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Remember the "bad old" days when socializing with your co-workers was "stealing from your boss"?
How I miss them!
More seriously, as I mentioned our test environments just came through, so we're all heads-down furiously trying to test labs, fix bugs, report problems, and get all our materials handed off so they go out as soon as the updated product is released. But our new division has also been hiring great guns in India so we have around a dozen new employees in our 1,800-person division.
So our executive VP wants an hourlong meet-n-greet where those 12 new employees introduce themselves, talk about their backgrounds, and such, in a very nice touchy-feely gesture of camaraderie.
Except I'm under the gun and I'll honestly never work with a single one of these people... EVER. They're in totally different areas of the division.
So I'm going to be bad and skip the meet-n-greet. And I'll probably get chastised for it. Because enforced socialization is the new norm...
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They stopped introducing me to the new people at Toys R Us when I wore an eye patch once.
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Oh, how weird it is to deal with a "real" contractor!
Framing/plumbing/electrical/tile guy is out, "Drywall master" is in. (Seriously -- he does the most incredible drywall I've ever seen. He did the work around our fireplace a few months ago and you can't tell where the old wall starts and his new stuff begins. He even matched the color so perfectly it's scary.)
Well, "Drywall master" is an actual contractor. He told me yesterday, "I'll be in at 8:30 tomorrow morning to finish the taping and mudding."
At precisely 8:30 am, he walked in my back door, asking, "I'm here. Are you ready?"
We're surprised when the other guy shows up before 11:30 am. Having someone actually show up to work at a reasonable hour is a pleasant change.
Of course, he'll likely be done by noon, and it'll be back to the other guy, but at least we'll have a really attractive unfinished bathroom!
(It's pretty funny -- with the drywall, insulation, tub, and lights in it looks remarkably like a real bathroom, with the exception of the bare wooden floor, no toilet, and no sink...)
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Last week my local office had a new hire group and they asked for an IT presence for a couple hours just to iron out any first day issues. These almost always come down to people just not following directions.
All of the new hires are provided webcams and they are expected to use them during the training sessions. They know this going in.
One person decided to light up a smoke on camera. Generally not considered a professional move. If they were in office they'd be reprimanded instantly, but they're in their own home...so...um...ok, it's unprofessional, but that's about the worst you can say about it.
One woman showed up in a bath towel and shower cap.
Another woman was dressed, but her boobs kept falling out of her shirt and she barely seemed to notice or care.
I'm all for being really casual when working from home, but, um...uh...there's still some level of professionalism expected when you're going to be on camera. Kids are going to yell in the background, pets are gonna be pets. We all get that, and in a lot of ways that stuff kind of humanizes your co-workers. Our CIO was frying bacon on a team meeting a couple days ago. But showing up in a towel and showercap on your first day?
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Last week my local office had a new hire group and they asked for an IT presence for a couple hours just to iron out any first day issues. These almost always come down to people just not following directions.
All of the new hires are provided webcams and they are expected to use them during the training sessions. They know this going in.
One person decided to light up a smoke on camera. Generally not considered a professional move. If they were in office they'd be reprimanded instantly, but they're in their own home...so...um...ok, it's unprofessional, but that's about the worst you can say about it.
One woman showed up in a bath towel and shower cap.
Another woman was dressed, but her boobs kept falling out of her shirt and she barely seemed to notice or care.
I'm all for being really casual when working from home, but, um...uh...there's still some level of professionalism expected when you're going to be on camera. Kids are going to yell in the background, pets are gonna be pets. We all get that, and in a lot of ways that stuff kind of humanizes your co-workers. Our CIO was frying bacon on a team meeting a couple days ago. But showing up in a towel and showercap on your first day?
....please god, let me work with Vany.
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(I know many parents who kiss their kids; I never knew a kid who liked it, much less would ask for it.)
We kiss our kids on the head!
I have one kid who "hates kisses!" So we don't.I have another who always reminds us to add kisses.
