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we have two systems at work, one is used for estimating, project management, and purchasing. i hate it, it was clearly written in the late 90s and they've just tacked features on ever since. the two programs in the system are inconsistent in their UI, and both have bad database handling that can create unresoveable problems. (Ie: total items of a purchase order are set to 0, but the sub-list breakout by job has 1, now there is no way to 'receive' that item) the second system i've never used, it is for accounting, and I suspect it is equally as bad. information for one cannot be sent directly to the other, so purchasing and accounting are always reconciling information between the two.
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in 2014, the neglected siteminder system that saw no increase in staff or budget to support failed catastrophically when the sunone directories for its user stores finally hit the magical "too much" threshold. our giant enterprise ground to a halt and nobody could log into anything during peak business hours for two weeks in a row, and we would spend day and night tinkering with file descriptors and other stupid poo poo on ancient sun boxes to try to get us through the day. like most failures, we had been asking for budget to replace and modernize this mission-critical system for years finally a vp played golf with a ca rep, and decided we would replace everything, all of it, with nothing but ca software. directories, policy servers, new agents on 100k+ webservers, etc. we spent 12mm for the license, extended support, and a recurring 270k/mo for about 6 ca contractors to manually review each application and "optimize" the access policy. each app used its own domain, so sharing policy objects wouldn't work. this was all placed under me and my staff. for 2 years we flushed money down the drain at an amazing rate, until we finally called the project done. we still have the original legacy environment operating, the new siteminder environment, our federation service environment, etc. nobody is capable of shutting down or migrating the last apps that use the old stuff. and now we are looking to spend tens of millions to launch another migration into azure ad to replace the expensive siteminder environment. and thus my work starts anew. they didn't want to give annual adjustments this year as part of belt tightening.
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Aug 13, 2017 16:27
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pram posted:
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Aug 13, 2017 16:38
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pram posted:
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Aug 13, 2017 17:05
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We changed from people soft to sap and it's more horrible surprisingly
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Aug 13, 2017 17:35
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:We changed from people soft to sap and it's more horrible surprisingly https://blogs.sap.com/2015/12/22/sap-digital-farming/ looks horrible mate
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Aug 13, 2017 17:49
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Maximum Leader posted:coworker was at a project at his old company where they spent ~100000000 USD implementing SAP for a small regional office in the middle of nowhere. the plan was global rollout but the entire implementation had to be scrapped and started again from scratch because parts of it were of such low quality. did the sales person promise the moon and then the implementation team said, "well actually....."?
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Aug 13, 2017 20:02
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Turnquiet posted:in 2014, the neglected siteminder system that saw no increase in staff or budget to support failed catastrophically when the sunone directories for its user stores finally hit the magical "too much" threshold. our giant enterprise ground to a halt and nobody could log into anything during peak business hours for two weeks in a row, and we would spend day and night tinkering with file descriptors and other stupid poo poo on ancient sun boxes to try to get us through the day. like most failures, we had been asking for budget to replace and modernize this mission-critical system for years this sounds like a mental breakdown recipe
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Aug 13, 2017 20:46
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pram posted:
god tier av imo
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Aug 13, 2017 21:38
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agreed
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Aug 13, 2017 21:41
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great av would quote again
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Aug 14, 2017 01:25
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Efficiency work is one of the few occasionally quantifiable pieces of work in tech. Sometimes you can be like "Yep, I did this thing and we now use x% less cloud compute time for the same results, and that's worth y dollars." Sometimes.
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Aug 14, 2017 01:26
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:https://blogs.sap.com/2015/12/22/sap-digital-farming/ people pay SAP money for this sort of poo poo for some reason
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Aug 14, 2017 07:16
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My entire job revolves around lazy people throwing away perfectly good things, which we wipe the dust off and sell to other people
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Aug 14, 2017 07:42
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It was pure profit until very recently; ECS was buying our mixed e-waste so we didn't even have to pay for getting rid of a dozen 800-lb gaylords (mods??) per week. That bit stopped a few weeks ago when some other Bay Area e-waste recycler sent them a gaylord with a gas lawnmower full of gasoline mixed in with the scrap, which exploded in their compactor, and now ECS no longer buys e-waste so we have to pay other companies to take the mixed stuff
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Aug 14, 2017 07:46
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the organisation paid a local software company heaps of real kiwi bucks to develop a bespoke software program and then when the bosses stated that it wasn't really what they were wanting and suggested changes the software company liquidated lol @ lost kiwi bucks. Moo Cowabunga fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Aug 14, 2017 |
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Aug 14, 2017 09:27
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Pendragon posted:did the sales person promise the moon and then the implementation team said, "well actually....."? im pretty sure they just hosed up part of the implementation somehow
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:the organisation paid a local software company heaps of real kiwi bucks to develop a bespoke software program and then when the bosses stated that it wasn't really what they were wanting and suggested changes the software company liquidated how many bucks?
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Aug 14, 2017 12:09
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netburst architecture.
