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  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    So out staff broken up by academies and went on a field trip to different community partners. I went with the building and construction academy and we visited an architecture and engineering firm here. You ever just radically with you'd taken different life choices? Fuck man. I took CAD in high school all four years. I loved doing that. I made physical architectural models. I wanted to go do that in college, but my guidance counselor told me I sucked at math so shouldn't bother trying and... here we are.

    Everything about that place was cool as hell to me and I wished I worked there.

    christ do you know how many architects I work with who are bad at math

    That guidance counselor had no idea about architects, I think. Saying that as an architect in Germany where the job is way more on the engineering side compared to the design side than in most other countries.

  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    honovere wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    So out staff broken up by academies and went on a field trip to different community partners. I went with the building and construction academy and we visited an architecture and engineering firm here. You ever just radically with you'd taken different life choices? Fuck man. I took CAD in high school all four years. I loved doing that. I made physical architectural models. I wanted to go do that in college, but my guidance counselor told me I sucked at math so shouldn't bother trying and... here we are.

    Everything about that place was cool as hell to me and I wished I worked there.

    christ do you know how many architects I work with who are bad at math

    That guidance counselor had no idea about architects, I think. Saying that as an architect in Germany where the job is way more on the engineering side compared to the design side than in most other countries.

    Good architects are also great at structural engineering. Shitty ones are not. Note there's plenty of famous architects whose buildings don't actually work very well *cough* Frank Lloyd Wright.

  • TynnanTynnan seldom correct, never unsure Registered User regular
    schuss wrote: »
    honovere wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    So out staff broken up by academies and went on a field trip to different community partners. I went with the building and construction academy and we visited an architecture and engineering firm here. You ever just radically with you'd taken different life choices? Fuck man. I took CAD in high school all four years. I loved doing that. I made physical architectural models. I wanted to go do that in college, but my guidance counselor told me I sucked at math so shouldn't bother trying and... here we are.

    Everything about that place was cool as hell to me and I wished I worked there.

    christ do you know how many architects I work with who are bad at math

    That guidance counselor had no idea about architects, I think. Saying that as an architect in Germany where the job is way more on the engineering side compared to the design side than in most other countries.

    Good architects are also great at structural engineering. Shitty ones are not. Note there's plenty of famous architects whose buildings don't actually work very well *cough* Frank Lloyd Wright.

    https://youtu.be/MQw3tYnHJQo?si=l7inqUIAB983O_2o

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    I'm pretty sure there were some news stories in the last ten years about the Disney Concert Hall's architecture looking pretty but also inadvertently destroying cars because it happened to focus the sunlight into a concentrated heat ray that peeled paint right off their frames

  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    It's funny how bad teams is at what's it designed for

    Just like one drive

  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    it's i don't give a fuck friday

    if anyone sends me an email i will scream

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  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure there were some news stories in the last ten years about the Disney Concert Hall's architecture looking pretty but also inadvertently destroying cars because it happened to focus the sunlight into a concentrated heat ray that peeled paint right off their frames

    If so this has happened twice, because a building in London (20 Fenchurch St) also did it
    During the building's construction, it was discovered that for a period of up to two hours each day if the sun shines directly onto the building, it acts as a concave mirror and focuses light onto the streets to the south.[27] Spot temperature readings at street-level including up to 91 °C (196 °F)[28] and 117 °C (243 °F) were observed[29] during summer 2013, when the reflection of a beam of light up to six times brighter than direct sunlight shining onto the streets beneath damaged parked vehicles,[30]

  • PellaeonPellaeon Registered User regular
    Apparently there's an industry conference in Georgia, just got an email that they're wrapping up 🍑 week and I'm like, y'all, Y'ALL!

  • PacificstarPacificstar Registered User regular
    schuss wrote: »
    Also a ton of accounting is offshored these days unfortunately

    I think it's a size thing. Lots of large businesses offshore backoffice accounting functions because they've got mature workflows and systems. Many SMBs just don't have that, or have a mistrust of outsourced services. I did a random search for "A/R specialist manager" and found a lot of medium sized businesses paying like 90k -100k (in california)

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    I was planning to take overtime this weekend. Instead i plan to consume alcohol for the first time since my birthday and endure the ranting of everyone one of my subordinates concerning the new time keeping mechanisms from on high

    Sadly, the biggest douche on the matter will be working day shift, so a problem presents itself

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  • ThroThro pgroome@penny-arcade.com Registered User regular
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    I guess I'm not a manager any more. Not sure what my duties are now. Seems ominous!

