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flosofl posted:I remember being that optimistic. We were all that optimistic once upon a time. He's green, but smart.
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Bob Morales posted:At one of my first IT jobs when I was like 19 or 20 they were dumb enough to let me run the "Jell-O shot hole" at a golf outing, I accidentally drove off in a golf cart that belonged to some McDonald's execs, realized I didn't have clubs and drove it in reverse all the way back. I was so wasted I slept in the parking lot. Did they offer you a job in sales?
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The company buys beers once a month on Wednesday afternoon. There is no requirement to go but its free pizza and beer. Also lunch that day is provided. You should not have work events taking up Friday nights even if it really isn't a work event.
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May 17, 2016 04:54
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Sending IT Instructions and/or Screenshots in a Word Document through email. It's already formatted in HTML put your damned instructions in that!
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xzzy posted:Then the 2000's hit and it was all "YOUR TAX DOLLARS BUYING BOOZE TO GET CONTRACTORS DRUNK!!!!" and it came to an abrupt halt. Now having the faintest scent of alcohol during business hours is enough to get someone terminated instantly. This is totally gimp and I hate it, some time ago we hosted a marketing event where there were glasses of prosecco and bucks fizz. We were allowed to pop along if we had time, but our HR manager sent a message just after telling everyone that consuming alcohol on the premises is forbidden. Like holy poo poo it's just a glass of bucky.
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Ynglaur posted:Did they offer you a job in sales? 
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Business case finished. Sent to manager and ops director. Let's see what happens. If anything. In the meantime, angling for an interview with a company that would allegedly allow me to sort my own poo poo out and not micromanage me. Hah. Yeah. It's our lot to be constantly YOTJing nomads, isn't it? Oh look. Time for a walk around the park 
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RFC2324 posted:They.. they sell beer at your work? To employees? During working hours? We had a stocked liquor cabinet and the fridge always had beer in it at my old gig. On more than one occasion I'd watch my boss on a stressful call go, "Hang on, <client>." He'd then walk to the fridge at a leisurely pace, grab a beer, open beer, sip beer, then walk back to his desk. He'd sit down, take a few more sips, then go "Ok, what were you saying?"
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Running into a leadership problem. So we have a couple hosts with a bad hard drive, each of these hosts have an Exchange VM running on them. The way the system is configured the Exchange VMs stay with the host. Due to several bad experiences with hosts crashing when hot-swapping hard drives the procedure is to now shut down the host, swap the hard drive, power the host on, wait for it to come back up, then in UCS acknowledge the host (which then reboots it). The only time when there is allowable downtime with Exchange is on Monday and Tuesday nights from 8pm until Midnight. So anyways, the problem is that I told the other Virtualization admin that he gets to come in tonight to watch over the process for the 20 minutes it takes to do this. My reasoning was that since he's the one on-call this week he just drew the short straw. However, in retrospect, I realize that he has something of a drive to get to work, whereas I live 10 minutes away. I was thinking about this last night and it just seemed kind of lovely for me to make him drive an hour each way for a 20 minutes operation. But at the same time, I don't want everyone to have the expectation that because I live the closest that it's okay to call me every time there's an issue or expect that I'll take care of it if there's a quick task that needs performed, whether I'm on-call or not. I've already had that happen a couple times when my co-worker, who was on-call that week, conveniently didn't answer his phone. At the same time, I've often heard the adage that you "never give a task you wouldn't perform yourself." My biggest concern is sounding like an rear end in a top hat while at the same time looking like I'm floundering at decision-making. Of course, the problem is that I'm more used to going to my supervisor with a plan of action, rather than having people come to me asking for what actions to take.
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Daylen Drazzi posted:Running into a leadership problem. So we have a couple hosts with a bad hard drive, each of these hosts have an Exchange VM running on them. The way the system is configured the Exchange VMs stay with the host. Due to several bad experiences with hosts crashing when hot-swapping hard drives the procedure is to now shut down the host, swap the hard drive, power the host on, wait for it to come back up, then in UCS acknowledge the host (which then reboots it). The only time when there is allowable downtime with Exchange is on Monday and Tuesday nights from 8pm until Midnight. Have him stay late and give him comp time, is that not acceptable? It's tonight so moving it to a 1p-9p wont work, but have him work a half day tomorrow or something. I mean I guess you could call it an extra 5pm-8:30pm if you want to not round up for pulling a 12 hour shift. With the drive he might as well just stay there the entire time, I have an hour commute and know I would (actually far more likely to just go to a bar for 3 hours, seriously what am I going to do with an hour at home that's just lovely). It is on him for living that far away, he took the job and chose where he lives. It sucks but he needs to find something to do, just know if you don't tell him to stay on site and do busy work and comp it he's very likely to just go get drunk.
