Having one of those "you don't realize how good you've got it" days, but its me, I didn't realize it. I am a Tech Sport Specialist (TSSPEC, or T-Speck, they shorten it to) at an elementary school that has under 600 students. My district is a county in Northern VA with around 100 schools (mix of ES/MS/HS and traditional schools where its K-8).
I already felt like its been a blessing, because most days I can spend my time browsing the internet while waiting for tickets that (knock on wood) do not come very fast or furiously. However, they had been warning us since I started here this past March that all ES TSSPECs would be getting scheduled to help out at their closest HS one day a week because their goal is to have every TSSPEC be 1-to-1000 devices, more or less.
Today was the the first day of that, and I was the lucky TSSPEC who got to go to the nearby HS first. And the usual TSSPEC who works the local HS was out today so it was just me. Thank God it was only for 3 hours. The amount of work I did there was equivalent to a week's worth at my normal school. In 3 hours.
Thankfully its just 3 hours per week. And next week the other TSSPEC will be present.
It's gonna make the days that you're not there seem like a sweet sweet vacation.
I already felt pretty lucky, because I knock out most of the issues at my home school in like 20 minutes and then I can just remote into my home PC and play Football Manager or browse the forums since they're not blocked at home.
I'm sure, given how much effort it sounds like from your posts that goes on day to day keep things going in your facility, I am not surprised in the least
We had to stop after 1 hour 20 minutes cause engine was waiting on delivery thay arrived 15 minutes later.
They didn't have the parts on hand to run for a mesely two hours
Just In Time!
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
I used to work on a commercial printing press similar to this one, and you had the set the color manually for each color, across 38 inches of web (Paper roll). It was a giant pain in the ass. Newer presses had sensors that could dial it in pretty damn close, but ours was all manual baby!
Is it something that might solve all of my calendar / coordination / pipeline problems or is it just another thing I'm going to maintain?
It depends on what your problems are - Project is a beast unto itself. If you have lots of simultaneous workstreams with decent time/effort estimates and need to determine critical path and dependency maps at the same time while having hard completion estimates - it's ok. If you don't need/have all that, it's a bit overgunned. Often you can do enough using Jira dependencies via issue links or even in excel of having tasks with done/not done and a flexible status that relies on done in direct dependencies.
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Is it something that might solve all of my calendar / coordination / pipeline problems or is it just another thing I'm going to maintain?
It depends on what your problems are - Project is a beast unto itself. If you have lots of simultaneous workstreams with decent time/effort estimates and need to determine critical path and dependency maps at the same time while having hard completion estimates - it's ok. If you don't need/have all that, it's a bit overgunned. Often you can do enough using Jira dependencies via issue links or even in excel of having tasks with done/not done and a flexible status that relies on done in direct dependencies.
My goal is two things kind of, long term strategic planning to be able to plan out even related stuff like a year in advance and then setting up some kind of workflow for campaign requests to coordinate all the different outputs and make sure the higher ups are aware of what's happening.
I'm mostly just trying to make a big picture marketing calendar and can't really seem to figure out a combo of outlook/teams/planner that works and isn't just me building a personal tracking excel sheet with a different and possibly worse interface.
that's... not quite the worst panel I've ever seen, but it's up there
It reminds me of how in TOS Star Trek, they have a desk full of buttons and no labels on what anything does. Or maybe like one of those midi controllers that is a square of white keys with no differentiation to indicate what each button does.
Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart
On my sleeve, let the runway start
Dude who bypassed the pokey with the click wrench is still doing it. Watched him click one shot twice, and another three times.
What are we even doing here, then
All the processes in the world don't work if the culture doesn't support them! I know I'm preaching to the choir here though.
Poke yoke is mistake proofing. The idea is to make it impossible to inadvertently make a mistake and not notice. It does nothing against active non-compliance.
Well... it does offer an iron clad way to say the mistake is the fault of lackey whom you want to remove for fault. Bonus round: Encourage an environment where folks routinely do it and it is never commented on so you get to fire anybody at any time for cause! Either their documented numbers suck compared to everybody else, because they don't circumvent procedures, or they are shown to be actively bypassing procedures so you can document that for cause.
