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Vidmaster posted:What's even better than mass company emails is when people start doing reply-all with stuff like "please remove me from this email chain" followed by 300 more "me too"s and then a bunch more people replying with "stop using reply-all". I think a couple people got written up for it at least, but the sheer level of stupidity everyone needs to keep replying is mindblowing. Ah yes the "reply to all" snowball effect. User responds to company wide e-mail via reply to all, another user replies to all to say "please don't hit reply to all" another user then says "guys we get the point, please stop e-mailing me." Then soon a few other people chime in with "why do I keep receiving this?" Then the president of the company steps in and basically tells everyone to shut the gently caress up and it ends.
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Diocletian posted:
 Let us assume for a second that businesses aren't old and archaic. When will GMail type threading be used in the business, or why can't people use forums either?
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Nybble posted:Let us assume for a second that businesses aren't old and archaic. When will GMail type threading be used in the business, or why can't people use forums either? On another note, today is terribly slow for a Monday. I'm not complaining about being able to re-read my favorite thread on the intertubes, but wouldn't it be awesome if I could actually be making *more* money with my free time? Have you all ever spent your listless hours pondering the same?
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If your screens are not easily visible by other people, vpn to home, rdp into your desktop, and run a porn site.
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devmd01 posted:If your screens are not easily visible by other people, vpn to home, rdp into your desktop, and run a porn site. Is that even profitable? I figured everyone just pirated their porn, just like their music, movies, and TV shows.
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devmd01 posted:If your screens are not easily visible by other people, vpn to home, rdp into your desktop, and run a porn site.  COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY
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ab0z posted:Is that even profitable? I figured everyone just pirated their porn, just like their music, movies, and TV shows. 'Everyone' is not the type of user that is the reason for this thread.
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Nuke posted:On another note, today is terribly slow for a Monday. I'm not complaining about being able to re-read my favorite thread on the intertubes, but wouldn't it be awesome if I could actually be making *more* money with my free time? I actually walked in to zero emails that didn't come from automated tasks on my Exchange server. While I do have a couple tickets outstanding, I can only work on one of them today and it's just running some cable at a location that'll make me around $90 in mileage round-trip. Can't complain. That said, consider using your free time to study. I was originally picking up scripting languages in my spare time, but kept hitting roadblocks because I'd come across something that I didn't understand and have no one to ask -- no one here, including the programmer, can program. Now I'm studying for certifications, which I think probably will end up making me more money in the long run. I had nothing in September, and now I've got my MCSA:Messaging and I'm two exams from MCSE with a certificate hanging on my wall that tells my supervisor to stop sneering when I tell him that rebooting the server is not going to help network congestion. Even if I don't make any more money at this job, that last bit is worth every one of the est. five thousand pages of reading I've done so far for this.
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Yeah I probably should do that instead of read SA all day...
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ab0z posted:Yeah I probably should do that instead of read SA all day... I do both. I'd probably be getting through exams faster than one every three weeks if I were just studying. 
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NeuralSpark posted:Holy poo poo I had to support this a few years back, talk about a total clusterfuck. OPERA is not your friend. Also, most hotels don't change the default OPERA admin password. Radisson Suites, this means you. So yeah, I can get free goods if I can access the OPERA system at the hotel I select. Of course, the IP may be logged, so they may be able to trace it back to the room. So there is that consolation at least.
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Nvm, read your post in the cert thread Where do you get your reading material, Midelne? I have a bunch of study guides, but I don't know which #'s to study. I know this belongs in the certification thread, but, since you're browsing and all... Nuke fucked around with this message at Apr 27, 2009 around 15:42 |
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I had to put in a new computer for the company president today. It went fine and his only request was "to make the new computer look exactly like the old one" which was a bit tricky because he was running a old old dell on windows 2000. The thing that made it horrible is his secretary whose husband works as a programmer. She hovered around me the whole time giving me suggestions and telling me I was doing things wrong. She is not completely computer-illiterate but she really pisses me off because she tries to be in everyone's business and disguises it by being "helpful" and asking questions that she says need to be asked to make sure things get done. "are you going to enable access to web mail on this machine?" yes, he will be able to open IE not that it matters since he has Outlook on here. "Are you going to connect him to the server, he needs access to the server" yes, why wouldn't I? all our companies files are on there. "did you set up his Outlook so he can receive emails?" "What about his profile?" "Is that mouse USB? does it work differently than the old one with the other type of plug?" Etc. She just hung around asking these stupid questions for most of the install until the president showed up and kicked her out so I could show him how his new computer worked. She popped in twice more to ask if she needed to be there to help explain things.
