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Thomamelas posted:Most of my work was with schools so I interacted with school resource officers a lot. As far as I can tell, they are what every department considers a gently caress up and I can not disagree. Their primary job duties seem to be sexually harassing underage girls and entering situations where they do not understand what the word deescalation means. Yup at our hastily thrown together post 9/11 patriotic assembly one of the security guards had I think been in the Air Force reserve and that was good enough to dig up his uniform and carry a flag. Later disappeared fast after the inevitable hitting on underage girls thing.
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Cyrano4747 posted:About a decade ago I was involved in a hit and run. I was at a stop light and a car smacked into me from behind hard enough to push me about 5 feet into the intersection. One of the things that pops up for DIY home security is people jumping immediately to security cameras for home security. And the reality is that for home break-ins, they are pointless. People assume they can give the footage to the cops and the cops will speed off to arrest that person. But the reality is that unless it's your neighbor, or someone the cops know on sight, they likely won't do poo poo other than give you a report for insurance. You can point out many ways to make your home harder to break into (replace the builder's grade strike plate with something more robust, 3M makes a really great film for making it hard to break windows, etc) but people get really loving fixated on the idea of catching and punishing someone more so than preventing it happening. Personally, I'd rather not be robbed.
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Mar 28, 2023 16:15
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My SO was in a minor accident in the roadway and pulled into a nearby parking lot to get out of traffic. The cop first tried to say that he wouldn’t come out because the accident had been in the parking lot, then tried to say that he couldn’t because of “defund the police” even though our city has been increasing, not decreasing, the police budget. He only came out after he was told that the other driver had fled. No one wants to work anymore!!
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Mar 28, 2023 17:01
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My stupid rear end coworkers need to stop commenting on their “mute status” and just TALK. Every single time it’s “hah, was on mute, sorry about that”
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Mar 28, 2023 18:42
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When I lived in California someone rear ended me and my wife as we were backing out of a parking space and police wouldn’t even come out since nobody was injured. Was fun to fight it out with insurance on that one.
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Mar 28, 2023 19:06
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Duck_King posted:I love my job, and it's the best one I've ever had, but it has also taught me that engineers are some of the dumbest loving people on the planet. It seems like all they know is whatever coding language they use and that's it. I work Helpdesk, and I we had one submit a ticket that basically said "My computer was running slow so I downloaded a RAM optimizer and now it's running even worse!" How? How do you use these things every single day as a part of your livelihood and know about as much your average grandparent? I still remember at an old job around 14 years ago dealing with some jackass in upper management who got a virus on his laptop that slowed it to a crawl. Spent half a day getting into it before the hard drive failed completely so I could back up his work related data. Got as much as I could off the thing, saved to a network drive he had access to, then gave it to my boss since there wasn't anything more I could do. Bear in mind we had a couple policies to prevent this: (1) telling people to not store data locally & (2) if your system shits the bed, we ONLY recover/back up work related data - anything personal isn't our problem, don't store anything you don't want to lose. I noticed during the process of pulling his data that he had Limewire & Kazaa on his laptop, not sure how since he wasn't supposed to have admin & those apps were HUGE virus/security vectors. Said manager got uppity with me by email & asked why I didn't recover *everything*, including his music, movies & pictures. He CC'd my boss & his own boss about it, so I decided to be the extra petty rear end in a top hat & professionally rake his dumb rear end over the coals. My response paraphrased was along the lines of: "I spent <x hours> recovering your work files, which are the only files required to recover per <policy>. Your personal music, movies & pictures are not company data nor work related. I also noticed while recovering data that <illegal file sharing apps> had been installed on the system, which are also against <several policies>. I have no way of discerning which files are legitimate/legal & <file sharing apps> are undoubtedly where this virus originated on your system. I've handed your laptop in to <my manager> if you wish to speak with him or the security team further on this matter." Not surprisingly, I didn't hear anything back & really hope that rear end in a top hat got fired for his stupidity.
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Mar 28, 2023 19:16
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I mean, I've had coworkers whose fetish it was to drive the company-branded minivan (lol) and expose themselves while passing other cars. Others would gamble in online casinos on government computers. People are loving stupid, full stop
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Mar 28, 2023 19:40
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Had some fun emails this morning when IT@company.com sent us an email saying there was a critical update for certain windows systems. We do not have an IT email address. It was dangerously close to successful.
