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Thanks Ants posted:And a nice rug in your private office. One that really ties the room together.
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Thanks Ants posted:And a nice rug in your private office. For breaking in^W^W interviewing new secretaries?
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Wibla posted:For breaking in^W^W interviewing new secretaries?  Go watch The Big Lebowski.
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Volmarias posted:
That's not what where I was going with my post, but I'm glad you all took it there.
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tomapot posted:That's not what where I was going with my post, but I'm glad you all took it there. It's a pretty natural progression.
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Mar 6, 2015 14:52
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Kazinsal posted:One of my email addresses seems to be on a phishing spam VPS ring's list. Every email seems to come from a different IP and domain, and every domain tends to have one of the new gTLDs (like .club, .website, .link, etc.). SpamAssassin is starting to get really good at catching them but two or three seem to get through per day. Amateurs.
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Brut posted:You're a programmer with time-spend-based performance metrics? how does that even work? I don't know, but it's new and we don't get it either really. I clearly don't have an overview of the timesheet data they have, but most of the IS staff we have here bills pretty exclusively to either production support or projects. If there are people who don't then they're just going to start latching on to whatever they can dump hours into since the time reporting is not taken terribly seriously by many people. I tend to round off by the hour and kind of feel my way through it at the end of every week. tl;dr someone higher up has bad ideas for fixing a problem that doesn't exist
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tomapot posted:That's not what where I was going with my post, but I'm glad you all took it there. What was the joke then?
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Inspector_666 posted:What was the joke then? Must have been my inner Lebowski leaking through without me realizing.
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Volmarias posted:I wear slippers at work, so I guess I'm a junior director? Same, office slippers master race here.
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tomapot posted:Must have been my inner Lebowski leaking through without me realizing. Oh whoops I thought you were guy who made the secretary joke  I got and liked yours.
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When I used to work at the studio it was Bugs Bunny slippers for our Ops Director.
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FISHMANPET posted:I got in contact with a placement agency and after a face to face meeting where the recruiter asked me to send him my references, and then he fell off the face of the earth. Sounds like every interaction I've ever had with RHT.
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Spazz posted:Sounds like every interaction I've ever had with RHT. Oh good, I thought it was me who was doing something wrong/appearing more stupid than normal. Talked to like 3 recruiters and then one day they just vanished. Dunno.
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Gothmog1065 posted:Oh good, I thought it was me who was doing something wrong/appearing more stupid than normal. Talked to like 3 recruiters and then one day they just vanished. Dunno.
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I don't know, if you're gonna fire a recruiter, put a bounce back on their email. I just changed jobs a little over 2 months ago, so I'm not looking. But if your general recruiting company can't bother to setup out of office replies for terminated employees, I have a hard time believing you're going to really be an advocate for me.
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RHT has a habit of getting you all excited and asking for references, specifically from managers at old companies you worked for. They then give these as sales leads to their people who look for companies that might want to use them as staffing solutions. Unless RHT has a specific job that they are trying to hire you for, and have specific information on the position, their recruiting contacts are nothing more than lead generation.
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I am going to find whoever keeps giving all-caps names to horrible little proof-of-concept "vulns". I am going to find them and I am going to shoot them in the loving knees, because I am so god-damned tired of customers showing up and going "OH poo poo, DOG, I HEARD ABOUT 'FREAK'. IS IT LIKE THE NEW 'POODLE' WHAT DO I NEED TO DO" you need to do nothing, panicked-as-gently caress user. Because the only OS that runs our product fixed the CVE you're referencing in October and pushed the fix in January. So you need to do nothing. And the website that told you that your server was vulnerable lied to you in order to get money. Sure as gently caress hope you didn't give them any, 'cause if you did then you're dumber than even I thought. god, am I gonna be glad to  the gently caress out of here.
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That's why I'm skeptical of positions that require references before getting an Interview or Generic HR Screen.
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Tab8715 posted:That's why I'm skeptical of positions that require references before getting an Interview or Generic HR Screen. References are for the hiring company after they've decided they want me and have made an offer, as far as I'm concerned.
