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Feb 21, 2018 22:37
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Outlook: not so good.
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Feb 21, 2018 22:39
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Worst thing I ever did was use a brand new 1000 node cluster to render a blender scene as a "burnin" for the processors. It was some fan-made lord of the rings thing and I cranked all the ray tracing options to maximum and told it to make a a 6000x6000 pixel image. Sure, I probably should have used mprime. But where's the fun in that when I could order 16,000 cores to render a wallpaper at a resolution no monitor could display for another 10 years? For a day I pretended I worked on Pixar's render farm.
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Feb 21, 2018 22:40
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Outlook is fine as long as people don't use it as an all-in-one storage area for all their crap. Thankfully we're putting a retention policy in place and our higher ups are talking about disabling ability to create PST files because of all the issues we see with them (plus people keep literal decades of poo poo they don't need). Sure it'll go over like a fart in church, but with the amount of mail that gets blatantly ignored or skimmed and problems we've had with repairing/splitting PSTs, I'm happy to drink some end user bitch tears and point them to complain to the guys that make 3-4x my salary.
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Feb 21, 2018 22:45
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Talking with someone on the project team who has been a huge pain in my rear end because she keeps forgetting stuff I tell her even when there are emails to look back on. I said in a project meeting today that there are cost codes available that shouldn’t be available for each project (codes from the master list are assigned to each individual project so hypothetically they can’t charge to the wrong codes). That means that the project managers could make more mistakes like the $1.6 million one they found yesterday. The other people disagreed so I pulled code lists to compare. I was right, so I sent out an email with the Excel sheet comparing the available codes for a random project. This woman takes a look, calls me, and sends a really screwy looking spreadsheet. She says “I see that there are some codes not assigned to the budget, but all of the codes in the budget are valid according to the list the CFO sent a couple months ago.” “What list?” “I’ll send it to you.” She sends me a list with every single code that exists in the entire system. “This is irrelevant, we’re talking about the codes assigned to the project. They’re on tab 5 of the project file.” “Tab five of what document?” “The project entry in [ERP System].” “....Where do I find that?” This is the point where I gestured wildly and mouthed “HOW THE gently caress DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT?” before instructing her on how to find the basic information about a project on our ERP system. And she’s the loving manager of her team. I just found that out a few weeks ago. She’s the new one, but she got hired as a manager despite repeatedly proving herself to be dumber than a bag of hammers. I know this might seem confusing from my quick phone typing, but this morning we literally spent 45 minutes discussing whether codes were available to projects and what codes should be available to projects. 22 Eargesplitten fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Feb 21, 2018 |
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Feb 21, 2018 22:57
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Yay... our telecom provider finally switched us over to SIP trunks. Only took 1 month and 3 days after making the original request.
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Feb 21, 2018 23:11
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stevewm posted:Yay... our telecom provider finally switched us over to SIP trunks. Only took 1 month and 3 days after making the original request. That fast? Wow. I'd kill for our telecom providers to be that responsive.
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Feb 21, 2018 23:35
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So 21 days and counting with no Paycheck from old company and HR is pretty much blowing me off. I contacted our old account executive and he said he’s gonna get it checked out. I’ve got my paperwork ready to file with the state about this. I think I’m going to wait and see what the AE can do first. I’m tempted to file regardless to get the waiting time penalty I could get by law here in CA. That’ll be almost 5 grand if not over depending on when I get the check. Waiting to actually get the Paycheck is easier too since I won’t have to prove what they owe me, just that they made me wait. I’m hesitant to do this though because it will certainly piss people off. I know legally they can’t retaliate, but who knows what’ll happen down the line. But on the other hand, the amount of people who will have knowledge of this is small and almost none even in this state probably. This is a big corporation and I knew basically no one beyond my account.
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Feb 21, 2018 23:40
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skooma512 posted:So 21 days and counting with no Paycheck from old company and HR is pretty much blowing me off. I contacted our old account executive and he said he’s gonna get it checked out. Sounds like they're still blowing you off. "Gonna get it checked out" = "I'll ask someone about this vaguely when I have the time if I remember."
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Feb 21, 2018 23:43
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skooma512 posted:
You should not give a single, solitary gently caress. What possible bridge could you burning that they didn't already douse with gasoline? If you end up working for this company again, I think it's a given this entire thread will mock you. skooma512 posted:I’m tempted to file regardless to get the waiting time penalty I could get by law here in CA. That’ll be almost 5 grand if not over depending on when I get the check. Waiting to actually get the Paycheck is easier too since I won’t have to prove what they owe me, just that they made me wait.
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Feb 21, 2018 23:46
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gently caress them, get your loving money. You’ve given them your labour, they’ve had the value of that. Now they need to pay up.
