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chin up everything sucks posted:Robert Jordan died before finishing the Wheel of Time. Thankfully he picked a really good author to finish it for him. This is true. Brandon's first book (I think it was 7?) was a little rocky, but he found his footing real fast after that.
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Ugh. This reminds me that we had an interview for a women recently that would be a decent hire and was going to recommend we do so, but she was really really junior, but then I learned the week after we are losing our boss, and I don’t think we are gonna get a backfill so I don’t want to replace a senior person that left with a really really junior person. It sucks. Edit: we are also in the midst chaos and want to hold off on a backfill for a few months til things get sorted out politically. Sprechensiesexy posted:Small upside, you found out before you started working for him. Better find it out now over a phone instead of having him drooling all over you when you start working at his place. Lol if you believe vendors ever. freeasinbeer fucked around with this message at 18:36 on May 14, 2018 |
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May 14, 2018 18:31
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Which Riverbed thing are you looking at — SD-WAN, WAN accelerator, something else?
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May 14, 2018 18:34
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ChubbyThePhat posted:This is true. Brandon's first book (I think it was 7?) was a little rocky, but he found his footing real fast after that. It was book 11 or 12.
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May 14, 2018 18:43
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Thanks Ants posted:Which Riverbed thing are you looking at — SD-WAN, WAN accelerator, something else? This is the basic WAN Optimisation training so all the Steelhead products are in there. We're getting the training because some of our customers have Riverbed products and we need to be able to support them.
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May 14, 2018 18:49
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The Iron Rose posted:well the guy i was getting the job lead from, a friend and personal mentor decided it'd be a great idea to talk about all the erotica he's into via text so now this just isn't going to happen at all because working for a boss twice your age who thinks that's appropriate is just LOL no. ChubbyThePhat posted:Ew, that's a gross story. Sorry you have to deal with that poo poo.
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May 14, 2018 18:50
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ChubbyThePhat posted:Ew, that's a gross story. Sorry you have to deal with that poo poo. He is never going to finish that series. He took a chapter from RR Martin. You stay more famous, longer if your readers are still waiting on a book from you. Its a weird part of the human condition and it WORKS. He probably also has enough money now to retire and that really does a number on your work ethic. Sickening fucked around with this message at 19:06 on May 14, 2018 |
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May 14, 2018 19:04
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I am done working with people who see thisquote:You can't connect to the file share because it's not secure. This share requires the obsolete SMB1 protocol, which is unsafe and could expose your system to attack. Your system requires SMB2 or higher. For more info on resolving this issue, see: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=852747 I'm going to let my phone ring off and ignore the emails for a couple of hours in the hope that this person gives in and just searches Google like I'd do when an error message pops up. It's just laziness at this point.
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May 14, 2018 19:41
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Are these "technical" people that you're dealing with that should otherwise know better?
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May 14, 2018 19:43
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Yeah I'm not blowing up on end-users here, these are technical people doing implementation work that are ridiculously lazy (or clever depending on which way you look at it).
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May 14, 2018 19:46
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I hate having to run something up the pole that I could otherwise figure out myself. You're right, they are being lazy.
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May 14, 2018 19:47
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I am on the opposite side of a similar issue. Who ever manages our jamf install keeps rebooting laptops in the middle of the day with 5 mins warning. Not cool. (And none of the domain admins seem to know who manages jamf, making me think it’s these two idiot contractors that service the Macs in some hilarious oversight)
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May 14, 2018 21:29
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The company that owns the building my company is in contracts me out to do IT work from time to time. On Friday, the owner lent her business laptop (of course full of business critical data with no backup) to one of her employees to work on something near an industrial ice maker. Lo and behold, it fell into a large puddle of water, and no longer turns on. I test it, it doesn't POST, and let them know that I can extract the drive for them. After some discussion, it turns into I will extract the drive for them on Monday. Monday comes, and they tell me they don't see security footage of the laptop falling into the water, and are convinced the person was working in the area the camera is covering. I go into the security camera system, and confirm there is no footage from the time in question (It's motion sensor recording only), and that all the other cameras including others in the area were working properly. They ask me if anyone can delete security footage from the system, as the employee has camera system access as well. I say no. I never see the laptop and somehow by end of day they are accusing me of deleting video footage in order to cover for their employee. Guess that is the end of working with them on anything 
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May 14, 2018 23:02
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Spent the entire day trying to get verizon to make me the point of contact so I can do admin poo poo because a dude busted his phone while on vacation and needed his line transferred without having his sim card, and the verizon store guy said he needed admin approval.. So after hours of trying to get the guys who are the point of contact to tell verizon to add me we finally get that sorted. Come to find out the dude just had to go to a corporate verizon and theyd do it without any fuss. Call up my boss and come to fins out they did that three hours ago and forgot to call and tell me he fixed it 
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May 14, 2018 23:21
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Ahh the old “dropped my phone in the lake” You know summer is here!
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May 15, 2018 00:11
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Kashuno posted:I never see the laptop and somehow by end of day they are accusing me of deleting video footage in order to cover for their employee. Guess that is the end of working with them on anything Burning Bridges 102: Build Lies into Witch hunts If they don't trust the employee to where they're looking at security footage to verify her story, why would they assume a lack of footage means you deleted the tape to cover for her and not that she's lying her rear end off? If they trust her and think she's telling the truth, why check the tapes in the first place? What the gently caress kind of logical loop thinking is this?
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May 15, 2018 00:18
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Judge Schnoopy posted:What the gently caress kind [...] thinking is this? Bolded. Found your problem. Dangerous assumption, that.
