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Gilok posted:"I'm sorry, Arunakrishnan takes too long to type. Your name is Toby now" "Also, from now on I shall refer to you as 'Peaches'"
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Last week I set a printer on fire. I was replacing a $1 part in it, and in doing so managed to get the two cables lodged in a screw hole, stripped the insulation around them, and connected them. When I turned the machine on the motherboard shot sparks at me and had that ever so pleasant acrid blue smoke. Fried the motherboard, hard drive, and user interface, all over a $1 pick solenoid. Then yesterday, in our big team meeting with the big boss I get to see every 3 months or so, I was told that the tech in the position I've had my sights on for the past year will no longer be on this account and I'm to replace him. Just goes to show, wreck things and get promoted.
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Jul 10, 2015 18:19
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Oyster posted:Last week I set a printer on fire.
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Jul 10, 2015 18:34
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larchesdanrew posted:"IT IS NOT APRINTER HELP ME PLEASE" (Printer not printing?)
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larchesdanrew posted:Mr. GIMP started last Wednesday. He has submitted so so so many tickets.
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Knormal posted:God drat. Please tell me your poo poo boss doesn't actually have you guys changing lightbulbs. My co-worker got scheduled to go physically assemble a desk in some dude's apartment this morning. It's the sort of poo poo they used to hand me, but I think people realize I would have raised hell about it.
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Jul 10, 2015 20:17
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Knormal posted:God drat. Please tell me your poo poo boss doesn't actually have you guys changing lightbulbs. Considering the bush league IT infrastructure I bitch about constantly, is it any surprise that I'm Facilities, Groundskeeper, and also sometimes Janitor? If it, in any way, involves electricity or a tool, it's my domain.
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Jul 10, 2015 20:41
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We're all used to dealing with tools at our respective companies. gently caress the other noise though. Small, cheapass companies ugh.
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Jul 10, 2015 20:44
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GreenNight posted:We're all used to dealing with tools at our respective companies. I get to reboot every single thin client in our office at some point soon! As in walk up to it, push the power button, and then push it again. No, I am not allowed to ask each person to do this because reasons gently caress small shops forever :-(
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Jul 10, 2015 20:52
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MJP posted:I get to reboot every single thin client in our office at some point soon! As in walk up to it, push the power button, and then push it again. gently caress that. Throw the main breaker. If you're feeling really generous, wait till after-hours.
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Jul 10, 2015 21:15
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anthonypants posted:Printers, specifically. Proof there is a God. Or at least some sort of Karmatic Overlord. Inspector_666 posted:My co-worker got scheduled to go physically assemble a desk in some dude's apartment this morning. Knormal posted:God drat. Please tell me your poo poo boss doesn't actually have you guys changing lightbulbs. Assembling cubicles, changing lightbulbs, moving thousands of file boxes, entire warehouses full of medical equipment and shelving, delivering pallets of computers/servers/monitors, etc was standard faire at my last job. GnarlyCharlie4u fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Jul 10, 2015 |
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Jul 10, 2015 21:23
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Wizard of the Deep posted:gently caress that. Throw the main breaker. Or find places with no camera coverage and plug in space heaters all across the office and hide them. Then wait.
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Jul 10, 2015 21:29
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MJP posted:I get to reboot every single thin client in our office at some point soon! As in walk up to it, push the power button, and then push it again. There's no way to automate this? Expert sexchange seems to have a few posts suggesting that it's possible, plus you can use WoL for any stragglers.
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Volmarias posted:There's no way to automate this? Expert sexchange seems to have a few posts suggesting that it's possible, plus you can use WoL for any stragglers. I think that's a little out of scope 
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Jul 10, 2015 22:42
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Dragyn posted:This is precisely why I browse via RDP to my home PC. Never know when you're gonna end up somewhere your employer wouldn't approve of. I sent my boss an article about windows 10 the other day. Our filter blocked it. Oops.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:I like this one. Existentialism, printers, and all caps. C'est ne pas une printer?
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ilkhan posted:I do that too. If he asks, just say that you found it while at home and forwarded it to yourself because you thought he'd be interested.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Assembling cubicles, changing lightbulbs, moving thousands of file boxes, entire warehouses full of medical equipment and shelving, delivering pallets of computers/servers/monitors, etc was standard faire at my last job. See this is basically my current job only my current job is less interesting. If I could have a job where I get to do this and fiddle with computers, I would be pretty happy.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:gently caress that. Throw the main breaker. It's you, Wizard of the Deep. You are my favorite poster in this page.
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Jul 13, 2015 01:39
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President Ark posted:If he asks, just say that you found it while at home and forwarded it to yourself because you thought he'd be interested.
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Jul 13, 2015 01:41
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My first review from my  came in and went like this:we like your enthusiasm and it's great to be held accountable and for you to be able to be SME from day one but you're new, so don't be an overachiever. 
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Jul 13, 2015 02:57
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"Don't cost us our cushy jobs you idiot"
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Just got gifted one of the printer/scanners that won't scan if the printer is out of ink. It's amazing how scummy these companies can be. I will shoot holes in this thing and leave the carcass in the woods before I spend $50 on ink to work the scanner.
