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Internet Explorer posted:Jack Link's is a little more... oily? Big John's is a little more dry. But otherwise Big John's is vastly superior, especially if you've only ever had grocery store stuff. I consider myself a bit of a beef jerky connoisseur and Big John's is my favorite by far. I loved it but lol I discovered my goon-guts can't tolerate garlic 
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i am a moron posted:Hahaha oh my god yes. My experience: I think non-profits are brutal for low budgets, trying to squeeze blood from a stone, trying to make do with 10+ year old hardware. Healthcare breaks the IT adage, "we're not saving lives here" ... it can be extremely stressful and at least in Canada you can be stuck with low budgets. Also a lot of medical devices are just poo poo that still require Win95 to operate. Government can also be rough ... worked in an office stuck on Internet Explorer 6 eight years past its EOL because that's all their software would run in. Imagine trying to maintain that poo poo. Friends have gone into banks and insurance when they got sick of SaaS. They say they're boring as hell, but low workloads, stable, decent benefits, etc. Probably a more responsible decision than me, but my ADD-addled mind just can't handle that work. Legal sounds like hell and similar to working for "boutique" investment firms. I walked into a SaaS company that looked like the perfect job for me. I have an actual great competent team that reports to me, and my predecessor ended up resigning because he moved waaaaaaaay too far out of the city during COVID and was struggling never being on site anymore. He left it in great shape though; my first time starting somewhere and having not everything be on fire. Thorough documentation even!
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Aug 10, 2022 13:25
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GreenNight posted:At my job one of our programmers wasn't getting his work done so my boss asked me to take him out of all mailing lists and disable his email so he has no distractions other than working on his projects. A programmer using email for anything other than notifications? Lol
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Aug 11, 2022 18:06
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uhhhhahhhhohahhh posted:Good documentation takes way longer than people expect. Especially if you're adding diagrams. I hate the people who complain constantly about nothing being documented, but surprise surprise, have never written a single page of it themselves... and then when there is documentation they're the same people who don't even bother to search for it and just ask people instead
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Aug 22, 2022 23:42
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I have to deal with two guys that were hired as "senior" IT admins, just before I started myself, sigh. One is an easy dismissal on probation... literally always late, takes two hour lunches, disappears for hours at a time, leaves early ... everyone assumes he has a second job lol. Hates communicating with the team. When I called him out on it he said, he doesn't "like to be babysat". Dude, babysitting is having to ask where the gently caress you are all the time. It's annoying because he's clearly really smart and experienced. His skills are really what this team needed; compliments mine really well. Other guy is a decent enough worker, has like 15 years experience but ... it's literally on AS/400s. We're a SaaS company. Shows no leadership. The junior guys are frustrated because they're each like 10x as effective as him. It's weird paying someone a senior salary to cart equipment around and do inventory. At least when I get rid of the first one I hope I can promote the juniors. Other dude deserves a chance. Maybe he's just slow to onboard.
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Aug 23, 2022 13:43
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Thanks Ants posted:This sounds like your company messed up, assuming that the guy didn't misrepresent his experience. Perhaps they had very few applicants and that guy was the best on offer at the time, in which case if they are better than an empty position they stay.
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Aug 23, 2022 16:28
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Follow up on mr. absentee that I had to fire: HR had me schedule a meeting with him the night before which I thought was kind of goofy ... and sure enough the next morning he declared he was working from home and didn't come in  Also FWIW Wednesday happens to be the one day the entire team is expected to be in. On Monday he showed up late, still vanished on personal calls, took a two hour lunch, vanished some more, then left early "to beat traffic".Went ahead with it anyway of course, enough is enough. He seemed shocked and demanded to know why, but HR cut me off. When dealing with recovering his laptop, one of my staff noticed his business website on his personal email signature ... we clearly were his side-hustle. teethgrinder fucked around with this message at 11:28 on Aug 25, 2022 |
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Aug 25, 2022 11:26
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Sickening posted:I love expensive cloud tools. The expensive poo poo is so neat and makes my life easier. All of their built in reporting loving sucks. Prisma, I am looking at a you, your options for reporting loving blow in ways I can't quite fathom.
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Aug 26, 2022 18:27
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Unexpected Raw Anime posted:systems administrator: knows how to use google I had to ask him to stop pestering the juniors today. And then I finally looked up his salary and he's earning $30K more than them. And he's constantly asking me about the promotion/raise process. 
