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Powdered Toast Man posted:"I guess I picked the wrong week to quit drinking." Welp. Sorry to hear that, you were so happy about it too 
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| # ? May 24, 2013 16:30 |
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drat PTM, that sucks.
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| # ? May 23, 2013 22:26 |
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Why would they not give a reason?  That's poo poo, sorry man.
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| # ? May 23, 2013 22:27 |
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Powdered Toast Man posted:"I guess I picked the wrong week to quit drinking." Wow, that's really tough Sorry man.
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| # ? May 23, 2013 22:37 |
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Powdered Toast Man posted:"I guess I picked the wrong week to quit drinking." Oh my god I am so sorry.
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| # ? May 23, 2013 23:29 |
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Powdered Toast Man posted:"I guess I picked the wrong week to quit drinking." It's even worse when you're not given a reason - Hopefully you get some kind of feedback.
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| # ? May 23, 2013 23:48 |
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That is the saddest thing I've heard all day PTM.rolleyes posted:Why would they not give a reason? Probably because they don't have to.  is great and lots of people would love to work there but that's exactly it. They can have anyone and can burn people for the smallest thing until they get their perfect person in the role.
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| # ? May 24, 2013 01:08 |
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It was going well. Nothing but positive comments from everyone there. It took me completely by surprise. After the fact I talked to a couple of friends I made there and they said that is just how it is with contract labor at Google. You are lower than dirt. You are expendable. Take that into consideration of you are thinking about working for Google as a contractor. I know that to an extent this is true with all contract jobs, but this...really, really upset me. I had a lot invested in this job emotionally (which was my mistake), and I was really enjoying it. As it is, I'm left with a rather bad taste in my mouth. Kinda funny, though, one of the other opportunities I was working before Google made me an offer...well, I called the recruiter back today because he was great to work with and he's like, those people didn't even want anyone else after interviewing you...so that might still turn out since it's only been a little over a month. I hope so, because our savings are already gone from my last period of unemployment.
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| # ? May 24, 2013 01:14 |
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Powdered Toast Man posted:It was going well. Nothing but positive comments from everyone there. It took me completely by surprise. After the fact I talked to a couple of friends I made there and they said that is just how it is with contract labor at Google. You are lower than dirt. You are expendable. I'm sorry to hear that PTM. I hope that other job pans out for you.
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| # ? May 24, 2013 01:33 |
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P.S. STILL COMPLETELY DEVOID OF MERIT
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I'm loving done with entitled loving people that can't respect my time. And half the time, it's the pissant CAD techs("draftsmen" is so gauche) who are the culprits, too. About 4:55 today, I'm sitting at my desk talking to a section manager out in California, trying to work out a remediation plan for a security breach involving his server. One of the sparkies, a british ex-pat comes running into my cube and starts yelling at me while I'm mid-sentence.  "I'm hav-" *Points at phone* "No, I'm-" *makes 'the phone gesture'* "No, no I-" *putting manager on mute* "I'm on the phone, shoot me an email or IM please." "No-" "I'm not getting off this call. Email me or call the helpdesk. storms off and I get an email about 10 minutes later. The problem? He couldn't log into his loving timesheet. It's a problem of user confusion from a recent update(Turns off SSO in IE) and this guy couldn't figure out how to enter his password. He was freaking out because timesheets were due in an hour. Not only could the helpdesk have fixed this in 10 seconds flat, you can call you drat timesheets in to payroll in event of issues.I remoted in and fixed it for him, only to get a lovely reply to my email: "I don't appreciate your rudeness when I need help." Citizen Z fucked around with this message at May 24, 2013 around 12:20 |
| # ? May 24, 2013 03:34 |
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:I'm currently using Backup Exec 2005 to backup a dozen SQL Databases, a few exchange servers, about a dozen hypervisors hosting a hundred virtual servers, etc, etc. For what it's worth, BE2010 has worked flawlessly for me in a smiliar situation to yours. At my last gig we had an exchange server, a bevvy of SQL Servers and a bajillion VMs to back up. We weren't doing file-by-file backups of the VMs, though. We just backed up the whole VMDK and on the off chance someone needed a specific file we restored the whole VMDK to a standalone ESX host and recovered the file. Never had to though.  What are the problems you are experiencing?
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| # ? May 24, 2013 04:10 |
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Citizen Z posted:I'm loving done with entitled loving people that can't respect my time. And half the time, it's the pissant CAD techs("draftsmen" is so gauche) who are the culprits, too. gently caress that guy, that shall not stand. Bark up his chain of command until he begs forgiveness.
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| # ? May 24, 2013 06:31 |
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Citizen Z posted:"I don't appreciate your rudeness when I need help." Dear [poo poo-for-brains], I don't appreciate being interrupted when I'm in the middle of an important call. I also don't appreciate people being rude when I offer them help for a problem that could have been handled faster by the helpdesk. In the future we can avoid rudeness by: a) You not asking me for assistance with any issues helpdesk can handle. b) Me not offering you any assistance with any issues helpdesk can handle. Let's both avoid future rudeness by following the above. For my part I promise to do so from now on. Yours truly CZ Edit: Today's poo poo: Self-important producers can go hump a telephone pole. Today's  : PiP on my new monitor is soo sweet!
Crowley fucked around with this message at May 24, 2013 around 08:12 |
| # ? May 24, 2013 08:08 |
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Paladine_PSoT posted:gently caress that guy, that shall not stand. Bark up his chain of command until he begs forgiveness. It won't do a drat bit of good. There's a culture of entitlement specific to our office(Used to be the headquarters before the buyout). that is, in part, fed by this guy's management. No one seems to get that: A)We actually have a helpdesk now B)We went from 6 techs years ago, to 4 and finally 2 last year and C)We've been told to actually provide support to our support region instead of ignoring everyone not in the head office. At least I did convince management that I can't be users' personal moving service for anything with a transistor.
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| # ? May 24, 2013 12:17 |
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I can't help you if you think using a phone involves putting the phone down and talking into your arm. How do grown highly paid adults fail at such basic levels?
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| # ? May 24, 2013 12:56 |
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jim truds posted:I can't help you if you think using a phone involves putting the phone down and talking into your arm. How do grown highly paid adults fail at such basic levels?
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| # ? May 24, 2013 13:59 |
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loving HP's FTP uploads. I can start it now and when I come back in on Monday, I'm sure I can still get a cup of coffee for the entire loving building before it's actually finished. And it's not even that much logging.
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| # ? May 24, 2013 14:10 |
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| # ? May 24, 2013 16:30 |
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Citizen Z posted:I remoted in and fixed it for him, only to get a lovely reply to my email: "I don't appreciate your rudeness when I need help." The correct reply was "Me neither." and nothing else.
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