@DonThermidor_LobsterMobster Actually, I kinda just dropped in because of a chat flag, but thanks anyway :)
@MaskedMan I'm afraid that I can't be of much assistance in relation to workplace issues - I have absolutely no experience with the workplace in any form :P
@Mithrandir Good questions are also useful contributions. Besides we cater to more than a "conventional" workplace. Anyone who works can contribute something useful here. ;)
Of course! There's that too. I enjoy being here more than I enjoy being at work. The only reason I bother going there is because I prefer getting paid. ;)
Recently I was tasked with writing an email for a wide audience of both mid-managers and technical IT personnel. I needed to explain technically why an event occurred and provide key points to management so they could act upon the information provided. After spending a fair amount of time writing...
So my boss just re-forwarded an email regarding travel policy to the team "in case you're asked to travel for any stack A work..." How does this not sound ominous....?
I remember some years back being asked if I'd go to an internal group presentation at my then employer's HQ in Paris, given that said presentation was going to be 2 hrs long and in French (which I don't speak) and no overnight accommodation would be provided that would have meant a 16hr+ exhausting day of airports, languages I didn't understand and sheer boredom. People seemed surprised when I suggested I didn't want to go
I once spent a week in Copenghagen trying to teach a novice how to consume web services with a particular API. At the end of the week, he still didn't get it. Was pretty frustrating.
@Snow fairly sure that is one of the punishments in the lesser circles of hell.. along with trying to do tech support for elderly relatives' printer and email problems over the phone with poor signal
I get you there. Although it's nice to be asked. I sometimes find relatives struggling with simple things only to be told "I didn't want to bother you" when I find out they're just not using the laptop I gave them to make their lives easier.
and to be honest I have to say that my mother (in her 70s) does buck the trend - she will ask me something if she needs to but is not averse to trying to figure stuff out herself first and is generally more worried about bothering me than I am
I wish I could answer that TL;DR question. It seems a bit too old now to add anything. My basic point is that using TL;DR is an indication that you haven't really catered for your audience and you don't care about it enough to fix it.
ugh.. don't you just lurve when you investigate a bug and find what while you can understand why the bit that's broken doesn't work you can't for the life of you work out how the bit that works isn't broken?
@DonThermidor_LobsterMobster I would think this also happens in the other direction
People who are active on both will sometimes make suggestions when they think a question would be better served elsewhere. I've personally recommended TWP on IPS before and vice versa (I think)
It's been my experience as well that people posting to RPG.SE suggesting the question get asked on IPS.SE also frequently have either no account or no/little activity on IPS.SE
i.e. it's not active IPS.SE users recommending this stuff
half the time the user even has little or no prior activity on RPG.SE
The main thing to watch out for is suitability. We can't really let people suggest moving questions if they're simply bad quality/not suitable for <this> site. The question must be good quality and suitable for <that> site to get anywhere at all.
I've spoken to IPS.SE moderators about it previously and they remarked that the questions being recommended for their site wouldn't even work there. So they're sort of drive-by recommendations: "oh, this looks interpersonal, there's a site for that!".
@Snow Yes, that's why I included the "Migration" question in meta. The odd thing is that, as Maskedman said, is the people who are making the suggestions are low rep in here and low to no rep elsewhere as well.
Morning @Nofel I'll be sending out that mail tonight. I'm finally going to have time to finish it.
I have applied for a position through a recruitment agency, had an interview with the recruiter, however after requesting and update from the recruiter, they have not responded to my email. Can I contact recruitment management or re-apply directly with the employer?
@Neo not without the additional details requested in the comments - without those it's a dupe of the generic Qs about approaching directly. If there are particular extenuating circumstances then maybe
The company I interviewed with asked me to stop calling them because there are no open positions and I've been doing this for three years now. Is this a red flag?
you need to remember that calling them, again and again, you are annoying them, gone are days where u need to call people and ask them if they have any opening, the internet is the way. ur annoying them even if they are potential employer of the future for u
@motosubatsu I m getting good money for my bruised car. what u call a car with dents and scratching on it?
@Neo thanks. I'm no longer at the point where I can entertain conflict without serious personal consequences. Last time it nearly put me in the hospital. So, sometimes just withdrawing is the best course of action.
@Mithrandir Checking out a flag? Did someone flag the word "this" again?
Let's start with this is why people should not date coworkers ever especially not senior managers when you are not at the same level. This is complicating your situation as people around you have probably felt for sometime that you get special treatment even if you don't think so. No one I have k...
Background
I'm a young female engineer from a racial minority group in the US. 90% of the staff is white male American. I started dating a coworker 6 months ago. We disclosed our relationship to our supervisors and HR.
My office mate's job involves constant requirements gathering.I have witnes...
@Nofel cut your expenses, stay out of debt, and reorganize. When you're in a strong position again, continue to live as if you were poor. That is how you become rich
@Nofel I made the mistake of hooking up with women who were parasites. I've got a good one now though. MY brother always used to say "You always have money, unless some woman is around to spend it for you."
@DonThermidor_LobsterMobster my ex taught sense into me, pushed me for freelance but the family drama was so much that it came to a stage where I was saving my ex from suicides and looking out on roads
@Nofel get back to basics. Dust yourself off, learn from the past, and redouble your efforts. Do not focus on problems, focus on the solution. If you need to cross a river, and notice that the bridge is out, the solution isn't necessarily to fix the bridge. If you limit yourself to the problem (bridge out) you will miss viable solutions (walk across, take a rat, find another bridge)
@DonThermidor_LobsterMobster I dusted off, I had problem in my marriage coz of my ex but I managed it but I am so distracted that I donno why. good thing iOS 12 got a tool
@Neo The Judge has returned a verdict of "Acceptable" with the caveat that it is only so if you didn't go around telling everyone you encountered about how it was a soy latte and how much better you were than them
It usually takes ~20 hours to brew, but I've got a single-serve cold brew carry cup thingy that I can leave in the fridge to cold brew coffee overnight.
