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Humphreys posted:I'll find some of the payslips. The point is that you should be getting the higher rate only on what you earn over the threshold. Earning more money over that threshold should not make you worse off, only less better off than you might have been.
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Lum posted:I do remember having internal modem on COM3 and mouse on COM1 used to cause issues. I just set it to IRQ2/9 (and yes I can remember why 2&9 are the same thing!), with the SoundBlaster on IRQ7. IRQ10 was for the third IDE controller I happened to have, since in those days having a CD burner sharing with any other device would screw things up. Didn't you also need "T4" or something in there? I'm sure mine used to have it in.
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Lum posted:Yes, you do. I wrote that post from memory rather than Googling. Apparently mine's been kept in UMB.
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We had someone reply all to an email to an entire department (around 3000 people) with "please remove me from this list", which was in turn greeted by many, many people reply all telling him not to reply all, and it looked like it would all stop when the head of said department sent a reply telling everyone to knock it off. Then some guy sent an Anchorman "that escalated quickly" meme. And immediately tried to recall it.
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Nov 29, 2013 18:03
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toe shoes posted:A holiday? It's not a holiday if you can't choose when you take it and they don't pay you.
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Dec 20, 2013 12:13
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anthonypants posted:Instead of being evasive, why not just use the number that you'd like to make at the job you're applying for It's not being evasive, it's making them start the negotiation off. As soon as you name a figure ( let's say your desired salary) they can lowball you. What happens if they were prepared to offer 200k and you say 100k? They're not going to offer you the higher figure if they don't have to.
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Jan 3, 2014 21:39
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Smoke posted:You do what happens in my company and the customer we work for and just enter something that appears to be OK. We've got coworkers with different names in different systems as a result(Scheduling, QM, AD and remote AD) I had something similar once - my name was spelled correctly everywhere, but then one senior manager started spelling my surname with an I as the final vowel instead of an A. Then other people started doing it. Then the operations team started amending official records because they thought if everyone was spelling it that way the records must have been wrong. The first I knew of that last part was getting my first payslip with the wrong name on it.
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If you DO buy a boat, call it "gently caress Printers".
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Our place introduced a requirement for emails to have one of four confidentiality levels assigned to them so those receiving them knew whether or not they were ok to forward on to external parties, whether or not they could discuss them with underlings, and so on and so forth. Naturally this meant that everyone put something into their auto signature declaring that everything they sent was the highest level so they didn't have to take any responsibility for anything they put in an email. Except our department where the guy in charge said that having it in the signature defeated the point of the policy in the first place, issued a directive that no one was to put it in their autosignature and told us all to bloody think about what we're putting into any given email and classify it if appropriate.
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Mar 29, 2014 16:56
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tomapot posted:How hard is it to put you mic on mute when you are on a Lync conference call / demo. Dude presenting has more patience than me. I was on one today where someone was loading their dishwasher in the background. Thankfully the person chairing it straight up called them out.
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dogstile posted:If anything, I could understand him going towards that, but i'm sat next to a guy with a way bushier beard than me that he's grown out while working here. He's not had anything said to him. Was it you that had the boss that had a problem with people smoking? Like, on their own time, nothing to do with work smoking?
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Sickening posted:Have you ever known a smoker that doesn't smoke while at work? The perfect world scenario of smokers keeping to their approved smoking area, not making a mess, and then not smelling like smoke afterwards is pretty slim to none. Oh yeah, I'm not claiming that smokers never ever smoke on work time, just I remember someone with a boss who was prone to sacking people if he found out they smoked, regardless of whether or not it impinged on work time.
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topenga posted:When I was at IBM we were "strongly encouraged" to use our in house social networking bullshit called Connections. This was to make you more "visible" or some such nonsense. We got connections at my last job. One of our vendors called it "Pound Land Sharepoint" when he was in giving us training. Good work, IBM, you made the generic brand equivalent of something no one really likes.
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What's the consensus on waistcoats?
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Thanks Ants posted:Every major ISP here in Huh, I signed up with Sky about 18 months ago and got their "hub" which is this thing: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/network-wifi/3420596/sky-hub-sr101-broadband-router-review/ Which I think they're still doling out. It's pretty garbage and only does 2.4ghz.
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is now on 802.11ac for their bundled routers, and some of the biggest have been handing out dual-band gear for a couple of years now. 5GHz is getting more congested every day.
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Inspector_666 posted:What the hell even is a Six Sigma desk review? A way for people to pretend they understand Six Sigma?
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Nov 11, 2014 17:30
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Sirotan posted:My company pushed out this survey to every employee. I've been nagged to complete it as tomorrow is the last day and I'm off to go and drink a shitload of beers at a Bell's. Good news! The neutral answers generally convey more dissatisfaction than the positive or negative ones. When I had to do them at my last job we were repeatedly drilled that "don't know means don't care" and that picking neutral options indicated that you were utterly disengaged and disinterested. And companies HATE that, especially when their results are being benchmarked against other companies in the field.
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jammyozzy posted:Spent a lot of the weekend doing tech support for my mum, migrating her from a prescott-era Celeron D system with 512MB of RAM that overheats so badly it's throttling the majority of the time it's running ( I did some family tech support this boxing day. My nephew was playing PC game with my eldest kid and the PC kept resetting itself. I asked if this was a regular thing and got some vague shrugs. Went and checked and the thing was running at like 5 degrees below Tj max just sat at the desktop. Opened it up and it was entirely full of dust - filling up the fans, wedged in between the fins on the CPU heatsink, basically anywhere it could be that could stop heat from escaping. Their last PC died of pretty much the same problem.
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). I've set her up with my old gaming PC from 8 years ago that still runs Office etc. perfectly well and an external HDD so all her work is finally backed up. I'm gonna get her a crashplan/backblaze sub for her birthday too. 
