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Machai posted:My company has an excel file with everyone's office passwords as well as a bunch of admin login details for various systems. The file is located on a local server that can be accessed from any computer on the network. The folder it is in can only be accessed by IT AD accounts and is encrypted/password protected. We are very bad at remembering passwords and doing password recovery I guess. When I started at what is technically(*) still my current job, nobody in the R&D department had a password. When I expressed surprise at this, I was told that the entire R&D network was behind a special firewall router and it was all perfectly safe. Now, this was at HP, and we were expected to trust each other not to do stupid or evil poo poo. On the other hand, this was at HP, with everybody sitting in cubicles in a giant open plan office, and anybody could bypass that firewall by just walking up to an R&D workstation… (*) after two spin-offs and a takeover
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I will never get tired of the dichotomy of 'we need security!!' and letting everyone wander around at all time unsupervised.
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Sep 28, 2023 20:54
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SerthVarnee posted:Even Penny Arcade is starting to zero in on you Barudak I haven’t read PA in a very long time but holy poo poo what happened to the art? That looks like absolute garbage. I suppose it finally looks as hosed up as Mike does irl.
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Sep 28, 2023 20:57
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This is what happens when you make comics after visiting the Singapore dimension, obviously.
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Sep 28, 2023 20:59
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One of our vendors announced a 5% price increase. In yet another productive meeting we spent 10-15 minutes debating/wondering if this applies to the list price or our discounted price. Didn't feel like banging my head against the wall to explain that (1.05 * list)(discount) = (1.05)(list * discount)
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Sep 28, 2023 21:03
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One of my co-workers once spent half an hour on the phone to the helpdesk of a government system, resolved the issue, then right before hanging up, goes 'oh, BTW, I'm not such-and-such, I'm just using his account while he's away'. Bam. Account suspended until reapplied for. Four weeks in which she can't work on about half her job. All because she wanted to volunteer out of nowhere why there was a female voice on a male account that was identified by last name and the guy had a gender-ambiguous name anyway.
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Sep 28, 2023 21:14
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Splicer posted:*loud flashing noise* Hi Splicer it's you from the future, we need to kill the president. Slight correction, good job though. E: this may be the cause of many of my issues.
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Sep 28, 2023 22:25
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Y'all are rookies. The passwords to every vendor account, including the Corp and owners personal credit cards, are in an Excel file on the desktops of the AP manager and the finance VP. They are not locked excel files. They have emailed this file to the owners at their request who then do ????? With it. Unrelated, there was 1200 Dollars in actually fraud on one of the Corp cards and the ones told AP to just pay it because it wasnt worth the hassle to get new cards issues if we filed a fraud claim. There is no IT here. The new PCs are set up by an HR assistant who has that job because she was demoted twice for being bad at her previous roles. (AR and sales support)
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Sep 28, 2023 23:32
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HR used to do our support until we got bought out, now we have one IT guy. His job seems to exclusively consist of mandating lovely corporate spyware though.
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Sep 28, 2023 23:57
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Reoxygenation posted:I will never get tired of the dichotomy of 'we need security!!' and letting everyone wander around at all time unsupervised. ... what do you expect? Armed wardens that lead you by the shackles when you need to go to the toilet?
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Computer viking posted:... what do you expect? Armed wardens that lead you by the shackles when you need to go to the toilet?
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Sep 29, 2023 00:59
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lol I’ve just been subjected to an evening of Mandatory Fun in the form of karaoke, then one of the team went home early feeling a bit rough and has just text our outside work group with her positive Covid test oh hell yeah
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Sep 29, 2023 01:00
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History Comes Inside! posted:lol I’ve just been subjected to an evening of Mandatory Fun in the form of karaoke, then one of the team went home early feeling a bit rough and has just text our outside work group with her positive Covid test oh hell yeah I just finished an internal multi-day conference at the office and the last thing they told us during wrap was that someone who was there yesterday tested positive for COVID.
