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If you are in the UK and not the employment hellscape that is the United States of America try talking to your line manager about it. I told my boss last year that I was bored in my current role and wanted more of a challenge and the company has bent over backwards to find me a position in a different office with the challenge I was looking for and making sure I stay with them for the foreseeable future.
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Clam Down alt spotted
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Bob Morales posted:We broke a Fortinet by enabling logging, they used really lovely flash memory on the model we had. Yep, we had local logging destroy around thirty or so of them before we discovered the root of that one. I think these were all 60Cs at branch locations. We were very not amused and got a pretty steep discount on our support contract for that. I like Fortigates in general, but I'll never trust the local disk on them ever again. We were already logging remotely, but for some reason overlooked it was logging locally as well.
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Migishu posted:If you have nothing new to learn or interesting to hold you over, it's time to move to another job. I'm waiting on an offer to become a PDQA but HR is dragging it's feet. The CTO came over to me to ask if I was ready before I knew that they were going to offer me the job, lol
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Apr 6, 2017 03:57
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Yeah I've automated my basic job tasks with auto hot key and still could learn more about the other support roles, but I'm not going to bother until they promote me... I'm a level 1 doing the work of a level 3, and I could do it in my sleep, so I'm not going to do even more just because I can. The two (worthless) level 2s ahead of me are the one and only excuse they have for not promoting me. hahaha .. oh, you're probably serious.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Yeah I've automated my basic job tasks with auto hot key and still could learn more about the other support roles, but I'm not going to bother until they promote me... I'm a level 1 doing the work of a level 3, and I could do it in my sleep, so I'm not going to do even more just because I can. The two (worthless) level 2s ahead of me are the one and only excuse they have for not promoting me. I think you need to make plans under the assumption that they'll never promote you. We talked about this four months ago.
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Apr 6, 2017 04:46
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We have a promotion just around the corner. In about 5-10 years you'll be making a hundred more dollars for sure!
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Apr 6, 2017 08:20
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Does rodent poop void the HP Procurve warranty?
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Apr 6, 2017 10:14
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Lots of employers are poo poo regardless of the country they are based in. If senior management run things based on what they legally need to do as a minimum then it's going to be a crappy work environment regardless of what those legal minimums are.
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kensei posted:Does rodent poop void the HP Procurve warranty? Wrong thread. Should be in here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3571852 
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Apr 6, 2017 11:03
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I think you need to make plans under the assumption that they'll never promote you. We talked about this four months ago. 
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Apr 6, 2017 12:48
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flosofl posted:Yep, we had local logging destroy around thirty or so of them before we discovered the root of that one. I got this far in this post before I remembered what thread I was reading and realized this wasn't about literal trees.
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flosofl posted:Yep, we had local logging destroy around thirty or so of them before we discovered the root of that one. I think these were all 60Cs at branch locations. After we burned up the second one (it was the main one at our office), I went to their site to do an RMA and they had a big huge notice about the problem and to not use local logging until the new firmware came out. Why didn't they send an email to all their customers of that model?
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Bob Morales posted:Why didn't they send an email to all their customers of that model?  Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:I got this far in this post before I remembered what thread I was reading and realized this wasn't about literal trees. Same! kensei posted:Does rodent poop void the HP Procurve warranty? But surely poop only improves it! (I know nothing about Procurves)
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:
Some people might've missed this.
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Logitech Introduces High-Resistance Keyboard For Fitness-Minded Typists
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Apr 6, 2017 18:25
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"12 pounds of resistance per key" lmao though I'm pretty sure I have some of these in my server room that used to be regular keyboards before people gunked them up. Maybe I can recycle them back into use as a company fitness initiative
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Judge Schnoopy posted:"12 pounds of resistance per key" lmao There's a fingerbanging joke in here somewhere
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Bob Morales posted:After we burned up the second one (it was the main one at our office), I went to their site to do an RMA and they had a big huge notice about the problem and to not use local logging until the new firmware came out. Why didn't they send an email to all their customers of that model? This was YEARS ago, and I think we were one of the customers that led to that announcement. At least I'm pretty sure we couldn't find anything on their KB. I remember my colleague working directly with one of their engineers for a week or so. They set that up after our Sr VP made a stink directly to the CEO. Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Apr 7, 2017 |
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:No this time I actually have been offered a job as a QA and shook on it/accepted the offer from the manager of development and my boss has started interviewing people to backfill my position. Dev wants me to start next week but I cant if HR doesnt do its thing Nope. Dudes gonna come back next week being all " I am so sorry etc etc" and give some bullshit excuse from HR as to why they can't promote you.
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Apr 7, 2017 02:29
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Why do I feel like this is just not good for your fingers?
