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Turns out nothing matters! No emails, no mentions of this to anyone. Since its "just" a DR site, its not in production so its not worth mentioning. Only 2 people noticed it was down. Meanwhile, a switch in our lab crashes and it part of a POC environment is running through it, and I had multiple calls about it. It took down the IT office that was running through it, and they were aware that there could be problems. That happened Wednesday of last week and I'm still getting questions.
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You all get people shutting things down without knowing, but I get people going ape poo poo on me for shutting things down when I have valid reasons and also know exactly what I'm doing. Couple of months ago, some jerks in Marketing were not doing 'data analysis' (was forced to give access, so new replica + read only account for them) and instead copying users' phone numbers (couldn't encrypt because I was forced to not encrypt) off and storing in Excel files for marketing related texts even when user opted out. It's a serious breach of privacy law + security issues so I had to shut down to prevent any more breach of such issues, analyse if there were any security compromise, then added a function in the internal system with enforced conditions for sending marketing texts to prevent any more breaches of law or security which took only a day to implement. Except I got called into a meeting immediately and was poo poo on with bunch of 'you can't do that!', 'what if it stopped the services!' or 'it's ok to copy if it's for internal use!' crap. Responsibility without power!  edit: function I implemented only shows user count for conditions applied. Also I'm 'responsible' for security as well. Aesis fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Sep 6, 2019 |
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Sep 6, 2019 03:48
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kensei posted:If you can't easily find it online, I probably have the script I used somewhere. PM if you want it. code:
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Sep 6, 2019 06:44
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Im' remote today, and I'm in a conference call with my boss and team, and I just spilled an entire mug of steaming hot coffee on myself.
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Sep 6, 2019 15:08
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Im' remote today, and I'm in a conference call with my boss and team, and I just spilled an entire mug of steaming hot coffee on myself. ...and that's why I appeared on the conference webcam pantsless.
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Sep 6, 2019 15:24
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Shut up Meg posted:...and that's why I appeared on the conference webcam pantsless. I remember you
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Sep 6, 2019 15:33
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Shut up Meg posted:...and that's why I appeared on the conference webcam pantsless. I can only picture everyone else acting indignant about the situation while each trying to hide the fact they're similarly pantsless and hoping nobody notices.
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Sep 6, 2019 17:25
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If the movie Speed has taught us anything, it's that sending a looped video allows you to get away with a lot more than a live feed.
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Sep 6, 2019 18:30
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Im' remote today, and I'm in a conference call with my boss and team, and I just spilled an entire mug of steaming hot coffee on myself. It's a shame your webcam is having technical issues.
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Sep 6, 2019 18:44
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turning off video saves bandwidth AND embarrassment
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Sep 6, 2019 19:46
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Also you don't have to look at yourself, which is great.
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Sep 6, 2019 20:05
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:turning off video saves bandwidth AND embarrassment You learn the hard way that taping over the camera is essential.
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Sep 6, 2019 20:20
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I've just taken to flat out stating I don't have a webcam. People seem taken aback but no one's ever said anything else so, whatever.
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If you need a password reset literally every couple days and constant looking after from IT just so you can get into the system, you are incompetent and probably should retire. This doctor put in a ticket to get his password reset yet again, but left his stupid answering service number so I can't even get the motherfucker going. This guy worked with my parents in the early 80s and he was a doctor then too.
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Sep 7, 2019 21:31
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Pissing me off: roasting CLAM DOWN is now mod sass 
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Sep 8, 2019 22:50
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skooma512 posted:If you need a password reset literally every couple days and constant looking after from IT just so you can get into the system, you are incompetent and probably should retire. Maddening. I don't know if that's better or worse than a 65+ year old mail clerk who cannot remember any password period. "I'm locked out" "Locked out of what" "Windows, everything" "Okay, I've unlocked your account, try to log in" "I don't remember my password" "Ookay I can reset that. You temporary password is Welcome12345!" "Oh, now I have to come up with a new password? Ugh. Hold on, let me think of something" "..." "Okay, I've got it. ... Wait, it's not working. Stupid thing!" "Did you put in the Welcome12345! on the first line? Capital W? "Hmm? Oh, no! I totally forgot haha. Mondays, right?" "Right" "Okay, it looks like it's letting me in. Let me write this password down... okay. Thanks sweetie!" Repeat every 3-4 days.
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Sep 9, 2019 14:09
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Not pissing me off: Getting a new position at work and feeling like my hard work was noticed. Can't wait to start. Pissing me off: Waiting on HR to process everything with my position change and being stuck in limbo.
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Ratmtattat posted:Not pissing me off: Getting a new position at work and feeling like my hard work was noticed. Can't wait to start. For whatever it's worth this HR process takes about 2 weeks at $current_job so I wont officially start my new position until next week either.
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Sep 9, 2019 15:18
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IT VP that started 3 months ago seems to be floundering and having a hard time figuring out what he's supposed to do here and it's starting to affect my day-to-day.
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Sep 9, 2019 19:12
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The Fool posted:IT VP that started 3 months ago seems to be floundering and having a hard time figuring out what he's supposed to do here and it's starting to affect my day-to-day. How can a leader not know what his role is?
