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Vulture Culture posted:I felt really bad about this aspect for a few months when I started my current role, but you actually shouldn't feel bad about being blocked by other people 80% of the time. It's someone else's problem to fix This is mostly a gripe about being involved in stuff a few levels above my official pay grade but without a change in title/pay grade.
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IME if the pay and title is not immediately rectified, you should suddenly be unable to do the work. You'll never get a promised promotion if they are already milking you.
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Mar 22, 2024 16:33
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Eh, we'll have a discussion about this during my next performance eval (scheduled a few weeks after Easter) and I suspect my manager already wants to change my title to more accurately reflect what I do day to day. We're still at least a year out from finishing the new OT network, a project I "own", and I want to see it through. It'll also look really good on my resume  If things haven't changed materially by then, it will be time to move on.
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Mar 22, 2024 16:43
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Oh my god, I've been out of the IT industry for ten years and both nothing and everything changed. I got Azure and AWS accounts and I'm fumbling around trying to figure out what even to set up on a lab anymore.
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Mar 22, 2024 16:47
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Waffle House posted:Oh my god, I've been out of the IT industry for ten years and both nothing and everything changed. I got Azure and AWS accounts and I'm fumbling around trying to figure out what even to set up on a lab anymore. Ask questions here and here:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3791735 and here:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3695559
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guppy posted:If I were senior management and I saw that I would discipline that middle manager for gaming metrics. sr mgmt is instead going to reward them for their meticulous care and maintenance of the queue and ensuring that everything is handled within 48 hrs 
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Mar 22, 2024 16:50
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Wibla posted:
I spend so much time making diagrams, telling people that "it's not a supported pattern", and having meetings about the both of the previous things.
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Mar 22, 2024 16:51
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Jokes on you all, I've carefully positioned myself to avoid all management tasks and remain a cog in the machine. Downside is my pay reflects this stationary position. But I get to do real work and have zero stress.
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Mar 22, 2024 17:06
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Lobsterboy posted:sr mgmt is instead going to reward them for their meticulous care and maintenance of the queue and ensuring that everything is handled within 48 hrs I see the ticket volume is up about 25 percent, which isn't great, but the closure rate is also up as well as the average incident time is down significantly compared to the TTM average.! Increased ticket volume probably correlates to increased efficiency you've been able to get out of your team. Impressive for your first month! Congratulations, I'm giving you a 15K raise since you are making me look good to my boss. [edit] Even typing that out made my blood pressure skyrocket.
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Mar 22, 2024 18:57
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I wish there was a quick way of asking my boss "what kind of neurodivergent are you" because we're both on some kind of spectrum and I don't know which one she is.
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Mar 22, 2024 19:51
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tokin opposition posted:I wish there was a quick way of asking my boss "what kind of neurodivergent are you" because we're both on some kind of spectrum and I don't know which one she is. She might not know either.
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Mar 22, 2024 19:54
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Walk around with a big sonic plush with huge eyes, a samurai sword, and a box copy of the big bang theory and see which one she lights up the most on
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George H.W. oval office posted:Walk around with a big sonic plush with huge eyes, a samurai sword, and a box copy of the big bang theory and see which one she lights up the most on I already told her I like playing factorio so she should know by now where I'm at :p
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Mar 22, 2024 20:31
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George H.W. oval office posted:Walk around with a big sonic plush with huge eyes, a samurai sword, and a box copy of the big bang theory and see which one she lights up the most on My version of this is to talk about sports, then video games, then anime, and then Twin Peaks to see what they bite on hardest.
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Mar 22, 2024 20:32
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My wife really likes Twin Peaks. The show, not the restaurant.
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Mar 23, 2024 18:47
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I remember there was a big debate in here in which many begrudgingly supported teams, but the recent changes with “new teams” suck a lot of rear end. Particularly hate the important tag when @ing a group - even if you read the banner, it will continually ping you until you click into the chat. I have become a Slack Supporter.
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Mar 23, 2024 18:54
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Well it looks like I made the cut at least, they're working on a timeline to transition my department to full time. I have a question, I assume we're going to be making more when we transition inhouse full time, but is there a reasonable amount to ask for on offer when going from a contractor position?
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Mar 24, 2024 02:03
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All I know is I am so happy with finally left the Skype for Business era. The client worked but was so... basic. Teams I think is goood? The B2B stuff with Entra ID and being able to just IM or call people through the client is super useful and it just works. Teams does need a lot of polish. The way you paste in code has too much wasted space and  still can't draw on the screen or use a laser pointer thing without it being insanely cumbersome. I'm looking at you feature #127900 which I've been able to do with every other major screen sharing platform for multiple years.
