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I got one of the classic email exchanges today. "Is this new hire's last name spelled Smith or Smyth?" "Yes". It's been a while.
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Knormal posted:I got one of the classic email exchanges today. Welcome to the company, your email is john.smithorsmyth@company.biz
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Aug 23, 2023 13:52
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Perennial "why are tech recruiters complete bags of poo poo?" post. So many messages I get tell me you didn't actually read my profile without saying you didn't read my profile. Just a touch of loving effort, people, seriously.
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Aug 24, 2023 01:02
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Yeah, I had one of those a few days ago. Kept asking me basic poo poo that's on my LinkedIn for so long that my phone ran out of battery mid-call. Sucks to be him I guess?
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Aug 24, 2023 01:06
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AlexDeGruven posted:
How bad would it be if I asked them if they read my profile? I stopped posting about every time a recruiter reached out to me for the job I already have because it happens on a near weekly basis at this point and it's not funny anymore. Usually I ignore them but I'm starting to get really annoyed.
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Aug 24, 2023 01:08
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I keep getting people trying to get me to apply for on-site helldesk jobs halfway across the continent for $17/hr
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Aug 24, 2023 02:13
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chin up everything sucks posted:I keep getting people trying to get me to apply for on-site helldesk jobs halfway across the continent for $17/hr and yeah its why I dont even use LinkedIn or have any desire to look for a job, because it sounds like hell on earth.
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Aug 24, 2023 02:17
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Arquinsiel posted:Yeah, I had one of those a few days ago. Kept asking me basic poo poo that's on my LinkedIn for so long that my phone ran out of battery mid-call. Sucks to be him I guess? They always ask for a call which prompts an immediate lolfuckoff. In this case it was a "field support technician" that's required to sell their own billable hours. How about a double lolfuckoff? Putting aside the fact that my last end user facing role ended 20+ years ago, there is no way in hell I'm acting as my own salesman for poo poo. AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I love the username + post combo recruitinghell and antiwork are goldmines for LinkedIn and other job searching horror stories and almost make it worth using reddit now and then. AlexDeGruven fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Aug 24, 2023 |
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Aug 24, 2023 02:23
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AlexDeGruven posted:They always ask for a call which prompts an immediate lolfuckoff.
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Aug 24, 2023 15:08
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A while ago I got a random attempt to get me to do some sort of inventory / sales analysis poo poo in the convenience store sector because I have never updated my linkedin since then and I was like thank you but no thank you I don't work in that sector anymore left unsaid was that I would rather die than work in that sector again
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Aug 24, 2023 15:12
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Arquinsiel posted:I'm always available for a call. During work hours. Sure I'll let someone pay me to talk to you about a better job, why wouldn't I? I also give them my Irish number even though I'm living in the UK, because apart from the wonky signal in the area it's a real quick filter that some of them fail to pass. My original helldesk experience has sworn me off of cold calls. Even when I'm expecting a call, I don't answer a number I don't recognize or have saved. I get what you're saying, though. Wasting their time is never a bad plan.
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Aug 24, 2023 17:23
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AlexDeGruven posted:My original helldesk experience has sworn me off of cold calls. Even when I'm expecting a call, I don't answer a number I don't recognize or have saved. I get what you're saying, though. Wasting their time is never a bad plan.
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Aug 24, 2023 18:33
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I tried that too once, but after 10-15 minutes I started to feel bad for the poor lady in India. 
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Aug 24, 2023 22:45
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Sywert of Thieves posted:I tried that too once, but after 10-15 minutes I started to feel bad for the poor lady in India. She's actively participating in a scam. gently caress her. Any scammer's time you waste is a moral good. You're keeping them from scamming someone else.
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Aug 24, 2023 23:01
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Either the scammers I get are based in the UK or their English accents are spectacular.
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Wibla posted:They decommissioned the copper network in Norway not long ago. old post, but gently caress telenor i hate their fear mongering commercials and astroturfing campaigns, god damnit what poo poo company they became after they went private i feel really sorry for those who didn't get altibox fiber or equivalent in time
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Aug 27, 2023 13:42
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AlexDeGruven posted:Perennial "why are tech recruiters complete bags of poo poo?" post. Because there is no downside to them just shotgunning messages out, and they probably report to their managers on "how many candidates they contacted about potential jobs" or some other bullshit metric. One recent morning in the space of approx an hour and a half I got twelve different recruiters hitting me up about the same job.
