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meanieface posted:This looks pretty decent for not-getting-paid: http://www.decentsecurity.com/#/holiday-tasks/ Looks like far too much effort for not getting paid to be honest.
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Oh dear, I just realised that because I have previous experience in support, my workplace is going to ask me to fill in whenever too many engineers are sick. Went to jump away from helpdesk and ended up with one foot in each job. I get the benefits of both at least.
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So yesterday, a co-worker called in sick, for today, he updated his time sheet the hour he left. (two hours early). Now the other person covering the other side of the building called in sick this morning, leaving me as the sole help desk for today. Waiting for certain management to call in sick as well.
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Dec 31, 2014 15:54
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Lum posted:Looks like far too much effort for not getting paid to be honest. Think about it this way: you're getting paid in sex. How much sex would that be worth to you?
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Dec 31, 2014 18:20
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I am getting the full court press from everyone above me in the organization to engage a vendor about a vulnerability dated 2002 (guess if they're fixing it. go ahead, guess.) and this needs to be done today. So now I get to contact a bunch of people about a "critical" vulnerability and look like an idiot as though I don't know what day it is and how hard people plan to work today.
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Dec 31, 2014 18:28
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More poo poo that pisses you off: I'm not in IT, but I know why you drink
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Today the boss announces that from now on our personal pay timesheets will be handled through Connectwise, meaning that each second we work needs to be billable towards a ticket when they constantly try having us work on non-billable projects.
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Dec 31, 2014 20:24
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socialsecurity posted:Today the boss announces that from now on our personal pay timesheets will be handled through Connectwise, meaning that each second we work needs to be billable towards a ticket when they constantly try having us work on non-billable projects. You poor bastard. Make sure there's a billable category for maintaining timesheets. Bill to it whenever possible. Let them see how much time is wasted on that.
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Scaramouche posted:Thanks for the responses guys; the buildwindows thing looks especially promising but it might be too far into the future I'll have to see. EMC is a big name, but we don't really operate at a scale that requires that level of virtualisation/management. Thanks Ants posted:Does MS Ignite in May appeal at all? Seconding the Ignite conference, http://ignite.microsoft.com. It is MS's new combined Office / SharePoint / Exchange / Lync / Yammer / MS Project conference. Chicago in May, any other goons going?
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Dec 31, 2014 21:26
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Apparently my whole group is planning on piling in a van and driving down to Chicago for Ignite(from Minneapolis). It'll be my first tech conference of any kind, really looking forward to it.
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FISHMANPET posted:Apparently my whole group is planning on piling in a van and driving down to Chicago for Ignite(from Minneapolis). It'll be my first tech conference of any kind, really looking forward to it. Does the van have "Free Wifi inside" sloppily spray painted on the side?
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Dec 31, 2014 21:53
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There was discussion about putting something on the side of the van.
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10 minutes ago, copied verbatim from the chat window: I can't get this voice card to initialize, it won't let me accept the eula What happens when you do "license accept end user agreement"? I'll get back to you on that What do you mean? That's how you accept the eulacoworker is typing coworker is typing coworker is typing coworker is typing 5 minutes later 1 sec
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Dec 31, 2014 22:04
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So I just got an email that my department is going to be taking on more responsibilities in what we can troubleshoot. This requires a mandatory 4 hour training session. Which we have to schedule on one of our off days. I'm almost afraid to ask if we're supposed to clock in and get paid for said training session, but I don't think even they would be quite that awful.
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Dec 31, 2014 22:08
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Pudgygiant posted:10 minutes ago, copied verbatim from the chat window: The USB "Dancing Houseplant" the HR girl had plugged into the computer just stopped working and he's troubleshooting that now.
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Dec 31, 2014 22:44
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Rhymenoserous posted:The USB "Dancing Houseplant" the HR girl had plugged into the computer just stopped working and he's troubleshooting that now. I think you mean The USB "infection vector"
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Dec 31, 2014 22:46
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socialsecurity posted:Today the boss announces that from now on our personal pay timesheets will be handled through Connectwise, meaning that each second we work needs to be billable towards a ticket when they constantly try having us work on non-billable projects. What is to stop you from coding a single 8 hour block as troubleshooting
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lampey posted:What is to stop you from coding a single 8 hour block as troubleshooting Yeah here's a loving category: "I Showed Up To The Office At 8:30, Took A Half Hour Lunch, And Left At 5:00 So You Will Pay Me For 8 Hours Of Work"
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lampey posted:What is to stop you from coding a single 8 hour block as troubleshooting
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Jan 1, 2015 01:58
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lampey posted:What is to stop you from coding a single 8 hour block as troubleshooting Yeah this is what I'm going to do, it's insane like 80% of our customers are only monthly support contracts so tracking our hours for them is useful but not the end of the world, I straight up said if they want accurate times they can't tie me pay to it. I think he is doing this because they don't like the lack of performance from one of my coworkers so instead of addressing that they are loving everyone.
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Jan 1, 2015 02:10
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socialsecurity posted:instead of addressing that they are loving everyone. Love it when that happens. We jumped from a "take sick time when you're sick" to "max 10 days of sick time per year" because apparently someone's manager couldn't figure out how to deal with someone abusing sick time. 
