New Testingstan

Pieman wrote:Like, how many of them it has? How messed up the dynamics are in the conversations? Whether one or two people are dominating the whole meeting?

All of the above?

having a member that always sidetracks discussions with barely relevant complaints and makes them go over schedule by at least 30 minutes to an hour?

Pieman wrote:Like, how many of them it has? How messed up the dynamics are in the conversations? Whether one or two people are dominating the whole meeting?

All of the above?

All

What do you think it means when 'meetings' are just a way for the decision makers to brief lower managers, but with the play-acting of discussion along a single path?

This is most au companies lol

Zod wrote:having a member that always sidetracks discussions with barely relevant complaints and makes them go over schedule by at least 30 minutes to an hour?

I worked at this place for three years.

One of the things that senior management was pushing me to do for the new system rollout was organise 'scenario role-play' for my staff

I said I'd do it and didn't

My reasoning behind that move was a.) everyone was scared of the system because it looked different from the old one, despite it offering the same function with a friendlier interface, and b.) everyone was already working around the clock on data transfer before the go-live date; I wasn't going to pull people off that(or the frontline) just to assuage fears that would dissolve once we actually went live and started using it.

But christ did they love having meetings about that project.

Uh that's pretty bac

Mang, we get meetings to discuss upcoming meetings in which we coordinate future events.

By which I mean it's all dictated to us by Canberra, but every later of management needs to tick a box saying they've delivered x briefing or y training, so we get it again and again from different sources...

the lol of required training in the govt is huuuuge

Questor wrote:

Zod wrote:

Questor wrote:Frankly, that sounds like a rather unfun job...

most jobs aren't fun

Guess I'm just lucky.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uFLoVhfhLKE

Pieman wrote:You're not even in the running, anyone who can conceal their kookiness from me so well I don't know about it isn't batshit. And she gets kicked out in the first round of elimination for a number of reasons. Batman... he's like a semi-finalist or something. You have to be pretty dedicated to your insanity to stick with "refer to comic book character in the first person" for years on end like that.

Don't confuse insanity with attention whoring.

Phantasee wrote:What happened to malaschusus, Shroom?

he got a job as an editor or something, some outsourcing call center/transcriptionist-esque job

That's good.

man why are you guys so mean to purple?
also lol batman in that milscifi thread

His sig irritates me.

I have sigs turned off, but when I don't log in to browse I see it.

Gands wrote:His sig irritates me.

That reminds me of one MR SULLIVAN over at Wolf's Shipyard, except that jackass likes to reupload his sig every few months to sidestep everyone's adblock filters.

i didn't think it was possible to have a more obnoxious poster than batman but yup

fyi this douche is pre-emptively banned

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=155424

i just started reading that thread and it already annoys me

"read the rules!~!!!"

"reality has a liberal bias!!!!"

"mike wong is great!!!!"

christ

i'm biased against anyone that refers to themselves in the third person and does it seriously

It was obvious from the get go that skinofevil was a troll. I told Stofsk that I found it hilarious that people were up in arms at being called "leftist retards" when they never hesitated to do the same to people who disagreed with their political views. This is not to say that skinofevil is correct, mind you, because he offered very little support from the beginning to show why.

yea if i saw that thread earlier i totally would have jumped in on his side

now it is tl;dr but i might anyway

idk yet

that thread was a trainwreck from the moment any replied to it

there wasn't even a transition it's like a morbidly obese man woke up in the middle of the night and immediately threw up on himself

ps adr you have literally nothing in common with this guy other than general disdain for the board so what would you support him on

well i guess there's trolling too but that doesn't seem like a particularly unifying thing

the main thrust of the OP is that "rational, objective, logical people" are not necessarily "progressives", so skin is asking why the board has that slant

this is potentially an interesting discussion. the statement "reality has a liberal bias" has a lot of assumptions behind it and instead of patting ourselves on the back, saying we're so much smarter than those conservatards, we could be questioning that and doing some self-reflection

kinda like that other thread in N&P where the academic guy said it is due to weighing different values differently

adr wrote:the main thrust of the OP is that "rational, objective, logical people" are not necessarily "progressives", so skin is asking why the board has that slant

this is potentially an interesting discussion. the statement "reality has a liberal bias" has a lot of assumptions behind it and instead of patting ourselves on the back, saying we're so much smarter than those conservatards, we could be questioning that and doing some self-reflection

kinda like that other thread in N&P where the academic guy said it is due to weighing different values differently

Except he's not interested in that, he is literally just a typical American conservatard.
http://66.187.102.31/~wordforg/showpost ... ostcount=1

Director of Celestial Intelligence wrote:Except he's not interested in that, he is literally just a typical American conservatard.
http://66.187.102.31/~wordforg/showpost ... ostcount=1

Two questions :

1. What the fuck is that board ?
and
2. How do you know of its existence, Comrade ?

if i don't like what he is saying i'll simply ignore it and talk about my own thing

btw i really don't like bringing up posts from other boards to attack someone

it annoys me when teoites quote posts from here to call us trolls

so i don't want to do it to someone else either