If I am seeing that right, the toilet is actually facing the opposite direction, so I think wheelchair guy will be okay.
Well, that is unless he has to go, because he ain’t gonna reach that bowl.
I get a ‘content not viewable in your region’ on that sign.
My bathroom sign?
Yeah, it’s because the picture is on imgur, and you’re in the UK.
Here is the imgur page about that, which you also might not be able to read, so here is our very own SD thread about it.
The picture is a black & white bathroom type sign, with the common person in a wheel chair symbol. Behind the wheel chair, and about twice as tall and twice as wide, is a giant black toilet with a handle that looks like a squinty eye.
I’m currently working as an admin/paper-pusher at a large organization.
We have weekly standing meetings where all the folks with the same job title in our department show up and do whatever is on the agenda. Sometimes it’s training (people with other jobs reading power points about the minutiae of what they do), sometimes it’s organizational updates from someone in leadership, rarely is it ever particularly useful.
This week, 37 people trudged across the campus to a room where two managers (my boss’s bosses) asked us to form groups, then gave us uncooked pasta, tape, and a marshmallow, and asked us to spend 20 minutes building a structure while they sat and watched. Then, they gave us prizes, which were lollipops (or, if you were one of the first 5-7 people to get a prize, you could choose a bag of cheez-its) clearly grabbed from one of their personal at-home Halloween stashes. Then the meeting was adjourned.
Probably the easiest $30 any of those folks will make all year. Sucks to be the shareholders paying for that nonsense.
And you just got a story about workplace idiocy you can bring up and get people to marvel at for the rest of your life.
It was never funny when it was happening, but me and some of my co-workers could reliably bust ourselves up telling tales of utter management/co-worker stupidity years later. A fair tradeoff for all the stress and frustration in the moment? Absolutely not. But at least it’s something 
.
And nothing brings workers together like supervisors doing idiotic stuff.
And you’re right about the longevity of the stories. Ran into a coworker from 30 years ago and we immediately yelled one of the things our mercurial owner would scream after a mistake was made: “I’m NOT interested in fixing the problem! I’m only trying to assign blame!”
FWIW, this is at least not unique to your organisation. It’s a reasonably common exercise in team-building/leadership training as per this fairly typical write-up:
Like all these things, it can be interesting if presented right - the point is not how high a tower you build, the point is to use it as an opportunity to think about how you as a team approach tasks etc. How useful that is depends a lot on how prepared people are to have that conversation honestly. Who took charge, who was ignored, how long did you spend planning vs doing, what did you do when your first one failed etc… The paradox being that if you’re capable as a team of having those conversations, you probably don’t need to do the exercise.
I say this to alert you that either your bosses didn’t understand the point and/or just wanted to give you something ‘fun’ to do - or they were secretly recording and grading your performance in the belief it’ll help them identify ‘leaders’ or some such nonsense.
I’m allergic to any armchair psychology, partially due to having respect for serious psychology, but also because I was interviewing for a job (for which I was very qualified), and the VP handed me one of those tests that ask New Age Psych for HR questions, like “Would you rather eat a Circus Peanut or jump off El Capitan?”
He disappeared with my completed test, and after an interminable wait, came back and said they were no longer interested in me. I asked why, and he said he didn’t understand why either.
I wish I’d told him that I’d never work for a company that made such cavalier decisions, and that maybe he shouldn’t either.
Oh yeah. We still tell stories about all the times our former VP/general manager absolutely blew his top over really trivial stuff (a jeans-clad employee showing up early for the second shift, and an employee wearing a witch hat while handing out candy on Halloween come to mind).
I have a bunch of tasks that I wanted to get done before today’s meetings start so I settled into my office early to get going.
Computer is barely functioning, every click a slow response. This can only mean one thing; automatic updates from my employer (and the weekly Adobe “what can we break now?” update).
I’ve been sitting here for over 30 minutes and onto my second required reboot. Haven’t actually done anything productive at all.
I’m well aware that AI will replace my entire department before the end of the decade. It would be hilarious if that AI was designed to perfectly match the caller’s tone, level of politeness, and choice of language when responding.
We use a very specific industry standard estimating software for our assignments. A couple years ago the desktop version went to a live cloud based system. Yesterday there was a 30 second hang for every single action. Sometimes windows would kick in and ask if I wanted to close the program or wait for it to respond. Frustrating as hell. It does this a lot, especially in the afternoons.
I have asked for an offline mode and gone through several help desk sessions where they seemed completely unaware of this issue and fiddled with my PC setup trying to fix it.
As we are approaching the holidays and people are updating their calendars in Outlook with their planned time off, I wanted to bitch about how my manager does it. Most normal people just add an all day event (or across multiple days) and then just set those days to “Out of Office” so the entire days are blocked out in purple in their own calendar. Instead, my manager sends out her days off as meeting invites to the entire team. Which pisses me off because it clogs up MY calendar, plus pops up reminders like it’s an actual meeting, which is annoying AF.
My team is supposed to send out our vacations to each other as all day events. I make sure to label mine as “Maus - PTO” Everyone else just labels theirs as some variant of “Vacation”. Who’s on vacation? Fuck if I know.
Our PTO gets listed on a separate calendar so it doesn’t clutter up our regular one, but I never think to view it.
I do send out meeting style vacation notices to certain customers because I’m frequently scheduled to be on site for work with them and this helps them schedule those requests around my availability.
Rant: I’m going to a concert tonight but I’m very sleepy. Waiting for my ride and just thinking about napping….
My company tracks PTO in a web-based app that has absolutely no connection to Outlook at all. If you want to see who’s on vacation, you have to find the ‘time and attendance’ link buried in the corporate intranet site, get the security code emailed to you, then find the link to the calendar.
Because of this, it’s customary to verbally remind your supervisor and other people you deem important that you’ll be out of the office.
New corporate credit card for expenses. Great!
Meeting is today to demonstrate the features. Great!
Get an email from accounting asking us to activate our cards prior to the meeting. Great!
To activate the card I need to have the card so I know what the card number is. So I ask for the card. No, they are being handed out at the meeting. So I guess I can’t activate the card prior to the meeting? Great.
Corporate America is pretty much “your brain … on drugs”