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

[BigThief]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

It involved 2 straight days of wrong drive thru orders, a junior bacon cheeseburger served at 9am and me calling the night manager a min wage mofo... sorry for the tease.

Try not to be such gross loser next time.

[8 Ball]

Work from home people are the new vegans. The first thing they will tell you that they work from home, and how awesome it is. their homes smell like people live there constantly, across between human breath and urine.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by fotze2

I went and somehow fluked into the person who knew something. Been trying to get a GIC moved to a different account. She says “I just did it”. I almost started crying. At least ten people have said this was gonna happen or it was a massive task for weeks, phone calls and in person. She just did it. I told her I love her.

TD are ####ing useless. It took 6 months for Mom to get access to most of her money after Dad died. ####ing. Useless. Good thing she had some money with RBC, too.

[Mr.Coffee]

Gotta think some of these banking stories and horrendous customer service stories that are leading to huge delays of things being done would start to form a claim. Certainly a small claims court kinda issue where you don’t need a lawyer and can just show up. Sue them for like 8k of wasted time. Track your hours, sue them your equivalent wage in time and psychological distress. And here’s this date and here’s this call and here’s this meeting where nothing was resolved, but if I had that money on that date I could have done this or that with it, opportunity costs, losses, bills, late payments, because banks are white collar criminals in Canada.

You know the judges will side with you because they, too, have been ####ed by the banks.

And if everyone starts suing these #### faces then maybe they figure it out. INSANE the power Canada gives our banks, telecoms and railroads, these 3 industries are legit things that being taken over by America would improve upon and yes I’m aware of the 2008 crisis. Still better. Come at me.

Yes I’m joking. Kinda. #### the Canadian banks.

[Weitz]

Reading some of these threads just makes me wonder how some people survive. Your jobs sound terrible.

[cam_wmh]

Let’s throw Sunlife in there too

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by habernac

TD are ####ing useless. It took 6 months for Mom to get access to most of her money after Dad died. ####ing. Useless. Good thing she had some money with RBC, too.

Ya, don’t tell them they have died, evacuate the money before that if possible.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by cam_wmh

Let’s throw Sunlife in there too

Manulife was worse I found.

[Calgary]

Parents picking up their kids from daycare seem to think the rules of the road don’t apply to them. Parking wherever they want, strolling across the street like they own it—pure entitlement at its finest. I swear, they have no problem making life inconvenient for everyone else.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Calgary

Parents picking up their kids from daycare seem to think the rules of the road don’t apply to them. Parking wherever they want, strolling across the street like they own it—pure entitlement at its finest. I swear, they have no problem making life inconvenient for everyone else.

I’m going to bet you are over reacting and do just as many annoying things while driving as the daycare crowd.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by GGG

I’m going to bet you are over reacting and do just as many annoying things while driving as the daycare crowd.

Credit where it’s due though, my Dad went to pick my son up from daycare one day. My Dad has a handicap parking placard and there were 2 people taking up the handicap stalls without the placards. Since then I’ve noticed the same car and van doing it a few more times.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Helping a co-worker by sharing you screen on Teams is more efficient than hovering over a desk telling them what to do.

And I don’t understand these stories of people who WFH being gone for hours on end. Not only do you have the green light on Teams (and other tools) that track if you’re actually present and engaged, but don’t most knowledge workers get at least 6-10 Teams messages a day from people expecting immediate responses? Heck, I get messages right through lunch and feel like I’m slacking off if it takes me 40 min to respond to them.

If you can routinely be away from your desk for 3 hours without anyone noticing, your role involves very little collaboration in the first place.

I’m going to 100% disagree with you on the effectiveness of teams to show people how to do things.

If you show a person on teams how to do it they aren’t doing the task so they don’t learn it as well. Retention is better in person (we learned that in the pandemic) so you going to someone’s desk and telling them while they button click and make mistakes while doing it will have better retention. Not to mention all the other benefits of in person communication.

In general WFH is lower cost to a company in terms of wages and infrastructure and if they can do it successfully it means replacing with low cost centers is the next step. This suggests theirs a limit

My point though in my response to Pepsi wasn’t about the specific tasks and if it was better remote or online it was that not all value creation is measurable and their are intangible benefits to in person collaboration that don’t show up in KPIs.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

Credit where it’s due though, my Dad went to pick my son up from daycare one day. My Dad has a handicap parking placard and there were 2 people taking up the handicap stalls without the placards. Since then I’ve noticed the same car and van doing it a few more times.

Yeah but go to the mall and there are jackasses parked in Handicapped spaces

Most of this is a result of our dependence on cars leading for a need for parking and daycares ending up for cost reasons in areas of limited parking.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by GGG

Yeah but go to the mall and there are jackasses parked in Handicapped spaces

Most of this is a result of our dependence on cars leading for a need for parking and daycares ending up for cost reasons in areas of limited parking.

Oh you’re bang on correct, but that doesn’t make it any less of a gear grinder, hence the thread. I notice it at the daycare more than anywhere else on a per person basis.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by GGG

My point though in my response to Pepsi wasn’t about the specific tasks and if it was better remote or online it was that not all value creation is measurable and their are intangible benefits to in person collaboration that don’t show up in KPIs.

Except they do if you measure on output because they contribute to output.

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by GGG

In general WFH is lower cost to a company in terms of wages and infrastructure and if they can do it successfully it means replacing with low cost centers is the next step. This suggests theirs a limit

This guy gets it.

[Erick Estrada]

I’m not a believer in WFH full time. My company does it right letting people do it one or two days a week max. It’s no surprise that all the slackers at my workplace were the ones to completely abuse it and push the company into limiting it. At least slackers have to be accountable when on the office so the company gets at least some amount of measured effort and I was getting tired of doing heavy lifting on some large projects while my partners were in and out of communication at home. If you give a human an inch, almost all will take more.

[PepsiFree]

“My company does it right by employing managers who can’t effectively manage their teams without training wheels.”

Smdh

[CliffFletcher]

There are legitimate reasons to encourage employees to come into the office. People tend to communicate better and trust one another more if they have even a casual face-to-face acquaintance. It’s not even about technical collaboration so much as relationships built up over having lunch of coffee together, and conversations in the hallway.

But one of the main reasons companies are pushing back to the office is they don’t know how to measure productivity. If people are slacking, it should be evident regardless of whether they’re working at the office or at home. And if they are, then deal with it.

If the only way management be reassure themselves that people are doing their jobs is to plant them at a desk under their watchful eye 40 hours a week, then the company has a lot bigger problems than its WFH policy.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

“My company does it right by employing managers who can’t effectively manage their teams without training wheels.”

Smdh

Do you think the average person’s experience with the corporate world is that it’s rational and well-managed? Why do you think the baffling absurdity of the modern corporate world is parodied so often in film and television?

I’ve worked at four mid to large sized tech companies in this city. Three of them had comically dumb management and corporate cultures. It’s the norm.