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hackedaccount posted:Go to your local grocery store and have a cake made. On the cake, it will say in big letters "I quit -- Sincerely <name> <date>". Take a picture of the cake after it's complete so you don't lose the paper trail. hahha i am so going to do this. EDIT: Ohh new page... Well you know what really gets to me ? When you have to rely on the onsite data centre staff who are always busy/lazy to unlock a rack for you. Had me waiting 45 minutes before some one bothered to show up. dj_pain fucked around with this message at Mar 17, 2011 around 03:07 |
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dj_pain posted:hahha i am so going to do this. Data center jobs are one of those best kept secrets of IT. I don't know a single person who has more time to watch tv then the guy I know who works at a datacenter. He is the laziest person I have ever met and someone met the qualifications for the job. They usually are pretty difficult to get into, but once you are, its a gold mine.
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madmaan posted:Data center jobs are one of those best kept secrets of IT. I don't know a single person who has more time to watch tv then the guy I know who works at a datacenter. He is the laziest person I have ever met and someone met the qualifications for the job. They usually are pretty difficult to get into, but once you are, its a gold mine. My first job at this university was in the server room and holy poo poo is this the truth. I watched so much TV in those 10 months including the complete series of SG:1, Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica. I also knocked out the first season of LOST, Firefly, and a pile of movies.
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Naramyth posted:My first job at this university was in the server room and holy poo poo is this the truth. I watched so much TV in those 10 months including the complete series of SG:1, Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica. I also knocked out the first season of LOST, Firefly, and a pile of movies. The funny thing is that the datacenter jobs I have come in contact with pay very well and have very little work load. They checked out alarm points, did some routine maintenance, and unlocked physical racks so SOMEONE ELSE could come do actual physical installations. Most aren't even on the hook for backup up or installing anything.
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I'm supposed to write documentation for and give a presentation on "Google Apps" on Monday. What the gently caress. These are the most ambiguous instructions I've ever been given and my boss seems incapable of clarifying what she wants exactly. I assume it's something handed down to her that she doesn't get either.
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teethgrinder posted:I'm supposed to write documentation for and give a presentation on "Google Apps" on Monday. Get a big rear end white posterboard and trim it down to look like a cloud. Then write "DATA" on it and put it on a stick. Say "This is your data floating around on the ocean we call the internet" and then take out a zippo and set it on fire. floor is lava fucked around with this message at Mar 17, 2011 around 14:50 |
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madmaan posted:The funny thing is that the datacenter jobs I have come in contact with pay very well and have very little work load. They checked out alarm points, did some routine maintenance, and unlocked physical racks so SOMEONE ELSE could come do actual physical installations. Most aren't even on the hook for backup up or installing anything. I love my NOC job. I also do Hostmaster and provisioning here, but this is really pretty simple.
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teethgrinder posted:I'm supposed to write documentation for and give a presentation on "Google Apps" on Monday. Probably. The plus is, you can almost certainly get away with rebranding the Google documentation. The drat users will never look at it anyway.
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m2pt5 posted:Picture link Way too polite, not enough 
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mllaneza posted:Probably. The plus is, you can almost certainly get away with rebranding the Google documentation. The drat users will never look at it anyway. I guess I'm just putting together a list of useful plug-ins for Thunderbird for contact & calendar syncing. (Click by click instructions for installing them.) Otherwise I'm just going to link to the official documentation with some added context. Everything I've had to do I've used Apps just to set an example. Even the presentation slides. At least it gets people to remember their new passwords, being forced to log in every time to view my work. The presentation sounds like it's going to be more of a company-wide Q&A session. Again, kind of dumb if they're not sitting at their computers.
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madmaan posted:The funny thing is that the datacenter jobs I have come in contact with pay very well and have very little work load. They checked out alarm points, did some routine maintenance, and unlocked physical racks so SOMEONE ELSE could come do actual physical installations. Most aren't even on the hook for backup up or installing anything. I think I would shoot myself if that's all I did everyday. I left a job because everything had become so stable that I sat around, posted and played WoW all day. There was no money for new projects so there was no point to stick around. It's great to think of how nice it would be to not have to do anything all day, but then you realize you still have to go to the office and do nothing there. If the office had been located at the beach or had a nice scenic view, things may have been different though.
