The Swamp

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 5:07 pm Sorry, bud. Make it a priority at your next job that they also include west coast business trips.

Shirley wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 5:39 pm 13 weeks of severance is pretty sweet though. You even have a chance to double dip for a while if you land something soon.

Two checks at the same time.

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:36 am Neighbor.jpeg

Two checks at the same time.

In my personal experience, the only thing better is three checks at the same time.

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:36 am Neighbor.jpeg

Two checks at the same time.

In my personal experience, the only thing better is three checks at the same time.

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:36 am Neighbor.jpeg

Two checks at the same time.

In my personal experience, the only thing better is three checks at the same time.

elflaco2 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:01 pm wow sorry syb, that sucks. beers?
we just did a small reorg and my team grew as a result

The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 5:15 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 5:07 pm Sorry, bud. Make it a priority at your next job that they also include west coast business trips.

That would be ideal. Glad I got a final trip in and one to Seattle right before I left. I appreciate all the support, but not down (yet). Actually a little excited about the postings I'm seeing, so maybe not a bad thing in the end? And it's a generous package considering I've only been there a little over a year, and they must be RIFing at least 60 people today.

Really glad I happened to notice our contract with the career outplacement firm was expiring and finished renegotiated a new contract last week.

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:03 pm Or "What is the ask?" grrr

[+] spoiler

So...for about the last 6 months, my main responsibility is handling the escalations that come over to R&D when a customer calls into our CX department and they can't resolve the issue. This mainly entails coordinating between Salesforce and ADO, and running daily triage meetings...one for our older instrument, and one for our newer platform. It's a pain, but things have calmed down to the point where I'm able to change the cadence of triage meetings to twice a week.

Anyways, the issue is this one guy, a developer, about my age, who is currently the only person who is tasked with providing support for the older instrument. It's 100% of his time, and he's not happy about it. And, because I am the PM running the triage, I get to be his sounding board for him to bitch and moan and whine about how the company isn't supporting that platform, how he deserves a raise, how he doesn't think the CX guys know what they are doing, etc.

And its not just on occasion...when I'm in the office, he comes over to my desk at least 3 or 4 times a day to go through all this. Really makes me not want to go into the office at all. And when I'm working from home, he'll hit me on Teams with "Are you coming into the office today? I need to talk to you".

And I've had it....I want to tell him that if he keeps riding my ass like this, OSHA is going to make me install hand rails. I want to tell him "I am not your manager...if you aren't happy, talk to your manager. Or quit"...but I can't/won't do that. Because if he left the company, we'd really be screwed on providing that customer support. And I get it...as a former developer, I would have hated to be stuck doing these reactive calls. And I've tried to get other people freed up to help out so he can work on other things, but I've been shot down. And just now, I got another teams message "Are you coming in today?" and then a meeting invite to talk at 9am.

Sorry...needed to vent...before I go into this meeting with him and tell him to back the fuck off.

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:41 pm

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:03 pm Or "What is the ask?" grrr

In my new role as dealing with Customer Support tickets, I have found myself saying that...and hating myself as the words leave my mouth.

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:41 pm

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:03 pm Or "What is the ask?" grrr

In my new role as dealing with Customer Support tickets, I have found myself saying that...and hating myself as the words leave my mouth.

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MaxWebster wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:50 pm no question this nouning-of-verbs is something that really grinds my compete level

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:52 pm Also, you can also just say "that's just the way it is" and avoid using the "it is what it is" nonsense.

degenerasian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:32 am A project manager used "project cadance" the other day. Still don't know what it means.

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:20 pm

degenerasian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:32 am A project manager used "project cadance" the other day. Still don't know what it means.

"Cadence" is just another way of saying schedule or frequency.

For example, just a couple of weeks ago I got the ok to change the "cadence" of some triage meetings from 4 days a week to 2 days a week.

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:20 pm

degenerasian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:32 am A project manager used "project cadance" the other day. Still don't know what it means.

"Cadence" is just another way of saying schedule or frequency.

For example, just a couple of weeks ago I got the ok to change the "cadence" of some triage meetings from 4 days a week to 2 days a week.

degenerasian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:31 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:20 pm

degenerasian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:32 am A project manager used "project cadance" the other day. Still don't know what it means.

"Cadence" is just another way of saying schedule or frequency.

For example, just a couple of weeks ago I got the ok to change the "cadence" of some triage meetings from 4 days a week to 2 days a week.

That's not how she used it. Cadence is a measurement of iterations that could lead to future actions.

Which means nothing to me.