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nexus6: Sep 2, 2011; If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes

Pissing me off today:

My manager just got signed off work for stress, which I sympathise with but it means a lot more work for our team because the company is not going to fill the gap
Some work I did for a client a month ago isn't working despite fully testing it before it went live. It took me a week to do it last time because I got no handover or training for the project (still haven't). Testing the process in production takes days and relies on two separate third parties.
My current projects are weeks behind and more than likely to miss their deadlines.
I'm currently looking for a new job but the only application I've had any movement on is for a job I don't really want

To clarify: I don't blame my manager for being taken off for stress - I completely understand and hope he gets the rest he needs. I blame the company for letting things get this bad despite multiple warning signs (hint: he's not the first manager to take time off for stress).

I feel that 'pissing me off' isn't quite right because at this point I'm so weary of this crap that I can't give a drat.

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# ? Jun 12, 2024 18:17

pixaal: Jan 8, 2004; All ice cream is now for all beings, no matter how many legs.

nexus6 posted:

Pissing me off today:

My manager just got signed off work for stress, which I sympathise with but it means a lot more work for our team because the company is not going to fill the gap

Some work I did for a client a month ago isn't working despite fully testing it before it went live. It took me a week to do it last time because I got no handover or training for the project (still haven't). Testing the process in production takes days and relies on two separate third parties.

My current projects are weeks behind and more than likely to miss their deadlines.

I'm currently looking for a new job but the only application I've had any movement on is for a job I don't really want
To clarify: I don't blame my manager for being taken off for stress - I completely understand and hope he gets the rest he needs. I blame the company for letting things get this bad despite multiple warning signs (hint: he's not the first manager to take time off for stress).

I feel that 'pissing me off' isn't quite right because at this point I'm so weary of this crap that I can't give a drat.

Keep looking you'll find something. You currently have a job, it's not a great job by the sound of it, but it also sounds like you aren't stressing over it just an unending pile of comical mistakes.

The company doesn't sound like they care about their employees at all and are more than happy to run them to burn out. Go into full gently caress it mode and do the bare minimum to keep your job. Don't work outside of hours (unless it's required). You need that time to find another job. If it's really stressing you out and you really give no fucks you can always play "How long until they fire / speak with me for not doing off hours stuff".

Everyone has been at a lovely job like this, you will find something, and everyone here want you to find a better job.

# ? Jul 11, 2018 16:50

nexus6: Sep 2, 2011; If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes

pixaal posted:

Keep looking you'll find something. You currently have a job, it's not a great job by the sound of it, but it also sounds like you aren't stressing over it just an unending pile of comical mistakes.

The company doesn't sound like they care about their employees at all and are more than happy to run them to burn out. Go into full gently caress it mode and do the bare minimum to keep your job. Don't work outside of hours (unless it's required). You need that time to find another job. If it's really stressing you out and you really give no fucks you can always play "How long until they fire / speak with me for not doing off hours stuff".

Everyone has been at a lovely job like this, you will find something, and everyone here want you to find a better job.

Thanks. I was concerned about coming off as selfish but this job's really taken a lot out of me.

Another point I forgot to mention: I need to get in touch with a client who's dragging her heels on a project but the last time she called she yelled at me down the phone about a problem I hadn't worked on the hung up on me when I tried to help her :smith:

# ? Jul 11, 2018 17:07

BaronVonVaderham: Jul 31, 2011; All hail the queen!

I hate having to come to HQ so much. Don't get me wrong, I love seeing my coworkers face to face, and the food in this city is great, but the new hotel I was forced to select this time is total poo poo. It's new, and they arranged some kind of deal, so it's so cheap you can't choose a different hotel due to business rules (it won't let you select one over $X more than the lowest rate available).

Who the gently caress sets up a room so there are ZERO outlets within reach of the bedside table, i.e. where everyone charges their loving phones? If I need to plug in my laptop, I need to sit in the horribly uncomfortable chair at the desk that is directly under the tv (which is mounted such that I can't plug in my firetv stick or and HDMI cable and cast to it, so I'm stuck with whatever's on cable), so the tv is like 6 inches from my face.

Add to that the usual cacophony of city noise, terrible pillows, no fans for white noise....I get zero sleep on these trips :smithicide:

On the plus side, this sprint we had 26 points planned, and pulled in another 5 on Monday. I currently have 17 points pending in code review, so I'm kind of killing it.

