For my own sanity, I generally assume these things are honest mistakes.
Also assuming your boss is reasonably intelligent they noticed and know it was at the least careless and at the worst a total dick move that reflects poorly on the sender, by you, either way.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 12:08 (eight years ago) link
I'm reading too much into yr post tbph
― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 12:52 (eight years ago) link
was working with an IT guy on a project that was meant to be completed yesterday. 3/4 of the way through the left for the day without any warning leaving me unable to proceed. he did similarly last week when be sent an email suggesting that something i had delivered required additional attention (turned out not to be the case which he later stated) then immediately left for the weekend without notice again abandoning a task halfway to completion.
i don't know whether to be pissed or to admire his advanced indifference
― all my friends are vampires (art), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
the main guy i work with does the exact same thing. it's friday at 11am. he emails me something, and within 30 seconds i email him back with an extremely simple question (like what is so-and-so's contact info or whatevever). monday afternoon, he emails me back with the answer.
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 12:57 (eight years ago) link
Working with a small team to get an inquiry form places on relevant website pages to separate their inquiries from sales lead-generation stuff.
ME: OK, here's the form draft on the test tier, please test and make sure it's OK.PERSON 1: I don't see the notifications in the test mailbox.ME: They aren't going there, they should be in [team mailbox].PERSON 1: Oh, OK. Meanwhile, why does the form on this page [on test tier] look different from these three [on live tier].IT PERSON: Those last three are live. Only your first link shows what the news pages will look like. The new form will not have the dropdown that that form does.PERSON 1: Oh, OK, I see.PERSON 1'S SUPERVISOR: Hey can we change the dropdown on these three [live] pages to say X,Y and Z instead of what's there?ME: JESUS CHRIST I'M GOING TO MURDER YOU ALL
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 13:01 (eight years ago) link
wrote a blog post about editorial judgement when working at pace - the main thrust was "after the style guide and user research, have a reason for why you did something which you could explain if someone questioned it". colleague who is now "blog editor" probably because he can't actually do the non-blog work we are paid to do, mails it back with loads of suggested edits and added in text, like the worst type of editing possible from a person who's never edited anything in their life, changed words for no reason etc.
so glad i am leaving this department, i accept that people have diff skills but the last few months in my current role has just been this awful streamlining of everyone's tasks that completely ignores strengths and weaknesses. i mean it goes as far as being unable to get more work in a week's "sprint" because the system is set-up for people to plod through the average amount or less. prob the most affable boss i've ever had but ultimately a frustrating environment as a result.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 13:28 (eight years ago) link
you're leaving in 2.5 weeks. now is not the time to start rewriting code that i will have to support when you're gone.
especially don't 'optimise' the code that i told you was delicate and not specced anywhere (the designers and original coders have all left) in a way that breaks the acceptance tests and wastes an afternoon.
just leave it. spend that last couple of weeks documenting your stuff.
― koogs, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
pretty sure my constantly-whispering-to-self coworker is maybe a month away from writing a manifesto
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:19 (eight years ago) link
what does she whisper?
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:24 (eight years ago) link
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YxcwkJbC558/hqdefault.jpg
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:25 (eight years ago) link
it's a he and he whispers quiet rants to customers as he's typing friendly emails to them, or quietly ranting to his wife after he gets off a phone call with her
he is nice to me but all i picture is what he says to himself about me when i leave
dude is majorly unbalanced & perma-angry. even a friendly greeting is loud & intense
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
"is it really possible that we don't as yet have a thread about DAVID LYNCH'S DUNE?"
― Heel of Fortune (WilliamC), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
, he said, in an angry whisper
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
and can i just
this guy badmouths his wife to anyone who will listen (me not included, i have made it clear that he can keep that shit to himself). i have never met her but i feel a weird protective kinship because FUCK this guy for real
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link
yeah, the guy i sit next to starts every other story with "if you ever get married, here's what's gonna happen..."
"what's gonna happen" is inevitably a series of terrible things
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
he had a long rant yesterday about the *way* she asks him for help
._.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
That sort of reminds me of the security guard we had who would complain about his child support payments ALL THE TIME. I am not feeling any sympathy for you, dude.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 23:53 (eight years ago) link
LOL I knew what PhilDs simpsons gif was gonna be before i clicked on it :D
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 01:08 (eight years ago) link
i hope i never get as dug in inside my own head-bunker as this guy, like he is literally coming to work in a mental foxhole
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 01:11 (eight years ago) link
Someone I have to run a draft of a PRINTED MAGAZINE, ON PAPER, which they know it is, as they have been doing this for years, sent back the "correction" that the hyperlinks weren't clickable
I don't even I mean how do I begin to what the fuck is this?
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 02:19 (eight years ago) link
Maybe they're like Salieri in Amadeus, they can just pick up a sheet and see the links get clicked in their head.
