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Doesn't ICO mean In Case Of? Also jesus, Dick. edit: or maybe In Care Of? FaintlyQuaint fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Jun 4, 2015 17:09
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I love bosses that get a buzz word and just run with it. For a while my boss would always tell us he was angry that we "made an executive decision" and that we aren't allowed to "make executive decisions". It was crazy irritating, and it'd be for this like at 2am we were having a problem with an install because they didn't get the right version of software, so we'd get a free trial for it, and then in the morning tell the bosses they have to buy X. WHO AUTHORIZED YOU TO MAKE THAT EXECUTIVE DECISION? When X was like $100 who cares?
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Jun 4, 2015 17:12
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FaintlyQuaint posted:Doesn't ICO mean In Case Of? Actually from my extensive googling it stands for Information Commissioner's Office, a British institution SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:I love bosses that get a buzz word and just run with it. For a while my boss would always tell us he was angry that we "made an executive decision" and that we aren't allowed to "make executive decisions". It was crazy irritating, and it'd be for this like at 2am we were having a problem with an install because they didn't get the right version of software, so we'd get a free trial for it, and then in the morning tell the bosses they have to buy X. WHO AUTHORIZED YOU TO MAKE THAT EXECUTIVE DECISION? When X was like $100 who cares? My coworker has these verbal ticks like "in any case" "regardless" etc that he throws into everything he's saying when they're completely inappropriate to what he's about to say mewse fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Jun 4, 2015 17:15
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mewse posted:Actually from my extensive googling it stands for Information Commissioner's Office, a British institution No wonder Dick Trauma can't tell us about anything he works with. He's gone British. FaintlyQuaint fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Jun 4, 2015 17:16
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Dick Trauma posted:she will literally put her hand up and say "Too much detail" if I mention anything technical.
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Jun 4, 2015 17:32
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DT, time to snap back and start using your own acronyms, then look at her incredulously and respond like she did. Hell, make some acronyms up - the military is great for doing that, and they'll often use the same ones multiple times with different meanings in the same document.
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Jun 4, 2015 17:35
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My wife got this poo poo as well when she moved to a C-level position. Lots of meetings with the CFO and CEO using acronyms which they assumed everyone should know, but which were totally endemic to their company. Sounded incredibly frustrating. She probably came up through the company and has no idea what ICO is actually supposed to mean, so she can't explain it to you without exposing that through a meandering talk which never hits on anything which could actually stand in for "ICO" as an acronym, or that other companies don't have any idea what it means.
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Jun 4, 2015 17:41
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drat dude that sucks. Maybe she just had a super lovely day or was under a bunch of stress and lashed out. Have you asked around the office to ever figure out what ICO is? I can't think of anything besides initial cost of ownership either. Must be an acronym for some internal process or something.
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Jun 4, 2015 17:41
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mewse posted:Actually from my extensive googling it stands for Information Commissioner's Office, a British institution No, you idiot, it clearly refers to: quote:Ico (イコ Iko?, /ˈiːkoʊ/) is a puzzle-platformer and action-adventure game developed by Team Ico and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, released for the PlayStation 2 video game console in 2001 and 2002 in various regions. It was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, who wanted to create a minimalist game around a "boy meets girl" concept. Originally planned for the PlayStation, Ico took approximately four years to develop. The team employed a "subtracting design" approach to reduce elements of gameplay that interfered with the game's setting and story in order to create a high level of immersion.
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Jun 4, 2015 17:43
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She probably doesn't know what the acronym means, but saw it used in a similar situation once.
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Jun 4, 2015 17:44
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evol262 posted:She probably came up through the company and has no idea what ICO is actually supposed to mean, so she can't explain it to you without exposing that through a meandering talk which never hits on anything which could actually stand in for "ICO" as an acronym, or that other companies don't have any idea what it means. My money's on this as well. She almost certainly can't adequately explain it and doesn't want to lose face by admitting her ignorance.
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Jun 4, 2015 17:46
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I'm going to get her the requests I could understand, and if she asks about the ICO ones I'll say "pending explanation of ICO." Other than this dumb experience everything else here has been good. Most of my time is spent on meaningful projects, cleaning up long-standing tech messes, implementing basic I.T. standards, etc. I'm giving them a tech foundation they were sorely lacking. Their existing vendors have either woken up to the fact that there's an experienced I.T. person handling them, or like one vendor they have quickly found themselves being moved toward the door. Maybe this job will quickly go off the rails. Maybe it will last for years. For this much money they will have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.
