I once had to explain to our procurement team why we should allow the fuckin maintenance planner to have MS Project. Like sure, I get it. Control bloat and unsafe software. Don’t make us go 4 weeks and about 10 back-and-forths to get it. They asked why, if it’s so important, is he only getting it now? I had to delicately explain that everyone got frustrated the last time they tried to get the software approved and just gave up
Someone on my staff is putting in leave requests that basically amount to "can I just not come to work, I don't want any kind of paid leave, I just don't want to come" and I'm struggling to find enough nice ways to say "no."
Someone on my staff is putting in leave requests that basically amount to "can I just not come to work, I don't want any kind of paid leave, I just don't want to come" and I'm struggling to find enough nice ways to say "no."
Thankfully it's just that he's trying to juggle grad school and work and we've already been very accommodating with his hours to allow him to do both but because he's part time he doesn't get very much leave and he's trying to get multiple holiday weekends off, when he only works weekends. I get it, the job isn't his first or even second priority, but if he can't do any of what I need when I've already gone out of my way to help him it's frustrating.
Today was my last day of work for two weeks. Going to Japan Sunday for vacation + meeting fiancé’s family. I also spent 20 hours doing a project for my last job that I think pays for the entire trip for us. So that was tiring but worth it.
Good timing - you may juuuust catch the end of the cherry blossoms, depending on where you visit.
Speaking of which I put together a cherry blossom party for the office on Friday that was real good fun until it started pouring later in the afternoon, but despite that lots of folks said they had a good time. I’m very fortunate to have a director who I can ask if it’s cool to invite everyone to start drinking in the park halfway through a Friday and will not only say yes but come out and join us.
At the airport now! Our friend who lives there says the blossoms are still going
Thankfully it's just that he's trying to juggle grad school and work and we've already been very accommodating with his hours to allow him to do both but because he's part time he doesn't get very much leave and he's trying to get multiple holiday weekends off, when he only works weekends. I get it, the job isn't his first or even second priority, but if he can't do any of what I need when I've already gone out of my way to help him it's frustrating.
yeah, that's more of a... "look, you have my sympathies, but when you completely fill your entire schedule, this is what happens."
Thankfully it's just that he's trying to juggle grad school and work and we've already been very accommodating with his hours to allow him to do both but because he's part time he doesn't get very much leave and he's trying to get multiple holiday weekends off, when he only works weekends. I get it, the job isn't his first or even second priority, but if he can't do any of what I need when I've already gone out of my way to help him it's frustrating.
I mean, this just reinforces the burnout prognosis. He is so busy he doesn't even know he's burned out. I've been there.
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
Man, I wish whoever wrote this defect didn't shorten 'Online Forms' to OF, because when I read 'Click through to the OF logon page' my brain does not resolve that the same way they wrote it.
Thankfully it's just that he's trying to juggle grad school and work and we've already been very accommodating with his hours to allow him to do both but because he's part time he doesn't get very much leave and he's trying to get multiple holiday weekends off, when he only works weekends. I get it, the job isn't his first or even second priority, but if he can't do any of what I need when I've already gone out of my way to help him it's frustrating.
I mean, this just reinforces the burnout prognosis. He is so busy he doesn't even know he's burned out. I've been there.
Again, IMO, no. This is a case of past-him either thinking that he could do everything he wanted/needed to, with the (significant) tradeoff being absolutely no time off, and believing he'd be okay with that... or not even considering the problem until he'd already made the arrangement.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Seems like both! First the bad planning, then trying to slog through life with a gearbox rattling full of sheared-off teeth.
You can get burned out slowly over time after making a lot of good choices, but speedrunning it doesn't make it not burnout.
So i am going out soon to get my brakes done, then doing two shifts since historically they have been poorly covered today and a valied teammate having serious injury was not fleek for the situation. Then I plan to stay up extra late for my graveyard shift tomorrow
Thankfully it's just that he's trying to juggle grad school and work and we've already been very accommodating with his hours to allow him to do both but because he's part time he doesn't get very much leave and he's trying to get multiple holiday weekends off, when he only works weekends. I get it, the job isn't his first or even second priority, but if he can't do any of what I need when I've already gone out of my way to help him it's frustrating.
I mean, this just reinforces the burnout prognosis. He is so busy he doesn't even know he's burned out. I've been there.
Again, IMO, no. This is a case of past-him either thinking that he could do everything he wanted/needed to, with the (significant) tradeoff being absolutely no time off, and believing he'd be okay with that... or not even considering the problem until he'd already made the arrangement.
"You are victim of capitalism but yet you still participate in it?!"
Came in this morning to possibly one of our biggest scrap events in the last 3 years.
