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Pissing me off: Two work weekends this month, one in the north sea, one in Scotland, where I think I'm going to be just carrying carboard boxes. Since these boxes contain desktop computers, it's an IT job. Not pissing me off: The paycheck I'm gonna get in June from this.
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Speaking of expenses, here's one I discovered this weekend. Emails have been fired to the relevant parties, and phone calls will follow by noon today. This is in a small way my fault (in the sense that I did not discover it until this weekend) but in a more accurate way, entirely my company's fault. It turns out I have not been paid expenses for trips I made on the company's behalf in February and March. I'm scheduled for another trip in a week and a half. I'm not running a loving charity here. Nothing like heading into a Monday morning knowing that, no matter how right I am, I'm basically going to be getting into an argument over my refusal to book travel until I am paid for previous expenses. Fantastic.
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May 19, 2014 10:35
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That beard thing that's stopping me from going on site visits that I was happy with? Turns out i'm not now. There was only one visit that I had left before I wasn't booked for any for the foreseeable future and i've been taken off it. It was booked in a really nice hotel by the beach and it had loads of the young techies on it, meaning we could actually go out and have a couple drinks after the job was done rather than just going to the hotel (previously it was either that or drink alone and I only do that when gaming now). There goes today's motivation.
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May 19, 2014 10:39
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Things that are about to irrationally be pissing me off: First days. I hate first days. Yes, let's spend an entire shift being the center of attention wayyyyy too much. It's the worst. :[
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May 19, 2014 13:18
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dogstile posted:That beard thing that's stopping me from going on site visits that I was happy with? Turns out i'm not now. Shave and start your beard again next week?
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May 19, 2014 13:41
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dogstile posted:That beard thing that's stopping me from going on site visits that I was happy with? Turns out i'm not now. Why should you lose motivation based on a choice you made? AlternateAccount posted:Things that are about to irrationally be pissing me off: First days. I hate first days. Yes, let's spend an entire shift being the center of attention wayyyyy too much. It's the worst. :[ Totally - When I first started at my current job, on the first day my manager and the HR woman were both on annual leave. So it was me listening to an HR administrator go over all the terrible systems we never use for 3 hours - Me nodding my head saying 'Yeah, ok, cool! awesome' and so on - And then sitting at my desk for the next 5 hours worrying if there was anything I should be doing 
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May 19, 2014 13:44
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DrAlexanderTobacco posted:Why should you lose motivation based on a choice you made? Was hoping i'd get to go on the last visit (they didn't mention i'd be taken off it, just that I wouldn't be booked for any more) as it was a really big job and we don't usually get jobs that big, maybe one every year. I'm planning on being gone before the next one so I made the choice and figured i'd get through this one and it was all future ones they wouldn't put me on. Just a little bummed out, it was a nice place we were staying at compared to the usual. Never been in something that wasn't a premier or a travel lodge before. Place even had a pool. I've never stayed at a hotel with a pool! I'm cool with it, apparently working with no motivation suits me, i've closed more tickets than I usually do  SB35 posted:Shave and start your beard again next week? Nah, I've already been replaced, paperworks all done and that poo poo never gets reversed here. I'll just stay home and work on my comic con costume or something. E: I should probably mention that what they said to the admin team word for word was "don't book them for any more" so I assumed i'd get to go on the one I was already booked for. Guess not 
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May 19, 2014 14:49
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DrAlexanderTobacco posted:Totally - When I first started at my current job, on the first day my manager and the HR woman were both on annual leave. So it was me listening to an HR administrator go over all the terrible systems we never use for 3 hours - Me nodding my head saying 'Yeah, ok, cool! awesome' and so on - And then sitting at my desk for the next 5 hours worrying if there was anything I should be doing
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May 19, 2014 15:35
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poo poo that is pissing me off today. The internet proxy that won't let me connect using https on a non stardard port to an outside party. Why yes, I want to have to go home and use my home internet to retrieve an XSD and WSDL to do my job.
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May 19, 2014 19:12
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HFX posted:poo poo that is pissing me off today. The internet proxy that won't let me connect using https on a non stardard port to an outside party. Why yes, I want to have to go home and use my home internet to retrieve an XSD and WSDL to do my job. That sounds like something a user would do. Why not escalate the issue to who administrates it? You work network should be all you need. Stop enabling.
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May 19, 2014 19:21
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Jesus christ, some guy came in with like 8 different browser hijackers on his computer. If you ran a browser outside of safe mode you could see them all fighting for control. The kicker? We set this computer up for him a week ago. 