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Delicious Sci Fi posted:She just hung around asking these stupid questions for most of the install until the president showed up and kicked her out so I could show him how his new computer worked. She popped in twice more to ask if she needed to be there to help explain things. 
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Starbucks posted:She was probably just making sure it went alright and wanted someone to talk to More likely trying to make herself feel important because she's not just a secretary, she's the president's secretary.
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Starbucks posted:She was probably just making sure it went alright and wanted someone to talk to She's so lonely 
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rolleyes posted:More likely trying to make herself feel important because she's not just a secretary, she's the president's secretary. We had one of hose. Close to the Director and married to someone very, very important ("constantly guarded by police and national security services" important). She was kind of annoying but he was a great guy who used to sneak away with the IT staff to drink beer and shoot the poo poo when he was with his wife at company parties.
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rolleyes posted:More likely trying to make herself feel important because she's not just a secretary, she's the president's secretary. If she's anything like the secretaries at a few of the places I've worked, its because the president practically makes her run his life and has driven her completely neurotic.
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afflictionwisp posted:If she's anything like the secretaries at a few of the places I've worked, its because the president practically makes her run his life and has driven her completely neurotic. This is actually pretty true. But she is also a bitch to everyone in IT because her husband is a programmer and she thinks she knows everything about computers because of this. The amount of times I've heard her start a sentence with "Well my husband, the programmer, thinks ..."
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Oh here's a good one I just got: 04/27/2009 I got an e-mail from China regarding the <company name removed> name. I assume I am not the only one and it carries an attachment which I have not opened. Does anyone need to see it? Or do I just delete it? The e-mail in question? "Dear CEO, We are the department of registration service in China. we have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on April 27, 2009, One company which self-styled "EVO investment Co., Ltd" are applying to register "<Name removed>" as internet brand and domain names as below : <Company name removed> After our initial examination, we found that the internet brand applied for registration are as same as your company's name and trademark.These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company has not authorized the aforesaid company to register these, Please contact us as soon as possible. In addition, we hereby affirm that our time limit for dissent application is seven days. If your company files no dissent within the time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by "EVO investment Co., Ltd". Best Regards, Yann Deng Senior consultant" My response was "This is spam, please do not click on any links inside the e-mail and delete it immediately." Started getting these since last week or so, I hope this doesn't become more widespread or my job is going to suck.
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Delicious Sci Fi posted:This is actually pretty true. Yeah I hate this poo poo. "I know all about that, my husband works with computers all the time!" Oh yeah what does he do? "He makes webpages!" Yes, just because he uses a PC at his job to complete his work means he's in IT. I also had some user spreading a fanatical rumor around the office that the 'IT department can see what we do on our PC's at home and even take control of it!' I didn't think this would spread because most of our users are smart but it did. A higher up confronted me about it, absolutely scared to death to even TURN ON HER PC AT HOME, because I could be spying on her.
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Diocletian posted:Yeah I hate this poo poo. "I know all about that, my husband works with computers all the time!" Oh yeah what does he do? "He makes webpages!" Yes, just because he uses a PC at his job to complete his work means he's in IT. This is true for me, actually. I can log into our clients' systems at their homes and watch what they do. I try not to. I don't want to freak them out, and I don't want to witness whatever disgusting thing they are doing. Also, it either says "This computer is being Monitored" or "This computer is being Remotely Controlled" at the top of their screen. So I can't really be sneaky about it.
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Not really an IT ticket but..quote:Kids name: quote:I have just about calmed down now after speaking to <Kid> for the 3rd time today about "candygate". From now on, if any of you see him with sweets/chocolate etc please let me know. I have warned him that he will live the life of a Franciscan monk if he crosses me again...better yet a eunuch!! 
