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Cugel the Clever posted:Though a lot of it is surely due to underfunding that C-levels deserve blame for, I've always been surprised at just how stagnant some folks who work in tech get: "We don't need to learn and implement X, because it doesn't fit our users' past use cases and it'll probably just be superseded eventually anyways, so we should just stick with the expectations we set twenty years ago." That is a very accurate description of our IT department. In this case, they've cited two problems: 1) we don't have the hardware - my coworker and I both have old desktops that we are perfectly happy to format and hand over to them. 2) we don't know what to do with the hardware - bullshit, they've been wiping drives and formatting them to corporate specs for the past half a year. 3) we don't know how to reliably forward the phone lines to cell phones - some legitimate merit to this, but every time phones come up they act like it's too arcane and unknowable to untangle, so they just give up before they've even started. That, and it's the latest in a long line of goalposts, see: points 1 and 2. I should note that IT has been promising us that they'd work on ways to help is WFH for months now, just due to staffing shortages. They're out of excuses when it comes to researching this problem. And yeah I'm sure more than a few of them are paid the same kind of poo poo wages we are, but we as a department (dispatch) are never seen as critical until something like this happens and everyone's like 'oh yeah these guys are critical.' It's infuriating. Old Boot fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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Old Boot posted:3) we don't know how to reliably forward the phone lines to cell phones - some legitimate merit to this, but every time phones come up they act like it's too arcane and unknowable to untangle, so they just give up before they've even started. 15 years ago, I had a software phone I could run on my PC at home which could act as the phone on my desk in the office. I could make and receive phone calls using my desk phone's number, access my voice mail, etc. I think my ADSL was 256K, but the quality was good enough, and I don't think people even knew I wasn't in the office. I think this was probably pretty bleeding edge back then, but I think that by now it ought to be pretty doable  I suppose a phone system is the kind of thing you might not upgrade for decades though, and..quote:I should note that IT has been promising us that they'd work on ways to help is WFH for months now, just due to staffing shortages. ..the cynic in me says that planning for future emergencies that may or may not happen doesn't deliver value to shareholders today, so how could you justify it? e: vvv Yeah, to be fair, I've worked places where IT wanted to change things just for the sake of playing with something new, and it wouldn't have delivered any positive outcomes for any of the users (definitely some negative ones though). Buttcoin purse fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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A big part of ITIL is drilling it into the IT guys head how important it is to deliver value to the shareholders. When someone in the IT department comes up with a good idea it usually gets turned down until they stop coming up with good ideas.
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D&D mods posting in TFR for shopping advice, this is getting genuinely apocalyptic.
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Dont let those Luxoembourgers get you down Xi.
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Cugel the Clever posted:I'm genuinely worried it could be accurate and that the average person is extremely low-information and just accepts what the administration is putting out at face value. 
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https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1240946508570206210 edit: trumps number keeps going up uP uP!
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He's going to smoke Joe so loving hard. It'll be Mondale all over again
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went to wal mart and stop and shop this AM (CT)shelves werent bad.
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Milo and POTUS posted:He's going to smoke Joe so loving hard. It'll be Mondale all over again Yup. If they cash handouts happen it's a sure thing. Evil will win because Good is dumb.
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Milo and POTUS posted:He's going to smoke Joe so loving hard. It'll be Mondale all over again The health care system hasn't totally collapsed....yet.
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Is D&D leaking again? The cash payments didn't work for bush and the Republicans are busy trying to screw up the payments as badly as possible. Read the news. In addition, things are gonna get a whole lot worse in the coming weeks. Don't start doom-jacking now.
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bird cooch posted:Is D&D leaking again? Did Kerry beat Bush in your reality?
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bird cooch posted:In addition, things are gonna get a whole lot worse in the coming weeks. Don't start doom-jacking now. I'm doom-edging, don't kinkshame me!
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bird cooch posted:Is D&D leaking again? They totally worked for Bush Jr. Remember, he did serve two terms. McCain blundered so badly in '08 that he was responsible for losing it. I mean poo poo, Palin? The gently caress was he smoking? Pretty sure Bush pushed the $300 during his campaign in 2000. But you are right about doomsturbating. Gotta ease into this one or you're gonna get some chafing.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:They totally worked for Bush Jr. Remember, he did serve two terms. McCain blundered so badly in '08 that he was responsible for losing it. I mean poo poo, Palin? The gently caress was he smoking? watch Game Change. it was mostly the party
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Party or not, McCain handed that election to Obama.
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Buttcoin purse posted:..the cynic in me says that planning for future emergencies that may or may not happen doesn't deliver value to shareholders today, so how could you justify it? orange juche posted:A big part of ITIL is drilling it into the IT guys head how important it is to deliver value to the shareholders. When someone in the IT department comes up with a good idea it usually gets turned down until they stop coming up with good ideas. I hate that you're probably right but you're probably right. My boss is still fighting but goddamn, we are severely understaffed. HR thinks you can just train people on the fly to run dispatch, it'll be fine. It won't be. Ugh, gently caress, just 
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Old Boot posted:Guess who's not working from home for the foreseeable future, in a poorly ventilated building. Meanwhile I’ve spent the last several days working 12-13 hour days trying to get our workforce work from home capable.