Completely unrelated to work: Whoever decided to make a cheesecake crust out of walnuts and not mention this war crime on the menu needs to be drawn and quartered. What the gently caress is wrong with this city if they think that's an acceptable thing to do to a cheesecake.

# ? Jul 11, 2018 17:12

LampkinsMateSteve: Jan 1, 2005; I've really fucked it. Have I fucked it?

BaronVonVaderham posted:

Who the gently caress sets up a room so there are ZERO outlets within reach of the bedside table, i.e. where everyone charges their loving phones? If I need to plug in my laptop, I need to sit in the horribly uncomfortable chair at the desk that is directly under the tv (which is mounted such that I can't plug in my firetv stick or and HDMI cable and cast to it, so I'm stuck with whatever's on cable), so the tv is like 6 inches from my face.

Maybe you could find an electronics store and buy an extension cable and a right-angled HDMI adaptor.

# ? Jul 11, 2018 17:46

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

Yea you should carry a surge protector or extension cord with your gear if you travel much.

# ? Jul 11, 2018 17:52

BaronVonVaderham: Jul 31, 2011; All hail the queen!

Extension cord is a good idea but I can't find a store that carries one within reasonable walking distance (I have no car and am not taking a Lyft just to go hunt down a cable). Will pack one next time, but I'm screwed this week.

HDMI adapter not going to help, it's in this stupid wooden wall frame thing that blocks access to the entire sides and I can't reach behind it at all

# ? Jul 11, 2018 18:01

pixaal: Jan 8, 2004; All ice cream is now for all beings, no matter how many legs.

BaronVonVaderham posted:

Completely unrelated to work: Whoever decided to make a cheesecake crust out of walnuts and not mention this war crime on the menu needs to be drawn and quartered. What the gently caress is wrong with this city if they think that's an acceptable thing to do to a cheesecake.

Walnut is also an allergy. I'm not sure it's illegal as in jail time, but it will sure lead to some lawsuits.

BaronVonVaderham posted:

Will pack one next time, but I'm screwed this week.

You could just order one from Amazon and have it delivered to the hotel if you are going to be there an entire week. Not like the price will change, nor will it be hard to get onto a plane or however else you are getting home.

# ? Jul 11, 2018 18:14

tactlessbastard: Feb 4, 2001; Godspeed, post; Fun Shoe

Monday morning I had a machine break and was told they were overnighting a replacement part. I had enough of a different substrate to keep the crew running until Tuesday afternoon so I moved on to other problems.

I followed up on that replacement part Tuesday morning and was told lol nope out of stock 3 weeks at least and immediately ordered more of the back up substrate, first pallet overnighted.

That loving pallet has been 'out for delivery' all goddamned day. Oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Still, irritated at dude who said we can overnight the first part and then did not report back when he found out that wasn't possible instead of waiting for me to follow up.

I also asked him if there were any other sources besides the original vendor for the part and he said he didn't have time to check on things like that.

Someone clearly isn't happy with the re-org.

# ? Jul 11, 2018 18:34

BaronVonVaderham: Jul 31, 2011; All hail the queen!

pixaal posted:

Walnut is also an allergy. I'm not sure it's illegal as in jail time, but it will sure lead to some lawsuits.

You could just order one from Amazon and have it delivered to the hotel if you are going to be there an entire week. Not like the price will change, nor will it be hard to get onto a plane or however else you are getting home.

That's very true, and I think they have a distribution center somewhat nearby. I also vaguely remember a website where you can hire people to buy random poo poo for you like uber for errands.

It's really dumb since the week is half over, but gently caress I'm bored waiting on people to review my code.

# ? Jul 11, 2018 18:54

tactlessbastard: Feb 4, 2001; Godspeed, post; Fun Shoe

tactlessbastard posted:

Monday morning I had a machine break and was told they were overnighting a replacement part. I had enough of a different substrate to keep the crew running until Tuesday afternoon so I moved on to other problems.

I followed up on that replacement part Tuesday morning and was told lol nope out of stock 3 weeks at least and immediately ordered more of the back up substrate, first pallet overnighted.

