Sulphur on 1/8/2014 at 17:42
Quote Posted by faetal
It's similar to those people who talk about how much secret shit they're party to in the military, but they couldn't tell a civilian (so why bother to raise it in the first place).
Dude, if you don't know my acronyms, you're lame. No way I'm wasting 4 seconds to type the actual words.
Attempts to don sunglasses in nonchalant way and stabs self in eye with themThat sounds pretty much exactly like a member who used to post here in CommChat but then disappeared before Tony showed up. Hell of a coincidence. Whatever could it possibly mean?
Tony_Tarantula on 1/8/2014 at 18:25
Quote Posted by Unclaimed Channel
The Original Poster could sign a *petition* or report the matter to his *superiors*/*higher colleagues*.
You'd have to research the exact company, but in most big companies their "internal affairs" type branch isn't actually interested in getting to the bottom of any issues. Their priority is to protect the executives level managers.
faetal on 1/8/2014 at 18:26
It's a conundrum that I'm not sure we'll ever have the resources to solve, that's for sure.
catbarf on 1/8/2014 at 20:06
Quote Posted by Tony_Tarantula
GS= General Schedule. It means you're on the Federal wage scale. Once again, literally ANYONE who has ever worked for the government will know what that means.
I work for the US federal government and I have never heard anyone describe themselves as a GS employee.
SubJeff on 1/8/2014 at 21:40
Pwned.
Aja on 4/8/2014 at 20:51
I entered both into google, but it wasn't obvious at all. Given the topic of discussion I assumed (after the g-search) that PM stood for project management, but GS... gone savage?
nickie on 4/8/2014 at 22:51
I did too and got 2 x prime minister and textile industry, I think, and then loads of Precious Metals. GS gave me Goldman Sachs, which seemed to fit with precious metals. I love Google.
Tony_Tarantula on 5/8/2014 at 00:23
Apologize for that one, it's an issue of speaking different languages in the same tongue.
If you work in an environment where different payscales are used (ie, an office that's mostly contractors) then it becomes a bit of a necessary for HR purposes, when most people will use "GS" to refer to the employees that are paid off the federal pay scale and "contract" refers to people who were hired by an outside firm. It can be confusing if you aren't used to it but it can be very arbitrary which services are outsourced and which are handled by the government.....and as bizarre as it sounds it's important to know who is who when running an office. One example is that there are some government holidays (such as president's day) where the employees on the government pay scale don't come in to work but the contractor-hired employees will come in to work. It can also affect things such as inclement weather procedures. If you're a supervisor and don't know what payscale your employees work off you're going to have an interesting time.
faetal on 5/8/2014 at 09:02
Given that not everyone from this forum even speaks English as a first language, I'd have thought the additional keystrokes would have probably been worth the effort.
Tony_Tarantula on 5/8/2014 at 17:29
Quote Posted by faetal
Given that not everyone from this forum even speaks English as a first language, I'd have thought the additional keystrokes would have probably been worth the effort.
Question: Why do you still give a shit? I've already corrected it and explained what they mean.
