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Our management are cracking down on people who react less than positively about events that occur in the workplace, because actually dealing with the issues that lead to poor morale is evidently beyond their capability. I have been indirectly accused of being one half of the reason why an employee resigned to get a much better job elsewhere, in the industry he moved to this country to work in. The wilful misunderstanding on display here is truly incredible. Thanks Ants fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Oct 4, 2016 |
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Steakandchips posted:No reviews and a bonus. In a sense, yes. It's been years since I worked for someone I thought was qualified to give me a meaningful review. I reaaaaally don't want one from the current idiots. I might die of blood loss from repeatedly biting my tongue. I get a good salary, I'm close to home, I do little work. But I'm not looking to do no work. I want to have something to do all day, something that is occasionally meaningful. I want to develop skills, not feel my brain shriveling as I sit here. I'm turning 50 soon, I've been at this a long time. I want to use my skills and feel good about what I do for a living. It would be nice to work somewhere where I receive at least the minimum effort from my boss. I would start with the minimum and then maybe before I die I would get... more than the minimum! 
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Sheep posted:Got to spend half an hour today rewriting our laptop return form letter to try to stop people doing dumb poo poo like putting them inside USPS flat rate mailers instead of the specially padded laptop boxes which we specifically provide for this purpose. I've gotten countless laptops from online sellers in those boxes with nothing more than maybe a thin piece of bubble wrap and somehow none of them have arrived broken or even damaged.
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We're moving to Oracle Cloud and the contractors we have are not great. In fact, they're pretty bad. One of their latest things is that they need us to create an email address, so I asked them what they needed it for. Turns out it needs to be set up so that all mail going to this address gets redirected to some email address at cloud.oracle.com. And it turns out it's only for our MFPs to scan to. Why can't they just put this email address on the scanner's address book? This is a brand new workflow, it's not like we're changing an existing email address redirection rule. But, we got it set up the way they wanted, and then after they started testing it I got this: quote:We are using the outlook email to route the email to the scanned Invoice Email Address. However the Invoices are getting created duplicate. Here is what Oracle is suggesting. I am not technical to understand this. Please help
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anthonypants posted:Oracle. http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/oracle/
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Wouldn't a message trace show you if the correct quantity of messages is leaving your email server?
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Thanks Ants posted:Wouldn't a message trace show you if the correct quantity of messages is leaving your email server?
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In which caseanthonypants posted:Not My Problem. Also, gently caress Oracle.
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A ticket came in today requesting a Wordpress installation because "Confluence isn't a good fit for our team's workflow." Nevermind that only 1 person on their team (who moved out of state recently) has logged into Confluence since we deployed it 10 months ago. Eat my rear end if you want me to deploy and support loving Wordpress as an internal CMS.
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Dick Trauma posted:In a sense, yes. It's been years since I worked for someone I thought was qualified to give me a meaningful review. I reaaaaally don't want one from the current idiots. I might die of blood loss from repeatedly biting my tongue. DT, I like you, but if work is what you say it is, then do personal projects on the side while at work, and better yourself. You don't need idiots higher up than you giving you projects to better yourself; you can do that on your own.
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Jesus Christ I am so tired of finding torn up environments that my company is 'managing'. The other day i had to seize FSMO roles on a domain from a DC that hadn't been at the site for like eight months. Having issues with a DC that was never promoted and just left at a site for months. Checking replication status now, and waddya know these sites aren't even replicating properly. gently caress. I don't even know how some of this poo poo functions, or how my idiot coworkers keep running into the same drat problems, throw a loving bandaid on it, then close the ticket and call it a day. Put on your big boy pants and learn a thing or two. Don't take some bullshit title and think you're loving class A work setting up a print server is worth anything. If you don't know how DNS works or why you shouldn't randomly have servers and network devices doing DHCP across the same network maybe you're in the wrong field.
