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MC Fruit Stripe posted:When I was a teenager, I dated a girl whose dad had Money. His home office included a private bathroom which opened directly into office. I mention this because this is the only scenario, your private residence, in which your bathroom should be opening into your office. I thought my highschool girlfriends dad who was also rich as gently caress was weird. Top bloke with any and all toys and not a dickbag at all. Although he did keep Uranium in his home office desk drawer.
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Humphreys posted:I thought my highschool girlfriends dad who was also rich as gently caress was weird. Top bloke with any and all toys and not a dickbag at all. Although he did keep Uranium in his home office desk drawer. Dude, if I could get away with it, I'd have a chunk of DU in my desk drawer as well.
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Jun 29, 2017 09:23
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Jun 29, 2017 11:48
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More like WGU.
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Jun 29, 2017 11:50
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You can get pieces of uranium ore from Amazon. The reviews are pretty funny. https://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM
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I'm watching a clusterfuck unfold and am having a hard time giving a poo poo. My boss got his dates wrong and never bothered to follow up, so a project requiring on-site work that was to be completed in October actually has to be done in three weeks! Whoops! While on-site we were going to be replacing APs and switches, getting rid of a hodgepodge of systems and installing Ubiquiti products. Boss got the equipment in last week and, without a plan or consulting the team or doing any prep whatsoever, attempts to install it at one of our locations. He's at the site until close to midnight, and then comes back the next day at 5am, works until they open around noon. Can't get it to work. He's convinced the device is actually defective, so now we're waiting on a replacement to come in. Current time to deadline: 2 weeks. This morning he races into my office, breathless, after being on the phone for over an hour. The salesperson at an MSP we've used for years, who always promises the moon and never delivers, has convinced him that we should instead buy an Aerohive solution from them. He's all excited, thinking they are going to deliver some magical turn-key solution that he can just plug in and make it work. We already have Aerohives in a number of our sites, boss has always hated them, and we've had a lot of issues with them in the past. Also he thinks we could make it work within our two week window. The problem is my boss is a walking example of Dunning-Krurger. He couldn't get the Ubiquiti working because he doesn't know how. He never asks for help and also feels threatened when I demonstrate a mastery of knowledge in a topic that he does not. The last six months or so our relationship has gotten really toxic, and about a month ago he dragged me into his office and started to be verbally abusive. I am actively working to gtfo right now, but meanwhile I am watching this and documenting everything. I'm on vacation next week, my guess is I come back to find out the wireless project is DOA and instead of completing a number of projects I'll be driving 8 hours and spending 5 days away from home so that I can plug in 3 printers.
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Jun 29, 2017 16:02
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This doesn't piss me off, more like fills my black heart with amusement. I came in a couple of days ago to see one of my coworkers looking at the 5 bay Drobo that we use for backups. All the lights on the front were flashing red which according to the Drobo site means your drives are dead, replace them now. I tell him to contact our IT guy to see what he wants to do and that I'm not touching it. The IT guy came in yesterday morning and looked at the Drobo for a couple of minutes. He then asks if I remember him tells us all that the Drobo isn't reliable anymore and to start using the other NAS we have, which I do remember. So the NAS that they continued to use is probably dead and everything on it is lost. What was on it you might ask? Only DVD images for every meeting we have had for the last couple of years. Why they wanted to have dvd images instead of leaving them as .mp4s I don't know. Total drive size lost was about 20 TB. What makes this even more amusing is the other NAS we have is only about 25% full and could have held everything that is now lost.
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Jun 29, 2017 16:27
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You gotta be a special kind of stupid to let every drive go red before asking for help. Most of my users flip out when a single drive is reporting a single reallocated sector, which is also annoying but at least it means I don't have to deal with a sobbing student that just lost their thesis.
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Jun 29, 2017 16:30
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Our sister company who rents a rack in our DC has three out of four drives dead in one of their servers. It's been like that for two years. I told (and reminded) them several times when I noticed the first drive had gone, but I guess the server wasn't that important. 