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Exit Strategy posted:I'm sitting at work and not allowed to be high on vicodin despite my shattered left foot, which is significantly painful. Exit Strategy posted:My favorite thing about my terminal heart condition is getting to call into work and go "Man, I've got some serious chest pain today. I'ma take some vicodin and go back to bed, mark me out as sick." Is there a difference in policy between calling out sick for your heart condition and calling out sick because your foot is broken? Because it seems like if you need the vicodin and rest that you should take them and do that.
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Maybe it was some dumb stress test to see how you reacted.
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Bob Morales posted:I saved them from lugging a 32" CRT out of the attic. Is any of this stuff by Video Arts? Because John Cleese produced management training videos are actually not too bad to sit through.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Absolutely. And good on you. This is pretty great. It's still nuts that just saying "No, because you've given me no notice" isn't a good enough answer though.
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Wibla posted:If it's stupid and it works... It ain't stupid? Just because something works doesn't mean it isn't stupid. It's like printing an email, annotating it and then faxing the annotated reply back - yes, it works, it's still dumb.
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nitrogen posted:So we have this self-serve nutromat kind of place for snacks in the hallway. Have had it for quite a while. I would have assumed: 4) Despite knowing who the offenders are, send a blanket email to everyone saying how disappointed you are that everyone is a dirty thief and therefore you will have to do 3), thereby pissing off the people who didn't do any stealing in two different ways.
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Ynglaur posted:I'm the only person I know who uses the low priority flag. I used it for a while. People seemed to reply faster when I did, because it was unusual.
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Gyshall posted:
I used to work with a guy who always worked at home, and on every single conference call you were guaranteed his home phone ringing for two minutes straight, his dog barking repeatedly or him sounding heavily out of breath because he was on the call while walking his kids to or from school.
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How on earth did that director think that was going to play out. "Surprise! You don't really have the job and that other guy thinks he has it too! Now fight for my amusement."
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Sirotan posted:This isn't you, is it? https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/345uqx/i_lowball_employers_for_my_salary_bad_idea/ I like the part where he says that people in his line of work are generally overpaid.
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Bob Morales posted:This is an actual document that we send out every month. This is an actual thing that 72 year old owner of the company spends his time monitoring. This is an actual thing he flips the gently caress out over. This is an actual thing I get pulled into meetings to talk about.  That... that is certainly a policy he has there. vvvvv Good point, edited out of mine. Fil5000 fucked around with this message at 14:22 on May 15, 2015 |
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May 15, 2015 14:19
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Kazinsal posted:poo poo that makes me go "wait, what the gently caress?": Pidgin. Pidgin uses enough CPU time just sitting there doing nothing but accepting incoming jabber messages to raise my idle temps by ten whole freaking degrees. If you clear the scroll back of all your open chats then the CPU usage drops down. I don't know what CPU actions it's performing on messages that got sent two days ago but clearing the backlog is the way to get pidgin to calm the gently caress down.
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nitrogen posted:Robert Half. Bunch of crooks. Avoid them. That's appalling. Though what's worse is that presumably it must work sometimes.
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"Hey, do you have $COWORKER that works for you?"
"Uh, these kinds of calls really need to go to HR, here's the number..."
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Migishu posted:The only important thing you should add to your signature is BSc SSc And set a reminder in your calendar to seal that drive plate.
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Jul 18, 2015 19:28
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Super Slash posted:SIckness is damned awful when you have a cramped open office with everyone clustered together. Nobody stays home so it spreads like wildfire, and then you get a wonderful crescendo of coughing and hacking which is annoying and loving disgusting. During the swine flu outbreak in the UK I was setting up a call centre. We had people paired up to train and there were something like 4 workstations on each side of a desk each with a desk about 1.5m long. One person called out with swine flu symptoms and the policy was to send anyone that sat within 2m of them home. I had to send home about ten people.
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My web history at work is full of all kinds of crap, but everything I'm expected to deliver gets delivered when it's supposed to be and the feedback I get from everyone as part of the performance review process is solid. It turns out that the majority of the time if you treat people like grown ups you get great results! That guy who's job is to monitor how much Facebook people use had the shittest job ever.
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Finster Dexter posted:Assholes get better customer service than nice people. They only appear to get better customer service. The polite customer may end up waiting five minutes longer than the fuckstick who yells at the waiter, but they're way less likely to get jizz instead of salad dressing.
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Dick Trauma posted:Logs take up too much room. They're also entrapment.
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Ynglaur posted:To DT, maybe a car analogy will work. "Look, you're saying that your BMW's engine light is on and it's having trouble starting in the morning. You need to bring the thing in, have a proper mechanic look at it, and spend a few minutes listening when they tell you to stop doing <thing> that was causing the engine issue. Maybe you were half-dropping the transmission or whatever. While it's in the shop for a day, have a loaner: it's a nice BMW from last year." Yeah but Janice don't give a gently caress.
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No tell him you're board certified. When pressed on which board just repeat "board. Certified."
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Agrikk posted:Seriously. I've had a few occasions when I've been managing people and needed help from hr and they've steered me in exactly the right direction and either made sure that I got the staff member what they needed or backed me up when I needed to start disciplinary poo poo. The one who showed up late for a conference call she organised to tell a bunch of us details of our upcoming redundancy, repeatedly referred to the mass culling of hundreds of employees as "this piece of change" and generally acted annoyed at having to have the conversation at all can go gently caress off though.
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Sirotan posted:Call center manager has now told us she "does not feel comfortable" making another test 911 call, and instead wants someone from IT to drive over to make the call. Call centre manager uncomfortable using phone. Brilliant.
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