@MartinTournoij June is Pride Month, so companies get a free chance to demonstrate their stance on inclusion/diversity by proudly waving the rainbow banner in a completely non-promotional manner....
@Magisch The question has been edited several times though, I guess in response to the criticism. That was after my edit to remove the most inflammatory bits.
@Snow hate those moments.. if you save all of them you'll overwrite something you shouldn't, if you save none of them you'll lose important work, if you save some of them you run the risk of doing both
It's not as bad as the windows 10 tablets at home that have a habit of "we have exciting updates for you, please wait" every single time you turn them on... Which is my fault for enrolling in Fast insider updates.
I went to an observatory last weekend for a tour. They demonstrated that the star signs are't accurate. The zodiac constellations aren't really in the right place for the times of the year. So you're not really a Leo. I'm not really a Gemini.
I use windows 10 at home, but on a tablet pc. Touching my dual monitors here would make me feel too much like Tom Cruise. That would not be a good thing.
@motosubatsu I don't like to be touched at work either. I just got my HP Omen Laptop for work at home. Its mine. It respects my boundaries and I respect my laptops. I don't touch the monitor.
Wow, i'm thinking about all the jobs and careers I've had. I originally wanted to be a music teacher, went to school for it too. Then I wanted to be a franchisee, sprained my back on the job.. that didn't work out, then I worked as a signmaker, then IT, then retail, then IT, then had my stroke, then retail, then IT again.
Finally got that right. I love this superpower. This was actually the only reason I bothered contesting the democratic event in the first place. Everything else is sideshow.
I am wondering if I should rollback this edit workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/107261/7 I am not sure we have the need for this tag, especially with our tag situation already being quite a mess.
Definition of snobby: characterized by snobbery Definition of snobbery: snobbish conduct or character Definition of snobbish: being, characteristic of, or befitting a snob
@MaskedMan For reference, a snob is someone who has unreasonably high standards for something and is an ass about it. A food snob for instance is the kind of person who might rant at you for half an hour for saying you like eating a simple mcDondalds hamburger
@MaskedMan i had the election chat room pinned but not the water cooler, whoops. <_<; i meant to still hang around and see how i liked the place, since i visit from time to time but haven't tried the chat much.
@Nofel well, the company likes you, how do you like the company? Still working on my response to your mail, BTW, I haven't forgotten, but you didn't give me an easy assignment.
@DonThermidor_LobsterMobster I think the last point really confuses me coz it is a future decision and the fact I am so easily distracted and bored by "it is too hard" and I am so active when I am watching tv, I want same ctiveness in studying and doing projects
@DonThermidor_LobsterMobster I was very honest (the honest I had been for many yrs and "I don't know was the answer to question I didn't know, not that I never used it before but I wanted to say I don't know cos I am not a master of all" plus I guess the company is a landmark in mancehster.
@Nofel That's a good approach. You'd certainly get a thumbs up from me on that one. I'd much rather have someone who knew what he didn't know, than have someone try to fake their way through it. The under-skilled person who is honest can be trained up. Nothing I can do about dishonesty though.
@MaskedMan that post workplace.stackexchange.com/q/114419/3192 has attracted bickering in almost every answer and under the question itself. I flagged a bunch of the chatter, but should I flag the Q itself? The whole thing is a big mess right now.
For part of my programming interview with this company I was asked to do some web development tasks I'd never done before. They sat me down, gave me a laptop (connected by HDMI to a larger screen they could watch) and watched me work to solve the task.
@DonThermidor_LobsterMobster The passive agressive question is now closed, so I think that can start sinking now. Not many people stick around to kick a dead question.
@Snow And I'm happy working with people like you. Everything I've worked on has been high visibility, so if garbage gets in the system, We hear about it from no less than four departments and several executive VPs, and we got to do some splaining.
@Snow The OP was demonstrating a disinclination to accept some hard advice. HLGEM delivered some tough love. Better from her than me on that one. I don't need to get called any more names.
