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Hughmoris posted:Speaking of the oldies but goodies... Didn't we have a goon who got assigned to the company landscaping team and was delegated to raking rocks and poo poo? he's basically doing the same thing now but for boat money
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kensei posted:I have users calling me directly for VPN help. We have a 24/7 helpdesk and I have a team of sysadmins under me, I am the IT Director in the West. They refuse to read the incredibly easy to follow documents we have created and want someone to hold their hand thru every step. A VP called me yesterday at 7 PM as I was eating dinner with my family and I sent it to voicemail laughing. I give no shits at this time, if you could not be arsed to test your connectivity over the last six months, it sure the poo poo is not an emergency now. Are you sure you're not the IT Director in the wild West? 
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cheque_some posted:Is it possible everyone else on their team is using a Mac so they assume they should use one as well? The laptop decision is made days before their first day, and if I had to put a number to it I'd say 1 in 5 programmers are macs and everyone else is windows. Its not super common outside of graphics/sales/hr/etc
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Sickening posted:The unemployment numbers coming out on the daily has totally eroded my backbone. I will probably be a yes man for the rest of the year. Now is the time to survive. This is quickly becoming clearer for me. The economy is shot to poo poo now, and the job market will be rough when 'normalcy' returns. I'm now a company man trying to fly under the radar until the worst of this blows over.
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Proteus Jones posted:Nvm I forgot about the panties detail. Call the police on Granos
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Dear customers, It’s been a crazy week in some crazy times and in talking with several of you recently, I know there are new challenges as you are looking to move your workforce to remote office. With that in mind, I wanted to reach out to let you know if storage is a part of those plans, we can help. We have the opportunity to get you some unprecedented discounts, our Deal Desk at HPE is wide open, and the Fed’s recent announcement that it’s cutting the Federal Funds Rate to a range of 0% to 0.25% has put the cost of capital at a historic low. It’s never been cheaper. HPE Financial Services is putting together amazing Lease packages for our customers. I have approval from management to extend very aggressive discounts and our lead time for Nimble is currently very short—less than 10 business days. If you are looking for storage, it’s a great time to buy. Please let me know anything I can do to help and support you with your storage needs as you work though these hectic times. Thanks as always and looking forward to talking soon. Regards, xxxxxxxxxx | Account Executive | Storage Sales Specialist Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Mar 20, 2020 18:10
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Bob Morales posted:Dear customers, I hate companies.
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Corona got you down? Let HP lift you up (to the cloud)!
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Bob Morales posted:Dear customers, Lol
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I do "Cloud stuff" and my division is hiring for 8 spots right now an we anticipate getting busier. However I'm betting that other departments will have their open reqs taken and given away to other groups or as a way to help prevent layoffs.
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Developer: We have a disaster, this script won't work. JMJF: Ok, let me check the logs. Hmm, " error executing /file/path/script.sh" # file /file/path/script.sh /file/path/script.sh not found I THINK I FOUND THE PROBLEM. Some times I swear....
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update from Teams: Thanks, well it shouldn't be calling a script, it should be calling a URL Endpoint. WELL ITS NOT DID YOU EVEN LOOK BEFORE YOU TOLD ME THE SYSTEM WAS BROKEN
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Jerk McJerkface posted:You sweet summer child Of course I know the printer story, I just assumed you were actually telling a real anecdote that happened to mirror the printer story, not making poo poo up. Do people really go on the Internet and just tell lies? My innocence is ruined. Anyway yes having been here for (WHAT THE gently caress ALMOST 13 YEARS) and browsing SA long before that (I'm actually the weird one who didn't know there were FORUMS for a long time, as I only read the front page), I'm quite aware of all the goon sagas, though I missed out on seeing several of them live.
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Honestly I remember the printer story and I still thought it was sincere for a bit because he takes the worst jobs.
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The Iron Rose posted:Honestly I remember the printer story and I still thought it was sincere for a bit because he takes the worst jobs. My current just is just absolutely fantastic. I straight up love it. My previous two were a bit um interesting.
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Defenestrategy posted:Was wondering if anyone else has run into this. During $current_company on boarding we give options of either a macbook or windows laptop and we've run into users (programmers/developers) who chose a macbook, but seem to have never used them before, and we end up spending the first week troubleshooting stuff that I would assume would be second nature to anyone who has spent any time with mac os. Stuff on par with "why does [insert windows only program]'s installer not work?" or "how do I connect to wifi on this?" I suspect that the fact that Macs are perceived as a premium product makes people choose them. When I was given the choice the first day of my job the IT person actually pushed back on me and said, "Really?" when I chose Windows.
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People are choosing macs at our workplace for one reason only. Our infosec is too immature to load them down with interfering software so they are the only ones people have more freedom to use the machine.
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bull3964 posted:People are choosing macs at our workplace for one reason only. Our infosec is too immature to load them down with interfering software so they are the only ones people have more freedom to use the machine. This is valid. Most companies don't have and won't pay for the necessary back end to manage Macs as much or as well as they can Windows machines.
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Darchangel posted:This is valid. Most companies don't have and won't pay for the necessary back end to manage Macs as much or as well as they can Windows machines. We don't. Windows only, Macs are banned.
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GreenNight posted:We don't. Windows only, Macs are banned. I have a spreadsheet with the estimated and moderately exaggerated costs of spinning up management infrastructure for macs and any time a request for a Mac comes in, that gets sent to their manager. Haven’t had anyone take me up on it yet.