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milk milk lemonade posted:Jesus Christ I am so tired of finding torn up environments that my company is 'managing'. The other day i had to seize FSMO roles on a domain from a DC that hadn't been at the site for like eight months. Having issues with a DC that was never promoted and just left at a site for months. Checking replication status now, and waddya know these sites aren't even replicating properly. gently caress. I don't even know how some of this poo poo functions, or how my idiot coworkers keep running into the same drat problems, throw a loving bandaid on it, then close the ticket and call it a day. Put on your big boy pants and learn a thing or two. Don't take some bullshit title and think you're loving class A work setting up a print server is worth anything. If you don't know how DNS works or why you shouldn't randomly have servers and network devices doing DHCP across the same network maybe you're in the wrong field. Oh you work with me too huh? Nothing infuriates me more than having to talk to someone that then says "yeah I talked to someone last week and it worked for a day but now it doesn't" Effectively using GPOs or dare I say using them correctly seems to be beyond the reach of some. Having to explain what a SRV record was to two people multiple paybands above me who are actively engineering environments was an experience. You have Engineer II in your title. I shouldn't have to explain why accounts are repeatedly getting locked out by RDP brute force or suggest a solution to this to you. 
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Oct 5, 2016 04:39
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the spyder posted:I'm doing a sweep of our second HQ after a coworker resigned. The place was a magic black box, shrouded in secrecy up until now- he refused to share any details. I knew it was bad, I just truly was not expect it to be THIS bad. Pissing me off v2: I'm too busy to even have a drink. The more I dig, the more I realize I've just scratched the surface. Today's fun: Active Directory- with over 250 users for a 40 person site? Firewalls- Rules disabling internal SNMP across subnets and our VPN MESH. Service accounts- who needs them when you can just use domain admin for EVERYTHING! 
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SeaborneClink posted:Oh you work with me too huh? Hahaha yep! 'Welp idk I mean why look at the root cause of this  quote:Effectively using GPOs or dare I say using them correctly seems to be beyond the reach of some. And what's so scary about them? They're self ex-loving-planatory! quote:Having to explain what a SRV record was to two people multiple paybands above me who are actively engineering environments was an experience. You have Engineer II in your title. I shouldn't have to explain why accounts are repeatedly getting locked out by RDP brute force or suggest a solution to this to you. I asked an 'engineer' the other day: why do we have a DC with 13,000 errors on it a day? You don't know? Well some stupid SonicWall is set to try and use LDAP integration using the built in directory administrator account whose password has since changed and for whatever reason is trying to perform and LDAP bind every 15 or so seconds with bad credentials. Ignoring all the extremely stupid implications, you would know that if you followed up on a report that literally was telling you there were 10k+ errors a day on it and no that isn't normal. I'm no good at this stuff. Being on a team where everyone is worse than me and hates learning is scary
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Oct 5, 2016 05:11
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anthonypants posted:You live in a world where an SMS text message is enough to compromise your cellphone, and opening an email in Outlook is on par with visiting a webpage in Internet Explorer. It's well past time for you to come out from under that rock. Funny enough I'm not that paranoid and my resting heartrate is half yours, yet I still haven't been infected by miraculous 0day cryptovirus123. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 5, 2016 10:44
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SEKCobra posted:Funny enough I'm not that paranoid and my resting heartrate is half yours, yet I still haven't been infected by miraculous 0day cryptovirus123. Just stop. FFS, we get it, you live on the cutting edge of security and have no fear. We disagree on security. No need for you to continue to threadshit.
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Oct 5, 2016 13:28
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SEKCobra posted:Funny enough I'm not that paranoid and my resting heartrate is half yours, yet I still haven't been infected by miraculous 0day cryptovirus123. Weren't you the guy who was getting hosed over at work a year ago? Can you go back there, you weren't such an rear end in a top hat then.
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A particular user that drives me insane cc:'s herself on every email she sends. I decide to ask why she does that. Maybe she doesn't know about the sent items folder in Outlook? Maybe her sent items folder disappeared? Her reply: "It's my way of tracking' I said: "You know each sent message goes to the sent items folder as well, right?" Her reply: "I also copy them to my calendar for future reference" I just quit responding.
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Oct 5, 2016 14:00
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Bob Morales posted:A particular user that drives me insane cc:'s herself on every email she sends. Strange. One of our clients called earlier this morning asking about a user doing the same thing. The client thought the user may be trying to steal IP. He was also "tracking"... Who the gently caress teaches these people to do this?
