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Proteus Jones posted:Are you referring to the fact the entire Gungan species is a terrible racist caricature (which it was) I'm really glad I watched the prequels before I was old enough to remember any of that.
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Apr 23, 2018 11:09
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We have started capping our conduit installs with concrete- which doesn’t stop the digging equipment persay. It just makes it more obvious to the operator that they have hit something.
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Apr 23, 2018 12:10
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Engineer: <requests a weird (and generally not supported) Windows 10 Enteprrise license approach> Me: <provides quote after conferring with multiple microsoft reps> Engineer: That's too expensive. Can we do it another way? Me: Probably not; but let's do another conference call. Conf call: <everyone agrees the expensive approach is correct> Engineer: <refuses to authorize expense> Engineer: Why isn't this done yet?  I WANT TO HELP YOU BUT YOU MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE.
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Apr 23, 2018 15:10
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Linux file permissions can gently caress right off today. I'm battling a bizarre django-compressor error where the page doesn't have permission to access any JS being compressed.... It turns out that because I have my repo stored on an NTFS formatted drive (I run my OSes on SSDs, and then have traditional HDDs for storage that let me access my files no matter what OS I boot), the permissions on the compressed files that get cached can't be set properly. If I move the repo to my home directory (and take up a fuckton of precious SSD space), problem solved. I need to play with how that drive gets mounted for a more long-term fix, but gently caress the amount of time I wasted 
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Apr 23, 2018 16:42
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Agrikk posted:The zillion flavors of Linux piss me off. Just curious since I imagine you're aware of the difference (or lack thereof), is there a reason you need to use RHEL instead of CentOS?
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Apr 23, 2018 16:45
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Eletriarnation posted:Just curious since I imagine you're aware of the difference (or lack thereof), is there a reason you need to use RHEL instead of CentOS? No. Complaining about Red Hat simply gave me a third bullet point. I felt my point was better made with three points rather than two.
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Apr 23, 2018 17:25
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Agrikk posted:I felt my point was better made with three points rather than two. Do you write AWS docs too?
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Apr 23, 2018 17:31
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This week is Employee Appreciation Week. Today is hat day. Tomorrow is an awards ceremony for people that have been here for 5, 10, 20, etc years. At least there will be catered lunches. Today they are handing out tickets for food trucks that are going to be in the parking lot.
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Apr 23, 2018 17:37
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The Fool posted:Today is hat day. ? 
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Apr 23, 2018 17:47
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An awards ceremony sounds really silly, but I'm hyped af for hat day. How Stripe get a hat?
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Apr 23, 2018 17:47
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Hats will be provided at cost to employees ($19). Anyone caught without a hat will have $20 deducted from pay. Mandatory culture brings us all closer together!
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Apr 23, 2018 17:54
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Hats will be provided at cost to employees ($19). Anyone caught without a hat will have $20 deducted from pay. You forgot. Those hatless will be fined AND automatically sold a mandatory hat.
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Apr 23, 2018 17:57
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I'd wear my ridiculous mad hatter fancy dress hat. Sounds fun, to be honest.
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Apr 23, 2018 17:58
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Put in my two weeks. Probably delaying a project I was on for 6 months to a year, or outright killing it altogether. I highly recommend doing this!
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Apr 23, 2018 17:58
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The Fool posted:This week is Employee Appreciation Week. The first and last Employee Appreciate Week at my last job included a bubble gum blowing contest, and culminated in a "special surprise" from executive management, which ended up being an e-card sent from Blue Mountain. Still mad that my "let's smash old computers/printers" event was approved for months ahead of time and then cancelled last minute by the HR director because she didn't feel it accurately reflected the intent of the company.
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Apr 23, 2018 18:00
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ratbert90 posted:Put in my two weeks. Probably delaying a project I was on for 6 months to a year, or outright killing it altogether. I have no idea how that could be joyful  ask me again in a month for a different answer
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Apr 23, 2018 18:00
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Grassy Knowles posted:I have no idea how that could be joyful Oh, trust me, it’s not only joyful, it’s liberating, it’s grand, it’s like throwing a gigantic piece of driftwood on the smoldering ashes of what I thought was my career as a engineer. I cannot begin to describe just how good it feels to no longer be beheld to the whims of myopic, neurotic, and psychotic baby boomers.
