Useless Conversation

[HaemishM]

When the hell did Chrome become such a bloated, memory-leaking unholy fucking resource hog? I'm sitting here at work having to shut it down at least once in an 8-hour day to keep it from chunking along.

[Yegolev]

Unrelated, I have switched back to IE from Chrome.

Maybe a little related.

[Nevermore]

Personally I'm happy with Firefox.

[Yegolev]

I use that on the home machine.  NoScript.  On the work machine, IE and let IT security sort'em out.

[Nevermore]

NoScript is a godsend.

[Rasix]

Noscript confuses my wife. 

"Make the internet work."

[RhyssaFireheart]

Noscript gets annoying when a site has a gazillion scripts and you have to play guessing games to figure out which one to enable in order to make the damn site marginally functional.  That part I can't stand.

[Samwise]

It's really sad how Chrome went from lean and mean to sucking ass.  Especially when it comes to anything Flash related.  On the plus side Firefox seems to have mended its ways, so I'm slowly migrating back to that.

[Merusk]

Noscript gets annoying when a site has a gazillion scripts and you have to play guessing games to figure out which one to enable in order to make the damn site marginally functional.  That part I can't stand.

This would bother me less if the goddamned whitelist settings carried-over when NoScript updates.

[Paelos]

Noscript confuses my wife. 

"Make the internet work."

My problem is always playing Russian roulette with noscript when i hit a site I'm not sure about, but I want to read.

[Engels]

Noscript confuses my wife. 

"Make the internet work."

My problem is always playing Russian roulette with noscript when i hit a site I'm not sure about, but I want to read.

http://www.sandboxie.com/

[Yegolev]

Noscript gets annoying when a site has a gazillion scripts and you have to play guessing games to figure out which one to enable in order to make the damn site marginally functional.  That part I can't stand.

This would bother me less if the goddamned whitelist settings carried-over when NoScript updates.

Works for me?

[Fordel]

Noscript gets annoying when a site has a gazillion scripts and you have to play guessing games to figure out which one to enable in order to make the damn site marginally functional.  That part I can't stand.

If a site has so many scripts that I can't figure out which ones to allow, it's just a site I'm not going to bother with!

[Cyrrex]

Based solely on this thread, I have now installed this NoScript thingamawhatsits for Firefox.  I am of two minds.  On the positive side, no more pictures of inappropriately aged asian girls with large breasts offering to be my girlfriend.  On the negative...no more pictures of inappropriately aged asian girls with large breasts offering to be my girlfriend.

Kidding aside, I think I rather like it.

[Sky]

Noscript confuses my wife. 

"Make the internet work."

My old lady leans a bit too heavy on 'temporarily allow all on this page'. No matter how much I try to train her on what a cdn is, etc.

I did a quick postmortem to a fluffy 'digital security' webinar, basically saying use better passwords and noscript. The crappy presenter scared the hell out of everyone (well, almost everyone heh) and didn't give much useful actionable information. Bastard.

I hate webinars.

[Engels]

The person who invented the word 'webinar' needs to be taken out back and beaten the marketing text book that gave them the idea. Along with the ponces who came up with 'podcast' and 'cloud'.

[Yegolev]

Even better than having powerpoint slides read to you?  Having the slides read to you in two languages.

[Paelos]

Even better than having powerpoint slides read to you?  Having the slides read to you in two languages.

The fact that people still do this amazes me. We covered how exactly NEVER TO DO THAT IN A PRESENTATION across 3 of the schools I've attended, including my masters in accounting. Even amongst boring number crunchers, they tell you that's a bad idea.

[Hammond]

Thank god I do not have to sit through these "educational" webinars that are really just thinly veiled attempts at getting me to buy your crap. Sending me those is a good way to get into my permanent email blacklist.

[Merusk]

Thank god I do not have to sit through these "educational" webinars that are really just thinly veiled attempts at getting me to buy your crap. Sending me those is a good way to get into my permanent email blacklist.

We call them lunch 'n learns.  I get a free lunch and continuing education credits while they try, futilely, to get me to specify their product that no client, ever, has shown an interest in.  (moveable partitions was a particularly amusing one.)

Sometimes I actually learn something, like when I had the LED or Wood Veneer lunches. Win-win for me.   

[Samwise]

Even better than having powerpoint slides read to you?  Having the slides read to you in two languages.

The fact that people still do this amazes me. We covered how exactly NEVER TO DO THAT IN A PRESENTATION across 3 of the schools I've attended, including my masters in accounting. Even amongst boring number crunchers, they tell you that's a bad idea.

Come to think of it, I too have taken 3 classes on presenting/speaking/communication (one in college, one Tufte seminar, one Decker class).  They differed on a number of points when it came to what exactly you wanted on your visual materials, but they were pretty unanimous on never just reading from your slides.

But I have also taken some of those classes with coworkers and then seen those same coworkers doing the EXACT THING THEY SAID NOT TO a couple of weeks later.