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May 19, 2014 19:25
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President Ark posted:Jesus christ, some guy came in with like 8 different browser hijackers on his computer. If you ran a browser outside of safe mode you could see them all fighting for control. In my continuous efforts not to hate users I tell myself that they must have caught one infection that installed all that other junk
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May 19, 2014 19:35
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It can be amusing watching them fight over who gets to be the search provider or home page. It almost makes me want to get a computer, DMZ it, and surf the skankiest websites around. Then watch what happens, sort of like your own ant farm.
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May 19, 2014 21:10
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Interview today was loving awful. I choked on writing a god drat bash script.  It didn't help that it was on a tiny laptop keyboard, but holy poo poo that did not go well. I came back to the office and wrote the same script in less than a minute without any errors the first god drat time. 
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May 19, 2014 21:38
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ratbert90 posted:Interview today was loving awful. I'd send it to them anyway, they may understand pressures of interviews and appreciate the initiative.
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May 19, 2014 21:51
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Stealthgerbil posted:It can be amusing watching them fight over who gets to be the search provider or home page. It almost makes me want to get a computer, DMZ it, and surf the skankiest websites around. Then watch what happens, sort of like your own ant farm. We did this at my old student worker position at the university. Everyone was (fairly) technical and we challenged who could get this lovely machine filled with malware and viruses first? Everyone tried (by searching porn) but no one was "dumb" enough to actually get it infected after at least 30 minutes of trying. Finally I stepped in and went to a malware research site and won, but it was a sad, sad victory.
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May 19, 2014 22:04
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Should have just searched for coupons and clicked any of the links. Every user that I've ever seen that's in to coupons has all kinds of browser poo poo infecting their computer.
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May 19, 2014 22:12
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Galler posted:Should have just searched for coupons and clicked any of the links. Every user that I've ever seen that's in to coupons has all kinds of browser poo poo infecting their computer. Or just search and run windows_7_activation_crack.exe or something like that, you can get it infected in seconds. The people trying porn were just trying to get away with porn at work.
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May 19, 2014 22:17
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YOTJ! Got an offer for a Sr Network Tech job that comes with a 14k raise and 20 days PTO a year, plus some floating holidays and a birthday day off. 
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May 19, 2014 22:34
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Galler posted:Should have just searched for coupons and clicked any of the links. Every user that I've ever seen that's in to coupons has all kinds of browser poo poo infecting their computer. Or visited a popular mainstream news site at the right moment. The worst drive-by malware infections I have sen have been as a result of ad networks being compromised or otherwise serving them up on places like CNN, ESPN etc.
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May 19, 2014 23:01
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Varkk posted:Or visited a popular mainstream news site at the right moment. The worst drive-by malware infections I have sen have been as a result of ad networks being compromised or otherwise serving them up on places like CNN, ESPN etc. Sometimes I feel guilty for using adblock as aggressively as I do. Usually that lasts about 5 minutes until I hear about yet another widespread infestation originating from what an otherwise legitimate site.
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May 19, 2014 23:23
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Galler posted:Should have just searched for coupons and clicked any of the links. Every user that I've ever seen that's in to coupons has all kinds of browser poo poo infecting their computer. Searching for song lyrics or cooking recipe sites is another good way to find some super sketchy sites loaded with junk on there.
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May 19, 2014 23:25
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One of our clients had their single business critical drive share cryptolocked on Friday. We restored it over the weekend and today a user asked me to find some files that she was working on. "I don't think I worked on it the 14th, but maybe on the 16th. And I pick up my kids at 6, so not after that..." We run hourly incrementals. I guess that was way better than it could have been!
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May 19, 2014 23:39
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dox posted:We did this at my old student worker position at the university. Everyone was (fairly) technical and we challenged who could get this lovely machine filled with malware and viruses first? Everyone tried (by searching porn) but no one was "dumb" enough to actually get it infected after at least 30 minutes of trying. Finally I stepped in and went to a malware research site and won, but it was a sad, sad victory. Porn sites realised years ago that they could make more money by selling porn legitimately than by tricking you into installing viruses or premium rate dialers. These days you have to hit coupon sites, activation cracks for <popular software>, or those "watch any movie 100% free!" places.
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May 20, 2014 00:58
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Che Delilas posted:Sometimes I feel guilty for using adblock as aggressively as I do. Usually that lasts about 5 minutes until I hear about yet another widespread infestation originating from what an otherwise legitimate site. This is my usual response to anyone who tries to guilt me for using adblock. It then turns out a shocking number of people are adamant that drive-by installs are a myth. Sadly including many of my fellow CS majors.
