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MJP posted:The game development profession: spoofing gullible nerds since 1997 Pretty much. I got well, well out of that, and so did all of the coworkers I liked. 40% of average is scratching the surface of the poo poo that went on there. Segmentation Fault posted:The gaming industry is a loving shambles and 40% average sounds about right honestly. Give up your dreams. I never really had a dream to be "a game designer", but stunningly that pittance was my  out of an IT job that was paying me 20k less than that. So baby steps? It ended up landing me with the six figures I have now, so I can't complain too much.Sickening posted:I am sure the CEO ate a lot of ramen. He still posts on Reddit about how Bill Gates ruined computing and various libertarian  opinions while bragging about his porsche.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:This sounds like a great way to have the printer spool freak out when someone tried to print a 300 page document and doesn't get there rear end up off the chair to actually go get it for 3 hours I mean, I guess if you have an MFP from the roaring 20s, sure. All of them have 40 GB hard drives at a minimum for storing documents/acting as light file servers/ftp functions, etc. On top of that most of the poo poo ages off of the printer after a specified amount of time (usually configurable).
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kensei posted:One of our legacy companies has a similar name to an Australian ISP, and we just got an abuse complaint for them misdirected to us. I replied politely and told them who to contact. The classy response: https://twitter.com/dril/status/473706394009759744
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A fire came in.  (Nothing was damaged. So close  )
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larchesdanrew posted:A fire came in. I refuse to believe that you have a real job. My running theory is that you're not even real, just some amalgam abomination resulting from the rest of the subforum's frustrations in the world of IT. Because my brain won't let me accept the idea of people like your boss existing. Trust me, I work with some very... challenging people, but no one on that level.
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Jul 16, 2015 23:21
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Ursine Asylum posted:Pretty much. I got well, well out of that, and so did all of the coworkers I liked. 40% of average is scratching the surface of the poo poo that went on there. Still goes on there.
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Jul 16, 2015 23:22
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Still goes on there. Every once in awhile I get drunk with my coworkers, rant about the lack of revision control and any sort of testing, and wonder if they ever stopped using Sourcesafe.
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Jul 16, 2015 23:57
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:I refuse to believe that you have a real job. My running theory is that you're not even real, just some amalgam abomination resulting from the rest of the subforum's frustrations in the world of IT. I'm ITbitchbot 2.0. I'm basically an algorithm created by YOSPOS that combs through past ticket threads and pieces together stories from the most quoted posts. Please rate me in the app store!
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Jul 17, 2015 00:24
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Plastic replaced sourcesafe. Nope, I didn't recognize it either. Meanwhile my org has no IT department, but does have "a guy" who comes in for $100/hr.
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larchesdanrew posted:I'm ITbitchbot 2.0. I'm basically an algorithm created by YOSPOS that combs through past ticket threads and pieces together stories from the most quoted posts. Please rate me in the app store! 5 stars, would purchase again.
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Jul 17, 2015 00:28
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A ticket came in. One of our third party support vendors sent a device to a location for replacement and we forgot to tell the location it was coming. Someone there contacted us first to confirm things were legitimate. That'll do user, that'll do. 
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Meanwhile my org has no IT department, but does have "a guy" who comes in for $100/hr. Man I'd love to get $100/hr to come in and plug in people's monitors.
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larchesdanrew posted:I'm ITbitchbot 2.0. I'm basically an algorithm created by YOSPOS that combs through past ticket threads and pieces together stories from the most quoted posts. Please rate me in the app store! Not seen any rehash of the spec bucket incident so I don't believe you.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Plastic replaced sourcesafe. Nope, I didn't recognize it either. I am a guy that comes in for $100/hour. I have a minimum of one hour, and charge for travel time. For example. I just got back from a job where the client couldn't make copies on an Epson workforce printer. The paper type settings were incorrect.
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Mo_Steel posted:A ticket came in. YOU BUY THAT LOCATION LUNCH AND YOU DO IT NOW.
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Jul 17, 2015 01:29
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I found out one of our clients has a Windows 2000 server pc with a 40 gig hard drive as his only computing format and he backs up monthly to cds that have never been tested. 
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nexxai posted:YOU BUY THAT LOCATION LUNCH AND YOU DO IT NOW. He's gonna send them a gift basket and get a call asking if it's legitimate.
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Not a ticket per se... But man it sure feels good for the Director, VP, and another VP to come talk to you and your coworker that the project you're working on, that we're killing it and he's very happy with our work.
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Jul 17, 2015 03:33
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Not a ticket per se... Feels good don't it.
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Jul 17, 2015 04:34
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quote:I need to export my email out of my Office 365 account. I use a Mac and don't have access to a desktop version of Outlook. I need a solution that will allow me to easily export all Office 365 emails to a .csv file.
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So after two years of waiting and and getting the runaround, we've finally got techs coming in to set up our virtual set. We've been waiting for this for a long time, and I'm super excited that it'll finally get up and running. The GM has no forbidden me from being present during the setup and calibration process so that I can fuss with setting up an editor for sports that they never needed or asked for. Hell, this wasn't even a planned thing before yesterday and now it's got to be done by the end of the day for absolutely no reason. Supervisor tells me that it doesn't need to be done today and he needs me helping with virtual. He told me if the GM gets mad, he'll go to bat for me. I could almost stand to say a nice thing about him right now 
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larchesdanrew posted:So after two years of waiting and and getting the runaround, we've finally got techs coming in to set up our virtual set. We've been waiting for this for a long time, and I'm super excited that it'll finally get up and running. Get that in writing.
