Apparently. She joined the US Poledancing Federation and a couple of other ones. Her company is going to shit their pants. Linkedin is also part of the company’s social media marketing campaign.
Also, my ex boss was recently fired for inappropriate behavior. I’m not saying that pole dancing is necessarily inappropriate, but something tells me that the scandal-averse, politically conservative, male-run company she works at will have a problem with her choice of linkedin groups.
Das Glasperlenspiel, any chance you can return their workplan stamped “Inadequate, Please Revise and Resubmit?” I know that won’t work if the deadline is yours, rather than theirs, or if there’s no penalty for them starting late.
My boss is always saying that they’re the ones who will get paid, so they ought to do the work. I’m always having to decide if it will take more of my time to instruct and nag them through to a product than to just make the edits myself. So, I feel for you.
I thought I was doing myself a favor by writing the part modification procedure in a very simple, straightforward manner: “This is the part we ordered: [picture]. This is the part we need to make: [picture with a shit-ton of dimensions].” There are only two steps for modifying this damn thing:
[ol]
[li]Trim existing hooks from wire ends.[/li][li]Bend wires into loops as shown on the drawing.[/li][/ol]
Oh, did I mention the drawing is 1:1 scale? That’s right – you can compare your modification work to the intended design by simply placing it on top of the drawing.
:smack:
Needless to say, our testing/production department managed to fuck this up. I spent three and a half hours today sorting through 100 of these damn things. A handful were per the drawing; some still had enough wire left that I could reform the loops. Three are not salvageable. Testing/production and quality are pissed off; fortunately, they aren’t aware that I’m the one responsible for all of the paperwork, so their anger has no target at the moment.
If the customer ever orders these things again, I’ll just do the modifications myself. This has been absolutely ridiculous.
I know this was been pitted before, but fuck “Reply All”! Every single fucking time any kind of email is sent to a group, several people feel the need to reply to everyone on the fucking list. This was really bad yesterday when an email regarding a change in escrow procedures was sent to the entire contact center instead of just that dept. There were about 3 dozen or so emails in my inbox of people asking they were sent this or saying it wasn’t mean for them, plus a 2nd mass email from managment saying something like “This was clearly not meant not meant for the entire site, stop wasting everyone’s time reply to all, you don’t need to do this”.
Which was then followed by 8 emails from people confirming that they got the email telling them not to respond to the 1st mass email.
One woman is on vacation and someone, I don’t know how has managed to set her “Out of Office” message to reply all. How is that even possible, and what possible purpose could a feature like that serve? :dubious:
Dear customers:
If you claim you need something which is by all appearances impossible. If my bosses tell you that’s probably going to be impossible but we’ll have Nava give it a try and see if she can come up with something. If I manage to meet all your requirements except for one which your boss claims is not necessary and the people you claim to have it for say they don’t use it. If you are so surprised by the results that you actually say, in front of witnesses “oh WOW, that… that WORKS! Yes, like this!”
DO NOT proceed to, one month later, when I’m training your fucking subordinates, spend the whole training period whining about how “it is not like the old system!” No, it is not! When you change things, the new things are, by motherfucking definition, not the old ones! Kiss. My. ASS!
I feel better now. But I’d feel even better if I could afford to tell that to the aforementioned customer :mad:
I truly hate the term “best practices.”
I have also noticed that the people who use the term the most, always ask “is this a ‘best practice?’”, and are the ones who most slavishly adhere to whatever they believe is a “best practice” are the ones who don’t understand the problem or reasons behind the process. They also seemingly refuse to think about why something that is a great idea in one situation doesn’t really apply to every situation across the board or how the idea might need adjusting for their circumstance.
I want to hurt the person who had the bright idea to not allow Adobe to save filled out forms. Is it an option or something? Because I swear I’ve been able to do it in the past, but damnit why allow a form to be filled out and you can’t save it.
This form is 8 pages long with multiple selections and options and information needed but I don’t know all the info. I would like to be able to fill out what I know, save it, and pass it on to another person who can fill out the bits I don’t know. Or save it until they get back to me, because though I filled it out today they may not tell me the final pieces until tomorrow.
Bah! On top of this I have people breathing down my neck on why this isn’t moving and it’s because no one will tell me what the fuck I asked about! The initial request took a MONTH to get back to me, even with poking. That’s not ASAP! Gah!
I came in here with a truly minor little gripe, just as Grandboss walked in and informed us that there is a plumbing leak on the floor below us in the IT service desk. Yes, that kind of plumbing leak. So, today is Count Your Blessings day for me, because at least I don’t share a workspace with raw sewage.
I’m sure I’ll be back tomorrow with another complaint. 
You mean Adobe Acrobat? (Adobe makes other stuff). Yes it is, because I’ve used forms that let me save them in a filled out state. Don’t ask me how though.
Yeah Acrobat. And I know it’s possible to save filled out forms but whomever created this form turned it off, so I’m SOL.
Copy and save the form to word, then fill it out and send the word document to whoever. Its still a pain, but at least you can save it.
