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Again a fucked up day at work, deadline coming up on Thursday and seeing that my engineers cannot for the life of them write a fucking coherent text in English, not even using LLMs, and they do not know how to use word or excel either.
So I was pretty wound up right after work. Teaching yoga helped me calm down a bitt.
But I am travelling tomorrow, and that is not helping :(
Sigh
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A year and a half into this project, and these famous and renowned architects still cannot fucking design continous technical shafts.
So the briefing room will have some auditory and olfactory amenities in the form of a fecal waterfall.
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Refusing meetings because people can't bother looking at my agenda to see whether i am free at that time.
It's all ages in this company that don't know outlook allows you to see other people's agendas and chose a time that fits everyone.
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In today's kindergarten, I mean, engineering office, adventures, we play broken telephone!
Or rather, the one where I give information, (male) colleague does not look at it, so goes ask another (male) colleague. Who gives him the same information. And then colleague 1 tells colleague 2 that it is OK, but leaves me fucking hanging with no answer.
#WorkingToot #WorkRant #WorkToot #EngineerFrustrations #SomeMen
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Project manager or babysitter.
At least with the second I would actually get to play with construction (blocks). -
Once more babysitting senior engineers at my "9 to 5" is draining me. They take absolutely no pride in their work & they assume I will work 16h/day to cover their asses.
Luckily my side gig of teaching yoga fills my cup and gives me more fulfilling in an hour than a week of paying bills work.
Go enjoy today's short practice jamming sun salutations: https://youtu.be/-TlgW4FebN4
#EngineerFrustrations #WorkRant #YogaTeacher #YogaTeacherMusings #YogaPractice #ShortYogaPractice
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Murphy's law in action:
I ordered a new work laptop on Monday. No shipping information for three days.
I arrive to the office this morning to see it will delivered at home (as I asked, since I work from home 4 days/week) today. The one day I work from the office (not even the closest one), and have client meetings.
#MurphysLaw #WorkingToot #WorkRant #WorkToot #EngineerFrustrations
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Why, yes, I can read 160 pages by tomorrow to make sure your automatic translation is correct, why the fuck do you ask?
(because text doesn't reflect the sarcasm properly, read that in the most sarcastic tone you can, and then dial up to at least 20x that)
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I had to literally smh and lol this morning: Two consults involving chickens wherein one only presented dorsal-ventral x-ray view and the other case only presented a lateral view. Too bad I couldn't combine the two cases to get one good set of images. It makes it very difficult to get a 3D concept of the organs and bones with only one 2D view. Veterinarians know this and pretty much always get at least 2 views of any other animal they work on, yet it's so utterly common for them to only do one view of a bird. I have no idea why that is. If you're a vet and you're going through all the trouble/trauma of getting radiographs, do it right! You'll thank yourself (and so will I!).
#avianmedicine #birds #veterinary #workrant -
Our department is working on standardizing symbols for drawings. A couple of local colleagues are in charge of generating the input so that non local colleagues can implement it in the software we use.
I am now reviewing the output based on what my local colleagues consider reviewed and approved input ready for final implementation.
So far I have found
- inconsistent order of languages
- missing translations
- wrong translations
- wrong use of apostrophes
- not knowing the difference between load (demand) and capacity (delivery)
- inconsistent use of terms
- acronyms not matching the spelled out termAnd I'm not even done with 1/6th of the document
#WorkingToot #WorkRant #WorkToot #EngineerFrustrations #WTAF
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Things I have to keep teaching coworkers
- basic word use (using formats is hard, mmkay, so is using spell check)
- basic excel use (and: if you search for how to do stuff in your search engine of choice (not AI / LLM) you'll get tutorials that show you how to do it and why)
- how to use the planning assistant in Outlook
- message then call, otherwise I won't pick up
- send a full message with question(s) or information. I won't answer to hello.
- want to have guaranteed time to talk to me: plan a fucking meetingAnd yet, most people are useless at basic office skills.