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Jun 29, 2017 16:35
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How much you wanna bet it's mission critical?
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Jun 29, 2017 16:43
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xzzy posted:You gotta be a special kind of stupid to let every drive go red before asking for help. I don't think the drives themselves are dead, I think the box itself is dead. One more reason to get onto our county network (we're a government tv station) and back everything up to their SAN along with getting away from using consumer level NAS devices here locally. But they don't want to be on the county net, they don't want the county knowing what internet sites they are going to. Well their official reason to have a separate network is that the county would block some of the sites that they use. So we are paying way too much to have our own separate network just so they can go to whatever sites they want.
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Jun 29, 2017 16:55
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My absolute favorite backup customer is the one who notices failed or failing drives, signs up for a backup service (because they didn't already have backups), and in a panic tries to back everything up as quickly as possible. Then their whole server shits the bed because they put a massive load on the disks that were failing. And then they want to blame the backup software. I deal with several of these people a year. I actually sent in written testimony for a legal case in early 2016 for one of these...
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Sirotan posted:I'm watching a clusterfuck unfold and am having a hard time giving a poo poo. My boss got his dates wrong and never bothered to follow up, so a project requiring on-site work that was to be completed in October actually has to be done in three weeks! Whoops! While on-site we were going to be replacing APs and switches, getting rid of a hodgepodge of systems and installing Ubiquiti products. Boss got the equipment in last week and, without a plan or consulting the team or doing any prep whatsoever, attempts to install it at one of our locations. He's at the site until close to midnight, and then comes back the next day at 5am, works until they open around noon. Can't get it to work. He's convinced the device is actually defective, so now we're waiting on a replacement to come in. Current time to deadline: 2 weeks. If there's a wireless deployment that can be finished in under 2 weeks it's ubiquiti. To buy them, spend a day smashing it into place, fail, and buy a different product when under a time crunch is loving asinine. I'll put decent money that he's running into a VLAN issue and the Ubiquiti poo poo is just fine.
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Jun 29, 2017 17:38
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Judge Schnoopy posted:If there's a wireless deployment that can be finished in under 2 weeks it's ubiquiti. To buy them, spend a day smashing it into place, fail, and buy a different product when under a time crunch is loving asinine. No enterprise wireless solution should take longer to actually deploy than running cable, mounting the APs, and pushing the pre-planned, pre-generated configurations to the devices. But it does require doing all the heavy lifting on the backend prior to going on site - getting a heat map or generating a predictive heat map based on the floorpan and building materials and deriving placement, channel and power settings and cabling runs based on that. But even that doesn't take very long (the biggest delay will be if you outsource cabling and hardware installation) This reeks of "I have no plan, no configs and architecture. I'm just going to mount poo poo and hope for the best"
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And to that point, if at any point you can simply plug in a wireless device and start serving network connections, your network security is a flimsy loving joke and a stiff breeze could topple your infrastructure. To expect any network device to be "plug and play" is to misunderstand every basic security measure in a modern network design.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:I'll put decent money that he's running into a VLAN issue and the Ubiquiti poo poo is just fine. I'm pretty sure this is the issue as well. Our network infrastructure is a complete disaster, band-aids on top of fixes on top of stupid decisions made a decade ago. This is his area of responsibility, and since my attempts lately at involving myself in "his" projects that are stalled has only been met with yelling and swearing and being told I have an attitude, I am going to sit on my hands and keep my head down. Judge Schnoopy posted:And to that point, if at any point you can simply plug in a wireless device and start serving network connections, your network security is a flimsy loving joke and a stiff breeze could topple your infrastructure. To expect any network device to be "plug and play" is to misunderstand every basic security measure in a modern network design. Recently we had a vendor in to give us a quote on a networking infrastructure overhaul. The guy just did a quick network scan, and found out that my boss had set up a separate network for all our EHR applications/servers on a public IP range. You would think that would be embarrassing enough, but he later shared with me that (he is a contractor) he had to go change a bunch of IPs at other clients too, since he had used the same ranges elsewhere. Should give you a good feel for how the rest of it is set up. Sirotan fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Jun 29, 2017 |
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Was getting a closer look at the plans for our new branch location. Found the electrical layout and noticed they have it marked for the telecom/network/server rack to go back in a corner of the warehouse area. The non-temperature controlled warehouse area. Exposed for everyone to touch and mess with. Where it will undoubtedly get buried and have stuff leaning on it. Umm.. yeah, that's not going to work. stevewm fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Jun 29, 2017 |
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Jun 29, 2017 18:52
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I love getting emails that my timesheet for week of 6/30 is overdue. Wanna bet it's not? Source: I own a calendar. If you want me to document my time, I'm not sure I can do it before that time actually occurs.