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Tab8715 posted:That's why I'm skeptical of positions that require references before getting an Interview or Generic HR Screen. I don't give references unless a phone interview has already happened or if we have an in person one already scheduled. I've done it once or twice but always prefaced it with "Please do not contact my references unless placement is being considered". I also have no plans to ever work with a third party recruiting agency again unless I'm really struggling to find work. I've been dicked around too many times and far to often all they have to offer are contract or contract to hire. My risk tolerance isn't high enough to leave a permanent position for a 6 month C2H where they might say "Oh, we ran out of money" or "We are eliminating the project" five months in. At least if I get laid off at a permanent position I can get unemployment.
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Job creep. Oh hey desktop guy, can you do this offsite work that includes lots of server and network stuff, singlehandedly? Oh hey desktop guy, can you help out with this laboratory equipment and programs with no training because we don't feel like hiring someone? Oh hey desktop guy, can you babysit doctors on the EMR system because someone decided they want to work from home for a week? They sell it as experience for promotion, and that may be the case (and I've come to appreciate the offsite's server and security responsibilities) , but after a certain point desktop is acting as the entire IT organization's reserve army and I'm wearing every hat on the rack. There's only so many hours in a day and somebody is going to get disappointed because we couldn't finish something due to lack of time or lack of training. There's also the fact that I'm doing someone else's job for them with no extra pay or title upgrade. I was told some sob story about how someone can't cover the EMR gap because they have a family and it wouldn't be fair... well, are that team's staffing woes and familial obligations really our problem? Nobody helps desktop when we get swamped. It's not like there's nobody else, we have multiple facilities' worth of people who already work in the fields we covering.
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Spam Chat We set up a new relay last year for sending emails to customers. Infrastructure thought Network was securing it. Network thought Infrastructure was securing it. The relay went live. A year later, after multiple "Bad performance" tickets, someone finally looks at the relay. Unsecured. On the internet. Sending 250k emails a day on average. Network blames infrastructure. Infrastructure blames Network. Risk (me) fixes it. ... 2 days later we get Spamhaus blacklisted. No external email, full stop. It's been a fun week for email.
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skooma512 posted:Job creep. You don't really have a choice until your review (except yotj 2015 of course) And by then you'll have a lot of leverage. I waited it out and got two 25% raises in a row for what it's worth
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skooma512 posted:Job creep. I've been running into a lot of job creep at my current gig lately as well. Some of the extra duties I've been assigned are very much in line with what I want to be doing at the next level, but some are more salesy and definitely not what I want to be doing. It's honestly getting really exhausting putting effort into trying to do a good job at all of the extra responsibilities. However, the position I'd most like to move into (more of the technical stuff I want to be doing, less customer interaction) has an opening and my direct supervisor leads me to believe I am at the top of the short list for it, so I'm waiting to see how true that is before I reconsider the effort I'm putting into those duties. If nothing else my annual reviews have been resulting in 10-15% raises very consistently, so things could be worse.
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Manager of division x: we need another IP phone and computer for a new office IT: it's going to be $1100 for a pc, monitor, IP phone, etc CFO: go ahead and buy it IT: It's been ordered Owner of company: (also happens to be Manager of division X's dad) Either find something cheaper or don't buy it 
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So maybe I'm nuts but a coworker of mine starts every email to a group with "All," and it's driving me crazy. Even for the informal ones he does it. It doesn't even make sense for me to be mad about it but it's annoying me.
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I gave up trying to open emails like letters ages ago, 99% of the ones I send now go straight into the message, and the signature handles the name/contact details part.
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myron cope posted:So maybe I'm nuts but a coworker of mine starts every email to a group with "All," and it's driving me crazy. Even for the informal ones he does it. It doesn't even make sense for me to be mad about it but it's annoying me. All, I'm a gigantic idiot. Love, coworker of myron cope Yeah it'd make me annoyed too.
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Bob Morales posted:I start those emails like: Was about to post this, except that's how my old boss who was universally hated would start everything. The "team" thing started to really get on my and my co-worker's nerves, because NOTHING that boss did had anything to do with a team, and everything to do with his own personal empire-building (he actually said that he was "here to build an empire" in my hearing, once). Hard to address people as "team" and be taken seriously with that kind of outlook.
