My Evil Fucking Corporate Masters... - Page 2

Hyoi · 03-20-2007, 04:18 PM

Back in the days of yore (80X86, XX mh, DOS), one was required to buy ones own workstation. Files were passed back and forth on floppy discs. There was no network. Each peripheral had its own stripped down computer and cheap monitor for input. The "IT department" was an engineer or draftsman or secretary that simply enjoyed solving everyone else's hardware and software problems.

It was actually fun. Enter LANs. The help desk became Ivan the Terrible's throne.

Kitsune · 03-20-2007, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Hyoi

Back in the days of yore (80X86, XX mh, DOS), one was required to buy ones own workstation. Files were passed back and forth on floppy discs. There was no network.

Ah, yes, President Wilson fondly recalled those days following his second term...

Hyoi · 03-20-2007, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Kitsune

Ah, yes, President Wilson fondly recalled those days following his second term...

Well, no. Actually, it was shortly after Benjamin Franklin invented daylight saving time. They didn't even have Huggies then.

elSicomoro · 03-20-2007, 05:17 PM

Wait a minute...I just used a set up like that yesterday! Next you're gonna tell me that I can take a shit inside my house!

be-bop · 03-20-2007, 08:23 PM

My employer won't give the majority of employees where I work net access you have to have a "business need" they have also taken away the ability to have a screen saver or wallpaper,corporate wallpaper only and the nastyist one of all they took away the games
no solitare minesweeper etc.

zippyt · 03-20-2007, 08:35 PM

IT be watchn' all youz !!!

Shawnee123 · 03-21-2007, 01:05 PM

If you are a person and not a number at your job consider yourself lucky.

I am luckily still a person. An overworked, underpaid person, but a person nonetheless.

It's what has kept me here.

Sheldonrs · 03-21-2007, 01:41 PM

My boss lets me surf the web. She does it too. No porn though.

Spexxvet · 03-21-2007, 03:23 PM

Im in ur puter, markin down ur websites

tw · 03-22-2007, 10:59 PM

At what point does a boss learn what the employee is getting done rather than micromanage his time? What amazes me is how many bosses have no idea which employees are accomplishing anything and which are not. How does a boss work for his employees if he does not even know what they do or accomplish?

bluecuracao · 03-22-2007, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Elspode

I wonder when they'll start making us pay for the coffee and toilet paper?

At my last job, I had to buy the toilet paper myself! In the beginning, it was a teeny tiny company where I was the only girl, and therefore the only one who ever thought of such things. Oh yeah, I think they still have my $30 espresso maker too, the bastids.

Elspode · 03-23-2007, 07:55 AM

The evil corporate masters which I serve are also served by my boss. We have zero local control of anything, essentially. Oh, wait...that's not true. My boss got to decide which 50% of my staff was getting laid off today.

Pie · 03-23-2007, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Elspode

My boss got to decide which 50% of my staff was getting laid off today.

Shit, 'spode that sucks.

Did he by any stretch of the imagination make the right choices?

Elspode · 03-24-2007, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Pie

Shit, 'spode that sucks.

Did he by any stretch of the imagination make the right choices?

There were *no* right choices. With the sole remaining pain in the ass girl off on maternity leave, every single person with whom I work is a solid professional, and damn good human beings to boot. Seriously. And even the pain in the ass girl has improved greatly over my first year and a half there. But she's out of a job now, too. She just doesn't know it yet.

Today, my boss let go the nicest of the nicest, the most pro of the pros, the lady who trained me. It was traumatic, I shit you not.

The saddest part, and to answer your other questions...I *am* safe, as my boss finds me indispensible. The people he's laying off are the ones that I proposed, because it had the most minimal effect on running the business based on job descriptions, and how much of their tasks could be absorbed by those of us who remain.

So in the end, *I'm* the one who selected the losers, based on no criteria other than business. It is perhaps the most immoral thing I've ever done in my life - and that includes having fucked my cousin once - so you know how shitty I feel now. In my defense, I told my boss what the pure business course should be, and then I also told him what the moral course would be. The moral course left *me* out of a job, BTW, because Cheryl, the lady who got laid off today, had ten years on the job, and was stellar in every way. I've been there only 3.5 years now, albeit at what was once a separate branch from Cheryl's.

This has been a really, really shitty week.

tw · 03-24-2007, 03:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Elspode

Today, my boss let go the nicest of the nicest, the most pro of the pros, the lady who trained me. It was traumatic, I shit you not.

Is this due to an industry downturn, or just bad times in this organization? A national downturn or just something regional?

03-20-2007, 04:18 PM	#1
Hyoi Faithful Companion Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 188	Ivan the Terrible Back in the days of yore (80X86, XX mh, DOS), one was required to buy ones own workstation. Files were passed back and forth on floppy discs. There was no network. Each peripheral had its own stripped down computer and cheap monitor for input. The "IT department" was an engineer or draftsman or secretary that simply enjoyed solving everyone else's hardware and software problems. It was actually fun. Enter LANs. The help desk became Ivan the Terrible's throne. __________________ When you stop trying to make sense of it all, it all begins to make sense.

03-20-2007, 08:35 PM	#6
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	IT be watchn' all youz !!! Attached Images __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

03-21-2007, 01:05 PM	#7
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	If you are a person and not a number at your job consider yourself lucky. I am luckily still a person. An overworked, underpaid person, but a person nonetheless. It's what has kept me here. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

03-21-2007, 01:41 PM	#8
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	My boss lets me surf the web. She does it too. No porn though. __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

03-21-2007, 03:23 PM	#9
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	Im in ur puter, markin down ur websites __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

03-20-2007, 05:17 PM	#4
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Wait a minute...I just used a set up like that yesterday! Next you're gonna tell me that I can take a shit inside my house!

03-20-2007, 08:23 PM	#5
be-bop Operations Operative Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: scotland/uk Posts: 664	My employer won't give the majority of employees where I work net access you have to have a "business need" they have also taken away the ability to have a screen saver or wallpaper,corporate wallpaper only and the nastyist one of all they took away the games no solitare minesweeper etc.

03-22-2007, 10:59 PM	#10
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	At what point does a boss learn what the employee is getting done rather than micromanage his time? What amazes me is how many bosses have no idea which employees are accomplishing anything and which are not. How does a boss work for his employees if he does not even know what they do or accomplish?

03-23-2007, 07:55 AM	#12
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	The evil corporate masters which I serve are also served by my boss. We have zero local control of anything, essentially. Oh, wait...that's not true. My boss got to decide which 50% of my staff was getting laid off today. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

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