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Volmarias posted:What, and I apologize for taking so long to reach this point, the actual gently caress SubponticatePoster posted:our director is a catastrophically bad administrator
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Pyrtanis posted:One of the hospitals I worked at did Medicare fraud and as part of the settlement, everyone, down to housekeeping, had to do dumb computer based training things on ethics for like, five years. A whole bunch of senior partners at a big 4 in my city just got fired (probably technically ordered to resign) about this. Wallet posted:I just have an autohotkey script that moves my mouse 1 pixel to the right for 100 ms and then back if it hasn't moved in 10 minutes but it's my own computer so I can install whatever I want. MouseJiggle is good but if one's work is that evil they might presumably look for running programs called that so maybe rename it to Teams.exe before you run it.
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For whatever reason, the remote connection on my then girlfriend's computer for work would sleep after 15 minutes, even with a script to keep things on. I ended up getting a device that had a randomly-scrolling lazy Susan you would place the mouse into a frame on. The mouse is moving, I don't have to worry about malware from some janky device, my girlfriend could do something else after she did the 10 minutes of work she had, everyone won.
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Trainee PornStar posted:loving Dell switches.... Username/post combo right here, folks.
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My main vendetta against Dell is personal: I changed the case a computer I bought from them was in and it turns out they do something weird with the loving power button for no reason other than to gently caress you over if you do that one exact thing.
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Sep 22, 2021 04:48
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Having admin rights on my work laptop makes going to the office and using a slow-rear end desktop with a regular user account even less appealing. Being able to uninstall bloatware, update the machine properly, and install the stuff I need has been liberating compared to my in-office experience, and doubly so because I used to work IT myself and am perhaps the least likely person in the organization to get a case of the malwares.
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devmd01 posted:Obligatory Bedlam DL3 link, the mother of all reply-all storms I was involved in something like this back in the early 2000's. A woman forwarded one of those "Bill Gates is giving 5 cents to some sick kid every time this email is forwarded" to everyone at our company. It's hard to say how many people it sent to but it was over 25,000 and under 50,000. Like an idiot, I hit reply all and sent back something like "Do you actually beleive that Bill Gates is really doing this? Do a little research before you send something like this." including the mis-spelt "believe". In minutes people were replying to this email, including pedants who were hitting reply all just to dig me on my spelling mistake. Everyone in the whole company's email exploded and it just didn't stop. All these auto-responders joined in and it just became a complete shitstorm that went on and on for I don't even remember how long. In the end everyone's email was down for the rest of the day and somehow or another I was directly assigned a portion of the blame for this. Someone at the corporate office asked the branch manager where I worked to fire me but they thankfully refused as I was otherwise a good employee. I did have to call and personally apologize to the CIO and a couple of other IT management people for loving up our corporate infrastructure for the day. Lesson learned though, I never did anything that stupid at work ever again.
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Sep 22, 2021 09:32
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It turns out that I have about 20 hours of overtime that I haven't gotten paid for and it's taking some time to rectify it. I hope it works out okay and doesn't turn into a major issue! (To elaborate, I didn't know I could claim it and am trying to do so retroactively, so it's not quite as bad as it sounds upfront. But I want my money, darn it!)
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Sep 22, 2021 10:46
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Just today I had something similar to a reply all storm but dumber. Every person in the EHS department at Amazon’s North American sites got added to a distribution list. I think all the regular managers did too but whatever. The email telling you you were added to the distribution list had clear instructions on how to be removed, making up 90 percent of the body text. The “from” email for that was the alias for the distribution list. Every goddamn idiot started replying “unsubscribe” to the alias, bombing every. Single. Person’s. Email. I got in to work today to over 700 emails that were just the word “unsubscribe”.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The “from” email for that was the alias for the distribution list.
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Lol at my supervisor asking why I hadn't managed my time better when I said I couldn't attend a meaningless meeting he double booked me for
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Sep 22, 2021 13:08
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Marmaduke! posted:Lol at my supervisor asking why I hadn't managed my time better when I said I couldn't attend a meaningless meeting he double booked me for Your boss' time management expert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLYg6aiqAJo
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Sep 22, 2021 14:44
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Having admin rights on my work laptop makes going to the office and using a slow-rear end desktop with a regular user account even less appealing. Famous words of a former IT worker about to get a case of the malwares.
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unlikely to get malware if you don't open emails I mean, I assume
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Having admin rights on my work laptop makes going to the office and using a slow-rear end desktop with a regular user account even less appealing. Oh yeah a few years ago I got admin rights to my work desktop and it makes updates a breeze. Somehow the useless half of my dept botched updating a program we use so badly they both reverted to the trial version of the software, leading to the question of what exactly they've been doing at work the last few days as not having access is only a notch below not having electricity. I could probably fix it but as one of them tried to have a friendly coworker fired after he caught a major problem they were trying to push into production, they can try their luck with the help desk.