That loving pallet has been 'out for delivery' all goddamned day. Oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Still, irritated at dude who said we can overnight the first part and then did not report back when he found out that wasn't possible instead of waiting for me to follow up.

I also asked him if there were any other sources besides the original vendor for the part and he said he didn't have time to check on things like that.

Someone clearly isn't happy with the re-org.

My shipment arrived at 1404 but was delivered to the front door instead of the dock around back where it was signed for by a secretary who told the driver without ever seeing the shipment
'just leave it in the lobby' :rolleyes:

which the driver interpreted as 'drop off on the sidewalk out front'. :effort:

Thanks a lot, Fedex, you jackasses.

# ? Jul 11, 2018 22:10

CitizenKain: May 27, 2001; That was Gary Cooper, asshole.; Nap Ghost

Every month I export a report from one of our monitoring tools, spend 30 minutes fixing all the errors in the spreadsheet, clean up the formatting and then attach it to a report that will never be looked at. But if I don't, the admin assistant in charge of this report will never stop emailing me. I've been tempted to just reuse a previous month's report, but I know that will be the one that is looked at.

Also, gently caress Avaya and your nonsense loving system on getting phones to register. We are getting these new fancy phones because an acquisition just can't live without their loving video capable phones. So our voice guys are trying to upgrade the phone system to where these can be used, but the VAR isn't being as helpful as they should be, and Avaya just sucks. I think its a cert issue, but one of the phones connected and downloaded the new firmware just fine, but no others have.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 05:55

FlapYoJacks: Feb 12, 2009

Had lunch with a old coworker yesterday. Highlights include:

New engineer that joined a month before I left got the gently caress out a week after I left.

There is one last engineer left who is now in charge of integrating the 70% done project I left into our server application with no help from anybody else. The integration code was maybe 20% done when I left.

They stopped paying for slack, which has blocked all the previous logs and chats I have had that may have helped him.

They refuse to pay $2500 for a gitlab enterprise license which has expired and has blocked them from using the git server. There are no offsite backups and the CEO refuses to ask me for help.

The CEO is now starting to think that the company should just sell its enclosures and not it�s own products.

I never thought I could actually do that kind of damage to a company. :stare:

Edit: As a reminder, my initial leaving was because they refused to give me a $40,000 raise from 80 to 120 for doing full stack embedded Linux work.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 06:04

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

ratbert90 posted:

Had lunch with a old coworker yesterday. Highlights include:

New engineer that joined a month before I left got the gently caress out a week after I left.

There is one last engineer left who is now in charge of integrating the 70% done project I left into our server application with no help from anybody else. The integration code was maybe 20% done when I left.

They stopped paying for slack, which has blocked all the previous logs and chats I have had that may have helped him.

They refuse to pay $2500 for a gitlab enterprise license which has expired and has blocked them from using the git server. There are no offsite backups and the CEO refuses to ask me for help.

The CEO is now starting to think that the company should just sell its enclosures and not it�s own products.

I never thought I could actually do that kind of damage to a company.

Edit: As a reminder, my initial leaving was because they refused to give me a $40,000 raise from 80 to 120 for doing full stack embedded Linux work.

Wait, wasn't there a consultant? What happened to the consultant?

# ? Jul 12, 2018 08:06

SyNack Sassimov: May 4, 2006; Let the robot win.
��--Captain James T. Vader

ratbert90 posted:

Had lunch with a old coworker yesterday. Highlights include:

New engineer that joined a month before I left got the gently caress out a week after I left.

There is one last engineer left who is now in charge of integrating the 70% done project I left into our server application with no help from anybody else. The integration code was maybe 20% done when I left.

They stopped paying for slack, which has blocked all the previous logs and chats I have had that may have helped him.

They refuse to pay $2500 for a gitlab enterprise license which has expired and has blocked them from using the git server. There are no offsite backups and the CEO refuses to ask me for help.

The CEO is now starting to think that the company should just sell its enclosures and not it�s own products.

I never thought I could actually do that kind of damage to a company.

Edit: As a reminder, my initial leaving was because they refused to give me a $40,000 raise from 80 to 120 for doing full stack embedded Linux work.

Schaaaaaadenfreude, gently caress you lady that's what stairs are for!

Oh man. So heartwarming. What a beautiful tale.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 09:14

FlapYoJacks: Feb 12, 2009

Thanatosian posted:

Wait, wasn't there a consultant? What happened to the consultant?

