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Pissing me off: Delta's lovely, horrible loving webpage. Changing the login location from the top-left to the bottom-left randomly is bad enough. Using a lovely 4-digit PIN is bad enough. But then to utterly fail to allow a user to login after watching little fields pop out to enter your last name, is just loving horrible. Username Password (that's more than 4 digits) Why isn't it that simple? For more fun, I tested on Firefox (with and without NoScript), IE11 (with and without compatibility views), and Chrome: Delta's site is hosed up on all of them.
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# ? Jan 9, 2014 20:23 |
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Dick Trauma posted:That's what reams of paper are for. Helpdesk? Yeah, I need someone over here right away, my monitor is out of paper. THIS IS AFFECTING PRODUCTION.
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# ? Jan 9, 2014 20:31 |
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:Helpdesk? Yeah, I need someone over here right away, my monitor is out of paper. THIS IS AFFECTING PRODUCTION. I'm going to have to stage an intervention for this guy:
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# ? Jan 9, 2014 21:04 |
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I see a fiscally responsible out of the box thinker right there with upper management written all over him. I say he gets a promotion!
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# ? Jan 9, 2014 21:09 |
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Dick Trauma posted:I'm going to have to stage an intervention for this guy: What's going on there is actually understandable. Looks like he has one of those Dell docking stations with the built in monitor stand, the ones you then have to screw your monitor to. With those you end up with your primary monitor at a height that an identical monitor with the stock stand can never reach. It's annoying as gently caress to not have two identical side-by-side monitors line up like that. (I used manuals for VB 5 and 6 from the bosses "don't throw anything away" cupboard)
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# ? Jan 9, 2014 21:17 |
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Isn't it better ergonomically to be looking down at your monitor, rather than up?
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# ? Jan 9, 2014 21:33 |
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Dick Trauma posted:I'm going to have to stage an intervention for this guy: Don't you have some old phone books or something he can use instead of an entire carton of paper? Or just give him the empty carton that he would have taken all those reams out of.
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# ? Jan 9, 2014 21:33 |
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FISHMANPET posted:Isn't it better ergonomically to be looking down at your monitor, rather than up? Neither, you want to be looking straight ahead.
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# ? Jan 9, 2014 21:35 |
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Think of it as emergency paper reserves.
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# ? Jan 9, 2014 21:36 |
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A ticket came in: Hoarder of Paper: The printer won't print! DT: It's out of paper. Instructions for refilling the trays are on the screen. Another ticket came in: Hoarder of Paper: My monitor fell on the floor and broke.
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# ? Jan 9, 2014 21:41 |
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Sirotan posted:Neither, you want to be looking straight ahead. you're both sorta right. You want to be looking straight ahead at the top of the monitor, looking slightly down at the middle.
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# ? Jan 9, 2014 21:44 |
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Someone should warn her not to lean back in that chair, looks unstable.
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# ? Jan 9, 2014 21:46 |
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nitrogen posted:you're both sorta right.
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# ? Jan 9, 2014 22:02 |
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HalloKitty posted:Isn't that really a problem for US employment law, though? Because there's no enforcement for paid sick day amounts, I believe. I don't know a huge amount about US employment law, but from the scraps I have seen, it's bloody awful. My current job gives me ~10ish sick days a year, my last one... I had to use vacation which was bullshit. As a general rule if I'm sick I try to gently caress off, but this year I ran out of sick days (I had a really long and nasty flu at the beginning of the year) so came to work sick. I didn't do poo poo while I was here those days, because I couldn't breath and my head was spinning. But hey I sure held that chair down so it wouldn't take off.
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# ? Jan 9, 2014 23:19 |
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I currently have... 42.75 sick days. They never expire and I don't get sick much so they just sit there accumulating. I should really be sick more, because if I get a promotion they all just vanish.
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# ? Jan 9, 2014 23:39 |
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dogstile posted:so, you get to take a full third of your year off to be ill? I can't imagine why anyone would go in if they even had a suspicion that they're contagious. I bet that gets abused like hell. Not really, no, but that may be due to the accumulated 2.08 vacation days you earn/save each month. (minimum, set by law) For a full year you'll save ~25 vacation days (PTO). Of course your employer will mark you for termination if you take every Monday off, or generally call in sick "just because", but they can't outright fire you because of your sick days until you get above 120 days. they'll think of some other excuse that won't let you sue them or get the union on their back - like kicking you out because the workload is slowing 0.5%, or because the tractor you usually drive has to be sold, or you aren't a team player, etc. In short it's not as easy to fire people as in the US, but far easier than in France. Crowley fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Jan 9, 2014 |
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FISHMANPET posted:I currently have... 42.75 sick days. They never expire and I don't get sick much so they just sit there accumulating. I should really be sick more, because if I get a promotion they all just vanish. I am part of the "never sick club" as well. My old place would lump in sick days and vacation in one pool, so it worked well. My new place gives me 1 free "wellness" day for every 6 months I don't use more than 10 hours of sick time. This isn't terrible either.