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Sep 22, 2021 14:48
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Tarkus posted:Couldn't you just write a little app that produces a bit of mouse movement with like Cursor.Position? You can do it in powershell too. I teach training classes, so I used a script for this so my laptop wouldn't go to sleep in the middle of discussions.
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For the people posting about having their mouse move automatically and stuff, there is a much easier and less intrusive solution. Paste this into a new .ps1 file and run with powershell, it will prevent Teams from setting you to "away" status and it will not interfere with your work. It has made my daily "work" so much better as I'm currently finding myself working actively maybe 2 hours per week on average. It is absolutely incredible how little you can work if you know anything about computers. My manager and colleagues know exactly what I do but they think it takes 8 hours per day because they barely know how copy/paste works. code:
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TjyvTompa posted:For the people posting about having their mouse move automatically and stuff, there is a much easier and less intrusive solution. This works great. If however you want to completely avoid having any processes running that might be found by a determined manager/sysadmin/whatever, There's a very cheap arduino chip called an attiny85 that can be very simply programmed to appear as a hardware keyboard ( youtube tutorial here)... then you just do the same stuff as above about toggling scrolllock or whatever on an interval. But being hardware based there's nothing for someone looking at your processes / files / programs to spot. You can buy 5 packs of them on amazon for $9 (or like $1.60 each on aliexpress) and I'm sure everyone in here has 4 colleagues that would pay $20 each for a programmed one... blunt fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Sep 22, 2021 |
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Marmaduke! posted:Lol at my supervisor asking why I hadn't managed my time better when I said I couldn't attend a meaningless meeting he double booked me for Today I got poo poo for not turning up for a meeting that I wasn't invited to lol
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I still think it's easier with less chances of something going wrong to stick your mouse on a fan or some poo poo.
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I had a manager who got his job just because he was family with someone high up in my company. He came from a call center at an insurance company. He didn't know dick about what our company's needs were and tried to run it like an insurance call center. I was pals with the guy who was the company CTO at the time and he was so pissed off, saying how people call into an insurance call center for maybe like 3 or 4 things and that's it but our tech company was much, much more complicated than that. The guy tried to run things strictly on numbers. Mostly, the time tech support would pick up the phone for a call until they put it back down. He wanted every call to be under like 7 minutes, I think. I was in the escalated tech support at the time so I'd get things sent to me that were too complex for normal tech support. Know what that means? Takes time. You want me to configure a new Exchange server for a customer and you expect it to take less than 7 minutes?? So he started sending angry emails out about his loving numbers. Sadly for him, our customers started sending out angry emails about our now-horrible customer service. The CEO of the company called the entire tech support group into a meeting room to ask what the gently caress was going on suddenly. People were kind of mumbling and shy and I finally spoke up and said that manager was judging all of our performance off of one stupid number and was pushing hard for that number to be lower. The CEO said something like "As of this moment, that is no longer the case." and went on about actually treating customers correctly rather than swiftly. And that goddamn manager of ours was standing right outside of the meeting room's glass door, arms crossed, looking pissed, just looming and staring at us in there with the CEO. And he continued to push for his goddamn number bullshit against the CEO's orders until the day he was kicked out of the door and fired for it. Fucker. The fact I've had to bring up some of the things he said to me before he was fired in sessions with therapists is unacceptable. I hope he rots in Hell. Never, ever spend all day every single day whip cracking your team. Never. gently caress that guy.
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Catastrophe posted:I had a manager who got his job just because he was family with someone high up in my company. He came from a call center at an insurance company. He didn't know dick about what our company's needs were and tried to run it like an insurance call center. I was pals with the guy who was the company CTO at the time and he was so pissed off, saying how people call into an insurance call center for maybe like 3 or 4 things and that's it but our tech company was much, much more complicated than that. The guy tried to run things strictly on numbers. Mostly, the time tech support would pick up the phone for a call until they put it back down. He wanted every call to be under like 7 minutes, I think. I was in the escalated tech support at the time so I'd get things sent to me that were too complex for normal tech support. Know what that means? Takes time. You want me to configure a new Exchange server for a customer and you expect it to take less than 7 minutes?? So he started sending angry emails out about his loving numbers. Sadly for him, our customers started sending out angry emails about our now-horrible customer service. The CEO of the company called the entire tech support group into a meeting room to ask what the gently caress was going on suddenly. People were kind of mumbling and shy and I finally spoke up and said that manager was judging all of our performance off of one stupid number and was pushing hard for that number to be lower. The CEO said something like "As of this moment, that is no longer the case." and went on about actually treating customers correctly rather than swiftly. Dang that sounds awful
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I visited a government office where IT found a cheeky way to do awareness. They had a contest for employees kids to make cybersecurity posters that they hung up in the office. When a cat lady downloaded bonzi buddy again they could point to their 5 year olds crayon drawing saying "DON'T CLICK ON POP UPS"
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Pekinduck posted:I visited a government office where IT found a cheeky way to do awareness. They had a contest for employees kids to make cybersecurity posters that they hung up in the office. When a cat lady downloaded bonzi buddy again they could point to their 5 year olds crayon drawing saying "DON'T CLICK ON POP UPS" That would be a step up from my MegaCorp's wall decorations of beige nothingness. We did have a picture in the lobby of the empty lobby and coworkers didn't understand why I found that upsetting.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Dang that sounds awful The bastard used to get up and slowly walk through our department staring at people, holding a giant wooden ruler, smacking it against the palm of his hand in a threatening manner as he walked through all of us. The bitch was SUCH an inexcusable rear end in a top hat. Like cartoon level piece of poo poo. If he's working as a cashier at Walmart now, that's too good for his dumb rear end.
