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Arsten posted:Doctors? Every sales person, administrative assistant above the plebeian level, and manager have all wanted that. This happened 9 years ago and I don't think I've gone more than 3 months without thinking of it since. Traumatized me.
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Cenodoxus posted:Printing in healthcare IT is a mixed bag. Some of it is out of necessity and some is just mind-bogglingly wasteful. How about having a department print result reports from a local RIS system, scanning them into another EHR, then faxing out of that EHR to a PCP who is receiving the fax and rescanning the document to import into their EHR. You, being the FOIP guy, get a call from the PCP liaisons, that the reports are completely illegible and it's going to affect patient referrals.  Most of the systems involved will interface over HL7....but no one wants to spend the money or time to do so. That's my battle for Monday.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I always find the worst to be the assistant of a powerful person. The CEO's secretary, the VP's assistant, that kind of thing. What really stands out is when I was in the military - a Senior Airman (this is roughly a 21 year old high school graduate) who worked for a Colonel (a middle aged person with a masters degree), would often confuse themselves for the Colonel. I am still both traumatized and amused by the Senior Airman who told me that if I didn't finish an outprocessing sheet which was proving impossible to complete (because so many people were deployed I couldn't even find people for certain tasks), that they wouldn't clear me to discharge and leave the military. Yeah, I'm not sure that's a power we delegate to 21 year olds, I'm peace-ing out in a week whether this thing is done or not. You should get a DD214 blanket 
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I always find the worst to be the assistant of a powerful person. The CEO's secretary, the VP's assistant, that kind of thing. What really stands out is when I was in the military - a Senior Airman (this is roughly a 21 year old high school graduate) who worked for a Colonel (a middle aged person with a masters degree), would often confuse themselves for the Colonel. I am still both traumatized and amused by the Senior Airman who told me that if I didn't finish an outprocessing sheet which was proving impossible to complete (because so many people were deployed I couldn't even find people for certain tasks), that they wouldn't clear me to discharge and leave the military. Yeah, I'm not sure that's a power we delegate to 21 year olds, I'm peace-ing out in a week whether this thing is done or not. While those people are bad, i respectfully disagree. The worst are those that are insecure in any position. They constantly harass you for any reason that they can find. One person I briefly worked with was a financial analyst brought on for some extremely large project because it was running wayyyyy over budget. The position was advertised as permanent (For some reason) but after that project the company had literally nothing for them to do. They started reviewing all projects in every department trying to justify their existence. And, of course, making crazy demands to prove that they wielded power. This particular one decided to demand an office that was closer to the lunch room so that they could "oversee" lunchroom conversations. When they were told "No, that office is reserved." they went ballistic and emailed the manager list saying how that office rightfully belonged to them because "lunchroom chatter was out of control." The backstory on that office was it was a disorganized hole in the wall that the FMLA-ed Managing Partner used when he was working. But he came down with leukemia at 51 years old and was out getting chemo'd for about six months at that point. His silent partner was holding down the fort but was bad at finance (he was a retired engineer from one of the companies that worked with NASA) which is why he hired the analyst. Within an hour of sending out the email, the MP was into the office. The manager email list was setup to keep him apprised of emergency situations and he was feeling good that day (he looked terrible) so he decided to jump in and find out what was going on. He called me into his office and asked about the email (which I didn't know about as I wasn't part of the manager email list) and I explained the situation to him as I knew it: She was a busy body being annoying to staff who were bullshitting around the coffee pot. As far as my guys were concerned, they were completing their tasks. He called the analyst into his office and the analyst walked out two hours later as white as a sheet and packed up their things and left. The next day, the silent partner sent out the email saying the analyst was no longer with the company. To this day I still wonder what he told that analyst.
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Alchenar posted:It's knowing that if you suggest Friday after-work drinks as a team-bonding event then the Muslim co-worker is going to feel incredibly excluded. Muslims, Mormons, other devout Christians, pregnant women, alcoholics, and people on diets. Always have non-alcoholic options!
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skooma512 posted:You should get a DD214 blanket
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Muslims, Mormons, other devout Christians, pregnant women, alcoholics, and people on diets. Always have non-alcoholic options! https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/alcohol-and-inclusivity-planning-tech-events-with-non-alcoholic-options The bottom line is that your non-alcoholic options should not consist of Coke and Diet Coke.
