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larchesdanrew posted:OK, one, it was the velcro that came package with the device, so excuse me all to hell and back for assuming it would be adequate. And two, the velcro holds just fine, but when you leave the device running 24/7 it gets hotter than poo poo and melts the glue holding the velcro strip in place. Send him a quote for a contractor to install an industrial grade shelf rated for 200 lbs. Then offer to relocate the device to a nearby table or stand and use a longer cable. You'll be a cost-saving hero
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:This is a pretty common sign that your superiors have nothing better to do than snipe about petty poo poo. I got written up once for being too negative. This was after the project we had been working on for the past 5 years was being canned because one person who had too much say in the company after the old CEO left didn't feel it met her requirements well enough...which may have been true because she had spent the past 5 years obstructing the project in every way she could and flat out refusing to work with us on anything. Oh, and we were supposed to continue developing the application until a third party app(that wasn't going to fulfill all that person's requirements because they were impossible to fulfill) could be found and implemented to replace our custom built one.
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Feb 16, 2016 21:18
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:Negative. We have a weird culture at the main job; we're REALLY into the superficial "happy at work" thing. GALLUP polls and are incredibly important to our organization to a psychotic degree.
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Feb 16, 2016 21:26
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:Negative. We have a weird culture at the main job; we're REALLY into the superficial "happy at work" thing. GALLUP polls and are incredibly important to our organization to a psychotic degree. I worked for a casino once and they got pretty uppity when they thought people weren't smiling enough. Which is understandable for a business like that, which is pretty much entirely presentation, but maybe the general manager sending out a company-wide email warning us he'd be "on the hunt" for people who weren't smiling wasn't the best way to motivate. Maybe paying a decent wage and not oppressing the poo poo out of your employees might have had better results. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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larchesdanrew posted:The thing that I find amusing is that when I was hired, we had a long sit down about how he's not one to micromanage and I'll get to run my department the way I want to run it so long as the work gets done and I keep him updated on big projects. That was absolutely a red flag and I remember thinking "yeah, right, let's see how long that lasts." There's no surer sign of a micromanager than the "I'm not a micromanager" conversation.
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:Church Stuff: Haha, so now my direct superior is getting involved. He wants to have a meeting on Saturday (a day I don't work) regarding me coming in on Sunday (a day I don't work) to watch over Frankincense and Myrrh dude while he flails his smoke around in the server room. Says it's silly for me to be spending my time on this when there are better things to be doing. Given the scheduling I think he's missing the point entirely.
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:the charred circle in the middle of the hallway near my office That guy's thurible game is weak if he's burning stuff. I can hand a thurible off to a 10 year and only really be worried about him setting his brother on fire (intentionally). Wrath of the Bitch King posted:Despite being an odd thing to do, especially since from what I understand the whole incense thing is more of a Catholic practice, it continues. Yeah, incense is more a thing for "high church" denominations (Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, some Lutheran) and even there it's not ubiquitous as it once was. Maybe he saw it in the Exorcist or something and thought "that looks cool".
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Che Delilas posted:I worked for a casino once and they got pretty uppity when they thought people weren't smiling enough. Which is understandable for a business like that, which is pretty much entirely presentation, but maybe the general manager sending out a company-wide email warning us he'd be "on the hunt" for people who weren't smiling wasn't the best way to motivate. Maybe paying a decent wage and not oppressing the poo poo out of your employees might have had better results. That sounds a lot like the casino I used to work at.
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docbeard posted:There's no surer sign of a micromanager than the "I'm not a micromanager" conversation. I've been fortunate in my last two jobs with my direct managers. I did have a manager once who was shiny and new to management and was starting down the road. My co-workers and I just buried him in details until he got the point. That strategy rarely works, though. I've had other managers who were more than willing to ask for reams of emails and still come over for a verbal update on what I just sent him. Or drag out 1 hour team status meetings to 2 or 3 hours.
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Why is someone with the title "Lead IT Solutions Delivery Architect" calling into the level 1 helpdesk asking for help connecting his iPhone to VPN? We don't even allow VPN for mobile devices.
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KillHour posted:Why is someone with the title "Lead IT Solutions Delivery Architect" calling into the level 1 helpdesk asking for help connecting his iPhone to VPN? We don't even allow VPN for mobile devices. Maybe that title is just a fancy way of saying that he drives a delivery truck?
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Feb 16, 2016 23:13
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:Haha, so now my direct superior is getting involved. He wants to have a meeting on Saturday (a day I don't work) regarding me coming in on Sunday (a day I don't work) to watch over Frankincense and Myrrh dude while he flails his smoke around in the server room. Says it's silly for me to be spending my time on this when there are better things to be doing. Given the scheduling I think he's missing the point entirely. Just make sure the smoke detectors are turned off beforehand. Please?
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captkirk posted:That guy's thurible game is weak if he's burning stuff. I can hand a thurible off to a 10 year and only really be worried about him setting his brother on fire (intentionally). I used to Altar serve at my church growing up, and I'm not sure what was in the incense they used, but it would throw me for a loving loop. No one else I talked to at the church was affected but I'd get light headed, have trouble standing straight, and start hallucinating.