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Apr 23, 2018 18:04
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The Fool posted:This week is Employee Appreciation Week. Can I wear my brain hat? It’s a brain with downs-like doofy eyeballs. Edit: 
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Apr 23, 2018 18:27
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Only if you refuse to communicate any way other than “Ack”
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Apr 23, 2018 18:31
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Only if you refuse to communicate any way other than “Ack” Sorry, no can do. I only communicate via UDP.
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Apr 23, 2018 18:32
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Then freak out if someone plays country music.
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Apr 23, 2018 18:37
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ConfusedUs posted:Sorry, no can do. I only communicate via UDP. I don't get it.
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Apr 23, 2018 18:43
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ratbert90 posted:I don't get it.  I never get tired of these.
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Apr 23, 2018 18:52
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ratbert90 posted:I don't get it. We'll try again later. If we feel like it. I saw a an electrical contractor's van yesterday with what they thought was a hilarious motto: Wong's Electrical: Your con-duit contractor !
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Apr 23, 2018 18:54
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ratbert90 posted:I don't get it. And I don't care. 
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Apr 23, 2018 18:57
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mllaneza posted:I saw a an electrical contractor's van yesterday with what they thought was a hilarious motto: Wong's Electrical: Your con-duit contractor ! I love it. Mild shame it wasn't "We con-duit Wong!" but I'll let it slide.
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Apr 23, 2018 19:03
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It's end of semester and so a lot of tech projects that can't go ahead during the regular term due to disruption are moving forward at once. This means everyone's busy. And the users are getting restless. Our usual sub-hour turn-around time for replacement peripheral delivery is now up to 4 hours! Requests that come in at 3:30pm on a Friday aren't done until just before lunch on Monday! And so they're "following up" on their requests frequently. Making everything more difficult to triage. It's just like, drat it, you got the notification your request was received and logged, give it a full business day before getting shirty?
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Apr 23, 2018 19:27
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Peachfart posted:Report back when the VP comes to FTFY based on how often he’s been poo poo on, wouldn’t surprise me but then again I’ve worked some poo poo places, a couple of which have closed due to incompetence
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Apr 23, 2018 19:47
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I found out some things in my replacement and my coworkers. My replacement has been asking around about H1Bs. Between that and the interview prep stuff I saw on his desktop I’m pretty sure he has a foot out the door already. Our ticketing system is ran by me and one other person currently. I do some minor admin and database work and all the reporting. My coworker does everything else. They are actively interviewing for other positions and I’m pretty sure will be gone shortly after me. I know no one is truly irreplaceable but I feel like my company is about to have a very rough time.
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Apr 23, 2018 19:54
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dogstile posted:I'd wear my ridiculous mad hatter fancy dress hat. Sounds fun, to be honest. Hatpost 
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Apr 23, 2018 19:58
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poo poo cracking me up: I just found out a quirk in our ticketing system. If you email the helpdesk and include a pound sign along with a number, the system will automatically append that email to ticket number you put behind the pound sign. One of the programs that our users regularly interact with spits out error codes when there's a problem logging in to it, most commonly Rejection Code 28. So I've just discovered that ticket #28 has dozens of notes on it dating back to 2012 where people have been emailing in requesting their password be reset. I can only assume that they sent a second ticket or called in to fix the problem, because no one has been receiving notifications on ticket #28 for years (the person who closed the ticket is no longer with the company). Re: Employee Appreciation Week. We have been instructed to wear red this Thursday since we are closing down operations for a half-day and having an Employee Appreciation Presentation with awards and a speaker. I used to not mind this because all employees are dismissed for the day at the end of the presentation at 4p, which meant I got to go home a little earlier, but now that my normal quitting time is 4 and I'm in an IT role, I don't get the bonus of leaving early and I have the risk of being tapped to help troubleshoot the projector and sound system.
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Apr 23, 2018 20:51
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LawfulWaffle posted:poo poo cracking me up: I just found out a quirk in our ticketing system. If you email the helpdesk and include a pound sign along with a number, the system will automatically append that email to ticket number you put behind the pound sign. One of the programs that our users regularly interact with spits out error codes when there's a problem logging in to it, most commonly Rejection Code 28. So I've just discovered that ticket #28 has dozens of notes on it dating back to 2012 where people have been emailing in requesting their password be reset. I can only assume that they sent a second ticket or called in to fix the problem, because no one has been receiving notifications on ticket #28 for years (the person who closed the ticket is no longer with the company). Too bad you’ve developed that terrible cough and won’t be able to make it in that day. I’ve often had last minute doctor appointments that I just can’t reschedule to get out of things like that.