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Catastrophe posted:The bastard used to get up and slowly walk through our department staring at people, holding a giant wooden ruler, smacking it against the palm of his hand in a threatening manner as he walked through all of us. The bitch was SUCH an inexcusable rear end in a top hat. Like cartoon level piece of poo poo. That's... something else.
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Catastrophe posted:The bastard used to get up and slowly walk through our department staring at people, holding a giant wooden ruler, smacking it against the palm of his hand in a threatening manner as he walked through all of us. The bitch was SUCH an inexcusable rear end in a top hat. Like cartoon level piece of poo poo. Holy cow what the hell
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Hyrax Attack! posted:That would be a step up from my MegaCorp's wall decorations of beige nothingness. We did have a picture in the lobby of the empty lobby and coworkers didn't understand why I found that upsetting. The sad thing is for a reasonable price you can commission good local artists to decorate your office. Impresses customers, employs artists and builds goodwill in the neighborhood.
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Pekinduck posted:I visited a government office where IT found a cheeky way to do awareness. They had a contest for employees kids to make cybersecurity posters that they hung up in the office. When a cat lady downloaded bonzi buddy again they could point to their 5 year olds crayon drawing saying "DON'T CLICK ON POP UPS" Hyrax Attack! posted:That would be a step up from my MegaCorp's wall decorations of beige nothingness. We did have a picture in the lobby of the empty lobby and coworkers didn't understand why I found that upsetting. Would be a step up from my previous employer who came up with the slogan "do you know if this person is allowed in this room?" (sounds less worse in danish), but half the examples were straight up trans phobic, as in, a woman pissing in a urinal. If someone needs a piss I'm not gonna ask to check their badge.
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all of you loving nerds with your shell scripts and stuff, just set your mouse on the face of an analogue watch, like why the hell are you making this poo poo so complicated lol
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Just use Wiggler.
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Rockman Reserve posted:all of you loving nerds with your shell scripts and stuff, just set your mouse on the face of an analogue watch, like why the hell are you making this poo poo so complicated lol it's easy to forget to place it and get bitched at, a script is set n forget
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nah, when we didn't have any projects going around a month ago my WFH desk was empty except for my work laptop, my personal monitor and keyboard for my own computer, and a watch and roll of Scotch tape. just sit down in the morning and tape it up and lose at mahjong in FFXIV for 8 hours because mahjongg is a crazy game with entirely arbitrary rules. i wanted to be in there anyway on the off chance someone tried to ping me
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Who the hell still has both an analogue watch and a boss who cares how they spend their time?!
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Rockman Reserve posted:all of you loving nerds with your shell scripts and stuff, just set your mouse on the face of an analogue watch, like why the hell are you making this poo poo so complicated lol I don't think I own a functional watch. Might be a broken one in a drawer somewhere, maybe.
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goatface posted:I don't think I own a functional watch. Might be a broken one in a drawer somewhere, maybe. it's usually pretty hard to break a halfway decent analogue watch, spend five bucks on a watch crab and two dollars on a new battery or pay some underpaid department store employee $40 to do it for you, it's a useful thing to have around
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Rockman Reserve posted:it's usually pretty hard to break a halfway decent analogue watch, spend five bucks on a watch crab and two dollars on a new battery or pay some underpaid department store employee $40 to do it for you, it's a useful thing to have around Why though? It's 2021 - at any given moment there's like 10 devices around me that tell the time. I understand there's people who collect nice analogue watches, but they're also probably not the people concerned with keeping their Teams status active...
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Pyrtanis posted:it's easy to forget to place it and get bitched at, a script is set n forget Also a cat cannot disable the script by bumping into it.
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the best argument i heard is that some people have such little selfcontrol that just checking their phone makes them open/unlock it and then they have to do doomscrolling and other dumb smart phone things. Also just checking your wirst is an easy simple action.
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Just use caffeine instead of doing all these complicated hardware solutions. No install, just click on it and go take a nap. Works perfectly.
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