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I'd rather just be able to gently caress off early one day, take a long lunch or arrive late without someone jumping down my throat about having to take PTO than getting concerned about getting OT for replying to an email on a weekend.
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I can agree with that. My arrival time on Monday will be "soon", and no one is going to be checking the clock when it happens.
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Aug 7, 2016 18:35
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When I quit $AWFUL_JOB because I was working 80 hour weeks and I wasn't home to be with my family the boss pretty much said "OK you are quitting but just come in nights and weekends for some extra work on the project and I'll pay you a few bucks". He got legitimately confused when I told him no. When he pushed I told him I'd do it but I want $125/hour paid upfront. When he said I was being unreasonable my answer was "that's the point".
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Aug 7, 2016 21:29
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Virigoth posted:Sounds like at least an hour of on-call engineer time to me. Rule #1 Always get the money first. My current gig does a minimum of 2 hours for any on-call incident, even if its only 5 minutes long. I didn't realized before that by changing my title from 'Admin' to 'Engineer' made it this easy to abuse and exploit additional money making.
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Aug 7, 2016 21:30
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Humphreys posted:On the 'out of office auto notification thing' I completely forgot to mention that my manager has two other email addresses that he uses. Both of which had an auto reply to any mail received. I hosed up and accidentally CCed him on an email from account 1 to account 2. I haven't seen an email system that does this since 1996 or 1997. This taught the IT department of the time that space quotas for inboxes were a thing they should use, after this issue caused certain hard disks to fill to the point where NT wouldn't even boot. We had no email for 2 days.
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Aug 8, 2016 00:20
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Jerk McJerkface posted:When I quit $AWFUL_JOB because I was working 80 hour weeks and I wasn't home to be with my family the boss pretty much said "OK you are quitting but just come in nights and weekends for some extra work on the project and I'll pay you a few bucks". He got legitimately confused when I told him no. When he pushed I told him I'd do it but I want $125/hour paid upfront. When he said I was being unreasonable my answer was "that's the point". Depending on your skills and experience, this actually isn't too unreasonable.
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Aug 8, 2016 00:22
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My dad did that, but he was a car mechanic instead of a computer mechanic. Was switching to a job in the military but since he was by far the best mechanic that shop had, they let him name his price to work on the weekends. He got four times his old hourly rate for months until they found a replacement.
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Aug 8, 2016 02:08
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Jerk McJerkface posted:When I quit $AWFUL_JOB because I was working 80 hour weeks and I wasn't home to be with my family the boss pretty much said "OK you are quitting but just come in nights and weekends for some extra work on the project and I'll pay you a few bucks". He got legitimately confused when I told him no. When he pushed I told him I'd do it but I want $125/hour paid upfront. When he said I was being unreasonable my answer was "that's the point". I charge 85 - 150$ an hour for side embedded Linux work to depending on the job. 125$ isn't unreasonable depending on what they want you to do.
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Aug 8, 2016 03:34
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Thanks Ants posted:I'd rather just be able to gently caress off early one day, take a long lunch or arrive late without someone jumping down my throat about having to take PTO than getting concerned about getting OT for replying to an email on a weekend. What would be a good "in an interview" question to try to pull out if it's this way, or if it's "you'd better be at your desk before 9 and leave after 5 and work through lunch" with after-hours or weekend work as fun uncomped work time?
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Aug 8, 2016 03:35
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meanieface posted:What would be a good "in an interview" question to try to pull out if it's this way, or if it's "you'd better be at your desk before 9 and leave after 5 and work through lunch" with after-hours or weekend work as fun uncomped work time? "What are your office policies regarding PTO/sick leave" would probably do it. If it's a more relaxed environment they'll probably mention they don't mind you rocking up late or taking a long lunch occasionally.
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Aug 8, 2016 04:26
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ratbert90 posted:I charge 85 - 150$ an hour for side embedded Linux work to depending on the job. 125$ isn't unreasonable depending on what they want you to do. Yeah, non-W2 work gets a premium too. When I left the part-time job I worked during college I asked for $100/hour. In hindsight, it was probably too high for the time and experience, but they paid it for a couple weekends here and there.
