Random Rants #88: [incoherent screaming]

[CKS]

I do this fairly often. I'm probably why word processors have the "Change Case" option.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I do this fairly often. I'm probably why word processors have the "Change Case" option.

Sadly not FocusWriter. I had to use a third-party program.

 

[Cutlass]

Rant: I'm not a teenager anymore, I shouldn't be getting pimples. Yet I got one...IN my nose. On the edge of inner surface of the nostril.

I'm past 50 and still get zits.

 

[MaryKB]

I'm past 50 and still get zits.

Are you sure it isn't herpes?

 

[Cutlass]

Are you sure it isn't herpes?

Does herpes act like acne?

 

[Synobun]

Looked through all the photos of food in the cooking thread and now I'm out of @hobbsyoyo, @yung.carl.jung, and @civvver pictures

 

[MaryKB]

Looked through all the photos of food in the cooking thread and now I'm out of @hobbsyoyo, @yung.carl.jung, and @civvver pictures

I can try to get you some.

 

[MaryKB]

Rant ...

When my boss' boss got his position a few years ago, there were plenty of women in our group (at least 4 others, plus me and my boss) Other than myself and my boss, over time, all the other women have left for one place or another.

My boss' boss' team has a huddle every other Tuesday (happening right now), and I've been on those for a while. A couple months ago, my boss was out of office, and I realized something during the call: of the 15 or so people in the meeting, I was literally the only woman present. After the call, I messaged this guy who is sort of the facilitator for the group, and I brought this observation up to him (I got the regular BS spiel about "We're trying to hire the best candidates)

I haven't received an invite to the group meeting since. We were on a working session call from 9:30-10, and literally everyone else had to drop because they had to get on the team huddle, without me.

 

[amadeus]

I wouldn't want to work at a place that calls meetings "huddles." It's creepy and Orwellian, so I'd be a little relieved to be excluded.

 

[MaryKB]

I mean, pretty much every major organization uses the term. A "huddle" is a regular occurring meeting where everyone on the team shares, and immediate priorities are discussed.

 

[amadeus]

Is it? I’m out of touch with American corporate buzzwords.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

"Huddle" makes me think of this

 

[Samson]

I mean, pretty much every major organization uses the term. A "huddle" is a regular occurring meeting where everyone on the team shares, and immediate priorities are discussed.

A standup is the term they use around here for that.

 

[amadeus]

I thought of football. Are you ready for some footbaaaaawhl?

 

[Lexicus]

My previous employer was gray and boring so we just called them meetings

 

[H4run]

Going out with my finance director today, she want to relax herself seeing coffee plantation, an interesting but unusual request and I fulfilled it for her, it's a hard time for everyone especially for her.

I told her our company is at doom and offered her a radical solution/exit plan, but she just shrug it off and tell me everything is going to be okay and there's no way she will agree with my plan. I feel like me and my assistant is the only sane people in the company full of nice people with a heart of gold, but crazily speculative and insane people. The saddest thing about the downfall of my company is, the owner are really good people. It hurts me really.

 

[Farm Boy]

Is it? I’m out of touch with American corporate buzzwords.

You haven't missed anything. They still cycle them every now and then as a means of social rarification rather than technical helpfulness.

 

[amadeus]

You haven't missed anything. They still cycle them every now and then as a means of social rarification rather than technical helpfulness.

Personnel will have a meeting this afternoon to plan employee layoffs.

Oh that sounds horrible!

Human Resources will have a huddle this afternoon to synergize team member right-sizing.

There, much better! Not for the people getting pink slips, of course.

 

[Farm Boy]

I usually gauge just how horrible an institutional email is going to be by how chipper they start off. The last one fairly glowed with radiant positive energy in the first paragraph. We downsized an entire facility about four paragraphs later. We pay people a lot to lie.

 

[MaryKB]

That's not what a huddle meeting is. It's not about making it sound better, it's about being descriptive as to the type of meeting.

You're not trying to solve anything in a huddle. It's not a working session. You're basically talking to your teammates and finding out what's going on. Often in a huddle you discuss personal lives.