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Also, if you plan a happy hour, do it at a place that serves free chips and salsa or cheap appetizers. Don't plan it at larry's pub that has a menu of booze and pretzels.
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What's the general thread's success with applying for positions that show Degree Required? Granted, I'm in a comfortable spot right now without a degree but if things were to change the future seems a little... 
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Tab8715 posted:What's the general thread's success with applying for positions that show Degree Required? Granted, I'm in a comfortable spot right now without a degree but if things were to change the future seems a little... Never don't apply. The degree "requirement" is just one more thing on an employer's wish list. No one matches 100% of the requirements. Granted, degrees are unique because some firms might autoreject based on that, but you lose nothing but the time it took to submit.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Never don't apply. The degree "requirement" is just one more thing on an employer's wish list. No one matches 100% of the requirements. Granted, degrees are unique because some firms might autoreject based on that, but you lose nothing but the time it took to submit. I'm also of the belief of apply as you've got nothing to lose but I'm more interested is the actual success rate.
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Tab8715 posted:I'm also of the belief of apply as you've got nothing to lose but I'm more interested is the actual success rate. Ah. Well I can't speak from experience then. I'd guess rather less than not meeting, say, X years of experience with Y, but maybe someone's gotten over that HR wall here.
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Tab8715 posted:I'm also of the belief of apply as you've got nothing to lose but I'm more interested is the actual success rate. 
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Tab8715 posted:I'm also of the belief of apply as you've got nothing to lose but I'm more interested is the actual success rate. My current gig required a PHD (which I don't have). My current manager explained that they want people with ambition and the degree requirement filters the less ambitious ones. Always apply if you want the job. Worst case is you won't get it, just as you would have if you didn't apply.
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LochNessMonster posted:My current gig required a PHD (which I don't have). My current manager explained that they want people with ambition and the degree requirement filters the less ambitious ones. Getting a PhD is one of the least ambitious things an incredibly smart person can do.
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Tab8715 posted:I'm also of the belief of apply as you've got nothing to lose but I'm more interested is the actual success rate. Last year I applied for some government jobs that required an MBA or way too many years of experience, and the HR lady rejected them immediately. But that's government.
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Alchenar posted:Getting a PhD is one of the least ambitious things an incredibly smart person can do. That's not quite what I meant. The requirements for the position are listed a lot higher than what they are looking for. People who think a lack of degree will make applying useless aren't ambitious enough and are therfor filtered out of the job applicants by themselves. Basically they list 1 degree higher than what they are looking for and if that stops people from applying, those aren't the people they're looking for. Completely agree with you on thr PhD part.
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Degree requirements are usually a really lazy and terrible way for HR to filter applicants. Outside of the rather limited scope of their degree field it means nothing yet people act like it's a goddamned RPG and magically grants +4 to intelligence and willpower.
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LochNessMonster posted:My current gig required a PHD (which I don't have). My current manager explained that they want people with ambition and the degree requirement filters the less ambitious ones.
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Vulture Culture posted:I too intentionally write job descriptions that disproportionately discourage women from applying
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Vulture Culture posted:I too intentionally write job descriptions that disproportionately discourage women from applying Well, this is the working in IT thread...
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SaltLick posted:WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CANT HAVE A PRINTER WITHIN CHAIR SWIVEL DISTANCE I HAVE TO WALK 5 FT?! If I were an enterprising individual, I would create a roaming printer robot on wheels which comes to you to deliver print jobs. It would also change it's own toner, replace it's own parts, organise it's own paper trays, tell you how awesome you're doing today, cure cancer, and harvest He3 from Jupiter.  For real though a roaming Tea making robot would be boss.
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No, you install a pneumatic tube system in the building, then have centrally placed printers that deliver jobs rolled up in tubes.
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nielsm posted:No, you install a pneumatic tube system in the building, then have centrally placed printers that deliver jobs rolled up in tubes. Then get users complaining about head trauma, if they survive, because they upped the pipe pressure and angled the tube at either their desk or themselves to get their print job ASAP.
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nielsm posted:No, you install a pneumatic tube system in the building, then have centrally placed printers that deliver jobs rolled up in tubes.