Third party engineering company charged 200k for the initial consult. After that they said they wanted several more hundreds of grands, which the CEO refuses to pay.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 14:03

The Macaroni: Dec 20, 2002; ...it does nothing.

CitizenKain posted:

Every month I export a report from one of our monitoring tools, spend 30 minutes fixing all the errors in the spreadsheet, clean up the formatting and then attach it to a report that will never be looked at. But if I don't, the admin assistant in charge of this report will never stop emailing me. I've been tempted to just reuse a previous month's report, but I know that will be the one that is looked at.

Been there. :hf:

ratbert90 posted:

Third party engineering company charged 200k for the initial consult. After that they said they wanted several more hundreds of grands, which the CEO refuses to pay.

It's really small of me, but I'm so glad to hear stories like this.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 14:41

BaronVonVaderham: Jul 31, 2011; All hail the queen!

loving hell. The guy whose desk they stuck me at who was supposedly on vacation all week came back, so I'm sitting on a sofa right now.

If you want remote employees to come to HQ for no reason, at the very least there needs to be loving room for us so we can do our jobs. There's a giant swath of open space with nothing but this weird couch thing (that there's a hilarious gif of my boss tripping over)....you can totally put a cluster of 4-6 desks there and keep them in reserve for remote people visiting.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 14:47

nielsm: Jun 1, 2009

ratbert90 posted:

Had lunch with a old coworker yesterday. Highlights include:

New engineer that joined a month before I left got the gently caress out a week after I left.

There is one last engineer left who is now in charge of integrating the 70% done project I left into our server application with no help from anybody else. The integration code was maybe 20% done when I left.

They stopped paying for slack, which has blocked all the previous logs and chats I have had that may have helped him.

They refuse to pay $2500 for a gitlab enterprise license which has expired and has blocked them from using the git server. There are no offsite backups and the CEO refuses to ask me for help.

The CEO is now starting to think that the company should just sell its enclosures and not it�s own products.

I never thought I could actually do that kind of damage to a company.

Edit: As a reminder, my initial leaving was because they refused to give me a $40,000 raise from 80 to 120 for doing full stack embedded Linux work.

No buses required to still get hit by the bus factor.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 15:17

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

Org chart has a loop in it. What does that mean exactly.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 15:39

Jaded Burnout: Jul 10, 2004

I guess it's supposed to mean that those two equally manage the stacks below them? Or 60/40 each way?

# ? Jul 12, 2018 15:45

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

Reporting to more than one person is awful

# ? Jul 12, 2018 15:46

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Bob Morales posted:

Org chart has a loop in it. What does that mean exactly.

You have to implement Spanning Title Protocol.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 15:49

Jaded Burnout: Jul 10, 2004

Director Cyclical Graph

# ? Jul 12, 2018 15:49

tactlessbastard: Feb 4, 2001; Godspeed, post; Fun Shoe

Thanks Ants posted:

Reporting to more than one person is awful

Can confirm

# ? Jul 12, 2018 15:52

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

'Chief Information Officer' is mis-titled, he's 'Chief Intelligence Officer' and they have been putting him on 'AI projects'. Basically letting him coast for a few months until he finds something or they let him go. He used to be the VP. Speaking of the VP, we "aren't searching for anyone at this time", but it's TBD.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 15:55

Jaded Burnout: Jul 10, 2004

poo poo, I've managed more people than that and wasn't a "chief" of anything

# ? Jul 12, 2018 15:58

18 Character Limit: Apr 6, 2007; Screw you, Abed;
I can fix this!; Nap Ghost

Thanks Ants posted:

Reporting to more than one person is awful

Reporting to three or more is a good and clear sign to get out.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 16:05

Judge Schnoopy: Nov 2, 2005; dont even TRY it, pal

Bob Morales posted:

'Chief Information Officer' is mis-titled, he's 'Chief Intelligence Officer' and they have been putting him on 'AI projects'. Basically letting him coast for a few months until he finds something or they let him go. He used to be the VP. Speaking of the VP, we "aren't searching for anyone at this time", but it's TBD.

Ah that explains it. I'm guessing you actually report to the director of finance, and the CIO was given a redundant position on the chart to make him feel important. It's a politics play to not show exactly how far he's fallen from the VP position.