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 00:21 |
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My current place doesn't track sick days (or vacations, actually; they leave that up to the managers). I've only been here a year and a half, though, so I've only had to call in sick for one day so far. Actually, I'm getting over being sick right now, but it was just a pathetic little head cold, so I just worked from home for a couple days to avoid passing it to my coworkers. Either the other teams in my building frown on taking any sick time at all, though, or everyone is trying to be the guy who never ever calls in sick or works from home, because half the building is constantly hacking, sneezing, or coughing up various internal organs for most of the year.
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 00:39 |
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I think if I accumulate something like 400 hours then for every hour of sick time I earn, a quarter of it goes to vacation and 3/4 goes to sick. Then I think at 600 it's half and half, and at 800 3/4 of each sick hour go to vacation and only 1/4 goes to sick.
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 00:39 |
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I probably only ever actually take a couple sick days a year, for when I'm incapable of doing much but curling up in bed and wishing for death. The rest of the time it's "I feel fine, but my nose is dripping, so working from home" At one point I was working from home for like two weeks because the coughing just wouldn't stop. But the end of that period clashed with a team go-karting event. I went anyway but wore a face mask at all times, at my manager's suggestion.
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 02:02 |
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Symantec backup exec 2012 sucks cocks because even if you have the debug client open you don't have a loving clue if anything is going right and the stupid interface can take literally hours to update. I pray to Thor that we never, ever have to restore off our tape backups.
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 02:45 |
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Return Of JimmyJars posted:Symantec backup exec 2012 sucks cocks because even if you have the debug client open you don't have a loving clue if anything is going right and the stupid interface can take literally hours to update. I pray to Thor that we never, ever have to restore off our tape backups. I hope you're at least doing test restores
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 02:59 |
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Lol nope. I let Be2012 verify it after it's all put to tape. Our tape backups are in the realm of 200TB each so there isn't time to do test restore unless our CTO springs for a second tape library.
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 03:19 |
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Return Of JimmyJars posted:Lol nope. I let Be2012 verify it after it's all put to tape. Our tape backups are in the realm of 200TB each so there isn't time to do test restore unless our CTO springs for a second tape library. A backup set is only as good as the last restore from it. if you have never restored from one, then assume it is bad.
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 03:58 |
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KennyTheFish posted:A backup set is only as good as the last restore from it. if you have never restored from one, then assume it is bad. This thread taught me nothing if not this. If you can be blamed for backup failures, you should either verify this or CYA immediately.
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 05:08 |
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Return Of JimmyJars posted:Symantec backup exec 2012 sucks cocks because they replaced everything Veritas put in the program, i.e. the parts that actually worked, with poo poo hastily squirted out by Symantec's "programmers", to ensure that it will immediately stop working as soon as you think it's set up and functioning properly. Fixed. I'm done with Backup Exec. Moving all our poo poo to Veeam. It doesn't do physical servers, that's fine, our customers should be virtualizing everything anyway. gently caress Backup Exec.
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 08:04 |
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Return Of JimmyJars posted:Symantec backup exec 2012 sucks cocks because even if you have the debug client open you don't have a loving clue if anything is going right and the stupid interface can take literally hours to update. I pray to Thor that we never, ever have to restore off our tape backups. I got into so many arguments with people at my last job on backup exec. Apparently green check marks mean everything; even if backup exec never shows them because it always fucks up. "OH YOU WANT BACKUP DUPLICATION? YEAH EVERYTHING DOES THAT NOW OF DAYS"
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 08:09 |
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I am currently sick 4 weeks for an operation. Last year I had constantly reoccuring issues that were related to my cheese intake ( yep, sudden cheese allergy...) and was probably sick a total of 30 days. HR spoke to me, I told them I was sick no matter how much he pryed and thats that. We have to visit the doc immediately, but in turn I can just do that. My employer has no right to know more than that I was sick.