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Aug 27, 2023 20:48
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Second interview down 
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Wizard of the Deep posted:She's actively participating in a scam. gently caress her. I just ask them in a very sad voice how they would feel if someone scammed their mum like this and don't they feel guilty? The result are about half and half immediately putting the phone down on me vs trying "ma'am this is not a scam" ("no dear, we both know it is") then putting the phone down. Having a nice middle-aged lady voice is useful sometimes. I like to think I've shamed some of them into getting other jobs, or at least given them guilty night thoughts...
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Aug 28, 2023 19:50
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A Frosty Witch posted:Second interview down We're all pulling for you! Stay frosty.
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Aug 28, 2023 20:28
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An email came in:quote:Hey, can you do [simple change]? We are trying to accomplish [similar-sounding but ultimately unrelated thing]. I reply: quote:I'm not sure that will help, since [unrelated thing] wouldn't actually be affected by [simple change]. Can you tell me more about what you're trying to do and I can help find a better solution? They respond: quote:This is the solution that we have already decided on. Please make the change. Okey-fuckin'-dokey then!
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Aug 28, 2023 21:43
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That's going to be CYA material in a short while I think
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Aug 28, 2023 21:44
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Change request rejected. Reason: insufficient justification.
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Aug 29, 2023 05:47
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Yes, sounds like your standard XY problem
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Aug 29, 2023 09:39
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Today, FB reminded me that five years ago our O365 tenant had licensing issues due to our reseller. IIRC they had been selling us edu sku and skimming the difference, and an audit from MS disabled about 85% of our licenses. That was a 'fun' day.
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Aug 30, 2023 16:39
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kensei posted:Today, FB reminded me that five years ago our O365 tenant had licensing issues due to our reseller. IIRC they had been selling us edu sku and skimming the difference, and an audit from MS disabled about 85% of our licenses. That was a 'fun' day. Oof! How did that play out?
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Hughmoris posted:Oof! How did that play out? We proved that we had been paying for the correct licenses, MS reinstated us and we fired that reseller.
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Aug 30, 2023 17:28
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that wonderful feeling when your backup works perfectly and you get to watch a dumpster fire instead of being in the dumpster yourself 
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Aug 30, 2023 18:48
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Shugojin posted:that wonderful feeling when your backup works perfectly and you get to watch a dumpster fire instead of being in the dumpster yourself not unrelated, our org-wide code signing cert expires in 6 hours
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The Fool posted:not unrelated, our org-wide code signing cert expires in 6 hours Here's to hoping there isn't a follow up to this later tonight.
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Aug 31, 2023 17:01
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3 of my coworkers use LastPass When told about the breach, consensus was "Happens to everyone eventually!" with a "I use really strong passwords"
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ChubbyThePhat posted:Here's to hoping there isn't a follow up to this later tonight. We ended up building and deploying an entirely new code signing workflow yesterday, and today is being spent making sure the various app teams are able to change their processes to match.
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Aug 31, 2023 18:56
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The dumpster fire I'm watching had accelerant thrown on it but it's finally finishing lol
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Shugojin posted:The dumpster fire I'm watching had accelerant thrown on it but it's finally finishing lol Put ten guys in a line and give them each a case of beer and that fire will be out in no time!
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Shugojin posted:The dumpster fire I'm watching had accelerant thrown on it but it's finally finishing lol Dedipath? https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/16696sa/dedipath_goes_out_of_business_gives_clients_less/
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pointlessone posted:Dedipath? Lumen, they've had a comically horrible (about to be 54 hours down) time fixing a fiber cut that's relevant to me
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Dandywalken posted:3 of my coworkers use LastPass Speaking of stuff like this, whatever happened with the TrueCrypt thing? It seemed like the original creators disavowed the project in a way that strongly implied it had been compromised somehow but there were investigations and no one ever really found anything?
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Shugojin posted:Lumen, they've had a comically horrible (about to be 54 hours down) time fixing a fiber cut that's relevant to me We have a Lumen circuit that has spent about 30% of the time the last two months being down. It feels like there is a excavator assigned to this particular fiber. I get so many alerts about it, I had to adjust my DND window on my phone because it kept waking me up.
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CitizenKain posted:We have a Lumen circuit that has spent about 30% of the time the last two months being down. It feels like there is a excavator assigned to this particular fiber. I get so many alerts about it, I had to adjust my DND window on my phone because it kept waking me up. It's probably just a very hungry little excavator trying to grow up to be a big and tall Killdozer! You're donations of fibre will be remembered warmly. Who knows, it might save you from the purge when Killdozer returns! Things I don't miss from a previous job: a flakey mpls link that flapped randomly every other night waking me up from alerts 
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