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Gounads posted:Yeah, non-W2 work gets a premium too. If they paid it wasn't too high. Simple capitalism self regulating market blabla
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They were notorious for not paying contractors. I brought some friends in that had specialized skills to help with a few projects, and they just didn't pay them. They'd drag their feet and then offer to pay half, hoping to cheap out. So when he made me that offer, I wanted to be paid upfront, and he took it like I didn't trust him as a friend. It was 
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ratbert90 posted:I charge 85 - 150$ an hour for side embedded Linux work to depending on the job. 125$ isn't unreasonable depending on what they want you to do. The VAR I work for charges around $160 an hour, and that's figured directly from hours I mark down as working for the client, so above $100/hr for contract work is definitely reasonable.
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Aug 8, 2016 15:25
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I suppose if I believed that IT's pay scale was covered by a 2% spread, I'd be jaded too. Luckily I get my paycheck in the real world, where taking 5 minutes out of my Sunday morning (5 minutes less time spent playing Zelda Randomizer) can have a bit more impact than that. The best part of this post is that I now know Zelda Randomizer exists.
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Aug 8, 2016 16:36
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Naramyth posted:The best part of this post is that I now know Zelda Randomizer exists. I also did not know about this and I can now feel my free time going away forever..... I hope no one does this for Skyrim.
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Aug 8, 2016 16:38
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Naramyth posted:The best part of this post is that I now know Zelda Randomizer exists. Someone else that had a  moment! I also found that there's a metroid randomizer as well. This is going to do bad things to my life(Thanks for finding for me, Naramyth, I stared at the smilie page for a few minutes before giving up)
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Aug 8, 2016 16:41
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Naramyth posted:The best part of this post is that I now know Zelda Randomizer exists.
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MF_James posted:Someone else that had a woah moment (drat it I can't remember which smilie it is that has the mouth keep opening until it covers the whole thing then repeats). I also found that there's a metroid randomizer as well. This is going to do bad things to my life
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Aug 8, 2016 17:27
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AS/400 guy is on the phone with someone "Oh are you in the harris system?" "What screen are you on? Order release?" "It will say order release at the top of the screen" "Okay well what does it say?" "okay well scroll down do you see where it says order hold code?" "okay just put an H in there it will put it on hold" Just use LogMeIn so you can see their screen. We pay like $1,000 a year for it.
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Aug 8, 2016 17:52
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Person on the other line had anime\porn up and refused a remote sesh. It happens.
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"I have a process that works for me and has for decades" "Yes, it requires no automation and the most ridiculous, tedious form of remote troubleshooting I can manage. What part of 'I have a process that works' do you not understand?"
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flosofl posted:What part of 'I have a process that works' do you not understand? CHANGE SCARES ME, I REFUSE TO CHANGE MY PROCESS
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:CHANGE SCARES ME, I REFUSE TO CHANGE MY PROCESS That or: I WON'T LET YOU REPLACE ME WITH A SCRIPT
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Sometimes it takes longer to remote into a machine than it does to talk through it for 30 seconds, although that did not seem to be the case here.
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flosofl posted:That or: Oh, hello, coworker. 
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Just got off the phone with a 'programmer' at the consultant's place we're working with on an ERP implementation. His script is missing the last line item on an order.... "Oh...well I can fix that, NetSuite counts funny"I figured some sort of off-by-one error. The scripts are all Javascript. I opened it up and find: code:
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Bob Morales posted:Just got off the phone with a 'programmer' at the consultant's place we're working with on an ERP implementation. His script is missing the last line item on an order.... Wait wait so now he's skipping the first record? This is why we can't have nice things.
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Bob Morales posted:Just got off the phone with a 'programmer' at the consultant's place we're working with on an ERP implementation. His script is missing the last line item on an order.... AFLJHW$UTYHKJjkhfdsakf&%(*#&%*( This makes my head hurt.
