Let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-workers

don't use scrum, it reminds me how i'm entirely and riskily ignoring Agile in my day to day

we use the term "huddle" in my office so for a moment I thought you were complaining that a co-worker does a standup set for 10 minutes at the beginning of every shift

so...are these not “meetings”?

the theory is that it's a stand-up because you're supposed to have the smallest group that makes sense, and literally stand up as everyone gives a brief update. no questions or interactions -- that's a follow-up after the meeting

nearly every workplace ends up breaking that at some point, either by introducing too many people working on disconnected things, or by having some idiots who decide to have what should be a follow-up discussion in the middle of the meeting

i'm not sure where else to discuss this... but my partner just got a couple of her coworkers fired. she took to facebook to bitch about her job and had some photos of stuff she though management was doing wrong. it was a private post only her friends etc could see, but obviously not smart. so.. a week later one of her "friends" must have taken screen caps and sent it to the higher ups. she'd already been rocking the boat about what she felt were deceptive practices where she worked, so they haul her in and try to make her sign somethingorother that says she acknowledges she's violated some code of yadda yadda, which she refused. and two of the girls that just happened to be in her photos were also given things to sign – which they did not. they're both on contracts (or were), so i guess don't have the same rights/protection as her, but one's already gotten a lawyer.
anyways, she's pretty upset about this.

Wait, what were they given to sign if they just appeared in the photos but did not post them?

Same form as my partner acknowledging they violated some vague terms of conduct tha no one had ever heard of before.

yeah wow that's fucked

Yup. I feel pretty bad for them. One, apparently was kind of shit, but the other was fine and is the one who has already lawyered up. What’s amazing is they couldn’t even wait for her contract to end (in a month) - they announced it as soon as they got a hard “no” on the papers signing.

aaaand now she (my partner) has just taken stress leave for the week (saw a doctor today). not sure if this makes things worse or if this actually might protect her a little from repercussions.

What is stress leave??

Is she certain her employment contract/etcs didnt mention anything about social media conduct/commercial in confidence/NDA stuff? Mine does.

(Shit like this is also a very good reason for my rule of "never ever anyone ever" when it comes to FB/Twitter and work colleagues and the adding thereof. Never gonna happen).

yeah my profile says I work at Fay Canoes

the one time I did list where I worked and posted about a raise I got, somehow that I don't know (cos this person wasn't my FB friend), I got tattled on to my boss.

I do have a lot of coworkers on my list but they're all members of a group that I hide from reading anything I post.

she's fairly certain she never had to agree to a nda, i think in her industry it might not be a typical thing.

also, does not change how fucking dumb it was.

Trudat, but if the company has no official agreed-to rules on this stuff I doubt they can pull disciplinary on it. Assuming Canada's similar to aus on that front anyways.

well they can try. hence this one girl getting a lawyer already.

interested to see what Canada's laws are like and how the legal action will play out. In the States, if you work in a right-to-work state like I do, you still can't be fired for things like being pregnant, for retaliation, for disability, etc things all protected by law, but you can be fired without cause otherwise. they really don't need a reason. and of course it is especially easy to break the aforementioned laws and just make up another, unrelated reason.

in a way that's what gave me my second wind when shit hit the fan last year cos I figured if they wanted me out they'd find a reason so might as well say what's on my mind.

Ya. I can’t even imagine. Things like that make me so glad to live in Canada.

there are private conference rooms here that require reservation. people for some reason think they're first come first serve and commandeer them so you have to tell them to get out.

the other annoying thing is they use it to cut through to get to their desks. it saves .00005 seconds, and they assume it's unoccupied, so they barge in and interrupt yr meeting, then loudly say "sorry" before slamming the door and breaking yr concentration.

so we have a new marketing guy and he just moved to the usa i think two years ago

good lad, quiet, is doing his best to learn english and doing so very well

i receive the company's email ad today and i see he spelled it alleluia (i guess he was going for something easter related)

i briefly mention i think it's spelled hallelujah, and i do a quick google and 103n4rd c0h3n comes up

and then i lightheartedly say ah a great canadian, and he says, he's not canadian

and i'm like, uh...he is? and he says he's jewish

i work in a cubicle but there are many cubicles close by and the walls are very low, so another non-us person shows her support for he's jewish and i'm like, wait, jewish is not a nationality what is going on here, i'm not saying he's not jewish

and then someone from another cubicle yells no one cares if he's c4n4d14n infinity! and starts laughing

and i'm like what is this nonsense and i tell her to butt out bc she is always interrupting mine and others' conversations and then a huge argument among all four of us breaks out

but the marketer quickly mellows out and after the argument continues talking normally, which is all cool, but he says (he is from 42m3n1a) that most people he has encountered say c0h3n is jewish but never canadian

is this a thing? maybe this goes under the things you were surprisingly old when you learned thread

you're putin us on.

