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Global Knowledge is a training / cert company so I wouldn't exactly trust their salary figures. FWIW I just passed the ITIL foundation certification. I only took it because it was free at the end of my training and I took the course just so I can speak the language I hear thrown around.
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# ¿ Aug 14, 2013 19:49 |
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# ¿ May 7, 2024 20:21 |
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DragonReach posted:PFE -- been one for about 7 years. I did phone support before that. PFE is definitely better. We love our SharePoint PFE, been working with us since SP2010 beta and knows all the little nuances of our environment. We buy a couple hundreds hours of his time every year along with our reactive support hours.
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# ¿ Aug 14, 2013 20:31 |
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My favorite post from the old thread is Billy the Mountain's client who killed the power on 2 floors of her building when she tried to change her toner. Can't figure out how to quote it from the old thread and get all the icons so here is the link. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3022717&pagenumber=850&perpage=40#post397229849 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3022717&pagenumber=850&perpage=40#post397231907
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2013 16:09 |
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Can we talk about documentation for a sec? I'm the poor schlub who was the last one out the door on the old intranet team. You know the server that is still running classic asp apps that were written on notepad almost 10 years ago. We went from a 5 man team to being laid off or transferred out. I wrote up as much as I could in a Word documents but most of it is just URLs and server names.
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2013 22:35 |
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Dick Trauma posted:I was on a conference call this afternoon and got cut off by Sarah McLachlan blasting out of the speaker. I said that it was like being on an award show when you talk too long and the band starts playing. No one would cop to being the culprit but after a minute or so it stopped. From two pages back but chiming in to one-up you. Some departments in my company either have Radio Disney or sappy Disney tunes for the on-hold music. Nothing like "zippity-doo-dah" blasting through a conference call.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2013 00:27 |
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Two things, one annoying and one not: - Our employee review system has a text editor so you can enter notes when you are self-reviewing or reviewing someone who reports to you. One of the font choices in the text editor, Comic Sans. I mentioned this to some of my fellow managers and said who would actually review themselves with Comic Sans. You guessed it, the guy who got fired last year after not meeting his goals for yet another year. - The group I from in January just got hit with a big layoff. I think it was 10% of their department or about a dozen people. Got out of there by the skin of my teeth and loving the new gig at corporate.
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2013 19:36 |
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:Can't say I am a fan of drinking with work related people, it usually ends badly... You mean like that one Xmas party that resulted one of the techs dancing to Dancing Queen all by himself then later on getting groped by his manager? Edit: his manager was a guy, not that there is anything wrong with that except it wasn't consensual tomapot fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Sep 13, 2013 |
# ¿ Sep 13, 2013 17:39 |
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MJP posted:An offer came in... 'sup North Jersey buddy. Not sure which direction on Route 3 you are going... who am I kidding, both east and west 3 suck off of the parkway. You either get the Passaic River bridge construction or the Route 46 merge nightmare (soon to be rebuilt also). Best thing that happened to me was starting to work for corporate at the beginning of the year, no more commute on the bus into the city and almost 100% telecommute.
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2013 21:36 |
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KillHour posted:Nope. I just found out it's for a "chain restaurant" so they can make sure their menu videos are playing correctly and switching over for breakfast/lunch. Camera talk: I was not personally involved in this project but was around when they were shopping for a solution- Our company has a few of the many electronic billboards on Times Square. We stream our content as well as headlines, commercials, sponsorships, etc. The controls for the camera are uptown in our graphics design office and they needed a way to know if / when the changes they made appeared on the signs. So they contracted with the building across the street to install a camera that they could point at our building, simple enough. The advertisers who paid for ads on our signs were concerned that perhaps they were not getting what they paid for. I think one of them were walking past and watched the rotation for 20 minutes and it didn't come up. So the sales group wanted IT to capture the feed from the camera 24/7 so that if there were any disputes with advertisers they could go back and have proof that an ad ran. They also wanted a portal that the clients could log into to view the live feed and search the history. When they saw the price tag they realized that it would blow out enough of their profits from the sale that it was not worth it.
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# ¿ Nov 11, 2013 14:28 |
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Hmmm, your custom SharePoint site is running slow for some users. What's that, they are using IE8? Let me file that in the not my problem category. Sorry if your business unit can't get off of older versions of IE and Office, take it up with them.