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Jun 4, 2015 17:49
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Small tweak, change it to "Pending definition of ICO", because explanation is "I want the ICO! Look how loving psycho I am!!!" How rage inducing that must have been for you. Kudos for not screaming until you're red in the face.
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Jun 4, 2015 17:57
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Now I'm really curious to find out what ICO is.
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Jun 4, 2015 18:00
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I Googled it and can confirm that it's Literally Nothing. Also, another kudos for not responding to "We're done" with "We're done when I say we're done." It's also worth pointing out that if you ask what ICO means, and she immediately pivots to shock and dismay that you don't know what it means, then she doesn't know either.
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Jun 4, 2015 18:00
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My best guess is "In Care Of" like she's asking who is being delegated for each task
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Jun 4, 2015 18:02
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It could originally mean "in case of" which in the company could be twisted to mean an explanation of why a thing was done. Which is a reasonable thing to ask, but to just blindly scream "ICO ICO ICO" is not.
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Jun 4, 2015 18:09
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FISHMANPET posted:to just blindly scream "ICO ICO ICO" is not. Maybe Dick's boss just really likes the Belle Stars? Jockomo feena ah na nay Jockomo feena nay.
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Jun 4, 2015 18:15
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I looked up ICO on Acronym Finder and it came up with 216 possibilities, including In Case Of, In Care Of, Initial Cost of Ownership, In-house Computing Option, Item Change Order, Internet Connected Office, and Initial Cash Outlay. I'd send her a link to ICO and ask her to pick which one it is and you'll figure things out after that.
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Jun 4, 2015 18:20
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Either that or spend an unreasonable amount of company time providing all 216 of those for each item. Oh god the passive aggressive glory of that one.
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Jun 4, 2015 18:21
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Initial Cost Outlay is what I was thinking of, but that's insane that she won't tell you. Good luck DT 
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Jun 4, 2015 18:21
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Office expansion is almost done! The company office space is being expanded by 25%! Now is the time for war apparently because who is being moved where is not finalized. Anyone who believes they are anyone are battling like its the loving arena to cement themselves into the cubicle/office space they desire.
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Jun 4, 2015 18:30
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Sickening posted:Office expansion is almost done! The company office space is being expanded by 25%! Now is the time for war apparently because who is being moved where is not finalized. Anyone who believes they are anyone are battling like its the loving arena to cement themselves into the cubicle/office space they desire. Executive Deathmatch! Two will enter, one will get an office!
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Jun 4, 2015 18:43
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That's going to be the hardest part of going back to an office environment. I work from home right now, so I have a dedicated office, private kitchen, private gym, executive washroom... I can just imagine going on an interview and hearing "and this would be your cubicle"
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Jun 4, 2015 18:50
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Dick Trauma posted:I'm going to get her the requests I could understand, and if she asks about the ICO ones I'll say "pending explanation of ICO." I am wondering if you are doing such a good job that she is feeling threatened by you and is using information withholding as power. Is the CEO not going to these meetings because they are busy, or because your boss is trying to reduce your exposure to C levels?
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Jun 4, 2015 18:51
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RadicalR posted:Executive Deathmatch! Two will enter, one will get an office! The funny thing is all the execs get an office without issue. It is time for directors/vp's and everyone else to measure dicks and try to figure out who is more important. One person has already came out and said they aren't moving anywhere despite the office being demo'd with the wall that it is build into. Now is the time for move requests for cubes and offices that already have someone in them. As if IT is going to do the eviction for them or something. 
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Jun 4, 2015 18:51
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1voj6H8CHY
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Jun 4, 2015 18:55
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evol262 posted:My wife got this poo poo as well when she moved to a C-level position. Lots of meetings with the CFO and CEO using acronyms which they assumed everyone should know, but which were totally endemic to their company. Sounded incredibly frustrating. She probably came up through the company and has no idea what ICO is actually supposed to mean, so she can't explain it to you without exposing that through a meandering talk which never hits on anything which could actually stand in for "ICO" as an acronym, or that other companies don't have any idea what it means. It has no formal meaning. The meaning depends entirely on the context.
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Jun 4, 2015 19:00
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kensei posted:Initial Cost Outlay is what I was thinking of, but that's insane that she won't tell you. Good luck DT It's not insane, she doesn't know what it stands for.
