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*While driving in a circle in the parking lot...Buffalo NAS, I guess, tied to the back bumper, dragging behind car* [Said on megaphone] Attention CE and management morons! Your triumphs mean nothing. You all stink. You can sit on it, and rotate! This is larchesdanrew. I fear no reprisal. Extension five-one-seven-oh.
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User calls in reporting dead computer. Somebody at the desk handles it and escalates to me because he can't get her to do any physical troubleshooting herself. Monitor says no connection and when asked to unplug the monitor and plug it back in she just goes "there's a whole bunch of cables, I don't know what to do". No amount of description or hand holding will make her just look. Fine, be an uppity bitch. I delay my lunch and walk across downtown to the office. She's away. Go in and confirm the tower is on. Reseat the monitor connection to the tower. Would you look at that it worked. Go to get lunch. Immediately get an email saying she came back and plugged in an external drive then the monitor died again. So can't unplug the monitor because you can't find the tower but can plug in the hard drive... loving lawyers man.
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So I'm trying to  again after my last fell apart (note: people who warn about the company over-promising were not kidding).Meanwhile, my wife's company is practically begging her to to their allstar team instead of the team she's on. Does anyone have a link to good articles on what/how to negotiate for? I remember money, vacation, comp benefits, but I don't remember what else is to be kept in mind.edit: more 's .
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Ticket! I'm not getting emails from [support email for a company we bought about 18 months ago]. I'll send a test email. Got an automated acknowledgement. Let me send one from the outside world. huh. No reply, no bounce. Let me look into it. ok.-------- Hey boss, whats up with this? Well the domain expired 3 months ago, the expiration notice went to some dumb gently caress user who never checks his emails, we in IT were never told, and somehow the vendor didn't kill the DNS service as a final 'do something you moron' level warning. Some fucker bought the domain out from under us a couple weeks ago. 
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Oct 22, 2015 21:23
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If I don't get fired for always being at least three hours late and drunk, I probably need to learn me some SAP scripting. Any of you nerds know a good place to start?
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notwithoutmyanus posted:I remember money, vacation, comp benefits, but I don't remember what else is to be kept in mind. Paid education with the time spent counted as either "work" or PTO. Can be a part-time Masters in some related field, or just plain old courses that will further her career. Education is an easy sell over here because you're actively adding value to the company. Crowley fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Oct 22, 2015 |
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Oct 22, 2015 21:57
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Jerry Cotton posted:If I don't get fired for always being at least three hours late and drunk, I probably need to learn me some SAP scripting. Any of you nerds know a good place to start? Kela
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Oct 22, 2015 22:06
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spankmeister posted:Kela Thank.
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Crowley posted:Paid education with the time spent counted as either "work" or PTO. Can be a part-time Masters in some related field, or just plain old courses that will further her career. "But if you train your staff then they will just leave for a better job "- A literal thing I have experienced at a previous employer.
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Oct 22, 2015 22:41
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My last job talked about training but it was kind of an "on the horizon thing" the entire time I was there. My new job just gave me a Pluralsight account 
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Oct 22, 2015 22:42
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I know I'm late to the party, but really, guys: Buffonelo
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Oct 22, 2015 22:48
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Crowley posted:The "tapes in the back of a station wagon hurtling down the freeway" still holds. LTE tapes hold a poo poo-ton of data, and you can fit a lot into the trunk of a Volvo V70.
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Oct 22, 2015 22:54
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Thanks Ants posted:"But if you train your staff then they will just leave for a better job Which does make sense if your business model involves paying poo poo wages, since your employees will be more hireable and won't be motivated to stay.
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Thanks Ants posted:"But if you train your staff then they will just leave for a better job "Against stupidity even the gods contend in vain." - Friedrich Schiller
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Oct 22, 2015 23:05
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myron cope posted:*While driving in a circle in the parking lot...Buffalo NAS, I guess, tied to the back bumper, dragging behind car* The NAS is tied to the bumper with cat-5.
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Thanks Ants posted:"But if you train your staff then they will just leave for a better job This is why while looking for job around here everyting has "2-4 years experience" for entry level jobs 
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Oct 22, 2015 23:14
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Kurieg posted:The NAS is tied to the bumper with cat-5. Cat-3. "Because we've always gotten along fine with 10 Mb/s before. We don't need all that speed. Besides, it will just fill up the NAS quicker."
