DC stuff

2/26/2015 12:00:36 PM

when people use acronyms that are impossible for the audience to know and expect them to accurately guess

[Edited on February 26, 2015 at 12:08 PM. Reason : .]

2/26/2015 12:08:06 PM

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"but it's clear to me how easily you can spiral into a manic ego takeover with just a taste of power."

I'd bet GOOD MONEY (lol) that Kanye was like that when he was a complete nobody.

JUST SAYIN'

[Edited on February 26, 2015 at 12:10 PM. Reason : clarity]

2/26/2015 12:10:20 PM

Most stories about Kanye say that he has always had an undeniable sense of his own momentum, that he just wouldn't be stopped and if not understood, at least believed at his core the same way you believe any inherent part of your identity that he would be whatever he is now. Personally, I really enjoy him as a personality, having watched him as an artist for over a decade now, but I think his current form in the last year or so has been on the upper limits of pure egoism, fed by his status.

2/26/2015 12:13:57 PM

I'M GONNA TWEET THIS THREAD TO KANYE

2/26/2015 1:01:04 PM

YOU AINT GOT THE ANSWERS, sway

2/26/2015 1:21:41 PM

More conference call madness: We have an open work area with 16 desks. There is a weekly conference call that 6 or 7 of us dial into. We're good about muting the phones when not speaking, but the problem comes when someone who is physically in the same room is speaking on the call. Due to the delay in the phone system and the fact that my headset only covers one ear I get a very unpleasant out-of-phase effect where I can hear the speaker as they say it in the left ear, and a few milliseconds later through the phone in the right. Really sucks.

(And no, we can't just all go sit around one desk and use a speakerphone, speakerphone is disabled on all phones in cubes or at open desks.)

2/26/2015 1:46:22 PM

when people leave their phone ringer on loud. Nobody cares that you are 45 years old and pretend to think dubstep is cool.


Don't want to hear it go off for a minute straight every single time you leave your desk

[Edited on March 2, 2015 at 3:41 PM. Reason : .]

3/2/2015 3:40:36 PM

i want to go back to when we still a startup and didn't have to deal with a monthly information security governance committee that has 20 people in attendance each month - i need to leave for another startup

3/2/2015 3:43:07 PM

catching people in lies on their resumes

pet fucking peeve

3/2/2015 11:42:47 PM

LOL, you're all straight up relatable/adorable.

[Edited on March 3, 2015 at 1:01 AM. Reason : (including this mysterious, "DC stuff," LOLOLOLOLOLOL.]

3/3/2015 1:00:08 AM

the man on that doug stamper ish

3/3/2015 6:32:06 AM

i still have 3' of snow in my parking spot

3/3/2015 8:59:16 AM

when the guy that is supposed to bring in breakfast for my weekly tuesday meeting at 9am calls to say he'll be late due to traffic

3/3/2015 8:59:32 AM

People who leave their phone ringer on at work. What adult doesn't use vibrate at all times anyways (other than obvious situations when a ringer is needed).

3/3/2015 9:31:04 AM

i leave my ringer on low because it's quieter than vibrate, vibrate is annoying as shit on a hard desk

3/3/2015 9:34:24 AM

Coworkers who bitch about all the reasons their settlement numbers aren't good. And all the reasons they list are reasons every other person has to deal with too.

3/3/2015 9:56:59 AM

Coworker's surge protector goes off with any little power surge. Then it sounds a high pitched tone constantly to let you know. Of course he's never here when it happens and no one wants to pull the plug since his computer is on it...

3/3/2015 1:20:49 PM

probably needs a new battery

3/3/2015 1:23:19 PM

I hate my coworkers today.

3/4/2015 9:20:55 AM

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"catching people in lies on their resumes pet fucking peeve"

It's even worse when recruiters fake the resumes and you ask the candidate about something on "their" resume. Needless to say, we don't take candidates from those recruiters anymore. I think they even asked us once why we didn't want their people, and our BA straight up told them.

3/7/2015 1:03:39 PM

one of my project team members has started using excel to comment on documents and drawings. he screenshots the document or drawing, pastes it into excel, and uses drawing tools to markup and random cells to write comments.

everyone here has access to both bluebeam and full adobe acrobat

3/26/2015 11:39:14 AM

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"catching people in lies on their resumes pet fucking peeve"

Really? This is literally one of my favorite things about my job. It lets me know my spidey-sense for bullshit is still going strong. Plus I feel good for preventing a lying shiesty shit from gaining employment through me.

3/26/2015 11:47:46 AM

yeah, but if you have a hundred resumes to pore through it ends up just being a royal waste of time when you're trying to get someone hired on top of your normal day to day stuff.

When I was a hiring manager, I ran into this a lot. At first i'd get my hopes up when I saw a resume that practically matched the public job description, only to phone screen the candidate to find out they didn't know shit about shit.

but I couldn't really discard those really good looking resumes either because there was a chance they might be legitimately good.


so yeah the pain of wasting time on misrepresented resumes grossly outweighed any pleasure from that gotcha moment.

3/26/2015 11:57:45 AM

I had an associate who asked if I could pass her friend's resume to a colleague of mine. He didn't even bother looking at her resume because she put down e_money####@hotmail.com as her primary e-mail communication.

Minor details like this can kill your resume, folks.

3/26/2015 12:27:42 PM

My favorite email address I've ever seen on a resume for a professional gig was pinkbarracuda69@****.com.

That the guy (yes it was a dude) held 3 different CCIE certs, had worked on a ton of different bleeding-edge infrastructure projects, and was local, were the only things that saved his resume from the trash bin.

