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Sirotan posted:On a last note of absurdity, they found my air intake completely full of corn. Corn!! So your car was probably being used as a stash for the wildlife.
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AlternateAccount posted:So your car was probably being used as a stash for the wildlife. That squirrel was the dealer for local animals. How are they going to get their fix now?
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DrAlexanderTobacco posted:Have you tried opening and closing the door manually? Look, you're the mechanic here, don't just make up words as excuses, just make my house swallow my car when I drive into it, I don't see why this is such a problem, or are you too incompetent for that?????
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Volmarias posted:Look, you're the mechanic here, don't just make up words as excuses, just make my house swallow my car when I drive into it, I don't see why this is such a problem, or are you too incompetent for that????? "Hey, can you whip together a quick engine for me? You work with cars all the time, it should just take you a few minutes."
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Jul 31, 2014 18:02
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Baconroll posted:I'm guessing they were using some ancient consumer grade network gear. It continues to astonish me how much ancient equipment is still out there - it was only 2 years ago I came across someone still using OS/2 on their desktop... I had to use all my powers of persuasion to get my colleagues to accept the fact that windows 95 books are really not useful to our library patrons anymore. This was in 2012 at one location and i had to do the same song and dance in 2013 at another location. The weird thing is that when we dropped the books patrons started responding with "You're right, it is an old rear end system and I should probably upgrade" and then they did. Sometimes it amazes me how much we influence people.
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"Hey my car isn't working, can you fix it? Its a blue sedan and was working fine yesterday if that helps. It's in my driveway about an hour away. Also I'll be on vacation for the next two weeks so whenever you get a chance is fine. Thanks bye!"
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"Im having more problems with my personal car. It was working fine yesterday but when I got home today the front of the car was crushed. I talked to everyone at the house and nobody knows what happened. The only thing I can think of is this stems from when you helped me change a flat tire six months ago. I need you to come over tonight and fix this, and you should do it for free becuase you caused this problem in the first place."
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so i'm trying to build out a bunch of blade servers for a customer. (you know, tiny blades, memory and no disk) so i'm trying to get storage provisioned. The storage guy I have right now is based in india, because most of our regular storage guys are dealing with some massive storage issues. Hey i need some storage provisioned for these blades. port names are... nope! no storage until an OS is deployed on them per procedure XYZ. Great!! That makes this easy.*sends email off to execs pushing this project.* I love working here sometimes.
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m.hache posted:"Hey, can you whip together a quick engine for me? You work with cars all the time, it should just take you a few minutes." "Hey I know we asked you for an 18 cylinder diesel engine for my daily driver at the start of the project and you said we wouldn't need any more than 6 cylinders and you're already almost done since the deadline is tomorrow, but it seems we're going to go for a 4 cylinder alcohol engine now, you can have this done by tomorrow right since most of the work is already done you just need to take some cylinders out."
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I wish I had this individuals' back-and-forth with my boss in ticket form.... but our lead sales guy requested that he purchase an LED sign to replace our banner that advertises our sales figures. my boss and everybody else are all horrified by how tacky it looks, I'm reasonably certain it'll be getting returned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3FSkau6ZhI 
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Lamar Smith R-TX posted:I wish I had this individuals' back-and-forth with my boss in ticket form.... but our lead sales guy requested that he purchase an LED sign to replace our banner that advertises our sales figures. So I assume you guys will also start selling beer and lottery tickets?
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Several tickets have come in regarding a delay when placing calls, both internally and outbound. I've isolated the cause (I think?) to the PBX not giving the callers' phone the 200 OK response from the recipient in a timely manner, leading to the callers' phone not sending the ACK response and kicking off the call until after a few seconds of silence. Of course, I have no idea what the gently caress to do about that, so now I have to talk to Digium support.  And I still can't figure out why the gently caress the phones would just not be able to make outbound calls between 5:00 and 5:20am and suddenly clear up after that, and since sales reps absolutely have to be in that early (30 minutes before we actually open, because ????), short of a miracle breakthrough, I'm probably going to have to come in at 5:00 myself to figure out what the gently caress is going on. Possibly multiple times, because the issue is, of course, intermittent.  SWITCHVOX
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Lamar Smith R-TX posted:I wish I had this individuals' back-and-forth with my boss in ticket form.... but our lead sales guy requested that he purchase an LED sign to replace our banner that advertises our sales figures. Complain that it gives you a headache/triggers your seizures. As for all the car references I'll have to remember to bring those up when a client pulls that poo poo on me.
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Lamar Smith R-TX posted:I wish I had this individuals' back-and-forth with my boss in ticket form.... but our lead sales guy requested that he purchase an LED sign to replace our banner that advertises our sales figures. Someone in sales convinced someone higher up to buy a gong I'm not joking 
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Fortis posted:
I wonder if our Switchvox system also can't make calls at 5am. Good thing no one here gives a poo poo! Vicas posted:Someone in sales convinced someone higher up to buy a gong I bet they don't even know how to play that. They'll walk up and smack it cold in the center a few times and it'll crack 
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Jul 31, 2014 21:23
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Vicas posted:Someone in sales convinced someone higher up to buy a gong
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Vicas posted:Someone in sales convinced someone higher up to buy a gong Is ringing the gong a fireable offence yet?
