The Swamp

brian wrote:Me to a co-worker explaining how to resolve an issue to a customer: "And whatever you do, tell them to definitely under no circumstances should they delete that file."

Co-worker to me a few minutes ago: "So remember that case with <so and so> where we told them not to delete the file. Well, they deleted it."

FML.

Giff wrote:My trip to Hawaii has my regularity all off, so I've had to crap at work. Both times someone in the other stall did not wash their hands after shitting. JFC.

Giff wrote:Probably not the right thread for this, but thought I'd share. I'm a relatively new manager (19 months) and haven't really had too many issues aside from having to deal with catty drama. There's one guy who's been here for over four years and, bless his heart...his dumb dumb heart, he's just not cutting it for what we need from our current headcount. We put him on a PIP earlier this year and after months of chance after chance, I finally decided to stop giving him chances and call it a day. I was dreading it all because he's the sweetest guy. He's almost like a mascot for the department. But it has to happen Anyway, set-up a meeting with HR to discuss it and they say the company puts a moratorium on managing out employees on a PIP until after the holidays. And if after that we still want him out, we can keep them on until they find something else or we find the backfill. This may all be normal stuff and I'm just so insulated having never been in this position, but I thought that was pretty cool for a pretty large company. It also made a difficult conversation a little less so. He knows he's probably not going to make it, but that info gives him peace of mind.

Giff wrote:Probably not the right thread for this, but thought I'd share. I'm a relatively new manager (19 months) and haven't really had too many issues aside from having to deal with catty drama. There's one guy who's been here for over four years and, bless his heart...his dumb dumb heart, he's just not cutting it for what we need from our current headcount. We put him on a PIP earlier this year and after months of chance after chance, I finally decided to stop giving him chances and call it a day. I was dreading it all because he's the sweetest guy. He's almost like a mascot for the department. But it has to happen Anyway, set-up a meeting with HR to discuss it and they say the company puts a moratorium on managing out employees on a PIP until after the holidays. And if after that we still want him out, we can keep them on until they find something else or we find the backfill. This may all be normal stuff and I'm just so insulated having never been in this position, but I thought that was pretty cool for a pretty large company. It also made a difficult conversation a little less so. He knows he's probably not going to make it, but that info gives him peace of mind.

A_B wrote:That kind of person is a "lovable slacker" and I have a lot of those characteristics, but I have managed to survive for 21 years, so maybe I'm being hard on myself. Fucking weather changes, man.

mister d wrote:

A_B wrote:That kind of person is a "lovable slacker" and I have a lot of those characteristics, but I have managed to survive for 21 years, so maybe I'm being hard on myself. Fucking weather changes, man.

Nah. Lovable slacker implies the ability to work at a high level if they choose. Giff's description is a lovable dummy.

DaveInSeattle wrote:Who the hell decides (this morning) to have a meeting at 3pm on the day before Thanksgiving?

Oh yeah...my boss, that's who! Huzzah!

[+] spoiler

(flip to inside of the card)
BUY FOR CHUCK

rass wrote:Office holiday party and secret Santa today. I have someone with a name that's a variant of Charles.

I attached the following to the gift:


photoshopped image of nurse from Ferris Bueller's Day Off with a Santa hat/img

I heard that you were feeling down
That all the driving makes you frown
I've come to help restore your pluck
'cause I'm the Secret Santa who likes to...

[+] spoiler

(flip to inside of the card)
BUY FOR CHUCK

Winner, right?

Jerloma wrote:What are you implying? That the company is supposed to send a car?

brian wrote:

Jerloma wrote:What are you implying? That the company is supposed to send a car?

I took it to mean that it was bullshit to make people fly into Tampa for a meeting at 4 p.m. on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

(In other words, if it was just another Wednesday, chedda wouldn't have cared. (Unless I'm reading it completely wrong.)

A_B wrote:

brian wrote:

Jerloma wrote:What are you implying? That the company is supposed to send a car?

I took it to mean that it was bullshit to make people fly into Tampa for a meeting at 4 p.m. on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

(In other words, if it was just another Wednesday, chedda wouldn't have cared. (Unless I'm reading it completely wrong.)

Chedda may still not care.

brian wrote:

Jerloma wrote:What are you implying? That the company is supposed to send a car?

I took it to mean that it was bullshit to make people fly into DC for a meeting at 4 p.m. on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

(In other words, if it was just another Wednesday, NLFC wouldn't have cared. (Unless I'm reading it completely wrong.)

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 4:17 pm You could turn off notifications.

Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 4:07 pm Always fun when people reply-all to listserves about a specific problem and then as the email hell-chain keeps growing, people chime in via reply-all to ask to be removed from the reply-all, further propagating the problem.

My phone is going to die from the notifications.

Shirley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:19 pm

Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 4:07 pm Always fun when people reply-all to listserves about a specific problem and then as the email hell-chain keeps growing, people chime in via reply-all to ask to be removed from the reply-all, further propagating the problem.

My phone is going to die from the notifications.

[pedant]listservs[/pedant]

Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 8:53 am

Shirley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:19 pm

Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 4:07 pm Always fun when people reply-all to listserves about a specific problem and then as the email hell-chain keeps growing, people chime in via reply-all to ask to be removed from the reply-all, further propagating the problem.

My phone is going to die from the notifications.

[pedant]listservs[/pedant]

gah how could I make that typo