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mono posted:What is wrong with people. Edit for content on a new page: poo poo that pisses me off: People not properly mounting our external drives that we use for off-site backups. No my backup scrips wont run if you don't mount the drive with TrueCrypt. Moey fucked around with this message at Mar 21, 2011 around 17:30 |
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Moey posted:What is wrong with people. There's a local IT company that we take a lot of business from. We've seen this on every one of the servers that they've setup. This particular customer spent over $200k with them in one year alone (hardware/software/labor). Now that they're our customer, they're tight fisted and don't want to spend any money 
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We just lost power, but only to the wall outlets in the two "offices" that I work out of. Lights are up and power is fine everywhere else, but apparently these two rooms are on their circuit. Goddamn space-heaters.
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rscott posted:How do you get higher than a 4.0 on a 4 point scale? Karanth posted:Software engineering interns get treated better than scheduled breaks and bathroom rules.
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coyo7e posted:I take it you've never heard of community college or something? If you get A+ grades in many community colleges, you can get higher than a 4.0 GPA for that class. So it's laughably easy to be on the president's list of 4.00+ GPAs for a year or so. Some schools use a 5.0 scale.
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Shadowknight posted:Never thought I'd actually do it, but I finally wound up calling out of work due to stress. On a scale of 1-10, my stress-level is permanently at "7", going up to eight when I'm at work. Right now, I'm web surfing in a Starbucks out of town after spending the last 70 minutes walking around a sort of walking trail. Starting to unwind a bit, finally. If anyone else is having a horrible, horrible time at work, taking a day off, even if you have to call in sick (and stress is considered a real medical issue), can be worth it. Actually did this a few weeks ago and again last week. I'm moving in two months and quitting in one. Had a solid talk with one of my bosses about it in an "if you're not careful my replacement will run screaming for the hills and you'll be well-hosed" way. My stress level was more like a 12, took me every fiber of my being to not tear my shirt off and go on a Hulk-style rampage.
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re: Recruiters I got the majority of my gigs by just slappin the old resume up on Dice and Monster. I think the important thing is not to put too much faith in an individual recruiter. For example, say you give your resume to Bob from Agency X in Cleveland. I would guess that Bob will only have access to jobs that are local to Cleveland, only from companies that work with Agency X, and most likely only ones that he has permission to work with. Bob's scope will be very, very limited and he has little incentive to take the time to look nationally, or even to pass your resume to a local co-worker. If you're a true big wig I'm sure there are some kick rear end executive headhunters out there that don't gently caress around, but in general for IT that's not the case. EDIT: One more thing: Never put your phone number on Dice or Monster, it leads to bad things. hackedaccount fucked around with this message at Mar 21, 2011 around 21:29 |
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coyo7e posted:I take it you've never heard of community college or something? If you get A+ grades in many community colleges, you can get higher than a 4.0 GPA for that class. So it's laughably easy to be on the president's list of 4.00+ GPAs for a year or so. Back when I was in college grade inflation hadn't gotten that far yet!
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Wasted work. I spent 3 hours last week mapping a database category system migration so we can use a new categorization system. I had a great spreadsheet of our categories, the affected IDs, the new categories, etc, that with some regexing would be about 20 minutes work to actually implement. It was entirely manual because there were a lot of synonyms and plurals to map across, as well as a pretty diverse subject matter. I decided that the revisions were a bit too drastic to pull in the middle of a friday night so emailed it off to get everyone's input before proceeding. Turns out over the weekend someone "hurry up now!" did it and never even read my email or used the work I'd done. It's not major, and I'm not being blamed or anything, but just feels wasteful as I had a date with a bird that night down at the pub, and nothing I did really was any use.
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Citizen Z posted:You got it half right. You forgot: "You know that thing that's on the bench that's not due for two days and no one in the office touched all day? Yeah, you're going to need to stay late and get it ready to go. " A few weeks ago I spent a week standing around watching people install laptop mounts in vehicles, a week without whining, what a nice week that was.