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Mar 28, 2023 19:50
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TotalLossBrain posted:I mean, I've had coworkers whose fetish it was to drive the company-branded minivan (lol) and expose themselves while passing other cars. I worked with a salesman who was a pretty severe alcoholic. Everyone knew he was, he knew he was and he'd joke about it. Like many people at that stage of alcoholism he had a lot of health problems. So he had a lot of doctors appointments. Nobody thought anything about it, he was making his numbers. And he looked like one stiff breeze might kill him. So one day he goes to the doctor, except he didn't go to the doctor. He went to a near by strip club. Got hammered enough to realize he shouldn't drive, so he calls up another sales person on the business line and says "Hey, come done to the strip club hang out for a bit and then give me a ride home". Which the second sales person did. They had the unfortunate luck of the sales manager picking that call to review for sales techniques. Both were fired on the spot. One of the joys of working with sales people is that no matter how much you gently caress up your life, there is always a sales person who hosed up their life with way more gusto.
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Mar 28, 2023 20:20
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Thomamelas posted:
Can confirm. My husband got his job because his predecessor not only failed their drug test for coke, but it was a drug test that they themselves scheduled.
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Mar 28, 2023 21:04
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Pyrtanis posted:Can confirm. My husband got his job because his predecessor not only failed their drug test for coke, but it was a drug test that they themselves scheduled. That is loving impressive.
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Mar 28, 2023 21:06
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Pyrtanis posted:Can confirm. My husband got his job because his predecessor not only failed their drug test for coke, but it was a drug test that they themselves scheduled. Maybe they thought that by scheduling their own drug test, the coke in their system would get the message to lay low and not be detected
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Mar 28, 2023 21:08
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Paper Tiger posted:Maybe they thought that by scheduling their own drug test, the coke in their system would get the message to lay low and not be detected it was a case of they'd gotten away with so much poo poo that they figured it'd be fine best part is they got offered to do a rehab course and could keep their job but they flounced off instead
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Mar 28, 2023 21:34
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Thomamelas posted:One of the joys of working with sales people is that no matter how much you gently caress up your life, there is always a sales person who hosed up their life with way more gusto. Half the time they don't have consequences for their actions because they "got the numbers" though. Just ask the guy I worked with back in my litigation support days who regularly sold things that were literally impossible (I'm pretty sure Summation STILL doesn't do PDFs) and dropped slurs during work calls/meetings on the regular. But his brother worked there and his sales numbers were good, so nothing we can do about it!
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Mar 28, 2023 21:40
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TotalLossBrain posted:I mean, I've had coworkers whose fetish it was to drive the company-branded minivan (lol) and expose themselves while passing other cars. Lol yeah most people have enough sense when I say “can I remotely connect to see your screen,” which requires them clicking a prompt, to get the hint about taking a moment to close extra browser windows. And some can’t be drawn away from their fantasy soccer team management, or thinking maybe to minimize the PDF with a new hire’s social security and banking info. Although one manager who wasn’t my favorite had a bad habit of turning away from you while you were meeting with them to compulsively refresh their McMansion’s security cameras. Weren’t expecting a package, neighborhood hadn’t had break ins, no pets, just gotta make sure their doormat hadn’t walked off.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:
Heh, that reminded me of a similar story about another co-worker at an engineering/research place I worked at. He owned a chain restaurant and had remotely accessible cameras with two way intercom set up. Every now and then he'd disappear into a quiet lab corner, pull up the camera feed on his personal tablet and start bothering his wife and the poor teenage employees at the store lol. He was never mean or anything but I'm sure they got sick of it
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Mar 28, 2023 22:05
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Agents are GO! posted:Don't go selling anything in the meantime! [angrily] Try not to sell any product on the way to the parking lot!
