Knights among toner cartridges
Knights among toner cartridges
(Business people) speaking a language familiar and dear to them. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; executives walk among toner cartridges, caparisoned like knights. We should tolerate them - every person of spirit wants to ride a white horse. -William Strunk Jr. (The Elements of Style)
The fast-paced unpredictable high-energy part refers to HR hiring and layoff practices.
I thought it was unpaid overtime and abusive management.
Even low cube walls would be great compared to all the "open floorplans" I've been in the last few years.
It's not like everyone is having virtual meetings all day in an open floor plan office with terrible reverb on their day pass desks...right?
Nah bro we'll fix it software. Like virtual backgrounds but for sound bro!
Panopticon
Unpredictable: "Our requirements are constantly changing due to bad planning."
High energy: "There will be a lot of yelling."
Fast-paced: "Your deadlines will always be due last week/month/year".
The last place I worked, my role, by necessity, had to be the last step before any submission deadline. We received all of these deadlines months in advance.
Without fucking fail, the engineers on the team would wait until 0-6 work days before the deadline before sending me any markups with which to even start my work. Typically, these markups would contain anywhere from 2 to 6 weeks of work on my part.
Invariably, when I took this chronological conundrum to the project managers, their reply was some variation of, "I understand the difficulty but this deadline is set in stone. If you need to work overtime to get it done, I'm okay with that."
For my first year and a half, I would then proceed to work insane hours to get as much done as I possibly could.
Finally on one project, this got so bad that the engineers sent me markups literally the night before the shit was due. In the meeting the next day where we were supposed to review the submission (but for which I was preparing to explain to them why we wouldn't have any submission), instead, the project lead opens with, "Hey all, some of you have communicated to me that you're pressed for time on this, so we're going to push this deadline out by six weeks."
After that I never worked one more minute of overtime to meet a deadline for them.
I work in a factory and was just handed a shop order today that is a "rush" and set to be due tomorrow. The paperwork is handed to me before the product goes out to be coated so it's at least 2 weeks before I even see it to work on it...
Gotta love being set up for failure...
Translation, "we want someone who's ok with us harassing them to do stuff outside work hours"
"No."
"You were hired here on the basis of being a team player."
"And I put in exactly the hours required of me by the job description. You're the manager; if slack needs to be picked up, it's your responsibility to do so, not mine."
My bosses all hate me, and I'm happier than ever.
Damn they gave you two monitors? The break room must have a pinball machine.
Maybe even a panini press?!
Damn, I'm adding that to my next job hunt requirements.
LOL, those are reserved for important people when they come in. They're not for the people that work in the building.
Last place I worked had a ping pong table that never got used by the people that worked there, as well as an Xbox I never saw on
Wait they got monitors? I always had to salvage what I could for my own private junk pile or steal it from somebody when they left the company. And a desktop PC? Never in my life it's always fucking laptops because they want to make sure I can work from anywhere
They said I was a power caller
also, every single job listing says this, and i'm NOT willing nor able to work in such an environment
god i love capitalism
Yeah and I fucking hate it because I don't just assume everyone is lying so I never apply to those places.
I don't think these idiots realize how hard they're shooting themselves in the foot with these kinds of ridiculous descriptions...
Also the "college degree required, starting salary: 2 peanuts and a dead cat, bimonthly pay periods."
Absolute insanity.
Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment...
Yeah... it's just we're putting cover letters on all TPS reports now.
Did you get that memo?
Perfect!
It's actually a fast-paced and unpredictable environment. The job is about how fast you switch from playing games/browsing lemmy to look like you are working when the "management" passing by
As a dumb fuck factory schmuck I'd kill for that kind of fast paced! The only time I get to stop and sit on lemmy for a minute is when I'm in the bathroom lol
I'd love a cubical, at work we only had open spaces the last 15 years or so. It's so loud and distracting, I hate it. But the upper management always has their own individual office where they can just close the door.
The one up side to the open floor plan at work is it makes throwing nerf darts at co workers across the office easier.
Nothing is better when you’re frustrated than beaming a dart at your buddy, or starting a dart war.
Answering the phone:
"Yes, this is Glenn from very important global company, how may I help you? Okay, thank you for calling. I will need to check that with our local team in Barcelona. Oh, you know Anthony? Terrific guy. I'll get right back to you on that. If you have any more specific enquiries for our Barcelona team, you can contact them by logging into the web portal. Remember to check your email for the verification of your user registration which you will need to logon to our excellent online support service. Can I help you with anything else today, sir? Have a pleasant day."
Turning to manager.
"We need to fire Anthony. Yes some dude called Anthony in Barcelona is causing customer contact. How am I supposed to make the daily EBITDA reports on time when my phone is ringing constantly?!"
Heh
It's freaking me out that it looks so damn similar to where I used to work. The only thing this lacks is shelving cabinets above the desk.
Like Mr. Anderson’s cubicle in The Matrix?
TWO MONITORS!
why get a reasonably sized monitor when you can get these babies for $20 each in bulk orders
Is that a page-feed scanner? Anyone that hands me a sheet of paper had better realize it's going to sit on my desk until the end of the day, and then get dumped in the recycling.
When I worked on the accounting system at my last job they had scanners just to scan invoices. They were scary fast.
I got myself a Brother scanner to digitise my paperwork. Double-sided color scans converted to PDF in just over one second per sheet. Impressive!
Yea, but that picture doesn't convey the thumping techno your cubeighbor has running constantly because I've got ADHD and that shit is serenity for me.
My first full-time job, I had the Creative Zen MP3 player, boasting 14 hours of playback and a gigabytes of storage. Looking back, the only way I made it through successfully was that device. And Napster et al. I'm sure. Long live thumping beats! (Thank you for listening to my talk).
I swear that I have worked in a place like this, all the way down to the stupid exposed ducts. This must be the corporate prison that our overlords have decided on.
I WFH now (thank you covid), but my jobs have been in similarly drab cubes and offices.
The work is dynamic and fast-paced. Having crazy lights and crap on the walls would not improve the work.
Much rather wake up, eat a coffee cake.
There's a music video about this
Little did they know ... a courier will deliver a cell phone to this cubicle any minute and Morpheus is gonna call the moment they open the cardboard envelope
I've seen that film!
Could be the cubicle of a 911 dispatcher. Although it looks too clean and it doesn't have like 3 keyboards and mice instead of a KVM.