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So, I used to do the whole 5-6 hours of sleep a night (going to bed by 2, waking up at 8 or a little before) and I got to the point where I felt I wasn't tired but I knew I was burning the candle at both ends. I did that for years. Then I had a literal heart attack 12 days ago at 39. While a lot of the issue was genetics (my cholesterol was actually in the normal and heathy range), I know the cumulative stress of too little sleep for too long certainly contributed in some way whether it was keeping me from getting more exercise or helped inflame the plaque that ruptured and caused the clot. So, yeah, from now on I'm keeping an 8 hour slot open for sleep so gently caress any agendas that start before 8am.
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Thanatosian posted:You really shouldn't talk about C-levels that way. 
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Our CEO is angry because he wasn't able to connect to the Internet while he was on the plane, but other passengers were able to. This is apparently our problem.
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Apr 25, 2019 17:00
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Weaponized Autism posted:Our CEO is angry because he wasn't able to connect to the Internet while he was on the plane, but other passengers were able to. This is apparently our problem. Uhh... how is it not?
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Apr 25, 2019 17:04
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Tetramin posted:Manager asked me and other networking dude if one of us can start our shift at 7 instead of 830 to improve coverage. To be fair, we do see a fair amount of issues right before we make it into the office. Other guys been here for like 7 years and I feel lovely not doing it because of stupid respect for seniority, but on the other hand, I’m lazy and already have trouble getting there before 830 lol. Moving my shift up an hour and a half would probably seriously affect my relationship with the job and my boss. I have two coworkers who moved to the east coast so it makes sense form them to cover the earlier part of the day. And we have someone on the team in portugal that significantly reduces calls for on call, and handles other work. Remote work is a great benefit
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Apr 25, 2019 17:05
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Weaponized Autism posted:Our CEO is angry because he wasn't able to connect to the Internet while he was on the plane, but other passengers were able to. This is apparently our problem.
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Apr 25, 2019 17:07
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Tab8715 posted:Uhh... how is it not? Hard to fix unless they throw you on a flight so you can figure out what's going on.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I just got an email from our network engineer asking me to pick a static IP because we're turning off DHCP 'for security reasons'. bull3964 posted:Then I had a literal heart attack 12 days ago at 39. While a lot of the issue was genetics (my cholesterol was actually in the normal and heathy range), I know the cumulative stress of too little sleep for too long certainly contributed in some way whether it was keeping me from getting more exercise or helped inflame the plaque that ruptured and caused the clot.
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bull3964 posted:So, I used to do the whole 5-6 hours of sleep a night (going to bed by 2, waking up at 8 or a little before) and I got to the point where I felt I wasn't tired but I knew I was burning the candle at both ends. I did that for years. I had a really good friend pass away in his sleep due to what was essentially a heart attack. Yes, he was overweight, but he had been in IT for decades and was always working way too hard. That poo poo is no joke and he was my first really good friend that wasn't a family friend that I lost. I hope you're okay. Please take care of yourselves, goons. This poo poo isn't worth dying for.
