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poo poo that's pissing me off: being told by the future CEO that he is "concerned about my attitude" because I told a department head to go away and use the helpdesk for IT issues while I was troubleshooting an Exchange 2013 mail flow issue.
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Mar 12, 2014 07:56
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Mattress Man posted:poo poo that's pissing me off: being told by the future CEO that he is "concerned about my attitude" because I told a department head to go away and use the helpdesk for IT issues while I was troubleshooting an Exchange 2013 mail flow issue. Ah yes, he must own a copy of Webster's Dictionary, Management Edition. Bad Attitude noun 1. When other people can understand your words because your lips aren't wrapped firmly enough around the cock of someone higher on the org chart than you.
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Mar 12, 2014 08:13
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We stagger lunches here in our IT dept so that someone is always available in office. Of course occasionally one of the guys on the network team has to run to the server room or somewhere else and a helpdesk guy might be away from his desk to assist a user. So of course one of the c-levels walks in while everyone is busy for that one particular moment and out of the office, needing help opening a power point or some bullshit in a boardroom. When I get back from my lunch, he sees me in the hallway and proceeds to ream me out for not providing adequate coverage. So you want us to hop up and answer and walk to employees that need help but we also cant leave our offices in case you stop by? I told him I was on lunch, we stagger ours so that someone is in there and he was just unlucky when he walked in. Not sure what else he wants me to do, he just kept yammering on about always needing someone in the office.
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Mar 12, 2014 13:56
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Sickening posted:Going with one or two recruiters is pointless. If employers are looking for your skill set recruiters will find you. Employers will most likely only choose a few recruiting companies at a time and who knows the thought process behind that. You just have to make yourself easy to find. As someone who has been on the "employer" side of this we do it because they're loving annoying and we'd like to deal with as few of them as possible. They're no more competent to us than you, You give over the requirements for say, a senior c# programmer and you get an intern from Malaysia with no VISA and a BA in Economics but who can just about point out a copy of windows in a line up. We literally eventually gave up and employed someone to act as an internal recruitment company.
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Mar 12, 2014 14:09
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Dudley posted:As someone who has been on the "employer" side of this we do it because they're loving annoying and we'd like to deal with as few of them as possible. Recruiters know nothing about any industry besides recruitment. Combine that with the fact that they run every CV through a dozen lovely macros to pick out the key points, but which really just end up mangling everything and you end up with a recruitment process which goes something like: "C# is the same thing as C right?" "Cos I've heard of C, it's a kind of programming" "So is HTML" "You can save Word documents as HTML" "Word is part of Microsoft Office" So your request for a "C# programmer" becomes "Someone who can remember which order to click two buttons to run an Excel marco"
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Mar 12, 2014 14:54
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Our daily network outage.
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Mar 12, 2014 16:14
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dogstile posted:I loving hate Backup Exec and I honestly don't understand why some of my company's use it. We have loving backup scripts ready for you to use, let us use them! As a follow-up to this: The appliance keeps crashing over and over every time I try and inventory/catalog the dedupe folder. I'm writing up a nice little email to the support lady because she literally completely broke our backup solution. Backup Exec: Keeping your blood pressure high since whenever it was Symantec bought Veritas
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Mar 12, 2014 16:15
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jim truds posted:Our daily network outage. I'm amazed by the amount of people who are prepared to tolerate huge show-stopping issues and focus on tiny things that aren't even problems. Like they will focus really hard on why their network adapter has a #2 after it, but not give a gently caress about the mail server going down on a weekly basis.
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Mar 12, 2014 16:19
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Sweevo posted:Recruiters know nothing about any industry besides recruitment. Combine that with the fact that they run every CV through a dozen lovely macros to pick out the key points, but which really just end up mangling everything and you end up with a recruitment process which goes something like: Which leads me to my other gripe, one recruiter really couldn't understand why it was a bad thing he rewrote every candidates CV and jammed them into his own lovely template. No, I want to hire them, not you, show me THEIR work. These 5 horrible typos? Are they the candidate not giving a poo poo or you being poo poo. It was, unsurprisingly, usually the 2nd one.