I do wonder if that is a result of the combination of American workplace attitudes and the Japanese production methods or if it was Always The Point. Really varies with how cynical I'm feeling at the moment.
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I sometimes get upset discovering that people have faces.
On the one hand, sad
On the other, full control of the aircon
I have good news!
I know for a fact I'm still on less that the last guy in the job so it doesn't sound like too much to me!
At the very least I've secured a promotion for my best analyst, so it's not all doom and gloom.
But urgh, my company's obsession with cost cutting is getting increasingly frustrating
Do you expect me to talk?
No, Mr. Hasselsmof, I expect you to die.
I already felt pretty lucky, because I knock out most of the issues at my home school in like 20 minutes and then I can just remote into my home PC and play Football Manager or browse the forums since they're not blocked at home.
Is that what Tube told you when you signed the paperwork? That it was going to change everyone's legal name to their username?
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
This explains a lot about some things in my life.
Is it something that might solve all of my calendar / coordination / pipeline problems or is it just another thing I'm going to maintain?
OK is a big thing in Quality. Like, an actual saying.
So you get to see corporate posters and shit that just say
"Subaru
OK"
Which looks like the most low effort, aggressively mid, advertising campaign and it makes me laugh, everytime.
I'm sure, given how much effort it sounds like from your posts that goes on day to day keep things going in your facility, I am not surprised in the least
[Presses the button labeled "SHOTS" five times in quick succession.]
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
They scheduled a 5.5 yesterday.
We had to stop after 1 hour 20 minutes cause engine was waiting on delivery thay arrived 15 minutes later.
They didn't have the parts on hand to run for a mesely two hours
Just In Time!
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No, I aim to MANUAL FAULT.
Edit: Some got shit on the floor at work
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
It depends on what your problems are - Project is a beast unto itself. If you have lots of simultaneous workstreams with decent time/effort estimates and need to determine critical path and dependency maps at the same time while having hard completion estimates - it's ok. If you don't need/have all that, it's a bit overgunned. Often you can do enough using Jira dependencies via issue links or even in excel of having tasks with done/not done and a flexible status that relies on done in direct dependencies.
I'm trying to use it now
it's...okay-ish? It still isn't doing quite what I want but it's better than using ADO, our internal wiki, or a damn Excel spreadsheet.
My goal is two things kind of, long term strategic planning to be able to plan out even related stuff like a year in advance and then setting up some kind of workflow for campaign requests to coordinate all the different outputs and make sure the higher ups are aware of what's happening.
I'm mostly just trying to make a big picture marketing calendar and can't really seem to figure out a combo of outlook/teams/planner that works and isn't just me building a personal tracking excel sheet with a different and possibly worse interface.
Yeah
ha
ha
At the second interview I met with the regional manager. He said, and I quote: "We have a few more interviews, but you've got my recommendation."
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
It reminds me of how in TOS Star Trek, they have a desk full of buttons and no labels on what anything does. Or maybe like one of those midi controllers that is a square of white keys with no differentiation to indicate what each button does.
On my sleeve, let the runway start
Justin Lin pulled a lot of audio from TOS
Balance of Terror really holds up well as a show, but is only hard to watch because of the filming style of the day.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
On my sleeve, let the runway start
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
What are we even doing here, then
Hacking
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
All the processes in the world don't work if the culture doesn't support them! I know I'm preaching to the choir here though.
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Untappd ID: Discgolfer1981
Oh.....oh no
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Poke yoke is mistake proofing. The idea is to make it impossible to inadvertently make a mistake and not notice. It does nothing against active non-compliance.
Well... it does offer an iron clad way to say the mistake is the fault of lackey whom you want to remove for fault. Bonus round: Encourage an environment where folks routinely do it and it is never commented on so you get to fire anybody at any time for cause! Either their documented numbers suck compared to everybody else, because they don't circumvent procedures, or they are shown to be actively bypassing procedures so you can document that for cause.
I do wonder if that is a result of the combination of American workplace attitudes and the Japanese production methods or if it was Always The Point. Really varies with how cynical I'm feeling at the moment.
"You do the pokayoke and you turn the bolt aroun- wait, that guy isn't doing it."
Oh dear, I AM the uncanny valley.