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Thanatosian posted:You really shouldn't talk about C-levels that way.  Also: bull3964 posted:Then I had a literal heart attack 12 days ago at 39. drat! Here’s to a speedy recovery. Agrikk fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Apr 25, 2019 |
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Apr 25, 2019 18:17
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:
I got lucky after being monumentally unlucky. I only live 1.5 miles from a really good hospital and while I didn't leave for the hospital immediately (I thought I had just pulled a muscle), a friend drove me and they were able to get me in the cath lab in less than an hour after I hit the emergency room. 100% blockage of the RCA with an additional 90% blockage further down. Two stents, they went in through my wrist so very quick recovery. I had just stood up after removing a wheel from my car (was putting the summer tires back on the car) and felt unwell. I was never in any large amount of pain though, just uncomfortable (burning between shoulder blades, feeling of having gas/heart burn, but a little light headed.) After that took my EKG at the hospital I could hear the nurses in the hallway whispering "he WALKED in?". I guess the way things looked I shouldn't have been conscious. Medically, there's some effects/damage, but I haven't run into it with day to day activity yet. I feel pretty much normal. I'll be starting cardiac rehab in a week which will set the pace of exercise I can do. Otherwise I've been told to resume normal activity. First words out of the cardiologist's mouth were "I'm sorry". The kind of plaque that ruptured is one they can't screen for and has no symptoms until it pops. It's a thin plaque with a large surface area so it's not a blockage prior to rupturing. Wouldn't have shown up on a stress test or dye test. My fasting cholesterol was Total:174, Triglycerides 168, LDL 103, HDL 37. So HDL was a bit low and triglycerides were borderline high, but nothing that indicated impending heart attack. At any rate, likely the only thing that could have prevented my heart attack was going on statins a year ago, but no doctor would have prescribed them because my cholesterol wasn't bad enough. I do need to lose weight though and that will help my HDL, but it's mostly down to family history at this point. I need to be on statins for the rest of my life and I need to get my LDL below 70 now. While they were in there they did notice a partial blockage of the mid-LDA. It's below the threshold where they would normally do anything about and they also said it may have been a partially false reading due to my heart being in trauma at the time. That's something for the future. So, yeah. De-stress. Please do overreact to potential heart attack symptoms because the whole clutching the chest while falling over is a Hollywood trope, it may be more subtle. And if you have a history of heart disease in the family, get that cholesterol super SUPER low.
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Apr 25, 2019 18:49
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Internet Explorer posted:Please take care of yourselves, goons. This poo poo isn't worth dying for. Agreed. All of you. Even those I argue with and the dude who proudly announces that I'm on his ignore list every once in a while. Please keep healthy and happy, take care of your mental health, and do what you can to reduce stress. You all deserve it. Glad you're okay, bull.
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Apr 25, 2019 18:52
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bull3964 posted:I got lucky after being monumentally unlucky. I only live 1.5 miles from a really good hospital and while I didn't leave for the hospital immediately (I thought I had just pulled a muscle), a friend drove me and they were able to get me in the cath lab in less than an hour after I hit the emergency room. 100% blockage of the RCA with an additional 90% blockage further down. Two stents, they went in through my wrist so very quick recovery. Goddamn, I need to get back to the gym.
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Apr 25, 2019 19:10
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If I had those symptoms I'd probably go lay down thinking it was something else and never wake up. Our work hosed our health care insurance crazy amount, so anytime I gotta go in, it's expensive.
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Absolutely, take care of yourself people. There are very few of you to whom I wish death. Most of you I only want to see toes stubbed. And all the best to you, bull. So, how's my day? Someone had a meeting scheduled for today. I certainly won't tell you that I planned my day around it, but I was prepared to give it my full attention, treat it as a priority, good faith effort, all those things. Five minutes before the meeting, they reschedule it for next Wednesday. Okay, I reply with a 'Tentative'. Wednesday's busy for me and I don't know how things are going to shake out. I get a reply from them about how critical the meeting is and how I need to make sure that myself or someone from my team is on the call. Yeah well, if the meeting was that important, it would have happened at the specified time. I propose that if your meeting can be moved 5 minutes before it starts, it's not that important. I'd already carved out time for a very important meeting on this topic - that time was today. I'll make a best effort next Wednesday, but you just put yourself at the back of the line. MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Apr 25, 2019 |
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Apr 25, 2019 19:46
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Under what authority? A network engineer is neither a CISO nor a sys admin. This would be like me contacting the network team and letting them know how we're going to be maintaining our routers. By order of the CTO. It was not our Network Eng's idea... but I didn't hear any argument from him either.
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Ahh alright, I gotcha. I took it to mean the network admin himself had made the decision. It doesn't make it any more correct if it comes from the CTO but at least they're in a position to make the decision.
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Apr 25, 2019 20:03
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bull3964 posted:the whole clutching the chest while falling over is a Hollywood trope
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Ok, that's how SOME people go, but it's not the totality of what can happen. You can have a heart attack for days and only feel slightly nauseous.
