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Quote: you're a that and not a who
Funny, I used to think of my bosses as thats, as in "That so-and-so!" 
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You will be assigned with wathever your co-workers don't manage to do and we will need it for yesterday.
In germany, they say: TEAM (Toll Ein Anderer Macht's = Nice, someone else will do it) 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: You will be assigned with wathever your co-workers don't manage to do and we will need it for yesterday.
So true!
Nelek wrote: In germany, they say: TEAM (Toll Ein Anderer Macht's = Nice, someone else will do it)
That is a perfect explanation of how teams work. No worries, because someone else will do it.
Wally is my hero! The Illusion Of Work - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-01-18 | Dilbert by Scott Adams[^]
All you need is a team and a RED FOLDER! 
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This sounds a bit like my current workload. Four high priority projects that have all been assigned over the last two weeks.
I can concentrate on one, maybe two, in which case something will actually be completed. Or I can try to split my time between all four, in which case nothing will actually be completed.
I classify this as manager with zero common sense.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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Z.C.M. wrote: I classify this as manager with zero common sense.
Oh, I've met lots and lots of managers who don't meet that description.
Until I worked for a couple of global companies (that I daren't mention by name), I didn't know that common sense could go into negative figures.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Not exactly related, but this notice was found in front of a software company, more than 25 years ago:
TRESPASSERS WILL BE RECRUITED.
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sounds like "galley slave" to me 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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raddevus wrote: which indicates that they think of you as any other piece of office equipment (chair, desk, etc.) since you're a that and not a who.
Which presumably explains why we all stopped being "persons" looked after by a "Personnel" department and became "Resources" looked after by an HR department.
A move which must have cost billions in terms of new business cards, signage, changes to websites, quality manuals, letterheads etc etc for absolutely no perceivable benefit. And every company blindly followed all the others ... 
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Most of the key phrases I remember mean you don't want to work here!
Seeking rock-star programmer -- We want someone who believes, "the show must go on" and will sacrifice their time, their health, their life, to get our software out the door. Oh yeah, and they can make a compiler sing, too.
Fast paced environment -- We want someone who will work their ass off nights and weekends because the pace is so fast that it takes 60 hours a week to match it.
Someone who can get up to speed quickly -- Our code base is a cesspool of technical debt, but don't expect any onboarding, and don't expect us to cut you any slack for not knowing what the people who made the mess know about the code.
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I know each of these translations (in this thread) to be both correct and true. I am utterly flabbergasted by how often these phrases are used in job descriptions. I suspect they use them to keep mature programmers away, and to hire naive ones who can be abused.
I should have a .sig here, somewhere. Maybe Kibo can lend me some of his.
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Is a cat that lives in an igloo an eskimew?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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LMFTFY
Is a catcow that lives in an igloo an eskimoo?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Is a large flightless bird that lives in an igloo an eskemu?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I think thats a bit of o strich.
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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So I take it you'll have Nanavut then.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Inuit - and now everyone else knows it too.
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Purr-haps if it has central heating and Nanook to curl up in.
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My company builds high-performance commercial inkjet printers, which can print full-color duplex (front and back) at 17 feet of paper per second.
Why is it then that the ~50 page job I sent to the office printer 25 feet away 45 minutes ago is still less than half printed?
Oh wait.
Print jobs from Dayton Ohio get sent to a server in Rochester New York and then back to printers in Dayton Ohio. I know there's a telegrapher in the middle there somewhere.
I could drive home (20 minutes), print the file on my $45 printer (5-10 minutes), and come back before this crap is done.
Grrr... 
Update: After a little over an hour, the print job failed at page 38 and restarted. Hurray. The phrase "kill it before it grows" comes to mind.
Software Zen: delete this;
modified 20-Jan-20 10:17am.
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lol.
There's a french expression for that : "Cordonniers mal chaussés" (I don't know the English equivalent).
I'd rather be phishing!
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Based on the literal translation, I'll take a guess. There's an English saying for doctors:
"Physician, heal thyself."
Software Zen: delete this;
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Today it's more like: Cordon Bleu
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1. take out your phone
2. take pictures of the doc on your screen
3. include a "save the forests signature"
4. msg to recipient
(yeah, even email is to old fashioned for kids the 'new generation workers' these days)
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Normally I don't print much - a page or two at a time. In this case I have a 39 page specification that I have to match up, line by line, to a 50+ page source file. I'm probably showing my age here, but doing it on screen, even with two wide format monitors, seems claustrophobic and error-prone somehow.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: ... I'm probably showing my age showing my experience here, but...
FTFY
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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