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Yes, for the callcenter and claims department interviews. It is literally log in, open word, type some bs paragraph, then print it and the instructions are there. Any time the receptionist calls me to assist the interviewees it's either the printer is broken or the people locked themselves out of the test account (3 attempts). If it's the latter I tell the hiring manager that the applicant failed the "log into the computer" portion of the test.
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Zahmer posted:A ticket came in. We used to give people a test that we expected most people to bomb for clerical positions, if the candidate could answer any one of the questions on it they got hired. It wasn't even super hard stuff, but finding someone that actually knew how to use merge fields/set up a table of contents/use styles was somehow impossible. EAT THE EGGS RICOLA fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Aug 14, 2014 |
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:We used to give people a test that we expected most people to bomb for clerical positions, if the candidate could answer any one of the questions on it they got hired. I would fail this test unless it was TeX. I'm not qualified for a clerical job 
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evol262 posted:I would fail this test unless it was TeX. I'm not qualified for a clerical job Which is fine, but if you're someone with 5 years of experience with MS Office, you should be able to answer at least one of those questions when you apply for a senior document preparation position.
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Dead Cow posted:Yes, for the callcenter and claims department interviews. It is literally log in, open word, type some bs paragraph, then print it and the instructions are there. Make them type up the instructions.
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Aug 14, 2014 02:22
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Honestly, if we could hire a person or two that could press the AutoSum button in Excel and check the Num Lock and Caps Lock when their password "quits working" I would be a happy man. I was told by my boss to find a system that HR can run by themselves. Bonus points, HR requested a "cloud" test. I think having the interviewee log in to a workstation and complete and print a predefined set of tasks is a much better option. Thanks for all your help.
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Building out another regional office and the first time I get to see the plan the server room has been turned into a space 8 feet long... and 2.5 feet deep. It's oriented lengthwise with a sliding door at one end. EDIT: To be clear it's a long rectangle with the door at the skinny end. Great for storing pipe I guess! Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Aug 14, 2014 |
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Dick Trauma posted:Building out another regional office and the first time I get to see the plan the server room has been turned into a space 8 feet long... and 2.5 feet deep. It's oriented lengthwise with a sliding door at one end. The last photo studio I worked for had its server room in the basement, in a closet about 8'x4', door on the skinny end, and (being an old-rear end building whose basement wasn't entirely sealed) had the drainage system in there. Room was perpetually damp, to the point that condensation was on EVERYTHING, ALL THE TIME. Their poo poo kept breaking and they "just couldn't figure it out". lol
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Hell, when I first started at a web hosting company I used to work for way back in the day, the "server room" at the HQ office in Orlando was literally a broom closet with some storage shelves holding the servers. Since their was no ventilation, our facilities guy knocked out a ceiling tile, disconnected one of the A/C flex ducts from another vent, and stuffed it through the hole. It gets better, though; at one point we closed our colo hosting account at one of our other data centers to save money, but we had no place to put the few dozen servers that used to live there, so we flew them down to the Orlando office (which was in a small half-office half-warehouse building in a light industrial park) and put them out in the non-climate-controlled warehouse area on a big shelf on wheels. Our "crash cart" was a shopping cart that someone either stole from some random homeless dude or from the Albertson's down the road on OBT. Being Central Florida in the summer, it was so hot out there that those servers would spontaneously reboot at least once every few days. Sometimes they would refuse to boot at all, and we'd have to remove the hot-swappable hard drives and put them in the freezer in the break room for a few minutes to cool them down. Also, they'd sometimes open the garage doors to try to cool the room down and forget to close them when all the day folks left, so I'd find them still wide open when I left around midnight; I'm still amazed that we never had some crackhead just wander in and roll the whole rack of servers away one day. Probably they were just too busy breaking into our cars in the parking lot to notice the open doors...  The owners eventually built a slightly better data center in part of the warehouse space (it wasn't great, but it at least was bigger than a closet, had proper power and network drops and HVAC, and even had a door with a lock  ), but they also built out some extra office space for our client services people at the same time and connected both spaces to the same HVAC system, so it was always like 50 degrees in the client services office and those poor folks were always freezing.
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Dick Trauma posted:Building out another regional office and the first time I get to see the plan the server room has been turned into a space 8 feet long... and 2.5 feet deep. It's oriented lengthwise with a sliding door at one end. This sounds like a standard Network/Server Administrator's office to me. It includes a high school-style desk-with-attached-chair combo and is otherwise filled with server racks, right? Also no windows?
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Dick Trauma posted:Building out another regional office and the first time I get to see the plan the server room has been turned into a space 8 feet long... and 2.5 feet deep. It's oriented lengthwise with a sliding door at one end. You're being relocated, it's your new office 
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I thought "storing pipe" was being used as a euphemism but no, it's much more literal.
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I can tick something new off of my bucket list today ☑Go through a lilliputian Windows 8.1 install and in doing so age my already ailing eyeballs by five years in the space of ten minutes....  There are many tradeoffs when you work for a semi-laid back startup. On one hand, we're fed delicious grilled tri tip steak with all the fixins on a semi regular basis. On the other hand, people generally get whateverfucking computing device/piece of poo poo technology they ask for no matter how lovely/unproven/lame and I end up paying the price.
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Windows 8 deploys much faster than windows 7. And you can upgrade to pro through the add remove windows services page instead of having to do a fresh install.
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Lamar Smith R-TX posted:I can tick something new off of my bucket list today Having a lovely meme posted up in your workspace means you deserve what you get 
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Mr. Fix It posted:Having a lovely meme posted up in your workspace means you deserve what you get I have three of them though, am I going straight to poo poo-eater purgatory?  
