HalloKitty posted:

Eugenics isn't actually a bad idea though, just one people find hard to sympathise with.

Bobulus posted:

The Information Security Officer at the university I work for seems to be trying something new with passwords this year.


I'm hoping it actually deal a blow to the password!123 type passwords.

EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:

We check our user's passwords about one a year, shaming the ones that have weak passwords and holding a draw for a gift cards for the ones that we can't break.

Their passwords all still suck but this stops the worst of them.

tehloki posted:

Drug tests are why I will never move to the states for work. It seems so weird and draconian and arbitrary. "Yeah, we like you alright, and there's nothing to complain about in your performance, we'd just like to have an arbitrary excuse to fire you for some reason."

kensei posted:

offer letter came in. Do I let current job attempt to match or just out?

Negromancer posted:

I am kinda curious with how drug testing is going to change now that weed is legal in washington. Granted I have not had to take a test in years, and the last one had a lot of lead time("we are going to drug test everyone in 1 month, please make sure you can pass it") and that was only due to a new customers regulations and it was only a saliva test(least invasive, shortest detection period).

Swink posted:

Buy the company for 4.7 billion. Sell the patents to Microsoft and Google for 5 billion!

sfwarlock posted:

So it's written into the employee handbook at work that they can do random bag checks. That number came up, oh, about nine days ago. Apparently the drone who went through my laptop bag found "drug paraphernalia" and reported it.

They've been vacillating on what to do about it this long, apparently. You all get three guesses what the horrible sinful druggie gear they found was.

vvv Nope, not needles.
Also no vape, no pills, and... uh... Dave's not here, man.

QPZIL posted:

It really impressed me when a question just makes so little sense that it leaves me speechless.

"Hey yeah, QPZIL, my name is John User and I work at the Suchandsuch Recreation Center front desk right now. I feel like the next logical step career wise would be to get a job as a programmer - someone told me I should look into Microsoft Outlook, could you give me some advice?"

FKF posted:

Thanks - that's from my lovely users, helpful bunch that they are.

It's slightly less silly than it seems, all the equipment was originally sitting on a table below the cabinet, but the table needed to be moved so the carpet could be replaced or something. Users being users, and terrified of unplugging things, decided it would be safer to suspend everything from the ceiling. They then sent us the picture so we could approve that it was 'alright'. Much laughing.

Lum posted:

I'm just wondering what's so inherently ugly about crotchless knickers?

Ursine Asylum posted:

If you think the "point" of crotchless underwear is to be clothing, I think someone glossed over something in your sex ed class

deimos posted:

This is not always the case. Eight bits is an octet.

Prosthetic_Mind posted:

If we're getting into programming chat I learned pretty much exclusively on Java and I'm feeling the pain in moving to C++ right now. All the pointer stuff throws me off, but I think I'm getting the hang of memory management.

It would help if I wasn't working on a labyrinthine codebase written mostly by one guy whose coding style involved writing no comments, giving functions ambiguous names and overloading them with code that either does something completely different or is the exact same code from the function of the same name copied and pasted. Variable names are almost exclusively the type that the variable is of.

anthonypants posted:

A user reported that e-mails to outside users this morning were never received. This user then tested with delivery receipts, and they didn't even get delivery receipts. If you assumed this might be because e-mails are getting held up by our Barracuda appliance or the Exchange server, you'd be wrong! Here's what our Exchange admin had to say to the user:

Lum posted:

Since there's like only two women in the entire division, one of whom is me, then short of a mass layoff they might be afraid to get rid of me, especially since no-one else knows how to do my stuff and it brings in money.

Dick Trauma posted:

: Get yourself one of those 13" Macbook Pros. Load it up.

This had been a pretty lousy day, right up until that point. It was surreal. I got the middle of the line 13" with 16 gigs of RAM, 256 meg SSD. I couldn't bring myself to get the top of the line. It was just too weird.

GreenNight posted:

Then have them rename it to .001 or something. Blocking exe files should be mandatory.

rolleyes posted:

Is it an American custom to include small change in greetings cards? That just seems... weird.

Dick Trauma posted:

There's now a worse peripheral to support than printers or Blackberrys...

anthonypants posted:

DrAlexanderTobacco posted:

Best way to handle that would be to call the client, sort out whatever poo poo is happening, and send an email to the helpdesk outlining the proper procedure. Then when it happens again, just forward them that email and state you're not contacting until any form of basic troubleshooting has been applied. Then, get reamed out because you already set a precedent and why did you do it for that other guy and not this guy? You're not very customer focused DrAlexanderTobacco, and this is a high visibility issue, and this kind of activity will go on your next review.

nitrogen posted:

This is unironically the best browser advert ever. I am deadly serious. That's really well done.

J posted:

Between this and the 10,000 cameras pointed at menus in 1080p project this thread has been pretty loving great lately I must say.

Casull posted:

Today I learned that you can sell out of coupon codes, WTF.

SamDabbers posted:

My coworker and I just finished migrating file and VPN services to a new server we built for a client, and a couple emails came in:



Something's wrong here. This can't be right.

guppy posted:

I share the horror, but lookit, it's not like those people needed the video to teach them. They've been doing that poo poo for years.

Paladine_PSoT posted:

Also, for the love of god ask to see their server room. That will quickly tell you their give-a-poo poo level.

If the interviews are going well, turn the tables on them and start asking about processes, policies, discuss what you think about them without coming off as a knowitall or condescending. Make sure the place is a good fit for you.

The Electronaut posted:

I'm not even thirty and I'm a big "gently caress that" to stupid on call and work loading bs. I'm leaving my current gig in a week to make forty percent more and no on call with a narrow defined job.

Sirotan posted:

I'd like to take them away from people for good but the head of 'facilities' is the decider on this one and he either doesn't care or doesn't have enough of a spine to deal with the incredible amount of bitching he would have to put up with this one group of employees who act like whiny spoiled children and need to have their offices at 90 degrees year-round.