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DaiMonMoore

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I did not see a thread solely devoted to discussing workplace problems as all of us who are still working likely experience them. And no matter what job we have, there are some things that are experienced everywhere.

I'll start.
My boss has an annoying habit of humble-bragging about his vacations on his out of office emails. I'm not talking about "I can't respond as I'm at the beach or I'm in the mountains." They are much worse than that.

Here is one for when he was taking a cruise to Antarctica:

"Thank you for your email, but I am traveling out of town and down south for an EPIC adventure to 70 degrees latitude."

And yes, he does this with every vacation. Once he went to Tennessee, so no big deal. But gotta make it more obnoxious than that:

"Thank you for your email. I will be away on a Tennessee coddiwomple until March 16th"

Who the fuck does this?
 
DaiMonMoore said:
I did not see a thread solely devoted to discussing workplace problems as all of us who are still working likely experience them. And no matter what job we have, there are some things that are experienced everywhere.

I'll start.
My boss has an annoying habit of humble-bragging about his vacations on his out of office emails. I'm not talking about "I can't respond as I'm at the beach or I'm in the mountains." They are much worse than that.

Here is one for when he was taking a cruise to Antarctica:

"Thank you for your email, but I am traveling out of town and down south for an EPIC adventure to 70 degrees latitude."

And yes, he does this with every vacation. Once he went to Tennessee, so no big deal. But gotta make it more obnoxious than that:

"Thank you for your email. I will be away on a Tennessee coddiwomple until March 16th"

Who the fuck does this?
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Have to say … those vacations sound awesome! Really sold them to me.
 
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I manage implementations for a SaaS company. My last couple of projects the Client PMs seem to want to tell us how to implement our software. Mind you they’re typically IT PMs who know Jack about actual business needs of the Agency they represent.

I actually had the PM of a current client tell me that someone on another project told him he needed to stay in his lane. It was all I could do to keep from busting out laughing and saying yeah you you need to fucking stay in your lane. This is what my team does every day and we’re damn good at it.
 
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RuGettinIt said:
I manage implementations for a SaaS company. My last couple of projects the Client PMs seem to want to tell us how to implement our software. Mind you they’re typically IT PMs who know Jack about actual business needs of the Agency they represent.

I actually had the PM of a current client tell me that someone on another project told him he needed to stay in his lane. It was all I could do to keep from busting out laughing and saying yeah you you need to fucking stay in your lane. This is what my team does every day and we’re damn good at it.
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This. Our IT folks constantly foist changes on us, some of which are good and some not, but many of which seem to be decided on before asking about how they might affect what we actually need to get done or when implementation should start so that when bugs need to be worked out it's not at the worst possible time.
 
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DaiMonMoore said:
I did not see a thread solely devoted to discussing workplace problems as all of us who are still working likely experience them. And no matter what job we have, there are some things that are experienced everywhere.

I'll start.
My boss has an annoying habit of humble-bragging about his vacations on his out of office emails. I'm not talking about "I can't respond as I'm at the beach or I'm in the mountains." They are much worse than that.

Here is one for when he was taking a cruise to Antarctica:

"Thank you for your email, but I am traveling out of town and down south for an EPIC adventure to 70 degrees latitude."

And yes, he does this with every vacation. Once he went to Tennessee, so no big deal. But gotta make it more obnoxious than that:

"Thank you for your email. I will be away on a Tennessee coddiwomple until March 16th"

Who the fuck does this?
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I wouldn't want to get those emails, but I am pleased to have learned a new word today.
 
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RuGettinIt said:
I manage implementations for a SaaS company. My last couple of projects the Client PMs seem to want to tell us how to implement our software. Mind you they’re typically IT PMs who know Jack about actual business needs of the Agency they represent.

I actually had the PM of a current client tell me that someone on another project told him he needed to stay in his lane. It was all I could do to keep from busting out laughing and saying yeah you you need to fucking stay in your lane. This is what my team does every day and we’re damn good at it.
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Jagdaddy said:
This. Our IT folks constantly foist changes on us, some of which are good and some not, but many of which seem to be decided on before asking about how they might affect what we actually need to get done or when implementation should start so that when bugs need to be worked out it's not at the worst possible time.
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They got no balls if they don't test in prod!




Does this need the sarcasm font?
 
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Mike80 said:
They got no balls if they don't test in prod!




Does this need the sarcasm font?
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I actually have client that went live about 4 months ago where this is basically the case. I warned them for months and all the status reports were red. Their PM did a soft shoe to the Execs on it and now the project is a shit show.

They’re asking for all sorts of changes and updates due to their failure to test and do a proper UAT. Pay up bitches you were told and it was documented.
 
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