    Preemptive :bro: because yeah, you might be prefired.
    I've also seen managers get shunted to the subject matter expert track no harm no foul you were just that bad at approving time cards, and it worked out better for everyone.

    It's Friday, if they were waiting to let you know if something was up, they're probably telling you today (and hopefully not leave you hanging)?

  • expendableexpendable Silly Goose Registered User regular
    I don't know how to speak Dev or something I guess. There's a dev that wants Access 365 on a VM he uses. So I was like "Well you're already licensed so I don't know what you need me for" and he's like "But I need it installed" and I said "Well I don't have access to or control over your VM, you know this because you set up the VM, you're the owner of the VM, and my team has never managed VMs. Here's the install and login directions for 365. Have a nice weekend." and hopefully it doesn't bite me Monday.

    Stealth edit: He apparently needs me still. Guess I'll figure that out Monday

    Djiem wrote: »
    Lokiamis wrote: »
    So the servers suddenly decide to cramp up during the last six percent.
    Man, the Director will really go out of his way to be a dick to L4D players.
    Steam
  • JokermanJokerman Everything EverywhereRegistered User regular
    Things are going down to 4-3 days a week now.

    yaaaaay.

  • TefTef Registered User regular
    schuss wrote: »
    honovere wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    So out staff broken up by academies and went on a field trip to different community partners. I went with the building and construction academy and we visited an architecture and engineering firm here. You ever just radically with you'd taken different life choices? Fuck man. I took CAD in high school all four years. I loved doing that. I made physical architectural models. I wanted to go do that in college, but my guidance counselor told me I sucked at math so shouldn't bother trying and... here we are.

    Everything about that place was cool as hell to me and I wished I worked there.

    christ do you know how many architects I work with who are bad at math

    That guidance counselor had no idea about architects, I think. Saying that as an architect in Germany where the job is way more on the engineering side compared to the design side than in most other countries.

    Good architects are also great at structural engineering. Shitty ones are not. Note there's plenty of famous architects whose buildings don't actually work very well *cough* Frank Lloyd Wright.

    Point of order: great architects have a layman’s understanding of, and professional interest in, structural engineering and know to seek out input from certified engineers well in advance of major project sign offs

    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

    Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

    bit.ly/2XQM1ke
  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    getting snippy at an intern from a different group who is essentially asking me to do his project for him.
    "Why do you think nobody has done X before?" "Idk, why don't you go ask everybody in the whole world about it."
    how the hell should I know. Maybe nobody thought about it. Maybe they tried and it was a stupid idea. Fuck off.

  • Sir PlatypusSir Platypus Registered User regular
    Had to stay up all night to let out the floor crew.

    The upside is that I'm pretty sure I found who's been going through the trash outside: an impressively fast kitty.

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    When the tenant at a client site does something sus to film you

    https://youtu.be/yWDAw2nsIjw?si=vfpjHRcGneKv-9UP

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Yes, naked cyclists are completely normal at 0500 in Seattle

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  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Day 4 of getting Blink 182 stuck in my head because of this thread

  • mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    Day 4 of getting Blink 182 stuck in my head because of this thread

    I know!

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Yes, naked cyclists are completely normal at 0500 in Seattle

    Here we get naked hikers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    My understanding is that they fired all of their dancers because they unionized.


    Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart
    On my sleeve, let the runway start
  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Unionization does not align with their standards alright.

  • asurasur Registered User regular
    Isn't it illegal to fire workers for participating in union activities?

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    asur wrote: »
    Isn't it illegal to fire workers for participating in union activities?

    Yes, but that's not why they were fired. Really. It's all right there in the press release, see?

  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User regular
    asur wrote: »
    Isn't it illegal to fire workers for participating in union activities?

    Hahahahhahhahahahaha

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    Day 4 of getting Blink 182 stuck in my head because of this thread

    Say it ain't so.

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  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    asur wrote: »
    Isn't it illegal to fire workers for participating in union activities?

    Technically illegal, yes! But this is the US, and in Texas, so I'm not really confident they can gain anything by lawyering up. I still hope that they do, and that each and every dancer filed a complaint with the labor board.

    Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart
    On my sleeve, let the runway start
  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited August 11
    Welp, police just called me doing what police are supposed to do. Fuck the other driver.

    I figure we're down a car permanently and I'm really hoping we're not down a healthy human. But if their bell got rung that hard, they're not coming back anytime soon.

    So yay overtime.

