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  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    Argument lost. Feeling stupid.

  • SporkAndrewSporkAndrew Registered User, ClubPA regular
    CEO's obsession with ChatGPT is hitting critical mass. We got 10 company-wide emails last Sunday as he asked it to do competitor analysis and then copy and pasted the results into an email saying how amazing it was and making snide comments about how it only took him 5 minutes and when he asks marketing to do it it takes weeks. Never mind the fact that each email which covered each competitor was pretty much identical with only the bullet points in a different order and some different wording. He's clearly not reading the generated slop and just forwarding it on as "something to ponder."

    This week we've come in to an email saying that he fully expects everyone in the office to spend half an hour every morning talking to it and asking it how we can make our jobs more productive. He's previously sent out examples of how marketing can do it so now he expects product, customer support and engineering to do the same.

    "Hey ChatGPT, can you tell me why when this customer exports a 13,000 line table to PDF on pages 300-303 the spacing gets a bit messed up and the text is clipped slightly? Here's our codebase for reference"

    The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    edited October 7
    :bro:

    Commander Zoom on
  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Tef wrote: »
    Zonugal have you ever given thought to teaching abroad? Not necessarily as an English as foreign language thing, though I suppose that could be an option.

    @Tef, when I was younger I did, for sure.

    But I have a mortgage, so I'm pretty locked into where I live now.

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    I have offered zonogal a job several times.

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    I have offered zonogal a job several times.

    Blake... I'll keep saying it, but I don't know how to fix a washing machine!!

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    *Randomly added to a teams chat*
    I am reaching out because your manager provided you as a person to participate in some testing for WEB APPLICATION. We are testing Artificial Intelligence within our WEB APPLICATION cases and want to validate the accuracy of the summaries provided, etc.

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    I do not respect robots. I will kick a roomba. I want to shoot an Alexa with a high powered rifle.

  • KupiKupi Registered User regular
    Juggernut wrote: »
    I do not respect robots. I will kick a roomba. I want to shoot an Alexa with a high powered rifle.

    Wait, no, hold on. Alexa is fair game, but c'mon. Roomba is barely sentient. It just scoots around bonking into things and sucking up dust; it's like one of those crustaceans that goes doodling around on the sea-floor picking up all the detritus other fish leave lying around. It's hating something that's just doing its level best to help.

    My favorite musical instrument is the air-raid siren.

    I'm "kupiyupaekio" on Discord.
  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    We have made it in our own broken image. The Roomba is hubris.

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Kupi wrote: »
    Juggernut wrote: »
    I do not respect robots. I will kick a roomba. I want to shoot an Alexa with a high powered rifle.

    Wait, no, hold on. Alexa is fair game, but c'mon. Roomba is barely sentient. It just scoots around bonking into things and sucking up dust; it's like one of those crustaceans that goes doodling around on the sea-floor picking up all the detritus other fish leave lying around. It's hating something that's just doing its level best to help.

    It's taking pictures of your home and sending them back to Roomba Command & Control. Don't fall for their lies!

  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    The workday goes better when you’ve got a good lunch to look forward to.

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  • VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    CEO's obsession with ChatGPT is hitting critical mass. We got 10 company-wide emails last Sunday as he asked it to do competitor analysis and then copy and pasted the results into an email saying how amazing it was and making snide comments about how it only took him 5 minutes and when he asks marketing to do it it takes weeks. Never mind the fact that each email which covered each competitor was pretty much identical with only the bullet points in a different order and some different wording. He's clearly not reading the generated slop and just forwarding it on as "something to ponder."

    This week we've come in to an email saying that he fully expects everyone in the office to spend half an hour every morning talking to it and asking it how we can make our jobs more productive. He's previously sent out examples of how marketing can do it so now he expects product, customer support and engineering to do the same.

    "Hey ChatGPT, can you tell me why when this customer exports a 13,000 line table to PDF on pages 300-303 the spacing gets a bit messed up and the text is clipped slightly? Here's our codebase for reference"

    Does he realize that when you put data into chatgpt you lose control to that data? I wonder what confidential information your competitors can now easily access now that it's on the chatgpt database.

    I'm now imagining HR doing annual review shit through chatgpt and just uploading employee records.

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    Veevee wrote: »
    CEO's obsession with ChatGPT is hitting critical mass. We got 10 company-wide emails last Sunday as he asked it to do competitor analysis and then copy and pasted the results into an email saying how amazing it was and making snide comments about how it only took him 5 minutes and when he asks marketing to do it it takes weeks. Never mind the fact that each email which covered each competitor was pretty much identical with only the bullet points in a different order and some different wording. He's clearly not reading the generated slop and just forwarding it on as "something to ponder."

