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Sheep posted:If you think you've got it bad, consider this: my predecessor was the CEO's wife. Our sister company was audited by the main government agency in charge of Mining and Energy. I have limited knowledge of how it was operated but it ended with all management abilities was taken away from us. We essentially were relegated to just being contract laborers. I cannot explain it properly. But anyway, the CEOs sister in law which was part of the initial problem was rehired by the government in the exact same position. All the safety breeches that happened under her guidance in the last few years has me kinda scared as my house is inside the 'killzone' radius if the plant explodes. Humphreys fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Oct 30, 2016 |
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Humphreys posted:Our sister company was audited by the main government agency in charge of Mining and Energy. I have limited knowledge of how it was operated but it ended with all management abilities was taken away from us. We essentially were relegated to just being contract laborers. I cannot explain it properly. But anyway, the CEOs sister in law which was part of the initial problem was rehired by the government in the exact same position. All the safety breeches that happened under her guidance in the last few years has me kinda scared as my house is inside the 'killzone' radius if the plant explodes. ![]()
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Humphreys posted:Our sister company was audited by the main government agency in charge of Mining and Energy. I have limited knowledge of how it was operated but it ended with all management abilities was taken away from us. We essentially were relegated to just being contract laborers. I cannot explain it properly. But anyway, the CEOs sister in law which was part of the initial problem was rehired by the government in the exact same position. All the safety breeches that happened under her guidance in the last few years has me kinda scared as my house is inside the 'killzone' radius if the plant explodes. That seems like something you should report to that government agency. And/or move as far away as goddamn possible. ![]()
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Bigass Moth posted:Move
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Agrikk posted:What the hell? Why is the security guy asking for this? We roll an internal 30 day base AMI on top of the one provided by AWS. I've offered to help this guy refine his script to be actually useful before but never heard anything back. You'd think if they were worried about this they'd send out the e-mail bi-weekly or monthy right? Nope, this "security" guy just runs a script he found on the internet somewhere whenever he remembers it as far as I can tell and then lobs it over the fence to us. The script isn't in any of our repos that I can find and he won't give me the code which makes me think it is a total shitshow he stole off github or something. Edit: remembered something that was pissing me off. Our company sells contact center software based in THE CLOUD that has it's own chat, video, etc. We're getting acquired in a merger right now and the word from on high is we're abandoning our own product to move back to Lync. ![]() Virigoth fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Oct 30, 2016 |
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I wish I wasn't doing this job answering rote questions for idiots who know just enough to be dangerous, or the loving retards who think they know more than me yet are calling me for help. Came to post this. It's an old complaint anyway but it also never seems to die. I have so many ones I could bitch about but my most trying ones have to do with cables. I am install support for guys upgrading store hardware and installing/porting voip phones. We work at night and are the only line of support for these guys because our boss is too afraid to wake anybody up. I'm so tired of arguing with these techs though about cables. Yes, reason your T1, switch, router, printer, phone, terminal, etc. isn't working is likely a cable because we've tested everything else. The two most common ones are: "but it came out of the bag" or "I didn't run it" And the "we" part is where the quote comes in. Do I seriously have to walk all of you through how to troubleshoot basic hardware every time? Your printer has 3 parts you deal with - printer, terminal and cable. Obviously it has to be the programming even though these are all configured identically and you haven't tested anything other than plugging it up. Now that I've checked for you since you have to have that done first, can I go back to dealing with these 20 misconfigured routers and the phone calls from other idiots? Of course not. I have to order you to swap stuff around to test those 3 parts. Ugato fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Oct 30, 2016 |
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Bob Morales posted:We have a web form that all managers are supposed to use for new hires. Tells us the name, department, what permissions they need, blah blah. Let's get this shitshow started! This new intern shows up today (Monday, month end for the accounting department, her boss isn't here, everyone is dressed up for halloween and they'll be loving off for a potluck for 2 hours today) Where do they want her to sit? Not any of the places they said she would in the email. They want to put her at the receptionist's desk who isn't here on Mondays or Fridays (but she remotes from home) so she is going to flip the gently caress out when she finds out someone is at her desk/PC. Also she's going to get pissed off when she comes back to work on Tuesday and finds out someone has been sitting in her chair. She has a note taped on the chair that says "do not adjust this chair". Every time she comes in after not being here the day before she walks around the office interrogating people trying to find out who "touched her chair"
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"I know I pay you for your knowledge and expertise but also let me convince you I also know everything even though I'm the reason it doesn't work in the first place."
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Bob Morales posted:Let's get this shitshow started! Just out of curiosity; is that a special chiropractic/ergonomic chair for her back, or is she just crazy-obsessive over it?
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Just out of curiosity; is that a special chiropractic/ergonomic chair for her back, or is she just crazy-obsessive over it? Why not both?
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We're moving into some temporary space for our group while they finish renovations on our building. Today when people started showing up around 7 nobody could get into the building because our key fobs weren't authorized. Luckily they showed up at 9am to let everyone in and promised to fix it.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Just out of curiosity; is that a special chiropractic/ergonomic chair for her back, or is she just crazy-obsessive over it? Just some stupid office chair. Nothing special about it.
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I had a super comfortable chair at my first job, that thing was just so great to sit in. Periodically someone would try to steal it and I'd have to go track it down and steal it back when that person left their desk.
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Khisanth Magus posted:I had a super comfortable chair at my first job, that thing was just so great to sit in. Periodically someone would try to steal it and I'd have to go track it down and steal it back when that person left their desk.
