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Shut up Meg posted:I mushed these two replies together when I read them and thought you had a really cunning plan where you put all the old poo poo in a U-Haul trailer, told people you were moving it to a new storage location and then 'accidentally' dropped a forklift off the warehouse roof onto it. If only...
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Shut up Meg posted:I don't wish to cause aspersions on your abilities, but being able to invisibly break stuff is a core skill of IT support. One of the most important pieces of kit I carried back in my MSP days was what I called the "extended warranty validator". It was a nine-volt battery with loose leads I would drag across any exposed chip until the equipment in question mysteriously powered off. Salespeople are going to push an extended warranty on you. Make sure you get your money's worth for it.
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Shut up Meg posted:I mushed these two replies together when I read them and thought you had a really cunning plan where you put all the old poo poo in a U-Haul trailer, told people you were moving it to a new storage location and then 'accidentally' dropped a forklift off the warehouse roof onto it.  fishmech posted:What kind of bizarre idea of "home users" do you have where they aren't using Chrome and using ungodly resource intensive ad-loaded websites?
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Wizard of the Deep posted:One of the most important pieces of kit I carried back in my MSP days was what I called the "extended warranty validator". It was a nine-volt battery with loose leads I would drag across any exposed chip until the equipment in question mysteriously powered off. Isn't that fraud with extra steps?
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Oct 18, 2019 00:33
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Sickening posted:Isn't that fraud with extra steps? Wait, you can commit fraud with fewer steps than that? drat, dude, no wonder they made you management.
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dragonshardz posted:I was hoping I would have a test unit I could point to as "demonstrably too hosed up to even try doing the FDR on". Now I have to get inventive. No, because then they're gonna make you look for the batteries if they're all gone. They'd probably be considered missing assets if whoever put you up to this is already this pedantic about a bunch of old phones. Or worse; Order some. Just hide the good batteries, leave the bloated ones, and try to fob people away with them being dangerous and nobody should poke their nose near them until you've tossed the lot. At worst, you need to break one or two just enough for testing that they looks intact, but imply that some or all of them are just as dead. Short a few battery leads with a paper clip or run just a little too much current through one to let the magic smoke out. Neddy Seagoon fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Oct 18, 2019 |
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Oct 18, 2019 03:20
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nexxai posted:we;lp been at this job for 323 days and despite my numerous suggestions to remove Send access to our company-wide distribution list, it was determined that removing access to anyone not in corporate communications wouldn't be a priority.
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nexxai posted:So after 4 different meetings, including no less than the CEO, you'll never guess which of my numerous suggestions they decided to take more seriously. Removing the carpet by the tech bench. Except they'll just replace it with a more plush carpet.
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Renegret posted:Removing the carpet by the tech bench. A year from now, they'll lay off the cleaning staff, require you treat the tech bench like you treat your own home, and require you remove your shoes before entering the room.
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Oct 18, 2019 19:08
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nexxai posted:So after 4 different meetings, including no less than the CEO, you'll never guess which of my numerous suggestions they decided to take more seriously. No, I got it A ban on microwaving fish and popcorn in the breakroom.
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Oct 18, 2019 19:10
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Renegret posted:A ban on microwaving fish and popcorn in the breakroom.
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Oct 18, 2019 20:16
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Jewel posted:I mean you say that yet every major food retailer in the fuckin' world still throws out their food surplus instead of giving it to shelters, This isn't true, just saying. Its a minority of them, but plenty donate or give away food. Churches still gives out they excess at the end of the day if you show up to collect it, and when I was homeless eating at shelters I got so loving tired of Red Lobster and Starbucks its not funny. Problem with donating that stuff is that it doesn't keep well, and isn't one of the basic components which is what they need. There is no surplus flour/sugar/eggs, so there isn't actually much a shelter can take in all practicality.
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Oct 18, 2019 20:16
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Renegret posted:No, I got it i get fish, but popcorn is a dumb move.
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Oct 18, 2019 20:17
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wargames posted:i get fish, but popcorn is a dumb move. No, popcorn fuckin' stinks and lingers. Not to mention the morons that leave it unattended and cause it to burn.
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Oct 18, 2019 20:22
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TWBalls posted:No, popcorn fuckin' stinks and lingers. Not to mention the morons that leave it unattended and cause it to burn. true, but its such a basic snack, especially for basic people, that you would have some C levels secretary pissed off she can't have her popcorn we literally have it in the free vending machine at work
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Oct 18, 2019 20:41
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Truga posted:I said nothing about it until people started posting about breaking a perfectly good laptop because it was old. Fine, your old blackberries are poo poo and useless. Old laptops? gently caress you, give it to someone who can use it. Truga posted:yeah, i insisted on SSDs into everything and anything at work some 5 years ago and the response from everyone was amazing. What kind of company are you working for? In most places a "bottom level" employee never even sees a C level, let alone has any input into company policy. Truga posted:a 5 year old office laptop is going to be fine for checking email, light browsing, playing warframe, or watching a movie. it can't handle 20 tab chome or bigass excel tables anymore, but home users don't need that. lol no it isn't, 4 GB of ram and a 5400 RPM drive isn't going to be useful for poo poo, let alone loving Warframe. Is your company like that doctor's office that buys receptionists and nurses gaming laptops?
