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I worked for an older cousin of mine for a while. He demanded we never take a break to eat lunch during business hours but cut an hour each out of our daily pay for lunch breaks. He threatened to fire us if we ate lunch because he said the shop needed to stay open without interruption while still pulling that time out of our paychecks. He also demanded 10+ hour workdays without overtime pay or else with the threat of getting fired if we didn't agree to it. My family tells me that person has since become a nice guy. I ask them to forgive me but I have no reason to feel anything but hatred for that bastard son of a bitch.
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Dumb poo poo your work does, or did. I was handed some part to machine that was made before, pretty often in fact. So I check the laptop that has all the documentation if there's anything. Nothing. I start asking some people who've worked here longer, they don't know what they're looking at. So I go back to the manager and explain to him exactly this. So he starts looking in his own system, apparently the last time we had an order for this part was 2016. Then he mentions that they started using laptops for documentation in 2017 and they used small, handwritten notes before that. Which have since gone AWOL. They only started using computers in the workshop in tyool two thousand loving seventeen.
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Jun 1, 2023 15:56
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I shot my screen and now I guess my computer is bricked. Thanks a lot, everyone!
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Deki posted:You don't have admin access to your work computer? In every single job I've had, I started out not having local admin rights, and in every job I had to bother the sysadmin so often for the "install doodad" password, and they all caved and just gave me local admin. 
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I don’t have admin cause I’m a worker drone and not an IT drone but I guess they don’t care about chrome extensions so I’ve been probing those things to make my life easier. Nobody will ever know this cause then they’d think I’m smart and give me more work.
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Deki posted:You don't have admin access to your work computer? I have admin access to everyone's computer. Except the ones with gross keyboards because I ain't touching that. I needed access to photoshop last week and I went all the way downstairs and to the other side of the building rather than just turn around and use my boss's gross keyboard.
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Jun 1, 2023 18:10
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Machai posted:I have admin access to everyone's computer. Except the ones with gross keyboards because I ain't touching that. I needed access to photoshop last week and I went all the way downstairs and to the other side of the building rather than just turn around and use my boss's gross keyboard. If you have admin why not just RDP into it from your local box and use your keyboard? Do you have any type of real time monitoring / control software? no VNC even?
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I'm not supposed to have admin per policy, but I'm on a mac and I guess no one knows or cares how to lock it down. Yay for incompetence!
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satanic splash-back posted:Going to say we need a pic of your hand or weird keyboard to understand your point of view, I use Windows+ shift+s daily without any contortionist activity, but I have five usable fingers on my keyboard hand for what it's worth. At least on mine I have to do thumb on Win, pinky on shift, middle finger on S. Legit makes a claw or a kung fu hand or something. Logitech K120. But again, this is all incidental. The best option is to simply not use your left hand out of laziness and click the Snipping Tool icon on your taskbar. This is the only correct opinion.
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pixaal posted:If you have admin why not just RDP into it from your local box and use your keyboard? Do you have any type of real time monitoring / control software? no VNC even? I'm on windows and he is on Mac. The macs here all have local admin and are pretty much on their own separate virtual network together for all the design work. I don't generally do anything with the macs except yesterday I was tasked with replacing the hard-drive in an old 2012-ish iMac. Which requires I remove the screen. And jump through a bunch of hoops to backup and clone the drive because the drat thing won't boot into recovery mode for some reason. There is also a guy with a 2010(!) Mac Pro that needs a new ssd installed (it was ordered before I was hired and was sitting in a drawer for months) because he has like 20GB left on his 1TB drive now. And my boss is out until next week so idk which of the many backup drives with stuff from 2016 I can wipe to use for making backups before I gently caress with installing/uninstalling drives.
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Escape From Noise posted:I shot my screen and now I guess my computer is bricked. Thanks a lot, everyone! Why were you looking at porn on your work PC?
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Escape From Noise posted:I shot my screen and now I guess my computer is bricked. Thanks a lot, everyone! Aren't guns very illegal in Japan? Yakuza spotted!
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I’m extremely jealous of the folks with admin access. I don’t have install privileges, and IT doesn’t want to support any shortcut software. My job is at least half data entry, often of the same item multiple times (thanks, netsuite). So I just said gently caress it and used an arduino kit for flight sims to make a thing with buttons that entered predefined strings. Of course Netsuite hates this, and occasionally decides to eat half the inputs and then delete the next line item, but it’s better than typing in 27 copies of the same thing.
