I don’t quite have my own office yet, just a window-adjacent cube
Your desk is remarkably clean.
We’ve only been here a couple hours! Trust me, if this were anything like my house it would be much worse.
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MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
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Yeah I'm confused too, I love the new version.
The android app for Calendar also now allows you to put participants, times, and locations into the title and it distributes them to the event fields accordingly.
edit - apparently it is that functionality... I've never noticed that worked in desktop before so I thought it was a new feature on the app version.
Basically there's one patent agent who is insistent on getting her mail all the time always
only her mail isn't always addressed to her, sometimes it's one of the companies she works for, which we are familiar with most of but not every single one
our general protocol when we get a piece of mail directed to just the firm is to give it to the records guy who can open the mail and look up who it belongs to
a couple weeks ago we got an angry call from her because he'd opened mail meant for her, even though there was nothing to indicate it went to her
Anyway, last week we get a big food gift box to a company that isn't here and to the name of the person who doesn't work here
we bring it to the records guy who says it's nobody here and that company is not one we represent
so we put it in the fridge and wait a few days to see if anyone claims it
come today, nobody has, so my boss says well, let's put it in the breakroom for people to eat
but then I remember that I think the name on the package was the same name on an envelope I sorted today
one for a woman who does work for one of the companies the patent agent works for
so I say hey, wait, hold on, let's call her and make sure
so we do, and it is in fact for her company, and we're instructed to put it back in the fridge until she hears back from the company on what to do with it
while I'm sad to miss out on free food I'm also glad to avoid shitty annoying drama
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
So in the new calander this is what I see when I make a new event.
I have typed the time range for the event into the text field but when I click create it simply makes it an all day event. When I unselect all day event I can change times but it requires having to click the start time, change it, click end time, change it.
Yeah looks like you've gotta uncheck all day, then type it into the boxes.
I mean, this quick add feels faster than the other quick add unless you use the shortcut you like timspork.
Not sure why they changed it. But that's google, fucking with things that don't need fucking with.
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MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
I wonder if you were part of an A/B feature test. I've never noticed that functionality before, but then I always used to just click on the start time I want.
Very weird that the feature lives on in the mobile version, although there it feels more necessary since it's harder to click and drag across a time period on mobile than on the desktop version.
I'm on the business tool stuff and I definitely just got rolled into the new one without any warning and can't use timspork's shortcut. Looks like everyone's getting rolled over today?
bowen on
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
I wonder if you were part of an A/B feature test. I've never noticed that functionality before, but then I always used to just click on the start time I want.
Very weird that the feature lives on in the mobile version, although there it feels more necessary since it's harder to click and drag across a time period on mobile than on the desktop version.
Watch it come back in the business tools version.
Yeah this is what it looks like for me on the "classic" version.
When I hit create it just pulls that time out and auto assigns it. It is crazy useful sine I am in a school with classes starting at times other than 15 or 30 minute increments.
I work with a person that doesn't say bye or anything when they're finished with a phone conversation.
Like, you're talking and all of a sudden the line is dead.
Kind of a dick move.
That's how people on TV talk on the phone, and it's super weird if you pay close attention to it. They just assume that the audience understands the conversation is over, and put the phone back in their pocket. But you never see the conversation from the perspective of the person who just got hung up on, unless it's like a split screen thing and then one window just shifts back off screen when that person's hung up on.
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I work with a person that doesn't say bye or anything when they're finished with a phone conversation.
Like, you're talking and all of a sudden the line is dead.
Kind of a dick move.
That's how people on TV talk on the phone, and it's super weird if you pay close attention to it. They just assume that the audience understands the conversation is over, and put the phone back in their pocket. But you never see the conversation from the perspective of the person who just got hung up on, unless it's like a split screen thing and then one window just shifts back off screen when that person's hung up on.
I’ve been playing the first Phoenix Wright over the last few days and “conversations” “end” bizarrely in much the same fashion. I mean it doesn’t contain a fully fleshed out dialogue system but conversations are basically 2-4 topic mini-interrogations that more or less trail off and then you just walk away as the protagonist.
It’s particularly jarring because most of the other characters DO explain their sudden departure if they need to leave after or as the result of a conversation you are having with them.
I work with a person that doesn't say bye or anything when they're finished with a phone conversation.
Like, you're talking and all of a sudden the line is dead.
Kind of a dick move.
That's how people on TV talk on the phone, and it's super weird if you pay close attention to it. They just assume that the audience understands the conversation is over, and put the phone back in their pocket. But you never see the conversation from the perspective of the person who just got hung up on, unless it's like a split screen thing and then one window just shifts back off screen when that person's hung up on.
I’ve been playing the first Phoenix Wright over the last few days and “conversations” “end” bizarrely in much the same fashion. I mean it doesn’t contain a fully fleshed out dialogue system but conversations are basically 2-4 topic mini-interrogations that more or less trail off and then you just walk away as the protagonist.
It’s particularly jarring because most of the other characters DO explain their sudden departure if they need to leave after or as the result of a conversation you are having with them.
I was just thinking about this last night.
Also sometimes just coming back to them after leaving the room to investigate other places.
Not sure why they changed it. But that's google, fucking with things that don't need fucking with.
It's so the UI designers/developers continue to have a job, I assume. You need them around in case something breaks but they don't really have anything else to do on an already-finished product, other than trying to innovate on said product.
Not sure why they changed it. But that's google, fucking with things that don't need fucking with.
It's so the UI designers/developers continue to have a job, I assume. You need them around in case something breaks but they don't really have anything else to do on an already-finished product, other than trying to innovate on said product.
