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Bagpuss_UK posted:One of our engineers (with pretty much no people skills) went on site to investigate a down server, and was quite shocked when most of the office staff started crying or giving him evil looks after he started joking about "This server is dead, it is no more, bereft of life it lies in peace..." I can see that. I stopped using "what if so-and-so got hit by a bus ?" to "what if so-and-so wins the lottery and stops answering our calls ?" after a key developer got knocked off his bike and barely escaped with his life and all ten fingers. I also don't email new customers and say I'll take care of their computer that just died.
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ElGroucho posted:I thought the English figured out cricket was boring as gently caress and decided to play soccer instead Can't have, soccer is even more boring. Or maybe the English like really boring thinks v  v
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Mar 14, 2015 04:09
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Migishu posted:Can't have, soccer is even more boring. You're alright. 
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Mar 14, 2015 04:13
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Migishu posted:Or maybe the English like really boring thinks v if you've ever eaten British cuisine you know the answer to this
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Mar 14, 2015 04:17
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The British made fish and chips. And shepherd's pie. And soda bread (bad soda bread is bland as hell, good soda bread is delicious). Granted, at least soda bread is Irish, not English.
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Mar 14, 2015 04:50
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22 Eargesplitten posted:The British made fish and chips. And shepherd's pie. And soda bread (bad soda bread is bland as hell, good soda bread is delicious). Granted, at least soda bread is Irish, not English. Yes but they also named a puff pastry a pudding.
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Mar 14, 2015 04:55
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mllaneza posted:I can see that. I stopped using "what if so-and-so got hit by a bus ?" to "what if so-and-so wins the lottery and stops answering our calls ?" after a key developer got knocked off his bike and barely escaped with his life and all ten fingers. I also don't email new customers and say I'll take care of their computer that just died. One of our principal engineers (the yum guy) was literally killed in a hit and run riding his bike last year. Wasn't a bus, but bus factor is a thing. Also, be careful riding your bikes, people
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Mar 14, 2015 04:57
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Yeah, my uncle was a competitive bicyclist, then he got hit by a truck. Broke his back and his legs. He can walk, but he's been addicted to opiates ever since. On the other hand, gently caress bicyclists on college campuses, it's like they are trying to get hit. Maybe it's just the one I went to, but nobody even looked both ways before running a stop sign. And every bicyclist ran every stop sign.
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Mar 14, 2015 05:25
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Vicas posted:if you've ever eaten British cuisine you know the answer to this I was in England for my brothers wedding Cider was alright though...
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Mar 14, 2015 06:19
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22 Eargesplitten posted:On the other hand, gently caress bicyclists on college campuses, it's like they are trying to get hit. Maybe it's just the one I went to, but nobody even looked both ways before running a stop sign. And every bicyclist ran every stop sign. If they get hit, they get their student loans paid off early. It's like a aggressively random attempt at sweet sweet insurance fraud.
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Mar 14, 2015 06:48
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mllaneza posted:I can see that. I stopped using "what if so-and-so got hit by a bus ?" to "what if so-and-so wins the lottery and stops answering our calls ?" after a key developer got knocked off his bike and barely escaped with his life and all ten fingers. I also don't email new customers and say I'll take care of their computer that just died. evol262 posted:One of our principal engineers (the yum guy) was literally killed in a hit and run riding his bike last year. Wasn't a bus, but bus factor is a thing. Isn't that the point? poo poo happens and if that particular person is the only person to know that piece of knowledge, you're kind of hosed? I mean, not to be insensitive, but that's the point of that particular saying. That's why documentation/knowledge spread is important. 22 Eargesplitten posted:The British made fish and chips. And shepherd's pie. And soda bread (bad soda bread is bland as hell, good soda bread is delicious). Granted, at least soda bread is Irish, not English.
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Mar 14, 2015 07:12
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Friends, I would like to share with you an email our support address just received. Please enjoy it in good health.quote:Dear Rick (or CEI),
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Mar 14, 2015 09:09
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anthonypants posted:Friends, I would like to share with you an email our support address just received. Please enjoy it in good health. Do... do you work for Rick Ross or something?
