Grumpy Old Man
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@mariner4life said in Ukraine:
@antipodean said in Ukraine:
@mariner4life said in Ukraine:
Just on the Orange Goblin. No matter what the outcomes, the way Trump goes about things is disgusting. He is not the manager of the US. He is not a property developer negotiating a deal. He is the leader of his people, his words matter.
The fact that far too many are willing to just wipe away his utterances this week as "of yeah that's just how he does things. And at least he'll get things moving" despite the inflamatory and downright inaccurate very public statements is a sad indictment of how far we have fallen as a society.
Agreed. And to stay with the theme of the last few posts: How many politicians have failed us that Trump was considered a better alternative?
we get the leaders we deserve. The west has become hyper-fixated on the rights of the individual over the good of the collective (and thus the responsibility of the individual). Which leads to "what's in it for me" whether some like that truth or not.
Holy shit people have become fucking entitled and rude. Like blocking the footpath to have a conversation, standing in doorways, staying in the right hand lane. And it's not like this is young people or migrants. It's people around my age who have gotten too accustomed to not being held accountable.
Almost as if being their "true selves" on the internet has them thinking there's no consequences or repercussions in real life.
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@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
blocking the footpath to have a conversation
Muthafucka! that pisses me off. My own friends, or ex-gf - stopping in the middle of the footpath to discuss something, and I have to try to subtly sidle over here to the side, into an alcove, ideally... and they're not getting the hint... W.. T.. A.. F.. ?
I can't guess how many times I've considered how we could enforce sidewalk/pavement rules - similar to the Road-Code.
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@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@mariner4life said in Ukraine:
@antipodean said in Ukraine:
@mariner4life said in Ukraine:
Just on the Orange Goblin. No matter what the outcomes, the way Trump goes about things is disgusting. He is not the manager of the US. He is not a property developer negotiating a deal. He is the leader of his people, his words matter.
The fact that far too many are willing to just wipe away his utterances this week as "of yeah that's just how he does things. And at least he'll get things moving" despite the inflamatory and downright inaccurate very public statements is a sad indictment of how far we have fallen as a society.
Agreed. And to stay with the theme of the last few posts: How many politicians have failed us that Trump was considered a better alternative?
we get the leaders we deserve. The west has become hyper-fixated on the rights of the individual over the good of the collective (and thus the responsibility of the individual). Which leads to "what's in it for me" whether some like that truth or not.
Holy shit people have become fucking entitled and rude. Like blocking the footpath to have a conversation, standing in doorways, staying in the right hand lane. And it's not like this is young people or migrants. It's people around my age who have gotten too accustomed to not being held accountable.
Almost as if being their "true selves" on the internet has them thinking there's no consequences or repercussions in real life.
Families and groups of friends that walk spread across an entire walkway shits me. Happens all the time in Darling Harbour.
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@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
blocking the footpath to have a conversation
Muthafucka! that pisses me off. My own friends, or ex-gf - stopping in the middle of the footpath to discuss something, and I have to suggest... nope... let's first siddle over here to the side, into an alcove, ideally... and they're not understanding why/what... W.. T.. A.. F.. ?
I can't guess how many times I've considered how we could enforce sidewalk/pavement rules - similar to the Road-Code.
It's massive in Britain, fluffybunnies prefer to stand in doorways and get huffy if you want to go past.
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It's the same skiing these days. Pricks sitting down and having a chat in the middle of the piste. Just fuck off to the side or better still, just fuck off. And as for those idiots that do this just over the drop so you don't see them until you're right on top of them.
Just fuck off.
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@Catogrande getting disrupted in the middle of a piss is something to be grumpy about.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Grumpy Old Man:
for actual fucks sake, this dude is only casual so told him to give it a couple of days for the corporate machine to finish his onboarding, call back in today for the team meeting (9am) so i can introduce him to the rest of the team and then finish all his HSE stuff, came by my desk at 830 and said he wasnt sure if he should come in on call in so played it safe and came in, cool.....then i couldnt find him and i text him to ask where he was and he said he'd left his computer in his car.....just came back at 930...completely missed the team meeting...seemed to have no idea what i was talking about....
update for anyone interested
the following week we got him out on site as an assistant, i talked with the lead and the feedback was fine, "did his job, asked good questions", so i started to think he might be ok on site, i then proceeded to have a couple of week of very poor communication, just not replying to texts or email...i then find he coudlnt get into his emails and just hadnlt told anyone. I also talked again to the lead and he finally admitted this dude was 30 min late on that day....we decided to give him one more day on site today....hes now 40min late
last week he actually called me to ask what he needed to do to get more work (as hes a casual) and i told him people were cautious because he'd been continuously late and he needed to sort that....he's done
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+2 hours late
now im concerend i wont get his work laptop back if i never hear from him again
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.....forgot to set an alarm....again...called me just to say he thinks he needs to get a new job which i obviously agreed with
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@Kiwiwomble said in Grumpy Old Man:
.....forgot to set an alarm....again...called me just to say he thinks he needs to get a new job which i obviously agreed with
Of all his issues it would appear insomnia is not one of them
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People who call themselves "Audiophiles" and wank on about their HiFi systems using pseudoscience and bullshit to disprove the laws of physics....or convince themselves they haven't been conned.