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Mar 12, 2014 16:19
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Caged posted:I'm amazed by the amount of people who are prepared to tolerate huge show-stopping issues and focus on tiny things that aren't even problems. Like they will focus really hard on why their network adapter has a #2 after it, but not give a gently caress about the mail server going down on a weekly basis. If I did more then keep my head down and worked on leaving I think I would have some great stories. My boss does a good job at keeping the stupid away but when the network goes down for 3 days in a row and the team in charge pretends it is a nonissue then you know things are poo poo. The stupid I get to deal with is our XP upgrade plan is to maybe update in a year and to just not buy new laptops because of Dell using chips that don't have xp drivers. Gumball Gumption fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Mar 12, 2014 |
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Mar 12, 2014 16:33
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Dudley posted:Which leads me to my other gripe, one recruiter really couldn't understand why it was a bad thing he rewrote every candidates CV and jammed them into his own lovely template. Reminds me of the time I got a resume for a "C+ Programmer."
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Mar 12, 2014 20:06
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So this just happened: "Hey, can you generate a file with all the numbers from 1 to a number I'll tell you when I get back?" "Yeah, I guess." "OK, the number is 1 trillion." "... that would be over 10 terabytes." "That big? I'm doing it because we lost the password to something and it's just numbers, so I was going to feed it into a dictionary cracker." "I... can't help there."
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Mar 12, 2014 20:17
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and the password ends up being: 0000
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Mar 12, 2014 20:22
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Zamujasa posted:So this just happened: "That program checks EVERY zip code? There must be a million of those!"
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Mar 12, 2014 20:25
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Zamujasa posted:"That big? I'm doing it because we lost the password to something and it's just numbers, so I was going to feed it into a dictionary cracker." Any cracking program with even rudimentary features will have a built-in generator for that
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Mar 12, 2014 20:25
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mewse posted:Any cracking program with even rudimentary features will have a built-in generator for that 
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Mar 12, 2014 20:28
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It lightly pisses me off that Big Corporation can't write a grammatically correct form letter to send to clients about some stuff in the transition. So, since it was sent to me(and several others) for "approval," I made a shitload of small corrections and am going to send it back to the Director who spawned it. We'll see how this goes.
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Mar 12, 2014 20:40
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AlternateAccount posted:It lightly pisses me off that Big Corporation can't write a grammatically correct form letter to send to clients about some stuff in the transition. So, since it was sent to me(and several others) for "approval," I made a shitload of small corrections and am going to send it back to the Director who spawned it. We'll see how this goes. Memo: AlternateAccount's duties now include editing all outgoing correspondence.
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Mar 12, 2014 21:23
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vMotion just broke on my two View clusters today. VMware support guy couldn't find any problem. Collected logs and off to an engineer. 
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Mar 12, 2014 21:27
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Moey posted:vMotion just broke on my two View clusters today. VMware support guy couldn't find any problem. Collected logs and off to an engineer. s/vmware/hp/ and you have my last week or so.
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Mar 12, 2014 22:52
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Well, went forward with his try-to-crack-the-password plan. Estimated time to test all numbers in that one-trillion search space: about 11 years. If I was the one that had to modify the crack app for him I'd have just replaced it with a bitcoin miner. Bitcoins are a laughable joke but at least we'd get something out of it 
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Mar 12, 2014 23:13
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What is the thing you're trying to crack??
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Mar 12, 2014 23:26
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So the combination is... one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
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Mar 12, 2014 23:30
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Roargasm posted:What is the thing you're trying to crack?? I'm betting it's something that is known to be easily bypassed.
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Mar 12, 2014 23:32
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Che Delilas posted:Memo: AlternateAccount's duties now include editing all outgoing correspondence. Haha, I did think about this, but in a way it was just an opportunity to see how he responded.
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Mar 12, 2014 23:33
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Roargasm posted:What is the thing you're trying to crack?? The passphrase for a private key, more or less. It's going to be a while.
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Mar 12, 2014 23:59
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Moey posted:vMotion just broke on my two View clusters today. VMware support guy couldn't find any problem. Collected logs and off to an engineer. What happened? Also poo poo still pissing me off? HR is still dragging their feet, looks like I won't actually start working till the 31st... Good news is I found out I have 2700 more dollars than I originally thought in my bank, thanks wells fargo for sending me incomplete statements! Oh and my monitor broke. Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Mar 13, 2014 |
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Mar 13, 2014 00:26
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So we had need for a way to schedule recurring reports to run at particular times with configurable parameters, with multiple users being able to schedule new reports or modify/reschedule existing ones. The solution developed was to login to an account on a Windows terminal server via remote desktop and create a .txt file on the desktop, with the filename controlling how often and when the report runs and the contents of the file setting the parameters. Periodically an automated process logs in and reads all the text files and runs the reports it's time to run. I discovered this when reports stopped flowing after someone locked the account from too many wrong password attempts and the automated process couldn't login to read the files. I am just going to pretend I never heard any of this and drink until I can't remember so I'm not lying.
