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blackswordca posted:I am.. Im just rewriting my resume which is more IT focuses to be more general. But I am gunning for it. Let's be honest here; if the position was blowing sailors at the docks for £6/hr, I think most people would recommend you took it instead of staying where you are. Good luck
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SubjectVerbObject posted:I spent some time dealing with Avaya yesterday. Avaya does the other thing I hate. Even choice point, every hold message, every option urges you to go to their support site and enter your ticket on the web, even going so far as to say that web tickets are handled faster. The fun thing is that Avaya's business is pretty much dependent on large call centers, so it's ironic that they are not wanting you to use the phone. It always continues to amaze me that BT and T-Mobile (UK) have such shite phone support for exactly these reasons.
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Aug 27, 2013 16:43
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Lum posted:I grew up with a BBC Micro, and later an Atari ST. Also owned a NES and a SNES. hosed up my thumbs playing too much Mario Kart to the point that using a game pad for too long still hurts. You're going to love this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIb8JdoWF00
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Sep 3, 2013 17:52
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Shukaro posted:This poo poo is evil and holy hell it's ingenious. Bloody hell, that is nasty. Am I being thick, or doesn't MSE have a list of malware/viruses that the current definition protects against? I can't tell if I am safe or not.
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Sep 17, 2013 22:22
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Dudley posted:They're not any less illegal if the employer is American, British employment law would still apply to Lum. From what I read on these forums, UK employment law would make an American HRs head explode. thought hey are far from perfect, they don't treat employees as disposable assets that it is easier to dump than the contents of a wastebin
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syncbackfree is very powerful and seems to run pretty fast for me
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Oct 6, 2013 22:24
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rolleyes posted:When you get right down to it, what exactly is the liability? A Hostile Work Environment. If employees view material that causes offense to another employee and management tacitly allows this to continue, the second employee could leave and sue for constructive dismal, claiming that it was a hostile work environment. Blocking pron sites is an easy way to protect the employers.
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Oct 18, 2013 12:45
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Lum posted:Wait, you don't detach your car keys from the rest of your keyring when lending your car? I wouldn't trust a coworker with my keyring, let alone my car.
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Oct 24, 2013 18:23
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Agrikk posted:GEt this: I looked him up on our org chart and he's listed as "IT Infrastructure Architect". How is that possible? It's like a farmer not knowing which end of the cow milk comes out of.
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Oct 28, 2013 22:48
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SEKCobra posted:All that's going in there is lube. Or so you'd hope. I admire your optimism.
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Oct 31, 2013 08:53
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Volmarias posted:This just encourages it, or suggests it to people who never considered that it could be a viable strategy. There's neither tongue nor cheek in this video, which suggests to people that it's OK. Nah, I am not sure I agree with you. I bet every single person who's been in that situation (new guy gets a shinier toy) has considered one of two strategies: 1) break the old one and ask for a new replacement 2) bitch and moan and whine to the IT dept, get a senior boss involved, until they are given a new one. Personally, I'd say encouraging them to do 1 instead of 2 is an advantage.
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Nov 25, 2013 15:59
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Varkk posted:I know that feeling I just spent ~45 minutes trying to figure out why a printer was not recognising a new toner cartridge had been installed. I removed and reinserted the cartridge, cleaned all of the electrical contacts between cartridge/drum and drum/printer. restarted the printer etc. Turned out the issue was my boss had shipped them the wrong toner. Toner had same physical size, same contacts and same insertion method, only difference is the toner has a 3500 page capacity compared with the 2000 which it should be using. I guess my problem is I look for the technical solution and sometimes forget that things don't work because someone messed up. I don't think you can feel bad about being screwed over by a fundamental design flaw.
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Dec 13, 2013 15:17
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fivre posted:A call came. 30 minutes of heavy breathing while customer slowly did everything themselves and I basically did nothing. One of those calls I hope got QAed so a bunch of managers were stuck sitting around listening to it. Do you work for a phone sex company?
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Jan 10, 2014 08:30
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rolleyes posted:I'm amazed the bridge is still open to be honest! For further benefit of the American audience: the main difference between the Severn Bridge and the gates of Mordor is that Sauron didn't charge £4.99 to enter.
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rolleyes posted:It's also notable that you only get charged to enter Wales - leaving is free! That's because anyone entering Wales will feel compelled to spend all their money on the local culture1, entertainment2 and business opportunities3 and so have nothing left for the tolls. 1 None 2 None 3 None
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Feb 15, 2014 17:00
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HalloKitty posted:Depends what you class as entertainment. Are you going to make that 'what do you call a sheep tied to a lampost in Swansea?' joke?
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Feb 15, 2014 17:15
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DrAlexanderTobacco posted:To sum up, quiet room is a terrible terrible term for a place for new mothers to lactate in privacy. I wouldn't blame the chap who refused to leave the room unless the mother explicity said what the purpose of the room (Or what she wanted to do) is for. On the plus side, the idea of a 'quiet room' in the absolute face-value definition is a great one. When I am running the world, my MegaCorp will have empty rooms on every floor so that staff can get a break from the phones, and incessant chattering of colleagues.
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Feb 20, 2014 14:29
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I'm currently sitting around the house, scratching my testicles for a week as if I don't take it by the month-end, I lose it. Incidentally, one of my best investmnets of the year was to buy a personal phone, so I can leave the work phone on a shelf. Even the benefits of completely-free calls are outweighed by my inability to stop myself from reading work-related emails whenever they come in.
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Mar 11, 2014 23:07
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GreenNight posted:We don't throw away keyboards, so I end up cleaning between keys with rubbing alcohol. Good times. I've run them through the company dishwasher and they come up lovely.