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larchesdanrew posted:He told me if the GM gets mad, he'll go to bat for me. 
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larchesdanrew posted:A fire came in. I saved these pics from an old job, filled whole DC with smoke as the fans never shut off. Used the pictures every time old boss said RAID = backup.   Also an email went out.. quote:Shawn, OmniCorp fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Jul 17, 2015 |
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Why the gently caress do so many of our clients insist on having new hires come in on Friday afternoons? With no notice. And I don't mean "We need to set up the accounts for this person to start on Monday" new hire stuff. I mean "This person is standing next to me why isn't their computer ready?"
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Day 1 post-raise bomb. I have had to futz around with keyboards, move non-critical equipment from an almost-empty rack into a rack with some room so Mr. Almost-Empty could be used for our downstairs move in September, been given a new laptop to configure, and other stuff that exists in the world of the combined helpdesk/sysadmin. No word has been mentioned from my boss. Resisting the temptation to make use of the Google Apps vault to spy on emails. That poo poo gets audited anyhoo. Our line-of-business application doesn't display something correctly after we pushed a new version of the virtual desktop with a current version of Chrome, to block all that new poo poo Hackingteam found. I can't wait to refuse to roll it back. One recruiter for a pretty decent position that would have resulted in a pay cut called me back, Google Voice transcription said they might be looking to move forward with me. Gonna wait until the boss leaves to call them back. Who knows, maybe they'll come back with that miracle boat-buyin' number, or maybe I'll YotJ before they come back with a raise offer. If they do at all.
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:I mean, I guess if you have an MFP from the roaring 20s, sure. All of them have 40 GB hard drives at a minimum for storing documents/acting as light file servers/ftp functions, etc.
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Knormal posted:We were told the Samsung printers we're getting now (not MFPs, granted) come with 64 MEG of onboard storage, and if we wanted more we had to buy the HD upgrade kit. Where the hell is Samsung even finding 64M RAM chips nowadays, anyway? Sounds like you're getting consumer grade pigshit. Sorry, boss.  On the bright side the Samsung Laser offerings I've seen have all been very solid.
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Inspector_666 posted:Why the gently caress do so many of our clients insist on having new hires come in on Friday afternoons? With no notice. Holy poo poo I used to deal with this all the time when I was doing deployments for new users. Once at 9am on a Tuesday, the company of engineers we support had two new hires just standing there, with an admin assistant asking me where their computers were. I could set up the AD and email accounts easily and quickly enough, but I had no computers for them, no phones. They'd gotten these two to agree to a salary at like 5pm Monday, and Tuesday morning they reported in. HR didn't even know about it which allowed me to pull the "no accounts will be created until I get official notice from HR" card, but this was like the third time they'd done this in the last couple of months. And for whatever reason when a company would hire a temp, HR did not send out a notice because of some breakdown in procedure/notification process, so it happened this way with them all the time. If the temp was just an AA, I could handle it pretty quickly by giving them a crap PC but if it was an architect or engineer who needed Revit/autocad/indesign/bluebeam/rhino and who knows what else, they might be standing around drinking coffee for a long time.
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Tuesday at least kind of makes sense. I just don't at all understand the process behind "Yeah come in for a couple of hours on Friday afternoon, that'll be a good first exposure to the company."
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I understand, and I agree with you. What you said reminded me of this belief shared universally by all our client companies that the (at the time) one-man helpdesk/deployment/sysadmin department could just magically poo poo out a PC for a new user with zero advance notice. And do it regularly.
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:Sounds like you're getting consumer grade pigshit. Sorry, boss.
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Ursine Asylum posted:Man I'd love to get $100/hr to come in and plug in people's monitors. Open a "Managed Services Provider" business!
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I think we do MSP wrong because it's less "come and help us solve a problem while your helpdesk team ensures business as usual for our staff" and more "we pay you to support us so that means we are going to keep poo poo running for 8 years and lol no of course there's no investment money". Unless that is every MSP and the end game is just to divert as much cash as possible out of each client before they get bored and move to the next provider because it's unreasonable to be told to upgrade your poo poo.
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Thanks Ants posted:I think we do MSP wrong because it's less "come and help us solve a problem while your helpdesk team ensures business as usual for our staff" and more "we pay you to support us so that means we are going to keep poo poo running for 8 years and lol no of course there's no investment money". Nope, it's not every MSP. You're doing it wrong. Contracts have obligations for both parties. Sounds like either one side isn't living up to them, in which case they are in breach so you suspend service (while still being paid). Or your sales and legal team seriously hosed you over when drawing up the contracts.
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We do initial projects as T&M and then charge a flat rate for ongoing support. This keeps the incentives in the right place for everyone. We want to keep everything working and the clients don't want to pay more when things are broken. You have to have a good relationship with the clients for this to work.
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larchesdanrew posted:So after two years of waiting and and getting the runaround, we've finally got techs coming in to set up our virtual set. We've been waiting for this for a long time, and I'm super excited that it'll finally get up and running. As I've learned in corporate: Get it in writing or people will use any excuse they can to gently caress you.
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