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Jun 29, 2017 20:12
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Stupid voicmail system doesn't recognize blank or 1 second of silence voicemails If I had a dollar for every time I wasted a minute signing into VM and checking a blank message...
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Bob Morales posted:Stupid voicmail system doesn't recognize blank or 1 second of silence voicemails Stupid people that let it ring all the way to the voicemail system, listen to the "leave a voicemail message", and then hang up immediately or heavy breathe into it, then hang up, are annoying.
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Jun 29, 2017 20:32
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I love getting emails that my timesheet for week of 6/30 is overdue. A good employee would know what they're going to be doing tomorrow. 
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Jun 29, 2017 20:33
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Turned my voicemail off eight months ago, nobody has said anything about it.
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Thanks Ants posted:Turned my voicemail off eight months ago, nobody has said anything about it.  I'm sure the thought process is something along the lines of 'oh well he's in IT, I guess it's supposed to be that way'MC Fruit Stripe posted:If you want me to document my time, I'm not sure I can do it before that time actually occurs. MC, 6/30/17 - 25 hours (estimated)
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poo poo that pisses me off? Having to go to work tomorrow for one last time. I had a 6 month contract that ends tomorrow and they would have to offer me an insane amount of money to stay a day longer. Adieu, mr.wankshaft who could not keep from berating and patronizing every member of a six person team so hard that 3 of us are going, 2 promoted to other tasks and me quitting. I was told by my colleques that I am the fourth person to quit within 2 years because of that arsehole, who wonders why he was not considered for a promotion (the people he would be working with don't want to put up with his attitude and lack of manners) and 2 people who started after him got promoted past him. Well, after 6 months of AD, SAP, Lotus Notes and the Lord alone knows what else in the line of skills that will help me find better jobs (3 interviews already) I finally did it, I 
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MF_James posted:Stupid people that let it ring all the way to the voicemail system, listen to the "leave a voicemail message", and then hang up immediately or heavy breathe into it, then hang up, are annoying. Not as much as the people who listen to the entire message and the start yelling hello as if you're there.
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Voicemails should be under a minute long, and start with saying your phone number twice.
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Thanatosian posted:Voicemails should be under a minute long, and start with saying your phone number twice. I announce I'm going to say my phone number, then say it, say I'm going to repeat it, then do so.
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Me to client: "Please do X, because alternative Y would require us to do troubleshooting for an unknown amount of time." Client to me: "Why can't you just log in to our system and do Y?"
