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OH SHIT. I had forgotten about this, due to the whole getting my ribs bruised up thing, but earlier at work today-
So for the last three months or so, every time I file & submit expense reports against our discretionary account, the division boss has yelled at my GM that I'm not submitting the codes & reasons for the expenses. To which I've pushed back every time.
Today I got on the phone with the admin that handles the division managers expense account and administrates all sub-accounts, had her review my work for the last few periods, she called it "impressive", nothing was missing, everything was done, coded, explained past expectations. My (electronic)paperwork is impeccable.
So I got to fire email back up the chain to put the division leader on the spot to explain himself.
We've all been assigned a training on how to deal with customers hitting on you at work. Progress is slow because I keep clicking back to the first slide to laugh at the stock photo guy they came up with.
Nailing it, dude. Confidence is attractive.
So my wife quit her job about a year ago and since then she's been renewing her love of art. She's kicked out a couple dozen paintings and recently talked about wanting to get back into digital art and also writing. So we scraped up some cash and got her a nice new Surface Pro 7 and she absolutely loves it and apparently she's gotten pretty good at whatever photoshop type program she uses so anyway
While theoretically "take off as much time as you like as long as the work gets done" sounds like how things ought to work, I have never heard of a case where it turned out better than the standard PTO system. None of the companies who implement it actually have the culture required for a "take off as much time as you like as long as the work gets done" state of mind, and it just turns into peer pressure from managers and no-life coworkers to never take a day off, ever.
If it ever got used at my company, I'd just straight up tell my managers, I'm keeping track of how much time I'm taking off each year, and that's going to be at a minimum the same amount as it was under the old system.
While theoretically "take off as much time as you like as long as the work gets done" sounds like how things ought to work, I have never heard of a case where it turned out better than the standard PTO system. None of the companies who implement it actually have the culture required for a "take off as much time as you like as long as the work gets done" state of mind, and it just turns into peer pressure from managers and no-life coworkers to never take a day off, ever.
If it ever got used at my company, I'd just straight up tell my managers, I'm keeping track of how much time I'm taking off each year, and that's going to be at a minimum the same amount as it was under the old system.
Oh yeah, in my experience people would take drastically less paid time off
And even when it's unlimited sick leave, you have people bragging about only ever taking 1-3 days of sick leave ever, and it was always like, why
I’ve been mildly sick this whole week and also fairly fatigued and grouchy because of a (short term) assy-bullshit schedule.
My girlfriend made a strong case for me taking a sick day yesterday and I was just like “A sick day, the fuck am I, The Marquess of Goddamned Queensbury!?”
I shoulda just took a sick day.
We've all been assigned a training on how to deal with customers hitting on you at work. Progress is slow because I keep clicking back to the first slide to laugh at the stock photo guy they came up with.
Nailing it, dude. Confidence is attractive.
So my wife quit her job about a year ago and since then she's been renewing her love of art. She's kicked out a couple dozen paintings and recently talked about wanting to get back into digital art and also writing. So we scraped up some cash and got her a nice new Surface Pro 7 and she absolutely loves it and apparently she's gotten pretty good at whatever photoshop type program she uses so anyway
My wife is nowhere near as online as I am. Like, she's basically not online at all. She has a twitter for her art but she never uses it.
So however weird you're imagining that conversation went, it was weirder.
"Hey I need you to edit this pic for me"
"Who's that?"
"Iunno."
"This is for the forums isn't it?
"Yep! I need this face from this comic swapped into it."
"Is this the comic from the forums?"
"Hahaha, not even at all."
"What comic is this from?"
". . . I plead the fifth."
"Is this some sort of meme?"
"Sort of?!"
"Aren't those forums topic-based?"
"...sort of..."
"Which topic is this even for?"
"...the job thread..."
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"... it's also the flu shot thread?"
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While theoretically "take off as much time as you like as long as the work gets done" sounds like how things ought to work, I have never heard of a case where it turned out better than the standard PTO system. None of the companies who implement it actually have the culture required for a "take off as much time as you like as long as the work gets done" state of mind, and it just turns into peer pressure from managers and no-life coworkers to never take a day off, ever.
If it ever got used at my company, I'd just straight up tell my managers, I'm keeping track of how much time I'm taking off each year, and that's going to be at a minimum the same amount as it was under the old system.
