Fern Helpline
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@taniwharugby said in Fern Helpline:
@Bones best bet is to re-boot your PC/laptop!
You're a shill for Big Reboot.
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@Bones you got 99 problems mate. Relax
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@R-L yeah yeah, get busy with your journal.
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@Bones Hows your job affected by covid. Opportunity to redefine the parameters of the meetings? I light of I think it would help us both if we kept it to x long and had a specific outcome or set of deliverables we want to achieve. I hate fucking meetings for the sake of them so they have to have a purpose. Shooting the breeze informal chats are good in their place but you have to manage your manager
What makes him tick. Make the agenda satisfy his immediate wants might make it easier to keep him on point.
Failing that I find most managers don’t like being challenged / argued with and will find a reason of their own to avoid the meetings. Thats a high risk strategy though -
A heads up for anyone looking for work or for workers - Work and Income has a new employment website at https://www.jobs-during-covid.workandincome.govt.nz/hello
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@Bones said in Fern Helpline:
Outlook is driving me crazy. Keeps going to "not responding" anytime I click back to it, click on an email, try scroll, anything. Stays that way for about 2 minutes then lets me do about 20 seconds of stuff. You can help with that right?
Shit, it's taken it's cue from my boss!
That'll be your anti virus software. It scans the shit out of everything you do in Outlook. Get on the phone to IT and tell them to sort their shit out.
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@No-Quarter said in Fern Helpline:
@Bones said in Fern Helpline:
Outlook is driving me crazy. Keeps going to "not responding" anytime I click back to it, click on an email, try scroll, anything. Stays that way for about 2 minutes then lets me do about 20 seconds of stuff. You can help with that right?
Shit, it's taken it's cue from my boss!
That'll be your anti virus software. It scans the shit out of everything you do in Outlook. Get on the phone to IT and tell them to sort their shit out.
I ended up finding out Office 365 desktop was available so ditched 2016 and installed 365. Problem fixed! But thanks, I'll keep it in mind if it happens again (not sure I want to criticise McAfee though).
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For those in contact with Indian migrants caught between a rock and a hard place in the current environment, the Indian High Commission is very active and supportive - https://www.facebook.com/HighCommissionofIndiaNewZealand/
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@Machpants Yeah, seems like there is little development other than webmail these days. Most of the alternative desktop clients are just re-skins of Thunderbird.
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Eudora could be making a comeback.
The Eudora™ Email Client Source Code
Electronic mail is one of “killer apps” of networked computing. The ability to quickly send and receive messages without having to be online at the same time created a new form of human communication. By now billions of people have used email.
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@Bones said in Fern Helpline:
Right place for this then? I'm struggling to figure out how to deal with this one (not exactly major)....
So my boss - really nice guy, always means well and does fight my corner if it's required. But...I can't have a conversation with him about anything without getting one sentence in and then hearing a 5 minute (at least) personal anecdote from him on a same/similar topic. We have a weekly one-to-one and I've given up. There is no point me trying to raise anything anymore as I don't get a chance to say my piece AND I get regaled with a monologue about an experience I have no interest in.
I don't really know what to do about it - if I say something then I'm sure that would just make him completely shut down in future due to being so self conscious about it - or am I projecting?
Do you have access to his schedule? Why don't you catch him 5-10 minutes before his next meeting and only ask the priority question
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@Tim said in Fern Helpline:
@Machpants Yeah, seems like there is little development other than webmail these days. Most of the alternative desktop clients are just re-skins of Thunderbird.
I've not looked, but I'd guess that the only real active development of email clients would involve security/encryption clients. Not sure if there is anything good in that space.
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@dK said in Fern Helpline:
@Bones said in Fern Helpline:
Right place for this then? I'm struggling to figure out how to deal with this one (not exactly major)....
So my boss - really nice guy, always means well and does fight my corner if it's required. But...I can't have a conversation with him about anything without getting one sentence in and then hearing a 5 minute (at least) personal anecdote from him on a same/similar topic. We have a weekly one-to-one and I've given up. There is no point me trying to raise anything anymore as I don't get a chance to say my piece AND I get regaled with a monologue about an experience I have no interest in.
I don't really know what to do about it - if I say something then I'm sure that would just make him completely shut down in future due to being so self conscious about it - or am I projecting?
Do you have access to his schedule? Why don't you catch him 5-10 minutes before his next meeting and only ask the priority question
Yeah, @Bones what happened to this Honey?
