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Scarlet said:
Maybe it's the way I present things. Maybe it's the way I hear things but...was just on a call with my manager and co-worker to go over specs for a large install that I am overseeing in our home office next week. My manager is on vacation next week. My co-worker will be with me. The week after - August 1-2, we are having a full team meeting. Four members of my team live out of state so they are flying in, will have two or three nights in a hotel. My co-worker was supposed to be on vacation but just said on the phone how she will be there for Monday and my manager said to her she and her husband should get a hotel in Boston. I asked "I can expense parking, right?" And she almost kinda rolled her eyes and then said yes. I can't really articulate it. Did she think I was being a bit of a whiny baby asking? Like, why are you even asking of course. It was weird. I said you just offered co-worker a night in a hotel in Boston. And we're flying in others. I think you can afford the $19 I pay to park.

Also, I started the call mentioning how my mom is here because I have my oral surgery today, which I've been talking about FOR WEEKS - oh, that's today? And we were getting off the call - did a get "Good luck! I'm sure it will go well!" etc. Why, no, I didn't. Not sure why this crap bothers me so much. But it does.
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It's weird to me that if your co-worker is local your manager would tell her she can get a hotel. I don't know what to make of the reaction to expensing parking. I would think if coworker can get a hotel company can afford your parking.

As for the other, I hope your mom's oral surgery went well. Don't read into people not saying anything about it. Most people think of oral surgery as minor. I don't wish people good luck going to the dentist, and it wasn't even your surgery.
 
It's not her oral surgery. It's my oral surgery. After that call, we had a team meeting, the same two plus one other and this time my manager did say good luck and let us know. Too little too late - heh.
 
Scarlet said:
It's not her oral surgery. It's my oral surgery. After that call, we had a team meeting, the same two plus one other and this time my manager did say good luck and let us know. Too little too late - heh.
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I misread. I hope it went well.


Work is dumb. My team of 3, including me, is now down to me and an intern on loan from a different department. I work for a smaller division of a large corporation. We have to go through the corporate 'talent acquisition managers' to fill open positions. The engineer position has been open for 5 weeks, they've gotten me 1 candidate to interview so far. The worst part is, I had the heads up from my engineer 5 months ago that he'd be moving this summer. How long ago was I trying to get the requisition approved to backfill a position.....a long frickin' time ago.

I hope I have the stamina to make it through this, but I don't know if I do. Especially when my plant manager dumps more on my plate which I think really belongs under the manufacturing engineering team, and he has 4 engineers and 2 interns. Everywhere I've worked production work instructions have fallen under manufacturing engineering. Here it was under quality when the quality team had industrial and lean engineers that worked on them. I haven't had that since I became quality manager.
 
Scarlet said:
Maybe it's the way I present things. Maybe it's the way I hear things but...was just on a call with my manager and co-worker to go over specs for a large install that I am overseeing in our home office next week. My manager is on vacation next week. My co-worker will be with me. The week after - August 1-2, we are having a full team meeting. Four members of my team live out of state so they are flying in, will have two or three nights in a hotel. My co-worker was supposed to be on vacation but just said on the phone how she will be there for Monday and my manager said to her she and her husband should get a hotel in Boston. I asked "I can expense parking, right?" And she almost kinda rolled her eyes and then said yes. I can't really articulate it. Did she think I was being a bit of a whiny baby asking? Like, why are you even asking of course. It was weird. I said you just offered co-worker a night in a hotel in Boston. And we're flying in others. I think you can afford the $19 I pay to park.

Also, I started the call mentioning how my mom is here because I have my oral surgery today, which I've been talking about FOR WEEKS - oh, that's today? And we were getting off the call - did a get "Good luck! I'm sure it will go well!" etc. Why, no, I didn't. Not sure why this crap bothers me so much. But it does.
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Jeebus. That's insane. It's $20. My boss doesn't even answer me on teams when I ask to buy the project team lunch.

It cost your company more for her to even has to answer the question.
 
Didn't get the job, but at least I will still be employed with the company taking over Hope Neuro Rehabilitation.

Hopefully a larger company means higher pay and a simpler system, including one login for everything.
 
Kepler said:
It's not that. Its the larger your company, the more you're squeezed as a serf.
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unofan said:
I hate to break it to you...
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I mean, generally it means higher pay, but I'm also guessing you were directing your post at the logon thing

I login to no fewer than five and, on the worst days, ten systems at work. All but four use the same password.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
I mean, generally it means higher pay, but I'm also guessing you were directing your post at the logon thing

I login to no fewer than five and, on the worst days, ten systems at work. All but four use the same password.
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There's a rule on our systems that none can share passwords. I have no idea whether the authenticator can check that across systems, though -- I kinda hope not.
 
Yeah, it's fucking annoying. We used to have to create a 20-character password every 90 days for a database we needed to access. In ten years no one in the division ever had to type in their password. To this day I have no idea why we had to creat and change that password.

felt like Lost
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Yeah, it's fucking annoying. We used to have to create a 20-character password every 90 days for a database we needed to access. In ten years no one in the division ever had to type in their password. To this day I have no idea why we had to creat and change that password.

felt like Lost
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The funny thing about those kinds of passwords for the average worker is that they have to write it down to remember. Kind of the opposite of being secure.
 
MichVandal said:
The funny thing about those kinds of passwords for the average worker is that they have to write it down to remember. Kind of the opposite of being secure.
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There's a fantastic paper written about this, maybe ten years ago now, with evidence saying passwords like that are purely security theater and lead to a significant decrease in security integrity. The industry accepted it as definitive. Decisionmakers completely ignored it.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Correct horse battery staple
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The rules we were given for the new password spec made it really hard to use an actual phrase. Long, a number and a non-number/letter character. It wasn't until the second one where I figured out how to use my old pattern to come up with something I didn't have to write down (and then I retired).
 
MichVandal said:
The rules we were given for the new password spec made it really hard to use an actual phrase. Long, a number and a non-number/letter character. It wasn't until the second one where I figured out how to use my old pattern to come up with something I didn't have to write down (and then I retired).
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Yeah my hospital org moved to a 15-digit passcode with no character requirements (no caps, no numbers needed, etc.) and it doesn't expire. Research suggests that the more you require updates, the less careful people get. How many people put sticky notes with logins on their monitor? That's totes safe!
 
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