I assume google can afford it, though.
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
I've got a pretty sweet view of Mount Timpanogos, at least, on days when the air in the valley is clear, which seem rarer and rarer every year. But my desk is also in the front lobby of the warehouse, so I pay for my view by being the front line against customer aggro and cold call salesmen.
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Also having to provide feedback.
Did they just remove the ability to inline a time and have it auto assign it? It doesn't seem to work and that is fucked for me.
I have a bunch of different titles, depending
I think right now I'm a "subject matter expert", which basically means it's my job to understand how the public sees local entities
though that's probably going to change soon because our team just finished a radical pivot
I'm essentially a semi-skilled worker who does whatever low-level grunt work my developers need
I manipulate a lot of spreadsheets and do some very light coding-adjacent tasks, and up until recently I maintained a fairly extensive taxonomy
it is grossly underpaid work
I can type any time, I don't have to pick the choices they give me still?
Unless that's not what you mean?
Okay so before I'd click on a day and the quick add pops up. I'd type, 9:12-10:38 A3 Desktop Lab: Teacher Name
When I hit "create" it would strip out that time in the text box and add it as the time of the event and leave behind A3 Desktop Lab: Teacher Name
The new one, when I did that left me with an even happening all day that was called 9:12-10:38 A3 Desktop Lab: Teacher Name
We’ve only been here a couple hours! Trust me, if this were anything like my house it would be much worse.
The android app for Calendar also now allows you to put participants, times, and locations into the title and it distributes them to the event fields accordingly.
edit - apparently it is that functionality... I've never noticed that worked in desktop before so I thought it was a new feature on the app version.
My desk currently.
Of special note. On the far right, below the signed Penny-Arcade comic dealing with Librarians, is the Red Panda JoeUser gave me when I got this job.
*edit. I really need to get a vacuum and clean under the desk.
Basically there's one patent agent who is insistent on getting her mail all the time always
only her mail isn't always addressed to her, sometimes it's one of the companies she works for, which we are familiar with most of but not every single one
our general protocol when we get a piece of mail directed to just the firm is to give it to the records guy who can open the mail and look up who it belongs to
a couple weeks ago we got an angry call from her because he'd opened mail meant for her, even though there was nothing to indicate it went to her
Anyway, last week we get a big food gift box to a company that isn't here and to the name of the person who doesn't work here
we bring it to the records guy who says it's nobody here and that company is not one we represent
so we put it in the fridge and wait a few days to see if anyone claims it
come today, nobody has, so my boss says well, let's put it in the breakroom for people to eat
but then I remember that I think the name on the package was the same name on an envelope I sorted today
one for a woman who does work for one of the companies the patent agent works for
so I say hey, wait, hold on, let's call her and make sure
so we do, and it is in fact for her company, and we're instructed to put it back in the fridge until she hears back from the company on what to do with it
while I'm sad to miss out on free food I'm also glad to avoid shitty annoying drama
I have typed the time range for the event into the text field but when I click create it simply makes it an all day event. When I unselect all day event I can change times but it requires having to click the start time, change it, click end time, change it.
Far more effort than what I could do before.
I mean, this quick add feels faster than the other quick add unless you use the shortcut you like timspork.
Not sure why they changed it. But that's google, fucking with things that don't need fucking with.
Very weird that the feature lives on in the mobile version, although there it feels more necessary since it's harder to click and drag across a time period on mobile than on the desktop version.
Watch it come back in the business tools version.
Last week was my first week and hoooboy did I just use "Admin - figuring out what the hell to do" for a lot of hours. That'll surely go well.
Yeah this is what it looks like for me on the "classic" version.
When I hit create it just pulls that time out and auto assigns it. It is crazy useful sine I am in a school with classes starting at times other than 15 or 30 minute increments.
Like, you're talking and all of a sudden the line is dead.
Kind of a dick move.
That's how people on TV talk on the phone, and it's super weird if you pay close attention to it. They just assume that the audience understands the conversation is over, and put the phone back in their pocket. But you never see the conversation from the perspective of the person who just got hung up on, unless it's like a split screen thing and then one window just shifts back off screen when that person's hung up on.
Call them back. “Did we get disconnected?”
I would do that every time, even if all they say is “no.”
I’ve been playing the first Phoenix Wright over the last few days and “conversations” “end” bizarrely in much the same fashion. I mean it doesn’t contain a fully fleshed out dialogue system but conversations are basically 2-4 topic mini-interrogations that more or less trail off and then you just walk away as the protagonist.
It’s particularly jarring because most of the other characters DO explain their sudden departure if they need to leave after or as the result of a conversation you are having with them.
I was just thinking about this last night.
Also sometimes just coming back to them after leaving the room to investigate other places.
It's so the UI designers/developers continue to have a job, I assume. You need them around in case something breaks but they don't really have anything else to do on an already-finished product, other than trying to innovate on said product.
You're supposed to talk to Google Assistant to accomplish the same task now?
I assume google can afford it, though.
I don't know what that is and also I'm doing far to many to speak to a robot.
My first window looked onto an old dude with his screen and back to the window. I'm sure you can see where this is going.
He watched lots of porn at work. I'm fairly certain he was the boss or something because that went on for 2.5 years or so without him getting fired.
I kept my blinds closed
Every Sunday, for the indefinite future.
She took is pretty well when I told her no.
But the only applicants I get are minors, who cant work during school hours or over 20 hours and Im in need of fulltime day people.
Time to grow some extra arms. Or kidnap some Seattle folk.
Set out traps around a Starbucks.