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dragonshardz posted:I work for a department of my state's government and I have also had some colleagues who have the same mindset. It's so completely alien; like why would you sit for two weeks on a ticket that takes you all of five minutes to complete? My mindset is simple: I do tickets now so I don't have to do more/escalated tickets later. Edit for new page content: pissing me off is hard-coded values in our software for an item we know changes each year, and a new dev ticket gets filed each year, and we still use the hard coded value because it's faster to dev. Just do it right already! DelphiAegis fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Nov 8, 2019 |
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poo poo pissing me off: I just approved buying Lucidchart licenses for my whole team but my request MUST have my VP approve because a manager approval is needed. Yay processes.
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Nov 8, 2019 16:46
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New developer hire just got given these for readin' up on
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Nov 8, 2019 18:07
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Your workplace is actively sabotaging his career
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Nov 8, 2019 18:25
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Oh yeah, well check out our bookshelf! (no one uses these, they are discarded books from someone that retired that no one ever got around to throwing away, and yes that's a dead plant in the lower left)
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Nov 8, 2019 18:27
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I really like old computer books, as long as I have some bookshelf space I'll never throw away stuff like a Quick Basic 4.5 book.
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Nov 8, 2019 18:35
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I'm Windows NT Web Server.
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Nov 8, 2019 18:38
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I’m the 80486 architecture
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Nov 8, 2019 18:41
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I've got an intel 86/88, 186/188 User's Manual on my shelf. No pic, forgot my phone today.
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Nov 8, 2019 18:44
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I'm the Building Internet Firewalls
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Nov 8, 2019 18:51
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xzzy posted:Oh yeah, well check out our bookshelf! I like to imagine that the giant XML book is just pictures of people screaming and crying.
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Nov 8, 2019 18:51
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taqueso posted:I really like old computer books, as long as I have some bookshelf space I'll never throw away stuff like a Quick Basic 4.5 book. I do have an Amiga DOS manual on the shelf at home, pure nostalgia.
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Nov 8, 2019 19:02
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I will never throw out my O'Reilly Unix manual with the tarsier on it, from around 1998.
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Nov 8, 2019 19:04
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I will never read the copy of The Phoenix Project my boss gave me on my first day. I will use it to prop up my tablet when watching videos during lunch.
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Nov 8, 2019 19:08
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That face when you took the afternoon off, but in the morning you start a four hour database conversion process for an important customer, and at hour 3 the server kernel panics corrupting the database and you have to start all over again.
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Nov 8, 2019 19:11
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The Phoenix Project is an ok book, it is really light reading and the story, while somewhat cheesy/predicatable I guess you could say, is not horrible.
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MF_James posted:The Phoenix Project is an ok book, it is really light reading and the story, while somewhat cheesy/predicatable I guess you could say, is not horrible. It's a children's book for IT managers.
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Nov 8, 2019 19:12
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deedee megadoodoo posted:It's a children's book for IT managers. Well, it’s good to know they wrote it at the appropriate level for the target audience.
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Nov 8, 2019 19:53
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deedee megadoodoo posted:It's a children's book for IT managers. hell yeah.
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Nov 8, 2019 19:57
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My favorite part of that book is the compliance manager that goes through an Office Space like transformation following his nervous breakdown.
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Nov 8, 2019 20:07
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Boss: "there's a lot of good stuff in these books" Me: DO NOT FOLLOW WNY OF THE PRWCTICES IN THOSE BOOKS Those fucks use SourceSafe still, too
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Nov 8, 2019 21:31
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I enjoyed Phoenix Project. Ultimately the lessons of - Don't have bad processes - Good processes you can't stick to are still bad processes - Don't let your best tech be your bottleneck are imparted by example in an easily digestible way. Plus the bit about the failed SAN read like an IT mystery novel.
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Nov 8, 2019 21:58
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The other director's department is entering the slow season and is cutting a shift. My department is doing a new product next month and I'm adding a shift. You'd think we could float those people along for three weeks and transfer them but nooooo, layoff and then I have to split mine into two and boost the staffing with newbies 
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tactlessbastard posted:The other director's department is entering the slow season and is cutting a shift. Not just a pain in the rear end for you, but a pointless cruelty for the guy getting laid off. Double whammy!
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Nov 8, 2019 22:15
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deedee megadoodoo posted:I like to imagine that the giant XML book is just pictures of people screaming and crying. Pretty sure the XML book is just a printout of the XML representation of the book’s ISBN.
