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Ali Aces posted:I will decide what's high importance, thanks: I had to do that with the one sales manager here. Every email I got from him was marked high importance. I've watched him do it to emails that don't need a response in over a month.
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Prosthetic_Mind posted:Recruiters can be really lovely. Out of college I had one call me up and try to get me to move to another state for a part time helpdesk job. Yeah, my recruiter for this new job has had me covered pretty well. I don't have much experience, but as far as I can tell, a sign of whether a recruiter is any good is whether they give you details about who you're interviewing with and send interview tips. Maybe for less junior positions the interview tips thing isn't going to hold, because they assume that if you've gotten that far up the food chain you know how to interview. On the other hand, I've gotten maybe five calls for what I can only assume is the same position over the past eight months. They must be having a really hard time finding people to run cable for datacenters in Cheyenne.
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thelightguy posted:I had to do that with the one sales manager here. Every email I got from him was marked high importance. I've watched him do it to emails that don't need a response in over a month. 
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Apr 4, 2015 16:28
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Daylen Drazzi posted:gently caress you recruiters!
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Ynglaur posted:I'm the only person I know who uses the low priority flag. I used it for a while. People seemed to reply faster when I did, because it was unusual.
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dissss posted:You should never specify VARCHAR without also specifying a length. Unless you're on Postgres and want faster insert performance, since code:code:
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Today I found out that my bank uses some hacked together version of XP and what looked suspiciously like IE7 on their branch PCs.  I know I shouldn't be suprised but it was still a nasty suprise when the teller swung the screen round.
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Apr 4, 2015 17:43
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poo poo not pissing me off: We had a little incident which resulted in a lot of long days and loads of work. My boss said "Ok team, everyone gets a week off - half this week, half next week. If you feel you don't want a vacation, work from home just don't come in to the office". A week at the beach after working there for 4 weeks, don't mind if I do 
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luminalflux posted:poo poo not pissing me off: We had a little incident which resulted in a lot of long days and loads of work. My boss said "Ok team, everyone gets a week off - half this week, half next week. If you feel you don't want a vacation, work from home just don't come in to the office". New pod occupant spotted!
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Apr 4, 2015 18:42
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luminalflux posted:poo poo not pissing me off: We had a little incident which resulted in a lot of long days and loads of work. My boss said "Ok team, everyone gets a week off - half this week, half next week. If you feel you don't want a vacation, work from home just don't come in to the office". drat you.
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Apr 4, 2015 19:36
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CitizenKain posted:I think our company has hit a point where its like we are expected to fail on a project, but somehow we don't, so the next one is even worse. Maybe if things get bad enough a bunch of us will quit or something, then we can hire more vendors to do our work for more money. I don't know. Never discount the power of inertia. My team hasn't had a truly successful project in 5 years. Nothing has changed to fix the long standing issues. We just change the definition of success to match our outcomes.
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Apr 4, 2015 20:22
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luminalflux posted:poo poo not pissing me off: We had a little incident which resulted in a lot of long days and loads of work. My boss said "Ok team, everyone gets a week off - half this week, half next week. If you feel you don't want a vacation, work from home just don't come in to the office". Take note, management: this kind of thing is exactly how you handle crunch/crisis.
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Che Delilas posted:Take note, management: this kind of thing is exactly how you handle crunch/crisis. Not to mention how we were taken care of during it - beyond the normal "catered lunch and dinner every day", since we were working long hours taxis/ubers home were expensed and there was always a coffee station set up in our work area (with HR coming in on weekends to make sure we were fed and caffeinated). I mean, the crisis sucked but there are a lot worse ways to handle the aftermath.
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luminalflux posted:I mean, the crisis sucked but there are a lot worse ways to handle the aftermath. In my experience, the normal way is to pretend it didn't happen and expect everyone to be at their desks on time on Monday. If there was a crisis involved, that Monday is generally taken up by an all-hands meeting to discover who is to blame and browbeat.
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High priority calls coming in with no name or relevant location information. " P1 Incident - Zebra printer is down! Please bring back asap!! "
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Cosmic D posted:High priority calls coming in with no name or relevant location information. Every single ticket at my old job was P1. Nobody seemed to understand that if "everything" is a priority, nothing gets priority.
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Apr 4, 2015 22:27
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meanieface posted:Every single ticket at my old job was P1. Nobody seemed to understand that if "everything" is a priority, nothing gets priority. Haven't they seen The Incredibles? The bad guy had a whole monologue about how if everyone in special, no one will be.
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Apr 4, 2015 22:32
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luminalflux posted:the normal "catered lunch and dinner every day" So who do I send my resume to?
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meanieface posted:Every single ticket at my old job was P1. Nobody seemed to understand that if "everything" is a priority, nothing gets priority. A group within my company have a total of 2000 open tickets assigned to them. Of those, 1800 are P0 which should be "The world/company is ending!" but because they are understaffed (and somewhat hopeless) the only way to have a chance of getting your thing done is to set it as P0 and immediately start sending reminder emails.
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Kazinsal posted:So who do I send my resume to? Basically anywhere in the bay area but you can start right here edit: we also do breakfasts T-W-T as well. luminalflux fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Apr 5, 2015 |
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luminalflux posted:.."catered lunch and dinner every day", since we were working long hours taxis/ubers home were expensed and there was always a coffee station set up in our work area (with HR coming in on weekends to make sure we were fed and caffeinated). More poo poo that pisses you off: My employer not doing any of those things.
