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Nice. Think anyone on their side will get sacked?
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Steakandchips posted:Nice. Doubt it. We will do our PR thing, and they'll smile their smiles and when they hang up, the potato will get thrown over the fence and it'll land on our property.
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Jun 19, 2020 19:53
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I'm sure it's one of those things that falls under multiple people's areas of responsibility. When everyone is responsible, no one is responsible.
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Jun 19, 2020 19:57
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Thanatosian posted:I'm sure it's one of those things that falls under multiple people's areas of responsibility. None of us are as dumb as all of us.
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Jun 19, 2020 20:18
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Thanatosian posted:I'm sure it's one of those things that falls under multiple people's areas of responsibility. This. One goes into a meeting with them and there are always at least eight people present. It’s never one guy and his crew either. It’s always a multidisciplinary group gathered “for buy in” guaranteeing no single person makes a decision and thus no single person is the project owner and thus can be blamed.
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Jun 19, 2020 22:28
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Thanatosian posted:You should be thanking them; they answered all of your questions about work/life balance without you even having to ask them. Really convenient to knock those out of the way right off the top.
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Jun 20, 2020 12:23
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Marketing contractors: we want you to switch your site to WordPress. Sure, the office you want to go to is those two big glass doors that lead outside, with the company name backwards.
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Jun 22, 2020 18:35
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grillster posted:Marketing contractors: we want you to switch your site to WordPress. counter-argument, our website is in wordpress and is fine I don't ever have to touch it, we pay a consulting firm some amount of money to take care of it. I don't even have to talk to them directly, the marketing department does.
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Jun 22, 2020 18:48
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I don't give a flying gently caress what marketing does with the website, as long as my sole responsibility is creating a DNS entry for it.
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Jun 22, 2020 19:07
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Internet Explorer posted:I don't give a flying gently caress what marketing does with the website, as long as my sole responsibility is creating a DNS entry for it. You're good with computers, right? I want a small change done on our website. "So, on this page we want a video, can you change this border color to a darker gray? And then on this page we want a shopping cart so people can order our products."
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Jun 22, 2020 19:15
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It's great giving it to marketing and all... but who is going to make sure it doesn't become swiss cheese when they've been tasked with the implementation of customer database interactions... Perhaps the marketing -department- can handle that, but will the marketing contractor third party company faithfully follow through? Will the marketing contractor suggesting this route have an accurate understanding of customer-facing infrastructure required by the company? Will they use plugins that are trustworthy? Who holds them accountable after the check clears? Big questions when considering a marketing contractor that has a WordPress department trying to sell a solution that genuinely needs a few more months of deliberate planning.
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Jun 22, 2020 19:37
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Internet Explorer posted:I don't give a flying gently caress what marketing does with the website, as long as my sole responsibility is creating a DNS entry for it. This is the correct relationship for IT to have with the company website.
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Jun 22, 2020 19:50
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grillster posted:It's great giving it to marketing and all... but who is going to make sure it doesn't become swiss cheese when they've been tasked with the implementation of customer database interactions... There's not going to be any routes between the website and production, so if that data sits in production then they better hope it has an API. If not, it's not going to happen. If you mean a standalone database for the web server, that's on them and their vendor. As is any sort of security or audit requests.
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Jun 22, 2020 20:39
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Unless your business is making websites or api's, you should not be making websites or api's. And even then you should think twice
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Jun 22, 2020 20:52
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Internet Explorer posted:There's not going to be any routes between the website and production, so if that data sits in production then they better hope it has an API. If not, it's not going to happen. If you mean a standalone database for the web server, that's on them and their vendor. As is any sort of security or audit requests. I'm leaving a lot of details out which is leading you to assumptions.
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Jun 22, 2020 21:24
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grillster posted:I'm leaving a lot of details out which is leading you to assumptions. Put that on a loving tshirt with the grenade logo.
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Jun 22, 2020 22:18
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The ‘kid’ ( I say kid by he’s like 25 probably) of a C-level redid our company website in Wordpress. Well, his ‘company’ redid the site. The finished product doesn’t look good at all and his company folded in the meantime. But good news! He was hired by the company in some sort of marketing position. First week on the job he asked me about why he couldn’t access his 365 apps. He was looking at the office.com homepage and trying to click on the photos they have of the software icons. So we will continue to have a bad public site until there’s some sort of big management shakeup.
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Jun 23, 2020 04:22
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grillster posted:I'm leaving a lot of details out which is leading you to assumptions. lol fair enough
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Jun 23, 2020 06:18
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Spring Heeled Jack posted:The ‘kid’ ( I say kid by he’s like 25 probably) of a C-level redid our company website in Wordpress. Well, his ‘company’ redid the site. The finished product doesn’t look good at all and his company folded in the meantime. But good news! He was hired by the company in some sort of marketing position. Say hello to your new CEO.
