kensei posted:

Old thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3845247

Still quite possibly one of the funniest stories I have seen on this forum:

May your 2023 be a for you.

A Frosty Witch posted:

I've got a new client back home in the deep ol' south.

I'm trying to get a low voltage vendor out there to certify the lines as part of my pre-onboarding investigation and, of course, I have to reach out to vendors I used to work with at my last job before I moved, and, more importantly, before I transitioned. These are incredibly small businesses who remember every customer they've ever had, so of course they remember me. Sort of.

"Your name sounds familiar, have we worked with you before?"

Uh... yeah. You could say that. I used to work at [school], but I had a different name back then.

Then they connect the dots and, oh gosh, look at that, we don't have an opening to schedule anything after all, toodles.

Cool Dad posted:

Him: Based on your experience I don't think 20 is realistic.

wargames posted:

with how many bridges robert half has burned i am surprised they are still in operation.

A Frosty Witch posted:

My unemployment dried up a month ago so looks like Target has a new junior member to stock shelves.

Thus ends the saga of larchesdanrew.

It's been wild y'all

A Frosty Witch posted:

Just got a call that a potential job wants to fly me out to Portland for a second interview.

That's probably a good sign, right?

nexxai posted:

I mean, yes, that's technically true, but it has helped me (and I assume your co-worker, too) actually solve real problems, so it must be able to recognize the patterns of code we're throwing at it to get useful solutions to them. It would one thing if it's responses were non-sensical and didn't actually help, but I can say with certainty that at least in my cases, it has been able to produce meaningful responses to my questions about what a function is doing, to the point that I've been able to then move on to my original task and succeed where I would have otherwise continued to bang my head against my desk.

If you don't want to use it for that purpose, that's your prerogative, but to think your senior co-worker is doing something actively wrong by finding a way to make use of a tool at his fingertips seems like reverse-boomer-level nonsense.

AlexDeGruven posted:

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.

A Frosty Witch posted:

A Frosty Witch posted:

Oh.

Oh, hon.

Entropic posted:

A ticket came in...

"Whenever I lock my PC, my phone stops working, so when I leave my desk it doesn't ring, it just goes straight to voicemail"

Can you guess the cause?

Entropic posted:

Nope, it's a separate physical desk phone. Clue: It's a VOIP phone but their network does not have POE.

Thanks Ants posted:

I keep coming back to putting a keyboard in the toilets, what sort of dickhead behaviour is that

SyNack Sassimov posted:

I mean .....it SHOULD be.

(as in we should move to permanent DST)


(if you live in the north I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but darkness ain't one)

Hughmoris posted:

How do you say "You have the diabetes" in Irish?