CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
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All systems down. Dead in the water. This feels like 25 years ago.
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I've recently helped take over the role of a colleague who resigned. As part of that I get his e-mails. Just got a notice that he signed up for a dating site. So far as I know, he is still...attached. I only checked the email because it was a payment that I didn't recognize and might need to be paid as part of a recurring cost.
None of my business, but a peril of using your work email for personal reasons.
None of my business, but a peril of using your work email for personal reasons.
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Why do you get his emails? That doesn't seem right. Is that common?
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I took over his role in the interim. I don't have all of his old e-mails but I get new emails and this was linked to an account that he hasn't updated yet. However he made payments for work so I needed to figure out if reimbursement was needed.degenerasian wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 7:04 am Why do you get his emails? That doesn't seem right. Is that common?
I do think that this is pretty common when someone leaves so that work doesn't fall through.
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I see. We don't have that policy here. If you email a person no longer here, you get an auto reply, this person is no longer here, please email so and so from now on.A_B wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 7:10 amI took over his role in the interim. I don't have all of his old e-mails but I get new emails and this was linked to an account that he hasn't updated yet. However he made payments for work so I needed to figure out if reimbursement was needed.degenerasian wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 7:04 am Why do you get his emails? That doesn't seem right. Is that common?
I do think that this is pretty common when someone leaves so that work doesn't fall through.
Kung Fu movies are like porn. There's 1 on 1, then 2 on 1, then a group scene..
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My wife had a similar experience. A guy who reported to her left for another job, and she had to sort through his emails looking for something. She had the added twist of the guy dating another employee who also reported to my wife, and they got engaged shortly after.A_B wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 6:41 am I've recently helped take over the role of a colleague who resigned. As part of that I get his e-mails. Just got a notice that he signed up for a dating site. So far as I know, he is still...attached. I only checked the email because it was a payment that I didn't recognize and might need to be paid as part of a recurring cost.
None of my business, but a peril of using your work email for personal reasons.
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I look at this thread from time to time to see how the non military folks have it. Seems about the same as me. I don't know if I feel comforted or let down because of that.
And when I see this, I'm like "Oh, that's for sure me."
One question I have for everyone: If you have to move offices, do you move your own stuff (desk, chairs, computer/laptop, monitors etc..) or does your company hire people to do it for you?
When you're me, you move every last fucking paperclip from point A to point B. It's exhausting. And you still have to work your main job throughout the day. When I told my wife about moving furniture around she looked at me and said "I can't even so much as hang a picture on the wall because workman's compensation is a real thing. The company cannot afford to get said sued for workplace injuries." I was stunned.
And when I see this, I'm like "Oh, that's for sure me."
The military really made me hate everything and I go on impassioned rants at work when I'm annoyed.
One question I have for everyone: If you have to move offices, do you move your own stuff (desk, chairs, computer/laptop, monitors etc..) or does your company hire people to do it for you?
When you're me, you move every last fucking paperclip from point A to point B. It's exhausting. And you still have to work your main job throughout the day. When I told my wife about moving furniture around she looked at me and said "I can't even so much as hang a picture on the wall because workman's compensation is a real thing. The company cannot afford to get said sued for workplace injuries." I was stunned.
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The only time I haven't moved my own stuff is when we completely changed office buildings.
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How much stuff do you have?
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I didn't even move my own stuff when my cubical was rebuilt.
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Way more than I should. I've been there 25 years.
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My former employer always hired a moving company when moving offices, but they would send two or three folks from the IT department to move the computers, servers and networking equipment. All the end users had to do was put their items in plastic bins before the move and then set up their desks after the move.
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Same here, if moving within the same floor of a building, people move their own stuff. We moved to a different building 2 years ago. We were supposed to pack our stuff into crates and professional movers took it to the new building. Our facility manager was kind enough to throw all of my stuff into the garbage a week before the deadline to pack crates, so I didn't have to move anything, other than panicking and digging through garbage bags looking for notebooks and files flagged by Legal as necessary to save due to potential lawsuits. When I worked for the government, we moved to a different floor in the same building while they rebuilt our offices, we had professional movers. I'm going to assume the average enlisted man or woman is in much better shape than the average office worker. Prior move for my government office was leaving the WTC on 9/11, there wasn't much left to move, but the Special Agents did all of the searching and heavy lifting for us on that one.
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Client: What's the status of Super Hot Item X?
Me: We can't proceed until we have direction from you on blah blah blah
Client: Ok we'll get back to you
A week passes in silence...
Client: What's the status of Super Hot Item X?
Me: We can't proceed until we have direction from you on blah blah blah
Client: Ok we'll get back to you
A week passes in silence...
Client: What's the status of Super Hot Item X?
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Some guy new to our company just said the following to me on a call with four women and three men (he missed one): Hey Blake, looks like we're the only guys so we won't get any words in! HAHAHA!
