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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Person who works with Got an exec assistant here that sets up all the meetings for the C-levels. They weren't happy that they couldn't just arbitrarily set up Lync meetings with (and for) whomever they wanted, whether they'd be in attendance or not.
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Lord Dudeguy posted:Got an exec assistant here that sets up all the meetings for the C-levels. They weren't happy that they couldn't just arbitrarily set up Lync meetings with (and for) whomever they wanted, whether they'd be in attendance or not. You guessed exactly right. Execs seem to take it as a point of pride that they don't personally schedule any meeting no matter how trivial and god forbid if they are forced to interact directly with any of their direct reports.
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May 9, 2014 20:23
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Lync meetings and how complicated people make them. I hate Lync meetings with a passion. Why would we ever need to setup a meeting without an employee present? I don't know either but it's imperative that we can. Also secretaries cant setup more than one a meeting at the same time since they have to be online to allow people to conference in. Why the employees who request the secretary to schedule a meeting can't just do that themselves remains a mystery. A couple co-workers were having a good laugh the other day. "Remember when we had admins who actually scheduled things? Ha ha ha hah. Phew, thank goodness they don't do that now. It would be a mess. It's way easier for me to manage my own schedule in Outlook."
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May 9, 2014 20:26
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I just had our newest project manager ask me to forward him some information on a project plan. He stated that because he started this project he needs to be looped in on everything. "Started" this project, what? We're buying servers and storage because everyone in the company agrees we need servers and storage, I don't think anyone gets to claim they started this. I think he was in the room when the budget was hammered out but even that I'm not sure of. If you got ego problems I feel bad for you son. It was your idea to end of life the last of our G5s? From where did such inspiration strike?
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May 9, 2014 20:53
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Has anyone ever used ThoughtFarmer? A VIP decided that we must have it and I need to figure out how terrible this is going to be.
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May 9, 2014 21:31
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Has anyone ever used ThoughtFarmer? A VIP decided that we must have it and I need to figure out how terrible this is going to be. The hell is ThoughtFa- quote:ThoughtFarmer combines traditional intranets with social features to make the social intranet mother of god... 
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May 9, 2014 21:51
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I KNOW I'm YOTJ'ing before this thing happens but I'm kind of morbidly curious about how it's going to go.
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May 9, 2014 21:52
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jim truds posted:Is your office just spreading cryptolocker around like an STD? How are so many people there getting infected? Yes. We've blocked zip files from our mailserver today so hopefully next week won't be the same.
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May 9, 2014 21:58
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May 9, 2014 21:59
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OhDearGodNo posted:Wait they really pluralized intranet? Well I mean, there is one "The Internet" but that's not the case for intranets. There are many of them, so the word naturally has a plural form. Edit: Also, I think "the social intranet" is called "The Internet," if we're being technical here.
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May 9, 2014 22:36
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Lord Dudeguy posted:The hell is ThoughtFa- A place for employees to internally post pictures of their children, their food, and rant about how Obama is going to take their guns. And then your employer promotes one of them to be your boss. 
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May 9, 2014 22:44
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Che Delilas posted:Well I mean, there is one "The Internet" but that's not the case for intranets. There are many of them, so the word naturally has a plural form. True, however maybe it's just a a matter of how it's used? I wouldn't say "our agency has several intranets" since even if you have different networks, it's still one intranet. It feels like it's saying "Enjoy Sniffglue, your noses will like it"
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May 9, 2014 22:50
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It's me. I destroyed a pair of mapped shares today. Now permissions are hosed and I had to escalate it. I feel like poo poo.
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May 9, 2014 22:57
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I showed an mcse how shift+right click allowed you to run as a different user. Yeah just..... Wow But it's okay he has 12 years experience!
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May 9, 2014 23:03
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:I showed an mcse how shift+right click allowed you to run as a different user. Yeah just..... Wow Well its not exactly on the exams. I really hope you are more gracious in those situations than I thinking you are.
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May 9, 2014 23:37
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Sickening posted:Well its not exactly on the exams. Retaining basic knowledge for an exam isn't anything to write home about. Obviously having passion for your profession and learning in your off-time is. The guy with ~*~*12*~*~ years of experience obviously didn't give a gently caress about learning in his off-time.
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May 9, 2014 23:40
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:I showed an mcse how shift+right click allowed you to run as a different user. Yeah just..... Wow I hope you were not this smug in front of him. With decades in IT, what I've really learned is that there will always be some thinglet that someone else knows about that I don't. 
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May 9, 2014 23:44
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ratbert90 posted:Retaining basic knowledge for an exam isn't anything to write home about. That's a little dramatic. Its not as if he didn't know how dns works or some other core function. Hell, how often do people in these very threads with a decade or more of experience go "gently caress, you can do that?". Call down.
