This Business and Moment...

phone call "hi stu, can you forward an email on to X and Y please? I'll send the email over now"

emails comes through "Hi Stu, can you forward this to X and CC in Y, thanks"

anyone else get annoyed at people wasting time? It was a couple of minutes but I had to drop the actual important thing I was doing to phone her back about her urgent call.
 
AHarvey;30487100 said:
phone call "hi stu, can you forward an email on to X and Y please? I'll send the email over now"

emails comes through "Hi Stu, can you forward this to X and CC in Y, thanks"

anyone else get annoyed at people wasting time? It was a couple of minutes but I had to drop the actual important thing I was doing to phone her back about her urgent call.
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why didn't they just send the email to them directly themselves? :confused:
 
Neural;30487197 said:
why didn't they just send the email to them directly themselves? :confused:
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because its an email address to all 400+ remote workers, they keep it secret for some reason.

2 days before I started someone used the mass remote email address and posted in in the TO field instead of BCC. First job I had, redoing all 400+ forwarders with a new remote email. 2 weeks later, they did it again so I googled and can now use csv files on Cpanel to wipe and restore things like this so it's a 15 minute job. However, they decided to make it something only I am allowed to do :(

Along with me being the only one to sort out printer issues such as paper jams and replacing toner cartridges. :rolleyes: Nothing like being in the middle of something to be pulled away to remove a sheet of A3 from a printer. :D
 
Have a second interview tomorrow afternoon, down to the last 2, for a job I think I'm not sure about. Really need to think hard about what questions I want to ask them to confirm the decision in my mind. Its less money than I am on now (but walking distance vs 45 mile each way commute) and I have a few other concerns about structure/role definition & progression but I think they are a bit of a mess due to having expanded really quickly which has its attractions and turn offs.

A little presumptious as I might not be offered it but not sure what the protocol is with negotiating further if someone wants you? Base salary the agent mentioned it only £2k less than what I am on now but I also get a car/fuel card/phone at the moment. My thoughts are when I first talked to the agency I told them I was looking at X+ for salary but essentialy I would only be looking at the low end if it was a job that really resonated with me, and since I don't think I'm sure of that I think i'd need this offer to be increased by about £5k for me to leave my current job - is that a reasonable thing to say?
 
I think i'd wait until an offer was made and then discuss it with the agent unless they bring it up tomorrow.

Ultimately it's down to whats right for you. I turned a job down last week because it wasn't what i wanted, they kept upping the salary but that wasn't my issue.
 
So we've closed out another sprint. We've made some changes on a bit of UI, added nice templates to our system sent emails, added the active time out feature and so the sprint comes to an end.
The next one is fairly minor; internal dashboard for us to view activity of customers and analyze their use. Enhance the customer area, make it nice and shiny so they know how many licenses they're using out of their allowance, when they need to renew their license, what their extra monthly costs are etc.
Few refactoring of CSS so it's all pushed out as one, adding some unit testing updates, and a good little feature is prompts to advise the people on what to potentially do to make a change/ improve their courses. That'll take the longest I think.

I've been hammering trying to get meeting at the moment, only have 2 in next week. It's like a cycle going from loads to not many, to loads, to trying to follow up. Ugh. Need a constant. Never happens. So hard to manage. Destroys me emotionally.

Talking to that professor guy tomorrow, he's really ******* good on paper. Like, he's studied what we're doing with emotion/ engagement and learning for 10yrs and written papers/ built something similar but small scale. We want him on our board to help give us the scientific documented edge as well as improve our work as we go. He really wants to get his work out of academia and into the world. Touchwood we can get him in.
An interesting Indian guy emailed me today about the big data and machine learning role, too. On paper he's excellent. Has both Cassandra and Spark experience and building good systems. I'm going to see if we can talk and if he'd be interested in what we're doing. If I can get those 2 working together on building out our new DB clusters, it is the start of some really amazing things.

That's had me flat out all week really and I'm tired. But I had some time Weds lunch to meet my great friends and extremely talented ones about the Yksi mail project. I got a business model canvas done, we ironed it out, I got a survey completed and sent out to 150 people to do two things: validate that people would use it and also understand more about their behaviours with accounts/ social etc. etc.
We sat and went through those results and dug into what MVP looks like, then what Beta could look like after. We've nailed it all down and they're already building things. It's amazing.

I'm now just hammering through some follow up emails for emotuit having put together the email templates for our system mails, then I'll hit the sack. My meeting was cancelled tonight due to the snow so bit of a bummer.

tl;dr - stuff, just needed to get it out, make me feel better saying it.
 
I didn't get my contract through in the end yesterday, so no notice was given. It's like the big secret that everyone knows about :D quite funny in lots of ways.