In reality I'm guessing he belongs on a separate branch next to the IS Manager, reporting to the director of finance.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 16:11

devmd01: Mar 7, 2006; Elektronik
Supersonik

can we have ONE loving MONTH where windows updates don't completely break something straight up or require you to throw out GPOs for registry settings to enable/disable poo poo so your things don't get entirely broken, like RDP last month and now DHCP failover this month?!?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4338814/windows-10-update-kb4338814

Known Issues posted:

After installing this update on a DHCP Failover Server, Enterprise clients may receive an invalid configuration when requesting a new IP address. This may result in loss of connectivity as systems fail to renew their leases.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 16:35

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

Bob Morales posted:

Printer was 'catching on fire' so HP sends a tech out as it's only like 6 months old.

Guy that shows up was totally clueless. Sat there for an hour watching videos on how to take it apart. After 4 hours he leaves. Going to get some other tech to look at it I guess.

HP better be sending me a new/refurbished printer by the end of the day.

Day 3

He brought in reinforcements. Some other older dude is here putting it back together. Yelling at this dude for taking it apart too far, and 'forcing' stuff.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 17:04

pixaal: Jan 8, 2004; All ice cream is now for all beings, no matter how many legs.

Bob Morales posted:

Day 3

He brought in reinforcements. Some other older dude is here putting it back together. Yelling at this dude for taking it apart too far, and 'forcing' stuff.

Have they given you a loaner in the mean time at least?

# ? Jul 12, 2018 17:15

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

pixaal posted:

Have they given you a loaner in the mean time at least?

I'm going to ask them to just give us a replacement if they can't get it back together

# ? Jul 12, 2018 17:38

AlternateAccount: Apr 25, 2005; FYGM

Given the FORCED stuff, you might just want a replacement anyway.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 17:42

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

Spare a thought for someone who�s job is to supervise on-site printer repair techs.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 18:03

The Macaroni: Dec 20, 2002; ...it does nothing.

devmd01 posted:

can we have ONE loving MONTH where windows updates don't completely break something straight up or require you to throw out GPOs for registry settings to enable/disable poo poo so your things don't get entirely broken, like RDP last month and now DHCP failover this month?!?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4338814/windows-10-update-kb4338814

I got to explain to a VP why our IT department is not pushing out a fix to a problem caused by another update (because we're going to Win10 and they've frozen patches at this point).

It's a harmless bug that displays a threatening-looking dialog box if you open a Word file directly from a Web link, warning of a "Security error." C-level folks hyperventilate when they see stuff like that, but won't actually listen to workarounds or suggestions to use Chrome, or just right-click-fuckin-save-as.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 18:37

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

Thanks Ants posted:

Spare a thought for someone who�s job is to supervise on-site printer repair techs.

On the phone now with a third guy trying to figure out where the purple wire goes

# ? Jul 12, 2018 18:50

pixaal: Jan 8, 2004; All ice cream is now for all beings, no matter how many legs.

Bob Morales posted:

On the phone now with a third guy trying to figure out where the purple wire goes

Tell them they have been around long enough and the bits of conversation you have overheard has removed all confidence in that printer even if they get it running again. (Stress the if).

Your goal is to get them to offer a refurbished one and take that garbage with them.

Double check your warranty but you are likely entitled to a refurb by now.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 18:54

Super-NintendoUser: Jan 16, 2004; COWABUNGERDER COMPADRES; Soiled Meat

Bob Morales posted:

On the phone now with a third guy trying to figure out where the purple wire goes

code:


               ACT ONE   

INT. PRINTER CONTROL ROOM

A sweating MacGruber stands over 
the assembled husk of an old HP printer
in his hand is a wirecutter.

# ? Jul 12, 2018 18:54

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# ? Jun 12, 2024 18:17

Spring Heeled Jack: Feb 25, 2007; If you can read this you can read

So those of you in Azure, what do you do about subscription management? We don't spend enough yet to warrant getting an enterprise agreement, but we have a few users with subscriptions all tied to the same dept credit card.

Is there any way for an admin to get an overview of all subscriptions, including managing alerts and invoices without having to be added as a co-admin or whatever on every single one? Is the only solution to setup these subs under a single account and share them out from there?

# ? Jul 12, 2018 19:04

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