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Ultra posted:I had a job where everything was driven by SLAs from the top and had no real world meanings. There would be times the client we were working with wouldn't get back to use for weeks, but we had to close tickets within 5 days. The uppers wouldn't listen to reason, so we ended up copying and pasting all the info from the about to expire ticket into a brand new one, and then close the old one. Leadership: wow are all these tickets really not being worked on? Coordinator now refreshes the system every 5 minutes and sets all new tickets to in process Leadership: wow, is that guy really working on 15 issues at once? Me, a ticket parking lot trying to spend all my clout and get out of this hell project: well, no Coordinator: we are all trying to find the guy who did this. Then because we are in prerelease testing leadership forgets about SLAs a day later and just looks at burndown rate because neither client nor contractor wants to admit maybe this is staffed or scoped wrong.
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I have local admin on my laptop. But I do have occasional need to install and support software. In return my access to some information is limited. The most confidential thing I can access are company wide emails that aren't for redistribution. Oh and student records which is "Did this student attend this class?" and "Did they pass this test?" Along with student email addresses. It's a trade off I can live with. Also I have a server used sometimes for training but that never touches the corporate network, but I have full admin on that machine and it's VMs. But those VMs get wiped after use and the underlying hypervisor gets nuked every few months.
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Domus posted:I’m extremely jealous of the folks with admin access. I don’t have install privileges, and IT doesn’t want to support any shortcut software. My job is at least half data entry, often of the same item multiple times (thanks, netsuite). So I just said gently caress it and used an arduino kit for flight sims to make a thing with buttons that entered predefined strings. Of course Netsuite hates this, and occasionally decides to eat half the inputs and then delete the next line item, but it’s better than typing in 27 copies of the same thing. Are you entering multiple lines on the same PO or something? Because there should be a copy precious button. Or you can try and get chrome to remember the days like it's a username so you can enter the first few characters then thumb down through the list? Alternatively, figure out an csv upload maybe? I don't do that but I know operations and AR do it.
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Sywert of Thieves posted:In every single job I've had, I started out not having local admin rights, and in every job I had to bother the sysadmin so often for the "install doodad" password, and they all caved and just gave me local admin. Same
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Deki posted:The One of the worst decisions you can make is to work a job for a relative who thinks they're doing you a favor by giving you a job. Same with friends tbh And I have had admin rights at every workplace in like, the last decade 
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Ravus Ursus posted:Because there should be a copy precious button.
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zedprime posted:Gandalf hates this one weird trick to in the darkness bind them To be fair, it was his birthday
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Ravus Ursus posted:Are you entering multiple lines on the same PO or something? Because there should be a copy precious button. Or you can try and get chrome to remember the days like it's a username so you can enter the first few characters then thumb down through the list? Sadly it’s a much more complicated mess than copy previous can deal with. We scan units into a sales order when they come in. The techs work on them and hand write part numbers on a ticket for each item. I have to then edit the sales order, and put each part used underneath the serial number of the unit. So if each unit used part MEI8432663, I get to type that into the sales order as many times as there are units. It’s stupid and Netsuite is not set up to do this in any real way, but it’s the only hammer we have so we just bang on the process until it kind of resembles something that could work. It’s crazy.
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Machai posted:Aren't guns very illegal in Japan? Yakuza spotted! You could also shoot arrows.
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That sounds like the sort of process that would lead to me plugging in a barcode scanner and some sort of text-to-barcode software on a separate PC/tablet/phone. Going full keyboard-emulator arduino is of course several steps further down the same path.
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Domus posted:It’s stupid and Netsuite is not set up to do this in any real way. Net suite sales pitch.exe I feel like there's some wierd busted rear end stuff you could do to get it to work but it requires admin rights and someone willing to experiment. We spent months waiting for the one person with admin that isn't an exec to find them time to add sticky notes. They still don't work. Meanwhile we started production on our q4 novelty lineup. It includes the oh so prestigious "fart in a can"
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My boss is really open about the amount of fraud she is committing. She owns two convenience stores; one that's super nice and performs well and this busted barely functioning thing I work at. I learned yesterday that the only reason the store I work at exists is because she uses the good store to buy like half the product from the bad store. Her goal is to keep both stores alive for three more years so she can sell both and retire. I've worked there since September and since then we've hired more than ten people and of those ten people, nine have quit or been fired, usually within one or two days of being hired. We've been at negative-one employees needed to even run the store since I started. We've been at -2 employees most of the time. Fortunately there was a single person who decided to keep their job, so we're at a nice -1 employees; not enough to keep the store running, definitely not enough to keep the place clean. Fortunately my boss has a bunch of kids she can force to work there without paying them. I deal with 220-350 customers per day, depending on day of the week and some other factors. Being on the register for eight hours straight (no break! no bathroom!) means, on a busier day, a customer enters the store every forty-five seconds. My main goal at work is at all times to desperately keep the line low. Customers that shop at this store are loving assholes; half of them are unhoused folks high on meth, the other half are homeless-hating conservative rednecks, high on meth. If the line gets too long, they take it out on me. If we could hire a single other person there are so many problems that could be avoided. Every day is a nonstop anxiety attack. If this were like an MMORPG transcript, it would read like: 1 customer has entered the store! There are now 4 customers in the store! The line grows. The customer wants to pay for her groceries but did not bring money. 