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Captain Yossarian posted:Reading laptop stories: My work sent me a brand new laptop, unprompted, well over two years ago now and never said anything about it then, doesn't know about it now, and my old laptop works fine. Kinda want to just "make it disappear" into my collection When I first started at my current company my boss had a secret laptop someone had forgotten to reclaim after a refresh. When someone like me who came in from outside the company joined he could hand it over for a few days until we had our own computer. It was a good system. It looks like now when you get a refresh they simply lock out the old model associated with your account, as I found out when I had been given a refresh during COVID but couldn't move files from my old laptop to the new one because the old one simply stopped running the second I logged into the new one. Really dumb idea, it also turned out that some of the older laptops can't even communicate with the newer systems, so you end up losing EVERYTHING when getting a new unit. Thankfully, I was switching computers and jobs at the same time, so I didn't lose any important files.
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Shithouse Dave posted:My personal MacBook (that I was using for my few admin tasks at work) died about a year into my job here. They gave me one of the boss’ old ones. The battery doesn’t function at all, it must be plugged in at all times. We have an immensely bloated google sheet tracking all our brews, with a tab for every single one (413 tabs as of current), and this thing will barely load it. I spend about half an hour cumulative per day just waiting for this one spreadsheet to chug into existence. The H key only works sometimes. Drop it or drop something on it or drop it in a tank. Be creative
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deep dish peat moss posted:The job I have now is the first job I've ever had like this and it weirds me out. There's almost nothing for me to do most of the time and they really don't care that I just sit around shitposting on the internet or whatever with the rest of my time. I'm not measured on literally anything beyond "are you available when we need you?". I have ~30-45 minutes of tasks to do in the morning and then the rest of the day I pretty much just answer the phone 3 or 4 times, and none of those calls have ever lasted more than 2 minutes because it's literally just someone saying "Hey I need you to figure out schedules for [xyz] because [so and so] called out." or something, and I say "okay I'll do that" then spend a minute doing it. And the best part is it's a not-for-profit organization that doesn't outsource anything except IT so I'll probably never get cut. I’m in the exact same position, I’ve been here three months and have had a few days of being busy but mostly I just work on school stuff. All my previous jobs I’ve been constantly busy and had to justify all the work I was doing with closed tickets or items out the door. The real dumb part is that despite the lack of work they decided to hire not one but two people to help me. I was explaining to the other guy who started last week that I hardly do anything. I guess the other guy starts next week and I can have the same conversation with them. I’ve got two classes left for school and while I’m tempted to ride this gravy train for a while the pay ceiling is lower than if I tried getting a different job after getting the degree
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We had a bad helpdesk in our IT dept at a previous job. They had zero troubleshooting or even critical thinking skills. Little things they'd do would irk me like one of them would search for things on the internet by going to the address bar, typing in https://www.yahoo.com and then searching from there. We told her you can just type what you're searching for in the bar without going to "www.yahoo.com" first every time. She said no, she preferred that method. I dunno... Anyway, my brother worked there with me in IT as well and once decided to test their incompetence. He put in a request to have the cheese removed from the cheese and crackers in the hospital's vending machines. The helpdesk staff saw it, put it into a ticket for us, and sent it over to my group which was desktop support at the time. Again, IT helpdesk was so braindead that they processed a request for desktop support to remove cheese from vending machine products without thinking twice about it. My brother tested them a few times, after that. He'd put in weird things like how he wanted IT to address a clogged toilet or whatever and, every time, helpdesk would put the emailed request into our ticket system and forward it to my group.
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Catastrophe posted:We had a bad helpdesk in our IT dept at a previous job. They had zero troubleshooting or even critical thinking skills. Little things they'd do would irk me like one of them would search for things on the internet by going to the address bar, typing in https://www.yahoo.com and then searching from there. We told her you can just type what you're searching for in the bar without going to "www.yahoo.com" first every time. She said no, she preferred that method. I dunno... To be fair, they were just as relevant a request to the helpdesk as they were to your team? I can't blame them for taking the "when in doubt, pass it along and escalate" route. I assume they also were not being paid enough to think independently.