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Feb 21, 2018 23:47
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Thanks Ants posted:gently caress them, get your loving money. You’ve given them your labour, they’ve had the value of that. Now they need to pay up. Dear god this. File that poo poo. Be Paulie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGAmPRxV48
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Feb 21, 2018 23:51
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Let the CA Labor board gently caress them with the tenderness of a gorilla. Also call an employment lawyer and get that class action moving  Two things you don't gently caress with: - A person's paycheck - A person's SATA cables.  them
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Feb 21, 2018 23:53
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skooma512 posted:So 21 days and counting with no Paycheck from old company and HR is pretty much blowing me off. I contacted our old account executive and he said he’s gonna get it checked out. File, file, file, file, file. gently caress those clowns and the criminal act that they are personally commiting.
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Feb 21, 2018 23:57
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skooma512 posted:So 21 days and counting with no Paycheck from old company and HR is pretty much blowing me off. I contacted our old account executive and he said he’s gonna get it checked out. There is zero reason to wait. If they end up paying you, you can cancel the filing.
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Feb 21, 2018 23:58
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWESB56wcxY
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Feb 22, 2018 00:00
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Proteus Jones posted:You should not give a single, solitary gently caress. What possible bridge could you burning that they didn't already douse with gasoline? If you end up working for this company again, I think it's a given this entire thread will mock you. Yeah for sure. They didn’t pay me market rate this whole time it turns out. Just wish I had known I was getting a 5k windfall, I would have gotten a nicer guitar.
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Feb 22, 2018 00:05
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ConfusedUs posted:That fast? Wow. I'd kill for our telecom providers to be that responsive. I was actually surprised it took that long because it rarely ever does. They are a small company.. The VP is also the main telephony technician and also the one that finally called me with the SIP info and switched our numbers over.
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Feb 22, 2018 00:30
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One of our sites decided to move their video conference system out of one room and into a new room. In the process, they lost video conference base that the camera and microphone plug into. It is also the part that costs about 5 grand.
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Feb 22, 2018 06:11
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skooma512 posted:So 21 days and counting with no Paycheck from old company and HR is pretty much blowing me off. I contacted our old account executive and he said he’s gonna get it checked out. OTOH, who knows how many other people they have done this to? And maybe you are the straw that breaks the corrupt camel's back... (Because, you know, everyone else thought the way you did.)
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Feb 22, 2018 06:46
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Sickening posted:There is zero reason to wait. If they end up paying you, you can cancel the filing. Hell no, don't cancel. They already owe you a waiting time penalty. It's increasing every business day, only stop the clock when you get the loving check. tl;dr Get the loving check.
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Feb 22, 2018 07:12
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mllaneza posted:Hell no, don't cancel. They already owe you a waiting time penalty. It's increasing every business day, only stop the clock when you get the loving check. It's increasing every calendar day  . They'll pay me a penalty for every calendar day up to 30 if it gets to the point.
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Feb 22, 2018 07:20
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skooma512 posted:It's increasing every calendar day If your next post isn't "So I filed the paperwork at lunch today" I'm gonna be so disappointed with you.
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Feb 22, 2018 07:26
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:If your next post isn't "So I filed the paperwork at lunch today" I'm gonna be so disappointed with you. Not emptyquoting, just quoting for added emphasis.
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Feb 22, 2018 11:05
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skooma512 posted:It's increasing every calendar day Are they the type of company who would be using every rule, procedure and legal avenue against you should the situation be somehow reversed? Search your heart. You know it to be true.
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Feb 22, 2018 11:18
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 Don't be part of the $933 million dollar problem.
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Feb 22, 2018 13:16
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"Merge duplicates" should not be used by anyone that doesn't know what the gently caress they are doing. Just gently caress everything up would ya.
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Feb 22, 2018 14:40
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Bob Morales posted:"Merge duplicates" should not be used by anyone that doesn't know what the gently caress they are doing. Just gently caress everything up would ya. Merge, drop, update shouldn't generally be used any anyone who don't know what they are doing.
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Feb 22, 2018 15:15
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Having never before ventured forth into the realm of VoIP... I am pretty amazed at our new SIP trunk. Calls sound so much better. I didn't expect the difference to be that great.
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Feb 22, 2018 15:17
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ConfusedUs posted:Sounds like they're still blowing you off. "Gonna get it checked out" = "I'll ask someone about this vaguely when I have the time if I remember." They could be serious, but someone else just doesn't want to give in. I once worked at a place that the CFO felt a contractor didn't complete a job (they did, the CFO signed off on the spec sheet, and they did the spec sheet. CFO assumed a dozen other things would be included and they were the important parts.) Guy was calling asking for a check for weeks before calling me. It took 3 months of it being late, me pleading with the CFO to just pay the man, and the guy getting a lawyer to send a letter. He settled for less than half the cost of the check, with a signed copy of a statement that says he will not pursue the rest and the reduced pay is a reflection is the unfinished worked that we then had to hire someone else to complete. Guy should have gotten all he could have. That place never ever paid outside contractors in full and never trusted them. They called me once and asked for my rate, now they were never late paying me but I saw how they paid non full time employees in the past. I wanted money up front for the day and to be paid by the day. I was dead serious, and they found someone else. I'd never work there as an outside contractor without money in hand. So seriously gently caress this place, I watched them steal over a million from contractors over the time I spent there.
