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Ghostlight posted:luv 2 attend two hour meetings starting at 12:30 where the entire context is "apps workshop, details to follow" that are updated on the day with the additional details of "this is now a physical meeting". Tuesday: "We're meeting about the proposed re-org on Friday." Thursday: "We're postponing the re-org proposal meeting after realizing the leaders of the respective teams were not aligned on how to move forward." Monday: "We've discussed, and we're meeting tomorrow to share our findings." Today: "The re-org is never happening. Also, this meeting is now an open forum to discuss how you feel about your boss and how badly he's hosed this whole thing up."
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My god, what have I done? 
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May 16, 2019 03:49
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outcome of the meeting: an additional meeting will be organised with a third-party to discuss the framework for initiating a project that the stakeholders see as an "easy win" for the company despite the fact that i began and half-completed the project in-house two months ago on my own initiative but put it on hold awaiting a response from the stakeholders regarding necessary process details known only to their team. attendance: mandatory
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May 16, 2019 03:57
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Ghostlight posted:outcome of the meeting: an additional meeting will be organised with a third-party to discuss the framework for initiating a project that the stakeholders see as an "easy win" for the company despite the fact that i began and half-completed the project in-house two months ago on my own initiative but put it on hold awaiting a response from the stakeholders regarding necessary process details known only to their team. Then you keep mum about it, let them work out the timeframe they expect it in, and then deliver it in a reasonable time under that expectation while taking things easy as you finish off what you did months ago.
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May 16, 2019 03:59
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One of my biggest things I gotta tell new team members is the Scotty method. Always give more time than needed. You never know what could come up or happen.
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May 16, 2019 04:00
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ticket posted:I don’t think I know [email password]. If I guess it correctly could you tell me? lol
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May 16, 2019 10:30
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All i see is ************
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May 16, 2019 11:08
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You ever feel like you're watching an organization crumble around you?
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May 16, 2019 11:12
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I've just repaired the E key on my laptop with a youtube video and a loving swiss army penknife, thanks to our internal politics making laptops impossible to replace.
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May 16, 2019 11:29
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Start submitting PO's for penknives?
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May 16, 2019 12:03
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duz posted:It's like I'm hosting nothing at all, nothing at all, nothing at all. serverless.png
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May 16, 2019 14:41
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Yo, xsf421, you going to Dark Lord Day this weekend? Out of state, not oncall, not driving, time to drink to forget.
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May 16, 2019 16:13
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AlexDeGruven posted:You ever feel like you're watching an organization crumble around you? Shut up Meg posted:I've just repaired the E key on my laptop with a youtube video and a loving swiss army penknife, thanks to our internal politics making laptops impossible to replace.  Our tech refresh recently went from 3 years to 4 years on most job roles. Meanwhile, we have a series of ultrabooks that had to go through 4 hardware revisions before we got one that won't burn itself up running Google's lovely chat video codecs. They built them super light and thin, to the detriment of cooling. And now the people who've been stuck with those for the past 2-3 years just found out they're stuck with them for another whole year. Also, my initiative to show management how much these piece of poo poo are affecting productivity fell on deaf ears.
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May 16, 2019 16:49
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AlexDeGruven posted:You ever feel like you're watching an organization crumble around you? Both Methanar’s and Vulture Culture’s companies shut down yesterday so I’m guessing yes.
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May 16, 2019 17:00
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Both Methanar’s and Vulture Culture’s companies shut down yesterday so I’m guessing yes. We're not there yet, but a recruiter said their resumes from here are up more than 1000% on the year.
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May 16, 2019 17:22
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AlexDeGruven posted:You ever feel like you're watching an organization crumble around you? You work for the us government?
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May 16, 2019 17:44
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AlexDeGruven posted:You ever feel like you're watching an organization crumble around you? After the month I’ve had, yes. Yes, I know what it feels like to watch an organization crumble around me. So I’ve decided I am going to tear down and rebuild a deck in my backyard. It will be a nice deck. With more direct access to my hot tub, a more open plan, steel cable railings instead of vertical wood slats for a more unobstructed vista view and a spot for a hammock that I will be able to lie in and watch all of my fucks float away in the gentle Spring breeze.
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May 16, 2019 17:46
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El Jebus posted:You work for the us government? Fortunately, no. But sometimes the idiocy of decisions is pretty on par.
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May 16, 2019 18:15
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:
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May 16, 2019 20:31
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Agrikk posted:After the month I’ve had, yes. Yes, I know what it feels like to watch an organization crumble around me. This sounds nice 
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May 16, 2019 20:33
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TWBalls posted:We went from 3 years to 5 years and most recently 7 years. Can't wait to hear people bitch. 7? I mean... What?? I know business machines don't really need more power for most people now but the drag that will have to be is something.
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May 16, 2019 22:43
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A laptop will be hosed after four years
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May 16, 2019 22:53
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Thanks Ants posted:A laptop will be hosed after four years Oh come on. I give the average user 2 weeks before they gently caress it up somehow.
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May 16, 2019 23:29
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I'm just glad if they still know where the laptop is after four years.
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May 17, 2019 00:32
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Ghostlight posted:I'm just glad if they still know where the laptop is after four years. Oh god, welcome to my new hell: figuring out how to nuke machines that have gone walkabout from orbit.
