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GargleBlaster posted:New server-side email signatures are a go, GPO to disable Outlook's signatures deployed. Don't worry they will re-create their signature as they want it in a Word document and then copy/paste that to the bottom of each email they send out.
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halp I can't see my signature when I'm composing my message, how will I cope!")
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if you know of an issue and have a plan in mind, go ahead and share that plan instead of asking 8000 questions trying to catch people slipping up. Come out and say [policy] changed and we need to change [thing] since we are out of compliance. Ive spent more hours discussing this poo poo with you than it takes to change. You dumb motherfucker.
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I am not in IT, but lol:Company HR Director posted:Subject: Information needed for upcoming upgrade e: I mean, would someone with administrator access to the network need user passwords for any legitimate reason whatsoever? Eugene V. Dubstep fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Sep 9, 2014 |
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Sep 9, 2014 00:18
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the spyder posted:Send me a email Mailed
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Sep 9, 2014 00:22
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at the date posted:I am not in IT, but lol: Nope! I never need you to tell me your password ever, for any system. If I really need to impersonate you, and the system in question doesn't allow that, I can reset it. Sounds like someone wants to go snooping and IT said no chance in hell.
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Are there telltale signs that you're going to get laid off/fired? I think what I've believed to be sudden culture changes are actually indications of much more significant, non-trivial changes. My boss has been quiet lately, our monthly one-on-ones have silently disappeared, the CTO's overbearing micromanagement might actually be his way of determining who to cut/not to cut, and just today there were a spat of emails sent by other managers to our CTO praising me and my work - which feels like they're trying to spare me from the chopping block. Overall it feels weird, but so far it's just a gut feeling. Maybe I'm reading too much into things, so I'm going to have a chat with my boss tomorrow. I'm also going to rewrite my resume and start hunting again.
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Sep 9, 2014 05:58
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Chalets the Baka posted:Are there telltale signs that you're going to get laid off/fired? I think what I've believed to be sudden culture changes are actually indications of much more significant, non-trivial changes. My boss has been quiet lately, our monthly one-on-ones have silently disappeared, the CTO's overbearing micromanagement might actually be his way of determining who to cut/not to cut, and just today there were a spat of emails sent by other managers to our CTO praising me and my work - which feels like they're trying to spare me from the chopping block. Overall it feels weird, but so far it's just a gut feeling. Maybe I'm reading too much into things, so I'm going to have a chat with my boss tomorrow. I'm also going to rewrite my resume and start hunting again. If you're on good terms with your boss, have that chat offsite and possibly after hours. Because these are all bad signs. Except for the emails from all those other managers.
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AlternateAccount posted:How do these three words make sense in this order? Hahaha you got me. Really my company is trying to host some new software on "the cloud" but cheaped out, before it was changed we had plans that we would be hosting our own cloud solution and we had an detailed infrastructure plan. The boss didn't like the cost so another office came up with their "solution". They bought a single server hosted by a cheap company that promised 100% uptime and then we shoved a bunch of vms on it. None of us got told, so to us it was the "cloud" still. When the server went down at 10pm we didn't find out about it until the next day. Apparently there was a plan for if it failed but that got scrapped to because "cost". Does that make more sense? E: I laugh because it hurts less than crying. dogstile fucked around with this message at 08:09 on Sep 9, 2014 |
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at the date posted:I am not in IT, but lol: The people at my place did this too. It's a big red flag saying "We don't know poo poo about poo poo".
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Zamujasa posted:The people at my place did this too. It's a big red flag saying "We don't know poo poo about poo poo". There's a .xlsx floating about on some person's machine with a table of users and passwords for Skype and e-mails. I can't change the Skype password but considering how I'm one of like, four out of a company of about 30 to have root access to all servers I can guarantee that the e-mail password doesn't match up to the one on the .xlsx. But hey, the passwords for e-mail are stored on the server in plaintext anyway... 
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Bob Morales posted:We have an independent auditor in here this week doing some work. She's in our office because we have an empty desk. If you can, PM me the company that does your external audits. If it's my company, I'll politely ask her to stop being a jerk.
