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I used to write "Nunya" on mine. As in "None of ya business".
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I'd just post a curl from catfacts.js.
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May 13, 2014 04:30
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Varkk posted:I remember one time I was working with two other techs from another division on a project and each one of us had a little thing like that we weren't aware of the others were. Just shows the importance of working in small teams really. It's why these forums are so goddamned useful. If you just doof around reading about random IT poo poo, you'll pick up pieces all over the place that eventually pay off.
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May 13, 2014 04:51
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:It's why these forums are so goddamned useful. If you just doof around reading about random IT poo poo, you'll pick up pieces all over the place that eventually pay off. Then lie through your teeth and say you saw it on hacker news, or that a friend told you about it. Seriously, I've known what was going on because of someone's angry rant, and there's no way I'm listing that as my source or coming out as a goon.
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May 13, 2014 05:13
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meanieface posted:Then lie through your teeth and say you saw it on hacker news, or that a friend told you about it. Seriously, I've known what was going on because of someone's angry rant, and there's no way I'm listing that as my source or coming out as a goon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E0ot9iJm_k
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May 13, 2014 05:56
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Varkk posted:I remember one time I was working with two other techs from another division on a project and each one of us had a little thing like that we weren't aware of the others were. Just shows the importance of working in small teams really. A good small team is brilliant and I will always like being in them. You either get to teach people or learn and both of those are satisfying.
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May 13, 2014 08:23
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poo poo definitely not pissing me off today, my pair of small mismatched monitors got replaced with a pair of HP ZR2440w's. I think I finally have enough screen real estate for now. 
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May 13, 2014 15:44
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jammyozzy posted:poo poo definitely not pissing me off today, my pair of small mismatched monitors got replaced with a pair of HP ZR2440w's. I think I finally have enough screen real estate for now. Uh, you can never have enough screen real estate. poo poo pissing me off today: It's that charity CRM again. So, the client's CRM starts to, for random users, generate a new temporary user every two minutes. For some users, that's over 1200 temporary accounts generated, because of some lovely reason. And there I was, spending the best part of half an hour auditing stuff to see if there was anything that I could have done to start this off - nope! No duplicate stuff my end... Ah, gently caress third party client software. It's like printers, but worse.
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May 13, 2014 16:38
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jammyozzy posted:poo poo definitely not pissing me off today, my pair of small mismatched monitors got replaced with a pair of HP ZR2440w's. I think I finally have enough screen real estate for now. I have three monitors at work, VA2431wm's. They aren't as nice as yours, but as Westie said, you can never have too many monitors. 3 is the minimum, 4 would be nice. I want 6.
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May 13, 2014 16:41
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I've had 6 before, it's too many. Your neck starts hurting from moving back and forth too much. I prefer smaller more pixel dense monitors. My best setup was 5 monitors, 4 1920x1080 23" Dell's in a 2x2 grid (2 above 2) and then a 24" ultra sharp (1920x1200)in portrait mode to the left. The ultrasharp to the left was great for documentation and PDF's. The bottom 2 monitors were my productivity screens, Outlook stayed open in the upper left, and chat windows in the upper right. It worked really well.
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May 13, 2014 17:15
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I've got way too many I need permission from to do my job. I want to move some servers to another cluster. You know who should know about this? Anyone that I graciously allow to log into vSphere and see what VMs are on what hosts are on what cluster. But nooo... I think ITIL, documentation, project management, etc has reached some sort of critical mass in my organization where doing anything is treated as a world changing event.
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May 13, 2014 18:54
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Anyone asking for reason for time off can eat a bag of dicks. Even our terrible sharepoint time off system makes that field optional if you're choosing to use annual leave. I get annoyed enough at having to fill it in when it's a short term sick day, and I do wonder if anyone ever actually reads them. Gonna fill one in one day, most likely after I already handed in my notice, and put "sub drop" as the reason for a half day sickie. Lum fucked around with this message at 21:36 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 21:27
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loving DFS. Not even really DFS itself, but user file management. I'm in charge of moving all the user and shared data from 34 geographically distant (province wide) branches into one central file solution. Problem is the old branch servers are on a different domain, and the fastest pipe we have between branches is 10/1. Then I have users with gigs and gigs of personal pictures and documents, one lady even had 1.2GB of PIANO MUSIC PDFs. This is without mentioning 3-5GB PST files scattered about. And the complete lack or organization makes it impossible to keep track of who owns what - if you've been given a 'JSmith' folder mapped to your O:, why the gently caress did you feel the need to make "JohnSmith" and "John's Docs" and "John's Work Files" on the root of the shared drive. Why the gently caress did you have permissions to do that anyways? And why the gently caress were you able to remove every single other ACL from a folder? Who told you how/why/what ARGH! All of this would be manageable if I had time and the power to fix things. But I don't - I've been told in no uncertain terms that I am not to impact the user experience in any way. Drive letters cannot change. Information access cannot change. (Relative) file locations cannot change. The users should ideally not even realize that anything is different. I don't even know.