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I am invited to a meeting (long standing) from 1300 to 1700 (don't ask, I know 4h meetings are not efficient)
Day before, at 1700, it gets updated to 1430 to 1830. I work til 1600 so only see in the morning.
Then at 1415 the same day it gets moved to 1500 to 1700.
What the actual fuck.
#WorkingToot #WorkRant #WorkToot #EngineerFrustrations #WTAF
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stressed and under caffeinated chronically exhausted pigeon reporting for duty of drinking the 4th mug of the day
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I had the incredible chance to join 75 women from 9 different countries all working for my company for a networking & workshopping event this week.
I loved the opportunity, and meeting colleagues from all over Europe, making connections (and shocking a few people as well).
But damn, am I freaking tired. I have peopled too much.
And next week I have to people again a lot, for a whole 4 days.
Send help.
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I am at the 'If I read one more work email, I'm going to lose it' end of the week.
FFS .. why is 2026 the year of 'everything is pants on fire urgent, and oh sorry we didn't get this to you till 5.4 seconds before it needs to be rolled out'.
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My Belgian engineers have been complaining about my Romanian engineers and designers delivering crap plans.
I am reviewing plans made by Belgian designers and engineers, supposedly reviewed by the lead engineer, and I am just sending them back with so many issues.
As the design manager for the project, I cannot let such pile of steaming shit go out, not even for a work in progress, still to be fully coordinated design.
There is some clashes and issues, and then there is not looking at all at what other people are doing, not loading a structural model to see where structural elements are, and not giving a fuck about consistency.
#WorkingToot #WorkRant #WorkToot #EngineerFrustrations #EngineerRant
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Yes, boss, our system is complicated. But you could actually trust us to do our jobs instead of trying to understand what you don’t need to get into the details of.
And no, AI is not the fucking answer!
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Plan for today. Chill walk. 2 hour meeting. Back in the office for lunch.
Except it lasted 5 fucking hours.
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And in more work frustrations, colleagues reinventing the wheel.
Omg we reinvented the gantt chart to estimate how manu hours a project will take!
Omg we reinvented how to update cost estimates based on old prices plus inflation (instead of just calling our cost managers, that is part of their work)
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I had to look the translation up, because the issue with speaking several languages is that sometimes the more appropriate word (both in sound, description and connotations) only appears to exist in one language.
I am so fed up with architects (of the designing buildings kind) being such chapuzas (bunglers) in their job and just doing some extremely shoddy work.
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Mandatory office days.
All team meetings happening in the main office.
Not having an overview of the planning.The office is so full that people are working in the call pods, the informal meeting spaces and the cafetaria.
Gotta love this bullshit.
Luckily I am usually early enough I can get a desk. But it is so noisy that I have noise cancelling headphones on all the time. Really fostering collaboration and communication 🤣
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This week I will be spending about 9h commuting 3 days to the office. Because I am required to attend meetings in the main office.
I did not sign up for this. I am attached to a satellite office that's only 30-35mins commute each way. But I won't be compensated for the additional 6h I am "expected" to give up from my personal time.
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My engineers cannot work with
- word
- excel
- revit
- autocad
- PowerPointSo I really wonder wtf they can do.
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The depressing reality of a hotel "gym".
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Another gloriously stupid decision at work.
Starting november we have to reserve our desk using an app (not Outlook). OK. Fine.and don't forget to "check in" when you arrive.
On top of that, all meeting rooms will now be reserved exclusively via that same app. That is not linked to Outlook. That has no "schedule assistant" to plan meetings.
So now I need two tools, extra time, and some additional cursing, to plan a fucking meeting.
And they kindly ask that people go to the office more often!
Oh yes, my office will be moving and downsizing from 108 desks to 66,snd cutting meeting space in half as well. But return to the office, please!
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After a week off work, "only" 145 emails & 15 teams messages...
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Team day in the office. For several teams. Which means there are not enough desks. Which means people are hunkered in meeting rooms. Which means I got to kick people out of the room I luckily booked yesterday to have my lunch time online meeting...
Also got shit done this morning. Will get shit done this afternoon.
Why on earth do we come to the office again?!
