Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,813|6331|eXtreme to the maX
My company has descended further into clownworld.

During covid they panicked and bought a bunch of very specific microchips to ensure continued production.
After covid they realised they had bought far too many, and simultaneously tasked purchasing with selling them off and engineering with finding uses for them.
Engineering have designed and engineered a new product around this chip, completed field testing and almost completed the compliance testing ready for production prototypes.
Purchasing have sold them all off.

Now engineering need 3-6 months to re-engineer the product around a different chip, complete testing etc.
There are other knock-on effects, the product won't work in the same way, other parts have to be retooled, it won't interface with other products which have been engineered on the assumption that it would - they can be thrown away now.

It would be nice to think it would mean I would have more time to do my bit, which was already being compressed, but I'll bet it will be even more compressed.
Fuck Israel
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,741|6962|Oxferd Ohire
Insanity
https://i.imgur.com/tMvdWFG.png
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,813|6331|eXtreme to the maX
We haven't had a project meeting since the news. I'm waiting to see the faces of the engineering team.
The whole project could now be unviable.

I've asked for a new project plan, as I have a line-up of actions which need to be done and they either need to continue, or be changed, or put on hold, or cancelled entirely.
There's no plan to produce a plan.

The responsibility for this seems to rest with one of two smug and offensive idiots - waiting to see which one.
Maybe there will be no consequences, maybe not.
What I've sure of is I'm not going to be breaking a sweat to get it back on track.
Fuck Israel
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,813|6331|eXtreme to the maX
The funny part is the previous project manager spend the entire project budget on external consultants - who basically delivered nothing because he repeatedly changed the requirements when they were half-way through delivering to the previous set.
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Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,813|6331|eXtreme to the maX

Dilbert_X wrote:

For once karma seems to have worked a bit - the guy who has done a shit job the last couple of years and smugly presided over disaster after disaster has been moved sideways and given responsibility for clearing up the disasters he's presided over.
Good chance he'll try to delegate it to me and everyone else but thats not happening. I helped him before and he fucked me over.
As expected, the sum total of his effort in three weeks has been to send out a request to complete the list of tasks I already knew about and had no particular interest in completing.

The email wasn't even addressed to me, it was addressed to himself, I think he figured out a way to do a mail merge from the database.

"Dickwad Numbnuts

Please complete these tasks
1
2
3
4
5

Regards
Dickwad Numbnuts"

Bizarre - Is this how people think they'll get me to do stuff?
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KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,978|6857|949

Dilbert_X wrote:

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Never put someone on a PIP that I didn't intend to let go.
Asshole move Ken, why not have the balls to fire them?
HR told me I had to. Documentation blah blah

I'm about to give someone I hired a negative performance review for the first time. Not looking forward to it, but he is aware it's coning.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+640|3945
I am giving out detentions for the first time today. It is part of my admin internship. I realize the principal offloaded the dirty work to me. He made me the hatchet man.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,741|6962|Oxferd Ohire
Did you enjoy it
https://i.imgur.com/tMvdWFG.png
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,813|6331|eXtreme to the maX

Dilbert_X wrote:

I've been told I'm "challenging", also I need to cut down my swearing, apparently "people find it offensive" whatever the fuck that means.
Just had a resilience training webinar thing organised by HR - I told them I was born resilient, I'm British, but they made me go.

Key takeaway is people who swear live longer, it releases stress.

I have to swear for my motherfucking health, HR said so, fucking win.
Fuck Israel
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,813|6331|eXtreme to the maX

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Never put someone on a PIP that I didn't intend to let go.
Asshole move Ken, why not have the balls to fire them?
HR told me I had to.
HR tell me all kinds of stuff, I don't pay a lot of attention.
Fuck Israel
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+640|3945

RTHKI wrote:

Did you enjoy it
No.

I just filled out all of the paperwork. I gave only one kid the bad news. A kid in my homeroom.

She got 2 hour after school detention for being late to school. She explained that she is late because she needs to take her siblings to school. I tried to explain she needs to figure something out to get to school on time.

I am not enjoying this year so far. I wish I could spend my spare time just hunting girls on dating apps. I didn't have the time to do so this summer.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,741|6962|Oxferd Ohire
The issue that made me send an email that management didn't like happened again.