Too bad he showed up to the interview in a Hawaiian shirt.........

3/26/2015 12:48:39 PM

^a pink barracuda is a badass muscle car

according to Google, it's called "Panther Pink" and was available in 1970. Not sure why he chose 69

[Edited on March 27, 2015 at 9:34 AM. Reason : not that I'm saying he has a good email address ]

3/27/2015 9:33:33 AM

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"That the guy (yes it was a dude) held 3 different CCIE certs, had worked on a ton of different bleeding-edge infrastructure projects, and was local, were the only things that saved his resume from the trash bin. Too bad he showed up to the interview in a Hawaiian shirt......... "

That fits the IT stereotype I have in my head.

3/27/2015 10:32:34 AM

^but did he get the job tho

3/27/2015 12:51:10 PM

probably wore his finest fedora for the interview

3/27/2015 12:57:31 PM

If they were to have an onsite customer visit, and sent a memo for everyone to dress the part, then I wouldn't be able to count on that guy doing what he needs to do, if he doesn't even dress the part for the interview.

3/27/2015 1:09:32 PM

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"one of my project team members has started using excel to comment on documents and drawings. he screenshots the document or drawing, pastes it into excel, and uses drawing tools to markup and random cells to write comments."

this is hilarious. wouldn't even MS Word or paint be "easier" for the guy than excel?

3/27/2015 1:17:29 PM

Sayer and dtownral are trying real hard to be the 50yo assholes we've all worked for in the past.

"Maybe that's what our generation must do to be taken seriously!"

3/27/2015 2:01:48 PM

apparently I have to deal with 2 of these people!

a completely different person needed me to mark the locations of a few things on a architectural drawing. THEY SENT IT PASTED AS AN IMAGE IN AN EXCEL DOCUMENT!

not only do we all have Bluebeam, we've all had training and webinars on how to use it for this exact kind of thing. what the fuck is going on?

3/27/2015 2:04:29 PM

Excel is the new black.

3/27/2015 2:09:27 PM

My kids send me assignments digitally, which is awesome. However, they don't include subjects in their e-mails, and they don't change the file names on their documents. Meaning I get e-mail's like

From: Student McStudent
To: Byrn Stuff
Subject:

untitled.docx

They also delete files after sharing them, which I'll never understand.

"Hey, Student, can you send me that file again? It didn't load properly."
"Oh, I already deleted that."
"But...why would you...?"

[Edited on April 2, 2015 at 1:33 PM. Reason : .]

4/2/2015 1:31:01 PM

Probably deleted it so that they would have more time to do the assignment. Probably not coincidental that it's deleted and the original file is corrupted.

4/2/2015 1:48:32 PM

Ya, I'd considered that, but this year alone, I've had several kids turn in a rough draft and then inexplicably delete the file before turning in the final.

4/2/2015 1:50:57 PM

^Quite bizarre.

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"People who leave their phone ringer on at work. What adult doesn't use vibrate at all times anyways (other than obvious situations when a ringer is needed)."

How about the jackasses who leave their ringers on in meetings, and then, when someone calls them but they don't answer, don't silence the ringer.

It's like I want to scream at them "push any fucking button on the exterior of your phone, it will stop!"

4/2/2015 1:51:10 PM

interacting with customers at all

4/2/2015 2:22:41 PM

successful = "su-sess-full"
height = "heighth"
what = "hwhat"

4/2/2015 2:25:32 PM

foxfire, linskey, mozerella, linus, vister, winders etc etc

4/2/2015 2:27:05 PM

The lot that I typically have to park in is 0.8 miles from my desk.

4/5/2015 10:21:35 PM

Byrn Stuff said:

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"Ya, I'd considered that, but this year alone, I've had several kids turn in a rough draft and then inexplicably delete the file before turning in the final."

You're being naive. They aren't doing that inexplicably. They're establishing a pattern of behavior that adjusts your expectation of what is normal so that when they take advantage of you like this kid, you won't notice how odd and stupid and wrong the contrived circumstances are.

dtownral said:

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"what = "hwhat""

You might find this interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_wh

4/6/2015 7:58:41 AM

answering calls on your cell during a meeting... while in the meeting... and having a conversation...

4/6/2015 8:52:32 AM

Quote :

"Sayer and dtownral are trying real hard to be the 50yo assholes we've all worked for in the past."

More like if you're going to go interview with a company where the culture expects you to present yourself in a formal manner like a bank or a financial institution, you do it because you want the job.

If you're interviewing for an IT start-up, show up in a tiara and pink tutu for all I care. They probably don't.

4/6/2015 9:26:19 AM

If the culture isn't covering my clothing expenses or providing me with uniforms, the culture can go fuck itself.

4/6/2015 9:58:42 AM

Coworker: Hey I sent you an email...

Me: Yes did you read my response?

Coworker: Oh I saw it but didn't have a chance to read it so let me just ask you...

Me:

4/6/2015 3:37:51 PM

Guy at work doesn't wear clothes that fit him (not to mention they aren't workplace appropriate to begin with), so every time I turn around, I see his hairy ass-crack. I'm about two shakes from complaining. Dude, wear a longer shirt, and a belt, and tuck your shirt in. You're a computer programmer, not a plumber

4/7/2015 12:02:24 AM

The discrepancy between the site dress code and my employer's dress code. They're casual, we're business casual (ie a strict "no jeans" rule among other things.) It can annoy me in either direction though--some days I think "why am I stuck in slacks when everyone else is in jeans" and other days I think "why did everyone who isn't on our team dress like a slob today". A minor annoyance, but one nonetheless.

4/7/2015 12:36:40 AM