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RFC2324 posted:after asking i googled and found people piping /dev/random into it as an alarm clock Yeah that's my 2003 experience with it. You could also pipe it into the display and watch things get all hosed up, or pipe it into memory and see how long it takes before your machine crashes.
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mllaneza posted:You want a Bash prompt, tail -f that SOB. Bonus points for piping it through grep and making the computer go beep when you get a success or fail (I'd actually like to see that code). Honestly, if that was an option, I'd do it. The drat thing is all GUI based and even the log sucks rear end. I'd settle for the old way where it told me what the gently caress it was doing at that moment but we can't have nice things that give us information. 
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Dick Trauma posted:This never fails to make me laugh.
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anthonypants posted:I like to imagine the sound it's making. I like to think of it putt-putting across the room like a boat
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anthonypants posted:I like to imagine the sound it's making. Always reminds me of the Ty-D-Bol man... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JJWBdelpeA
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"Don't mind me, just trawling fot bitcoins." <burbleburbleburble>
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Yesterday I received verbal notice that a new employee is starting on Tuesday. As of 1pm today (Friday) the employee still hasn't been entered in the HR system and the office is closing at 3pm. This essentially means that there is no way any of his accounts will be created before start of business on Tuesday, and he won't have working e-mail until Tuesday afternoon. I've also just received an e-mail from the new employees boss stating that she won't even be in the office for first two days the new employee is here.
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Ain't gonna do poo poo anyway. Give him some paper clips to play with
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I think we had a conversation about that in the Tickets thread a few days ago.
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The Fool posted:Yesterday I received verbal notice that a new employee is starting on Tuesday. See as infuriating as this is, and lord knows it's infuriating as hell when you get fifteen newhires on the last week before the holidays all starting Jan 2nd... but man it would really suck to be a newhire and not have your equipment ready. Like that just has to be an awful experience for the new person, and makes your company look really bad, and it baffles me how the newhire's manager just doesn't give a poo poo. You hired someone! Clearly you think they're worth something, and yet you can't be bothered to tell IT that they need their laptops, accounts, etc all set up? It just boggles my mind.
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They gave us plenty of notice, my issue is that there are a certain number of steps that need to happen in the hr system before the user accounts are created. Essentially, as far as hr is concerned, the guy is not even hired yet Icing on the cake, on my way out the door today I went to drop off a freshly provisioned laptop and facilities still has the guys office torn apart and nothing is plugged in.
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The Fool posted:Yesterday I received verbal notice that a new employee is starting on Tuesday. Yeah, I don't understand why people are so lazy with new hires. I often don't hear people need setups or gear unless 1.They've already started and are dead in the water 2. I happened to pass by that department and they remember to tell me a couple days in advance. It's like it's a big secret or something. My site manager called us Wednesday saying we need to have 10 computers ready by Tuesday for an office. WTF? We pushed back because of course we will as we have other work to do between now and then, and she talked them down to 5. Why she didn't talk them down when she heard without even needing to ask us is another question. She's aware of our workload and manpower issues, it's a daily concern. I call the manager of that department, she doesn't care if 5 come in by EOB Tuesday because nobody's gonna start that day. Cool, more time. Go to that department to stage gear so I can GTFO early. They don't even have furniture for the computers to sit on in those offices, will not have people hired for some time, and only needed one really.  I don't understand how a requirement of 10 computers by Tuesday became oh if you could have just one set up that would be great, but no rush. I sent an email to everyone involved apprising them of exactly what the situation is and to set the correct expectations and requirements. Why is the desktop computer janitor coordinating better than 2 people who've held the title for about a decade? Got to go home early and made pasta aglio e olio for lunch at least.
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skooma512 posted:
It sounds more like "one computer maybe by Tuesday" somehow turned into "10 by Tuesday"... probably because someone mentioned ALL of next months hirings shortly after remembering to start a computer request.
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skooma512 posted:Yeah, I don't understand why people are so lazy with new hires. You just have to setup computers it's not like you have actually do anything
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Bob Morales posted:You just have to setup computers it's not like you have actually do anything For those people I have always wanted to set up a script to make their PC as difficult as possible to use, without breaking anything.
