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I worked at three places for at least 4 and a half years each with the longest being Toys R Us for nearly 6 years.


I've worked at my current job for nearly three years.


I will never understand some people's obsession with product names.

NobodysHome: Why didn't you use end user territory management in this step?
Co-Worker: What's that? Is it a new feature? Is it documented? Can we have a meeting so you can tell me what it is?
NH: It's where end users manage their own territories. Remember? It's been around for years.
CW: But is that the new official name? Did you make it up? Where did you get that name? Should I be converting all of my training to use the new name?
NH: It's the same thing it always has been. I just didn't bother looking up the formal name and gave you an accurate description instead.
CW: But I need to know whether that's the new product name! Who can I check with? What should I do about it??!?!?!

I swear. If I'd called it, "Fred's Method" I'd understand. But when what I call it exactly matches what you're doing, I just don't get it.

It's kind of like calling that thing across the top of Microsoft Word a "toolbar" instead of a "ribbon". Yeah, I can figure out what it is, thanks. And I don't need a formal training course teaching me that one thing can have two different names, or that some people might never use the formal name to refer to it...

EDIT: And while yes, I understand that in our formal, published training the legal names are important for copyright, trademark, or other purposes, I feel that in informal emails between co-workers we ought to be able to use a term that actually describes the thing we're talking about instead of whatever nonsense word Marketing made up for the feature.


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Getting the itch to try pbp again.

Grand Lodge

Pathfinder Adventure, Rulebook Subscriber

I gotta cut down on my load. Four PbPs is too many to juggle.


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I blame my other gaming habits. I've wanted to run a CastleVania themed campaign for years, and I've been playing through Bloodstained for the past week or so, so it's on the mind.


In other news, we're having our unprecedented fourth 90°+F heat wave of the "summer". (Yes, October is like summer here because we typically get our last heat wave of the year in October.)

I know I caused it. I turned on the heat in the studio and moved the portable AC into storage.


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Why is competence so hard?

As curriculum developers, we have to go through all of our labs and lessons with every release and confirm that everything's still working the way it's supposed to, because tons of stuff gets changed without being documented.

The tech writers wait to be informed of any changes.

So there's a s***storm this morning because the docs for our latest release are out-and-out wrong because nobody told the writers about some product changes.

So the PM's in trouble for not telling them. They're in trouble for not doing the legwork on their own.

Me? I just provided everyone involved with all the information they needed to solve everything, because I did all the necessary legwork weeks ago.

Yeah, there's a reason I'm not too worried about job security...


NobodysHome wrote:
Drejk wrote:
Orthos wrote:
I've never held a job anywhere near that long. My record is 9 years, at the job I just left so I could move to KS. Before that was 3, from 2006-9 and lost because the office I was working at closes when the AZ economy took a nosedive.
Neither had Nobody, if I remember correctly. As far as I recall, they know each other from previous work.

Nope. This really is 16 years (not 18) at a single job.

In June of 2000 I resigned from a tenure-track teaching position with no employment prospects because of the toxicity of the department. Within 2 weeks a tech company had picked me up as a technical trainer. From June of 2000 to roughly March of 2003 I enjoyed the best job I've ever had, until the most incompetent manager I've ever seen took over our department, drove us from a 43% profit margin to a 28% loss in a single quarter, and we all got laid off. I spent an amazingly enjoyable year as a contractor from 2003-2004, where I didn't make much money but I got to spend HUGE amounts of time with Impus Major as a toddler, then in May of 2004 a former co-worker from the layoff recommended me for my current job.

I got hired in June of 2004, and I've been at the same job ever since, with the same manager.

We did get acquired by Global Megacorporation in 2006, but we're still doing roughly the same work we were before. I just don't get to teach any more, which is sadness. But a stable job that lets me work from home 100% of the time and that pays the bills? That's priceless.

Ah, I mixed up the post-uni technical job (was that programming the real-time OSes?) and the co-worker who recommended you with the period before of acquisition of the company by GMC and the manager.