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Sickening posted:That's a little dramatic. Its not as if he didn't know how dns works or some other core function. Hell, how often do people in these very threads with a decade or more of experience go "gently caress, you can do that?". Call down. You're right. Simple things do get the better of people. I am just grumpy because I have had to deal with a fucker today who has a *~*EE*~* degree yet asked this: dumbass posted:Is the camera red connector with yellow, black, green and orange wires still connected to J3 at the new hardware? YOU HAVE THE loving SCHEMATIC! 
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May 9, 2014 23:49
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I had a pen tester in today who I showed that shift + delete bypasses the recycle bin... he happily admitted he had never seen that before but then he said he'd been a unix guy for so long so hey ho
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May 9, 2014 23:51
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angry armadillo posted:I had a pen tester in today who I showed that shift + delete bypasses the recycle bin... he happily admitted he had never seen that before Shift delete works in the gui in *nix systems also. It's pretty universal. Unless he's a giant neckbeard who refuses to use the gui in a *nix environment. Don't get me wrong, I use rm more than shift+delete, but cmon man, it's a universal shortcut!
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May 9, 2014 23:54
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ratbert90 posted:The guy with ~*~*12*~*~ years of experience obviously didn't give a gently caress about learning in his off-time. Or maybe he just hadn't run across that trick in his off-time tinkering? Real Admins(tm) use PowerShell code:
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SamDabbers posted:Or maybe he just hadn't run across that trick in his off-time tinkering? init 1 passwd ${USER} init 5 login as ${USER}
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May 9, 2014 23:58
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ratbert90 posted:Shift delete works in the gui in *nix systems also. It's pretty universal. he said that was the reason was that, so maybe he just didn't know it. I've never really spent much time on anything *nix so I just took his word
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May 9, 2014 23:59
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ratbert90 posted:init 1 Taking the whole box down to single-user to reset some luser's password 
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Sickening posted:Well its not exactly on the exams. I basically go "oh hey you know you can right click and hold shift to run as a different user". Wow goon app gently caress up. I basically act like i do when I help people in class I never try to sound self assertive, I lay the facts down its up to anyone else to accept. Agrikk posted:I hope you were not this smug in front of him. With decades in IT, what I've really learned is that there will always be some thinglet that someone else knows about that I don't. Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 00:50 on May 10, 2014 |
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May 10, 2014 00:44
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A guy with a (non brain dumped) MCSE and 12 years of experience (as long as 9 of those weren't tier 1 or something) knows so much that he can know as many or as few shortcuts as he wants.
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I and my fellow computer monkey teammates were informed today that we are going to be the Commvault Admins and responsible for monitoring the backup system, as well as do mailbox restores and provide emails for investigators as requested. As I was sitting in the meeting giving us a Commvault 101 tutorial I couldn't help but wonder how the gently caress they think I will have anything to do with it after they cut my pay by 35% and told me the reason for it was because I was just going to be a glorified button-pusher, with occasional forays into hard drive replacement and the ever-important duty of escorting technicians to do the real work when a server needs repaired. I was also left scratching my head why we were going to be doing this when they have 40 or so Exchange Administrators who, I would think, might have more of a vested interest in working with users where email is concerned. I have yet to see anything change from my previous duties, although we have been decommissioning legacy servers at a sprint, so in another month there should no longer be any remote physical boxes that need us to patch them. Even so I still have to monitor DAT files and manually patch them when McAfee fucks up, I still have to remediate vulnerabilities that are reported, I still have to monitor Tivoli and investigate down servers, I still have to monitor Cisco UCS and repair any faults in the virtual infrastructure, and I still have to monitor all our servers on SIPRnet and repair them when anything goes wrong. At this point it looks like the only thing I can think of is that the officers higher up in the food chain are deliberately trying to turn our detachment into a giant turd that no one wants to work at. Seriously - who the gently caress is going to work for $32k doing everything I do and possessing a Secret security clearance? If that's the case, they're doing a drat fine job, because they've actually dropped below establishment and more people are leaving every day. This place is going to be a shell, and the sad thing is there isn't anyone else to pick up the slack. By the time they figure out this was the worst thing they could have done there will be no one willing to come back to reconstitute the detachment. But I guess since their stated goal has been to shut the detachment down since 2006 then when they can't retain anyone they can give a petulant little sigh and complain that no one wants to do any real work anymore and then sign the orders to shutter the place at long last. I cannot wait to get the gently caress out of here. Hell, I've applied for a End User Support Specialist role at the local university, and if I get it I would be making $8k more a year. How loving pathetic is that?
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Daylen Drazzi posted:I cannot wait to get the gently caress out of here. Hell, I've applied for a End User Support Specialist role at the local university, and if I get it I would be making $8k more a year. How loving pathetic is that? Your admin job sucks so much you're trying to move TO the helldesk?! drat son. 
