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sfwarlock posted:One of the higher techs came in and found his laptop - which had been running Linux - reinstalled with Windows 8. I hear thirdhand that in the ensuing polite, genteel, and quiet conversation, it was mentioned to him that: it was not 'his' laptop, but the company's; any data lost should have been backed up anyway, because hard drives fail; and if we had any procedures which were cobbled together using "non industry-standard tools", we needed to discard those and use the "industry standard". New manager is also marking his territory. It's like prison here...take out the first guy to give you lip so everyone else falls in line! (This is hosed up)
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Jan 16, 2015 18:09
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poo poo pissing me off this morning: CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK
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Manslaughter posted:Extremely hosed up. There has to be someone above him you can talk to? The problem with talking to his boss, is his boss probably made the hire and I've learned people don't like to deal with the fact they might have made a bad hiring decision.
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skipdogg posted:The problem with talking to his boss, is his boss probably made the hire and I've learned people don't like to deal with the fact they might have made a bad hiring decision. Somehow I have faith that his boss's boss is still human enough to take it seriously if an anonymous compliant was made saying "he fired X on the spot because X got angry that he formatted his laptop without any notification".
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Jan 16, 2015 18:14
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ratbert90 posted:poo poo pissing me off this morning: CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK Run out of bullets?
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spog posted:Run out of bullets? My ZIP drive ate another ZIP disk! 
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ratbert90 posted:poo poo pissing me off this morning: CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK
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Collateral Damage posted:Winning or losing at Russian roulette? Losing apparently.
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stubblyhead posted:Sounds like this question has been answered. Does getting a management position at another company count?
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ratbert90 posted:poo poo pissing me off this morning: CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK Holy poo poo, right as I started to read this someone started to type on the typewriter that is used once a month or so. I almost cracked up laughing. The timing was so perfect.
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Jan 16, 2015 20:05
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sfwarlock posted:The tech then mentioned that perhaps he wasn't the incompetent person in the room, to which he was invited to depart the premises immediately and permanently. Shots fired TWBalls posted:Today was rather... interesting, to say the least. We've been having some construction going on and apparently when one of the workers was loving with some of the lights up at the front of the hospital (not sure why, they seemed to be working fine) one of the bulbs exploded and caused a small fire. Not quite on par with yours, but this morning we had some builders in who came to tear down a glass wall... except NOBODY was informed this was taking place so our health & safety crew flipped their poo poo because people are working in that space, great start to the day when staff are asking where to sit and where to move their equipment because their room has been hazard taped off.
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Super Slash posted:Not quite on par with yours, but this morning we had some builders in who came to tear down a glass wall... except NOBODY was informed this was taking place so our health & safety crew flipped their poo poo because people are working in that space, great start to the day when staff are asking where to sit and where to move their equipment because their room has been hazard taped off. Before that had happened, I over heard some folks talking about the construction crew while I was working on someones system. Apparently, they've had a month to show permits to one of the higher ups so they can sign off on giving the go ahead to shut down some of the operating rooms and begin construction. They haven't yet done this and that particular higher up (not sure who it was, as I was busy working) was NOT happy.
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sfwarlock posted:The tech then mentioned that perhaps he wasn't the incompetent person in the room, to which he was invited to depart the premises immediately and permanently. Not the only one crushing on this person at the moment obviously, but I wish he'd done his protesting in the form of an e-mail discussing lost productivity, customer data, and professionalism shown or the lack thereof. With a light 51%helpful/49%condescending tone doing a play-by-play of where to do better in the future when managing professionals in the workplace and copying in bosses and teams, it may have been a lot more effective at making GBS threads all over the latest worst-manager-in-thread in the long run.
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Cleaning the loving scanner from oil blobs to scan my stack of documents as a whole. Needing 10 mins to figure out what was wrong with it.