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NobodysHome wrote:
Why is competence so hard?

Because mediocrity and inertia are usually enough to keep most people from being removed and require much less time, effort, and investment?


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Drejk wrote:
Ah, I mixed up the post-uni technical job (was that programming the real-time OSes?)

Yep. That one.

I've been blessed with two incredible managers in a row, both female, both of whose names start with L, so even my friends get confused when I talk about the previous manager and they say, "Wait! Isn't that your current manager?"
"No, that's L..."
"But your previous manager was L...?"
"Yeah."
"Confusing!"

Scarab Sages

Longest I've been with a company was my previous one. About six years. Altough I was an on site suppurt engineer, so I went all over, including abroad. So I rarely saw my co-workers.


NobodysHome wrote:
Drejk wrote:
Ah, I mixed up the post-uni technical job (was that programming the real-time OSes?)

Yep. That one.

I've been blessed with two incredible managers in a row, both female, both of whose names start with L, so even my friends get confused when I talk about the previous manager and they say, "Wait! Isn't that your current manager?"
"No, that's L..."
"But your previous manager was L...?"
"Yeah."
"Confusing!"

If I start listing out the first names of some of my family members, you'd swear there was a ton of incest happening. There isn't, but 4 names (again, first names only) keep showing up.

My mom's sister and my dad's sister both share the same name. My ex-sister-in-law also shares that same name.

My dad's sister married a man who shares the same name as my dad.

My dad has a cousin who married a man who shares the same name as my mom's brother. My mom's brother was married to a woman who shares the same name as the previously mentioned cousin.

Going another generation back, my mom's uncle shared the same name as my dad's aunt's husband.


20+ years at my current job. No idea how I am still around.

Grand Lodge

Pathfinder Adventure, Rulebook Subscriber

You're just that good of a dragon.


TriOmegaZero wrote:
You're just that good of a dragon.

Hahahahaha- breath. Breath. Hahahahaha!!!


Been at the day job for 17/18 years or so. Second job about 10 years, maybe 11.

Have worked as an editor for about two years while doing that. Have also worked at conventions vending/driving for about 9 years or so.

Scarab Sages

I have fond memories of lying on a white beach with a laptop working but the reward was not worth the stress.

Also, freehold, how can I send you a picture of myeslf in a bikini with a laptop taking calls. To cheer you up.


Woran wrote:

I have fond memories of lying on a white beach with a laptop working but the reward was not worth the stress.

Also, freehold, how can I send you a picture of myeslf in a bikini with a laptop taking calls. To cheer you up.

My email is in my profile, email me and I will send you my phone number along with the fastest way from JFK Airport to my house(I am surprisingly close to JFK airport).


Vanykrye wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:
Drejk wrote:
Ah, I mixed up the post-uni technical job (was that programming the real-time OSes?)

Yep. That one.

I've been blessed with two incredible managers in a row, both female, both of whose names start with L, so even my friends get confused when I talk about the previous manager and they say, "Wait! Isn't that your current manager?"
"No, that's L..."
"But your previous manager was L...?"
"Yeah."
"Confusing!"

If I start listing out the first names of some of my family members, you'd swear there was a ton of incest happening. There isn't, but 4 names (again, first names only) keep showing up.

My mom's sister and my dad's sister both share the same name. My ex-sister-in-law also shares that same name.

My dad's sister married a man who shares the same name as my dad.

My dad has a cousin who married a man who shares the same name as my mom's brother. My mom's brother was married to a woman who shares the same name as the previously mentioned cousin.

Going another generation back, my mom's uncle shared the same name as my dad's aunt's husband.

ALL (DE)'s mother, sister and daughter all have the same first name. They seem to get on alright with it.


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This is not our problem.

You're still talking.

This is not our problem.

Hmmm...Das ist nicht unser Problem.

No?

Let's try this...este não é o nosso problema.