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Mar 13, 2014 01:39
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Alereon posted:I discovered this when reports stopped flowing after someone locked the account from too many wrong password attempts and the automated process couldn't login to read the files. I'm absolutely staggered that the guy who came up with this didn't think somewhere in his horrible trainwreck of thought to remove the wrong password limit on the account so this couldn't happen.
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Mar 13, 2014 02:32
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Sir_Substance posted:I'm absolutely staggered that the guy who came up with this didn't think somewhere in his horrible trainwreck of thought to remove the wrong password limit on the account so this couldn't happen.
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Mar 13, 2014 02:44
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I'm starting to get a little tired of weekend work. Already this year I've worked 17 hours straight Saturday through Sunday morning on a server move, spent another weekend patching servers, and another full weekend on "NOC" duty (which means staring at our monitoring system for 15 hours a day). And next weekend we have a dusk-till-dawn scheduled maintenance outage for all our systems, then a couple weeks after that I'm watching monitors 9AM-midnight Saturday and Sunday and also patching servers from like 3AM till probably 7AM Sunday morning. Not to mention all the random phone calls and the minor work that happens pretty much every single weekend. And since we don't get comp time (and no OT of course), all of this is on top of our normal 40-45 hours a week. Last year I worked almost 2500 hours total (we have to track our time even though we don't get paid for it). I'm afraid I'm going to start burning out eventually.
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Mar 13, 2014 04:58
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dennyk posted:I'm starting to get a little tired of weekend work. Already this year I've worked 17 hours straight Saturday through Sunday morning on a server move, spent another weekend patching servers, and another full weekend on "NOC" duty (which means staring at our monitoring system for 15 hours a day). And next weekend we have a dusk-till-dawn scheduled maintenance outage for all our systems, then a couple weeks after that I'm watching monitors 9AM-midnight Saturday and Sunday and also patching servers from like 3AM till probably 7AM Sunday morning. Not to mention all the random phone calls and the minor work that happens pretty much every single weekend. And since we don't get comp time (and no OT of course), all of this is on top of our normal 40-45 hours a week. Last year I worked almost 2500 hours total (we have to track our time even though we don't get paid for it). I'm afraid I'm going to start burning out eventually. errr isn't it illegal to work extra time that is unpaid
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Mar 13, 2014 06:51
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Alctel posted:errr isn't it illegal to work extra time that is unpaid Not if you're IT in many states
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Mar 13, 2014 06:57
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Alctel posted:errr isn't it illegal to work extra time that is unpaid mewse posted:Not if you're IT in many states Disclaimer: IANAL and I am frustrated with my job so at this moment I am much more inclined to tell people to tell their employer to gently caress off sue them to enforce their rights than is prudent. Alereon fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Mar 13, 2014 |
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Mar 13, 2014 07:39
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sfwarlock posted:Reminds me of the time I got a resume for a "C+ Programmer." C+ is actually a checkout system from the 80s. I know Tesco stopped using it in 1996. He may be not in demand in 2014.
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Mar 13, 2014 10:51
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Someone pulled ANOTHER Latitude E6420 out of a locked docking station!
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Mar 13, 2014 10:55
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Alereon posted:Note that IT workers are specifically not overtime-exempt and must be paid overtime under federal law, though you may need to fight your company in court to argue that you are not a "computer professional" (system analyst or programmer) to collect. The bright line is that if you engage in break-fix work you must be paid overtime. Help-desk and some junior IT positions might not be exempt, depending on what the person's exact duties are, but almost all senior sysadmins fall under the FLSA administrative exemption.
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Mar 13, 2014 14:05
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Not necessarily IT related but I guess this is how my day is going to start:
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Mar 13, 2014 14:34
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Fellatio del Toro posted:Not necessarily IT related but I guess this is how my day is going to start: Not start, I think you mean.  If its a GM product, you can get a free loaner car!!(actually on second glance that's probably your door lock and not the ignition, oh well) Still better than my day is going, so far this morning I've dropped $220 on a guinea pig vet emergency and found out my best friend has cancer!! And I still get to have a meeting today with my boss about how we are going to 
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