Whats rustling your jimmies?
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The first probably 18 months I was at my current employer, I was nearly this meticulous. After realizing that level of organization isn't necessary, even when dealing with multi-million dollar companies, and being in a multi-billion dollar business, suddenly I became much more effective/efficient by ditching the multiple layers. I never go more than three folders deep, and there's usually never more than 1-2 folders at that level.
Catalog
-Name of System
--Tool links
--Who owns access?
ACCOUNTS
-Customer Name
--Archive
--Clusterfuck issues
What really rustles my jim jims, is side-by-sides with co-workers who do dick for organization. Or they have "pretend organization" -- like the guy above, only they still have 3,000 items in their inbox, and nothing in the folders.
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My jimmies are rustled because today myself and 8 others were escorted out of the office by hired goons with guns. At least have the decency and respect to expect a professional to, you know, act professional even when fired. More mad about that than losing my job. Not sure I'd want to stick with a company that thinks reducing software engineers from 4 -> 3 is even a feasible option.
Izo
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Eomer
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Yup, his email inbox has hundreds of items in it, not organized worth a shit.
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Engineers that google specs on a paricular product and spec them into a project, even though the product no longer exists or is outrageously overpriced and unnecessary. You can thank these people for causing a project that should be $100k to be $150k.
I actually have a buddy that is an engineer like this, and we had a good laugh that he didnt really know dick about what he called for on the projects he designed, he just hopped on google.
I actually have a buddy that is an engineer like this, and we had a good laugh that he didnt really know dick about what he called for on the projects he designed, he just hopped on google.
Eomer
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Dealing with this right now, on a Staybridge hotel. Both the franchise documents and the mechanical drawings specify a bunch of American Standard plumbing fixtures that don't fucking exist, probably because the documents haven't been updated in 20 years. But because it's a franchised hotel, everything is supposed to match the franchise documents. And to make things even more fun, the mechanical specs frequently contradict the franchise documents. I can already see what's going to happen: we'll submit shop drawings for what we think they are after, the owner/general contractor will just rubber stamp everything as approved, we'll install it all, and then when Staybridge's inspector or whatever reviews the project, they'll tell them to rip a bunch of shit out, and the owner will be pissed with us. We've been through this exact same process with Holiday Inns as well, installed 100+ fiberglass, full height tub/shower stalls, Holiday Inn reviewed the project, and made them pay us to rip them all out and install drop-in enamel on steel soaker tubs with tiled surrounds. Probably cost the owners a couple hundred grand. And they specifically told us to do the fiberglass stalls, since they were cheaper than doing tile.
Cad
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I don't organize my emails in any particular way, I just categorize my emails based on which case they are associated with. Anything else I search for. I leave everything in the inbox. I guess thats kinda the same as putting them all in folders other than fucking up searches (because Outlook is stupid) when you move things into folders.
Hope it hasn't already been said having not read the entire thread but....
People behind you on merge ramps getting on the highway that merge before it's technically legal to do so and speed up along side you like they somehow don't realize that you have to merge too
People behind you on merge ramps getting on the highway that merge before it's technically legal to do so and speed up along side you like they somehow don't realize that you have to merge too
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Seriously huge dick move. Almost as bad as the douche that doesn't merge before the line cuts into traffic, instead, skips ahead to try and "cut in line".
Mures
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Yeah, thats a good one.
If you see an emergency vehicle behind you with its lights/siren on and you have access to a turn lane so you pull in it to get out of the way; the assholes that just ride behind the emergency vehicle and don't let you back in.
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Outlook 2013 is boss about searches. Search all folders! It also has some pretty intense indexing. Also, I have limited Exchange server storage capacity, so I'm literally not allowed to hold everything in my Inbox. This also means I occasionally have to purge my Sent/Deleted folders. I also have three separate ODS files, each nearly 4 GB. Who knows when I'll need that e-mail from 2005?
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People who drive incredibly slowly on ramps that are about to merge into traffic going 40kph faster than they are so you have to drive around them to not die horribly in a car crash.
For the last 2+ years at work we've been moving towards using purely the Exchange server for our emails, no more pst files. People have been getting emails for close to those entire 2 years, weekly, about this coming change. Instructions on how to do the migration, how to get your pst emails to the Exchange server, how your pst emails will become strictly read only on date X, the works. The change over happened about a month ago, and we got murdered for a week. "I can't said or receive emails anymore!", so I'd look and sure as shit they're still using a pst inbox as the primary. Was about to hit maximum over rustle when my boss became my hero with one meeting. More or less "Fuck 'em, they've had 18+ months to prepare, tell them where to find the instructions on how to do it, and tell them to handle it themselves, do NOT do it for them!"
That said, having a guy go "I never heard anything about this!" then searching his email and showing him 100+ emails in his inbox telling his all about this and how to prepare that he chose to ignore? Priceless. Also, I refuse to believe anyone needs a fucking email from 2005 unless it's related to something related to legal. I had fuckers whining they couldn't find an email about a meeting they had in 2003. Get the fuck out of here.
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Had someone nearly run another car off the road trying to do this behind me. Tried to go around me not realizing that the merge area is tiny and I'm already on the highway, meanwhile the lane he's getting into is already occupied by another car who had to dive onto the shoulder to avoid getting hit. Me going up the ramp at 80mph apparently just wasn't fucking fast enough.
Big Phoenix
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Then he forces his way in causing cars to slam on their brakes fucking up traffic.
That sounds like someone tried to skirt on contract requirements to save a few dollars and got fucked in the ass because of it.