Company picnic and open house this weekend, and they’re serving about 9 different kinds of meat… including snoots (see here). Gag.
Who do they think will eat this? Kids? I don’t think so. And, meatapalooza is a couple weeks after their “biggest loser” competition finished. So the company helps you lose the weight, and then helps you yo-yo it right back on.
Also: the invitation was for “Employees and Immediate Family”, which upon query did not include, say, my nephews. Because I am not married and have no kids, therefore was excluded from participating. Now of course, on the day before, the story is that wasn’t the intent.
Oh, well. Kids running around in a chemical plant and people trying to get them to eat snoots. No way that will go wrong, so I’m not too upset to be giving it a miss. :rolleyes:
Did they say you had to bring family? ‘Employees and Immediate Family’ doesn’t usually mean you HAVE to bring family, immediate or otherwise, you can just go by yourself.
Well, yeah, but for some of us, our nephews are almost as close as our kids. I don’t even live in the same town as my brothers and mother, but whenever I’m there I play “soccer aunt” for The Kids. I’m also one of their Grownups Who Answer Difficult Questions (used to be my brothers’ as well). Definitions of what constitutes “family” varying by location and even legal system, every child-friendly company event I’ve attended was open to nephews, grandchildren, and children, nephews or grandchildren of SOs.
Yeah, it wasn’t that I had to bring family; I could attend alone. To see what the plant I work in every day looks like. whee. However, at least one of my nephews would probably be interested in seeing a chemical plant (since their other grandpa is also a ChemE).
You’re just going to have to tell Sarah Michelle Gellar: “Look Buffy, it was fun while it lasted but it’s OVER! You can hang out with me if you want, but sitting in a CHAIR. My boss says if you don’t stop with the leaping out of empty cubicles brandishing a sharpened stake, and screaming ‘DIE, BLOODSUCKER!’ at him, he’s going to show your picture to River Tam and hire her to keep you out of the building.”
Actually, I wish there was more leaping and more sharpened stakes and less … whatever the hell everyone else is doing. I mean, I don’t mind being the slayer, but my only tool is a Magic 8 Ball, since they took my velociraptor sign away.
I need to load a ton of data. The data was typed manually into a spreadsheet; that spreadsheet needs to be split, twisted, shaken and stirred until it produces 35 separate text files. I have an Access file which does that with a very lengthy process:
load spreadsheet called Original Data
click button labeled “Click First”
open produced spreadsheet in Excel (name is List)
add a column in front
fill that column with codes from Q0000000 on
save spreadsheet
import second spreadsheet into Access
click button labeled “Final”
But this wasn’t acceptable since I’m not a Programmer. I had to prepare 35 files indicating what had to go in each column, explain how to prepare them in terms that my end-users (who one week before hadn’t heard of vlookup, much less join queries) could understand, and hand the whole thing to a Programmer, who would evidently be much more efficient than poor ole little non-technical me.
Three weeks later, I’m reviewing the files he’s produced so far (each file needs to be updated individually btw, unlike with my supermegamacrobuttons) and every single one is missing the “unique” settings. There are duplicates upon duplicates. Hey asshole! Which part of “each code in column B must appear only once” is hard to understand?
Fuck having to explain things to programmers. Same shit with the load programs: instead of being allowed to just upload mine, I had to prepare functional designs for the programmers blah blah blah. Blahfanculo, this. (Oh: my load programs need 15 text files rather than 35 and have decent error management processes, unlike the get of the fastabulous programmers Blahfanculo squared)
Let’s watch while Chimera’s company replaces it’s Software ordering system with a less friendly system that requires four times as much effort to order anything and is so useless as to have completely omitted the ability to cancel your order!
I needed to cancel my order because it was decided to add me to a pilot program our manager arranged for but didn’t tell anyone on his own team (user support) until I found out about it from one of the people working on it and ran to my boss asking who the fuck approved it and why we (the people who support said software and spent several hundred man-hours cleaning up after the last major release) were not told about it. :rolleyes:
Then this afternoon, in the space of 5 hours, they changed their minds back and forth, cancelling and then going forward with the pilot, at least a half dozen times. At 3pm, an hour before most of our team leaves, the head of it asked for a list of people who would agree to be part of it (which we thought they already had) with a two hour deadline. :eek: Didn’t happen.
And silly me forgot to bring his Elder Sign to work today. :smack:
If the damn thing was explosion-proof, IT WOULD SAY IT ON THE NAMEPLATE. Furthermore, your facility should not be producing or handling anything that would necessitate explosion-proof things…the original manufacturer thought standard parts were just fine for your site, and that’s what we supply today. What are y’all doing over there, anyway???
Other customer: you geniuses painted over your nameplates, didn’t you? :smack: Is that why you can’t send someone out in the field to look at this part??? Please, please tell me that you’re just being lazy about this.
Honestly. I’ve done software design and user interfaces before. This thing is a fucking embarrassment for a small company, let alone one of the largest in the country. As I said to my co-worker, everyone involved with the design, programming and deployment of it should be sterilized, lobotomized, have their heads shaved and be dumped on the street in a random city with no ID.
So we have a new HR manager. I got a letter from the co. managing the 401K, about new fees. I took it in to ask her exactly what it meant to me, because it was unclear and full of legalese.
Oh, she hasn’t seen it yet. And she will call.
But in meantime she starts guessing. “Well, 160 employees are going to share the fee over the year and that means xxxxxxxxxxxxxx” I ask does everyone participate. “Um no. Oh, but it does say if your balance is less than $5 your fee will be this!” No, I have actually a substantial balance.
Motherfuckers at corporate IT have inexplicably changed the default PDF viewer from Adobe Acrobat Pro to Adobe Reader. I know how to modify this setting, but it requires a damn administrative password to change it.
Blahfanculo squared)
