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Got called into a meeting across town today because apparently a two byte protocol is too complicated to explain to a vendor.
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Jul 11, 2016 13:26
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You could have responded with two bytes of your own, like ['n','o'], and see if they understood it.
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Jul 11, 2016 13:50
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Sickening posted:Everyone. necromancing the post, but... I was dropped into mandated "sensitivity training" by virtue of being a contractor working in post genocide Rwanda (because the permies had a nasty habit of asking if people were hutu or tutsi and sending genocide footage around). I learned a lot. Like how I hate South Africans working in Africa.
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Jul 11, 2016 14:26
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Collateral Damage posted:Our telephony provider runs a hold music loop, but interrupts it every 3 minutes with a voice saying "Hello! <pause> Did you know you can submit a ticket online? Blah blah..." and that loving hello catches me off guard every time. Even worse is Hi! This is Jenny with %company% I'm excited to speak with you! Please have your name, company name, and any error codes for when a real operator picks up! Every 2 minutes in a 30 minute queue for some company who never answers emails. Then you actually get Jenny and she answered with Hi! This is Jenny with %company% can I please have your name, company name, and any error codes?
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Jul 11, 2016 14:49
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Don't claim your two-bit company can be contacted by email if every email just gets an auto-reply saying "Thanks for your email. Call us: <phone no>"
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Jul 11, 2016 15:07
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ming-the-mazdaless posted:I was dropped into mandated "sensitivity training" by virtue of being a contractor working in post genocide Rwanda (because the permies had a nasty habit of asking if people were hutu or tutsi and sending genocide footage around). How loving dense do you have to be about race relations to do that? quote:I learned a lot. Like how I hate South Africans working in Africa.
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Jul 11, 2016 15:38
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Arsten posted:My only problem with the small utility trucks (Rangers, S10s, etc) is that they are basically a two seater car. They don't have the GVWR to haul more than about 500 pounds (including passengers). I tend to go with at least a Class 2 on the truck side so that you can pull 2-3,000 lbs without issue. Well mine's admitedly a class 2. I can haul about 2k and I have 4 seats available provided the people in back don't mind dying in jump seats (There's actually a proper extended cab model available but I like using that area for storage not people.)
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Jul 11, 2016 17:11
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Ugato posted:Asking for someone with 7-10 years' experience who wants a tier 1 help desk position is asking for a broken shell of a person. If I found someone still working T1 after 10 years I'd assume they were a result of some affirmative action for special needs people.
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Jul 11, 2016 17:29
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ConfusedUs posted:Have a customer who doesn't meet a core requirement to use our software. We point this out and ask him to configure it. It's times like these where I wish we could just fire these customers.
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Jul 11, 2016 18:22
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People blaming me and my black magic scripts for every little problem. I wrote a batch script to install a program and all its prereqs. Some moron in informatics thinks a program acting up is because of my install script. It literally just does what I would be doing by hand anyway. It's a folder move, a file move, and it launches some installers which still neef user input. I didn't do any unattended stuff with the msis or anything,I'm not that sophisticated of a scripter. I've used this dozens of times and this is the only one having the issue. This is not the first person of thinking my magic spells are making their computer crops die. They'll even do this on computers where I didn't use any scripts and don't even know how to automate what they're accusing me of breaking. I need to hop on my broomstick and go find a job where making bullshit jobs automated is encouraged rather than blamed for weird random errors.
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Jul 11, 2016 19:11
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skooma512 posted:People blaming me and my black magic scripts for every little problem. Well it's SOMEONE'S fault the work isn't getting done, and it sure as hell isn't Jerky McGee from informatics fault his work isn't getting done.
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Jul 11, 2016 19:14
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MF_James posted:Well it's SOMEONE'S fault the work isn't getting done, and it sure as hell isn't Jerky McGee from informatics fault his work isn't getting done. Running Powershell scripts is too complicated for our Helpdesk/Deskside guys, so I always have to create a batch file names something like "INSTALL $SOFTWARE - RUN AS ADMIN!!!" which just points to the powershell script and executes it. More recently I've been having trouble with our Helpdesk guys being unable to tell the difference between the Acrobat Standard and Pro Install scripts, so I had to create a slightly more complicated batch script that runs and asks the user specifically which version to install. Please press '1" to Install Standard, and so on and so on. It's getting worse too. Lots of tickets come over, like "Single user is experiencing slowness in enterprise application, please reboot application server." Oof.
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Jul 11, 2016 19:42
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The lady that hassled me about keystore has been haranguing my coworkers that are onsite with her.
