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Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

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Can't NOT read it in the voice

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A Frosty Witch
Apr 21, 2005

I was just looking at it and I suddenly got this urge to get inside. No, not just an urge - more than that. It was my destiny to be here; in the box.

mllaneza posted:

No, I'm not waiting on hold for 90 minutes to be told what I can read on their status page. No, my calling in to report the outage won't make them fix it faster, they started waking VPs up at 3am."

This was always the most infuriating part of working in IT. The largest telecom company in the world does not give a poo poo about a small business in rural Alabama, please stop trying to get me to bully them into fixing their multi-million dollar outage faster.

GreenNight
Feb 19, 2006
Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

A Frosty Witch posted:

This was always the most infuriating part of working in IT. The largest telecom company in the world does not give a poo poo about a small business in rural Alabama, please stop trying to get me to bully them into fixing their multi-million dollar outage faster.

Speaking of which, I was just in Hoover and why do they have a bomb squad?

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


A Frosty Witch posted:

This was always the most infuriating part of working in IT. The largest telecom company in the world does not give a poo poo about a small business in rural Alabama, please stop trying to get me to bully them into fixing their multi-million dollar outage faster.

Karens always think they get better/faster service if the complain more loudly to people who not only can't do anything about the problem, but also don't give a poo poo. And are certain to note who the Karens are and go out of their way to make their experience miserable next time.
They just never figure out why they have sub-par experiences.

SixFigureSandwich
Oct 30, 2004
Exciting Lemon

Shugojin posted:

someone got autocorrected and now the first ticket i see when i start the day is "monitoring devices connected to my wife" and i cannot stop laughing at it

Makes perfect sense in the context of a maternity ward tbh

MF_James
May 8, 2008
I CANNOT HANDLE BEING CALLED OUT ON MY DUMBASS OPINIONS ABOUT ANTI-VIRUS AND SECURITY. I REALLY LIKE TO THINK THAT I KNOW THINGS HERE

INSTEAD I AM GOING TO WHINE ABOUT IT IN OTHER THREADS SO MY OPINION CAN FEEL VALIDATED IN AN ECHO CHAMBER I LIKE

GreenNight posted:

At this job that I’ve been at for 1.5 years, every single site we have - all 3 of them have gone down because accounting doesn’t pay the internet bill.

oh hey, we have 7 sites and in the 9 months I've been here we've paid staggering amounts of overages because apparently monthly internet bills are hard to pay (I'm talking 10s of thousands of dollars in late fees), our person that pays these bills is possibly the most disorganized person on earth

sfwarlock
Aug 11, 2007

TWBalls posted:

Does this place not have any security cameras (I assume not if people are just pilfering from others desks)? Was your co-worker in the dark about this, because why the gently caress would they just give out a customized laptop like that? And hell yes I'd be naming names, because goddamn, I've worked fast food with more trustworthy people.

We do not have internal security cameras except the one in the corridor outside the storage rooms and the one in the lobby. (And the one inside the server room that I set up, but don't tell HR about that one.) Everything else is outside.

And yes, cow orker was in the dark and the laptop for NewHire is externally the same as our standard. Honest mistake on his part.

Meanwhile the plot has not just thickened, it has positively gelatinized.

The new wireless keyboard for NewHire arrived yesterday and was deployed that afternoon. I joked with the minion that we may want to get a cable lock to attach it to the desk.

This morning, I'm over in the area and I note with some concern that the keyboard is not at the desk. I move on and do the things I'm there to do when a few minutes later I hear "What exactly do you mean: 'not again'?!" come from a nearby conference room. Out come Newhire and his boss and they walk to the bathroom.

Yeah.

Heavy suspicion is on a person we will call Sam Suspect, who was one of the internal contenders for the role before they headhunted NewGuy, and the only reason they haven't hauled him before HR yet is according to his boss, he left work early yesterday for a dental appt and is out sick today dealing with the aftermath.

Kurieg
Jul 19, 2012

RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20
:blizz::gamefreak:
Did no one go into that bathroom after he left yesterday? And what dental appointments do you go to that you're laid out the day after? He's probably laying low hoping he evades suspicion.

ChubbyThePhat
Dec 22, 2006

Who nico nico needs anyone else
You work in an episode of Community.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


ChubbyThePhat posted:

You work in an episode of Community.

That sums it up right there.

Fil5000
Jun 23, 2003

HOLD ON GUYS I'M POSTING ABOUT INTERNET ROBOTS

ChubbyThePhat posted:

You work in an episode of Community.

Greendale's IT department is more functional than this.

Hughmoris
Apr 21, 2007
Let's go to the abyss!

Fil5000 posted:

Greendale's IT department is more functional than this.

