Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

There is a problem though. There is no laptop with the job and he is expected to work from home occasionally ( totally fair enough). Previously employer has provided laptop. When he asked how this would work they said they just patch him in on his laptop.

Well, that's really not feasible. His music laptop is not really that functional ( not needed his own for other stuff for years and years) and not convinced its perfectly clean ( it took three hours to upload a cd on Sunday) so not suitable for working at home.

I find it shocking a big company with important data would let people log on on own machines and risk corruption problems? Is that because I am such a Luddite?

Sorry, but I think having a basic computer available at home and a working internet connection is not unreasonable.

kabayiri

Nikkster wrote: »

Induction?


There is a bit of a trend towards 'bring your own' technology, but usually I think this is more phones (e.g. so can check emails on the move). You'd think they could get hold of a laptop...!

I set up a system for a small place where you brought along your own laptop. When it booted from the office network it downloaded a virtualised machine image.....basically it's like having a PC within your PC.

It's useful because you can manage all updates centrally, and isolate the "working PC" from the "personal PC", for security.

One or two didn't quite twig why their cameras were disabled all of a sudden however!

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Fir had to go in yesterday for um...forgotten the word......dammit. When you get shown around and shown the ropes. not acclimatisation. Dammit.....

Anyway, had to do that yesterday, not a contracted day. His dept are furious that HR did that because they are all very protective of their work hours and schedules. He only did a half day yesterday, but when he got in this morning they said he would be having a half day in lieu when he wanted it to make up for it. He almost started to laugh.

I was trying to explain to DS1 that you don't really know how working for a new company will pan out until you get there. It is the soft benefits that make all the difference and you don't see those until it is too late.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

FIR can get a laptop that will do the biz for under £200. Is it worth making waves?

No. ( but in fact we wouldn't do that, we'd buy the upgrade he needs for music stuff and then get rid of old one and have just one that works. Annoying spend but, it was coming eventually)

Fir and I just find it odd.

In context, security there is very tight. No own mobiles on on 'work floor' , no wifi, no Internet browsing.....so own lap top seems incongruous. Security tighter than last place of work ( where own laptops could access if needed to...but never were needed) and that was reasonably tight.

Edit: thinking about it, now the music one is being a !!!!!! probably best to upgrade for other stuff too. Not everything can be done on macputers that easily. Goddam it.

Nikkster

GDB2222 wrote: »

Onboarding seems to be the latest buzzword.

That word always makes me think of waterboarding.
I had the way corporate-speak is invented to replace perfectly fictional existing words.

Might delete: at work everyone refers to 'learnings', !!!!!! is wrong with 'lessons'?

vivatifosi

Interesting. They use learnings at my place too. I think it is management speak.

zagubov

DW has introduced me to W1A. I may become a fan.

chewmylegoff

zagubov wrote: »

DW has introduced me to W1A. I may become a fan.

I watched the first series but felt that every episode just had the same three jokes in it. I think it would probably have been funnier if it was made by channel 4 about the BBC rather than the BBC about itself.

michaels

Oh dear, I googled learnings and am now worried about whether I have sufficient bandwidth to support adaptive change

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

Interesting. They use learnings at my place too. I think it is management speak.

I think it's probably best I don't say what I really think of that word as it's not very polite.
I generally only use corporate speak when I'm annoyed and trying to take the pee. Likewise there are certain email sign offs that's I don't really like that I only use if I'm not very happy. No one else wound notice, but it makes me feel better!