Antiwork

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Got a response this morning to an invite from a client's chief enterprise architect, which literally said, "Please do not put meetings on my calendar without speaking to my PA first."

Oh I'm sooooo sorry SIR, I must've missed the time rip I flew through at some point over the weekend, since I wasn't aware we were living in 1961 and not 2021.

Since Friday is my last day with the firm I almost thought about firing that back, but I bit my tongue. It's not the firm's fault that some folks who work for the client are jerks to us, so I didn't want it blowing back on the rest of the team or reflecting poorly in the event I end up trying to return at some point.

 

[Scarlet]

I've dealt with that, too. We work with an external agency and don't have access to their calendars like we do with everyone else in the company so when we schedule meeting with them, we have to say "Here are our available times, do any of these work for you?" Like, we pay you. I shouldn't have to waste my time going through calendars, compiling open times and sending to them.

 

[Swansong]

I've dealt with that, too. We work with an external agency and don't have access to their calendars like we do with everyone else in the company so when we schedule meeting with them, we have to say "Here are our available times, do any of these work for you?" Like, we pay you. I shouldn't have to waste my time going through calendars, compiling open times and sending to them.

I have to do that constantly. I work with outside vendors and a lot of internal clinical folks for whom non-patient-visit calendars are a mystical source of confusion, so I can't just check their calendar availability and schedule.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Got a response this morning to an invite from a client's chief enterprise architect, which literally said, "Please do not put meetings on my calendar without speaking to my PA first."

Oh I'm sooooo sorry SIR, I must've missed the time rip I flew through at some point over the weekend, since I wasn't aware we were living in 1961 and not 2021.

Since Friday is my last day with the firm I almost thought about firing that back, but I bit my tongue. It's not the firm's fault that some folks who work for the client are jerks to us, so I didn't want it blowing back on the rest of the team or reflecting poorly in the event I end up trying to return at some point.

Architects are the biggest fucking dicks on the planet. Self importance of engineers and artists combined with half the value of either.

 

[Kepler]

Architects are the biggest fucking dicks on the planet. Self importance of engineers and artists combined with half the value of either.

Surgeons called. They said check out litigators.

 

[dxmnkd316]

I'll do you one better. The person who sent me the email described below? Architect with an MBA from a private school. Final boss level shit there.

Was sent a snarky and unprofessional email today and it was CCed to about a dozen people.

I emailed the person back (just him) and said I thought I did my due diligence and if I screwed up I wanted to learn from the mistake and have a path forward. But I also didn't appreciate the disrespectful tone.

If I misunderstood his tone, I had given him the opportunity to say "You misunderstood, just trying to help you out." Instead, he confirmed it by dressing me down with an even more disrespectful call. So, now I get to play damage control with my boss over a relatively minor and fixable issue.

I'm guessing my boss will tell me to tell the other guy to pound sand. The more senior engineer on the project said "Actually, these guys have been on the project longer than you or me. The question I have is where did THEY screw up?"

 

[Kepler]

I was on a 9-person work video chat today where two people came this close to a screaming match. One was one of my team's leadership and the other was one of our lead developers.

The customer was on the call.

Luckily there were others from our side who jumped in and deftly redirected and the program lead snapped out of it but the DevOps dude was ready to throw down. He's old and I don't think he really cares anymore, and there's unbelievable pressure on our tech teams, but holy mother of god it was not good.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

I almost called someone a c u n t today on a work call.

 

[dxmnkd316]

I almost called someone a c u n t today on a work call.

I've let slip "fuck" a few times unmuted. I've told someone to "fuck right off" to his face during an argument (we went out for beers later lol).

but I can't say I've ever have the gonads to call someone a cunt lol. ;-)

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Yeah well working in operations during a pandemic is wearing out my last nerve.

esp these assholes thinking they can get around vaccine mandate

 

[The Sicatoka]

I almost called someone a c u n t today on a work call.