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Harry Totterbottom posted:I think I would shoot myself if that's all I did everyday. I left a job because everything had become so stable that I sat around, posted and played WoW all day. There was no money for new projects so there was no point to stick around. It's great to think of how nice it would be to not have to do anything all day, but then you realize you still have to go to the office and do nothing there. This is exactly my situation currently. I love the people I work with and for, but we've set everything up right and worked out the kinks in our new infrastructure so the only issues we have outside of hardware refreshes are related to user training and break/fix busy work. There's absolutely no money coming into higher education right now so I don't have any fun projects to work on either. I essentially get paid to handle the occasional ticket and browse the forums for the other seven and a half hours a day I'm here. It sounds awesome when you're working a job that puts you deep in the weeds from the moment you walk in the door until the time you leave, but it's really not. I'd much rather have an ongoing problem or project to keep my brain stimulated and my skills up to date instead of sitting here catching up on the latest memes and viral videos.
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frozenphil posted:This is exactly my situation currently. I love the people I work with and for, but we've set everything up right and worked out the kinks in our new infrastructure so the only issues we have outside of hardware refreshes are related to user training and break/fix busy work. There's absolutely no money coming into higher education right now so I don't have any fun projects to work on either. I essentially get paid to handle the occasional ticket and browse the forums for the other seven and a half hours a day I'm here. On that same thought, why not setup a virtual workstation and work on work on some new skills?
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madmaan posted:On that same thought, why not setup a virtual workstation and work on work on some new skills? I am, I'd just rather figure out real problems/projects instead of inventing them, if that makes sense.
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frozenphil posted:I am, I'd just rather figure out real problems/projects instead of inventing them, if that makes sense. I get into the same boat when it comes to doing lab stuff. Sure you can break and fix stuff and setup and try things, but you don't learn stuff until someone/something else breaks it in some way that you're completely in the dark as to how it happened.
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 : This change in (billing system) has killed my productivity! : Change hasn't gone through because AR found an error -- didn't you read the notice this morning? It's been delayed for two days for bugfix and testing with the vendor.: (death stare):  have a great day!(two days pass) : This change in (billing system) has killed my productivity!: Alright, so how do you measure your productivity?: :question: I... I... What?: have a great day!People who hate change just for the sake of hating change! 
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I had a woman in our call center flip the gently caress out on me because I upgraded her from office xp to 2003, and it reset all of her panes so she didn't know where everything was. I swear she was on the verge of a goddamn panic attack, I just watched in amusement as a coworker calmed her down and showed her everything.
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Moey posted:Way too polite, not enough If you want to be really about it, use a cake appropriate for the number of people in your office, and put your letter of resignation on the board under the cake.
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m2pt5 posted:If you want to be really
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Harry Totterbottom posted:I think I would shoot myself if that's all I did everyday. I left a job because everything had become so stable that I sat around, posted and played WoW all day. There was no money for new projects so there was no point to stick around. It's great to think of how nice it would be to not have to do anything all day, but then you realize you still have to go to the office and do nothing there. Ahh that was the other thing after I was done with my TV. I had so much time to play WoW that I ran out of things to do by my self(that were not crazy things that my coworker did like level one of each class) and wound up quitting.(we also fielded after hours
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floor is lava posted:Get a big rear end white posterboard and trim it down to look like a cloud. Then write "DATA" on it and put it on a stick. Say "This is your data floating around on the ocean we call the internet" and then take out a zippo and set it on fire. Thread is a goldmine of awesome suggestions this week.
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Why do out of the box managers feel like micromanaging everything. I know what I'm doing. That is why you hired me. And uh, find some loving tools. It took me all of two seconds to find out if a website was up using isitup.org.
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m2pt5 posted:If you want to be really
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Cake is all well and good, but if you want maximum smugness, personalized fortune cookie fortunes that they would need to put together like a puzzle to get your entire resignation letter is the way to go.
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Naramyth posted:Ahh that was the other thing after I was done with my TV. I had so much time to play WoW that I ran out of things to do by my self(that were not crazy things that my coworker did like level one of each class) and wound up quitting.(we also fielded after hours That reminds me of when I worked help desk 3rd shift and they company hadn't really made a big announcement that we were open 24 hours. That was when I would dial up and play EQ while drinking double brewed coffee to stay away from 11pm - 8am. It would usually be a call around 11:05pm then silence till about 7:30am. That was all the motivation I needed to go back to school and get my degree.
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madmaan posted:The funny thing is that the datacenter jobs I have come in contact with pay very well and have very little work load. They checked out alarm points, did some routine maintenance, and unlocked physical racks so SOMEONE ELSE could come do actual physical installations. Most aren't even on the hook for backup up or installing anything. The scary part is when you gently caress up and there's a giant ATL that you think you've just switched off (it wasn't thankfully)
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I use a hotmail account  There is even a field in the mail header that says which IP the mail originated, and microsoft is too dumb to check if mail is coming from their own servers The result: hotmail spam from everywhere
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Speaking of things that piss me off that I'm dealing with, anyone know of any employee monitoring solutions that don't log keystrokes but have the ability to remotely view the users screen. I hate this big brother crap, but we're being asked to investigate it.
