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Done. Ticket closed. (seriously though, good luck and I know you'll knock it out of the park!)
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A Frosty Witch posted:It's education so we get paid monthly. Pay periods run from 20th-20th and timecards are due the Friday before the next 20th. I just missed this pay period so I have to wait till we get paid on the next one, which is February 1st. It's wild but that's the public sector for you.
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Dec 19, 2023 22:17
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It's like paying a month rent up front.
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Dec 19, 2023 22:24
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Fill your bag with Panera leftovers.
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Dec 19, 2023 23:19
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A Frosty Witch posted:I marched down to HR and threw an absolute "do you know who I am" tantrum until they gave me an email address. "do you know who I am?" "No, Ma'am you're not in our system. Who are you again?"
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Dec 20, 2023 02:07
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:"do you know who I am?" 
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Dec 20, 2023 02:46
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An email came in from one of the contractors we work for, a happy holidays message with a broken message body. Except it was addressed to a different company than ours. And the header showed that the to: field included a a couple hundred addresses… And then my phone starts pinging. And pinging. I think they meant to send 200 individualized emails to 1 recipient each and instead sent 200 individualized emails to 200 recipients each. e: “stop sending this!” Reply-all count currently stands at 3, no “stop replying-all!” reply-all yet, but I give it an hour.
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Dec 20, 2023 03:02
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A Frosty Witch posted:It's education so we get paid monthly. Pay periods run from 20th-20th and timecards are due the Friday before the next 20th. I just missed this pay period so I have to wait till we get paid on the next one, which is February 1st. It's wild but that's the public sector for you. As someone who’s done education jobs before, if you make enough of a fit you can probably get an off cycle check cut.
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Dec 20, 2023 03:45
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Raymond T. Racing posted:As someone who’s done education jobs before, if you make enough of a fit you can probably get an off cycle check cut. There's specifically a form I can fill out to do just this and I'll definitely be making some noise cause 6 weeks of no pay after moving across the country for a job with no relocation assistance after 6 months of unemployment is a bit of a tall order for anyone.
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Dec 20, 2023 04:44
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It's time for a feel-good story. I've had a reasonably old Fortigate 50E dropping packets like mad in one direction which once I figured out what to type into Google seems to be a really common hardware failure mode. Opened a ticket with Fortinet late last night and then phoned in today to push to try and get the RMA before Christmas, it was approved right away and within 30 minutes I had all the details of the replacement shipment, which is an upgrade to a 60F. 10/10 would buy again, Thanks Fortinet. Thortinet.
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Dec 20, 2023 11:58
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A Frosty Witch posted:There's specifically a form I can fill out to do just this and I'll definitely be making some noise cause 6 weeks of no pay after moving across the country for a job with no relocation assistance after 6 months of unemployment is a bit of a tall order for anyone. yeah, [county we both get paid by] do their payroll between the 12th and the 18th each month so you just missed it. I wish you luck finding the right people in Finance (ie people who aren't already off on winter break) to cut you a check before 1/2!
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Dec 20, 2023 15:09
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Raymond T. Racing posted:As someone who’s done education jobs before, if you make enough of a fit you can probably get an off cycle check cut. Yep, had to do this for an emergency funeral trip a week and a half after I transitioned jobs. Supplemental check cut within hours of talking to my manager.
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Dec 20, 2023 15:54
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After the regime change 4 months ago, someone who was once my peer (albeit in another field) is now my manager. I've since learned that they are absolutely not a good manager. I'm being judged on how many hours I keep my face glued to my screen every day, instead of how well I do my job. Normally I am away from my screen every WFH Tuesday for an hour after lunch to run a personal errand, this has never been a problem. They've decided to make it their personal vendetta and give me a deadline of 'Christmas' to stop doing this and 'be available for coming into the office, or else'. Their managent style is so oppressive, unreasonable and unexpected, that I'm back to being scared of clicking their emails in my inbox, for fear of it being bad news (and it has, consistently). I want to bring this up to upper management, but they're unavailable until January. It's honestly so demoralizing that I've switched my LI profile to 'looking for work', while I write the first few drafts of my email to the boss and trying to find ways to ask them in polite terms to ask my manager to loving stop giving me stress ulcers.
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Dec 20, 2023 16:09
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That's a prime opportunity to drop "if you would like to renegotiate my contract to take the additiona expenses into account then I'm sure we can bring it up with grandboss" into the email and watch it magically stop being a problem.
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Dec 20, 2023 18:42
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I'm working on setting up a Buffalo and it backs memories of old stories.
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Dec 27, 2023 18:52
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Thanks Microsoft, but I really don't need this level of precision on someone's OneDrive usage report
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Dec 27, 2023 21:52
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I'm most impressed they managed to use 0.0000005 bytes.
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Dec 27, 2023 22:06
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Only a partial zero or one.
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Dec 27, 2023 22:07
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Warmer sounding analogue storage
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Dec 27, 2023 22:08
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Doing floating point math in Javascript, smh Amateur hour for decades
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Dec 28, 2023 03:36
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The backend is a rack of old Pentiums.