Oh yeah, in my experience people would take drastically less paid time off
And even when it's unlimited sick leave, you have people bragging about only ever taking 1-3 days of sick leave ever, and it was always like, why
I remember back when like, the ACA was getting passed, some right wing dude made a video talking about wimpy libs, and how he hadn't had a single day off at all in like eight years. And I was just watching it going dude, why are you proud of this
Back when I first started work, I'd put extra effort into driving in on snowy/icy days and stuff like that, and eventually I realized that there is no gold star, you are not going to get a promotion because you had perfect attendance. Your health/safety is more important.
I always intend to submit paper reviews well ahead of the deadline but then they inevitably slip down the priority list and of course I don't want to do a rush job so when I do remember them it takes like, two or three days to really let it percolate and anyway, yet another one just squeaked in by the skin of its teeth, cheers to me.
While theoretically "take off as much time as you like as long as the work gets done" sounds like how things ought to work, I have never heard of a case where it turned out better than the standard PTO system. None of the companies who implement it actually have the culture required for a "take off as much time as you like as long as the work gets done" state of mind, and it just turns into peer pressure from managers and no-life coworkers to never take a day off, ever.
If it ever got used at my company, I'd just straight up tell my managers, I'm keeping track of how much time I'm taking off each year, and that's going to be at a minimum the same amount as it was under the old system.
I...uh....I'm the weird guy who actually gets to use that how it's intended.
So I've seen both sides of that coin. Sometimes I'm working with India which means a ton of night meetings and it fucking sucks.
Sometimes I'm rolling in at 9:30 and leaving at 4 every day because we're more than on track and there's nothing pressing for me to do, and my manager is okay with it? I mean, my cube is (well, was) literally across the aisle from him and he'd wave when I was on my way out. Being around for a while and having a reputation for always being honest about how things are going, and having a history of going "okay, this deadline is like right fucking now and we just had something explode, I guess I'm logging in this weekend" has built up to me being able to get away with some shit >_>
While theoretically "take off as much time as you like as long as the work gets done" sounds like how things ought to work, I have never heard of a case where it turned out better than the standard PTO system. None of the companies who implement it actually have the culture required for a "take off as much time as you like as long as the work gets done" state of mind, and it just turns into peer pressure from managers and no-life coworkers to never take a day off, ever.
If it ever got used at my company, I'd just straight up tell my managers, I'm keeping track of how much time I'm taking off each year, and that's going to be at a minimum the same amount as it was under the old system.
I...uh....I'm the weird guy who actually gets to use that how it's intended.
So I've seen both sides of that coin. Sometimes I'm working with India which means a ton of night meetings and it fucking sucks.
Sometimes I'm rolling in at 9:30 and leaving at 4 every day because we're more than on track and there's nothing pressing for me to do, and my manager is okay with it? I mean, my cube is (well, was) literally across the aisle from him and he'd wave when I was on my way out. Being around for a while and having a reputation for always being honest about how things are going, and having a history of going "okay, this deadline is like right fucking now and we just had something explode, I guess I'm logging in this weekend" has built up to me being able to get away with some shit >_>
Not to be too big a downer, but that is how regular salary should work in general, not even figuring in the PTO system.
While theoretically "take off as much time as you like as long as the work gets done" sounds like how things ought to work, I have never heard of a case where it turned out better than the standard PTO system. None of the companies who implement it actually have the culture required for a "take off as much time as you like as long as the work gets done" state of mind, and it just turns into peer pressure from managers and no-life coworkers to never take a day off, ever.
If it ever got used at my company, I'd just straight up tell my managers, I'm keeping track of how much time I'm taking off each year, and that's going to be at a minimum the same amount as it was under the old system.
I...uh....I'm the weird guy who actually gets to use that how it's intended.
So I've seen both sides of that coin. Sometimes I'm working with India which means a ton of night meetings and it fucking sucks.
Sometimes I'm rolling in at 9:30 and leaving at 4 every day because we're more than on track and there's nothing pressing for me to do, and my manager is okay with it? I mean, my cube is (well, was) literally across the aisle from him and he'd wave when I was on my way out. Being around for a while and having a reputation for always being honest about how things are going, and having a history of going "okay, this deadline is like right fucking now and we just had something explode, I guess I'm logging in this weekend" has built up to me being able to get away with some shit >_>
Not to be too big a downer, but that is how regular salary should work in general, not even figuring in the PTO system.
