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Entropic posted:we have daily WFH check-in meetings at 8:15 which is weird because it disrupts me from getting into any real work I were to start at 8:00 Join the meeting from your phone and just go back to bed when it's over
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We have 2x a week c-level manager meetings where I'm the sole IT guy giving updates on what our group is working on. At 7:45am.
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Feb 4, 2022 00:45
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Bob Morales posted:Join the meeting from your phone and just go back to bed when it's over "CAMERAS ON PLEASE"
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Feb 4, 2022 01:12
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My new headrest for my office chair came, for improved napping while on the clock.
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Data Graham posted:"CAMERAS ON PLEASE" My camera /is/ on. its just covered with a folded piece of paper and tape
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Data Graham posted:"CAMERAS ON PLEASE" The power move is set up a Vtuber rig with the dumbest/silliest character you can find or make. Really stick to the letter of the law.
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xsf421 posted:I negotiated full remote, it went suspiciously easy until I got a message asking why I wasn’t in the office. “You’re full remote except for the days I want you to come in” As long as you have "full remote" in writing I would just point to that and laugh. But do get a new job, red flags like these generally keep good company with other, worse red flags  Entropic posted:we have daily WFH check-in meetings at 8:15 which is weird because it disrupts me from getting into any real work I were to start at 8:00 This is fine. Spend those minutes to digest whatever email came in since yesterday while drinking a cup of your favourite caffeinated beverage and finishing up breakfast 
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Feb 4, 2022 07:26
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The power move is set up a Vtuber rig with the dumbest/silliest character you can find or make. Really stick to the letter of the law. Back when WFH started (march 2020) and it was still fresh and fun, I put on a webcam filter that edited a cat on my head for April Fool's Day. I think I stopped turning on my camera a week after that. 
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Feb 4, 2022 10:27
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cage-free egghead posted:I would do this too but my overbearing coworker starts asking where anyone is even its a minute after the hour.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The power move is set up a Vtuber rig with the dumbest/silliest character you can find or make. Really stick to the letter of the law. I got FaceRig Pro a few years ago in a Humble Bundle, and when I first started doing a regular WFH as part of my gig, I'd use that. The psycho clown one got the best reactions.
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If you need an excuse to skip your Friday afternoon meetings, Webex is currently having issues. https://status.webex.com 
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Feb 4, 2022 21:28
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Yup. I had to send out a company wide email about this.
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GreenNight posted:Yup. I had to send out a company wide email about this. this is how IT professionals handle unpleasant meetings
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Webex is now blaming their CA for all their issues and said they released a new cert but you may have to install it? The gently caress?
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I had a new one last week. A user was working out of a different office that normal for the day, she plugged her laptop in at a docking monitor in that office and apparently everything went well until the monitor went to sleep, when she'd wake it back up the screen was full of errors from everything about not being able to restore connection to the network drives, not being able to talk to servers, basically it was behaving like something was yanking the network cord when it went into sleep mode. Fortunately early on in the troubleshooting process the user mentioned "There's a phone cord running from the wall to the back of the monitor, is that supposed to be there?" She asked around and apparently someone was "messing around" with that desk a few days ago and swapped out the network cable with a phone cord for who knows what reason. I'm so glad the user was tech savvy enough to notice that, because that would have been a nightmare to troubleshoot remotely if they weren't able to spot the difference. I'm also surprised the network apparently worked at all over a CAT3, and it was only failing when power conditions changed. I would have thought those missing wires would have made more of a difference.
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ConnectWise View is an absolute godsend for situations like that, where just being able to physically inspect something means you can solve it in five minutes. It’s the next best thing to actually being on site.
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Knormal posted:I had a new one last week. A user was working out of a different office that normal for the day, she plugged her laptop in at a docking monitor in that office and apparently everything went well until the monitor went to sleep, when she'd wake it back up the screen was full of errors from everything about not being able to restore connection to the network drives, not being able to talk to servers, basically it was behaving like something was yanking the network cord when it went into sleep mode. Fortunately early on in the troubleshooting process the user mentioned "There's a phone cord running from the wall to the back of the monitor, is that supposed to be there?" She asked around and apparently someone was "messing around" with that desk a few days ago and swapped out the network cable with a phone cord for who knows what reason. I'm so glad the user was tech savvy enough to notice that, because that would have been a nightmare to troubleshoot remotely if they weren't able to spot the difference. Cat3 is rated for 10 Mbps. Get everything right and you might get 100 Mbps. In the early and mid-90's it's what we generally used.
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Feb 7, 2022 05:08
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Ancient grandpa spotted.
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Feb 7, 2022 05:23
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Nobody's ancient if they don't remember thinnet.
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Feb 7, 2022 06:26
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Zorak of Michigan posted:Nobody's ancient if they don't remember thinnet. Or Thicknet. It's fun to gently caress with AV experts when they say "we need to make X SDI cables at this rate/hour" and you get a couple crates of old base5 cables saying "we got these bnc cables already, are these not enough?".
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Hey I used to make those things out of the BNC terminators my dad had left over when I was 8 years old! 