They did have an exceptional porn blocker.

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

sfwarlock posted:

"What exactly do you mean: 'not again'?!"

:lol:

Fil5000
Jun 23, 2003

HOLD ON GUYS I'M POSTING ABOUT INTERNET ROBOTS

Hughmoris posted:

They did have an exceptional porn blocker.

It was a shame about that spatial distortion that happened when Frankie Dart showed up but still

The Mattybee
Sep 15, 2007

despair.

Kurieg posted:

And what dental appointments do you go to that you're laid out the day after?

I had several teeth removed and with the amount of work they had to do and the weird way my teeth were positioned I was out for days

It's weird but it can happen!

Weedle
May 31, 2006




Kurieg posted:

Did no one go into that bathroom after he left yesterday? And what dental appointments do you go to that you're laid out the day after? He's probably laying low hoping he evades suspicion.

when i got my wisdom teeth out i had to take like three days off because i kept barfing up my painkillers. our bodies betray us constantly

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


I had a few days off for wisdom teeth as well because they did four in one go under general anaesthetic. The days off are mainly so you can come back nicely from the anaesthetic, and watch what you're eating because they scare you shitless about dry socket.

Arquinsiel
Jun 1, 2006

"There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

God Bless Margaret Thatcher
God Bless England
RIP My Iron Lady
Just before I turned 18 I went in for a filling in a tooth, the dentist noticed a pinhole in my rear-most lower molar, x-rayed it, learned it was hollow. About 30 minutes into trying to pull it I heard a sharp crack noise and assumed it was out. It was not. It had shattered and he then had to use a scaplel to peel back my gums enough to pull out each root individually. It took another three hours to get it done. I was out of school for a full week because of how loopy the painkillers made me.

A Frosty Witch
Apr 21, 2005

I was just looking at it and I suddenly got this urge to get inside. No, not just an urge - more than that. It was my destiny to be here; in the box.

Arquinsiel posted:

Just before I turned 18 I went in for a filling in a tooth, the dentist noticed a pinhole in my rear-most lower molar, x-rayed it, learned it was hollow. About 30 minutes into trying to pull it I heard a sharp crack noise and assumed it was out. It was not. It had shattered and he then had to use a scaplel to peel back my gums enough to pull out each root individually. It took another three hours to get it done. I was out of school for a full week because of how loopy the painkillers made me.

I need to quit reading spoiler text ew ew ew

Guy Axlerod
Dec 29, 2008
Did said drugs lead you to piss on your keyboard?

Wibla
Feb 16, 2011

A Frosty Witch posted:

I need to quit reading spoiler text ew ew ew

Not empty quoting.

I was out of work for a couple of days after a wisdom tooth removal. That poo poo loving sucked.

AlexDeGruven
Jun 29, 2007

Watch me pull my dongle out of this tiny box


The dentist thing could be legit. I had to have an emergency root canal a few years ago and that had me in rough shape for a solid 2 days.

If it's a basic cleaning or filling and they're using it as an excuse, then lol gently caress that guy.

"I'm gonna take this USB out of a random server for 'security'" got shitcanned already, right? Seems like a similar cognitive capacity

sfwarlock
Aug 11, 2007

AlexDeGruven posted:

The dentist thing could be legit. I had to have an emergency root canal a few years ago and that had me in rough shape for a solid 2 days.

If it's a basic cleaning or filling and they're using it as an excuse, then lol gently caress that guy.

"I'm gonna take this USB out of a random server for 'security'" got shitcanned already, right? Seems like a similar cognitive capacity

I mean, it's HIPAA, I don't think HR is even allowed to ask. If they have a nice dentist who'll write them a nice three-day weekend note...

Meanwhile, I'm sure you mean an unauthorized USB Mass Storage Device ("thumbdrive") and yeah. I don't work there anymore, let alone him...

sfwarlock fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Mar 9, 2024

Arquinsiel
Jun 1, 2006

"There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

God Bless Margaret Thatcher
God Bless England
RIP My Iron Lady

Guy Axlerod posted:

Did said drugs lead you to piss on your keyboard?
I don't remember replacing a keyboard at the time, so probably not. I can't be sure though.

Internet Explorer
Jun 1, 2005





Thanks Ants posted:

I had a few days off for wisdom teeth as well because they did four in one go under general anaesthetic. The days off are mainly so you can come back nicely from the anaesthetic, and watch what you're eating because they scare you shitless about dry socket.

I got my wisdom teeth removed when I was in high school, general anesthesia as well. 2 days later I was playing soccer and went up for a header. Not my brightest moment.

