#work rant

[speakerofnonsense]

I think the cognitive dissonance in these boomers treating AI like God is that they did not go to school in the time of internet institutional access, all of their research sources were through library books.

Nowadays the vast majority of academic research, papers, any highlevel information, is owned and distributed by databases like HeinOnline, WorldCat, Westlaw, etc. and are only accessible to people with institutional access (yes you can get access to some of these databases through your public library or by making an account, but the pay barrier still exists for LLMs).

In order for chat GPT and similar AI programs to have access to those resources, they have to pay for the use rights, which they largely dont at the moment (they’re too busy going bankrupt building data centers).

So asking AI anything is like asking a random man off the street to run a google search for you--it cant replace a doctor or a lawyer with special access to the right answers.

The internet is not a public library despite what the boomers may believe.

[vpofcookies]

why do you have asbestos

God forbid a woman has hobbies

[diangelodork]

so i’m out at work but like everyone keeps forgetting somehow. i have like two coworkers who actually try and correct themselves when they slip up. it’s fine, i just try and dissociate about my gender whenever i’m at work because ik i’m gonna get “miss,” “ma’am,”ed and “she”d all day by the customers regardless, but my manager (a fifty seven year old man) genuinely makes an effort which is chill. he gets it wrong a lot, but he tries. today though, bro asked me what made me decide to be a him/her (he meant he/him) and like. i’m usually always down for helping people understand the trans experience but bro it’s 9:30 at night, i’ve been here for hours, and i do not feel like explaining the intricacies of my gender identity to a fifty seven year old cishet man. please. just let me do my job and go home. 😭 (he’s also started saying “the female side came out” whenever i do anything slightly effeminate like express. pain. when i burn my arm and cut myself by accident. and like. made sure our cookies looked right. and like. don’t say that to a trans person PLEASE bro)

[ginawankenobi]

Dear guest from this morning,

I can understand and appreciate that you were having a rough day today. You were clearly already in a mood when you walked in, and I imagine me having to tell you I can’t return your non-returnable item didn’t make your day any better (even though I was patient and did offer you an exception in the form of store credit), but there are a few key things I wish you would have taken away from this experience before you stormed out and left a nonsensical Google review (one of many in a string of 1-star reviews, I noticed).

I know you’ll never see this, but for anyone who does, please just keep these things in mind when you are interacting with people in customer service:

We do not make the policies, we are just paid to enforce them. It is not “rude” of us to simply inform you of our policies and why we may be unable to give you what you want.

If you are rude to us, there is basically a 0% chance we will go out of our way to help you.

If you are KIND and patient with us, I can all but PROMISE that we will go above and beyond to try and accommodate you.

If you are having a “terrible” experience everywhere you go, perhaps it is time to reflect upon your own behavior, look inward, and ask if it’s possible YOU are the common denominator.

Sincerely,

Customer service workers everywhere

[spacepandar]

This is my safe place so I'm going to rant again about work.

There's this coworker I often work closely with the, and they're very much the type to over share about their personal life to me and also on social media. When they take legitimate work trips they're sharing "my workplace for the day" type of pictures and expressing how lucky they are to travel like that for work. And that's fine! Hell, I do it when I have opportunities to travel for work, too.

Where I'm going with this is... work has been slow for most people at the office, and thanks to my coworker's friend Chat, they've has been bored out of their mind. Couple this with our boss being on vacay, they've been "running errands" for chunks of the day. Let me remind you that this coworker has a habit of sharing when they're actually doing work stuff, so it raises some questions from me when they vaguely tell me "I'm gonna run some errands" or "I'm going to this far city for a meeting."

What my coworker does with their time isn't any of my business especially because I'm not their boss and as of now it doesn't affect my productivity . But I'm annoyed af!!!

I'll try to take comfort in the idea that if this coworker is feeding me bs excuses (I'm not even asking them where they're going, btw. Tbh I'd rather not know even if it's work related) then they'll eventually have to face any consequences of their actions. There's been other stuff they did that I knew wasn't gonna fly and they eventually got called out for it by our boss, so 🤷

It's because I think this way that I'm extremely vague when I need to step out of the office or take time off. I'll be honest, to a point, with my boss, but to anyone else I'm simply "out of the office" or "working offsite".

Until it does affect my workflow, I'm not going to say anything. I'll just continue to seethe until I learn how to ignore it better.

*edit - also let me say that this coworker is salaried whereas I'm not and, from what they share with me, they're not great at maintaining a healthy work life balance. So like maybe they are doing work at 10pm or something (doubtful) or they make it up over the weekend (doubtful). I hate that I've been made aware of so much about their lifestyle, and idk how to tell them to stop sharing personal shit with me because it makes me mad when I assume they're playing hooky. Even though it doesn't affect my tasks! Why am I like this??? I can't wait to talk to my therapist about it all.

[littlefluffbutt]

Our ticket system and phones went down yesterday afternoon and won't be fixed until at least tomorrow so it's not been a fun weekend BUT someone gave us tiny seals!!!

Look how teensy they are!!! The lady owns a couple 3D printers and randomly makes things to give away. Made our day a little brighter:)

[sailorgeorgia]

tell me why 2 days after asking my employer for accommodations (cause I CAN BARELY WALK, STAND, AND LIFT MORE THAN 10LBS MOST DAYS) they decide to put me on a position that is standing, walking, and lifting 30+ lbs for 8 HOURS ?