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jammyozzy posted:Today I found out that my bank uses some hacked together version of XP and what looked suspiciously like IE7 on their branch PCs. my local supermarket apparently still uses XP, this is on the 'show offers while queueing at the till' screen:  (I took this pic last week)
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Cosmic D posted:High priority calls coming in with no name or relevant location information. Resolution: get a TSC thermal printer. Shoot zebra with shotgun.
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spiny posted:my local supermarket apparently still uses XP Likewise, a bunch of ATMs here either still or only just changed from eCommStation, which is built on top of OS/2 or some such.
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kirbysuperstar posted:Likewise, a bunch of ATMs here either still or only just changed from eCommStation, which is built on top of OS/2 or some such. I once saw an ATM showing the Windows XP desktop and running McAfee antivirus.
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The local Cineworld Cinema that was shut down due to a heavy cockroach infestation had cracked winxp installs on their self serve ticket machines, popping up activation reminders every so often. Some kids pulled out a rubber strip and plugged in a Bluetooth micro-dongle then remoted in to change the "Thank you for purchasing blahblah" part on every ticket to " U fat oval office!" It lasted months before anyone noticed even though you could see the blue LED blinking away behind the misaligned trim.
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spiny posted:my local supermarket apparently still uses XP, this is on the 'show offers while queueing at the till' screen:
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and if you're got microsoft's ear and pile of cash support will still continue!
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And that existing installations of XP don't just stop working, or magically fill themselves with viruses just because mainstream support ended.
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Sweevo posted:And that existing installations of XP don't just stop working, or magically fill themselves with viruses just because mainstream support ended. Well, the lack of security support does certainly increase the chances of them "magically" filling themselves with viruses if used as much more than an appliance. The XP box a machine shop might have hosting a DOS app that runs something old and expensive is probably fine as long as no one's trying to browse the web on it. The XP box still being used as a general purpose computer in the front office of a medical facility, that's a different matter entirely.
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Sweevo posted:And that existing installations of XP don't just stop working, or magically fill themselves with viruses just because mainstream support ended. How many XP machines do you still have deployed in your environment?
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kirbysuperstar posted:Likewise, a bunch of ATMs here either still or only just changed from eCommStation, which is built on top of OS/2 or some such. I used to work in a very large bank doing Info Sec, and that version of OS/2 was a hardened as gently caress version of a rock solid OS. From an OS perspective, we never had much to worry about OS/2 being much of an attack vector. HOWEVER, it was slowly phased out for business reasons as it couldn't do fancy graphics (like ad-space) or touch-screen. I expect Windows XP to be around for awhile, since banks are extremely conservative regarding change and the validation for ATM OS can take years. I imagine it's similar for Windows XP based POS systems.
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Sweevo posted:And that existing installations of XP don't just stop working, or magically fill themselves with viruses just because mainstream support ended. Magically as in actually-magically, or magically as in "I just opened this email and it started doing this"?
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wolrah posted:The XP box a machine shop might have hosting a DOS app that runs something old and expensive is probably fine as long as no one's trying to browse the web on it. Yeah that's what I'm talking about. People need to stop freaking out just because OMG the self-service checkout at the supermarket was running XP.
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Ursine Asylum posted:Magically as in actually-magically, or magically as in "I just opened this email and it started doing this"? No, I didn't open that strange email, a wizard must have done it!
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Sweevo posted:Yeah that's what I'm talking about. People need to stop freaking out just because OMG the self-service checkout at the supermarket was running XP. That's a bit different from my example though. A checkout kiosk needs to be interacted with by the public in a public area while connected to a live network and handling financial data, where a machine controller tends to be operated by limited users in a controlled area and may not even need to be networked. I can see legitimate concerns with the checkout kiosk running an out-of-date and unsupported operating system, though most of them can be handled sufficiently by putting the kiosks on a properly partitioned and restricted network. I'm fine with old stuff as long as it has the absolute minimum amount of network access it can operate with.
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Frankly I'd be most concerned about the ATMs. Given how laughably they seem to be secured anyway (there have been a number of high-profile ATM "hacks" which pretty much relied on passwords being left as default) it can only get better when they no longer get security updates.
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Sweevo posted:Yeah that's what I'm talking about. People need to stop freaking out just because OMG the self-service checkout at the supermarket was running XP. I went to a clothing store with my wife the other day. I was amused/horrified when the cashier was talking about their online shop and swung their PoS around to show me their website, in IE, on what appeared to be Windows 98.
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Ursine Asylum posted:I went to a clothing store with my wife the other day. I was amused/horrified when the cashier was talking about their online shop and swung their PoS around to show me their website, in IE, on what appeared to be Windows 98. That was probably just XP or Vista or 7 set to Windows 2000 shell mode.
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flosofl posted:I used to work in a very large bank doing Info Sec, and that version of OS/2 was a hardened as gently caress version of a rock solid OS. From an OS perspective, we never had much to worry about OS/2 being much of an attack vector. HOWEVER, it was slowly phased out for business reasons as it couldn't do fancy graphics (like ad-space) or touch-screen. I expect Windows XP to be around for awhile, since banks are extremely conservative regarding change and the validation for ATM OS can take years. I imagine it's similar for Windows XP based POS systems. I work at an FI, and we are just now looking into upgrading our ATM software to Windows 7 from XP. Its a 2 year process, minimum, and we only have ~150 ATMs. That being said, we have a robust firewall system solely for the ATMs, with port monitoring/lockdown and ACLs. The only reason the upgrade is being pushed is because Marketing wants to be able to change the branding and advertising for our campaigns. 
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