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Haquer posted:I know how much everyone loves dysfunctional broadcast stations, came in the building to this passive aggressive note to all on air talent from our gm (cell pic so huge) Wow, what a oval office.
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Oct 30, 2015 15:18
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Haquer posted:I know how much everyone loves dysfunctional broadcast stations, came in the building to this passive aggressive note to all on air talent from our gm (cell pic so huge) WITH FOUR LETTER WORDS IN SONG NOT BE AIRED AND HAVE DECIDED TO DENY IT. WE ARE ALSO MAKING YOU NUMBER ONE ON OUR HIT LIST. YOU WILL REMAIN NUMBER ONE ON OUR HIT LIST UNTILL YOU NO LONGER APPEAR TO BE A BLITHERING IDIOT. IT WILL WORK GREAT.
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Oct 30, 2015 15:30
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But... The #1 hit on the list has four letter words in it? His brain asplode.
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Oct 30, 2015 16:07
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larchesdanrew posted:But... The #1 hit on the list has four letter words in it? Fun fact about that: We just don't play them if it's in the title. (He doesn't want us to utter the title, even if the song itself is edited) Literally. He once told our CE "I don't need number one hits".
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Oct 30, 2015 16:40
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Haquer posted:Fun fact about that: We just don't play them if it's in the title. (He doesn't want us to utter the title, even if the song itself is edited)
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Oct 30, 2015 16:53
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Haquer posted:I know how much everyone loves dysfunctional broadcast stations, came in the building to this passive aggressive note to all on air talent from our gm (cell pic so huge) At least it won't be #1 on his poo poo list. 
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Oct 30, 2015 17:17
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Out of social responsibility, the top manager at my local station would prefer we don't add songs to our playlist that include alcohol references. As you can imagine, this is rather limiting on a country music station. We largely do it anyway, but he doesn't like it. Are those jocks not actually giving time/temp/call letters or does the guy not listen?
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Oct 30, 2015 17:42
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Antifreeze Head posted:Out of social responsibility, the top manager at my local station would prefer we don't add songs to our playlist that include alcohol references. As you can imagine, this is rather limiting on a country music station. We largely do it anyway, but he doesn't like it. You've got "Applejuice makes her clothes fall off" or "Why don't we get hydrated and screw".
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Oct 30, 2015 17:46
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Email addresses. I prefer the firstname.lastname@company.com standard, wilford.cutlery@shsc.com rather than wcutlery@shsc.com - But my current and previous employers worked with the latter. A ticket came in for a new hire starting mid-next week in a remote office. Because of the unfortunate naming convention, her email address is going to be igay@company.com Contacting HR now to see if an exception can be granted.
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Oct 30, 2015 17:46
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Antifreeze Head posted:Out of social responsibility, the top manager at my local station would prefer we don't add songs to our playlist that include alcohol references. As you can imagine, this is rather limiting on a country music station. We largely do it anyway, but he doesn't like it. We're a mix station, part is country so I feel you. And no, he wants time/temp/letters stated after every song, so worse than an automated station. It's given out plenty during normal operation.
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Oct 30, 2015 17:49
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HardDisk posted:At least it won't be #1 on his poo poo list. Yeah I thought that a 'hit list' would be a good thing in radio. 
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Oct 30, 2015 18:24
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Unless he's right. I'm sure he's not, but you know, sometimes we get stuck in a Stockholm Syndrome thing with lovely software, people, and policies. The mostly likely case is that the app is in fact poo poo and the replacement app if it ever happens will also be poo poo.
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Oct 30, 2015 18:48
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Haquer posted:And no, he wants time/temp/letters stated after every song, so worse than an automated station. It's given out plenty during normal operation.  I say do it for a couple shifts, then present your PD with some listener emails telling you that they don't need to be constantly reminded that it is still KBBL they are listening to and how they understand that it is now three minutes later than it was before. Of course, all those emails come from fake accounts you have created, but there's no need to go into details... I am lucky/unlucky enough to not have a PD so I would play the hell out of Applejuice Makes her Clothes Fall Off. One of my favourite things to do (once every couple of months) is comb though Reverb Nation to find people in other countries doing country music. I don't care if people in my audience can't understand Italian, Luigi Campanella is not to be denied airplay! Wilford Cutlery posted:Email addresses. There was once a member of the Canadian parliament with the name Reg Alcock. He wanted to register himself a website and wanted regalcock.ca. CIRA called his office and suggested reg-alcock.ca instead for much the same reason.
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Oct 30, 2015 19:16
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Haquer posted:And no, he wants time/temp/letters stated after every song, so worse than an automated station. It's given out plenty during normal operation. ...he's been there for 20+ years, hasn't he?
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Oct 30, 2015 19:25
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Antifreeze Head posted:There was once a member of the Canadian parliament with the name Reg Alcock. He wanted to register himself a website and wanted regalcock.ca. CIRA called his office and suggested reg-alcock.ca instead for much the same reason. I know someone who worked at a small outfit where username format for the workorder system was %firstInitial%%first3lettersOfLastName% Her name is Tanya Watson.
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Oct 30, 2015 19:32
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Poor Sherry Lutz. We just straight refuse her pleas to change her username from the First Initial Last Name standard.
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Oct 30, 2015 21:17
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Antioch posted:Poor Sherry Lutz. We just straight refuse her pleas to change her username from the First Initial Last Name standard. We actually gave in and granted the wish of pedo@ourhospital to get a new ident. He's a pediatrician because of course he is. 
