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DigitalMocking posted:Oh I know. That's what pisses me off so god damned much. You could get a backup link. I always laugh really hard when clients rage when both are down, even the one with the other resell*ahem* provider.
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Jeoh posted:It's a Surface Pen Bill rushed to the mall and bought the iPad Pro but he couldn't get the Surface because the MS store did not stock the most loaded model, apparently the only one he thinks the CEO would accept. An i7 Surface Pro 4 with 16 gigs of RAM and the 1TB HD is $2700!  It appears he intends to do all setup of these devices so this should be fun to watch.
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Dick Trauma posted:Bill rushed to the mall and bought the iPad Pro but he couldn't get the Surface because the MS store did not stock the most loaded model, apparently the only one he thinks the CEO would accept. An i7 Surface Pro 4 with 16 gigs of RAM and the 1TB HD is $2700! Have him put Notes Plus on there. It does the "scribbling on things" that CEO wants, auto backs up, and can export fairly easily. Because you know you're going to be looking for the backed up notes after he drops this thing in the toilet.
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meanieface posted:Have him put Notes Plus on there. It does the "scribbling on things" that CEO wants, auto backs up, and can export fairly easily. Because you know you're going to be looking for the backed up notes after he drops this thing in the toilet. Uh, given all of Bill's history and DT's history with Bill, I think DT's best move is to stay as far away from the entire shitshow as possible and not be at all in the firing line (who are we kidding, he will be anyway) when things go wrong.
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Potato Alley posted:Uh, given all of Bill's history and DT's history with Bill, I think DT's best move is to stay as far away from the entire shitshow as possible and not be at all in the firing line (who are we kidding, he will be anyway) when things go wrong. Yeah unless I get dragged into it I'm keeping my mouth shut. gently caress the both of those two shitbirds. Let them sail off into the sunset on the Kobayashi Maru.
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Ugh I have to do AS/400 guy's mid year review. He gets 'below expectations' for most categories and then I have to tell him what he has to do to improve. Bah.
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Aug 16, 2016 20:21
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Bob Morales posted:Ugh I have to do AS/400 guy's mid year review. He gets 'below expectations' for most categories and then I have to tell him what he has to do to improve. Bah. Is there nothing lower then "below expectations" like "you are physically present in the building, but we wish you weren't"
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LordVorbis posted:Is there nothing lower then "below expectations" like "you are physically present in the building ARE YOU READING MY SCREEN 
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fist4jesus posted:You could get a backup link. I always laugh really hard when clients rage when both are down, even the one with the other resell*ahem* provider. Fun fact, the office is 17,000ft from the closest CO. We're currently using a 4g huawei modem as a backup, it can't route and you can't change the first two octets of the IP address, so I'm double natting the connection. Good times.
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Bob Morales posted:ARE YOU READING MY SCREEN Typo spotted. Also, why does an AS/400 guy need to know PHP?
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Bob Morales posted:ARE YOU READING MY SCREEN dude just knows as/400. You can't do any worse to him.
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The Fool posted:Typo spotted. We run Zend on our iSeries to do web services for our poo poo ERP system that we're replacing. Credit card software runs through it, SOAP connector, and then we have a Linux box that runs two online stores, a custom vendor portal we had written by a 3rd party http://www.zend.com/en/solutions/modernize-ibm-i His troubleshooting consists of going to WebSphere and restarting Apache servers and emailing the vendor we had make the site to fix some simple PHP bug (unless I see the ticket and fix it myself, first)
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Our helpdesk are currently dumbstruck as to why people emailing one of our clients sometimes get bounces from the third-party anti-spam service they were using before migrating to Office 365. 'dig mx...' shows an MX record for Office 365 and two records for said anti-spam service that isn't being paid for any more. The ticket has been open for three days. DigitalMocking posted:Oh I know. That's what pisses me off so god damned much. This happens all the time with our clients. "Our internet is poo poo but we don't want to pay £600 a month for a business-grade fibre, what can we do?" "Nothing, but if you move office it's worth checking connectivity speeds and prices so you can get a prosumer broadband service that will just about cover your requirements" A few weeks later... "Oh hey we're moving office in a few weeks, this is the new address, can we get internet installed?" Hope you like 6Mbps ADSL.
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Bob Morales posted:We run Zend on our iSeries to do web services for our poo poo ERP system that we're replacing. I love that one of the bullet points is "Easy for COBOL programmers to learn" I'm so sorry.
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Whoever configured WSUS told it to force all computers to reboot if patches weren't applied. All computers.
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anthonypants posted:Whoever configured WSUS told it to force all computers to reboot if patches weren't applied. [Billie_Jole_-_Say_Goodbye_to_Hollywood.aiff]
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Funny story, this isn't far off the truth. I applied to their job alert tracker months ago when I was still looking for work, and every time I try to get it to stop via the "stop receiving emails here" link in their job listing emails it just sends me right to the goddamn careers.telstra.com site. When I was applying for a position with them one interview was scheduled over Skype video call. The interviewer couldn't get their end working. The final panel interview weeks later had a few people patched in via conference and it was a complete poo poo fight. I think I was lucky I had another offer up my sleeve.
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Bob Morales posted:ARE YOU READING MY SCREEN Five whys is the laziest loving problem solving method. It's literally problem solving by 3-year-olds.
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totalnewbie posted:Five whys is the laziest loving problem solving method. It's literally problem solving by 3-year-olds.