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FISHMANPET posted:There was discussion about putting something on the side of the van. 
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Jan 1, 2015 18:31
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Why do PDF files allow the document creator to override the user's choice of page display and zoom setting? I'm not using a 14" 640x480 monitor. I want documents zoomed to fit the whole page on the screen, and I like single page display rather than continuous scrolling because that way I can skip whole pages with a single flick of the scroll wheel. But no, apparently I can't appreciate the author's masterwork unless it's force-zoomed to 200% and set to scroll continuously.
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I cleaned out our print server's spool directory and found a spool file 356MB large, dated back in September. I can only assume it was either a PDF or a crystal reports document. Probably knocked offline whatever printer they tried to print that to.
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Jan 2, 2015 00:32
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Does anyone have that image of the person who took a photo of the scanned document on their monitor and sent it to the helpdesk? Something here today made me think of that.
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hihifellow posted:I cleaned out our print server's spool directory and found a spool file 356MB large, dated back in September. One time I found one of our clients had a document template with a little square logo on the letterhead, like 2"x2", I copied the logo into mspaint and it was like 4000x4000 pixels  When they sent it to the old photocopier to print, the photocopier literally died and stopped the queue for everybody.
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mewse posted:One time I found one of our clients had a document template with a little square logo on the letterhead, like 2"x2", I copied the logo into mspaint and it was like 4000x4000 pixels I usually have the opposite problem, where the logo is a 45x45 jpg copied off the company website, and looks like crap when printed.
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So my tiny company was involved in some weird merger-buyout-thing with another small company and it's been pretty shaky ever since - legal stuff, arguments, higher-ups getting "removed" from the company, that kind of thing. Literally the only reason I haven't peaced out from this company is that I've been here under a year and I don't yet have an IT position on my resume which I've been in for a year straight. My intent so far has been to stay here doing what I can until April or so (when it's been a year) and then  the gently caress out.As part of the continuing merger, we just got hit with the news that the higher-ups want us to sign a one-year US-wide non-compete agreement.  It's still being hashed out but if they insist on this I'm pretty sure I'm done with this bullshit.
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President Ark posted:As part of the continuing merger, we just got hit with the news that the higher-ups want us to sign a one-year US-wide non-compete agreement. Isn't this invalid in many areas?
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Jan 2, 2015 18:07
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President Ark posted:As part of the continuing merger, we just got hit with the news that the higher-ups want us to sign a one-year US-wide non-compete agreement. Is that them saying, "You can't do IT stuff for someone else for a year after you inevitably quit" or "You can't start a competing IT company for a year after you inevitably quit?" I'm not too familiar with that stuff, but the former is pretty damned lovely unless you have a second area of expertise.
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Mogomra posted:Is that them saying, "You can't do IT stuff for someone else for a year after you inevitably quit" or "You can't start a competing IT company for a year after you inevitably quit?" I'm not too familiar with that stuff, but the former is pretty damned lovely unless you have a second area of expertise. I don't know, I've asked a couple people with more legal experience than me about it and I'm waiting to hear back about it.
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President Ark posted:As part of the continuing merger, we just got hit with the news that the higher-ups want us to sign a one-year US-wide non-compete agreement. "Here, I added a clause that says that you have to pay me one-year's salary if you enforce this" mewse posted:Isn't this invalid in many areas? Does it really matter? Any medium-large company can just crush you with the cost of litigation.
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:"Here, I added a clause that says that you have to pay me one-year's salary if you enforce this" "Sign the original or you're fired"
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Does it really matter? Any medium-large company can just crush you with the cost of litigation. Well, it does. If it's california you can wipe your rear end with a non-compete, they are legally unenforceable. Seems to be a grey area everywhere else: http://www.cio.com/article/2428815/careers-staffing/non-compete-agreements--know-your-rights.html
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Volmarias posted:"Sign the original or you're fired" This would be a clusterfuck, legally, in a lot of places. It would still suck to have happen a ton.
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mewse posted:Well, it does. If it's california you can wipe your rear end with a non-compete, they are legally unenforceable. You still generally have to deal with the cost of litigation, at least up-front.
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:This would be a clusterfuck, legally, in a lot of places. It would still suck to have happen a ton. OK, my mistake. You'll just be fired for "poor performance".
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:"Here, I added a clause that says that you have to pay me one-year's salary if you enforce this" Ask to review it, make changes, sign it. If they don't bother reading it, it's not your fault! Volmarias posted:OK, my mistake. You'll just be fired for "poor performance". My favorite is "You're being fired for every reason that isn't covered by current federal and state employment laws. Yes, all of them. Pack your poo poo and get out.".
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:"Here, I added a clause that says that you have to pay me one-year's salary if you enforce this" This is just exaggeration and needless worry. I would find it hard to believe that any company could realistically track where you go after you leave and even if they successfully did, could/would put in the resources to try to litigate an IT employee. Hell, the legal basis would be incredibly thin. The sky isn't falling people.
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My mom's workplace (she works in higher education) recently tried that with an employee who had been working there for over 30 years because one of the new VPs wanted their own executive assistant. She went straight for a lawyer and sued for wrongful termination and ageism, and because there was no documentation to support their firing her for "poor performance," she was reinstated and given an undisclosed settlement.
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