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May 15, 2018 00:35
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It’s full on panicking. “Just so you know we won’t go to the police or anything if you say you were just trying to help our employee, we just want to know what happened” Thanks that’s real reassuring
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May 15, 2018 00:37
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Kashuno posted:It’s full on panicking. Sounds like this deserves a hearty laugh in their face tbh.
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May 15, 2018 00:48
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ChubbyThePhat posted:Sounds like this deserves a hearty talk to my lawyer.
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May 15, 2018 00:57
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Yeah, I'd probably get in touch with a lawyer now, get the legwork of finding someone who you can call if it comes to it done now. Your state bar association probably has a referral service if you have no clue where to start.
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May 15, 2018 01:26
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Kashuno posted:It’s full on panicking. Even if you don't hire a lawyer, get in contact with one and ask if they're available if things escalate. Then when this company asks you for anything regarding this case, you can tell them "Because you brought up police involvement, communication on this issue will need to go through my lawyer. Would you like their contact information?" They'll back down and you won't have to pay any money.
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May 15, 2018 01:55
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Seems like a silly thing to contact a lawyer over. What are they going to do? It’s a laptop that their employee accidentally destroyed. Who loving cares. Once they even hinted at you deleting camera footage, tell them that is unacceptable and move on. Save your time and money for things that matter. If I contacted a lawyer for everything some idiot accused me of I would be broke from consultation fees.
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May 15, 2018 02:07
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I agree. You don't need a lawyer at this point. It's useless chest-beating.
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I'm not saying to start paying a lawyer, but it wouldn't hurt to know exactly who you need to call if things get hairy.
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May 15, 2018 02:45
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Vulture Culture posted:This is disgusting. Sorry you had to go through that, especially from someone you knew and trusted. Someone once told me the series is better if you imagine Kvothe as Zapp Brannigan and by god they were right. Also the song he duets to get his pipes is 100% Meatloaf's "I would do anything for love".
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May 15, 2018 03:57
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Sprechensiesexy posted:This is the basic WAN Optimisation training so all the Steelhead products are in there. We're getting the training because some of our customers have Riverbed products and we need to be able to support them. These are legit good. 85% compression of mission critical traffic has meant a huge performance increase for us.
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My company is stingy as hell with internet and we use Riverbeds at all our retail locations. Like splitting public WiFi and merchant transactions and intranet across a couple of connections totaling maybe 3 to 6mb and making it work tolerably. Everything will grind to a halt because of Microsoft updates, but otherwise it's working better than it has any right to.
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Get a lawyer. If you are in a situation where you are unsure whether or not you need a lawyer, and people tell you you don't need a lawyer: Get two lawyers. evobatman fucked around with this message at 07:58 on May 15, 2018 |
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May 15, 2018 07:51
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Bob Morales posted:Ahh the old “dropped my phone in the lake” My dad actually had his Nokia work phone bounce into the lake after we hit a wave. This was like 15 years ago, but I keenly remember him saying "I should just throw this motherfucker into the water, tired of them calling me". Well, the boat took care of it.
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evobatman posted:Get a lawyer. 
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May 15, 2018 14:01
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You can plainly see I'm on the phone watching a loving powerpoint sales pitch. QUIT STANDING NEXT TO MY SCREEN STARING AT ME LIKE A DOG BEGGING FOR A FRENCH FRY
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May 15, 2018 14:08
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Bob Morales posted:You can plainly see I'm on the phone watching a loving powerpoint sales pitch. Well, give them a French fry
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May 15, 2018 14:23
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Bob Morales posted:You can plainly see I'm on the phone watching a loving powerpoint sales pitch. It looks to me like you're posting on a dead gay comedy forum. I used to have people camp outside my office when I was on the phone and it drove me nuts. I'm on the phone, I can't help you right now, and I'm not going to rush this call just because you're hovering outside my door. Send me an email.
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May 15, 2018 14:38
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Judge Schnoopy posted:I used to have people camp outside my office when I was on the phone and it drove me nuts. I'm on the phone, I can't help you right now, and I'm not going to rush this call just because you're hovering outside my door. Send me an email.  After about 5 minutes the guy mumbled "I guess I'll just send an email" and left
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May 15, 2018 14:59
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If I'm the only IT resource available and I'm on the phone I just ask the person if I can put them on hold for a second, tell the person at my door that I'm on a call and unless it's a system down emergency I'll get back to them as soon as I'm done. Seems to work fine for me.
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We have this weird culture of interruption here. You could have two people staring at a screen trying to figure something out and someone will just pop their head in there and say HEY THIS EMAIL ON MY PHONE LOOKS WEIRD CAN YOU GUYS LOOK AT IT
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I have people constantly come into my office and stare at me while I'm on a call until I get off it, then ask for help with something only for me to direct them to the helpdesk across the hall. It's stupid
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May 15, 2018 15:13
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Internet Explorer posted:If I'm the only IT Sorry to get pedantic but I loving hate the term “resource” when referring to employees. Not that we are special snowflakes but the term resource implies some kind of nameless fungible asset. We bitch in these threads about how “if it has a cord it’s ITs’ problem” and calling ourselves resources does nothing to dissuade that. IT person IT knowledge expert IT employee Subject matter expert
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My employer loves surveys. Today we got one with a lot of hard hitting questions. Questions that if you were candid at all would not be good for you. Every person in the company got a unique link to take the survey. The survey is completely confidential! 
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