You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Now with 3x more gears...

[TorqueDog]

The swear filter on this board is infantile and needs to be removed. Countless posters have said this, yet the board administration refuses to do so, and I really have no idea why. Who is the board for if not its users? [shrug] Whatever, I've gotten used to using partially censored swears like everyone else. It would be wonderful to not have to bother.

Originally Posted by Sliver

I get banned all the fataing time. It's insane.

I don't want to say which subreddits, but they're local and I honestly stay on topic. I just happen to disagree with a bunch of rubes and then they call me a troll and then I get banned. It's so fataing annoying. Two most recent ones are just three-day bans, but I did get perma-banned from one of them from that total reject asscrackmacs.

LOL Sounds like someone got banned from /r/Calgary ....

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Can you create your own subreddit and moderate as you wish?

I'm too lazy for that. Just would like something already set up that I can just join. Basically like CP, but swears and insults allowed. Wouldn't want racism, homophobia, etc., though.

There was a subreddit called /r/NoRulesCalgary that I liked, but turns out there are rules, like not insulting other members, so that was pretty short lived for me. I was in absolute heaven at first, though.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

The swear filter on this board is infantile and needs to be removed. Countless posters have said this, yet the board administration refuses to do so, and I really have no idea why. Who is the board for if not its users? [shrug] Whatever, I've gotten used to using partially censored swears like everyone else. It would be wonderful to not have to bother.

LOL Sounds like someone got banned from /r/Calgary ....

That tit moderates a bunch of subreddits. When I'm bored I just twiddle through everything he's posted and downvote it all. I find it relaxing.

[Superflyer]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

I agree. But there are reasons why it isn't changed at times.

Most times it's gate kept by someone who is like, "It's been fine all these years, no need to change it." So they don't think it's crappy. Or they know it's annoying and dumb, but they don't know what to change it to and have no time to figure out what it should be changed to and don't want to pay a lawyer (unnecessary) in advising how to change it. They want someone to do it for them or something.

Some find out their policies are wholly undocumented and they can just change how they want to do things. Some find out they've been violating policies for years.

It's honestly not as hard to fix as some people make it out to be but also not as easy to fix and change as some others are making it out to be.

Plus it's often not in any job descriptions, everyone deems it not their job and thus it gets orphaned and every has to stick with it because policies and procedures are a little bit like communism. Everyone wants a say, no one wants any responsibility for doing it right.

Again though, my point was that bad rules doesn't mean the ownership or people who gate keep the rules are #######s by default.

I have found when working for different companies that the biggest resistance to change, is fear of change. People are inherently scared of change and I get it but it gets frustrating sometimes to see something brought forward that would make life easier in a company and get shot down because it would involve a new process and that is scary.

One example is that in another company vacations were handled by emailing the department head and requesting it. All fine and not bad, but there were many times where they would not keep track it the vacations and would leave their team shorthanded.
I proposed and made a simple application in SharePoint where the employee put in their request and it would then email the department head for approval. If there were already a specified number of people away that day it would highlight it in the request. Once granted it added it to a group calendar so everyone could see when people were away. No no, to many steps and people don't like filling out forms blah blah blah.

This is one of the big reasons that I like where I am now. They know things cannot stay the same and are willing to try things out to make people more efficient, and then if something is not working, turf it.
I have worked here for 4 years now and the amount of new things I have seen come in out paces all the other places I have worked combined.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Sliver

OMG I was just banned from yet another fataing subreddit for - what I view to be - something totally unbanworthy. It's so annoying.

Is there a site out there where you can have full-on discussions with swears and personal insults without moderation?

Is 8chan still a thing? That might be a place that you can find solace in, speak your mind and pick a fight with anyone of your choicing.

[Locke]

Uh...isnt that place like the seedy underbelly of the internet?

Like...'wretched hive of scum and villainy' kind of thing?

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Locke

Uh...isnt that place like the seedy underbelly of the internet?

Like...'wretched hive of scum and villainy' kind of thing?

Yes, it sounds like that is where Sliver wants to be. A no rules, no holds barred cesspool of open " discussion."

[undercoverbrother]

I can’t take the internet that serious

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Superflyer

I have found when working for different companies that the biggest resistance to change, is fear of change. People are inherently scared of change and I get it but it gets frustrating sometimes to see something brought forward that would make life easier in a company and get shot down because it would involve a new process and that is scary.

One example is that in another company vacations were handled by emailing the department head and requesting it. All fine and not bad, but there were many times where they would not keep track it the vacations and would leave their team shorthanded.
I proposed and made a simple application in SharePoint where the employee put in their request and it would then email the department head for approval. If there were already a specified number of people away that day it would highlight it in the request. Once granted it added it to a group calendar so everyone could see when people were away. No no, to many steps and people don't like filling out forms blah blah blah.