    This week we've come in to an email saying that he fully expects everyone in the office to spend half an hour every morning talking to it and asking it how we can make our jobs more productive. He's previously sent out examples of how marketing can do it so now he expects product, customer support and engineering to do the same.

    "Hey ChatGPT, can you tell me why when this customer exports a 13,000 line table to PDF on pages 300-303 the spacing gets a bit messed up and the text is clipped slightly? Here's our codebase for reference"

    Does he realize that when you put data into chatgpt you lose control to that data? I wonder what confidential information your competitors can now easily access now that it's on the chatgpt database.

    I'm now imagining HR doing annual review shit through chatgpt and just uploading employee records.

    "But they told me it would stay just between us! And that they'd respect me in the morning!"

  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    Veevee wrote: »
    CEO's obsession with ChatGPT is hitting critical mass. We got 10 company-wide emails last Sunday as he asked it to do competitor analysis and then copy and pasted the results into an email saying how amazing it was and making snide comments about how it only took him 5 minutes and when he asks marketing to do it it takes weeks. Never mind the fact that each email which covered each competitor was pretty much identical with only the bullet points in a different order and some different wording. He's clearly not reading the generated slop and just forwarding it on as "something to ponder."

    This week we've come in to an email saying that he fully expects everyone in the office to spend half an hour every morning talking to it and asking it how we can make our jobs more productive. He's previously sent out examples of how marketing can do it so now he expects product, customer support and engineering to do the same.

    "Hey ChatGPT, can you tell me why when this customer exports a 13,000 line table to PDF on pages 300-303 the spacing gets a bit messed up and the text is clipped slightly? Here's our codebase for reference"

    Does he realize that when you put data into chatgpt you lose control to that data? I wonder what confidential information your competitors can now easily access now that it's on the chatgpt database.

    I'm now imagining HR doing annual review shit through chatgpt and just uploading employee records.

    Depends on your agreement. You can get enterprise agreements that don't put your data into the training set.

  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    schuss wrote: »
    Veevee wrote: »
    CEO's obsession with ChatGPT is hitting critical mass. We got 10 company-wide emails last Sunday as he asked it to do competitor analysis and then copy and pasted the results into an email saying how amazing it was and making snide comments about how it only took him 5 minutes and when he asks marketing to do it it takes weeks. Never mind the fact that each email which covered each competitor was pretty much identical with only the bullet points in a different order and some different wording. He's clearly not reading the generated slop and just forwarding it on as "something to ponder."

    This week we've come in to an email saying that he fully expects everyone in the office to spend half an hour every morning talking to it and asking it how we can make our jobs more productive. He's previously sent out examples of how marketing can do it so now he expects product, customer support and engineering to do the same.

    "Hey ChatGPT, can you tell me why when this customer exports a 13,000 line table to PDF on pages 300-303 the spacing gets a bit messed up and the text is clipped slightly? Here's our codebase for reference"

    Does he realize that when you put data into chatgpt you lose control to that data? I wonder what confidential information your competitors can now easily access now that it's on the chatgpt database.

    I'm now imagining HR doing annual review shit through chatgpt and just uploading employee records.

    Depends on your agreement. You can get enterprise agreements that don't put your data into the training set.

    Not in the cheap training set they let ordinary people use, that is.

  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    it is very ironic to trust the industry built on stealing copyrighted and just original works in general to stick to an agreement

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    It's supply chain week here at work

    Silly email games like bingo and scavenger hunts no one has time to play

    A free sweatshirt that no one wears

    A pizza party

    Not a bonus or even a gift card in sight

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Blake T wrote: »
    I have offered zonogal a job several times.

    Blake... I'll keep saying it, but I don't know how to fix a washing machine!!

    I know how to fix one when the washing machine's main bearing went and seeing what it took to fix as well as getting the new part my brother said it is time to let it die
    Mule'd it down to the park and left it {it is the tres chic thing to leave furniture and appliances at the parking lot at the park they are usually gone by first light

    Sadly because of funds and the mega bill I bought and Apt washer {the one you hook up to a sink and run} being only 5 gallons it can only do small loads


    I am locked like Zonugal as I have a house {I got it as as estate from my father...} If it was not for that I would have fled into the night than put up with all the BS from the hell known to men. THe problem I have now is where?

