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Time to print 1099's! (well it was the other day) "Hey Bob, do you remember why we made all the sister companies have the same tax ID as the main company? We printed 1099's and noticed that, it's a problem." Because you're using the same bank account for all the companies and that's how you tricked the ACH software into working. "Oh yea, I remember that now. Can I change them and then print 1099's?" Probably...but you better not try to make any payments during that time... 
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Bob Morales posted:Time to print 1099's! (well it was the other day) Over the last month or so, I've probably spent 20ish hours dealing with tax forms. Thank you for making me feel so much better about that.
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Feb 1, 2018 18:08
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3 engineers work on a problem for a week, let's definitely second guess it for 10 minutes after a 5 minute presentation.
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Feb 1, 2018 18:09
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When 1099's are printed, one of the accounting associates takes them all and scans them back in so we have PDF copies. I had only been working here about 4 months when I found out about this last year and immediately started a quest to fix this. Three months later it all falls apart with a copy of a quote from the document processing application vendor for $3000 to export to PDF. 
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Feb 1, 2018 18:14
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The Fool posted:
...What kind of clown-shoes operation is it that they can't just make a program that prints to pdf? (I know, I know, a greedy one) Also, $3k might still be cheaper depending on how much that guy gets paid to scan poo poo over multiple years.
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Feb 1, 2018 18:26
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Avenging_Mikon posted:...What kind of clown-shoes operation is it that they can't just make a program that prints to pdf? (I know, I know, a greedy one) Why can't you use Microsoft Print to PDF or XPS Document Writer?
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Feb 1, 2018 18:49
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Avenging_Mikon posted:...What kind of clown-shoes operation is it that they can't just make a program that prints to pdf? (I know, I know, a greedy one) I'm not on the team that manages that server, but it's some sort of form generation software and has some secure printing features. The price quoted is also just a license fee to turn on an existing feature, not to install anything new. I recommended just installing a 3rd party PDF printer application, but that was shot down. Oh well, I tried. We're theoretically moving away from that system in the next 2-3 years
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Feb 1, 2018 18:49
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Is there a way i can gently suggest to one of their users that they should stop asking me if I actually know how to fix things without sounding like a douche?
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Feb 1, 2018 18:59
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dogstile posted:Is there a way i can gently suggest to one of their users that they should stop asking me if I actually know how to fix things without sounding like a douche? Depends, how is the user phrasing their doubting of your abilities?
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Feb 1, 2018 19:45
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dogstile posted:Is there a way i can gently suggest to one of their users that they should stop asking me if I actually know how to fix things without sounding like a douche? I just tell people that I'm only any good at breaking things, and if their problem happens to be resolved while I'm doing my breaking, it's a happy coincidence. Basically, make it a joke.
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Feb 1, 2018 19:49
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dogstile posted:Is there a way i can gently suggest to one of their users that they should stop asking me if I actually know how to fix things without sounding like a douche? If you go the douche route ask them if they actually know how to do their <job title> using their same language and when they become offended let them know that's how you feel. Actually don't do that. But its nice to imagine.
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Feb 1, 2018 19:56
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An interesting development: the CEO has yet another iPhone X (because he keeps smashing them in a fit of rage) and he asked Bill to set it up, but refused to give Bill his Apple ID password! In the past he hasn't hesitated to give Bill passwords for any and all of his services. Now Bill is stuck in a Catch-22 because he can't complete the transfer from the broken phone to the new one without the password, but he also knows that the CEO is too impatient to stand by during the process to provide his password. A DILEMMA!
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Feb 1, 2018 20:03
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Wasn't there a recruiter in the Bay Area that everyone had enjoyed working with? They've demoted my boss and specifically crafted his replacement's job listing to exclude me. They have zero requirements, aside from legal ones and ones they know I don't meet (college degree, previous management experience). The closest thing they have to IT in the requirements is that you have to have "an interest in the future of technology," it's so pathetically bad, and not even being considered after 9 years here is disheartening. So, time to move on! Good thing Windows admins are so popular in the Bay Area
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Feb 1, 2018 20:15
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I join a conference call for a colleague to assist a client with restarting nginx, just a quick nginx restart, but now the site they are turning up doesn't work so everyone assumes I broke it. I was just called to do /etc/init.d/nginx restart not figure out why your javascript or whatever isn't working.
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Feb 1, 2018 20:42
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Jerk McJerkface posted:I join a conference call for a colleague to assist a client with restarting nginx, just a quick nginx restart, but now the site they are turning up doesn't work so everyone assumes I broke it. I was just called to do /etc/init.d/nginx restart now figure our why your javascript or whatever isn't working. You touched it. Of course you broke it. Duh...
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Feb 1, 2018 20:46
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Isn't that a classic youtube video? Never restart the web server on request.
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Feb 1, 2018 20:53
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xzzy posted:Never
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Serfer posted:Wasn't there a recruiter in the Bay Area that everyone had enjoyed working with? They've demoted my boss and specifically crafted his replacement's job listing to exclude me. They have zero requirements, aside from legal ones and ones they know I don't meet (college degree, previous management experience). The closest thing they have to IT in the requirements is that you have to have "an interest in the future of technology," it's so pathetically bad, and not even being considered after 9 years here is disheartening. What part of the bay area? Place I'm at in Campbell needs a couple more Windows Sysadmins, preferably with Okta and Office 365 experience. PM me.
