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We're building out our SOC room. Complete with huge wall mounted video wall to throw dashboards and charts and graphs up on or whatever, touch screen wall mounted collaboration TV to whiteboard stuff out or screen share and video conference etc, media rack to drive it all, new furniture that's basically analyst row, and cool stuff like that. Except the CIO refuses to let us enclose the room with a loving wall and door which was listed as part of our requirements. It's basically just a bullpen with a back cube wall. There's no physical security on the SOC and it's in a high foot traffic area basically right next to the exit for the bathrooms and main hallway. So when we're talking about confidential topics anyone who happens to be walking to take a piss will hear. Anyone will also easily be able to see what's up on the screens, not that it's going to be NSA level poo poo or anything (besides noticing there's a spike, the pretty graphs etc will basically be for the execs to marvel at  ). I'm pretty sure the CIO just wants to be able to check on us since he walks that way like 10 times a day.Basically I feel like a 16 year old girl whose parents bought them a brand new Audi but didn't get the wheels I wanted so my birthday is RUINED.
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gently caress you loving coworker who sits across from me! I'm sick of every slow loud slurp of coffee and spoon of yogurth you take being a loving audible x-ray of every part of your digestive system from the tip of your lips to your rear end in a top hat! I loving hope your contract isn't renewed after new years so that I can be in my own office without wanting to tear first yours and then my own spine out with my bare hands!
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Dec 2, 2014 12:10
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evobatman posted:gently caress you loving coworker who sits across from me! I'm sick of every slow loud slurp of coffee and spoon of yogurth you take being a loving audible x-ray of every part of your digestive system from the tip of your lips to your rear end in a top hat! I loving hope your contract isn't renewed after new years so that I can be in my own office without wanting to tear first yours and then my own spine out with my bare hands! The last person I shared an office with played light jazz all day, over speakers. Due to the acoustics of the room and the hutches we both had, I only heard the tones most closely aligned with the resonance frequency of the environment. So imagine trying to code all day while hearing a single note from a saxophone being played at seemingly random intervals. Oh, and he didn't use headphones because he was on the phone so much. So, add the oh-so-soothing corporate phone ringer every 7 minutes to that scene in your mind.
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Dec 2, 2014 13:27
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nthalp posted:drat. C'mon, man. This is one of the best jobs in the world. You get to solve puzzles every day - for pay - and be justifiably angry at people. Name another job where you get paid to both solve puzzles and be irascible that doesn't also require a postgraduate degree. poo poo pissing me off: It's 0800 and I already have fifteen high-priority tickets from that Japanese company. No, gently caress you guys.
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Dec 2, 2014 13:51
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Dec 2, 2014 15:25
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Volmarias posted:I hope you bought a lotto ticket or fifty after that happened. Our current sales manager takes poo poo from no one, so I figured there would be write-ups when I brought this to his attention. Not the first time I've gotten the salespeople into trouble. If they knew, they would all hate me 
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Dec 2, 2014 15:38
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New resume came in for my department's open position. Applicant listed herself as "HIPPA [sic] Certified".
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Dec 2, 2014 16:12
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Test is never test is never test is never test is never test
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Dec 2, 2014 17:25
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Sirotan posted:New resume came in for my department's open position. Applicant listed herself as "HIPPA [sic] Certified".
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Dec 2, 2014 17:32
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ookiimarukochan posted:How many search engines is she qualified to use though? Not sure, but her interests do include golf, animals, and exercise!
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Dec 2, 2014 17:32
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Che Delilas posted:The last person I shared an office with played light jazz all day, over speakers. Due to the acoustics of the room and the hutches we both had, I only heard the tones most closely aligned with the resonance frequency of the environment. So imagine trying to code all day while hearing a single note from a saxophone being played at seemingly random intervals. DON'T PLAY MUSIC IN A SHARED WORKSPACE. How is this so loving hard for people to get? You can play the whole OH LET ME KNOW IF ITS TOO LOUD AND I'LL TURN IT DOWN bullshit, but that's such a dick move. Just be loving considerate from the get go, no one wants to hear it, and our work requires concentration.
