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My company requires I update my password every 30 days and I cannot use any of the last four passwords. So... it's a phrase with a numeral and I increment it every time. The numeral is on a sticky note by my computer. 30 days is ridiculous. Nothing needs that.
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Sep 23, 2013 21:03
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Sundae posted:My company requires I update my password every 30 days and I cannot use any of the last four passwords. Ours is 90 days, but we can't used the last 24 passwords.
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Sep 23, 2013 21:07
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Solkanar512 posted:Ours is 90 days, but we can't used the last 24 passwords. As a meditative exercise, calculate your time to retirement in number of password resets. (only ## more to go...)
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Sep 23, 2013 21:11
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I have to use a password and pin to log into an online data collection thing I am required to use. There are no restrictions on reusing past passwords/pins and they have the same structural requirements so I just swap them each time it makes me update.
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Sep 23, 2013 21:11
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I thank my lucky stars that I only have a couple of passwords for work purposes and the requirements are fairly similar and straightforward. One of the programs I use creates its own password when it needs to be reset which I'm more than okay with.
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Sep 23, 2013 22:49
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I feel very lucky now to work for a company that has invested in SSO (Kerberos) pretty much everywhere. I guess it helps that we're large enough to custom-write pretty much all of our tools 
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Sep 23, 2013 22:57
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My company has a new policy for contractors talking about the 'egregiously high compensation' paid to them in the past and how they're going to 'cut it off at the knees'. Our new contractor rates vary by position, but the ones I've identified so far are anywhere from 1/2 to 1/8 the rate they used to pay. Suddenly, we have no qualified applicants for roles. Even the people who had accepted offers rejected once they got their revised pay schedules. Who'd have thought that maybe, just maybe people with 8-10 years of pharma experience won't do highly specialized regulatory work for near minimum wage, no benefits, and no job future? Inconceivable!
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Sep 25, 2013 18:43
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detectivemonkey posted:I accidentally sent an email to someone named Kathie and addressed it Dear Katie (the name of a co-worker). I immediately emailed her back and apologized and she replied with "I didn't even notice, no one ever spells it right so it goes right by me". I've been addressing one of my colleagues in another office by the wrong name for months. The problem is that I always read his last name as his first name in outlook (his name is basically Taylor Connor), so half my mail to him addresses him as Taylor and the other half by Connor. I've always thought about apologizing, but I think that will make me look like just that much more of an rear end when I screw it up the next day.
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Sep 25, 2013 19:19
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If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. This is how outsourcing works. At my current project, I am assigned my team in Bangalore that is a full 14 plus 1 lead big. In my mind, this team ought to be capable of accomplishing something. Now after delving in the reasons for the slow start it turns out that the team composition is 12 fresh joiners and 2 experienced sme's, none with leadership experience. This is when I exploded and started shouting at all involved either onsite or offshore. I am a horrible person, so they worked over the weekend as their reports kept showing delays. Today I looked into detail at the numbers myself and we are a day ahead of planning. Looking forward to my promotion.
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Sep 25, 2013 19:53
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What amazes me is that I'm only barely talking about outsourcing in the traditional 'outsourced to China/India/Costa Rica' sense. I mean literally here in the USA, hiring scientific experts as 'independent contractor' style contractors. They're here, working 40-90 hour weeks depending on the role, acting like full employees, and getting shafted as hard as possible every chance the company gets. It's amazing.
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Sep 25, 2013 20:20
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This is pretty much what Google does for a large part of their workers - local contractors who get paid decently but get shafted on most of the benefits. I think they still get free food, gym, and other random Google services, but no health or dental.
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Sep 25, 2013 20:34
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Contractors here have no benefits, vacation days, sick or flex time. They used to be paid well but now get paid like poo poo (or would if they didn't all just laugh at the new contracts and refuse to renew). The company as a whole has none of those extra perks unless (so I'm told) you work at our corporate branch as opposed to one of the many underling companies they bought over time. (Think band-aids and baby powder.) They also, apparently, have clauses that permit their contracts to get cut at any time without fulfilling the terms on the corporate end. Why even have a contract if it's meaningless?