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skipdogg posted:The new manager clearly wants to put his stamp on things and get people on board with his program. It's going to be a get with the new program our get the hell out type of situation. I don't necessarily agree with this kind of management style, but sometimes cleaning out the folks that aren't going to get with the program early can be better in the long run (from a manager point of view). Yeah, this might have been a legitimate change in procedures, except for the part where New Manager came in and basically poo poo all over the whole department by referring to "procedures cobbled together using non-industry-standard tools" and comparing Linux of all things to a stick and a rock. That pushes things from "we are doing things this way now, please adapt," to "I don't know poo poo about poo poo and I'm such a loving egomaniac that I have to actively insult you for using things I don't understand." Dude forfeited any benefit of the doubt with that kind of attitude. Edit: Not arguing with you at all by the way. I'm just saying that yeah, if the manager used anything near that kind of language, then I promise that the changes have nothing to do with efficiency and everything to do with ego. I've seen that kind of thing before. Che Delilas fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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JosephSkunk posted:Not the only one crushing on this person at the moment obviously, but I wish he'd done his protesting in the form of an e-mail discussing lost productivity, customer data, and professionalism shown or the lack thereof. With a light 51%helpful/49%condescending tone doing a play-by-play of where to do better in the future when managing professionals in the workplace and copying in bosses and teams, it may have been a lot more effective at making GBS threads all over the latest worst-manager-in-thread in the long run. Are you a robot? That idiot thug has an agenda, green lighted by other more senior creeps. What you suggest would only make you feel better in a chamomile tea sort of way. Pffffffft.
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My boss left last week to make more money and get stock options. In the one week span since he left and HIS boss has taken over, I have heard the terms "dashboard" and "Power BI" combined with "SharePoint Online" so many times, that I'm fairly certain I will spontaneously combust the next time they are mentioned at work.
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poo poo not pissing me off: I turned in my notice and invited everyone from my office for drinks to say goodbye and like. Turns out my lovely boss made it into a dinner and also gave me a gift certificate and a beer basket. There was no talking about work and it was really nice  .poo poo pissing me off: this is the second time in 5 years we did something outside of work and if we had done it more I probably wouldn't have turned in my resignation. I know a lot of people dislike the forced Christmas parties and stuff, but not having them is much much more annoying.
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Every good job should have a mandatory group thing with alcohol to allow the airing of grievances mid-year.
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ratbert90 posted:My ZIP drive ate another ZIP disk! People still use these?
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You know what is better than trying to load 500gb of Data into a database with a 250gb file system? Trying to do it in a non-production environment over a three day weekend. Apparently the IT "Command Center" laughed at our Program Manager for wanting to have someone paged for the issue.I only wish I could have heard them do it. Xae fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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"I really don't care about anybody's feelings. Just get it working." Said to my boss by their superior after VP threw the entire IT department under the bus for a problem on a vendor's network (and not giving us the correct network info for routing, but that was a smaller part of a larger vendor issue). It took a second vendor to convince the VP that it wasn't us. Our word and evidence wasn't sufficient. Three senior IT members were on that call, including me, for hours last night (I'm not on-call), consisting of "Vendor says it's you, so fix it!" repeated ad nauseam. The vendor at-fault abandoned the call at the earliest convenience without resolving the issue. Issue was resolved by the vendor this morning. I was brought onto that hour-long call "because they said it was you". No apologies or thanks forthcoming. I was omitted from all e-mail communication during the process, so I couldn't jump in and go "Uh, excuse me, but..." I've never seen my bosses so angry (not at me) before. Freakin' me out a little. Mouse cursor is inching ever-closer to LinkedIn. My bosses are awesome though, so  .
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Jan 17, 2015 23:11
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Lord Dudeguy posted:"I really don't care about anybody's feelings. Just get it working." I don't understand, are they pissed at you because you basically said, "Hey, a little reach around would be nice since you hosed me"?
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flosofl posted:I don't understand, are they pissed at you because you basically said, "Hey, a little reach around would be nice since you hosed me"? Whoa, clarification! Sorry! Not pissed at me. Pissed at the VP that threw us under the bus and got away with it, and the higher-up who couldn't give a crap if we're pissed off.