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dogstile posted:Weren't you the guy who was getting hosed over at work a year ago? That's actually quite funny because at my old place a superior sent a virus to a coworker and then got pissed at him for opening it. Still, I don't get why you guys are scared of emails, it's such a simple and old technology and at least in my experience an absolutely tiny amount of viruses is self executing.
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Oct 5, 2016 14:04
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Thanks Ants posted:Our management are cracking down on people who react less than positively about events that occur in the workplace, because actually dealing with the issues that lead to poor morale is evidently beyond their capability. I have been indirectly accused of being one half of the reason why an employee resigned to get a much better job elsewhere, in the industry he moved to this country to work in. Citizen, be happy or corrective measures will be employed!
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SEKCobra posted:That's actually quite funny because at my old place a superior sent a virus to a coworker and then got pissed at him for opening it. 
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Oct 5, 2016 14:18
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SEKCobra posted:Funny enough I'm not that paranoid and my resting heartrate is half yours, yet I still haven't been infected by miraculous 0day cryptovirus123. I realize your work experience up till now has taught you everything is hunky dory but honestly your career is basically a ticking timebomb of "When" it happens not if. Most major organizations and admins don't treat security as a "Real" thing until they've been slammed hard into a wall at least once. You'll learn, most of us did at some point. Sasser was my "Learnin" experience.
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SEKCobra posted:That's actually quite funny because at my old place a superior sent a virus to a coworker and then got pissed at him for opening it. Operative term highlighted. Your experience is not the sole determining factor of risk. When it comes to security, the safe practice is to always assume there's someone smarter than you, because believe me, everything is breakable. Just a reminder that up until 2014 the IT community at large thought SSL was bulletproof until Heartbleed showed up. Never assume you're bulletproof - that's when the worst hacks hit. Rhymenoserous posted:I realize your work experience up till now has taught you everything is hunky dory but honestly your career is basically a ticking timebomb of "When" it happens not if. Most major organizations and admins don't treat security as a "Real" thing until they've been slammed hard into a wall at least once. You'll learn, most of us did at some point. Sasser was my "Learnin" experience. This dude knows what's up. My work saw the 2nd Sony hack, the big one that was supposedly in response to The Interview, and collectively poo poo themselves. 2015/2016 was spent exclusively rolling out security measures that up till this point had been ignored.
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Rhymenoserous posted:I realize your work experience up till now has taught you everything is hunky dory but honestly your career is basically a ticking timebomb of "When" it happens not if. Most major organizations and admins don't treat security as a "Real" thing until they've been slammed hard into a wall at least once. You'll learn, most of us did at some point. Sasser was my "Learnin" experience. I dunno, maybe I am reckless. But I just don't feel like there's much of a threat from common viruses. We've got Kaspersky running, networks are segregated and I am doing my damndest to get privilege hoarders down to the smallest set I can give them. There have been several crypto virus outbreaks of all flavors, but they have all been easy to contain, and backups are always there to fix things if nothing else works. Maybe I am missing some huge vector leaving me open for catastrophic failure, but I just don't see it. Feel free to clue me in tho. No sarcasm btw.
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In case anyone cares, I did get that Anker lap, and I love it. It's fantastic and works perfectly. It's slightly shorter than I measured, but I just lowered my monitors a little bit. 10/10 would eat here again.
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ming-the-mazdaless posted:Strange. One of our clients called earlier this morning asking about a user doing the same thing. The client thought the user may be trying to steal IP. There is actually a training regime that teaches users to do this. You see, if the inbox is your to-do list, then the email coming in means that you have the most up to date piece of the conversation ready to go! You can also search in a single place for details on subject XYZ! Unfortunately, copying yourself hasn't been needed since pretty much every client switched to threaded viewing of messages. I've still seen users attend several different trainings in these methods, though.  Full disclosure: I do the unread=watching thing with my inbox and only use rules for useless/routine messages.
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SEKCobra posted:I dunno, maybe I am reckless. But I just don't feel like there's much of a threat from common viruses. We've got Kaspersky running, networks are segregated and I am doing my damndest to get privilege hoarders down to the smallest set I can give them. There have been several crypto virus outbreaks of all flavors, but they have all been easy to contain, and backups are always there to fix things if nothing else works. Maybe I am missing some huge vector leaving me open for catastrophic failure, but I just don't see it. Feel free to clue me in tho. I'm not trying to being flippant here, but the "open vector" is you. Once you think you have all the holes plugged and you're not at significant risk is probably when you're most vulnerable. Hubris is the biggest risk in information security.
