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I wear khakis willingly, I find them way more comfortable than jeans. 
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Is this the part of the thread where the work from home crowd get all  Today's ticket ShittyApp is slow Go to webex in and the customer makes me wait 5 minutes for Internet Explorer to load. Yeah, I think this issue is not confined to just ShittyApp.
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Jan 8, 2014 14:49
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Sirotan posted:I can wear jeans in my office only on Friday's and only if I pay $2* to buy this dumb sticker. It's "optional" but if you don't do it our new VP comes around with a pack of stickers and peer pressures you into buying one. The price went up from $1 on the first of the year so I've decided to just stop paying and wait for the inevitable confrontation I'm going to have with her. This is nuts. I can see casual friday as a good idea because it can feel burdensome to dress up every day, so you get 1 day as a reprieve. It doesn't make logical sense why management would tolerate their workers looking like slobs on 1 day of the week but none of the others, but whatever. I can see it as good for morale. But taking casual friday and attaching a fee to it? Is the idea that you'll let your staff dress down but don't want to encourage it or anything? Oh, it's for charity? gently caress you. It's one of those things that is screwing with people for no reason.
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Jan 8, 2014 15:33
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Lum posted:Is this the part of the thread where the work from home crowd get all Is it an 11 year old XP install on a GX260?
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mewse posted:This is nuts. I can see casual friday as a good idea because it can feel burdensome to dress up every day, so you get 1 day as a reprieve. It doesn't make logical sense why management would tolerate their workers looking like slobs on 1 day of the week but none of the others, but whatever. I can see it as good for morale. They do it at the wife's workplace, its $1, and it all goes to local sports teams/charities/etc, so it stays in the community. You don't ~have~ to donate, but its highly encouraged. A lot of people throw extra money in if its something they really like, as it rotates every week or two.
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Jan 8, 2014 16:39
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mewse posted:This is nuts. I can see casual friday as a good idea because it can feel burdensome to dress up every day, so you get 1 day as a reprieve. It doesn't make logical sense why management would tolerate their workers looking like slobs on 1 day of the week but none of the others, but whatever. I can see it as good for morale. The worst part is that there's no way to refuse without looking like a selfish rear end in a top hat or playing the sympathy card and saying you have no money to give. Its why I hate people on the street who ask you to save the kids. It bothered me because at the time I was working for charities. I wasn't getting paid to do it. People still looked at me like I was scum for refusing. Putting that sort of judgement on you at work is kinda lovely.
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Jan 8, 2014 16:44
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dogstile posted:The worst part is that there's no way to refuse without looking like a selfish rear end in a top hat or playing the sympathy card and saying you have no money to give. Its why I hate people on the street who ask you to save the kids. It bothered me because at the time I was working for charities. I wasn't getting paid to do it. People still looked at me like I was scum for refusing. Putting that sort of judgement on you at work is kinda lovely. I hate when I am very clearly on the phone and one of the clipboard holders that festoon lots of sidewalks around work step entirely in front of me waving frantically.
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dogstile posted:The worst part is that there's no way to refuse without looking like a selfish rear end in a top hat or playing the sympathy card and saying you have no money to give. Its why I hate people on the street who ask you to save the kids. It bothered me because at the time I was working for charities. I wasn't getting paid to do it. People still looked at me like I was scum for refusing. Putting that sort of judgement on you at work is kinda lovely. "I already donate privately to the charities which mean something to me." This has worked for me with pushy charity collectors at supermarket checkouts, and happens to be true. If they press further then: "My personal finances and choices of charities are not your concern."
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Jan 8, 2014 16:56
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I'd definitely be more rude if my first explanation didn't get the point across.
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Jan 8, 2014 17:00
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A friend of mine just bluntly states he doesn't like the cause. "I don't like ducks.  " It seems to work quite well! Most people don't know what to say to that.
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Jan 8, 2014 17:28
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DrAlexanderTobacco posted:A friend of mine just bluntly states he doesn't like the cause.  Hi, would you like to donate to the Wounded Warrior Project? No. I don't like disabled vets. Really? Well, how about donating to the United Negro College Fund? You know, on second thought: don't answer that. Never mind.
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Jan 8, 2014 17:44
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Ynglaur posted:
Reminds me of that scene from airplane, http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qse_wf57tZM
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Jan 8, 2014 18:04
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I can wear whatever the gently caress I want, but my cube is also on the other side of a wall full of inverter racks so there's a constant 60 cycle buzz in the background... 