This is one of the big reasons that I like where I am now. They know things cannot stay the same and are willing to try things out to make people more efficient, and then if something is not working, turf it.
I have worked here for 4 years now and the amount of new things I have seen come in out paces all the other places I have worked combined.

Agreed. I'm in the process of cleaning up decades worth of processes like this as well. It's a huge overhaul which means a ton of trial and error, plus employee training and feed back, but it'll be worth it.

Many owner/management attitudes are basically OK with change if they don't have to change how they do things... which means nothing happens. They just want to plug and play or have someone follow up and transcribe their actions into the new neat thing. Which means it doesn't work or you're paying someone to play parent to a bunch of lazy adults.

But what's also fun is going in at times and cleaning up a situation where management has straight up changed everything without first understanding the original process and why it was in place the way it was. I show up and the individual who proposed/implemented it is either saying everyone else is the idiot, or more often than not they've just bailed on the company. Like... thousands of dollars into a point of sale POS system shouldn't be a ####e company that basically has sold the company an unusable piece of #### POS system. "Oh we linked it to an inventory system, but any accounting documentation coming out of the system is pure garbled trash." I'm glad that there's less of those things on the market these days.

Or, a company struggling to properly use a $15K custom accounting software when their $150 off the shelf one was working perfectly fine. Some idiot bookkeeper was trying to show off and couldn't figure out how to use it herself, then quit.

That grinds my gears a lot. People who never contemplate why nor take responsibility. They do things, but never evaluate if they really should be doing those things. Not just in work settings, like random other settings too.

"Well, if your existence wasn't a thing, I wouldn't have crashed into you!" or some other BS.

[bc-chris]

Originally Posted by calumniate

Or start eating durian in the office, haha

what about reheating fish in the microwave??

or microwave popcorn? and burn the crap out of it.... my wife made microwave popcorn for the kids last night and i don't know how long she had it in there, but when i pulled it out the bag was smoking (no... not steam... smoke!). there was an entire section that had merged together to form one massive ball of black smoking melting 'popcorn'.
the house wreaked for hours.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I'm too lazy for that. Just would like something already set up that I can just join. Basically like CP, but swears and insults allowed. Wouldn't want racism, homophobia, etc., though.

Wouldn't that just get out of hand and turn into a bunch of posters slinging obscenities at each other? Seems like it would be briefly amusing before it got old and tiresome.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Wouldn't that just get out of hand and turn into a bunch of posters slinging obscenities at each other? Seems like it would be briefly amusing before it got old and tiresome.

#### you ########## #### faced #######

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by Sliver

OMG I was just banned from yet another fataing subreddit for - what I view to be - something totally unbanworthy. It's so annoying.

Is there a site out there where you can have full-on discussions with swears and personal insults without moderation?

I dont think we can judge whether this is a legit gear grinder without you providing the post in question.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Wouldn't that just get out of hand and turn into a bunch of posters slinging obscenities at each other? Seems like it would be briefly amusing before it got old and tiresome.

Insults is one thing, but swearing is really not a big deal. A lot of the time it's used for emphasis or comedic effect. Swears are just an augmentation of the vocabulary, and you can make some pretty awesome words using a portmanteau of a swear word and an every day word, or even better, two swears combined!

Originally Posted by bizaro86

I dont think we can judge whether this is a legit gear grinder without you providing the post in question.

You trying to get him banned from here too?

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

Insults is one thing, but swearing is really not a big deal. A lot of the time it's used for emphasis or comedic effect. Swears are just an augmentation of the vocabulary, and you can make some pretty awesome words using a portmanteau of a swear word and an every day word, or even better, two swears combined!

You trying to get him banned from here too?

We should do like Musk, and put a vote to the community. Settle this once and for all.

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by Sliver

.... I did get perma-banned from one of them from that total reject asscrackmacs.

Join their Discord server.

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by BrolyTheUnholy

Another thing that drives me bonkers? My office mate eating nuts with his mouth whole-ass open.

Clip your toenails in front of him.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Sliver

OMG I was just banned from yet another fataing subreddit for - what I view to be - something totally unbanworthy. It's so annoying.

Is there a site out there where you can have full-on discussions with swears and personal insults without moderation?

You could always start your own site. With hookers....and blackjack!

[Cecil Terwilliger]

I swear too much.

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

I always wondered if the real reason it’s hard to get a doctors appointment was because everyone is there just to get sick notes for their ####ty employers.

There are probably a few patients there with legitimate medical issues...perhaps even making them immuno-compromised...so I'm sure they were delighted to see sneezing note-seekers, especially before we fathomed the idea of wearing a facemask.