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anthonypants posted:The old one was left there, but the name or IP address weren't changed.
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Dick Trauma posted:warning about phishing Astoundingly all of the users at my place actually ask me if certain E-mails look a bit dodgy. The only time we've ever been hit by a virus was when somebody opened a bad attachment from a labelled delivery company (I think it was TNT or something similar), because they ordered some shoes and were actually expecting E-mails from said company that the message was labelled from.
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We let a guy RDP in from home with his personal laptop. No big deal. He's going on a work-related trip next week. Mad at me because I don't have laptops laying around that aren't being used that he can take on the trip. His wife won't let him take the home laptop with him on his trip because she needs something to Faceville on while he's away. All you're going to do is check email while you're gone and it's on your phone. Buy your stupid wife an iPad or something.
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The lack of communication is starting to really get to me at my job. They roll poo poo out to users and expect us to support it--which is fine, since that is the job--but they don't tell us it's even happening, let alone show us how it works. For example, this week it's Sharepoint. We've sort of known it's coming for a while (when we ask stuff, the usual response is "well when we have Sharepoint, it will work this way...") but now it's rolled out to some people, so they're calling with questions/issues about it. The help desk 1) doesn't have access to sharepoint--there's a help desk site, but I have 0 access to it right now and 2) wasn't even told, even with a brief "hey btw this is happening", until the first user issue came up. We have users that use Kronos. Every once in a while, a new version is rolled out or tested at certain sites. Never mention it to us at all. Then we look like morons when we get calls and respond with "uhhh I've never seen this before" Is it so hard to just mention it? Maybe give us like 10 minutes of training? I get that you may be busy, but it works out in your favor in the end, I promise! I need a new job. This one isn't even so bad, but the pay is absolute garbage.
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myron cope posted:The lack of communication is starting to really get to me at my job. I had that problem with my last job as a manufacturer. They'd sell prototypes to customers without even notifying me that it was going out. I'd have to support hardware and software I'd never seen before. It was ridiculous.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I love an out of control project. We currently have a $100k proposal for a tech refresh. I don't believe the environment we're buying this equipment for needs anywhere near what we're throwing at it. I'd probably spend $40k compared to the $100k which is getting thrown around. This is not because I believe things need to be done cheaply, I'd just much rather use this money elsewhere, rather than drastically overallocate resources into an environment which will never use it. hahaha dude, let me tell you about poorly thought out projects: Our Marcom team decided to go out and purchase an Adobe based asset management system, without consulting our engineering team first. Not only did they get something they didn't need, it didn't even work as advertised out of the box. Only after the contract was signed did Adobe even think to mention that any of the features that the product was originally purchased for needed to be built from the ground up, requiring a full time Java programmer on staff to implement this. Also, only after the thing was purchased, did our Marcom team come to us with their hardware requirements. Somehow they ended up purchasing a SAN for a single server test implementation  Total cost at this point? Around $200k, over half of it was just in licensing and support costs. This was actually all purchased before I was with the company, but one of the first things asked of me when I joined was to help them build out the system and get it up and running. I was able to do that, however we were NEVER able to get a Java engineer on site to actually finish the install. A year goes by with the project in this state, when Marcom once again decides they "need this", and go back to Adobe to see what it would take to get this done. They quoted 50k just to get a contractor onsite and talking to us, PLUS they were going to charge us another 100k to renew our license & warranty since it was never purchased when the contract came up for rewnewal. Rather wisely, our Marcom team told Adobe to stick their product in their rear end and eat it. In all we probably put out over half a million with absolutely NOTHING to show for it. I believe the Director of Marketing actually lost his job over that one.
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So the guy at work who has been trying to get pc imaging to be less of a shitshow found out yesterday that the management solution to this problem is not train the other employee that handles the imaging, or use to use the proper tools to make the images. No, the solution is send our current images out to another company, they fix the images, then I think send us the working images. Or maybe they actually put the image on the computers. So, he was told to upload our 3 image files to this company, the smallest is about 4gigs, the other two are around 6+ gigs each. So he goes to upload the images to the company, and we find they only do FTP connections, and our InfoSec dept says the only way these images are leaving the network is through SFTP or another secure method. Last I heard, this had to be done by 5pm today, but nothing had been uploaded so far. Its a shame I'll be gone on Monday, I can't wait to hear what the solution was. Or wasn't.
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Can someone explain "arcing a rack" to me? I only use 1000V rated wirecutters near 230V lines.