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Don't martyr yourself for your colleagues. They live and work where they do by their own choosing, so it's on them to make that commute when it's their turn to be in the barrel. Otherwise you'll end up being the guy who has to drive in to the office during a blizzard to watch computer monitors and take calls, alone, for 14 hours.
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May 17, 2016 14:07
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Should just compensate it from the time he leaves home till he gets back home. Pretty sure that's how it was done at the hospital I worked at. Then again, do you guys even have basic on call rates + overtime for when something actually happens?
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May 17, 2016 14:14
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It's pretty typical that any on-call work has a minimum compensation. Last time I had a job with on-call it was 3 hours. Even if it only took me 5 minutes to fire up the VPN and reboot a server I got paid for 3 hours of work plus overtime. Then again we've seen plenty of employers mentioned in this thread with no concept of fair compensation.
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May 17, 2016 14:24
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Manslaughter posted:Hello coworker I also love it when people use ellipsis as punctuation...
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May 17, 2016 14:47
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nitrogen posted:I also love it when people use ellipsis as punctuation... I have someone that sends in help desk tickets that mostly look like: quote:Hi Orcs....... I'm having some trouble again......... My Smartboard...... Mostly doesn't connect anymore....... Thanks for the help...
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May 17, 2016 15:45
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nitrogen posted:I also love it when people use ellipsis as punctuation... A guy I work with compromises on the decision between periods and ellipsis by using two periods. "ok.." is a pretty common response of his. I have no idea what it's supposed to mean.
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May 17, 2016 16:12
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I would read "OK..." as "OK if you want to do it that way. I think you're wrong but don't want to say that." Probably reading too much into it though.
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May 17, 2016 16:15
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Thanks Ants posted:I would read "OK..." as "OK if you want to do it that way. I think you're wrong but don't want to say that." But it's only two periods, so it's not even an ellipsis. Plus he'll say it to statements that you can't really contest. "Hey, I've got triage queue now." "Ok.."
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May 17, 2016 16:21
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:I have someone that sends in help desk tickets that mostly look like: A guy I used to work with did that, except with commas instead of periods.
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May 17, 2016 16:28
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Or, on outlook where outlook will replace ... with … (a UTF8 elpisis that just takes up one character space...) Or even worse….. different ….... combinations of .. … ... periods and elpisises...
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May 17, 2016 16:40
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nitrogen posted:Or, on outlook where outlook will replace ... with … (a UTF8 elpisis that just takes up one character space...) Whoever does that needs to be shot into the sun.
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May 17, 2016 16:43
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Listen.., You guys, You just need. to. chill out,......... o k a y . ?
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nitrogen posted:Or, on outlook where outlook will replace ... with … (a UTF8 elpisis that just takes up one character space...) The kind of punctuation where you know how long they sat at a keyboard, pausing in thought and tapping period until the next sentence formed.
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May 17, 2016 16:49
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nitrogen posted:Or, on outlook where outlook will replace ... with … (a UTF8 elpisis that just takes up one character space...) I think that's SOS. It's a cry for help.
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totalnewbie posted:Listen.., I hate when people on IRC do this and floods my terminal window
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Bob Morales posted:"Don't party with your XYZ Corp shirt on" is basically our CEO's motto. Which of course isn't a bad thing. This happened over here. Wasn't a company outing, but a lot of the people on that trip were from that company. Doesn't look too good. http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/articles/breckenridge-man-accused-of-igniting-fire-on-dog-i
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nitrogen posted:Or, on outlook where outlook will replace ... with … (a UTF8 elpisis that just takes up one character space...) Outlook also changes :) to the webdings symbol for a smiley face, which corresponds to a capital J in any other font. That's why smileys on an iphone will show as J e: oh look our forums converts the smiley as well haha *disables smileys*
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Oh you folks and your comp time and overtime. I'm paid to do a job, so they don't need to give me comp time/overtime (I'm salary exempt, and yes, I'm 95% sure I fall within the exempt status), because if it takes me 18 hours to do my job, I should be back in the office the next day for my usual 8. At least that's how my boss put it. I was tempted to ask, if I finish my job in 4 hours can I just leave? But that's a dumb question because there's always more work to do, so 8 hours a day it is, no more, no less (usually..)
