What I did last week reporting

[KingFish]

Good luck to everyone reporting their top 5 accomplishment bullets to OPM and their supervisor. Turned mine in yesterday. It gives us a chance to practice creative writing.

I changed a lightbulb. Now it says:​

• Single-handedly managed successful upgrade and deployment of a new environmental illumination system with zero cost overruns and safety incidents

 

[GregV814]

hey ahhhhh what about those astronauts that cant come home, abandoned.... well that lady can say she tried to manage her hair I guess.....

 

[SamSpade]

A guy in our division unwittingly sent his list to everyone, not just his supervisor. It was - LONG. And not limited to five. Admittedly, sometimes my days are so loaded putting out other peoples' fires, I barely get time to do the stuff I planned to do - but my boss said to keep them SUCCINCT, because fully fleshed out descriptions are meaningless when there's two million of them.

She took my five bullets and condensed them down to five words sentences.

 

[my-thyme]

I put a 7 yr old on the school bus.

5times

 

[phreddyp]

I pissed off at least 5 on this site alone!

 

[LightRoasted]

For your consideration ...

A guy in our division unwittingly sent his list to everyone, not just his supervisor. It was - LONG. And not limited to five. Admittedly, sometimes my days are so loaded putting out other peoples' fires, I barely get time to do the stuff I planned to do - but my boss said to keep them SUCCINCT, because fully fleshed out descriptions are meaningless when there's two million of them.

She took my five bullets and condensed them down to five words sentences.

Being pithy, a lost art?

 

[mdff2]

I unpopulated the flower beds.

 

[Gilligan]

1. I fired up the woodstove in the shop.
2. Checked the beer stock in the shop fridge. Made mental note to go buy more.
3. Waved good morning at SGI.
4. Checked emails.
5.Put more wood in the stove.

 

[GregV814]

1) as a non-birther, non-marginalized, chronologically advanced person, I set forth the production of beveragitic nourishment, facilitated capture of said liquids,
2) discharged certain products for recycling to an approved Earth friendly container
3) facilitated transport to local commerce, therein enhancing the profits at a confectionary
4) researched/viewed documented animations of stereotypical felines and vermin produced in the 1950's & 1960's
5) orated (in written prose) seemingly obvious sardonic commentary of events in American culture without standing with a European Country, and politics.

 

[LightRoasted]

For your consideration ...

1) as a non-birther, non-marginalized, chronologically advanced person, I set forth the production of beveragitic nourishment, facilitated capture of said liquids,
2) discharged certain products for recycling to an approved Earth friendly container
3) facilitated transport to local commerce, therein enhancing the profits at a confectionary
4) researched/viewed documented animations of stereotypical felines and vermin produced in the 1950's & 1960's
5) orated (in written prose) seemingly obvious sardonic commentary of events in American culture without standing with a European Country, and politics.

Ya did wuht? Too many big words used.

 

[glhs837]

A guy in our division unwittingly sent his list to everyone, not just his supervisor. It was - LONG. And not limited to five. Admittedly, sometimes my days are so loaded putting out other peoples' fires, I barely get time to do the stuff I planned to do - but my boss said to keep them SUCCINCT, because fully fleshed out descriptions are meaningless when there's two million of them.

She took my five bullets and condensed them down to five words sentences.

When I watched two of my engineers struggling with it, I looked it over. Guy had the guidance with examples right on his second screen. When they kept expanding each bullet to a second line, I mentioned that succinct was in bold letters, and all five example bullets kept to a single line. They insisted without that level of detail the AI would select them for firing. I wished them luck

 

[GregV814]

For your consideration ...





Ya did wuht? Too many big words used.

made some coffee, took a massive, bought a donut at 7-11 watched cartoons, made snotty posts here.

 

[Kyle]

1) as a non-birther, non-marginalized, chronologically advanced person, I set forth the production of beveragitic nourishment, facilitated capture of said liquids,
2) discharged certain products for recycling to an approved Earth friendly container
3) facilitated transport to local commerce, therein enhancing the profits at a confectionary
4) researched/viewed documented animations of stereotypical felines and vermin produced in the 1950's & 1960's
5) orated (in written prose) seemingly obvious sardonic commentary of events in American culture without standing with a European Country, and politics.

