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degenerasian wrote:You've all done this.. say you go on a business trip to Vegas and hand in your expanse claim to Accounts Payable. Do you want your claim delayed because some kid is arguing about internal Finance Department procedures you don't give a shit about and won't process it? You just want your money back.
Which is from Perspective A. From Perspective B, where there's no point in having procedures without following them and where people consistently hand in miscoded and incomplete expenses and where a piece of the job is preventing fraud which necessitates steps you may not care for, those questions and delays can be necessary.
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mister d wrote:
degenerasian wrote:You've all done this.. say you go on a business trip to Vegas and hand in your expanse claim to Accounts Payable. Do you want your claim delayed because some kid is arguing about internal Finance Department procedures you don't give a shit about and won't process it? You just want your money back.
Which is from Perspective A. From Perspective B, where there's no point in having procedures without following them and where people consistently hand in miscoded and incomplete expenses and where a piece of the job is preventing fraud which necessitates steps you may not care for, those questions and delays can be necessary.
Yup that's true. I told my manager friend fault is on both sides. "This is what you're going to get from millennials. You have to adapt too and listen"
But it's circumstance and timing too. From her story, the guy was arguing internal processes like software and databases. A couple of years ago, she replaced a really old guy who retired and was still using ledgers! So she's already made a bunch of changes and got company buy-in, everyone likes the new changes. Like believe it or not, we finally got electronic time sheets! She's not going to go back to the execs again so soon for anything and everything.
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Do you bill customers by the hours worked by employees? If not, there's no reason to make employees do time sheets at all. That shit's just busy work.

Update - unless employees are hourly. That's a reasonable reason too.
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We are salary. Our timesheet is a substraction. If timesheet is blank I worked everyday this month.

This month I took oct 5 and oct 14 off.

Minus 2 vacation days
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Is it because the pool of applicants is getting younger and younger that people feel the need to label any young person as a "god damn millennial"?

I don't dig the idea of that. I know plenty of lazy ass 20-30 year olds and I know plenty of busting their ass 20-30 year olds.

By that same notion, I know lots of hard working cats in their 40s-60s, and I also know a lot of motherfuckers got paid 35$ an hour to sit on their ass at a GM factory all day playing cards for 25 years before they got their pension.

Classifying people by age is as stupid as classifying them by skin color but no one seems to give a shit. People are people. Everyone is different. Perhaps you're more tuned to it because of a personal experience or two, but it sounds to me like you got a couple of low level bullshits that came in hoping for an easy gig and it stuck with you.
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rass wrote:My office mate just received a call from the receptionist. Apparently a package had been delivered for him. The full extent of her call was:
You have a small package.
He barely kept it together before she got off the line, and I'm still gigging.
Today she left him another:
Hi there it's ---. You have a large package.
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is this all on speaker phone?
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degenerasian wrote:is this all on speaker phone?
He's working from home today. She left him a voice mail and he emailed it to me.
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somewhat off topic, but.... I don't want to say morale is low around work, but with two floors full of cubes, the winner of the Halloween contest was the only guy that decorated.
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In my NC office, we have an open seating space. Not even full cubes. The guy who sits right behind me, an older engineer, farts out loud at least a few times a day. I don't think I've ever worked with an unabashed farter.
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Shirley wrote:In my NC office, we have an open seating space. Not even full cubes. The guy who sits right behind me, an older engineer, farts out loud at least a few times a day. I don't think I've ever worked with an unabashed farter.
Does anybody ever call him on it?
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sancarlos wrote:
Shirley wrote:In my NC office, we have an open seating space. Not even full cubes. The guy who sits right behind me, an older engineer, farts out loud at least a few times a day. I don't think I've ever worked with an unabashed farter.
Does anybody ever call him on it?
No, not that I know of. If they smelled, I might. So far, it's been safe.
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When I was in grad school, there was an older student in one of my classes who burped all the time. I was on a group project with him one time. A woman in the group lashed out at him for it. It was awkward.
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The other day I was in the locker room, getting ready for the bike commute home, and our Chief Scientific Officer came in, and he was wearing the full-on Lederhosen/Oktoberfest outfit.

I asked him "What's the special occasion?", and he looked at me with a puzzled expression, and said "Special Occasion?". Digging myself in deeper, I said "You know...for the Lederhosen?". His answer was "Well, I am from Germany".

Yeah...I gave up after that.
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Shirley wrote:I really don't think the current youngs are any worse than any previous generations.
Yeah I'm not sure of any previous generation has been raised on something as distinctively "new" as the internet. Were kids who were raised after the first televisions or talkies this annoying?
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The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) unwittingly added the entire enlisted force to their internal distro list and a Staff Sergeant (one rank below mine) sent out an email....to all 252,000+ of us worldwide.

And then followed it up with an apology email...to all 252,000+ of us.

It's pretty funny.
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Johnnie wrote:The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) unwittingly added the entire enlisted force to their internal distro list and a Staff Sergeant (one rank below mine) sent out an email....to all 252,000+ of us worldwide.

And then followed it up with an apology email...to all 252,000+ of us.

It's pretty funny.

was the original email super confidential or a dirty joke?
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A simple email that said "test test." Word on Reddit was his office was slammed with phone calls and thousands of response emails.
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WEHT "Hello World" ?
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Someone appears to have gotten blood all over one of the handles to the outer door into our suite, and then on the handle for the secondary door leading from the waiting area to the actual office area. Exciting!
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rass wrote:Someone appears to have gotten blood all over one of the handles to the outer door into our suite, and then on the handle for the secondary door leading from the waiting area to the actual office area. Exciting!
Where the fuck do you work?
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I fucking know.