[Merusk]

People who are terrified of public speaking are the ones most likely to do that.  It gives them something to fall back on so they don't have to try and present.  The best way of getting people to break out of is that I've seen is public speaking classes or clubs like Toastmasters.

[Paelos]

People who are terrified of public speaking are the ones most likely to do that.  It gives them something to fall back on so they don't have to try and present.  The best way of getting people to break out of is that I've seen is public speaking classes or clubs like Toastmasters.

Watching video of yourself giving a speech was what broke me of my bad habits.

[Ironwood]

The slides should contain the salient easily remembered points.  Too many people, even those who KNOW not to 'read from slides' utterly fail at managing to craft a brief point.

Which is why I don't talk to any cunt anymore.

[Yegolev]

The points were concise enough.  Woo ooo.

[Ironwood]

Ah, well, if the presenters hawt, she can say and read out what the fuck she likes.

And now I'm thinking of those Hysterical Readings.  You bastard.

[Yegolev]

You kinda went out on your own with that one.  See you when you get back!

[Morat20]

Huh, I was at one of those yesterday. It was presented by someone on the phone, who was sharing their desktop over the projector, and who occasionally would ask questions and forget we were all muted. (Thankfully, someone manned up and hit the button so we could answer).

It was incredibly boring, entirely unrelated to ANY work I do, and it started off with "We identified everyone we thought needed this and gave it to them four months ago. And then, well, some stuff happened and now you're getting it".

The "stuff" was a sibling company (under the same giant ass corporate umbrella) getting the unholy fuck fined out of it over this issue. Wasn't the worst fine in recent years (although I note they did not specify the dollar amount for us, but I had my phone and it was almost as bad as the worst).

Ah, export control. Right up there with 'conflicts of interest' in the land of 'shit I have no interest in and has no impact on my life'.

I provide services. If there's a problem, it's my customer who fucked up  - -not me. :)

[Yegolev]

It all pays the same.

[Sky]

I just channel Louis CK when I have to speak publicly.

I don't get asked to much any more.

[Soln]

I think I launched my last game today.   Happy to be done, but not enough of a happy experience getting it to "done". 

[RhyssaFireheart]

 

So, once again, one of the PMs I deal with is causing me a delay with starting my end-of-month activities.  Each month, for a year now, I pull my numbers first thing in the morning on the last business day of the month.  All the PMs get reminders about making sure all time for their projects is entered and accepted by 5pm of the day before, so I can pull as soon as I get in at 7:30.  So what do I get in my inbox this morning?

From: Douchebag PM
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 7:01 AM
To: Fireheart, Rhyssa
Cc: Douchebag's Partner PM
Subject: Working on Entering Time for March -- Please hold on

Rhyssa,

I am entering time for March right now.

Please hold off.

I will have entered in next hr and will notify you when I am complete.

Thx

DouchebagPM

Really, jerk?  And when I sent a message back asking why this happens to his project every freaking month (seriously, there is a problem every month with these guys), he comes back with this:

From: Douchebag PM
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 7:52 AM
To: Fireheart, Rhyssa
Cc: Douchebag's Partner
Subject: RE: Working on Entering Time for March -- Please hold on
Importance: High

Lori,

I understand.

You have been patient and understanding.

This is my issue and I am working on fixing it.

We have been working late hours this week and could only get to it now.

Ajay has had the rest of the hours entered for our team but mine. Not sure why I am not included with a task this month.

I am the “squeaky wheel” and I will be more mindful in the future.

Douchbag PM

To add to the fun, I immediately got another message, from him to his partner, that there wasn't a task for douchbag to enter his time against and could partner fix that for him.     Asshole, you're supposed to be putting your time in weekly, not wait until the end of the month!  And, AND, what the everliving hell are you working late on?  This particular project has been going on for a year now and no one, outside of you guys and your sponsor, seems to know what you are doing, since you've delivered fuck-all so far.

Gods, I need a drink already and I don't drink.

Happy Good Friday, folks.

[Merusk]

If IT were to pull-up his machine's internet log they'd find exactly what he's been doing.  I have a few of those "working late" folks, though at least they confess their constant browsing is what keeps them late.

We also had a guy who was fired for not performing.  At the end it came out that he hadn't done a time card in 3 months.  I don't even know how the fuck that is allowed to happen.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Well, part of my fun is that I coordinate with the Program Manager who handles all of our consultants, which Douchbag and his partner both are (from the same company, no less).  And I'm also the one who submits the invoices to A/P for processing, so what is entered into Project Server needs to match what is on the invoice from his company.  Still wondering where the hell he put 205 hours (what he's said he worked) for March, which only has 168 working hours in the month.  But then I thought about it and did some calculations and I already have 39 hours for the week as of last night (so I'm on overtime already as of 8:30am) and for the month, I'm at 228.75 hours.  And I don't stay exceptionally late or anything, just get in at 7:30 and leave at 5:30 6 with the occasional 6:30-7.  I don't see Douchbag and his partner around here for those hours though.

[Viin]

You get paid overtime?  

On the flip side, I don't have to fill out a stupid time card .. nor do I always work at least 40 hrs a week.