Grumpy Old Man
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@Kiwiwomble said in Grumpy Old Man:
it might depend on your industry, my area has some very active people/companies posting about innovations and new developments etc so i find it pretty handy too keep a high level idea of whats changing out there, mostly as @Nepia said though checking in on new highers or old colleagues
Wonder if @Kruse will comment. Am keeping my pedanticism (is that a word?) to myself.
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@booboo Seems I'm too late. Except for the grammar/punctuation/structure - and where does one begin with that?
I usually manage to keep my pedanticism on the down-low on the Fern - but "distain" seems like one of those insidiously becoming wider and wider-spread.
I still cringe at "sauce/source" - although I know it's a running-Fern-joke... I wonder if there are others who do not, and we're just enabling the Post-Ironic-Idiocracy. -
@Kiwiwomble said in Grumpy Old Man:
it might depend on your industry, my area has some very active people/companies posting about innovations and new developments etc so i find it pretty handy too keep a high level idea of whats changing out there.
I used it a lot for that and it was really useful to see what colleagues and others in my speciality were doing and where the industry was heading - perhaps link with them and swap thoughts.
But then the recruiters started using it and people hyped up their CVs to ridiculous levels. The downhill slide became an avalanche when it became a marketing tool.
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Commentators who say the same bloody thing match after match after match, year after year : "He can't stop scoring tries! He's none it again...!"
FFS come up with something different - every decade at least.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
fluffybunnies that demand things are documented time and again then come back to you time and again with "issues" that are covered exhaustively in the documentation.
I had the displeasure of working with a guy like this recently. Unable to apply even the slightest bit of common sense, and every time he got called out for a dumb mistake his go to was "is that documented anywhere? It should be for new starters". We documented so much stupid shit for him, which has not been used at all for subsequent new starters. fluffybunny.
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@No-Quarter was he Irish?
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@Bones he had a kiwi accent unfortunately, but I have to assume he was of Irish descent.
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@No-Quarter said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones he had a kiwi accent unfortunately, but I have to assume he was of Irish descent.
It must be cool working with Sean Fitzpatrick. Ask him about the ear biting incident back in 94.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
fluffybunnies that demand things are documented time and again then come back to you time and again with "issues" that are covered exhaustively in the documentation.
My pet peeve is excessive CC'ers. The ones who send you an email and cc half the company in (and who cc you into emails you don't give a shit about).
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@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
fluffybunnies that demand things are documented time and again then come back to you time and again with "issues" that are covered exhaustively in the documentation.
My pet peeve is excessive CC'ers. The ones who send you an email and cc half the company in (and who cc you into emails you don't give a shit about).
They're not as bad as the reply-to-all-ers on company wide emails.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
fluffybunnies that demand things are documented time and again then come back to you time and again with "issues" that are covered exhaustively in the documentation.
My pet peeve is excessive CC'ers. The ones who send you an email and cc half the company in (and who cc you into emails you don't give a shit about).
They're not as bad as the reply-to-all-ers on company wide emails.
Those are great fun until HR come along and ruin all the fun
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@Bones ha about 12 or so years back when I worked for another bigger company, one fella (not me) in his wisdom after 10+ years with the company in varying divisions, decided to send a farewell email to every single person in the mailing list, which included loads of suppliers, so company size was circa 1200 at the time, mail groups, plus a very large number of external suppliers in the contact list...suffice to say the thousands of emails going out, incorrect mail bounce backs, people who replied to him, out of office bounce backs crashed the servers at about 3pm on a Friday arvo...
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He’s my hero for today.
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I was getting 200-300 emails a day in my last job as an employee in the late '90s (and it was Lotus Notes) so set up an autoreply along the lines of "I get so many emails it may be days before I am able to respond to you. If it's important, please give me a call"
Needless to say, the reaction from the PHB's was OTT - but enjoyable as I really didn't give a fuck at that stage. Cited it as a key reason for my departure in my exit interview with the Head honcho.
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@Victor-Meldrew the pioneer of the modern Call Centre.
George Bridge.