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bull3964 posted:Ok, that's how SOME people go, but it's not the totality of what can happen. You can have a heart attack for days and only feel slightly nauseous. That's my default feeling.
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Apr 25, 2019 21:31
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In at 11PM out somewhere between 8-10AM. Almost 11 years of that.
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Apr 25, 2019 22:53
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:By order of the CTO. Lol executives get the most idiotic bugs in their rear end and make outrageous sweeping changes for sure, but this one is a doozy After spending hundreds of thousands recovering from ransomware I’m impressed that the CIOs only big change was removing admin access and shared domain accounts. Which, you know, is a good idea
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Sushi The Kid posted:In at 11PM out somewhere between 8-10AM. Almost 11 years of that.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Agreed. All of you. Even those I argue with and the dude who proudly announces that I'm on his ignore list every once in a while. Please keep healthy and happy, take care of your mental health, and do what you can to reduce stress. You all deserve it. Glad you're okay, bull. Indeed. Changing jobs a year ago from a stressful helpdesk to a sligtly less paid (as of yet) but much, much less stressfull consultancy position was the best decision of my professional life.
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How did you make more money on a help desk than as a consultant???? 
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Absolutely, take care of yourself people. There are very few of you to whom I wish death. Most of you I only want to see toes stubbed. Times like this are why I constantly hammer to the wife and other stressed friends that no job is worth (metaphorically) ruining yourself over, you can bust your hump to put all the extra hours and effort in the world to get the job done but the simple rule still applies; There will always be more work tomorrow
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Bigass Moth posted:How did you make more money on a help desk than as a consultant????
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Thanks Ants posted:Really unfortunate that your phone poo poo itself during the performance and you only realised just as the credits were rolling No pages during the film, hell yeah 
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Sirotan posted:No pages during the film, hell yeah It was a really good movie too!
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Mmph, I don't know, you enjoying it? I worked night shift for a long time in the Air Force, and the charm of being able to goof off watching movies wore off after a while. Certainly if your job is busier, this won't be an "issue", but after a while I wanted more than to do 1.5 hours of work per night and never see my friends. It's alright. I do enjoy getting off Friday morning and not going back till Monday night. The best thing it's just me and a security guard. We have a blast on holidays.
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bull3964 posted:the whole clutching the chest while falling over is a Hollywood trope, it may be more subtle. This. Call an ambulance if you feel a combination of tightness in the chest, burning, numbness in the arm, or lightheadedness. Even if you're totally uninsured I can practically guarantee it will be cheaper than a funeral. Sheep fucked around with this message at 11:55 on Apr 28, 2019 |
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Bigass Moth posted:How did you make more money on a help desk than as a consultant???? I'm full time monthly paid in my consultant job and I don't do evening / weekend shifts, which I did at the helpdesk job. Previous job vas monthly pay + extra for each evening (1pm to 9pm) and weekend shift, now it's monthly pay full stop. For one evening shift (normally you would be either 7am to 3pm, 8am to 4pm or 9am to 5pm) you would get 1% extra pay that month, for a saturday shift normal hourly pay plus 4% per month, for a sunday doubly pay and since that was a 12-hour shift you would get 24 hours worth pay for one. Now I have a flexible schedule of 37,5h / week, and only get extra pay if a client wants us to do overtime. There is also a bi-annual bonus and after a raise or two my monthly pay will supercede my previous pay, extras included. I'm just not quite there just yet. And since this is Finland this is of course an unionized job.
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Sheep posted:This. Call an ambulance if you feel a combination of tightness in the chest, burning, numbness in the arm, or lightheadedness. Even if you're totally uninsured I can practically guarantee it will be cheaper than a funeral. I had these symptoms during a panic attack once. I still went to the ER and got it confirmed that it was not a heart problem. They also did a full EKG-test which settled any worries I had over bad heart.