(Editor's note: All translations are Google's fault if they're wrong.
Ok, partially my fault for not learning German or Portuguese, sure, but still I blame Google.)

Work Rant:

Manager emails one of my techs and I that they opened a ticket. Great. It went to someone else that's not in our department. "Well they're not even in the office!" Fine, I'll have someone take a look at it, but this is more than likely not going to get solved immediately.

This email is what just got sent back to the manager by my technician, verbatim (names removed).

This Is Not Our Problem wrote:


Thanks, [Manager]. Just got off the phone with her.

This could be one of two things:

1. The people’s house she is at just changed internet service providers, so the physical location of the router may have changed. These thin clients have a very weak antennae to pick up Wifi signals, so it may just have been out of range.
2. The Wifi adapter on the thin client went out. This would explain why no Wifi broadcasts are being displayed from the thin client.

She is going to test this when she gets home by seeing if she can pick up her home Wifi’s broadcast without issue. If she can’t, then we know the Wifi adapter on the thin client went out and she’ll just need to use an Ethernet connection. If she can pick up her home Wifi broadcast, then we know the location she was at previously just moved the Wifi router out of range for the thin client’s weak antennae to pick up.

Thank you,
[Technician]

We specifically tell the people who have received this particular model of computer (it's a thin client, for those who care) that even though it *can* connect wirelessly, it's really bad at it. We don't recommend trying to use it to do anything with any reliability. It's so bad we don't even buy models with wireless capability anymore, just to force them to use a wired connection.

So...

1) We've told you not to trust the wireless on these things. Repeatedly. For years. This is no longer our problem.
2) You're at someone else's house, trying to use their wifi. Your company's IT department does not support your friends' and families' home internet. We don't even support YOUR home internet.
3) You work from home. Getting connected is on you. Always has been.
4) My tech had to spend 25 minutes investigating and reporting on this. That's too much time.
5) The tech found out from the user that she's going back and forth from her house to this friend's house to do dog-sitting. And she's taking her computer and dual monitor set up every time, going back and forth. And apparently her manager knew about this ahead of time.

And yet they still seem to think this is IT's problem.


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The infant has said three words: hey (which she will announce repeatedly until you reply in kind), Mama, and as of a couple days ago, Dada.

I don't care how low your life gets, hearing it first person just makes you love life with all your heart for a while.

I have a great family.

Things have been rough...Rougher than rough, frankly. But it's worth it.


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Living Vanykrye's Life:

Lab Instructions (In a giant red font): Do not do this lab. It will not work in the classroom environment. This is an informational reference to show you how we created the data you are about to use. Once again, DO NOT DO THIS LAB.

Bug comes in today: "I tried to do this lab and it failed."
And it got escalated all the way up to me, because the student insists she cannot proceed with the course and will demand her money back if she can't do the lab. To set up the data. That's already in the application because we seeded it there.


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So wait, what happened to the yellow lab!

Oh god, it's Old Yeller all over again!!


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I got off work at 630 today instead of 745. Naturally I drank every beer in my immediate radius in celebration and enjoyed one of the greatest endings I know of


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I worked from 6:30-5 today. I was the last one back.

But, the steps are built, except for the caps and scrubbing them down.


Next up we get to build a gigantic patio, with four different patterns and wrapping about halfway around a large suburban house.

So I'm probably going to be here for the rest of the season.


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From GothBard, so totally not my fault!

Never get in a pillow fight with Death.

Why Not?:
You can't handle the Reaper cushions.


Oh! This will be fun! They need people to work at this haunted hotel! Nothing bad could happen here!


Expendable Character # 38 wrote:
Oh! This will be fun! They need people to work at this haunted hotel! Nothing bad could happen here!

It can't be worse than a regular hotel.


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Actually, I think I would prefer to work at a haunted hotel. After all, ghosts aren't real, but, unfortunately, people are.