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Mar 14, 2015 09:26
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anthonypants posted:Someone channeling Francis E. Dec, esq. Oh wow, haven't seen crazy like that in a while
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Mar 14, 2015 09:43
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Went to mexico for reasons I won't divulge until I trust you much more then o do now :tin foil: *explains why they went to mexico in the next paragraph*
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Mar 14, 2015 10:56
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anthonypants posted:I tried to put in a username and a password. Your assinine system rejected me, and now 3 hours later I am wasting my time writing to nobody. Generate random password, guy assumes you're sending a coded message and mercilessly tracks you down for the cipher; how deep does the rabbit hole go?
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Mar 14, 2015 14:38
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anthonypants posted:Friends, I would like to share with you an email our support address just received. Please enjoy it in good health. Even in crazy emails, "I have a master's in clinical psychology" comes out. My wife is the CNO of a psych nursing facility. The frequency with which therapists tell people (staff, her, me at holiday parties, etc) they have master's degree is a running joke, so I find this funnier than I should. TWBalls posted:Isn't that the point? poo poo happens and if that particular person is the only person to know that piece of knowledge, you're kind of hosed? I mean, not to be insensitive, but that's the point of that particular saying. That's why documentation/knowledge spread is important.
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Mar 14, 2015 14:55
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anthonypants posted:Friends, I would like to share with you an email our support address just received. Please enjoy it in good health. I know you just censored the names but my brain is just interpreting them as censored swear words, inserting expletives into the spaces mad-libs style, and it's making it fantastic. "I'm attempting to contact you because it bothers me that you have many people wondering who Cock Butler is"
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Mar 14, 2015 17:10
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evol262 posted:Well, we were fine, despite it being tragic and all, because nobody's bus factor is very high. I guess my takeaway is that young, healthy people do die unexpectedly, which seems obvious, but somehow wasn't. We have a weird BYOD setup for the grad students where they buy a laptop through the school and we have an image, and loaners they can use if it goes down. The faculty wanted a mac bundle and we weren't set up for them and had zero experience, so we contracted a local company to set up the images. The macs didn't get here in time, so we were late getting them to the company, then the guy who was going to do the image died suddenly. I got stuck doing the imaging and taught myself deploy studio to save myself from building 30 MPB with osx+bootcamp from scratch. At least we had a really good reason for everything being late that one year, I learned a new thing, and got massive brownie points for bailing out my boss. It was one of those things that of course everything that could possibly go wrong the first year we tried it, did.
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Mar 14, 2015 17:19
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anthonypants posted:Friends, I would like to share with you an email our support address just received. Please enjoy it in good health. I told you that working there would be fun!
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Mar 14, 2015 17:42
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I was coming here to post about my grandmother's leg of lamb and Yorkshire puddings in defense of English cooking and got rewarded with a boat load of crazy.
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Mar 14, 2015 18:45
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evol262 posted:Well, we were fine, despite it being tragic and all, because nobody's bus factor is very high. I guess my takeaway is that young, healthy people do die unexpectedly, which seems obvious, but somehow wasn't. I don't even sugar coat it - I just say "We need this in case <name> ever decides to quit". I don't know where this "bus" thing came from, I suppose it's another management euphemism. On the other hand I'm King Sperg of Loch Spergo Castle so maybe that's why I don't like euphemisms like that.
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Mar 14, 2015 19:30
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I use the bus analogy because it doesn't place blame or have any bad feelings attached to anyone. It's a lot more politically correct despite being a horrible tragedy if it actually happened, simply due to a bus's impersonal nature and the unlikeliness of the event.
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Mar 14, 2015 19:33
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It's because there's a social game that everyone plays where they all pretend like they're all lifers. I'm not saying anyone would ever think of quitting, that's absurd, but what if someone got hit by a bus?
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Mar 14, 2015 19:35
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It's probably because companies just have a hard time accepting that nobody works for the same company for 45 years anymore. I don't know the economic/social reasons, but it just doesn't happen. But since it was like that in the not-so-distant past, the suggestion makes companies feel like people lack loyalty these days.