All of this due to two operators (both of whom I would describe mildly as "doo doo ass poop from a butt") not doing the basic quality checks they are required to do.
On the one hand: I laugh. I giggle and cavort.
On the other: Dang. Damn.
Honestly, one of the reasons I want to get out of production in the long run is because I always worry I'm gonna forget one thing and end up staring down a metaphorical firing squad. This anxiety is despite the fact I have had only one quality incident in my almost 8 years here and that technically wasn't even me. It was the chucklehead I was training, but since I didn't realize what he was doing I caught the pip.
AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
*deep sigh of relief*
Yay. The environment breaking was not directly my fault. It was a small oversight another admin did. I was afraid some of the work I did last week caused the issues, because of the timing.
Fuckin' asshole caller at work kept on just saying "do to my account what your coworker B did for my colleague A." How about you tell me what you need! When he FINALLY did after I asked for details the 4th time... Turns out his issue was totally routine! Christ what a dick.
I spent the Monday morning of my week off getting up at my usual time so I could go to the DMV because my employer got hacked and the entire HR database for all employees was compromised. SSN, bank account numbers for direct deposit, every bit of info related to health insurance, fingerprints, and any documents used to verify identity upon hire such as passports or, in my case, driver's license number and info. Then they waited 54 days after discovery to inform us mere employees. During this time several of my coworkers had money disappearing out of their accounts, one person had their entire account drained.
Oh and they informed us by dropping letters in the mail after a news outlet read the press release they got Friday at end of business and did a story over the weekend.
I've been lucky in that for me the driver's license has been the biggest pain in the ass to deal with. No money or fraudulent charges or withdrawls on my accounts. There's a bank branch for me just a short walk from my site. So I took care of all the bank stuff and credit report/freeze stuff during work hours because they weren't gonna give us time off to deal with it. But the DMV required me to schedule an appointment, have a police report, and a notarized form. I had to pay $5 to get a copy of the police report I fucking filed, and then $40 for the reissue of a new license with a new number. On the first day of my week off.
At least I was done and leaving the DMV at 8:24 for my 8:25am appointment though.
I spent the Monday morning of my week off getting up at my usual time so I could go to the DMV because my employer got hacked and the entire HR database for all employees was compromised. SSN, bank account numbers for direct deposit, every bit of info related to health insurance, fingerprints, and any documents used to verify identity upon hire such as passports or, in my case, driver's license number and info. Then they waited 54 days after discovery to inform us mere employees. During this time several of my coworkers had money disappearing out of their accounts, one person had their entire account drained.
Oh and they informed us by dropping letters in the mail after a news outlet read the press release they got Friday at end of business and did a story over the weekend.
I've been lucky in that for me the driver's license has been the biggest pain in the ass to deal with. No money or fraudulent charges or withdrawls on my accounts. There's a bank branch for me just a short walk from my site. So I took care of all the bank stuff and credit report/freeze stuff during work hours because they weren't gonna give us time off to deal with it. But the DMV required me to schedule an appointment, have a police report, and a notarized form. I had to pay $5 to get a copy of the police report I fucking filed, and then $40 for the reissue of a new license with a new number. On the first day of my week off.
At least I was done and leaving the DMV at 8:24 for my 8:25am appointment though.
Walked in to work right before midnight to see that a bunch of folks were involved in what's known as a 'reset' in the produce department; for those who are unfamiliar, it's a redesign according to schematic based upon the season. So that's a huge fly in the ointment for me in overnight production since my position relies upon consistency. Also, I clocked out at 8:30 this morning and they were still at it with no signs of stopping. For multiple reasons, there has also been a substantial fuck-up ordering produce that I rely upon, to the tune of not making OJ for almost three straight days; the OJ is my number one priority and not having it places a spotlight on me with our brand new GM, which (thankfully, blessedly) she diplomatically chewed the ass out of my boss and grand-boss. I like her already.
But I also think I made a very constructive decision today in that I gave my boss a very enticing incentive and a very quiet warning in my request: get me a counterpart that works with me on roughly the same schedule.
Incentive: I can massively improve my production responsibilities with a second pair of hands to coordinate tasks; the potential to double my output is very real and my utility to the team would be even more substantial.
Warning: I nearly died from viral pneumonia more than twenty years ago and that derailed my life in the military, something that was extremely important to me. I suffered catastrophic weight loss as well as a host of medical issues & compensation injuries. It also put me in a very, very dark place, the kind of place it takes years for people to come back from if they come back at all. Currently, I am plateau-ing with regards to efficiency, but I'm 45 now, not the 18-year-old who just graduated high school and started waiting tables. I can't realistically push much harder, the gains would be minimal and the risk of injury grows. And I don't mean I-have-a-boo-boo-ouchie, but real injury, life-altering, permanent damage to a body that's already been through some serious shit. For obvious reasons, that terrifies the ever-living FUCK out of me, as it rightly should. Consistently working myself to the limits of exhaustion puts the possibility of major injury in the realm of 'when' instead of 'if.'
