@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2026-04-17 16:30:12
Yayyy, my employer celebrated my 15-year anniversary with a line in the team PowerPoint. I will be sharing this award with my family tonight.
#OfficeWorkerGripes #ScottHumor
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2026-04-17 16:30:12
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2026-05-12 01:26:31
A great way to boost your token use is to reply to any answer and ask it to explain in detail. It’s completely defendable as a way to understand what it is telling you, to help you determine if it’s based on reality, to see if there’s anything salvageable in the web of bullshit it heaped up for your review.
#OfficeWorkerGripes
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2026-03-10 18:24:50
Overheard in the office:
Cuts and attrition have cut so deep that a single person taking a sick or vacation day leaves some tasks without any coverage. Managers are handling that by calling on people to cross-train, but that piles on additional mental load onto a team that was already stretched thin.
#OfficeWorkerGripes
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2026-05-12 15:22:43
Who was the jack hole who thought 10 AM on a Tuesday was the right time to silently start installing a Teams update? Like, no. That's when meetings are happening.
Don't make a tool mission-critical, then think you can take it down at the moment when it is most needed.
#MicrosoftAnnoyances
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2026-04-30 07:12:51
I've been taking the next round of mandatory annual training at work and... good news, I'm only a few years away from qualifying for elder abuse. So, I've got that to look forward to. Hopefully it will keep me warm when Skynet cuts off my paycheck.
#OfficeWorkerGripes #ScottHumor
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2026-04-27 17:09:36
Overheard at the office: "I'm overwhelmed. They want ETA to completion to share with stakeholders on my next project, when I haven't even started it, and my current project has taken longer than expected. Meanwhile I'm being asked to sign off on something that I don't' think was done correctly. Retirement is looking good."
#OfficeWorkerGripes
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2026-03-05 17:55:51
I read someone's post about their job where Agentic AI use is tracked for performance reviews, so they’re now dumping every question they can into the LLM just to pad their metrics and burn as many tokens as they can in the process.
All I can say is... I think maybe a lot of people have had the same idea. 😇
#AgenticAI