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07-14-2010, 07:23 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Found one!
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07-14-2010, 12:24 PM
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#162
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Moderator Emeritus
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Location: Portland
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Originally Posted by bbbamI
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Aieeee! It's the Total Quality Management ISO-9000 Compliance Committee! Run away! Run away!
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07-14-2010, 02:33 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Oct 2007
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A famous quote from someone quotable:
"They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work."
True freedom is knowing you can walk out the door at anytime and not give a crap. A long time ago, far, far away, when I was a young whippersnapper, an extremely high level public servant saw me in the hall one day and commented "I see you in the hall a lot - I hope it doesn't hinder your career." Being a recent Army veteran and not missing a beat, I replied "Interesting, I also see you in the hall a lot." He never said a word to me again.
For some reason, I really like the movie Office Space - I do my best to emulate the main character - at various levels, I think I have succeeded.
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07-14-2010, 03:45 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jun 2005
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My husband works for a small business (about 100 people). Someone asked the boss, "how many people work for you?" He answered, "about half".
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07-14-2010, 04:30 PM
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#165
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Administrator
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Location: Chicagoland
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I don't miss the people that confused tough & demanding with rude and offensive.
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07-14-2010, 05:41 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 481
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I also will not miss the phrases I hear every year at budget time - "do more with less" and "the bar has been raised". I am pretty sure I must be doing everything with nothing by now. And I have simply given up looking for the bar. I think I lost sight of that about 5 years ago.
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07-14-2010, 06:57 PM
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#167
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Cavalier
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When it comes down to it there isn't anything at all, except a few people, that I miss from work.
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07-14-2010, 07:06 PM
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#168
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: North of Montana
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Originally Posted by Helen
I work for the Feds in IT and Sarbanes and Oxley has hit us hard.
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Interesting. Do you know if it's required or just window dressing? Having retired three years ago, my recollections of S-Ox was that is was only required by companies publicly traded on US exchanges. That would let the feds off the hook but they might like to appear "compliant". It's also possible that I have managed to forget my most unpleasant experiences.
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07-14-2010, 08:15 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 6,924
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Originally Posted by NW-Bound
A friend of mine who is still at a megacorp told me this story. His employer had an annual survey of employees to obtain their feedbacks. Although the individual responses were anonymous, the replies were grouped by departments (Web replies, hence traceable).
His department was deemed deficient in some areas, meaning having employee unhappiness in such areas as career advancement, job satisfaction, etc...
So, the decree from HR was that departmental meetings shall be held every week to search for remedies!
Talk about "the beating shall continue until the morale improves!".
Needless to say, next year, every category surveyed came back with near 100% satisfaction. Happy, happy!!!
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"We'll have these meetings twice a day until we find out why productivity is down."
--Mad Magazine
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07-14-2010, 08:26 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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In the 70-80s, I read that the Commies economies were in such bad shape because they were too busy talking about productivity that they forgot to work.
Now, the Chinese are working their butt off producing things that the world wants, while the former free-world countries are slacking off and spend more time designing slogans and empty mission statements instead of working.
It's bleak! We are doomed!
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"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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07-14-2010, 08:29 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 6,924
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Originally Posted by KM
I also will not miss the phrases I hear every year at budget time - "do more with less" and "the bar has been raised". I am pretty sure I must be doing everything with nothing by now. And I have simply given up looking for the bar. I think I lost sight of that about 5 years ago.
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"Work smarter not harder."
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07-14-2010, 08:35 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Today I recalled something I really do not miss:
Gum chewers who want to share the experience. They go out of their way to make sure everyone sees and hears the entire experience.
One time I was sitting at a computer terminal between two of the pigs. I had to leave and go outside so I wouldn't vomit.
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07-15-2010, 06:13 AM
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#173
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Posts: 18,085
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Another one:
Boredom. I don't consider myself easily bored, but there are limits. After a pretty stressful, pressed 2 month period that ended last friday, all of a sudden there just isn't going on. Yesterday I was alone in the office, as the two other people I work with were off at training or home sick. So after things were taken care of by 11:30 I, um, twiddled my thumbs. For hours. Can't leave, half afraid of an unexpected visitor so don't want to obviously slack. The day crawled by like an arthritic animal looking for a place to die.
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Ezekiel 23:20
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07-15-2010, 08:01 AM
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#174
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Khan
"We'll have these meetings twice a day until we find out why productivity is down."
--Mad Magazine
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We used to have morning module meetings (and I believe the other shift had them, too) wherein anywhere from ten to twenty-five people sat around for an hour, explaining an outdated lot hold/machine down report to a module manager who didn't know the difference between a microchip and a potato chip. This meeting was replicated in every fab, by every process module, corporation-wide.
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Have Funds, Will Retire
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07-15-2010, 08:01 AM
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#175
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
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Originally Posted by KM
I also will not miss the phrases I hear every year at budget time - "do more with less" and "the bar has been raised". I am pretty sure I must be doing everything with nothing by now. And I have simply given up looking for the bar. I think I lost sight of that about 5 years ago.
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There's a bar down on the corner...
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07-15-2010, 08:45 AM
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#176
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Washington, DC
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Originally Posted by kumquat
Interesting. Do you know if it's required or just window dressing? Having retired three years ago, my recollections of S-Ox was that is was only required by companies publicly traded on US exchanges. That would let the feds off the hook but they might like to appear "compliant". It's also possible that I have managed to forget my most unpleasant experiences.
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SoX doesn't apply to the Feds but they have a somewhat equivalent structure under law and regulation overseen (by and large) by the same groups of external auditors that plague the private sector.
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Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre -- Albert Camus
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07-15-2010, 10:20 AM
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#177
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KM
I also will not miss the phrases I hear every year at budget time - "do more with less" and "the bar has been raised". I am pretty sure I must be doing everything with nothing by now. And I have simply given up looking for the bar. I think I lost sight of that about 5 years ago.
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LOL... I remember hearing this from some newly minted boss... he was young and did not know how stupid this sounds... he said we should be more efficient than last year...
I replied back that since there were NO investments in anything to make me more efficient, just adding one more year to my work history will not cut it...
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07-15-2010, 10:26 AM
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#178
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Since people are putting phrases out there... we all got T shirts with the new catch phrase for our group... 4 words... two on each arm sleave..
"Better, Faster Easier, Cheaper"...
NOW, women... what would YOU think others would think of you wearing this T shirt
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07-15-2010, 11:02 AM
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#179
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 2,360
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"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive". Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage (1878)
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07-15-2010, 11:11 AM
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#180
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 18,085
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Texas Proud
Since people are putting phrases out there... we all got T shirts with the new catch phrase for our group... 4 words... two on each arm sleave..
"Better, Faster Easier, Cheaper"...
NOW, women... what would YOU think others would think of you wearing this T shirt
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Wow, cluesslessness on parade.
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