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Oct 18, 2019 20:44
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My current work laptop has an i7 and 16 gigs of RAM but no dedicated GPU. I seriously doubt the Intel integrated graphics would run any recent 3d game well.
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Oct 18, 2019 20:48
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RFC2324 posted:true, but its such a basic snack, especially for basic people, that you would have some C levels secretary pissed off she can't have her popcorn Yes, and so is toast and I've worked at places that don't allow that either for the same reasons. People leave it unattended and then it burns.
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Oct 18, 2019 20:51
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TWBalls posted:Yes, and so is toast and I've worked at places that don't allow that either for the same reasons. People leave it unattended and then it burns. Is there a microwave around in 2019 that doesn't have a popcorn button?
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Oct 18, 2019 20:55
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https://twitter.com/kairyssdal/status/1185278295664783360 Immediate relevance. gently caress fish in the microwave. I don't worry about popcorn as we have managed popcorn machines in the kitchens by the slushie makers.
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Oct 18, 2019 20:56
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We had our toaster oven privileges revoked after the first time someone left one unattended and it caught fire.
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:lol no it isn't, 4 GB of ram and a 5400 RPM drive isn't going to be useful for poo poo, let alone loving Warframe. Is your company like that doctor's office that buys receptionists and nurses gaming laptops? I'm sure he meant such a laptop with an SSD upgrade.
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Oct 18, 2019 20:58
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TWBalls posted:No, popcorn fuckin' stinks and lingers. Not to mention the morons that leave it unattended and cause it to burn. i think you mean smells wonderful, and makes the non-popcorn havers suffer with hunger.
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Oct 18, 2019 21:24
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Sickening posted:Is there a microwave around in 2019 that doesn't have a popcorn button?
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Oct 18, 2019 21:27
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'Popcorn button'?
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Zereth posted:the hell does that have to do with whether the popcorn is cooked correctly, i think I've had like one microwave in my entire life where the popcorn button didn't either undercook or overcook the popcorn if you left it to its own devices Every microwave with a popcorn button has worked with me as designed. Sorry for your loss? Shut up Meg posted:'Popcorn button'? Most microwaves have preset buttons to cook certain things. You press the button and it auto cooks at a certain power settings for a preset time. You can put your popcorn in, hit the popcorn button, and come back to unburned popcorn. Have I lived my life with superior microwave technology that the rest of the gooniverse doesn't possess?
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Oct 18, 2019 21:34
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Coincidentally, the popcorn preset is literally the only preset that I've ever had work correctly.
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I have never used a microwave preset other than max power and I haven't burnt popcorn since I was a kid so 
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I had no idea such technology existed. I thought the only way you could microwave popcorn was by using those special bags of popcorn that also gave you cancer. What a world we live in!
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Shut up Meg posted:I had no idea such technology existed.
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I think it's the fake butter that gives you cancer not the bag.
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taqueso posted:I think it's the fake butter that gives you cancer not the bag. You can find micro plastic fibers in rain drops and fresh snow and all of it slowly breaks down into carcinogenic components. Everything causes cancer who cares enjoy the synthetic popcorn butter hail the popcorn button and hail satan
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Oct 18, 2019 23:32
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Nuclearmonkee posted:hail satan
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Nuclearmonkee posted:You can find micro plastic fibers in rain drops and fresh snow and all of it slowly breaks down into carcinogenic components. Everything causes cancer who cares enjoy the synthetic popcorn butter hail the popcorn button and hail satan You know what ALSO causes cancer? Oxidation. You know what two things we NEED to live that oxidize? Air and water. "WARNING: The air you breathe and water you drink are chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer."
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Oct 19, 2019 00:32
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That reminds me, I need to renew my hazmat certification for handling dihydrogen monoxide
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I take it back, the bag, the fake butter, the popcorn kernels grown in roundup, and the microwave all give you cancer. for real the microwave is probably fine
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Sickening posted:Is there a microwave around in 2019 that doesn't have a popcorn button? I can't speak for others, but the one we have at work has a dial. quote:i think you mean smells wonderful, and makes the non-popcorn havers suffer with hunger. TWBalls fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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apparently a couple of people did changes 'without adequately communicating the impact to our end users' so guess what everyone gets to spend the next three loving weeks doing
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:lol no it isn't, 4 GB of ram and a 5400 RPM drive isn't going to be useful for poo poo, let alone loving Warframe. Is your company like that doctor's office that buys receptionists and nurses gaming laptops? warframe runs passably on low on my chomebook, though it does have a SSD. one of my friends plays warframe on an 8 year old laptop (though it does have some low power radeon in it iirc) with a 5400 drive, and apart from load times being 10 seconds longer than us SSD havers, it runs fine.
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We can't donate / recycle computers anymore because some dipshit auditor/examiner was worried about drives not being wiped and important data getting out. So now every machine is sent for disposal.We are a citrix shop, so 90% of the computers out there have seen nothing running on them but citrix apps. I had a talk with the people in charge of this, and said it was easy to have 2 people verify a drive has been removed. Log everything, keep track of drives, extremely easy to do, and its not like a lot of those people who do that are busy. They said that they still couldn't be sure, because what if someone makes a mistake. Just jaw dropping stupidity.
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