So it's definitely down to the individual kids! :D
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Last week my local office had a new hire group and they asked for an IT presence for a couple hours just to iron out any first day issues. These almost always come down to people just not following directions.
All of the new hires are provided webcams and they are expected to use them during the training sessions. They know this going in.
One person decided to light up a smoke on camera. Generally not considered a professional move. If they were in office they'd be reprimanded instantly, but they're in their own home...so...um...ok, it's unprofessional, but that's about the worst you can say about it.
One woman showed up in a bath towel and shower cap.
Another woman was dressed, but her boobs kept falling out of her shirt and she barely seemed to notice or care.
I'm all for being really casual when working from home, but, um...uh...there's still some level of professionalism expected when you're going to be on camera. Kids are going to yell in the background, pets are gonna be pets. We all get that, and in a lot of ways that stuff kind of humanizes your co-workers. Our CIO was frying bacon on a team meeting a couple days ago. But showing up in a towel and showercap on your first day?
I... you... she... wat
O.O
how, tho
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I'm ready to quit my job and run away to a desert island with nothing on it but a sandy beach, a library, and a decent bar.
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I'm ready to quit my job and run away to a desert island with nothing on it but a sandy beach, a library, and a decent bar.Don't forget a decent, fast internet connection.
My guess is that she'd rather be cut off from the world outside of the books and the bartender.
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Just applied for yet another job while at work. Oh yeah.
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Texans are weird, man.
Can confirm.
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Afternoon, all. What did I miss?
Topless IT.
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Topless IT.Afternoon, all. What did I miss?
Mentally scarring seasonal help.
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I'm ready to quit my job and run away to a desert island with nothing on it but a sandy beach, a library, and a decent bar.
"Fish and cocoonuts"?
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Topless IT sounds promissing...
Had it ended being a disappointment instead like a proper IT mess-up?
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"We'll help you with (getting) the mental scarring!"?
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I might get to GM a Star Wars session or two in about two weeks.
Is that (sort of) birthday present?
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I'm ready to quit my job and run away to a desert island with nothing on it but a sandy beach, a library, and a decent bar."Fish and cocoonuts"?
Newcastle Brown, pork scratchings, and a pie that's been in the fridge for a very long time
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Speaking of mental scarring, I've spent the last week and a half dealing with the emotional fallout of the parents of one of my students being s****y people.
They had a messy divorce when he was tiny, they're still fighting over custody, they manipulate him, and then he comes to school and takes it out on the other kids, who go home and complain about him to their parents.
Today he came to school with no lunchbox and a ripped mask, then both parents showed up to pick him up at the end of the day and had a fight in the parking lot over whose night it was while he stood there and cried.
Meanwhile I've spent all my prep time, and overtime, this week writing a 20-page stack of forms to start the intervention process about his behavior problems (boss told me to) and fielding emails from other kids' parents about his effect on their own children.
The kid isn't a bad kid, he's just screwed up. He can be a little turd, but I like him. I just want to slap the crap out of his folks.
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OK. I think I'm going to be glowing/gloating for the rest of the afternoon.
I was helping out one of the junior instructors with a technical problem she was having and she said, "Well, yeah, everybody knows to call you when they have a problem. I was doing a consulting gig with <Our Biggest Partner>, and the guy said, 'Oh, I love it when I put on a class and I see NobodysHome is teaching it. He's so technical and he knows what he's talking about and he goes into so much detail! He's your best instructor by far!'"
So... apparently our largest partner thinks I'm the best instructor we have... in spite of the fact that I'm not actually an instructor; I just fill in when they're short-handed.
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Speaking of mental scarring, I've spent the last week and a half dealing with the emotional fallout of the parents of one of my students being s****y people.
They had a messy divorce when he was tiny, they're still fighting over custody, they manipulate him...
...then both parents showed up to pick him up at the end of the day and had a fight in the parking lot over whose night it was while he stood there and cried...
...I just want to slap the crap out of his folks.
There's nothing quite so satisfying as when Arnold Schwarzenegger slugs the abusive dad in Kindergarten Cop, because we've all been there.
