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22 Eargesplitten posted:I work in a call center One of the high points of working I.T. solo on the graveyard shift at a call center was being given a shoulder slung vacuum and an order to clean the workstations. All 400 of them.
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Dick Trauma posted:One of the high points of working I.T. solo on the graveyard shift at a call center was being given a shoulder slung vacuum and an order to clean the workstations. Well at least you know what you're doing that shift  How's life, DT?
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Oct 6, 2019 11:26
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Last week at work has been fun and exciting - got to clean up a bunch of old-rear end VMs from projects that shut down years ago. Just deleting a few of the VMs freed up something like 5 TB of storage. Which had disks that had died and threatening to take the whole SAN down. But we weren't getting the alerts because the previous Infrastructure team lead had the alerts being sent only to his email account. I was looking around in the SAN and changed the alerts to go out to the team and suddenly we were getting a dozen emails every day. And the SAN was not under a maintenance contract. Sr Engineer got frantic and shot an email to the big boss telling him we need money. Big boss wants to know how much we actually need so we can do some budgeting. Since I'm the only one available I started calling vendors and requesting quotes. Also decided that we needed to get a handle on inventory and found Snipe-IT. Tested it out and our intern and I both liked it. Got a Zebra printer and started entering assets into the system and populating the database. Once that was up and running our Horizon 7 cluster decided to take a poo poo, with 2 of the 4 ancient-as-gently caress Supermicro blade servers dying and dumping their loads on the remaining 2. Without knowing much about View or Horizon I started working on the new cluster we've had sitting there running for like 9 months now but never had time to work on. The only person who knew anything about it left 6 months ago. So I spent part of last week watching some videos and reading my "Mastering VMware Horizon 7" book while I build an image and test it out. Happy to say that I was able to deploy it and I'm moving on to adding Thinapps. Having quite a bit of fun honestly. I think the fun is going to end in about 4 weeks, which is about the time the 60 day recovery period our division director decreed that exempted me from working on anything but our development network. I don't know that they've bothered to even interview anyone for the Infrastructure team lead position, or for the 2 additional positions we've got requisitions in place. So if anyone is looking for a job in Dayton, OH you can PM me and I'll send you a link for the postings. Doesn't really matter if you have a clearance, as the company will sponsor you for one - just be sure that there's nothing really egregious that might prevent you from getting a TS. It took me 15 months to finally get mine, so the company has no problem with hiring people and paying them while they wait to get cleared. Oh, and it's good to see you again DT!
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Oct 6, 2019 23:36
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Bob Morales posted:Do you like hockey Do you hate incredibly high insurance premiums? Do you hate cold winters and cold springs? Do you hate roads so bad that the state passed a law absolving themselves from responsibility if you damage your car hitting a pothole? Do you hate the rest of the state (except Grand Rapids) being redder than the Deep South? If so, stay the gently caress away from Michigan.
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Oct 7, 2019 05:38
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Dick Trauma posted:One of the high points of working I.T. solo on the graveyard shift at a call center was being given a shoulder slung vacuum and an order to clean the workstations. Oh boy I suddenly don't feel so bad that I was asked to move a bookcase out of an exec's office last week. At least I get to watch netflix and relax in peace on our dead days.
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Oct 7, 2019 09:17
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I would not move to Michigan again if I was offered double what I’m making now. Nothing is worth the 9 months of grey coldness and mountains of snow piles.
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Oct 7, 2019 10:46
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Bigass Moth posted:I would not move to Michigan again if I was offered double what I’m making now. Nothing is worth the 9 months of grey coldness and mountains of snow piles. But you can join the rat race in driving 3-4 hours "up north" every weekend for three months out of the year and get 7mpg pulling a camper trailer with your $60k pickup truck and stopping at jerky stores and pasty shops
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Oct 7, 2019 12:14
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Bob Morales posted:But you can join the rat race in driving 3-4 hours "up north" every weekend for three months out of the year and get 7mpg pulling a camper trailer with your $60k pickup truck and stopping at jerky stores and pasty shops I think you mean $100k quadruple rolled over underwater truck loan but the rest seems spot on.
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Oct 7, 2019 12:20
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I hated that poo poo. Everyone would be gone every weekend. There was never anything to do!
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Oct 7, 2019 12:57
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Owner of the company brought his laptop in, is sitting at the department collaboration table with my manager and another IT person. They're installing a new version of his flight simulator software.
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Oct 7, 2019 13:51
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Well, why not? 
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Oct 7, 2019 13:55
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Bob Morales posted:Owner of the company brought his laptop in, is sitting at the department collaboration table with my manager and another IT person. It's not business related, its just the guy signing their paychecks and determining their raises asking for a friendly favor in the office during business hours. What's so harmful in that
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Oct 7, 2019 14:05
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Judge Schnoopy posted:It's not business related, its just the guy signing their paychecks and determining their raises asking for a friendly favor in the office during business hours. I do this all the time for people who have 0 input in my pay, I mostly like my coworkers. But strictly under "Everything required for me to do this right now is present and available".
