MU Soapbox

    • Register
    • Login
    • Search
    • Categories
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Groups
    • Muxify
    • Mustard

    The Work Thread

    Tastes Less Game'y
    95
    1516
    189034
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • JinShei
      JinShei @Tinuviel last edited by

      @Tinuviel Curve you and your valid points. It rains a lot around here...

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • Scissors
        Scissors last edited by

        Honestly, reading this thread and reflecting on my own job, I am constantly reminded of why I'm seriously contemplating early retirement. Even if it means taking a substantial penalty.

        silverfox 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • gryphter
          gryphter last edited by

          What the damn today with this work being so much goddamn work. I had better plans for this time, namely, RP.

          Hating haters and their hate since a year that neither rhymes nor alliterates

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • Rinel
            Rinel Banned @tek last edited by

            @tek said in The Work Thread:

            Mythology: "Wait for Me" from Hadestown (Tony Award performance)

            Current Events: "Why we Build the Wall" from Hadestown. Which was composed, IIRC, during the first term of the Obama presidency. Prescience in art! Blessed by Jayus, obviously.

            tek 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • tek
              tek @Rinel last edited by

              @Rinel Yup, it was. I used to play the concept album on my radio show in college.

              TNP 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
              • TNP
                TNP @tek last edited by

                @tek said in The Work Thread:

                @Rinel Yup, it was. I used to play the concept album on my radio show in college.

                This was the best show I have ever seen. I'm in love with this musical and want to see it again. And again and...

                tek 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                • silverfox
                  silverfox @Scissors last edited by

                  @Scissors

                  Then we'll easily retirement keep you floating with that much reduced output? I mean, TECHNICALLY I'll have enough years to retire at 60. However, I sure as shit couldn't afford to live on it.

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • I
                    insomniac7809 last edited by

                    I don't care that you're hung over.

                    I don't care that you have homework.

                    I don't care about your relationship drama.

                    I don't care about Nicki Minaj.

                    Put your phones away and do your jobs.

                    These fucking twenty-year-olds are killing me.

                    Aria JinShei 2 Replies Last reply Reply Quote 1
                    • tek
                      tek @TNP last edited by

                      @TNP I'm dying to see it.

                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • Aria
                        Aria @insomniac7809 last edited by

                        @insomniac7809 said in The Work Thread:

                        I don't care that you're hung over.

                        I don't care that you have homework.

                        I don't care about your relationship drama.

                        I don't care about Nicki Minaj.

                        Put your phones away and do your jobs.

                        These fucking twenty-year-olds are killing me.

                        Aww, sweetie! You've become The Man.

                        https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
                        There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello

                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 5
                        • JinShei
                          JinShei @insomniac7809 last edited by

                          @insomniac7809 said in The Work Thread:

                          I don't care that you're hung over.

                          I don't care that you have homework.

                          I don't care about your relationship drama.

                          I don't care about Nicki Minaj.

                          Put your phones away and do your jobs.

                          These fucking twenty-year-olds are killing me.

                          Seconded. Also, stop bloody talking or just get out of my lecture hall. You are a grown up, so either be here or don't but don't make me shout over you...

                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
                          • L
                            Lisse24 last edited by

                            Labeled a tab in a shared spreadsheet in capital letters: DO NOT EDIT. Labeled the other tab, EDIT HERE.

                            Guess which one people made their changes in. Go ahead. Guess.

                            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                            • Auspice
                              Auspice last edited by

                              omfg

                              A section of this training guide that had been 'backburnered' got shoved to the forefront today and I dug through OneNote to start gathering my notes on it and discovered I already wrote an entire outline for the section at some point.

                              THANKS PAST SELF.

                              self hi5

                              Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

                              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 4
                              • L
                                Lisse24 last edited by

                                Another day, another WTF moment...

                                Just had a meeting paused so that I could show the organizers how to upload a file to Google Drive and share it with everyone, because even though we've had Google Apps accounts for five years, they haven't learned this one little essential bit of it yet.

                                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                • S
                                  Selira last edited by

                                  surprise meeting at 9:30 this morning, we are given 20 minutes to prepare.

                                  We're missing our goals for end of year. Mandatory 30 minute meetings every morning/evening now to track progress. Keep it simple, keep it focused, I'm assigned to track notes and what everyone is doing.

                                  "Oh so we're doing agile scrums now and I'm the scrum leader?"

                                  Dead silence, followed by "... what?"

                                  Proceed to explain to VP of project management company what Agile is.

                                  😐

                                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                                  • P
                                    Pyrephox last edited by

                                    My team collects data for a federal project with firm deadlines and significant financial penalties associated with not staying within the boundaries. We're contracted by the client who will actually get hit with the penalties - we collect the data, create the final files, send them in to their person so that the person can upload them to the federal portal.

                                    First of the month, we sent in our part. The deadline is today. Enter 4:00PM, and the client has only now looked to find the file. Mind you, there's always a data error or two, and the file usually bounces once or twice for Reasons, needs to be corrected, and resubmitted. This is not the first time we've done this; we do it every six months on average.

                                    Every single time, this goes down to the wire when it doesn't need to. And it's not our fault, but that will never stop the client from panicking at us about it.

                                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                                    • Auspice
                                      Auspice last edited by Auspice

                                      I have to pull all my screenshots, videos, and references ('let me do that myself so I can best describe....') from a test instance at work. Understandable. Don't want me mucking about in production.

                                      U N F O R T U N A T E L Y we use a spot instance* for this. And it has been spottier than usual lately. Like, 'back down 15 minutes after it's brought up.' Our liaison with the dev company emailed them today to go 'Get us an on-demand instance or put a higher bid.' They said nah, money. Business manager went 'Uh, I'm sorry?'

                                      I was on the other side of the table like: '......I just hate pestering them every time it's down.'

                                      I got a round of: 'No. Pester them. Email them every single time. This is getting ridiculous.' (80% of the time, I am the only one using it.)

                                      I love my team.

                                      *A spot instance, in our case, is basically low-level 'highest bidder' cloud servers with AWS. So for something that is low need/use, it works. Your server will be there, but if someone has a higher bid in the system... you can get knocked out. So either AWS (possible) is having more issues of late or their bid (also possible) is way too low.

                                      Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

                                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                                      • Rinel
                                        Rinel Banned last edited by

                                        Work related. Well, professionalism related. Well, related to my lack of professionalism.

                                        If I post a comment on Facebook about how it's at best an ignorant look for attorneys to be claiming that they'd spend time in jail to erase their student debt (an unfortunately popular meme making the rounds these days), please do not try to defend the meme. Especially if you are a criminal defense attorney. Especially if you are a criminal defense attorney who I personally know to be lazy and unwilling to visit clients.

                                        I WILL SAY IMPOLITIC THINGS

                                        Auspice 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 4
                                        • Auspice
                                          Auspice @Rinel last edited by

                                          @Rinel

                                          but it shows solidarity in the cost of education duh

                                          Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

                                          Rinel 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                          • Rinel
                                            Rinel Banned @Auspice last edited by

                                            @Auspice

                                            Funny how all this class solidarity seems to be stomping downward...

                                            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                                            • 1
                                            • 2
                                            • 10
                                            • 11
                                            • 12
                                            • 13
                                            • 14
                                            • 75
                                            • 76
                                            • 12 / 76
                                            • First post
                                              Last post