@Snow LOL! I have never been a sports fan. If I can't do it, I can't watch it. So, The almighty, with his malicious sense of humor, has made all of my children, nephews and nieces competitive athletes.
Just curious, has anyone else here had multiple careers? If this were D&D, I'd be a multiclassed salesman/marketer/graphics designer/sign maker/sysadmin/desktop support/programmer/manager/project manager/laborer.
@Cronax sing him "I am a human" with modifiy version e.g I am human after all, I need to see that match too, so why don't u put it up on full screen and make it look like u care for another human too, because I am human"
@DonThermidor_LobsterMobster I did but In I.T
teacher, web designer, software developer, web consultant, web developer.
@DonThermidor_LobsterMobster Kind of. I studied to become a web/graphics designer, started a career to become a system administrator, now I'm a software tester and a scrum master and in the future I will probably also do some web developer work again
@Cronax I could see this as a great motivational thing for a manager to use. "The work needs to get done today. If we can speed things up, I'll turn on the game in the conference room.
@DonThermidor_LobsterMobster I had one boss once who turned it into a reason to do a pizza night. The football match was during the day so everyone who wanted to watch it was allowed to do so in the conference room during working hours, if they agreed to work 1 hour of 'overtime' to make up for it. To compensate for this overtime, he paid for pizza.
In the end, because of the fun atmosphere it created, most of us stayed a lot longer than the 1 hour and we got some extra features done that sprint
@Cronax I started out as a music/education major, ran out of money so went to work at a pizza chain, climbed up the ranks, was getting set to own my franchise, sprained my back, and was pushed out. Then worked as a laborer, eventually a sign maker, and then left to work for a major Telecom. That didn't work out so I went to a major newspaper, the economy crashed and IT was cut by 1/3ed. Then, I became a project manager, then went to work for a convenience store chain
(they had their own IT, and I kept applying internally) then back to IT at the newspaper, then worked for a medical company, then had my stroke, then volunteered for a hospital, then back to retail, then to IT again.
@Cronax providing a good working environment shoots morale through the roof. I bet that pizza your manager bought was the best investment he ever made.
At our company, we project major sporting things in the conference room, if people want to go see that. They know that people are likely to watch on their own screens anyway. It's good for morale and teamworking.
@Snow It's common sense. Happy employees are more productive and will add to the bottom line. They are also far more likely to treat your clients with respect.
we've had a few of the matches displayed on the screens around the office.. while it doesn't affect me personally (really can't get excited about football at all) I think it's a good strategy as a company
@DonThermidor_LobsterMobster mine have instructed me to support @DonThermidor_LobsterMobster 's assertion that he (and I) are acting of our own free will
@Snow true story: I once frightened some people off of a subway car in NY City
@motosubatsu recent events have upset me so greatly that my blood sugar has skyrocketed, and I've started binge eating to the point of putting on ten pounds.
I'm a new employee at a software company, and saw an email sent to an coworker from a system owner, but with the whole dev team CC'd, and it got me a bit worried about the environment. I'm recently out of college so this is my first job so...is this normal in tech companies?
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I die a little on the inside when I see people accept answers that they wanted to hear, rather the one they need to hear.
I don't see anything rude at all about the response. He starts by saying thanks, then suggests how such incidents should be handled in future, and also gives a couple of lines of explanation. Without knowing more of the context, we cannot conclude that he is a "super elitist beast" who is "smarter than everyone else" and "has an ax to grind".
I've just looked up that incident and I'm surprised that that was received so poorly, but calling people zealots could be kinda condescendingly derogatory to, well, the better-chosen word fans of something.
Let me just put it this way: If I asked a student to give an example of irrational, and they wrote "refusing to give a recruiter a resume in Word document because I wrote my resume in LaTeX", I probably wouldn't mark it wrong.
A lot of people seem to think that it is "wrong" to ask for a Word document resume because it is not free. I don't really get what's so special about an MS Office license. You also need an internet connection to send the email, not to mention a computing device, those don't come free either.
