The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[darjr]

I wish I could block or mute people for specific threads. Or topics.

 

[Deset Gled]

I wish I could block or mute people for specific threads. Or topics.

I wish the mods could forcibly block some people from other people.

 

[Thomas Shey]

“That’s gamist.”

It’s literally a game.

Don't you know? We don't talk about the "G" part.

 

[trappedslider]

 

[Mad_Jack]

Indeed. In my job the parameters seem to be whatever other groups in my department don't feel like doing today, that is actually part of their job description. Or even explicitly the name of their group.

When I worked for the toothpaste company in the "Shipping" Dept., I spent at least a third of every day fixing things that other folks in other dept.'s had screwed up or forgotten to do and/or making sure those things actually got done. As the warehouse and material handling dept., and spending so much time in constant contact with all other dept.'s in the building, we were uniquely placed to be the only ones in the company constantly eyeballing both the big picture scheduling and the minute-by-minute details of the day-to-day stuff - we saw how all the moving parts meshed together... Since logistics was such a large part of our job, we were constantly observing, anticipating, prioritizing, etc., and thus we were usually the ones to spot potential issues before they became actual ones.
Everything from leaky pipes in the factory to scheduling issues...

There were times when me and this other guy Steve had to call up Purchasing to tell them they needed to buy more materials, and a couple of times when we called up the President of the company only minutes after he'd made a sudden change to the current production schedule to tell him it wasn't going to happen because other jobs were using the same parts, we didn't have enough for all of them, and wouldn't be getting more in time...
Some days it felt like I was the only one who was keeping the whole damn factory running.

And I wasn't even the Shipping Supervisor...

I just drove a forklift.

 

[Alzrius]

Indeed. In my job the parameters seem to be whatever other groups in my department don't feel like doing today, that is actually part of their job description. Or even explicitly the name of their group.

I feel your pain, here.

A little while back, the place I work for was going through a merger, and some positions got eliminated as a result. I was asked to "help out" by taking over the duties of one such position, with no extra pay or benefits, "just until we get things straightened out" and hired someone else to take care of those extra responsibilities.

Three years later, I'm still waiting for things to be straightened out enough to where I can stop working a second job for free.

 

[Ryujin]

By way of explanation I'm a computer service tech who handles on-site support for network connectivity, computer hardware/printers, software support for supported applications, etc.. I was the last tech on-campus the week that we locked down due to Covid. My group is the only one that consistently has representation on campus, within the overall IT group. I'm on-site 2 days a week and work from home 3 days a week. I've been on this job for almost 25 years now and in that time we've had things like phones dumped on us (went from digital to IP phones and were told, "Well, they're just little computers anyway."), cellular phones (which no one was supposed to provide support for), and the like.

EDIT - Oh, yeah. I completely forgot the time that they eliminated the entire group of techs that took care of the student labs, with a couple of thousand computers, and dumped that on us.

Because of lockdown and the subsequent move to a hybrid work model it seems that other groups have decided that we have to be their legs and arms, on campus, rather than hauling their own butts out of their comfortable, company paid-for home office chairs. The group that deals with debit/credit card readers expects us to troubleshoot issues for them, by claiming "it's a network issue." Networking wants us to troubleshoot down connections because "it's a hardware issue." People even call us to turn on their on-site remotely accessed computers, when they do something like hit shutdown instead of log out, because they're too lazy to do it themselves. Hell, the departmental receptionist doesn't even come on-site so we're dealing with mail. There are 6 of us, to cover a whole campus, and 3 are on-site at any given time. The hybrid work model is definitely working well. For everyone else.

 

[Scribe]

Annnnnnnd another one bites the dust.

 

[Gradine]

Wow. Just dipped into that thread for the first time since it started, and woo boy, it's just fully an unpleasant cacophony of unwholesome content from unpleasant, unwholesome sources.

Thread might need a NSFW tag before too long.

 

[Scribe]

Wow. Just dipped into that thread for the first time since it started, and woo boy, it's just fully an unpleasant cacophony of unwholesome content from unpleasant, unwholesome sources.

Thread might need a NSFW tag before too long.

It was my Link Barbarian Heartthrob, wasnt it. Just a bridge too far...