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mewse posted:I had that problem with my last job as a manufacturer. They'd sell prototypes to customers without even notifying me that it was going out. I'd have to support hardware and software I'd never seen before. It was ridiculous. My current job does this. I've started mentioning that i've not been told about it but i'll pass them through to someone who does. I then mention it to my manager and tell him straight up I won't support something i've not been trained on. Message has gotten through at least, both times I got training. It was brief training that explained what certain things do and who to escalate it to if we get an issue we can't fix through, but I prefer that to "hi, you're through to Dogstile on the crappysoftware team, how can I help?" "Yeah we have a problem with X and I was told to speak to you" "errrrrrrmmmmmm"...
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dogstile posted:My current job does this. I've started mentioning that i've not been told about it but i'll pass them through to someone who does. I then mention it to my manager and tell him straight up I won't support something i've not been trained on. This used to be the norm at my old job; it was a web hosting company that bought out or merged with other companies multiple times a year, so we were constantly acquiring entirely new hosting platforms on a regular basis. There never was any training and almost never any documentation; basically the way it usually worked was that the first sysadmin to take a call from level one support about a new platform (which we usually didn't even know existed until we got a support request on it) had to figure out everything about it on their own, after which said sysadmin would become "the <platform> admin" forevermore and would have to work every ticket that came in about it in the future. It was always fun when us Unix admins got stuck being the go-to guy for a Windows platform (and vice versa) thanks to this method. 
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SEKCobra posted:Can someone explain "arcing a rack" to me? I only use 1000V rated wirecutters near 230V lines. Then you must be part of the team I should have notified about the lovely power cable BEFORE I tried messing with it. Uh... Sorry... (no this didn't happen at my old site enough for there to actually be a term for it, I was trying to be funny and was evidently, well, not)
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How do people in Private IT live with this slowness? I mean gently caress this is annoying as gently caress. It's like work on poo poo, and answering emails at home is hard... Holy poo poo, there is little push do devolve in advanced certs or knowledge of IT just "going with the flow". I hated those MSP's/VAR's maybe, Varrow and charlotte are different to a VCAP-DCD/EMCISAv2/CCNA-DC. Probably should publish my certs on linkedin sometime... Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Sep 21, 2014 |
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:How do people in Private IT live with this slowness? I mean gently caress this is annoying as gently caress. Another Saturday night... What are you actually saying here? It's unintelligible. That people should answer emails at home or shouldn't? I'm not sure what you mean by " Private IT" either. Is this about in-house IT departments with workers who have priorities other than work?
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Sep 21, 2014 06:01
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:How do people in Private IT live with this slowness? I mean gently caress this is annoying as gently caress. Dilbert As gently caress posted:I hated those MSP's/VAR's maybe, Varrow and charlotte are different to a VCAP-DCD/EMCISAv2/CCNA-DC.
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:How do people in Private IT live with this slowness? I mean gently caress this is annoying as gently caress. Dude, seriously, just gently caress off. All you do now is humble brag about how much better you are compared to everyone you work with. I miss when you were useful in these threads. Also if you want to be busy 24/7 in private IT go find a company that is understaffed and underfunded. Being slow and nor having too much work means things are going right and you are not constantly dealing with systems going down.
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:How do people in Private IT live with this slowness? I mean gently caress this is annoying as gently caress. shouldn't you be training for some stupid race instead of drinking
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:How do people in Private IT live with this slowness? I mean gently caress this is annoying as gently caress. Shouldn't you be working instead of being drunk on the forums?
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jim truds posted:Being slow and nor having too much work means things are going right and you are not constantly dealing with systems going down. This. A few weeks ago my org lost a bunch of money because of a cable moved before it should have been(but when it was scheduled to be). poo poo hasn't been right on day shift since. Sure am glad to be going back to the nice, quiet, 12 hour overnights.
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Having re-established that running around with your hair on fire is not a sign of a good job, or doing a good job, do we now need a new thread title?
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:How do people in Private IT live with this slowness? I mean gently caress this is annoying as gently caress. Maybe I figured it out. Maybe everyone is just a ton more efficient than you. Maybe everyone else can get their work done AND stay up to date with technology and certifications and what not while still maintaining a healthy social/family life which you will never have cause youre a drat head case.
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Syano posted:Maybe I figured it out. Maybe everyone is just a ton more efficient than you. Maybe everyone else can get their work done AND stay up to date with technology and certifications and what not while still maintaining a healthy social/family life which you will never have cause youre a drat head case. 
