The Official Status Thread
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Fucking hell how did you get actual flexitime?
Is it not just time off in lieu, which is fairly common instead of overtime?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Fucking hell how did you get actual flexitime?
Is it not just time off in lieu, which is fairly common instead of overtime?
In 'merka, Time in Lieu is a thing for Golden Parachutees. The poor working stiffs are expected to put in 168 hours a week for their measly salaries, no bitching allowed.
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Status: No
LyncSkype for Business, He was logged in to his computer only 31 hours ago, and you know it!
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*Status Addendum: This just in: We can't make apps that know when they're finished!
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STATUS There is cake in the office!
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
Users are muppets
To be fair, we're muppets too. These guys, to be exact:
Ok! You stalker! How did you get that photo of me and my husband at a "House of Blues" Billy Fucking Idol concert!
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@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
my new non-indentured rate of pay
Congrats, and off to the :cupcake: thread with you!
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
168 hours a week
Pfft. You're working for the wrong company, buddy.
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STATUS Delighted!
I just found a folder on my computer that is nothing but otter pictures and I've eaten cake!
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@LB_ said in The Official Status Thread:
For anyone following the WTFU movement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYWNtkls2JwWatched for 30 seconds - about to from the hand waving. And those eyes are just ... creepy!
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS annoyed!
Fucking git and line endingsYou have my sympathy. We're always fighting this because we refuse to bite the bullet and standardize.
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Fuck fuck dugout fuvvccmsndbsbjscu
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Status: heading out to a funeral. Fun?
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Status: Goddamn, some people are stupid.
At the end of the day today, one of our clients will be terminating their contract accountants as they have hired someone to take their place. In the past two days, I have done a fair amount of work in preparation, keeping it all hush-hush as he is meeting with them at 4:30.
Our invoices have detailed accounts of everything that we do for our clients. Amount of time, what we worked on, etc. We try to be very transparent in our billing. I send over an invoice (they are not on retainer, so they get billed per task) that has a detail of everything we have done, and has a little buffer in it for tonight when we remote in and do the final shutdown on their accounts at 4:30 (in 25 minutes).
What does he do? Well, he forwards it on to accounting of course. Guess there is no need for that 4:30 meeting now...
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Fucking hell how did you get actual flexitime?
Two of my three jobs have been with companies that have flextime by default. First one had core hours, this one doesn't even have that. As long as I get at least my contracted hours in, they don't care when.
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Is it not just time off in lieu, which is fairly common instead of overtime?
No. I'm contracted to do so many hours, and as long as I can put the requisite amount down on my timesheet I can work at whatever time I like (subject to being there if any particular event requires my presence at a particular time). I usually try and work quarter or half an hour a day extra Monday-Thursday and leave at 4 on a Friday.
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@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
No. I'm contracted to do so many hours, and as long as I can put the requisite amount down on my timesheet I can work at whatever time I like]
Fair enough. The result is essentially the same whatever it's called though. Work more hours some days, work less others.
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Status: Appreciating my dev's honesty:
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@Yamikuronue Well you can't exactly undo a call to
launchTheMissiles()
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@Captain In this case it's an emergency midday fix for a bug found after the release of this week's standard code.
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@Yamikuronue I've filled out several change tickets with "Back out plan: N/A".
Some of our change ticket templates used to include the question "What are the unknowns?". We used to answer with "The unknowns are not currently known" until we realised no-one read most of the ticket anyway, then we'd answer with things like "the implementer might be abducted by aliens". We weren't the only team to either mess about with that question or just not answer it - it's now been removed.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: heading out to a funeral. Fun?
Was that intentional?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
funeral.
The last time I had to do that for a family member, we told the people who showed up that it was a celebration of the deceased's life, and not a funeral.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
What does he do? Well, he forwards it on to accounting of course. Guess there is no need for that 4:30 meeting now...
No doubt it's your fault for not telling him not to do that.