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Mar 28, 2023 22:06
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Thomamelas posted:I worked with a salesman who was a pretty severe alcoholic. Everyone knew he was, he knew he was and he'd joke about it. Like many people at that stage of alcoholism he had a lot of health problems. So he had a lot of doctors appointments. Nobody thought anything about it, he was making his numbers. And he looked like one stiff breeze might kill him. So one day he goes to the doctor, except he didn't go to the doctor. He went to a near by strip club. Got hammered enough to realize he shouldn't drive, so he calls up another sales person on the business line and says "Hey, come done to the strip club hang out for a bit and then give me a ride home". Which the second sales person did. They had the unfortunate luck of the sales manager picking that call to review for sales techniques. Both were fired on the spot. Sounds like he was self-medicating. So he was hitting his numbers, and responsible enough not to drive drunk. Unless he was wearing company uniform I don't see a problem. gently caress the HR.
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Yea that’s bullshit. The designated driver should not have been reprimanded, he was doing a public service.
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RocketMermaid posted:Half the time they don't have consequences for their actions because they "got the numbers" though. Just ask the guy I worked with back in my litigation support days who regularly sold things that were literally impossible (I'm pretty sure Summation STILL doesn't do PDFs) and dropped slurs during work calls/meetings on the regular. But his brother worked there and his sales numbers were good, so nothing we can do about it! I was talking more about their personal lives rather than professional. Hell, one sales person I know was on his sixth marriage at age 40. And professionally he was great to work with. He avoided doing the kind of poo poo you describe, he didn't throw other people into the poo poo, and his word was gold. But in his personal life, his type were women who had serious personal issues. And he thought he could save them. He didn't. Two of his exs stole his then car on the way out. He had custody of four kids with four different women who were supposed to pay him child support but didn't. He had very little of value because his exs would steal anything of value before leaving. Professionally he was fine but his personal life was a series of trainwrecks.
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goatface posted:I used to know a guy who had a cop as their dealer. I used to buy weed from a cop. I've was also neighbours with a cop who had such bad PTSD he bricked up all his windows. My sister-in-law was stalked by a cop; he used to break into her house when she was at work and jerk off in her panty drawer. That's all my cop stories thanks for reading.
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TotalLossBrain posted:I mean, I've had coworkers whose fetish it was to drive the company-branded minivan (lol) and expose themselves while passing other cars. I think I posted about it but a former apprentice of ours found my boss's fetlife account, and while her face isn't visible in pictures the logo of the shop printed on our front fuckin window is.
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Mar 28, 2023 22:47
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cynic posted:I used to buy weed from a cop. I've was also neighbours with a cop who had such bad PTSD he bricked up all his windows. My sister-in-law was stalked by a cop; he used to break into her house when she was at work and jerk off in her panty drawer. Back the blue! 
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We had a sales rep that had decided to not make sales calls for at least six months before he was fired. Not sure how anyone found out, he made monthly recurring sales calls in salesforce and completed them with the exact same notes every 4 weeks to keep his call numbers in the green. Not like anyone could see he wasn’t actually visiting customers just by loving looking at his activities.
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cynic posted:I used to buy weed from a cop. I've was also neighbours with a cop who had such bad PTSD he bricked up all his windows. My sister-in-law was stalked by a cop; he used to break into her house when she was at work and jerk off in her panty drawer. My head canon is that all of these are the same cop.
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Shoehead posted:I think I posted about it but a former apprentice of ours found my boss's fetlife account, and while her face isn't visible in pictures the logo of the shop printed on our front fuckin window is. I think I remember you posting about this. Did you manage to abandon ship in the end?
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Lol yeah most people have enough sense when I say “can I remotely connect to see your screen,” which requires them clicking a prompt, to get the hint about I don't even get that. IT can remote in any time. Last week I was scrolling through CNN.com browsing headlines when a remote session started, took over control, navigated through the IT ticket system and went to open one for adding printers, then ended the session. I think from now on I'll keep something on screen like my last payslip.
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Salami Surgeon posted:I don't even get that. IT can remote in any time. Last week I was scrolling through CNN.com browsing headlines when a remote session started, took over control, navigated through the IT ticket system and went to open one for adding printers, then ended the session. I think from now on I'll keep something on screen like my last payslip. Yup, the last hospital I was at, you could remote into any computer on the network and all the end user will get is the little red bubble on the task tray turns green, and a tiny popup saying who is connecting that goes away in a second or so. IT was really good about asking before they did it though, if they were on the phone with you they'd ask you to close any confidential patient information. I imagine they still saw some dumb poo poo though lol
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Dumb poo poo my work is doing: upper management has decided that since we're not yet in the busy season, the restaurants don't need 3 separate 8-hour shifts of cleaners every day. Because, you know, there's not as many housekeepers needed during the slow season either and the rooms that are used get cleaned just fine. They have not yet twigged to the fact that the in-house restaurants, while not packed during the slow season, are still getting used and still need the same amount of cleaning no matter how many people we have staying. Despite this, I'm still reasonably sure we passed the most recent health inspection.
