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The Fool posted:Nah, just use that one unaltered and tell everyone it's a tribute. Excuse me that is, clearly, the Greatest Picture in the World.
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CitizenKain posted:Corporate was now worried what would happen if this escalated and put a stop to it before someone did a Borat nutsling. My current intranet photo is Rami Malek in Mr Robot but drat that's a good idea
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Thanks Ants posted:If only there was some way of running a report to see what accounts were active There actually isn't. I love Box, but if you want a report of say, the last time every account was logged into, you have to email them and ask for it. It's not part of their built in reports.
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Jun 19, 2017 17:01
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Nobody's commented on my Lync picture that I've had for more than a year
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Jun 19, 2017 17:48
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No complaints for a few years now.
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CitizenKain posted:One of our divisions had a big thing about everyone getting a photo of theirs up in the intranet for some reason. Most people just did a quick cell phone picture in the hall, or got one from home. But a few people were so amazing that they managed to derail this from going company wide. One person used a photo from one of those old west style places. A few others got theirs done high-school yearbook style, so all their photos are them standing in the woods, or looking off into the distance. Three Sysadmin Moon
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Jun 19, 2017 18:37
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Howling at a printer? I can dig it.
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How long does it take to draft up a drat offer letter? It's a month before my contract ends and I'm getting a little anxious.
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CitizenKain posted:One of our divisions had a big thing about everyone getting a photo of theirs up in the intranet for some reason. Most people just did a quick cell phone picture in the hall, or got one from home. But a few people were so amazing that they managed to derail this from going company wide. One person used a photo from one of those old west style places. A few others got theirs done high-school yearbook style, so all their photos are them standing in the woods, or looking off into the distance. 22 Eargesplitten posted:How long does it take to draft up a drat offer letter? It's a month before my contract ends and I'm getting a little anxious.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:How long does it take to draft up a drat offer letter? It's a month before my contract ends and I'm getting a little anxious.
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anthonypants posted:Start looking for work. Let them know, and that it would be irresponsible of you to rest on your laurels while your end date approaches. Unless you have an offer letter in hand. If you don't say that they may assume you don't want to stay.
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At the last minute they'll try to re up your contract
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Thanatosian posted:This is actually a good idea from a security perspective, because it makes it a lot easier to check who somebody is if they claim "oh, I'm X from IT" or "I'm Y from Facilities." I don't have a problem with the idea of having a ID badge at work that is also used on a intranet, I just don't like how we've tried to do the implementation. Badges shouldn't look like they were taken standing in a hallway by someone's shitball phone, then sloppily shoved into a template. Also maybe not just having it printed on cardstock and laminated on the cheapest laminator possible.
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anthonypants posted:Start looking for work. Let them know, and that it would be irresponsible of you to rest on your laurels while your end date approaches. Oh, I have been. That was a quick phone post. I was expressing exasperation. Unfortunately I haven't even gotten a call back from any jobs nearly as good. Going back to helldesk / desktop support after this would be a nightmare. My wife is getting really worried too. January of 16 I was told I was getting converted or my contract was getting extended, then they told me otherwise four days before it was over. I was unemployed for six months. We can't do that again. And if I got stuck with another contract the combination of expensive and lovely health insurance would probably eat half of my pay. 22 Eargesplitten fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Jun 20, 2017 |
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CitizenKain posted:Badges shouldn't look like they were taken standing in a hallway by someone's shitball phone, then sloppily shoved into a template. I work for a subsidiary of a major US company, and my badge looks exactly like that. Our badges are hideous.
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Blue Moonlight posted:I work for a subsidiary of a major US company, and my badge looks exactly like that. Our badges are hideous. Our employee photos were seemingly taken with the exact same process that they use to take mug shots of sex offenders.
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spog posted:Our employee photos were seemingly taken with the exact same process that they use to take mug shots of sex offenders. A company I used to work for has a videoclip of me dressed as a clown at a work party drunk and getting a fruit pie thrown into my face in the 'we are fun' corporate video. It's still on youtube :/
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ID badges and intranet photos dont make any security. I used to have both and my credentials were never checked.
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Most places where I've had ID cards they've also been RFID devices for unlocking doors. The only place I saw anyone actually check them was at a credit reference agency, everywhere else you could just tailgate as long as you had something that looked like an ID card on you. The credit reference agency also had the doors set up so you needed to swipe to get both in and out of each area (tailgated in but swiped out? gently caress you, this door is going to beep at you and security now has an alarm), had proper access controls (it's amazing how many places just give you access to everywhere in a building whether you need it or not) and people actually challenged you to show your ID if they didn't know who you were. My current place has revolving doors that are activated with your ID card, so you can't tailgate. Well, not unless you want to get REALLY cozy with the person you're sharing a door compartment with.
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Another good use for the cards is color coding them. One color is permanent employee, one is visitor, one is contractor.... that way when some Joe Schmoe walks by you can tell who they are by the color of the card.
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poo poo that's pissing me off: We have a number of externally hosted applications. One of them this morning gave a super generic error about a server being unreachable or something. I barely got to my desk this morning when the phone rings; it's our help desk. For reference, the sysadmin group that I am part of is known as "the server team," so naturally we are responsible for every server. In the world.  PEOPLE IN $DEPARTMENT WHO USE $APPLICATION GOT AN ERROR AND THEY SAY THE SERVER IS DOWN FIX ITThe application manager in that department saw the word server, computer helplessness kicked in, and they immediately refused to accept any responsibility for it, even to do something as simple as contact the vendor. Took half an hour of fighting before I convinced them it's not my problem. I may have been extra cranky because I didn't even have a chance to get coffee before the nonsense started.
