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People who leave a voicemail saying "Call me" or "I have a quick question." Just tell me what you want in the message, you dumbshits. You don't have to keep your message below five seconds.
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Moey posted:Looks like someone is having a meltdown..... That's amazing. What pisses me off? 1-800 numbers that can't transfer you without disconnecting you. Fffffffuck!
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Seeing the word 'Retrospect' related to backups triggers my PTSD.
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Oct 7, 2013 18:34
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The Windows 7 Explorer progress bar does that alot too, grinds away as the bar slowly fills up, and then spills into the goddamn folder window. How the hell does something like that get through QA? Something recently that pissed me off: sumbitches that use read receipts on email.
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Oct 9, 2013 03:51
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People keep turning on Outlook's junk mail filter and then wondering where all their critically important emails are going. <PLONK>
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Oct 11, 2013 16:40
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Godammit if you're going to insist on bringing your Powerbook in for me to work on bring the goddamn AC adapter. Twice in a row. Bad CEO, bad! P.S. I bought an adapter to keep at my desk.
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Oct 11, 2013 18:29
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Misogynist posted:...isn't very hard to do well if you understand your employees as people instead of data points... This is the problem with pretty much every lovely job I've ever had. It all stems from this. At the last terrible place the CIO literally said "we do not have to consider the human factor in our decisions." I thought he was kidding and said "But you have to. The human factor doesn't make your decision for you but you have to consider it or you'll get terrible results. You're managing human beings, not robots." He looked at me like I was stupid and said "No we don't." It was chilling.
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Oct 25, 2013 17:29
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Seeing Pegasus gave me flashbacks to Quickmail. 
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Oct 25, 2013 18:38
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I'm dealing with a President that demanded a color laser in his office even though there's a workgroup color laser on his assistant's desk four feet away. FOUR. He doesn't want to get his print jobs from there, she hates him so she doesn't want to bring them to him. The only space in his office is very small so I got him a Samsung that turned out to be a piece of poo poo. Now I have to get him an HP workgroup color laser and a table big enough to hold it.
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Oct 31, 2013 16:20
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TWBalls posted:Does he do a lot of printing? If not, we've good luck with Brother printers for the smaller laser printers. We have a couple of directors that have Brother Color lasers and we haven't heard a peep out of them since we set them up 2+ years ago. I had bad experiences with Brother so I'm just getting a big HP and hope that's the end of it.
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Oct 31, 2013 18:22
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CatsOnTheInternet posted:The more I read this thread, the more I realize I live in a pod. Hahaha! 
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Nov 2, 2013 16:12
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AdLib for life...  I know people hate printers, but executive assistants have to be a close second place.
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Our corporate HQ is small, about ten people. We have a much larger site in Hollywood, and now people with offices over there are coming to corporate to "work" so they can be seen by the CEO. So they are perched at counters, camped out in the conference room, constantly asking whether or not someone will be in so they can take their office, asking for AC adapters because they're too dumb to bring their own. You have offices, you fucks. I set them up for you. Now go and work in them! The icing on the cake: the CEO is on vacation for a week.
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Nov 14, 2013 17:48
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Both my boss and the CAO have told me they want me to meet with family members who are in I.T. and want to do business with us. Of course I'm not obligated just because it's my boss's brother/husband/sister-in-law, etc.
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Nov 18, 2013 19:06
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When you consider how stupidly dependent people are on their cellphones it baffles me how so many lose the loving things. People are texting and Facebooking 24 hours a goddamn day to the point where they will literally walk into traffic while doing so and still they lose them. The president asked me to order him a new one just last week, and now he's lost the current one and can't wait for the replacement to arrive on Tuesday. If it's that important keep track of it. 
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Nov 24, 2013 23:33
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Sylink posted:The Prince is a good start.  
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Nov 25, 2013 00:14
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The contractors upgrading the floor for our new HQ hacked out at least half of the Ethernet cabling! EDIT: Goddammit! 
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Nov 25, 2013 18:17
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Inspector_666 posted:Plus, they're punchdown blocks. I would rather they cut them right at the connector so that there's still enough slack in the wall to redo them if necessary. I did not post pictures of the huge piles of chopped cables. 
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rolleyes posted:Some chucklef... moro... misguided person in corporate IT has pushed out a policy to all laptop users which changes the lid close action to "Hibernate". This tempts me to change the lid close action to Shutdown. 
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Dec 4, 2013 20:54
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The contractors have been dry walling over the network jacks in the new HQ executive offices. 
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Khisanth Magus posted:
I walked through and cut a small hole with my pocket knife to indicate all the places they need to fix. At least I got to them before they did all the new offices like that. This buildout and transition has been teetering on the verge of clusterfuck for a couple of weeks. The CEO insists we have to move 12/27 and be ready Monday morning. So it's a good thing I don't have plans for Christmas!