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boo_radley posted:I'm gonna guess government job. Sounds like a poo poo government job... at my government job, you can come in/leave pretty much whenever you want so long as you put your hours in. You're welcome to spend time talking with coworkers about whatever because we're geeks, we end up talking about work stuff anyway so it ends up a win overall. Lunch is however long you like. Breaks come whenever. Espresso machine across the room from me. Some of my coworkers leave the office at odd hours to visit the on-site gym; it's sorta like Google but with more automatic weapons. And there sure as HELL aren't any bathroom-break restrictions. For content: Although my job is very nice, I've been there about 3 months but I do not as yet have an office. I'm currently working in a "collaboration area", which isn't too bad; however I'm pretty sure there have been a few new guys coming after me that got offices. Ok, assholes, so I don't have a Ph.D yet... my immediate manager is awesome so I don't think he's screwing me specifically, but I do wonder what's going on. Hell, I had an office when I was an intern here, but then I left and somebody else got it. We're basically at capacity in terms of people, and the budget is in enough trouble that we're in the middle of a pay freeze, but oddly enough we're still hiring like crazy. Oh, and a disadvantage of working in the collaboration area is that my rather clueless coworker (on one of the same projects as me) wants to discuss stuff all the time. Except she doesn't so much discuss things, as mention vaguely a problem and expect me to solve it. Hey, if you're missing packets over a guaranteed-delivery network (it's really truly infallible barring hardware dying), maybe you ought to check your packet counter variables. And please remember that you can't actually transfer a string by sending the pointer over the network. Oh, and you'd think that somebody who had worked for Sun might have a slightly better understanding of Unix & vi, and could possibly type with more than 2 fingers... apparently not! If I dare crack a Coke, I'd better be ready for the lecture about how terrible it is for me. I was raised to respect my elders, but that's getting sorely tested right about now.
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enotnert posted:Here's a tip. Thank, I tried that and no joy I'll try it again selecting vanilla xp and see what it gets me. May try win 7 32 if no joy as the mac only has 2 gig of ram anyway.
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Lost my "recycle bin = store important messages here" virginity today.
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Pham Nuwen posted:If I dare crack a Coke, I'd better be ready for the lecture about how terrible it is for me. I was raised to respect my elders, but that's getting sorely tested right about now. People not understanding science always drives me up a wall. This sort of statement always makes me start asking the person questions and then I jump all over them when they say stuff like "Well, it's just known that sodas cause diabetes!" Last week someone was talking about how (in Wisconsin), they really, really need to get iodine tablets and gas masks because of Japan's nuclear meltdown. I snapped and told him he was the biggest idiot I know and went into a tirade about how little radiation has actually released. He then countered about how the Japanese spinach was no longer safe and I had to explain the difference in regulated vs actual safety limits and how governments always regulated way lower. I can be an rear end in a top hat about this stuff, but come on. If you are going to be a dumb, panicky animal, strip naked and head into the northern frozen tundra and leave the rest of us alone.
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beyonder posted:Lost my "recycle bin = store important messages here" virginity today.  mine was a few weeks ago.
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Arsten posted:People not understanding science always drives me up a wall. This sort of statement always makes me start asking the person questions and then I jump all over them when they say stuff like "Well, it's just known that sodas cause diabetes!" Another friend of mine who teaches in Arizona said that her students were apparently panicking over radioactive acid rain and thought that the end of the world was coming because it was sunny one day, and raining the next. What the gently caress?
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Arsten posted:People not understanding science always drives me up a wall. This sort of statement always makes me start asking the person questions and then I jump all over them when they say stuff like "Well, it's just known that sodas cause diabetes!" well you know the world is round and that means radiation can travel in both directions so no one is safe
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Generic, shared user accounts configured with email in a HIPAA environment. My boss doesn't understand how that could be a problem. 
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Rohaq posted:My mom works for a pharmaceutical company in New Zealand, and they're getting people panic-buying iodine tablets for the risk of radiation that is about as bad as is was in the UK after Chernobyl (negligible). Apparently what's worse is that there are negative effects from overdosing on iodine tablets, which people are likely to do. You need to send this image out to the people who think the sky is falling: http://xkcd.com/radiation/
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beyonder posted:Lost my "recycle bin = store important messages here" virginity today. was it a C-Level? It's way more fun when it's a C-Level and you have to hear all the nonsense that goes with it.
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Rohaq posted:Another friend of mine who teaches in Arizona said that her students were apparently panicking over radioactive acid rain and thought that the end of the world was coming because it was sunny one day, and raining the next. What the gently caress? There was a short story on NPR this morning about how the death toll from the earthquake and tsunami was over 7,000, and the death toll from nuclear fallout is zero. But people have already transitioned to calling it the nuclear disaster in Japan. They interviewed a professor who studies the psychology of fear and the TL;DR was people fear what they don't understand. You can wrap your head around an earthquake, but the average mouthbreather we rage about in this thread only knows what they learned about radiation watching "24".
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"we paid good money for that book, why would we recycle it?"
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Replace the word "book" with "software", and the book itself with dozens of still-sealed copies of Office 95/97, and Windows NT4.
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We have Win 3.0/3.1/3.11 boxes. And a bookshelf full of that stuff. I'm bringing my camera soon, hah. I just reinstalled Win2K on a guy's computer because he refuses to learn anything newer than FrontPage/CorelDraw. He's 65, I wish he would just retire. He's our entire web design department 
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What's that? You promised the client we'd have 6 days worth of work ready for them in 3 days time before you'd even checked if anyone was available? And now that someone technical has taken a look it turns out to be 9 days of work? I can see why you'd be angry about the situation, because I certainly am.
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I just had a user call with a password issue:quote:Oh, I need to log off in order to change my password? SSSSSIIIIIGGGGGHHHHH Such a dramatic act for a simple forced password change. I wish I could have said, "Just shut up and do what I say so I can fix your problem you baby."
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teethgrinder posted:We have Win 3.0/3.1/3.11 boxes. And a bookshelf full of that stuff. I'm bringing my camera soon, hah. Hours of fun!
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Oh man. So there's some cracked out folder redirect policy in the new place I'm adminstering. Here's my boss's version of what happened:  Why is my desktop suddenly populated with all kinds of users documents and shortcuts I no comprende! YOU MUST FIX THIS RIGHT NOW OMG. The resulting conversation.  Oh my god the CEO has 5 user's synchronized documents on his laptop this is the end of the world. I'm going to freak out and interrupt your lunch because we really need to find out what's going on oh my god oh my god. What did you do to the GPO? Nothing, that isn't one of the ones I modifed. Well, it looks like someone accidentally copied over a bunch of files to the Desktop sync folder that are going to everyone. I'll remove them. We must investigate! I must find out why this happened! I must explain it to my boss!What I think actually happened that sparked the panic: Hey, you know, a few documents appeared on my desktop this morning. Ah ok, I'll talk to IT boss about it.NewBoss appears to have a very low threshold for stress or troubleshooting. He's probably upstairs right now groveling instead of treating it like the no loving big deal human error it is. Thank god tonight is trivia night. 
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Starbucks posted:Create a Virtual Machine and upgrade from win 3.0 to Windows 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14
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I just got out of a meeting where we spent a good 10 minutes trying to decide whether to call something "Release Notes" or "Install Guide". That's not 10 minutes discussing what was contained in said document - just it's official name. Just the name... This day can't be over soon enough. At least tonight is board game night.
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teethgrinder posted:On the chance you aren't aware of this: That dude was way too obsessed with his pink color scheme.
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HatfulOfHollow posted:I just got out of a meeting where we spent a good 10 minutes trying to decide whether to call something "Release Notes" or "Install Guide". That's not 10 minutes discussing what was contained in said document - just it's official name. Just the name... I love collaborative IT departments. 
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SmellsOfFriendship posted:
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Cpt.Wacky posted:Generic, shared user accounts configured with email in a HIPAA environment. My boss doesn't understand how that could be a problem. I disabled a whole bunch of user accounts, including 5 training logins. My boss re-enabled them. Because we might need them some day! What's up fellow HIPAA goon.
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teethgrinder posted:On the chance you aren't aware of this: That's glorious, and makes me feel old(er).
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SmellsOfFriendship posted:I love collaborative IT departments. 
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I love it when AV scans of single files pop up in the console: Scanned disks, folders and files: E:\MATURE\445413_2164b3e2[1].jpg Wonder what that is.
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I just used Firefox 4.0 to download IE6 on an IE5/Win2K computer. I couldn't run Windows Update nor navigate to the IE6 installer in IE5.
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teethgrinder posted:On the chance you aren't aware of this:
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Steve Moore posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIgOik-xODE
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