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Postby NTP66 » Wed Mar 31, 2021 1:32 pm

Never in 100 years would I have guessed that.

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Postby meow » Wed Mar 31, 2021 1:37 pm

Kindly ask the sender to stop being a mook and send it in excel?

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Postby faftorial » Wed Mar 31, 2021 3:36 pm

I hate when people send screenshots of excel with long numbers/strings and I can't copy and paste. Should be outlawed.

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Postby dodint » Wed Mar 31, 2021 3:46 pm

Take the long way. Save it as a PDF and then OCR it.

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Postby Morkle » Thu Apr 01, 2021 1:02 pm

Such a weird feeling. I signed the offer sheet today, and it still feels like I'm quitting the company, even though I'm just moving to a different division.

Still all new people that I have never met, all new role, just a strange feeling even though I'm technically not going anywhere.

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Postby the wicked child » Thu Apr 01, 2021 3:14 pm

When you're in a meeting and someone won't shut up and take the W.

I swear they're trying to talk us into more work.

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Postby NTP66 » Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:44 am

I spent all of last week telling a group of people that they needed to test their new config, and that I was out of the office on Friday. Sent multiple e-mails including all of that information. Wouldn't you know, my boss texts me laughing, saying that they're asking why I'm unavailable today to assist with testing, claiming they didn't know. These are the type of people who will no longer get favors.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:38 pm

I'm not off for Good Friday (it's fine, it is what it is), but damn was I not expecting to be so busy today. Two conference calls this morning, and a busy virtual career fair from 10:30-12:30. Now I need to get all the work done I couldn't get done this morning.

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Postby Lelldorin » Sat Apr 03, 2021 11:50 am

Ya boy got the job, and is moving on up within the company.
Congratulations =)

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Postby King Colby » Mon Apr 05, 2021 7:08 am

Awesome, Morkle. Was hoping you wouldn't have to go back to the old boss with your tail tucked. :thumb:
I think that's where my imposter syndrome starts though, like, do I believe my own BS enough to convince others, knowing it's BS?
The key here is realizing that everybody else is an imposter too.

Congrats, btw.

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Postby Morkle » Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:33 am

Awesome, Morkle. Was hoping you wouldn't have to go back to the old boss with your tail tucked. :thumb:
I think that's where my imposter syndrome starts though, like, do I believe my own BS enough to convince others, knowing it's BS?
The key here is realizing that everybody else is an imposter too.

Congrats, btw.
lol very true, thanks

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Postby blackjack68 » Mon Apr 05, 2021 5:08 pm

Isn’t the first day back from a weeklong vacation always the best?

No?

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Postby RonnieFranchise » Wed Apr 07, 2021 6:53 am

Boss had jury duty yesterday and got picked for a trial he will be on till the end of the month.

At-work vacation!

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:04 am

Awesome, Morkle. Was hoping you wouldn't have to go back to the old boss with your tail tucked. :thumb:
I think that's where my imposter syndrome starts though, like, do I believe my own BS enough to convince others, knowing it's BS?
The key here is realizing that everybody else is an imposter too.

Congrats, btw.
Is this Among Us?

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Postby NTP66 » Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:12 am

I have one ticket in my queue, and the lady was apparently irate that I had the nerve to e-mail her instructions instead of calling her, and demanded a phone call today. I'm sure she'll be pleasant to speak with, and I'll have to avoid how she couldn't even make it past step 1 without **** up.

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Postby skullman80 » Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:29 am

We have a doctor that basically wants us to be the project management team for them as well as ourselves because they can't get a resource to help with the project.

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Postby NTP66 » Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:33 am

We have a doctor that basically wants us to be the project management team for them as well as ourselves because they can't get a resource to help with the project.
I feel your pain. I've been working on a thin client project for nearly 2 years, and it hasn't gone anywhere because management refused to allow us to open an official project for it. After a number of 'failures' (thanks to the clinical folks), we finally have an official project. Now we will get actual project resources. Our new manager keeps asking my boss, 'what else does NTP need to do for this solution?', and he keeps telling him 'not a god damn thing - the environment has been built for 2 years now!'. The only thing we need now is clinical to actually provide some **** requirements, and then validate their workflows.

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Postby NTP66 » Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:13 am

My wife filled her entire OneDrive share at work. 99% of the space being consumed by her 8 .pst files. :lol:

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Postby Morkle » Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:20 am

So I have two+ weeks until I officially transition to the new job. I'm basically in lame duck status just coordinating everything for whoever takes my stuff over.

Nobody has been identified to hand over my stuff to, and I know I'm going to get crushed in the last week trying to pass everything off, but once that 2 week period is over, I've got a feeling I'm going to get sucked into meetings when they have all of this time to do it now.

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Postby dodint » Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:27 am

When I made that transition a few weeks ago I told my boss I felt like I was hurtling toward the edge of a cliff with my foot pressing the throttle to the floor. We were so busy and I had nobody to hand my stuff off.

Credit to him in that my transition was a clean break, there weren't many lingering items I had to keep working for the old team.

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Postby robbiestoupe » Wed Apr 07, 2021 10:02 am

What dodint implied, the clean break, is essential. Just make it clear to your old team that they are just that - your old team

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Postby NTP66 » Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:09 am

I have one ticket in my queue, and the lady was apparently irate that I had the nerve to e-mail her instructions instead of calling her, and demanded a phone call today. I'm sure she'll be pleasant to speak with, and I'll have to avoid how she couldn't even make it past step 1 without **** up.
"This is affecting patient care, and you need to FIX THIS ISSUE! I have submitted many tickets, and I don't hear from you until now? Why did you not call me YESTERDAY?"

Like I said, it was a fun call. And she wasn't even on the affected computer, so I couldn't even help her today.

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Postby Morkle » Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:19 am

That's what's happening as of this moment. I asked if anyone had been identified yet, I was told no, and turned it into a "well come 4/23 (my last day), I'm going to have to focus 98%+ of my time on the new job, and the old job will have to be prioritized against it if needed."

All of a sudden, they're identifying someone today.

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Postby dodint » Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:23 am

Hah.

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