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Agrikk posted:Pack everything up and go home, folks. I don't know man, even in that last post I can spot 2 or 3 hints of gigantic tales that larches might, at some point, wish to tell.
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Merijn posted:I don't know man, even in that last post I can spot 2 or 3 hints of gigantic tales that larches might, at some point, wish to tell. Hahaha, I'm not even close to being done with stories from that place (or the television station and CE, for that matter). But yeah, I don't think I'm going to have many more that end with me considering the pros and cons of waking up in the morning.
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larchesdanrew posted:But yeah, I don't think I'm going to have many more that end with me considering the pros and cons of waking up in the morning. Oof. Yeah, that would be rough times.
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larchesdanrew posted:Anyways, point being I am powerful and unstoppable and I am flourishing. That is great to hear
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Where the gently caress is sfwarlock? Getting blue balls over here.
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Maybe they got him?
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Agrikk posted:Pack everything up and go home, folks. I am kind of hoping that it's a really small town and whomever the school hired is actually the former CE of Larches TV station job.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I am kind of hoping that it's a really small town and whomever the school hired is actually the former CE of Larches TV station job. She didn't mention a single Buffalo device, it can't possibly be the CE.
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larchesdanrew posted:Anyways, point being I am powerful and unstoppable and I am flourishing. You should preemptively work out the math on your consulting rate for the school district for when somebody asks you for help. 150/hour base, another 50/hour for travel considerations, another 220/hour in I Told You So fees comes out to $420/hour.
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Relentless posted:You should preemptively work out the math on your consulting rate for the school district for when somebody asks you for help. And charge a 6.9 hour minimum for all issues.
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Relentless posted:You should preemptively work out the math on your consulting rate for the school district for when somebody asks you for help. My going rate is already $200 an hour with a two hour minimum. They'll never pay Sarern posted:And charge a 6.9 hour minimum for all issues.
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Larch as someone that loves to read the tales.of.triumph from this thread congrats on getting somewhere that you can finally be happy. And the Denver area is wonderful and I hope to buy you a beer if I ever get out there to visit my wonderful friends that live on the Northside in the year 2025
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larchesdanrew posted:My going rate is already $200 an hour with a two hour minimum. They'll never pay When I left a job, and was asked to come back for a fixed time consulting gig, I quoted them something in the ballpark of $200/hr. They balked, and I said, "You could have asked me to do it when you still paid me an hourly rate as an employee, but you didn't. So...yeah." I didn't end up doing any work, but I felt good about myself for standing up to them.
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You don't hear the word 'flourished' much these days. It's quite nice to hear it in a positive manner for someone.
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A friend just received this: To be fair, 'Power of the Eye' would be a great app name. Hughmoris fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Jul 30, 2020 |
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Hughmoris posted:To be fair, 'Power of the Eye' would be a great app name. I remember "The All-Seeing Eye" for browsing game servers back in the day. It was great.
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Hughmoris posted:A friend just received this: I'm still convinced that 'PowerBI' is some kind of sexual nomenclature.
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If you tell them a large $, there is a small change they might actually pay it. Do this instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6CVvNRQcvE
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larchesdanrew posted:But yeah, I don't think I'm going to have many more that end with me considering the pros and cons of waking up in the morning. So glad you're out of there. AlexDeGruven posted:Where the gently caress is sfwarlock? Getting blue balls over here. Every time I start to post, something new happens! But here's where we are: on Monday the 20th, Mitch put in a ticket saying that a certain webapp was down, specific wording was "When I click on the link, nothing happens." Our webapp support team are hardasses about doing local diagnosis before passing the ticket to them - which I'm sure is well earned, but at the same time tends to piss me off when they could chime in real quick. look at their dashboard and say "looks green here" or "yeah, just did a deploy five minutes go, maybe we broken it." - and you WILL jump through all the hoops or they'll send the ticket back down and nastygram your supervisor. I didn't get the ticket, a junior colleague of mine did (let's call him Greg), and he sent back something along the lines of "hi, before I can transfer this to the team that supports that app, I need some basic information: a) have you cleared cache and cookies recently b) have you rebooted c) have you tried a different browser / private browsing mode d) is it working for other people on your team" That's only about half of the list, and it's shorter than it used to be. Before COVID WFH, it included things like having people swap around computers to see if the issue followed them, and blowing away and recreating the userprofile. Let me repeat: They want us to do all this before they even talk to us about an issue. Even if it's multiple reports from multiple sites. Even if no one can access, they still want "basic troubleshooting" before they'll lift a finger. But I digress. Mitch puts this request in on 7/20. Greg responds in the ticket within 15 minutes. Mitch does not reply. 7/22: Greg updates the ticket and also sends an email. 7/24: Greg updates the ticket again, with a note that if he doesn't hear back by Monday 7/27 EoD, ticket will be closed. 7/27, 16:30: Greg closes the ticket, figuring it was probably a glitch that fixed itself. 7/27, 16:32: Mitch sends an email to Greg's boss, his boss, and his boss, calling out "lazy IT people who lie and don't do their jobs". 7/28: The poo poo hits the fan throughout the day between various managers about Mitch not responding to Greg, Greg not being proactive enough (?!), the whole thing about the webapps support team wanting all this crap. Someone pings me to find out if this really is the SOP with webapps support, which is how I heard. Mitch has a massive meltdown about being targeted, claims he never got the emails from the ticketing system or Greg. Someone goes in and figures out Mitch read and deleted Greg's email and calls him out on it. 7/29: Rumor has it that in a Whatsapp group chat, early in the AM, Mitch repeated his rant and added "Maybe we need to hire more Americans around here. " At this point I should note that Greg has a Hispanic last name, and the person who did the email investigation has an Asian last name. The message was deleted, but not before screenshots were taken and sent to HR. At about 14:30, a break-glass termination ticket is filed for Mitch, which is almost instantly retracted. My grandboss reaches out to HR and is told to take no action yet. That's the last thing that filtered down to me.
