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Well, Keith, that kind of layout and attitude from higher up just means less creativity and more conformity.

I suppose that is useful for some companies and projects. I admit I don't understand business all that well. I do understand people a little bit, though, and I know that if a company wants innovation and brilliant problem solving, they need to balance working conditions conducive to independent work with those conducive to teamwork.
 
hylidae said:
Well, Keith, that kind of layout and attitude from higher up just means less creativity and more conformity.
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I suspect that it was some salesman that convinced them this is the direction 'the industry' is going in, which they did not follow up by actually asking other customers how it worked out.
And now they're invested, though cracks started to show almost instantly.
So they sang the glories, saw the reality, and the burden is on us to make it work.

I find it funny because the alternative is to run through Front Office with a chain saw....
 
hylidae said:
Why are you working in a cubicle farm anyway?
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It's my dream job.

I work for the military contractor that makes the submarine weapon system I worked on for 20 years 3 months and 3 days.
My job is to create the curricula, training aids and media for the Navy to train new sailors on the weapon system, and to give the initial training to the instructors when new systems are delivered.

I basically get paid to talk about Fire Control. it's like telling sea stories for money. I just have to remember to start with 'one of our features is...' instead of 'this one time, I saw...' or 'this is no shit, one time on patrol...'
 
Keith&Co. said:
hylidae said:
Why are you working in a cubicle farm anyway?
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It's my dream job.

I work for the military contractor that makes the submarine weapon system I worked on for 20 years 3 months and 3 days.
My job is to create the curricula, training aids and media for the Navy to train new sailors on the weapon system, and to give the initial training to the instructors when new systems are delivered.

I basically get paid to talk about Fire Control. it's like telling sea stories for money. I just have to remember to start with 'one of our features is...' instead of 'this one time, I saw...' or 'this is no shit, one time on patrol...'
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Ah, gotcha. :)
 
Keith&Co. said:
hylidae said:
Why are you working in a cubicle farm anyway?
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It's my dream job.

I work for the military contractor that makes the submarine weapon system I worked on for 20 years 3 months and 3 days.
My job is to create the curricula, training aids and media for the Navy to train new sailors on the weapon system, and to give the initial training to the instructors when new systems are delivered.

I basically get paid to talk about Fire Control. it's like telling sea stories for money. I just have to remember to start with 'one of our features is...' instead of 'this one time, I saw...' or 'this is no shit, one time on patrol...'
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sounds like a fun job actually.

With regards to the cubicle disaster.. just start a 5cm (2 inch) strip of something to the top of your cubicle and get everyone to do the same, and add to it every few weeks.... then you can have your old system back... :D
 
My wife is from Pennsylvania. She had this conversation in class yesterday.

Student: Where are you from?
Wife: The Mid-Atlantic States
Student: Where's that? You're not from the United States?
 
gmbteach said:
sounds like a fun job actually.
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Oh, it is.
Just enough travel to keep up to date with the fleet, every single day I use something I learned during my military career, i'm always getting the chance to discuss the subsystems, the systems, the operations, the compartment, the ship or just what life was like in a tin can full of 140 people I didn't like but trusted with my life.
 
A sign painted on the ends of a large number of large white blocks of some kind:

Hungry? Thank a farmer for your food.


If I'm hungry it means I don't have food, why should I thank a farmer for something I don't have???
 
So, i'm 52. Becoming a creature of habit.
My wife and i both tend to get up about 0330 every morning to go to the bathroom. We often pass each other in the hall.

This morning i woke up about 0230, needing to pee. I looked at the clock. I distinctly remember thinking: I can't pee now. I pee at THREE thirty, not TWO!
So i snuggled down in the bed and curled up close with Mrs. &Co.
About 0340, she starts to move around, which wakes me up. "Gotta go to the bathroom," she explains, and rolls out of bed. I realize that i've needed to pee for about the last hour and i now NEED to pee. I pop out of the bed and run to the bathroom because i really have to go.

Leaving her halfway across the bedroom floor, wondering when it became a competition....

Luckily, when i came back, i could remember why i was in such a hurry, and she laughed so hard she dropped the baseball bat.
 
Keith&Co. said:
So, i'm 52. Becoming a creature of habit.
My wife and i both tend to get up about 0330 every morning to go to the bathroom. We often pass each other in the hall.

This morning i woke up about 0230, needing to pee. I looked at the clock. I distinctly remember thinking: I can't pee now. I pee at THREE thirty, not TWO!
So i snuggled down in the bed and curled up close with Mrs. &Co.
About 0340, she starts to move around, which wakes me up. "Gotta go to the bathroom," she explains, and rolls out of bed. I realize that i've needed to pee for about the last hour and i now NEED to pee. I pop out of the bed and run to the bathroom because i really have to go.

Leaving her halfway across the bedroom floor, wondering when it became a competition....

Luckily, when i came back, i could remember why i was in such a hurry, and she laughed so hard she dropped the baseball bat.
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You sound kinda like my grandpa. He always peed every night about 4:30am. Unfortunately, he didn't wake up until 6:30am. R.I.P., Gramps. :(
 
thebeave said:
Keith&Co. said:
So, i'm 52. Becoming a creature of habit.
My wife and i both tend to get up about 0330 every morning to go to the bathroom. We often pass each other in the hall.