i swear i am not

but three people who i don't usually work with started kind of raising their voices at me, and i'm like am i in the twilight zone? is this a joke? but they sounded very serious or i'm being trolled by real life ilxors

You work with idiots.

he's not canadian, he's quebecois

lol, jk. it'd be a big surprise to much of canada if you tried to inform the country that leonard cohen isn't canadian

And I was making a joke about Vladimir Putin, who just last week floated the idea that the U.K. spy might not have been poisoned by Russians, but instead possibly by "Ukrainians, Tatars or Jews but with Russian citizenship" as if a Jew with Russian citizenship weren't a Russian.

is it possible you're the pedantic coworker and people (outside of the new guy) are just fucking with you because they'd rather drop the discussion than get into it

damn, how's life. hadn't heard that one

lol @ not Canadian, he's Jewish. I mean Jewish is an ethnicity as well but that wouldn't make somebody not Canadian, lol

I think I'm starting to understand zionism

I went into the office a week or two ago in an area that was populated by customer service reps and all of a sudden the rep nexts to me starts hollering "omg, what is that smell?" and everybody else is like "what smell" and she's trying to talk to her customer, while putin him on hold every few seconds to bark "omg that smell, it's making me SICK", and she starts gagging, and nobody else really smells anything. and then she goes "Oh god this smell, I'm gonna be sick" and then asks to put the customer on hold, slaps off her headset, and i see her russian into the ladies room.

she then comes back and keeps talking about the smell for like 2 minutes before she remembers to take her customer off hold. it turned out to be ham or perfume or some shit, idk

is it pedantic/nitpicking to point out standard form is hallelujah?

if so, okay, i'll tread carefully next time

well, it goes like this.....

trying to figure out if Neanderthal's coworker actually had an undiagnosed stroke

sure hope not!

other people started to acknowledge the smell when she got back, so I was like "damn were you all gaslighting her earlier?"

maybe she was just stalin for time

thanks for the feedback peeps

i feel a little better

Huh the rabbi I currently study with is Canadian. Pretty sure he is also Jewish. I’ll ask him!

Quincie's Rabbi - not a Canadian
But you know who is - Decibel writer Begrand, Adrien!

Canadian-American

second that your coworkers are idiots.

one thing i've realized about dumb fuck coworkers who needlessly argue with you - bet money. tell them to put $20 on the line that he's not Canadian. normally, i find, that shuts an idiot up.

I just say "uh huh" and walk away typically. If it happens at my own desk I go to the restroom and get some coffee and take my time doing it.

alleluia is an accepted if old spelling innit?

yes, it can have various specific contextual meanings in that spelling too

ya which is why i thought it prudent not to use it in an email ad about easter going out to like thousands of people

this is a weird company tho

(talking about the recent BBC series about best/weirdest/extreme hotels)

"Have you seen it? It's really good although I don't like Giles Core much."
"Who does he present it with?"
"That Monica woman. Monica Lewinsky I think it is."

Whoever left the fridge door open overnight when I'd left a pasty in it yesterday which I now don't dare eat. Boo.

(Someone is probably going to tell me I'm being fussy but I had a bad time last time I ate something which had gone unrefrigerated for an unknown number of hours and tbh I'm a fat bastard and should not be eating pasties anyway)

the latest thing in my office from Execs is pure CYA confirmations - i.e., them asking for statuses of things not because they actually give a shit and want to know the state of the state, but so they can trap you into confirming something in writing to nail you with later.

like today, a customer service manager was asked - "can you confirm the extract of test cases were inserted and that the database will be somewhat stable tomorrow". The former is easy to confirm - the latter, lol GTFO. we're a 100+ client company with thousands of users, any one single thing could render the database slow af, and nobody in fucking customer service can control or prevent it.