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Sirotan posted:It's official you guys. I signed the offer letter for my new job. Starting the week after Thanksgiving. Can't WAIT to taste your boss' tears on Monday and hear the lamentations of his Rock on!
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poo poo pissing me off: we're using KACE and paying a premium for it, while there's an unused SCCM license supplied by our main company that we can't touch because reasons.
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Pissing me off: A number of our suppliers will ONLY send invoices for the poo poo load of parts/equipment I need to enter into our system and allocate for further shipping to one specific email account I do not have access to. Usually these invoices are forwarded to me but the person involved is on holidays for a month. No one else maintains the account. I made a small request to jump on the account before they left and set up a auto-farward rule to theses specific emails and was knocked back citing "there are things on that account we don't want you to access". I'm simply after specific emails from X supplier with Y subject...not nuke codes. Not pissing me off: Bosses finally caved in to my payrise increase request and my protests about unpaid overtime. They set an arbitrary $ amount each week which was a happy medium deal. What really doesn't piss me off is how instead of another line on my payslips, they have divided it into my hourly rate. So when I get the usual 4:30PM on a friday question about working saturday, I get 1.5 time pay and double time pay initally and it ramps even higher with the 'new' hourly rate. Humphreys fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Nov 3, 2017 |
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Sirotan posted:It's official you guys. I signed the offer letter for my new job. Starting the week after Thanksgiving.  I keep saying that the time to change jobs is when you feel comfortable in your current role. If you can't learn anything more from your environment or coworkers, it's time to advance. Feeling like you're in over your head is a good thing.
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Sirotan posted:It's official you guys. I signed the offer letter for my new job. Starting the week after Thanksgiving. Congrats  
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I suggest writing the words "I QUIT" in gasoline on his desk and setting it alight. Write it in lemon juice on a piece of paper Then cut the power and leave a lit candle on his desk
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Partycat posted:Write it in lemon juice on a piece of paper Great idea. Urine does the same job and would be more satisfying, though.
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Pissing me off: my tech lead. He was hired to provide expertise with a technology the rest of the company didn't have, and by all indications he knows his stuff. Problem is we're no longer going to use that technology due to office politics, and he apparently needs his hand held for absolutely everything else. He takes all the day-long meetings I used to which is fine by me, but when it comes to actually doing anything it's either me doing it alone or helping him through it. I feel sorry for the guy because he's had a rug pulled from under him but come on. Do a google and read a documentation for once in your goddamn life.
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Unless one of my guys is at training, or a stage 4 cancer patient, I'm struggling to understand why they'd have day long meetings.
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I see some of the guys at work do this, spend all day on a webex with clients fixing something and while I'm sure it does wonders for your numbers I'd want to die by hour 4.
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hihifellow posted:I see some of the guys at work do this, spend all day on a webex with clients fixing something and while I'm sure it does wonders for your numbers I'd want to die by hour 4. A few times I've had to babysit vendors on our servers. It took me an embarassingly long time to realize I should open up the remote session for them on a TS or something so I can still screw around on my workstation.
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I joked about our NBN a while ago but:quote:Active cables haven't been affected, so there has been no loss of service (as of yet) due to cockatoo attacks; the ends of cables carrying active traffic are protected by a plastic cages. https://arstechnica.com/information...k&ICID=ref_fark
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Unless one of my guys is at training, or a stage 4 cancer patient, I'm struggling to understand why they'd have day long meetings. They're not regular meetings, but the business operates on quarterly objectives so there's weeks full of meetings in the run up to each quarter. Occasionally they're day-long meetings, more often it's a day full of meetings that might as well be.
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Nov 5, 2017 12:40
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Things pissing me off: guy breaking the overhead bin trying to shove his clearly oversized bag in. Things not pissing me off: going to AWS headquarters for meetings this week. My body is ready for the info dump.