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SamDabbers posted:Your admin job sucks so much you're trying to move TO the helldesk?! drat son. It didn't used to be that way. It was a great job and I felt the Air Force truly respected the work we performed. In fact, all of this came at us out of the blue. For months before our contract was due to end our leadership kept telling everyone to start working on their certs (MCSA/MCSE/CCNA/etc) because things were about to take off. Then suddenly a week before the contract ends we're told that the government is optioning the right to extend it until August 2015 (15 months). Everyone is pleased with these developments, but then the day before the original contract end date management walks in and holds an all-hands meeting to let us know the poo poo has hit the fan and the government is pulling a Darth Vader and unilaterally changing the deal and wants a brand new contract. The first defections occur in just a few days, and not a day doesn't go by when at least one person announces they are leaving. Notices are usually for 1-2 days, some as much as a week. One person actually gave three weeks notice. To call the disruption of these people leaving catastrophic is an understatement. When it all began I was sort of in the middle age-wise of the people in my team. At 42 I am now the youngest person on my team - all the younger members have left, and some oldtimers from other departments have taken even more massive paycuts than I to get on the team rather than walk. The team lead, assistant team lead, and the guy on 2nd shift are the only ones with more time on the team, but other than the assistant team lead I am the most knowledgeable and experienced member - hell, I'm the one who usually passes out assignments, serves as the first contact for any hardware failures, and usually gets picked to be the primary person for any new tasks we get assigned (it was gratifying at first, but now it's really loving old and engendering some increasing anger issues, especially after the paycut). It's been a very stressful time for me, and frankly I don't think I can last financially more than 3-4 months in this job before I have to find a second job to make ends meet. I've sent out at least 50 resumes and applications for jobs within a 60 mile radius, but I've only had 3 phone interviews and 1 in-person in the last month. So yeah, going to helldesk might suck, but at least I'll be able to afford to pay my bills. I'm desperately trying to keep my head on straight and finish up my VCP, but it's gotten to the point a few times when I would come home at 6pm and just go to bed because I couldn't be bothered to even watch TV, let alone study for a few hours.
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Daylen where the hell do you live where 32K with a secret is the rate? Come to San Antonio. You'd easily make double that and still enjoy a low cost of living.
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It sounds like Touchdown would be the perfect app for me so I can get email on my phone for my own benefit. If I install it on there and corporate decides to wipe my phone, they should only be able to wipe the email portion, right?
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Casull posted:It sounds like Touchdown would be the perfect app for me so I can get email on my phone for my own benefit. If I install it on there and corporate decides to wipe my phone, they should only be able to wipe the email portion, right? Yes but the app itself is fairly horrible. This one works better IMO - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ninefolders.hd3 you can choose whether you want the Exchange policies enforced at phone or app level.
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SamDabbers posted:Taking the whole box down to single-user to reset some luser's password Who said I knew their password or roots password?
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skipdogg posted:Daylen where the hell do you live where 32K with a secret is the rate? Come to San Antonio. You'd easily make double that and still enjoy a low cost of living. If memory serves he's in Dayton, OH. And agreed, I think you've got to relocate if the job market is as depressed as you say. I wish I had some leads to offer, but just about anywhere would surely be better than that. I'm guessing you're already looking in Cincinnati and Columbus?
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Yeah. I'm coming to the reluctant realization that my best bet is to get the hell out of here, but I just hate the thought of moving again. I'll have to start looking at jobs down in Texas since I agree the job market there is just insane.
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I have never known anyone who lived in Ohio who was happy they lived in Ohio. I've come to think of it as the place dreams go to die. Move somewhere, anywhere else.
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Daylen Drazzi posted:who the gently caress is going to work for $32k doing everything I do and possessing a Secret security clearance?  Why are you not on Cleared Jobs all day every day? You should be getting double. Volmarias fucked around with this message at 16:01 on May 10, 2014 |
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I'm cramming for my VCP so I can get the hell out of here. If the bastards had only waited another month I would have been done and free and clear. Believe me, I'm no goon in a well - I know the situation sucks and that the leadership is taking advantage of it, and I'm doing everything in my power to get the gently caress out ASAP. I thought about refusing the new contract, but I needed to keep my insurance, plus I wasn't going to make any more on unemployment than I was working, and it wasn't until after I signed that things really went to poo poo. I should also point out that I was making close to $50k for a junior Windows Admin position until the contract was changed, so it wasn't always a horrible paying gig.
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Daylen Drazzi posted:I should also point out that I was making close to $50k for a junior Windows Admin position until the contract was changed, so it wasn't always a horrible paying gig. That isn't great pay for that role.
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