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poo poo not pissing me off: First day of a 10 day paid vacation before my last two days of work. Using the time to study like mad for a phone technical interview. and play final fantasy xi
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The appropriate response to getting paged for one of your systems is certainly not to disable the monitoring system. It's even less appropriate to disable said monitoring system by renaming the python interpreter symlink.
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Dec 20, 2013 23:35
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Motherfucker. Last day in the office for a week, the guy I was talking to is annoyed that no, I don't know SQL as well as the data guys and that yes, i'm going to have to pass him to the data guys who designed the database to find his poo poo. So annoyed in fact, that he asked me to dial in to his machine to spellcheck his email complaining about me (he was sending it to the company CEO). I mean, i'm not worried because my managers were both listening to that call as they knew it was a funny customer and I know I didn't gently caress up, but that poo poo just pisses me off.
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Dec 21, 2013 00:12
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Since you're spellchecking it might as well tell him all the words are spelled wrong. "poo poo show" is now spelled "Amazing" and so on.
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Dec 21, 2013 00:25
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dogstile posted:So annoyed in fact, that he asked me to dial in to his machine to spellcheck his email complaining about me (he was sending it to the company CEO). This is absolutely hilarious. You should have had some fun with him.
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Dec 21, 2013 00:31
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Health Records got upgraded to Windows 7 and Office 2010, and a day later one of the office workers put in a ticket saying they were unable to print patient labels for one of the inpatient sites; none of the data was filled out and just had blank constructors. Once I found out it was a 14 year old Access database written in VB that uses an ODBC to interface with our clinical DB server I kicked it over to the applications team to deal with. 
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Dec 21, 2013 01:19
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dogstile posted:Motherfucker. Last day in the office for a week, the guy I was talking to is annoyed that no, I don't know SQL as well as the data guys and that yes, i'm going to have to pass him to the data guys who designed the database to find his poo poo. So annoyed in fact, that he asked me to dial in to his machine to spellcheck his email complaining about me (he was sending it to the company CEO). Ladies and gentlemen, we have a solid second place for this year's chud monkey award! First is still blacksword's Sr. tech.
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Dec 21, 2013 01:26
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Ladies and gentlemen, we have a solid second place for this year's chud monkey award! First is still blacksword's Sr. tech. Just to clarify, I didn't actually spellcheck anything except my name, which I proudly gave out. That way the next time he calls up and I answer he'll just ask for another tech. Also no, I couldn't have to much fun, as I said, my managers were listening in. This means they were right behind me.
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Dec 21, 2013 01:52
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Ladies and gentlemen, we have a solid second place for this year's chud monkey award! First is still blacksword's Sr. tech. Everybody above blacksword is the Kim Il Sung of shitlords, they hold the chief office for loving life.
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Dec 21, 2013 02:18
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YOTJ update. $1000 worth of shares for all employees as a christmas bonus. Pity insider trading policies legally forbid me in actually trading them until the end of january.
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Dec 21, 2013 14:49
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Holy gently caress, Azure must use the slowest DNS servers in the world to verify that you've made certain changes to your config. Combined with the response to it not being able to see the DNS entry is to not let you set it up and promise that the change is coming means I've got about 24 hours of retrying before I can hand this site over.
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Dec 21, 2013 21:32
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dogstile posted:Just to clarify, I didn't actually spellcheck anything except my name, which I proudly gave out. That way the next time he calls up and I answer he'll just ask for another tech. Your managers did nothing about the overly elaborate insult the guy was throwing at you?
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Your managers did nothing about the overly elaborate insult the guy was throwing at you? He's a client, all clients are "correct" in the CEO's eyes. The guy's request will probably just be thrown down to the bottom of the list. On a brighter note, I set up an animal hospital today (and yesterday), got to meet all the dogs and cats. Even saw one that was almost completely paralysed when I went in walk past me on my way out (with help).
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Dec 22, 2013 19:33
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So work is trying to encourage people to jump on the BYOD plan for cell phones, with them paying a portion of the bill. I've been avoiding doing this since I like having a divide between work and home, but since they've started this push, they've stopped upgrading company phones. I've got an ancient BB Curve 8830 that seems to be on its last legs, but they don't want to replace it. Which seems kinda silly that I'm expected to have a tool for work, but they don't want to pay for it. Anyone else going through something like this?
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CitizenKain posted:So work is trying to encourage people to jump on the BYOD plan for cell phones, with them paying a portion of the bill. I've been avoiding doing this since I like having a divide between work and home, but since they've started this push, they've stopped upgrading company phones. I've got an ancient BB Curve 8830 that seems to be on its last legs, but they don't want to replace it. Which seems kinda silly that I'm expected to have a tool for work, but they don't want to pay for it. Anyone else going through something like this? Gee boss, it sure is going to be tough for me to do my job if the company isn't going to provide the tools I need to do it.
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Dec 23, 2013 06:50
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Che Delilas posted:Gee boss, it sure is going to be tough for me to do my job if the company isn't going to provide the tools I need to do it. Gee IT, I guess that BB 9900 stopped working, just like the BB 8900 and the 8830 before that. What replacement are you going to give me this time?
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spog posted:Gee IT, I guess that BB 9900 stopped working, just like the BB 8900 and the 8830 before that. </Digs grimy BB Torch out of junk box.>
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Che Delilas posted:Gee boss, it sure is going to be tough for me to do my job if the company isn't going to provide the tools I need to do it.