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Oct 7, 2019 14:25
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Every minute that my CEO is playing a computer game, playing a round of golf or boffing his secretary is a minute that he's not coming up with 'clever' new ideas and strategies for the business.
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Oct 7, 2019 15:06
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Shut up Meg posted:Every minute that my CEO is playing a computer game, playing a round of golf or boffing his secretary is a minute that he's not coming up with 'clever' new ideas and strategies for the business. My CEO inked a 5 year deal with colo for compute costs that are 10 times that of azure. It comes with guarantees where we are required to have a minimum amount of infrastructure plus an annual growth of that minimum number of about 5%. We are rewarded with this guaranteed business by having SLA's without monetary penalties and some of the worst support anywhere. The deal is so laughable that you can't overlook the obvious fraud taking place.
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Oct 7, 2019 15:21
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Sickening posted:The deal is so laughable that you can't overlook the obvious fraud taking place. This. You just gotta see the bigger picture. Kickbacks!
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Oct 7, 2019 15:49
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Bob Morales posted:But you can join the rat race in driving 3-4 hours "up north" every weekend for three months out of the year and get 7mpg pulling a camper trailer with your $60k pickup truck and stopping at jerky stores and pasty shops I still haven't quite gotten a handle on how this works in MI, having to like "go out to the country" to get away from the urban chaos. I'm a bit spoiled in WNY on that front I think. Yeah people go camping or have seasonal sites, but you can also take an hour drive to a state park, beach, festival, market, nature, whatever. I can't generalize the whole state of Michigan as much as I would often want to. There's obviously more metro area and the lifestyle that comes with it, but, plenty of other things to enjoy as well. Regarding the snow, for however much of that we'll get in the future, it is what it is. I don't mind shoveling all that much, and I enjoy the serenity that comes with a fresh snowfall. Probably the worst of it is having to get into an ice cold car and not be able to run with the windows down and the music up. But you can't do that in the middle of a forest fire, torrential downpour, or tornado either.
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Oct 7, 2019 15:56
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Hence why you move to SoCal. Sure it’s more expensive, but you get better roads, 99% tile weather, and internet that is actually good.
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Oct 7, 2019 16:02
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When you get up at 4 am to shovel your driveway every day for six months straight you will have a different opinion on snow.
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Oct 7, 2019 16:02
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Bigass Moth posted:When you get up at 4 am to shovel your driveway every day for six months straight you will have a different opinion on snow. Why are you not investing in a snowblower by that point?
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Oct 7, 2019 16:05
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Bigass Moth posted:When you get up at 4 am to shovel your driveway every day for six months straight you will have a different opinion on snow. At least most of Michigan isn't as bad as the UP. You'd have an even more different opinion on snow, especially when you're still getting a couple inches at least in May.
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Oct 7, 2019 16:07
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DelphiAegis posted:Why are you not investing in a snowblower by that point? I was going to but we smartly moved before the next winter.
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Oct 7, 2019 16:11
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Since getting a house with a garage, I don't even bother shoveling anymore. I just open the garage and gun it. The car clears its own path with enough speed! 
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Oct 7, 2019 16:13
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Bigass Moth posted:When you get up at 4 am to shovel your driveway every day for six months straight you will have a different opinion on snow. Coincidentally I do this, partly because I can't run a snowblower at that hour. Would I rather be asleep not doing this? Yes, absolutely. But it's not the worst thing in the world. Nite shoveling the goal is to pop a beer in the snow and get the shoveling done before it ices over.
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Oct 7, 2019 16:15
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Bigass Moth posted:When you get up at 4 am to shovel your driveway every day for six months straight you will have a different opinion on snow. Maybe it's just the Canada talking but I do not mind this. Also it's 8 months.
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Oct 7, 2019 16:24
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Partycat posted:I still haven't quite gotten a handle on how this works in MI, having to like "go out to the country" to get away from the urban chaos. I'm a bit spoiled in WNY on that front I think. Yeah people go camping or have seasonal sites, but you can also take an hour drive to a state park, beach, festival, market, nature, whatever. I can't generalize the whole state of Michigan as much as I would often want to. There's obviously more metro area and the lifestyle that comes with it, but, plenty of other things to enjoy as well. Sometimes you want more than a state park. If you want to really get out in the sticks, for most of us city folks it means a long haul. I drove 400 miles this past weekend to get away from Chicago and enjoy fall colors in northern Wisconsin. It was a hell of a drive but it was worth it and I'm having a war in my head whether I want to do it again this weekend. And snow shoveling is a great workout, I piss and moan all summer about having to cut the grass. But 6 inches of snow drops? That's manual labor I actually enjoy. Somehow. (just make sure to do a warm up or wear a scarf if you've got heart issues, snow shoveling is a documented heart attack trigger)
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Oct 7, 2019 16:24
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xzzy posted:Sometimes you want more than a state park. If you want to really get out in the sticks, for most of us city folks it means a long haul. I drove 400 miles this past weekend to get away from Chicago and enjoy fall colors in northern Wisconsin. It was a hell of a drive but it was worth it and I'm having a war in my head whether I want to do it again this weekend. Ah yeah, I'd call a nice country drive and a stop out for lunch or something the opposite of pissing someone off. I've driven through up there a few times, and yeah once you get north of Madison things calm down a bit, but there's still enough highway to pass and get around the invariable putz who is always going 5 under in their jalopy. I made the mistake of taking a scenic drive out here on a cross county route once with nice winding roads and some good views of Lake Ontario, only to find that you can't pass because of the winding hills, and when you can people were too chicken poo poo to pass the semis that formed a rolling roadblock. That was a good signal to stop and get a bite or take a break.
