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ultravoices posted:i still have an FTP to schlep files around because half my coworkers are too stupid to understand dropbox. not even sftp? just plain ol ftp? nice
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blowfish posted:do you work in a three letter agency/embassy how did u know
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maskenfreiheit posted:not even sftp? just plain ol ftp? At a previous gig we used raw FTP to transfer CAD data to/from our outsourced team in India. The username and password were both <company name><year the FTP was set up>. Because of the industry we were in I had to fill in a form listing everything I was sending to certify that none of the data was subject to export restrictions, so everyone who intercepted it even had a nice index to check against and make sure they got everything. 
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maskenfreiheit posted:not even sftp? just plain ol ftp? it was wicked CUTTING EDGE in 1999 or whenever that server was set up. my coworkers are so helpless that we have to keep using the ftp because even if you explain things in small words several different ways where to put the file so that it will talk to the program from 1989 that they use they can't do it and have to use the batch file that was written for this purpose in 1999 to make it possible for them. some of them can't even type like normal human beings because they learned on something from this era http://www.vcalc.net/Keyboard.htm and vigorously refuse to learn how to do anything else.
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Idk if this counts but they make people at my job do time tracking on jira. There is no billing associated with this, and we're all salaried employees, so it's just pointless micromanagement, and it turns the jira from a useful project management tool into a web of lies to avoid looking bad in reports. When they asked me to do this, the conversation went: Me: Are you going to fire me if I don't do this? Jira lady: Well, no, but... Me: Then I'm not doing it
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JewKiller 3000 posted:Idk if this counts but they make people at my job do time tracking on jira. There is no billing associated with this, and we're all salaried employees, so it's just pointless micromanagement, and it turns the jira from a useful project management tool into a web of lies to avoid looking bad in reports. well if you're ok with doing the "minimum" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJtrLKGZZFg
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JewKiller 3000 posted:Idk if this counts but they make people at my job do time tracking on jira. There is no billing associated with this, and we're all salaried employees, so it's just pointless micromanagement, and it turns the jira from a useful project management tool into a web of lies to avoid looking bad in reports. my place used to do this except with an unbelievably lovely oracle thing that didn't understand minutes so you had to convert everything to decimal hours. it used to take a good half hour a week filling everything in.* eventually management realised literally nobody was reading any of the reports so they scrapped the whole thing quietly * if you were a scrub who hadn't figured out to hook it up to a random number generator
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Sep 5, 2017 02:55
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everything to do with hardware startups. my current company has an fpy of like 60-70% lmao. also everything to do with supplier quality and doubly so when manufacturing abroad
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oldjob had an ERP that supported two output format: that printer and that other printer the printers needed to have hardcoded names not exceeding eight characters one department had to manually re-enter 200 pages of printouts into excel files daily. in the 2010's when they transitioned to a new ERP, an analyst dumped an inch thick pile of reports on my desk asking me to recreate them in the new system. I never did. when I left that place two years later no one ever had that analyst had been spending two weeks a month preparing reports that no one looked at, and we found this out because no one asked for them for two years
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i want a job where instead of people's lives in the line, nothing at all is one the line whatsoever and i still get paid and hopefully laid
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echinopsis posted:i want a job where instead of people's lives in the line, nothing at all is one the line whatsoever and i still get paid and hopefully laid google is always hiring. can't help you with the sex part tho
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El Mero Mero posted:how did u know it's funny we're currently reintroducing typewriters for the german government/spies because russian hackers are all over every 15 year old computer system operated by idiots
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Every day business essential people download excel files from Web portals, edit them and save them as csvs, those csvs are uploaded into a Google sheet, then downloaded by tech and imported into the database and some queries copy/pasted and edited by hand to insert the data in other systems. We've been "about to" go with a vendored solution for at least 6 mo now. It takes about half an hour of dev time per day and at least an hour of businesser time, and I was expressly forbidden from spending a few hours automating it due to the totally impending 3rd party solution
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We had to get one of our devops people to spend a day on the phone with a 3rd party talking them through installing an sftp server on one of their windows computers
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this is a good thread i like it * getting server space takes a minimum of 2 weeks. you can be crashing and burning production systems due to lack of db space and you'll get the same "please explain why you cannot just delete data to free space" queries and 8 levels of approvals for $50. at the same time, one group was storing like 2Tb in a single SQL Server table for "audit purposes" but admitted that they had no way of querying it and didn't know what those purposes were. * in ~10 years i have never seen a single "enterprise" "platform" get decommissioned, new ones get bought and the old ones left running and costing money. example: currently there are 3 simultaneously "supported" chat clients * many, many, many teams that exist solely to take file A and compare it to file B because even though system A and system B are connected, they want to manually reconcile them because either a) durr that's what we've always done b) "oh but we need to change the data in B manually, what do you mean that will create reconciliation breaks?" c) it is keeping them all employed the best was when they were literally comparing a file to a renamed version of itself. this was going on for years, they were like "it's a good process, there are no breaks"
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FrozenVent posted:oldjob had an ERP that supported two output format: that printer and that other printer holy gently caress lmao
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FrozenVent posted:oldjob had an ERP that supported two output format: that printer and that other printer i missed this lmao i told a team the other week that "nobody is reading the reports you spend 4 days a month generating". reports are the worst.
