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TWBalls posted:This would probably be the best thing to happen for him. Not sure of the laws in Canada, but at least in the US, if you're fired, you can get Unemployment Benefits. At the very least, he'd finally be out of that poo poo hole. Not if they can find a reason to claim you were fired for cause, which probably includes "willfully (in their eyes) disobeying company policy".
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Docjowles posted:Not if they can find a reason to claim you were fired for cause, which probably includes "willfully (in their eyes) disobeying company policy". With as much shady poo poo that's going on there, I doubt they're going to try something like that and possibly bring any attention to themselves. At any rate, at least he wouldn't be the whipping boy at that insufferable job anymore.
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Does Canada have any regulations for a hostile work environment? Because I would love to see a poo poo load of documents/audit trails/emails come forth and basically say you guys fire all of your middle management blackswordca. Or you know try to rake in any cash for the damage to your liver after dealing with them for so long. I say gently caress them all, take them down with you via scorched earth.
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notwithoutmyanus posted:Don't make fun of bread Wang. He's our lab engineer! First thing that came to mind: 
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Langolas posted:Does Canada have any regulations for a hostile work environment? Because I would love to see a poo poo load of documents/audit trails/emails come forth and basically say you guys fire all of your middle management blackswordca. Or you know try to rake in any cash for the damage to your liver after dealing with them for so long.
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It's more than that though isn't it? This is line managers being purposely hostile and dumping blame where it isn't due, as well as a company culture that seems to reward loving up and punishes anyone who tries to find out why things went wrong (e.g. not auditing).
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Dec 30, 2013 22:26
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Lum posted:First thing that came to mind: Puppy Wang?  We now have a Mailer Wang. Special was let go but Merlin and Magic Wang are still with the company as well as saffron poon. If I ever have to travel to Asia and meet them for work I am not going to be able to completely stifle a chuckle. Edit:vvvv 
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notwithoutmyanus posted:Puppy Wang? No, it's a science lab!
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blackswordca posted:So an email argument came in: What would happen if you said "OK" and then did nothing?
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Well I'm assuming the account lead wouldn't be able to use the email chain as evidence
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Caged posted:Well I'm assuming the account lead wouldn't be able to use the email chain as evidence Evidence doesn't matter, that company's mission statement is "gently caress off, blame blacksword"
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A panicky phone call came in! Our org estranged c-level called me to purge out a email he sent to his lawyer....... ....which was actually sent to our sales team  . I had to search-mailbox -delete in every mailbox in sales(which was only 8 people). But It was pretty great catching someone forwarding the email to their gmail account.The funny thing though, I know what exactly happen though without them telling me. The message was sent in apple native mail client (which is comically a bad ideal™) and forgot to select the account to send from. incoherent fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Dec 31, 2013 |
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Docjowles posted:While we're talking about Indian names, I just noticed that the support case we opened recently with NetApp was handled by a tech named Ravi Shankar
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incoherent posted:A panicky phone call came in! Our org estranged c-level called me to purge out a email he sent to his lawyer....... How wrinkly was his scrotum in the dick pic he had you erase?
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Kachunkachunk posted:There's also a dude that shares the name David Gilmour where I work. Can't help but think spacey tunes and thoughts when his e-mails go around. We have someone working for us who worked on some popular MTV movies. For privacy sake I'm not going to mention the name of the show, but it's amazing to see that his role on the movies and his role with the company are 2 completely different things. One hell of a hobby.
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Migishu posted:We have someone working for us who worked on some popular MTV movies. For privacy sake I'm not going to mention the name of the show, but it's amazing to see that his role on the movies and his role with the company are 2 completely different things. One hell of a hobby. MTV has movies??? I knew that they were mostly tv shows now but do they even play any music at all anymore?
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Migishu posted:We have someone working for us who worked on some popular MTV movies. For privacy sake I'm not going to mention the name of the show, but it's amazing to see that his role on the movies and his role with the company are 2 completely different things. One hell of a hobby. It's Johnny Knoxville, isn't it? Trastion posted:MTV has movies??? I knew that they were mostly tv shows now but do they even play any music at all anymore? They have a movie studio.
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Trastion posted:MTV has movies??? I knew that they were mostly tv shows now but do they even play any music at all anymore? I think the music stopped 5 years ago.
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Caged posted:It's more than that though isn't it? This is line managers being purposely hostile and dumping blame where it isn't due, as well as a company culture that seems to reward loving up and punishes anyone who tries to find out why things went wrong (e.g. not auditing). Yep from what I see, his superiors are causing undue stress from their negligence and/or potentially malicious actions taken and throwing blame at blackswordca. If he was in the states, he would have the makings for potential actionable HWE issues. Keep documenting and check the Canada laws just to cover your own rear end (I assume you've been doing this anyways blackswordca). Catch those bastards
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Lum posted:No, it's a science lab! Goddamn it Lum.
