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Maybe they heard that it's easy to get a job in IT if you have experience with Chef?
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pr0digal posted:I hear it's on the rise its going to be sweet
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Knormal posted:I'm impressed that any place can get a policy through to get rid of PSTs. All us IT people at my place want the PSTs gone, but the higher-ups who would have to actually set that policy are usually the worst offenders with the 20GBs of mail.
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Jan 14, 2015 05:58
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notwithoutmyanus posted:Names at my company: The Chinese just pick an English name based on whatever English word they think sounds coolest. And since Chinese people generally have the worst taste in the world...
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Jan 14, 2015 06:11
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I dunno, there's a Dragon at my office. Frankly, I don't know why half the Chinese people I meet aren't named that.
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Jan 14, 2015 07:18
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pr0digal posted:I almost got a NetBoot deployment set up but found you had to be on the same subnet. Maybe I'll try again with convincing the network engineer to light a port in my room with the server subnet. Casper is the greatest thing ever, I'd be lost without it
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Jan 14, 2015 07:20
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Chickenwalker posted:Maboob as a given name is a personal favorite of mine. Mike Hunt We have a call center rep with the username abutt as well. I have such a childish sense of humor.
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Jan 14, 2015 12:40
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Renegret posted:Mike Hunt At my last job, one call centre agent ended up with the login ID "poologs". I wish I'd been the one to hand that ID out.
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Jan 14, 2015 13:18
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I worked with a Danial Ick and logins and emails were first initial last name.
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Jan 14, 2015 13:24
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GreenNight posted:I worked with a Danial Ick and logins and emails were first initial last name. Used to work for an International Bank: Dutchman named Cock Frijters
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Jan 14, 2015 13:50
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There´s a fairly renowned Dutch detective in which the lead is called De Cock, whose catchphrase was spelling it out because it's an archaic spelling of Kok (which means cook in Dutch.) I remember hearing or reading that they cut out that catchphrase when they marketed it internationally. From what I heard it was a drat good show too, but I was too young to appreciate it.
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Jan 14, 2015 14:02
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On the subject of names, one of the people I eventually worked with at Samsung was Dong Suk Chun. I don't know if he knew what his name meant in English, and I was too polite to do more than quietly giggle about it with a friend. On the subject of Tata, one thing they did, which apparently a lot of consulting companies do, was to sneak some dummies in with the good contractors. The idea is that we wouldn't complain too much since most of the contractors were good, and we still had to pay for these guys at exorbitant rates until we figured out who was good and who was not. The first person I ever got fired was one of these. I kept assigning him simpler and simpler tasks, until he showed that he literally had no idea how to write anything in Java. That was an awkward conversation with my boss. We then went through a parade of utter incompetents that we actually did code interviews with first before hiring, before giving up on getting anyone else useful from tata.
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Jan 14, 2015 14:17
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Dammit footprints. One of the new guys asked me to add him to the ticketing system because when he logs in, he still getting in as a customer. I go to add him to the system, workspace, and then our team. I get done and now I notice there are two people on the team with the same name. Find out someone else tried to add him but used the wrong email. No matter, I'll just delete the other person from the workspace. However footprints won't let me do anything with the other person, it just keeps throwing up, "Please Fix the following errors:duplicate name". That's what deleting the person from the person from the workspace would do!
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Coredump posted:Dammit footprints. One of the new guys asked me to add him to the ticketing system because when he logs in, he still getting in as a customer. I go to add him to the system, workspace, and then our team. I get done and now I notice there are two people on the team with the same name. Find out someone else tried to add him but used the wrong email. No matter, I'll just delete the other person from the workspace. However footprints won't let me do anything with the other person, it just keeps throwing up, "Please Fix the following errors:duplicate name". That's what deleting the person from the person from the workspace would do! What version? Can you change the name for the one you want to delete, then save, then delete it? I am in the middle of deploying FP12, and it's interesting. I love it because you have such granular control and despise it because I have to customize everything. Our 11.6 almost looks nice in retrospect.
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Chickenwalker posted:Maboob as a given name is a personal favorite of mine. I once worked with a dude named Joy Dikshit.
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Jan 14, 2015 16:16
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I had someone in my company named Peter McNutt at one point. Sure enough, there are plenty on facebook and I think one of them is him. Either his parents thought it would be funny or didn't notice, neither are very excusable.
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Jan 14, 2015 16:19
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Someone opened payment.pdf.zip from an email and now I'm being flooded with tickets from people trying to be helpful and report the internal spam. Even after sending out a mass email that we are are of it. Also some people are still opening the pdf.zip despite being told not to. The defense from one of the people that opened it after being told not to? "The amount quoted in the email is very close to the insurance claim for my stolen truck, and I thought it was safe now the IT was aware of it. Don't victim-blame me, I want to talk to your supervisor." 
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Jan 14, 2015 18:46
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I hope your supervisor has the balls to chew him out.
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Jan 14, 2015 18:48
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GreenNight posted:supervisor has the balls lol yeah right ...my workplace may have turned me into a cynic.
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Jan 14, 2015 18:51
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There's a lady at my work named Philosophy Walker. I've also worked with several different MDs named Dr. Porn. Yay Thai names.
