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Judge Schnoopy posted:It was to put in catering orders for lunch once every other month. 
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GreenDragon42 posted:I once ran an sql query with a cartesian product between two tables with several million records in each by mistake on a production server. Everything on the server started crashing with out of memory errors, and I mean everything. That required a physical reboot, nothing else could access the server remotely. Was not fun explaining to the client "Yeah, see, I just forgot this word and you, ah, need to go and reboot the server". As someone who works mainly with Oracle databases, SQL terrifies me. If I forget a where clause in Oracle and accidentally change 140,000 rows instead of 1, I just roll it back, no harm, no foul. SQL is so unforgiving in comparison.
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Feb 6, 2018 16:09
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Bob Morales posted:CFO is having my systems analyst make some 'fake invoices' for stuff we didn't invoice starting LAST APRIL Nothing like some good old fashion fraud.
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Feb 6, 2018 16:23
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Sickening posted:Nothing like some good old fashion fraud. We don't like the "f" word around here. We prefer style. Old style fraud. Wait, no, wrong "f" word. We prefer "retroactive accounting". Old style retroactive accounting.
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Feb 6, 2018 16:28
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SEKCobra posted:Dunno about OSHA, but standing on a chair to reach high places is something I'd expect IT professionals to not do. Yeah, this was maybe 12 years ago, I was much younger and stupider then. Comically I used to be an industrial mechanic so I was usually extremely safe, but for some reason I hopped up on a chair like an idiot.
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Feb 6, 2018 16:31
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Yeah, this was maybe 12 years ago, I was much younger and stupider then. Comically I used to be an industrial mechanic so I was usually extremely safe, but for some reason I hopped up on a chair like an idiot. I remember doing this as little as a few months ago. I keep forgetting that i'm not a teenager and I should care about things like maybe killing myself from a dumb office chair fall. Growing up sucks.
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Feb 6, 2018 16:43
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Avenging_Mikon posted:We don't like the "f" word around here. We prefer style. Old style fraud. Sir, we have Arthur Andersen on line 1
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Feb 6, 2018 16:47
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Thanks Comcast Good thing we have backup 4G at every location.
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Sickening posted:Nothing like some good old fashion fraud.
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Feb 6, 2018 16:53
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Collateral Damage posted:[Ask] me about forging customer signatures at my first job. Legit? Please, storytime! Why? How? Did you? How'd it go?
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Only had to do it a few times fortunately. It was at a domain middleman registrar back in the mid 90s, when registering domains were a complex bureaucratic process. One particular TLD gave you a paper form with a unique ID after reserving the domain name online, which you had to fax back within 24 hours. So we'd do the online reservation, get the form, get it to the customer and hope they sent it back in time so we could send it to the registrar. Nobody ever did this in time, and if you didn't meet the deadline the reservation ID was invalidated. So what we did was we created our own identical form and sent it to the customer first to be signed. When it came back we'd do the online reservation and cut and paste the signature onto the real form. Is it technically fraud if the information they sign is identical, even if it's not the same physical paper? 
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Someone posted something negative about $AWFUL_JOB on some message board years ago, my boss flipped out and demanded we all sign up for accounts and pretend to be clients and defend them. We fought about it for a while, since I didn't want to do it, but fortunately the boss had no attention span so he forgot about it later that day.
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spog posted:I bet that person doesn't know the difference between 12am and 12pm. Jerk McJerkface posted:Seriously, at $AWFUL_JOB the support manager kept going about how he wanted to change ticketing systems, and how the new one (I think TigerPaw) was so good because you could drag and drop tickets to techs and it was so easier. He kept going on and on about it, I kept telling him that there was a huge amount of features that we could use like emailing to/from the system to make it easier to be accountable, or basic features like ACTUALLY using tickets, but then he'd keep going on about dragging the tickets with his mouse, and I wanted to throw myself out a window. Jerk McJerkface posted:I work 100% in RHEL and from time to time I have to reboot a client system. I have a process when I have to do so that I follow 100% of the time. I log out of all the other putty windows/securecrt windows and close all of them. Then I get up from my desk for a minute, sit down, log back in to the ONE server I want to reboot, I enter "# sudo reboot" count to five, remove the # and send it. It's been in the Debian repos for a long time but apparently still hasn't officially made it over to RPM land, so you'll have to install it from a third party, but what it does is hijacks the various shutdown/reboot commands and forces you to type in the hostname to confirm before it'll actually do it. SEKCobra posted:Dunno about OSHA, but standing on a chair to reach high places is something I'd expect IT professionals to not do.
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Bob Morales posted:CFO is having my systems analyst make some 'fake invoices' for stuff we didn't invoice starting LAST APRIL CFO knows that’s considered fraud, right? EDIT: nvm. There was a whole new page and I’m late to the game.
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wolrah posted:Let me introduce you to molly-guard: https://unix.bris.ac.uk/2015/09/17/molly-guard-for-rhelcentos-protect-your-hosts-from-accidental-reboots/
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Proteus Jones posted:CFO knows that’s considered fraud, right? They're not so much fake invoices are they weird duplicates They're already in the system from last year but somehow they never got sent or something So they're making new ones that are copies of those but after they electronically send them to the customer and they are accepted, we'll delete them from our system. Then they'll match up with the old ones. Just some stupid hosed up process that makes no sense and let's rush to get this done by 1:45 today because someone promised MegaMart that at a meeting last week but didn't tell anyone that actually works here until yesterday. Also our accounting department is a loving joke.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:I had a site request I install a new fax line to their building. I asked what the hell they need faxes for and that there has to be a better way than a buildout for a few thousand dollars and monthly costs of $40.
