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flosofl posted:
Sounds like a person I work with. Also sounds like my abnormal psych textbook's list of symptoms for narcissistic personality disorder.
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luminalflux posted:Pissing me off: No espresso coffee. We've got normal coffee but that doesn't work well in the espresso machine. I'm staring down the barrel of a day without caffeine send ha;lp We have coffee makers but no coffee. Or paper cups, plates, or utensils. There was literally a building wide email saying these things would no longer be provided due to hard economic times. This was immediately followed by an email proudly proclaiming record revenue and new government contacts awarded.
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Sep 10, 2014 15:17
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Sickening posted:They have a people employed whose sole job is to get people to commit security violations? I am pretty sure that sounds like an annoying place to work. It's common in places where security actually matters. A lot of major US defense contractors get hit by serious, no-poo poo probable state actor hacking attempts literally daily. Any place that requires a clearance is likely to have a honeypot squad.
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Sep 19, 2014 15:22
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Sickening posted:Except you add the human element and the thing that looks so good on paper suddenly can be headache. Its probably my twisted view on things because I lack basically any respect for security concentrated jobs due to me never actually working with one that was remotely competent. I am looking forward to the day where I do though. Out of curiosity, what industry do you work in?
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Sep 19, 2014 15:43
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slightpirate posted:anyone know how to take data from an excel document and auto populate fields in a .pdf file without manually copy/pasting them repeatedly? Xlsx files are actually renamed zips containing a bunch of XML. There are tons of libraries for reading from them. You can also do it with built-in stuff in .Net. If you meant "... without writing code" then idk.
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Sep 23, 2014 20:52
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My two bosses are in different companies. My machine has Visual FoxPro installed. My phone has FoxPro in its autocorrect dictionary.
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Sep 26, 2014 20:28
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Bigass Moth posted:Interns in my experience are relatives of the executives. Are you going to tell the cfo his son is lazy? No, but I'd tell the CFO his son hasn't completed anything assigned to him.
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Jul 18, 2015 20:24
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Bob Morales posted:Stop magically taking over the PDF association, Microsoft Edge. Quit asking if I want to try you or make you the default. I have some stuff at work that only works in Edge or IE. And some other stuff that only works in IE. I'd be quite happy about the latter receiving Edge support.
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Mar 5, 2021 21:51
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Wibla posted:drat, such a shame you won't be there for the first 2 hours of that meeting! Anything important enough to take up six loving hours is important enough to plan out ahead of time, including asking people about availability. I cannot imagine being such an rear end in a top hat that I not only demand most of a person's day, but don't even bother checking what their day actually is.
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Mar 9, 2021 19:09
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Thanks Ants posted:Even if you're starting at the beginning of someone's day, people need to take lunch at some point Thanks to my team being spread across the entire country I occasionally end up with solid meetings from ten till two. Those are easy to plan around: you either eat a late breakfast or you prepare lunch ahead of time. What's infuriating is when you have a meeting from ten to eleven and another from twelve to one, and then some shitbird tries to schedule something between the two at like 9:45. No, gently caress you, I'm not attending.
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Mar 11, 2021 15:13
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Unexpected Raw Anime posted:We have an an engineering company as a client and they use the loving MAPS that Florida State University made of water tables or whatever the gently caress ten years ago that will no longer run because they're all made in flash. I explained to this guy on the phone that it's on the university to update them or not and that there's nothing I can do for them on that end. He called back and chewed me out because the FSU people told him he could just "install an old version of firefox" and when I tried to explain that not only was this a horrible idea and I couldn't do it for him even if I wanted to, our Security Policies wouldn't allow it in the first place. He's currently telling my boss what a worthless piece of poo poo i am Is he doing that thing all the best assholes do where he talks at length about how aggrieved he is and how you couldn't help him one bit, but not actually saying exactly what happened, almost as if he knows that'd make him look dumb? Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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Mar 15, 2021 20:56
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bitterandtwisted posted:we had a townhall meeting on corporate values that I didn't realise was compulsory until after it had started so I had nothing prepared and contributed nothing. So some fucker volunteered me to do a video presentation on what we'd learned on the theme of "passionate" "I am passionate about my work. That's why I've been too busy to make a presentation."
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Mar 17, 2021 01:50
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DACK FAYDEN posted:
Yeah, that sounds like the person isn't just tech illiterate, they've never read kafka. DelphiAegis posted:Doesn't the god mode from Windows 7 also working Windows 10? That makes the settings a whole lot easier to manage as well if you really want to go that path, for home use. I am absolutely baffled that you think anyone would have a clue what you meant by "the god mode."