Now, to some it would sound like clever little way to slack off at work and I'm certain others in the past have tried it; but, I know who and what I am, and slacking is just not something that I've allowed to take root in my spirit.
I'll know if I got the job Friday. Boss told me if I get it I need to make sure I keep my schedule clear for July 24th-30th because whoever gets the job will be going to our Nova Scotia plant for some kinda something.
God, I hope I get it. Fuck the money it's one week of company paid poutine time, mother fuckers!
I'll know if I got the job Friday. Boss told me if I get it I need to make sure I keep my schedule clear for July 24th-30th because whoever gets the job will be going to our Nova Scotia plant for some kinda something.
God, I hope I get it. Fuck the money it's one week of company paid poutine time, mother fuckers!
Nova Scotia means all you can eat lobster restaurants.
I'll know if I got the job Friday. Boss told me if I get it I need to make sure I keep my schedule clear for July 24th-30th because whoever gets the job will be going to our Nova Scotia plant for some kinda something.
God, I hope I get it. Fuck the money it's one week of company paid poutine time, mother fuckers!
Nova Scotia means all you can eat lobster restaurants.
Got to have another fun interaction with my bosses where they didn't read what I had written for them ahead of time then edited what I wrote purely just to move phrases around and change words for the most pointless of reasons.
Got to have another fun interaction with my bosses where they didn't read what I had written for them ahead of time then edited what I wrote purely just to move phrases around and change words for the most pointless of reasons.
I am fucking miserable, holy shit.
Ah yes, let's disrespect your time by not doing our pre-work, then disrespect your time more by making you do some trivial edits while we look on so we feel important and "have contributed"
Company paid poutine and all you can eat lobsters?
You’d have to use a wheelbarrow to cart me away
Here sits Bottomless Orca, nature's cruelest mistake.
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Not quite a job thing, but sorta?
The guy who was the majority owner of the company I used to work for (who also owned an e-sports betting company, and various crypto scams) posted on Facebook today about how we need to focus harder on AI, because AI is the only surefire way to prevent more school shootings before they happen.
The only way.
I kind of want to stab him in his stupid eyeballs.
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Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
Got to have another fun interaction with my bosses where they didn't read what I had written for them ahead of time then edited what I wrote purely just to move phrases around and change words for the most pointless of reasons.
I am fucking miserable, holy shit.
Ah yes, let's disrespect your time by not doing our pre-work, then disrespect your time more by making you do some trivial edits while we look on so we feel important and "have contributed"
Fuck that noise, hope you get that new job soon.
Motivated me to finish my application for another position, so that's almost done. I also vented with a coworker and told them about planning to leave after they asked if I was looking for a new job and they said "yeah it makes a lot of sense and I don't blame you at all. If I had to interact with them as much as you I probably would've also left. They're just assholes"
My favorite part of today's customer madness was a salesperson having the nerve to suggest that if the engineers in X department were objecting to doing something for liability reasons, then maybe those engineers didn't understand the technology, followed by a link explaining SAML.
I'm like. Gurl.
This was after a call with this group where it was clear they didn't understand how clustering works in our software's architecture, an incredibly basic topic that even the lowliest support drone understands.
And the cherry on top was that she said this to the lead manager for that entire department, who is also an engineer.
God I hope my currently open support ticket regarding our heavy forwarder cluster falls on someone who understands that topic...
No worries, you won't be getting any sales engineer on your support ticket.
Also I would really like to rant more about the whiniest customer, but unfortunately anything more I say will be telling on myself (and another company's executive) too much, so from on on its for my husband's ears only.
The last thing I'll say is that the whole reason you pay an identity vendor to begin with is so that you don't have to go around manually changing a bunch of users, you absolute muppet.
Speaking of talking shit about a sales engineer. I might be becoming one? Maybe?
It's actually post sales, and helping customers with integration and what not, that are sort of outside the scope of a case. 3rd round of interview is tomorrow. Fingers crossed!
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Everyone knows that's how you get your way in retail.
Because it's hard to get places when you're covered in honey?
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Consultants get paid assloads of money to come into our places of business and tell us how to do our jobs
So what I'm saying is I'll pay you money for you to tell me what to do daddy
I'm 89% honey by volume at this point I'm basically a C-List batman villain.
only if you're also covered in beeeeees
(bees, my god)
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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Beeman?
Jesus that sounds like a bad case of burnout.
At the airport now! Our friend who lives there says the blossoms are still going
yeah, that's more of a... "look, you have my sympathies, but when you completely fill your entire schedule, this is what happens."