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Dec 2, 2014 17:59
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AlternateAccount posted:DON'T PLAY MUSIC IN A SHARED WORKSPACE. How is this so loving hard for people to get? You can play the whole OH LET ME KNOW IF ITS TOO LOUD AND I'LL TURN IT DOWN bullshit, but that's such a dick move. Just be loving considerate from the get go, no one wants to hear it, and our work requires concentration. Hell, I check to make sure it's not so loud that you can hear it coming from my headphones. Turn off the radio, Milton. In other irritating news -- after updating Chrome, ALL sharepoint sites are now displaying fonts incorrectly. It's not comic sans, it's worse, it's some kind of blocky horrid 'cute' font. I ask my coworker if he ever found a way to fix his, nope. I ask the helpguy and he says he's gotten a lot of tickets on it and if I find a solution, let him know. So I ask the sharepoint guy--who says to use IE. 
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Dec 2, 2014 18:34
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meanieface posted:the sharepoint guy--who says to use IE He's already dead inside, what did you expect?
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Dec 2, 2014 18:46
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Hey Dick Trauma any fall out over you leaving that you've heard of yet? Wishing you the best, I hope you land on your feet soon. The night after I left I emailed the CEO to give him an explanation. He sent something complimentary back and said when the holiday was over he'd evaluate if things could be repaired. Just got the call from the HR VP that they decided to discard me and "move forward." It frustrates me that these people I worked so hard for consider my quitting to be progress. I'm not surprised by the choice but I'm weary of having bad management rubbed in my face over and over, for years at a time. I feel like I've had one shot to run a place and stay as long as I wanted (back when I was an I.T. Director) and I threw that away in the chaos after having cancer. Now I feel like this was my last shot to make a decent salary and I should've hung onto it until they got rid of me because I'm not going to see it again. It's the only job in the last ten years where I made enough to save and stop worrying about spending a little now and then. Being disrespected, ignored, etc. I should've toughened up and absorbed it in the name of maintaining my employment. I don't know where to go from here. At my age with my history it feels like everything that might be good is behind me and there's nowhere to go but down. I can't believe I threw that job away and made it easy for them.
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Dec 2, 2014 18:47
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meanieface posted:Hell, I check to make sure it's not so loud that you can hear it coming from my headphones. Turn off the radio, Milton. I bet that the font is set somewhere in SharePoint. One browser is ignoring the font choice in favor of the default while the other honors it. Or something like that.
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Dec 2, 2014 19:18
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Sirotan posted:animals
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Dec 2, 2014 19:19
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AlternateAccount posted:DON'T PLAY MUSIC IN A SHARED WORKSPACE. How is this so loving hard for people to get? You can play the whole OH LET ME KNOW IF ITS TOO LOUD AND I'LL TURN IT DOWN bullshit, but that's such a dick move. Just be loving considerate from the get go, no one wants to hear it, and our work requires concentration.
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Dec 2, 2014 19:53
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Dick Trauma posted:The night after I left I emailed the CEO to give him an explanation. He sent something complimentary back and said when the holiday was over he'd evaluate if things could be repaired. Go read about Stockholm syndrome. You're afflicted.
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Dec 2, 2014 20:05
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anthonypants posted:In addition to being That Guy who slurps his coffee and was always sucking on sunflower seeds whenever he was at his desk, a guy I sat next to at my last job once put speakers on my desk, because his was full of poo poo and because there were no cubicle walls. He hooked them up to a spare mobile phone we had lying around so he could stream music over the wifi. He was incredibly butthurt when I put the speakers in the storage closet while he was away from his desk. Everyone around here chews with their mouth open and slurps on juicy apples in my loving ear while watching over my shoulder and talking with food in their mouth and I can't loving take it anymore gah!
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Dec 2, 2014 20:14
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Dick Trauma posted:The night after I left I emailed the CEO to give him an explanation. He sent something complimentary back and said when the holiday was over he'd evaluate if things could be repaired. Goddamn, fella. Sever ties with those morons. There's nothing left there, so just let that all go. You'll get better, but I'll say that if you had the skills and the background to make what you made at this shithole of a job, then you still have them going into your next job and you're still worth what you're worth. Don't let these awful people decide what your value is for you.