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I've just had someone in the office who has given me yet another anecdote of their experience of my helpdesk dude getting angry over trivial poo poo. Obviously there are issues. On the one hand it's tricky to broach the subject because no one is ~actually~ complaining it's a bit more like 'oh hey I said this and helpdesk dude really reacted badly to it you know' My theory on it was the scope of what we support is rather broad so he is still being exposed to new things and his bad reactions are coming from not know what to do, so in our little kinda monthly management catch up I pointed out people don't ring up IT support to be told you can't help them so I am going to (not literally) ban the words no and can't - the reason I'm doing this is because even if someone says can you fix system X and we don't support it, rather than saying no, why don't you say, sorry but can you give person X a call or submit ticket Y - signposting the person to the right place will get you 10x a better response than just saying no. Then let's take the example of something you don't know how to do, why don't you just say you'll go over and take a look, then if you don't know you can say 'oh need parts' (etc) the person will be so much happier that someone turned up promptly then getting an answer of 'dunno how to do that bye' - whilst that might technically waste time I think encouraging my dude to work with people will reap the benefit that people will want to reciprocate and work with him which will ultimately keep everything streamlined. I know we don't go to work to make friends but I need to manage some people skills into this dude before I do actually get a formal complaint. Luckily today's anecdote came from a dude who is really chill but if next time it's someone a little bit more uptight I am getting some kind of grievance sooner or later haha. This really has very little to do with IT, but I wanted to vent a bit 
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Soft skills are very relevant to IT, more so because it's really not formally taught at any point. There are some people who are natural at it, and some who aren't. Waaaay back in ancient times my first IT job (level 2 support for library cataloging software), and remember being told that these people who get to my phone are already frustrated and confused and really don't know how to work these computers in general. And that if I didn't know something to say something along the lines of "I've never run across that. Let me do some investigation and maybe bounce this up the line, but I'll get back to you in X minutes" or say "I need to consult with a colleague, can I put you on hold?" or even "Our software currently can't do what you're asking it to, but I'll put in a feature request to see if it can get added"
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angry armadillo posted:I've just had someone in the office who has given me yet another anecdote of their experience of my helpdesk dude getting angry over trivial poo poo. Obviously there are issues. That theory can be helpful for modeling your coaching approach if your direct hits an impasse in terms of improvement, but it ultimately doesn't matter. It's your direct's responsibility to understand that their behavior is a problem, why it is a problem, and commit to improving. Your responsibility as a manager/lead is to clearly communicate that this is unacceptable and counterproductive behavior, and their success or failure at their job is contingent upon improvement in this area. This has to happen before any coaching that might hypothetically substitute their behavior with a different one. Roy Rapoport's Five Conditions for Improvement is a great go-to here: https://medium.com/@royrapoport/the-five-conditions-for-improvement-20909f856dab Proteus Jones posted:Soft skills are very relevant to IT, more so because it's really not formally taught at any point. There are some people who are natural at it, and some who aren't.
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I can see your point. I've made the point I'm coaching helpdesk guy on a weakness so that is clear. I haven't said I am doing it because it is causing a problem, so specifically I haven't set that expectation, I don't think I need to just yet - Most people will tell me a little story where he did something odd, but it's like "hey you IT guys are always a bit odd, right?! so we accept that, right?!" It's probably more of an issue for me because I can see something that can be improved upon so it bugs me that it isn't as good as it could be where as this dude is a bit older than me and I accept people do stick in their ways so there is an element of human issues not being as scientific to fix if that makes sense - at the end of the day, tickets are getting closed, we are an internal IT dept so no risk of lost custom... it's... acceptable, ish.
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Vulture Culture posted:Most tech folks could benefit from a business class or two. Yes indeed. I’d have to say I got a lot more out the business courses I took as part of my WGU degree than I thought I would.
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angry armadillo posted:It's probably more of an issue for me because I can see something that can be improved upon so it bugs me that it isn't as good as it could be where as this dude is a bit older than me and I accept people do stick in their ways so there is an element of human issues not being as scientific to fix if that makes sense - at the end of the day, tickets are getting closed, we are an internal IT dept so no risk of lost custom... it's... acceptable, ish. Generally, people don't need science to fix their performance problems. They need the will to understand that their continued employment depends on fixing it.
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