Stupid management fouling up the division mandated work culture.
The state gave us mucho dinero to not be in office. The idea is come in if you have work that must be accomplished in office (and thanks to the attorneys not being willing to handle simple case queries over the phone or via email, we still come in relatively frequently). We also have mail for our teammates, so for the past two years someone has been scheduled to swing in every other day to handle dead tree stuff. It’s worked. I ended up going in office once every three weeks or so.
Oh no, managements doesn’t like not seeing bodies in the office. Well, they never really liked this whole culture change anyways. A few supes were requiring a warm body in office everyday. OH NO! Not fair! Instead of those teams not requiring a warm body daily, management decided EVERY team must now have someone in every day.
There is no reason for this. I was in office yesterday. Handled a whole TWO PIECES of mail - one was my own. Every document we send can be done via our file program. Of course, management cloaks the edict in “Customer Service”, so we really cannot argue. It’s bullshit. There are no emergencies in our area. If there is something that must be done quickly, it’s because the worker fucked up (in which case it’s the worker’s responsibility to fix it, not coverage) or because the client fucked up (lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part).
So now my whole team is in an uproar. We’re bringing in people from another team for this coverage, as they would have to be in office every other day with this directive. They’re upset as we’re not bending over backwards to give them the schedules they want. Guess what? None of us are getting what we want, we had July all mapped out and now have to redo the whole damn thing.
Stupid management.
Mentor is not a synonym for bastard, you jealous asshole.
I got a spreadsheet with study recruitment questions on it from a pharmaceutical company today. The font was in Comic Sans, including all column/row headers and the pre-filled examples, so it wasn’t some formatting error.
Sick bastards. 
I found out today that not only is my boss an asshole, he’s a racist asshole too. My summer help is mostly white teenage guys, not by my design, that’s just who came in to work. Today I had a black guy come in for an application, he probably wasn’t older than 18, very nice, polite, and clean cut. He didn’t have time to fill out the application in the office, so I told him to come back when he had time. That’s one of the boss’s rules, the applications are never allowed to leave the office. Kid says ok, he’ll come back later.
Boss comes charging out of his office before the kid is barely out the door.
Boss: “Who was that? What the hell did he want?”
Me: “An application, but he didn’t have time to stay right now.”
Boss: “You didn’t let him take one did you?!”
Me: “No, I know that’s not allowed.”
Boss: “You know that’s not allowed… and besides, I won’t hire a felon!”
Me: 
:eek::mad:
Nice one boss, I thought that attitude went out a long time ago. I really hope the kid comes back. I’ll hire him just to spite the boss.
Quick Parts in Outlook would be a lot more useful if, every fourth time I selected one, it didn’t show up in some random font. Or if I could delete one, save a slightly altered version of it under the same or different name, and not have the motherfucking thing revert to the old version every goddamned time.
Wow. What an asshole. I would seriously think about reporting his racist ass.
So Clueless George and I had a falling out today and I filed a complaint against him.
He brings up an issue in the news. I disagree with him. His head whips around and his eyes spinning hard in pure contempt of my opinion. I walk away. He IMs me, repeating his disagreement with me and “your leap of logic is DUMB”. I immediately disconnect the IM without responding. So he comes over to my desk and hammers on it more. I tell him that I have given him my opinion, it isn’t going to change by him harassing me, and he needs to let it drop. He says “that’s terrifying” and walks back to his desk, where he immediately IMs me AGAIN and starts telling me I’m wrong.
At that point I replied “DROP IT. NOW” and told him that he has exhausted my patience for repeatedly pushing issues well past me telling him to stop it.
Then I emailed our mutual bosses and filed a complaint, saying that while we get along 99% of the time and work well together, I cannot accept his unprofessional harassment over simple differences in opinion and it needs to stop.
Of course, their first response was to tell me to ignore him and never again share my opinion about anything with him. :rolleyes:
I said I cannot ignore someone I have to work with and I’ve tried both ignoring him and telling him to stop and neither work, so it’s time for someone else to tell him that he’s acting inappropriately.
He got an email shortly thereafter and left the room to call them, and not a single word passed between us after that.
There are only 2 floors on this building. So, when you rush into the elevator without letting me drag boxes out, don’t be surprised when I push the button to keep the door open and ask you to move out of the way so I can get out. I know that you have to get upstairs fast so you can punch in after lunch, but I’m not willing to ride the elevator back up because you don’t know how elevators work.
Let the people who need to get out leave before you get in.
And don’t bother to call my boss to complain, she will just tell you the same thing and then call me and laugh.
Honestly, there needs to be a class in Elementary School or something on how to get on and off elevators. I’ve seen a completely packed full elevator open on the ground floor of my building and some dumbass try to force their way on it rather than stepping out of the way to let everyone off first. More than once.
Item on my “If I ever win the lottery and buy a company” list. Add elevator etiquette to the company handbook. With a special note that says if you ever do this when the owner (me) is on that elevator, it is subject to immediate progressive disciplinary steps.