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Apr 8, 2021 13:56
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xzzy posted:My icon in slack is a drawing of a rat in a cage, I am actually 13 years old and think this is very funny and clever. For years my Teams icon was a nu from Chrono Trigger. Then I moved to a different team and they demanded an actual photo. I never voluntarily take pictures of myself. I actively avoid being in pictures taken by others. So now my icon is a selfie I took drunk the night after we were required to have pictures. You go down the team list and it's all nice looking portraits in dress clothes, and then me grinning maniacally, in weird lighting at a Dutch angle. I've received complements.
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Jun 2, 2021 17:41
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The Iron Rose posted:It’s really funny how quickly my position on “devs vs IT” switched once I joined the evil side. I’ve been jerked around on getting a service account for terraform for pagerduty for a month because they don’t want to give devs access to service accounts. setting aside the sheer inconsistent hilarity, it’s pure idiocy considering the alternative to putting said service account’s API key into secrets manager is making every dev an admin who needs to generate and manage their own keys. I've run into this a bunch, like IT pushing updates on multiple occasions that broke Visual Studio or one of the frameworks we rely on, then taking literally an entire day to respond to tickets. Come on, guys, you can either lock down our machines or be unresponsive. If you try both you're going to have a team of reasonably smart people devoting 100% of their faculties (because they can't do anything else constructive) to putting together shadow IT to bypass the problem. Whenever I've had a tech in my cube (in the beforetimes) to diagnose or fix poo poo he's politely ignored my desktop having two taskbars.
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Jun 18, 2021 20:00
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Sickening posted:Well, there is only so deep someone can go. Shadow IT in our world would have be groups of people using totally separate, non-managed machines on totally separate networks, with totally separate email systems. They would also have to get around talking about it in any managed system or speak in code. They would have to manage to not get caught despite C-level leaders strictly outlawing it in written policy written this calendar year. Bad news for IT people on both those points. 
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Jun 22, 2021 20:13
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:getting my boss in the same space as me is the only way I can make them pay attention to what I'm asking for. I get most of my work done in the 2h each week after a meeting with them The magical thing about being bad at multitasking is that one doesn't know how bad they're loving everything up. I've had bosses where I felt like I needed the Van Halen M&M trick to make sure I wasn't getting hosed by the boss misreading stuff and giving me bad instructions.
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Jul 29, 2021 20:46
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Mr. Fix It posted:someone at my company pegged me as a goon just for writing out "it is a mystery" and "mystery solved". i've probably got some folks suspicious because i added I might have told this story before, but I used a nu from Chrono Trigger as my avatar for ages. Then upper management decided we should all use pictures of ourselves. I just...didn't, and no one noticed until 8:30pm on a Friday an unknown number of drinks into the evening, at which point an HR puke somehow got my cell number and texted me that I needed to deal with it immediately. So my photo is a badly cropped and crooked selfie taken in bad lighting while wearing a black shirt. The entire team is subjected daily to my disembodied head leering maniacally from their teams window.
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Nov 26, 2021 15:25
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to our chat software and use that as my avatar everywhere. better sort of suspicion than if i still branded myself with the gadsden flag (forgive me, it just meant cranky and defiant and not outright fascist when i started working here)
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Bob Morales posted:My last job.... Did the vb6 project use visual FoxPro?  My first job out of college had the vb6-VSS-foxpro trifecta. At one point I complained about it and a coworker produced a book for MS Clipper and said "count your blessings." That was, uh, a long time ago but not THAT long. I wonder how many companies out there are running critical resources in DosBox on a server. There's no way it's zero.
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Nov 30, 2021 07:50
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bull3964 posted:In my experience. lol I've done it a few times. What usually happens is I get saddled with something outside of my wheelhouse for one reason or another, and I don't know enough to troubleshoot the part of the documentation that's out of date, or the server I can't talk to. I realize I'm going nowhere fast, and ask the boss who the person is who's responsible for this poo poo normally, because I'm a C# Windows dev who's being forced to gently caress with linux configs. Anyway, I email that person, but they and I don't share a common boss until like five goddamn steps up the org chart and the email gets prioritized accordingly. Then some time in the afternoon I give a status update to my boss so it doesn't look like I've taken a day-long jerk-off session, and the boss deigns to follow up my email, at which point the person I originally contacted responds to keep it from growing into an even bigger pain in the rear end. And the response is a one-liner to the effect of "that's not my job, contact _______ instead" that they could have sent hours ago but didn't. So the whole process ends with a late afternoon email that makes me look like a moron. This problem was even worse when the VPN we're required to use to get at the dev environment blocked Outlook and Teams, meaning you could work OR communicate, but not both.
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Bob Morales posted:I could swear I read an article on The Atlantic about why you shouldn't The primary purpose of those articles is to make people anxious and insecure so they come back for more advice. None of that piddly poo poo matters in a way that can inform your actions.