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May 13, 2014 22:11
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Pissing me off: Conduit search-protect. Some garbage adware that was on literally every computer I worked on today. I want to take an ice pick and gouge out the eyes of every person who worked on creating this thing. It's like the plague, except instead of killing you it just annoys the poo poo out of you. At least I've gotten really good at removing it!...  ...
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May 13, 2014 22:13
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President Ark posted:Pissing me off: Conduit search-protect. Some garbage adware that was on literally every computer I worked on today. I want to take an ice pick and gouge out the eyes of every person who worked on creating this thing. It's like the plague, except instead of killing you it just annoys the poo poo out of you. This is showing up on our conference room computers and the overnight guy doesn't remove it. I don't know why, it isn't that difficult to remove. He gets a ticket to check all the workstations in the conference rooms, make sure they are working properly, make sure batteries in remotes are replaced once every couple months, and without fail, I get a phone call saying the computer in X conference room doesn't look right, can you please take a look at it? How do you guys teach your co-workers to look stuff up on their own before asking you every time an issue comes up? I have a couple guys that I assign tickets to, and almost every time they get assigned a ticket and if they see a new error message, they ask me what it means and how to fix it. I've shown them how I troubleshoot issues step by step, how to read and parse logs, go to the Event Viewer and look there, Google, look up previous tickets for similar issues, etc. but without fail they almost always come back asking for help. I don't mind helping, but if I'm going to be doing every ticket that gets assigned to you for something new, then I'll just cut out the middle man and do it myself. Out of my five co-workers that I work with the most and give tickets to, three are good and have figured this out, but the other two just don't get it. I don't know, when I was in their position I was embarrassed to admit that I didn't know how to fix something, and didn't want to look dumb to my superiors, so I figured out how to resolve those issues that came in and were assigned to me. I hope that didn't sound smug or elitist, as that isn't my intention, I'm just trying to figure out how I can get these other two guys to think independently.
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May 13, 2014 22:48
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President Ark posted:Pissing me off: Conduit search-protect. Some garbage adware that was on literally every computer I worked on today. I want to take an ice pick and gouge out the eyes of every person who worked on creating this thing. It's like the plague, except instead of killing you it just annoys the poo poo out of you. Yeah I clean that off my moms computer monthly. Its also been on employee's laptops here and there. I'm so sick of toolbars being bundled with poo poo.
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May 13, 2014 22:56
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Does anybody else just straight up lie about their salary to recruiters? If you are going to ask me how much I make, I am going to tell you what I want to make + 5 - 10% more. How could recruiters honestly think they would be getting a real salary from anybody they ask that question of? FlapYoJacks fucked around with this message at 23:23 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 23:21
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Of course we do, at least those of us who want to get a better salary. When asked, I think the best course is to say what you would like your salary to be. If they insist, then either lie or say you don't negotiate with terrorists and hang up.
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May 13, 2014 23:24
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ratbert90 posted:Does anybody else just straight up lie their salary to recruiters? If you are going to ask me how much I make, I am going to tell you what I want to make + 5 - 10% more. I don't let them pursue that line of questioning, period. They get no number from me.
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May 13, 2014 23:25
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Che Delilas posted:I don't let them pursue that line of questioning, period. They get no number from me. Seems like a perfectly good time to tell them what you want your salary to be. If they don't like it they can move on. 
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May 13, 2014 23:26
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A c E posted:toolbars On some forums that I used to go on, there was a user posting about some issue to do with scripting for a game or something. He was mocked for posting a screenshot - the screenshot showed him using Firefox on a 1280x1024 screen, with toolbars taking over 700px in height of viewport off of Firefox - it looked like he was trying to browse the 'webz on a Nokia Communicator... Thanks for reminding me of that :|
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May 13, 2014 23:34
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ratbert90 posted:Seems like a perfectly good time to tell them what you want your salary to be. If they don't like it they can move on. I've posted about it before but the short answer is I'm not going to price myself out of potential jobs where I might take a lower salary for stellar benefits (for example). Asking for a straight salary number is short-sighted in addition to being an attempt to make me compromise my negotiating position.
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May 14, 2014 00:03
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Che Delilas posted:I've posted about it before but the short answer is I'm not going to price myself out of potential jobs where I might take a lower salary for stellar benefits (for example). Asking for a straight salary number is short-sighted in addition to being an attempt to make me compromise my negotiating position. Benefits? What are those? 
