CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette

[Nonlinear FC]

We had a DC gathering many moons ago and I barely remember who was at that thing.

[elflaco2]

it was Josie Woods.
first or second night of the tournament.

so who's coming to Houston next month?

[Giff]

I've met the following. Going in order that I remember meeting them:

Sabo
Brian
DSafe
Sancarlos
Rush
BFJ
Jerloma
El Flaco
AB
Johnnie

I may be missing one as I've added three to the list as I've typed this out. Should've met chedda, but he didn't call me when he was at the Katy Chuck-E-Cheese, and then I got COVID when I was supposed to meet him in Austin last year. Everyone has been awesome and can't wait to meet more of you in person.

[govmentchedda]

Oiler
DSafe
TT
Johnnie
AB
shoulda been Giff

Really feel like I'm forgetting someone. Gunpowder posted on Instagram from a restaurant less than a mile from my office.

[Nonlinear FC]

I also should've met a gaggle of you guys at a USMNT game in Columbus many years back but things went sideways.

[brian]

I also should've met a gaggle of you guys at a USMNT game in Columbus many years back but things went sideways.

I remember you standing us up (it was me, AB and Sabo I believe) but in your defense I think you had a big crew (no pun intended) there you had to deal with.

[Nonlinear FC]

I also should've met a gaggle of you guys at a USMNT game in Columbus many years back but things went sideways.

I remember you standing us up (it was me, AB and Sabo I believe) but in your defense I think you had a big crew (no pun intended) there you had to deal with.

Yeah that sounds right in terms of the group, and, yes... It was back when I was still in the BigSoccer orbit and there was 25-30 of those weirdos (not all weird, but, man... some of those folks were fucking strange.)

Regurts.

[Giff]

Oiler
DSafe
TT
Johnnie
AB
shoulda been Giff

Really feel like I'm forgetting someone. Gunpowder posted on Instagram from a restaurant less than a mile from my office.

Yup, forgot TT.

[A_B]

I also should've met a gaggle of you guys at a USMNT game in Columbus many years back but things went sideways.

I remember you standing us up (it was me, AB and Sabo I believe) but in your defense I think you had a big crew (no pun intended) there you had to deal with.

Yeah that sounds right in terms of the group, and, yes... It was back when I was still in the BigSoccer orbit and there was 25-30 of those weirdos (not all weird, but, man... some of those folks were fucking strange.)

Regurts.

We still never talk about you sometimes.


Hood to coast and bourbon chase pumped my numbers up. Golf outing as well ticked a couple of new names. Then a NJ swampup added two more (3, counting the weirdo in the car outside).

[sancarlos]

Let’s see if I can remember everybody I’ve met in person. (Not including those met only on Zoom).
Sabo
DSafe
Howard
Hood
Oiler
DC47
Rush
Giff
Sybian
Johnnie
Brian
Good Karma

[A_B]

Let’s see if I can remember everybody I’ve met in person. (Not including those met only on Zoom).
Sabo
DSafe
Howard
Hood
Oiler
DC47
Rush
Giff
Sybian
Johnnie
Brian
Good Karma

Surely your'e acquainted personally with Ham Sandwich.

[Ham Sandwich]

Let’s see if I can remember everybody I’ve met in person. (Not including those met only on Zoom).
Sabo
DSafe
Howard
Hood
Oiler
DC47
Rush
Giff
Sybian
Johnnie
Brian
Good Karma

Surely your'e acquainted personally with Ham Sandwich.

Just like JD Vance is "acquainted" with that hot looking sofa over there! Hey Yo!

[tennbengal]

We had a DC gathering many moons ago and I barely remember who was at that thing.

Wlu, you, me….Clancy? There were more and I am also blanking on the rest.