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MF_James posted:Oh you folks and your comp time and overtime. You are responsible for what you let your employer get away with.
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Sickening posted:You are responsible for what you let your employer get away with. Sickening posted:You are responsible for what you let your employer get away with. Multiquoting for truth. I was talking with a dev earlier that just doesn't seem to understand how email and reality work.  "Why didn't you email me about ${maintenance}?" "I did, actually. I sent a message to ${DISTRO} that you are a member of." "I have rules that would have deleted it if it was sent to that distro, it gets spammed too much." According to this procedure, if we do anything on ${application} we are to email ${DISTRO} and let them know. If this procedure is not sufficient, can you please send a request to our documentation coordinator so we can get the docs updated?" "Nah, that procedure is right, that's who you should notify."[multiple different types of ellipses here]
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poo poo pissing me off Having to constantly switch out CD's from drives because the specialist software we use checks the CD is in the drive as a form of copy protection. Is there any way to automatically mount ISO's automatically on start up in windows 7 and 10? I know 10 can mount them with a right click but I need it to be more transparent to the users
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You could probably write a batch script that fires during logon, or something in powershell depending on what you have access to. If a logon script type thing is not OK, you could write the script, put it on their desktop and tell them to double-click that every morning.
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Foxtrot_13 posted:poo poo pissing me off Can you dig up daemon tools or whatever the kids use these days to emulate a CDROM
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Thanks Ants posted:I would read "OK..." as "OK if you want to do it that way. I think you're wrong but don't want to say that." No it's clearly structured: OK. = got it, on it, I'll let you know if I have problems/questions OK.. = I have no clue how to do that and *might* ask OK... = that's a stupid thing to do but welp, I'll try it Any more than 3 automatically goes into the "lazy and/or inept" bucket because it's usually some paranoid idiot with too many goddamn questions (who won't believe or listen to you), or someone so computer illiterate that their brain locks up and they just keep pressing period until someone slaps them.
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Foxtrot_13 posted:poo poo pissing me off You could use WinCDEmu to mount the ISO and keep the drive after a restart; http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/tutorials/persist/ I kinda prefer using that to Daemon tools.
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We used to be OK with drinks at work at holiday times, xmas parties, summer fridays, that sort of thing. Then we got a recovering alcoholic CEO who put the boots down on any drinking on company time or dime. I mean, I get it, I wouldn't want to be around that if I was trying to not drink, but there's like, 500 of us in the head office. *You* avoid it, let the rest of us have beers ya grump. We just got permission last year to allow food trucks in the parking lot. Once a month, no more.
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pixaal posted:Have him stay late and give him comp time, is that not acceptable? It's tonight so moving it to a 1p-9p wont work, but have him work a half day tomorrow or something. I mean I guess you could call it an extra 5pm-8:30pm if you want to not round up for pulling a 12 hour shift. With the drive he might as well just stay there the entire time, I have an hour commute and know I would (actually far more likely to just go to a bar for 3 hours, seriously what am I going to do with an hour at home that's just lovely). It turns out the other Virtualization admin only lives 20 minutes away, so I don't feel quite so bad now. Also, he decided to leave early and come back in and planned for a 2-hour block. I told him that was insane and had him drop it to 1 hour. I'm hoping it will actually take 10 minutes. Also, our team lead is out for the rest of the week after finding out his roof is shot to hell and needs complete replacement. He was only planning on being out yesterday and maybe today. When the project manager came to tell me I was in charge I looked at the techs and in a high-pitched squeaky voice said, "We're doomed!" The PM just sighed like some long-suffering parent and smiled while shaking his head. Apparently I am good for morale boosting and have moments when I am pretty drat funny.
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Daylen Drazzi posted:It turns out the other Virtualization admin only lives 20 minutes away, so I don't feel quite so bad now. Also, he decided to leave early and come back in and planned for a 2-hour block. I told him that was insane and had him drop it to 1 hour. I'm hoping it will actually take 10 minutes. Also, our team lead is out for the rest of the week after finding out his roof is shot to hell and needs complete replacement. He was only planning on being out yesterday and maybe today. When the project manager came to tell me I was in charge I looked at the techs and in a high-pitched squeaky voice said, "We're doomed!" Game over man, game over.
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nitrogen posted:Multiquoting for truth. I think he understands how it works perfectly well. He's telling you he plans on ignoring ${application}.
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Thanks Ants posted:At a guess it was https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=44989 A few pages ago but yes, thank you. I was on mobile but for some reason it screwed up copy/paste
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