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May 14, 2014 00:28
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I'm sitting here looking at some stupid paperwork the recruiter from Robert Half sent me to fill out prior to our little Skype face-to-face and frankly I'm not even remotely interested in filling it out because I see no reason for it. This isn't an interview for a job, so there's no need for an employment agreement. I also don't see the need for a criminal background investigation form - I have a loving Secret security clearance, so I'm pretty certain a criminal background check would be completely superfluous, not to mention a tad bit insulting. As for the employment application, aren't we a getting a bit ahead of ourselves? If (and that's a mighty loving big if) I like what I hear then I will be happy to fill one out, but seeing as how I've already filled out an application when I applied for another contract position your company was offering just two weeks ago, maybe you might want to reference that one instead of making me jump through another ridiculous requirement that is pretty much guaranteed to piss me off because you're wasting my time. I think tomorrow's little web session is going to be relatively short and unproductive.
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May 14, 2014 01:05
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When I dealt with temp agencies, Robert Half had a reputation for scheduling interviews with anyone, and requiring you to give the names of 2 hiring managers as references. They weren't interested in hiring you, but were using you to get leads for their salespeople.
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May 14, 2014 01:25
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No way would I fill out paperwork for a firm like RH. They have my resume, they can ask what kinds of jobs I would like, but I will fill out poo poo when it's actually necessary otherwise.
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May 14, 2014 01:41
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Do not speak to Robert Half even if you think it'll provide an entertaining story for the rest of us. Do not show up to that meeting.
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May 14, 2014 02:52
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Trouble shooting for family.  Took half an hour for me to realize over the phone that what grandma was given by her neighbour wasn't a laptop but just a monitor and keyboard.
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May 14, 2014 02:52
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Do not speak to Robert Half even if you think it'll provide an entertaining story for the rest of us. Do not show up to that meeting. This. Robert Half is a loathsome organization even by recruiter standards.
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May 14, 2014 03:44
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"Lum" posted:"sub drop" as the reason for a half day sickie. I am using this next sick day.
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May 14, 2014 06:13
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jim truds posted:I am using this next sick day. I was just about to post that. I'm either using it or referencing it at some point. I'm assuming most people at my work wouldn't know what it means though, which is a shame.
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May 14, 2014 08:31
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Inspector_666 posted:No way would I fill out paperwork for a firm like RH. They have my resume, they can ask what kinds of jobs I would like, but I will fill out poo poo when it's actually necessary otherwise. Concur. The one time RH told me I had a job and I should just come in and fill out the paperwork, I ended up having to raise my voice to get the photocopies of my ID back. A call from RH is an opportunity to troll someone who is already planning to gently caress you over and not anything, ever, more.
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May 14, 2014 08:51
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dogstile posted:I was just about to post that. I'm either using it or referencing it at some point. I'm assuming most people at my work wouldn't know what it means though, which is a shame. And if they do... "What? I dropped a big speaker on my foot! Where the hell did you get your interpretation from?"
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May 14, 2014 10:31
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Lum posted:And if they do... Feeling kinda dumb. Do I want to know what it means?
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RadicalR posted:Feeling kinda dumb. Do I want to know what it means? It's a BDSM thing. Google it but maybe not at work.
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May 14, 2014 12:12
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RadicalR posted:Feeling kinda dumb. Do I want to know what it means? It's a BDSM fetish thing where the 'sub' (The one getting his balls stepped on with a stiletto heel, or whatever) is really down and depressed after a 'scene.' I guess it makes sense, if you're into that kind of thing then it'd probably be very intense in many ways, maybe something like the feeling after a big vacation.
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drat, I thought it was because Lum is also a DJ, and it was a dubstep thing.
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evobatman posted:drat, I thought it was because Lum is also a DJ, and it was a dubstep thing. Bwahahaha, no but I'm totally stealing that pun. I rarely play dubstep though. The post above yours is basically correct. It's the endorphin crash that comes afterwards, sometimes quite quickly, sometimes in a couple of days, hence a valid medical thing. Back on topic I asked an IT worker at a customer to do a DIR /B *.ext > List.txt and send me the resulting file so that I can create a script for him to fix a fault. He sent me a printscreen of an explorer window, which I now get to manually type in >.< Lum fucked around with this message at 12:42 on May 14, 2014 |
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Lum posted:The post above yours is basically correct. It's the endorphin crash that comes afterwards, sometimes quite quickly, sometimes in a couple of days, hence a valid medical thing. Dom drop is also totally a thing. *ahem* Meanwhile, try throwing this at the printscreen: http://projectnaptha.com/
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Che Delilas posted:I don't let them pursue that line of questioning, period. They get no number from me. "I am currently covered by an NDR that severely limits the details of my current job that I can share."
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