[Giff]

I'm not sure if this a work hack any of you have done, but I get so many questions in chat from people when I'm in the middle of a call that I'm actually an active participant in whether I use DND or it says "In a Meeting". I've found the only status in Teams that actually stops people from messaging you is "Presenting". So when I need some pure uninterrupted time to work on something, I send a meeting request to myself, join it, and then click present. It works EVERY TIME.

[Nonlinear FC]

That's incredible. I'm not super busy in that way... But my wife is... I'm gonna tell her about it.

[DaveInSeattle]

I'm not sure if this a work hack any of you have done, but I get so many questions in chat from people when I'm in the middle of a call that I'm actually an active participant in whether I use DND or it says "In a Meeting". I've found the only status in Teams that actually stops people from messaging you is "Presenting". So when I need some pure uninterrupted time to work on something, I send a meeting request to myself, join it, and then click present. It works EVERY TIME.

A few years back, on one of the scrum teams I was running we started a "Focus Friday", where I send out a day long meeting invite to every one to block their schedules so they wouldn't have any meeting invites for Friday. It worked really well...

[elflaco2]

I'm not sure if this a work hack any of you have done, but I get so many questions in chat from people when I'm in the middle of a call that I'm actually an active participant in whether I use DND or it says "In a Meeting". I've found the only status in Teams that actually stops people from messaging you is "Presenting". So when I need some pure uninterrupted time to work on something, I send a meeting request to myself, join it, and then click present. It works EVERY TIME.

oops!

(I do the same)

[Shirley]

Today is the start of my 7-biz-day PTO (going to the Olympics). That resulted in a glut of meetings yesterday. I'm not sure if I set a new record or not, but ... 13 separate Zoom call meetings ranging from about 9 am to 9:30 pm. It was pretty exhausting.

[elflaco2]

i feel ya -- last year i was averaging 38 meetings a week (mostly on teams)..
better calendar control this year.
and my calendar/meeting hack

if its my meeting .. it starts at 5 minutes after the hour (or the half hour) no more, lets give every body a few minutes.. i gave you five minutes to get your shit together and be on time.. starting to see some adoption.

[DaveInSeattle]

The guy who was wearing me out about 7-8 months ago, being a total pain, put in his notice and today is his last day. He never really talked to me after I reported him to HR for being a total asshole to people (myself included).

[GoodKarma]

Most of the time those things work out...it just always takes a lot longer than we hope.

[The Sybian]

The guy who was wearing me out about 7-8 months ago, being a total pain, put in his notice and today is his last day. He never really talked to me after I reported him to HR for being a total asshole to people (myself included).

Great, that’s gotta be a weight off you and many others.

[DaveInSeattle]

The guy who was wearing me out about 7-8 months ago, being a total pain, put in his notice and today is his last day. He never really talked to me after I reported him to HR for being a total asshole to people (myself included).

Great, that’s gotta be a weight off you and many others.

Yeah, it is. It leaves us in a bit of a spot, since he was really the only guy left who knows how the Data Analysis portion of one of our instruments works, but we'll figure that part out. Just not having to walk on egg shells around him is going to be great.

[Steve of phpBB]

The guy who was wearing me out about 7-8 months ago, being a total pain, put in his notice and today is his last day. He never really talked to me after I reported him to HR for being a total asshole to people (myself included).

Great, that’s gotta be a weight off you and many others.

Yeah, it is. It leaves us in a bit of a spot, since he was really the only guy left who knows how the Data Analysis portion of one of our instruments works, but we'll figure that part out. Just not having to walk on egg shells around him is going to be great.

Sounds like things are looking up for you. Good to hear.

[DaveInSeattle]

I go into the office 3 days a week (MWF) and I always ride my bike. I generally get to the office about 7:30-7:45, and then head down to the locker room to shower and change.

For the last few months, without fail, when I get to the locker room, there is a security guard who has taken up residence in the one stall...and he's there pretty much the entire time I'm showering/shaving/getting dressed. Which...ok, whatever. But there are times when, ya know, I could really use that stall myself.

Do I complain? Say something?

