an hour...which seems very doable?
I'm sticking with the idea the manager can't read.
ah that makes much more sense, thank you
i'm sorry you've got to deal with all of these headaches oghulk, that sucks
My department ran into the same problem when we were planning to upgrade our AV podiums in five of our smaller seminar rooms (adding a 2nd podium monitor, integrated front and back IP camera for Zoom, back wall confidence monitor, ceiling microphone array, and replace aging AV podium switcher and accessories). The timeline went something like:
- Started planning and ordering parts in Summer/Fall '21 for a Summer '22 install
- Spring '22 we were told by our AV supplier that the switcher parts were not going to be available until Q3 '23, maybe.
- Big Boss decided that we really, really need to replace our 14+ year old podium and the AV gear that lived in it sooner than later, made our AV engineer (my direct boss) go back to the drawing board to find a working formula of gear that will play nicely with each other and our network.
- Prototype built and tested throughout Summer/Fall '22; get the rest of available parts once confident with prototype
- Podiums and gear installed during Winter Break; got everything tweaked and functioning in time for classes starting Spring '23
Needless to say there were some tense moments between my bosses over the last several months but so far all of the podiums are holding up, so, yea team!
When everyone recognizes what the problem is and yet no one will fix it...
My boss was not AS passive aggressive in messaging about it, but it was more "hey I need you to review this technical info and or make the big decisions on whether we allocate resources to this" and all you get back is spell check? Didn't really read this did ya?
My other favorite was pinging me like 15 min before a meeting "hey do you have info ready for our upcoming meeting with X?" Why yes, yes I do, and if I didn't for some reason, how much do you think I could pull together in the next 14 minutes and 30 seconds that your "reminder" left me? This clearly isn't a CYA because you don't have anything ready for X despite being the person nominally in charge of it.
As a wise person once said
Curious what the differences are that you hate. never used Slack, teams seems to work fine for how we use it but getting teams engaged in group channels has been tough so it's really a glorified IM + zoom
Sweet summer child
Oh things could get spicy now. How best to phrase "I'm not going to lie when someone asks me a question..." and how much will it push against my ethics.
Edit: Time to start screenshotting Teams chats. Yes, I know where the logs go and what gets recorded. But I'm definitely in CYA mode.
Still a hugely unreasonable ask for the on-call stuff. Suggest back that because this is new and your first spin up you'll need Safety personnel to be present for the initial two calls in before anything can be done.. You don't really feel safe with the process until you have one of their staff guaranteed to be there. You're sure they'll have no problem with working out the on call situation.
I had to go into work on Sunday and I, a department manager, was invited to partake in the eating of the fitters’ freshly made banana bread. Probably the highlight of my time here so far tbh
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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Me: "So I'm clear, you want all my project communications to the project sponsors to go through them?"
Director: "No, but I'm trying to avoid confusion with people working angles and taking you from the critical path. And the next thing they'll indicate you said it is possible.. so you need to be more careful."
Me: "Understood."
*puts away the match while looking at the bridge he just covered in gasoline*
Edit: I should probably shut up here as I don't exactly hide who I am and this is very traceble back to me. Of course, I'm very much in DGAF mode, looking for any excuse to rescind the charity of "hanging in there" I decided on last week. We are on the 5th or 6th chance at this point. And it can all be traced back to at least 1 problem point.
My mood immediately tanked and I'm right back on edge and angry.
I made this bread from scratch and made a glorious sandwich with technique. But i lacked the time to [verb] the vinegar or mix deli mustard or turn turkey into pastrami.
I value the labor of the people who prepared those ingredients because they were delivered to market by people who had what I lacked and everyone involved should be rewarded with sick days, benefits, and paid family leave.
Except Bob who abused the cows that supplied the milk for swiss cheese. Fuck that guy
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
I don't have super strong opinions about teams, and have never used Slack, but from the year or so that my org used teams it felt very much like a problem of one app half-assing like 7 different things and never feeling really good at any of them.
That just describes most of what Microsoft makes. Usually "make it super easy for someone to add this feature!" which results in a lot of janky functionality forced into a tool that doesn't really support it. I call it the SharePoint problem.
More seriously it definitely describes teams and sharepoint but in general I've got no issues with their other office software (okay Outlook is sometimes cursed) or Windows generally.
As of right now, anyone not getting compensated over 1 million a year is getting underpaid, based on housing prices alone.
And anyone carping that someone other than a CEO is "getting paid too much" is an ass in any case, and their opinions are invalid.
Steam, Warframe: Megajoule
I spent about five minutes painting it so excuse the sloppy job. Going to do better on the other ones.
Slack was better about just having multiple chat rooms, plus we had a huge searchable log of previous info in there that was nice. Teams has the weird "conversation" aspect to it and generally just seems less user friendly. I had basically just gotten used to Slack when we changed and so I am probably extra bitter for that.
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Friend of mine over at Microsoft just let me know about an undocumented teams feature:
if you type "/find" into the search bar, it'll ask you a context you want to search for, then what you are looking for. It's SO much faster than the generic "search everything you have access to in Teams" that happens when you type up there in the first place.
I have no flippin idea why this isn't the default search behavior.
Pizza finished baking.
Fuck evrrything
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
SO they had us dump the backroom to work that freight so it was a just weird day as being my Friday I did not have to see the fallout of double trucks today
This is pretty much true for all Microsoft products (and increasingly Google too!)
While I have no insights, I bet you are right. There's such a massive culture shift going on over there, between the Azure / GitHub / DevOps teams and the traditional Windows/Office productivity folks. Like I see things like VS Code and Azure Container Services and my jaw hits the floor at how progressive they seem to be. And then I look at everything else and.. well, you get glimpses of it, but the huge monolithic systems refuse to move.
THIS CALL SHOULD HAVE LASTED 2 MINS AND WE ARE ON HOUR 45
THIS HAS BEEN A FUCKING PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
Given that our increases in productivity are not linked to salary and our buying power has been relatively flat (and is currently in a STEEP decline), I would argue that nearly all jobs aren't worth the pay, because they are worth more but aren't being compensated at a fair value.
Eh, it's not just the old stuff. Culturally they need to stop pretending their shit doesn't stink and prioritize quality of life stuff. The fact that PowerBI dataflows require full admin console access to see the full list of error messages (not just the random one they select to display) and you can't share ownership of a flow is completely asinine. Not to mention doing the same thing in powerquery, DAX and Excel is 3 different scripting languages, none of which really play nice with any of their other stuff like powerapps or their new framework. I'm betting they're incentivized and compensated on new products.
That's always been the joke.