According to one player I know, in the 1980s WCHA that was the "magic word" to get a deuce for unsportsmanlike. I guess you could carpet-bomb F-bombs but one of those was a bridge too far.

 

[The Sicatoka]

"Capt. Kirk" just launched into space via a giant phallus looking thing.

That's the post.

 

[MichVandal]

Seeing all of the strikes, one wonders if more people will finally notice the theft from the lower part of the economy to the top. I kind of doubt it, but one can hope. I just can't see people realizing that they are being manipulated for single items so that tax cuts can happen.

 

[MissThundercat]

I got a text Monday evening informing me my client cancelled all this week.

 

[SJHovey]

Seeing all of the strikes, one wonders if more people will finally notice the theft from the lower part of the economy to the top. I kind of doubt it, but one can hope. I just can't see people realizing that they are being manipulated for single items so that tax cuts can happen.

My read on the strikes is that unions have correctly seen that the opportunity to do so is there.

With strikes, the only ones that have really been effective are the ones involving employees who can't be replaced. Major league athletes are a perfect example.

Everyone else is replaceable, ultimately. However, in today's economy where employers struggle to even fill current job openings, the likelihood of locating a pool of replacement workers in the event of a strike is diminished greatly, and unions have figured this out and will seek to take advantage of it. Seems like a good play in my book.

 

[MissThundercat]

Still laughing at John Deere salaried employees trying to use heavy machinery and failing miserably.

 

[psych]

Seeing all of the strikes, one wonders if more people will finally notice the theft from the lower part of the economy to the top. I kind of doubt it, but one can hope. I just can't see people realizing that they are being manipulated for single items so that tax cuts can happen.

I think plenty of people all across the country recognize they’re getting fucked up the a— by concentrated wealth and monopolized industry. I’d say thanks Republicans, but Democrats were, and plenty still are, just as much to blame for America looking the way it does now.

 

[MichVandal]

My read on the strikes is that unions have correctly seen that the opportunity to do so is there.

With strikes, the only ones that have really been effective are the ones involving employees who can't be replaced. Major league athletes are a perfect example.

Everyone else is replaceable, ultimately. However, in today's economy where employers struggle to even fill current job openings, the likelihood of locating a pool of replacement workers in the event of a strike is diminished greatly, and unions have figured this out and will seek to take advantage of it. Seems like a good play in my book.

The problem with the situation right now is that the upper management all see themselves as not replaceable, and pay themselves as such. The reality is that they are just as incompetent as anyone else- having seen CEO's fail miserably on their stated goals, and still get a massive golden parachute is pretty frustrating. Anymore, almost all white collar jobs are also seen as replaceable. So it's just the concentration of salary at the top that seems to get around this problem.

 

[The Sicatoka]

The problem with the situation right now is that the upper management all see themselves as not replaceable, and pay themselves as such. The reality is that they are just as incompetent as anyone else- having seen CEO's fail miserably on their stated goals, and still get a massive golden parachute is pretty frustrating. Anymore, almost all white collar jobs are also seen as replaceable. So it's just the concentration of salary at the top that seems to get around this problem.

Frankly, that's part of the problem with public education. Districts have gone top heavy with "assistant" and "associate" superintendents for every specialty, and with salaries 2 to 5 times a classroom instructor. Buildings have a principal and multiple assistant principals, and now this thing called "dean of students". Why does a middle school with 500 kids need three, four principals and a dean of students? And still the teachers get to deal with discipline issues. The teachers are getting screwed over in too many top-heavy districts.

The main (positive) difference: no golden parachutes.

 

[psych]

Tackling the concentrated wealth/monopolized industry is something I think people across the political spectrum can agree on. Even Republican voters respond positively to (now) Democratic ideas of increasing taxes on the rich, etc. Obviously, there are myriad reasons, many of which have been discussed on this board, that broad agreement among voters of all political stripes doesn’t translate to meaningful policy changes in government.