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Xae posted:You know what is better than trying to load 500gb of Data into a database with a 250gb file system? I never get tired of some of the stupid stuff sales people try and do. We have a very large customer (in the top 10 of the fortune 500) who wants a large database expanded, and they refuse to sign a sales amendment to do it. Upper management told the sales staff to eat poo poo, and get a signed amendment. So sales decides to go behind everyones back, and have support do it. They tell the customer "it's all taken care of, don't worry." They get support to agree to freely give the client a tb of SAN storage. Only problem: The server has no fiber HBA's, and all storage is local. The only way this database is getting increased is if the client buys more harddrives or an HBA, so wewt. Never underestimate the ingenuity of stupid people.
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Lord Dudeguy posted:... VP that threw us under the bus and got away with it, and the higher-up who couldn't give a crap if we're pissed off. How to lose your best people in one easy step.txt
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Ynglaur posted:People still use these? I know a few business that do. The hell of it is, the early drives, and the later drives both are super reliable. It's the ones in the middle you gotta watch out for, because Iomega tried to save a few pennies per drive by removing a subsystem of little plastic parts that basically keep the click of death from spreading. So for those middle drives, one bad disk can gently caress up the drive, which then fucks up every disk you put in them. Meanwhile the original drives and the newer drives both have the prevention thing built in so even if one disk goes bad on its own, it can't break the drive or other disks. That one dumb "let's save 25 cents a drive" move ruined the reputation of the whole drat company. At least by now basically everyone who had a bad drive got a bad disk already, and so has tossed the dodgy drives, so if you were to buy media and drives now to use you've got a very high chance they won't break for ages to come.
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nitrogen posted:I never get tired of some of the stupid stuff sales people try and do. Where I work it takes 6 weeks to get additional disk space added, if you can get Executive Sign off for an emergency order. 12 weeks otherwise. Plus you have to be willing to pay for it and the PM isn't. I don't get how people knowingly promise things that are physically impossible to deliver.
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Xae posted:Where I work it takes 6 weeks to get additional disk space added, if you can get Executive Sign off for an emergency order. Have you heard the story of the horse thief who got cought stealing the kings horse and promised to make it talk? It's the same thing. The sales guy only cares about making sales targets right now, being able to do it is the future and maybe they can shift the blame on someone else or it might be able to get done.
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sfwarlock posted:The tech then mentioned that perhaps he wasn't the incompetent person in the room, to which he was invited to depart the premises immediately and permanently. I hope the next person who resigns stops by upper management on their way out to let them know that the whole IT dept is going to quit thanks to this guy, whether that was the plan or not. This really takes the cake.
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Xae posted:I don't get how people knowingly promise things that are physically impossible to deliver. sales.txt
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Xae posted:I don't get how people knowingly promise things that are physically impossible to deliver. All it takes is having absolutely zero personal integrity. Part of me wants to blame commissions and a cutthroat competitive culture for pushing them into this mentality, but enough salespeople are just so slimy that I don't really care who started it; the whole thing can burn.
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It isn't even "sales", it is an internal client. The client is "mean" and they [Project Leadership] don't want to say "No", or even ask them to pay for the poo poo they want, because the client might get mad at them on a conference call.
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Che Delilas posted:All it takes is having absolutely zero personal integrity. Part of me wants to blame commissions and a cutthroat competitive culture for pushing them into this mentality, but enough salespeople are just so slimy that I don't really care who started it; the whole thing can burn. A lot of that can be mitigated with proper policies and accountability. Sales guys are typically motivated by the money, so make doing the Right Thing be the same place the money is, and hold them accountable when they don't do the Right Thing.
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I do GIS for a living and I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that plotters are worse than printers.
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lampey posted:The trackpad is huge and centered and it works great. If you are near a Microsoft store I would check it out. Ooh. I shall try and find a place with one then. I've been hurt before!
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John Dough posted:I do GIS for a living and I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that plotters are worse than printers. Well, it's a giant inkjet, right? So you're no doubt correct..
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I think when sfwarlock hands over his "Current" resume it should include 201x - 2015 - Current Company Subtle.
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Dudley posted:I think when sfwarlock hands over his "Current" resume it should include He'll get it back with a critique in red pen on the margins with something about proper messaging, cavemen and grunting, or something about cobbled together.
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