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Mar 24, 2024 10:49
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"New" Teams is fine, and a definite step up from "old" teams in terms of performance. Which is good! But boy, the switchover from old>new teams is a pain in the dick sometimes. The bug I hate the most, is that sometimes the switchover will cause the presence indicators to stop working in other office applications such as Outlook. Which for me is not a big deal, but let me tell you judging by some of the tickets I see our helpdesk person taking for this issue, it's a big deal for some of these micro-manager types!
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Mar 24, 2024 15:32
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Which for me is not a big deal, but let me tell you judging by some of the tickets I see our helpdesk person taking for this issue, it's a big deal for some of these micro-manager types! Wouldn’t you know that any time I investigated anything like that for a micro-manager that I always found it was a Microsoft issue that we couldn’t do anything about? So sorry! Guess you’ll have to be a better manager instead!
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Mar 25, 2024 01:29
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New Teams puts me away the moment I get up and stays as such until I tab back in on it, no one gives me poo poo for it and they better not, considering I always respond instantly to everyone and everything
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Mar 25, 2024 05:29
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new teams crashes when I put my earbuds in as I'm getting a call/joining a meeting if I do it first, no problem if I wait until I'm fully joined, no problem but if I do it at the same time, it's crash town thats the only real problem i have with it
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Mar 25, 2024 05:35
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Strange bug was that when adding my SSO account to our owner's org, Teams refused to let me "see" their tenant in the selector. It was listed in my web profile and poo poo. Just magically started working about a month later.
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Reoxygenation posted:New Teams puts me away the moment I get up and stays as such until I tab back in on it, no one gives me poo poo for it and they better not, considering I always respond instantly to everyone and everything This is just for the productivity metrics your bosses get don't worry about it
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Mar 25, 2024 14:11
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Speaking of issues with Teams, MS finally released some fixes for the New Teams Outlook plugin issue. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...orking%20again.
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The office greybeard told me "Thanks for the help. We don't work together often, but this was nice." Putting THAT on my resume!
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Dandywalken posted:The office greybeard told me "Thanks for the help. We don't work together often, but this was nice." Type that poo poo out, print it up, and frame it on your wall to look at when your imposter syndrome acts up. Congrats, you made it!
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We had a DBA, now retired, who helped me with something when I was doing desktop support. He sent me a nice email afterward about it being a good experience working together. It does not do anything functional and was kind of a form thing, but I always thought it was both a very nice gesture and potentially helpful professionally. I never forgot it.
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Yeah, I've started making a point of calling out ( in public) when other engineers do something good. Even for senior and above. So often people only hear about the negative things that happen, need to balance that out a bit.
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Mar 26, 2024 14:24
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Day two of vacation: Have not done any computer touching, and have almost completed the community center. Only truffles missing, which I'll get in spring.
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xzzy posted:Jokes on you all, I've carefully positioned myself to avoid all management tasks and remain a cog in the machine. This is a valid approach. Depends on how your personality works, I guess. Personally, I’m on the same track.
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I moved into Management a while ago and I do not hate it. Except the meetings, so many meetings that could have been
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The Fool posted:Yeah, I've started making a point of calling out ( in public) when other engineers do something good. Even for senior and above. So often people only hear about the negative things that happen, need to balance that out a bit. Especially with the tier one guys. When they go above and beyond or have answers to questions I would have asked because they took good notes, it’s so loving nice. Competence is always the very best surprise or gift I can receive in my job.
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Mar 26, 2024 18:29
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For people whose entire "job" is meetings senior management is loving terrible at managing them.
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Darchangel posted:This is a valid approach. Depends on how your personality works, I guess. Personally, I’m on the same track. I want to have a life and not work 60+ hours a week. I've seen too many folks think they are getting up the management ladder only to hit a management ceiling of team lead, but be expected to always be available. gently caress. That.
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The correct term is "class traitor," or if you're a moderate, a "leech"
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got a ticket yesterday from someone asking how they can more effectively rickroll ppl in slack we rickrolled them with a non YouTube version of it in reply.
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ziasquinn posted:got a ticket yesterday from someone asking how they can more effectively rickroll ppl in slack That’s a great ticket. Shoulda told them about HTML anchors
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It's a too many pies, not enough fingers kind of day.
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