Blake: Crickets
Blake: Crickets
well this is gonna be someone's new signature - bronto
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jeez.
at my last job one of our stand-up meetings a woman co-worker made some very innocuous comment to our (male) boss about a shirt he was wearing - there are like 20 ppl standing around the room - and he says loudly with a chuckle: "HA only a woman would notice something like that HAHAHA!" - insert my Jim Halpert staring at the camera face.
that place was fucking hell. (oh but they loved to sell it as "we're like a family")
at my last job one of our stand-up meetings a woman co-worker made some very innocuous comment to our (male) boss about a shirt he was wearing - there are like 20 ppl standing around the room - and he says loudly with a chuckle: "HA only a woman would notice something like that HAHAHA!" - insert my Jim Halpert staring at the camera face.
that place was fucking hell. (oh but they loved to sell it as "we're like a family")
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This seems like a really cool product.
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You'd be surprised. We're free manual labor during our time in the military. That shit adds up on your body over time.The Sybian wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 8:51 amI'm going to assume the average enlisted man or woman is in much better shape than the average office worker.
Best compensation I can get is part of my VA rating for disability once I separate. My CPAP alone gets me 50%. Hopefully my back and other ailments bumps that up considerably. It's tax free money for life.
Overall, I just wanted to make sure you don't just get a person to walk up into your office that needs volunteers to move furniture when you're a civilian. My god that part of the military is the worst.
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Woohoo! I got a job! I start mowing the fairways and rough at this course some time next week. Includes free golf and range tokens, too! Still working on figuring out what I'm going to do career wise, but mowing grass at a beautiful course doesn't sound bad right now.
Actually, my job interview went something like this:
TAKE CARE OF YOUR MENTAL HEALTH, FELLOW SWAMPERS!
Actually, my job interview went something like this:
Golf Course Superintendent wrote:Do you know how to cut grass?
Me wrote:Yep.
Golf Course Superintendent wrote:Do you know how to use a riding mower?
Me wrote:Yep.
I have absolutely zero regrets about leaving my previous job. I am the happiest I've been in years. Two people I know who hadn't seen me in a few months were astounded by how my personality has changed since they last saw me.Golf Course Superintendent wrote:OK, you're hired!
TAKE CARE OF YOUR MENTAL HEALTH, FELLOW SWAMPERS!
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More like CUB (Cad)E(t) LIFE!
Fuck all this shit. Enjoy yourself while you can, man.
Fuck all this shit. Enjoy yourself while you can, man.
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Mowing grass at a golf club sounds like a fucking dream. Enjoy, Sabo!
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Sabo, I have no connections for when you're eventually ready to move up to Eagle Creek.
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No kidding. If you get to wear headphones, it's perfect!govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:43 am Mowing grass at a golf club sounds like a fucking dream. Enjoy, Sabo!
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They don't make them big enough for that dome.The Sybian wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:38 amNo kidding. If you get to wear headphones, it's perfect!govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:43 am Mowing grass at a golf club sounds like a fucking dream. Enjoy, Sabo!
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DFIU...I have heard horror stories of guys botching the fairway, botching greens, driving mowers into sandtraps, cutting things to low and burning stuff out....
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No headphones for this big head. I'll wear ear plugs to mute the mower sound but I would rather hear the birds and inevitable "FORE" being yelled while a Top Flite is zooming by.The Sybian wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:38 amNo kidding. If you get to wear headphones, it's perfect!govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:43 am Mowing grass at a golf club sounds like a fucking dream. Enjoy, Sabo!
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Patience. I need to practice my mowing before I hit the big-time golf courses.DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:50 am Sabo, I have no connections for when you're eventually ready to move up to Eagle Creek.
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Sabo...time to start job training.
found that while trying to find video of golfers teeing off to hit the cart on the range with the pimply faced kid driving.
found that while trying to find video of golfers teeing off to hit the cart on the range with the pimply faced kid driving.
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What they didn't tell Sabo is that it would be during play.
Happy for you, Sabo!
Happy for you, Sabo!
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Congrats, Sabo. Sounds like even more fun than my brief foray into postal delivery.
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Congrats, Sabo. That sounds fantastic.
Just be wary if your boss says you need to kill all the golfers.
Just be wary if your boss says you need to kill all the golfers.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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I laughed.Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 1:12 pm Just be wary if your boss says you need to kill all the golfers.
Sabo's picture in the golf club newsletter:
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If I have to wear a name badge, I'm going to ask for mine to read Carl S.sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 1:50 pmI laughed.Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 1:12 pm Just be wary if your boss says you need to kill all the golfers.
Sabo's picture in the golf club newsletter:
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My manager announced over teams last night that he was on PTO today...saying that he was going to be 'OOF'.
Which led to speculation as to what OOF meant...besides the most obvious of 'Out of Fucks'.
Any ideas? I can't think of anything...
Which led to speculation as to what OOF meant...besides the most obvious of 'Out of Fucks'.
Any ideas? I can't think of anything...
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It was used very heavily at Microsoft when I was there. I think it had something to do with the original Out of Office Feature in Outlook/Exchange.