I watched Tom and Jerry too.

 

[Sneakers]

I watched Tom and Jerry too.

I found Invader Zim and Jimmy Neutron.

 

[BOP]

I watched Tom and Jerry too.

Data collection and collation. Good job.

 

[SamSpade]

So has it been confirmed that they are actually running AI on these reports to find a reason to terminate people? The verdict is that the five bullets are for the time being - permanent. In addition to the project staff meeting reports, the branch staff meeting reports, the section meeting reports, the hourly assignment for the project at the end of the week and the time sheet - which includes quarter hourly billing for the right project - we now have the entire federal government spending 15-30 minutes on Monday morning writing an abridged version of their week's work to a staff that couldn't possibly know what it means.

I never bought the idea that they were just looking for answers and proof that someone was receiving the emails - they could do that with a simple "Please answer this email".

And they already did that - twice. So the whole "we just want to see if there's a warm body receiving their emails" thing was just a lie.
There's seriously no way that is the whole truth.

 

[Gilligan]

So has it been confirmed that they are actually running AI on these reports

I've been toying with the idea of running an AI scan on SGI's last three or four performance reviews.

Hard to get more efficient than we already are though.; SGI does about 90% of the work...

 

[glhs837]

So has it been confirmed that they are actually running AI on these reports to find a reason to terminate people? The verdict is that the five bullets are for the time being - permanent. In addition to the project staff meeting reports, the branch staff meeting reports, the section meeting reports, the hourly assignment for the project at the end of the week and the time sheet - which includes quarter hourly billing for the right project - we now have the entire federal government spending 15-30 minutes on Monday morning writing an abridged version of their week's work to a staff that couldn't possibly know what it means.

I never bought the idea that they were just looking for answers and proof that someone was receiving the emails - they could do that with a simple "Please answer this email".

And they already did that - twice. So the whole "we just want to see if there's a warm body receiving their emails" thing was just a lie.
There's seriously no way that is the whole truth.

Right, but both times, there were whole swaths that were directed not to reply. I think they are still looking for a full response set. But I could be wrong. And I would venture to sat that anyone that spends 30 minutes trying to list five things they did maybe either didn't do much, or they have a hard time with words. I would thing 10 should be plenty, five to list them, five to write them up in simple sentences. Perhaps it might be best if both Musk and Trump wrote their lists as examples.

And no, there's been no confirmation on the AI thing. The only way an AI could effectively judge them would to be to give it WAY more data than anyone should be comfortable with.

 

[Kinnakeet]

I washed dishes by hand
I took out the trash
I went to the bar and consumed 6 Miller Lites
I watched the Democrat superhero video with all the stupid democrats acting like idiots
I went to bed laughing.
I hope I dont get discharged!

 

[SamSpade]

. And I would venture to sat that anyone that spends 30 minutes trying to list five things they did maybe either didn't do much, or they have a hard time with words.

Or they're old and have to sift through Teams and emails to just frickin' REMEMBER - did I do that Monday - or the previous Friday?

One of my biggest hurdles is - I create a list at the beginning of the day of what programming and system challenges I expect to finish by COB - and without FAIL I spend half the day putting out fires, because ever since my boss retired, every Tom Dick and Harry wants me to do some mission critical thing. And my boss - says they take priority.

That, and I have to list probably the five most important things, because all that other crap? Five things? I should be so lucky. I haven't even started the programming tasks I wrote down, because I not only get interrupted - I get interrupted by others WHILE I am being interrupted.

Sometimes I have given thought to working on a weekend - for free - just to NOT be interrupted.

And no, there's been no confirmation on the AI thing. The only way an AI could effectively judge them would to be to give it WAY more data than anyone should be comfortable with.

I've read elsewhere that it is not looking at the estimated time of tasks, complexity or such - it is examining the PATHS taken and the chains of authority. Lookng for inefficiencies.

I'm a little nervous about the idea that how our government works is flooding through channels that I think nations like China COULD tap into, that they couldn't before.