And the parents who try to use their kids as weapons against their ex-spouses? If it wouldn't traumatize the kids even more I would... remove them from the equation...
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OK. I think I'm going to be glowing/gloating for the rest of the afternoon.
I was helping out one of the junior instructors with a technical problem she was having and she said, "Well, yeah, everybody knows to call you when they have a problem. I was doing a consulting gig with <Our Biggest Partner>, and the guy said, 'Oh, I love it when I put on a class and I see NobodysHome is teaching it. He's so technical and he knows what he's talking about and he goes into so much detail! He's your best instructor by far!'"
So... apparently our largest partner thinks I'm the best instructor we have... in spite of the fact that I'm not actually an instructor; I just fill in when they're short-handed.
;)
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;)OK. I think I'm going to be glowing/gloating for the rest of the afternoon.
I was helping out one of the junior instructors with a technical problem she was having and she said, "Well, yeah, everybody knows to call you when they have a problem. I was doing a consulting gig with <Our Biggest Partner>, and the guy said, 'Oh, I love it when I put on a class and I see NobodysHome is teaching it. He's so technical and he knows what he's talking about and he goes into so much detail! He's your best instructor by far!'"
So... apparently our largest partner thinks I'm the best instructor we have... in spite of the fact that I'm not actually an instructor; I just fill in when they're short-handed.
Pfft. That explanation you linked to was hardly detailed: he left out the reticulating pulsator spline! It is the single most important piece of the mechanical apparatus and therefore critical whenever gremlins are manually "recalibrating" the Retro Encabulator!
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Just downloaded Werewolf the Apocalypse Earthblood.
Been waiting over 20 years for Werewolf to get a game.
So excited.
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I had a guy but he was a sleep deprived dairy farmer from Pardeeville and had to leave early to help birth a calf.
Only in Wisconsin!
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Just downloaded Werewolf the Apocalypse Earthblood.
Been waiting over 20 years for Werewolf to get a game.
So excited.
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The infant turns 1 next month!
She says (in order of words learned): "Hey, Mama, Hi, Doggie, Dada (yes, mama AND the dog beat me), Oma (German grandma), Nona (Italian grandma) and Baba (bottle).
She snuggles and loves naps...ten minutes after she wakes up. Before that she hates everyone for making her lie down, and even more for waking her up.
We have TRIED to find a food she doesn't like. Raw kale is the closest to one. She eats it slowly. That's the closest to a negative reaction food gives her. She has been caught stealing the dogs' food when I look away for a moment.
This has been the craziest year of my life. But somehow, as insane as 2020 was, she made it the best year of my life so far.
We're taking her to the zoo for her birthday. The only thing she likes more than food is animals (she learned doggie before Dada for goodness sake). When mama goes to work and I'm on stay-at-home-dad duty, she loses her damn mind crying for mom....unless we go look at her mice we got for Christmas. Then she immediately stops and giggles and is happy and to hell with mama being gone.
Its been the most amazing journey so far. Its so cool to see how she evolves as a person and can say and do things she couldn't do just a week earlier. Surreal.
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You haven't got the adventure game yet?Just downloaded Werewolf the Apocalypse Earthblood.
Been waiting over 20 years for Werewolf to get a game.
So excited.
I will be sure to pick this up.
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I have to admit, some people have guts.
Our senior executive VP has an "Ask Me Anything" Slack channel, so most people ask him (relatively) reasonable stuff such as, "What is our vision with regards to the future of this product?" or "When will the next raises come through?"
A couple of people have taken to filing IT issues with him. "Hey, we're having serious network issues at this work location in India. Can you get that taken care of for us?"
Not exactly the kind of "Ask Me Anything" question I'd expect to see, but hey, it does specifically say, "Anything".
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I wonder if anyone will ask "why do you deserve to earn literally a thousand times what your lowest employees make? Do you think you're actually a thousand times more valuable?"
Double or triple or maybe even 10x you can justify, but I'd like to see them try to explain why they think they're better than hundreds if not thousands of their underlings.
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The infant turns 1 next month!
