Professionalism part deux

[ousdahl]

Hi Comcast, I’m calling back to follow up about our internet outage. I talked to an agent earlier this morning and they said the service will be back on by 3pm. It’s now 4pm, and still no Internet. Is it possible to get an update please?

“Yes sir, I have an update for you right here, it says your Internet service will be back up by 3pm”

[Deleted User 887]

Hi Comcast, I’m calling back to follow up about our internet outage. I talked to an agent earlier this morning and they said the service will be back on by 3pm. It’s now 4pm, and still no Internet. Is it possible to get an update please?

“Yes sir, I have an update for you right here, it says your Internet service will be back up by 3pm”

They didn't specify which time zone so cut them some slack!

[ousdahl]

sooo

what’s the pros and cons of getting a separate phone from work for work stuff, versus getting a stipend to use your own?

[zsn]

Separate phone: PITA. Expectation is that you ONLY use it for work purpose. May potentially cause unnecessary issues if you “accidentally” use it for personal purposes (eg. texting a friend or receiving a call from a friend). Plus you have to juggle two devices.

Stipend is the best way to go. They used to give us $50/mo and then $300 every other year to upgrade the device. Then when devices became expensive they just upped it to $80/mo ($40 per semimonthly paycheck). Win-win if you ask me. Also the motivation to do this is because they initiated a two-factor authentication for our internal system access and the phone was needed to authenticate. Greasy wheels squeaked about using personal phones for this purpose and they placated everyone with $$

[ousdahl]

Yea.

I suppose the biggest/only downside to getting a stipend to just use your own phone is, then work gets to look at your personal phone whenever they want, apparently?

But I kinda doubt that would ever be an issue unless I did something really dumb anyway? They’re not gonna demand access to my phone just to arbitrarily peruse all my trophy fish pics, right?

[TDub]

I always opted for the separate work phone.

Separation is healthy when achievable.

Can turn work phone off when not supposed to be accessible. No work phone calls on your personal phone. Makes one strictly business and limits both the accessibility in its many forms and also the potential for whoopsies of various forms.

[ousdahl]

Yea, good points…work/life balance is something I thought of too. Boundaries are important.

[BiggDick]

Had an interview this morning.

The dood interrupts the interview no fewer than 4 times to take other calls. He also had a wad of tissues in his hand and coughed and sneezed the entire time. The whole thing lasted all of 15 minutes.

If it was something I was interested in, I would have expected/at least attempted to make it last longer than that and keep asking questions and such, but instead I wanted out.

With that gig, the writing's on the wall. And the snot's on yer hand. For real dude, time for a new tissue.

[Overlander]

Had an interview this morning.

The dood interrupts the interview no fewer than 4 times to take other calls. He also had a wad of tissues in his hand and coughed and sneezed the entire time. The whole thing lasted all of 15 minutes.

If it was something I was interested in, I would have expected/at least attempted to make it last longer than that and keep asking questions and such, but instead I wanted out.

With that gig, the writing's on the wall. And the snot's on yer hand. For real dude, time for a new tissue.

He just isn't into you man.

[BiggDick]

Yea, I got the feeling they had their guy and I was one of the “hey look so we interviewed this many guys” guys.

[TDub]

is the Mario and Luigi phase over already?

[BiggDick]

nah, still need to rescue Peach.

[TDub]

oh ok, because generally, apprentice plumbers don't have sit down interviews....its not that sort of position.

Unless of course you were trying to interview for some sort of management job at a plumbing company using your apprentice plumbing experience as your qualifications...in which case, yeah, no doubt, he was definetelt ignoring you, and annoyed you were wasting his/her time.

[BiggDick]

nah, wrong again.

[DeletedUser]

Do you have a job currently or are you actively generating an income of some sort?

[BiggDick]

yes?

[DeletedUser]

Why do you seem to switch jobs (careers?) so frequently?

[BiggDick]

who said I switched jobs (careers?)

either way, what concern is that to you?

[TDub]

nah, wrong again.

about which part?

in 20+ years in the industry I've never seen an apprentice of any trade get a sit down interview. So, fairly certain, I'm not wrong about that part

[BiggDick]

both parts.

Also you're doxxing.