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Melted_Igloo posted:I use a hotmail account
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The NCAA's MMOD streaming service doesn't allow to watch their videos if you have adblock enabled. gently caress you guys you loving motherfuckers I don't want to watch your lovely loving ads that will stream fine but the actual game stream stutters every 10 god drat seconds. gently caress.
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rscott posted:The NCAA's MMOD streaming service doesn't allow to watch their videos if you have adblock enabled. gently caress you guys you loving motherfuckers I don't want to watch your lovely loving ads that will stream fine but the actual game stream stutters every 10 god drat seconds. I've found that if you turn it off, load the stream, then turn it on again it works fine. I haven't tried switching between games so maybe that doesn't work (?). I'm just thrilled that it's even offered. Compare to poo poo-rear end mlb.tv which is $100+ for the season, blacks out your local teams and doesn't let you watch the playoffs.
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Harry Totterbottom posted:Speaking of things that piss me off that I'm dealing with, anyone know of any employee monitoring solutions that don't log keystrokes but have the ability to remotely view the users screen. I hate this big brother crap, but we're being asked to investigate it. I know it exists, because they had something like that in a computer lab classroom when I was in college. The professor didn't watch it like a hawk or anything, but he did not like it if you were dicking around on the internet while he was trying to teach something.
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Docjowles posted:I've found that if you turn it off, load the stream, then turn it on again it works fine. I haven't tried switching between games so maybe that doesn't work (?). Should have went to SAS and gotten in on a mlb.tv pool, $20 a person and the playoffs are included this year! (Out of market doesn't bother me since I'm a Tigers fan in Kansas)
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rscott posted:Should have went to SAS and gotten in on a mlb.tv pool, $20 a person and the playoffs are included this year! (Out of market doesn't bother me since I'm a Tigers fan in Kansas) I did not know this was a thing  Out of market is more of an annoyance than a deal breaker for me, as I am a Red Sox fan in Colorado. It's nice to be able to watch the Rockies when are are not sucking, though. Anyway thanks for pointing this out.
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stubblyhead posted:I know it exists, because they had something like that in a computer lab classroom when I was in college. The professor didn't watch it like a hawk or anything, but he did not like it if you were dicking around on the internet while he was trying to teach something. Yeah, it's just hard to find a product that doesn't look shady in this sort of market to begin with so I'm hesitant to even visit some of the google results. So far what I've tried has been over the top big brother stuff that really does way more than we're looking to do. I'd much rather just use WebSense and have managers not be shady and actually manage their people instead of asking IT to do it instead.
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To continue the whining about unique snowflake developers from yesterday, there's a bug in the programmer's code that affects users with no consistency. We (the guys doing the actual support) have brought it up with the boss and the programmer before, and after having to do an absolutely ridiculous amount of testing and diagnostics for him, he still vehemently denies there's a problem. The problem isn't happening exactly how we described it to begin with, so obviously there's no bug at all! Today I have a user that can has the bug, and it's consistently occurring in a way that we haven't been able to consistently reproduce in the past. I go to the boss with this, after having to spend a solid hour of doing arbritary tests so he doesn't ignore it outright, and he calls the programmer in. I tell him we're having the same problem that was happening before, and I started telling him my observations and what's worked and what hasn't and before I even finish my first sentence he indigantly interrupts with, "What? Why are you doing that? You shouldn't be doing that! Don't mess around with it leave it alone!" The guy gets hurt and upset every single loving time we have to go to him about a problem with his code. I don't think I've ever heard him say, "Ok that shouldn't be happening, we'll fix that," just outright denials and refuses to look into the matter.
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HalloKitty posted:I think it's more that people tend to make irrational decisions to buy Macs that don't fit their business whatsoever, as opposed to hating Macs themselves. Monday: sales gets macs Wednesday: fifteen tickets, "need mac version of MS Project, Visio, and Expensable." All the more annoying is that the landing page for expensable shows the app running under XP poorly photoshopped onto a macbook.
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xarph posted:Monday: sales gets macs Expensable I don't know, but OmniGraffle substitutes nicely for Visio and OpenProject is a very nice Project clone. I like the whining about Quicken integration on the Expensable page.
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TheGopher posted:unique snowflake developers  He needs to get over his ego and realize unintended poo poo happens.
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Naramyth posted:
I don't understand why developers get so bent out of shape when people find bugs. When I write code, I specifically send it around to other people to get them to look at it for exactly that reason. Sure, if they come back with some sort of smug attitude about my scrubby code I'm likely to get a little annoyed at them, but it's very helpful otherwise to have outside people review your code and catch assumptions that you've been making or things you've just looked past since you've been looking at the code so much.
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