I was supposed to leave my [job] at noon

Quid · March 2020

And I did. To go to do work at another job. I have too many jobs.

TNTrooper · March 2020

It's 20 minutes till lunch break. Productivity is dropping every minute.

Tube · March 2020

I'm on vacation, losers, sitting in an airport on my way to California answering emails and triaging support for a project I manage

Moriveth · March 2020

I don't wanna be at work today. Surprising, I know.

On the plus side, I did ask for and get Thursday off.

Quid · March 2020

Tube you are bad at vacation

mightyjongyo · March 2020

Tube wrote: »

I'm on vacation, losers, sitting in an airport on my way to California answering emails and triaging support for a project I manage

I awesome'd this but then read it again and was like wait no that's the opposite of awesome!

Tube · March 2020

I just replied to an email with "sorry for the delay, I'm on vacation" and then checked the timestamp and I had responded within 3 minutes.

TNTrooper · March 2020

You are working during your vacation in the one place more miserable then the DMV during the Corona virus outbreak.

May the rest of your vacation be better.

Thegreatcow · March 2020

So is it like, the reverse hedgehog's dilemma? You want to get away but the emails and work demands keep needling their way towards you? And the only escape is the sweet embrace of a rogue-ai controlled giant mecha that ends the world?

Calica · March 2020

Started my week by hotfixing a bug introduced in last night's release. Feels good :cool:

Weaver · March 2020

I get back to work from vacation on Wednesday and I'm dreading going into a coronavirus panic hellscape. The college my girlfriend just started working at is closed down because their nursing students were interning at the assisted living facility where the current outbreak is.

In the meantime this is my last night here so we're gonna grill out tonight.

David_T · March 2020

We're looking for a new hire to be Business Support, which is great. We've included HR in this, which is... fine, the person assigned to help has really spiffed up the ad graphically. English skills are fairly important for the job, so important that it's been decided to do the listing entirely in English. This is problematic because the HR person doesn't really speak it, but still converted it from Danish to English. Or at least was responsible for running it through Google Translate.

Which is how I ended up in a conversation today that went "Hey David, you're probably the best person in the office when it comes to communicating in English, would you mind--" "Tweaking this listing a little?" "--rewriting it from scratch?". And it ended up being sent back to HR practically sight unseen.

I really hope we end up getting someone good, not just because we need someone but also because I feel slightly responsible now.

bowen · March 2020

Shit I don't even respond for 3-4 days even when I'm in the office.

DouglasDanger · March 2020

bowen wrote: »

Shit I don't even respond for 3-4 days even when I'm in the office.

Weird flex, but ok

minor incident · March 2020

bowen wrote: »

Shit I don't even respond for 3-4 days even when I'm in the office.

My rule of thumb is thus:

Email comes in Monday - Wednesday: "Sorry for the delayed response, still catching up from the weekend"
Email comes in Thursday - Friday: "Sorry for the delayed response, didn't get to this before the weekend."
Email comes in Saturday - Sunday: "What email?"

minor incident · March 2020

But for real, last week I was auditing the email records for our office and found out I had sent more email than anyone else here over the last 5 years. I did the math and it came out to 51 emails per day over 5 years. Roughly double the next closest person in the office.

Then I realized I didn't account for being off weekends, which adjusted the per-day email average up to almost 72 per working day.

Enc · March 2020

I'm applying for a job that would be 1/3rd of the work I do now, pays about 5-8k more, and is run by people who have talked about poaching me before.

I feel conflicted. But It's on hard money and I'm sick of sitting on quicksand.

Moriveth · March 2020

They just sent an email out asking about people's capabilities to work from home in case we have to shut the office down due to the coronavirus.

I... probably could, but I wonder if they'd be able to give me a firm laptop to work from because I don't have a lot of the stuff we'd use.

Calica · March 2020

Moriveth wrote: »

They just sent an email out asking about people's capabilities to work from home in case we have to shut the office down due to the coronavirus.

I... probably could, but I wonder if they'd be able to give me a firm laptop to work from because I don't have a lot of the stuff we'd use.

That should be a no-brainer on their part. No company wants its sensitive data exposed to a filthy personal computer :razz:

Moriveth · March 2020

Calica wrote: »

Moriveth wrote: »

They just sent an email out asking about people's capabilities to work from home in case we have to shut the office down due to the coronavirus.

I... probably could, but I wonder if they'd be able to give me a firm laptop to work from because I don't have a lot of the stuff we'd use.

That should be a no-brainer on their part. No company wants its sensitive data exposed to a filthy personal computer :razz:

Yeah, true enough! My only concern is access to a printer, since I don't have one at home, and I easily have the longest commute of anyone here so just being able to take one home is... unlikely.

chromdom · March 2020

Could you print to the office and do whatever needs doing with the printouts when you do go in?

Thegreatcow · March 2020

Enc wrote: »

I'm applying for a job that would be 1/3rd of the work I do now, pays about 5-8k more, and is run by people who have talked about poaching me before.

I feel conflicted. But It's on hard money and I'm sick of sitting on quicksand.

Just on that last fact alone Enc, I'd say go for it. The fact that you'd potentially have a less stressful and, more importantly, stable working environment is worth it just from that alone. The difference I feel in my work now from my previous job is night and day, and a whole lot less of Acid Reflux.

Moriveth · March 2020

Hm, possibly, I guess that would really depend on how soon it'd need to go out.