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Feb 7, 2022 14:51
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Flashbacks of my last job. We had dozens of those things plus all other manner of connectors like pomona, RF, 2.4 mm, 3.5 mm, and everyone's favorite the General Radio Type 874
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GreenNight posted:Webex is now blaming their CA for all their issues and said they released a new cert but you may have to install it? The gently caress? Yeah, their CA's OCSP responders were down, so even though the cert was valid, there was no way to check its revocation status. https://status.hydrantid.com/ 
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quote:I was wondering if you would be able to help me...it looks like my screen has a crack but doesn't...the picture is also all distorted. Any feedback? Or is it just time for an upgrade? Somehow I got included on this ticket (I'm the enterprise architect here) but I still can't believe the balls on people. Like "oh yeah this must have just happened spontaneously" as if we can't see the point of impact of whatever you had sandwiched in between the lid and the case when you closed it. We have insurance on every laptop, it's fine. Don't treat me like some loving muppet and act like you have no idea how it happened. Just be a fucken adult, admit you made a mistake, and let's move on.
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nexxai posted:Somehow I got included on this ticket (I'm the enterprise architect here) but I still can't believe the balls on people. Like "oh yeah this must have just happened spontaneously" as if we can't see the point of impact of whatever you had sandwiched in between the lid and the case when you closed it. It was a really fun moment when someone was swearing up and down they didn’t know what happened to their screen. I take a corporate iphone, slide it over the crack and see it perfectly fill the cracked outline. “Please check your laptop for stuff before closing the lid. A new screen will be installed by the end of the week. “
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I am beyond caring about the "why" and I am honestly confused why anyone else would be either. They might not legitimately know what caused the screen to break. It also doesn't matter if they know. Laptops and phones breaking as people use them is simply the cost of doing business. I can assure you 100% that they don't want to go through the headache of getting a laptop replaced. Almost as much as you not wanting to replace it.
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Screen replacements are dead simple even if it’s not covered by warranty / insurance Also, I know plenty of end users that are oblivious enough that they wouldn’t have noticed anything sitting on their laptop before closing the lid and would honestly believe “it just happened”
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Sickening posted:I am beyond caring about the "why" and I am honestly confused why anyone else would be either. They might not legitimately know what caused the screen to break. It also doesn't matter if they know. Laptops and phones breaking as people use them is simply the cost of doing business. I'd be more inclined to think they want an upgrade(based on that phrasing) and probably assume everything will be migrated over. And last time I had to replace a laptop the process was "here ya go, thanks for the new one" so its not a good expectation that its going to be painful. It doesn't have to be a painful process unless you are trying to catch people cheating
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A short term contract job back I inherited an old laptop as part of a company-wide refresh and there was a perfect square of maybe five or six pixels where the screen was just gone. Turns out the pandemic mandated work from home resulted in whoever used to own it having their room-mate open a door in a tiny flat and just punch a teeny chunk right out of the laptop... somehow. This was not admitted to until the laptop was handed back for replacement, out of fear. It also didn't really manage to do much except make the backlight leak through.
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PirateDentist posted:It was a really fun moment when someone was swearing up and down they didn’t know what happened to their screen. I take a corporate iphone, slide it over the crack and see it perfectly fill the cracked outline. Every time that happened to me the user would swear they didn't know how it happened. One even went on the attack and said the screen being damaged was my fault, because we gave him shoddy substandard equipment. My favorite ticket was "I have done the dumb, and my keyboard is now full of coffee, I am so very very sorry  ". She copped to it in the ticket title, was super apologetic, and because she didn't try to snow job us with 'the keyboard just stopped working one day', she got a priority overnighted replacement machine.
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Every time that happened to me the user would swear they didn't know how it happened. One even went on the attack and said the screen being damaged was my fault, because we gave him shoddy substandard equipment. I don't care if it's a waste of money, but man I pay for ADP for every drat laptop in our org.
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Users talk about their broken laptops the same way news reports talk about police shootings. "An unintentional sudden deceleration occurred, resulting in loss of hardware functionality."
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With supply chain issues we got a stack of this fuckoff massive Lenovo notebooks. I swear they could stop a bullet.
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The computers we ordered last year as part of our bulk buy never showed up, now we're wondering if we need to order double for this year, or just wait and see if they eventually show up
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GreenNight posted:With supply chain issues we got a stack of this fuckoff massive Lenovo notebooks.I swear they could stop a bullet. There is a superhero origin story in there somewhere.
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Hughmoris posted:There is a superhero origin story in there somewhere. https://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/mobile-computing/laptops/heroic-laptop-takes-bullet-for-us-soldier-133972 A man sees his laptop shot before his very eyes, and vows "never again". Now he's the Punisher, only even more edgelordy and stupid, beating people up who don't take good enough care of their computer equipment. By night, he shitposts on Usenet and Reddit, by day he throws secretaries down staircases for spilling coffee in keyboards. They say that if you install Windows Vista on a Macbook Pro on a city rooftop, you might be able to summon The Bastard Operator from Hell.
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:https://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/mobile-computing/laptops/heroic-laptop-takes-bullet-for-us-soldier-133972 
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It's not the ones that spill coffee on their keyboards that are a problem. It's the ones that lie about it and claim they don't know what happened.
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ponzicar posted:Users talk about their broken laptops the same way news reports talk about police shootings. "An unintentional sudden deceleration occurred, resulting in loss of hardware functionality." A Office 365 involved shooting
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