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Fax counts since April 2016: Sales Received 2871 Sent 305 Shipping Received 120 Sent 507 Accounting Received 720 Sent 412 Medical/Retail Received 8804 Sent 13198 Engineering Received 190 Sent 0 Front Desk Received 2204 Sent 278
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dogstile posted:Get to work five minutes late due to an oil spill on the neighbouring road/highway/thing. Got a call questioning where I am and why I didn't call them to say i'd be late. Yeah but if you've got a poo poo manager (like I had at my last job), they'll counter with "well you could pull over and make a call..." Yes, I had that happen twice, both times were during my on call shift and both were calls that came in while I was on the interstate. Sure boss, let me just pull on to the shoulder to acknowledge a bullshit non-emergency call from a whiny bitch client because they can't wait 5 minutes for me to get to the office. loving idiot.
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IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM ASKING FOR ASK ME FOR CLARIFICATION DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE MAKE poo poo UP
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Feb 6, 2018 19:33
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Bob Morales posted:Fax counts since April 2016: ...why are these the same line item? Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Feb 6, 2018 |
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Feb 6, 2018 20:15
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Inspector_666 posted:...why are these the same line item?
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The Fool posted:IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM ASKING FOR ASK ME FOR CLARIFICATION DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE MAKE poo poo UP
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Feb 6, 2018 20:51
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wolrah posted:In theory you're right. In practice, squishy wheeled stools are a common part of getting the job done. I have literally never done this at work. Hell, I haven't done this at home in at least a decade. There are proper utensils for reaching high places and they are available to me when I need them. Every company I have ever worked at had ladders in a janitors closet or whatever.
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The Fool posted:IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM ASKING FOR ASK ME FOR CLARIFICATION DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE MAKE poo poo UP Oh god yes
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The Fool posted:IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM ASKING FOR ASK ME FOR CLARIFICATION DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE MAKE poo poo UP Thread title.
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Inspector_666 posted:...why are these the same line item? Our retail side is 95% healthcare related. Deal with insurance companies and government agencies so they get shittons of faxes
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Collateral Damage posted:Is it technically fraud if the information they sign is identical, even if it's not the same physical paper? Good question. Where do you draw the line? When does fax become fraud? It's probably fine.
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Yesterday sucked. Today sucked. Tomorrow will probably suck. I asked my boss if I can burn a vacation day and just not be here tomorrow. Holy gently caress I want to murder this one user. What a complete and total pile of excrement and bile that person is.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Yesterday sucked. Today sucked. Tomorrow will probably suck. I asked my boss if I can burn a vacation day and just not be here tomorrow. Holy gently caress I want to murder this one user. What a complete and total pile of excrement and bile that person is. I was on vacation last week. It was nice. There were some major issues (A friend's 6 year old died, then my wife's grandpa died) but overall it was pretty OK. I went to Vancouver. I got back to work today and my heartburn and headache came back. Even my therapist thinks I need to find a new job. I feel your pain. Take a day off. I'd say go for a walk in the park but it's like -20 and there's a foot of snow on the ground.
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wolrah posted:One more reason to always use 24 hour time in IT applications. We use JIRA now, I like it, and it integrates with all our other portals so it's easy to link information. Also molly-guard looks neat, but I can't install it on the financial services servers that I typically work on. I don't think they have it in their internally approved RHEL repo.
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Antioch posted:I was on vacation last week. It was nice. There were some major issues (A friend's 6 year old died, then my wife's grandpa died) but overall it was pretty OK. I went to Vancouver. 
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Collateral Damage posted:Is it technically fraud if the information they sign is identical, even if it's not the same physical paper? Nope, if the terms are the same, and the intent to be bound by them is maintained, manipulating the document is allowable. This prevents things like barcode stickers and tracking ID codes from invalidating a signed form, or for non-binding notes in the margins from invalidating the entire contract. The same way your signature can be the price symbol, a happy face, profanity, or a big X, as long as you intend it to be your signature, it counts, regardless of what it was yesterday.
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Thanks Ants posted:Have you used ConnectWise? *eyebrow twitches* Hnnnggg.
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And with all that said, it was still better than going to work 
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Currently in the process up of upgrading SAGE Fixed Assets from 2015.1 to 2018.1 and the two Citrix servers the clients run from. Snapshots rule.
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Some time ago. A colleague asked IT to fix the light on her desk. I said No, I am not an electrician. I cannot help you with that, ask the office manager. Well my boss decided to answer otherwise and said sure his words "it's only 1 time, it's a small thing, it's just replacing the light" Well over the course of a few months, she came to him for more and more requests that aren't IT's responsibilities. He's getting fed up with it now and went to HR to complain about her requests. This could have all been avoided if he just said no.
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Our highest margin product is professional services, stop loving giving my time away you massive piece of poo poo.
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Sefal posted:Some time ago. A colleague asked IT to fix the light on her desk. I said No, I am not an electrician. I cannot help you with that, ask the office manager. Well my boss decided to answer otherwise and said sure Its not so much the spineless IT bosses that get on my nerves. Its the IT bosses who spines only bend one way. They give into whatever customer/company demands but are total hardass to their team.
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I was running a few network drops for a client the other day. A lot of the rooms haven't been used much in the last 15-20 years. I can only hope the drop ceilings didn't have too much asbestos. Finding this sweet sticker on top of a rusty steel cabinet was the most entertaining part of the day. I doubt anyone who's not very tall knows it's there.
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