[sancarlos]

You should absolutely narc on him. Anonymously, if necessary. You sometimes need that stall!

[mister d]

Absolutely not. I don't know the umbrella term, maybe "service jobs"(?), but you shouldn't complain about anyone working one of those unless there's actual danger involved.

[A_B]

Are offices with gyms/lockers/showers more of an urban thing? We have one downstairs (that only a select few can access) but I don't know that i've seen it many other places around here. May be the fact I've only worked one place in 1/4 century.

[Shirley]

I go into the office 3 days a week (MWF) and I always ride my bike. I generally get to the office about 7:30-7:45, and then head down to the locker room to shower and change.

For the last few months, without fail, when I get to the locker room, there is a security guard who has taken up residence in the one stall...and he's there pretty much the entire time I'm showering/shaving/getting dressed. Which...ok, whatever. But there are times when, ya know, I could really use that stall myself.

Do I complain? Say something?

Are there other bathrooms you could take a shit in? If so, there's no reason to complain. And if there's not, no, you still don't formally complain, but you can bitch to your coworkers.

[The Sybian]

Are offices with gyms/lockers/showers more of an urban thing? We have one downstairs (that only a select few can access) but I don't know that i've seen it many other places around here. May be the fact I've only worked one place in 1/4 century.

Don’t mean to tell me a coal company isn’t concerned with their employees’ health? Shocking.

[rass]

Dogs that bark should not be treated like dogs that don’t. There was one in the Apple Store at the rich people mall and I was annoyed by it within about 15 seconds.

I love dogs and I love seeing them just about anywhere but I couldn’t believe how many we saw inside Penn Station/Moynihan last night and I can’t believe how many are in this mall here today. When did this become a thing?

[Nonlinear FC]

Barking dogs are like screaming/loud crying children. If you can't get them to quiet down within a reasonable amount of time, you need to leave the establishment. Even if it's just to try and calm them down and try again.

One of my two kids was a REALLY loud one and I wasn't going to subject other patrons to that, so I'd scoop her up and walk her outside. She would eventually calm down.

We also limited when/where we took her. Like... Never to a movie, ffs.

But, yeah, your yapping little dog isn't cute. It's fucking annoying.

[MaxWebster]

probably just belongs in Rants2 Electric Bugaloo since I'm 100% WFH but my daily morning (online, obvs) standup meetings are so fucking stupid that today I realized - arrogantly, I fully admit - that these meetings are like being in HS detention or more-accurately the dumb kids' class. All stems from a (lack of) leadership problem, of course. Isn't it always.

I work 50-50 btwn 2 completely separate departments each day, and the difference between the two groups in responsibility, accountability, and intellectual curiousity is disturbingly stark.

[DaveInSeattle]

But, yeah, your yapping little dog isn't cute. It's fucking annoying.

This is probably discussed in another thread...but when did bringing your dog into a grocery store become a thing? Back when I had a dog, and I'd walk to the store, I'd always leave him leashed up outside. But now, it seems like everyone brings there dog (and not just little lap dogs) into the store.

[Nonlinear FC]

I think the proliferation of service dogs (animals) has blurred the lines on stuff like that. And the fact that (I believe) you aren't supposed to ask about the status of the dog makes things that much more difficult to suss out.

[sancarlos]

Our local independent grocer has an obnoxiously huge sign on the front door, saying ONLY SERVICE dogs allowed inside.

[mister d]

That sign is a lot funnier if the word "allowed" wasn't there.

[sancarlos]

That sign is a lot funnier if the word "allowed" wasn't there.

Ha ha.

Not to ruin your joke, but to correct myself a bit, the sign actually says “NO DOGS ALLOWED. (Except service dogs.)”

[Giff]

So I get to layoff my first person on Thursday. Good times.

[Shirley]

So I get to layoff my first person on Thursday. Good times.

Ugh. General layoff, or is that a euphemism for firing someone?