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CitizenKain posted: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 work for a state government on the West Coast. We have to remove the hard drives for stuff we e-waste out or send off to be recycled. We still have to sometimes do retarded poo poo like remind people that old CRT TVs don't have hard drives. I sometimes get a condescending "lEaRnInG oPpOrTuNiTy" email from the property controller reminding my entire team how to use Google to check if a printer from 1999 has a hard drive. My favorite thing is having to certify a device "doesn't have a memory" and feeling my pedant bone prickle because technically all computing devices have memory, however not all forms of that memory can have confidential data stored on it...
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TWBalls posted:I can't speak for others, but the one we have at work has a dial. A dial!? What's it like working in 1982?
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dragonshardz posted:I work for a state government on the West Coast. We have to remove the hard drives for stuff we e-waste out or send off to be recycled. Friend of mine used to work in a DoD Security Clearance area of the Air Force. As of less than 5 years ago, empty toner cartridges had to be destroyed instead of recycled because they took the procedure from ribbon printers and just slapped it on laser printers.
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Son of Sam-I-Am posted:A dial!? What's it like working in 1982? Mine has two: Power (W) and time. High tech!
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dragonshardz posted:I work for a state government on the West Coast. We have to remove the hard drives for stuff we e-waste out or send off to be recycled. Hey, it's me. Except I'm the only one who cares about disposal. Son of Sam-I-Am posted:A dial!? What's it like working in 1982? That's Pro status, man. poo poo's probably 1600w. Popcorn talk has me thinking. I've spent most of the last two decades working in the same building. My first 10 years, we had fire alarms set off at least twice a year because of unattended popcorn, toast and at least once because someone was vacuuming. Haven't had a false-alarm in years. I doubt it's because the tenants are smarter (and most of them have turned over multiple times) so now thinking about it I'm pretty sure that our fire detection system is probably unplugged. Good thing the building was designed and built by an architect who was enamored with those brutalist telco hubs that were designed to survive nuclear war.
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JazzmasterCurious posted:Mine has two: Power (W) and time. High tech!
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Arquinsiel posted:Pretty sure that's all you really need anyway, even if you will likely just whack it to max and try time it super carefully instead of being sensible. Who's max and why are you so attracted to him?
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Super Soaker Party! posted:Who's max and why are you so attracted to him? Staff Sergeant Max Fightmaster, and you are a fool if you are not attracted
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That's better than anything I could come up with. I was struggling to get a good joke out of the time Homer renamed himself "Max Power" or the character Kat Dennings played on 2 Broke Girls...
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RFC2324 posted:Staff Sergeant Max Fightmaster, and you are a fool if you are not attracted His name is Maxamillion Maxwell Powers, and you'd love him too baby, those hips go to 11.
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potato of destiny posted: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 One three week long CAB meeting?
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Arquinsiel posted:That's better than anything I could come up with. I was struggling to get a good joke out of the time Homer renamed himself "Max Power" or the character Kat Dennings played on 2 Broke Girls... Yeah. Max Fightmaster is real  https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-fightmaster-6586a576/ I also just learned that we have a Rad Heroman serving our fine nation. https://www.wafb.com/story/12855307/marine-enjoys-one-of-the-coolest-names-ever/
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted: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. My desk is directly across the hall from my CISO. fake edit: I didn't notice the 'bottom level' part
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Your FDR testing should be writing "it is dead" times the number of phones and calling it a day.
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The Macaroni posted:Dumb question: what does FDR stand for? With only the posts in this thread as context my first instinct is "full device reliability".
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Son of Sam-I-Am posted:A dial!? What's it like working in 1982? Hey, we had a microwave during the early 80's that had buttons. JazzmasterCurious posted:Mine has two: Power (W) and time. High tech!
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The Macaroni posted:Dumb question: what does FDR stand for? Factory Data Reset.
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Anyone here use MS Forms and deploy a Flow with Docusign to gather electronic signatures? If so, may I pick your brain or see your sanitized code, pretty please?
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- On Phone with O365 support - MS Tech's computer automatically reboots itself - Call also drops because softphones Good job Microsoft
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dragonshardz posted:Factory Data Reset.