This morning i woke up about 0230, needing to pee. I looked at the clock. I distinctly remember thinking: I can't pee now. I pee at THREE thirty, not TWO!
So i snuggled down in the bed and curled up close with Mrs. &Co.
About 0340, she starts to move around, which wakes me up. "Gotta go to the bathroom," she explains, and rolls out of bed. I realize that i've needed to pee for about the last hour and i now NEED to pee. I pop out of the bed and run to the bathroom because i really have to go.

Leaving her halfway across the bedroom floor, wondering when it became a competition....

Luckily, when i came back, i could remember why i was in such a hurry, and she laughed so hard she dropped the baseball bat.
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You sound kinda like my grandpa. He always peed every night about 4:30am. Unfortunately, he didn't wake up until 6:30am. R.I.P., Gramps. :(
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1:30 for me, and again at 5:45 - which is when I generally let the dogs out. Bella tries to think of peeing at 1:30 but I don't have the energy to wait for her to pee as it means I wake up fully.
 
Wiploc said:
It won't help her, but saw palmetto dropped me from six times a night to zero.
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Actually, when they diagnosed and started treating my diabetes, I dropped from five a night to the one. But i'll look into the saw palmetto, thanx.
 
hylidae said:
An outspoken critic of Islam posted on facebook that there's been a spike in hate mail today and he's wondering why since he hasn't done any interviews or stories that came out today.

One person responded: "youporn must be down in Pakistan."

And another posted this video: Allahu Akbar Washing Machine
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I fixed the link for you.
 
Underseer said:
hylidae said:
An outspoken critic of Islam posted on facebook that there's been a spike in hate mail today and he's wondering why since he hasn't done any interviews or stories that came out today.

One person responded: "youporn must be down in Pakistan."

And another posted this video: Allahu Akbar Washing Machine
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I fixed the link for you.
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Thank you! I didn't see that and now it's too late to edit. BLRGGH
 
Boredom is a significant problem in the military. Most people in any evolution are there just in case something goes wrong. If nothing goes wrong, you need to look more professional than just twiddling your thumbs.

So, one of my duties while I was on a tender was to walk around in the forward third of the ship, looking for any problems. Six hours of walking around through various spaces. Nothing ever happened.

So, I came up with the Forward Security Watch Mission Statement. I was inspired by the time Robert Urich died in the TV show, Soap. He was shot, stabbed, strangled, suffocated and bludgeoned.

So I came up with this statement and memorized it and once when I was opening a fan room to see if there were any fires, a voice called me from behind. "Do you know what you're doing?"
I just unthinkingly spouted my spiel and turned around.
"Roaming all decks, forward of frame 63, checking all bilges, voids, spaces or passageways for any instance, sign, proof or indication of fear, fire, famine, flooding, fornication, faggotry or the plague. Sir," I added the last because in the turn I came to realize I was talking to the commanding officer of the tender.

Lucky for me, he was delighted by the phrase. Made me write it down for him, and he wandered off muttering it to himself.
 
Keith&Co. said:
Boredom is a significant problem in the military. Most people in any evolution are there just in case something goes wrong. If nothing goes wrong, you need to look more professional than just twiddling your thumbs.

So, one of my duties while I was on a tender was to walk around in the forward third of the ship, looking for any problems. Six hours of walking around through various spaces. Nothing ever happened.

So, I came up with the Forward Security Watch Mission Statement. I was inspired by the time Robert Urich died in the TV show, Soap. He was shot, stabbed, strangled, suffocated and bludgeoned.

So I came up with this statement and memorized it and once when I was opening a fan room to see if there were any fires, a voice called me from behind. "Do you know what you're doing?"
I just unthinkingly spouted my spiel and turned around.
"Roaming all decks, forward of frame 63, checking all bilges, voids, spaces or passageways for any instance, sign, proof or indication of fear, fire, famine, flooding, fornication, faggotry or the plague. Sir," I added the last because in the turn I came to realize I was talking to the commanding officer of the tender.

Lucky for me, he was delighted by the phrase. Made me write it down for him, and he wandered off muttering it to himself.
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Lovely. Fortune favors the prepared.
 
Boot Camp is a very stressful, immersive environment.
The recruit will start telling time by the military 24 hour clock.
He will start referring to things using the branch jargon, such as starboard, port, maggot.
And you'll start to swear.

It's a given, really. The first time you're home on leave after boot, you will either:
1) Ask your mother to "pass the fucking salt" OR
2) START to ask your other to 'pass the fucking salt,' then catch yourself and when people look at you oddly, say, "I almost fucked up."

I did not make either mistake. I was careful and considerate and I managed to never ask my mother for a fucking thing.
So of course, when her friends were over for dinner, one of the women asked me what I had learned in Guided Missiles School. I reported that they had taught me that "farts don't smell, but rather what we think is a fart smell is actually when tiny ionized particles of shit lodge in your nostril hairs. And those smell like shit."

Didn't QUITE make anyone puke, but i'm sure the next time one of them was in a room where someone farted, they remembered me.
 
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