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Jun 23, 2020 08:33
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Moo the cow posted:Say hello to your new CEO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_67JbvXLrmw
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Jun 23, 2020 09:00
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Don’t care what they use WordPress for as long as it’s not connected to company’s internal/product services at all. If they wanna serve static website then it’s fine, but if they wanna hook up WordPress that’s a big NO. Edit: Any time there was a word out that someone managed to find vulnerability in third party services, I saw sudden spike in security breach attempts. eg. WordPress and Drupal. Aesis fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Jun 23, 2020 |
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Jun 23, 2020 19:34
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Did a warranty swap of the CEO's Surface Book due to the battery swelling issue. The replacement SurfaceBook came with Windows 10 1703 installed...... Just... WTF? It'll be faster to just install 1909 fresh. (not moving to 2004 yet!) stevewm fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Jun 23, 2020 |
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Jun 23, 2020 20:46
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I wouldn't even put 2004 in my home environment rn
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Jun 23, 2020 20:56
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klosterdev posted:I wouldn't even put 2004 in my home environment rn I have a GPO set to defer feature updates for 31 days.. When I seen all the problems with 2004, I bumped it to 365. I just still can't believe they shipped this thing that way. It had a version newer than that out of the box brand new.
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Jun 23, 2020 21:26
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stevewm posted:Did a warranty swap of the CEO's Surface Book due to the battery swelling issue. Work is shitcanning Surface devices entirely. Almost every single one that's been deployed has had some sort of issue, from battery swelling to flicking video outputs, to where people actively don't want the dmn things!
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Jun 23, 2020 22:43
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What is wrong with 2004? Before I start to google I would like to hear it from folks here.
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Jun 23, 2020 22:45
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Agrikk posted:What is wrong with 2004? Before I start to google I would like to hear it from folks here. I have been running it at home for about a week or so, haven't noticed any issues. I heard something about Storage Spaces, but I believe Microsoft halted updates to those machines.
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I assume people are referring to the massive printing issues, though that's apparently also been put in an update from last Tuesday to make sure EVERY edition of Win10 has the same opportunities for massive printing issues to pop up, thanks Microsoft. But other than that yeah haven't paid much attention, may not do 2004 and wait for 2009. It does seem pretty clear Microsoft wants you to use the 09 versions, at least going by the support lengths since the fall editions get 3 years of support and the spring editions get a year and a half. Also this is one case where they should have copied Apple and do yearly revs of Win10 - maybe they could even do some QA in all that time! What an achievement that would be! But no instead we get half-yearly poo poo shoved out the door with one or two new features and a raft of problems.
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dragonshardz posted:Work is shitcanning Surface devices entirely. Almost every single one that's been deployed has had some sort of issue, from battery swelling to flicking video outputs, to where people actively don't want the dmn things! We've got many employees using them, and are looking at expanding our use.  People here really seem to like them.
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Jun 23, 2020 23:07
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Only issue I have seen is it resets everything to Windows defaults when you install it. Breaking shared drives in workgroups etc.
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Thanatosian posted:We've got many employees using them, and are looking at expanding our use. How long have you had them? Surface Laptops or Surface Books? Everyone I know who rolled out Surface Books regretted it a year later. The hardware failure rate is astronomical.
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Jun 23, 2020 23:18
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Well that's to be expected when their QA is "gently caress it, we're letting users test it in prod"
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dragonshardz posted:Work is shitcanning Surface devices entirely. Almost every single one that's been deployed has had some sort of issue, from battery swelling to flicking video outputs, to where people actively don't want the dmn things! We have a few Surface devices.. There won't be anymore... ever. The Surface Books where absolute poo poo when we first got them. A laptop that can't sleep out of the box? Really?! Also, the Surface Dock was all but unusable.. The CEO was ready to return it all, until they finally put out a firmware update that (mostly) fixed it. First time I've had to warranty one. It was nearly a 4 week turnaround time. Had to wait for them to ship a special box because of the failed battery, which took over 2 weeks. And then they ship it back with a build of Windows older than what it came out of the box with originally.
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I miss my work Surface Pro 3. I'm already on my second T480 (first one died in under a year), it spins the fans up to full hurricane on the slightest load (but still throttles) and the docking solutions are underbaked.
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Jun 23, 2020 23:27
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Internet Explorer posted:How long have you had them? Surface Laptops or Surface Books?
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bull3964 posted:I miss my work Surface Pro 3. I'm already on my second T480 (first one died in under a year), it spins the fans up to full hurricane on the slightest load (but still throttles) and the docking solutions are underbaked. I can’t believe our T470S’s are still kicking I mean I can, but I’m impressed.
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Bob Morales posted:I can’t believe our T470S’s are still kicking Ummm... Yeah, that's amazing.
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Thanatosian posted:*looks down at work T460* I have a 440 bouncing around, though I barely use it. Has Lenovo build quality gone down in the past year or two? And/or, what would people recommend to replace them? We've always stuck with them for the theoretical build quality because our users are gibbering monkeys.
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Yeah I have to admit that we've had a lot of problems with the Surface not docking/undocking properly. It is not a smooth transition especially if you have a lot of poo poo plugged in. The Surface Book is trash though. Still, overall I've been pretty happy with the performance of my Surface, docking issues aside.
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