They did wind up fixing it.
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 December 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
god I've just remembered I have a nice plant in my office and the last time someone mentioned watering the office plants a few months ago
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 December 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link
Oh that’s terrible
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 4 December 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
rip
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Friday, 4 December 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
Rotting indoor plant
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 4 December 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
guilty lol
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Friday, 4 December 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
god I've just remembered I have a nice plant in my office and the last time someone mentioned watering the office plants a few months ago― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Friday, December 4, 2020 1:54 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Friday, December 4, 2020 1:54 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
A coworker who had a desk next to mine had a plant. When I went to the office last summer to get some stuff, there was a huge brown stain on his desk where the plant used to live.
― silverfish, Monday, 7 December 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
did...he shit on the plant?
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 December 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
I don't tend to judge people by their Zoom backgrounds, but I met a former colleague last week, we were pretty decent work friends, and he's a pretty cool guy. So when we decided to catch up on Zoom, I tried not to quietly judge the fact that he had a framed print of "The Singing Butler" behind him. I mean, I know we have a lot in common, but also have very different lives, so he's allowed to have different taste in art.
Thank goodness he revealed he was staying with his mother-in-law due to some renovations at home, and I was not the first person to comment on the print that day, so he was going to take it down for future meetings.
― colette, Monday, 7 December 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
I'd never have brought it up! I used to have a colleague who loved Vettriano, nothing worse than having to be polite about someone else's bad taste.
― ledge, Monday, 7 December 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
biggest pet peeve is sending people an Outlook invite and 25% of them insisting they don't have it when I can see on their calendar they did get it and either accepted it and don't know how to access the calendar, or didn't accept it and it's still sitting in their email
it's because we don't actually teach people how to use OUtlook before they start so some figure it out, some don't
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 December 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
I only mentioned it after he mentioned they were staying with MIL and he had to do all his calls in her spare room
― colette, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 13:07 (three years ago) link
Often I'm reminded of grad school where I took classes in tv broadcasting and we had a unit on "visual perception and cognition and why from certain angles, things in the background appear to be sprouting out of people's heads"
this happened this morning -- my co-worker had a plant on a shelf above his head but the angle of the webcam made it look like he was wearing a jaunty hat like the Pied Piper
― sarahell, Thursday, 10 December 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
i am so burnt out my chest is in knots every morning before daily class. gotta get to January. they have me training people on New Year's Day ffs
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:40 (three years ago) link
jesus, I know sometimes it's easy to forget you're muted, big whoop, but I have heard the same individual for four consecutive days eating, muttering to themselves, breathing heavily, belching, etc
I've stopped asking them to mute and just started manually silencing them. i don't even have to look to know who it is
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 December 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
you're *not muted
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 December 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
we are supposed to assess learners who are not up to speed so we can stay late for an hour a day and give them a one on one learning plan.
yeah, this is a class of 45 people, I'm not doing that 4 days into class. everybody passes
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 December 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link
do we think the ideas in this thread are likely to come to pass or is this guy full of shit?
I've spoken to 1,500+ people about remote work in the last 9 months A few predictions of what is likely to emerge before 2030[ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍— Chris Herd (@chris_herd) December 4, 2020
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:37 (three years ago) link
Varying degrees of bullshit depending on the prediction. I have optimistic takes that align with some of his. I don’t think no-code stuff has any particular correlation w remote work. Most people suck at written communication but I’d be delighted if we all just started communicating in memos. I think lots of places will wind up offices with hotel desks, private offices for a few who have no wish to work from home, conference rooms with higher-end video conference setups, and a few middle managers who are way too squirrelly about what people are up to all day. I think many places will continue to expect most people to be available during usual business hours. I think a lot of people miss some things about the office and a few people would never want to keep working from home.
― is right unfortunately (silby), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
it's been interesting to watch this shake out in my 23-person company. I'm one of the few who basically never comes in, there's a niche for me and I filled it. Not everyone has that option, but some do.
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:48 (three years ago) link
Im optimistic that wfh coming in to the civil service here (and hub offices as another, linked, covid measure) will be good for work/life and especially geographic balancing measures, tbh
Longer term, who knows.
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:48 (three years ago) link
if I'm allowed to keep wfhing after all this - which there really is no good reason for me not to be able to, as an example my colleague who I share a work load with was on the sick for 3 months during this and I was able to do the work of 2 people from home, why can't I do my work of one person from home indefinitely? - my issue will be convincing my wife to move somewhere else in the province that's not as expensive as Vancouver (everywhere is pretty expensive but we're the pinnacle). probably won't be successful
― Babby's Yed Revisited (jim in vancouver), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:52 (three years ago) link
I certainly have no interest in leaving my general chunk of the city but if a bunch of squares want to move to the suburbs and do their techco jobs from there and never drive into town again by all means they should.