I'm just rooting for it to have been like the UPS guy with an unnoticed paper cut or something....
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rass wrote:I fucking know.

I'm just rooting for it to have been like the UPS guy with an unnoticed paper cut or something....
I'm rooting for it to have been The IT guy after finger blasting Janice from accounting while she is on the rag.
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Fridge handle too!
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I just sent out the following to all employees, with pictures attached.
I’m just checking in to make sure everyone is OK. Someone appears to have lost a good deal of blood on one of the door handles leading into the office waiting area, the handle of the door leading into the actual office, and the fridge door handle. If it’s not yours, you may want to wash your hands very well if you’ve recently grasped any of the aforementioned door handles. If it’s your blood, perhaps a band-aid or tourniquet would be in order? And maybe do the rest of us a solid and thoroughly clean up after yourself. Hopefully you can find some bleach-based cleaners under the kitchen sink.
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Our part-time, afternoon receptionist says "(t)here is a good possibility that it was" her. She says she has very "pure" blood, and just had a "routine blood work" come back clean last month.
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rass wrote:I just sent out the following to all employees, with pictures attached.
I’m just checking in to make sure everyone is OK. Someone appears to have lost a good deal of blood on one of the door handles leading into the office waiting area, the handle of the door leading into the actual office, and the fridge door handle. If it’s not yours, you may want to wash your hands very well if you’ve recently grasped any of the aforementioned door handles. If it’s your blood, perhaps a band-aid or tourniquet would be in order? And maybe do the rest of us a solid and thoroughly clean up after yourself. Hopefully you can find some bleach-based cleaners under the kitchen sink.
That was brilliantly passive aggressive.
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You're going to feel like such a dick when you're the last one to hear about (coworker)'s murder.
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BSF21 wrote:
rass wrote:I just sent out the following to all employees, with pictures attached.
I’m just checking in to make sure everyone is OK. Someone appears to have lost a good deal of blood on one of the door handles leading into the office waiting area, the handle of the door leading into the actual office, and the fridge door handle. If it’s not yours, you may want to wash your hands very well if you’ve recently grasped any of the aforementioned door handles. If it’s your blood, perhaps a band-aid or tourniquet would be in order? And maybe do the rest of us a solid and thoroughly clean up after yourself. Hopefully you can find some bleach-based cleaners under the kitchen sink.
That was brilliantly passive aggressive.
I think it was far from passive aggressive. Presumably his name was attached to the email.
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mister d wrote:You're going to feel like such a dick when you're the last one to hear about (coworker)'s murder.
Maybe his whole office is a construct of his mind and he's the killer? Killer's keep nice closets.
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A_B wrote:
BSF21 wrote:
rass wrote:I just sent out the following to all employees, with pictures attached.
I’m just checking in to make sure everyone is OK. Someone appears to have lost a good deal of blood on one of the door handles leading into the office waiting area, the handle of the door leading into the actual office, and the fridge door handle. If it’s not yours, you may want to wash your hands very well if you’ve recently grasped any of the aforementioned door handles. If it’s your blood, perhaps a band-aid or tourniquet would be in order? And maybe do the rest of us a solid and thoroughly clean up after yourself. Hopefully you can find some bleach-based cleaners under the kitchen sink.
That was brilliantly passive aggressive.
I think it was far from passive aggressive. Presumably his name was attached to the email.
Feigning concern for the asshole who got blood everywhere makes it passive-aggressive. Though the situation probably called for it.
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A_B wrote:Maybe his whole office is a construct of his mind and he's the killer? Killer's keep nice closets.
Nice fucking apostrophe.

(This totally validates my decision to avoid Rass despite close proximity.)
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^:(


I was going for blisteringly sarcastic, but I guess that plays into passive aggressive.

And now I don't want to use the bathroom because I'll have to walk past her desk and have a verbal discussion about it rather than over email.
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Is there a missing piece where the receptionist having pure blood inside her makes her think it must be her blood outside her?
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rass wrote:Our part-time, afternoon receptionist says "(t)here is a good possibility that it was" her. She says she has very "pure" blood, and just had a "routine blood work" come back clean last month.
Did she reply all?
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A_B wrote:
BSF21 wrote:
rass wrote:I just sent out the following to all employees, with pictures attached.
I’m just checking in to make sure everyone is OK. Someone appears to have lost a good deal of blood on one of the door handles leading into the office waiting area, the handle of the door leading into the actual office, and the fridge door handle. If it’s not yours, you may want to wash your hands very well if you’ve recently grasped any of the aforementioned door handles. If it’s your blood, perhaps a band-aid or tourniquet would be in order? And maybe do the rest of us a solid and thoroughly clean up after yourself. Hopefully you can find some bleach-based cleaners under the kitchen sink.
That was brilliantly passive aggressive.
I think it was far from passive aggressive. Presumably his name was attached to the email.
He offered her a tourniquet....I'll accept "blisteringly sarcastic" I guess.
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Good thing she a pure blood. Wouldn't want Muggle blood being passed around.
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Yeah, I'm gonna need a LOT more info on this.

Why is she bleeding on everything handle related?
How is she unaware?
Did she clean the shit up?
WTF is "pure" about her blood?
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mister d wrote:
A_B wrote:Maybe his whole office is a construct of his mind and he's the killer? Killer's keep nice closets.
Nice fucking apostrophe.

(This totally validates my decision to avoid Rass despite close proximity.)
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