Got feedback today that someone observed me sleeping during a training class I was observing. Obvious nonsense as I was only at that location 1.5 days and heavily multitasking both days, couldn't have fallen asleep if I tried.
Besides, I snore.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 5 October 2019 00:31 (five years ago) link
I watch you when you are sleepingyou belong with me
― kinder, Saturday, 5 October 2019 10:47 (five years ago) link
Lol.
Fitting that when I actually dropped multiple f bombs during live training on a hot mic that I thought was muted three weeks ago that I inexplicably received no discipline, but "sleepgate" required a follow-up discussion.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 5 October 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
Everybody had to change their passwords from temporary to permanent.
I have literally watched this guy not be able to figure it out for 25 minutes. It has to be 8 characters and have one uppercase. He keeps creating an all lower case password of the right length. I have told him five times it needs an upper case, just to change one of the lowercase letters to uppercase.
He keeps adding a new Uppercase letter to his password, making it 9 and invalid.
Two of us have tried to break it down as simply as possible. We are ready to give up.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
We aren't permitted to create one for him, but im tempted to anyway
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
It can't be more than 8 characters? I mean, I get your frustration at the dude, but that requirement is stupid and annoying as well.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
I don't disagree with you there.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 October 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
We are behind the times in a few areas
Why not just tell him to make it 7 characters and one uppercase?
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Friday, 11 October 2019 23:59 (five years ago) link
She's going to email all of them to me so I can do the dropboxing.
WC, I just want to let you know that I feel you on this.
We have an internal server for all of our photography, used 99% in print publications. Huge tiffs, 300 dpi, etc. Obviously, we also have a server from which all of our online photos and art are hosted. 1200x800 jpgs, 72 dpi. It's where I live the most.
Every once in awhile, an editor will say, Hey, I saw that mug of the convicted politician online. How come it's not on the internal server? And I'll say Because what you see online is what I found online. There's no bigger version of it.
And they say, But I wanted to download it for something!
― pplains, Saturday, 12 October 2019 01:03 (five years ago) link
I got an email that a learner was terminated today. He is sitting in the class with the person who sent it without explanation. And it's not a mistake - I was given a head's up about it a day or two in advance.
So i am having to pull the manager out of the room to ask "wtf? Is he fired...or not?".
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 October 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link
So frustrating when someone beneath you is looking over your shoulder trying to learn your job when you've been doing that job for fifteen years. I mean, it's just not in the best interests of the organization at all. Not worried about losing my job to her, I mean I have loads of knowledge that she can't buy, but it's unnerving and bad for morale that someone just views you as a "rival" and not a human being. She's not going to get my job if I leave - not because of politics or anything but just because she's not qualified. She's not concentrating enough on her own job and mastering that. And the entitlement is getting on everyone's nerves. I wish someone would say something, but she's well-connected so people tolerate her.
― When I think of Heavy Manufacturing, I Think of Belle & Sebastian (I M Losted), Monday, 14 October 2019 14:01 (five years ago) link
two colleagues are very insistent -- behind the scenes -- that certain items on our web page contain no more than three lines of text. there is no particular reason for this -- other items in the same area take up more space. also the page is responsive, so the number of lines of text depends on how wide your screen/window is
why do you even care
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 October 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
Lol those kind of pedants drive me nuts
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 October 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
Yesterday we had a meeting where we decided that we should have a FAQs page (fine) and that it shouldn't be too long or people wouldn't read it (probably true) and we arbitrarily decided that 20 questions was the maximum (ok) and then we ended up with 21 and there was bitter debate about which question should either go unanswered or be merged into something unrelated just for the sake of having precisely 20.
*shrug*
(also annoying because we took time and debate to whittle the list of "general" questions down to 16 and then the project lead just stuck all 5 very specific qs from his specialist area on the end with no debate, but hey)
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
ime, FAQs 1-10 roll over from last year's project; FAQs 11-12 are specific to this year's project, and FAQs 13-30 are explaining errors that have been pointed out and then corrected
― kinder, Thursday, 17 October 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
Ops mgr gave me a roster for a class next week. t had 11 people on it who already took the same class last October, almost exactly a year ago. So obviously a copy error where he accidentally merged two Excel tabs.