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Damnit I am probably going to have to move before I get a new job. This would not annoyme as much if I didn't teach... Oh well. Hope I don't wind up in Richmond, Charlotte fingers crossed! Gotta get some paperwork at Richmond on the 28th, any goon up for a meetup? Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 10:15 on Dec 23, 2013 |
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Dick Trauma posted:</Digs grimy BB Torch out of junk box.> /Breaks out piezo-electric gas stove lighter, aka my handy spark generator, aka 'it just stopped working'
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spog posted:/Breaks out piezo-electric gas stove lighter, aka my handy spark generator, aka 'it just stopped working' blame the hardware, always blame a mechanical fault
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:blame the Blackberry Support enough of them and you'll know this is true.
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A user made me waste 5+ hours going through IDE hard drives to save the "10 years of work" on her white box tower's desktop that we pulled recently. It was literally a desktop shortcut to a website and nothing else. Someone in this building spent YEARS training the staff to be completely computer illiterate before I got here. I don't even let my techs make desktop shortcuts without asking because most people here assumed that their workflow/websites wouldn't work without a corresponding shortcut on their desktop before they were taught otherwise. What happens when this user is on a different or new computer? They have no idea how anything works. Talk about lovely practice - and this doesn't include that I came into 15 arbitrarily named servers, switch IPs in the middle of the DHCP scope, and no documentation of ANYTHING. I'm almost jealous of whoever has my job after me.
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It should be a crime to not say how much a job pays. No, I'm not going to accept a senior DBA/dev position that pays < $40k. gently caress's sake.
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:It should be a crime to not say how much a job pays. My company has listed in their job descriptions about a laid back work environment where you can play ping pong and pool. The games room was converted into cubicles months ago...
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That hiring managers and recruiters are oblivious to the typical wide range of $40-150k is amazing. Spending hours on the phone for the interviewer to only be shocked at the end is depressing after the fifth time: I'm not even asking for an amount, just mentioning the present income. The dangers of looking for interesting jobs it would seem. MrMoo fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Dec 23, 2013 |
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I've noticed a massive decline in the numbers of jobs listing salaries over the past few months. They go through the motions, get you on the phone and when they ask how much you want get put off very quickly when you ask them to go first. The amount of times everything's been going well and you think that you're finally onto something and then a stupid lowball offer appears is getting irritating. There's a listing from an agency floating around my LinkedIn feed at the moment that wants to pay £21-25k for a 2nd line Exchange / AD person in central London. L1 helpdesk can make more than that without really trying. Thanks Ants fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Dec 23, 2013 |
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Dec 23, 2013 18:42
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I recently finished a job search and I found that giving target salary plus bonus up front was hugely beneficial. It weeded out basically all of the poo poo jobs. Did I conceivably leave money on the table by not using ninja kung fu salary negotiation tricks? I don't care because I gave a number significantly on the high side of what I wanted and I'm happy with it.
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Even understanding that compensation numbers on Glassdoor tend to be exaggerated a bit (people exaggerate their compensation, even anonymously  ), you'd think recruiting departments would at least glance at the numbers now and then.
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Dec 23, 2013 18:55
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In celebration of Festivus, the title has been changed.
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baquerd posted:I recently finished a job search and I found that giving target salary plus bonus up front was hugely beneficial. I agree with this, if you know what the going rate is for someone with your skills and the company isn't willing to pay, or doesn't know what the going rate is, it's most likely someplace you don't want to work. If you're worth 60K and they don't bat an eye when you ask for it, you know you'll probably have the resources to do your job properly if you get a job there. Companies that low-ball salary also are going to ask you to keep poo poo running bailing wire and some sticks
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The government actually has publicly available statistics on the entry level salaries as well as different levels of experience available broken down by state. Which may not be useful for all states, as places like Illinois would be thrown off by Chicago if that isn't where you are looking to work, but for many states it could be useful. I don't know exactly where to find it though.
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I think you're looking for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov
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Hahaha Telus's business division is so busy right now that they're just not accepting calls at all. Good job guys.
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I hate fonts that make "m" look like an "r" followed too closely by an "n". I've never had such an awkward time reading a facebook post as I just did with references to making a "pom pom garland" edit: Porneranian.
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Having been involved with call centers for many years I love it when that happens. My wife works at a credit union and their call center has been just destroyed with the volume of calls from Target shoppers and people flipping out. It's always fun to watch the incoming trunks fill completely up.
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skipdogg posted:Having been involved with call centers for many years I love it when that happens. My wife works at a credit union and their call center has been just destroyed with the volume of calls from Target shoppers and people flipping out. It's always fun to watch the incoming trunks fill completely up. Gonna need some context here. I know Target are a major US chain store, I get the impression they're #2 to Walmart. Have they gone bankrupt or something?
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Lum posted:Gonna need some context here. I know Target are a major US chain store, I get the impression they're #2 to Walmart. 40m+ credit card numbers used in transactions stolen.
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Lum posted:Gonna need some context here. I know Target are a major US chain store, I get the impression they're #2 to Walmart. http://techland.time.com/2013/12/19/the-target-credit-card-breach-what-you-should-know/
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A Robert X Cringely article for you - he's one of a handful of IT pundits who is right almost as often as he is wrong, and his suggestions here are certainly believable (I know that there've been issues where UK data has leaked via poorly paid Indian outsourcers at least) - even better, read through the comments for a guy who totally fails to understand how chip and pin would mitigate against whatever happened here.
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