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Apr 23, 2018 21:33
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Obsoletely Fabulous posted:Too bad you’ve developed that terrible cough and won’t be able to make it in that day. I’ve often had last minute doctor appointments that I just can’t reschedule to get out of things like that. Sick kid, puke everywhere, no way I can make it into work today, sorry!
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Apr 23, 2018 22:09
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Puked on a kid, sorry
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Apr 23, 2018 22:15
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LawfulWaffle posted:I'm in an IT role, I don't get the bonus of leaving early and I have the risk of being tapped to help troubleshoot the projector and sound system. I do this thing that irritates my wife, when we go to a place that has a projector, or sound or something, like a PTA meeting or someones wedding, I'll lean over, and point out what piece of technology they'll not be able to get working and that at some point I'm going to be fixing. So far I've yet to be wrong. My favorite was once at my wife's best friend's sisters wedding, they had a slideshow on a laptop, and a projector. The A/V guys running the music and all that kept giving the MOH a hassle about connecting her laptop "oh we don't have the right cable, the screen isn't right (it's a project so umm...), there's no outlets where you want to show it." I ignored it for a while, but then when I saw the MOH in tears because she worked hard on the presentation (of course it was a garbage presentation of bad photographs, poor resolution, etc), I asked her what was up, and she told me. I went over to the A/V guys and asked them what was the problem, and they told me to buzz off. The guy told me they didn't have the right cables, so I really let them have it, yanked their projector and a VGA cable off their table, pulled a chair from a table, and setup the projector. There wasn't an outlet, but they had extension cords, so I yelled at the idiot to grab one his cords and connect it, and if he said anything I'd find one and strangle him with it. We ended up watching the dumb slideshow. Afterwards, the MOH's uncle came up to me and got on my case for harassing the A/V guys. Turns out they were family that were doing it for free, and were all butthurt about me confronting them. I explained to him how unreasonable they were being, and he wouldn't back off so laughed at him and walked away. Oh, and I also had to climb in a ceiling tile to find their linksys router and factory default it to reset the wifi password since the venue promised wifi and internet so they could stream the wedding, and no one at the venue had the wifi password.
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Apr 23, 2018 22:22
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There's nothing sadder than a hotel AV install that has been there for more than about six months without a competent company maintaining it
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Apr 23, 2018 22:52
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Jerk McJerkface posted:I went over to the A/V guys and asked them what was the problem, and they told me to buzz off. The guy told me they didn't have the right cables, so I really let them have it, yanked their projector and a VGA cable off their table, pulled a chair from a table, and setup the projector. There wasn't an outlet, but they had extension cords, so I yelled at the idiot to grab one his cords and connect it, and if he said anything I'd find one and strangle him with it. We ended up watching the dumb slideshow. Afterwards, the MOH's uncle came up to me and got on my case for harassing the A/V guys. Turns out they were family that were doing it for free, and were all butthurt about me confronting them. I explained to him how unreasonable they were being, and he wouldn't back off so laughed at him and walked away. You are invited to my wedding and every single presentation I ever do.
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Apr 23, 2018 23:14
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We converted to Solstice for all our meeting rooms last year, and it's fun how we traded the conversions of "is the projector on the right input?? Where's the remote? No the other one" to "um excuse me your slides stopped updating, can you restart your client?" every fifteen minutes. It's crazy how literally no conference room ever has had a setup that just works.
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Apr 23, 2018 23:33
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In Vegas for a conference with a guy from accounting, who doesn’t have a company card so I’m using mine to buy our meals etc. “I feel guilty having the company buy our food, it’s kind of expensive. Let’s take an Uber to Walmart and buy a case of bottled water and a box of powerbars” Alright, we’re not exactly eating at five star restaurants here but the company has a meal policy of $30 or whatever, that’s what it’s for. I made him buy me a $18 margarita on the strip with his personal funds. Also, betweeen the conference cost, airfare, hotel, you’re making a big deal of like $200 in meals over a couple days?
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