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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". We just go with First.Last in the first place. It just doesn't seem worth the effort in the first place to abbreviate to FLast to save typing a few characters. Especially since you now have to figure out who JSmith32 is instead of John.Smith3.
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I wish we did that here but an ancient character username limit and org momentum means we cram everyone in to a 6 character username. I guess it's better than another org nearby that uses one letter+4 random number logon names
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Jan 15, 2015 14:01
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I'm working on moving things to a single sign on setup to "make things easier" for the folks here. Which, ok, cool thats always fun. However there is a huge dependency with sharepoint online in 365 and very unlikely that we'd move away from 365 which I really don't mind. However our company owners still wanna be handsy with it since ~cloud tech~. Its gold. If there's somewhere better for this let me know. Moving to the windows enterprise thread AAB fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Jan 15, 2015 |
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Jan 15, 2015 14:04
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Nerdrock posted:In my last gig, we had a sales rep named Richard Odor. Poor guy's nickname on the factory floor was Pecker Breath. This is funnier than it should be.
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Jan 15, 2015 15:14
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A calendar notification came in. We use exchange to handle our email. I have my Mac using outlook 2011, and a Linux box using davmail with Thunderbird. I keep getting notifications for events that happened in the distant past (back to my start with the company) and there are events that don't show up as accepted despite me accepting them in Outlook, clearing that calendar's local cache, and then re-downloading it. What am I missing that makes calendars so goddamn difficult? From googling, I'm not the only one with Outlook on OSX with this issue, but damned if the steps to fix it aren't exactly what I said up above.
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Jan 15, 2015 15:46
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I know a woman who gets posted up on the schedule at her work as K Hunt. I have told her she's obligated to name a kid Mike.
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Jan 15, 2015 16:50
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Inspector_666 posted:I know a woman who gets posted up on the schedule at her work as K Hunt. I have told her she's obligated to name a kid Mike. Weirdest part of that is that her actual name is Nancy Smith.
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Jan 15, 2015 16:51
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Best one we have here is a Samantha Lutz, email is slutz@. Always got a giggle out of that one. Several tickets came in (5+) for new hires who both accepted and start today. Was told to OMG DROP EVERYTHING and get started on them right away. Which would mean I would have to drop the last three fires they dumped on me. So....
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Jan 15, 2015 17:16
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AAB posted:I'm working on moving things to a single sign on setup to "make things easier" for the folks here. Which, ok, cool thats always fun. However there is a huge dependency with sharepoint online in 365 and very unlikely that we'd move away from 365 which I really don't mind. However our company owners still wanna be handsy with it since ~cloud tech~. Its gold. Wait, there's a Windows Enterprise thread? Edit: Well what do you know. I'd even had it bookmarked in my favorites.
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Jan 15, 2015 17:31
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kensei posted:What version? Can you change the name for the one you want to delete, then save, then delete it? Yeah, that's what I ended up having to do to fix it. I'm honestly surprised to hear people speak positively of Footprints or any of Numara's software.
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Jan 15, 2015 17:38
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Best one we have here is a Samantha Lutz, email is slutz@. Always got a giggle out of that one. Back when I first started we had a user's login as "chaos".
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Jan 15, 2015 17:43
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An old user login used to be "smiles" 
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Not a user but I used to know a Joel Hunt that married a girl named Treasure...
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Best one we have here is a Samantha Lutz, email is slutz@. Always got a giggle out of that one. My minimum turnaround for a new hire is two business days. If the new guy was sitting around doing jack poo poo for the last 3 hours, guess you should have followed company procedures eh? I'm not dropping my entire workload to deal with your incompetence. Especially not when I see that HR sent the "Fill this out and sent it to IT" poo poo over a week earlier.
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Jan 15, 2015 18:36
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Rhymenoserous posted:My minimum turnaround for a new hire is two business days. If the new guy was sitting around doing jack poo poo for the last 3 hours, guess you should have followed company procedures eh? I'm not dropping my entire workload to deal with your incompetence. Especially not when I see that HR sent the "Fill this out and sent it to IT" poo poo over a week earlier. And then HR poisons any potential relationship you might develop with this new hire by saying, "Eh. IT is slow to set up your desk space. Blame them." and on his first day this new hire has a bad experience with IT right out the gate. Drop your entire workload to get this guy set up, and on his first day make sure you swing by his cube to make sure he is squared away and knows his way around the network and knows the rules about PSTs, file storage and access to ~resources~. Do this and he'll finish his first day with "Man, those IT guys are on the job" instead of "I did fuckall at work today because IT couldn't get their act together." People in this thread wonder why there's a negative opinion of IT workers. This is a solvable problem.
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Jan 15, 2015 18:43
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Rhymenoserous posted:My minimum turnaround for a new hire is two business days. If the new guy was sitting around doing jack poo poo for the last 3 hours, guess you should have followed company procedures eh? I'm not dropping my entire workload to deal with your incompetence. Especially not when I see that HR sent the "Fill this out and sent it to IT" poo poo over a week earlier. Yeah I've fought this battle and resoundingly lost. It sucks for HR too as they have to drop everything to help process new hires as well. Sales and marketing run the show and they have flat out refused to live with the 2 week new hire notice policy. Then since we have to drop everything to help them people who do give 2 weeks notice fall behind and then they quite giving notice and pull the same poo poo. It's a vicious cycle.
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Jan 15, 2015 18:45
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Agrikk posted:And then HR poisons any potential relationship you might develop with this new hire by saying, "Eh. IT is slow to set up your desk space. Blame them." and on his first day this new hire has a bad experience with IT right out the gate. Drop your entire workload and get bitched out by management or spend your day setting up the new user. I'm doing the work for the guy who signs my paychecks.