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May 17, 2019 00:45
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My desktop at work has an i3 3320 and 4gb of RAM. It takes 7-10 minutes to reboot when it decides to stop responding from the horrible load of Chrome taking up 600MB of RAM. My goddamn T430 would run circles around it.
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May 17, 2019 01:27
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I recently had a machine turn up in a police station half the country away (which is walking distance, because Ireland). It was stolen before I started work with this client, and someone decided that the best thing to do was just remove the asset number from the asset DB entirely. Took a lot of work to find a backup which didn't have a suspicious hole in it...
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May 17, 2019 01:28
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22 Eargesplitten posted:My desktop at work has an i3 3320 and 4gb of RAM. The other day I was at a customer site helping them try to migrate a bunch of random HVAC tuning applications over from an old XP laptop to a brand new machine. Decent Core i5, but it had 4GB of RAM and a 5400 RPM pile of spinning rust junk. The XP laptop was faster in every way. My seven year old, third-gen i7 shitbox laptop ran circles around it with 8GB of RAM and a SSD. 5400 RPM drives these days are like sub-1080p displays, they only exist to hit a pricepoint and anyone responsible for buying one in the last few years should have their genitals attacked by rabid weasels.
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May 17, 2019 02:08
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AlexDeGruven posted:Yo, xsf421, you going to Dark Lord Day this weekend? Sadly I'm celiac, so no beerfests for me. I managed to get my system engineer promotion though, which is definitely a sign of the company crumbling around us.
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May 17, 2019 03:33
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wolrah posted:5400 RPM drives these days are like sub-1080p displays, they only exist to hit a pricepoint and anyone responsible for buying one in the last few years should have their genitals attacked by rabid weasels. Add 4GB of ram to this. Anything an end-user is going to use - 8gb (hell, we spec out 16 here because we want to make sure we get 5 years).
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May 17, 2019 12:07
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xsf421 posted:Sadly I'm celiac, so no beerfests for me. I managed to get my system engineer promotion though, which is definitely a sign of the company crumbling around us. Ahh, no fun there. I'll drink plenty in your stead. Also, lol. If you had said architect it would have had more impact.
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May 17, 2019 14:34
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wolrah posted:
Unless you need storage space for some reason, a workstation machine in this day and age should have an SSD rather than a spinning disk.
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May 17, 2019 15:42
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PremiumSupport posted:Unless you need storage space for some reason, a workstation machine in this day and age should have an SSD rather than a spinning disk. If it’s important enough to need it’s important enough to store. Storage should be on a nas or a san, no loving exceptions and no loving spinners. 
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May 17, 2019 15:45
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Schadenboner posted:If it’s important enough to need it’s important enough to store. Storage should be on a nas or a san, no loving exceptions and no loving spinners.
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May 17, 2019 16:26
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I mean no single-spinners on endpoints, obvs. Big spinners on RAIDed and backed-up storage is fine unless you’re  af and can spring for all-flash arrays in which case “you do you” (as the kids say these days).But spinners on desktops/laptops in 20-loving-19 are malpractice per se in my book.
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May 17, 2019 16:33
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100% agreed on SSDs and 8GB of RAM, but I'm at least willing to let 7200 RPM drives slide without calling for the weasels because that usually at least means someone was trying to get a decent machine and not just the cheapest thing they can find. Stupidity vs. malice and such. To me, a bare minimum standard for a general purpose computer in 2019 is four cores, 8 GB of RAM, and a SSD boot drive.
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May 17, 2019 18:28
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For us, our retail store machines are generally i3 or i5, 4-8GB of RAM and 120GB SSD. More often than not these are refurbs, we don't generally buy new anymore. 99% of the use on these machines is remote desktop for our POS software, or Internet via Chrome with a bit of LibreOffice every now and then. Don't need much for that. Corp. office machines are usually new, i5 or better and at least 8GB of RAM. Still only 120GB SSDs generally though as no need for local storage. Spinners for desktop machines are a big NO. Still used for servers though.
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May 17, 2019 19:01
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If your company uses Salesforce you're probably about to have a very interesting day and outages. https://www.reddit.com/r/salesforce/comments/bpq336/salesforce_enables_modify_all_in_all_user_profiles/ quote:The Salesforce Technology team is investigating an issue impacting Salesforce customers who use Pardot, or have used Pardot in the past. The deployment of a database script resulted in granting users broader data access than intended. To protect our customers, we have blocked access to all instances that contain affected customers until we can complete the removal of the inadvertent permissions in the affected customer orgs. As a result, customers who were not impacted may experience service disruption. In parallel, we are working to restore the original permissions as quickly as possible. Customers should continue to check Trust for updates.
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May 17, 2019 19:21
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Ticket came in from the company lawyer: does anyone know of a file recovery program with a Server / Client setup so that I can silently push to a remote laptop, and run the file recovery client from here? I need proof that someone was downloading some pirated stuff, but browsing their C$ doesn't show the incriminating files. I'm like 90% sure if I run Recova or something I'll see the evidence they tried to ditch, but I don't want to tip them off.
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If there's a way to stealthily get an all-sectors image of his drive you could then browse it away from his computer.
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