Visited a bloke yesterday who had a great system (£10k Linn speakers, etc) but, bugger me, he actually swapped his speaker cables over when he was listening to a digitally-mixed record as it "gave it more warmth" than an analogue mixed master (yes, really). He paid £350 for the cables. He then tried to convince me the gold-plating on his digital TOSlink cables made his music sound better.....
I actually felt sorry for him and just nodded my head
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@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
Families and groups of friends that walk spread across an entire walkway shits me. Happens all the time in Darling Harbour.
Luckily grumpy old men won't share doorways or pavement with anybody. Unless they're yelling at them.
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Kiwiwomble said in Grumpy Old Man:
.....forgot to set an alarm....again...called me just to say he thinks he needs to get a new job which i obviously agreed with
Of all his issues it would appear insomnia is not one of them
forgot to give everyone the final instalment!
after about 3 weeks of radio silence....including me leaving a message saying it was his last chance before we report the equipment stolen, and subsequently lodging a police report when he never turned up....i get a message from reception saying someone had just left a computer on the desk, i run out because i want to ask "dude, what the fuck?" but he was gone....none of the accessories returned....just the laptop....not a word of apology or explanation...wild
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You know what grinds my gears. Fucking off-shoring teams. Seems to be a constant saga of whole local area shut down, replacement area started "off shore". Replacement team institutes a 'ticketing system' and work by script only. Team's KPIs are obviously on 'Tickets closed' so that's the goal well over and above actually resolving a ticket lodged and the only way to interact with them is via their ticketing portal, which again every response is 'ticket closed'. If anything requested that is even remotely outside of their script they can't comprehend. I actually had to put one of these teams in-touch with another offshore team in another company in order to get a payment issue resolved. Neither team had the capability to respond like a human nor message each other, they could only communicate via their respective ticketing portals so all messages had to go through to me as a middle man. Honestly AI can't come quick enough, genuinely acts more human than some of these robot employees.
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To be fair, if it’s anything like my workplace is these days it will be down to enforced practices to fit within a system. Sadly many such systems prime requirement is to provide MI rather than function in a manner conducive to good working practices.
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@Rembrandt said in Grumpy Old Man:
You know what grinds my gears. Fucking off-shoring teams. Seems to be a constant saga of whole local area shut down, replacement area started "off shore". Replacement team institutes a 'ticketing system' and work by script only. Team's KPIs are obviously on 'Tickets closed' so that's the goal well over and above actually resolving a ticket lodged and the only way to interact with them is via their ticketing portal, which again every response is 'ticket closed'. If anything requested that is even remotely outside of their script they can't comprehend. I actually had to put one of these teams in-touch with another offshore team in another company in order to get a payment issue resolved. Neither team had the capability to respond like a human nor message each other, they could only communicate via their respective ticketing portals so all messages had to go through to me as a middle man. Honestly AI can't come quick enough, genuinely acts more human than some of these robot employees.
I feel your pain, but then again, I made a good living undoing some of the absolute shit that off-shoring caused. Could tell loads of stories, but just one....:
Off-shored/outsourced function based in Mumbai. Business process required hand-off of documents to another function/company also based in Mumbai for independent checking. Couried over twice a day. Big bottle-neck from delivery delays
Imagine our absolute fucking surprise when we discovered these two companies were not only in the same building but on the same fucking floor.
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@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
To be fair, if it’s anything like my workplace is these days it will be down to enforced practices to fit within a system. Sadly many such systems prime requirement is to provide MI rather than function in a manner conducive to good working practices.
Bet the system/process isn't fit for purpose and you, the user, don't get to input into its design....
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In one.
When we were onboarding it, many issues were highlighted including it being unsuitable for a streamlined working practice, everything needing 8 touches other than one, poor training for data input and were told to get on with it.
The result is a continuous backlog of client facing work with the resultant ongoing client loss, an inability to obtain the vital client related information in a timely manner, de-motivated staff with the resultant turnover and two major overhauls to correct the wrongly inputted data.
A shambles. Do these numpties even beta test anything?