Oghulk · March 2020

Two nopes and a posting cancelled, so I'm 0/3 on jobs with a complete process with 5 still outstanding right now. Still applying to about two a week though.

Turkson · March 2020

Tube wrote: »

I'm on vacation, losers, sitting in an airport on my way to California answering emails and triaging support for a project I manage

You're not on vacation then.

TNTrooper · March 2020

Back from lunch I should be motivated till about 4:30 or so.

Enc · March 2020

Thegreatcow wrote: »

Enc wrote: »

I'm applying for a job that would be 1/3rd of the work I do now, pays about 5-8k more, and is run by people who have talked about poaching me before.

I feel conflicted. But It's on hard money and I'm sick of sitting on quicksand.

Just on that last fact alone Enc, I'd say go for it. The fact that you'd potentially have a less stressful and, more importantly, stable working environment is worth it just from that alone. The difference I feel in my work now from my previous job is night and day, and a whole lot less of Acid Reflux.

I'd need to get my current boss's blessing... today. Which means broaching the topic today.

Which is not great. If I don't, I'm not going to have solid references.

Al_wat · March 2020

I can only imagine what will happen at my work if we get hit with corona. There are so many shared surfaces we are forced to touch. Many (hundreds, thousands) of people in/out every day. People who work in offices could maybe work from home, I don't really know. But essential plant personnel must work in the plant. If a sizable portion of essential personnel get corona I'm not sure how my company will deal. It is feasible we wouldn't be able to maintain the minimum complement of essential staff. Safety wise I think it would be fine, we could go into basically "quiet mode", possibly shut down a reactor if we didn't have enough staff to run them all.

One thing I do know is any essential staff who can stay healthy might make fuckloads of OT money

Thegreatcow · March 2020

Enc wrote: »

Thegreatcow wrote: »

Enc wrote: »

I'm applying for a job that would be 1/3rd of the work I do now, pays about 5-8k more, and is run by people who have talked about poaching me before.

I feel conflicted. But It's on hard money and I'm sick of sitting on quicksand.

Just on that last fact alone Enc, I'd say go for it. The fact that you'd potentially have a less stressful and, more importantly, stable working environment is worth it just from that alone. The difference I feel in my work now from my previous job is night and day, and a whole lot less of Acid Reflux.

I'd need to get my current boss's blessing... today. Which means broaching the topic today.

Which is not great. If I don't, I'm not going to have solid references.

Sending all the good moo juju and :bro: your way.

Thegreatcow · March 2020

Thankfully our support staff and I should be able to easily work from home as we're all on laptops and VOIP, but I can't see how some of our product and critical gov dev groups would be able to work from home without some rapid VPN jiggering. And I can't see that happening at government response time. Everyone's watching new case developments like a hawk since Washington now reported the first official Corona deaths in the US now.

(and we're up to 6 confirmed deaths on top of it too)

Madican · March 2020

Tube wrote: »

I'm on vacation, losers, sitting in an airport on my way to California answering emails and triaging support for a project I manage

Southern or Northern?

Moriveth · March 2020

Looks like they'd set us up with a VPN into our work computers?

Gnome-Interruptus · March 2020

Moriveth wrote: »

Hm, possibly, I guess that would really depend on how soon it'd need to go out.

For printing could you possibly just print to PDF them while at home?

Gvzbgul · March 2020

I had a two day event on the weekend, asked to come in late monday. Fine. Went great.

Tuesday comes around, i have not reset my alarms and I'm late for work. Whoooops. It's not too big a hassle, but its annoying for past me to betray me like that.

Moriveth · March 2020

Gnome-Interruptus wrote: »

Moriveth wrote: »

Hm, possibly, I guess that would really depend on how soon it'd need to go out.

For printing could you possibly just print to PDF them while at home?

Totally! Some counties still require you to mail in an actual physical document for their filing system, though. But I think stuff like that could probably wait until we got back to work?

Tef · March 2020

I want to have as much fun at work as these advertisers clearly did:

https://youtu.be/LUg9zGZxFv4

RoyceSraphim · March 2020

Once again fuck the person who left a leaky red ink cartridge in first aid kit.

This was a decade sgo but the last thread made me angry.

There was a friendly dog there, so its good

Doodmann · March 2020

Enc wrote: »

I'm applying for a job that would be 1/3rd of the work I do now, pays about 5-8k more, and is run by people who have talked about poaching me before.

I feel conflicted. But It's on hard money and I'm sick of sitting on quicksand.

Why would you be conflicted about this?

Enc · March 2020

Doodmann wrote: »

Enc wrote: »

I'm applying for a job that would be 1/3rd of the work I do now, pays about 5-8k more, and is run by people who have talked about poaching me before.

I feel conflicted. But It's on hard money and I'm sick of sitting on quicksand.

Why would you be conflicted about this?

Many reasons I don't want on the internet, but the short version is the new boss would be one of the people I've talked about in previous examples.

Tube · March 2020

Madican wrote: »

Tube wrote: »

I'm on vacation, losers, sitting in an airport on my way to California answering emails and triaging support for a project I manage

Southern or Northern?

Southern, I’m taking a vacation, not visiting someone in prison.

Madican · March 2020

Tube wrote: »

Madican wrote: »

Tube wrote: »

I'm on vacation, losers, sitting in an airport on my way to California answering emails and triaging support for a project I manage

Southern or Northern?

Southern, I’m taking a vacation, not visiting someone in prison.

If you're in the Los Angeles area enjoy the weather. It can't seem to make up its mind whether it's summer or winter. Well, "winter".

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