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Sounds like this guy might be one of the people talked about in the A/T people are crazy w/r/t anime thread... uhhhh located here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3444416 That thread has sucked hours of my life away that I definitely don't want back.
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Dick Trauma posted:You work at a TV station. Why are you not recording this for us? All the cameras got taken outside in the rain
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larchesdanrew posted:One of the reporters asked me if there was any canned air so he could blow out his keyboard. I told him just to bring it to me and I'd blow it out. 
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KoRMaK posted:Theft Not necessarily. We've (I've) got a policy of tossing any PS/2 devices that we can replace with USB. I'm just disposing of it on my own over a long period of time. Also, I may or may not have watched a particular hated and well-known employee walk out of here with an iPad last year. If he did, it still has Meraki on it and it still pings. From his house. I've got deflection ammo 
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Erwin posted:I don't care how hard you cleaned it, that's still gross and you're gross for taking it home OH NO, guys, it's pretty clear now. He's slowly turning into the CE. He's already starting to hoard.
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Thanks Ants posted:All the cameras got taken outside in the rain But they were covered! 
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Oct 12, 2015 22:27
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Dravs posted:So as usual some middle manager royally hosed up and is trying to push it to IT? Please tell us you have the power to enforce policy and make them wait for your change process?! Heners_UK posted:Also, with regard to those sending that request to you... that deployment (presumably a deployment) is going south so let's hand them the mic hear their rollback plan... Nah, it's all poo poo. My division lead told me that I should've put this in as an emergency change and just "made it happen." We're a cost center, after all. The physical impossibility of the request didn't seem to factor into it being my fault that the push didn't happen. Where I work IT is often the whipping boy for every department and a scapegoat for every problem. This turned out to be no exception.
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larchesdanrew posted:Hattiesburg They all hang out at the Stuckeys on 49. Watch your back
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:At my last job, I worked in IP law, and one of the clients we had for trade-mark stuff was the COMPLETELY NOT WORK SAFE http://www.fleshjack.com/. Getting asked to unblock that page by a 60 year old woman was the funniest thing in the whole entire world.
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Sushi The Kid posted:They all hang out at the Stuckeys on 49. Watch your back The pecan log will be the end of our society as we know it.
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So today i was on the road to help setup some things at a new facility, move some equipment at another place while in town, and generally have a pleasant short travel day. But while leaving, a coworker noticed an alarm from a site saying a switch was down at a pretty remote site. He was troubleshooting that while I was getting ready to leave, so I brought a spare switch with me since I was heading that direction. About an hour on the road he still wasn't able to get the switch online, so I changed my plans and drove to the site, which is roughly 3.5 hours away. I get onsite, notice that the switch looks dead, and start getting ready to pull it out. Then I notice a few other things are off in the rack. I look down and notice a small UPS next to the main large one. Sure enough, it's off. I hit the power button and things start making noise, I replug in the handful of cables I unplugged, but notice the little UPS isn't actually charging. Looks like the battery is shot, but it isn't reporting that. I pull the UPS, move everything to the other one, confirm everything is working and leave. 3.5 hours later, I'm back where I started. The worst part about this is that my rental car only has the trial subscription to XM. Cheap fuckers.
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Mustache Ride posted:Here's a funny ticket that came in. EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:At my last job, I worked in IP law, and one of the clients we had for trade-mark stuff was the COMPLETELY NOT WORK SAFE http://www.fleshjack.com/. Getting asked to unblock that page by a 60 year old woman was the funniest thing in the whole entire world. I was wondering what posts on this page were triggering the lovely real-time webfilter at work, and now the mystery is solved.
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larchesdanrew posted:The same guy also tried convince us the other day that, in the 80's, he ran across some "gangstas" in Hattiesburg up. Is he sure it wasn't just the Golden Eagles marching band?
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Our owner is a hard core right wing libertarian type. The dude is a decent guy. 
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BaseballPCHiker posted:The dude is a decent guy but he just swings back and forth from crazy libtard to dictator depending on whatever benefits him the most at the time. So 100% libertarian all the time then? larchesdanrew posted:Christ, I remember at my old job getting a direct command from management to turn off the porn filter because they were getting tired of having to email each other pictures. I asked them why we even invested in the web filter to begin with and they agreed and told me to take it out and send it back. I can only imagine how shoddily implemented any filter you'd have would be and how much less hassle it is to do regular work if they don't have to contact the CE to remove blocks on the filter. Dick Trauma posted:At one of our locations an ancient PC running environmental control software has died, or rather has been euthanized under entertaining circumstances. The poor thing was stuffed in an outdoor metal cabinet and ran for probably 12 years completely unattended. I've had specialist engineers reviewing the many industrial control PCs at that site and this PC was discovered at the end of the project because the small building next door was torn down, revealing the exterior metal cabinet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mac3kw0Snek larchesdanrew posted:Fun fact: the office dishwasher hasn't been run in over two weeks. Every mug and dish in the kitchen has been stuffed in it, but we're out of detergent. For some reason, no one has felt the need to buy any, so the dishes have just been sitting in there growing god knows what. It doesn't fuckning matter. Nobody is using it, nobody is using the coffee pot. Just be the guy that runs the dishwasher no matter what, at xx:AM, between coffee hours. Run that poo poo multiple times a day and if it has a "hot pre-wash" and a "heated dry" run those too. Run it full of "clean" dishes, nobody who's stashed a dirty dish in there the last 2 weeks gives a gently caress. Think of it this way: if your current employer told your next employer "he washed the dishes in the break room too often" do you think they'd see that as a negative? quote:I bring my own coffee in the morning and don't use the dishes here, so I legitimately don't have a dog in this hunt. It's hilarious though, since someone comes in every morning and makes a big pot of coffee, and that coffee is still sitting there at the end of the day since no one has a cup to drink it out of. MisterOblivious fucked around with this message at 09:57 on Oct 13, 2015 |
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Thanks Ants posted:All the cameras got taken outside in the rain without the included rain covers! Jesus Christ this isn't the first time we've heard about them throwing a towel over the camera, oh no, no it's not. They've decided multiple times that they don't need to use the rain gear on the cameras.