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Delicious Sci Fi posted:But she is also a bitch to everyone in IT because her husband is a programmer and she thinks she knows everything about computers because of this. I'd find it so hard to fight against the urge to tell her something like: "Well, programmers have a tendency not to know dick about the inner workings of their own institutions. What makes you think you're husband knows poo poo about ours?"
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Delicious Sci Fi posted:The amount of times I've heard her start a sentence with "Well my husband, the programmer, thinks ..."  as gently caress.tommej posted:Not really an IT ticket but..
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afflictionwisp posted:Where do you work that someone would be emailing everyone about keeping chocolate away from a kid? some kind of mass daycare? Something like that, a highschool
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tommej posted:Something like that, a highschool Highschoolers can't have candy? 
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Crowley posted:Highschoolers can't have candy? If they're desperate enough to stick it down their underpants i guess not!
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tommej's coworker posted:but he had tried to hide chocolate down his pants....even I am going to resist eating that galaxy bar!!! thanks 
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tommej posted:If they're desperate enough to stick it down their underpants i guess not! Can't argue with that.
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Crowley posted:Highschoolers can't have candy? That's a pre-War on Obesity mindset that we just can't afford to have.
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Lady President at my company made me take her keyboard from home and test it on every computer in the office, because "my CONTROL ALT DELETE BUTTONS ARE BROKEN!!!!!". She was trying to use whatever hosed up service they're being told to use to rdc to her work machine (LogMeIn I think at this point -- don't blame me, I'm not IT), and it wouldn't connect... she apparently thinks mashing Ctrl+Alt+Delete would remedy this. After testing her keyboard, and finding that indeed, the control alt and delete buttons had no sabotaged her computing experience, she asked if her office machine had to be turned on for LogMeIn to actually work. 
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Crowley posted:Highschoolers can't have candy? Those emails sound like special ed teachers to me.
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Nuke posted:Where do you get your reading material, Midelne? I have a bunch of study guides, but I don't know which #'s to study. I know this belongs in the certification thread, but, since you're browsing and all... Amazon's a good place to get the Microsoft Press books. The lower books are usually more widely available, and you can consequently get them pretty cheap. I ordered my 70-294 book for like $4 + shipping. If you don't have your certification path worked out, I'd probably advise that you do that before you go buying anything, and before you take an exam it's worth reading Microsoft's list of objectives for the exam (available on Microsoft.com) to make sure you're 100% comfortable with every single point listed.
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Diocletian posted:Ah yes the "reply to all" snowball effect. User responds to company wide e-mail via reply to all, another user replies to all to say "please don't hit reply to all" another user then says "guys we get the point, please stop e-mailing me." Then soon a few other people chime in with "why do I keep receiving this?" Then the president of the company steps in and basically tells everyone to shut the gently caress up and it ends. This is a problem that is easily fixed by educating the person sending the initial mass email to put their own address in the To: field and the allusers@company.com address in the Bcc: field.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Those emails sound like special ed teachers to me.
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Lum posted:This is a problem that is easily fixed by educating the person sending the initial mass email to put their own address in the To: field and the allusers@company.com address in the Bcc: field. If they can't teach Wikileaks to do it, how are we going to teach users to do it? :P
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Lum posted:This is a problem that is easily fixed by educating the person sending the initial mass email to put their own address in the To: field and the allusers@company.com address in the Bcc: field. or just make an _allusers@company.com Outlook group and set permissions so only certain people can use it just make sure there's a sanity check on the creation of new groups so you don't end up like my company where there's more Outlook groups than employees and people can go for months without knowing they've been left out of their department's distribution list.
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Griz posted:or just make an _allusers@company.com Outlook group and set permissions so only certain people can use it  So then you're right back to square one. We're trying to solve a problem with a technical solution here, unfortunately the problem is that people are stupid.
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We use a listserv system here, and the university wide list is moderated, so people can't reply all. Or that is the intention at least. The moderators on the list aren't the brightest and approve things that should not go out. This has led to such gems as:quote:Something has to be done before is to late ,WE Had Been Terrorized !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was in reply to an alert about some rash of crime near one of the campuses, and was sent out by a professor.
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