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Salami Surgeon posted:Fortunately Vendor B parts were in the box. We left them with Vendor A. Just going to scream into the void for a bit. Turns out the "correct" parts from Vendor C were just correct for a bench test. We needed different parts for the actual install. The install parts are made to order, and work doesnt start until they get a PO. Still needed to get the bench test successful first. Boss won't order the install parts until we get a success on the bench. Bench test parts arrive not working. We thought they would work out of the box, plug and play. Vendor C claims they told us they needed to be setup with proprietary software tools, despite no mention of it in any of our email correspondence, no links to the software. Jump through all the hoops to get the software through IT approval and get the vendor on the phone to setup the bench test parts. Get it working so that we can cut the PO for the install parts to arrive just in time to make our trip to the customer for install. Not in time to test before our trip, and not in time to be bundled with the rest of the parts we're shipping to the customer site. But they will be setup already by Vendor C to work out of the box, plug and play, and I have the setup tools just in case! Vendor C sends an email, "Hey we're pushing an over the air software update, also changing clouds, so you will not see the parts working until that's completed." The setup tools will not fix this. Vendor A is the key in this whole thing. We are interested in their system, but need Vendor C to access Vendor A's system for our application. Vendor A recommended to use Vendor C. When we showed up to the customer site for the install, Vendor A's field support team met us there. We had no idea they were going to be there, we had no idea they even had a field team, and I still don't know who brought them to the customer site. We ask Vendor A field team for help with getting Vendor C parts updated and working, and they turn into the black and white part of an infomercial. Great support. The rest of the install went about as well. My boss got an engineer to design a 3D printed enclosure for Vendor C parts. But he gave the engineer the bench test sample to model off of. The install part is different, so we're cutting and drilling enclosures to get them to fit. The part needs to be fixed to a bracket. Then the enclosure needs to be fixed to the bracket over the part. But electrical connections need to go through the enclosure and cannot be made after the part is put in the enclosure. Some parts we were taping in place. Some parts we were taping to brackets which were taped in place. Some poo poo we screwed in place. Some poo poo we riveted in place. When we used what and why, I haven't a clue. My boss had a plan for everything. That plan existed only in his head, and he'd only tell it to you one step at a time. If you ran into any problems with your one step, you had two choices 1. Wait until he could tell you how to adapt 2. Take initiative and do what you think is right for him to later tell you it's wrong, undo everything, redo it how he tells you how to adapt. Every Step. Somehow after the interative failure process, we'd arrive at what the experienced people had suggested in the first place just hours behind schedule. Design for assembly was an afterthought, so of course design for service wasn't even a thought. We've got fuses hiding behind brackets behind covers behind panels. Blow one of those fuckers and you've got hours of labor to replace one. We brought our own techs. We did not bring any tools. None of the customer's techs were helping us. Some customer techs were complaining that they were missing tools. This is something that chaps my rear end pretty bad. Do not touch anything in their toolboxes. Their tools do not belong to you. Those tools belong to those techs, and those techs rely on their tools. This is their livelihood. This is their life. DO NOT loving TOUCH THEIR TOOLS. gently caress. Anyway, we finished. Vendor A's poo poo works with Vendor C's parts. Parts are screwed or glued in place as best as they will be. Trial goes how it does.
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Sep 29, 2023 02:32
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Also my boss put hands on one of our techs. Unfortunately I didn't see it myself. I'd go straight to HR if I did.
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One pocket wifi on a plan for 50GB/month, shared by 20 guys in a site office in a foreign country.
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Sep 29, 2023 03:45
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Ask your boss for a raise specifically for having to deal with your boss.
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Sep 29, 2023 03:49
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Completed 2 of the 500+ hours of training I was supposed to, was asked to sign a handwritten waiver basically stating if anything bad happens I accept all blame, and was told I was good to go and to call if I run into problems or have any questions. Hope I don't kill anyone. 
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Sep 29, 2023 04:32
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As long as you don’t directly kill anyone you’re good.
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Sep 29, 2023 05:29
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What am I supposed to do, Rube Goldberg them???
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Sep 29, 2023 07:37
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We call it Singapore around here. Get with the time zone.
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Chocobo posted:Completed 2 of the 500+ hours of training I was supposed to, was asked to sign a handwritten waiver basically stating if anything bad happens I accept all blame, and was told I was good to go and to call if I run into problems or have any questions. Hope I don't kill anyone. Which regulatory body do you work for?
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Sep 29, 2023 14:03
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Chocobo posted:Completed 2 of the 500+ hours of training I was supposed to, was asked to sign a handwritten waiver basically stating if anything bad happens I accept all blame, and was told I was good to go and to call if I run into problems or have any questions. Hope I don't kill anyone. Hello Mr. President
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When I started here, my predecessor gave me her ring of keys, all of them labeled except the big square key she told me was the front door key. For the first year, I could not get either of the front doors open on the rare occasions that I was the first person at the office, until someone finally told me that the door on the right won't unlock unless you're pushing on it while you turn the key. I still have not ever been able to get the left front door open. It has been three years. It has become more and more of an issue as Scabsy comes into work later and throws a fit every single time she gets here after me and the left front door is still locked. "Maybe I should just go home, since you're locking me out." Don't threaten me with a good time. Literally no one can get that door to unlock from the inside, except for one guy whose technique is to shake the poo poo out of the door like it owes him money while turning the lock. From the outside, my key simply does not move. I try pushing the door, I try pulling the door, I try shaking the door, but I cannot unlock it. I have explained this numerous times to my skeptical coworker. Today I found out that the left front door uses a different key. That I do not have, was never given, and was never told about.
