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I'm sure there are numerous studies that outline how companies barely scrape by. Like some places have departments that are actively undermining each other but still manage to push out production.
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Our logistics department vehemently fights against anything to make their job easier because they are convinced they will get fired if it gets automated at all, but stuff still gets where it needs to go. A lot of companies do the absolute minimum to get by.
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Jun 5, 2018 13:34
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I just went over to my previous company to catch up on some projects and found out they hired a new NOC manager who used to be my coworker 12 years ago in a NOC. He was very excited to see my name on an email, he told one of the other engineers he cavnt wait to boss me around. He was then informed I am an independent consultant so besides the PMs no one has authority to give me direction. Goodbye wind in sails
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Jun 5, 2018 14:40
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Kashuno posted:Our logistics department vehemently fights against anything to make their job easier because they are convinced they will get fired if it gets automated at all, but stuff still gets where it needs to go. A lot of companies do the absolute minimum to get by. The other end of the spectrum is managers who want things automated to the point where the system does their job for them so they can sit at their desk and drink coffee.
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Jun 5, 2018 14:45
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Sepist posted:I just went over to my previous company to catch up on some projects and found out they hired a new NOC manager who used to be my coworker 12 years ago in a NOC. He was very excited to see my name on an email, he told one of the other engineers he cavnt wait to boss me around. He was then informed I am an independent consultant so besides the PMs no one has authority to give me direction. Goodbye wind in sails maybe the guy was just being cheeky?
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Jun 5, 2018 14:49
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Thom and the Heads posted:maybe the guy was just being cheeky? Nah he just has power trips. When I was a network engineer at that same company he had become NOC manager and would try to pull clout on me Also he was there the first time I crimped an rj45. He barged into my process and suggested I cut the ends even (was going to do that anyway) so now, to this day, he tells people he taught me how to crimp a cable. Drives me mad
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Jun 5, 2018 14:53
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What an incredibly dumb thing to be proud of lol
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Jun 5, 2018 16:36
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Kashuno posted:Our move to O365 was delayed a year because finance had some reports that ran in 2010 after being built in 2003, and didn’t function in 2016. Eventually they just demanded we give them both Office 2016 and Excel 2010 instead of ever updating the reports (to this day) Can confirm. We have a similar situation here where a tool that Finance uses for reporting is an old version that only works on 2010, so we have a whole department still using Excel 2010, which we install over Office 2016. That works, surprisingly. Vargatron posted:Classified as "business critical" and has no documentation whatsoever. Because the guy who wrote it all moved on to another company years ago.
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Jun 5, 2018 17:28
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Vargatron posted:The other end of the spectrum is managers who want things automated to the point where the system does their job for them so they can sit at their desk and drink coffee. That's the loving dream. Give me an office and i'll be set.
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Jun 5, 2018 17:29
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Darchangel posted:Can confirm. We have a similar situation here where a tool that Finance uses for reporting is an old version that only works on 2010, so we have a whole department still using Excel 2010, which we install over Office 2016. That works, surprisingly. please don’t ask
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Jun 5, 2018 18:00
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Judge Schnoopy posted:If i can't push a disgusting abomination with nested ifs and more regex than is humanly readable against a pivot table of a pivot table then what's the loving point And then there's me trying to explain that if you're actually running out of memory in 32-bit Excel and need the 64-bit version, odds are you're using the wrong loving tool for whatever bullshit you're trying to do. And then we install it anyway :\
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Jun 5, 2018 18:28
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George H.W. oval office posted:What an incredibly dumb thing to be proud of lol
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Jun 5, 2018 18:32
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With a combination of an add-in and macros, our finance department uses excel as the client interface for our finance software.
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Jun 5, 2018 18:39
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Sepist posted:Nah he just has power trips. When I was a network engineer at that same company he had become NOC manager and would try to pull clout on me "Since you're bragging, that must be the height of your technical achievements, right?"
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Jun 5, 2018 19:09
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Celigo makes a product that lets you edit records directly in Excel that it pulls from your ERP/CRM Accounting has such a loving hard-on for this "WE CAN JUST DO EVERYTHING IN EXCEL NOW"
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Jun 5, 2018 19:21
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You can do that normally if you setup an ODBC connection.
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Jun 5, 2018 19:27
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Anyone have any experience working at Morgan Stanley?