    I had a really nice day today.

    edit:
    Mother fucker. The dildo of consequences rarely comes lubed.

    Edit: As soon as I finish this cup of tea, I will no longer be angry. Whatever choices they made, they have made sure they're now a former employee and the consequences of their actions are between them and the legal department

    I hope there is no serious head trauma and that they can have a wonderful relationship with their daughter and any possible grandchildren.

    But thus ends a very agonizing work relationship

    Although now I'm worried they're gonna make us labor through a full audit of all our driving skills, which will be tedious

    edit:just got pictures from the field. Airbags deployed, front end held on by good intentions.

    RoyceSraphim on
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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    I should go in for overtime, help the department cover the massive gap in coverage left by various problems and get sweet overtime

    But i feel like shit.

    Why do i feel like shit? I suspect the atmosphere

    I'm cranky

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  • korodullinkorodullin What. SCRegistered User regular
    I am currently in that weird nebulous mix of manic hyperactivity and bone weary exhaustion that comes from inching toward your 70th hour of work in a week.

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    - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    The creek flooded due to heavy rains early yesterday morning, and the dumpster decided to run away and live in the woods.

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    Last time this happened it took the waste management company a month and a half to fix it, and that time it was barely up on the curb and turned around the long way. Might be a long, stinky August around here.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    I heard some weird scratching sound while I was sitting in my cubicle. I thought it was just a bug, but it was a bat!

    It was on the back of my clipboard! They had a net downstairs, so I went and got that, then came back. I wrapped my fleece jacket around the clipboard, then put all of that into the net. My coworkers opened doors and we slowly walked it out side.

    I put the bundle down in the brush near parking lot and unwrapped it. The bat scurried into the tall grass.

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    I heard some weird scratching sound while I was sitting in my cubicle. I thought it was just a bug, but it was a bat!

    It was on the back of my clipboard! They had a net downstairs, so I went and got that, then came back. I wrapped my fleece jacket around the clipboard, then put all of that into the net. My coworkers opened doors and we slowly walked it out side.

    I put the bundle down in the brush near parking lot and unwrapped it. The bat scurried into the tall grass.

    Some kid with a Pokéball will come by to collect it, eventually.

  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    I haven’t really updated here since the early days of job. I think my next paycheck is my first one paying into a 401k which marks the first time in my life I will have any retirement savings. I’m technically doing work but none of it is on any sort of sprint schedule and everyone seems deceptively chill about it all.

  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    initiate... success?

  • expendableexpendable Silly Goose Registered User regular
    So HR may have been deducting dental coverage from my paycheck but never actually enrolled me. So that's something I get to deal with.

    In the meantime, I'm gonna watch the bears in Alaska get their fishes while I do software reviews.

    https://explore.org/livecams/brown-bears/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls

    Djiem wrote: »
    Lokiamis wrote: »
    So the servers suddenly decide to cramp up during the last six percent.
    Man, the Director will really go out of his way to be a dick to L4D players.
    Steam
  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    I heard some weird scratching sound while I was sitting in my cubicle. I thought it was just a bug, but it was a bat!

    It was on the back of my clipboard! They had a net downstairs, so I went and got that, then came back. I wrapped my fleece jacket around the clipboard, then put all of that into the net. My coworkers opened doors and we slowly walked it out side.

    I put the bundle down in the brush near parking lot and unwrapped it. The bat scurried into the tall grass.

    Need to be really careful if that happens again. They are cute as hell but bats are one of the main vectors for people getting rabies. And that is bad times.

    Attacked by tweeeeeeees!
  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    I heard some weird scratching sound while I was sitting in my cubicle. I thought it was just a bug, but it was a bat!

    It was on the back of my clipboard! They had a net downstairs, so I went and got that, then came back. I wrapped my fleece jacket around the clipboard, then put all of that into the net. My coworkers opened doors and we slowly walked it out side.

    I put the bundle down in the brush near parking lot and unwrapped it. The bat scurried into the tall grass.

    Need to be really careful if that happens again. They are cute as hell but bats are one of the main vectors for people getting rabies. And that is bad times.

    Indeed, I am aware, but there isn't any sort of animal control person on site

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Coworker sends an email to the plumbing supervisor with the following subject line: "Please check with vendor regarding X Contract"

    Ten seconds later the plumbing supervisor calls him. "You have a check for me?"

    Dipshit doesn't bother to read the full email subject line, let alone what's in the email itself, before he's picking up the phone and asking if we have money for him. Fastest response I've ever seen from this person too.

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