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Dec 28, 2023 15:36
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A promotion came in - moving from government helldesk to government cybersecurity in a few weeks, just waiting for someone to start in 2 weeks to backfill me. No paperwork signed yet, hoping I can negotiate a pay bump.
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Isepic posted:The backend is a rack of old Pentiums. Single-socket P5's with the floating-point bug in ATX mid-towers
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An insanity came in. Backstory, client we took on last year that is an absolute clusterfuck (a few small companies slammed into one slightly larger small company). One of these now business units runs an ancient AD infrastructure managed by a real dinguswaffle of an MSP - we took one look and said get rid of all this immediately and shift to Azure, it doesn't even reach the status of security "hole" because there is effectively no security whatsoever due to insane boneheaded AD configurations. They said "uh huh uh huh sure, right, but what if we followed none of your recommendations and made no changes whatsoever? OK great!" So at this point we're kind of just going along for the ride and collecting the checks until they fire us - everything is terrible and broken but they don't want to change any of it so .....not much we can do. Anyway, a ticket about not finding Quickbooks on the remote desktop server came in:  Yep, that sure is a DC you've logged into there my friend. Turns out when some MSP moron adds "Domain Users" to "Domain Admins", and then you, idiot user, put "DOMAIN\username" as the server address for your RDP connection, that resolves as expected to a DC which says you want to RDP in? Let's see - oh, yep, you're a domain admin so no problem, here you go!  (also "top" marks for eyesearing BGinfo design, I mean what the gently caress)
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Jan 11, 2024 01:28
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Sorry, DC, Backup AND, Terminal Server? Is this their only server?
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Arquinsiel posted:Sorry, DC, Backup AND, Terminal Server? Is this their only server? Nope! These are all VMs on one or two physical hosts. Basically there's always more and it's always worse, which is why after 15 minutes of looking at this domain setup we said "no. just no. There is no point fixing any of this, it's so hosed up we will never be confident we undid all the bad stuff and in 2023 you should be moving to Azure/Intune anyway". Lemme just say it again, Domain Users is added to Domain Admins.
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Jan 11, 2024 02:18
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lol a dot local
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Thanks Ants posted:lol a dot local I remember something in like 2011? Or so with Microsoft going "hey, stop using .local and just use .com or net" and our AD team going "that sounds silly, then we'd have to manage slightly more DNS entries." Anyway, its 2024 and guess what is still around.
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Wait why does domain\username resolve to a DC hostname - does it truncate at the slash? That would be a dumb failure mode instead of displaying an error message
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if you enter domain\user in the hostname field it will interpret domain as a netbios host name which I think will be whatever DC is serving your dns
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The Fool posted:if you enter domain\user in the hostname field it will interpret domain as a netbios host name which I think will be whatever DC is serving your dns Yeah, pinging the domain name will generally get you a return ping from the domain controller (assuming ping is open). So much of this setup reminds me of why I was more than happy to leave complex AD configurating in the past where it belongs. Like, I could try and unfuck it, but why bother when a solution exists that doesn't rely on Sonicwall VPN for remote users to access infrastructure, or external systems to tie into identity? (and that they're half paying for anyway because they have Office 365 app licenses?)
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A giant clusterfuck is about to happen at my job. Multiple senior-level programmers leaving together due to recent very bad management. It's going to be fun to see if it's triggered or not. Good thing I've already put out some feelers in LinkedIn. 
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SyNack Sassimov posted:Nope! These are all VMs on one or two physical hosts. Like, are they going for security through confusion, expecting that someone who pops the box will just end up thinking it's so obviously hosed as to be a trap?
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It will be one piece of software didn't work as a standard user 15 years ago so everybody is an admin now
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SyNack Sassimov posted:(also "top" marks for eyesearing BGinfo design, I mean what the gently caress)
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Knormal posted:I didn't even know BGinfo could be made to look like a Geocities site. That’s the draw. I just wish I could embed a midi.
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yeah, eye searing bginfo screens are the pro strat
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Thanks Ants posted:It will be one piece of software didn't work as a standard user 15 years ago so everybody is an admin now Yeah I mean I have not delved farther into it because it is quite literally not worth my time to troubleshoot any of this horror, but while I don't have any actual evidence, given the interactions we've had with this MSP so far, it's absolutely because "fuckshit, gently caress, this doesn't work, uhhhhhhhhh.....gently caress....uhhhhhh..........hey what if I make them all domain admins OK phew it works problem solved hey everyone I fixed it!" As far as worst AD setups I've seen in my career it's pretty close between this one and the one at a tool manufacturer that you've all heard of (sells at Home Depot/Lowes) where there were five domain controllers and three of them were simply missing (were no longer physically in existence), and of these three non-existent DCs two held all the FSMO roles, and the remaining active domain controllers were Windows Server 2000. (This was in 2018. They were also both physical boxes and I'm pretty sure one of them was a Compaq). edit to add:  , thinking back on that (also my reaction at the time)
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My favorite so far has been a server 2008 DC thats also a CA! Yes it is still in production....
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