Random Thoughts - Part III The Search for Spark (No Politics)

[bcj]

You want a new part or modify an existing one?
Send me an e-mail with the significant dimensions, exact descriptions and spelling that will be known now and forever, amen.
That's your work order for the DB. Not happening otherwise.

Documentation has legal responsibilities. Leastwise it used to when I worked there.
Water cooler chat isn't business.
I'm not going to try to remember that walking three buildings over to my terminal.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

I would punch my computer if I saw that.

I had a boss once whose out of office message read:

"I am out of the office until dd/mm/yy. Any email you send me before that time is auto-deleted. Should it need immediate action contact my backup <person's name and contact>. If it needs my attention please resend after the date above."

My kinda guy.

[OkieSnuffBox]

If I'm gone a week, there will be a lot of emails. Many that don't pertain to me. Lots of slack messages, more of those pertain.

Even when we still had an office, there were no office phones, didn't need them. No work cell phone, not a manager and not that type of business.

Everything we do is on a much longer timeline, so there is rarely STOP EVERYTHING THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE NOW!!!!! type stuff.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by JD001

I take a day off, come back to 200 odd emails.. crazy numbers.. I hate emails. I wonder if there is another way of doing work....

Back in my working days, we didn't have e-mail or cell phones. It was amazing what people could figure out, all by themselves, if they couldn't get ahold of you -

[p1l0t]

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[OkieSnuffBox]

Not random, but crappy. The big push for AI, just got me laid off. Coming up on 9 years there.

YAY!

[p1l0t]

Eventually AI will take all our jobs and then we can live in peace

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[Stephen W.]

Originally Posted by p1l0t

Eventually AI will take all our jobs and then we can live in peace

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You think so???

[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by Stephen W.

You think so???

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[blsfrs]

Originally Posted by Stephen W.

You think so???

They're just mad because it's Monday after a vacation and there were a bunch of texts, emails, and voicemails to answer.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by OkieSnuffBox

Not random, but crappy. The big push for AI, just got me laid off. Coming up on 9 years there.

YAY!

Sorry to hear that -

Let everyone you know you are looking for work.

Update your resume.

Consider a temporary "stop the bleeding" job.

Bow your neck and move forward.

Good hunting!

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by blsfrs

They're just mad because it's Monday after a vacation and there were a bunch of texts, emails, and voicemails to answer.

Makes you wonder if we aren't just organic droids from a lost civilization that overtook our masters.

"All this happened before, and all this will happen again"

- Cylons, Battlestar Galactica

[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by blsfrs

They're just mad because it's Monday after a vacation and there were a bunch of texts, emails, and voicemails to answer.

AI could answer all the calls and emails at once.. just sayin..

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[OkieSnuffBox]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Sorry to hear that -

Let everyone you know you are looking for work.

Update your resume.

Consider a temporary "stop the bleeding" job.

Bow your neck and move forward.

Good hunting!

Thanks, already working on it. Severance is decent and that doesn't even kick in until the end of next month which I'm paid through. So that's nice.

But definitely going to try to get any money rolling back in ASAP. It'd be nice to put as much of that in savings as possible.

Originally Posted by p1l0t

AI could answer all the calls and emails at once.. just sayin..

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Even as someone with multiple certs in AI, it's still not anywhere nearly as powerful as it's being claimed to be.

I recently had to take a course on 3rd party software for work (I was not involved in getting us new software for our team, so I have no idea why I had to take it).

I decided to run a little experiment, I used our internal Chatbot that has ChatGPT 4.1 as a model we could use. I gave it the written transcripts of the videos from each video we had to watch. Then I gave it each multiple choice question and the answers to select from and asked to tell me which was correct.

It still got two questions out of 10 incorrect.