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Kachunkachunk posted:There's also a dude that shares the name David Gilmour where I work. Can't help but think spacey tunes and thoughts when his e-mails go around. There's a David Mason at my office, every time he sends an email it triggers this in me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utl0NfisZQE
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Wilford Cutlery posted:There's a David Mason at my office, every time he sends an email it triggers this in me: For me it would've been https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8_FOQ7-P30
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So a ticket didn't come in today... and I'm bored to tears. I did have a long time customer call me directly for some issues that we don't fully support... but I had nothing better to do. Also talked some Texas BBQ which makes me want to book a flight to Austin. Anyone else stuck at work today and wanting shove an icepick through their skull from boredom?
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Langolas posted:So a ticket didn't come in today... and I'm bored to tears. I did have a long time customer call me directly for some issues that we don't fully support... but I had nothing better to do. Also talked some Texas BBQ which makes me want to book a flight to Austin. Yes. And tomorrow is going to be worse.
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RFC2324 posted:Yes. I took 1st-6th off for this very reason. However today I have taken one call and it's because she went out and bought a different printer than the one we mailed her because she didn't like how it looked on her desk.....
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Langolas posted:So a ticket didn't come in today... and I'm bored to tears. I did have a long time customer call me directly for some issues that we don't fully support... but I had nothing better to do. Also talked some Texas BBQ which makes me want to book a flight to Austin. Me. Thankfully we're off tomorrow, though I'm covering on-call for New Years as I think I'm the only one in the dept. that neither drinks nor has kids.
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I'm being sent to training for all of next week  Windows 2012 R2 stuff. 5 days, 8 hours a day. It's nice to get training vouchers.
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GreenNight posted:I'm being sent to training for all of next week gently caress you. I'm stagnating because my company and it's customers won't move beyond Server 2003 and Windows XP.
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Langolas posted:I did have a long time customer call me directly for some issues that we don't fully support... but I had nothing better to do. 2014!
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Lum posted:gently caress you. Yeah, that blows. That poo poo is gonna be EOL pretty drat quick, so good luck cleaning viruses when the patches stop. We're lucky in that our small manufacturing company keeps pretty current. 2014 itself is busy as poo poo - upgrading DCs to 2012 R2, upgrading Exchange to 2013, and Sharepoint to 2013. Luckily we just contract that work out to people who've done it a dozen times.
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GreenNight posted:Yeah, that blows. That poo poo is gonna be EOL pretty drat quick, so good luck cleaning viruses when the patches stop. We're lucky in that our small manufacturing company keeps pretty current. 2014 itself is busy as poo poo - upgrading DCs to 2012 R2, upgrading Exchange to 2013, and Sharepoint to 2013. Luckily we just contract that work out to people who've done it a dozen times. Microsoft is actually going to follow through this time? I'm assuming that there's "pay us obscene sacks of money for continuing patches" support being offered for large customers though, right?
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Lum posted:gently caress you.  4 months of progress, moving out of the land of the one off broke as poo poo software and into the land of citrix hosted apps so hopefully the rest move quicker. The servers are another matter entirely, bosslady has been ignoring all prodding to get the domain off of 2003 and onto at least 2008 r2 but we're starting to run into issues with keeping DFS at 2003 functional so now we have a need we can demonstrate at least.
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Volmarias posted:Microsoft is actually going to follow through this time? I'm assuming that there's "pay us obscene sacks of money for continuing patches" support being offered for large customers though, right? Heh, I just saw our quote for extended support today: for a six month reprieve, it came in in the high six figures, plus a 50k "fee" per hotfix. I doubt we're actually gonna pay that much for the privilege of continuing to use a ten year old OS, but if nothing else it'll be fun to wave in the faces of certain people around here who think their apps are important enough to warrant staying on XP. Yeah, nnnnnnnnope! So who else is a professional "noyoucan'thaveXP-sayer" for the next six months? 
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ratbert90 posted:WindowsXP is running a kernel that is almost as old as kernel 2.4.0. You're confused, the kernel changed significantly for SP2 and to lesser amounts for SP3.
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The impending death of XP/2003 makes me very, very happy. The fact that there will still be millions of zombie XP machines well beyond end of life makes me very, very sad.
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I had to work today. Started a 6:45 was going to leave around 3:30-4 because of snow. I normally work 10s so no big deal to work these hours. Then, 3pm rolls around, and poo poo hit the fan, our office took ~420 calls in an hour and a half, there were 6 of us working. I'm now finally leaving the office at 6pm. I have a party that I'm throwing that starts in 2 hours, it will take me at least that long to get home. Bad scotch that has been sitting in my apartment forever, you will get drank tonight, and you will like it.
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Volmarias posted:How wrinkly was his scrotum in the dick pic he had you erase? I wish it was a goddamn picture. The email contents (from what I relayed, I really didn't want to read it to keep myself out of the politics) used the words "insolvent" and "lawsuits" and "equity firms". For the man who started the goddamn place, he never really trusted the infrastructure. I would of been a million times easier to clean this up if he just sent it from his ACUTAL work email instead of his private one back to the company. Let me tell you what, he believed in the power of exchange 2010 right then and there.
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Reminder to install the Windows XP EOL widget http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11662 On your bosses computer.
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