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Apr 15, 2014 20:10
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Collateral Damage posted:A fireproof document safe is usually rated to keep the inner temperature below 180C for a period of time, which is the temperature where paper starts to char. It won't keep magnetic media safe though. Wait, what? I've been keeping my backup HDD in a fireproof safe in case of fire. Is this useless?
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Apr 16, 2014 09:46
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Collateral Damage posted:Depends on the rating of the safe. It should be printed somewhere, probably on the inside of the door. There are basically two ratings, P and D (or DIS for some manufacturers) for paper and data respectively, prefixed by a number. A rating like 60P means the safe is designed to keep the inside temperature below 180C for 60 minutes. D rated safes are much beefier. quote:Class 350 I can't find a definite answer, but I am getting the feeling that the 350-1hr rating on my safe means that my HDDs and flash backup are not protected against fire. Bugger.
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Renegret posted:Sounds like someone did lawyer up! Or killed their family pet and burnt down the house.
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May 11, 2014 17:33
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DrAlexanderTobacco posted:Are there any UK chaps here who've had experiences with drug testing? My understanding is that it's a lot more prevalent in the US, but I've only worked at 2 companies since leaving school so Worker's rights here say that you can't fire someone for things that they do in their free time if it doesn't directly affect your work. So, you can snort coke, drink drive and beat your wife at the weekend, but your are sober/clean/non-aggressive from 9-5, you can't be fired. As these tests can't state exactly when you took the drugs, they can't be used for disciplinary reasons.
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blackswordca posted:
I'm going to suggest that part of your first pay packet goes on buying something nice for your fiancee. Although I don't think you've mentioned it, there's no way you could have coped with all that crap without someone to support you at home. And I am really happy for you and your change: you deserve it.
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May 30, 2014 09:10
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Entropic posted:Are McAfee and Norton still in business at this point solely because they have bundling deals with the big PC manufacturers? It's sure as poo poo not due to the quality of their products.
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MisterOblivious posted:A coworker was fired and he came back a few hours later with a duffle bag. That was a fun half hour while the cops sorted things out. I guess that is a difference between the US and the UK: In the US, you have a genuine fear of the improbable, but possible chance, that the disgruntled ex-employee might turn up with an AK47 and go on a shooting-spree. Whereas in the UK, we have a fear of the ex-employee turning up and conversation being very awkward. I am not sure which is worse.
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Modern technology can work well, sometimes: I was trouble-shooting my posh coffee machine with Philips via an online chat. He was able to give me a link to a web page showing a potential solution to the problem. Quick and easy. Because it was via chat, I felt I was able to walk to the kitchen, try the solution, come back and report - without feeling guilty about making him wait 4 mins between each interaction. and the really fancy part: I took a video clip of the machine running, uploaded it to youtube and sent him the link: so he could clearly see the problem for himself. Almost like Teamviewer for domestic goods. Quite slick, really.
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Jun 26, 2014 10:49
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tehfeer posted:It was a secure room however 3 users had access to it to store some of their sensitive documents. Before we went virtual they had many of their departmental servers in that room. They dealt with the day to day operation and management of those servers. What it comes down to is it was not just a random new employee who walked up and pulled the hard drives out. I'm kind of curious as to what happened to the employee? I would ask what kind of person wanders up to a piece of obviously high-tech, obviously important and obviously in-use, piece of equipment and pulls not one, but two parts of it out, just to see what happens. But we all know the answer to that and probably have seen it happen far too many times.
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Daylen Drazzi posted:Fiber is usually used for SIPRnet workstations, while copper is used for NIPRnet workstations. We have our CSA come around once a month with a tape measure to make sure that no single piece of SIPRnet equipment lies within 20 inches of anything hooked up to the unclassified network. And yes, mice and keyboards are included. But, IIRC correctly, they don't have a problem with the CD drives. After all, everyone likes to listen to Lady Gaga's greatest hits.
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Jun 30, 2014 16:24
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CaptainJuan posted:He died doing what he loved. Getting mangled in an internal combustion engine?
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Swink posted:I once saw my CEO stuck in the Maccas drive through with a flat tire. CEOs don't count as they aren't people.
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tango alpha delta posted:He wouldn't let me touch his computer because I might see the confidential data. You know, the stuff that,by that time, was already in the public domain. So, no wipe and reimage. Worse, his boss backed him up, saying that the Director couldn't afford to be down for even a minute. Idiots. You've at least revoked his access to your company network?
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President Ark posted:Too late, we already have it. How many toppings are you going to bake into the lid?
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Sickening posted:Pet piss I would assume. Come on: you've been here long enough to know that is a naive assumption.
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orange sky posted:Holy poo poo, this is ridiculous.
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Aug 19, 2014 15:48
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Billy the Mountain posted:This is 3 years of backups for 5 servers for a loving LAW FIRM. Did it do a secure wipe, or just blow away the partition table?
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Vicas posted:"In order to help the government save face..." I love the statement that their welding repairs were safe because the president has a welding certificate.
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Billy the Mountain posted:The decision to tell the client or not was made way above my head, and for me to blow the whistle would result in my immediate termination. I got one kid with a second on the way, and I know for a fact I will not find another job doing what I do and making what I make. Imagine that I posted some kind of 'holy poo poo' macro or gif here. Because, just wow.
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Thanks Ants posted:I think the whole point of those appliances is that they backup to the cloud, and that's the contract that was cancelled. So an appliance failure shouldn't be a problem. You'd think that if they were sensible, the cloud company would keep the backups safe for a while, even if the contract were cancelled. Same way that some alarm companies will respond to alarm calls from closed contracts in case it turns out to be a cock-up on their part that the contract got cancelled and they get sued if they fail to response and Something Bad happens.
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Crowley posted:Use robocpoy you pleb. Keepass Does everything you want, plus more: (generators, phone versions, portable version)
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