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Kurieg posted:I used to Altar serve at my church growing up, and I'm not sure what was in the incense they used, but it would throw me for a loving loop. No one else I talked to at the church was affected but I'd get light headed, have trouble standing straight, and start hallucinating. They were using the good poo poo
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Segmentation Fault posted:Random question, are you a woman? I'm a guy and I'm constantly told that I should smile more. Oddly enough, it's usually women that tell me this.
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Kurieg posted:I used to Altar serve at my church growing up, and I'm not sure what was in the incense they used, but it would throw me for a loving loop. No one else I talked to at the church was affected but I'd get light headed, have trouble standing straight, and start hallucinating. Same minus the hallucinations. Nobody came in to the office today! Granted we're getting 50cm/20 inches of snow in the course of 12 hours, but still!
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Kurieg posted:I used to Altar serve at my church growing up, and I'm not sure what was in the incense they used, but it would throw me for a loving loop. No one else I talked to at the church was affected but I'd get light headed, have trouble standing straight, and start hallucinating. Easy Answer: The Power of Lowtax compels you.
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:
I'll prefix this by saying Church isn't really a big thing in my country and I've only ever been once or twice for friends baptisms/other occasions. This is pretty wackadoo stuff as far as religions go isn't it? Like this isn't exactly standard is it?
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frogbert posted:I'll prefix this by saying Church isn't really a big thing in my country and I've only ever been once or twice for friends baptisms/other occasions. Sounds pretty normal for a more conservative church. The speaking in tongues thing makes me think evangelical, but the blessing with incense makes me think Lutheran, maybe?
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frogbert posted:I'll prefix this by saying Church isn't really a big thing in my country and I've only ever been once or twice for friends baptisms/other occasions. I'm pretty sure it's just where I work. Either that or behind the scenes a lot of churches are just hosed up. Here's a story: The church I work for is very into pageants and theatrical stuff. They'll have plays with the thematic subtlety of a sledgehammer, usually centering around or at least alluding to going to hell. Personally I find some of the stuff they put out there fairly objectionable but I won't derail the thread with that kind of a powder-keg. Just to preface, I'm not going to inject my personal opinion of the subject matter into any of what follows, i'm merely presenting what happened. The gist of the play they want to put on is thus: There's a young, attractive woman riding in a cab. The devil (literally) decides to hop in shotgun next to the cab driver and "orders" him to force himself on the girl. The girl is horrified, the terrible act happens, and the cab driver somehow gets away scott free after doing the Devil's work. As if it wasn't horrible enough the woman gets pregnant and has recurring nightmares about fire and brimstone whenever she seriously thinks about abortion, so she's effectively guilted into having the kid. She has the kid, gives it up for adoption, and life continues but she can't live with the guilt of abandoning her child. She gets into drugs and ODs, which counts as suicide, which means she goes to hell. The intent is to show this on a Sunday afternoon to a mixed age audience. So the powers that be approach me and my boss about something they want to do: they want to set the lady playing the poor woman mentioned above on fire as part of the show. Instantly the word NO launches itself from my face before the conversation really begins in earnest, but that just means I'm ignored from that point on and it's a conversation between my boss and the pastor. To this day I'm thankful for how level-headed my boss is; there have been a number of times where I've nearly lost it over stupid bullshit at this place, and setting a lady on fire as part of an act definitely ranks up there. Like most people in this place, the "actress" is a volunteer. They're talking about this while I'm red-faced and fuming and the Head Pastor is very animatedly pontificating on kevlar and fireproof dresses and such. Clearly not anyone I want messing with pyrotechnics. My boss is completely on my side and is having almost as hard a time as I am keeping it together, but he's a veteran. He's been in this crazy trench waaaaaaay longer than I have, so he knows how to speak the lingo. My boss pretends to do the speaking in tongues bit and walks off, waving back at me and the pastor saying he'll need to think on it. A minute later my phone starts to buzz and I know that's my cue to head back to the office with him. I get back there and I unload. They HAD to hear me screaming, they just had to, but to this day I've never heard a single word about any of it. My boss looks at me and tells me, "Look, they're going to go ahead with whatever stupidity it is they're planning. The best we can hope to do is minimize the impact. Once <pastor name> gets an idea in his head he's going to run with it no matter how negligent it is." We talk for a while longer and get into a creative groove. I had the idea, but he put the finishing touches on it: instead of setting the girl on fire we'd use her high heels as a form of symbolism. It'd be easy enough to rig something together that would set them on fire with a switch of some kind, and we had the time to plan it so it wasn't a rush job. We ordered one of those fire starter kits that magicians use and had our plan of attack in order. The next day he presents the idea and the pastor loves it, but he wants a practical demonstration. We don't have any high heels and the pair being used for the show are the only ones they have, so we're charged with buying a pair ourselves so we can demonstrate. The pastor is a huge rear end in a top hat with regards to scheduling and making himself available for questions/concerns, so we know he'll only be around for maybe an hour before he vanishes into the darkness for a week. We break off from the pastor and make the quickest dash for PayLess shoes that a human has ever made, returning with these red sequined abominations. They're perfect. It takes ten minutes or so to get everything prepped, but we get it done. The presentation goes off without a