The spite, hate, rage, apathy and mild irritation thread...

[hbombgraphics]

25 e-mails now and counting, why???????????????

[unownunown]

at 1:30 i'm giving a speech on koch's snowflake that has been hastily prepared. i suck at math so i explain things intuitively instead, i'm hoping that i'm not the only one who does that. i'm going to print out some proofs so the people there don't think i'm totally retarded, lololol. but it's mostly just asking questions and trying to make people think about them. like how long is the coastline of britain and shit :T WISH ME LUCK BECAUSE I'M SPITEFUL AND MILDLY APATHETIC BUT I'M DOWNING LOTS OF COFFEE. hopefully i can give the impression of being intelligent by just being mildly stimmed.

[mathias]

I hate writing procedures by comittee, seriously all they need to do is check revision level and I have already filtered through 20 e-mails from 3 departments. I could have just written it by now but we have to have a meeting and a group effort for anything.

If anyone works for a less disfunctional company I would love to hear about it.

I used to work for a consulting firm that improved other company's culture. But instead of ropes courses and trusts falls to increase teamwork, we got them out of email, having less "status meetings", and into collaborative tech (think Google Docs and a proj-mgmt tool like Facebook), taught them to work better and trust others' responsibilities, etc. Sadly, that job didn't work out for me; I was the only tech guy and despite us saying we weren't going to make websites, we were increasingly promising to make ever-more-complex silly consumer-facing websites for people like we were a marketing firm or something, which ate up all our time and had me pulling 80 hour weeks to build completely unrelated things, like a 4000-page catalog website for a Fortune 500 with 7 translations that needed to be synced (4000x7 with review/approve process for each, again, designed by committee..) Oh, and they told me that I was an employee and so they were paying into taxes (or withholding or whatever) and I got a nasty surprise when they didn't, and I owed all the money to the govt..

[hbombgraphics]

I hate writing procedures by comittee, seriously all they need to do is check revision level and I have already filtered through 20 e-mails from 3 departments. I could have just written it by now but we have to have a meeting and a group effort for anything.

If anyone works for a less disfunctional company I would love to hear about it.

I used to work for a consulting firm that improved other company's culture. But instead of ropes courses and trusts falls to increase teamwork, we got them out of email, having less "status meetings", and into collaborative tech (think Google Docs and a proj-mgmt tool like Facebook), taught them to work better and trust others' responsibilities, etc. Sadly, that job didn't work out for me; I was the only tech guy and despite us saying we weren't going to make websites, we were increasingly promising to make ever-more-complex silly consumer-facing websites for people like we were a marketing firm or something, which ate up all our time and had me pulling 80 hour weeks to build completely unrelated things, like a 4000-page catalog website for a Fortune 500 with 7 translations that needed to be synced (4000x7 with review/approve process for each, again, designed by committee..) Oh, and they told me that I was an employee and so they were paying into taxes (or withholding or whatever) and I got a nasty surprise when they didn't, and I owed all the money to the govt..

Dude that sucks, the part about the overworking and taxes, but a colaberative document sharing sounds awesome. Sadly right now we are righting procedures on how to use the colaborative database that we are now supposed to be using. Good news They are flying me to cali to train next month, bad news, flying to china to teach it to others.

[mathias]

Dude that sucks, the part about the overworking and taxes, but a colaberative document sharing sounds awesome. Sadly right now we are righting procedures on how to use the colaborative database that we are now supposed to be using. Good news They are flying me to cali to train next month, bad news, flying to china to teach it to others.

Yeah, we would've probably recommended Skype and/or GoToMeeting for training, and telling them to let you work from home rather than making you travel internationally

Anyone can sign up for google docs (though you need to be a sort of sysadmin to set it up for an entire company through the domain name), and the proj management tool we used is open source: http://openatrium.com/ we usually highly modified this to each company's workflow, though.

[hbombgraphics]

Dude that sucks, the part about the overworking and taxes, but a colaberative document sharing sounds awesome. Sadly right now we are righting procedures on how to use the colaborative database that we are now supposed to be using. Good news They are flying me to cali to train next month, bad news, flying to china to teach it to others.

Yeah, we would've probably recommended Skype and/or GoToMeeting for training, and telling them to let you work from home rather than making you travel internationally

You're Hired

Yeah the biggest problem I have is that anytime we implement something new it just gets added to the old chinese procedure so now double and tripple procedures for everything. Good times.

[mathias]

You're Hired

Yeah the biggest problem I have is that anytime we implement something new it just gets added to the old chinese procedure so now double and tripple procedures for everything. Good times.