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After my new boss brushed off my request to have a meeting I see that he sent me an email last night at 2am that we need to meet next week. In a normal environment it's good to meet with your new boss. At this place I'm anxious that it will be a shitshow, especially because I have no idea what my other three bosses have told him about me.
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Syano posted:Maybe I figured it out. Maybe everyone is just a ton more efficient than you. Maybe everyone else can get their work done AND stay up to date with technology and certifications and what not while still maintaining a healthy social/family life which you will never have cause youre a drat head case. Jesus Christ 
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Syano posted:Maybe I figured it out. Maybe everyone is just a ton more efficient than you. Maybe everyone else can get their work done AND stay up to date with technology and certifications and what not while still maintaining a healthy social/family life which you will never have cause youre a drat head case. 
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Syano posted:Maybe I figured it out. Maybe everyone is just a ton more efficient than you. Maybe everyone else can get their work done AND stay up to date with technology and certifications and what not while still maintaining a healthy social/family life which you will never have cause youre a drat head case.  The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware / Software Crap > More poo poo that pisses you off: WHY ISN'T ANYONE WORKING AS HARD AS ME Is that too long? 
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Syano posted:Maybe I figured it out. Maybe everyone is just a ton more efficient than you. Maybe everyone else can get their work done AND stay up to date with technology and certifications and what not while still maintaining a healthy social/family life which you will never have cause youre a drat head case.  There's a reason "home" is home and "work" is work.
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:
Fyi. Your a+ doesn't really count as a cert but you hang in there. You're changing the engineering IT world here. I hate you more than the bad managers I work with.
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:It's like work on poo poo, and answering emails at home is hard... Work is kind of poo poo, and no, I'm not answering work-related emails at home. Pay me overtime, give me comp time, whatever, but as it stands, outside of my normal eight hours a day, I refuse to be anywhere near my work. In unrelated pissing off, can I be pissed off about my current boss demanding everything to be in the cloud? I mean, I just want an asset tracking system for this place. Do we really need something hosted when I'm completely fine with tossing internal tools on a VM on our box sitting in the closet and playing admin for it?
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I went in this afternoon to get a head start on the coming week's tidal wave of tasks and my card didn't work at the garage gate. 
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Sounds like the time I got wind of what was coming when my e-mail stopped updating on my phone because my credentials were invalid.
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Dick Trauma posted:I went in this afternoon to get a head start on the coming week's tidal wave of tasks and my card didn't work at the garage gate. Think its a simple glitch or sign of whats to come?
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It's probably a glitch. The parking guys are in charge of the cards and they're idiots.
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Is it an RFID badge? Sometimes they just break. I've gone through a couple badges at work because they get bent or whatever.
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Dick Trauma posted:It's probably a glitch. The parking guys are in charge of the cards and they're idiots. Or, uh, there WAS a glitch, and the Bobs fixed it. edit: yeah if you could just go ahead and take care of the rat problem down here that'd be great! thanks milton!
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NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! You do not get to bypass the helpdesk by calling my personal mobile. When I find out who gave it out I will ensure their death is slow and painful.
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Welp, my bonus this month wasn't paid. My bonus that I was assured would only be taken if I was taking the piss in regards to sick days. I took one day off and came in the next day all blocked up and lovely. Lesson learned, i'll do what I did the time before that and take a few days in a row. I actually got paid for that one. Angry isn't even the loving word. E: In the contract he reserves the right to take it at any time, so I wasn't relying on it, i'm just annoyed that he's taking it for something so tiny. dogstile fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Sep 22, 2014 |
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dogstile posted:Welp, my bonus this month wasn't paid. My bonus that I was assured would only be taken if I was taking the piss in regards to sick days. You were denied a bonus for a taking a sick day? Did they tell you this in writing?
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FISHMANPET posted:Also, you would have gotten the bonus if you took more sick days? It's possible, cunts in HR love the Bradford Factor. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Sep 22, 2014 |
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Sickening posted:You were denied a bonus for a taking a sick day? Did they tell you this in writing? Yes, they reserve the right to deny the bonus if I take a day off and that's why I can't do anything about it. I'm bummed out because it's my own drat fault for signing it. Granted I was assured that they haven't denied it to anyone in years and people are allowed to be sick (I was wary, rightfully so, clearly) but it was at the point of "either you take it like this or it's not happening" so I signed it. Just a bit down and angry, I don't get why he's penny pinching so hard. FISHMANPET posted:Also, you would have gotten the bonus if you took more sick days? Yeah, Bradford factor has been mentioned before but I am assuming its because I took a single day off. I took a few days off before and they didn't bat an eyelid.
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