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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Bocsius on May 24, 2010, 01:23:13 PM

Title: Is there any concept in work life lamer than Lunch-n-Learn?
Post by: Bocsius on May 24, 2010, 01:23:13 PM: Of course not.

We had a mandatory lunch-n-learn today. So lame. If something is important enough to have a meeting or training session about, it is important enough to do it during the morning or afternoon, not during my "me time." (Unpaid time, I might add.) :maf

Even better, they served some sort of pie at the end. Apparently, it was home-made (found out after), and the person who prepared it said "I had some of it last night and was so sick afterwards." This was after everyone was done eating. Are you freaking serious?? You got sick from this and brought it in?

So it now stands to reason I'm going to be sick. If anything, just because my mind now believes I'm going to be. :gloomy
Title: Re: Is there any concept in work life lamer than Lunch-n-Learn?
Post by: BlueTsunami on May 24, 2010, 01:30:04 PM: The person probably pooped and didn't wash their hands :'( Kneading dat' pie crust :-\
Title: Re: Is there any concept in work life lamer than Lunch-n-Learn?
Post by: Bocsius on May 24, 2010, 01:39:51 PM: I wouldn't even have eaten the thing if I knew it was home-made exactly because of stuff like this.

:piss humans :piss2
Title: Re: Is there any concept in work life lamer than Lunch-n-Learn?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 24, 2010, 01:58:00 PM: we call 'em "brown bags"

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Title: Re: Is there any concept in work life lamer than Lunch-n-Learn?
Post by: Bocsius on May 24, 2010, 02:20:39 PM: If only the topics I had to attend were at least mildly interesting. No, mine are seemingly all about social networking. Today was twitter.

Somebody asked "what do we say to clients who think Twitter and Facebook are useless wastes of time?" I chimed in "agree with them."
Title: Re: Is there any concept in work life lamer than Lunch-n-Learn?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 24, 2010, 03:58:42 PM: Quote from: dcharlie on May 24, 2010, 02:07:58 PM
yeah, Brown Bags at our place too.

To be honest, most of them are pretty kick ass. Especially the tech ones. We seem to have a load of kick ass technicians.
Plus given how vast the whole area i work in is - theres always huge sections of the system you couldn't possibly know about so getting a 1 hr overview at least lets you piece it all together and means you start asking the right questions and stop looking a plumb in "real" meetings.

yup, brown bags are a worthy institution, for just the reason you said: it's your chance to get caught up on the latest and greatest without appearing like a total toolbox when these subjects inevitably come up later. they're also nice and informal; i use them to demo new tools and prototypes and get feedback in a more casual (read: executive-free) setting.
Title: Re: Is there any concept in work life lamer than Lunch-n-Learn?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 24, 2010, 04:04:43 PM: ...
Title: Re: Is there any concept in work life lamer than Lunch-n-Learn?
Post by: Fresh Prince on May 24, 2010, 04:11:30 PM: Timesheets are bad. Inane office conversations are the worst- I don't want to over\hear about your boring life :dizzy
Title: Re: Is there any concept in work life lamer than Lunch-n-Learn?
Post by: chronovore on May 24, 2010, 07:25:33 PM: Quote from: dcharlie on May 24, 2010, 04:12:10 PM
One woman did do one that dealt with treating your dog for depression though. Those sort of brown bags aren't so interesting.
(a) If your dog is depressed, you're doing something wrong. If your dog is actually, really, physiologically depressed (which I somehow kind of doubt) then it needs meds or to be put down, so you can start over with a dog that's not broken. :P

(b) Japanese companies, at least the one I'm at, and the two my brothers-in-law work at (a local medical trade school and Nissan), love LOVE love unpaid overtime. My job gets particularly bad at crunchtime, but the trade school had one bro-in-law in from just before 08:00 every day until 22:00 every night, 7 days a week. Nissan was 08:00 until 23:00 but 5 days a week until Carlos Ghosn laid down the law, and made them turn off the building power at 21:00.

ANY time a company wants in on even more personal time, I automatically think "Jeez, louise, aren't you getting enough already?" They've generally quit calling meetings outside of core hours, so that's something.