TL;DR version: In corporate world, sometimes CRs (or simply “Changes”) get approved without even getting read, much less comprehended. It’s apparently all about the presenter’s mannerism / projected confidence level.
I once had a CR of mine approved by the “Change Team” over the tele-conference bridge, *without* I ever unmuting to speak up (in “defense” of the said CR). Apparently, my laziness in referring to a vendor by its stock ticker symbol rather than its full name made the department head of another division brashly assume that it was one of his team’s CRs. I spent those morning minutes busy LOLing while staying muted on the conf-bridge listening to that department head pushing my CR through the Change Meeting, uttering mumble-jumble that had nothing to do with the content of my CR (if someone actually took a gander at it, before or during the call.)
One of my former jobs now has the same policy. What’s remarkable is that I know that particular company’s management absolutely hates WFH or any other practices that allow perceived “slacking”, with one manager who I did NOT even report to once “volunteering” me to go into work at night, after my regular 8-5 (no “free” lunch hour), because I brought up the fact that IT disabled copy-and-paste over VPN remote access “for security reasons”, making my work infinitely more time-consuming if I had to retype everything from home during after-business hours.
According to my former colleagues still there, management caved on WFH, in order to attract/retain younger employees. So, add another notch to the millenials’ belt, of the things that they’ve killed–corporate resistance to WFH.
Had a former coworker in the Bay Area once citing Fukushima (of the post-tsunami nuclear disaster “fame”) for one particular day that he needed to stay home in Fremont / East Bay, rather than risking the radioactive trans-Pacific rain clouds commuting to the corporate campus on the San Francisco Peninsula. About a year later, we got a new manager, and said coworker’s WFH days came noticeably to a complete halt. Then one day after the new boss took his first WFH day (for his sick child), that coworker took the next day WFH, using one of the reasons appearing in the article above. If there were an office pool going, everyone in the group would have won.
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Missing from the list: the auto-reply-all “Hi, I am out of the office” guy.
Where does AFK or BRB stand?
I got one whose main selling point was: the firm’s CEO is golf buddy with Elon Musk’s cousin.
TL;DR version: In corporate world, sometimes CRs (or simply “Changes”) get approved without even getting read, much less comprehended. It’s apparently all about the presenter’s mannerism / projected confidence level.
CR could also stand for Change Records.
I once had a CR of mine approved by the “Change Team” over the tele-conference bridge, *without* I ever unmuting to speak up (in “defense” of the said CR). Apparently, my laziness in referring to a vendor by its stock ticker symbol rather than its full name made the department head of another division brashly assume that it was one of his team’s CRs. I spent those morning minutes busy LOLing while staying muted on the conf-bridge listening to that department head pushing my CR through the Change Meeting, uttering mumble-jumble that had nothing to do with the content of my CR (if someone actually took a gander at it, before or during the call.)
One of my former jobs now has the same policy. What’s remarkable is that I know that particular company’s management absolutely hates WFH or any other practices that allow perceived “slacking”, with one manager who I did NOT even report to once “volunteering” me to go into work at night, after my regular 8-5 (no “free” lunch hour), because I brought up the fact that IT disabled copy-and-paste over VPN remote access “for security reasons”, making my work infinitely more time-consuming if I had to retype everything from home during after-business hours.
According to my former colleagues still there, management caved on WFH, in order to attract/retain younger employees. So, add another notch to the millenials’ belt, of the things that they’ve killed–corporate resistance to WFH.
Had a former coworker in the Bay Area once citing Fukushima (of the post-tsunami nuclear disaster “fame”) for one particular day that he needed to stay home in Fremont / East Bay, rather than risking the radioactive trans-Pacific rain clouds commuting to the corporate campus on the San Francisco Peninsula. About a year later, we got a new manager, and said coworker’s WFH days came noticeably to a complete halt. Then one day after the new boss took his first WFH day (for his sick child), that coworker took the next day WFH, using one of the reasons appearing in the article above. If there were an office pool going, everyone in the group would have won.