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mllaneza posted:If you're on good terms with your boss, have that chat offsite and possibly after hours. Would the conversation somehow be different this way?
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Thanks Ants posted:"Oh hey the OptiPlex 3020 Micro and 9020 Micro's have launched, this will be the NUC-with-support that I've been wanting for a while." Lenovo has models in that same form factor and has for longer than Dell.. The Lenovo Tiny series; M73 (low end) and M93p (high end). Both series have models available with SSDs. The factory SSDs are Samsung OEM units. Standard warranty is 3 years on-site next business day. This PDF: http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/tcbook.pdf has a full listing of all the configurations/models available. I have about 40 M73s out there, most with SSDs. Adding more all the time as we replace the old XP machines. I absolutely love them and so do the users. Haven't had a single problem with any of them.
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Chalets the Baka posted:Would the conversation somehow be different this way? Offsite, people can be more candid and less worried about others interrupting/listening in.
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at the date posted:I am not in IT, but lol: To follow up, I sent an email briefly explaining why I wouldn't give my password and why no one else should either to the HR director and my boss and got in return a written warning from my boss about "dangerous" (his word) comments to top management leading "to a negative opinion being formed of you by people who dont completely understand the point u are trying to make." gently caress.
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at the date posted:To follow up, I sent an email briefly explaining why I wouldn't give my password and why no one else should either to the HR director and my boss and got in return a written warning from my boss about "dangerous" (his word) comments to top management leading "to a negative opinion being formed of you by people who dont completely understand the point u are trying to make." gently caress. How much do you like this job? Also, if you guys are required to abide by any kind of compliance, they could be putting themselves in a really bad place by asking for that.
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anthonypants posted:I think I just started That Job. The one you guys all talk about.
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at the date posted:To follow up, I sent an email briefly explaining why I wouldn't give my password and why no one else should either to the HR director and my boss and got in return a written warning from my boss about "dangerous" (his word) comments to top management leading "to a negative opinion being formed of you by people who dont completely understand the point u are trying to make." gently caress. Well in fairness it is pretty dangerous depending on how you worded it. You are telling people who are requesting something from you basically "No I won't give this to you and this is why you shouldn't be asking for it." and that is really hard to say without coming off badly. You probably should have forwarded your concerns to your boss first and let the issue resolve itself up from there. If your boss requested you comply, you could have asked for both passwords to be reset and go from there. poo poo gets a little touchy when worker bee's tell decision makers no. So its best to do it in the most reasonable way possible.
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anthonypants posted:An excellent example of this is that today, a barber is in one of the break rooms, and he's offering $5 haircuts. What even is this place. This is hilarious and brilliant
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anthonypants posted:In regard to that Microsoft audit, they gave me a task this week to take pictures of everyone's Microsoft license tags and the serial numbers on the computer. They've told me to make sure it's done by Thursday, but this is also supposed to be a helpdesk position, I can't loving get away from the phones because everyone else is loving off somewhere else. An excellent example of this is that today, a barber is in one of the break rooms, and he's offering $5 haircuts. What even is this place. Does your management even know that he's there? Are there vendors coming in off the street? 
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Volmarias posted:Does your management even know that he's there? Are there vendors coming in off the street?
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So I did a little planning to try and roll as many trips into one as I can, and I've got it worked out where I'll do about 1600 miles of driving, which will be about 24-25 hours of driving. In one week. On one hand, this will be a ton of OT, I'll be out of the office and away from the goddamn lunatic that is my boss and I do have some audiobooks I've been meaning to listen to. On the other hand, at one point in this trip, I will spend 6+ hours driving to do roughly 15 minutes of work.
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CitizenKain posted:So I did a little planning to try and roll as many trips into one as I can, and I've got it worked out where I'll do about 1600 miles of driving, which will be about 24-25 hours of driving. In one week. For me that'd be six hours of pleasure with 15 minutes of effort.
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sometimes I don't know whether I should drink or just laugh at work. One of the "senior" windows admins at work today was talking about privileges, in that Deny takes precedence over Allows which he classifies as a bug and hopes is fixed in windows soon... Pretty sure the reasoning behind this is even covered in one of the many certs he's done but whatever.
