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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #4830 on: September 10, 2021, 12:37:48 PM »
What is it about architects and that mentality.  :laugh:

Dude needs a capable assistant and a kick in the butt to delegate. Or if the company's not allowing that then a stark reminder of the consequences to something he cares about (which may not be his own welfare  :P) when shoddy work happens as a result of exhaustion.
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #4831 on: September 13, 2021, 11:58:17 AM »
He likes to work when he's off, too. Don't know how many times I've had an email from him when he's supposed to be on holiday.
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #4832 on: September 13, 2021, 12:40:47 PM »
Dunno. My work has its issues, but there's a real cultural push at the moment to limit your overtime and keep work/life balance in mind. Guess they burned out too many people fifteen years ago. There was a time when it was a huge media thing and that seemed to put sufficient pressure on them when individual complaints meant nothing.

There are still people who don't listen, though, and the sense I get is they have drastically different experiences at the company depending on how well they're able to moderate things.

Me, work was a refuge when I didn't know what I'd be walking into at home, so it's kind of been a non-issue. Like, working certain types of overtime is a "simply can't do it" and nobody's made the mistake of trying to force it. And now with limited childcare and even more limited local support it's the same thing. I'm lucky to be valuable enough to them to get away with it.

But the request ... becoming demand... to do more and more can get at people's psychological weaknesses. And that can maybe only be addressed at the source. Unless one can create a cultural movement on demand, I guess, but there are already so many people trying to do that that it just adds to the noise.

So yeah. It's hard to say.
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #4833 on: September 13, 2021, 12:45:07 PM »
The company isn't good at setting limits, at all. Part of the problem is that we have customers across the pond so working in the evening is not unusual.
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #4834 on: September 21, 2021, 04:25:51 AM »
Apparently the (former) other boss guy has been randomly calling people he knows and verbally abusing them.
MRI scan of his brain came back clear so I guess one should find another explanation for his odd behavior.

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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #4835 on: September 21, 2021, 09:11:33 AM »
The company isn't good at setting limits, at all. Part of the problem is that we have customers across the pond so working in the evening is not unusual.

I get that.  And I get the meetings with the Indian/Malayan contingents at 7am too. 
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #4836 on: September 21, 2021, 06:17:06 PM »
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #4837 on: September 22, 2021, 06:21:55 AM »
The local Paralympics champion is selling his limited edition Galaxy S21. They gave them away for free to all the athletes. This could be quite the find  :orly:

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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #4838 on: September 24, 2021, 03:30:29 PM »
The company isn't good at setting limits, at all. Part of the problem is that we have customers across the pond so working in the evening is not unusual.

I get that.  And I get the meetings with the Indian/Malayan contingents at 7am too.

Yup. Although they're used to working late. :P
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #4839 on: September 24, 2021, 03:36:40 PM »
I've worked for global companies before but not like this. Because everyone is working from home, they all assume that you're reachable round the clock. And because your mobile's got Teams and everything else, I guess they're right.
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #4840 on: September 24, 2021, 04:25:52 PM »
I adamantly refused to install the company chat app on my phone.

They can pay for a work phone if they want that shit.
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #4841 on: September 26, 2021, 03:05:30 PM »
Well, I'm a contractor.
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #4842 on: September 26, 2021, 06:18:16 PM »
Ah. Well then.  :P

I hope you're billing them through the teeth for those hours.
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #4843 on: September 26, 2021, 08:41:07 PM »
Our fridge has just gotten really loud. ???
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #4844 on: September 27, 2021, 08:16:58 AM »
I was sitting here watching amateur vids of the UFO that flew over NSW earlier and just then my smoke alarms mysteriously went off  :tinfoil: