dragonshardz posted:

In four years I'll hopefully be employed somewhere I don't hate and no longer be consigned to the realm wherein sketchy headhunters try to recruit me for lovely jobs.

Entropic posted:

This is a great post for phone browsing because I thought it was one of those chunky little cube towers but then had to keep scrolling and scrolling down.

ratbert90 posted:

My friend two days ago passed away from Leukemia, and it put things into perspective for me. Life is too short for this kind of bullshit, and my skills allow me to work from basically anywhere. Life is too short to work more than 40 hours a week for a company. I am never doing it again. My family and friends are more important than my career.

The Iron Rose posted:

gently caress printers

I'm still sometimes tempted to buy a production xerox for my apartment since at least that'll break fewer times and I can actually get support

Because goddamn printers are poo poo. I have no idea how something so essential to everyday life is so broken across literally every single vendor.

GreenNight posted:

Those of you with Dell laptops, ever seen an issue where the trackpad/mouse freezes every 5 seconds for a second or two constantly? Working on a laptop with that issue and I can't figure it out. Tried a new hard drive, formatted. In Windows 10.

Dick Trauma posted:

This sort of thing is the bane of my impatient web browsing.

MF_James posted:

Determining the cause of the collapse AT ANY COST, makes it sound like they are going to build an exact replica of the building/structure and collapse with it, perhaps TO DEATH.

Dillbag posted:

Inspector_666 posted:

My mother recently forwarded some article to everybody in the family about how you shouldn't keep your cell phone in a pocket because or radiation etc. I pointed out that I didn't really want to carry around a lead-lined container for my phone, especially since my parents get mad when I don't answer their calls. The article also implied that the radiation from the cell towers get "shot at" your phone when you use it as if there are a jillion little monodirectional antennae pointing at people when they use their phones.

All of this also ignores that I live in New York City, so even if I threw my phone into the river I'm surrounded by them and probably breathing more dangerous poo poo in 24/7.

Volguus posted:

I have wondered before: do they actually monitor poo poo like this (forum post where someone says something )? They probably do collect the data, but to analyze it ... it's just too much junk to go through.

GreenNight posted:

Over the course of 840 hours.

Sirotan posted:

Tried to find the original source for this image, in hopes of getting more info. It the process, found it as a part of a list of "tech gore":

https://mashable.com/2016/07/09/tech-support-gore/?geo=AS&utm_cid=mash-prod-nav-geo#v8APGKcImOqc

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

Just create a 200 page word document from a template that is filled with jibberish.

Somewhere in the middle just put "Plan: Fire my rear end in a top hat boss."

Siochain posted:

Long story short, it was something along the lines of him promising to follow-up on something/get something done/whatever, and if not, we could flog him about it. Said with a smile, meant to get a chuckle.
Then I grinned evilly and pulled out the cat 5'o'9 tails. Made my week.

My life is very sad and unexciting.

dogstile posted:

On the plus side, boring jobs means you're stable right?

Zamboni Apocalypse posted:

In othrr news, sounds like the City of Atlanta got Shermanwared...

Bob Morales posted:

They never, ever fire anyone when they are here. When they go on vacation, they bring the axe down.

Arquinsiel posted:

I had one of those pop up and after checking all the gubbinz realised that it was a legit email sent from a domain we owned but which was defunct due to branding, but maintained to prevent exactly this poo poo happening. There was literally nothing in it to suggest it was suspicious at all, except the CEO never bothers with the level of poo poo the email suggested. So I figured out what it was and opened the link in a VM to see what we were doing to educate users, as a good and curious new security dude.

Six pages into the PDF that I downloaded later, I got bored and stopped reading. It was just. So. Long. A non-technical user, of which we had lots, would just have stopped caring on page one.

Also the SOC went nuts because they couldn't work out who on the non-SOC security team opened the link and why it was being accessed from outside the company since I was running all my poo poo through our team's shared testing SSH tunnel due to firewall issues that ServiceNow was preventing the helpdesk even noticing existed and turned out to be due to group policy poo poo which wasn't fixed until a week before I left all while everyone else was using the SSH tunnel just because gently caress the web filter when you literally need to look up "blocked: hacking" content basically every ten minutes

GreenNight posted:

This, yes.

Judge Schnoopy posted:

I remember asking my dad to download 10mb demos from work and burning them to a CD because the 56k connection at home would always get interrupted by the phone ringing. He had an amazing t1 connection that blew me away.

Arquinsiel posted:

When I moved on from Xbox support I spent the first few hours of every day in a state of what I later realised was utter terror. Eventually I realised that nobody was calling me ever again, and I wasn't going to get into poo poo for not being on ready.

dragonshardz posted:

Keeping my head up is hard as gently caress. Going into year 2 of being unemployed save for a short stint at the local TRU during the holiday crush, nothing else otherwise. Probably part of why I'm getting ignored?

AlexDeGruven posted:

Learn to specialize in a platform where the vast majority of the experts are over 60 and looking for retirement.

You'll get recruiters pinging you constantly.

AlexDeGruven posted:

Which UNIX?

Jaded Burnout posted:

Tell that to the 50 runs of structured cable I need to punch down and keystone

Partycat posted:

Your wiring will fail certifying tests if you do this as they’re not wired to a standard. If you don’t split the pairs relative to the positioning maybe it works but why would you do that.

Just do it properly for TIA-568B like 99% of plant so that you don’t have to get your rear end kicked when you rewire something in a vendor warranted plant and violate that warranty.

Levitate posted:

I have a feeling I'm about to piss someone off enough that they're going to complain about me to someone else!

Request for access to a folder and then someone who's not on the approvers list says "I should be on that list, give them access and also put me on the list to approve people in the future" which is, uh, not how it works. I don't believe anything nefarious is afoot but come on. And it's a big rush because they want to get something up and going but ultimately didn't quite request the kind of access needed in the proper way either.

Oh well.

Javid posted:

I'm guessing people don't really grasp that it reopens it vs. thinking it's funny.

Magnus Praeda posted:

Back when I worked for the university Hell Desk as a student employee, I had a nontraditional old student reopen their ticket with "Thanks for the help!" When I re-closed it, I included a message that they didn't need to thank me and that replies would reopen the ticket.

They replied with "oh, I didn't realize that, sorry!"

Malek posted:

Our ticket system is balls and we reopen it if we get an email and decide it's worth reopening.
Also I don't think it's about the last word, it's about "I'm going to respond to let them know I got their email."
I like thank you emails. Had a customer call me "bruddah" once. Made my day.

Thanks Ants posted:

I just got the impression that your contact asking three times whether it’s possible that the water heater caused the problem was fishing for a “yeah we don’t recommend putting that kit in there” answer to take to her boss.