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Dec 2, 2014 20:14
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meanieface posted:Hell, I check to make sure it's not so loud that you can hear it coming from my headphones. Turn off the radio, Milton. Yeah, I'd love to use some proper over-ear headphones, but I know they'd probably leak sound pretty badly, so I use lovely earbuds I don't even like. :\ I need to get promoted to a position that has an office.
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Dec 2, 2014 20:15
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Dick Trauma posted:The night after I left I emailed the CEO to give him an explanation. He sent something complimentary back and said when the holiday was over he'd evaluate if things could be repaired. You know, reading that seems like the first 5 paragraphs of a note that ends "and they will all pay in blood" that the police recover from the still warm body of the CEO.
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Dec 2, 2014 20:41
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I don't what sort of environment you work in that bleed from headphones is going to be an issue. I do agree about music if you're in a place where it is an issue, if you can have music sometimes you can agree on what you listen to and just play that instead.
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Dec 2, 2014 20:41
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Partycat posted:I don't what sort of environment you work in that bleed from headphones is going to be an issue. I do agree about music if you're in a place where it is an issue, if you can have music sometimes you can agree on what you listen to and just play that instead. "Open office environment" which is fancy for "sound bounces all over the place". People even take their personal calls outside because it's just too LOUD if you're having a regular-volume conversation.
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Dec 2, 2014 20:54
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CitizenKain posted:You know, reading that seems like the first 5 paragraphs of a note that ends "and they will all pay in blood" that the police recover from the still warm body of the CEO. I'll pull through this eventually. My experience with work has been mostly negative and usually the best it gets for me is to simply not get screwed with constantly by managers. If I ever worked somewhere I felt valued that would be amazing. Went to LinkedIn, Monster and Dice and updated everything. Tomorrow I'll work on the automated search tools to start emailing me job listings, and I'm going to check in with the couple of recruiters I know and update them as well. I know it's unlikely to get hired this late in the year but the sooner I get my mind switched over the better. EDIT: Also I don't think people know what Stockholm Syndrome is. I don't empathize with the people that were sticking it to me. I think they're fuckheads. But they're the fuckheads I had to please to keep my job. Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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Dec 2, 2014 20:58
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Dick Trauma posted:Went to LinkedIn, Monster and Dice and updated everything. Tomorrow I'll work on the automated search tools to start emailing me job listings, and I'm going to check in with the couple of recruiters I know and update them as well. I know it's unlikely to get hired this late in the year but the sooner I get my mind switched over the better. 
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Dec 2, 2014 20:59
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I had to change my Windows account password and it messed up the email sync on my phone. IT reset my account without taking a snapshot of the hard drive and when it was restored all of my saved emails (meaning almost every email I've gotten since I started) and my entire calendar are gone. Hope that comes back.
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Dec 2, 2014 21:04
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peter banana posted:I had to change my Windows account password and it messed up the email sync on my phone. IT reset my account without taking a snapshot of the hard drive and when it was restored all of my saved emails (meaning almost every email I've gotten since I started) and my entire calendar are gone. Wait, your calendar was stored locally?
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Dec 2, 2014 21:19
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Dick Trauma posted:EDIT: Also I don't think people know what Stockholm Syndrome is. I don't empathize with the people that were sticking it to me. I think they're fuckheads. But they're the fuckheads I had to please to keep my job. That was made somewhat in jest. AlternateAccount sums up my views on this a lot more eloquently than me. There's a pod lined up for you somewhere
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Dec 2, 2014 21:38
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Dick Trauma posted:I feel like I've had one shot to run a place and stay as long as I wanted (back when I was an I.T. Director) and I threw that away in the chaos after having cancer. Bullshit. You're a clever chappy with a good work ethic, brains and experience. You'll get something better than that. I'd put money on it. Maybe not the next one, but the one after that.
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Dec 2, 2014 22:06
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Exit Strategy posted:new core resource distribution pump I read this and thought I was in the Eve-Online thread for a moment. Protip: get the T2 variant. 2% better circulation per skill level and 5% less powergrid and CPU requirements.
