Overheard at the office: "I'm skeptical. Are you sure your 'wonderful opportunity for many of our employees to grow into new roles as we transition' isn't more like corporate speak for 75% of us will have to abandon any sense of work/life balance to cover the work of the 25% you are about to layoff?"

#OfficeWorkerGripes

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 #OfficeWorkerGripes

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 #GenerativeAI

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

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

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

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 #Burnout #WorkplaceBurnout #WorkplaceCulture

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 #OfficeWorkerGripes #ChatGPT #MicrosoftCopilot #ClaudeAI

I got into an argument with #Microsoft #Copilot today.

I asked for PowerShell code to trim the first N digits from every filename in a directory. Testing showed it actually removed 2·N characters. When I reported the bug, Copilot insisted that was impossible and said I must have run it twice.

I knew the cause and the fix, but I treated it as a learning exercise to see what it would take to get Copilot to correct itself.

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#ScottComputing #ScottProgramming #OfficeWorkerGripes

I heard from a colleague that a system was just identified with a y2k bug.

Wait, how is that possible?!

A system was using 2 digits to store and transmit the year. To resolve the initial y2k problem, the system employed the date window technique, where that window ended with 2025.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_windowing

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