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The year of 'Be Your Own Defence Attorney' was rough on the C-levels.
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Entropic posted:The Be Your Own Dentist program was pretty rough. We could have avoided all of those extra costs and meeting hours if the users would just wear their drat retainer every night like we told them to
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Feb 18, 2014 21:23
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Gunjin posted:Video editing: 12 core Mac Pro, 10 bit broadcast monitor, 30" apple cinema display, 23" Apple Cinema Display, SAS card, video capture card, Wave panel then a separate laptop to connect to the corporate e-mail and exchange calendar. At that point isn't it just a server sitting under a desk?
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Feb 18, 2014 21:25
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Caged posted:The year of 'Be Your Own Defence Attorney' was rough on the C-levels. Hahahaha you think these changes impact the C-levels!
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Feb 18, 2014 21:25
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JohnnyCanuck posted:Hahahaha you think these changes impact the C-levels! Their bonus getting larger is definitely an impact
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Feb 18, 2014 21:27
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blackswordca posted:I'm working out of the main office instead of the client site this week. Hazzah. So many horrible scenarios 
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Feb 18, 2014 21:27
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"Look Jones I'm sorry but if you're going to object to buying your own PC, phone, desk, chair, carpet, air conditioning, supplies and plumbing then you're just not the sort of team player we need here at ShitCorp"
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Feb 18, 2014 21:31
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Varkk posted:Even better is when it is something like a Cisco router and the Cisco admin has been making a number of changes to the running config over the years but didn't actually save it as the boot config.  When setting up a linux host from scratch the last thing I do is always reboot it just to make sure I didn't forget anything in the startup scripts.
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Feb 18, 2014 21:34
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Collateral Damage posted:Been there done that. Whenever I get a server up and running it has to reboot properly from ssh and come back online properly without any user interaction. If any services aren't running or anything needs to be changed, it fails the test and we do it all over again. I don't give a poo poo if it has 5+ years of up time; if you are afraid to reboot it, it isn't well done.
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Feb 18, 2014 21:40
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Knormal posted:Is it like they're expected to reimburse the company for an existing device or order through a preselected supply chain, or is it straight-up "Come back Monday with a computer". Because I can't even begin to imagine how you'd support the latter. Are they on a domain? Are they being wiped and reinstalled when they come in or are they all running Windows Home full of bloatware? What if someone buys a Mac? Do you have to rebuy the Mac version of the software. Or are they buying the software too? what happened to me is "Well you can buy a laptop from our stock" No... No I cant and No I wont. They ended up giving me some HP laptop abandoned by a client.
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Feb 18, 2014 21:41
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blackswordca posted:what happened to me is "Well you can buy a laptop from our stock" Man, that's ingenious. Why keep the lovely laptops for loaners when you can just force-sell them to your own employees?
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Feb 18, 2014 21:46
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Holy poo poo dude how have you not found any other job in the entire world yet? I know it's not always easy, but holy gently caress.
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Feb 18, 2014 21:47
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blackswordca posted:what happened to me is "Well you can buy a laptop from our stock" Please tell me it still had client data on it.
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Feb 18, 2014 21:48
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Renegret posted:Please tell me it still had client data on it. and still infected with the malware it was brought in for. My morning was backing up and imaging it.
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Feb 18, 2014 21:49
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You're in Canada right? That must must be illegal in some way.
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Feb 18, 2014 21:50
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blackswordca posted:and still infected with the malware it was brought in for. My morning was backing up and imaging it. And so you completed the entire poo poo circle. You should throw cryptolocker on it and plug it into the network.  Sorry boys! I thought you had wiped it before giving it to me!
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Feb 18, 2014 21:51
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ratbert90 posted:And so you completed the entire poo poo circle. didnt have to take calls all morning so there is that.
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Feb 18, 2014 21:54
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"Uh-oh, looks like your numbers are down"
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Feb 18, 2014 21:55
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This thread. Jesus Christ.
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Feb 18, 2014 21:58
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Caged posted:"Uh-oh, looks like your numbers are down" right now, I don't care. I do have something in progress, not IT work but pays well. Just waiting on final confirmation
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Feb 18, 2014 22:01
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Gunjin posted:Buy their own workstation? I'd turn my rear end around and walk right back out the door if I showed up for my first day at a job and they told me that. I would be too busy trying to breathe through uncontrollable laughter to walk anywhere. Entropic posted:The Be Your Own Dentist program was pretty rough. Hey, it works for some people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1HOnv0Y2kY
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Feb 18, 2014 22:02
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Swink posted:Canadian MSPs. Jesus Christ. FTFY BlackswordCA's employment is literally 70's slapstick. It's used cars and slapshot applied to computers.
