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So the new job is great but it seems they don't have proper policies for user pc setup. I was given a blank pc with office on it. None of the tools I need to administrate the applications im supposed to admin. It's now been a month and I've managed to get one app installed that lets me do most of my job On Friday I found out I had to admin a new app, not a big deal as my workload isn't too bad right now and the app has gotten two or three tickets in the last month. I submit a request to get the admin app installed and one of the other managers gives me poo poo for not following process. I followed up with my manager and yes, I followed process. My manager then rolled her eyes and started emailing people. The joys of working for a large corp. It's surprising how much I'm not frustrated by this. blackswordca fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Apr 23, 2018 |
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blackswordca posted:So the new job is great but it seems they don't have proper policies for user pc setup. I was given a blank pc with office on it. None of the tools I need to administrate the applications im supposed to admin. It's now been a month and I've managed to get one app installed that lets me do most of my job Moving up from small shops and MSPs to the real world is quite the shift I hear (please god let me be the next ![]() Good to hear none of the red tape is driving you mad though. edit: I also wasn't a huge fan of the idea to push the vCenter update immediately, but I was made aware of the intention when vCenter exploded into a million tiny pieces after the upgrade failed. Why plan things when we can blow up everything in production on a Friday?
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ChubbyThePhat posted:Moving up from small shops and MSPs to the real world is quite the shift I hear (please god let me be the next I've worked for enough large call centers to know that sometimes people just want their little fiefdoms. At the end of the day, I get paid either way. I just keep my manager in the loop.
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Ticket: Hey, one of our critical printers isn't responding and there are 300k jobs backed up in the print queue. Can someone take a look? Desktop Person: The printer isn't hooked up. It was disconnected and put into storage for construction in the area. Ummmm. This is a known critical printer that prints a lot of documents that help us do our business so we can, you know, make money and poo poo. But yeah, let's just unplug that bitch and put it into a closet while we remodel the floor without telling loving anyone.
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AlexDeGruven posted:Ticket: Hey, one of our critical printers isn't responding and there are 300k jobs backed up in the print queue. Can someone take a look? Ticket closed: No trouble found
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Wait wait wait wait. How the gently caress does 300k jobs back up on a printer like that? Surely somebody is sending those and actually needed to pick up some of their poo poo at some point?
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AlexDeGruven posted:Ticket: Hey, one of our critical printers isn't responding and there are 300k jobs backed up in the print queue. Can someone take a look? I feel very sorry for the printer that's about to pick up that slack. Also 300k jobs ![]()
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A ticket came in:quote:Do you calibrate the scan trons machine? It needs it and I have never been asked that before. I went to check it out and they just had a machine sitting on a table. I have 100% never seen a scantron machine before, so I asked how they usually configure it. ![]() [Note: it is 11:00] Ticket closed: scantron device seems to be operating normally. This appears to be a Layer 8 issue, so faculty-wide training on this device is recommended.
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blackswordca posted:I've worked for enough large call centers to know that sometimes people just want their little fiefdoms. At the end of the day, I get paid either way. I just keep my manager in the loop. The fun part is the process changes depending on who you talk to and when you talk to them. I caught hell once for doing something that a coworker had done that morning. Same process, same people, different result. Big corporations are awesome!
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Antioch posted:The fun part is the process changes depending on who you talk to and when you talk to them. I caught hell once for doing something that a coworker had done that morning. Same process, same people, different result. Big corporations are awesome! I had a PM for another group tell me that I need to stop bothering her people directly and everything I needed was to go through her. Then three weeks later that same PM tells me that she can't be responsible for every little thing her group does and to contact them directly.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:I feel very sorry for the printer that's about to pick up that slack. My business still requires a lot of documentation in hardcopy. Even if the original docs were sent digitally, they still need a physical copy once all is said and done. And it's probably 300k jobs because 30k jobs got resubmitted between 5 and 20 times.
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The Fool posted:I had a PM for another group tell me that I need to stop bothering her people directly and everything I needed was to go through her. Sounds like you got her trained, gj!
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Love to hunt around the network to find out where the gently caress the general ledger is keeping its SQL server because we use an MSP for poo poo and so I can't get ahold of anyone who knows the network architecture anymore Also I think they have a stolen windows server thing, should I report this to Microsoft (does Microsoft still pay money for that)
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Shugojin posted:Love to hunt around the network to find out where the gently caress the general ledger is keeping its SQL server because we use an MSP for poo poo and so I can't get ahold of anyone who knows the network architecture anymore Can you access whatever application server is hosting the app? netstat -a and see where there's an open connection over 1443, if it's a linux machine it's the same command even!
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For a while, I’ve been planning to move the school over to VOIP. I wrote up a proposal with requirements, costs, equipment necessities, etc.. and submitted it to the director. He told me to “discuss it at the next team meeting” Today was our meeting, I started by outlining the pros and cons of VOIP and what we’d have to put into the project. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m so glad this is going to be someone else’s problem soon.