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Well, after the disaster that was last month, I feel better. Got a new PC, trying to find a post-uni programming job (though I do like my current work as IT support), and am trying to get my projects forward. I also finished up an AD&D second edition Maztica game (I was the DM), and as per a deal with my roommate, he'll run Spelljammer for our group in return.


~finds a note~ Huh... It says "Please clean the dark basement. Here are some matches to light your way, Vidmaster7". Such nice red ink and it is still wet too.


Expendable Character # 38 wrote:
~finds a note~ Huh... It says "Please clean the dark basement. Here are some matches to light your way, Vidmaster7". Such nice red ink and it is still wet too.

Sounds like a great job for Vidmaster7 to do. I hope he remembers that the third step down is loose.


NobodysHome wrote:

Living Vanykrye's Life:

Lab Instructions (In a giant red font): Do not do this lab. It will not work in the classroom environment. This is an informational reference to show you how we created the data you are about to use. Once again, DO NOT DO THIS LAB.

Bug comes in today: "I tried to do this lab and it failed."
And it got escalated all the way up to me, because the student insists she cannot proceed with the course and will demand her money back if she can't do the lab. To set up the data. That's already in the application because we seeded it there.

Check if that big red font hadn't covered/displaced skip lab/next button.


NobodysHome wrote:

From GothBard, so totally not my fault!

Never get in a pillow fight with Death.

** spoiler omitted **

Uh... GothBard is secretly gran?!


Uh, I planned to write something... But by the time I read the overnight posts I forgot what I wanted to write.


Drejk wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:

From GothBard, so totally not my fault!

Never get in a pillow fight with Death.

** spoiler omitted **

Uh... GothBard is secretly gran?!

Oh no! My secret is revealed!! I must escape.

*throws smoke bomb, runs off into the night Batman style*


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Ah, I remember now!

I got some Monterey Jack and its actually good.
So, America does produce some decent cheese.


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Yes, we sometimes do. Also, an important thing to remember, "American Cheese" (which is nasty) was invented by a Canadian. So don't blame us for it. A different Canadian also invented the "Hawaiian Pizza", which is also nasty, so that's not on us either.


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In Ancient Rome there were four types of poison.

Poison I would kill you quickly and painlessly.
Poison II would kill you in about an hour, and cause quite a bit of pain.
Poison III would take several days of sheer agony to kill you.
Poison IV would just make you kind of itchy.


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A man is being taken to the gallows to be executed. The executioner asked him "Do you have any last request?" The man thought for a moment and said "Just one. A high five." The executioner considered for a moment, and then left him hanging.


This is a job for Minecraft players! Time to get to work on your redstone work!


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Batman: "Alfred, fill the bathtub."
Alfred: "Sir? What's a 'htub'?"

Scarab Sages

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Vanykrye wrote:

This is not our problem.

You're still talking.

This is not our problem.

Hmmm...Das ist nicht unser Problem.

No?

Let's try this...este não é o nosso problema.

(Editor's note: All translations are Google's fault if they're wrong.
Ok, partially my fault for not learning German or Portuguese, sure, but still I blame Google.)

** spoiler omitted **...

uurg


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We'll be going from 68 degrees yesterday to a high of 48 today.

The one constant is the unceasing wind.


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Its absolutely amazing how different it feels coming in to work when the boss isn't here.


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....
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..... BASEMENT BAD!
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Freehold DM wrote:
Its absolutely amazing how different it feels coming in to work when the boss isn't here.

We had that with one of the VPs in our company (she's now retired). Everyone under her simply worked better when she wasn't around. They simply weren't as stressed out.


Vanykrye wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Its absolutely amazing how different it feels coming in to work when the boss isn't here.
We had that with one of the VPs in our company (she's now retired). Everyone under her simply worked better when she wasn't around. They simply weren't as stressed out.

indeed.

I'm still mentally dealing with what work is going to look like with two people leaving, and a third looking at the door. Said third is going on vacation tomorrow. I dont know if she will be coming back.

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