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# ¿ Dec 9, 2013 23:33 |
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A little late to the degree talk but wanted to chime in. Whenever I feel less-than for my HS diploma and tech school cert I remind myself that 1) I did not sink a ton of money into my education and still landed into a sweet career and 2) that my boss was a theater major and the guy I now manage was a stage magician so who the hell knows about the paths our lives take. When I YOTJ'd in January I was thrilled that it was out of a dying business unit and over to corporate even if it was a lateral move. This week I found out that I am bonus eligible, which I wasn't in my old job, and I just got a 10% bonus.
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# ¿ Dec 21, 2013 06:08 |
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Dick Trauma posted:Ladies and Gentlemen: I have arrived Might be better than the one I found, I think I heard the rattle of dice through the door.
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2013 18:53 |
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A ticket came in, from my wife. Turns out my 12 year old daughter was browsing some "inappropriate" content on our iPad. I'm probably looking at parental control software at this point since trying to talk a 12 year old into self restraint and good decision making is like talking to a wall.
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# ¿ Dec 24, 2013 06:11 |
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Beamed posted:24 million? My VP was hiring a new administrative assistant, one of his criteria was to throw out any applications that had an AOL email address.
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2014 00:53 |
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blackswordca posted:I'm out of here at 4:55 as per normal. He can't dump two or three days worth of work on me half way through the day and just demand it done. Re: A spine came in...
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# ¿ Feb 11, 2014 21:30 |
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A new tool came in: our company is replacing HP Service Manager with ServiceNow for service management (tickets, release, assets, etc). Can't be worse than Service Mangler, could it ?
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# ¿ Mar 31, 2014 15:46 |
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Broadcast cable talk: Sorry for the crappy cellphone pic. This is some of the cabling in the basement of the network broadcast facilities. The guy who gave me the tour said that instead of fixing lines they just run new ones. Eventually the weight of all the lines on top of each other crush the bottom ones and then they have to run a new set.
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2014 01:55 |
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Entropic posted:That would just make me super-interested. What do they want with them? Cold case files? At our company they could just use their security badge photos. They never update them from the day you are hired, so everyone has a full head of hair and is 20 lbs lighter.
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2014 22:20 |
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CitizenKain posted:Hell, if you have a good relationship with a vendor, give them a call and see if they are hiring. We've had a few people leave our company to work for the company that provides us our core applications, and that was just from talking to them on the phone. Sorry to hear about your troubles DT. Quoting this because we see people leave our company, which is a great company in the Fortune 100, to work for vendors as well. They'll go work for vendors or consulting firms that we work with, sort of how congressmen go into lobbying firms. Might be a good path for you to check out.
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# ¿ May 8, 2014 13:36 |
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kensei posted:On a scale of One to "Oh Dear God No," how badly do I not want to be the SharePoint Administrator? I know this is from a few pages back, but as a SharePoint service owner I'll say it depends. Is your SharePoint environment a fully funded separate service which is staffed accordingly with admin, dev, dba and support staff? Or was it cobbled together with a few servers you had laying around that started as a POC then became the production environment for 1000s of users? SharePoint done right is a good product and good career option, but if you half-rear end it you get half-rear end results and you want to stay away. Feel free to PM me if you want to chat.
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# ¿ May 9, 2014 13:16 |
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Crowley posted:Way to go blackswordca, and good luck to you too Dick. Ditto Crowley posted:
Congrats to you too! This thread is giving me the warm fuzzies today.
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# ¿ May 29, 2014 02:37 |
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An email came in from a cool user so I'll forgive her. "I know you are not involved in this anymore but I am bothering you anyway." Turns out it was an Outlook calendar issue which I was never involved in.
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2014 20:02 |
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Tailored Sauce posted:It's raining during rush hour in New Jersey, and I'm stuck on Rt 22 in traffic and at one point I nearly get into an accident. I used to live in Union, NJ - gently caress Route 22.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2014 19:43 |
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Billy the Mountain posted:I work on rt 22. I'm up in Passaic county now, but still have friends down in that area.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2014 23:45 |
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A ticket came in: Anyone of you NJ guys interested in doing some side work? I have a small business client (6 computers + server) in West Orange who needs a wireless router setup and a few maintenance items like browser popups. Bonus if you know QuickBooks (gently caress QB) which he says is slow to open. This is a friend and one of my last clients from my consulting business that I can usually take care of on the weekend when he needs help. But I'm going to be out of town and not able to get to him for a few weeks. If you are interested PM me.