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Mar 14, 2015 19:40
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And you also can't talk about who will pick up the slack while they are on vacation, because taking more than one consecutive week of vacation is heavily discouraged in a lot of places.
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Mar 14, 2015 19:41
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I picked up the habit of referencing bus accidents after hearing someone say that they didn't need to document their processes because they would always be around. It's a simple shorthand for "things may not work out as you expect, so plan and document as though someone else might have to start doing your job at any time."
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Mar 14, 2015 22:27
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anthonypants posted:Friends, I would like to share with you an email our support address just received. Please enjoy it in good health. RE:RE: A ticket came in..... One of my specialties is CULTS AND MASS INSANITY.
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Mar 14, 2015 22:57
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So maybe this isn't the best place to ask but I don't have many other places to turn to. There's a job that opened up internally that I'm qualified for and pays more, but I'm not sure my manager will give me a good review for. Is it worth applying for something like that? For what it's worth I think he's a very professional person and my team lead is the reason he might not have a good impression. I probably won't be in this area after a few more years and am mostly trying to pay my student loans off so my goal is to be employed until that happens. Help me ticket thread.
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Mar 15, 2015 02:17
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Zorak of Michigan posted:I picked up the habit of referencing bus accidents after hearing someone say that they didn't need to document their processes because they would always be around. It's a simple shorthand for "things may not work out as you expect, so plan and document as though someone else might have to start doing your job at any time."
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Mar 15, 2015 02:25
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Eldercain posted:So maybe this isn't the best place to ask but I don't have many other places to turn to. What is the possible downside here? I'm not seeing one.
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Mar 15, 2015 05:01
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Zorak of Michigan posted:I picked up the habit of referencing bus accidents after hearing someone say that they didn't need to document their processes because they would always be around. It's a simple shorthand for "things may not work out as you expect, so plan and document as though someone else might have to start doing your job at any time." My own office tends to use 'hit by a lottery', or 'win a bus' for maximum metaphor-mixing.
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Endings posted:My own office tends to use 'hit by a lottery', or 'win a bus' for maximum metaphor-mixing. I can safely say that if I ever won a Bus in a raffle or something, my office mates would never hear from me again. I'd be too busy driving my bus around probably, or picking up passengers.
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Mar 15, 2015 06:18
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kensei posted:I told you that working there would be fun!
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Mar 15, 2015 08:16
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Didn't Dick Trauma's Pre-Tony boss, in fact, get hit by a bus?
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Mar 15, 2015 08:55
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I kinda wonder what has happened to Tony following Trauma's  out of there.I can only pray he was frog marched out of the building when he broke something else and didn't have anyone left to shift blame to, but wish in one hand, crap in the other... Malachite_Dragon fucked around with this message at 09:03 on Mar 15, 2015 |
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Eldercain posted:There's a job that opened up internally that I'm qualified for and pays more, but I'm not sure my manager will give me a good review for. Don't list your manager as a reference if he won't give you a good one. I know it's internal but go with colleagues instead.
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JohnnyCanuck posted:Still makes me mad that BMC EOL'd Service Desk Express. It was a really good and crazy-flexible small- to mid-market tool. A single tear just fell from my eye. Let me go back to updating my remedy tickets, selecting device names from a dropdown containing over 100k entires that I must manually scroll through, because our Remedy Team decided that nobody could be trusted to free type our own device names in. Of course the only way you can scroll is by clicking the arrow button, why would you want to use a scroll wheel? We swear we're working on improving it everyone. Please ignore the fact that half of the remedy guys were fired two weeks after we launched the web app.
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Renegret posted:Of course the only way you can scroll is by clicking the arrow button, why would you want to use a scroll wheel? I don't even know how you manage this with modern frameworks unless they're deliberately trapping and swallowing the events. 
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Che Delilas posted:I don't even know how you manage this with modern frameworks unless they're deliberately trapping and swallowing the events. If it's what I'm thinking about, it's because it's not actually the browser/OS's scroll mechanism, so it's not actually a scrollable object technically - they're implementing their entire own version of "scrolling".
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