In this part of the world, if something is expensive and we need it for a reasonably short period, we look for renting options. Setting aside the fact that an Office 365 license doesn't exactly require you to sell a kidney, it isn't really that difficult to find alternatives.
@MaskedMan when I was out of work, and before MS decided to roll with 365, my only choice was open office, which did well enough. When you're poor you must be resourceful
And there's web pages that will let you convert from anything to anything for pretty much free. As long as you don't mind uploading your stuff to random web sites.
When I made my first resume, I didn't even own a computer, so I wrote my resume on a piece of paper, and then typed it out and printed it at a Cyber Cafe. If I had instead screamed, "how dare they ask me for a resume when I don't have a computer", I wouldn't be chatting with you here from my own laptop.
@motosubatsu as there was to the single mother one, and the passive aggressive one. I noticed that the grandstanding posts seemed to come FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE
If I see one more question along the lines "the company's office didn't offer me any Earl Grey tea, is this a RED FLAG" I may have trouble controlling the ole Fist Of Death
I am looking for work, and have been given a link to a company's application system by a recruiter.
The process is frankly ridiculous. I am applying for software developer roles with software development companies. This company in particular are responsible for end-user applications, so you'd...
@MaskedMan I am looking for more users to start showing up in TWP again as they did before the election. I would love to see them contribute and participate. Posting some of their own answers and enjoying a rich engagement with the community
@Snow "The "E" has been worn off of my keyboard, should I contact HR?"
@Snow @DonThermidor_LobsterMobster I recall one caller asking if we could send someone by to tune their keyboard, because it was putting the wrong special characters on the screen.
@MaskedMan it is my goal in this life to gain sufficient reputation to be able, as a friend of mine has become, to tell certain recruiters and companies to go pound sand.
TRIVIA TIME The term "Red Flag" comes from the maritime custom of pirates to run their flags up the mast. If the ships didn't surrender at seeing the Jolly Roger, the JR would be lowered and replaced with a red flag of some sort, which meant no mercy would be shown.
Although I am not saying this is not the right place to ask this question, I think it might be better suited for Interpersonal Skills SE. From this stack perspective, it seems like you did everything by the book - talked to her directly, explained the problem to managers and offered all the necessary training. — Raf M.yesterday
I've noticed a few times, users poaching for other stacks and suggesting an already answered, and up-voted question should be somewhere else.
What (if anything) should we do about this.?
EXAMPLE Coworker demands immediate assistance when having computer trouble
Although I am not saying this i...
@DarkCygnus which of course makes sense. You're not going to keep the best for yourself, you're going to sell your best. Same thing goes with food. You can get better oranges in New York City than you can get in Florida or California.
That's why Guatemalan coffee is mostly sold for export... and then Starbucks gets it... and then Starbucks opens in Guatemala an we can drink our own coffee but over-priced this time :D
@MaskedMan :D Yeah, we seriously need to compare notes one day. One day, decades ago, I crank called Washington DC information using the voice of an ex president.
I just happened to notice that the color of the reputation numbers is different than before.
Last time I checked the color was white (from an old screenshot I took):
But now it seems that it is grey-ish:
What was the reason for this change in color? IMHO I liked the white color better, as ...
I am looking for work, and have been given a link to a company's application system by a recruiter.
The process is frankly ridiculous. I am applying for software developer roles with software development companies. This company in particular are responsible for end-user applications, so you'd...
I've noticed a few times, users poaching for other stacks and suggesting an already answered, and up-voted question should be somewhere else.
What (if anything) should we do about this.?
EXAMPLE Coworker demands immediate assistance when having computer trouble
Although I am not saying this i...
I just happened to notice that the color of the reputation numbers is different than before.
Last time I checked the color was white (from an old screenshot I took):
But now it seems that it is grey-ish:
What was the reason for this change in color? IMHO I liked the white color better, as ...
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