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 02:43 (eight years ago) link
had no MEETINGS in my life two years ago.
since the 'joint venture,' meetings WHICH HAVE NOTHING FOR ME up the ass.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 02:46 (eight years ago) link
tbf, any meeting that DID have something for me up the ass is still not one I'd be wanting to attend
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 03:01 (eight years ago) link
On a similar kick to VGs muttering workmate, the guy opposite me (who is actually a v close friend outside of work - I got him the job here) has these weird tics I've never noticed in my 15 years of knowing the guy.
He constantly makes water-drop "poik!" noises with his mouth, and blows raspberries, and sighs and sniffs... and today, he has taken to *growling like an angry dog". I'm... more than a little perturbed.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 03:29 (eight years ago) link
like not "grrrr" like you'd do expressing distaste, actually making doglike grrrwwlllll sounds. WTF dude.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 03:30 (eight years ago) link
Said workmate has just put a customer on hold mid-support-call to answer his personal mobile and have achat to his wife about dog surgery. WTF.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 06:18 (eight years ago) link
maybe he's having the growls surgically removed from himself and inserted back into his dog?
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 06:28 (eight years ago) link
lol
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 06:29 (eight years ago) link
Two people in this office are on a conference call which the rest of us aren't on, so the rest of us are listening to approx 40% of a conversation, in stereo, at extra speaking-down-microphone-obliviously-while-wearing-headphones volume
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 09:11 (eight years ago) link
xps oh lordy @ Trayce's coworker (yes, I have outed myself as posting to a thread without reading it)
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 09:12 (eight years ago) link
Trayce's co-worker:
http://i.imgur.com/I2oXi1G.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 13:42 (eight years ago) link
Conversations with my co-worker require so much set-up that I feel like I have to establish that we are employees in a law firm, working on litigation.
One simple question -- Should I make Document X part of Exhibit 8? -- took over 10 fucking minutes to slog through.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
I established early on that we were talking about Exhibit 8. I had Exhibit 8 displayed on my monitor. After SO MUCH TALKING I said, again, "What I'm asking is, should Document X be part of the exhibit?"
He said, "What exhibit?"
― Je55e, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:59 (eight years ago) link
was just in the bathroom, empty except for me. dude comes in, walks past the two unused urinals, proceeds to piss in a stall, door open, with the seat down. thanks, dirtbag
― goole, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
"Exhibit 8 - the one we have been talking about. Should this document be part of that exhibit?"
"Uh, well -- I don't understand what you're asking."
I swear to God I'm not exaggerating or making this up.
xp sorry I might stop posting soon
― Je55e, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
"hey, there's an opportunity to make a men's restroom even nastier. i should act on that."
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
je55e i'm going to make an executive call and just advise that document X should be part of Exhibit 8. if someone complains just say that earlier this morning you heard notice of an executive call saying that it was ok.
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link
I feel like I have to establish that we are employees in a law firm, working on litigation.
I recognize this surreal feeling. I'm at school, but our lab has no lab manager and lots of undergrads helping out, so the grad students do a lot of admin and managing people's work. The worst offender is a fellow grad student who has been in a lab an entire year. Next time she says 'I'm confused right now' I might start with 'We are grad students, running a lab'.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link
Backing Karl here, good call imo
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link
the state of toilets in offices really is a damning indictment of human behaviour
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link
I honestly thought he was fucking with me when he said "Which exhibit?" I thought he was joking. It was hard not to get exasperated and whiny.
Karl, when things got really fucking stupid I said, You know, I think it makes more sense to just make it a separate exhibit, but I still had to finish explaining what we had been talking about THE WHOLE TIME.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link
FUCK what a way to start the day. Looking forward to the actually complicated discussion we have to have soon.
Thanks, thread, for letting me blow off steam.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:07 (eight years ago) link
who the fuck stands up and pisses into a toilet that has the seat down? for fuck's sake, you can kick it upright with your foot if you really have to.
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:16 (eight years ago) link
we have a thread where all u inaccurate pissing worriers are wrong on this already
― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:17 (eight years ago) link
then again, I did that once and it failed to stay up, I leaned down quickly to catch it with my hand so there wouldn't be a huge CLUNK noise, and the seat somehow hit me in the dick
I am the world's most coordinated man, though
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:17 (eight years ago) link
naccurate pissing worriers
NO ONE CAN DEFY THE LAWS OF PHYSICS(except for j.c., RIP)there's gonna be splashback unless your piss has superpowers
― 1997 ball boy (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
I leaned down quickly to catch it with my hand so there wouldn't be a huge CLUNK noise, and the seat somehow hit me in the dick
braggin'
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:43 (eight years ago) link
:/
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
fucking lol'ing at my desk at that story.
personally, i don't care if the seat hitting the toilet makes a sonic boom so loud it will blow out all the windows in a three-block radius and permanently deafen several innocent bystanders; i am *not* touching the underside of a work toilet seat.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
i had a pang of sympathy when i thought maybe he was preventing the world from seeing something weird about his junk.
but nobody was at the urinals. and why did he leave the stall door open.
https://cdn2.scratch.mit.edu/get_image/project/16112046_144x108.png?v=1398475700.0
― goole, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 16:43 (eight years ago) link