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Bob Morales posted:Another good use for the cards is color coding them. One color is permanent employee, one is visitor, one is contractor.... that way when some Joe Schmoe walks by you can tell who they are by the color of the card. "Permanent employees, there is a complimentary filet mignon lunch for you in the cafeteria today. Contract employees, yard time has been cancelled, you will not be unshackled in order to make sure the sight of you won't disturb the permanent employees' lunch. Have a nice day!"
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We have good quality photo badges with horrible pictures and RFID, and they get checked by eyeballs every day when entering the site. Can't guarantee the guard is actually verifying the picture or badge number, but that's their job, not mine.  But being a government site stuff like that is to be expected. Badges are necessary in any site that's big enough, you don't want interns to be able to wander into the server farm and start yanking cables trying to fix an issue they're having. You just need to spend money to do the badges and readers properly.
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I remember when I handed out badges. "Eww this picture is gross" Hey guess what that's exactly what you look like. We have to look at that every day. "Hey I punched a hole in my card so I can keep it on my keychain thing" Guess what that's a $6 RFID card and you ruined the wire that goes through the card "Jimbob lost his card in town and it has the company logo on it, someone's going to use the card and break in to the building" Won't jimbob report his card as stolen once he can't you know, clock in or get into the building without being buzzed in? (turns out the answer to that one was no he didn't)
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Probably the best part of orientation was when several people received their badges, where their head neatly occupied the bottom right corner of the photograph that had been taken just an hour before. the cropping was that bad.
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I had a badge that got checked all of four or five times over almost a year of going into server rooms and working on cash registers in some of the country's biggest retailers. I guess $10 an hour isn't enough to give a gently caress.
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Thanatosian posted:Ah, yes, the good ol' Microsoft caste system. My old job was like that. The induction went through this long list of perks for employees that sounded pretty sweet, and made a note at the end that it was only for permanent ones, not contractors like I was.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:My old job was like that. The induction went through this long list of perks for employees that sounded pretty sweet, and made a note at the end that it was only for permanent ones, not contractors like I was. I too worked at a pace like this. Then after they explained the perks, they made it clear that contractors are NEVER converted to direct hires, and the only way to get in was to intern as a fresh college grad with 0 work experience. Still one of the best jobs I've ever had.
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RFC2324 posted:I too worked at a pace like this. Mine was tediously awful. They did say I would most likely get upgraded to fulltime staff after a year there, but I absolutely did not want to last a year there after the first week or two. Been nothing but happy in my current nice quiet NOC job though.
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We don't differentiate between contractors and employees. There's a few all-hands meetings that the contractors aren't invited to, but that's honestly a perk for them because they're usually three hours of boredom to present something which could have been said in five sentences in an email.
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RFC2324 posted:I too worked at a pace like this. I'll take my contractor level pay over those perks any day.
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Gounads posted:I'll take my contractor level pay over those perks any day. We got paid less. It was made 100% clear that we were replaceable and that if we wanted to get paid the big bucks we should have been loyal when we were 20. It wasn't unheard of for a janitor to have a sysadmin fired over nothing, because the janitor was a direct hire while the sysadmin was a contractor. Also, we were called contractors, but were actually employed by an msp who had the contract, which should explain the pay. We were permanently assigned to the client and never dealt with the msp other than collecting a paycheck.
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RFC2324 posted:We got paid less. It was made 100% clear that we were replaceable and that if we wanted to get paid the big bucks we should have been loyal when we were 20. It wasn't unheard of for a janitor to have a sysadmin fired over nothing, because the janitor was a direct hire while the sysadmin was a contractor. While I kind of get why it would get setup like this; holy hell what a mess.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:While I kind of get why it would get setup like this; holy hell what a mess. And, despite the low pay, I still think that was possibly the second best job I have ever had, the best being the company that collapsed 6 months after hiring me away from that one.
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Pissing me off but also not pissing me off: team builders outside of normal hours. On one hand I want to go home, on the other hand go-karts and laser tag.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Pissing me off but also not pissing me off: team builders outside of normal hours. On one hand I want to go home, on the other hand go-karts and laser tag. See, that kind of stuff I could get behind. We just get lame-rear end "growth opportunity lectures".
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We also have company paid happy hours sometimes, although with how cheerful and outgoing I get even one drink in I sometimes worry that I seem really drunk and look bad. Really I just want to see my South African manager with a permanently unhappy face driving a go-kart.
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The only thing I'm kinda of sad about $newJob is the explicit banning of alcohol from most company events. But given the cultural history of alcoholism, I can't really be mad about it.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Pissing me off but also not pissing me off: team builders outside of normal hours. On one hand I want to go home, on the other hand go-karts and laser tag. I am saddened by this being two separate activities, most likely. Because Laser-Karts, with bumper-car-like untippable rides and postapocalyptic chopped photon cannons would be fukken awesome. WITNESS ME!  Points for vehicle contact, points for shooting driver/passenger, fewer points for vehicle hits, "destructible" foam terrain features that can be run into or shot... ...thinking about this is much more productive (and entertaining) that actually doing my job.
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:I am saddened by this being two separate activities, most likely. I am now sad this is not a thing that exists.
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