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I was going crazy trying to find out why my company Google Workspace email signature keeps getting overwritten to defaults (wiping out my title making it look really dumb the way it's laid out). No one else in the org seems to have this problem, and my staff are just  I started a month ago and they're pretty junior. My predecessor kept them in the dark about anything remotely "advanced". I assumed it had to be an app, or BetterCloud misbehaving, but there are very few domain apps installed, and they were easy to vet. BetterCloud swears up and down (via its logs) it only ever touched my account a month ago to add it to the "defaultsignature" GSuite group... but that is a huge clue. But then what? Searching, the only relevant article I could find was this: https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/alias_and_signature_settings#java Oh boy, this is a bit above my skillset. Anyway, I think I hit paydirt when I was reasoning this has to be running somewhere, and then found some "projects" running in GCP, both under a service account and under my predecessor's, which was just about to be purged. I guess it's time to learn the Gmail API and get better acquainted with GCP, sigh. It's just funny to me that this knowledge/setup could have been wiped away in an eyeblink, and I'd have looked like a fool when the company's signatures were no longer automated. So I guess I'm lucky as gently caress it was erroring on mine. I feel like my entire IT career has been lucky, stumbling across things that are on the cusp of failing; making me look a lot brighter than I am. edit: lollllllllllll okay, there is an "app.bettercloud.com" and a "g.bettercloud.com" which I was unaware of, and it appears to me that that is the source of my troubles. loving logs. So uh, I'm still dumb. teethgrinder fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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90% laying someone off who should never have been hired, this afternoon But my company is willing to give him two weeks severance while he's still on probation? Nice guy, but paid a shitload when he has no experience relevant for twenty years, and only wants to do the most basic IT work, less than the juniors. He also wants stable employment; he'd be far better suited for a bank or government than SaaS. Even if this one is more stable than any other I've worked at.
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CLAM DOWN posted:OH poo poo WE'RE GETTING A HOLIDAY YESSS Don't know where you live, but gently caress you you god damned gently caress, Ford https://twitter.com/cp24/status/1569771028045524993?s=46&t=BicZL_gafEPIoU1HUiPg1w LochNessMonster posted:Accurate description of 90% of the people who work at a bank for more than 10 years.
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https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/16/23356213/uber-hack-teen-slack-google-cloud-credentials-powershell lol
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The Fool posted:the best grill related thing I've ever done was get one with a side burner so I can fry fish without stinking up the house
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So was anyone else using Spoke as their ticket system?
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Internet Explorer posted:I disagree. I've been in tech for 20 years. I have never felt like a lack of a degree has hindered me. I doubt I'd ever go back there, but I did have to have the piece of paper to get a lovely government job (Government of Canada).
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I'm still dealing with team turmoil, but by sheer coincidence the very best team member at my last job applied here. Everyone loves him so far. The last guy I let go had awful written communication skills and was awful at ... well everything. But I couldn't believe he couldn't google solutions to random helpdesk queries. So to combat this I thought I was being really clever and came up with a few questions (essentially real life examples) where with the interviewee we'd roleplay them solving a ticket via Zoom chat (our usual ticket system operates out of Slack). I wanted to see their customer service & written skills, but also being able to Google solutions. Holy poo poo the most basic one most people fail so thoroughly. ("I need to extract an animated GIF from a Google Doc"). The best answer came from someone in a customer service background, she was clever and immediately assumed there had to be a trick to something that sounds so painfully obvious. And she managed to google a solution that involved transferring the doc to Google Keep which would finally let you save the image. Another answer is to either save the whole Google Doc page as HTML, or download the doc as HTML ... either one would give you the GIF in its original form. I would have also accepted just googling and downloading the GIF from elsewhere lol. Or asking for advice from your team, for a nudge at least. But it's been tortuous watching most people not be able to manage but I feel like it's been a really effective filter.
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:Do you manage support? I cannot imagine anyone caring about documents outside of support and google docs specifically is real odd. As soon as I was able, I got a job that never had to gently caress around with zipping a docx and all that bullshit. Took about 2 years. Anyway, the point is to have people in the department that can actually answer these questions. It's not really my problem until either they're out of bandwidth, or the issue is extremely esoteric. Like running Java software that hasn't been updated since 2005 to electronically submit records of employment to the federal government Wizard of the Deep posted:We ended up writing up a small PowerShell script that does a couple basic example tasks, and asking the interviewee walk is through what it does. Since my team is primarily Windows/Active Directory, it's a great way to at least guage where they are in terms of skillsets. teethgrinder fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Oct 19, 2022 |
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jaegerx posted:Im not gonna lie, I'm gonna have to google how to save a gif from a doc unless you can't just right click it
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The Dreamer posted:We went through three of those fuckers before we finally got a guy that could actually troubleshoot worth a drat. Problem was the rest of his team sucked so bad that he got burned out in the first couple of months. I've promised them promotions.
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George H.W. oval office posted:New job's CEO likes Google Workspaces and everyone desperately wants him to approve to have us switch to O365 but he wont! ---- I was kinda down on Workspace, after initially being a fan like ten years ago, but they finally seem to have been making some pretty huge strides in improving the product. Finally their "Groups" paradigm is less poo poo, like you're not creating a loving Usenet group by default when you just need a distribution list. I need to learn more but apparently they're shifting permissions to groups too, over the OU model.
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Sorry, I forget I'm in the SaaS world and a 99% Mac shop lol.