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sfwarlock posted:7/29: Rumor has it that in a Whatsapp group chat, early in the AM, Mitch repeated his rant and added "Maybe we need to hire more Americans around here. " i imagine these people are just gritting their teeth constantly throughout the day, visibly sweating, trying desperately to contain their opinions about minorities, until finally the seal cracks
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Weedle posted:i imagine these people are just gritting their teeth constantly throughout the day, visibly sweating, trying desperately to contain their opinions about minorities, until finally the seal cracks Pretty much, it's really fun though when the mask slips and you can get them on paper or have photo evidence of the mask slipping.
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ConfusedUs posted:I remember "The All-Seeing Eye" for browsing game servers back in the day. It was great. And now we have Palantir started by the weirder of the elon musk / peter thiel duo
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sfwarlock posted:So glad you're out of there. I'm 100% not surprised to find out Mitch is a racist jerk on top of being a regular jerk.
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larchesdanrew posted:Anyways, point being I am powerful and unstoppable and I am flourishing. All that's left is to die from accidentally inhaling too much canned air: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=449159741#post449159741 quote:The Chief Engineer is called into the conference room on a Friday afternoon. As he walks through the door, he sees the heads of every department sitting around the large decorative table, eyes locked on him. Sitting between the General Manager and the President is myself, hands clasped on the table in front of me.
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larches, as an on-and-off thread (and previous iterations thereof) lurker for years now, I just wanted to tell you how genuinely happy I am to read about all of the positive things that have been happening for you lately. I hope everything just keeps getting better.
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Hughmoris posted:A friend just received this: Better than my former boss who asked me if he could "get into Power Bottom" Didn't realize it was a freudian slip at first and immediately replied with, "oh totally. I thought you already were"
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Due to vacations I'm currently doing end user tickets. But it's slow thanks to nu-SARS and vacations… Ticket came in: Printer on a non-networked lab PC doesn't work anymore. I answered, with the full might of over 10 years of experience in the field: "Have you tried turning it off, and then on again?" They user did as instructed, and the issue was solved. And that, my friends, is why they pay me the big bucks. They really don't Antigravitas fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Jul 30, 2020 |
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I used a DTMF app on my phone the other day to play tones into my headset to join somebody into a Teams meeting (you can't dial out and then use the dialpad to navigate a phone tree for some reason, Teams just assume that if you're calling someone to dump them into a meeting then you have their direct dial). Felt like Captain Crunch.
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A ticket came inquote:when These are DOCTORS, ya'll. I love it.
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larchesdanrew posted:A ticket came in I did IT support for a medical college for a couple of years, that's child's play. Call us when being unable to access Facebook is impacting patient care.
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larchesdanrew posted:A ticket came in Reply: Soon.
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(Pouring) "Say when!"
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Thanks Ants posted:I used a DTMF app on my phone the other day to play tones into my headset to join somebody into a Teams meeting (you can't dial out and then use the dialpad to navigate a phone tree for some reason, Teams just assume that if you're calling someone to dump them into a meeting then you have their direct dial). Felt like Captain Crunch. This makes me so happy. But yeah teams is awful with DTMF support. It doesn't exist on the PSTN like at all. Rather: DTMF during a conference aren't passed to the PSTN, they're just used to control the conference https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/join-a-meeting-or-conference-call-by-phone-6d849004-d9f4-44f3-8ce2-5620cfd41234 Here's a deep dive of a very interesting issue if you're a phone nerd: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/teams-direct-routing-dtmf-tones-on-inbound-calls-not-working/m-p/1003327 GnarlyCharlie4u fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Jul 31, 2020 |
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Thanks Ants posted:I used a DTMF app on my phone the other day to play tones into my headset to join somebody into a Teams meeting (you can't dial out and then use the dialpad to navigate a phone tree for some reason, Teams just assume that if you're calling someone to dump them into a meeting then you have their direct dial). Felt like Captain Crunch. Joybubbles was cooler
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larchesdanrew posted:A ticket came in Surprised it was legible
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Thanks Ants posted:Felt like Captain Crunch. That's a deep cut for anyone younger than 30. (Hell took me a second and I'm...not younger than 30). would you say you... hacked the gibson?
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The Fool posted:Joybubbles was cooler Joybubbles was an ABSOLUTE TREAT of a human and one of the sweetest, kindest people I ever spoke to. For the longest time, he would take out a classified ad in the minneapolis free paper that was just a different message every week encouraging the reader to inject joy and positivity into their surroundings, and would even occasionally call people out specifically for praise if he knew it was their birthday. Complete sweetheart and the world is poorer for his loss.
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Weedle posted:i imagine these people are just gritting their teeth constantly throughout the day, visibly sweating, trying desperately to contain their opinions about minorities, until finally the seal cracks Right now all I can think of is that jackass who confronted a full-blooded Native American Arizona state legislator and demanded to know if he was in the country legally.
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"Are you?"
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