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Apr 7, 2017 02:50
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LethalGeek posted:Why do I feel like this is just not good for your fingers? Grip strength is really important for a lot of sports - boxing, muay thai, rock climbing, etc
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Johnny Aztec posted:Nope. Dudes gonna come back next week being all " I am so sorry etc etc" and give some bullshit excuse from HR as to why they can't promote you.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:No this time I actually have been offered a job as a QA and shook on it/accepted the offer from the manager of development and my boss has started interviewing people to backfill my position. Dev wants me to start next week but I cant if HR doesnt do its thing I've had something similar before - admittedly only going from Tier 1 call center to 'Senior' Tier 1 call center. 3 positions advertised, all three positions filled. Personal congratulations from the manager of the call center, and e-mails went out to the team congratulation the three of us who got the promotion. In a case of the left hand not talking to the right hand, 2 of the 3 people who were offered the job were called into a room and told that no, you won't be getting promoted at all because HR didn't authorise 3 - only 1. It was over 10 years ago and I still hold a grudge about it now.
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Apr 7, 2017 04:40
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kensei posted:Anyone else going to Kaseya Connect in Las Vegas next month? same except Avid Connect / NAB
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mewse posted:Grip strength is really important for a lot of sports - boxing, muay thai, rock climbing, etc I get that but jamming down on a keyboard all day seems more grinding than helpful
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Apr 7, 2017 05:14
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If it were a problem at all I'm sure the storied journalists at The Onion would've mentioned it.
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In related news: Fast-Talking Computer Hacker Just Has To Break Through Encryption Shield Before Uploading Nano-Virus
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I would buy that for my dad. He's a retired journalist who never really got past old-school manual typewriters. He's basically hyper-speed two-finger pecking away when he writes, and he destroys on average three keyboards per year that way.
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Whenever someone asks me for help and says "it's not work related" I have the overwhelming urge to respond "then it's not my problem." People have this preconception of IT staffers as having bad attitudes, poor social skills, whatever. It's because we've been ground down by the stupidity and poor social skills of everyone we've dealt with before them. I swear to god when I started this job I was the nicest, most helpful person. Three years later I'm filled with loathing for almost every living technology user and bordering on stage II hypertension.
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This is amazing. We've asked for a third party to do a review of one of our IBM as400s located in a different country. It runs their local ERP. Here are some choice quotes from his report. All the disks show as Degraded. Disk replacements (17GB disk units) would have to be purchased from brokerage. No security auditing is enabled. Most of the System accounts are using default passwords. Doesn’t appear to have been backed up since August 2016: Currently a hardware or software failure would render the system and its processes irretrievable. System has been declared "too old for investment." by management. I wonder what they'll say after seeing this, given its running that whole factory. Buuuuuuuuuut not my problem as I'm leaving here in a week. In the nearly three years I've been here, the whole IT department, including manager have cycled. Twice. The longest standing member will be a contractor who's been here 18 months (who initially came for a three month project but the company couldn't keep permanent staff) and the next longest guy is the IT manager at 4 months. I love it.
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Chickenwalker posted:Whenever someone asks me for help and says "it's not work related" I have the overwhelming urge to respond "then it's not my problem." People have this preconception of IT staffers as having bad attitudes, poor social skills, whatever. It's because we've been ground down by the stupidity and poor social skills of everyone we've dealt with before them. So not work related but can you do my taxes?
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pixaal posted:So not work related but can you do my taxes? I was trying to meet with our CFO about getting pricing into our new system, fucker kept putting me off. He was doing like 3 co-workers taxes at the office. He's done them every year for the past 15 years! GTFO
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Chickenwalker posted:Whenever someone asks me for help and says "it's not work related" I have the overwhelming urge to respond "then it's not my problem." People have this preconception of IT staffers as having bad attitudes, poor social skills, whatever. It's because we've been ground down by the stupidity and poor social skills of everyone we've dealt with before them. When I started out as a dev, I used to care about getting things done before deadlines, working late and not being the first to go home. It's 10 years later now. I clock out at 16:50 and love the sound of deadlines as they go whooshing by. 
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Dillbag posted:same except Avid Connect / NAB I wish  though I went to NAB New York. Though my boss, our solutions architect and our resident grumpy linux admin/developer are going to be there.One of these years I'll go to NAB
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Apr 7, 2017 16:48
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Friday realtalk: Is larches ok? He's gone silent on us.
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Virigoth posted:Friday realtalk: Is larches ok? He's gone silent on us. His ex wife killed him for life insurance. Or his boss locked him in a closet for having a backbone. Or he is in the middle of a month long isp outage.
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He was walking by his old station and got etherblasted
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Virigoth posted:Friday realtalk: Is larches ok? He's gone silent on us. That's none of your concern.
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Virigoth posted:Friday realtalk: Is larches ok? He's gone silent on us. Yes, he's still on irc when he's got free time.
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