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Sickening posted:How can a leader not know what his role is? Because he wasn't hired to enact a vision or implement a roadmap or even with any clear idea of what the board and other executives want. He was hired because someone said "Other companies like us have this CTO position, we should do something like that too"
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Sep 9, 2019 19:32
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IF you're looking for some morning coffee here is some of that pureuncut of a thread from /r/sysadminquote:So when I arrived at the office at 730 am still looking like a shell shocked survivor of Omaha beach. The CFO immediately pole vaulted into my cubicle the moment I sit down and proceeds to hammer throw me and my manager into his office. He starts breaking down that "finance software we've never heard of" hasn't been brought back online and it's going to cause a catastrophe if it's not back online soon. I go through the list of critical applications that could not fail and what he was talking about was not on there. I professionally remind we are in crisis mode and can't take special requests right now. He insists that the team has been patient and that is app is basically there portal to do everything. I think to myself then why I haven't heard of it before part of the security audit six months was to inventory our software subscriptions. Unless and I cringed there's some shadow IT going on. quote:We looked and looked to understand how it worked because the web app appeared to have windows paths but also had Linux utilities. I did not understand how this thing was cobbled together but we eventually figured it out this maniac installed wine on the redhat server then installed cygwin on wine then compiled the windows application and it ran for 15 years kinda of.
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Sep 9, 2019 19:45
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Running 15 years maintenance free is actually testament to his genius!
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Sep 9, 2019 19:50
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The Fool posted:Because he wasn't hired to enact a vision or implement a roadmap or even with any clear idea of what the board and other executives want. He was hired because someone said "Other companies like us have this CTO position, we should do something like that too" At the very least a VP would talk to his direct reports and lead the status quo. Leadership for the most part is showing up and collecting a paycheck. You essentially have to try to gently caress that up.
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incoherent posted:IF you're looking for some morning coffee here is some of that pureuncut of a thread from /r/sysadmin  The real problem here is the guy who did this is already dead, so you can't hunt him down and murder him.
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Sep 9, 2019 20:06
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xzzy posted:Running 15 years maintenance free is actually testament to his genius! I am sure spiceworks lost a big contributor to the forums.
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Sep 9, 2019 20:21
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Thanatosian posted:
I mean, that guy worked at least one miracle, so I think a Cadaver Synod should be on the table.
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Sep 9, 2019 20:25
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I'm torn between the annoyance factor and the sheer crazy gall of the thing
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Sickening posted:At the very least a VP would talk to his direct reports and lead the status quo. Leadership for the most part is showing up and collecting a paycheck. You essentially have to try to gently caress that up. My Director is between me and the VP, and among other things the VP is starting to micromanage our helpdesk.
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Sep 9, 2019 20:53
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The Fool posted:My Director is between me and the VP, and among other things the VP is starting to micromanage our helpdesk. Someone is bored as gently caress then. I imagine someone has asked him to report on some things and he was left not knowing what to report. Instead of talking to his direct reports and making poo poo up, he is trying to get himself out there and shake stuff up. He isn't doing the VP thing correctly. I would also think that maybe one of the C-levels is bitching about the helpdesk and C-levels will do from time to time.
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Sep 9, 2019 21:02
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I forgot what I did when I got my current laptop, but no webcams at all work on it. Been 2.5 years and I haven't needed to fix the break so I guess I did a good job.
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Sep 9, 2019 22:57
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Anyone else get a deluge of marketing emails from Staples this morning? Moment 8 O'Clock hit, every ~30 seconds we kept getting the same marketing email until I blocked the address.
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Sep 10, 2019 02:36
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First they forced me to hand over the services, and now they need me to work on them again because they’re short on hands. Because two devs decided to hit eject button after 6 months in the company. Maybe give me pay raise first
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Sep 10, 2019 04:40
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Sickening posted:I am sure spiceworks lost a big contributor to the forums. 
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Sep 10, 2019 09:40
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One of our stores is in a somewhat remote town. Well the only local bank branch closed. The closest bank branch of any kind is now like 15+ miles away. The bank offered to set up that location with a scanner so they can at least remotely deposit checks. It requires Internet Explorer 
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Sep 10, 2019 16:08
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I am totally over getting meeting requests for an hour of my time a week from now to go over something that would take 30 seconds to 5 minutes in Teams or face to face.
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Someone dropped the ball. We converted from mapped shared drives of ~2GB for PST files 1 year ago to O365 and one user didn't have her PST portion converted to O365. Fast forward to our Windows 10 rollout this month and a large chunk of her sensitive data is gone with new machines issued. Evidence needed for removals, suspensions, drug-free workplace, etc. Assistant HR Director gets involved, elevates it to OIT national since local doesn't know what's going on. Spent 72 hours tracking down data through backups until it was found apparently.
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Sep 10, 2019 21:26
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Yeah the amount of stuff that is a two sentence email that people book in as a meeting a week out and then also don't provide an agenda for 
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Sep 10, 2019 21:26
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I don’t want to talk politics or religion with you, sorry every single coworker.
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Thanks Ants posted:Yeah the amount of stuff that is a two sentence email that people book in as a meeting a week out and then also don't provide an agenda for Just start mass handing out "Read this before our next meeting" with some snarky thank you note on it.
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