I spoke to the agent who told me that they have told MS my start date and once they have the green light (even though it was Ms who suggested the 27th in the first place) they can send my contract over. It's then I can hand in my notice.

So it's just all the standard red tape stuff really. Just gotta wait a little bit longer. Thinking about it, I'm actually really glad that it's possibly happening today and not yesterday. We (my team) are confident he's going to lose his **** over it and it will give him a weekend to process it.

His typical reaction to bad news is to get angry and then subsequently take it out on the rest of us whilst making bad decisions along the way.

So hopefully by Monday he will have cooled off a bit :D

Anyway, will keep you all updated :P

Ross, it sounds like you need to be careful. Working yourself to the bone so much cannot be good for your health in the long run. Why not focus on just emotuit for the time being and worry about the Mail app later?
 
Phate;30489167 said:
I didn't get my contract through in the end yesterday, so no notice was given. It's like the big secret that everyone knows about :D quite funny in lots of ways.

I spoke to the agent who told me that they have told MS my start date and once they have the green light (even though it was Ms who suggested the 27th in the first place) they can send my contract over. It's then I can hand in my notice.

So it's just all the standard red tape stuff really. Just gotta wait a little bit longer. Thinking about it, I'm actually really glad that it's possibly happening today and not yesterday. We (my team) are confident he's going to lose his **** over it and it will give him a weekend to process it.

His typical reaction to bad news is to get angry and then subsequently take it out on the rest of us whilst making bad decisions along the way.

So hopefully by Monday he will have cooled off a bit :D

Anyway, will keep you all updated :P

Ross, it sounds like you need to be careful. Working yourself to the bone so much cannot be good for your health in the long run. Why not focus on just emotuit for the time being and worry about the Mail app later?
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I do find it a little insane that someone acting angry and taking it out on people is even remotely acceptable on a professional or personal level.
your coming across with anticipation and almost like there's a 'fear' of him in your workplace, that's fuggin crazy to me, job or not I would instantly challenge anyone who behaved that way towards me otherwise they think they can get away with it.


Fingers crossed for today Phate! hope it goes better than you expect.
 
Neural;30489352 said:
I do find it a little insane that someone acting angry and taking it out on people is even remotely acceptable on a professional or personal level.
your coming across with anticipation and almost like there's a 'fear' of him in your workplace, that's fuggin crazy to me, job or not I would instantly challenge anyone who behaved that way towards me otherwise they think they can get away with it.


Fingers crossed for today Phate! hope it goes better than you expect.
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Thanks mate.

Honestly the guy himself is one of the most unprofessional "professionals" I have ever met in my life. I don't even think he likes to be a manager. But does it because he was appointed the job. We all know he is related to the CEO. Which I am guessing is why he is allowed to behave the way he does without repurcussion.

He flings business buzzwords around so much, it is cringeworthy. But then loses his rag and ragequits when something doesn't go his way.

None of us are scared of him, just fed up of dealing with his tantrums!
 
We had someone like that for 2 years minus the related to the CEO part.

In a team of 7 managers myself and a girl where the better ones of the group with 3 really bad ones. Our manager was south african, 6 foot 4 and was a complete **** to the point the good female manager went off sick for 4 months. He' call us liars, turned people against each other and generally tried to play games with people because if they were having a go at each other the didn't notice he spent all day gambling on his PC. Thing is, he'd manipulate data and graphs to make it look positive for director meetings.

He once called me a lair straight to my face because I'd sent 90% of the staff home due to heavy snow one evening and those who remained lived 5 mins walk from work and everything that needed covering was covered. He claimed buses and taxi's were still running despite me having spoken to several that evening before sending people home.

In the end we turned it into a game, making him angry would make him turn bright red but it got to a point where I had to email the CEO about it all. He was great, said he would look into it and within 3 months he was gone. Unfortunately, it meant the steady decline of my job there because people knew I'd stand up to bad management, I left 2 years later due to having 2 more terrible managers.
 
We have confirmation :cool:

Notice going in today. I start March 6th, finish here on Feb 24th. So I get a week off inbetween. Ahhhh :D

EDIT: Notice on my desk and signed :D - Just waiting for my manager to return.
 
AHarvey;30490759 said:
how long is his lunch?

*Hits F5*
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Haha, he normally doesn't take that long a lunch.

I predict 3 potential scenarios:

- He reacts like a child, throws a tantrum - If so I'll go home.
- He rages, threatens me (with what?) - If so, I'll go home.
- He behaves like an adult professional - if so I'll finish the day and carry on as normal.

I have a feeling it may be one of the first two :p
 
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