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A ticket came in, from my mum:quote:Hi blank, WTF MUM!!!
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Dravs posted:A ticket came in, from my mum: Mum gay, so what?
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I think my mum is woefully unprepared for the internet. I looked up the e-mail address and it looks to be a Nigerian lottery scam. She's like 65 years old and just likes to think the best of people. I guess at least she e-mails me first before replying to these things.
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Dravs posted:I think my mum is woefully unprepared for the internet. Your mum is much smarter than an awful lot of people on the internet.
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Update on the theft. I and the IT department at large have escaped blame. The person who left the access cards out in the open got in a bit of trouble but nothing major. The police were notified, I have no idea what their involvement will be. Our owner thinks that a nearby parking lot and another business might have security cameras that could be used to prove when people were entering the building. I personally think it's a lost cause but he seems convinced that it;s something. I dont think that we'll get an updated security system out of this though. MisterOblivious posted:So 100% libertarian all the time then? Yeah he can be pretty annoying about it. I do cut him some slack though because the guy is fully committed to charity. Not just the normal rich guy way of raising money either. He's helped build entire orphanage and clinics in Africa and done a bunch for the homeless here locally.
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An email came to a coworker... When I use my radio It sends my e-mail Or other stuff rolling It didn’t just start Showed Christine and she Asked me to e mail yous Thanks I'm just gonna leave that here and try not to think any more about it.
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Easy, his radio causes the image on his screen to wobble or shake or something. Do you have CRTs where you work? edit: also he's from Philly because he emailed yous. Yous guys have to fix it.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:An email came to a coworker... The guy fancies himself an ee Cummings aficionado.
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Agrikk posted:The guy fancies himself an ee Cummings aficionado.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:An email came to a coworker... Oh yeah I remember that episode of Love Boat. Say hello to Isaac for me - big fan!
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ChubbyThePhat posted:An email came to a coworker... She see me rollin' Yous hatin' Sendin' Tryin' to catch me mailin' dirty
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Update on that insane email my coworker got earlier today. He went on site to see if he could figure out what the hell she was even asking for:Coworker posted:The issue was as follows:
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ConfusedUs posted:She see me rollin' My typin's so loud
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BaseballPCHiker posted:The dude is a decent guy but he just swings back and forth from crazy libtard to dictator depending on whatever benefits him the most at the time. The end product of the libertarian dream either ends in corporate overlords at worst or redneck feudalism at best so it's entirely possible to be both a dictator and a libertarian at the same time provided you are the property owner.
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A small business client of ours calls up in a panic saying he's getting messages on two of his machines that his Kaspersky is expired when we just updated the licenses two weeks ago. They're just up the street from us, so I head over with the keys we used, assuming that it's probably just the registration, not activation, he's having trouble with, or maybe we did somehow goof and forget to actually enter the keys, but if that were the case he would have noticed before now... Nope. Kaspersky's running fine on both machines, showing activated with 340-something days left. Turned out the "message on his screen" he was seeing was in his email. The automated message you get from Kaspersky a year after activating, telling you that the license you activated a year ago will now be expired. 
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Migishu posted:My typin's so loud See you got a Cherry MX keyboard with Blues.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:An email came to a coworker... My guess is there is a radio/phone sitting on/near their mouse cord and the interference from a radio signal is causing the computer to think the mouse wheel is in use. GSM phones will do this.
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frogbert posted:My guess is there is a radio/phone sitting on/near their mouse cord and the interference from a radio signal is causing the computer to think the mouse wheel is in use. GSM phones will do this. 
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Entropic posted:A small business client of ours calls up in a panic saying he's getting messages on two of his machines that his Kaspersky is expired when we just updated the licenses two weeks ago. They're just up the street from us, so I head over with the keys we used, assuming that it's probably just the registration, not activation, he's having trouble with, or maybe we did somehow goof and forget to actually enter the keys, but if that were the case he would have noticed before now... what'd you bill him?
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frogbert posted:My guess is there is a radio/phone sitting on/near their mouse cord and the interference from a radio signal is causing the computer to think the mouse wheel is in use. GSM phones will do this. The post explained the voip interference, but the OS thinking the mouse is scrolling because of some radio interference is blowing my mind.  what are the odds?
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When I was in the Navy, operating one of the radio transmitters outside of its chassis would turn on certain electric shavers in a fairly large radius.
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