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Things pissing me off: I've finally caught a nasty cold from one of my coworkers (who always insist on coming into the office when they're sick instead of working from home), so I feel like crap and I'm really tired, but I won't get a day off to rest until probably mid-October (have to spend all this weekend entertaining family who's in town and then I'll be working for like 10 hours Saturday night through Sunday morning for the next couple weekends and then about 30 hours the weekend after that). Ugh. 
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Pissing me off: No espresso coffee. We've got normal coffee but that doesn't work well in the espresso machine. I'm staring down the barrel of a day without caffeine send ha;lp
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luminalflux posted:Pissing me off: No espresso coffee. We've got normal coffee but that doesn't work well in the espresso machine. I'm staring down the barrel of a day without caffeine send ha;lp We have coffee makers but no coffee. Or paper cups, plates, or utensils. There was literally a building wide email saying these things would no longer be provided due to hard economic times. This was immediately followed by an email proudly proclaiming record revenue and new government contacts awarded.
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How's your resume coming? Not providing coffee would probably cause a wild strike that the unions would gladly get behind. Nobody fucks with coffee in 
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Blue Footed Booby posted:We have coffee makers but no coffee. Or paper cups, plates, or utensils. There was literally a building wide email saying these things would no longer be provided due to hard economic times. This was immediately followed by an email proudly proclaiming record revenue and new government contacts awarded. A colleague once told me that he judges how companies treat their people by two things: free coffee, and decent toilet paper. I've found these to be pretty accurate indicators.
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Edit: Double-post because I'm bad at phones.
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Ynglaur posted:A colleague once told me that he judges how companies treat their people by two things: free coffee, and decent toilet paper. I've found these to be pretty accurate indicators. I heard an anecdote from a lady who would always visit the bathroom of companies she was considering to do business with. If they had removed the tampons, she'd assume that they were in the financial poo poo.
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Ynglaur posted:A colleague once told me that he judges how companies treat their people by two things: free coffee, and decent toilet paper. I've found these to be pretty accurate indicators. spog posted:I heard an anecdote from a lady who would always visit the bathroom of companies she was considering to do business with. Both of these are spectacular.
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Speaking of signatures this gem just came in. As an "IT Manager" it is necessary to put the logos for all your certs in your signature?? His signature is longer than the emails we are sending to each other and even his replies to my emails have his signature in them.
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mattfl posted:Speaking of signatures this gem just came in. Should at least have put them side-by-side.
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SEKCobra posted:Should at least have put them side-by-side. I don't really see any need to have them in a signature at all. Especially the A+ and MCP ones.
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spog posted:If they had removed the tampons, she'd assume that they were in the financial poo poo. I've never been to a place that offered free tampons in the first place.
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He's right about the toilet paper and coffee though. Every company I've ever worked for that scrimped on these was in financial trouble or managed by raging assholes.
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Rackspace migrated all of our Exchange accounts from 2007 to 2013. They said it would be pretty simple and users would just have to restart Outlook after the accounts were moved. Didn't happen that way. The autodiscover on 90% of the accounts didn't work, they couldn't figure out anything over the phone (their hosted exchange support reps are all dinks) so we had to add a new profile on over 60 machines. Yesterday sucked.
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Crowley posted:I've never been to a place that offered free tampons in the first place. I bought them for the office once but nobody liked the brand or said what they wanted so I don't bother anymore.
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We are going through the process of changing everyones user rights from being local admins to standard users. The company is growing super fast and the guys on helpdesk dont have enough time to keep up with the backup, format, reimages for all of the pc's that are obviously getting viruses. I'm having to fight these mouth breathers at every god drat step! The culture here was just amazing. People used their company laptops as home devices and this was actually encouraged as a "perk" for the longest time. So we have different model Alien Wares and HP's and Lenovos all floating around with god knows what. Honestly I'm amazed that I was able to even convince management that this change needed to be made. I think getting hit by cryptolocker a while back changed some minds.
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