1 customer has entered the store! There are now 5 customers in the store! The line grows. The customer wants to pay with debit card, but the card is broken. 1 customer has entered the store! There are now 6 customers in the store! The line grows. The customer has wandered away! 1 customer has entered the store! There are now 7 customers in the store! The line grows. You call the customer back. The customer has a different card she would like to use. She is searching for it. 2 customers have entered the store! There are now 9 customers in the store! The line grows. The customer wants to sign in to her 7-Rewards points thing! But she can't remember her phone number. 1 customer has entered the store! There are now 10 customers in the store! The line grows. The customer is attempting to enter phone numbers on the 7-Rwards points thing. 1 customer has entered the store! There are now 11 customers in the store! The line grows. The customer cannot figure out the buttons on the 7-Rewards points thing 1 customer has entered the store! There are now 12 customers in the store! The line grows. The customer has decided not to deal with the 7-Rewards points thing. She continues searching for her other card. 5 customer have entered the store! There are now 17 customers in the store! The line grows. The customer found the card! She jams it into the card reader with excessive force. The card reader displays an error. 1 customer has entered the store! There are now 18 customers in the store! The line grows. The customer is shouting at the card reader. She cannot hear you because the store is too full of people. She cannot hear you telling her to stop shoving her loving card into the reader like she's trying to stab it to death. Customers have begun stealing. Two customers start fighting. 3 customers have entered the store! There are now 21 customers in the store! The line grows. The customer's card did not work because she has no money. She asks if she can just keep the groceries she brought up to the counter, since some of it, like the coffee and slurpee and other poo poo will just have to be thrown away anyway. 1 customer has entered the store! There are now 22 customers in the store! The line grows. You'd be a loving monster not to let this woman keep the slurpee. What, you're just going to throw it away. Why would you not let her keep it? 1 customer has entered the store! There are now 23 customers in the store! The line grows. I can't believe you're just going to throw it away. That's so wasteful. Where's your manager?
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Machai posted:Aren't guns very illegal in Japan? Yakuza spotted! They're not illegal, just very sensibly controlled.
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Lazyfire posted:They were all sorts of ages, some were new grads and a few were a few years from retirement. Even people I trained after that were reluctant to use the batch system because the supervisors all said it didn't work. People also didn't realize you could open up just a single line from a BOM instead of the entire thing if you just had to adjust one field, so you'd watch them lock up their PC for 20+ minutes waiting for the file to generate just to make a single change. drat that guy knew what's up
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Domus posted:Sadly it’s a much more complicated mess than copy previous can deal with. We scan units into a sales order when they come in. The techs work on them and hand write part numbers on a ticket for each item. I have to then edit the sales order, and put each part used underneath the serial number of the unit. So if each unit used part MEI8432663, I get to type that into the sales order as many times as there are units. It’s stupid and Netsuite is not set up to do this in any real way, but it’s the only hammer we have so we just bang on the process until it kind of resembles something that could work. It’s crazy. Can you run an exe that isn't installed? Like just use AHK portable and map MEI8432663 to say F8? Autohotkey is pretty good https://www.autohotkey.com/download/2.0/ the zip files should be the portable versions. They are in ABC order and there's some weird released at the bottom under the newest check the date grab something from 2023 but really it's AHK a copy from 2010 probably is fine. If IT installed full office you may also have power automate installed which is Microsoft's new workflow automation stuff. I haven't even looked at it yet though so this is a soft I heard about it. pixaal fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Jun 2, 2023 |
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StrangersInTheNight posted:'Quick question, can you let me know who suggested you reach out to me for this matter?' - ask this, get the name and hopefully it's not a manager and you're able to stop it at the source. “You’ve been here for so long I thought if anyone would know you would know” - 17 years on 06/06. “You’re always so nice and quick to help us out” - from one of the contractors in India who now does my old smoke break buddy’s job. Admin access is a sore subject at work, our latest laptops - leased and we get a new one forced on us every couple of years - are restricted from installing any software not on the company portal. Although I haven’t tried the windows store that NPR Journalizard has just reminded me exists. They did try restricting installation once before but it was common knowledge you could run command prompt as admin and then install whatever you needed from there. This new MOE is pushed from the parent entity as they got rid of almost all the local IT and is frustrating. Some idle chat about kidnapping one of the remaining local guys to get poo poo installed. I really miss some software: *I’ve used Irfanview for years and know all the shortcuts. There’s probably better software but I’m so used to it. *Notepad++ is on the company portal but you can’t install any add-ons - which is what makes it really great. *No more AutoHotKey but .vbs runs ok and I’ve started using it for a couple of things. Reminder: don’t send .vbs files through outlook because it will be flagged & the attachment deleted - oops. *I’ve just realised I don’t have an IDE for python now. I know I can use notepad but next time I get asked to troubleshoot or update a broken script because “hey you know Python right?” I’m going to make a stink.