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Volmarias posted:To be fair, they were just as relevant a request to the helpdesk as they were to your team? I can't blame them for taking the "when in doubt, pass it along and escalate" route. Nah, it was a tech-only IT helpdesk. It was for when the network's down, surgery room monitor malfunctioning, ICU x-ray viewing station not booting, etc. Not cheese and crackers.
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Feb 27, 2024 06:11
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Volmarias posted:To be fair, they were just as relevant a request to the helpdesk as they were to your team? I can't blame them for taking the "when in doubt, pass it along and escalate" route. Effort very much is commiserate with pay.
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Feb 27, 2024 06:12
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My work is having everyone fill out a 'completely anonymous' survey about how we think things are going and what could be improved. If it was completely anonymous, they wouldn't ask my age or gender or my specific department, right? Good thing I'm in a union factory.
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Feb 27, 2024 06:30
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Shithouse Dave posted:The H key only works sometimes. Nobody wonders why you’re ordering so many pounds of ops?
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Dr.Smasher posted:My work is having everyone fill out a 'completely anonymous' survey about how we think things are going and what could be improved. If it was completely anonymous, they wouldn't ask my age or gender or my specific department, right? A lot of places do this so they can at the very least target any outcomes from the feedback to the areas or demographics where it’s most relevant, but also yeah never trust anything that says it’s completely anonymous.
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The McKinsey grift at my company continues. I have no idea at all what they are doing for us, other than providing access to their “Wave” software tool. As I am not sure I have had any interaction with anyone from that company, other than maybe someone from there giving some speech during a meeting or something. I have had multiple meetings with only internal people of mid level people (high level ICs, and low level managers) about an initiative that is tentatively going to save the company a bunch of money. But for this to have a chance of working, people will need to be hired (and trained) for something completely new, and non of the people involved have any authority to even begin the process of hiring someone. For extra fun, the money numbers are due in a couple of months for the higher ups to review (or something). But I am hearing that other initiatives have numbers that were just completely made up and guessed at. As well as there will be a ton of overlap between initiatives. So I have no idea what is supposed to actually be submitted when a savings of $X can potentially be claimed by multiple initiates that are covering similar interrelated topics. I am super glad I am only on a single one of these initiatives, and as of right now I don’t even have proper access to the software tool. I seeing as how my initiative doesn’t really have any chance of helping the business unit I work for, I just plan to keep my head down and watch it all just sputter into nothing, or implode spectacularly.
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Feb 27, 2024 17:00
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For the past six months or so, there’s been an expired pallet of cappuccino mix outside of the parts department. It may have not started out expired, but it sure is now. I can’t imagine why no one’s thrown it away yet. Is there any use for 500 pounds of expired coffee mix, mostly hazelnut but some caramel? Maybe you can feed it to pigs?
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Feb 27, 2024 20:04
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Catastrophe posted:Little things they'd do would irk me like one of them would search for things on the internet by going to the address bar, typing in https://www.yahoo.com and then searching from there. We told her you can just type what you're searching for in the bar without going to "www.yahoo.com" first every time. She said no, she preferred that method. I dunno... That one sounds pretty harmless -- at worst it takes a couple of extra seconds. We all have habits that aren't perfectly optimized, after all. Besides, I find urlbar search annoying, unless I specifically call for it with something like a quicksearch bookmark. (Thanks Chrome, I really wanted you to google "appserver4.preprod.[companyname]:8080" instead of going to that intranet page.)
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Powered Descent posted:That one sounds pretty harmless -- at worst it takes a couple of extra seconds. We all have habits that aren't perfectly optimized, after all. I understand but she'd search for websites that way. As in, she would type in "www.yahoo.com" so that she could go to Yahoo and type "facebook.com" into their search and then click on Facebook there. Instead of typing "facebook.com" into the URL bar...................... this was an IT employee.
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Catastrophe posted:I understand but she'd search for websites that way. As in, she would type in "www.yahoo.com" so that she could go to Yahoo and type "facebook.com" into their search and then click on Facebook there. Instead of typing "facebook.com" into the URL bar...................... this was an IT employee. This was years ago, but back when the Hillary is 44 forum was active back in 2007-2008 there was a user that, instead of typing in the address they would google the site and click on the link instead because she thought that would prevent THEM from knowing she went to the site. I read that post one time and it's stuck in my brain since then. It doesn't surprise me that a bunch of people have similar ideas.