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A friend of mine got hired in here in the marketing department. She's doing email design, and hasn't quite done enough to realize you're not going to get every email to look the same in every email client...but she's pushing. I can only help so much with HTML/CSS, but I've done enough emails to know simpler is better. Now she wants Photoshop because "when I screenshot this image it looks like crap, I need to do it with Photoshop". Great, you can use one of the Macs in marketing that have Adobe CC. Tried to get her to use one of those when she first started but she didn't want to. Gonna be a purchase request for a iMac in by the end of the day I already know it.
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We have software that is really slow and will drop connection if you aren't on the same LAN. We already have remote app setup for it, it's great. They now want it to run on a Kindle. I know I can get remote desktop working, but is it possible to have just the app on Android? If not a full remote desktop session is fine. This software isn't even going to be remotely user friendly on a small touch screen but sales manager loves her Kindle. Currently having her painstakingly decide which games to remove so I can install VPN and Remote Desktop. (Personal device). It's a 5GB ad supported model, which is making this a giant pain in the rear end. No I'm not going to pick which games to uninstall no deleting that book didn't free up the 1GB of required space it freed up 5MB, about 0.5% of what we need. I bet remote app would probably be even bigger but displaying a full desktop on a tiny screen seems really wasteful.
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Bob Morales posted:A friend of mine got hired in here in the marketing department. She's doing email design, and hasn't quite done enough to realize you're not going to get every email to look the same in every email client...but she's pushing. I can only help so much with HTML/CSS, but I've done enough emails to know simpler is better. Send the email with a single image, that's how you get uniformly rejected.
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The MS version of Remote Desktop does RemoteApp https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/clients/remote-desktop-android
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Pissing me off today is FirstAmerican.. They are a (now) large card processor that took over JP Morgan/Chase when they got out of the processing business. They are a bunch of loving idiots... We have setup 3 new locations since they took over. Every single time they setup an account, they screw up some portion of the setup. Either sending it to the wrong checking account, setting the account to the wrong time zone, not setting up settlement, etc.. The best is when they replay transactions.. On 2 occasions now they have submitted all transactions for a day to VISA twice, causing every customer that used a VISA card at our locations that day to be charged twice. They will claim to have fixed it, but we end up with a bunch of customers that never receive the refund and we have to refund manually. They will also randomly hold settlements with no reason why. If there is one transaction in question, they will hold the ENTIRE BATCH and any after it. And due to vendor lock-in, we have no choice but to use them.
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COO is bugging the gently caress out of me. He's usually cool but he's been weird lately about stuff. 8:25am  Is D coming up here to show the new Engineering manager his computer?Well, D's on vacation so M is coming up there. He's got it on his schedule for 8:30 So is M coming up here?He's got the schedule, did we set the clocks an hour and 5 minutes at head Saturday? 10:35am (user puts in ticket asking for additional status field on an incident) 11:00am Did you guys get K or P's ticket?About what? I don't know, something they need that they can't seeWell that's helpful. Let me call them... Well....?It's something I need to talk to accounting about since it has to do with invoicing...can't add it until they approve it. They've been in a meeting all morning so we should have it fixed by mid-afternoon. 
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Nov 6, 2017 17:44
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My boss likes to do that to me. 8:30: customer emails about a problem 8:31: I email the group that I have created a case for the customer (this is required in our department and this manager gets these emails too) 8:32: I call the customer 8:40: I close the case 9:00: "Hey Tommy, did you see that customer emailed about issue?" 
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He doesn't jump in unless someone whines/cries to him
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Jeoh posted:Send the email with a single image, that's how you get uniformly rejected. "Sure, this may impact our deliverability statistics, but it actually looks like it does on the boss' computer!"
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If anyone else is having major issues with Comcast today, it's not just you!! https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2017-November/010891.html Looks like today was a good day to put in my notice after all. Edit: looks like the problem might be upstream, at level3
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Sirotan posted:If anyone else is having major issues with Comcast today, it's not just you!! https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2017-November/010891.html
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The Macaroni posted:Back when I worked for a mass email SAAS vendor, I had to talk a client out of taking screenshots of Word documents and placing them in emails. The amount of this poo poo I had to deal with at my old jobs was miserable. That plus one customer who refused to accept that they couldn't have a + in the middle of their domain name.