Honestly wtf
https://i.imgur.com/tMvdWFG.png
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+640|3945
Time to send another email.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,978|6857|949

Have you tried strenuously objecting?
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,813|6331|eXtreme to the maX
This kind of thing is fun but ultimately achieves nothing.
Fuck Israel
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,741|6962|Oxferd Ohire
At this point I'm riding the year out, still have 7 vacation days to use or lose. Then no matter what just leave in Jan
https://i.imgur.com/tMvdWFG.png
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,813|6331|eXtreme to the maX
My experience is every workplace is the same.

I get all my personal validation here.
Fuck Israel
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,741|6962|Oxferd Ohire
There is no way to move up here unless you are management. Corporate is separate and they are lean af outside of Sales / Customer Service. Also I drive 45min in the wrong direction.
Those are the main reasons really
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SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+640|3945
I finally did the detentions. I filled in for the VP. So I was in the office and everything.

"Hello I am Mr. Macbeth. The principal isn't here so he asked me to fill in and break the news to you. You have 10 lates to school. That means you get two detentions..."

"Why did you call yourself Macbeth? Your ID card says Frank..."
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SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+640|3945
My blind coworker dropped the ball today.
https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6586ad1766809383c71cd41e/65b8c8bb2b0100f2a2725aa9_international-guide-dog-day.jpeg
She has literally had a guide dog. She is that blind.

Would you like to know more?
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,741|6962|Oxferd Ohire
Did the dog pick the ball up?
https://i.imgur.com/tMvdWFG.png
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,813|6331|eXtreme to the maX
One strange experience at work.

An engineer left after about ten years work.

Next day the admin person turned up to his desk with a wheelie-bin and swept literally everything off his desk into it - books, cups, keyboard, mouse etc.
Upended all his drawers and tossed the contents also without a second glance.

I mean I know the company couldn't give a shit but it was amazing to see, they din't even think to do it outside work hours.
Fuck Israel
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+640|3945

RTHKI wrote:

Did the dog pick the ball up?
The dog was asleep somewhere. I could only smell it.
https://www.colgate.com/content/dam/cp-sites/oral-care/oral-care-center/en-sa/general/heros/closeup-portrait-young-man-disgust-on.jpg
A kid fainted during cafe. We weren't sure the kid's name since they only come into our cafe to pick up their food and then go into the student center to eat away from everyone. Everyone knows the kid because she is a full goth in a school with uniforms. She just doesn't wear it and will instead goth out.
https://media.istockphoto.com/id/172665569/photo/gothic.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=KvtSCcst0rBv3yhM31lXCTgwiA5BdvByXZwvIMAqrU0=
So once the kid fainted we needed to call an ambulance and do all that. No one knew her name though. So I went to the student center where she came from to find out her name. There were half a dozen students in the student center.
https://www.steinberghart.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/11_Steinberg-Hart_Monte-Vista-High-School-Workday-Student-Center_Rubio-aspect-ratio-19-11.jpg
There was only one adult: a blind social worker with a dog.
https://st3.depositphotos.com/1177973/16842/i/1600/depositphotos_168424732-stock-photo-guide-dog-helping-blind-woman.jpg
The other workers went to lunch and left the blind lady to watch the kids. Or in this case, have the kids watch the social worker.
https://media.istockphoto.com/id/1348124746/photo/beautiful-woman-with-a-disability-learning-to-read.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=x8uAoS0tTWj6KPniI9UWYDpQjOr2f5CqFYyDfiiJik8=
I didn't know exactly how blind the lady is. So I tried to explain to the blind lady what the kid I was looking for looked like.
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/blind-businesswoman-long-stick-talking-260nw-1681432201.jpg
The blind lady said "Sorry I can't help. I am blind."
https://mediaproxy.tvtropes.org/width/1200/https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/facepalm_deja_q.jpg
So I leave the student center and I see two teachers waiting for me to see if I found out who the student was. I had to tell them "the only lady in there is blind." They started laughing. We were in the hallway laughing at a blind lady.
https://st2.depositphotos.com/1809585/8903/i/450/depositphotos_89039882-Three-friends-talking-and-laughing-in-a-train-station.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+640|3945
A student was disrespectful to me a few months ago. They recently committed a minor crime someone reported. Should I narc on them for revenge or should I just let it go?

The revenge part doesn't bother me but I don't want anyone knowing I actually snitched.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,741|6962|Oxferd Ohire
What kind of minor crime
https://i.imgur.com/tMvdWFG.png

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