Brothel?Except you run a hotel, and I run a... Hm. Not much difference.
Rant VIII: The Reckoning
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Damn Damn Damn Damn DAMN! I don't care how good the new process is. I don't care how bad the old process is. You DO NOT change the process of how every single thing we build goes through the engineering process without telling anyone that it's going to change. And, the fact that you waited until after the person who could have told you "no" left, tells me that you knew you shouldn't do it, and did it anyway. But it's not a big deal. I mean, who cares that you just killed every single product that we were going to build this week? Certainly not you, you stupid fucking cunt.
And this is why we need to get rid of the censor.
Nah, I was actually going to type out "smelly lady part" because I find it hilarious.
I don't know if this is even a possibility, but...are you guys maybe serious enough that she could move in with you?
His wife might complain.
...fine, fine, I'll show myself the door....
I would have no issue. She might. She's the most fiercely independent person in the entire world. But the whole thing goes beyond needing a place to live.
People manage to share a house peacefully with a cat
If she doesn't like the feeling of living "on your dime", have her pay partial rent, or her part of power etc etc, costs depending on her income, etc etc.
I know some independent people like to use it as a shield to prevent attachment or any sort of accepting help; not all assistance or help is charity or a hand-out, though, and knowing when to and how to accept what kind of help or how to make a mutually beneficial arrangement is important, especially for independent people. Otherwise you might as well refuse your boss paying you because it's help.
If it's about a need to stick to her own rules/ways of doing things/whatever, well, see my first sentence
She just got laid off, so her income is currently nill. Moving in doesn't fix the need for a job.
I feel for ya, @Frank. I hope you two can find a way to work with this.
I know; it's why I said "depending". Independent people may loath getting "free room and board", but may accept "for 1/3 of your income, as and when you have one". My girlfriend paid nothing for living with me when she was unemployed; now that she earns approximately the same I do, she contributes about the same I do, too.
IndeedIt sounds less like she has no place to live, and more like she wants to get the hell out of Dodge. Which sucks.
. Which is why I choose to be hopeful The whole thing did crash and burn for several hours. Unfortunately, if we don't get it back online, 150 people have no work, and thus, no job. All of this because one consultant thinks she has a lot more authority than she actually does, and was just the wrong fucking pick for the job. The same person also made a change that she was specifically told not to make (as there had been no testing), and did so in such a way that it cannot now be un-done without shutting the system down for several hours to repair her stupid fucking code, which she has wrapped up in so many other pieces of code that the damage would radiate out like ripples on a pond, which caused me to spend 5.5 hours today just cleaning up her fucking mess by deactivating erroneously created part numbers; all because she's too lazy to find a data entry clerk (we have several within the company who are always looking for something to do), and have that person manually type in about 2 hours' worth of data entry.Let the whole process crash and burn. Make sure it's clear this happened because of bad communications and/or unauthorised actions of this person. Also make sure you can't be implicated
It's also the same person who argued and argued and argued that we shouldn't do a full physical inventory (for a fucking manufacturing company) before we imported all of our inventory from the old system to the new one back in October, even though we knew the info in the old system was wrong, because we could "just cycle count" one item category a week until it was right. Well, now we can't fucking do an inventory even though we know that the inventory in our new system is completely wrong, because she can't find all of the parts that are auto-flushing out of the system from production orders we processed back in fucking October, and get them to stop long enough to get everything counted and entered back in.