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The Fool posted:Yesterday I received verbal notice that a new employee is starting on Tuesday. Do we work together for the same place? I had a new person who started today and I didn't get notified until around 3:30 yesterday afternoon. Thankfully I had equipment ready but they didn't have any logins or other stuff set up yet, so the person's boss was harping on me about them not being able to work until almost 11am. Not my fault that like half the office is out for the holidays until the middle of next week, making GBS threads on me or complaining to my boss doesn't change that or make the process go faster. On the upside at least the new hire was nice even though their boss is a oval office...
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Zil posted:For those people I have always wanted to set up a script to make their PC as difficult as possible to use, without breaking anything. Set a schedule to change the power settings from 100% CPU to 10% max cpu when they're out of the office, on battery power, or after normal support hours. make it randomy trigger for 5 minutes or so then go back to normal.
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The Iron Rose posted:See as infuriating as this is, and lord knows it's infuriating as hell when you get fifteen newhires on the last week before the holidays all starting Jan 2nd... but man it would really suck to be a newhire and not have your equipment ready. At my last job (a regional hospital/medical group) I didn’t have any credentials for the first 3 weeks or so. I didn’t have my administrative credentials for even longer. One guy I worked with said it took the headquarters IT 6 months to get his. Most of that job was manually imaging laptops and desktops, a few dozen a day. They didn’t have any sort of batch image automation. Boot to command line, run a half dozen commands, load the image off a network location, repeat. I had a KVM at least, so I could have eight going (plus 2-4 laptops) at a time. I still had plenty of time for shitposting, though. I think I did one actual ticket in the three months I was there. I never even got credentials for the ticketing system. It was image computers, pack up old stock for shipping, replace old computers in carts, and decom old hard drives in our HIPAA compliant, super secure rolling pelican case secured by a bike cable lock.
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My current job didn't even start the background check process until after I got hired and I filled out a webform explicitly requesting them to do so so I could get an ID badge and actually get into the building. Security guards gave me some serious sideways looks every time I showed up in the morning and had to ask for a visitor pass so I could visit myself in my cubicle and actually get to work.
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Sheep posted:My current job didn't even start the background check process until after I got hired and I filled out a webform explicitly requesting them to do so so I could get an ID badge and actually get into the building. Yeah, you were just supposed to keep the visitor pass until you got your official one.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Yeah, you were just supposed to keep the visitor pass until you got your official one. Where I work, visitor passes are good for one day, during business hours. If you're going to be there multiple days, you get one every day. If it's longer term, maybe get a contractor badge (but those may be just as difficult to get process-wise as an employee badge).
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Yeah, you were just supposed to keep the visitor pass until you got your official one. Nope, you must return them when you exit the building. If they go unreturned then the host gets a call, and as I have no phone (still), security comes knocking and it becomes "an issue" when they can't find you because you've left for the day. It's just government incompetence really. E: and i am a major contributor to said incompetence. Sheep fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Dec 30, 2017 |
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Proteus Jones posted:Where I work, visitor passes are good for one day, during business hours. If you're going to be there multiple days, you get one every day. If it's longer term, maybe get a contractor badge (but those may be just as difficult to get process-wise as an employee badge). Sheep posted:Nope, you must return them when you exit the building. If they go unreturned then the host gets a call, and as I have no phone (still), security comes knocking and it becomes "an issue" when they can't find you because you've left for the day. I am bad at jokes.
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Proteus Jones posted:Where I work, visitor passes are good for one day, during business hours. If you're going to be there multiple days, you get one every day. If it's longer term, maybe get a contractor badge (but those may be just as difficult to get process-wise as an employee badge). I used to contract for maybe 2-3 days per month per site for a bunch of mining companies, after a while security would just wave my vehicle through because they were to lazy to sit me down, have me fill out paperwork, watch the site induction and company policies. Went well until I was bringing someone from corporate on site on a field trip. Pulled over, all the induction tests and the drug test. The corporate was flagged straight away with a bunch of poo poo in his system. And was forced to stay at the gate for 12 hours until I finished (gently caress him, I'm doing my job THEN I'm taking you back to camp). 'Camp' for those who don't know is (at least in Australia) generally an awesome place, get your own room with bathroom, at least one messhall where you can order your steaks/chicken/fish/whatever to your liking while you pig out at the buffet. Also a bar, tennis courts, cricket/football pitches, gyms with trainers. It was always like a luxury getaway for me (apart from the work). This corporate bloke was so removed from the reality of the industry here that he packed tins of beans and spaghetti thinking that we were actually going camping under the stars for a week.
