My warehouse job is currently doing a thing where “In order to get work done more quickly, we’re splitting breaks and lunches so now instead of everyone going on break or lunch at the same time, now half the shift will go on break while the other half continues to work, and then when they come back the other half of the shift works”
I can’t be the only one who sees how this won’t get work done “faster”.
I recall our IT department sending out a standard “watch out for phishing attempts, which can often be recognized by [list of common tip-offs]” followed within ten minutes by a message telling people to click on a link for a software update (the first item on the aforementioned list).
I hope it was reported as phishing so fast that it made them dizzy.
I know one time someone in IT sent out a warning about a spam message, including the actual message – with a live link to the dodgy website.
I’m pretty sure that happened at one of my employers as well.
That’s why I stopped using Acronis. They pushed out an upgrade and, surprise, it couldn’t read the incremental backups done by the prior version. Pretty damned stupid.
I had a dean that would send out all of the latest rumors as fact, like a new strain of marijuana called “Blue Haze” causing strokes in teens. I would copy the link from Snopes saying it was false and send it out via “Reply All”. She would also call you in for a meeting and you would have to say, “I do not consent to being recorded.” to get her to turn off the hidden camera she used with both teachers and students.
We had a sortware vendor that was making a “wonderful” upgrade to their system that included expanding the key on the files from fields of lengths 2, 5, and 6 to fields of lengths of 4, 7, and 8 so the total key length changed from 13 characters to 19 characters. They provided the program to do the upgrade, so we ran it as they directed. Come to find out, their software moved the entire 13 characters as a singe group, destroying the key values. No one could figure out why their system failed as soon as the “upgrade” was completed until an actual programmer went and looked at their source code (that they did not want to share). I was not in the department with the issue, but I could not believe that they both accepted the conversion software and failed to test it. (Dumbness at both ends.)\
Shortly before I left my old hospital, in 2010, we were all told in a big meeting that each department in the hospital would have assigned tattletales. Those weren’t the exact words, but we knew that’s what they meant, and we also knew exactly who in our department would salivate at the opportunity to do that.
I teach part-time at a local community college. During the Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters, classes are assigned to full-time instructors first, followed by part-timers with permanent contracts (I fall in this group), and then to the regular part-timers.
During the Summer quarter, however, part-timers are given priority. Everyone who wants to teach is given classes, and if there are still classes left to be assigned, they go to any interested full-timers. The reason being, a full-timer teaching during the Summer is above and beyond their annual contract, and gets extra pay. So part-timers come first.
A few months back, some administrator got the bright idea that this policy should be taken to the extreme: full-timers will not be allowed to teach during the Summer quarter. If the existing part-timers can’t cover all of the classes, then the department chair should hire new instructors rather than giving classes to full-timers.
A bunch of faculty, including the department chair and many part-timers, got together and drafted a letter to administration, pointing out that under this policy, we would need to hire 10 to 12 instructors, just for Summer quarter. Basically, “Oh, you’re hired! We can give you a couple of classes this Summer, but after that we’re kicking you to the curb.”
Shortly after that letter went out, administration rescinded the new policy “after further review” (read: we didn’t think this through at all). 
I forget the exact circumstances, but we had an incident many years ago where there was some management presentation scheduled at another work location about 350 miles away. To save money, they decided that three of us from our location should attend the event at the other location, rather than them coming to our location to give the same presentation.
Then, to save even more money, they decided that we could not drive up the day before and stay in a hotel. So we had to leave town bright and early to drive six hours for this presentation, then at the end of the day drove back home.
Were you salaried? Because if not, that means twelve hours of overtime.
Yep, salaried. Still ridiculous though.
Plus you attended this seminar after having driven six hours? I can’t imagine you were able to concentrate.
I think somewhere in this thread I’ve mentioned how we made dozens of people wake up at 3:30am and drive 4.5 hours to a workshop on (among other things) the importance of a good 7+ hours of sleep. After they worked the 3-11 shift the previous day.
Three critical food groups!
IT still seems to think that changing passwords frequently helps add security. Oddly, it does just the opposite.
As noted in the documentary “Atlantis”, the four food groups beans, bacon, whiskey and lard.
I work for an outside vendor to companies and government departments. My job involves sometimes advocating for adults with developmental disabilities. I like this topic because I interact with employers in different work environments. Like some people I’ve mostly felt taken aback by new and varying policies at the different companies. When I’ve visited often I’ve figured out the procedures. But the first time a security guard tried to take my temperature during Covid I hadn’t seen the reader before. I thought it was ‘mistaken identity’ and got on the ground so as not to get tased. The guard and I both got a laugh.
Welcome to the Dope. Great first post!
Hahaahahahah. And welcome to the SDMB.