Aha! Here's that cup. You put a spoonful of ground coffee into that black vessel that sits on the inside, fill the cup to the brim with cold water, and leave it in the fridge overnight. In the morning, take the cap off, remove the coffee grounds vessel, empty it into the bin, put the lid back on and take a cup of coffee with you for your journey to work.
@motosubatsu It's good! It's less acidic on account of never having heated up the grounds (so the acid never gets extracted from them) and that gives it a different, smoother taste and texture and having it black is very different.
@Neo speaking of coffee, our company gives away free coffee. There is also a small coffee shop in the building. the proprietor makes a fortune selling coffee to the people who could get it for free. Our coffee is that bad.
@Neo it's hard to translate into those chicken noises your lot call speech but broadly speaking it means a lot of activity for not much significant return
Some background, I was hired about a year ago as a software developer. During the interview process, the manager basically botched the initial interview. I was introduced to some of their current challenges, which I realized was going to be primarily a bug-fixing nightmare and very little new d...
however I feel like there's a trend that's super annoying. People will ask a question that basically says "I want X to be real, but it isn't possible. Tell me how it can be real"
metallic oxygen isn't possible. Asking "how can I make it possible?" is a question that just doesn't make sense. The answer is just, No. But then the OP basically says, "okay, but I want to be creative and make it possible."
if that's the case, just be creative and write your story so it's possible! You don't have to ask anyone. Just do it
@motosubatsu basically, when u drink an alcohol drink (according to Islam), u tend to lose control and start to get number, too much drink can make u do vulgar things that can end up in non-consent sex or something regretful, so better to avoid than to be sorry. plus Islam stops you from anything that harms you body and recently science has proven alcohol destory liver and shorten your length, and not to forget a old example of "Don't drink and drive" in west is a example.
so basically what science is proving now was mention in the Quran 1400 yrs ago.
@DonThermidor_LobsterMobster IKR? The other day when I was looking for answers to upvote, so that he could achieve Legendary, and the trouble wasn't finding upvote worthy answers, but finding answers I hadn't already upvoted
@Nofel That's not 'recently'. Medicine has known that alcohol destroys your liver for ages
@Nofel to be honest I very rarely drink myself (maybe a handful of times a year), not through any religious or moral convictions though - more to do with the fact I don't actually like being drunk and hangovers suck
Eating the meat of pig can cause over SEVENTY different types of latent diseases as their body contains many TOXINS and deadly parasitic WORMS like tapeworm, roundworm, pinworm, hookworm, etc. If you eat pork you are likely to inject many of these worms or their eggs into your body! Most dangerous among them is the Tapeworm.
@Nofel Aristotle, in his book "Ethics" described all vices as being intemperate amounts of a quality, in either deficiencies or excesses of said trait.
@Snow the funny thing about radiation is that there seems to be a "sweet spot" of exposure. Certain levels of background radiation actually reduce the risks of cancer, as they kill the cells in infancy.
@motosubatsu I'm trying to wean myself off of soda entirely. This is hard for me, as I use caffeine as a sedative (Boomerang effect, and yes, it actually works) but it's wreaking havoc with my digestion.
@DonThermidor_LobsterMobster No actual research conducted? [Check!] Controversial subject? [Check!] Starts with an assumed position [Check!] Published in a low-impact factor journal? [Check!] = I'm not going to lose any sleep over that papr
in a more balanced view watching levels of aspartame intake is a good idea there is a recommended daily max intake for a reason - the metabolites are harmful in sufficient quantities, but that's just dose making the poison again
@Nofel There is a small percentage of the population who will react contrary to a substances known effects. This is why on drugs you will see "may cause drowsiness" and also "May cause nervousness"
@motosubatsu no, that was a damn thorough take down, thus the pic. I can admit when I'm wrong, and when I'm shown to be in such a thorough manner, I need to give the proper respect :D
@Nofel the first thing to find out is if you're getting the proper amount of sleep and if it is of the proper quality. I actually have the opposite problem. I have a hard time going to sleep and staying asleep.
@DonThermidor_LobsterMobster wow.. this is actually a novel experience for me. I'm used to "debating" the credibility of papers with anti-vaxxer loons who never give any ground
@DonThermidor_LobsterMobster amen to this!
the importance of sleep in mental health is constantly underestimated
@DonThermidor_LobsterMobster yep.. or at the very least use night modes if you can't - the blue light is a killer to sleep
I have applied for a position through a recruitment agency, had an interview with the recruiter, however after requesting and update from the recruiter, they have not responded to my email. Can I contact recruitment management or re-apply directly with the employer?
Background
I'm a young female engineer from a racial minority group in the US. 90% of the staff is white male American. I started dating a coworker 6 months ago. We disclosed our relationship to our supervisors and HR.
My office mate's job involves constant requirements gathering.I have witnes...
Some background, I was hired about a year ago as a software developer. During the interview process, the manager basically botched the initial interview. I was introduced to some of their current challenges, which I realized was going to be primarily a bug-fixing nightmare and very little new d...
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