AlexDeGruven
Jun 29, 2007

Watch me pull my dongle out of this tiny box


sfwarlock posted:

I mean, it's HIPAA, I don't think HR is even allowed to ask. If they have a nice dentist who'll write them a nice three-day weekend note...

Meanwhile, I'm sure you mean an unauthorized USB Mass Storage Device ("thumbdrive") and yeah. I don't work there anymore, let alone him...

Yeah, I'm not saying anyone should challenge them on it, just that the dentist to days off pathway can be a real thing.

TITTIEKISSER69
Mar 19, 2005

SAVE THE BEES
PLANT MORE TREES
CLEAN THE SEAS
KISS TITTIESS




ChubbyThePhat posted:

You work in an episode of Community.

I just started watching Community recently (way late, I know). Tonight I saw the "Annie's Pen" episode, kinda reminded me of this ongoing saga a bit.

Fil5000
Jun 23, 2003

HOLD ON GUYS I'M POSTING ABOUT INTERNET ROBOTS

TITTIEKISSER69 posted:

I just started watching Community recently (way late, I know). Tonight I saw the "Annie's Pen" episode, kinda reminded me of this ongoing saga a bit.

So you're saying a ghost took the keyboard?

Jaded Burnout
Jul 10, 2004


Subject line of an email I received today

quote:

Fwd: FW: [EXT] Out of Office - Annual Leave RE: [EXT] RE: [EXT] Re: SFTP server criteria

The SFTP details were wrong.

Jaded Burnout fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Mar 11, 2024

johnny park
Sep 15, 2009

Just got an 8:43 AM Monday morning ticket from a user "following up" on a request they made at 5:33 PM Friday evening. It hasn't even been a single business minute yet, Janet. Relax

Guy Axlerod
Dec 29, 2008
Same, but submitted at 5 am my time. Wasn't even the user who submitted the request following up, but some helpdesk person asking when I'd approve it.

AlexDeGruven
Jun 29, 2007

Watch me pull my dongle out of this tiny box


My favorite is when I'm oncall and people will send me stuff in Teams off-hours, then wonder why I don't respond.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


sfwarlock posted:

I mean, it's HIPAA, I don't think HR is even allowed to ask. If they have a nice dentist who'll write them a nice three-day weekend note...

Meanwhile, I'm sure you mean an unauthorized USB Mass Storage Device ("thumbdrive") and yeah. I don't work there anymore, let alone him...

Thank you for that trip down memory lane (the link cleverly hidden as a period.)
And it was neat to see Dirt Road Junglist’s art again.

sfwarlock
Aug 11, 2007
It is a good art.

Meanwhile the coda to all this: he will be 100% work from home for the foreseeable future.

Kurieg
Jul 19, 2012

RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20
:blizz::gamefreak:

sfwarlock posted:

It is a good art.

Meanwhile the coda to all this: he will be 100% work from home for the foreseeable future.

the new hire or the dentist guy?

sfwarlock
Aug 11, 2007

Kurieg posted:

the new hire or the dentist guy?

The new hire, and I only know because I got the ticket to change his stuff in inventory from building/floor/cube to wfh/longterm.

Dentist appt guy ... shrug.

Entropic
Feb 21, 2007

patriarchy sucks
Several dozen calls came in this morning...

Apparently all of the Avaya phone systems we support came with 10 years of DST time changes pre-programmed into them. No one ever bothered to really look at this, because why would you? 10 years is basically forever.
That 10 years started counting on 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzDqvxiEZ4k

Kyrosiris
May 24, 2006

You try to be happy when everyone is summoning you everywhere to "be their friend".



sfwarlock posted:

The new hire, and I only know because I got the ticket to change his stuff in inventory from building/floor/cube to wfh/longterm.

Dentist appt guy ... shrug.

Honestly that sounds like the best outcome to me. Still get your requested gear, but don't have to work in the office with a bunch of literal children.

Arquinsiel
Jun 1, 2006

"There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

God Bless Margaret Thatcher
God Bless England
RIP My Iron Lady

Entropic posted:

Several dozen calls came in this morning...

Apparently all of the Avaya phone systems we support came with 10 years of DST time changes pre-programmed into them. No one ever bothered to really look at this, because why would you? 10 years is basically forever.
That 10 years started counting on 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzDqvxiEZ4k
You made the mistake of not moving on before the first of your traps went off.

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Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


sfwarlock posted:

The new hire, and I only know because I got the ticket to change his stuff in inventory from building/floor/cube to wfh/longterm.

Dentist appt guy ... shrug.

Guess he/his boss decided being in general population wasn't a good idea with the lunatics you have loose in your office.

Kyrosiris posted:

Honestly that sounds like the best outcome to me. Still get your requested gear, but don't have to work in the office with a bunch of literal children.

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