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Jan 8, 2014 18:26
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Sirotan posted:I can wear jeans in my office only on Friday's and only if I pay $2* to buy this dumb sticker. It's "optional" but if you don't do it our new VP comes around with a pack of stickers and peer pressures you into buying one. The price went up from $1 on the first of the year so I've decided to just stop paying and wait for the inevitable confrontation I'm going to have with her. It honestly costs more than that because you're paying income tax on that money. If you donated that money to a REAL (e.g. IRS recognized) charity, you'd not have to pay tax on it, so that's your excuse. "I gave that $104 to Midgets with Measles, a recognized 501(c)(3) orginaztion for tax purposes. Sirotan wearing Jeans isnt 501(c)(3), so I'm not giving anymore. I can get you in touch with my accountant if you need more information." EDIT: Ynglaur posted:
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Jan 8, 2014 18:30
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Caged posted:Is it an 11 year old XP install on a GX260? Not far off actually It was installed in 2004. It's a dual core P4 2.8GHz and it's made by Dell. Not sure the exact model or the amount of RAM. It runs a highly specialised ShittyApp, OCR with heavy customisations by a now bankrupt company, that somehow got slipped into our support contract without anyone noticing. I'll probably try to bully it into working on Win7 at some point!
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Jan 8, 2014 18:30
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Finding out about very poorly designed internal server communications days before they need to be made in production. Especially when it could've been much better (not perfect, but relatively sane) within minutes by someone who knew what they were doing. 
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Jan 8, 2014 18:54
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I applied to a job that I think I would like, and it's really close to my apartment, and it pays really well. Then I got this e-mail:quote:Hello,
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Jan 8, 2014 20:08
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anthonypants posted:I applied to a job that I think I would like, and it's really close to my apartment, and it pays really well. Then I got this e-mail: 3 1/2 hours over 3 days better be a great job. Oh yeah, anything with "field" in the title is probably a poo poo thing.
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Jan 8, 2014 20:21
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anthonypants posted:I applied to a job that I think I would like, and it's really close to my apartment, and it pays really well. Then I got this e-mail: You're going to be driving around a lot fixing poo poo computers for $10/hr.
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Jan 8, 2014 20:42
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If your application required raid0 (and can't even handle raid1) then your application sucks. And yes, there are exceptions (e.g. zfs, sorta) but this isn't one of them.
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Jan 8, 2014 20:49
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rolleyes posted:"I already donate privately to the charities which mean something to me." This is exactly what I do, every step, though I haven't dealt with too many pushy ones. Usually a polite refusal is enough for most people. I had an internship once where everyone in IT had to wear dress pants/button-down and tie, minimum. We had to do this because executives actually had to walk by the whole IT department to get to their offices, and they were all older and had more traditional sensibilities, which translates to "you're naked if you aren't wearing a tie." It was 100% internal IT, too, we never even came within line of sight of customers, so this was solely for the benefit of the old dinosaurs. When I was there, they instituted a casual Friday. This involved dress pants and shoes, but you could wear a polo shirt! Your options for the polo shirt were: 1) A polo shirt with the company logo on it which you could purchase from the company for $20, and 2) There is no 2. If you didn't want to shell out, full business dress for you. Assholes.
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Jan 8, 2014 21:19
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Analyst doesn't sound great either. My new company uses that for their tier 1.
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Jan 8, 2014 21:20
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When we took over this floor I found a dirty old laserjet 4000tn left behind by the prior tenant. I stuck it in a corner out of the way since I don't have storage for bulky stuff. Today one of our special snowflakes demanded a printer at his cubicle instead of using the $600 a month high speed copier I got for his department. I don't have the authority to say 'no' to pretty much anything. Guess which printer he got?
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Jan 8, 2014 21:50
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Yeah, I never understood the reasoning behind making people who will never see customers in person, such as tech support call center agents, wear stuffy business causal clothing. Of course at my current job I work at home so pants are optional.
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Jan 8, 2014 22:17
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The best thing about working in IT is not having to worry about wearing business stuff to the office I feel really sorry for you people who have to dress up
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Jan 8, 2014 22:24
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I work at a Credit Union. Our dress code is 'business casual' for the most part, especially in IS. Most days it's khakis/dress pants and a button up shirt, ties are pretty rare except among the management types and the try-hards. I've been freaking everyone out by wearing a tie every day so far this week. I got ties for Christmas, and I like looking good. No I don't have a job interview.
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Jan 8, 2014 22:25
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I wear carhart pants and a polo shirt. I live in an area where it is acceptable to wear carhart everything everywhere. On topic, I'm currently at a job site that is a 2 hour drive one way from my office.I drive a company car and get paid for travel, but really feel like my day is wasted with that much time spent in the car.
