Reasons like this are why I could never work a corporate job. The stuff I see them doing and then acting absolutely fake as hell while doing it is so cringeworthy.
I much prefer the blue colllar life where you can call an asshole an asshole and the only ass you kiss is your woman’s when you get home.
By far the worst part of the corporate landscape.
The word you’re looking for is “fuckers”.
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At my last company we had some absolutely savage software engineers. They did absolutely no ass kissing haha.
They moved us to bullshit shared cubes with like 3’ tall walls and no privacy. The software engineers brought in boxes and built up their walls.
During all company meetings they would ask the questions we weren’t supposed to ask. We are supposed to ask softball questions, they would ask about what they were going to do about failures in leadership. Bring up the consequences of bad decisions that leadership made. Leadership did pin a lot of product development issues on them though. Maybe retaliation.
The company brought in a politician for our district (that would be good for the company). I thought this was a shitty thing to do, but didn’t say anything. Didn’t need to. The software engineers just totally went to town on the guy.
I confess, I generally think of software engineers as weirdos, but they can be awesome at times.
Don’t underestimate the weirdos in the corner. They spend a lot of time thinking(plotting).
Pretty sure some of them had meetings with HR after the all company meetings.
On a side note. Office work at the small place I am at now is not terrible. I don’t perceive much politics. The only real issue is the IT guy. He is an ass.
I’m only an undergraduate, but I like to attend seminars.
The difference in culture between social decision sciences (a “softer” field) and economics is massive
SDS seminar: “great presentation”, “wow this is fascinating”… 5:1 compliment: question ratio
Econ: “you can’t assume that”, “what is that equation doing there”, “This setup looks wrong”, “what an elementary mistake”
THe exception in SDS is that there are newer faculty who come from econ programmes who start off asking the direct econ type questions. It’s fascinating to watch them adapt to the culture.
I won this at my office (Zoom) Christmas party. Because I kicked all of their asses.
I have zero problems with assigned fun.
I confess that celery sticks with peanut butter are heavenly, but plain old celery… Well, it’s just kinda boring.
Just curious…any professional photographers on here?
I confess that I grew up in Indiana and I consider raw celery to be the Delaware of vegetables.
Is that really the case, or are you just like @BeccahFromAccounting who usurped the chili cook-off crown by somehow producing sticky notes in the vote jar that had suspiciously similar handwriting? Everyone knew my chili was the best chili in the 2020 chili election. Only losers and haters disagreed!
Did you not see the two posts just above yours??
Ah, and yet no win. Whereas my trophy was awarded to me by my competitive colleagues. That’s how clear my win was. I was to office party shenanigans as @ChongLordUno is to burpees.
Sorry your chili sucks.
You got a real LOL out of me with that response. Like we say in New England, “Two-Shay!”
You had beans it in. That wasn’t chili
You know what they tell you when learning how to be the “IT guy”? that you have to treat people like they’re assholes that will try to break your toys… Because if you leave any wiggle room in system usage, it can be exploited on accident (or on purpose) and mess up the system badly.
Hence, you kind of have to be an asshole in programming. But that doesn’t really have to spill over to real-life though lol.
What happened? Did he quit?
You gotta be a bigger asshole if you’re managing programmers and you aren’t familiar with the kind of programming they do lol. Tried to do it before I picked up any IT skills and that what I was, which led to overlaps and higher budgets and programmers who wouldn’t give you their best work. I think it’s why they have to be assholes since their manager may be a moron and ask for shit that’s not realistic or fucks up the workflow. As an EXTREME example, everyone knows how Jobs was like and he was a marketing guy.
However, I’m not someone even close to the level of Jobs and other people like Jack Ma (Ali Baba and all) who has a reputation for being a really nice dude even though he claims he’s “never written a line of code in his life”. Which is why I remotely hire someone with the required tech knowledge and management experience to manage programmers in charge of stuff i don’t know about.
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One more reason why I’m so into MS Edge. It instantly searches for discount coupons on certain sites with products for same LMAO!!!
Man, I’m cheap. But I’m not fucking turning down a 30%-50% discount with a discount code.