  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited October 7
    Incredible, one campus is going to build a huge inpatient tower, but will actually have less bedspace and eat a huge parking lot

    I understand why private rooms are a good idea, but a net loss of beds is not a *good* factoid

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  • PacificstarPacificstar Registered User regular
    CEO's obsession with ChatGPT is hitting critical mass. We got 10 company-wide emails last Sunday as he asked it to do competitor analysis and then copy and pasted the results into an email saying how amazing it was and making snide comments about how it only took him 5 minutes and when he asks marketing to do it it takes weeks. Never mind the fact that each email which covered each competitor was pretty much identical with only the bullet points in a different order and some different wording. He's clearly not reading the generated slop and just forwarding it on as "something to ponder."

    This week we've come in to an email saying that he fully expects everyone in the office to spend half an hour every morning talking to it and asking it how we can make our jobs more productive. He's previously sent out examples of how marketing can do it so now he expects product, customer support and engineering to do the same.

    "Hey ChatGPT, can you tell me why when this customer exports a 13,000 line table to PDF on pages 300-303 the spacing gets a bit messed up and the text is clipped slightly? Here's our codebase for reference"

    I don't know why, but this gave me the dystopian giggles.

  • PacificstarPacificstar Registered User regular
    Brainleech wrote: »
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Blake T wrote: »
    I have offered zonogal a job several times.

    Blake... I'll keep saying it, but I don't know how to fix a washing machine!!

    I know how to fix one when the washing machine's main bearing went and seeing what it took to fix as well as getting the new part my brother said it is time to let it die
    Mule'd it down to the park and left it {it is the tres chic thing to leave furniture and appliances at the parking lot at the park they are usually gone by first light

    Sadly because of funds and the mega bill I bought and Apt washer {the one you hook up to a sink and run} being only 5 gallons it can only do small loads


    I am locked like Zonugal as I have a house {I got it as as estate from my father...} If it was not for that I would have fled into the night than put up with all the BS from the hell known to men. THe problem I have now is where?

    If you inherited the house, then couldn't you just sell it and move? Or rent it out and move? Since you own it outright you're not saddled with debt payments, right?

  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    I forgot how much I hate Excel. I need to import a CSV file into our library software to order stuff, but ISBNs get rendered in scientific notation because they're long. I've tried saving the column after formatting it as number. As soon as I open the file back up it goes into notation. @Jedoc @Librarian's ghost do either of you have to deal with this nonsense?

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  • PacificstarPacificstar Registered User regular
    edited October 7
    Skeith wrote: »
    I forgot how much I hate Excel. I need to import a CSV file into our library software to order stuff, but ISBNs get rendered in scientific notation because they're long. I've tried saving the column after formatting it as number. As soon as I open the file back up it goes into notation. @Jedoc @Librarian's ghost do either of you have to deal with this nonsense?

    If you put an apostrophe before a number or a date, it will return the original entry. So if you entered
    5-1
    
    and Excel kept turning it into May 1, you instead type
    '5-1
    
    and Excel will show
    5-1
    

    So a crappy but fast way of doing this would be to do your normal data cleaning, and write a new column and literally make it say
    ="'"&A1
    

    Then paste that new column as the data and it should stick. It may not work or kill your formatting, but it's fast to just try

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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    The correct answer, as it turned out, was to ignore that part of the training manual and import MARC records instead.

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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    I'm scared to post this because I'll curse myself, but the only thing I have had to do today is work on a little tariff background education sheet for next week.
    It's as exciting as it sounds.

    I'm boooorwd!

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Skeith wrote: »
    I forgot how much I hate Excel. I need to import a CSV file into our library software to order stuff, but ISBNs get rendered in scientific notation because they're long. I've tried saving the column after formatting it as number. As soon as I open the file back up it goes into notation. Jedoc "Librarian's ghost" do either of you have to deal with this nonsense?

    You got a solution but in Excel I always just format those columns as text and then it doesn't do the notation or decimals.

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    edited October 7
    Speaking of excel, I was modifying my cool library sign-in system and noticed that the visual basic code that adds the time stamp automatically puts the time into the column using a 24 hours clock but when I click on that cell, the, whatever you call that box above the columns next to the function*, that box shows the same time in 12 hour.

    I could try to figure out how to fix that but fuck it. I'm not going to risk breaking anything.

    *I guess that is called the formula bar?

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  • DaimarDaimar A Million Feet Tall of Awesome Registered User regular
    Excel displays the date/time in the format that your computer is set to, so if you have your dates set to dd/mm/yyyy in your system settings that's how Excel will display it by default, I am pretty sure it works for time as well, so your computer may be set to use the 24 hour clock.