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Aug 14, 2017 12:14
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atomicthumbs posted:My entire job revolves around lazy people throwing away perfectly good things, which we wipe the dust off and sell to other people this is my hobby. I pick up oldputer crap for cheap/trade and resell it for a profit. I have fun doing my idiot sperging and legitimately run a 500 dollar or so profit per year. Nothing to write home about, but it's nice. this one 50 dollar haul has net me 750 so far
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Pendragon posted:did the sales person promise the moon and then the implementation team said, "well actually....."? at my company this happens a lot and then it turns out that somehow we wrote "implement X dumb poo poo in Y days for Z dollars" into the contract (and the for Z dollars is if we are lucky) and we have to deathmarch until its done (whilst stopping real work) and end up spending 5 * Z dollars to get it done and in the end only 1 client ever uses that feature because we scoped it in a stupid way that does exactly what they said, not what is useful fortunately we mostly stopped that about a year ago
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Aug 14, 2017 12:52
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telling a sales person "we'd totally use your product if only it had feature x" is an excellent way to get a vendor system that does feature x in the worst possible way vendors should have a public roadmap and they need to get their sales people to loving pay attention to it
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Aug 14, 2017 16:33
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single page web apps that use elasticsearch as a database, op I loving love watching my computer stop responding while the browser struggles to render a table with possibly as many as a thousand rows (we have much more but the only way the ui "engineers" can think of to stop it actually setting fire to the computer is to impose an arbitrary cap. no paging or anything, that would be too hard)
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Aug 14, 2017 18:32
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qirex posted:telling a sales person "we'd totally use your product if only it had feature x" is an excellent way to get a vendor system that does feature x in the worst possible way this x lots
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Aug 14, 2017 19:00
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Turnquiet posted:siteminder I hate siteminder so much. I once found a bug in redacted, I don't care for $VENDOR to identify my SA account where you could redefine the null string. They kept telling me that version was out of support until I showed them it on a screencast. Then they stopped talking for a long time.
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Aug 14, 2017 21:13
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qirex posted:telling a sales person "we'd totally use your product if only it had feature x" is an excellent way to get a vendor system that does feature x in the worst possible way feeling pain from this truth lately
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Aug 15, 2017 00:14
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a coworker once unethically (illegally) took some binaries home to compare new / old source code after our main vendor provided a patch for feature which 'should have' been 'working' over a year ago (see qirex post.) this patch was to fix just a part of the extremely broken feature - but as my cowoker suspected the logic in question was totally unchanged. in fact it was identical other than two variables being renamed. the patch fixed some other unrelated things but the centerpoint was just a big lie of release notes
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Aug 15, 2017 00:29
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is this a redistribution of wealth
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atomicthumbs posted:It was pure profit until very recently; ECS was buying our mixed e-waste so we didn't even have to pay for getting rid of a dozen 800-lb gaylords (mods??) per week. That bit stopped a few weeks ago when some other Bay Area e-waste recycler sent them a gaylord with a gas lawnmower full of gasoline mixed in with the scrap, which exploded in their compactor, and now ECS no longer buys e-waste so we have to pay other companies to take the mixed stuff Rofl
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sometimes i help out by converting and editing webex recordings. i'll occasionally get links that allow me to stream a presentation but not download it. rather than go back to the presenter and have them enable downloads in webex it's easier to just use a totally professional tool to rebuild the .arf from the streaming cache.
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duTrieux. posted:sometimes i help out by converting and editing webex recordings. i'll occasionally get links that allow me to stream a presentation but not download it. rather than go back to the presenter and have them enable downloads in webex it's easier to just use a totally professional tool to rebuild the .arf from the streaming cache. that tool definitely sends a copy of the webex recording to russia
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Aug 16, 2017 00:23
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lom.arf
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Aug 16, 2017 00:56
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atomicthumbs posted:YOSPOS: a dozen 800-lb gaylords
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We're pretty efficient but a bunch of our business partners definitely have people manually uploading .csv's every week. Also one vendor sends what should be equivalent data through two different sources buy sometimes they're different so we have automated checks and email them every time they gently caress up (I'm tempted to automate the email too...) It would take like one 30 line sql query for them to check it themselves but that seems to be asking too much.
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we spent six figures on a dynamics crm implementation where the developers were in a different timezone to us, and there was nobody managing the project from our side. the scope grew until the thing was a ridiculous beast that was meant to also handle erp duties because sales didn't want to talk to pre-sales to make sure nothing was missed off quotes, but didn't want to learn what to put on quotes themselves, and keeping track of <100 items of stock was too hard. they also paid for dynamics 365 licenses for ~50 people for two years even though there were only about six test users. then the project got shitcanned after 18 months and sales track leads on a spreadsheet now because it would make them look terrible if they were advertising to the rest of the business how poo poo a job they were doing at picking up leads and converting them.
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Sep 3, 2017 15:57
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we have a budget line item that gets more expensive each year for typewriter servicing
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El Mero Mero posted:we have a budget line item that gets more expensive each year for typewriter servicing lol
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Sep 4, 2017 04:22
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horrendous inefficiencies: manual linting in general
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Sep 4, 2017 04:31
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I have to deal with issues with many machines, except when it errors out it spits out a paper error printout and leaves no error on the logs.
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El Mero Mero posted:we have a budget line item that gets more expensive each year for typewriter servicing do you work in a three letter agency/embassy
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!