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Feb 22, 2018 15:39
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poo poo that's pissing me off. Just had a data entry project dumped on me. Its mostly mind numbing bullshit with the added bonus that I get to try to get additional data from clients who don't usually send out data. This isn't actually my job or what I meant when I said "I don't mind helping out a little bit if i've got nothing to do", mainly because I actually have poo poo to do. If I had literally nothing to do, I wouldn't care. Then again, the boss does buy me beer and actually say's well done when i've dealt with something stressful (never actually had that before), so i'm willing to do this as its not going to bury me with work, its just boring. Am I dumb? Probably, but the way i'm doing this data entry is automating it and making sure that nobody ever does this again, so i'm thinking I can just use it to angle for a raise next year or something.
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Feb 22, 2018 16:21
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stevewm posted:Having never before ventured forth into the realm of VoIP... I am pretty amazed at our new SIP trunk. Calls sound so much better. I didn't expect the difference to be that great. A typical VoIP trunk will use the same G.711 codec as is used on T1 PRIs and ISDN BRIs. Quality should be literally identical between them when things are working correctly. It is technically possible to use some of the wideband "HD Voice" codecs over SIP trunks but most carriers don't support that, or only support it for on-network calls. If your system supports these modes internally though it should be very impressive.
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Feb 22, 2018 16:47
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wolrah posted:VoIP is my day job and I'm happy to sing its praises all day, but this really shouldn't be the case unless your old service had something horribly wrong with it. I think the issue was the path going through a few conversions.. From carrier (fiber) to Adtran box which presented analog lines. Then those analog lines where connected to the FXO ports on our VoIP system. You could hear a tiny bit of compression artifacts in both directions like a cellphone call. Though it could also be that the FXO ports on our phone system where not that great at converting back to digital. But it also sounds better than our old Analog system (which was connected to the Adtran box via the analog lines). And the trunk is using G711.
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Feb 22, 2018 17:06
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:If your next post isn't "So I filed the paperwork at lunch today" I'm gonna be so disappointed with you. I'm already disappointed that he didn't file yesterday after the bullshit non-answer he got. FILE THE PAPERS SKOOMA
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Feb 22, 2018 17:09
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Some dick hole decided to move our DHCP server from Hyper-V to vSphere, and wanted to alter its configuration beforehand but cocked it up by blowing out the formatting of the config file (I think we use ISC?) so we had ~problems~ in the morning. Nothing overly difficult to overcome but its more the fact of some guy from another site going "Yo dudes imma change some stuff hold onto yer butts" with no drat notice.
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Feb 22, 2018 17:11
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Super Slash posted:Some dick hole decided to move our DHCP server from Hyper-V to vSphere, and wanted to alter its configuration beforehand but cocked it up by blowing out the formatting of the config file (I think we use ISC?) so we had ~problems~ in the morning. If you’re moving something just move it, don’t change a bunch of stuff at the same time
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Feb 22, 2018 17:38
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The curse of "while I'm here I may as well update this other thing" during maintenance windows. If you didn't plan for it, don't do it.
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Feb 22, 2018 17:55
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It’s 10 AM and I’m already on coffee #3. It’s going to take a lot to handle these idiots today.
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Feb 22, 2018 18:10
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stevewm posted:I think the issue was the path going through a few conversions.. From carrier (fiber) to Adtran box which presented analog lines. Then those analog lines where connected to the FXO ports on our VoIP system. You could hear a tiny bit of compression artifacts in both directions like a cellphone call. Though it could also be that the FXO ports on our phone system where not that great at converting back to digital.
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Feb 22, 2018 18:23
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Love it when my idiot coworker spends a ton of her time running around doing useless poo poo and confusing herself instead of fixing a problem in 5 minutes. So we found out today that a couple machines names were incorrect in AD - one machine was retired/recycled, the other active. Recycled one is already long gone but the active one doesn't ping, both are the same identical model, we'll call them PC-A and PC-B. Turned out that a hard drive was swapped out and wasn't renamed before recycling happened, so PC-A has PC-B's hard drive, and vice versa. We double-checked the machine we have and confirmed it matches up, so it should be a pretty simple case of renaming the drive to match the machine, right? Apparently not, because coworker has spent the last 20 minutes repeating the same poo poo about mismatched naming and talking to other members of the team about what she should do. Meanwhile I suggest renaming the loving computer and not wasting more time on it, and was met with "oh, it's not that simple". gently caress you, yes it is, stop wasting time and energy chasing your loving tail and pretending you know what you're doing. I swear this girl is 3 hairs and a chromosome away from being a retarded monkey.
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Feb 22, 2018 18:24
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