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Catastrophe posted:I understand but she'd search for websites that way. As in, she would type in "www.yahoo.com" so that she could go to Yahoo and type "facebook.com" into their search and then click on Facebook there. Instead of typing "facebook.com" into the URL bar...................... this was an IT employee. ...Yeah, that's bonkers. Objection retracted. 
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Lazyfire posted:This was years ago, but back when the Hillary is 44 forum was active back in 2007-2008 there was a user that, instead of typing in the address they would google the site and click on the link instead because she thought that would prevent THEM from knowing she went to the site. I read that post one time and it's stuck in my brain since then. It doesn't surprise me that a bunch of people have similar ideas. I kind of love the stories like this where, rather than it being some inexplicable personal preference or rote learned behavior, you can see the hint of how they got there. Maybe she saw one too many episodes of Dateline where computer forensics could see the sites they “visited” and assumed it was because they typed the address. Maybe they heard some random thing a decade ago about sites monitoring what you type, or cookies, or the HTTP referer, or what HTTPS encrypts, and they worked it into their conspiratorial worldview. Who knows?
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The director of project management at my soon to be former company happened to put in his notice the day before I did, but he either gave 1 day of notice or they booted him early as he is already gone. He was here 3 months lmao
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I wish I had a director of project management. Or a project manager at all. Our project managers manage the project management tool, and our engineers act as project managers for their projects.
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Annual review invite came in. For tomorrow. At 330. Phew. It's the 430 time slot you have to be worried about. Those people are never seen again.
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Feb 28, 2024 03:28
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Maybe your boss is leaving early tomorrow.
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If that's the case, then i guess I am too.
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Shithouse Dave posted:My personal MacBook (that I was using for my few admin tasks at work) died about a year into my job here. They gave me one of the boss’ old ones. The battery doesn’t function at all, it must be plugged in at all times. We have an immensely bloated google sheet tracking all our brews, with a tab for every single one (413 tabs as of current), and this thing will barely load it. I spend about half an hour cumulative per day just waiting for this one spreadsheet to chug into existence. The H key only works sometimes.  Of all the ways of tracking brews, 413 individual spreadsheet tabs is the most ludicrous I've ever encountered. I can think of a thousand different ways that could be improved - do they not give you any control over your own brew tracking whatsoever?Also how the gently caress are you supposed to do planning/scheduling/ingredient ordering/etc. when your keyboard doesn't even fully work? Your bosses have completely hosed priorities.
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You should separate it out into 413 individual Excel files and organize them into folders arranged by first letter of the brew name. Don't do this
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Outrail posted:Don't do this Actually do this
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Save the 413 spreadsheets in your recycle bin.
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Outrail posted:You should separate it out into 413 individual Excel files and organize them into folders arranged by first letter of the brew name. Go a step further. Get 413 Chrome Books (or whatever cheap laptop/tablet), and keep one file on each. Then you can pull out the specific brew device.
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if you're responsible for documentation, always make it as arcane and confusing and awful as you can they'll still lay you off but at least it'll make things awful for them
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All my documentation is in a constructed language of which I am the only speaker.
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You gotta lay down a false trail of clues and deadends when documenting your work to throw em off
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All my company's documentation is in the heads of the people responsible for the things. Typing it out is anathema.
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Slowly going insane reading the documentation folder left behind by the mad employee Abdul Alhazred
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That is not depreciated that can be claimed on tax eternal / and with some financial years even they may be reclaimed to maximise value.
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blatman posted:if you're responsible for documentation, always make it as arcane and confusing and awful as you can I document everything in a single huge power point presentation. Yes there are animations.
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Orvin posted:Go a step further. Get 413 Chrome Books (or whatever cheap laptop/tablet), and keep one file on each. Then you can pull out the specific brew device. pulling a chromebook off the righthand side of the topmost shelf of the second bookcase like you're an ancient wizard selecting the perfect grimoire for this spell
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Physically write the brews into actual grimoires, then scan them into a 413 page Google sheets doc.
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Thesaurus posted:You gotta lay down a false trail of clues and deadends when documenting your work to throw em off I GAVE YOU ALL THE CLUES MR MANAGER
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