Yeah, we usually worked with small companies (<500 employees) for the reason that it doesn't scale well to more than a few locations, especially managing international teams (or in this case, it sounds like a lot of the business is over in China. Systems of reward, job expectations, commitment to company, team work, etc are so different in that culture that we wouldn't really know what to do. We mostly focused on fixing some of the Western world's workaholic company-screws-me-anyway behavior.)

[hbombgraphics]

You're Hired

Yeah the biggest problem I have is that anytime we implement something new it just gets added to the old chinese procedure so now double and tripple procedures for everything. Good times.

Yeah, we usually worked with small companies (<500 employees) for the reason that it doesn't scale well to more than a few locations, especially managing international teams (or in this case, it sounds like a lot of the business is over in China. Systems of reward, job expectations, commitment to company, team work, etc are so different in that culture that we wouldn't really know what to do. We mostly focused on fixing some of the Western world's workaholic company-screws-me-anyway behavior.)

Yeah it is definately a different culture, I don't have to worry as much about the my company is going to screw me stuff as I do about the I will save us a penny now and cost us a million in productivity over the next year

[01010111]

lulz. Economics. My buddy was an econ major. He always seemed like it was some inside joke that people learned because they have to but everybody knows it's not real at all.

Sometimes I wish I had studied something practical. Then I see people go through ridiculous nonsense like that and I think, "y'know, I think I'll just keep bullshitting my way through life for now."

I like economic theory and what not, it's like sociology but instead of stopping at "there's poor people and America sucks" we in the economics department attempt to mathematically quantify what's going so we can reduce the number of people living in poverty and make our nation better. Plus we measure happiness in utils, I think I receive 10 billion utils from fuzz

And I'm getting a theoretical economics degree, which on the scale of usefulness of degrees is above philosophy but below folklore. So it's either go to more school or figure out which retail store would be the funnest to be a supervisor at.

[hbombgraphics]

lulz. Economics. My buddy was an econ major. He always seemed like it was some inside joke that people learned because they have to but everybody knows it's not real at all.

Sometimes I wish I had studied something practical. Then I see people go through ridiculous nonsense like that and I think, "y'know, I think I'll just keep bullshitting my way through life for now."

I like economic theory and what not, it's like sociology but instead of stopping at "there's poor people and America sucks" we in the economics department attempt to mathematically quantify what's going so we can reduce the number of people living in poverty and make our nation better. Plus we measure happiness in utils, I think I receive 10 billion utils from fuzz

And I'm getting a theoretical economics degree, which on the scale of usefulness of degrees is above philosophy but below folklore. So it's either go to more school or figure out which retail store would be the funnest to be a supervisor at.

Dude I have a degree in theology which I think is less usefull.

[phantasmagorovich]

You're Hired

Yeah the biggest problem I have is that anytime we implement something new it just gets added to the old chinese procedure so now double and tripple procedures for everything. Good times.

Yeah, we usually worked with small companies (<500 employees) for the reason that it doesn't scale well to more than a few locations, especially managing international teams (or in this case, it sounds like a lot of the business is over in China. Systems of reward, job expectations, commitment to company, team work, etc are so different in that culture that we wouldn't really know what to do. We mostly focused on fixing some of the Western world's workaholic company-screws-me-anyway behavior.)

Oh, man, how I wish you'd take care of my newspaper/company...

[Noise...]

I just had to throw away two loaves of bread that I bought the other day, because they were covered in mold.*












*Mold that I noticed after eating several pieces of toast.

[dubkitty]

since i live in a high-humidity area, i always check the bread before eating it.

[DarkAxel]

dear postal service

you were able to deliver my FuzzFactory clone from Czech Republic to Slovakia in like two days. Is there a certain reason for you to take time and not being able to deliver my Fix'd Fuzz from Slovakia in less than a week? I hate you and i hope you burn in hell. I played a show and a rehearsal without the said Fix'd Fuzz, that's unbearable!


and this is the time when Sonidero comes and is all like "Hey, DarkAxel, your Fix'd Fuzz is prolly held and checked by Státní Bezpečnost"

[tuffteef]

whats the deal with drummers coming in for sessions with there band
and when its there turn to track there parts they strip off
ive never seen any drummer play with a shirt on
and this one took his pants off to play today LOL

he looked ridiculous with like fluro briefs that hes had since he was like 12 and thomas the tank engine looking socks


i still dont understand the enigma that are drummers
and ive peeled the many layers so far