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Oct 7, 2019 16:32
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Normally I'd be all  about ~~ALASKA IS COLDER~~ in a conversation like this, however last winter was way nicer up here than the WI/MN winter.
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Oct 7, 2019 16:58
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I grew up in Anchorage an these days it's funny+sad to load up webcams in January and see the city gets inches of snow now. When I lived there in the 90's everything would be buried and the snow berms would be so big the city would have to send graders through to push them back.
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Oct 7, 2019 17:18
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Bigass Moth posted:When you get up at 4 am to shovel your driveway every day for six months straight you will have a different opinion on snow. Did you live in Marquette or something? This is not a thing anywhere in Michigan except, like, the UP. Shoveling is for chumps anyway. But good news, thanks to climate change, our average yearly snowfall has decreased dramatically! I grew up in GR and the change in winter weather even just from my childhood to now has been incredibly noticeable, and I'm in my 30's.
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Oct 7, 2019 17:45
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xzzy posted:I grew up in Anchorage an these days it's funny+sad to load up webcams in January and see the city gets inches of snow now. I swear the city is trucking in snow to make berms to block the sidewalks and kill intersection visibility because that's still a problem despite only having 2 inches of snow at a time last winter.
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Oct 7, 2019 18:02
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I lived in Grand Rapids in the winters of 13 and 14 which I understand were the worst in many years and have been milder since.
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Oct 7, 2019 18:03
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stevewm posted:Since getting a house with a garage, I don't even bother shoveling anymore. I just open the garage and gun it. The car clears its own path with enough speed! This is my approach too. My driveway is pretty steep, I'd eyeball it at around 10-15%, so it gets a bit hairy when things are icy but winter tires are magical things. For some reason neither of my housemates are willing to admit this though, so we have a beast of a two stage snowblower that can clear enough for all-seasons to make it in about five minutes. Sucks to be them on winter mornings, I'm curled up comfortably in bed.
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Oct 7, 2019 18:04
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The Fool posted:I swear the city is trucking in snow to make berms to block the sidewalks and kill intersection visibility because that's still a problem despite only having 2 inches of snow at a time last winter. I mean, they certainly do that for the Iditarod with how poor the snow's been the last few years. It's always funny when I leave my apartment the day before it starts and the city has just made a mountain of snow in the middle of the street.
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Oct 7, 2019 18:07
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At least the west side of the state gets snow. We haven't really gotten poo poo in about 3 years. Not that it matters, as I have a 4x4 and snow blower.
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Oct 7, 2019 18:09
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I can remember when I was a kid we would occasionally get snow on Halloween in southwestern PA. Now though, we really don't get "winter" until Jan or Feb. It was 89 on October 3rd. The high on new years eve/new years day last year was 61 (the temp peaked at like 11pm-2am). We had windows open at my new year's party. Of course, the year before that it as high of 12 with a low of -3.
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Oct 7, 2019 18:40
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My area has 10cm(~4") of snow forcasted for this evening 
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Oct 7, 2019 18:57
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If you're shovelling snow six months of the year then I think I'd seriously consider those driveway heater things.
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Oct 7, 2019 19:04
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Thanks Ants posted:If you're shovelling snow six months of the year then I think I'd seriously consider those driveway heater things. That poo poo's expensive. Shovelling at least makes one get some exercise in an otherwise dead yearly period. Though, by February I must say I'm kinda sick of it.
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One thing I learned during my detour into heart attack land is that shoveling snow is like super super deadly. I'm serious. My one month followup with my cardiologist basically went like this. Doctor: "Your heart function is normal from the echo. You have no activity restrictions, none. Well, except if this wasn't May. Then I would tell you that shoveling show is forbidden." It's a combination of using muscles you aren't usually using in a motion that you don't normally do, leading to extra strain at a time of year when you might be more sedentary, combined with cold air that causes your blood vessels to constrict, spiking your blood pressure, depriving your heart of oxygen, and making it beat faster. Basically it's a recipe for worst case outcome if you were to develop a clot/blockage.
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