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Billy the Mountain posted:I work on rt 22. I'm up in Passaic county now, but still have friends down in that area.
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Billy the Mountain posted:I work on rt 22. I work in NYC, but I live in central jersey. ASK me about my 2-hours-each-way daily commute 
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Oct 12, 2014 01:22
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FireSight posted:The problem is that HR and managers rarely know how to do what they expect their underlings to do. It only really works if you already have at least 1 competent person in the position you are hiring for. A basic office skills equivalency test would work well, at a lot of bigger places are starting to do that for all levels of hiring. Do you know how to open/close/print in word, and make something that closely looks like changes to a file? Do you know how to open/close/print an excel file, and do basic equations and sum a collumn? Do you know how to work outlook, open/print an email, make a new email that isn't full of txt speek, and create a calendar invite? It cuts down on the really useless people entirely, which is handy.
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Oct 12, 2014 02:12
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Do you know how to open/close/print an excel file, and do basic equations and sum a collumn? I don't know how to do this without googling it.  I can google it tho, so it would take all of 30 seconds to figure out.
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Oct 12, 2014 02:44
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RFC2324 posted:I don't know how to do this without googling it. You're given a computer with office 2010 and the internet, you have 1 hour. There are like 30 questions. If you know what you're doing, you can finish the test in about 10 minutes. If you know how to google, you'll finish in about half an hour. If you're a hopeless waste of space, you'll fail miserably having not been able to turn the computer on after 40 minutes.
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Oct 12, 2014 03:15
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RFC2324 posted:I don't know how to do this without googling it. Have you literally never used excel before? You should try it out some time as it can be a pretty useful tool.
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Oct 12, 2014 04:04
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:A basic office skills equivalency test would work well, at a lot of bigger places are starting to do that for all levels of hiring.
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Oct 12, 2014 04:20
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Galler posted:Have you literally never used excel before? You should try it out some time as it can be a pretty useful tool. I have, and have in fact done sums and even more advanced equations. Just not often enough to bother remembering how, when I can do most of that from the CLI.
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Oct 12, 2014 06:03
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You guys really should learn some advanced Excel. I am a storage admin but I have years of experience with Excel and every time one of the other team leads needs some Excel help they come to me and I look like a rock star.
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Oct 12, 2014 12:49
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RFC2324 posted:Just not often enough to bother remembering how, when I can do most of that from the CLI. Yeah, this. Syano posted:every time one of the other team leads needs some Excel help they come to me This looks like a really good reason to never learn Excel. 
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Oct 12, 2014 14:30
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Excel is the great program ever made
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Oct 12, 2014 17:17
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Excel is the worst program for accomplishing any task, but somehow it will succeed given enough macros and corporate dictates.
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Oct 12, 2014 17:45
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thelightguy posted:Excel is the worst program for accomplishing any task, but somehow it will succeed given enough macros and corporate dictates. Let me tell you about Power Pivot.
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Oct 12, 2014 17:52
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thelightguy posted:Excel is the worst program for accomplishing any task, but somehow it will succeed given enough macros and corporate dictates. What would you recommend instead if I want to quickly perform the same simple formula operation in situ on a data set?
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Oct 12, 2014 17:52
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Heners_UK posted:What would you recommend instead if I want to quickly perform the same simple formula operation in situ on a data set? Hello I am an IBM salesperson just fill out this simple form and I will tell you for only $2 million
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Oct 12, 2014 17:56
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peak debt posted:Hello I am an IBM salesperson just fill out this simple form and I will tell you for only $2 million Spoilers: it's an old copy of lotus works.
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Oct 12, 2014 17:56
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Lotus 1-2-3
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Heners_UK posted:What would you recommend instead if I want to quickly perform the same simple formula operation in situ on a data set? PERL, of course. Python if you're one of those young'ns who don't understand how to write entire CRM systems in one line.
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Oct 12, 2014 18:12
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thelightguy posted:Python if you're one of those young'ns who don't understand how to write entire CRM systems in one line. Who would trust a programming language that uses whitespace as a functional delimiter? 
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Oct 12, 2014 18:54
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thelightguy posted:PERL, of course. Python if you're one of those young'ns who don't understand how to write entire CRM systems in one line. Awk for reports you cretins.