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Super Slash posted:If I were an enterprising individual, I would create a roaming printer robot on wheels which comes to you to deliver print jobs. Interns are cheaper. I recall an article where some company like Fuji-Xerox actually has built one of these but are not commercializing it. Similarly, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1D07dTILH0 MrMoo fucked around with this message at 01:32 on May 23, 2016 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Then get users complaining about head trauma, if they survive, because they upped the pipe pressure and angled the tube at either their desk or themselves to get their print job ASAP. Working as intended. 
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Colonial Air Force posted:Or just answer "My Butt" to everything. A case where Cloud to Butt makes a statement more accurate.
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whaam posted:I'm hoping to keep my role as the most knowledgable technical guy on the team, while still managing our time. Not sure how realistic that is but the technical is what makes me love this job. With their help I think its possible to both and have them handle most of the day to day while still having them investigate and discover new technologies and processes on their own. Might be a pipe dream. Maybe I've just been unlucky with bad bosses, but I'd be careful with this. At the team lead level it's desirable since you're still an individual contributor. But once you move into actual people management, this can get ugly fast. I've worked for several people who did not have the time to stay current and deeply technical (nor was it really even their job to), but acted like they did. They knew just enough to be dangerous, and would weigh in with bad decisions based on outdated or half-baked knowledge. I'm not talking about missing the newest Docker release. I mean saying poo poo in 2012 like "SANs are inherently unreliable, we can't use them to back our VMware cluster. Everything has to run on local storage. And we can just use cheap white box servers. That's what Google does."  I mean... kind of? But the impact to Google when a couple of their 50,000 servers die is a little different than one of our 4 ESXi hosts (which don't have enough spare capacity to withstand a host failure) going away. Nor can all those VM's we just lost be restarted by HA since they were all on local storage. No part of this design actually increases availability.Meanwhile, the time he spent skimming HighScalability.com or whatever meant he didn't have bandwidth to do his actual job doing things like... being a manger. So RIP critical tasks like one-on-ones. Basically, once you become a manager, focus on hiring good people you trust, and let them do their drat jobs. You don't have time to be a 10th Level Neckbeard Wizard anymore, and that's not what the company is paying you for. So knock it off. You're basically in a new career.
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First (only?) interview with the networking team here went pretty well.  Basically zero technical questions though, which was kind of weird. I guess it is somewhat entry-level for the field.
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Actual conversation two weeks ago with the owner of a smallish business (who is a friend I'm pinch-hitting for after his old IT guy died): "Can't we just get some of that sand storage?" "....Sand storage?" "Yeah, where we use lasers to store data on sand?" "No such thing is commercially available. If you give me an unlimited budget, i can probably build it for you, though." "No, it's right here..." *hands over magazine with full-page ad for Dell Storage SANs* "So, uh, where are the lasers in this ad?" "Oh, you can't see them because of the cases." "Ah.....hah. Tell you what, give me <money> dollars and I'll get you good storage, but.....you can never look at the lasers or the sand or you'll destroy it." "Oh....is it that fragile?" *** This morning's phone call with Brand New IT Guy: "Uh, hey. Why did my boss just wheel a box into my office and tell me to hook it up but to be careful not to look at the lasers or let the sand out?" "Because it stores data on sand. With lasers." ".....I'm just going to install this." "Have fun!" I still don't know where he got the idea that sand is a suitable storage medium. Or that lasers make it work, somehow..... But I kind of want it. SD cards the size of sand grains! 
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Arsten posted:Actual conversation two weeks ago with the owner of a smallish business (who is a friend I'm pinch-hitting for after his old IT guy died): http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/the-2000-cd-made-from-glass-1/
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H110Hawk posted:To be fair SANs are awful. All technology is awful.
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H110Hawk posted:To be fair SANs are awful. What is awful about a san?
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The transparent medium is not where data is stored on an optical disc. 
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Arsten posted:Actual conversation two weeks ago with the owner of a smallish business (who is a friend I'm pinch-hitting for after his old IT guy died): Are we sure it was natural?
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Arsten posted:The transparent medium is not where data is stored on an optical disc. Well not without the proper license.
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Sickening posted:What is awful about a san?
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