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chin up everything sucks posted:What part of the bay area? Place I'm at in Campbell needs a couple more Windows Sysadmins, preferably with Okta and Office 365 experience. PM me. Is Okta a flaming piece of garbage?
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No, I do not advise attempting to use legal means to suppress or take control of a social media account that has posted three posts that weakly criticize the company, you halfwits.
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Sickening posted:Is Okta a flaming piece of garbage? Honestly, it seems to be a fairly good product. Plugs into just about everything, easy to manage.
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Sickening posted:Is Okta a flaming piece of garbage? I played with a bit a year or two ago. It seemed ok, but overpriced for what we would use it for. If you have a lot of web apps with different logins, it might be worth it, but if your services will do SAML or something, it's probably unnecessary. The reverse proxy-ish stuff was interesting, but Office 365 does that now too, I just haven't really played with it. I wouldn't be surprised if it's poo poo now though. All these places have way too many developers for what their product is, and just end up making things bad so they have something to do.
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Feb 1, 2018 21:27
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Dick Trauma posted:No, I do not advise attempting to use legal means to suppress or take control of a social media account that has posted three posts that weakly criticize the company, you halfwits. Given everything you've said about the higher-ups at your place, I am wholly unsurprised that they've considered this.
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Feb 1, 2018 21:43
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Volguus posted:You touched it. Of course you broke it. Duh... 2:11:22 on this call so far. At this point I've reconfigured nginx twice, the tomcat servers three times and scaled up/down the instances five times. On the plus side our MSO team gave me access to our AWS console just now so I can do this myself with out having to ask them to scale them for me. kill me now.
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Dick Trauma posted:No, I do not advise attempting to use legal means to suppress or take control of a social media account that has posted three posts that weakly criticize the company, you halfwits. "In an entirely unrelated side issue, I have here a rush request for a shipment of popcorn. Yes, it's business-critical."
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Not pissing me off: AP department at my old employer contacted me about bank information for ACH payment. Yay. Also not missing me off: We get to leave a little early today because an exterminator is coming in. All, We had a customer bring in a unit that had cockroaches in it. To make sure we eradicate any of these from our building, tomorrow night we will have the exterminator treat for this bug. We are asking for everybody to leave promptly at 4:30. We are doing this as a precautionary effort to protect everybody in our xyz Family. Plant one is the area being treated. We have a plan for the phones and will execute. We will shut the fire doors between plant two and the operations floor. Shipping personnel will be protected, and we have notified the carriers to have them here by four as well. We have been assured by the exterminator that we are all safe in this treatment for the bugs, but are being over protective to make sure as we are a Family and Caring. Please make sure you inform your direct reports please.
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At an old office, the office manager had scheduled some exterminators to spray some hippie bullshit ultra-sensitive no-smell stuff on a Friday after close. About a dozen people (in an office of about a hundred) complained of the same Monday morning. The exterminators had had to reschedule, and nothing had been sprayed.
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Feb 1, 2018 22:52
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xzzy posted:Isn't that a classic youtube video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Kfjo3VjU
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We are a Family and Caring
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Thanks Ants posted:We are a Family and Caring Like the Manson Family?
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Volguus posted:You touched it. Of course you broke it. Duh... Uh-huh...
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Dick Trauma posted:iPhone X (because he keeps smashing them in a fit of rage) You need to use predictive analytics to get your head in the way of one of these flying iPhones so you can retire early. Out of curiosity, what kinds of things are triggering these fits (besides them being thin skinned babies)?
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porkface posted:You need to use predictive analytics to get your head in the way of one of these flying iPhones so you can retire early. He is an idiot who has been rich for far too long. I'm at the mandatory office event. I found a seat closest to the door. Damned thing runs until 7pm. EDIT: The ceo's sister has already started drinking. EDIT 2: And there goes the first broken glass.
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Feb 2, 2018 00:31
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The waiter came over and asked me if I was the vegan diner. I said "If I was a vegan I'd have told you already."
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Dick Trauma posted:The waiter came over and asked me if I was the vegan diner. I said "If I was a vegan I'd have told you already." "...cloud since I have your ear, have you heard of crossfit?"
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So some dude a pretty big company we dealt with maybe a decade ago for some HVAC solutions decided to blast every email address he had in his contact list (CC, NOT BCC so even some random gmail and hotmail accounts): The CEO of this company 'accidentally' walked in front of a truck last year. EDIT: The attached details was a photo of a business card.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Depends, how is the user phrasing their doubting of your abilities? "Do you actually know how to do that". I've tried the make it a joke way but she's not the type of person who finds me funny. Which is ridiculous because i'm hilarious. in my head E: I'm just going to ignore it and continue fixing everything. dogstile fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Feb 2, 2018 |
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Feb 2, 2018 11:15
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Telemarketers who leave a voicemail of them breathing for 6 seconds and nothing else.
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dogstile posted:"Do you actually know how to do that". If you do decide to respond, I'd go with a deadpan "If I don't, I do know how to find out. That's why they hired me." Respectful, to the point, and frames it as her casting doubt on the abilities of your superiors as well.
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Last week I posted about Dell being uncooperative with resetting a BIOS password. We weren't able to get Dell to reset it, but luckily this site still works on newer Dell laptops: https://bios-pw.org/. I have a few misgivings about putting a laptops full serial number on a random website, although I'm not sure what they could do with it.
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