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Nov 8, 2019 22:49
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Decided the plural of an MS Access database is called a Hydra
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xzzy posted:Oh yeah, well check out our bookshelf! One of the other analysts in the office put his copy of "Windows 7 for Dummies" on the shelf above his computer. Which, of course, prompted me to display my copy of "PCs for Dummies" (found among my late uncles' belongings) and my copy of the Readers Digest "How To Do Just About Anything On The Internet" (found while helping my mom move).
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Nov 9, 2019 02:21
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Where I work had an office close a few years back. Managers brought us a bunch of tv screens. Mounted them to a wall and put completely useless data on them. Time passes. Three more added. They crash occasionally. Don't always update and when they do are completely useless, like a list of ticket numbers that cant be read at a distance anyway. We are up to 10 screens now running 24/7, zero use or utility apart from making us look like a poser command center. Most recently they paid a bunch of money to move a very big digital whiteboard, wall mount it. What for? No one knows. Its ok though, they paid about a thousand dollars to get it installed only to find it doesn't work. No licence for the end of life embedded xp that makes the whiteboard function actually work. Test it before nah? That would make sense. Did I mention that they had to take a working analog whiteboard down to make room for it?
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fist4jesus posted:Where I work had an office close a few years back. So crack the XP install and call it a day. Nobody's gonna lose sleep over it, and you'll have something functional to play with.
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Nov 10, 2019 12:14
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5er posted:TeamViewer is funny. We had this (and for like important poo poo too like pager duty first responders) and I replaced all of it with Splashtop Business for super cheap. Like 10 accounts cost like what 1 TV account would be. It's not perfect but actually quite good. I like how it natively maps my three monitors at work to my three monitors at home, and that there's an android/iOS client as well.
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Nov 10, 2019 20:59
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Neddy Seagoon posted:So crack the XP install and call it a day. Nobody's gonna lose sleep over it, and you'll have something functional to play with. Because its not my problem?
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Nov 10, 2019 21:26
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Speaking of old books... anyone know where I can find the old DoD rainbow series books in physical format? I've always wanted that big red one
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Nov 10, 2019 22:07
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Bob Morales posted:New developer hire just got given these for readin' up on Good monitor stand. Ergonomics are important.
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Scaramouche posted:We had this (and for like important poo poo too like pager duty first responders) and I replaced all of it with Splashtop Business for super cheap. Like 10 accounts cost like what 1 TV account would be. It's not perfect but actually quite good. I like how it natively maps my three monitors at work to my three monitors at home, and that there's an android/iOS client as well. If it comes down to having to pay for something, I'll bear that in mind! Most of my students have fallen back on VNC/tigerVNC.
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Nov 11, 2019 15:00
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This year's xmas bonuses are cancelled for everyone and I just got sent a surveymonkey questionnaire about experiences of company reorganisations and what management can do to make them easier. I think things are going great here!
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Nov 11, 2019 15:55
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bitterandtwisted posted:I think things are going great here! Username/post combo
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Nov 11, 2019 16:04
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Pissing me off today: the least important person (in my opinion) in this meeting is the one who's asking for us to push the time back. I'd seriously like to deny their request, but they're 1/3 of the participants and the whole point of this meeting was to get them on the same page as far as our development priorities.
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Nov 11, 2019 18:53
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I’m writing this in a conference room waiting for a recruiter to call me (scheduled for ~30 minutes ago). Normally I’d just go back to work and write off that company, but after the third round of layoffs this year at my current job, and all of IT getting invited to a mystery meeting on a Friday afternoon in December, I’m torn. On the one hand I’ve always job-hunted for places where I would enjoy working, but on the other hand it’s becoming increasingly apparent that I need to find anywhere that isn’t shipping my job overseas, probably by next month. Also I’m about to lose my poo poo at the service desk for not reading incoming tickets, and just shotgunning incidents into whatever queue they feel like in the moment. Except I have to pretend it’s all ok and just keep my head down, because I need the paycheck until I can find something else. 
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Nov 11, 2019 21:28
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If it's a 3rd party recruiter, I'd go ahead and wait/reschedule, as they're not always a good representation of the company they're hiring for. We had a similar situation where I ended up hiring an amazing fit for our team through no effort on the recruiter's part. Once he told us how bad the recruitment process was, we parted ways with the recruitment firm.
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Yeah, third party, for a mystery client. Those always drive me nuts because I feel like they’re hiding an employer with a potentially-negative reputation, but again, impending layoffs. :/
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