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
― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
Oh okay never that long. Dang.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
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?
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:08 (eight years ago) link
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.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
someone has left a billy graham book in the break room
― corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:11 (eight years ago) link
Whenever I get bummed about my job, I read Karl Malone's posts and I feel better about it.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:24 (eight years ago) link
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.
― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
Xpost Maybe it's time for someone to draw a penis in the Billy Graham book in the break room
― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
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."
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link
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
― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link
― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone)
great idea, worried about getting caught executing it.
― corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:42 (eight years ago) link
just do the drawing in your own billy graham book and then switch it out when no one's in there!
― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
Or a name tag sticker, repurposed. Peel, stick, walk away. Whistling atonally.
― Hydroelectric New Deal Demiurge (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
So, according to what one co-worker told another yesterday I handed my notice in on Friday. (I didn't.)
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 09:43 (eight years ago) link
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.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 12:37 (eight years ago) link
gotta be a joke, right? there's a genie floating between "beliefs" and "knowing"!
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:15 (eight years ago) link
i don't think so. the site seems to sell these sincerely.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:18 (eight years ago) link
the whole thing is like if one of those awful spammy content farms decided to branch out into self-help systems
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:20 (eight years ago) link
How to Twitter:
http://i.imgur.com/AShLLTZ.png
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:21 (eight years ago) link
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
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:22 (eight years ago) link
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.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:24 (eight years ago) link
looks ripped straight from the pages of john doe's serial-killer diary
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:37 (eight years ago) link
Got a chart on an iPad, JackSet it down on your desk and I never came backEverybody's got a humble heart
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:39 (eight years ago) link
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
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:40 (eight years ago) link
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*
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link
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
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 17:36 (eight years ago) link
Some of these get pretty esoteric.
http://mastermindmatrix.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/manifestation-process-mind-map-ipad.gif
― jmm, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 17:47 (eight years ago) link
No Screen Beans no credibility.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
My office smells weird and I'm the only one in here.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
i mean if you smelt it, then...you know
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 21:30 (eight years ago) link
It doesn't smell like farts. It just smells weird. Oh god I bet I smell weird. Why do I smell weird???
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 21:46 (eight years ago) link
If Ivy was younger you'd be checking yourself for previously unnoticed vomit patches, I bet
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 00:18 (eight years ago) link
can everyone stop announcing whether or not it's hot or cold in the office jfc SHUT UP
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 01:39 (eight years ago) link
Stop saying retarded.
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 15:08 (eight years ago) link
^^^^^
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
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 15:10 (eight years ago) link
whoa yeah the dude to my left does that too and he's otherwise like, a really really standup dude. :(
― Bouncy Castlevania (Will M.), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 15:24 (eight years ago) link
yep :(
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 13:08 (eight years ago) link
You could just pop out to the shop maybe?
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 13:13 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 13:16 (eight years ago) link
Steal it?
― Simply Sensational (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 13:18 (eight years ago) link
if you're complaining on the internet about your colleagues' failure to supply you with coffee it's possible you might be your office's own stupid, annoying co-worker
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
Haha otm
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 17:39 (eight years ago) link
The last place I worked that let the coffee run out was trying to cut office expenses and filed for bankruptcy a month later.
― Gett Off, Eileen (WilliamC), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 17:45 (eight years ago) link
overheard someone placing an order for food at work: "on a bah-gay"
i guess she meant baguette
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link
raspberry baguette
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
little red corvay
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 18:49 (eight years ago) link
While I'm not disputing the last part, I figured it was better to complain on the internet than complain to the 2 people whose job it is to make sure there is coffee who I assume must be struggling in some way if they aren't capable of doing 1 person's job between them.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link