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Luv 2 have to unload empty bottles while I do runoff because someone scheduled delivery on a brew day and didn't tell me and nobody's here to help with that.
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I used to investigate a lot of sexual harassment complaints, and sales jobs were always complete cesspools. The worst seemed to be car dealerships. Just horrific, dramatic personalities all mixed up in one workplace.
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satanic splash-back posted:My work told everyone to come back into the office almost a year ago. In the course of the last two weeks we've gotten the following news: 1. All our offices are consolidating into one office, and we're going to have "virtual" teams of folks from all over the country; 2. We're still keeping buildings and real estate (so we're not shutting down offices, just having a massive re-organization); 3. Telework is changing from 1 day in office / week to 2 days in office / week. This was buried in the bottom of a telework memo and wasn't told to anyone in advance. Attrition was already through the roof before this announcement, people were wfh since march 2019 and ever since we got this new psycopath in charge it's been one unpopular (and company damaging) decision after another.
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But the office is such a fertile ground for sharing viruses--I mean ideas.
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Pyrtanis posted:Yup, the last hospital I was at, you could remote into any computer on the network and all the end user will get is the little red bubble on the task tray turns green, and a tiny popup saying who is connecting that goes away in a second or so. I don’t recall the details but there was a Darknet Diaries episode that mentioned how a hospital with a bad network setup could easily allow for someone to remotely take over critical medical devices during a surgery. I think the penetration tester who figured it out was very very careful to show how it could be done without actually disrupting a surgery. Although my all time favorite is still Target somehow having their HVAC and credit card processing systems be connected. I think their CEO had to resign with what that led to.
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Just check out shodan.io and see for yourself how stupid "professionals" can be
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DeeplyConcerned posted:But the office is such a fertile ground for sharing viruses--I mean ideas. My wife is in the office every day and in five months she's gotten sick with not-COVID twice. In the 13 years we've been together I can remember her getting sick one other time: when everyone who went on a work trip to Poland back in 2019 came back with a horrifying flu that most of them have decided was COVID. I have to think that our limited contact with other people for the last few years just destroyed a lot of her ability to cope with whatever is in the air. Luckily, I've not caught whatever she has had.
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Lazyfire posted:My wife is in the office every day and in five months she's gotten sick with not-COVID twice. In the 13 years we've been together I can remember her getting sick one other time: when everyone who went on a work trip to Poland back in 2019 came back with a horrifying flu that most of them have decided was COVID. I have to think that our limited contact with other people for the last few years just destroyed a lot of her ability to cope with whatever is in the air. Luckily, I've not caught whatever she has had. Same in our office. Out of the reasonable number of people that have tested, no one has tested positive for covid, but there's a lot of other airway infections going around - I've been sick at least twice (possibly three times with two back-to-back) since January. Nothing horrible, but bleh.
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Got an announcement at my work coming today (I get previews because I share the same level as management). The hybrid work schedule is changing so that everyone across the entire organization will be in the office on Wednesdays starting in May. And VPs and above will be in office Tue, Wed, and Thurs. Because management has heard the peons and wants to make sure there are more opportunities for leadership interaction. At least one of my in-office days is already Wednesday, so no big deal. But, one of the main campuses (where I report) is shrinking office space, and there is not enough room to get everyone in the office today, let alone after the move is complete at the end of the year. My director did state they are working through that, and will have things figure out before the move. I also found out that when this move is complete, I will be losing my own cubicle, and be working in a hoteling situation. I believe they will keep the cubicles, but they still have to redesign the floor plans to have a bunch of departments moved around, so who knows at this point. I am glad I work about 15 minutes from the office, so I can disappear after the morning department meeting and not feel all pissed off that I spent half my day on the road.
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