The Water Cooler

9:13 AM

This user is starting to look like a troll to me.

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Q: Team lead prioritise female intern than male intern

A Team lead on our department was assigned to handle the interns that are coming in. After a few weeks I have a little chat with some of the interns. About how they are on the company. The male interns spoken that the lead has some kind of a rude behaviour towards them. The scenarios they pertai...

It seems he just has to nosepoke into everything at work. Just have a look at the number of complaints, his colleague is begging for food, his colleague is playing games, his manager is having sexual relations, his team lead is favouring female interns, his interviewer is asking for code samples which he cannot share, his colleague compares present company to past company, he is not given proper training.

I wonder why he hasn't been fired already after all that whining ... Oh wait, he was "unethically" forced to resign as well!

Lilienthal

9:52 AM

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Q: Having lunch at home

I live near my employer's office. All I need to do to reach home is walk for five minutes. To go straight to the point, I prefer having lunch at home. It costs me way less money than going to restaurants; I can eat healthy, prepared food; and I'm able to attend to my home. My colleagues take it...

communication colleagues work-life-balance lunch

What a wasted question.

The OP actually put in an answerable question on a post that would otherwise be very easily off-topic as a rant / no goal. But every answer just ignored it.

And instead we get half a dozen easy answers preaching to the choir how a lunch break should be spent how you choose and OP isn't doing anything wrong.

Lilienthal

12:22 PM

Interesting Alison Green post here cheek-kissing as a greeting at work, particularly the final paragraphs:

> It’s also really, really important that you strive not to see her differently as the result of other people’s behavior toward her. She’s not the baby of the family — she’s an adult woman who’s fielding gender-specific behavior directed her way by people above her in rank. Don’t let that impact the way you see her or how you manage her (other than by asking if she wants your help in changing what’s happening).

> Similarly, you can’t let a desire to avoid more cheek-kissing bias you against future women hires. That would be illegal and unethical, and you just can’t do it. If you seriously …

Richard U

12:34 PM

@Lilienthal agreed re: lunch question. I may drop an answer in later.

BradC

5:14 PM

Found an older question that could use some improvement, if anyone has a moment:

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Q: How can I get feedback on why my resume is not getting me interviews?

I've been looking for job since July and I have got only one interview. I'm realistic, I'm a recent grad so I'm applying for intership/entry level positions, not mid/senior ones. I'm not even applying for entry positions in which they ask for more than a year experience. I'm kind of desperate ri...

cover-letter feedback

Problem is that the last paragraph of the question was edited out: "should I ask for feedback on my resume in my cover letter?"

This removal makes the top answers weird, which both start with "no, don't include that"

Should we revert to the prior edit of the Q? Or edit the answers to exclude that (now weird) first line?

JackArbiter

This guy asks a question 7 days ago where he "just got" the job. 4 days ago where he works with over 100 devs. Then 2 days ago he works with just over 50 devs, and he's been working there for a while and he wants to defend a junior dev. He gets called out for BS and he states that this account (which is 8 days old) is used by multiple people. workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/88004/…

I don't know the policies on multiple users per account, but does something like this matter? I know a good question/answer is helpful for people, but it just seems like BS should be called out where possible.

Richard U

5:32 PM

@MonicaCellio ^^^^

@JackArbiter I just pinged a mod.

JackArbiter

Thanks, I'll hang out and see how this gets handled, I've seen a few like this before (having a lot of varied issues in a short amount of time, not necessarily sharing an account) and I always wondered what the policies were.

Masked Man

@JackArbiter I posted a question on meta seeking clarification.

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Q: Can multiple people use the same account?

On Workplace.SE, we have come across an interesting user, who seemed to have had a roller coaster ride in his first week at work. Quoting JackArbiter's comment on this user from the chat: This guy asks a question 7 days ago where he "just got" the job. 4 days ago where he works with over 100...

discussion user-accounts policy

@JackArbiter Turns out a duplicate question exists already on meta. I am not convinced by the "accepted" answer there.

So if I get this right, 100 people can "pool" together 200 points, and this pool account becomes a trusted user? We expect any of those 100 people to use moderation privileges responsibly, having spent perhaps no more than a week on the site? — Masked Man 1 min ago

Please follow that link to my comment and have a look at the question and the answers.