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I got to do a “as per my previous email” today. There is a project manager floating around that is a walking disaster. She used to be a people manager in the PM department, but I think created so many problems took (probably forced) a sideline into an equivalent level IC position. Last week she sent around an email looking for information from other departments. I quickly noticed that she had wrong and missing request numbers. I sent a quick (and polite) response to the whole chain laying out the proper request numbers for what she was asking for. So this morning when everyone ignores my update, and this PM is getting questioned on why the request she is referencing doesn’t contain the work she is talking about. I get a forwarded email from the PM asking if I could get her a copy of the correct request. I did that, and include a copy of my email from last week that outlined exactly what she was asking for. I was sorely tempted to add back in the person asking the PM about the incorrect request when I responded. But figured it wasn’t going to do me any favors in the short or long term.
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credburn posted:My boss is really open about the amount of fraud she is committing. She owns two convenience stores; one that's super nice and performs well and this busted barely functioning thing I work at. I learned yesterday that the only reason the store I work at exists is because she uses the good store to buy like half the product from the bad store. Her goal is to keep both stores alive for three more years so she can sell both and retire. I've worked there since September and since then we've hired more than ten people and of those ten people, nine have quit or been fired, usually within one or two days of being hired. We've been at negative-one employees needed to even run the store since I started. We've been at -2 employees most of the time. Fortunately there was a single person who decided to keep their job, so we're at a nice -1 employees; not enough to keep the store running, definitely not enough to keep the place clean. Fortunately my boss has a bunch of kids she can force to work there without paying them. How badly do you need this specific job?
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The dumb poo poo my work does I'm dealing with right now is that the organization did a bit of a re-org and my team got switched to a different manager. The new manager sends out "Good Morning!" emails twice a week and everyone on the team replies, so I get like 30 "Good Morning!" emails to delete per week. Fortunately, everyone on my team hates this and doesn't respond or else it would be even worse.
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Lol my team spent 2 weeks bellyaching about reworking a circuit card because they don't understand non-op vs processing temperatures. Just college level poo poo and 30-40yr professionals in A&D get it wrong.
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Deki posted:The One of the worst decisions you can make is to work a job for a relative who thinks they're doing you a favor by giving you a job. Yep. He definitely thought I should thank him for him treating me like poo poo. I had to fight to get him to raise my pay to $7.00/hour while he'd regularly come into the shop and brag about how much money he makes. I'm told he has become more humble and kind in recent years but I hold grudges. He has never apologized to me for his abusive, lovely behavior. When your boss regularly berated you to the point of you crying, "well he's nicer now" doesn't exactly erase it.
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Dumb poo poo Your Work Does: Screenshot tools ITT
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McGavin posted:The dumb poo poo my work does I'm dealing with right now is that the organization did a bit of a re-org and my team got switched to a different manager. The new manager sends out "Good Morning!" emails twice a week and everyone on the team replies, so I get like 30 "Good Morning!" emails to delete per week. Fortunately, everyone on my team hates this and doesn't respond or else it would be even worse. Has this woman never heard of teams group chat? I sort of get it for attendance taking purposes, but my current and last manager just want a quick "yo" in the group chat when you log in. I had one in the past that was cool with me logging into the phone for two seconds in unavailable status each morning and evening. She could then pull the report when approving my timesheet for the week.
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Agents are GO! posted:Dumb poo poo Your Work Does: Screenshot tools ITT Snagit mostly. Snipping tool if Snagit is being funky. Paint with Ctrl+Alt+Print screen, Ctrl+V, Alt+F+A if I feel like reliving 2014.
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pixaal posted:Can you run an exe that isn't installed? Like just use AHK portable and map MEI8432663 to say F8? Autohotkey is pretty good https://www.autohotkey.com/download/2.0/ the zip files should be the portable versions. They are in ABC order and there's some weird released at the bottom under the newest check the date grab something from 2023 but really it's AHK a copy from 2010 probably is fine. I…Hmm. I’m going to have to experiment with this. Thank you!
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blackmet posted:Has this woman never heard of teams group chat? The average age in my organization is rapidly approaching early 60s and everyone is very professional, so this isn't for attendance, it's literally just to say "good morning".
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