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  • ThegreatcowThegreatcow Lord of All Bacons Washington State - It's Wet up here innit? Registered User regular
    It's supply chain week here at work

    Silly email games like bingo and scavenger hunts no one has time to play

    A free sweatshirt that no one wears

    A pizza party

    Not a bonus or even a gift card in sight

    Fuck we're facing that next week. They're all trying to get us to participate in team building exercises and whatnot and trumpeted how they've allocated extra budget this year for "connecting remote teams together" and it's all so performative I could puke. Either give us more money, gift cards or vouchers to something like Uber eats so we can get a (mostly) free lunch or something. I don't think anyone is going to want to play online jeopardy through Teams or some such nonsense.

  • Kane Red RobeKane Red Robe Master of Magic ArcanusRegistered User regular
    I'm so glad everything I work with is governed by international trade compliance laws so if anyone asked chatgpt anything related to itc controlled data they would get fired basically instantly.

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    "If chatgpt hallucinates (again) and gives us legally bad advice or data, who would face consequences for using such data?"

    "Which group would face financial consequences for the data?"


    Feel free to copypaste those into work emails for future ai work conversations

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  • TynnanTynnan seldom correct, never unsure Registered User regular
    It's supply chain week here at work

    Silly email games like bingo and scavenger hunts no one has time to play

    A free sweatshirt that no one wears

    A pizza party

    Not a bonus or even a gift card in sight

    Hell of a week to have supply chain week

  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    Kadith wrote: »
    it is very ironic to trust the industry built on stealing copyrighted and just original works in general to stick to an agreement

    Eh, the risk side of it won't pay out as these are monied companies with competent legal teams and funding. Better to upsell them on custom models and make them pay you to incorporate it.

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Both bathrooms in the office now feature an All Gender sign instead of Male and Female.

    And someone still yanked the door of the one I was in while the other one was open. Gonna take take them a bit to figure it out I think.

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Daimar wrote: »
    Excel displays the date/time in the format that your computer is set to, so if you have your dates set to dd/mm/yyyy in your system settings that's how Excel will display it by default, I am pretty sure it works for time as well, so your computer may be set to use the 24 hour clock.

    My computer is not set to 24 hour time.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    The Sci Fi bookchat I proposed with a coworker that got approved has its advertising page up. It's real! People know! Our pictures are on it! Aaaaaahhhhh. So excited.

    Apologies I am not gonna link it on a public site but its out there!

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    The chap i didn't want in doing a second day of overtime went back to office because they forgot their charger.

    2 hours in and not a single task done

    My scatterbrained royce_ebook self has done 2 and refuled

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  • SporkAndrewSporkAndrew Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Veevee wrote: »
    CEO's obsession with ChatGPT is hitting critical mass. We got 10 company-wide emails last Sunday as he asked it to do competitor analysis and then copy and pasted the results into an email saying how amazing it was and making snide comments about how it only took him 5 minutes and when he asks marketing to do it it takes weeks. Never mind the fact that each email which covered each competitor was pretty much identical with only the bullet points in a different order and some different wording. He's clearly not reading the generated slop and just forwarding it on as "something to ponder."

    This week we've come in to an email saying that he fully expects everyone in the office to spend half an hour every morning talking to it and asking it how we can make our jobs more productive. He's previously sent out examples of how marketing can do it so now he expects product, customer support and engineering to do the same.

    "Hey ChatGPT, can you tell me why when this customer exports a 13,000 line table to PDF on pages 300-303 the spacing gets a bit messed up and the text is clipped slightly? Here's our codebase for reference"

    Does he realize that when you put data into chatgpt you lose control to that data? I wonder what confidential information your competitors can now easily access now that it's on the chatgpt database.

    I'm now imagining HR doing annual review shit through chatgpt and just uploading employee records.

    We've got some kind of corporate account with OpenAI so apparently anything we upload doesn't get incorporated into the wider model but as has been said - this is a model built by plagiarising the entire internet so I trust that claim about as far as I can throw it.

    Meanwhile he fed it our entire company confluence wiki and tried to get it to summarise how we get a new API connected to our data lake, then sent the instructions to the head of engineering who very diplomatically said "that's interesting." He's not happy with long it takes the connectors team to get a new connection up and running and thinks it's something we can farm out to AI.

    The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Tynnan wrote: »
    It's supply chain week here at work

    Silly email games like bingo and scavenger hunts no one has time to play

    A free sweatshirt that no one wears

    A pizza party

    Not a bonus or even a gift card in sight

    Hell of a week to have supply chain week

    Yeah funny coincidence I guess

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