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totalnewbie posted:Five whys is the laziest loving problem solving method. It's literally problem solving by 3-year-olds. It sounds like its an improvement from *Shrug, reboot, call vendor*
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totalnewbie posted:Five whys is the laziest loving problem solving method. It's literally problem solving by 3-year-olds. Pretty sure AS/400 guy has the brain of a 3 year old.
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LordVorbis posted:It sounds like its an improvement from *Shrug, reboot, call vendor* This has been my troubleshooting technique for lovely software for more than a decade now.
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Pissing me off: Microsoft products that don't have cmdlets. I'm trying to import configurations, but to do that I have to install a third-party module and transfer it to all of the remote computers as well. So I have to do 30 computers manually.
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Sickening posted:This has been my troubleshooting technique for lovely software for more than a decade now. Yup, I could spend hours figuring out your awful menu option placement and the little ins and outs of this piece of poo poo that was installed 10 years ago, or I could get on a call with a vendor for an hour and have everything worked out and come out with a little more knowledge about piece of poo poo application.
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I was asked to spec out some really basic stuff (switches, stacking modules and cables etc.) for one of our sales guys clients. Did all that, sent it across, heard nothing. Today the sales guy wants to know why it doesn't fit their brief. I dunno, maybe it's got something to do with you substituting my proposal with 10/100 non-PoE switches for an IP phone deployment? I don't even know what the gently caress my job is any more if the SOP seems to be "I want to make more margin so I'll just pick something less expensive and sell that instead". And lol if you think this will become the issue of the person who dropped this particular turd on the floor.
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MF_James posted:LOL that link, wtf Backquoting, but I've dealt with Annese a few times. They're not bad, but like a lot of companies this happens when you want to increase visibility. Check out fiber instrument sales (great company) and their magazine, wavelengths. They have had articles about how directv will use drones because they are cheaper than satellites, and how people will cancel the internet to go 'off the grid', to spite the government.
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Bob Morales posted:Ugh I have to do AS/400 guy's mid year review. He gets 'below expectations' for most categories and then I have to tell him what he has to do to improve. Bah. Tell him to learn websphere, since cobol/400 and rpg only will get him so far. Joke answer, program an anonymous chatting bbs on it and deploy terminals around the campus to encourage morale and comradery
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Not pissing me off, but rather amusing me and directly related to the thread title: we, the development team, have had some issues with our application we support recently and apparently it is starting to annoy the project management team that we don't panic about this stuff. We are all calmly handling the issues as they appear, including my direct manager, while the project managers are practically screaming about how the building is burning down around us. There is apparently a small issue with the data we automatically send to a third party that has been there for like 2 years. It was never a big deal, they could easily filter out the unwanted data, whatever. They didn't even feel the need to notify us. 2 days ago this came to the attention of a project manager and now it is"OMG this is a disaster, priority 1 must fix asap!" Khisanth Magus fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Aug 18, 2016 |
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That is the worst. Some people just want to be seen in the company as fighting the good fight and fixing problems! It's how they show everyone that they are productive!
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I refer you to the thread title.
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Front desk lady is going nuts. "Robert! I have no emails! I'm telling you, email isn't working! I have never come in in the morning, and not had any emails!"
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 Hey Accounts I need to order this stuff, please authorise Who needs these MS Office they are expensive That's how much they cost, we can either keep buying product keys or subscribe to 365 Buy them from this site I found on Google instead This site is selling keys for 10% of RRP, gently caress offThe saga of cheapskates continues, yeah this Windows 10 Pro licence for £20 looks totally legit! Virigoth posted:That is the worst. Some people just want to be seen in the company as fighting the good fight and fixing problems! It's how they show everyone that they are productive!
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"Hey what's MY_BOSS's password for email?" We don't keep the passwords. I can reset it. "Well, he got a new iPhone, and I added his email account to it, its says he has no mail." Why doesn't he bring it down here for us to setup? "He's not here, he's in _some_other_state" So why doesn't he call IT instead of having his department bitchboy set it up for him and asking for his passwords? Ugh.
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Hey backup guys, in the contract is says bring the tape by 4pm. Don't bring it at half 6 and expect the techie on the late shift to be there! Best part? Next time the fucker came in he said he got here at 6. gently caress off, the girl on the late shift was at the door, at 6, on the phone to us waiting around for it. 
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Lost the IT conference room because we're making it into a milking station. I knew it was coming but: The one girl who had twins isn't coming back to work The owners daughter who's going to hatch her spawn any day this week is getting like 3-4 months maternity leave The other girl who had her kid last week will be back in 6 weeks or whatever, why can't she use the old milking room?
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Bob Morales posted:Lost the IT conference room because we're making it into a milking station. Because now the IT conference room will have a productive use. 
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FireSight posted:Because now the IT conference room will have a productive use.  The supply room got turned into a lactation room but the latest new mom keeps forgetting to use the OCCUPIED sign so I'm scared to go in there.
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I have ERP consultants in a few days a week and they were using it to work from, it works good as a training room because I can fit 8 people in there and we've got a LCD TV and such setup. Production department was using it for a LEAN discussion room also.
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More poo poo that pisses you off: we're making it into a milking station
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Bob Morales posted:Lost the IT conference room because we're making it into a milking station. Why are you calling it a milking station/room?  A room has to set aside for nursing that isn't a bathroom in most places, its the law. Who wants to be stuck in a meeting anyway?
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