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 […]
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 […]
Given the record-setting layoff pace of 2025, the pressing etiquette question of this time:
What is the respectful waiting period after a highly valued colleague is fired before you can delete your recurring 1:1 meeting from your calendar?
Joking, not joking.
#OfficeWorkerGripes #ScottHumor […]
This is the blame shifting that's going to go down in a couple years when teams don't come up with the AI savings management promised (without any real plan on how they'd achieve those savings).
"We (management) didn't overpromise. Agentic AI didn't fail. It's the individual contributor's fault […]
I was in a meeting this week where it was stated the management belief is anyone complaining about the low quality of agentic AI responses is because that person is bad at prompting, and they should've spent more time using AI sooner.
Their example was a puzzle (how many trials to find […]
I’m in a work training for a agentic AI we will soon have access to. One use case that was suggested is researching and summarizing HR policy on a topic or for a question.
Oof. I expect it won’t be long before I read a news article where someone brings a wrongful termination suit based on […]
Three of the people I work with had their positions eliminated today.
Obviously very bad for the displaced workers, and I feel very bad for them.
It’s been very upsetting to me and has killed most of my productivity for the day. Which is unfortunate because I have a progress status meeting […]
Had a call today where it was announced a co-worker passed away after a private illness. The host said they "were always the first one in [to the office] and the last one out", and not a lot else.
I didn't know this person or their situation, so I'm not commenting directly on this.
However, it […]
One month into my company requiring three days a week in office and it's clear that making it a requirement wasn't the move. People have been building barricades out of whiteboards to try to shut out the distractions of all the people moving around.
#rto #officework #officeworkergripes