― is right unfortunately (silby), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:56 (three years ago) link
ROASTED
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 12 December 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link
silby i think you’ll find those are also known as “world class people”
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 12 December 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link
I’m world class at laying down
― is right unfortunately (silby), Saturday, 12 December 2020 01:29 (three years ago) link
During work
🤖personal RPA: robotic process automation will transform work for individuals No-code tools that enable workers to built bots that automate menial parts of their roles will be huge— Chris Herd (@chris_herd) December 4, 2020
I don't think that's how this ends: "I've got a bot to do my job, I'll just lie back and enjoy that regular paycheck".
― timber euros (seandalai), Saturday, 12 December 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
I'm being trained in RPA now. Goal is to have bot do the tedious, mindless data entry/mouse clicks part of my job, not the whole thing. Or so they say…No but seriously it'll free up more time to do the analytical aspects of my job.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 12 December 2020 03:03 (three years ago) link
lol I was gonna say, dumping Squarespace form data into Google Sheets is really helping me out
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Saturday, 12 December 2020 03:05 (three years ago) link
just thinking out loud, perhaps a period of time where you have given the Training department zero breaks between classes, and we still can't meet face to face with learners, is not the time to decommission the customer service console, add an entirely new tool AND case management system in a period of months.
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 December 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
people are asking me questions about the new tool which I tailored and I have to keep replying I'M TEACHING FORTY MOTHERFUCKING PEOPLE RIGHT NOW, I'LL GET BACK TO YOU ON BREAK
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 December 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
Getting a nice bit of reading done today and plans for a walk look likely
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Monday, 14 December 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
I work for the US federal govt and our office, which is home for several statistical agencies, just told us they are rearranging the entire building and won't reopen until the end of 2022. It looks like we'll be moving to some sort of hoteling once it reopens. Already working on a full time home office.
― Heez, Monday, 14 December 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link
that helps. I finally have a desk and a headset, but my old place was so tiny I did work out of my bed and....yeah, easy to be unmotivated there.
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 December 2020 14:50 (three years ago) link
adding to my aggravation today - I open our training modules at the beginning of each day so I can share them as an application in MS Teams. However - the third party software that the modules are built on time you out for inactivity like any software. The modules used to also be built on this same software, but last year we changed the modules to a new software, while retaining the original third-party software for the place they're stored.
So now, the system CAN'T TELL when you're actively using one of the modules. You can be clicking around for 40 minutes in the module and suddenly a big warning message pops up saying "You have Been Inactive, click Continue to prevent closure of the module". And you get 15 fucking seconds to click continue or it closes out the module AND the place the modules are stored! you have to reload BOTH.
AND, the warning message doesn't *pop up* when it happens, so if you are temporarily outside the module doing a demonstration, you won't see the message, and you'll come back and everything is closed out. and chances are, the same thing happened to your class.
so you wind up having to reload everything and telling the huge class to reload everything. multiple times a day.
when I bring it up I'm told "this is how it works everywhere" (narrator: no, it isn't).
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 December 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
Decided against the walk, looks peaky out there
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Monday, 14 December 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
lol
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 December 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
Right or wrong, that guy's predictions only address a tiny slice of "work." I know this is the wfh thread but the class divide here is so frightening, and only poised to get even more dystopian unless we Do Something(tm) to stop it.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 14 December 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
that guy's predictions only address a tiny slice of "work."
seriously!! in a weird way things are more resembling my images of the turn of the previous century in cities, where there were fancy people that had fancy homes and there was the class of people that delivered things to them. It's kinda like the only thing missing is people tossing their liquid waste products out the windows, though I doubt the new new world order will eliminate indoor plumbing
― sarahell, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
― is right unfortunately (silby), Friday, December 11, 2020 3:56 PM (five days ago)
I am hoping for this as well
― sarahell, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
snow storms just don't hit the same when you're already working from home :-(
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:52 (three years ago) link
anybody got this on their bingo card?
"hey I was away, can you repeat what you just went over?"
"you...mean the last five minutes?"
some people literally type "brb" every 2 minutes
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link
meanwhile I get to hold my peepee until break
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 21:55 (three years ago) link
Just quit a job that I started in June. Never went to the office. Never met any of my colleagues.
Refreshing, and weird.
― mother should I build the walmart (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
Congrats
― is right unfortunately (silby), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
I hate sometimes when the business pressure from leadership clashes with my humanitarian side. Disclosure, I was a very toxic person to work with in 2006 - I'm amazed more people didn't quit (if only I'd had Effexor then). Had to spend years undoing the corporate programming ("work is your top priority") and remember my compassionate side.
i'm glad because there was one learner who was late each day and I asked her if there were any tech issues we should be aware of, and she tells me her husband is on dialysis and requires daily assistance, and that she was discharged from the hospital for heart failure the day before training.
yeah, i'm not marking this person late anymore. I couldn't have known, of course, but man, people are putting themselves through hell right now just to obtain gainful employment since the gov't has abandoned them.
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 December 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link
i took a clandestine nap this morning from 11-11:45. no emails. led a meeting at 1 that went well and i got compliments. good day lol.
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Thursday, 17 December 2020 22:14 (three years ago) link
Heh i napped through half of a few days earlier this year. Work naps ftw
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 December 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link