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Collateral Damage posted:We solved that problem by giving everyone equally lovely chairs here. I'm honestly not sure where that chair came from. Everyone else had equally lovely chairs, but for some reason when I started this extremely comfortable one was at my desk.
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quote:She has a note taped on the chair that says "do not adjust this chair". Every time she comes in after not being here the day before she walks around the office interrogating people trying to find out who "touched her chair" That would absolutely compel me to gently caress with that chair at every opportunity
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tactlessbastard posted:That would absolutely compel me to gently caress with that chair at every opportunity ![]()
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tactlessbastard posted:That would absolutely compel me to gently caress with that chair at every opportunity Until you get caught and canned for creating a hostile work environment. In my experience the type of people who would think they need to put post-it notes on chairs are very good at playing the system and do not hesitate at all to go nuclear given the opportunity.
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If you create a page break in a Word template by pressing the return key a lot, then you are Hitler.
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Thanks Ants posted:If you create a page break in a Word template by pressing the return key a lot, then you are Hitler. If you create an indent in a Word template by pressing the space bar a lot, then you are Goring.
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Humphreys posted:Our sister company was audited by the main government agency in charge of Mining and Energy. I have limited knowledge of how it was operated but it ended with all management abilities was taken away from us. We essentially were relegated to just being contract laborers. I cannot explain it properly. But anyway, the CEOs sister in law which was part of the initial problem was rehired by the government in the exact same position. All the safety breeches that happened under her guidance in the last few years has me kinda scared as my house is inside the 'killzone' radius if the plant explodes. ![]()
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Thanks Ants posted:If you create a page break in a Word template by pressing the return key a lot, then you are Hitler. I actually twitched. How loving hard is Ctrl+Enter for people to grasp.
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D34THROW posted:I actually twitched. How loving hard is Ctrl+Enter for people to grasp. I didn't even know that was an option. I don't do anything in word that I would need a page though.
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D34THROW posted:I actually twitched. How loving hard is Ctrl+Enter for people to grasp. ![]()
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Che Delilas posted:Sure, there are design positions. User Experience (often abbreviated UX) Designer is probably what you're looking for. I'm a dev so I don't really know much about the tools they use but a very cursory glance at job postings shows me things like Photoshop, Illustrator and Visio. Stuff you can use to sketch out both user interface layouts and a user's path through a hypothetical program, I imagine. Previous page, but I have been in the role of Lead UI/UX Designer & Front End Developer for about the last 10 years and this is exactly how it goes. While in some places the Lead Designer is god, for the most part their designs are taken as templates/guidelines and the end product is rarely what you put together. I've spent the last year designing this very in-depth and very business logic heavy system for some medical boards and the UI designs I submitted for how it would all work and function to be understandable by literally anyone were thrown out because the client didn't like the colors. Although not all clients are this crazy, the vast majority of them are when it comes to government / medical stuff which is like 70% of our business.
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D34THROW posted:I actually twitched. How loving hard is Ctrl+Enter for people to grasp. I think he wanted an actual Page Break instead of a bunch of new lines, unless that was ![]()
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Polio Vax Scene posted:I think he wanted an actual Page Break instead of a bunch of new lines, unless that was Ctrl+Enter does put in an actual page break though? I hit Ctrl+Enter in a blank document and I get a new page and can type on the first page without offsetting the first line on the new page... EDIT: Is is just Word 2013 that does that? D34THROW fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Oct 31, 2016 |
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xzzy posted:Until you get caught and canned for creating a hostile work environment. TO: Manager CC: HRDEPT; CEO; OSHA; STATE WORKERS RIGHTS DEPT; PRESIDENT OBAMA Sub: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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D34THROW posted:Ctrl+Enter does put in an actual page break though? I hit Ctrl+Enter in a blank document and I get a new page and can type on the first page without offsetting the first line on the new page... That's been a feature in Word for at least 15 years.
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Put the chair on a desk.
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D34THROW posted:Ctrl+Enter does put in an actual page break though? I hit Ctrl+Enter in a blank document and I get a new page and can type on the first page without offsetting the first line on the new page... Whoops, I was thinking of Shift+Enter. My bad.
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I'm a bit late for printer chat, but in the past 365 days we've printed 307,000 pages. Count for the top 4 users: 33,000, 29,000, 23,000, and 10,000. The top faculty member routinely prints 50-100 copies of webpages to hand out to his classes. I suggested that in addition to the stern talk they're going to get from management, we give the top few offenders a potted seedling for each tree worth of paper they used this year.
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I guess I should rag less on my boss for printing out a single email once a month to walk over to my desk and asking me to clarify something in said email.
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xzzy posted:I guess I should rag less on my boss for printing out a single email once a month to walk over to my desk and asking me to clarify something in said email. I've done that so that I can talk to my boss about it with the email in front of both of us
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spog posted:If you create an indent in anything by pressing the space bar a lot, then you are Goring. FTFY. Tabs exist for a reason, and it applies just as well to code as documents. Computer sees one indent, the user sees however large of indentation as they want, everyone's happy. Someone who prefers two space indents and someone who prefers eight space indents can both have what they want without any risk of conflicts.
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wolrah posted:FTFY. Tabs exist for a reason, and it applies just as well to code as documents. Computer sees one indent, the user sees however large of indentation as they want, everyone's happy. Someone who prefers two space indents and someone who prefers eight space indents can both have what they want without any risk of conflicts. ![]()
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