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klosterdev posted:- On Phone with O365 support My favorite was when we were working with MSFT Support, and they asked for an output of the client's config, so I sent it. They replied, "Huh. Never seen it do THAT before." 
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:My favorite was when we were working with MSFT Support, and they asked for an output of the client's config, so I sent it. sounds like a good tech to me. at least he was honest. did they fix it?
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RFC2324 posted:sounds like a good tech to me. at least he was honest. did they fix it? Not really, but we did end up finding a bug that they needed to fix in Defender in the process, so it ended up being beneficial to everyone in the end.
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Arquinsiel posted:When I was in Xbox support there were issues that could render a user's Xbox LIVE account unrecoverable. The KB article for the issue simply said "this happens sometimes. We don't know why" yeah, that sounds like the KBs for xbox support this was before they started hiring literal homeless people to man the phones lol
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CitizenKain posted: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. We've got someone who's dedicated position is logging in all the dead, retired, or refreshed computers and wiping them. Then the live machines go for donation, and the dead ones go to a recycler.
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RFC2324 posted:yeah, that sounds like the KBs for xbox support
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RFC2324 posted:this was before they started hiring literal homeless people to man the phones lol I don't see this as anything but good and if this comment has any basis in reality, good for them.
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The Fool posted:I don't see this as anything but good and if this comment has any basis in reality, good for them. I'm hoping the joke is that it's one of those work from home call centers.
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RFC2324 posted:yeah, that sounds like the KBs for xbox support You are about to get dogpiled and probably for good reason.
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I don't see what the big deal is. Everyone knows that if you've ever been homeless you are automatically unqualified for any job for the rest of your life. It's in the Constitution!
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Weedle posted:Everyone knows that if you've ever been homeless you are automatically unqualified for any job for the rest of your life.
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Sickening posted:You are about to get dogpiled and probably for good reason. Possibly. I guarantee they weren't being hired as a charity thing, however. It was in Texas. And having spent a couple years homeless when I was younger, the rampant drug use is a good reason to be leery of hiring from them as a pool, and based on the reports from people who were still there when that happened was exactly the major problem. I heard stories of people shooting up at their desks.
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A dude I worked with in Xbox support turned up on Christmas day coked out of his mind, fell asleep in his chair for four hours and then woke up and sprinted out of the building. Nobody cared. I'm sure the people shooting up will be fine.
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Arquinsiel posted:A dude I worked with in Xbox support turned up on Christmas day coked out of his mind, fell asleep in his chair for four hours and then woke up and sprinted out of the building. Nobody cared. I'm sure the people shooting up will be fine. I mean, one of my team leads in the phone center was also the team weed dealer before Oregon had recreational legality. And he was a Stream refugee (we rescued a lot of them).
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Arquinsiel posted:A dude I worked with in Xbox support turned up on Christmas day coked out of his mind, fell asleep in his chair for four hours and then woke up and sprinted out of the building. Nobody cared. I'm sure the people shooting up will be fine. thats actually awesome and hilarious, assuming it was just a "I LOVE CHRISTMAS" thing and not a "I LOVE COCAINE!!!" thing
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RFC2324 posted:Possibly. I guarantee they weren't being hired as a charity thing, however. It was in Texas. I've never done drugs in my life but if I had to do Xbox Live support I'd probably start.
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Yeah, a friend of mine there told his doctor what he was doing and got a prescription for xanax "just in case". Mentioned the company name and the doctor took back the prescription and gave him one for a double strength pill...RFC2324 posted:thats actually awesome and hilarious, assuming it was just a "I LOVE CHRISTMAS" thing and not a "I LOVE COCAINE!!!" thing
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Carth Dookie posted:I've never done drugs in my life but if I had to do Xbox Live support I'd probably start. I already smoked a bunch of weed and had my own share of untreated mental illness, I only did it for like 6 months. It was an outsourcer that MS had already cancelled like 3 contracts with before giving them xbox 360 support
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The Macaroni posted:Dumb question: what does FDR stand for? not a lot since the polio struck
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