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Sheep posted:My current job didn't even start the background check process until after I got hired and I filled out a webform explicitly requesting them to do so so I could get an ID badge and actually get into the building. A lot of places don't bother starting the background check until you start just to save on costs. Day one no shows are common enough that it's a decent saving. On a related note, when I got a job offer earlier this year and went to fill out the paperwork I realised that my then current employer was providing the background checks for the new one. I had to ask them not to start the checks until I'd handed my notice in as I really didn't want my boss finding out from anyone but me.
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Humphreys posted:This corporate bloke was so removed from the reality of the industry here that he packed tins of beans and spaghetti thinking that we were actually going camping under the stars for a week. Should have maintained the illusion, now that he knows the peons aren't slumming it you know that's gonna be a cost cut and a bonus for someone for saving money
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:Should have maintained the illusion, now that he knows the peons aren't slumming it you know that's gonna be a cost cut and a bonus for someone for saving money Doesn't matter, got fired on account of the 0% rule on drugs/alcohol on sites 
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poo poo pissing me off: 2017 had to give me a final gently caress you. At 8pm my friend lost his fight with leukemia. 
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ratbert90 posted:poo poo pissing me off: 2017 had to give me a final gently caress you. At 8pm my friend lost his fight with leukemia. Dude. So sorry for your loss.
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ratbert90 posted:poo poo pissing me off: 2017 had to give me a final gently caress you. At 8pm my friend lost his fight with leukemia. drat man, I'm sorry to hear that. My condolences.
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ratbert90 posted:poo poo pissing me off: 2017 had to give me a final gently caress you. At 8pm my friend lost his fight with leukemia. Sorry rb90.
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ratbert90 posted:poo poo pissing me off: 2017 had to give me a final gently caress you. At 8pm my friend lost his fight with leukemia. Seriously, sorry man. I wish that read 2117...
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The Twinkie Czar posted:Nothing sets the tone for a new job like not having access and credentials until well after your training period is over. One of our junior techs has been randomly offboarded twice in nine months. He can get a lot done with a visitor's badge, but not having him in email or ticketing sucks.
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poo poo pissing me off: me and my dumb rear end. Upgraded my hardware, put in a new motherboard, new CPU, new RAM, yada yada, everything works fine. Test it out, launch AC:O to run a benchmark and... I can't log in to uplay because it won't accept my Yubikey authenticator 2FA code? What? It can't be tied to the hardware of the computer, can it? Well this is bad, troubleshoot a bit but no dice, log in with a backup code and turn off 2FA for now and I'll have to talk to Yubico support after the holidays, and I wonder if there's anything important I don't have backup codes for, better start panicking and looking into that... The next day I notice that the loving system clock is an hour off because I never set it properly for the new motherboard and apparently the Windows automatic timekeeping didn't correct it. No loving wonder a time-based authentication solution isn't working 
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Did you know that the best way to get sharepoint data exported is through the security & compliance admin portal of office 365 instead of the sharepoint admin site? Seems like a good feature.
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New HR lady is a spaz If you sneeze in front of her she wants to know how long you've been sick and if you're taking any medicine and if it's anything that can make you drowsy she makes you go home (I'm on the side of if you're sick stay home so you don't get everyone else sick, but when the company doesn't give you sick days and makes you take them from vacation...)
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Bob Morales posted:New HR lady is a spaz I'm on that same side but I need my PTO so I've holed up in my cube away from people and try not to breathe on anyone.
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Ahh rackspace We have like 100 emails a day coming from really-important-email@xyz.com So we safelist xyz.com in our spam filter Guess which emails started going to spam Rackspace "Yup, that shouldn't have happened. I cleared out the reputation for that email address so it should stop going to spam" Me "They're on the whitelist..." Rackspace "I can see that. But sometimes this happens. Have you had it happen before?" 
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