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2014 13:04 |
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pr0digal posted:Working in TV is fun. Because the shows get the good budgets, not me. Tell me about it. Worst part was if some executives gambled on the wrong shows and they tanked. There goes the advertising, there goes the budget, and here come the layoffs. Except the execs, they usually hang on. Ask me about how they ran "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" into the ground.
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2014 20:07 |
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totalnewbie posted:So... how DID they run it into the ground? Wiki covers it well, but basically ABC had a hit, so they decided to put it on five nights a week. 5 nights a week of Regis Philbin was more than America could handle. When the ratings dropped ABC floundered for a few years trying to find new shows to replace it until they caught lightening in a bottle with Lost and Desperate Housewives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Wants_to_Be_a_Millionaire_(U.S._game_show)#ABC
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2014 20:44 |
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Tracking down a SQL error and came up with with the cause...DOOM. From the KB: the data provider incorrectly sets a connection to a doomed state if a response is slow
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# ¿ Oct 21, 2014 02:35 |
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spog posted:The cynic in me notices that they didn't print the card and suggests that it is a passive-aggressive complaint that you didn't solve the problem. They could have scanned it, then emailed it to him.
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# ¿ Nov 14, 2014 01:38 |
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pr0digal posted:Ticket of the month right here for me. Verbatim. Murder that happened or murder that she was planning?
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2014 00:30 |
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pr0digal posted:Murder that happened. I work in TV and she's doing research for a show. That's what I figured. Our News users used to have different internet proxy settings because they'd always be researching icky things that would never get through the regular firewall.
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2014 00:45 |
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Sirotan posted:I'll have you know, my beer cellar is well behaved enough to be left alone all day while I'm at work. We are so used to Goon in a Well stories here that Goon in a Fire seems like a natural progression.
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# ¿ Dec 9, 2014 19:30 |
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Funny name chat: came across Richard Weed in our directory. He had (Rich) in the entry, guess he was tired of being called Dick by mistake.
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# ¿ Jan 14, 2015 21:02 |
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Migishu posted:I just tell anyone I meet "I work in consulting" I use the line "I manage an enterprise-wide SharePoint service for developing custom applications, solutions and portals". Even IT people stay the gently caress away from me.
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# ¿ Jan 25, 2015 14:27 |
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spankmeister posted:I'm so sorry. I know there is a lot of SharePoint hate on here but as long as you throw enough planning, money and people at it it can be a viable solution. It has kept me in a career for many years now.
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# ¿ Jan 25, 2015 23:57 |
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duffmensch posted:It takes some getting used to, but it's ridiculously fun to work from home often (I've been remote since 2010 with no intention of going back into the office). Walking from your bedroom to the office is awesome. Been full time telecommuting for two years now. One downside is snow days, no excuse to miss work.
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# ¿ Feb 4, 2015 03:48 |
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Agrikk posted:Also, get a known traveler number from TSA. $85 for five years of express lines and minimal TSA hassle is very, very worth it. The first time I breezed through TSA security while all the regular schulbs groused in the long line paid for itself. Listen to this guy, I'm in and out of EWR (Newark) and MCO (Orlando) every other month. First time I breezed past all the families with their strollers and princess dresses I nearly cheered out loud.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2015 14:24 |
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Sham I Am posted:We were just notified that we may be required to "teach" office 2010 and 2013 classes to our users. As an alternative, I suggested some kind of computer based training for office which was well received, as long as we had physical DVD's that could be signed out by the user (yeah, really). So does anyone have a good CBT training for MS Office they can suggest so I don't have to spend hours and hours building classes for a group of people that probably don't care to learn in the first place? Not sure the size of your company but if you have Microsoft Software Assurance they include free training CBTs.
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# ¿ Mar 11, 2015 03:44 |
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I was coming here to post about my grandmother's leg of lamb and Yorkshire puddings in defense of English cooking and got rewarded with a boat load of crazy.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2015 18:45 |
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# ¿ May 7, 2024 20:21 |
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A proposition came in....quote:Those changes should get pushed shortly. I will intimate you soon as they are pushed
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