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Jun 4, 2015 19:02
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NINE POSTS UP  fakeedit: I AM VERY MAD ABOUT THIS BECAUSE ECRED FOR MAKING HTE OBVIOUS SONG-BASED JOKE WILL IMPROVE MY SELF WORTH GREATLY. edit 2: for content, one of my biggest clients has had three hardware failures, all seemingly unrelated, in their cluster in the past two weeks and I've been up until 5 AM three days this week (including today) trying to fix poo poo and I just want it to loving stop. It seems age/environmental as half the hardware is five years old and this client a year or two ago went "GOOGLE keeps their datacenters at 90 degrees so we should too  ", but it's not certain and in the meantime I'm juggling a billion things just to keep their poo poo running.
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Jun 4, 2015 19:05
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Today I got to go install a new switch in a rack. Easy enough, except this rack is a spaghetti waterfall mess so bad that it was literally physically impossible to get the new switch in without unplugging half the equipment. It took up the entire "maintenance window" just to get the switch into the rack. Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Jun 4, 2015 19:05
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:That's going to be the hardest part of going back to an office environment. I work from home right now, so I have a dedicated office, private kitchen, private gym, executive washroom... I can just imagine going on an interview and hearing "and this would be your cubicle" It could be worse. We recently moved into a new building, and the IT area wasn't done. So we got to sit in some cubes that would/will be used by auditors. Fairly comfortable, well appointed kitchen area, new appliances, etc. IT area is complete, and we move down to...half-sized cubes barely big enough for chairs (smallest in the building!), and a kitchen area that's a plain white room with all the old, stained, barely-working appliances from the previous building. Immediately updated my LI profile.
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Jun 4, 2015 19:06
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Dick Trauma posted:Boss: It's ICO. How did you get to this point without knowing what it means? Crazy lady doesn't realise she's speaking to IT, there's thousands of acronyms our there to fight with.
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Jun 4, 2015 19:17
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SubjectVerbObject posted:I am wondering if you are doing such a good job that she is feeling threatened by you and is using information withholding as power. Is the CEO not going to these meetings because they are busy, or because your boss is trying to reduce your exposure to C levels? They're genuinely busy people. The business has grown but headcount has lagged. They recently started hiring more people but I think it will be a while before they shed their small business mentality of having the people at the top directly managing everything. That's part of what drove them to hire me. They need someone that can properly implement systems that will increase efficiency, like getting a modern AP system in place so there's far less pissing around with cutting manual checks for everything. There will still be plenty for accounting to do but there will be less time spent on manual processes that should've been automated long ago. They want me examining everything to see where they've fallen behind, but also where they can get a jump on putting systems in place that might seem like overkill today but will help them avoid having to slow down during growth bursts due to overwhelming their old manual procedures.
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Jun 4, 2015 19:27
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No one is too busy to explain an acronym.
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Jun 4, 2015 19:48
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DT - Are there others at your work whom you could ask the meaning of ICO?
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Jun 4, 2015 20:10
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Dick Trauma posted:
Isn't this a plot to a Seinfeld episode?
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Jun 4, 2015 20:12
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rolleyes posted:My money's on this as well. She almost certainly can't adequately explain it and doesn't want to lose face by admitting her ignorance. Thanks boss, so not only are you impeding work getting done to save your own ego, you're insulting my intelligence by expecting me not to figure it out despite how obvious it is. So, worse than complete failure because now you've just lost the majority of my respect for you as well as me seeing through your BS. Edit: Also, this is the point where you can completely ignore any "ICO" comments. I mean, obviously if they aren't going to tell you what it means, it's not important enough to worry about. Che Delilas fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Jun 4, 2015 20:30
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Bigass Moth posted:No one is too busy to explain an acronym. Agreed. I was responding to the post wondering if the CEO was avoiding me or getting cut out of the picture by the head of Ops. I don't think that's the case. This is the first time I've seen any weird behavior here by management types. Too early to know if it's significant.
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Jun 4, 2015 20:50
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More amusing than pissing me off. Someone in a town of 6000 in West Texas sends in a ticket: My internet explorer won't load! I look on Meraki, they are hitting 4.5mbps through constant streaming and Facebook. The person who sent this in has used 450mb on Facebook in the last two hours alone. I tell her that over 60% of her site's usage is being taken up by streaming and social media. She says "It's not my computer, could it be anybodys? What about cell phones?" I tell her that yes, anybodys usage impacts everyone else, and so do cell phones on WiFi. As I typed this, she responded "One guy was on Facebook, I told him to get off. Nobody should be on social media." I can't call her out directly, any suggestions for what to say to tell her I can see an individual's usage without seeming accusatory?
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