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Jun 5, 2018 19:46
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Bob Morales posted:Celigo makes a product that lets you edit records directly in Excel that it pulls from your ERP/CRM THIS IS WHAT I AM SAYING, PEOPLE. The fact that I haven't had people request dumping their mailboxes into CSVs for Excel import is amazing to me.
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Jun 5, 2018 19:54
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Does anyone have experience with setting up Freeradius and Kerberos to run together? I've been stuck trying to containerize this for way too long and I wonder if there are any alternatives for the use case (setting up authentication to Unifi network in office).
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Jun 5, 2018 21:17
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Bob Morales posted:Celigo makes a product that lets you edit records directly in Excel that it pulls from your ERP/CRM oh gently caress the cat's already out of the bag
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Jun 5, 2018 21:27
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Bob Morales posted:Celigo makes a product that lets you edit records directly in Excel that it pulls from your ERP/CRM we have custom programs that export tables from SAP as text files that then get imported into SQL and manipulated by Access to allow users to C&P the data into Excel every single day. Yeah
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Jun 5, 2018 21:44
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Kashuno posted:we have custom programs that export tables from SAP as text files that then get imported into SQL and manipulated by Access to allow users to C&P the data into Excel every single day. Worse is better
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Jun 5, 2018 22:11
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Y'all are a bunch of monsters.
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Jun 5, 2018 22:25
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Internet Explorer posted:Y'all are a bunch of monsters.
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Jun 5, 2018 22:29
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This sounds awful but is probably no more brittle than any other ETL pipeline
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Jun 5, 2018 22:30
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Internet Explorer posted:Y'all are a bunch of monsters. To be fair we have moved all of our ERP table exports to a whole different server and have told people to rewrite their reports and access poo poo, and that we cannot and will not verify any data from the old way of doing things. There is one guy who really won’t move his poo poo so no one his data
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Jun 5, 2018 22:48
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I'd take an Excel template with areas for people to enter data into that goes off and syncs with something else, over a shithouse Visual Basic monstrosity that connects directly to a database server and vomits all over it whenever there's a network blip.
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Jun 5, 2018 22:55
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We used to have “give the excel file to as/400 guy and he will spend the afternoon hand keying it with a bunch of errors”
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Jun 5, 2018 23:12
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Bob Morales posted:We used to have “give the excel file to as/400 guy and he will spend the afternoon hand keying it with a bunch of errors” I know at least two retail locations that do this. Canadian Tire does this
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Jun 5, 2018 23:21
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seems to me an as/400 guy would have better things to do with his time.
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Jun 5, 2018 23:43
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I have seen Excel sheets with live streaming market data in them. Stuff you wouldn't even believe. Spreadsheets with their own scroll bars nested inside Excel sheets.
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Jun 6, 2018 00:17
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 This is both incredibly terrifying and triggering.
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Jun 6, 2018 00:22
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adorai posted:seems to me an as/400 guy would have better things to do with his time. Well it made him feel needed and gave validation to his sad sad life
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cheque_some posted:I have seen Excel sheets with live streaming market data in them. Stuff you wouldn't even believe. Spreadsheets with their own scroll bars nested inside Excel sheets. And soon, they will have javascript running in them as well.
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Jun 6, 2018 01:04
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adorai posted:seems to me an as/400 guy would have better things to do with his time.
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Jun 6, 2018 02:10
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Aunt Beth posted:Not if the software running on the system hasn’t changed in 20 years so all you do is make sure PTFs are applied a couple of times a year and call IBM for service whenever it shits out a DDM or PSU. Yep, our old mainframe guys always tell stories about how little work they actually had to do. (They sure as hell weren't doing manual data entry either)
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PBS posted:Yep, our old mainframe guys always tell stories about how little work they actually had to do. (They sure as hell weren't doing manual data entry either) e: when I say software I mean the base OS, drivers, core stuff. Don’t get me started on Lotus and Tivoli.
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PBS posted:Yep, our old mainframe guys always tell stories about how little work they actually had to do. (They sure as hell weren't doing manual data entry either) I joke about this being "the dream" all the time but i'm actually wondering what they did all day. Especially before the golden age of shitposting.
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Taking a nap.
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I remember the mainframe guy at my first gig played Starcraft all day.
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