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STATUS
Watched "Soldier", an action/sci-fi movie from the 90-ies. Brainwashed super-soldier gets left for dead on a junkyard planet, then has to learn what it means to be human, then fight his former colleagues.
The movie iteslf is all kinds of stupid, but Kurt Russel himself is pretty terrific as the main character. Very brave decision to do almost no pandering, and definitely no miraculous "cure" for a lifetime of brainwashing.
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
Was that intentional?
Everybody dies. This one simply wasn't a surprise.
@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
The last time I had to do that for a family member, we told the people who showed up that it was a celebration of the deceased's life, and not a funeral.
I'm sure that's what they're calling it too.
I'm just here for support.
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Status 1: I hate mobile.
Status 2: I hate Bay Area commute traffic.
Status 3: As a result of #2, I still have about an hour and a half to work; however, my brain went into weekend mode about 2 hours ago. I need to do a somewhat complicated bug fix involving several files, and it simply refuses to even attempt to follow the logic flow.
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Status: Here
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Here
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Status: Finished everything that I had promised here, tested it and it worked on first try! About 1k lines of mostly math in C and as soon as it compiled (fixing missing colons and such) it worked with no crash! This is my first time in 17 years, now have to test for memory leaks and corner case data. The goat is proud :smug_goat:
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@Yamikuronue I've put "Resign" in that field before.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS:
Question: Is there such thing as too stretchy mozzarella on a pizza?
Answer: Akhm.... ugh... (choking on mozzarella).... khh... No.
If you can both swallow and poop out the same strand of cheese simultaneously-- yes.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
The movie iteslf is all kinds of stupid, but Kurt Russel himself is pretty terrific as the main character
I'm going to kill them all, ma'am.
One of my all time favorite lines.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm just here for support.
Funerals need IT these days?
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm going to kill them all, ma'am.
"I'm going to kill them all sir."
He never calls anyone anything but sir. Love it.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Funerals need IT these days?
Have you tried turning him off and on again?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: heading out to a funeral. Fun?
There's no fun in funeral...
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Status: What the fuck is Wumbology?
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: What the fuck is Wumbology?
Study to gain knowledge of the Wumbs?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Funerals need IT these days?
Definitely, they had a slideshow up, and the display had the TVs "Repeat Folder" status displaying the whole time.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Some of our change ticket templates used to include the question "What are the unknowns?". We used to answer with "The unknowns are not currently known" until we realised no-one read most of the ticket anyway, then we'd answer with things like "the implementer might be abducted by aliens".
Good grief, I'd never have dared do that. At my old job (we don't actually have an established system at my current job since the project I was hired for is their first ever in-house development project) you got your change ticket refused for the tiniest of things, and even though you had to raise it a week in advance they never approved or denied it until the end of the day before it was raised for.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Funerals need IT these days?
Definitely, they had a slideshow up, and the display had the TVs "Repeat Folder" status displaying the whole time.
Business idea. Step 1: register IsItServerCootiesOrIsHeDead.com
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@Lorne-Kates So long as you use a picture of this guy:
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Status: Last night sucked. Chocolate-covered fruit for breakfast and a PR to socksite aren't a bad start to the day though.
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status signing up for Huggies for the reward points.
http://i.imgur.com/0pcD13E.png
Off to a good start.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status 2: I hate Bay Area commute traffic.
Yeah. Friday's are exceptionally brutal.
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status Removing a driver from Windows 10 that is not compatible is fucking insane.
MagicIso was auto-removed on Win7-Win10 upgrade - meaning their uninstall was not run - leaving mcdbus.sys. So Windows moves it to windows.old each time. Had to perform delicate surgery in \windows\system32\drivers and \windows\system32\DriverStore\FileRepository. windows.old is finally gone.
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Status: Installing GCC 4.5 on a Docker container running Ubuntu 12.04 so I can debug compile errors that only happen on Mac OS X.