Calling a team meeting "all hands" is low key annoying INTERNAL: Client X ALL HANDS - Meeting to Align on Status
Hired a new guy from a bigger company, he keeps sending emails about team huddles. Ready to punch him.
Ive never seen All Hands refer to anything smaller than the entire company. So I'd call that just annoying for a team. Not just low key annoying.
Also, I guess that particular phrase originated in sailing (all hands on deck), but "hand" can have some pretty bad connotations in other contexts. Prob not the best thing to call employees
my step-dad retired at the end of 2019 from AT&T after 47 years as an engineer, and he was holding out for a voluntary layoff package to sweeten his deal but they weren't doing layoffs, so he pulled the trigger. Should have waited another couple of months I guess.
“Confi” “Con-Fee” as an abbreviation for confidentiality agreement. “We’re going to need you to sign a confi before we can send that over”
Most of my colleagues are late gen x or boomers and tech illiterate. Really like my coworkers and job but they use excel like it’s really fancy paper. - Hard coded stuff galore and formula usage begins and ends with ‘sum’. - No use of date functions, they manually type in months for a 5 year schedule...it’s crazy. - most excel workbooks have less than 5 sheets. - No concept of version control and will save a new copy of the file every time they touch it. [Filename]v.12 will have a more recent time stamp than v.15. Drives me insane. - can’t comprehend the merits of version history on sharepoint, saving multiple copies in sharepoint. - create new folders like they’re paid by the folder...ran properties on our server and the file to folder ratio is 4 to 1. Four fucking files per folder. Four. So many empty folders. Stop making folders for the love of god. - The file paths are off the rails; I counted 14 file paths to access one doc. 28 clicks to open a file. Spend all day navigating to their shit, no quick access pins. - print everything to hard copy, just crushing reams of paper.
I worked with someone once who was probably in her mid-50s and was tasked with some data entry in excel. She stopped what she was doing to tell me that she “ran out of lines” and didn’t know what to do.
Yeah it's crazy. I feel kinda bad for some of these ppl. Thier job is 40hrs of painful excel updates then some whipper snapper comes in, take 1 day to write a macro and your entire job is automated. I had an intern do this for me and they ended up firing the guy. Kid felt bad. Welcome to business kid, fuck that boomer.
I work primarily with two older Gen X’ers. The shared drive we have is a disaster. Folders upon pointless folders, things in places they clearly don’t belong. I’ve been here four months and it’s a daily hunt to find anything anytime I need a new item. It clearly doesn’t even work for my boss as he just sorts through folders and has no idea where shit is. Excel workbooks just get rolled forward year to year (some for 20+ years) with awful formatting, hard coded cells impossible to tell where important numbers came from, etc. It’s absolutely maddening at times. We also keep hard paper copies of everything and the company is apparently too cheap to get us a decent version of Acrobat to edit things. In the past two weeks there have been multiple occasions I had to use 25+ year old correction tape to “edit” out something. They hired me with the idea I will eventually take over the U.S. department. There are going to have to be so many changes to bring things up to the modern day if I stay long enough to be in the position to get them executed.
Ever since we moved to G Suite I don't organize much of anything or at least not further than maybe 2 folders in. Even all of my random ass shared files just sit unorganized on my Google drive but since we are all reasonably good at search we haven't had too many issues finding things.
I just wish I could talk them into saving PDF's instead of paper to start and go from there. Part of this is the result of, and I quote as my boss told me like day 2 or 3 on the job, "we don't have the space to handle that." I think there's a fundamental disconnect somewhere I'll eventually discover. We're a $1B+ revenue company, I think we can come up with some space to electronically save documents. It's not all bad though. They pay extremely well and I work well below what would be considered normal hours in my field. If I have to manually white out some numbers and crush reams of paper it beats working Saturdays for 1/3 of the year.
I keep a lot of paths to folders pinned in quick access. It's fucking insane the number of folders you have to open to get to one file you need. Financial svcs/finances/John Smith/share/share 2020/Fiscal Year/FY/FY2020/v 2.0/by entity/entity name Then your computer takes a shit and you spend an entire day trying to figure out how to back to all your stuff..
Ours isn’t terrible. We used to use a network drive. Honestly that worked well but it was a pain because you had to be on VPN if you weren’t in the office which is me 50% of the time. Sharepoint you don’t have to so it’s been an upgrade for me. I’ve never used google drive in an enterprise setting so I’m curious how it works. We also have a lot of great dashboards in sharepoint
It'a got some pluses to it and depending on IT can add in plugins to make things easier like automatically downloading files from enterprise Gmail to shared drive. I still don't like Sheets as much as Excel but it's easier to share and can see and track changes and version history easier since a spreadsheet can be one live file.
We are pushing a bunch of clients we work with on the IT side to Office 365 with OneDrive as their primary storage location. It works well enough that we have had a couple ransomware attacks and while the machine was fucked, it wasn’t able to spread to the OneDrive. So we wiped the machine and setup OneDrive and all the files synced. It’s a shitload cheaper than Sharepoint for most clients as well.
As I mentioned above, MS is taking all the GSuite ideas and baking them into Office 365. For those who don’t like the google suite of products, it’s a win win. The only thing I don’t like is the auto save. You have to check versions and shit. I save a lot of blank templates and if you open one and start working on it, it will auto save on the original instead of letting me finish and then hit “Save As...”
We’re a project based organization so they’re basically trying to push Teams and sharepoint on everyone. With that being said damn you’re right we should be using one drive
They claim the sharpoint allows you to capture “metadata” but I have no clue what the fuck that means or how to apply it for the better
That sounds like something that should be able to be changed in Windows settings somewhere even if it's not a setting in office itself.
One thing to note; teams is drastically different than Slack and I like Slack better. Teams is threaded. Kind of like Reddit. Where you have to “reply” to a message. If you just type into the comment field it starts a new “thread”. Then if someone replies to the original thread it gets moved down and the sequencing gets out of order. It’s hilarious when people don’t understand it and spend a year using it and still don’t get it.
Teams is also good for getting boomers to present their desktops so you can repair the damage they’ve done to your excel models when they’re working remotely.
It’s also good for seeing their shit talk in email and chat because they don’t realize everyone is watching.