Or, how about the fact that she's the person who decided (extremely erroneously, in everyone else in the company's minds) that we should tailor our processes to fit the $1M piece of software we'd just purchased, instead of getting the software developer to tailor the software to us, because "the biggest companies in your field don't do it the way you've been doing it, you're just used to doing it this wrong and stupid way for so long it seems right to you." Bitch, we are the biggest fucking company in our industry west of the fucking Mississippi. If our competitors aren't smart enough to do things the same way as us, that's on them. But I do not intend to reduce my effectiveness and the efficiency of my shop to meet the standards of a bunch of little podunk companies with net worths less than a third of our company's, just because you come from the widget manufacturing world and don't fucking understand how highly-customized light manufacturing works. Oh, and those completely stupid things we used to do? Yeah... Allocating materials to specific projects. I can't just pick up the phone and guarantee that I'm going to be able to get all of the material I need for any given phase of a project overnight. How do I know if the 80 sheets of laminate that the system says we have in stock are for project a or project h? "It doesn't matter as long as you have enough for each day's production." Well, how am I supposed to know which day's production this material is being used for? "I'll get back to you on that." Costing materials by specific project. How do I know which projects I'm making a profit on (none of them) and which ones I'm losing money on (all of them), if I purchase materials at one cost (current cost) and issue them out at another (standard cost)? "Oh, that's not the way companies do things anymore. Every successful company in the world runs on standard costs."
Our company has been hemorrhaging money for the past 5 god damn months from everything from overnighting 4x8 sheets of laminate from North fucking Carolina to having to remake every single cabinet on a job 4 times before they were done correctly, to buying hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of the wrong stuff. And the only reason that anyone at the company still has a job is because the owners of the company are partners in an investment firm with more cash than god damn brains, and haven't been able to offload the company yet because no one wants to buy a company that's hemorrhaging money. Now, we can't put all of the blame on this one person, because she had basically no fucking oversight during the entire dev cycle on this software, and ownership failed to listen to the people that they should have been listening to way back in the beginning of the transition, before it was too damn late. They let her run the show, up to and including hiring her own team of outside consultants, one of whom was supposed to be a SQL genius who couldn't figure out a fucking JOIN statement and the other of whom showed up once or twice a week and kept the sharepoint site that only he had access to up to date.
If the current owners really are looking to turn this around right-quick so they can sell, I'm taking a percentage of the proceeds and getting the fuck out of Dodge. As much as I really did love my job (before all this new-system bullshit started), and as much as I really do enjoy 98.5% of my co-workers; this place has fucking used me up and I need out of the office world. I need to go make physical things with my hands and be creative for a while.
Fuuuuuck.
I've been designated the project coordinator on a major roll-out for a Canadian institution that I DESPISE. Want to deal with fat lazy syndicated assholes that won't do their part to make the project succeed? Then this is the place to be! I've been personally selected from our PMO by the CEO (a huge honor of course) because I'm the only non-marshmellow on the team beyond our Director of the PMO who can take on the scope of this project. Probably the biggest of the year before the golden egg they hope on getting later on this year.
I've been pretty much told that it'll last 6 months before the of completion of the project.. LOL... more like 9-12 and someone needs to remind people what the definition of a project means.... a beginning and an end... fuuuuuck, why do I work with fucking marshmellows?
The good news, I've been told this might align great things for me... aka promotion and more money but honestly, I'm good right now and yes... I'm gonna be OK... but is it bad that I don't even WANT the promotion?
I've been designated the project coordinator on a major roll-out for a Canadian institution that I DESPISE. Want to deal with fat lazy syndicated assholes that won't do their part to make the project succeed? Then this is the place to be! I've been personally selected from our PMO by the CEO (a huge honor of course) because I'm the only non-marshmellow on the team beyond our Director of the PMO who can take on the scope of this project. Probably the biggest of the year before the golden egg they hope on getting later on this year.
I've been pretty much told that it'll last 6 months before the of completion of the project.. LOL... more like 9-12 and someone needs to remind people what the definition of a project means.... a beginning and an end... fuuuuuck, why do I work with fucking marshmellows?
The good news, I've been told this might align great things for me... aka promotion and more money but honestly, I'm good right now and yes... I'm gonna be OK... but is it bad that I don't even WANT the promotion?
A beginning... and an end? I don't know man, I was pretty sure projects just lurched into existence at a random point and then tapered off until no one was paying attention anymore.