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Lamar Smith R-TX posted:I have three of them though, am I going straight to poo poo-eater purgatory? Yes. Grow up.
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"To be honest," you are running a red flag factory in that cubicle.
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Our helpdesk looks like someone found a way to do a print all from 9gag.
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My workspace contains nothing personal in it really besides technical books that I personally own. I think this is pretty much the same for everyone in my office. We like it this way because we are taken very seriously and not as caricatures from a sitcom/crime drama.
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Lamar Smith R-TX posted:I have three of them though, am I going straight to poo poo-eater purgatory? It's ok if you're in your early 20s and don't know any better, sort of like putting posters up in your bedroom.
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This thread has a strange aversion to fun. So what if some guy wants to put stuff up in his cubicle? He spends 8+ hours a day there, let him be comfortable and happy!
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 Corporate just approved the budget to upgrade the domain server from NT to 2012 My supervisor also approved the idea to test out virtual. I could cry 
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I will leave the picture of the Busey family up at all times, and the only way it will be removed is from my cold dead hands.
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ConfusedUs posted:This thread has a strange aversion to fun. So what if some guy wants to put stuff up in his cubicle? He spends 8+ hours a day there, let him be comfortable and happy! To each their own but it does put off a certain unprofessional vibe. Might not matter for what one person is doing but for others that could mean the difference between being involved in decision making and just being the dude that gets poo poo dumped in their lap to implement.
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I have nothing decorative in my office because it's just more stuff I'd have to collect when they fire me.
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So much poo poo is going to break.... I expect to see more stories from you in the near future in this thread. Congrats! You'll love it once it's all done.
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larchesdanrew posted:
As in from like... NT4? O_o
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AlternateAccount posted:As in from like... NT4? O_o Yeah that's not an "upgrade" as much as it is "Install new domain and abandon old one".
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One poster behind my monitor is this: I've also stickied this:  for our tester, but she's no longer with company. I hope she didn't try to follow these guidelines 
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eithedog posted:One poster behind my monitor is this: Don't suppose you have that testing one in a larger size do you?
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ConfusedUs posted:Don't suppose you have that testing one in a larger size do you? 
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My job is lately getting to the point where the moment one of my coworkers messages or calls me, I just want to kill myself because he has a tremendously impatient and condescending attitude. He was pushed into a sort of tutor / mentor role when the team lead and head architect quit, so now this guy is the second most knowledgeable and has to help us lowly junior devs... But he has absolutely no loving patience and is just a dick. I know a few of the other members of my team feel this way, but I have no idea how to bring it up with the actual boss- kind of a first time experience with a douche coworker 
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There's a coconut bra that's hung up on the wall next to my desk. It's not mine and I don't know the story behind it but they won't let me take it down. Beyond that, I share an office with my boss and I'm pretty sure he's a hoarder because he never cleans up and refuses to throw anything away. There's piles of empty cardboard boxes that have been in here for two years, various parts of computers strewn about with no organization, stacks of dead hardware that he won't let me recycle, the list goes on and on. It's disgusting and every time I or anyone else tells him that he should clean it, he spends about 5 minutes picking stuff up and putting it somewhere else in the room, announces that it's great, and goes back to whatever he was doing.
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Helushune posted:There's a coconut bra that's hung up on the wall next to my desk. It's not mine and I don't know the story behind it but they won't let me take it down. Beyond that, I share an office with my boss and I'm pretty sure he's a hoarder because he never cleans up and refuses to throw anything away. There's piles of empty cardboard boxes that have been in here for two years, various parts of computers strewn about with no organization, stacks of dead hardware that he won't let me recycle, the list goes on and on. It's disgusting and every time I or anyone else tells him that he should clean it, he spends about 5 minutes picking stuff up and putting it somewhere else in the room, announces that it's great, and goes back to whatever he was doing. Hide a banana or something in one of those boxes. After a few weeks you'll have more than enough ammunition to warrant an office purge.
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AlternateAccount posted:As in from like... NT4? O_o Someone was VNC-scanning the entire internet and posting the fun stuff to Twitter and he found this. 
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m.hache posted:Hide a banana or something in one of those boxes. After a few weeks you'll have more than enough ammunition to warrant an office purge. He actually has a box that he calls the "food trash box" where he dumps all that in. He'll dump it in to a trash can every two or three weeks but it'll have rotting fruit and moldy bread in it before he does anything with it. I've told him several times that this is all unacceptable and incredibly unprofessional but he's really set in his ways and doesn't take to any mentoring I've tried to offer. Facilities gave him an ultimatum of "clean it up within two weeks or we're throwing everything on the floor out". I would have thought that would get him going but it's only gotten worse. Helushune fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Aug 15, 2014 |
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I guess I shouldn't be surprised that someone with an internet-facing VNC connection would also still be running NT4 on something. Although I imagine NT isn't exactly rare in industrial settings running heavy machinery. I'd just hope they'd have better ways of remote access.
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John Kruk posted:To each their own but it does put off a certain unprofessional vibe. Might not matter for what one person is doing but for others that could mean the difference between being involved in decision making and just being the dude that gets poo poo dumped in their lap to implement. It's different company cultures for sure. We have a very relaxed dress code where our bosses wear jeans and t-shirts. If you came in with even a tie people would eyeball you a little differently. I also had my director comment that I effectively didn't have enough flare in my office once, so now I grow plants and have pictures and posters up. Context dude, context.
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larchesdanrew posted:
If your DC is running NT 4.0 what are you running on the clients?
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