over exaggerating
Like she was done with exaggerating?
Does anyone under exaggerate?
I see this usage a lot now and I have no idea where it came from. Isn’t just exaggerating the same meaning?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overexaggerate#
You had me second-guessing whether it was legitimate usage or not, but “over” is just adding intensity to the verb exaggerate.
And now the word exaggerate has reached semantic satiation for me, and lost all meaning… lol
My old job stored chemical waste longer than what the law allowed in containers that werent labeled correctly. No one knew for sure what the waste was because the guy that was responsible for that before me would just mix different wastes together. The solvent fridge (just a normal fridge from the 90s against a wall in the prep area out in the open) had about 10 gallons of flammable liquids (old solvents and reagents from the 400 level labs and organic classes) and 3 one liter containers of 15 year old diethyl ether which is almost certainly chock full of organic peroxides. (These are explosive) There was another container of ~100g dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNPH) in the flammables cabinet no one paid any attention to for quite some time. It was a good thing that it never became dry as that would need to be handled by the bomb squad. (Previous guy found an old crusty jar of picric acid (a friction sensitive explosive) that resulted in the bomb squad coming to the lab. That shut down part of that campus until it was dealt with) And then theres a waste container that I found at one of the outlying campuses that according to the label, had nitric acid, ammonia and bleach which is… not great.
Them being mixed feels like the worst part of that.
Did everyone else just stand by while this guy did this? Or was he fired as soon as it was discovered?
He was the only one working in the prep area. They had no one to replace him (yet) and didn’t look that closely at the state the lab was in. During the winter semester he used up all his vacation and sick time, came back for a couple days so he could get holiday pay and quit.
We had a little NAS in the office, tied into AD and everything. It was called “Hollywood”. Its contents was “donated” by the staff lol.
Edit: Sorry about the acronyms peeps, my bad.
What does your comment mean?
Edit: Thanks for the answers, guys! I don’t really get why some people use abbreviations that the general population doesn’t know without any context! Honestly that sounds pretty chill for a workplace to have tho haha
I can help with part of it. NAS is network attached storage, and the Hollywood contents are probably pirated movies. The only thing I couldn’t decipher is AD.
When GDPR just launched it took us a while to implement it as we had a really complex key-value database. We got so few requests though that we had a junior dev do it with couple of python scripts every few days or so lol
I worked for a popular VoIP who violated tons of my rights with my disability. My manager would get nosey, then he’d dock my pay when I took my paid FMLA. They were always harassing me about coming in despite my job being pretty much 100% remote. I got a doctor’s note for it, and I would get harassed daily about if I was coming in
When I went to HR to complain, the next day my desk was trashed.
I sued them, but lost on a technicality because my lawyer moved office and they didn’t get a piece of paperwork in time, despite putting in a proper change of address
So I pretty much got screwed
What’s the story with the paid FMLA? I ended up taking FMLA for my sons birth, only for my employer to decide that I could only use 2 weeks of my 6 weeks PTO saved. Apparently, theres no guarantee of pay during FMLA or even that you should be allowed to use your accrued leave during that time… They sprung this on me the day my kid was born, after several months of planning and getting okays from HR.
There’s a happy ending though. I threatened to sue them (I’m not sure I would have had a case but I had documentation of them approving the PTO usage). So, they stopped responding to me and paid me for all of my PTO. I put in my notice the day I returned. My immediate manager even approved a week of PTO for my two week notice because of how much he hated the situation. The new job paid more with less stress… wins all around.
I sorta kinda knew that my health would decline at some point as I have a severe degenerative bone disease that causes my bone marrow to turn into tumors.
So I bet against myself and got a seperate insurance with my job in case I were to get any sort of permanent disability
When I cashed it in, they knew that they had messed up in not requiring a medical exam, but by then it was too late.
I paid an extra $100 a month for it, and it earned me 125k-ish in extra salary they had to pay when I was too sick to work.
Sounds like your job was a complete disaster! Glad you managed to get out of there and good job getting the extra insurance!
Hope you’re doing alright and none of your bone marrow has turned into tumors.