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Jan 15, 2015 18:48
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Best one we have here is a Samantha Lutz, email is slutz@. Always got a giggle out of that one. I know a Tanya Watson with a similar problem.
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Jan 15, 2015 18:49
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GreenNight posted:Drop your entire workload and get bitched out by management or spend your day setting up the new user. I'm doing the work for the guy who signs my paychecks. Really? You'd get spanked by your manager for making up for HR's lack of planning and helping a new employee have a good experience on his first day? That sucks. IT exists in part to help other people do their jobs easier. If your management can't see that then... well... I guess you are posting in this thread so
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Jan 15, 2015 18:55
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My immediate supervisor told HR that if they don't give us a week notice than the new user will be waiting in line like everyone else. We had a user sit for 2 days straight without a PC because I was very specifically told to not drop anything.
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Jan 15, 2015 18:58
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A position at a local company came in... I'm going to get more info but the job would be in walking distance. Thus, potentially great financially and mentally. It's also somewhat of a family referral to a small startup (15 people) that is growing. However, there are clear caveats : It sounds like they're using "network administrator" as code for "handle everything IT outside of development.", from helpdesk to sysadmin. What is a better title that's more accurate for such a position? Is it even worth considering or is this going to be a terrible idea? If someone sends me a PM I can forward the job desc to review.
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notwithoutmyanus posted:What is a better title that's more accurate for such a position? CIO. Head of IT. Systems Architect? edit: at least for the "everything but development" part of that, if you're supporting and maintaining but not putting together new stuff, then Sr Systems Admin maybe? doubleedit: nope nevermind if you're heading up multiple departments it goes back to CIO or Head of IT or something similar... JosephSkunk fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Jan 15, 2015 |
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Jan 15, 2015 19:26
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GreenNight posted:My immediate supervisor told HR that if they don't give us a week notice than the new user will be waiting in line like everyone else. We had a user sit for 2 days straight without a PC because I was very specifically told to not drop anything. My immediate supervisor the CIO has in the past just dumped an urgent new hire on our laps with 2 days notice. The whole company is like this and its slowly driving me mad. Must days I can just detach myself from all of the chaos and madness and realize I have it pretty good, some days though I just want to throw my hands in the air and ask how the hell they expect me and my team to get everything done.
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Coredump posted:Yeah, that's what I ended up having to do to fix it. I'm honestly surprised to hear people speak positively of Footprints or any of Numara's software. Most ticketing system sucks in some way, I am okay with this one. A ticket came in for me today, to disable my boss' boss' access badge. That was interesting.
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Jan 15, 2015 19:41
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"I.T."
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There should be some tiny font under Iron Mountain that says "If you see read this, company of the employee holding this box thinks lowly of your documents and data".
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Jan 15, 2015 20:03
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An eviction notice came in.
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kensei posted:Most ticketing system sucks in some way, I am okay with this one. All true IT people learn they are being let go when the ticket to disable their own badges comes in...
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Jan 15, 2015 20:10
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Also funny usernames, we had a Brian East. Username was beast. Dude was very short and thin, the opposite of beast if you will.
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Jan 15, 2015 20:52
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:"I.T." quote:- Must be able to lift and move equipment weighing up to 50 pounds is on every job posting ever for a reason!
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Jan 15, 2015 21:00
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Yesh, if this is CIO I definitely am not qualified to magically jump to that, even if it's small company CIO. Not even sure if anyone would be well positioned for that? Here were some things: "Serve as lead manager, systems administrator and project coordinator for all of company's technology platform and related IT infrastructure" + helpdesk + compliance + ongoing recommendations for hardware/software + primary liason for 3rd party vendors. That's pretty much CIO then?
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Jan 15, 2015 21:07
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Inspector_666 posted:is on every job posting ever for a reason! One of the reasons this is done is so companies can discriminate against older or disabled people.
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That's CIO plus the stuff that the CIO should be delegating to the people who work under him and make up the IT staff as far as I'm concerned.
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Jan 15, 2015 21:11
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notwithoutmyanus posted:Yesh, if this is CIO I definitely am not qualified to magically jump to that, even if it's small company CIO. Not even sure if anyone would be well positioned for that? Take the money, fake it until you make it.
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I knew I had a reason to feel like "holy poo poo, your scope here is enormous". I guess if they let me have an enormous amount of staff working for me this might be ok, but if they expect all of this of me I will probably not even consider it. ^^^ You know what happens in those scenarios? The pay tends to be hilariously low, I would imagine. I'll bet money they offer $75K as a CIO.
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Coredump posted:Also funny usernames, we had a Brian East. Username was beast. Dude was very short and thin, the opposite of beast if you will. Former place I worked used a combination of 4 letters for the usernames. DONG came up a lot. My coworker was (a) JAWA. 30 years old and getting a ticket from DONG still cracked me up every time.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:"I.T."
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Rawrbomb posted:Take the money, fake it until you make it. And then show up in this thread, except on the wrong end of it, so to speak.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:"I.T." This reminds me of a conversation I had with someone who was an "IT" intern at a local employer. He would spend his day unloading trucks at the dock. How is that an IT internship? He was unloading boxed printers.
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Agrikk posted:And then HR poisons any potential relationship you might develop with this new hire by saying, "Eh. IT is slow to set up your desk space. Blame them." and on his first day this new hire has a bad experience with IT right out the gate. lolol no
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