No, but seriously, I feel ya, man. Even though our projects, by definition, must have an end (because we're a casework manufacturer and eventually the customer is going to move into the building or school is going to start again, or what-have-you), they never seem to.
He's in charge of re-branding all Tim Hortons as Dunkin Donuts.Despised Canadian Institution...
Must be the Toronto Maple Leafs.
I was guessing the city of Toronto itself.Despised Canadian Institution...
Must be the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Dude, I feel you with the feeliest of feels.
Had a bad dream last night.
Alix and I were at a bar (Dooly's, in fact) and guys kept coming up to her, hitting on her, and saying the most inappropriate things to her. Like pushing her head down to his crotch and saying, "There we go. Now you're where you should be." Or another guy that dared her to kiss him right in front of me and call me a homo.
I snapped his neck and left him alive but paralyzed on the floor.
Haven't had a dark dream like that in a very, very long time. Keep in mind that this wasn't a lucid dream and I had no control of it.
Though I have a hunch it had more to do about my feelings with recent events at work. They hired a new supervisor recently who...well, he would say quite a few sexist comments. Which is all well and good. He can be a creep as long as he does his job and doesn't bother anyone else. Except that's what he did. He said and did a number of inappropriate things to a young girl that works here. For example, he was brushing off some dust off his ass. More slapping his ass. Then he looked at her and said she could do well to do that more to herself. Or (and this is what got him fired) went into the break room at the end of the night where she and another manager were and said directly to her, "So [girl], I'm taking off my pants. Don't look or take a peek, all right?" And then proceeded to take off his pants and change right there in the break room (when the bathroom was only a short walk away). Those are just two examples that I heard, but I understand there were more.
I knew the guy was a creep. I didn't think he was a moron, too. Good riddance to that asshole.
Alix and I were at a bar (Dooly's, in fact) and guys kept coming up to her, hitting on her, and saying the most inappropriate things to her. Like pushing her head down to his crotch and saying, "There we go. Now you're where you should be." Or another guy that dared her to kiss him right in front of me and call me a homo.
I snapped his neck and left him alive but paralyzed on the floor.
Haven't had a dark dream like that in a very, very long time. Keep in mind that this wasn't a lucid dream and I had no control of it.
Though I have a hunch it had more to do about my feelings with recent events at work. They hired a new supervisor recently who...well, he would say quite a few sexist comments. Which is all well and good. He can be a creep as long as he does his job and doesn't bother anyone else. Except that's what he did. He said and did a number of inappropriate things to a young girl that works here. For example, he was brushing off some dust off his ass. More slapping his ass. Then he looked at her and said she could do well to do that more to herself. Or (and this is what got him fired) went into the break room at the end of the night where she and another manager were and said directly to her, "So [girl], I'm taking off my pants. Don't look or take a peek, all right?" And then proceeded to take off his pants and change right there in the break room (when the bathroom was only a short walk away). Those are just two examples that I heard, but I understand there were more.
I knew the guy was a creep. I didn't think he was a moron, too. Good riddance to that asshole.
Well, good thing he's already fired, then.
Don't over-think dreams too much - they're dealing with things through other things we've come in contact with. The snap-neck-thing may very well just be because you were reminded of Man of Steel on here yesterday and your brain decided to use that as a manner of delivery. Plus, you know, that stuff. And perhaps a sprinkle of jealousy/fear over losing Alix because she gets attention from other guys, which is perfectly natural.
All in all, it's a dream. Don't worry, just don't go snapping people's necks
Don't over-think dreams too much - they're dealing with things through other things we've come in contact with. The snap-neck-thing may very well just be because you were reminded of Man of Steel on here yesterday and your brain decided to use that as a manner of delivery. Plus, you know, that stuff. And perhaps a sprinkle of jealousy/fear over losing Alix because she gets attention from other guys, which is perfectly natural.
All in all, it's a dream. Don't worry, just don't go snapping people's necks
So to combine this with another thread, sounds like a new position is available at work!
I'm unqualified.