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It literally showed up today, and they cut holes in the ceiling for those chains. At least it's just in reception and not near most people's desks, thank god I feel like this is some upper management injoke
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Jul 31, 2014 21:28
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Vicas posted:Someone in sales convinced someone higher up to buy a gong Someone in Sales brings a gong, you bring an airhorn. It's the IT way.
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:Someone in Sales brings a gong, you bring an airhorn. It's the IT way. Remote controlled nerf gun of some variety, aimed at the gong.
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Jul 31, 2014 21:41
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RFC2324 posted:Remote controlled nerf gun of some variety, aimed at the gong. http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-Ghost-Knocker/ Get on that.
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Fortis posted:SIP stuff Had two customers today who's ISP thought it would be a grand idea to turn on SIP H.225 processing on their modems for no reason whatsoever. Apparently this causes normal SIP packets to get the RTP server address replaced with the signaling server address, but only in the 200 OK packet, the 183 session progress is left unmolested. I hate SIP, but its better than dealing with PRI\T1 connections.
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RFC2324 posted:Remote controlled nerf gun of some variety, aimed at the gong. My old office had a few of these floating around, mildly fun. http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/8a0f/
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:Someone in Sales brings a gong, you bring an airhorn. It's the IT way. did someone say IT Airhorn? 
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Jul 31, 2014 23:57
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The salesman convinced an idiot to buy something expensive and unnecessary. Looks to me like he's pretty good at his job.
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:Someone in Sales brings a gong, you bring an airhorn. It's the IT way. Not in IT but our sales department has monopolized both the gong and the airhorn to best
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A ticket came in and I don't give a gently caress. So all of the current developers were let go, leave existing projects dangling in the wind. Not sure what's going to happen if one of those applications glitches and we'll need something done on the back end, but hey, what do I know? After all, developers are cheap and plentiful, right? You just hire them and plop them right into the project with no problems, right? 
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RadicalR posted:A ticket came in and I don't give a gently caress. Time to find a new job, because that company isn't going to last long. Holy gently caress, management needs to stop being a job in and of itself.
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^ that reminds me of something I read about Facebook. Management isn't a promotion, it's a lateral move for staff who have the aptitude. "You're a dev? You're now a dev who looks after these other devs. Don't like it? Well ok, we'll get someone else."
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RadicalR posted:A ticket came in and I don't give a gently caress. This makes me appreciate what I've got and that my manager is pretty swell. 
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A  came in! I'll be moving to the IS Risk team, with the same company, August 18th. Working with some guys I really like, doing online security, RSA, certificates, GPO management and the like. 7% raise too, and no more on call. Which is a joy in itself.I applied because I was told, repeatedly, after glowing "exceeds expectations" reviews, that it was not feasible to make me a Systems Admin II, from my level 1 position. According to the job description I was already doing the job, just didn't get the title or pay for it. I was told over and over to "keep up the good work" and "stay the course" and "next year we'll see about career patching to a senior position" and all the usual management BS. Today, my newly vacant position was posted. As a level 2. It went up at 1530, and at 1531 I stopped giving a poo poo about the next 2 weeks of projects and tickets. gently caress 'em. They'll still get my documentation and everything but holy poo poo I almost got vertigo from how fast my morale dropped.
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We deployed some HP Elitebook 850s. They have a small problem of not being able to wake up from sleep (found a fix that works though). Before I applied the fix to a computer, a teacher with a PhD sent us an email saying that this was "UNACCEPTABLE" How does someone with an advanced degree think using all caps for emphasis is anything other than really goofy?
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Aug 1, 2014 05:10
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Perhaps you found the inspiration for the Earl of Lemongrab.
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Aug 1, 2014 05:20
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RadicalR posted:Perhaps you found the inspiration for the Earl of Lemongrab. I read this as "Perhaps you should take inspiration" and I was going to say that everybody should.
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That's Doctor Teacher to you, computer butler! I am very important as you should be able to tell because of the very important letters after my name and this Rip Van Winkle laptop is completely UNACCEPTABLE for someone as important as me so you better FIX IT RIGHT NOW before I type more things in ALL CAPS and maybe UNDERLINE them too!!!
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SamDabbers posted:That's Doctor Teacher to you, computer butler! I am very important as you should be able to tell because of the very important letters after my name and this Rip Van Winkle laptop is completely UNACCEPTABLE for someone as important as me so you better FIX IT RIGHT NOW before I type more things in ALL CAPS and maybe UNDERLINE them too!!! Did someone say Van Winkle? 
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Relevant: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/07/30/336584438/why-your-small-batch-whiskey-might-taste-a-lot-like-the-others
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INC0000345678 Marketing Director's computer out of space. Please clean up. Director keeps deleting files, but computer fills up overnight. Please investigate. Spoke with Director. Director connects to unsecured wireless connection and leaves computer on all night. Performed basic forensic analysis. Deleted several dozen GB of non work related material. Advised Director that his computer is being used to transfer potentially illegal files and that confidential information likely compromised. Advised he only connect to secure wireless going forward.
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tango alpha delta posted:INC0000345678 *facepalm*
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tango alpha delta posted:INC0000345678 What, no wipe & reimage?
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