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Our stack fwiw is Mac, Okta, GWorkspace, Mosyle, Slack, Zoom. 400+ users. Everyone here seems happy with it, to the point where people would get pissed and leave if our newish corporate overlords, a pure Microsoft shop, ever try to force us to adopt their systems. Maybe one thing that would make GWorkspace less poo poo for people is that most of our use of it is automated through BetterCloud. I didn't mind plain Workspace though at previous gigs. I don't have anything against O365, but I truly don't think it's overall superior to Workspace. Thanks Ants posted:Does Google Workspace have the totally alien concept of "a shared mailbox" yet? It's also always been extremely lovely both to admin and use as a user until pretty recently. But would it kill them to integrate it into Gmail? (Apparently?)
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Oct 21, 2022 21:28
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jaegerx posted:I can deal with a SSO, I can handle a MDM on my laptop. What I can't handle is you telling me I can't install opensource software on my laptop that I need to do my job, or telling us we have to buy a commercial option cause it meets the needs of the CISO. It feels like some chud is just trying to feel important. Part of the sale agreement was that we're operated independently. They abruptly postponed the meeting I asked for for them to explain themselves, so I still have no details.
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Lol. It's a very strange relationship. The overlord isn't a tech company. We just have a complimentary product adjacent to their business.
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tokin opposition posted:Gender changearoo or babies b gone cut? Even IT wouldn't be back at work immediately after a gender changearoo. Wait, who am I kidding.
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Sickening posted:
I'm under no illusions and understand it could change at the drop of a hat. I report directly to C for what it's worth. It's not unique to this situation. Virtually all my jobs were good/great until executive upheaval.
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Oct 22, 2022 16:27
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this will never stop being funny to me. This doesn’t mean what you think it means.
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tokin opposition posted:do everything by hand using a USB stick. As in plugging it in and running installer.exe like it's the 80s
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https://nypost.com/2022/10/20/floppy-disks-get-second-life-out-of-california-warehouse/
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I'm the weirdo that infinitely prefers going to the office. I get a nice bike ride out of it. My gym is near it. Can grab groceries or shop on the way home. Etc. Also works for delineating work and personal life for me. I love having the option, but I'm a terrible failure of a human being with full-time WFH.
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Feels like the fact that they can't handle such basic bullshit is a red flag to begin with...
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jaegerx posted:I remember 1 place trying to recruit me by saying, we're hired over 100 engineers this year. Like uh why? Current job has a similar headcount except it ... actually has staffed and defined departments (and a successful mature product). I can't get over people having actual specific jobs and not just random admin staff doing five different things each. My first week at my new job I was like, "wait, there's a whole separate Security department ... and it has FIVE STAFF!?" We actually have a guy whose entire job is actually facilities! At my last place I was the only IT person for far too many people for far too long (I eventually got to hire three more), networking, security, facilities including an entire office move almost completely by myself, half of "employee experience" with someone else whose job it shouldn't have been, and so much regular office admin because they kept trying to make HR hires do it and they always got fed up and quit. One of my previous hires coincidentally starting at my new place tomorrow. I didn't bring him over, but put his name at the top of the list when I saw the applicants. He was awesome and I'm really glad he's coming over. Why didn't I quit sooner? I just couldn't find the right job/pay anywhere within a reasonable commute. If I wanted to spend ~3 hours driving every day I could have managed it. Eventually I did find a decent place with great (for Toronto IT) comp that's a 15 minute bike ride from home.
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Bonzo posted:Looking for laptop backpack suggestions. What does everyone like?
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No jerks seems obvious. But lol just before I started, this company apparently found the one senior admin that couldn't be taught anything. Six figures and he wanted to coast with just ASA/400 experience at a SaaS company. (Why the gently caress he was hired is anyone's guess.) edit: to be clear, my predecessor clearly assumed his experience would be transferable but ... nope.
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My company is trying to set up electronic submission of records of employment to the Canadian government. It involves ULTRA SECURE FILE TRANSFER software written in Java, last updated ~2005. It's taken them two months to set up an account. We had to have an exec sign documents, and I'm the official keeper of the keys. I had to sign more paperwork, have a Zoom call showing two pieces of ID. Finally today I had a SUPER SECRET private call ten minutes before the official kickoff meeting, where they verbally gave me a 12-character password in the phonetic alphabet. Then during the meeting they tell us that the software can't be transferred to any other computer without having the credentials all regenerated by them and we should just install it to a shared laptop. ------ Sidenote they claim it absolutely will not run on a Mac but ... it's just Java and seems to run fine? 
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Bonzo posted:One job took us and our spouses to some restaurant where they were putting on a Christmas murderer mystery. I wish I was joking. The waitstaff were also the actors for some reason. My wife still tells everyone about how bad it was. Years later I took half a dozen pre-teen nieces and nephews and it was a riot.
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Nov 28, 2022 21:32
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Thanks Ants posted:It is quite funny to fly people in to sit in a plywood castle when they probably live within 20 miles of a real castle
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Nov 28, 2022 21:45
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Teleport is hot too.
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Lolll... my staff get so bent out of shape about stickers. I don't know why they have so much trouble removing them. I do it while I'm bored on a call. And that said, some do leave behind permanent stains which mean we can lose hundreds of dollars from our 40% buyback programme.
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Mustache Ride posted:I put stickers on a plastic cover instead of directly on a laptop.
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