She says (in order of words learned): "Hey, Mama, Hi, Doggie, Dada (yes, mama AND the dog beat me),
Well, she has to have priorities.
Oma (German grandma), Nona (Italian grandma) and Baba(bottle).
(Polish grandma)
We have TRIED to find a food she doesn't like. Raw kale is the closest to one. She eats it slowly. That's the closest to a negative reaction food gives her. She has been caught stealing the dogs' food when I look away for a moment.
Again. Priorities.
The only thing she likes more than food is animals
There's a difference?!
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I will be sure to pick this up.You haven't got the adventure game yet?Just downloaded Werewolf the Apocalypse Earthblood.
Been waiting over 20 years for Werewolf to get a game.
So excited.
It's not like it was made by one of my (distant) acquaintances...
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It's not like it was made by one of my (distant) acquaintances...I will be sure to pick this up.You haven't got the adventure game yet?Just downloaded Werewolf the Apocalypse Earthblood.
Been waiting over 20 years for Werewolf to get a game.
So excited.
BUHAHAHAHAHAH!
I mentioned it today. And now it is available as one of the picks for February's Humble Choice.
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It's not like it was made by one of my (distant) acquaintances...I will be sure to pick this up.You haven't got the adventure game yet?Just downloaded Werewolf the Apocalypse Earthblood.
Been waiting over 20 years for Werewolf to get a game.
So excited.
BUHAHAHAHAHAH!
I mentioned it today. And now it is available as one of the picks for February's Humble Choice.
Dammit. Now I crave kabanos.
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It's not like it was made by one of my (distant) acquaintances...I will be sure to pick this up.You haven't got the adventure game yet?Just downloaded Werewolf the Apocalypse Earthblood.
Been waiting over 20 years for Werewolf to get a game.
So excited.
...
It. Whut.
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I may have just thrown a grenade under my favorite PM.
NobodysHome: The major new feature you've been touting doesn't work! Here are screenshots!
PM: The extension doesn't go from the parent object to the child object; it goes from the child object to the parent object.
NH: Why would you do that? It doesn't make any sense!
I suspect his engineers just cheerfully built everything going in one direction, and nobody ever stopped to ask, "Is this the right direction?"
If I'm right, I just created a nightmare for his entire team.
Oops.
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It's not like it was made by one of my (distant) acquaintances...I will be sure to pick this up.You haven't got the adventure game yet?Just downloaded Werewolf the Apocalypse Earthblood.
Been waiting over 20 years for Werewolf to get a game.
So excited.
...
It. Whut.
Acquaintance, meaning 2b.
...
I know one of the main creators for years, though not terribly closely. He was also the lead writer for the first Witcher game. I got to know him as the designers of Polish Wolsung pen and paper RPG as I was participating in the later's betatests. Twice.
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I wonder if anyone will ask "why do you deserve to earn literally a thousand times what your lowest employees make? Do you think you're actually a thousand times more valuable?"
Double or triple or maybe even 10x you can justify, but I'd like to see them try to explain why they think they're better than hundreds if not thousands of their underlings.
One of the things I loved about working in a public school system was that everyone's salary was public -- anyone anywhere in the world could look up your salary.
Two of the things I loathed about working in a public school system were that:
(1) It didn't stop the scum. When asked why the president of a community college in California should earn more than the governor of California (which she did), said president responded, "Because I've done more for this school than any previous administration."
Needless to say, I polled faculty, staff, and students about what she'd done, and no one could think of anything other than violating our embargo against China (post-Tiananmen square). Which hardly seems like raise-worthy conduct.
(2) Since everyone's salary was public, the administration and union concluded that everyone with the same experience and education level had to receive the same salary to prevent jealousy. The absolute worst teacher with 10 years' experience was paid exactly the same as the best. So financial motivation to do a decent job? Nonexistent.
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The LIVING WALL was stapled up this afternoon, which means that I can now spend my working day staring at a synthetic hedge, whoopee, and the boss also tells us that it cost one and a half thousand pounds.
My life.