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Jan 8, 2014 22:35
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Antioch posted:I work at a Credit Union. Our dress code is 'business casual' for the most part, especially in IS. Most days it's khakis/dress pants and a button up shirt, ties are pretty rare except among the management types and the try-hards. I think the real problem is if the higher-ups sees that, they go "Hey, everyone should do that" and enforce a tie-policy. No joke, if they ever did that here, I would be looking for another job. I hate ties with a burning passion.
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RadicalR posted:No joke, if they ever did that here, I would be looking for another job. I hate ties with a burning passion.
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poo poo that pisses me off? Creating an SCCM collection for reimaging, manually adding the target machines to said collection, then scheduling a mandatory OSD task sequence to occur this afternoon. Sounds nice and easy, right? 30 minutes past the schedule time, I find that every single targeted machine has failed, but oh look!, it has somehow magically extended the advertisement to 4 (and counting) staff members' machines(one of them a department head) and has fried them  . Looking at the collection shows only the machines that I had manually added, and logs are either lost(on the machines with SecureDoc on them) or show me nothing. Jesus christ where's the whiskey.
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mattfl posted:You're going to be driving around a lot fixing poo poo computers for $10/hr. God, for his/her sake I certainly hope not. I'm an "EasyTech" at Staples and I make about $10.50/hr just standing behind a counter and running virus scans on the computers of the collective elderly community in my area
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It's me. I'm the guy pissing you off. I am feeling like hammered poo poo right now with tender skin, achy joints, cough, foggy head and lethargy. But I am here at work because gently caress you <company> if I am going to take another sick day for actually being sick. I was out yesterday with this and you can get hosed if you think I am going to use up all of my whopping three sick days in the first week of January. And gently caress you <company> for making me be here. I could be doing this work just as effectively from home thanks to the zillion dollar super-secure Cisco Secure Mobility Client/VPN/AnyConnect bullshit you pushed to my laptop over the holidays. Oh wait, I can't because that million dollar deployment actually broke wireless horribly for the thousand or so employees in this building and you are still recovering from it. Apologies in advance to everyone I am about to get sick.
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Back when I started working here again (after a reduction-in-force hiatus), I was wearing nice button-down shirts and dress slacks/khakis daily, with a bamboo-print shirt for Fridays. Gradually, I started infiltrating other prints, and cargo/Carharts into the lineup. My daily wear now is cargo/Carharts and oversize/untucked loud Hawaiian shirts, and I've corrupted several others into the shirts as well. (The only other one to wear 'em daily was already doing so, and being Hawaiian apparently meant he was given no poo poo about it.) Ties? Nay, gently caress that - no neck, no tie.
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Jan 8, 2014 23:42
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I work at a University. One my coworkers wears jorts in the summer, and the same blue button up work shirt every single day (I assume he has many). When I interviewed for my first job here as a student, the person that interviewed me was wearing sweatpants and a hyper color t-shirt. There are a large portion of people that work here that look like axe murderers.
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Jan 8, 2014 23:51
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I wear jeans, a shirt with a collar and "nice shoes," which means I don't wear my Converse hi-tops, although I could probably actually get away with them. I usually even tuck my shirt in because I am an adult, dammit!
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Jan 8, 2014 23:53
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Lum posted:Is this the part of the thread where the work from home crowd get all I spent a significant part of the (working) day wearing my wife's dressing gown because the cat was sleeping on mine, and I didn't want to disturb him, so it is
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Jan 9, 2014 00:02
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The restaurant I just ate at charged me 15 goddamn dollars for an Old Fashioned... with Maker's Mark. Even alcohol hates me, now.
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Agrikk posted:It's me. I'm the guy pissing you off. Just do what I do, wear a face mask and bring in a can of lysol or some of those alcohol wipes to disinfect anything you touch. I usually just take the day off though. That's probably the one good thing about this company is that, in addition to a good amount of sick days, vacation days, personal time off and if necessary, bereavement leave.
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KillHour posted:The restaurant I just ate at charged me 15 goddamn dollars for an Old Fashioned... with Maker's Mark. Even alcohol hates me, now. Jesus gently caress
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Support jockeys - how many tickets would you say you typically have in your name at any given time? I'm especially curious about Tier 1/2 types. Right now I have about 50. One of the guys next to me has 70. So we've got those tickets, and we're also the front-line people who answer all the calls that come in. There are - in theory - six of us, plus our team lead, in the software company's customer support department where I work. But our team lead doesn't really have time to work many tickets (I don't hold this against him) and one of the other guys has basically converted into QA, they just haven't moved him yet. So there's 5 of us really. I think that you could double the number of people in support and we'd still be slightly understaffed. We continue to get new customers with no new hirings in sight. I'm about to start jumping at those random 6 month desktop support contract jobs (that I know will suck) from the recruiters that keep emailing me. I'm so done with this place, and it sucks because the people I work with are actually really cool.
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