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Oct 30, 2015 21:45
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Not business related, but I have an unfortunate email story. Every year we accompany my mother in law to her childhood church for a homecoming service of sorts. It's a really small church that only meets once a month when a traveling preacher comes through. His last name is Raper. The programs have his email address on them: raper_priest@xxx.com.
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Oct 30, 2015 21:56
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larchesdanrew posted:Not business related, but I have an unfortunate email story. So do people call him "Father Raper"?
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Oct 30, 2015 21:59
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pixaal posted:So do people call him "Father Raper"? Brother Raper, actually.
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Oct 30, 2015 22:00
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..and you Yanks say we're weird for naming our kids after animals and gods.
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Oct 30, 2015 22:12
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Crowley posted:..and you Yanks say we're weird for naming our kids after animals and gods. Yeah, I'm scandinavian too and my two kids have perfectly ordinary names. Their names literally mean 'elven warrior/warrior goddess' and 'falcon'. Perfectly ordinary I tell you. 
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Oct 30, 2015 22:24
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larchesdanrew posted:Not business related, but I have an unfortunate email story. I don't think the real problem there is really the email address formatting.
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Oct 30, 2015 22:26
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Caconym posted:Perfectly ordinary I tell you. I know right? We have two kids too. One named after one of the gods, and one named after one of the twelve titans. No weirdo names there. Edit: I guess the last one is kinda Greek, but still..
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Oct 30, 2015 22:27
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Doctor Bombadil posted:A fire came in: Hmm, this is like the fourth or fifth time I've seen this happen in this thread. Maybe I should yank the one I put in my home computer out of there...
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Oct 30, 2015 22:27
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larchesdanrew posted:Brother Raper, actually. Better than Child Raper I suppose.
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Oct 31, 2015 00:56
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vibur posted:I don't see this person's tenure lasting very long but, since this is an IT thread... He's the GM and also owns the broadcasting company! So until he dies he won't leave! Yes I'm job hunting.
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Oct 31, 2015 01:29
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This thread will be a sadder place the day larches gets a better job at a better place with a better boss.
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Oct 31, 2015 02:25
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Potato Salad posted:This thread will be a sadder place the day larches gets a better job at a better place with a better boss. Another hero will come forth. They always do.
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Oct 31, 2015 02:51
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I spent 2 hours today loving with the company we're taking over and I have them in better shape than they've ever been in their 5 years of existence. So many unnecessary server roles, bad srv entries in DNS, and motherfucking rdp from the internet allowed to their exchange server. How they haven't had a catastrophic outage or security incident is beyond me.
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Oct 31, 2015 02:58
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AlphaKretin posted:Four letter word at least means "poo poo" and "gently caress", not "word" or "four", right? Right? Only MAD APE DEN songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZdzGAp3u4Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3S_ecPZI0g Dragyn posted:Another hero will come forth. They always do. There are always two, master and apprentice. Mo_Steel fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Oct 31, 2015 |
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Oct 31, 2015 15:52
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devmd01 posted:motherfucking rdp from the internet allowed to their exchange server. But they would have to guess our IP, Username and Password. It's very very secure.
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Oct 31, 2015 21:51
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Alighieri posted:But they would have to guess our IP, Username and Password. It's very very secure. 26.54.235.215 username Administrator, password blank.
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Nov 1, 2015 00:29
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:26.54.235.215 username Administrator, password blank. My company had a domain admin account with the password that we set all new accounts to. I found this out after the network administrator pitched a fit about giving my team domain admin, and actually revoked it from the people who already had it.
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Nov 1, 2015 02:48
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Frobbe posted:It isnt, which is why you add remedyforce to your salesforce. Smoke you for even an utterance of the heathen words.
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Nov 1, 2015 15:29
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Ticket came in at 6:30 this morning. Printer wasn't printing. AS400bro cleared the queue for me and all was well. Same user calls in 4 hours later for the same printer, because it's making too much noise. I'm considering just punting the ticket to tomorrow. I figure if they're able to print, then it's not an emergency that requires me to stop playing Falcon BMS to go drive in and fix. I always resolve every ticket on the weekend but this is kind of not worth it. I might just call the user and feed them a line about complete printer repair being handled by another firm (and it kind of is) and that it would have to wait till Monday, but I feel like there's no way to tell them this without seeming like I'm trying to duck the ticket.
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Nov 1, 2015 19:20
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What sort of cover are you meant to provide over the weekend? "Printer is noisy but works fine" doesn't seem like anything more urgent than "when you get around to it".
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Nov 1, 2015 19:29
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Thanks Ants posted:What sort of cover are you meant to provide over the weekend? "Printer is noisy but works fine" doesn't seem like anything more urgent than "when you get around to it". I'm going to get clarification on that tomorrow since I'm curious. I think the on-call should only go in if work is affected and no workaround is available, and I think that is the policy, but you never know. I'm sure if this user was the sort to complain, the policy would be thrown out the window and I would get in trouble.
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So we were all set to get a vBlock for storage at my church gig, had the signed documents in hand and everything. Suddenly, the head priest receives a "vision" and starts convulsing and talking in tongues in the signoff meeting. The EMC guys looked horrified, but my boss and I just shrugged as this wasn't anything we hadn't seen before. "Sorry Gentlemen, but the Lord our God has other plans for our storage. We won't be requiring your services. Peace be with you." I don't think I've ever seen a vendor so grateful to lose a potential client.
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