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 09:07 |
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I need a highly automated way to track laptops in and out and who are using them that I can present to my boss. One of our divisions wants to know how many laptops IT has given them, how many they have returned to us, temporary loaner laptops that have been used, how many laptops each user has had through their employment, who has been using a laptop through its lifespan etc. IF I CAN'T PRESENT A GOOD SOLUTION, HE WILL MAKE ME REGISTER ALL OF THIS IN EXCEL!! Edit: I have PDQ Inventory and Deploy free versions, I tried to push for a Lansweeper license, but no go, so I can enjoy three weeks of knowing what's actually going on. evobatman fucked around with this message at 10:32 on Jan 10, 2014 |
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I use Filemaker for my inventory. I have a table for employees that includes position and location, and entries tagged with their name appear in that table. So I can look at a piece of hardware (Laptop, cellphone, etc.) and see in the notes who used it, or look at an employee and see what's assigned to them. Makes it easier to generate reports based on user, location, hardware type, account number and so on.
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 10:33 |
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evobatman posted:I need a highly automated way to track laptops in and out and who are using them that I can present to my boss. One of our divisions wants to know how many laptops IT has given them, how many they have returned to us, temporary loaner laptops that have been used, how many laptops each user has had through their employment, who has been using a laptop through its lifespan etc. intel vPro can do wonders, or so I am told
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 10:52 |
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just catching up on this thread, so only just read the workwear stuff ... At a previous company everyone had to dress 'smart' i.e. no jeans or trainers etc, but the IT dept could wear whatever, which was nice Occasionally there would be dress down days, but as we already dressed down, we used to dress up instead - full on suit time. It used to scare people shitless when we'd walk around the office to fix stuff, we'd go in pairs and walk up to a desk and it would take a second for them to recognise us, with usual replies of 'loving hell Phil, I thought I was about to be escorted out the building or something' good times
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 13:09 |
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In the first sick day you don't get paid for. The following days you get 80% pay (minimum, collective bargaining agreement can set this higher) from your employer, day 2-14. Though after day 8 the employer doesn't have to pay though if the employee can't produce a statement from a doctor that they can't work. After 15 days the state pays your sick pay. At work, our dress code is agreed to be "no tank tops". Previous mandated employees to wear work-provided ESD sandals if they entered the lab, I miss those.
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 13:25 |
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I'm tired of places that don't say what the salary range for a position is (and finding out later it pays half what I currently make), so I just ask them when doing the interview-planning exchange now.quote:Salary is based on years of relevant experience and certifications. If you give let us know the range you are looking for, then I could verify that it is within our range as well. For gently caress's sake just tell me, broadly, what the job pays.
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 16:07 |
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:I'm tired of places that don't say what the salary range for a position is (and finding out later it pays half what I currently make), so I just ask them when doing the interview-planning exchange now. But then they can't lowball you. How is an employer supposed to make ends meet if they can't take advantage of people that don't know how much they should be making?
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 16:24 |
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:I'm tired of places that don't say what the salary range for a position is (and finding out later it pays half what I currently make), so I just ask them when doing the interview-planning exchange now. Just tell them that since they cannot tell you, that you are not interested in their position. I just had a recruiter let me know about a position but after asking him a few questions I was able to figure out that it was not something I wanted so i told him I was not interested. I guess it helps that I like my current place except for the pay. But I can be picky on where I go from here because I don't have to leave where I am currently.
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 16:26 |
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Yeah holy gently caress the endless back and forth of "no you go first" is ridiculous. If you want to waste your time interviewing people who will just say no then don't bother putting the salary in the job listing, but once you've identified someone as suitable just loving tell them.
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 16:28 |
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Caged posted:Yeah holy gently caress the endless back and forth of "no you go first" is ridiculous. If you want to waste your time interviewing people who will just say no then don't bother putting the salary in the job listing, but once you've identified someone as suitable just loving tell them. Its pretty comical. Employers put a lot of effort into trying to only talk to people who will work for what they are willing to pay without trying to give up low balling opportunities by not listing the range.
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 16:38 |
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Trastion posted:Just tell them that since they cannot tell you, that you are not interested in their position. Yeah, I'm happy at my current position (but could use something more challenging/higher pay), these people just keep emailing me out of the blue then doing everything they can to avoid telling me what the job pays. It's kind of ridiculous.
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Yeah, I'm happy at my current position (but could use something more challenging/higher pay), these people just keep emailing me out of the blue then doing everything they can to avoid telling me what the job pays. It's kind of ridiculous. So get ridiculous with them. If I get an email I reply back with a list of requirements Full time only, no contract work. 3 weeks vacation minimum 401k match low deductible PPO with a reasonable employee contribution $100,000 annual salary plus bonus/incentives Because that's what it would take for me to think about leaving my current gig.
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