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Jul 11, 2016 19:53
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:
I love these kinds of tickets. I get a ton that are "search query didn't work as expected, please reindex database." This is refering to the Autonomy database, and a reindex of 1TB of content will take weeks, so I respond "can you please clarify what's not working, reindex will take days." and suddenly they are like "oh, the query was wrong, it's all good, thanks!"
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Jul 11, 2016 19:55
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Jerk McJerkface posted:The lady that hassled me about keystore has been haranguing my coworkers that are onsite with her. How the hell does someone like this keep a job more than a few days never mind a few weeks? I've seen plenty of people get the boot after a few hours it's magical.
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Jul 11, 2016 20:05
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Well after slightly over a month of waiting and several rounds with their useless support agents (who have no clear answers to any question). Apple finally approved the last of our business listings on Maps Connect. Now Siri will stop giving customers the wrong phone numbers! P.S. gently caress dealing with Apple.
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Jul 11, 2016 20:33
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pixaal posted:How the hell does someone like this keep a job more than a few days never mind a few weeks? Seriously,I don't get how people like that keep getting jobs and keeping them
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Jul 11, 2016 20:42
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poo poo pissing me off: DR4100's and Dell Support for them. We have 4 1G ports on this POS that are bonded. OK Cool Story. We needed a 10GB SFP+ card to go iSCSI to a netVault server, because in TYOOL 2016, a thing that runs Linux can't deal with Trunked VLANs. So we put the card in thinking... "Gee the vendor told us to throw this card in and everything will be peachy keen!". Instead the bond decides that eth4 and 5 from the new card is the best, and shits out the 4 interfaces that were 1GB. We then remove the 10GB card, and it decided to complete hose itself and not allow any changes to the bond, no additions, no deletions just gridlock. On with support for 2.5 hours and its like "well we need to put the card back in and do it form there". I think this is a good idea. But CENT OS 5.7 as your base, and trunking and hardware changes are stumbling blocks... makes me super excited to get this thing into full production. I guess its "welcome to enterprise hardware" for me.
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Jul 11, 2016 21:31
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Leaving me in suspense...
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Jul 11, 2016 21:43
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skooma512 posted:Seriously,I don't get how people like that keep getting jobs and keeping them I really don't know. Apparently, she's actually a really good java dev, and the work she does is topnotch. I really suspect that since my friend is going away for a month, and this project is important, they need a warm body to fill a seat until he gets back, and then maybe she'll get cut.
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Jul 11, 2016 22:25
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Jerk McJerkface posted:good java dev This is a contradiction of terms
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Jul 12, 2016 01:22
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I think I need to start job hunting again after a month  . My wife can't stay on Kaiser, and Insight Global offers a 10,000 deductible HDHP for $700/mo. I really like what I'm doing and who I work with, and my commute is great, but it's impossible to describe how bad Kaiser is, and I can't afford to pay half my take-home for their good health plan.
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Jul 12, 2016 01:52
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kaiser is actually both cool and good, i would reserve phrases like "impossible to describe how bad" for your proposed $10k deductible plan  it sounds like the problem is actually your employer's shameful out of pocket expenses for their health insurance plans
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Jul 12, 2016 02:31
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Kaiser doesn't cover a ton of medications, which means that her father is paying $500 per month for insurance that would be leaving them with a $1300/mo bill for 2 prescriptions if her psychiatrist wasn't hooking her up. And no insurance company that cuts out 95% of doctor's offices and then makes you wait on hold for literally 45 minutes to make an appointment is cool or good. And yes, this contacting company has terrible insurance. As far as I can tell, they don't subsidize at all. I wouldn't have taken the job but I was unemployed for 5 months and needed something bad.
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Jul 12, 2016 03:08
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I buy better unsubsidized health insurance on the open market. You should look there.
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Jul 12, 2016 03:09
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That's what might have to happen. I was looking at it at the beginning of the year because the previous year my company's insurance was terrible, but then I got laid off.
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Jul 12, 2016 03:37
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I think I need to start job hunting again after a month  What in the unfiltered gently caress? This is a health insurance plan that people actually buy? $700 a month for a $10,000 excess? Your health insurance system is broken, good lord.
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Jul 12, 2016 04:11
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Weatherman posted:Your health insurance system is broken, good lord. Yeah but we have fried chicken and beef brisket!
