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Our children will never get to experience the hilarity and rage of a good old fashioned Reply All storm.
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kensei posted:I bet they will, life finds a way... When you invent something truly idiot proof, someone invents a better idiot.
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Are these work items being automatically created in TFS as they come up, or does someone need to do it manually? How should we be tracking our time on these?
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Zorak of Michigan posted:loving sucks that anyone has to think that way, though. It's nice being able to build relationships. This is my Official Sympathy Post. This so much. Networking is such a huge part of this industry, it's silly. And I say that being on easy mode (cis white male). I can only imagine the magnitudes of increase in difficulty otherwise.
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I keep getting random recruiters hitting me for on-site desktop support and it just makes me want to whack my LinkedIn entirely if it didn't occasionally provide a little bit of usefulness. Yes, I worked helpdesk. At the very start of my career. 25 years ago.
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Jan 13, 2023 13:44
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BaseballPCHiker posted:The random dumb recruiter crap just comes with the territory. If its the majority of job offers youre getting though, than your profile probably needs work. It's definitely a minority, but still annoyingly frequent.
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A Frosty Witch posted:I sent an email to lowtax about it. Hopefully we'll hear back soon. I can't not acknowledge this. loving lol. drat, woman. 😂
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Jan 16, 2023 01:48
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The thread also got shitcanned pretty quickly once everything that needed to be said was said. So if you weren't around as much during that period, it would have been easy to miss.
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Jan 27, 2023 22:47
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Reminds me of the 8k file size bug in Dreamweaver many moons ago.
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Jan 28, 2023 16:33
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The number of times I got calls about that when I was on first line helpdesk is insane.
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Feb 3, 2023 20:51
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5 invite Gmail user (June 2004, I think), Wave user (when I could make it do anything), and Google+ person (actually used it quite a lot for a while). I really wish Wave had turned into something more than a tech demo of what not to do for realtime collaboration. I swear there was another one out there I missed that died quickly. Probably several. But I probably tried them all.
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Goddammit, recruiters. I wasn't in the mood for jokes today. So let's play "Guess the salary!" Recruiter posted:Requirements: $125k in Princeton, NJ
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Yeah, they're dreaming with those requirements, and I told him as much in my response. Even in Detroit, $125k for that spot is lol.
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Ugh. I'm trapped in a form of cert hell with IBM support right now. They can't figure out that I'm asking for where to install a client cert on an HMC. They keep sending me docs and videos on creating/installing a server cert. IBM is turning off non-ssl access to their sites, which is a good thing. But we have Palo Alto proxies that do the mitm bit with SSL. So anything that does strict checking fails because there's a mismatch. Sending the ticket back for the third time today. Maybe I'll get my point clarified enough before I'm ready to retire.
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Mar 15, 2023 23:26
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ConfusedUs posted:My grandmother told me that AI was the antichrist and facial recognition was the mark of the best at Thanksgiving last year. Won't be surprised if I hear it from my in-laws soon. FIL is an evangelical pastor, so I'm honestly surprised it hasn't happened already. That being said. I've heard a lot of good things about the paid ChatGPT. I'm just not sure what I'd use it for currently over the free bit.
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Apr 28, 2023 16:15
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Sirotan posted:Just #blessed I guess What the gently caress is up with people in our state?
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Zorak of Michigan posted:My worry is that if/when it happens to me, I might give in to testosterone and reply with "bring it." I shouldn't talk too much, since back at the U we had a former Marine sniper start losing his poo poo and talking about "taking care" of some people. He was escorted from the building in handcuffs.
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May 18, 2023 12:12
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A Frosty Witch posted:It's me, the dumb bitch that just sent out like 18 cover letters with "Dear [recipient]" instead of an actual salutation because I thought I was slick making a template. The amount of spam I get from legit tech firms that gently caress up the salutation tells me you're absolutely fine.
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I have to upgrade my AIX print servers this summer and I'm really dreading it. 2 AIX LPARs running qdaemon that ships PCL right over the wire to target printers. It's ugly as gently caress, but it works for the very few things we print from that environment anymore. I was hoping to let them die on the vine, but they're going to stick around JUST long enough that I have to do something about them. I'm seriously considering just standing up new LPARs and shifting the configs over.
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xsf421 posted:Have you considered leaving before this comes due? It worked for me dodging some huge auth projects. lol, I mean, the clock is ticking already after last year's announcements, but I've got time and 2 juniors I can pawn most of the work off to.
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Weedle posted:a ticket came in. guy from hr is trying to share a ms form as a template with other staff. he tells me the link he's giving them doesn't work and names three specific people with the problem. i test the link myself and it works. i send the link to the guy next to me and it works for him too. i call each of the three people he named. the first two are having no issues and the third one is mad at me for interrupting her. thanks gary Recipients are ignoring Gary's messages because he's an annoying twat and he's not getting the hints.
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Perennial "why are tech recruiters complete bags of poo poo?" post. So many messages I get tell me you didn't actually read my profile without saying you didn't read my profile. Just a touch of loving effort, people, seriously.