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Dec 3, 2014 00:34
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Dick Trauma posted:I'll pull through this eventually. My experience with work has been mostly negative and usually the best it gets for me is to simply not get screwed with constantly by managers. If I ever worked somewhere I felt valued that would be amazing. Jesus Christ, DT. "I threw that away in the chaos after having cancer." You are a goddamn cancer survivor. That in itself is a loving huge deal and it understandably turns one's entire life trajectory on its ear. And now you've just quit a job you loving hated and are worrying that you shouldn't have done that. At this very moment you are free. Completely free. Stressed as hell, and every day you are poorer than yesterday but you are free. Before taking the dive back into the shark tank, take a day or three (or five or twenty) and take serious stock of your life because, man, you are loving doing it wrong. Life is not about having enough money for "spending a little now and then". It's about being happy. You survived cancer, which in itself is a new lease on life. Make the most of it, man. Don't throw it away in the quest for being moderately financially secure and miserable day after day after day for the rest of your life.  Or don't: Take the first job you can land so you can claim a paycheck and live your life of quiet desperation while life happens to you.
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Everybody's freeeeeeeee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI42hQHfbi8
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Agrikk posted:Jesus Christ, DT. I'm not going to disagree with you, but my financial security issue is not really for myself as much as my parents. They're old and don't work anymore and made their own bad decisions. I've been sending them money to help them stay afloat and before too long they won't be able to take care of themselves. That's why I need to get that money. Things could fall apart for them very quickly and I need to be standing by to bail them out. In speaking to the CEO's assistant it turns out that the MSP went ahead on their own initiative with an IP scheme change I had in the works and it wreaked temporary havoc at the HQ. The MSP's CEO (also their head tech) was there and I guess he didn't come out of it looking too good. Normally I only do those things after hours but they did it Monday morning! The bosses freaked out and brought the I.T. Manager in from our biggest location who couldn't help much because he doesn't know anything about HQ or system wide I.T. He only knows his location. Poor guy. I called him today to talk about things. I don't want him to wind up invisible like I was.
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Dec 3, 2014 01:06
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DT, one of the things about not having an employee anymore is that you don't get the benefit of that employee's skills and experience anymore. It would be one thing if the parting were amicable and you were doing a solid for a friend, but that's not what happened. Let your shithole former employer lie in the bed they made. Don't help them, and not even get the paycheck you were getting for it. Now, if they want to hire you as a consultant at 4x your previous rate...
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Dick Trauma posted:I'm not going to disagree with you, but my financial security issue is not really for myself as much as my parents. They're old and don't work anymore and made their own bad decisions. I've been sending them money to help them stay afloat and before too long they won't be able to take care of themselves. That's why I need to get that money. Things could fall apart for them very quickly and I need to be standing by to bail them out. Don't help anyone, let them up the creek without a paddle, they'll still come out just fine in the end (honestly they're not a trading firm so having network issues isn't going to destroy them and cause them to lose literally millions of dollars in a second) and perhaps they will learn something about keeping talent instead of abusing it.
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guppy posted:DT, one of the things about not having an employee anymore is that you don't get the benefit of that employee's skills and experience anymore. It would be one thing if the parting were amicable and you were doing a solid for a friend, but that's not what happened. Let your shithole former employer lie in the bed they made. Don't help them, and not even get the paycheck you were getting for it. Now, if they want to hire you as a consultant at 4x your previous rate... Yeah, this. I know you feel bad for that guy but don't do it.
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Dec 3, 2014 02:12
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Windows Imaging in general is so needlessly complex and asinine. Trying to image one product from a slightly more out of date product produces the most retarded error messages. The workaround? Install that older product in a VM and install their imaging platform there to get what you need! gently caress you Microsoft.
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Dec 3, 2014 02:48
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Wicaeed posted:Windows Imaging in general is so needlessly complex and asinine. I don't get your issue. Is this with SCCM or MDT?
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Wicaeed posted:Windows Imaging in general is so needlessly complex and asinine. It's quite easy to get MDT up and rolling if that is the "platform" you are speaking of. It's just an application.
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