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"Can't you just fix it?" 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhy7dXWjpAA
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poo poo not pissing me off: They retired two wheeled workstations and they still had two Microsoft Wheel Mouse Opticals in good condition 
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Dick Trauma posted:"Can't you just fix it?" I got a request for a change in a report I made. It would require me basically tricking pivot tables into behavior they were never designed for, if it's even possible. It would take me weeks to figure out, assuming that I could. I'm going to be giving a diplomatic no, but Monday after next I get to sit that woman down next to me as I do my weekly update, show her exactly what I do, and shortly doing those updates will be her team's responsibility. Then she gets to see how easy "just a small change" is. I might make one change that could simplify it for them, but it would require a pretty big overhaul so I might not have time to do it. Conversion semi-conclusion: They said the max for the range was 65k, didn't seem willing to budge, so I accepted it. Not super happy, but the benefits are great, and it will be nice to have PTO and holidays again. There's one benefit in particular that I'm not going to mention because it's so unusual that it would stand out to anyone that knows the company, but it's in the multiple thousands of dollars right out the gate. Until my health benefits kick in, it will be a $500/mo raise, after that it will be about a $440/mo raise thanks to the FSA being tax advantaged. We'll have to see what the year end brings, as well. I qualify for the year end bonus (everyone gets one) and consideration for a raise.
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flosofl posted:No enterprise wireless solution should take longer to actually deploy than running cable, mounting the APs, and pushing the pre-planned, pre-generated configurations to the devices. But it does require doing all the heavy lifting on the backend prior to going on site - getting a heat map or generating a predictive heat map based on the floorpan and building materials and deriving placement, channel and power settings and cabling runs based on that. But even that doesn't take very long (the biggest delay will be if you outsource cabling and hardware installation) There's been a lot of stupid poo poo posted in this thread over the years, but that might take the cake.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I love getting emails that my timesheet for week of 6/30 is overdue. I worked at a company once that had a timesheet you filled in for every six minutes of the day. Usually we would work on a project for most of the day so just enter the project number and copy paste down the table. One day I was in an especially cranky mood and decided to just write: 0800 - Reviewing Timesheet 0806 - Updating Timesheet etc for the rest of the day. It went down well luckily and got a few laughs from my boss. (I also submitted an accurate one - I'm a oval office, but not that much of one)
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DigitalMocking posted:There's been a lot of stupid poo poo posted in this thread over the years, but that might take the cake. How so?
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DigitalMocking posted:There's been a lot of stupid poo poo posted in this thread over the years, but that might take the cake. lol. sure thing. Sorry you can't plan ahead and have configs and architecture locked in place before you send the hardware on site for deployment. Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Jun 30, 2017 |
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Humphreys posted:I worked at a company once that had a timesheet you filled in for every six minutes of the day. 8.0-8.5 conference call 8.5-9.5 drive to customer 9.5-11.3 customer meeting 11.3-12.3 lunch Etc
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I hate having to document my time. You've asked for work done by x, i've done that, piss off. I might be a bit biased though, considering every time i've had to document my time I always have to back it up with why i'm doing x and not y (priorities is the answer) and it always seems like i'm having to defend myself.
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dogstile posted:I hate having to document my time. You've asked for work done by x, i've done that, piss off. We're doing it solely as a "justify increasing headcount" thing for my department. A couple of us are splitting off to spend 100% of our time on project and design work, so the rest are documenting how their time is spent so we can get the C-Levels to sign off on increasing our personnel budget. But gently caress having to "log in as time clock" crap and having time based metrics tied to performance. It really would be a round peg/square hole kind of thing and I think half the team would walk if they tried that crap anyway. But that's really a distant worry. My boss only wants those numbers to increase our headcount. As long we don't fall down and stop delivering on our responsibilities, no one really gives any kind of shits about schedules or detailed to the minute time accounting. I consider myself very lucky since there are architects in other departments that can't take a poo poo without charging the time to some customer's project bucket.
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flosofl posted:lol. sure thing. Yeah. The only time it should even be a thing is if you've never done a wireless buildout before and are new to the process. The thing I see companies continually fail on is the post-implementation testing before going live. Testing typically isn't close to adequate and poo poo always gets missed. Edit: Or if your facilities group is full of fuckups that can't provide an accurate layout of duct work, wiring, etc. Wrath of the Bitch King fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Jun 30, 2017 |
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