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If anyone has ever dealt with a building management system you probably already know my pain. Large complex of buildings, ten year old system and the stupidest goddamn vendor ever. I've spent a year trying to get them to come in and complete migration to the latest version of their lovely BMS and it's still not done. The manufacturer specifies a single vendor per region so we're stuck with them, and the latest is that after loving up the SQL install on the new server they snuck back in to fix it and then quietly started upgrading PCs without telling me. This is bad because the product has crippled most of the machines they installed it on but they just kept plugging away until all of them were updated. Also you can't roll it back. All terminals must run the same version or none of them work. So the software had to be removed from the crippled machines, but their whole reason for being is to run the goddamn BMS software. Anyway... bad vendors make everything worse, and vendor lock-in with a bad vendor is the worst.
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TWBalls posted:I've posted a couple of videos of those on Facebook. Pretty neat. Better than going to the dump at least. I just watched the Ghostbusters one, grinning like a fool. If your early computer days were seasoned with the sounds of floppy drives you'll understand.
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luminalflux posted:Developers putting over 200k files in an S3 bucket, with no directory structure They're Pokemon fan art, aren't they?
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I'm getting close to the end of a major project to combine our L.A. staff in one HQ. The move is set for 12/27 and today I hear that at least a dozen of the forty people coming to this site insist on maintaining an office at their old site. Several are desktop users so it's not as simple as putting a docking station together. Also they will all require new IP phones since they're bringing their current one to the new HQ. Not sure how many executives will do the same. I know of two for certain, and as other executives catch wind of it they'll want to do it too. The icing on the cake? They won't get to keep their offices at the old site so I'll also be building out new offices and have to get one or more copiers and multiple printers to serve them. And they want it all done by the move date which obviously can't happen since demo can't even start until they move out. Fuckers.
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spog posted:Gee IT, I guess that BB 9900 stopped working, just like the BB 8900 and the 8830 before that. </Digs grimy BB Torch out of junk box.>
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:blame the Blackberry Support enough of them and you'll know this is true.
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Maybe they automatically disqualify anyone who has written more than 500 lines of code from applying. Do they count DOS batch files? 
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When we took over this floor I found a dirty old laserjet 4000tn left behind by the prior tenant. I stuck it in a corner out of the way since I don't have storage for bulky stuff. Today one of our special snowflakes demanded a printer at his cubicle instead of using the $600 a month high speed copier I got for his department. I don't have the authority to say 'no' to pretty much anything. Guess which printer he got?
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That's what reams of paper are for.
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:Helpdesk? Yeah, I need someone over here right away, my monitor is out of paper. THIS IS AFFECTING PRODUCTION. I'm going to have to stage an intervention for this guy: 
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I use Filemaker for my inventory. I have a table for employees that includes position and location, and entries tagged with their name appear in that table. So I can look at a piece of hardware (Laptop, cellphone, etc.) and see in the notes who used it, or look at an employee and see what's assigned to them. Makes it easier to generate reports based on user, location, hardware type, account number and so on.
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The HR VP just approved $8,000 in monitor arms. Some of them are $480 bucks!
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A person who has made themselves curiously unreachable scheduled an a/v vendor to work on a holiday so guess who had to drop everything to come in? There are reasons I dislike pretty much everyone everywhere now.
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tomapot posted:But your spoon is too big to get to the bottom, and I wind up feeling gipped. This is a common problem. 
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We aren't going to get taken out by an asteroid or global warming, we will be nickel and dimed to death by the inexorable spread of paying for every single aspect of one's life. If we're still walking in twenty years expect to pay more to walk on the shady side of the loving street.
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GOOCHY posted:I really felt this way at my last gig. The cure was to get up and out of there. Find a new job. There are a lot of the same problems and a whole batch of new ones (DoD contracting, red tape...) at my new job but the change of scenery is refreshing. Sometimes you just need to shake up your reality a little bit. IT is not my passion, it never will be, but it's the only thing I know and the only skill I have that can pay me the way that it does. I'm 47 and due to always working in small shops and never once having a mentor I have far fewer tech skills than the rest of you. My only real strengths are: 1. I can manage I.T., including upper management and vendors 2. I have been around a long time and I've seen pretty much everything 3. I look younger than I am There's no way out for me and staying current is close to impossible now. My workload went from very low to very high over a six month period so there's no time for anything other than my task list. So this is it until I can't get an I.T. job that pays my bills, at which point I'll... no idea.
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Auditors are the worst houseguests. They're multiplying, they leave crap everywhere and they keep touching my technology. Even having them on a VLAN makes me feel like I need a handi-wipe for my network switch.
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For reasons even the VP of HR was unable to explain we now have an ADP/Kronos timeclock for our handful of hourly people. Apparently they thought their PCs took too long to boot up so they could clock in via the website, so instead of telling them to come in early enough to do so was too much trouble. And to get things started off right HR has already lost the maintenance keycard so I can't complete the install.
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rolleyes posted:Yeah sorry but gently caress turning up early to compensate for a clock in system reliant on PCs which take ages to start up. The PCs are all current and boot up quickly. The staff are showing up late (or returning late from breaks) and blaming the late clock in on the PC. So I guess they'll get what they want: a very strict timekeeper. I used to work at a call center so I hate digital sweatshops. No one should care about minor variances in clock in times. That said something else is pissing me off: supporting this ancient legacy system piece of poo poo:  I've dug through the batch files and found references to using Sidekick if you don't have enough memory for the program.
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