I mean, this just reinforces the burnout prognosis. He is so busy he doesn't even know he's burned out. I've been there.
Again, IMO, no. This is a case of past-him either thinking that he could do everything he wanted/needed to, with the (significant) tradeoff being absolutely no time off, and believing he'd be okay with that... or not even considering the problem until he'd already made the arrangement.
You can get burned out slowly over time after making a lot of good choices, but speedrunning it doesn't make it not burnout.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
"You are victim of capitalism but yet you still participate in it?!"
All of this due to two operators (both of whom I would describe mildly as "doo doo ass poop from a butt") not doing the basic quality checks they are required to do.
On the one hand: I laugh. I giggle and cavort.
On the other: Dang. Damn.
Honestly, one of the reasons I want to get out of production in the long run is because I always worry I'm gonna forget one thing and end up staring down a metaphorical firing squad. This anxiety is despite the fact I have had only one quality incident in my almost 8 years here and that technically wasn't even me. It was the chucklehead I was training, but since I didn't realize what he was doing I caught the pip.
Anyway, hope they get a paddlin'.
Yay. The environment breaking was not directly my fault. It was a small oversight another admin did. I was afraid some of the work I did last week caused the issues, because of the timing.
Oh and they informed us by dropping letters in the mail after a news outlet read the press release they got Friday at end of business and did a story over the weekend.
I've been lucky in that for me the driver's license has been the biggest pain in the ass to deal with. No money or fraudulent charges or withdrawls on my accounts. There's a bank branch for me just a short walk from my site. So I took care of all the bank stuff and credit report/freeze stuff during work hours because they weren't gonna give us time off to deal with it. But the DMV required me to schedule an appointment, have a police report, and a notarized form. I had to pay $5 to get a copy of the police report I fucking filed, and then $40 for the reissue of a new license with a new number. On the first day of my week off.
At least I was done and leaving the DMV at 8:24 for my 8:25am appointment though.
Oh god it is my biggest fear.
But I also think I made a very constructive decision today in that I gave my boss a very enticing incentive and a very quiet warning in my request: get me a counterpart that works with me on roughly the same schedule.
Incentive: I can massively improve my production responsibilities with a second pair of hands to coordinate tasks; the potential to double my output is very real and my utility to the team would be even more substantial.
Warning: I nearly died from viral pneumonia more than twenty years ago and that derailed my life in the military, something that was extremely important to me. I suffered catastrophic weight loss as well as a host of medical issues & compensation injuries. It also put me in a very, very dark place, the kind of place it takes years for people to come back from if they come back at all. Currently, I am plateau-ing with regards to efficiency, but I'm 45 now, not the 18-year-old who just graduated high school and started waiting tables. I can't realistically push much harder, the gains would be minimal and the risk of injury grows. And I don't mean I-have-a-boo-boo-ouchie, but real injury, life-altering, permanent damage to a body that's already been through some serious shit. For obvious reasons, that terrifies the ever-living FUCK out of me, as it rightly should. Consistently working myself to the limits of exhaustion puts the possibility of major injury in the realm of 'when' instead of 'if.'
Now, to some it would sound like clever little way to slack off at work and I'm certain others in the past have tried it; but, I know who and what I am, and slacking is just not something that I've allowed to take root in my spirit.
God, I hope I get it. Fuck the money it's one week of company paid poutine time, mother fuckers!
Nova Scotia means all you can eat lobster restaurants.
That, too, mother fuckers!
You’d have to use a wheelbarrow to cart me away
I am fucking miserable, holy shit.
Ah yes, let's disrespect your time by not doing our pre-work, then disrespect your time more by making you do some trivial edits while we look on so we feel important and "have contributed"
Fuck that noise, hope you get that new job soon.
Is poutine with lobster a thing, or would that be heresy?
Alternatively, should it be a thing?
Here sits Bottomless Orca, nature's cruelest mistake.
The guy who was the majority owner of the company I used to work for (who also owned an e-sports betting company, and various crypto scams) posted on Facebook today about how we need to focus harder on AI, because AI is the only surefire way to prevent more school shootings before they happen.
The only way.
I kind of want to stab him in his stupid eyeballs.
Motivated me to finish my application for another position, so that's almost done. I also vented with a coworker and told them about planning to leave after they asked if I was looking for a new job and they said "yeah it makes a lot of sense and I don't blame you at all. If I had to interact with them as much as you I probably would've also left. They're just assholes"
Speaking of talking shit about a sales engineer. I might be becoming one? Maybe?
It's actually post sales, and helping customers with integration and what not, that are sort of outside the scope of a case. 3rd round of interview is tomorrow. Fingers crossed!