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meanieface posted:Wait wait so now he's skipping the first record? It starts at 1 not 0, but he's doing < x+1 instead of <= x
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Bob Morales posted:Just got off the phone with a 'programmer' at the consultant's place we're working with on an ERP implementation. His script is missing the last line item on an order....  Reminds me of the old boss. Comments are my own, the code is a fairly accurate representation of what was originally written.code: i know how to solve this problemphp:<?php $m = get_one_packet_of_data(); // Abstracted function to get one packet of data, de-escaped already $mybin = hexbin($m); // Convert the entire mess to hexadecimal, even though it's almost all text $myoldbin = hexbin($m); // Keep a copy of it so we can mangle the other one $myfirstpos = strpos($mybin, "20"); // Search for the first "20" (space) $myfirstdata = substr($mybin, 0, $myfirstpos); // Cut out everything from the start to that position $mybin = substr($mybin, $myfirstpos + 2); // Cut out that part from the packet $mysecondpos = strpos($mybin, "20"); // Search for the next space $myseconddata = substr($mybin, 0, $mysecondpos); // Cut out that part... $mybin = substr($mybin, $mysecondpos + 2); // Cut it from the packet // Repeat for several different fields (regardless of message type, so some are junk/wrong) // Check if this was a "BINARY" packet // by checking (of all things) if the first packet had "BINARY" in it anywhere // (and yes, sometimes it shows up outside of the 'data type' field, // and yes, it causes all sorts of exciting problems) if (stripos($myoldbin, "42494e415259") !== false) { // similarly awful code follows }  Just in ten seconds of reading the documentation, the number of fields is indicated by the first field, so something like this would work just as well: php:<?php // # of expected fields per message type $fields = array('BINARY' => 4, 'MESSAGE' => 3, 'GPSDATA' => 10); $m = get_one_packet_of_data(); $packet_data = explode(" ", $m, 2); // Split packet into type + fields $packet_type = $packet_data[0]; // (for clarity) $packet_fields = explode(" ", $packet_data[1], $fields[$packet_type]); // Split field data based on # of expected fields if ($packet_type == "BINARY") { // probably could use a switch/case or OOP here but :effort: }
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Just looked at AS/400 guy's Linkedin page. Spelled 2 programming languages wrong and also spelled Microsoft wrong. Also has the balls to lists HTML and PHP as skills.
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When I see a link that I want but the website has right click disabled I'll open notepad and type in the link but then surround it by <a href=" and ">link</a> and save it as index.html which will give me a link I can right click to download the file. Please visit my Linkedin page and endorsement for HTML, thanks.
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Naramyth posted:The best part of this post is that I now know Zelda Randomizer exists. Yup, my poo poo day just became a good day.
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Bob Morales posted:Just looked at AS/400 guy's Linkedin page. Spelled 2 programming languages wrong and also spelled Microsoft wrong. Also has the balls to lists HTML and PHP as skills. Cobalt D++ Basil Pastel
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Before I started at this MSP, our clients were primarily using CrashPlan Home subscriptions. Yes, my supervisors recommended these businesses a non-enterprise solution for critical backups, regardless of the size of the company/number of employees. This is bad enough, but at least we're finally transitioning to other solutions because JRE and the CrashPlan app loving suck. One of these clients (that my boss has been trying to get on Egnyte for months) has 9 TB of data. For some unbeknownst reason, CrashPlan is only reporting 66 GB backed up, both locally and online, even though all of the appropriate directories were selected (it still says 100% though  ). Now I have to try and explain why I wasn't able to restore the 2 GB folder some user "accidentally" deleted from their OS X server.This is just one of many gently caress-ups that happens at this place. MiniFoo fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Aug 8, 2016 |
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:When I see a link that I want but the website has right click disabled I'll open notepad and type in the link but then surround it by <a href=" and ">link</a> and save it as index.html which will give me a link I can right click to download the file. Please visit my Linkedin page and endorsement for HTML, thanks. Do sites still disable right click? I haven't encountered that in years.
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RFC2324 posted:Do sites still disable right click? I haven't encountered that in years. I've seen a few, also ones that add poo poo to your clipboard. No-Script is very nice.
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