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Jul 12, 2016 04:24
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I think I need to start job hunting again after a month Isn't that considered a catastrophic only health plan at that point? I don't think even rates to even avoid the stupid tax penalty. Is that an Obamacare plan? I actually did the math once. I make 44,000 dollars per year. I converted that to pounds and then compared how much each government taxes/would tax me based on my income. Despite all the ghost stories the American media peddles, you know much more I'd be paying in taxes in the UK versus the US? 1000 bucks more, that's it. I still have to pay for whatever bullshit excuse for a health plan my employer begrudgingly provides on top of all the taxes I pay. And if you want to get technical, I have to pay the state taxes too and directly or not, property tax. But it's ok. This way the money goes to insurance companies so they can gamble on wall street 
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Jul 12, 2016 06:01
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Weatherman posted:What in the unfiltered gently caress? This is a health insurance plan that people actually buy? $700 a month for a $10,000 excess? According to Hank Green, between medicare, medicaid and federal employees, Americans pay more per capita in taxes for health care than the British. (with the obvious difference that not all Americans get health care). THAT's how hosed up our health care system is.
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Jul 12, 2016 12:46
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anthonypants posted:Yeah, but the worst part is the people who unironically defend it. The sad part is that people don't realize it's exactly what we had before, only with the most expensive perks added on and now required! Well, at least all of the hospitals are conglomerating into a single giant faceless health care network, now. If anyone cares about your health, it's business big enough to pay a shitload in regulatory costs.  Gounads posted:According to Hank Green, between medicare, medicaid and federal employees, Americans pay more per capita in taxes for health care than the British. (with the obvious difference that not all Americans get health care). THAT's how hosed up our health care system is. What's hosed up is that after the last 20 years, people still think that either the Republicans or Democrats are a good idea. Two wars, the Patriot Act, and the ACA all worked out fine, right?
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Jul 12, 2016 13:09
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JewKiller 3000 posted:kaiser is actually both cool and good, i would reserve phrases like "impossible to describe how bad" for your proposed $10k deductible plan
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Jul 12, 2016 13:16
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Even "good" health insurance is poo poo. The list of medications that need to be pre-approved is constantly growing. Even though you're dumping a ton of your paycheck into the plan every month, the insurance company feels like they aren't making enough money so they've decided they're doctors now too and get to prescribe your treatments. Granted a lot of that is motivated by the pharma companies loving everyone over, but that's another topic.
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Jul 12, 2016 14:10
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Privatized health care is almost as dumb as privatized prisons.
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Jul 12, 2016 14:11
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I think I need to start job hunting again after a month Does the employer offer a health savings account of any sort? I think most HDHP plans offer them. My employer also has a lovely $5k deductible for a single person $10k for a family but they offer a health savings plan and match it 50/50 up to $5k a year which really helps. Our health system is so hosed up. My goal is to not have to go to the doctor for the next 40 years, god willing. I had to have a root canal recently and tried to shop around for the best price. Literally impossible. Our healthcare system is so bad that we cant even get transparent pricing on things.
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Jul 12, 2016 14:21
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Gounads posted:According to Hank Green, between medicare, medicaid and federal employees, Americans pay more per capita in taxes for health care than the British. (with the obvious difference that not all Americans get health care). THAT's how hosed up our health care system is. The NHS is actually per-capita one of the lower cost healthcare systems in Europe to run. Centralised procurement and removing billing bureaucracy has its benefits.
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Jul 12, 2016 14:29
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feedmegin posted:The NHS is actually per-capita one of the lower cost healthcare systems in Europe to run. Centralised procurement and removing billing bureaucracy has its benefits. And no health insurance company profits!
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Jul 12, 2016 14:45
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Does the employer offer a health savings account of any sort? I think most HDHP plans offer them. My employer also has a lovely $5k deductible for a single person $10k for a family but they offer a health savings plan and match it 50/50 up to $5k a year which really helps. Seriously. My kid had some fillings and due to a clerical error I got a bill for about $600. When I investigated, I found that the dentist actually charges like $99999999 for everything and the insurance company just says "nope we pay $100" so the dentist takes it. If you don't have insurance you end up having to pay $9999999 for no reason at all. It's madness.
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Jul 12, 2016 15:02
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Seriously. My kid had some fillings and due to a clerical error I got a bill for about $600. When I investigated, I found that the dentist actually charges like $99999999 for everything and the insurance company just says "nope we pay $100" so the dentist takes it. If you don't have insurance you end up having to pay $9999999 for no reason at all. It's madness. There's a Time Magazine article called "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills are Killing Us." It describes exactly this scenario. The role setting prices for a health system being called a chargemaster and how arbitrary it really is.
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