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Oct 22, 2015 23:17
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flosofl posted:Cat-3. "Because we've always gotten along fine with 10 Mb/s before. We don't need all that speed. Besides, it will just fill up the NAS quicker." Coax
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Haquer posted:This is why while looking for job around here everyting has "2-4 years experience" for entry level jobs Apply anyway. The experience requirements can generally be waived if you're clueful.
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Oct 22, 2015 23:39
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So this just happened. The photo was included in the email.
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Oct 22, 2015 23:55
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SeamusMcPhisticuffs posted:So this just happened. The photo was included in the email. Send a photo of the user manual back.
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SeamusMcPhisticuffs posted:So this just happened. The photo was included in the email. This is the post to link to when someone comes in here again and says, "I can't believe people get paid to do this, I feel like a fraud, why is it like this?" Because non-technical people don't stop to gather information (i.e. the first step in troubleshooting), they just go into vapor lock the instant something happens that's different from what they expect from their rote memorization of a task. It's still baffling that people can be this helpless and still find the front door out of their home in the morning. But it keeps happening.
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Che Delilas posted:This is the post to link to when someone comes in here again and says, "I can't believe people get paid to do this, I feel like a fraud, why is it like this?" Because non-technical people don't stop to gather information (i.e. the first step in troubleshooting), they just go into vapor lock the instant something happens that's different from what they expect from their rote memorization of a task. But the door doesn't move man, it's always in the same spot and does the same thing when I turn the thingy on it.
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SeamusMcPhisticuffs posted:So this just happened. The photo was included in the email. Reply back with an image which is just his picture trimmed down to "Load the tray with the requested paper" and nothing else.
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President Ark posted:Reply back with an image which is just his picture trimmed down to "Load the tray with the requested paper" and nothing else. Oh don't worry, 20 minutes later they sent a follow-up that a co-worker had somehow managed to sort out the issue. Government work...
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How is daily life not fatally dangerous to these people?
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Thanks Ants posted:How is daily life not fatally dangerous to these people? I always remind myself that these people: 1) Usually hold a position of some authority. 2) 99% of the time make much more money than I do. 3) Vote And then I feel like I've been professionally friendzoned and wonder what it would be like it I acted like a jerk.
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larchesdanrew posted:I always remind myself that these people: You'd develop a fondness for buffalo storage systems to start, so ask yourself: is it really worth it?
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Oct 23, 2015 02:49
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Hmmm...seems to be missing something...  Ah, there we go
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Ozz81 posted:Hmmm...seems to be missing something... Masterful. 
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Ozz81 posted:Hmmm...seems to be missing something... Holy shiiiiiiiit I'm having this framed and hanging it in my office A Frosty Witch fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Oct 23, 2015 |
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 I feel your pain, brother.
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Internet come and me wan' stay home
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Internet come and me wan' stay home Speaking of internet, my cable modem keeps losing sync or something like that. My downstream connection will sometimes be green, sometimes yellow, and about every 5 minutes I'll lose internet. I called TWC after 4 days of this poo poo and the phone person tells me I have a bad signal and that he's fixed it. All he did, of course, was send a reset signal. I tell him that I'll be calling back in a few minutes once the problem reasserts itself. It does, and this time I'm told that I need to get a new modem from one of their offices. It's a half hour drive each way, and the office opens and closes while I'm at work, so the earliest I can get over there is Saturday. I sat and thought about it for a few minutes and said gently caress it and called back and told them I wanted a technician. It's not that I think the problem is something else, but rather I don't feel like wasting my time and gas should the problem be something other than the modem. Now I just need to hang on to my sanity while my modem syncs and desyncs every five minutes for the next day.
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evobatman posted:
If the internet not always come, then they should learn to be a better lover.
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Kurieg posted:The NAS is tied to the bumper with cat-5. Or hooked up to an etherkiller with a sticky note saying "here's your etherblast"
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larchesdanrew posted:Holy shiiiiiiiit take your internet nerd name off of it first
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SeamusMcPhisticuffs posted:Oh don't worry, 20 minutes later they sent a follow-up that a co-worker had somehow managed to sort out the issue. Government work, you say? From 1998 to 2000 I worked for a state agency as an application developer (woot! Or something.) During this time we got brand spanking new HP printers throughout the building. I was sent to training for these printers in our area. Not everyone. Just a select few. For training. For a printer. Not a multifunction printer. A plain, black and white, duplexing printer. Training. As in "if this printer has no paper, talk to topenga." Government!
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