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Exit Strategy posted:We have the second-worst username schema I've ever seen. FirstnameLastname. Unless you've got the same as another person in the company, at which point it's FirstnameMLastname, with M being the middle initial, and other distinguishers added on a case-by-case basis. We have three Linda R. Joneses, so the first one is LindaJones, the second LindaRJones, and the third LindaJonesEsq.
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PBS posted:Our system appends a number if there are duplicates, so you end up with john.smith@company.com and john.smith2@company.com. We have the same here at the hospital. Guess how many Patels we are up too lol Also, always fun when a new doc comes onboard and ends up with a number and the person without a number is a lowly nurse or manager, that's a fun fight too! Normally whoever has been here the longest gets the no number name, but Docs think that they > * so, ya.
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Vulture Culture posted:Everyone should just get a UUID AT&T had the best format I've seen for a super large company. 2 initials plus 4 random numbers/characters. When you're talking probably 2 million user accounts the first name last name system doesn't scale.
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siggy2021 posted:Interesting development in my life. I did a CTF recently on a team with the lead pen-tester of the company I was trying to get a job as a Network Engineer with. I've tooled around with security stuff in the past, mostly on places like hack the box, but I wouldn't say I'm super proficient at it or anything. I did fairly well, but I guess I made a huge impression because I'm being offered a part-time gig moonlighting with them on security projects during their busier times to test the waters (both for them and me, I'm assuming) with the aim of eventually coming on full time as a security consultant if/when they grow a bit more and are looking to hire someone. I'm excited and terrified. This wasn't exactly the path I had in mind, but it's not something I'm entirely against either. Working 1.5 jobs for a bit might be annoying, but the extra money would be cool, getting to learn more and dive into the security/pen-testing world on a professional level is neat, and from the way it sounds it's more or less helping on projects when I'm available. On the other hand I feel woefully inadequate for this type of role with my current skill level, but I'm trying to keep reminding myself that can't be true, because they extended the offer to me. That sounds like an awesome path to be on. Congrats! And good work impressing folks. 
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Stop hiring people with boring names or assign them a new name on hire. Problem solved. I worked at a place where someone else already had my first name, and that was absolutely unacceptable to the secretary. She decided I was now Chuck and would only address me as such.
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KillHour posted:Stop hiring people with boring names or assign them a new name on hire. Problem solved. What the gently caress?
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Jun 19, 2019 15:44
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Compensation being similar, do I work for the company selling ads or the company curing cancer
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GreenNight posted:What the gently caress? She's a really fuckin weird lady. She was the only woman in the office and would tell jokes that made even the cable jockies uncomfortable.
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KillHour posted:She's a really fuckin weird lady. Hi Chuck. Hi Gertrude. Call her a different name every time. She'll probably report you to HR then.
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GreenNight posted:Hi Chuck. Hi Gertrude. Call her a different name every time. She'll probably report you to HR then. She would just laugh and make a game out of it. Just lol at the idea of her being offended by anything. She once made a joke referring to her own vagina as a dumpster. I'm not kidding.
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Exit Strategy posted:We have the second-worst username schema I've ever seen. FirstnameLastname. Unless you've got the same as another person in the company, at which point it's FirstnameMLastname, with M being the middle initial, and other distinguishers added on a case-by-case basis. We have three Linda R. Joneses, so the first one is LindaJones, the second LindaRJones, and the third LindaJonesEsq. We use first initial, middle initial, and last initial. At one point it had to be explained to our corporate overlords why JEW@companyname wasn't gonna fly. One of my coworkers has DTF which drives him nuts.
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Vulture Culture posted:Compensation being similar, do I work for the company selling ads or the company curing cancer Is there a 3rd one selling cancer or curing ads?
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Sepist posted:Is there a 3rd one selling cancer or curing ads?
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That sounds like what I had at my first IT job, except I think the managers and up had first initial last name as aliases. The email naming scheme like 10 posts ago.
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Thomamelas posted:We use first initial, middle initial, and last initial. At one point it had to be explained to our corporate overlords why JEW@companyname wasn't gonna fly. One of my coworkers has DTF which drives him nuts. When I started at my current job we had initials. One user had bad@company.com, another had rear end@company.com and HR approved them all. Thems the rules! We changed once we migrated off of Groupwise.
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Jun 19, 2019 16:02
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How can I work there? I want bdsm@company.com
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KillHour posted:How can I work there? I want bdsm@company.com Plot twist: he already works at MindGeek.
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Sickening posted:Of all the states to accuse of constant heat you choose Oklahoma? Like, have you ever been there? I spent a few months in OkC and stayed at that whatever fancy hotel downtown that's haunted for particular company downtown with a really tall building. Oklahoma is just, a field. A hot field. Bricktown is kind of cool but pretty much completely dead outside of the weekend or special events.
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Vulture Culture posted:Compensation being similar, do I work for the company selling ads or the company curing cancer It's 2019. I'm sure the cancer curing place is somehow injecting subliminal DRINK YOUR OVALTINE messages as part of the treatment. But seriously that sounds like an awesome opportunity (to work on something meaningful, not unethically injecting ads into people). SO MANY companies are either advertisers or utterly beholden to them that it would be amazing to be both well-compensated and not work on loving ads for once.