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Javid posted:Just got gifted one of the printer/scanners that won't scan if the printer is out of ink. It's amazing how scummy these companies can be. Wonder if there's a way to trick the sensor into thinking there's ink to defeat that.
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Jul 13, 2015 06:38
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There're utilities that just reset the counter in its firmware, but they don't work on this particular model.
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Segmentation Fault posted:Wonder if there's a way to trick the sensor into thinking there's ink to defeat that. Fill it with water. The Printer, that is.
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So inbetween resolving tickets. i'm trying to migrate our wsus server to 2012. So im testing this in our testing environment. And the other servers can't ping the new wsus server. but the wsus server can ping the other servers. No big deal. our firewall is probally blocking it. i'll just add the mac adress and allow the ports wsus needs. I can't find it. I look for it on IP now. Still nothing. I check our production environment just in case and there it is. Turn out that when i installed the server In Vmware, I used the production network adapter instead of the Testing one.  Now to figure out where to install the sql database.
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Segmentation Fault posted:Wonder if there's a way to trick the sensor into thinking there's ink to defeat that. Some of them have been cracked, but far from all of them.
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The Fool posted:Shark biologist. I can empathise with this. During my first working role, a few months in I started getting pissed off because the office culture was "let's throw balls around the office unexpectedly, at each other, even though Mammalian wants to focus on work and facebook." There was one guy in particular, named Daniel, who pushed his luck. In one moment I stood up for myself and said "listen, can you stop throwing balls, please? I've told you before, I don't like it, I'm trying to work." and his reaction was akin to a camp "oooooo~" and the office dismissed it as "you're getting too uptight." A couple weeks later he comes over to my desk to talk to my neighbouring colleague. He started tapping the side of my headphones while they were on my head, or something, I didn't see exactly what he was doing but something was hitting it. I yanked them off and slammed them on the table causing a dent they still proudly present to this day, and I proceeded to yell at the big, burly, beast of a man. I mean, he wasn't tall but he had an extended lunch so he could go to the gym EVERY DAY and pump iron. So I asked him if he was loving retarded, what was wrong with him, told him to go back to his desk and do his job, and that I wasn't interested in being a device for him to deal with his ADHD with. Yeah, they've been joking about it for over a year now and it will remain a crucial moment in my legacy.
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Mammalian posted:I can empathise with this. During my first working role, a few months in I started getting pissed off because the office culture was "let's throw balls around the office unexpectedly, at each other, even though Mammalian wants to focus on work and facebook." I genuinely think that there is a lot of wisdom in Office Space: quote:Rob Newhouse: Y'know, minimum-security prison is no picnic. I have a client in there right now. He says the trick is: kick someone's rear end the first day, or become someone's bitch. Then everything will be all right. I think that flipping out once per employer can be good for your reputation and stop you being a doormat. (assuming you are surrounded by others who will try to bully/take advantage of you)
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Mammalian posted:I can empathise with this. During my first working role, a few months in I started getting pissed off because the office culture was "let's throw balls around the office unexpectedly, at each other, even though Mammalian wants to focus on work and facebook."
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My hot take--flipping out at work over trivial bullshit is the embarrassing and awkward.
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The first few times are trivial, the 100th is not.
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Slanderer posted:My hot take--flipping out at work over trivial bullshit is the embarrassing and awkward. Totally. But this is the culture and the environment, and I expressed calmly several times previously that I took it seriously and wasn't going to, you know, be his office toy. I guess it was a good thing actually: spog posted:I genuinely think that there is a lot of wisdom in Office Space: because this is true, no one has pestered me since, and it didn't isolate me from the others of the company, because they all had the sense to realise that the guy was an rear end. He was also a player - multiple girls on the go, lying to them and cheating. No one was on this guy's side, which is why when there was a formal investigation into the incident (caused by me bringing the incident to my line manager), my two different bosses (TWO, BOB!) both agreed what I did was understandable. The guy left the company a month or so later.
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The Fool posted:Shark biologist.   I'm in the same boat, except the number of man-babies is 4 including myself and not only is the owner incredibly inappropriate, he's also shockingly incompetent. I'm not going to post specific stuff but our website (written in PHP for some reason! Most likely auto-generated by Dreamweaver) looks like something from late-90s Geocities.
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OwlFancier posted:See this is basically my current job only my current job is less interesting. If I could have a job where I get to do this and fiddle with computers, I would be pretty happy. If I could have done that and not been responsible for computers... I'd have been much happier. It's one thing to do do operations work all day. It's quite another to do ops work all day and then computer work all night. For 2 years I spent more hours inside the office than outside of it.
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Re: freaking out at work- I wanted to post that gif from true detective where crash gets his ball grabbed while ginger tells him "I embraaaace the outlaw lifestyle" Thats what you gotta do to a bully at work. Grab their balls and say something wierd.
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The last straw at one of my many lovely jobs (911 for a sheriff's office) was when I was taking an emergency call and one of the bigot fuckheads I worked with threw a roll of toilet paper at my head. It hit me flat side first, almost knocking my headset off. It took all of my will not to just walk out in that moment. I didn't last much longer there but at least the period of unemployment that followed led me to my next rewarding career adventure: call center supervision.
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