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May 20, 2014 01:10
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I was kind of lackadaisical about AdBlock for a long time. Then one day on my Win7 machine I had exactly 5 tabs open: Gmail and 4 SA forums tabs. I got a pop up window that looked a lot like WinXP Security Center telling me I was infected. Alt-F4ed the browser, relaunched it, installed AdBlock and NoScript (aka huge pain in the rear end) and I'll likely be using AdBlock in some shape or form forever.
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May 20, 2014 02:21
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It's a shame too because I WANT to support the services I use. I would allow ads if 1)they played nice, i.e. respecting volume and mute settings, 2)they weren't so often patronizing or annoying as gently caress, and 3)ad services would loving take some responsibility for vetting their ads for malicious payloads. Alas.
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May 20, 2014 03:25
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oh my god this can't be real you have GOT TO BE KIDDING ME gently caress
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May 20, 2014 04:45
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Oracle product broken? No, never. They make the highest quality service and always have quick bug fixes.
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May 20, 2014 06:32
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HFX posted:Oracle product broken? No, never. They make the highest quality service and always have quick bug fixes. There's a reason SFDC has been doing so well. It's not perfect, and doesn't do everything, but what it does, it does well.
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May 20, 2014 06:45
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So, a loving salesperson struck again. After painfully micro managing my boss and I to deliver a very large technical response and solution design for an RFP, a loving sales person fails to diligently manage his own output and fails to meet his submission deadline. He was still creating documents in a mad dash 2 hours after the deadline had expired. Months of work wasted. Millions of dollars in revenue flushed.
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May 20, 2014 08:54
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"It is a feature not yet available in OBIEE 11g." 
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ming-the-mazdaless posted:So, a loving salesperson struck again. No doubt he will be disciplined. Ha! Who am I kidding...
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spog posted:No doubt he will be disciplined. Don't be so negative! The key is positive reinforcement, therefore, your company should immediately purchase the most expensive upgrades for all of the salesperson's devices to enhance his output. Consider gold plating where applicable.
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May 20, 2014 09:07
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Stealthgerbil posted:It can be amusing watching them fight over who gets to be the search provider or home page. It almost makes me want to get a computer, DMZ it, and surf the skankiest websites around. Then watch what happens, sort of like your own ant farm. Do this, especially with a completely unpatched release XP on a VM.
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Che Delilas posted:Don't be so negative! The key is positive reinforcement, therefore, your company should immediately purchase the most expensive upgrades for all of the salesperson's devices to enhance his output. Consider gold plating where applicable. Oddly enough, this is so very close to the truth but it happened throughout the micro managing I mentioned above. He then got it in his head to downgrade everyone else in our branch. I went from an AYC data plan to 250MB. He now has three devices and I have hamstrung plan like everyone else. Our support people are fuming...
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ming-the-mazdaless posted:Oddly enough, this is so very close to the truth but it happened throughout the micro managing I mentioned above. He then got it in his head to downgrade everyone else in our branch. The beatings will continue until morale improves! 
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May 20, 2014 11:18
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dogstile posted:That beard thing that's stopping me from going on site visits that I was happy with? Turns out i'm not now. Read between the lines man. A beard is a stupid thing to lose a job over.
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May 20, 2014 12:41
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spog posted:No doubt he will be disciplined. Generally, if you don't get a sale, you don't get sales compensation. Outside of sales, people get paid, and then disciplined. Inside of sales, people just don't get paid. (I'm lying a little bit: many sales organizations routinely overpay using things like "adjustments" in order to keep "top talent" that really isn't.)
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Roargasm posted:Read between the lines man. A beard is a stupid thing to lose a job over. Luckily, I won't be losing my job over it. They've not officially mentioned anything about it, contract doesn't state I have to be clean shaven, etc etc blah blah i'll be alright. Like I said, was a little bummed out and surprised, but I'm cool with it. Plenty of stuff to do in the office after all, testing i've been pushing for is happening, etc. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Today, my manager saw that all the logins for supporting one of our bigger customers were taken. This is natural and happens, because there are less than 10 slots and over 100 sites to cover. When it was reported that all the slots were full, my manager decided to limit the slots, so that if you're from site A, you can only use 2 of the 8 or so logins, if you're from site B you can only use the next two, etc. I have no idea why he thinks this is a good idea, especially since I know that the ones at the other sites aren't taken, but i'm sat here unable to help client because the logins at my site are taken and :protocol:
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