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People have been sneaking onto the shop's roof for the last few weeks, Boss wont call the police or the landlord and has just resigned herself to the possibility that they might get in through our main window. Sucks but hey if you have that little faith maybe we should move the cash box to a more secure location? Nahhh too much work, if they get in they get all our cash and needles, and all the keys to the other rooms if they want to stay and unlock all of it. She's off to a sweat lodge for the weekend and I hope they do get in after I leave, gently caress her.
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Sep 29, 2023 14:54
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I think the most impressive thing is that for 3 straight years people tried the left door in hopes that it would magically unlock. That is infinitely more impressive than the left key being missing (and possibly presumably being used by someone else to enter the building when no one else is in).
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Sep 29, 2023 14:55
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One guy could open it with the wrong key. That is a poo poo lock.
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My boss kind of had the opposite happen to her, she lost the shop keys one day years ago (she claims a customer took them and that she knows which, which means we'd have his name, address and phone number but ok) got the locks changed immediately which is actually way better and faster than I'd expect with her and then forgot at some point that they'd been changed. Every night now she retires to the hosed up room in the back to sleep and leaves her keys in her side of one of the locks so that guy can't unlock the door completely. Except it also meant no one who worked her can get in if she doesn't take them out again in the morning after her sink shower. Anyway that's over now, because about 2 months ago she locked her keys in the shop and because she refused to speak to either of us staff members over various grudges to come down with our keys she crowbarred the door open and destroyed most of the locks. She's yet to replace them and our door looks like poo poo lol
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my old boss locked his keys in his truck doing bids like monthly. one of us would pull away from the jobsite to save him, was cute his coffee table in his house was just piles of random keys to all types of trucks, mixed in with pop-alock receipts 20 Blunts fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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Sep 29, 2023 15:37
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I got halfway through the first paragraph before I realised it was a shoehead post. We should swap jobs. It'll be amazing.
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Just remembered back in 89 when I was a shift supervisor at a Pizza Hut - delivery only unit in Florida, one of the drivers tried to choke me out because he thought I was giving him the lovely deliveries and they didn't even fire the guy. That place was hosed up
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Outrail posted:I got halfway through the first paragraph before I realised it was a shoehead post. E: Im so ready to be outta here. Shoehead fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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well now I feel silly coming in hot to complain about the usual 'IT blames system issue on user error, bc obviously the whole world is stupid except the professional computer people, and then it turns out it's a problem on the IT end that could've been discovered months ago if they'd done any basic troubleshooting when it was brought up by multiple users over and over, instead of assuming the whole world is full of idiots except them' having a user-skeptical and user-critical IT department that puts the onus on users to log proof that their poo poo doesn't work, is the worst loving thing. Just check into it when you're alerted to it!!! why is your time so valuable that I need to prove to you I'm unable to do my job as needed with loving dates and timestamps!! even if it turns out to be user error in the end, at least you double-checked all the possibilities and can be sure of that! total bullshit but it's the normal kind, I don't have any bosses living on the edge, taking sink showers StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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Barudak, we're out of stuff to sell so take the day off and do whatever, oh, and Barudak, take it from me, when the cops hassle you, you just were giving the woman cab fare home.
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Hot new interview question: "describe your ideal boss"
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My company just fired one of our IT software specialists, and by "one of" I actually mean "the only one" with afaict no transfer of any of their knowledge. They couldn't even get into the person's locked desk. This'll cause no problems at all, I'm sure!
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VictualSquid posted:Hot new interview question: "describe your ideal boss" Clueless, no internet access, and thinks their tasks take months to accomplish instead of a five-minute script. Uhhhhh I mean super smart and ready to micromanage everything.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:well now I feel silly coming in hot to complain about the usual 'IT blames system issue on user error, bc obviously the whole world is stupid except the professional computer people, and then it turns out it's a problem on the IT end that could've been discovered months ago if they'd done any basic troubleshooting when it was brought up by multiple users over and over, instead of assuming the whole world is full of idiots except them' I'm 100% with you on this, IT staff that are actively hostile towards the end users for not being as good at computers as they are is loving plague. That said, there's a good chance that they're asking you for that level of proof because they are chronically under-staffed and need the initial leg work done for them or they'll drown. Cutting IT staff to the bone is a pretty common way that MBA-types find to economize on expenses.
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MattO posted:Just remembered back in 89 when I was a shift supervisor at a Pizza Hut - delivery only unit in Florida, one of the drivers tried to choke me out because he thought I was giving him the lovely deliveries and they didn't even fire the guy. That place was hosed up A few jobs back was at a place where the IT department had a running joke about calling one dude "The Blue Ash Strangler" because he ambushed one of the sys admins and put the guy in a sleeper hold until the admin started passing out. The Strangler then went about his work like nothing happened, the sys admin sat on the floor confused as to just what the gently caress happened and the CIO (Or maybe she was CTO) who saw part of this happened, just shook her head and sighed. No one were ever able to explain to me WHY he did it. Not even The Blue Ash Strangler because he was still working there when I joined and the incident had been a few years before that.
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