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my old job made us enter/print our timesheet in to a excel doc that we all had to individual create for ourselves so the formatting wasn't consistent and then there was an entire data entry department who manually typed the numbers in to whatever lovely payroll software they had because the internal devs couldn't quite crack that difficult nut that same place spent over 10 years attempting to make their java oracle middleware activex-only ERP software work on any kind of mobile platform and failed miserably multiple times
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oh yeah printing poo poo, the erp had to have any printers directly mapped to the ERP server because print jobs could not come from the client that was generating them, they had to PS jobs directly from the application server to whatever firewall so some users had to open their firewall for our server on 9100 or whatever the gently caress to get a printout
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yeah well our internet-accessible erp uses http for the home page. you know, the one you log in on every year the graduates figure out that they can manipulate the tests in the training section by fiddling with the urls naturally all expenses are handled by emailing a spreadsheet and posting off receipts instead of using any of the photograph your receipt style apps
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:oh yeah printing poo poo, the erp had to have any printers directly mapped to the ERP server because print jobs could not come from the client that was generating them, they had to PS jobs directly from the application server to whatever firewall so some users had to open their firewall for our server on 9100 or whatever the gently caress to get a printout yuuuuuuuup also if you do manage to somehow get it to save to a file the formatting is all done with spaces and carriage returns even in a csv
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:my old job made us enter/print our timesheet in to a excel doc that we all had to individual create for ourselves so the formatting wasn't consistent and then there was an entire data entry department who manually typed the numbers in to whatever lovely payroll software they had because the internal devs couldn't quite crack that difficult nut lmao i can feel this one
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fart simpson posted:lmao i can feel this one marge and sam and eustice and rose all have jobs because they get to tap away in these timesheets, which i assure you are printed out for the entry. maybe the internal devs knew about this so automating marge and sam and eustice and rose out of a job was a low priority.
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I have 54 different goals that I have the option to put an activity under when I report my activities and there are about 48 different time codes for reporting my time. There's also a third performance Management system where I'm supposed to upload random documents into of my own formatting and creation for reporting to a manager. None of these three are integrated of course so different things are reported to all three.
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ultravoices posted:marge and sam and eustice and rose all have jobs because they get to tap away in these timesheets, which i assure you are printed out for the entry. i'll automate their entire division if you just redirect 20% of their salaries to me 
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JewKiller 3000 posted:i'll automate their entire division if you just redirect 20% of their salaries to me 
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JewKiller 3000 posted:i'll automate their entire division if you just redirect 20% of their salaries to me maybe you'll get an olive garden gift card out of it. maybe.
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only comes in xs and 3xl for that true to life year 2000-slashdot-commenter-thinks-that-i'm-the-bofh look.
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ultravoices posted:maybe you'll get an olive garden gift card out of it. make it outback steakhaus 
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kloa posted:make it outback steakhaus the bloomin' food poisoning.
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small shell scripts are killing the horrendous industry. we left this script blank so you can help
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I once worked with an infrastructure deployment system that used .xlsx spreadsheets as its primary input.
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OWLS! posted:I once worked with an infrastructure deployment system that used .xlsx spreadsheets as its primary input. so the finance team runs the deployments?
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kloa posted:so the finance team runs the deployments? I wish, they'd be more efficient.
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Soricidus posted:my place used to do this except with an unbelievably lovely oracle thing that didn't understand minutes so you had to convert everything to decimal hours. it used to take a good half hour a week filling everything in.* I once had an internship at a place where you had to badge in at a timeclock, then fill out some cognos timesheet with your hours entered as decimals, and it would kick it back if your hours didn't match exactly with times from the timeclock. 
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Client trusted Godaddy to set up their Wordpress site
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ultravoices posted:only comes in xs and 3xl for that true to life year 2000-slashdot-commenter-thinks-that-i'm-the-bofh look.
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The XKCD Larper posted:Client trusted Godaddy to set up their Wordpress site
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