He insisted he hadn't to my colleague, so I go to him to ask why these 11 would be taking the class again.
He triples down, insisting that these managers asked to enroll these students, then emails them all to ask why they were having these students take the class again.
Turns out six of the 11 learners don't even work here anymore, and one of the managers said the person listed wasn't someone they managed anymore. And the signup for this class only just went up a few weeks ago.
Maybe *this time* he'll get
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 October 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
my job sucks but god is my workplace less annoying sounding than pretty much everyone's itt
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 17 October 2019 20:24 (five years ago) link
My job's great mostly, the company is poorly run and will probably collapse
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 October 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
my job is good, if repetitive. a couple people are entrenched on weird and unimportant hills, but i suppose that's universal
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 October 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link
Somedays I'm the only one at work, so I guess I'm my own stupid co-worker now.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 17 October 2019 21:27 (five years ago) link
lol aps's 21/20 story instantly sent me into my "no lists shd ever be a multiple of five long, it's bad not good" beef, i am everyone's stupid annoying co-worker (i'm not stupid but i have cranky and indefensible views) (which just happen to be correct)
― mark s, Thursday, 17 October 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link
Oh god, something that happened at my last job still sticks in my craw. Even though I am not a music librarian I was asked to take over the world music aspect of building a music library. The music department asked us to do this. So, that meant buying material that best represented the culture, not watered-down Euro tourist "your tropical vacation" type shit. It's music they use in language and culture and film classes too, so it has to be good. So this faculty member asked me to buy a rare Japanese film soundtrack...and I was told that if a faculty member wanted something, as long as it was $30 or under, to go ahead and buy it. And I did and this co-worker who's not a librarian chewed me out...when frankly, even the music librarian told me she was out of her depth there and could I please do it. I was so humiliated to be talked down to by this guy. What's more, I was asked to order it by the faculty member. Ich. And then the director said I was buying too much music WHEN THE MUSIC LIBRARIAN ASKED ME TO BUY ALL OF THAT STUFF because the stuff our CD vendor was sending us was weak and inadequate. I mean, and then she turns around and says we should all be developing our skills and I thought this would be a good career building, buying all of that music. I mean, sometimes they pull this "bait and switch" stuff with me. We're not all on the same page - one person will say "develop your skills and think about your next job" then will say "you're getting too ambitious and hint hint think about moving on, we need someone less knowledgeable here." I'm still bitter about it. I've moved on, but the director apparently still bitched after I left about all of the music I bought. Like, get over it, lady.
― I Guess Old Notre Dame Won't Win After All (I M Losted), Friday, 18 October 2019 00:17 (five years ago) link
Manager: hey are you busy, can I ask you a question?Me: sure, what's up?
- 10 minutes elapse
she did this to me again just now. it's 1pm and I'm just about to take lunch, she messages me "are you free for a quick call now?" I think well I'm about to get something to eat but let's get it out the way, so I say "sure yes"
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 21 October 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
... are you new to the workforce?
― maffew12, Monday, 21 October 2019 13:43 (five years ago) link
feel like this is close kin to "how busy are you right now?" i.e. the most tooth-grinding question ever conceived by the mind of humanity. it is so beyond the pale for me. anyone asking it i lose 100% respect for instantly.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 October 2019 22:07 (five years ago) link
I just saw your email appeared in my inbox so why have you walked over to where I'm sitting to say "I've just sent you an email."