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Milo and POTUS posted:He's going to smoke Joe so loving hard. It'll be Mondale all over again So you're saying better things aren't possible?
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from the schad thread https://www.axios.com/israeli-intelligence-bought-100000-of-the-wrong-coronavirus-test-kits-a97b2380-fb2a-4cba-90d0-3ed931edcb90.html quote:The backstory: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had requested Mossad's help, hoping the intelligence service could use its web of secret contacts around the world to find relevant medical supplies.
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Bavaria's Minister President just issued a curfew beginning at midnight.  
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Rhymenoserous posted:Meanwhile I’ve spent the last several days working 12-13 hour days trying to get our workforce work from home capable. We'll be doing similar once this really starts hitting.  Sucks. Hope it starts to ease up. But I appreciate knowing at least *someone* out there is trying hard to make this happen, even if it's not at my company. EDIT ^^^ WI got serious two days ago about enforcing its 10-person limit on gatherings. Looks like they're going to be throwing out jailtime and fines as penalties, though IDK how that'll work (I don't know if it's been put into action, either). Old Boot fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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Stultus Maximus posted:So you're saying better things aren't possible? The Democratic Party is largely not interested in changing things. Their actions and results bear this out.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:The Democratic Party is largely not interested in changing things. Their actions and results bear this out. And no party who is has any support. So I guess better things aren't possible in an American democracy?
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Proud Christian Mom posted:The Democratic
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Stultus Maximus posted:And no party who is has any support. So I guess better things aren't possible in an American democracy? What answer are you looking for here Just get to your point
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:went to wal mart and stop and shop this AM (CT)shelves werent bad. Logistics hasn't shut down. Until it does, all these empty shelves are because of stupid demand and nothing more. We've turned TP into beanie babies for no good reason.
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Woofer posted:What answer are you looking for here Just want to see which people are arzying because Bernie could beat Trump and bring real change and which people are arzying because America is hopeless and doesn't want change.
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I watched Downfall one night last week and it's a really good inoculation against "The voters are too stupid to be worth trying to save" if you've been feeling that, like I was.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Just want to see which people are arzying because Bernie could beat Trump and bring real change and which people are arzying because America is hopeless and doesn't want change. The Democratic Party isn't interested in making fundamental changes to the government or society. Continuing to vote for them amounts to endorsing their policies and intransigence.
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SimonCat posted:The Democratic Party isn't interested in making fundamental changes to the government or society. Continuing to vote for them amounts to endorsing their policies and intransigence. This is pretty reductionist. I could just as easily say that not voting against Trump amounts to endorsing white supremacist fascism and concentration camps. AOC and Bernie are currently members of the Democratic Party. They seem interested in fundamental changes to government and society.
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Chichevache posted:This is pretty reductionist. I could just as easily say that not voting against Trump amounts to endorsing white supremacist fascism and concentration camps. Oh look, you've discovered the DNC's 2016 GOTV strategy. To be a little more constructive, let's look at AOC and Bernie. After AOC was elected the Party stated that any candidate trying to primary an incumbent from the left would not have the support of the Party. The Party also engineered the defeat of Sanders in this primary. While I obviously wanted Sanders to win, I would be much more accepting of his defeat if it had been a result of a fair process. As it was, the Party threw its support behind Biden and essentially picked a winner, much as they did in 2016. At that point, why pretend that the Democratic Party is any other than a club for people who enjoy being in power and will only look out for those in that circle, as opposed to an organization to facilitate the political desires of the American people? SimonCat fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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SimonCat posted:The Democratic Party isn't interested in making fundamental changes to the government or society. Continuing to vote for them amounts to endorsing their policies and intransigence. Nah. I lived in Virginia up until late last year. We had two state elections in the time I lived there. VA dems have control of all three branches and we're already seeing a ton of solid changes come through. poo poo that would have NEVER happened under the GOP or split house/senate. I don't think Dems are perfect and I admit they gently caress up the simplest of things, but I'm getting so tired of the "Dems do nothing, nothing matters!" poo poo. Chichevache posted:This is pretty reductionist. I could just as easily say that not voting against Trump amounts to endorsing white supremacist fascism and concentration camps. This.
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SimonCat posted:Oh look, you've discovered the DNC's 2016 GOTV strategy. I think you're making a big mistake when you equivocate DNC party establishment with run of the mill Democrats which can include everything from DINOs to socialists who run as democrats because the alternative is not winning elections at all. Do you really think Diane Feinstein and Ilhan Omar are functionally the same? If so, please explain.
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