Oh, I agree. Just from what people talk about, it rarely seems to end up that way.
I think that it's a bad idea to connect holiday days with sick days
You get your holiday days, and then you should get a statutory amount of fully paid sick leave. You should be able to be signed off for weeks, months, whatever, fully paid, if you're ill.
Sick leave is not a holiday. You're ill. You need to be off, and really you'd prefer to be healthy and at work.
I always intend to submit paper reviews well ahead of the deadline but then they inevitably slip down the priority list and of course I don't want to do a rush job so when I do remember them it takes like, two or three days to really let it percolate and anyway, yet another one just squeaked in by the skin of its teeth, cheers to me.
Just being aware of the existence of a due date still puts you in the top 5% of reviewers.
That's barely over my hourly plus I get my monthly VA disability which more than covers my rent, and I live in Seattle instead of NYC, but that's where the similarities end.
And think about it
You actually have to do some work
And had to go to war!
That's just retail.
I would rather go back to the chaos of Iraq than be here at times
So the helpdesk software dude called back and is now trying to fix an issue over TeamViewer. He has called over a colleague, they're working together on it for over an hour while I am chilling here playing Pokemon and doing chores. It doesn't look like they're making any progress.
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So, one of my colleagues has been getting serious about eating healthy and regular exercise since the end of lockdown, and to show our support as a team for her efforts we decioded to hold our team retrospective at the observatory at the top of the botanical gardens / cable car on the hill behind the city.
So, one of my colleagues has been getting serious about eating healthy and regular exercise since the end of lockdown, and to show our support as a team for her efforts we decioded to hold our team retrospective at the observatory at the top of the botanical gardens / cable car on the hill behind the city.
So the helpdesk software dude called back and is now trying to fix an issue over TeamViewer. He has called over a colleague, they're working together on it for over an hour while I am chilling here playing Pokemon and doing chores. It doesn't look like they're making any progress.
After a few hours they cleared one error.... But ran into another error which they didn't recognize either. They closed the original ticket and I should make a new ticket if I can't clear the error myself. Glad I'm not the only one who has no idea what they're doing with this piece of junk, I guess
So, one of my colleagues has been getting serious about eating healthy and regular exercise since the end of lockdown, and to show our support as a team for her efforts we decioded to hold our team retrospective at the observatory at the top of the botanical gardens / cable car on the hill behind the city.
I also baked raspberry chocolate brownies. Everyone is allowed a cheat day.
The night I started hitting on my wife, I climbed a 20 foot statue drunk, only to have some Asian tourists take pictures of me. Somewhere in a cherished family album or slideshow is a random drunk american on top of a really high statue acting like a monkey.
So, one of my colleagues has been getting serious about eating healthy and regular exercise since the end of lockdown, and to show our support as a team for her efforts we decioded to hold our team retrospective at the observatory at the top of the botanical gardens / cable car on the hill behind the city.
I still feel bad since this month was the start of living on my mere 200 monthly VA disability. From Sept to Feb so it was not fun to get inventive with the roughly 40 I had after what bills I had [keeping the lights on and the water} I still thank those that helped me out around Xmas as it was a life saver
So in the previous thread I talked about how they were going to up the pay of supports and managers
Well they nixed that in favor of on demand schedules where they will have you work certain days and times no matter what you used to have for a schedule before
You will still get the hours you work ie 32 or 40 for full time but you might get spilt days off or weird ones. It's already gone up in flames and it was just started last night
Another thing I make fun of how the backroom manager lost her crew. They had yet again a medium load and nearly 30 people but failed to really do anything
It's just hell working with Mensa
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So for the last three months or so, every time I file & submit expense reports against our discretionary account, the division boss has yelled at my GM that I'm not submitting the codes & reasons for the expenses. To which I've pushed back every time.
Today I got on the phone with the admin that handles the division managers expense account and administrates all sub-accounts, had her review my work for the last few periods, she called it "impressive", nothing was missing, everything was done, coded, explained past expectations. My (electronic)paperwork is impeccable.
So I got to fire email back up the chain to put the division leader on the spot to explain himself.