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I ran into user 'hell' yesterday. Looks like we do have a drat, no rear end tho. ~800,000 users and our requirement is letter combination between 3 and 8 characters long. I'm lucky in that my last name is incredibly unique, so I was able to snag firstinitiallastname, but I feel bad for the Smith's and Johnson's who I can see gave up and went with aaaa, aaabbb, etc.
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Tab8715 posted:I spent a few months in OkC and stayed at that whatever fancy hotel downtown that's haunted for particular company downtown with a really tall building. Dead for what? What city are you comparing it to for context? Boiling a state down to "Just a field" based on whatever weird rear end mental gymnastics you are doing would probably lump in 45 of the 50 states.
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I refuse to believe that Oklahoma is hot enough to warrant that being the primary descriptor for the state given that the entire Southwest exists.
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tell me why I shouldn't live in oklahoma
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Sickening posted:Dead for what? What city are you comparing it to for context? Similar cities. Even Fargo, North Dakota has a better downtown. Inspector_666 posted:I refuse to believe that Oklahoma is hot enough to warrant that being the primary descriptor for the state given that the entire Southwest exists. I can't imagine it getting any hotter.
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Methanar posted:tell me why I shouldn't live in oklahoma Go look at the states politics. :heh:
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Methanar posted:tell me why I shouldn't live in oklahoma Because it's in America. Additionally you could live in Minnesota where it gets both sweltering hot and deathly cold for weeks a time.
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Tab8715 posted:I can't imagine it getting any hotter. Does it regularly top 100 for a week at a time? Have you ever been to Arizona or Nevada?
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It's far enough south and far enough from the water that it's loving hot. It's basically Arizona or New Mexico, but humid. North Texas is the same way. And yeah, it's a super red state if that sort of thing is a concern to you.
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Jun 19, 2019 16:37
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Just live where pot and abortions are legal.
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Inspector_666 posted:Does it regularly top 100 for a week at a time? Have you ever been to Arizona or Nevada? 100 is no joke no matter where you are, but there are places in the world where 100 in the shade won't cause your body to overheat because the sweat evaporates. There are places in the world where 100 in the shade still has you overheating because it is so humid your sweat stops working. 
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Tab8715 posted:Similar cities. Even Fargo, North Dakota has a better downtown. OKC High today: 87 Phoenix High today: 103 And we've had a relatively mild spring/early summer, we didn't hit 100 until June!
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Tab8715 posted:Similar cities. Even Fargo, North Dakota has a better downtown. Oklahoma average annual temperature is 61 degrees lmao. The average temperature of north dakata is 42 degrees. Yes, oklahoma is the Sahara desert by that comparison. Whoever is calling 61 degrees "hot" is a goober.
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GreenNight posted:Just live where pot and abortions are legal. Then I'd say Canada then but with the way politics up here is going we may not even have those for long.
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Internet Explorer posted:100 is no joke no matter where you are, but there are places in the world where 100 in the shade won't cause your body to overheat because the sweat evaporates. There are places in the world where 100 in the shade still has you overheating because it is so humid your sweat stops working. While true 120 is fuckoff hot even if it is dry. You get used to Phoenix heat when you live here, but by end of summer it's time for a trip to colder places. Last year we had 100 days in a row of 100+ temps. 
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No, for sure, Oklahoma is a great place. That's why so many people live there.
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TheFace posted:While true 120 is fuckoff hot even if it is dry here. This is why I live near the mountains. When it gets hot, a quick trip up to the mountains is good for a good 20-30 degree drop.
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Internet Explorer posted:It's far enough south and far enough from the water that it's loving hot. It's basically Arizona or New Mexico, but humid. North Texas is the same way. If you're looking at hot places, I'd go with Tucson. Nice city, no natural disasters, completely dry heat (the people I know there visit the Bay Area and go "whoa it's so humid here!"). CoL probably a little higher than OK, but certainly not CO or Bay Area levels. And it's much much cooler than Phoenix by comparison - only really gets hot for June and half of July and even then it's 100/105, not 120+. Of course there's no water and that's definitely gonna be a thing in the next 30 or so years, but other than that it's a great place and I've often pondered trying to work remote from there. 5-bedroom mansion for 600k? Sure sign me the gently caress up. I haven't looked recently but I don't believe you can buy any piece of real estate in Palo Alto with a building large enough to live in (like, even a shack) for less than $800k.
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Internet Explorer posted:This is why I live near the mountains. When it gets hot, a quick trip up to the mountains is good for a good 20-30 degree drop. Works in Arizona too. 115 in Phoenix, drive to Prescott or Flagstaff. I love Phoenix and all but I have a goal of owning something, even a shack with internet, in Flagstaff for the hottest weeks of the summer. Back to the username/email address topic. At my current work everyone has a 5 digit employee number that acts as our login, which avoids conflicts, it was annoying for troubleshooting for like the first week I was here until I wrote a powershell script to give me the AD info of a user based on the username so I'd know who it was and their email/phone number, it'll also take an email address or first and last name and give me back the user id.
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Bonzo posted:Then I'd say Canada then but with the way politics up here is going we may not even have those for long. Lmao pot isn't going to become illegal again
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