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Oct 12, 2014 18:59
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A hate mail came in. The other day I sent out a mail to all users on behalf of a colleague, informing users to close all documents at the end of each day while we were doing access rights updates. Boring stuff, written in English, because while we are a Norwegian company, we have a lot of foreigners working here. I get this lovely reply from a private email adress (Translated from norwegian) From: "acdsaj." <redacted@gmail.com to: Bitesize <bitesize@company.com> "hey you bitesize loving don't send that bloody vomit in english to me. i hate english and i have said so to [the ceo] .and dont send me spam. write it in norwegian.loving human being*" *"jævla rompis". rompis being a term meaning assman, but as a kind of humorous homophobic term used between friends. mostly. unless you don't know the person, in which case, no. So it was from a semi anonymized gmail account. Too bad he also used that account while applying for the job, which I found in the employee database. We laughed. My boss did not find it as funny and now it's an HR matter. Who the hell actually sits down and sends that to someone?
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Oct 13, 2014 15:23
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Same kind of person who posts all kinds of insanely damaging stuff all over their public facebook I bet.
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Oct 13, 2014 15:38
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Fire the manchild on the spot.
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Oct 13, 2014 15:56
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dogstile posted:Fire the manchild on the spot. Fire him in English.
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spog posted:Fire him in English. He will probably show up the next day, wondering why his janitor's closet won't open anymore.
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Oct 13, 2014 17:32
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Bitesize posted:A hate mail came in. This is incredible.
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Oct 13, 2014 19:02
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Bitesize posted:A hate mail came in. Wonderful  some people will just never learn. Back around 2006 I worked a helpdesk job at a fairly large company that had offices in several US states. One day an email comes in, from a guy that was in another location, with the subject "they'll say I quit, but I was FORCED out". Turned out he'd given his notice and it was his last day, but he felt like he had "no choice" but to give notice because management had been uncooperative with him or something. The email was pretty long and was one big grievances.txt to all the managers along with a polite goodbye to the people the guy worked with and liked.He apparently thought better of the email (or an admin got into his account and tried to recall the message) but it didn't get recalled until almost a half hour later. I'm sure he never planned on coming back and the company can't legally say anything about him to another employer, but drat, even I wouldn't risk a nasty email on my last day.
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At one company, some guy quit (not for any big reason) and decided to email everyone in the company a photo of an erect cock with multiple piercings. Given that this was an office job, this appeared in the inboxes of a lot of ladies for varying ages. This did not go down well, as any adult will appreciate. The police were called in. (I never heard what happened to him in the end)
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Oct 13, 2014 19:41
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tomapot posted:I used to live in Union, NJ - gently caress Route 22. I live in Union. 22 should be hazard pay if you have to drive it between 7 AM - 7 PM any given day.
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Coworkers external Toshiba drive poo poo the bed and I'm seeing if I can pull anything off it. 30 gigs of data and I'm running ddrescue. It's pulled 6 gigs with 433 errors and a current transfer rate of 35,00 bytes/second. It's been running for almost four hours. Don't know what the hell she did and it's not clicking but it's pretty well hosed.
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Ozz81 posted:I'm sure he never planned on coming back and the company can't legally say anything about him to another employer, but drat, even I wouldn't risk a nasty email on my last day. There's nothing illegal about giving an accurate negative reference in the US.
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Oct 13, 2014 22:08
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MisterOblivious posted:There's nothing illegal about giving an accurate negative reference in the US. It's still risky and offers no benefit to the company giving the reference.
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Most medium-large companies will only confirm the length of your employment for this very reason.
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So what is this Windows server patch that Rackspace is telling me needs to be updated and your computer restarted with so much urgency? edit: Found it, it's even got a cute name, Sand Worm! For reference: CVE-2014-4114 edit2: wait no, sandworm is the name of the group that is actively using the exploit for cyber-espionage. deimos fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Oct 14, 2014 |
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deimos posted:So what is this Windows server patch that Rackspace is telling me needs to be updated and your computer restarted with so much urgency? Man PowerPoint keeps getting worse and worse
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pr0digal posted:Man PowerPoint keeps getting worse and worse Suspicions are that PPT is just the convenient attack vector and the one they used to discover the bug, but that it can be far nastier than that.
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Oct 14, 2014 17:23
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deimos posted:Suspicions are that PPT is just the convenient attack vector and the one they used to discover the bug, but that it can be far nastier than that. Nothing has showed up in my Windows Update yet but it's security bulletin MS14-060 for when it does go live.
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pr0digal posted:Nothing has showed up in my Windows Update yet but it's security bulletin MS14-060 for when it does go live. Holy crap this combo is crazy: https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms14-oct MS14-058 is probably worse than 060. deimos fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Oct 14, 2014 |
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