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Jan 14, 2015 19:15
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Oh goodie, the CEO's MacBook said that his Outlook thing exploded, he ran the Microsoft Database Utility and now he has a dozen fragmented/duplicate calendars/inboxes. I'm the only one who can fix it, and he's the only one in the company with a Mac! Edit: I'm googling, but my gut says completely remove the office 365 account from the laptop and re-add it.
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Jan 14, 2015 19:20
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:There's a lady at my work named Philosophy Walker. I've also worked with several different MDs named Dr. Porn. Yay Thai names. Dr. Porn is available as a username, as of ten seconds ago...
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Jan 14, 2015 19:27
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Hungry Computer posted:Someone opened payment.pdf.zip from an email and now I'm being flooded with tickets from people trying to be helpful and report the internal spam. Even after sending out a mass email that we are are of it. Also some people are still opening the pdf.zip despite being told not to. Enjoy your Cryptolocker infection. 
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Jan 14, 2015 19:34
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Zero VGS posted:Edit: I'm googling, but my gut says completely remove the office 365 account from the laptop and re-add it. This is probably going to be the simplest. Trying to de-dupe stuff in Outlook is a pain.
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Funny name chat: came across Richard Weed in our directory. He had (Rich) in the entry, guess he was tired of being called Dick by mistake.
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Jan 14, 2015 21:02
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Zero VGS posted:Oh goodie, the CEO's MacBook said that his Outlook thing exploded, he ran the Microsoft Database Utility and now he has a dozen fragmented/duplicate calendars/inboxes. Make a zip of his identity folder before you start screwing with it, this has saved my rear end so many times. There are also manual database rebuilds. Does he have an assistant that he delegates his email or calendar out to?
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Jan 14, 2015 21:07
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GreenNight posted:I hope your supervisor has the balls to chew him out. He actually did. This place might be a shitshow on a shoestring budget, but at least I have good coworkers\bosses. Turns out she didn't actually get infected, but was telling everyone she had. They didn't understand the difference between opening the attachment and just opening the email and assumed she was infected.
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Renegret posted:Mike Hunt Philip Hart aka PHART! 
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Jan 14, 2015 23:42
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Sarah Hart, Sam Hart, Steve Hart...
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HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE posted:Make a zip of his identity folder before you start screwing with it, this has saved my rear end so many times. There are also manual database rebuilds. Does he have an assistant that he delegates his email or calendar out to? He had crashplan installed so I said gently caress it and trashed his whole Outlook installation and put a new one on. It prompted to import his old profile and I said No, then I had him log back in with his O365 email, and it came back perfectly intact without the quadruplicates.
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everybody posted:bad/funny usernames
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Collateral Damage posted:This is why we just go with the employment ID as username. Kinda boring, but at least you don't end up having to change someone's username because their name abbreviates into a profanity. ...UNTIL YOU GET TO EMPLOYEE #42069
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Manslaughter posted:Sarah Hart, Sam Hart, Steve Hart... I had Kathlene Hunt at my last job on the new hires list, I looked up at my boss and he's just like "welp, full first and last".
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Nerdrock posted:...UNTIL YOU GET TO EMPLOYEE #42069 or #24601 Zero VGS posted:I had Kathlene Hunt at my last job on the new hires list, I looked up at my boss and he's just like "welp, full first and last". Neighbor and Co-worker was Kyle Hunt. They abbreviated it everywhere even though he really didn't want it to be.
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Jan 15, 2015 03:28
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I graduated with a Mike Hunt and a Rusty Nail. People in my hometown are awful.
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We used to have a developer named Paul Bunyan. When I was just starting out as a student assistant I was going around the floor doing a manual inventory and I came to his cube, he turned around in his chair and his first words to me were "Hi, I'm Paul Bunyan. Like the lumberjack!" Dude loving owned it.
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In my last gig, we had a sales rep named Richard Odor. Poor guy's nickname on the factory floor was Pecker Breath.
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Hungry Computer posted:He actually did. This place might be a shitshow on a shoestring budget, but at least I have good coworkers\bosses. To be fair, once upon a time this was an actual way to get infected. I think loveletter spread that way.
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drat, I have it good here in Sweden compared to you guys. Free healthcare and education. First week of sickness at 80% pay, the rest paid by insurance. Retirement fund. If overtime, then 150% pay. At least ~3% pay increase each year, more if I can motivate it. Pay for travel expenses of course. 25 days of vacation each year, I can save 5 of those for next year and get paid for those days I do not use. I could go on. Basically I have it very good compared to some of you guys. I blame the union for these benefits. Atm I am at the board of the union where I work with about 1000 members in our local union club. Almost everyone is a member of a union here. Also I am a consultant not employed at the company I work for. Edit: this does not keep me from getting lovely tickets 
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My benefits are pretty crummy (by an international standard), but a big perk of the new joint is the focus on education. Big push for me to finally pick up my CCNA, finish up an MCSE, and pick up those other miscellaneous certs that I've been putting off due to time/effort/money. It's been a nice change, moving to a place that pushes you to exceed, then rewards you for doing so, particularly when on-the-clock hours are allocated to that task.  is the best thing.
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