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Arquinsiel posted:Yeah, I had one of those a few days ago. Kept asking me basic poo poo that's on my LinkedIn for so long that my phone ran out of battery mid-call. Sucks to be him I guess? They always ask for a call which prompts an immediate lolfuckoff. In this case it was a "field support technician" that's required to sell their own billable hours. How about a double lolfuckoff? Putting aside the fact that my last end user facing role ended 20+ years ago, there is no way in hell I'm acting as my own salesman for poo poo. AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I love the username + post combo recruitinghell and antiwork are goldmines for LinkedIn and other job searching horror stories and almost make it worth using reddit now and then. AlexDeGruven fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Aug 24, 2023 |
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Arquinsiel posted:I'm always available for a call. During work hours. Sure I'll let someone pay me to talk to you about a better job, why wouldn't I? I also give them my Irish number even though I'm living in the UK, because apart from the wonky signal in the area it's a real quick filter that some of them fail to pass. My original helldesk experience has sworn me off of cold calls. Even when I'm expecting a call, I don't answer a number I don't recognize or have saved. I get what you're saying, though. Wasting their time is never a bad plan.
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I have a server under my desk, no cold feet for me.
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Not really a  , but still fun. Had a technical interview for a potential contracting side gig. "strongly recommend" was used and said I undersold myself on the skills assessment. That made me feel good, because the assessment triggered the gently caress out of my imposter syndrome.90 min scheduled call, talked for over 2 hours. Really enjoyable to nerd out and swap stories with a fellow IT old.
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Drink and Fight posted:I used AI to write answers to the bullshit fluff questions on my annual self-eval last month. I highly suspect AI wrote those questions in the first place. Evals are poo poo, anyway. Self-evals doubly so.
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Shugojin posted:WEBPAGES LOADING SLOWLY The school can't install an ad blocker on the provided chromebooks because there's something in the district policy that prevents it. I don't know what idiocy that may be, but it's annoying AF and really makes them less useful.
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dragonshardz posted:It is probably a group policy that disables all installation of extensions. We asked, because one of the sites they had to use during the pandemic shutdown was loving awful. It's a school district policy that even they can't install a blocker. We already can't install extensions.
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Can we take a moment to appreciate that this old dead gay comedy forum is so supportive of issues like this? It's really heartwarming.
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Woohoo! we never had any doubt
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Had a similar issue with a notoriously lovely Intel WiFi chipset in my wife's work laptop. When you were within a few feet (like less than 10) it was fine. Otherwise it was poo poo. Since her desk at home was not directly under an enterprise AP, performance was spotty at best. It took sitting with support showing how our phones got better connection than her laptop while sitting farther away (and tons of links about that chipset) to get them to even take a look at it. Even then they wouldn't get her a new laptop and I ended up putting a high powered Ubiquiti AP in the basement ceiling right under her desk. AlexDeGruven fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Dec 2, 2023 |
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Thanks Ants posted:I'm fully invested in Do Nothing December now. I think the last three meetings I've joined I said hello at the start and then goodbye at the end, and sat on mute playing PlayStation the rest of the time. This is the way to do it. It's review and survey time here. Don't build anything new. Don't make changes. Don't make waves. 2.5 weeks is not as much time as you think and it's easy to push the "gently caress up everyone's holiday" button.
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Raymond T. Racing posted:As someone who’s done education jobs before, if you make enough of a fit you can probably get an off cycle check cut. Yep, had to do this for an emergency funeral trip a week and a half after I transitioned jobs. Supplemental check cut within hours of talking to my manager.
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Isepic posted:The backend is a rack of old Pentiums. Single-socket P5's with the floating-point bug in ATX mid-towers
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VPN won't connect this morning and connect/disconnect function is locked out for users. I call tech support. "Your estimated wait is 30 min" loving great. It's now 50 minutes later and I'm still on hold.
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Possible inbound. First application, phone screen with hiring manager, team interview and offer all within a week. Plus it's a company I like. Offer came in about 10k low, but they're not giving up. Company recently got bought by a private equity firm and has been hiring like crazy, so hopefully the RHCE 8 I have that so far nobody else in the company does will give that extra push.
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xsf421 posted:Glad to see you're escaping, finally. I feel like it's only a matter of time before they run the tech teams into the ground. Staying on the QL/RM side definitely saved my sanity. There's no way I would have been able to continue on the RCD side without losing my loving mind. If they make it work, there will still be some suckage because they're a vendor. At least I know my TL is way more pragmatic than dogmatic, unlike the Kool-Ade-ers over there. When the buyouts were going he was like "please don't, but I understand".
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Welp, no at least this time around. They can't afford what I need at the moment. Can't win 'em all. And in all honesty, I've got a pretty good gig right now. Management leaves me the gently caress alone. I can pretty much work on whatever I want. I've got tons of flexibility in scheduling. And the pay ain't half bad, either. But that interview experience definitely reinforced my thought that they will be a good place to look when I need somewhere to land. Definitely won't be here long term mainly because my poo poo is going away, eventually.
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:what about when your large enterprise (250,000 people give or take) requires everyone to use an 8 character password Tell them that AS/400 is old.
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