@JackArbiter It looks like multiple people using an account is a violation of ToS. That, and the fact that the user did not acknowledge it until he/she/they was/were called out on it, means that the moderators should probably take a closer look and see if there is any rep farming going on there through fake questions.

Masked Man

6:12 PM

This looks like a great example for codinghorror or thedailywtf. — Masked Man 31 secs ago

Christopher Estep

We already have people gaming the system (for reasons I still can't fathom). I'd really like to see less.

Masked Man

I love this attitude. "I maintain an entire blog finding faults in other people, but when I write rubbish code myself, I just say "this is required" and be done with." No wonder he got 43 downvotes.

Christopher Estep

I tend not to take anything seriously that was written on meta 8 years ago. Times change and so do people.

Masked Man

-219, well done.

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A: Can we have the ability to retract a close vote before it closes?

declining -- you can always cast a reopen vote if the post gets closed. Also note that all close votes automatically expire after two days. (and for that matter reopen votes, or any other vote that attempts to reach a threshold -- otherwise, over an absurdly long period of time, say 10 years, e...

@ChristopherEstep Except that the stupid bug still exists 8 years later, and even after that codinghorror guy left SE ages ago.

Christopher Estep

You can retract a close vote before it closes. Just not after.

People that complain too much about SO need to be forced to spend a month trying to find answers using experts-exchange. :)

BradC

6:26 PM

I ended up making an edit to this old question, so that the answers make sense again:

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Q: How can I get feedback on why my resume is not getting me interviews?

I've been looking for job since July and I have got only one interview. I'm realistic, I'm a recent grad so I'm applying for intership/entry level positions, not mid/senior ones. I'm not even applying for entry positions in which they ask for more than a year experience. I'm kind of desperate ri...

cover-letter feedback

My edit is pending review, if anyone has a moment to take a look. Thanks.

Masked Man

@ChristopherEstep I was referring to the other post related to deleting a comment being counted as a vote. That is still not fixed apparently.

Christopher Estep

@BradC one approval down. needs one more

BradC

@ChristopherEstep Cool, thanks

Christopher Estep

It's funny. I could make that edit myself, but if someone else puts it there, it takes 2 to approve it. If I can make an edit on my own without more approval, I should be able to approve an edit too on my own since I could just have typed it it myself and not needed approval.

BradC

:shrug:

Yeah, I never really understood, until I became more active on other sites, how many common features I was taking for granted from my high-rep SO main account

Christopher Estep

6:34 PM

i know, right? I'll go over to SO and click to see how many downvotes something has before I'm reminded that I can't (unless I want a chrome hack).

Masked Man

@ChristopherEstep Yeah there are a number of silly policies like those on SE. I guess it is somewhat "justified" in that the editor gets 2 reputation points, so we want to make sure we don't give out measly reputation without at least 2 people to blame.

Christopher Estep

Workplace rep is easy rep. "My new boss keeps telling off-color jokes and they make me uncomfortable..." boom, HNQ

BradC

it makes sense. As a high-rep SO user, I really don't have any business monkeying up questions in bicycles.SE or bitcoin.SE or buddhism.SE. At least the 100 point site bonus skips the MOST onerous restrictions for 1-rep users (can't vote up or down, can't comment, can't post hyperlinks)

JackArbiter

6:57 PM

Thanks for looking into that @Masked Man, it does indeed violate the ToS. Though I doubt he is actually sharing his account, of course, but it's hard to prove rep farming.

Christopher Estep

I'm sure there will be a new flammable question tomorrow. Any bets?

BradC

7:28 PM

"The office I work in (corporate IT support) happens to be in the back of a taco truck that moves to all different locations around the city. How do I complete my support desk tasks without burning the burritos?"

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JackArbiter

7:48 PM

"Your company should move their IT support out of a taco truck, you shouldn't be tasked with worrying about burritos. This is a management problem, you should move it up the chain."

First common sense answer posted: 100+ votes.

BradC

8:06 PM

or make it a networking-related issue, like the famous "programming from a sailboat" SE question

Monica Cellio

8:21 PM

@RichardU looking into it.

JasonJ

@BradC You forgot all the responses about how horrible support work is and how it isnt a real job anyway.

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