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Sep 25, 2013 21:18
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That makes me sad to hear since there are so many cries of how STEM work is supposed to be what saves this country.
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Sep 25, 2013 21:49
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When people say STEM, they mean EE's or computer programmers working on Apps.
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Sep 25, 2013 21:51
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The cries of "STEM Worker Shortages" are just a dog-whistle for "STEM Workers are paid more than we would like."
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Sep 25, 2013 21:58
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Sundae posted:My company has a new policy for contractors talking about the 'egregiously high compensation' paid to them in the past and how they're going to 'cut it off at the knees'. Our new contractor rates vary by position, but the ones I've identified so far are anywhere from 1/2 to 1/8 the rate they used to pay. Um excuse me SIR but I don't think it's that hard to adjust some valves or tighten a screw. It's not like management, where it's ACTUALLY work. Jeez.
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Sep 25, 2013 22:04
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Harry posted:When people say STEM, they mean EE's or computer programmers working on Apps. Hey now, you can get paid $105k/yr working on Cloud Storage Computing Storage in The Cloud just as well as you can by working on Revolutionary Disruptive Mobile Apps That Let You Add Pictures Of Cats To Things. But yeah, it's a joke to say we have a STEM worker shortage. We have a computer-programmer shortage.
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Sep 25, 2013 22:07
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Sundae posted:What amazes me is that I'm only barely talking about outsourcing in the traditional 'outsourced to China/India/Costa Rica' sense. I mean literally here in the USA, hiring scientific experts as 'independent contractor' style contractors.  says they're misclassified and should be treated as normal employees.
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Sep 25, 2013 23:04
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Sundae posted:Contractors here have no benefits, vacation days, sick or flex time. They used to be paid well but now get paid like poo poo (or would if they didn't all just laugh at the new contracts and refuse to renew). The company as a whole has none of those extra perks unless (so I'm told) you work at our corporate branch as opposed to one of the many underling companies they bought over time. (Think band-aids and baby powder.) Jesus Christ the old CEO hosed up that company bad (I live in New Brunswick, stories weren't hard to find.)
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Sep 26, 2013 00:24
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SolTerrasa posted:But yeah, it's a joke to say we have a STEM worker shortage. We have a computer-programmer shortage. When we train too many computer programmers in the next 20 years, this is what you'll see on your facebook wall: 
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Sep 26, 2013 00:38
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Solkanar512 posted:
Some of them, I'd definitely believe it. There are some who are legit because they're hired through companies like Kelly Scientific or Validant and technically are FTEs for the contract firm, but then there are a whole bunch who are just independent contractors who seem identical to real employees.
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Sep 26, 2013 01:14
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Yo 1099 type contractors - Do you set your own hours? Do you supply your own equipment? Did you receive no training from the person who gives you money? Can you hire your own helpers to do some of the work you've been assigned? Do you operate at a profit or loss? Do you offer your services to the general public? If not, fill out an SS-8 and send it to the IRS. Your boss will get in deep poo poo for tax evasion and you can go forward paying 7.65% less in taxes. This announcement brought to you by a person paid to sell payroll management service.
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Sep 26, 2013 01:25
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Xibanya posted:you can go forward paying 7.65% less in taxes. Until you are fired for some minor rule infraction later. At-will employment woo!
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Sep 26, 2013 01:48
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Heard today during a 2-hour WebEx presentation, on the Agenda/Objectives slide: "So, the next slide contains what I like to call 'objectives.' *presenter bursts out laughing* Pardon my joke. Almost Friday. Anyway, moving on..." I... I don't get it. I sat there for like 5 min trying to figure out what the gently caress was so funny about calling an objectives slide objectives.
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Sep 26, 2013 17:17
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Sundae posted:Heard today during a 2-hour WebEx presentation, on the Agenda/Objectives slide: Was this in the UK? In the sitcom 'Miranda', the main character's mother has a habit of calling things 'What I like to call X', with X being the same as what everyone would call it. As in, I'm posting on what I like to call the Something Awful forums.