So my wife quit her job about a year ago and since then she's been renewing her love of art. She's kicked out a couple dozen paintings and recently talked about wanting to get back into digital art and also writing. So we scraped up some cash and got her a nice new Surface Pro 7 and she absolutely loves it and apparently she's gotten pretty good at whatever photoshop type program she uses so anyway
I love my wife
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Subordinate did such a terrible job, client emailed my boss.
Will never ask subordinate for help again.
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If it ever got used at my company, I'd just straight up tell my managers, I'm keeping track of how much time I'm taking off each year, and that's going to be at a minimum the same amount as it was under the old system.
Ouch. :bro:
Oh yeah, in my experience people would take drastically less paid time off
And even when it's unlimited sick leave, you have people bragging about only ever taking 1-3 days of sick leave ever, and it was always like, why
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My girlfriend made a strong case for me taking a sick day yesterday and I was just like “A sick day, the fuck am I, The Marquess of Goddamned Queensbury!?”
I shoulda just took a sick day.
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I don't know what to do.
This statement is false
EXQUISITE
You got me.
I don't have a girlfriend and I know exactly what to do.
So however weird you're imagining that conversation went, it was weirder.
"Hey I need you to edit this pic for me"
"Who's that?"
"Iunno."
"This is for the forums isn't it?
"Yep! I need this face from this comic swapped into it."
"Is this the comic from the forums?"
"Hahaha, not even at all."
"What comic is this from?"
". . . I plead the fifth."
"Is this some sort of meme?"
"Sort of?!"
"Aren't those forums topic-based?"
"...sort of..."
"Which topic is this even for?"
"...the job thread..."
SamuelJohnson.jpg
"... it's also the flu shot thread?"
PoeFromHarkAVagrant.jpg
I remember back when like, the ACA was getting passed, some right wing dude made a video talking about wimpy libs, and how he hadn't had a single day off at all in like eight years. And I was just watching it going dude, why are you proud of this
Back when I first started work, I'd put extra effort into driving in on snowy/icy days and stuff like that, and eventually I realized that there is no gold star, you are not going to get a promotion because you had perfect attendance. Your health/safety is more important.
I...uh....I'm the weird guy who actually gets to use that how it's intended.
So I've seen both sides of that coin. Sometimes I'm working with India which means a ton of night meetings and it fucking sucks.
Sometimes I'm rolling in at 9:30 and leaving at 4 every day because we're more than on track and there's nothing pressing for me to do, and my manager is okay with it? I mean, my cube is (well, was) literally across the aisle from him and he'd wave when I was on my way out. Being around for a while and having a reputation for always being honest about how things are going, and having a history of going "okay, this deadline is like right fucking now and we just had something explode, I guess I'm logging in this weekend" has built up to me being able to get away with some shit >_>
Not to be too big a downer, but that is how regular salary should work in general, not even figuring in the PTO system.
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Oh, I agree. Just from what people talk about, it rarely seems to end up that way.
In unrelated news, anyone need a robotics dilettante probably ... ooh, Jan 2022ish?
So my Friday morning now consists of sitting around in my pyjamas doing fuck all
Which beats work but man I got a ton of stuff to do today
You get your holiday days, and then you should get a statutory amount of fully paid sick leave. You should be able to be signed off for weeks, months, whatever, fully paid, if you're ill.
Sick leave is not a holiday. You're ill. You need to be off, and really you'd prefer to be healthy and at work.
Just being aware of the existence of a due date still puts you in the top 5% of reviewers.
I would rather go back to the chaos of Iraq than be here at times
I also baked raspberry chocolate brownies. Everyone is allowed a cheat day.
What's that, it's time for a photoshop thread?
The night I started hitting on my wife, I climbed a 20 foot statue drunk, only to have some Asian tourists take pictures of me. Somewhere in a cherished family album or slideshow is a random drunk american on top of a really high statue acting like a monkey.
sure can you clean a cat's ass in the sink?
Done!
So in the previous thread I talked about how they were going to up the pay of supports and managers
Well they nixed that in favor of on demand schedules where they will have you work certain days and times no matter what you used to have for a schedule before
You will still get the hours you work ie 32 or 40 for full time but you might get spilt days off or weird ones. It's already gone up in flames and it was just started last night
Another thing I make fun of how the backroom manager lost her crew. They had yet again a medium load and nearly 30 people but failed to really do anything
It's just hell working with Mensa
I hope you can find something else soon