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flosofl posted:I'm not trying to being flippant here, but the "open vector" is you. Once you think you have all the holes plugged and you're not at significant risk is probably when you're most vulnerable. Hubris is the biggest risk in information security. I don't think I'm invincible or anything, hell I'm certain a targeted attack would easily disrupt things a lot, but thinking in everyday terms I don't feel like I have to devote myself to AV & co.
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SEKCobra posted:I don't think I'm invincible or anything, hell I'm certain a targeted attack would easily disrupt things a lot, but thinking in everyday terms I don't feel like I have to devote myself to AV & co. You don't have to be paranoid or on edge with a high heart-rate or constantly freaking out to be constantly mindful of security. Opening a known virus email with an admin privilege account is risky. Shrugging it off with "Eh Outlook preview isn't that bad, chances of zero-day are low, Kaspersky is running, no biggie" is stupid as gently caress.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:You don't have to be paranoid or on edge with a high heart-rate or constantly freaking out to be constantly mindful of security. Opening a known virus email with an admin privilege account is risky. Shrugging it off with "Eh Outlook preview isn't that bad, chances of zero-day are low, Kaspersky is running, no biggie" is stupid as gently caress. To be fair, Outlook preview is off and you shouldn't be using an admin privilege account.
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I just called a customer to reschedule due to the storm and I got a modem somehow. Who the gently caress still has dial-up in TYOOL 2016? 
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SEKCobra posted:To be fair, Outlook preview is off and you shouldn't be using an admin privilege account. Wait. You are telling me that every single person in the IT department shouldn't have domain admin rights on their regular account? Welcome to my hell.
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D34THROW posted:I just called a customer to reschedule due to the storm and I got a modem somehow. Who the gently caress still has dial-up in TYOOL 2016? You got their fax line maybe?
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Moey posted:Wait. You are telling me that every single person in the IT department shouldn't have domain admin rights on their regular account? Really you shouldn't, you should have your regular user account and then an elevated account to use when you need elevated privileges. If you really want to go crazy with it, use something like ERPM and then you have to check out the password, put a reason for doing so, when you're done, you check it in, and the password spins. *edit* This is also useful for a reason other than security, it keeps lazy admins from loving up when they make a change and not realizing it works for an admin user but not for a regular user.
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Pissing me off: nosy project managers. My team was moved into a new building built to be a "collaborative space" and the project managers, BAs, and everyone else came with. As such our cubicles have even less privacy than normal. I like to keep something or another on YouTube playing on one of my monitors in a small window to keep a part of my brain occupied. Usually something like a podcast. My manager has no problem with this, nor does my team lead, but now that one of the project managers can easily see my screens she is registering complaints about it. She is a very nosy person and I really hate how she gets in everyone's business.
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Khisanth Magus posted:Pissing me off: nosy project managers. Is it her job to manage you? Why is she wasting all of her Very Important Time watching what you're doing? Sounds like she should be written up for wasting time being the youtube police.
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Khisanth Magus posted:Pissing me off: nosy project managers. The only reason a project manager should register complaints is if deadlines aren't being met, communication isn't kept up, or scheduled / reserved resources aren't available. What does she care if you have youtube open if her projects are in good standing?
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sfwarlock posted:You got their fax line maybe? Weekly reminder that faxes are still a thing requiring support. 
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Bob Morales posted:A particular user that drives me insane cc:'s herself on every email she sends. A lot of our users do this as standard procedure, and are TRAINED to do so when they come in. I literally had a small department that stored important emails they wished to keep in the Deleted Items folder. They flipped out when we turned on purging of those folders after 90 days. One person had trained everyone that came into the department that putting things there was appropriate. Someone said, "And so to file that away for reference later, we put it in the DELETED ITEMS folder." At this point I just trust that server/storage side deduplication helps. The biggest lie told today en masse is people listing themselves as PROFICIENT IN MICROSOFT OFFICE on their resumes.
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