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Sep 26, 2013 21:20
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Xibanya posted:If not, fill out an SS-8 and send it to the IRS. Your boss will get in deep poo poo for tax evasion and you can go forward paying 7.65% less in taxes. Also hit up the state labor board. A former employer got burned badly by NY over using contractors like employees. States are broke, they want those sweet, sweet payroll taxes.
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Sep 26, 2013 21:40
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Sundae posted:Heard today during a 2-hour WebEx presentation, on the Agenda/Objectives slide: Brain damage from prolonged exposure to PowerPoint?
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Sep 26, 2013 22:55
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Xibanya posted:Yo 1099 type contractors - Can we somehow sticky this post at the top of the BFC forums?
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modeski posted:Was this in the UK? In the sitcom 'Miranda', the main character's mother has a habit of calling things 'What I like to call X', with X being the same as what everyone would call it. As in, I'm posting on what I like to call the Something Awful forums. I love Miranda, but nope, nothing in the UK. It was just some USA-based weirdo who seemed to think the objectives slide was hilarious.
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Sep 26, 2013 23:48
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CCKeane posted:Today I was chewed out for proposing that our company test products before we release them. Oh, yeah, I get this. I've said something similar more than once to the decisionmakers where I am and of course, am ignored as long as we have an "MVP".
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Sep 27, 2013 00:52
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Zuph posted:The cries of "STEM Worker Shortages" are just a dog-whistle for "STEM Workers are paid more than we would like." STEM people are probably second only to Labor in being horrifically underpaid compared to the value added. Where I work, IT guys literally keep the company running and get paid peanuts, and engineers make less than analysts (data entry specialists). I guess some of the analysts have math degrees, so that must drag the average up.
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Sep 27, 2013 01:00
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My brain just broke for the day. An SOP actually hit section 8.6.2.1.1.4.6.15.A How many levels in do you need in a document? They're going to branch into wingdings at this rate.
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Sep 27, 2013 21:02
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Colors. "This is 8.6.2.1.1.4.6.15.A.Blue.Red".
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Sep 27, 2013 23:49
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No, sales person, you can not give away our product for 10% of what we normally charge because you're desperate for a commission. Not when you've overpromised to the point where my team will have to spend months cleaning up your mess.
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Sep 28, 2013 00:10
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To people who book meetings and set the reminder to 'none': a plague, a plague on your houses!
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Today I sent out an informative e-mail to my executive teams detailing what exactly we can expect with the looming federal government shutdown tomorrow. Honestly at my properties it's pretty much "business as usual" but you know we're in a leisure market, TSA staffing will take a hit so people will miss flights, etc. whatever Nobody at either of my hotels knew it was happening. Not one person. I know that I'm a bit of a political junkie but... really?
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Sep 30, 2013 17:57
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There have been shutdown threats so often over the last couple years that people are desensitized to it.
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Sep 30, 2013 19:46
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Kim Jong Il posted:No, sales person, you can not give away our product for 10% of what we normally charge because you're desperate for a commission. Not when you've overpromised to the point where my team will have to spend months cleaning up your mess. We routinely do this, except that we give away the software so that the professional services side gets the full dollar amount for their work. We get paid a higher commission on the software that we sell rather than on the services that we sell. The problem is our software takes a long time to implement so if a customer has $200k to spend and we determine that it will cost $150k in services to implement, well then, they get charged $50k for the software even if it should have been $100k or something. Obviously we evaluate the profit margin before we go ahead with it but we always have to discount the software rather than the services. I get why we do it that way to some degree but it still kind of sucks because no matter what we're getting the same $200k (and the same profit margin, although I guess doing it this way means we get less commission so the profit margin is a tiny bit better) from the customer but it is ALWAYS the software side that takes the big hits. It sounds like your situation is a little different though.
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Sep 30, 2013 20:59
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Sundae posted:My brain just broke for the day. An SOP actually hit section 8.6.2.1.1.4.6.15.A I think the 'A' is the best part. Apparently eight numbers is okay, but nine would be over the line.
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Alien Arcana posted:I think the 'A' is the best part. Apparently eight numbers is okay, but nine would be over the line. I usually use a terminating letter or number in order to tell, at a glance, if I am telling with something that is in the proposal stage, or something that has already been implemented. I'd imagine it's something similar here.
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