Let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-workers

skype it to her inbox (uhh yeah dude joke, applicable here tho)

lol

― how's life, Saturday, August 8, 2015 7:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no actually not lol, as someone who works 45h/week at a help desk where I regularly (i.e. several times each and every day) have to explain to ppl in unfathomable detail how to go to a website (e.g. how to open a web browser, what a web browser even is, to type the URL in the address bar instead of a search engine box, what and where the address bar even is, to press ENTER after typing in the URL instead of clicking on the magnifying glass icon, etc) the agony is real, like you suddenly are faced w/ the task of explaining what you thought were the most basic concepts to ppl but actually having to break them down into even more basic pieces that you had never even contemplated ppl wouldn't already know

fuck evry1

^^^ real talk

It's been years since I've worked on a helpdesk, but as second line support we still get the occasional call like that escalated to us. Then there's the face-to-face encounters where co-workers forget the hard drive encryption password on their company laptop that was issued to them the day before that they got to set to whatever they wanted and then they wrote down.

what if i have ~personal~ concerns

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl

almost fp

just curious, what's the longest review process that anyone has had to endure for a document (a SOP in this case) that was less than 8 pages long?

you mean outside of academia

Do you mean how long does it take someone to review it or how long do you go back and forth with revisions? Because either way a long ass time.

outside of academia

back and forth with revisions, i guess. i'm going on month seven, although there hasn't been constant communication, that's for sure. typically each stage has involved about 2-3 weeks of waiting for a response. one division will suggest a change, i'll make it, a solstice occurs, send it over to the division that's involved, wait a month, they ask a question about the change, an equinox occurs, i get an answer and/or make a few small changes in response, send it back over, wait a few weeks, another solstice comes up on the calendar, etc

Oh okay never that long. Dang.

my entire job is basically writing documents, getting them checked for facts by the people who wrote the old labyrinthine source content, and then attempting to publish them as quickly as possible, and i would say that unless there is a structure imposed on people and a system and it's agreed on by everyone, eg that when i send you this you take a week to return it, i take a week to make an edit, you get your final look at it for a week, then i publish it, unless there is a system like that it can take forever and ever.

it's v hard for you to impose such a system if this is just one document and your job isn't about getting documents published, but i dunno, maybe you can find a way of applying pressure?

it also might work to get a single point of contact in the division you're sending it to, someone who'll collate other people's responses or take more responsibility for getting it done for you.

someone has left a billy graham book in the break room

Whenever I get bummed about my job, I read Karl Malone's posts and I feel better about it.

xpost

it's just one point of contact on the other side (who is collating other people's responses), it's just that seemingly every minor change or adjustment needs to be run through several layers of management, and inevitably someone is on vacation for several weeks). true on my side, too. all of this for a document that i'm sure will just sit on the shelf.

Xpost
Maybe it's time for someone to draw a penis in the Billy Graham book in the break room

I don't know who goes through the trouble of cutting out the individual Burger King coupons from their junk mail and then laying them out evenly on one of the break room tables, but I just want to give them a hug, look them in the eye, and say, "You don't have to do this. Really."

sounds more like an invitation to join a really elaborate mind game. step one is to replace the coupons with the burger king items that they correspond to

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Maybe it's time for someone to draw a penis in the Billy Graham book in the break room

― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone)

great idea, worried about getting caught executing it.

just do the drawing in your own billy graham book and then switch it out when no one's in there!

Or a name tag sticker, repurposed. Peel, stick, walk away. Whistling atonally.

So, according to what one co-worker told another yesterday I handed my notice in on Friday. (I didn't.)

got into work today and this was on the desk i sat at:

http://mastermindmatrix.com/knowledge-base/qualities-of-success/

I googled the site and there are hundreds of "mind maps".

http://mastermindmatrix.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/beliefs-convictions-mastermind-matrix.jpg

Can anyone shed any light here? This is terrifying.

gotta be a joke, right? there's a genie floating between "beliefs" and "knowing"!

i don't think so. the site seems to sell these sincerely.

the whole thing is like if one of those awful spammy content farms decided to branch out into self-help systems

How to Twitter:

http://i.imgur.com/AShLLTZ.png

i don't know, i hate to be so dichotomizing but whoever left that at your desk is either completely insane or a truly wonderful person

http://gallery.iqmatrix.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/a-humble-heart-mind-map-ipad.png

a humble heart

xpost i can only see insanity. the weird thing is one of my co-workers produced a chart of work someone sent to him that looks like a civil service version of the same. similar colours even.

hard to tell who it is as lots of people come and go.

looks ripped straight from the pages of john doe's serial-killer diary

Got a chart on an iPad, Jack
Set it down on your desk and I never came back
Everybody's got a humble heart

feel like we need a better zoom to appreciate this fully - hope this works

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11037082_548474228683_8977839019100097861_n.jpg

damn. time to reconsult the mind map.

critical update on SOP from upthread: it was FINALLY sent out today, after about 8 or 9 months. sent out...for comment from the rest of the organization! can't wait to receive the comments and revise.

in related news, a few minutes ago i received an email from my supervisor letting me know that i'm the lead on drafting 2 new SOPs. the email also adds, helpfully, "don't worry, you're not going to be targeted as the SOP guy". good to know! *starts work on SOPs, is a guy*

dammit, I threw out my 90s 6-CD set of terrible clipart, but I could've used those 3.9 GBs of distorted line drawing WMFs and a sprinkling of random motivational words and business-speak to make an auto-mind-mapper, if only I'd known

Some of these get pretty esoteric.

http://mastermindmatrix.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/manifestation-process-mind-map-ipad.gif

No Screen Beans no credibility.

My office smells weird and I'm the only one in here.

i mean if you smelt it, then...you know

It doesn't smell like farts. It just smells weird. Oh god I bet I smell weird. Why do I smell weird???

If Ivy was younger you'd be checking yourself for previously unnoticed vomit patches, I bet

can everyone stop announcing whether or not it's hot or cold in the office jfc SHUT UP

Stop saying retarded.

^^^^^

the person in the cube to the left of me says it all the time, and so does the person two cubes to the right

whoa yeah the dude to my left does that too and he's otherwise like, a really really standup dude. :(

yep :(

twice today

My co-workers are mostly fine, but my office has completely run out of coffee (even decaf). How can this be allowed to happen? Our office manager is on maternity leave but we have 2 people covering for her, and I guess they aren't up to the job.

You could just pop out to the shop maybe?

I'm not entirely sure why they aren't doing that.

Yeah, I could do that too, but then I'd have to pay for it.

Steal it?