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Sirotan posted:If anyone else is having major issues with Comcast today, it's not just you!! https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2017-November/010891.html Explains why the office connection just went to crap. Edit: downdetector.com says just about everything spiked recently so it's pretty widespread. hihifellow fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Nov 6, 2017 |
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Nov 6, 2017 19:47
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Not pissing me off: a user who's been a dick to me from the start reported that his laptop wouldn't boot. Would only go partway through Safe Mood boot before hanging at PNPCLASS.SYS, and wouldn't finish booting from a Windows 7 repair disc. And then it started reporting that the boot media was missing.  I popped it out and put it in a USB enclosure and Windows helpfully offered to reformat it. So that's it for that drive. Even if the SSD itself is okay this is what warranties are for so a new one will be here in a day or so. On top of that I saw yet another revision of the org chart. I'm on it again, but Operations has disappeared! For some reason HR and Bill are under Accounting, and the CFO as I suspected is gone. They aren't even planning to have a single person managing accounting. I was listed as reporting to a business development guy who's been here a long time and we get along alright. He can't be worse than my current boss. They still have my title flagged as SVP>MGR because they're intending to knock me down several rungs for reasons. As usual with this company's systemic inability to make decisions I'll believe all this when I see it.
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Nov 6, 2017 20:03
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hihifellow posted:Explains why the office connection just went to crap. Yeah Comcast confirmed it: https://twitter.com/comcastcares/status/927605656248451072?linkId=44389482 Bunch of people saying the issue is a Level3 backbone in Chicago.
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Company keeps doing variations of the following. 1. Support team cant service customers. Staff numbers, training, the usual. So tickets sit around. 2. Segments customers into priority based on spend. Segment. Importance. 3. Some super important ones go right to the top. Sev/Tier1. 4. Other customers Sev/Tier1. 5. Ones that complain Sev/Tier1. 6. Ones that "need some love" or are due for a sales push or renewal Sev/Tier1. Why cant cunts understand that when everything is top priority nothing is.
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Comcast's Twitter account is so ironically named.. After many interactions with it, I can tell you for a fact, that they absolutely don't care.
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Uh oh, azures resources are starting to show issues in a few regions, hopefully it goes away soon.
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stevewm posted:Comcast's Twitter account is so ironically named.. After many interactions with it, I can tell you for a fact, that they absolutely don't care. It cares just enough to get you to go away so it can go back to pretending that it isn't a 3rd world telecom running in a 1st world country by simple expedient of bribing politicians and buying out competitors.
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Sirotan posted:Yeah Comcast confirmed it: https://twitter.com/comcastcares/status/927605656248451072?linkId=44389482 It was Level3 everywhere, seemingly where they were connecting to NTT. I was seeing it in DC and Chicago when pinging sites in Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Houston from Cleveland. Comcast changed their routing around 2:30 Eastern and everything suddenly started working well.
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My company just canceled 401k matching 'for the rest of the year'. Extra motivation to leave.
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Peachfart posted:My company just canceled 401k matching 'for the rest of the year'. Extra motivation to leave. ... and soon, paychecks!
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Pixelboy posted:... and soon, paychecks! Wouldn't surprise me.
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Peachfart posted:My company just canceled 401k matching 'for the rest of the year'. Extra motivation to leave. Run awaaaaaaaaaay
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Something not pissing me off today: Windows Server Licensing I've been doing some testing with containerization. Specifically to see if some applications hosted on Windows Server could be containerized in Server 2016. And when looking to see how licensing would be handled, I found this gem: quote:While no features from the Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard edition have been removed, we have added features like Nano Server and unlimited Windows Server containers to the Windows Server 2016 Standard edition. Emphasis mine.
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The Fool posted:Something not pissing me off today: Windows Server Licensing Kubernetes and mesos have alpha support for this. If I had to do anything with Windows I like that I can use existing schedulers.
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