Power : memes

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 hours ago

I love that he knows you so well, that he immediately goes to "sick power play", I think this says good things about you :)

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 hours ago

At least the manager seemed to have a good sense of humor about it.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Has it gotten so bad that you have to send stuff to the manager to get it printed?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I had a job where they disabled access to all printers. If you needed a hard copy, you had to email the document to the printer admins and they would print after reviewing it.

Similarly, they were too cheap to pay for zoom licenses so if you needed a meeting longer than 40 minutes, you had to email the zoom admins with the list of attendees and they would create it.

But getting a repeating zoom meeting scheduled was virtually impossible.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Did anyone ever tell you the back story for that rule?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The general answer is every stupid rule was an over reaction to something.

And the owner runs it like a gas station and assumes everyone is stealing from the till.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Thank you for the insight

[–] [email protected] 53 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I've seen offices where only a few people were able to connect to the network printer and just ask people if they can print it.

Usually they've tries using flash drives but many large printers are also terrible at reading pdf files from them.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's amazing that the faster Ethernet gets and the more powerful network devices become, the fewer things we can do.

Why wouldn't just about everyone get the ability to print on the device whose sole purpose is to print things? If everything is set up right, you can even set per-user policies so Jarrett doesn't waste ink printing 50 AI pictures of kittens to hang in his soulless office cubicle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

because printers are evil

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago

And tons of companies block flash drive access now

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago

i always assumed the OP was just home and didn't have a printer there

[–] lost_faith 156 points 17 hours ago

Gonna have to try this at least once

[–] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago

Context matter bruh hahahhahahah.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Hehe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

killed me

[+] [email protected] -34 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Microsoft office 👻

[–] [email protected] 51 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

i HATE microsoft. am a software developer. but literally corporations make you use their shit. how could you even avoid it? having no job or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Ye duh

[–] [email protected] -4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

There are many software solutions but people just pretend they don't exist. Herd mentality. If you water a plant it grows.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago

when YOUR JOB says, "here's Outlook, fucking use it" what else can you do. did you even read what i wrote?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

? How? -> LibreOffice

[–] [email protected] 36 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Have you never worked in an office before? IT doesn't just let you install whatever you want on work machines.

We know alternatives exist... They're not always available.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Or if you use your own machine, you still have to collaborate in ways that require Office for one reason or another.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

None of my desk jobs have ever allowed a personal computer because of the risk of data leaking.

Was cautioned about an employee at our competitor who used a personal device, it was stolen and it had client data on it including some of their IP, and when that client took legal action, because the employee acted out of company policy they were on the hook for it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

-> technical device - for productive employees that's an actual option, but you may have to prove to the organization that they benefit from enabling your full potential

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Maybe for the positions you may have been in; had I used Linux at any of those other jobs there would constantly be document compatibility issues between LibreOffice and Word, and in an IT position I wouldn't be able to replicate issues a user is facing, unable to read Windows memory dumps or event logs on my own machine, the RMM doesn't have a client for a tech to use on Linux, and that's just scratching the surface.

The benefits of Linux for me (no ads, no telemetry, familiarity of the terminal and config files, open source, privacy, sticking it to big tech, etc.) just don't translate into things that would make me more productive at work.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

only in jobs were you'd be looking for a way out. The only things you can't do in LibreOffice is be 100% layout identical with the same document opened in Nadella-asshole-soft office (but still you get reasonably close), use macros (and people who create documents with non-VBA macros deserve to be slapped anyways) or use VBA (that's the real downside, especially in spreadsheet calculations). LibreOffice Basic isn't really practical to use, sadly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Uhh, no. There are collaborative tools in Office that are used by the sorts of people who don't know what LibreOffice is. There's also certain internal policies that tend to classify information in ways that work with Office.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 hours ago

well 'scuse you, but you said you were a software developer. any SW dev worth their money can at the very least get a self-administrated technical device not to be hooked up to the intranet, because corporate IT sucks donkeyballs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

i've been using open office for decades. do you really think i hate microsoft but just needed to hear about open office? I'm talking about at work, like this fucking meme is referencing.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 hours ago

you literally asked "how" people could avoid nadella-asshole-microshit software

[–] [email protected] 53 points 14 hours ago

[+] [email protected] -120 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

And we're back to "dump everything into c/memes" again... Stop being lazy.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 110 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

"Stop having fun!"

Is it only a meme if it is shared elsewhere before it is posted to a community about sharing memes? Is c/memes limited to sloppy seconds?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I get his argument. I personally don't mind it, but people are trying to curate their feeds better. Memes should ideally be for memes.

This better belongs in whitepeopletwitter. Do we have one on Lemmy yet?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Define meme

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I second this. Memes used to be image macros and All Your Base. Now any Tumblr screenshot or 4chan greentext seems to count depending on who you ask.

Take me back to cats wanting burgers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Long cat is loooooooong

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

[–] Rentlar 14 points 15 hours ago

[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

That is a more specific meme community.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 17 hours ago

This is a no fun zone! No smiling here! Do you think this is a happy place? This isn't a happy place, get back to work!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately, both this community and the shitposts community allow people to post whatever, per the community rules. This one has no rule about what a meme is, and shitposting explicitly allows whatever.

I used to care too, but it's just wasted effort.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

True.

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