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Feb 18, 2014 22:03
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Holy poo poo bring your own desktop. The best part is that by having your employees buy their own poo poo nobody gets advantageous pricing for bulk buys etc.
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Feb 18, 2014 22:11
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Saw ~40 new posts, figured something had kicked off with blackswordca, wasn't disappointed. That's both hilarious and enraging at the same time. That poo poo has to be illegal, right? You can't just require someone who you've already employed to suddenly BYOD with no notice. I also like the way they sneakily got rid of his old workstation while he was away, presumably in the hope that he'd just shrug and go buy one when he got back and realised it was gone.
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Feb 18, 2014 22:11
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I think this has to be just some horrible gimmick poster long con. Once the Dick Trauma and CorvetteFisher stories dried up, blackswordca saw his chance.
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Feb 18, 2014 22:14
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My desire for him to  is surpassed only by the desire for the stories to continue.
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Feb 18, 2014 22:18
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Sickening posted:At that point isn't it just a server sitting under a desk? Nobody puts a 12k Mr Fusion under their desk where it will get empty coffee cups thrown at it.
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Feb 18, 2014 22:20
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Caged posted:My desire for him to Someone always steps up when the thread needs them.
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Feb 18, 2014 22:21
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rolleyes posted:Saw ~40 new posts, figured something had kicked off with blackswordca, wasn't disappointed. Strictly speaking, probably not illegal. It depends on how contracts are worded, but (at least in the good ol' U S of A, even ignoring the "we can fire you whenever, suck it" thing) I'd be hard-pressed to imagine an employee handbook that doesn't have a "materials to do your job" clause in it that couldn't be contorted to this situation. Of course, most companies aren't that stupid because good luck with employee retention if you pull that poo poo
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Feb 18, 2014 22:45
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JohnnyCanuck posted:Jesus. Whenever I read that, I always think that he would surely use WPA2. ... Never mind. But yeah, buying your own desktops? That's a loving joke. Do they ask the loving pilot to buy the airplane?
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Feb 18, 2014 22:52
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HalloKitty posted:Do they ask the loving pilot to buy the airplane? Business plan! 
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Feb 18, 2014 23:03
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HalloKitty posted:Whenever I read that, I always think that he would surely use WPA2. No, but Eddie Stobart employ people to buy their own lorries with Eddie Stobart's name written all over it.
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Feb 18, 2014 23:04
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HalloKitty posted:Whenever I read that, I always think that he would surely use WPA2. BYOY: Bring your own Yoke.
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Feb 18, 2014 23:21
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Westie posted:No, but Eddie Stobart employ people to buy their own lorries with Eddie Stobart's name written all over it. Very common in the transport industry, especially couriers. Most of them are technically independent contractors who wear a set uniform (which they have to buy) driving a van which must meet strict criteria for age and model type as well as being adorned in company livery. Once again all paid for by the driver. Then they have to pick up the packages and drop them where the company tells them.
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Feb 18, 2014 23:25
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As an experiment, I blocked most bandwidth hog/social media sites in an accidentally on-purpose fashion. I've yet to have this many tickets in one day. "I can't login, nothing works." "Is Facebook broken?" "WIRELESS IS DOWN." It also amuses me I intended to correct this by lunch time today but ended up with food poisoning and called out sick. Good thing I have "cloud" access to my stuff and things.
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Feb 18, 2014 23:28
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ghana rheya posted:As an experiment, I blocked most bandwidth hog/social media sites in an accidentally on-purpose fashion. So mean. I'm also running IT at the group I was an active in in college: reminds me of the time I used IP tables to redirect one person's traffic to meatspin.
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Feb 18, 2014 23:35
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"I am receiving messages that I am running low on disk space." Ran WinDirStat on user's computer and it turns out the main offender is a 34GB OST file... on an 80GB hard drive. We have a 2GB mailbox quota, how can that file possibly get that big? I mean I could give her an additional hard drive but come on, manage your drat email already.
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Feb 19, 2014 00:53
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Soylent Heliotrope posted:"I am receiving messages that I am running low on disk space." Ran WinDirStat on user's computer and it turns out the main offender is a 34GB OST file... on an 80GB hard drive. We have a 2GB mailbox quota, how can that file possibly get that big? the OST will continue to cache deleted emails.
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Feb 19, 2014 00:56
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That makes this a lot less postworthy. Should I just delete the drat thing then?
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Feb 19, 2014 01:01
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Soylent Heliotrope posted:That makes this a lot less postworthy. Should I just delete the drat thing then? If you can, rename it and it should re-cache a new one to his real mailbox size. When its working properly, delete the big one.
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