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lmao just gently caress that guy
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Not sure why you still have fucks to give. Just ride it out and gently caress him and all of that noise.
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larchesdanrew posted:Director bullshit Jesus your director is a loving rear end in a top hat.
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AlexDeGruven posted:Jesus your director is a loving rear end in a top hat. and an idiot.
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larchesdanrew posted:
Perhaps Mrs. English Teacher can help you with your reading comprehension? Or a super condescending, "please hold your questions until the end of the presentation".
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The answer to "I wasn't made aware of this" is "You were, and it's not my job to handhold you through reading the information you are given."
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Clearly, the solution here is to propose a new assistant position for the ![]() "I'm sorry, the ![]()
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Dump the entire thing into https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/ and put it on a cheap MP3 player to present as an audio book.
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Lol larch stop proposing things.
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Tailored Sauce posted:Lol larch stop proposing things. Or at the very least, push the director at the meeting to take a vote on the proposal. It will be shot down because I'm sure other people are terrified of crossing that guy. When somebody brings up the phone bill later and asks if you can reduce cost somewhere, tell them it was rejected and you will not revisit without another vote. At least it keeps the director from waffling and complaining to you that you never considered VoIP.
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MF_James posted:Can you access whatever application server is hosting the app? netstat -a and see where there's an open connection over 1443, if it's a linux machine it's the same command even! Maybe? I will try that tomorrow if the only other person who knows anything about sql doesn't know the IP off the top of his head tomorrow, he was off to his son's little league game when I thought to check that with him today but this is more of a "it'd be cool if we could connect these for financial reporting" thing than a "this is super critical" one so this can be comfortably back burner
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larchesdanrew posted:For a while, I’ve been planning to move the school over to VOIP. I wrote up a proposal with requirements, costs, equipment necessities, etc.. and submitted it to the director. He told me to “discuss it at the next team meeting” Quote him garbage to run analog gateway for your phones
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Time the delivery so it arrives on the morning of your last day
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larchesdanrew posted:
In my fantasy, this is where you say “You could have made yourself aware that it was in the proposal by reading it.”
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Thanks Ants posted:Time the delivery so it arrives on the morning after your last day
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Sormus posted:Clearly, the solution here is to propose a new assistant position He has two full time executive assistants. But I’m sure his ego could justify hiring another one at the expense of some other position in campus. Tailored Sauce posted:Lol larch stop proposing things. I bitch about him but I love this school, man. It’s been such a huge influence on my life, especially growing up. It changes lives and I want to see it continue succeeding. I’m not going to let my hatred of this guy stop me from trying to make this place the best it can be. If I can set some plans in motion before I leave that the next guy can pick up, then that’s what I’ll do ![]()
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larchesdanrew posted:
That's admirable and fingers crossed you leave some plans behind that lead to progress
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Tailored Sauce posted:That's admirable and fingers crossed you leave some plans behind that lead to progress Let's be real: the best plan, the one that would effect the most change by a mile, would be "fire this abusive illiterate shitstain of a director and get a professional in here."
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Che Delilas posted:Let's be real: the best plan, the one that would effect the most change by a mile, would be "fire this abusive illiterate shitstain of a director and get a professional in here." isn't that the same director who is supposed to have an incoming promotion?
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The Fool posted:I had a PM for another group tell me that I need to stop bothering her people directly and everything I needed was to go through her. Ask me about the brand new “I’m going to SAVE THE COMPANY” account manager that said from now on, all communications would flow through him. I pushed back, saying that we traditionally have direct contact with customer employees due to support cases being opened by those employees. He said, “Nope! All communication. All.” Okay jackass. On Monday I updated the customer entry in our case management system stating that all communication would flow through $accountManager. By Thursday the customer is screaming, “Who the gently caress is $accountManager and why is he holding things up?!?” Friday he’s backpedaling like crazy and telling the rest of us on the account team that he never said “all communication”. Two of us emailed him his previous email directive, both of us cc-d everyone on the team plus supervisors. Jackass.
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I loving hate heroes.
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Che Delilas posted:I loving hate heroes. Amen
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spog posted:There was the (possibly apocryphal) MD who owned a boat called 'A Business Trip' My last place of work was on a lake. We had a company boat you could book if you wanted to. That boat was called "Meeting", and one of our editors used it avidly to go fishing during lunch. Our receptionist would cast a glance out over the lake, spot the little boat and go "I'm sorry, he's in a meeting right now.". That never got old.
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Agrikk posted:Friday he’s backpedaling like crazy and telling the rest of us on the account team that he never said “all communication”. ![]() That's some job satisfaction right there.
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Crowley posted:My last place of work was on a lake. We had a company boat you could book if you wanted to. That boat was called "Meeting", and one of our editors used it avidly to go fishing during lunch. Our receptionist would cast a glance out over the lake, spot the little boat and go "I'm sorry, he's in a meeting right now.". That never got old. This sounds too good to be true, was your boss literally satan? I mean, with this job you don't even need boat money, they let you borrow the boat!
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