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Jan 24, 2022 21:46
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My, like, second assignment as a professional programmer blew up a demo that my boss's boss was giving to the client, his boss, and his boss. The error entirely corrupted the data. It turned out the bug I introduced was the result of bad info from my boss, and I had receipts. But until I figured that out I wanted to die. My entire career up to that point was like two and a half weeks.
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May 11, 2022 21:16
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tango alpha delta posted:This is a classic CYA move. Just lean into it because it might help you down the line. It's also a way to signal to your boss you're taking something seriously if they've abruptly decided something is an emergency. Unless the contents of the email are pissy or I knew I hosed up, I wouldn't read it as anything directed at me.
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May 27, 2022 02:20
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SlowBloke posted:EU is likely to finally ratify the maligned DMA act, along with DSA( https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news...ine-environment ). The first is to let anyone get in into every core service from apple/google/facebook/whatever it counts as big tech, meaning that theoretically steam/apple app store/etc. cannot no longer hold their monopolies. DSA is something i've never heard until now, it makes every law concerning sale of real products and services apply to the web, meaning that if any weird law from the last century blocking whatever applies to your web firm, you are hosed and you need it to kill it yesterday. Does this mean there could potentially be an Android iMessage client?
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Jul 6, 2022 21:19
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Sirotan posted:The worst part about Windows 11 is their refusal to allow you to have text labels on your taskbar icons, or to have separate tabs/icons when you have multiple windows open for the same application. Yes I know its because they redeveloped the taskbar from the ground up blah blah blah, it's not a loving dock and I don't want to have to click an icon to get back to one of my multiple browser windows. I'll believe it's coming when I see it on my machine. How long did it take to release their half baked tabbed explorer that still doesn't let you drag tabs between windows etc?
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Jun 28, 2023 22:24
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Arquinsiel posted:... Why?? That's just such a weird thing to do. It's a little like going through an essay and removing all the paragraph breaks. Of course, some goons post like that...
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Jul 25, 2023 20:44
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Agrikk posted:Finally got around to trying Windows 11 on my laptop and I already hate it. I mean yeah, it's a spiffy new look and they've replaced the spinning dots on the startup screen with a solid line but I don't mind copy/paste being icons, but the icon bar moving to the other end of the context menu depending on where you right clicked is maddening.
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Aug 28, 2023 21:14
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Our ticketing system has text rendering issues in Firefox that reliably makes "clicked" look like "dicked."
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Oct 4, 2023 18:15
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Cyks posted:They all say that. That one's code for "the devs and testers all use chrome and no one with the power to force the issue gives a poo poo." I've been on teams like that, typically as the only Firefox user. 
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Nov 6, 2023 21:15
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The Fool posted:SMART goals are obnoxious but easy enough to bullshit I have this personality quirk where I absolutely cannot bullshit things like that. It takes forever because the entire thing is such a stupid waste of time for a job where I work on dev tickets I'm assigned. My one and only goal is to complete tickets. What the gently caress else goal could I have? So everything I come up with sounds jokey and/or passive aggressive. Now I'm at a job that just doesn't do performance reviews. It's great.
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Nov 28, 2023 23:46
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Che Delilas posted:You and I both know that they would make the meetings anyway, the agendas would just be indecipherable messes. "Agenda: TBD"
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Dec 21, 2023 23:31
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bull3964 posted:... Europe literally has laws that say employers can't do certain things even though they own the machines. It's that simple. The software being able to access anyone's data is irrelevant until access actually occurs. The courts and follow-up legislation deal with the particulars of special cases like software making automated disciplinary or pay raise decisions based on info the law deems private. Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Dec 30, 2023 |
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Dec 30, 2023 07:01
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BaseballPCHiker posted:15+ years ago at my first helpdesk job my boss would take every single call in an effort to appear busy and to flirt with and harass women sales people. He often bought poo poo if they flirted back! Any idea where he is now? Because I see great things in his future.
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Mar 12, 2024 23:25
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Would it surprise you to learn he was a morbidly obese man in his 60’s? He died probably 10 years ago if I recall correctly. Thank you for giving me closure.
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Combat Pretzel posted:I hope this person gets hit by a meteorite. 
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The Fool posted:it's this It's absolutely this. Newbies gravitate toward the people who they can get a good read on, who seem safe, even if they're not the ideal place to get an answer. They especially avoid people who send mixed signals, like insisting they're happy to help then giving monosyllable answers hours late; who unpredictably loop extra people into email chains; or who aren't reliably discreet about "is the boss serious about [policy]" type questions. Basically, newbies coming to you with questions outside of your area is a complement, indicating you treat them like fellow humans, and give off vibes of having a healthy perspective and not being a corporate bootlicker. You can repel them by adjusting your vibes. Orrrr you can cultivate those relationships and leverage them as a personal spy network, or to serve as fake managers if a later position wants boss references but your boss was an rear end in a top hat or whatever.
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