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My boss tells management if they want macs, we need to hire someone to support them. Then it gets quickly dropped.
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Sickening posted:The unemployment numbers coming out on the daily has totally eroded my backbone. I will probably be a yes man for the rest of the year. Now is the time to survive.
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware / Software Crap > Working in IT 3.0: I have never been happier to eat poo poo
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I'm still quitting my job in a week. Still talking to plenty of recruiters. Only problem so far is crossing the border for interviews.
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Hughmoris posted:This is quickly becoming clearer for me. The economy is shot to poo poo now, and the job market will be rough when 'normalcy' returns. And it could have ripple effects, because I was being promoted to fill a specific void. But you wait a year on that, and who knows what kind of restructuring is going to take place up the ladder and that gap may already be filled by the time things open back up. MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Mar 21, 2020 |
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I was in line for a promotion. Hand to god, it was in someone's inbox in Workday, and when promotion's came out, I was a shoe-in. They announced this past week that all merit increases and promotions for the year are cancelled. So I went from climbing to the next rung of the ladder, to needing to put on the biggest smile I can and just be happy to be on the team. From all the bargaining power, to none of it, just like that.  I wasn't up for a promotion, but from a cloud security leadership position I have used previous experience to find the usual un-managed waste you usually find in public cloud to the tune of most of my salary almost right off the bat. I have gone from new employee to everyone knowing me despite completely working from home. I am invited to every meeting anyone thinks to have. I have written 75% of the security policies despite being here all of 3 months. The team is focused and productive more so than before. This thing hosed it it all up. Now, despite anything I do, I am just a director level middle manager that works from home 100% of the time. No matter how indispensable I make myself, I could be one of the first big wave that comes because nobody will have to look me in the eye to fire me. gently caress
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If there's any consolation, famous last words coming up, but I feel like they'd pretty much have to shutter the company to get rid of me. I feel entirely secure in my position, I just think I can forget about the next one for a year or two. I'm in no position to look for a new job, but I'm not worried about losing this one.
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If I get the promotion I'm hoping for, it will be because of the plague. Previously the rule was that full time telecommuters couldn't rise above the first rung of management. Now everyone is a full time telecommuter. They can't onboard a new in-office senior manager when nobody goes into the office. I, on the other hand, am ready to go.
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  Probably not the best timing, but 40% raise, and now I've gone from weekend sysadmin to senior cloud engineer in 11 months.
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xsf421 posted:
Hold on to your butts!
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xsf421 posted:
Everything is cloud now. Even our toilet paper.
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"Well, we of course don't want to do this but we need to cut some people. Looks like xsf421 is our most junior 'senior cloud engineer.'" congrats i'm sure this means they like you very much
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My company is hiring, pretending everything is business as usual. I've got a bunch of phone screens scheduled for next week and just can't wait to answer questions like 'what does the on site interview look like?' and 'will I do my training remote?' and 'what's the long term wfh policy'. For context HR has not made decisions on any of these things yet.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:My company is hiring, pretending everything is business as usual. I've got a bunch of phone screens scheduled for next week and just can't wait to answer questions like 'what does the on site interview look like?' and 'will I do my training remote?' and 'what's the long term wfh policy'. Advocate for Level 4 hot suits and a negative pressure containment environment for face to face interviews.
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I mean, we're still hiring as well. They've just made it clear that all interviews are to be tele-interviews and that people will have their computers mailed to them if they are onboarded. To be fair, we already had a good chunk of remote employees and and procedures in place to onboard people remotely. It can be done. Companies are learning really fast that they need to have these sort of policies and procedures fleshed out and in place.
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We're coming from a '2 wfh days a year' policy where you needed to define exactly what you would do all day, and send a follow up report at the end of the day. Remote training / onboarding would never have been considered in any other circumstance.
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That's one of the frustrating things about the "leadership" in this response. We need to be containing the health emergency, but we also need to start now (well, years ago) in adapting our economy so it can't be knocked over so easily. This isn't ending in two weeks or even 2 months. Areas may have temporary relaxation on lockdown rules, but there will be times when they go back into effect to tamp resurgence of infections. This is going to continue until we get a vaccine (if we get a vaccine) and that's going to be next year sometime. Kids are not going back to school until fall at the earliest So, the government needs to get out there and directly speak to businesses and not sugar coat it "Don't go into work from home with the assumption that this is going to end 2 weeks or that once it ends it won't restart. Plan for this to be a permanent part of your operations that you might have to enact at any time. Everyone that CAN do it MUST do it."
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bull3964 posted:I mean, we're still hiring as well. They've just made it clear that all interviews are to be tele-interviews and that people will have their computers mailed to them if they are onboarded. The issue isn't really the interviews. Sure places that haven't had much work from home happening before might find this awkward. I don't really believe that places that desperate need people can't figure out how to make that happen. The issue is the economy going to poo poo. I haven't met a CEO in my life that would skip a bonus check if that meant laying off less works. Outside of the few businesses where this pandemic made more business for them, everyone else is going to freeze at the very least.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Oh man I wish I could attend work meetings in MMOs I had an interview for a remote job with a company that had a MMO-like Unity program, third person, for their "virtual office." Neat concept, but didn't get the job so I don't know how well it worked in practicality.
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