I would really love it if my coworkers would stop bringing expired food in to work and putting it in the cabinet. Nobody’s going to eat it, and no one will ever throw it out. It just takes up space and gets gross. I just threw some things out, but most of it is on the top shelf where I can’t reach it, and I have absolutely no motivation to go find something to stand on and drag it over to the kitchen. I have too much work to do and I don’t have time for this anyway. The one person who used to clean up the kitchen has retired, so it’s just going to get worse.
A note to my coworker who doesn’t refill the ice tray–we know who you are. :mad: If you use the ice, you can refill the ice trays every once in a while. Nobody wants to do it, but the rest of us do anyway because we’re adults and that is what adults do. I bet you expect other people to always refill the toilet paper at home, too. You suck.
That time and place very rarely “at work outside of a brainstorming session.” And it’s absolutely not in a meeting with a large number of people when you have an pre-determined instruction that you are not going to change. Just give the command. Dragging 20 people on a 15-minute journey of playing “guess what I’m thinking” around which font to use for the TPS reports is a huge waste of time. Just say “Use Arial on the TPS reports.” If you absolutely must, give reasons. And really, there’s no need for a meeting - this could be done through an email. This - is just infuriating. And it makes me really want to argue harder for the obviously wrong answer.
Also, why is it that the people who insist on doing this technique are always so very bad at it?
And “I’ll think up some follow-up email and copy my superiors, so then they’ll notice me… and realize what a big deal that meeting was, so it’s going to look like I’m really out there on the front lines, gettin’ shit done!”
It’s time for another round of the project with my least favorite coworker (maybe for the last time, I hope). I think I’ve posted about this before. He’s not very bright, bless his heart, and his passive-aggressive attempts to force me to do things the way he wants me to are very transparent (but still very annoying). For the second time, he’s a day late sending me the first round of materials that I need to start working on the project, which has very tight deadlines. I’m not going to work my butt off to get things done in time, this time. I will get it done when I get it done, and I will not prioritize it over other things that I’m scheduled to do when this project was supposed to be done. Last time, it was almost late. This time, who knows. I don’t care.
Ugh. I spent $2500 of the company’s money to have some cool testing done (porosimetry & pycnometry), because I need information on some stuff that’s causing problems, but for which we have no information.
The report is done. Yay! But I can’t download it at work, as our firewall blocks access to the test lab’s share site. Test lab can’t upload it to our share site because of their IT restrictions. The file is too big (25 MB) for them to email it to me, because our IT rules block files that big for fear of viruses. I can download it on my company iphone and send it to my home email… but can’t email it to work, because too big. And can’t access home email at work, because viruses.
I can, however, download it at home and bring it in on a datastick. Because I’m sure no viruses could get in that way. We’re a damn chemical company; someone in the company should have enough technical knowledge to not be scared of IT to point out that they make dumb, Catch 22 policies that hinder work without protecting the company at all.
Apparently not. I’m sure that with effort I could go high enough up the IT chain to get to someone who could be convinced to make it happen, but it’ll be easier to do the thing that shouldn’t be allowed to get around not being able to do the thing that should be allowed.
As a user (and developer), I can tell you that if the secure way isn’t as easy (nearly) as the illegal way, than the security people aren’t doing their job right.
I’ve worked with a lot of security people who truly believed inconvenient = secure.
Yeah, I’ve had multiple conversations over the years about corporate security.
Back in the 90’s auditing suddenly decided that I could no longer have access to the data the program I supported used. I sat in the office of the Manager of Accounting Services with my Boss (IT Director) when they told me this and I simply said “Do either of you believe that I can do this job without this access?” They both said no, so my response was “Then perhaps it is time to tell auditing to get stuffed”. That’s exactly what they did and I kept the access.
Had the same conversation at several other companies after that.
At another company, I supported a S/36 machine. They moved their first PC based servers in there, gave only one person access and revoked my access to the room. Same conversation. “I support this box. How do you propose that I do this without physical access to the hardware?” Access was given back to me.
Same with moving physical files around. Hey, if you want to restrict this process and not allow me to do this, then I’ll just inform your security people where the files are and let them worry about it. Miracle of miracles, they decide they don’t want the extra duties and I get that access. Sometimes I was the only person to get it and then took up the infrequent need of other people in my department.
Had that conversation many times as security SME on my last job.
“NO ONE gets that access, no one has it. You’re not getting it, so please let me know which specific databases you need access to.” About 99% of the time they only need access to one or two, they just don’t know what they are named so they’re demanding everything.
Damnit, this is the third time in less than 24 hours that I’ve had to explain to people who should really know better that a flange’s size description – for example, a 4” flange – refers to the size of pipe that fits in the inner diameter, and does not indicate the size of the outer diameter. (And no, I’m not going to bring up the fact that a pipe’s actual outer diameter is larger than its given size…I really don’t feel like arguing with these people.)