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 12:20 (five years ago) link
Was reflecting on the drive-by email today - “hey we really should get together to discuss this massive project just putting it out there get back to me with your available times and I will undertake to not reply to you for approx 2 weeks”. I have a few of those meetings somewhere in the bardo waiting to manifest.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 12:31 (five years ago) link
If one more, just one more, person of whom I've requested something is like 'yeah, we're all good bruh' only for me to discover that we are not actually all good, bruh, and that the requestee never even bothered to confirm that we were all good before consulting whatever goddamn faulty oracle he's using to sense whether a request might or might not be legitimate, I'm going to aim my head directly at that person's midsection so as to assail them with skull shrapnel when my brain finally and inevitably explodes.
Seriously: what the fuck is this tendency and how the fuck do these people remain employed.
― Feed Me Wheat Thins (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 November 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
Does your company operate like mine where "managers" can't actually fire anybody without a lengthy HR arbitration first, after which they always say "give them another chance"?
That's usually how.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 November 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
I mean shit I didn't even get a wrist slap for the major code of conduct violation i accidentally committed on a hot mic
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 November 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
The response to basically every infraction or display of incompetence is 'WELL...(*shrug*)...WHATTAYAGONNADO?'. Which is to say that management doesn't, y'know, 'manage' per se. It's a lot of fun!
― Feed Me Wheat Thins (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:06 (five years ago) link
And the individual in this instance actually is a 'manager' who just sent an email revealing his profound ignorance to me and another employee (basically: I requested that a thing be updated per our current standards and he responded saying 'But everything looks correct to me! Look! (types out the settings which reflect our standards from...three? maybe four years ago? I guess he's been in a fucking coma all that time and wasn't alerted to the multitude of changes that have taken place since then?) Me no understand what is problem! Duhhhhhhh!'
― Feed Me Wheat Thins (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
you just gonna leave us hanging like that?!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
Just went for a piss while still wearing my microphone and the whole conference heard me call the urinal a "thirsty boy"— Bea_ker (@bea_ker) February 18, 2016
― Feed Me Wheat Thins (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 November 2019 17:44 (fifty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol
sorry for rights
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
We had a meeting. We’re just three employees plus the manager. The whole meeting was to correct a colleague’s behavior. (One of the things she does is organise promotions w/o the manager’s knowledge. Wtf.) The whole fucking time she just didn’t take responsibility. It was infuriating. I have stood up for her when others complained. No more. She also reprimands me for being “too easy.” Well, next time she’ll know that sometimes I am not always easy. F her. Urgh.
― nathom, Friday, 1 November 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Friday, November 1, 2019 11:37 AM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yes, lol at this. best thing about being a unionized employee in the public sector is that my ass is basically unfireable
― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:01 (five years ago) link
Unfortunately a 'firing people? what's that?' workplace is also the best thing for people who have been reduced to little more than twitching brainstems and whose sole purpose is to burden everyone else with their inability to function.
― Feed Me Wheat Thins (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
yeah i have dipshit coworkers too. i just am very direct when they fuck up and that keeps most people from being too much of a nuisance
― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
FWIW I don't advocate firing people willy nilly but like...there's always a toilet that could use a bit of extra scrubbing, manager who probably couldn't manage the intricacies of a three-ring binder.
― Feed Me Wheat Thins (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
i feel like this site is falling in on itself tbh
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
ILX is work now?
:(
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 November 2019 19:22 (five years ago) link
since 2014 imma say
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link
It feels that way because you're not ranking metal subgenres on ILM.
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 November 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
idk, deems is perhaps disappointed in the lack of nuance itt dedicated to the art of hyperbolic work-related steam expulsion
― Feed Me Wheat Thins (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
oh im too woke now huh
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
I've been saying, tone it down my dude
― Feed Me Wheat Thins (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
Between Facebook, Twitter, reddit and a few other massifs hovering up the time and attention of most potential ILX newcomers, and ILX's heavy reliance on text-based interaction and the generally high level of verbal acuity required to participate, ILX has been slowly sagging and shrinking for a while now. When it finally becomes a ghost town, I'll be one of the last to leave, but I'm thankful the necrosis is not too far advanced, yet. I like the company here.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
I've been steadily gnawing at the load-bearing support struts for some time, myself, sorry about that.
― Feed Me Wheat Thins (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link