hitch and the ugly shoes are burning on stage on top of an industrial rubber mat. It's a slow burn too, which I thought was a nice touch if you're going for subtlety in how you present the theme (slow encroachment of sin, damnation is a gradual burn, that kind of thing). The head pastor sort of grunts at us and tells us it's good enough, but I can tell he's not super thrilled. Dude really wanted to set this poor lady on fire, I guess. We never got comped for the shoes OR the remote starter, either. I'm not a member of the church, so I didn't see the production. I just work there. My boss though, he saw it, and the next time I saw him was a few hours after the show and he was obviously stricken. Something was wrong. "Yo dude, you alright? You look pale as hell." He tells me that the higher-ups didn't think the shoes burning was obvious enough. The fire was too small, not evocative enough. So they doused the shoes in kerosene and set everything up the same way we had it otherwise. "Bitch King, walk out to the stage with me. It's easier to just show you." We walk out and the left half of the stage is charred black. I'll never forget the sight of it: the piano they keep on stage had collapsed when one of the legs burned through, the electronics and lighting were all disabled since the damage was so extensive, and apparently they had a tough time getting the fire otu at all because all the fire extinguishers were expired and barely worked. Apparently, mid-fire, someone ran out to Wal-Mart and bought two of the cheap ones while the rest of the church battled the flames on the stage with faulty equipment. Thankfully nobody got hurt, but sitting there right in the middle of the stage were a pair of high heels, completely unblemished and untouched by the fire. Mocking the absurdity of it all. I'm told it burned for twenty minutes straight while people sat around waiting for Wal-Mart guy to get back, just doing their best to contain it somehow with the power of good intentions. To this day I don't know what they did to gently caress up so badly, but I took it as a sign that maybe there is a dude up there punishing us for our stupidity. Just maybe. Needless to say there was a prayer drive the following week and the damages ended up repaired rather quickly. I'm still just thankful they didn't try to set some poor lady on fire. And to this day they still haven't updated all the fire extinguishers, just the ones around the stage.
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Surely even churches must adhere to the fire code.
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stubblyhead posted:Surely even churches must adhere to the fire code. Only if someone comes in and yells at them. I don't know what the codes and penalties are for that sort of stuff with regards to charitable organizations, but I've seen this place get away with some crazy things. Fun fact: the fire department wasn't notified or called because the head pastor was under the impression that there would be a surcharge. Also, none of the smoke alarms worked at the time. There's an automated suppression system, but it didn't kick off because none of the sensors are anywhere near the stage. It's all setup terribly without any sense of order. The place also likes to not pay bills, so there was a period of time where the security system just "didn't work" because no one paid the company that monitors it. SeaborneClink posted:So uh.. you still work there huh? Of course. Can you say the following sentence and have it be accurate? "If I wasn't working here a lady would've self-immolated on-stage." Because I can! Wrath of the Bitch King fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Feb 17, 2016 |
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:I'm pretty sure it's just where I work. Either that or behind the scenes a lot of churches are just hosed up. Do they try to embellish baptisms with sharks?
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Every time I start to think maybe my opinion on religious nutcases is a bit unfair, I'm going to go back up and re-read that post. What the loving gently caress.
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:Of course. Can you say the following sentence and have it be accurate? Hold on, wait, the lady was okay with being set on fire? 
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A ticket came in: The lady was okay with being set on fire?
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Yikes, these guys are having a worse day than you: http://www.wired.com/2016/02/hack-brief-hackers-are-holding-an-la-hospitals-computers-hostage/ They can't possibly agree to pay that, right?
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Of course, God would protect her unless she turned out to be a wicked harlot.
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RE: A Ticket Came In: If I didn't work here a lady would've self-immolated
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On Fridays they have an event where the church goers lay on the floor while a member of the staff places heavy stone slabs on top of them. Whoever can take the most weight is without sin and can keep their land.
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:On Fridays they have an event where the church goers lay on the floor while a member of the staff places heavy stone slabs on top of them. Whoever can take the most weight is without sin and can keep their land. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDrCHiwpT4M
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The Nards Pan posted:Yikes, these guys are having a worse day than you: Why am I not surprised that the hospital doesn't have adequate backups of critical systems and an imaging process to recover network functionality in the event of a disaster?
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The Nards Pan posted:Yikes, these guys are having a worse day than you: You'd think there'd be offsite backups to negate this kind of thing. quote:While the hospital’s spokesperson was unavailable to comment, HPMC president and CEO Allen Stefanek told KNBC that it was “clearly not a malicious attack; it was just a random attack.” It’s not clear what he means, though; a hospital in a wealthy neighborhood seems unlikely to be a random target, especially for such a large sum. This sounds like someone managed to get the entire network crypto'd instead of a handful of machines and the hackers worked out what kind of prize they'd bagged by pure chance. Assuming the CEO's not telling massive lies, of course.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:You'd think there'd be offsite backups to negate this kind of thing.
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