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Roargasm posted:You don't really have a choice until your review (except yotj 2015 of course) And by then you'll have a lot of leverage. I waited it out and got two 25% raises in a row for what it's worth Reviews are fairly perfunctory here and nobody really talks to us unless we've hosed up. Raises are a token 1% pretty much no matter what. The only way to get any significant raise is to switch positions. My lead bounced between network and desktop a couple times so he managed to get a raise. They weren't able to retain senior networking staff and so that team is pretty attrited at the moment. The client is in the middle of a buyout so they have all the excuses in the world. I'd leave but it's a very lenient and chill job otherwise, so it balances out. I'm kind of looking forward to getting our contract cancelled by the buyers and getting absorbed by them. Might get a raise or at least be eligible for merit based- Ah who am I kidding? This is America. No raises or promotions for anyone. 2016
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hihifellow posted:poo poo pissing me off: google thinks my home IP address is in Armenia. I've ruled out viruses, rogue proxies, bad routing tables, and other issues on my side. ARIN and other ip location services all say the correct location. I've filled out the form on google reporting it, and it looked like they fixed it yesterday but it's back to redirecting me to google.am again. What the hell google. I had this exact thing happen to me a while ago. You don't happen to have googlebar (the unofficial one) installed on Firefox? When I was using that and searching using its search box, I'd notice I'd get redirected to google.am as well. Turns out there was a lovely default that would default your region to Armenia because, hey, that's first alphabetically (at least in its settings)! So to fix it I just went into that extension's prefs and set default country to mine (US). If it's not that, I've seen some pretty special things happen with location based on what the computer or router is using for DNS.
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Che Delilas posted:Was about to post this, except that's how my old boss who was universally hated would start everything. The "team" thing started to really get on my and my co-worker's nerves, because NOTHING that boss did had anything to do with a team, and everything to do with his own personal empire-building (he actually said that he was "here to build an empire" in my hearing, once). Hard to address people as "team" and be taken seriously with that kind of outlook. I've actually sent emails out to our team members using the term "Minions". Of course everyone knows it's tongue in cheek... at least that's what I want them to think.
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Che Delilas posted:Was about to post this, except that's how my old boss who was universally hated would start everything. The "team" thing started to really get on my and my co-worker's nerves, because NOTHING that boss did had anything to do with a team, and everything to do with his own personal empire-building (he actually said that he was "here to build an empire" in my hearing, once). Hard to address people as "team" and be taken seriously with that kind of outlook. I find those fairly annoying too, but that's more with me not buying in to the corporate bullshit. Don't try to act like we're a team, jerk. 
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rob_squared posted:I had this exact thing happen to me a while ago. You don't happen to have googlebar (the unofficial one) installed on Firefox? When I was using that and searching using its search box, I'd notice I'd get redirected to google.am as well. Turns out there was a lovely default that would default your region to Armenia because, hey, that's first alphabetically (at least in its settings)! So to fix it I just went into that extension's prefs and set default country to mine (US). Nope, running Chrome, and it happens with every device on my network so it's definitely on Google's end. DNS is set to my ISP's so unless they relocated their DNS servers to Armenia I doubt that's the issue. hihifellow fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Mar 8, 2015 |
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hihifellow posted:Nope, running Chrome, and it happens with every device on my network so it's definitely on Google's end. DNS is set to my ISP's so unless they relocated their DNS servers to Armenia I doubt that's the issue. Try using a public DNS like 8.8.8.8
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ConfusedUs posted:Try using a public DNS like 8.8.8.8 Actually just tried that, nada
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hihifellow posted:Actually just tried that, nada Really? Maybe try flushing your existing DNS cache and try again? Set DNS Open CMD Type: ipconfig /flushdns Try whatever it is you want to do
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myron cope posted:I find those fairly annoying too, but that's more with me not buying in to the corporate bullshit. Don't try to act like we're a team, jerk. See, I don't find those types of terms inherently annoying - in theory we really should be a team, working together to accomplish goals. It's just that they're incredibly disingenuous when they come from a guy whose primary leadership tactics are intimidation and bullying, and who treats the people he manages like they're soldiers and he's the drill sergeant, for example.
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