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Marcade posted:Making changes on live without testing. Somehow broke 3 totally unrelated systems. There's no documentation, and no one has a clue what she did. The systems that are hosed are all externally hosted by our worst, most tech illiterate client, and can't be debugged by anyone who isn't onsite with them. I dumped the ticket on one of her devs with a note that basically amounted to "Your boss has hosed this so hard our team can't even figure out how it's hosed." at 4:59PM and then left for the day. BA Lyfe 
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goatface posted:Someone at work asked if we needed to have a mechanism to purge all Teams and Yammer data more than 7 (maybe 10, I forget) years old like we do serious business emails. I think the committee is still arguing about that one. The company I work for purges all chat/instant message stuff from Teams older than two days. It suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.
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Combo posted:Turns out, he's having an issue with the default mail app on MacOS that even Apple support apparently can't really help him with. He sent an email, I told him we use Office 365, just install that and everything will be fine. One of our marketing guys has a MacBook and refuses to install 'micro$oft poo poo' so has to access everything via the office web portal (that doesn't count as Microsoft apparently). I've given up arguing with him and just refer him to a random person to go and rant at. He sent our CTO an email referring to MFA as 'needy bullshit' which I quite enjoyed.
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I'm starting to come around to Agile project management for projects where you're developing something new. I spent many years in consulting under a fiercely aspergers PMs that demanded everything be captured into a gantt chart in the traditional way. For anything but the most repetitive and derivative type of work things would change so much over the course of the development that 3/4s of the plan would not every remotely resemble what was happening, yet we would still report and update it as if it was. The time you spend in meetings at the start and end of sprint cycle under Agile are much less of a burden to me than trying to maintain the illusion of the divine loving 400 task long gantt chart.
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Pocket Billiards posted:I'm starting to come around to Agile project management for projects where you're developing something new. I spent many years in consulting under a fiercely aspergers PMs that demanded everything be captured into a gantt chart in the traditional way. For anything but the most repetitive and derivative type of work things would change so much over the course of the development that 3/4s of the plan would not every remotely resemble what was happening, yet we would still report and update it as if it was. The time you spend in meetings at the start and end of sprint cycle under Agile are much less of a burden to me than trying to maintain the illusion of the divine loving 400 task long gantt chart. Oh hey, it's the actual use case for Agile! I'm glad that someone ended up using Agile for it, if only by dumb luck!
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Feb 26, 2021 02:40
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Cum Galleon posted:One of our marketing guys has a MacBook and refuses to install 'micro$oft poo poo' so has to access everything via the office web portal (that doesn't count as Microsoft apparently). I wish I could send this guy somewhere else but we're a small company and I'm kind of it. It's funny though as he's saying Apple mail is critical to his process and has been for the last 4 years and he'd be less efficient if he had to change now, which is him completely ignoring the fact that he's been using unsupported software for 4 years and now if it breaks it's someone else's fault. His old mac had Office 365 on it too, I honestly didn't know he wasn't using it.
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I was told to fix an issue that I've not only didn't know was an issue but didn't know existed on a task Ive been doing otherwise without issue for four months and attended all training for. I asked for more info as there was no explanation and was directed to a confluence page. The confluence page has no information about this. I pointed this out and the response has been complete silence. My last day is in 3 weeks so jokes on them, I can run out the clock harder. Barudak fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Feb 26, 2021 |
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Feb 26, 2021 03:32
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Combo posted:he's just a Apple r*tard. Cool
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Feb 26, 2021 09:42
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Don't worry, I reported them for bashing on Apple. Despicable.
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Feb 26, 2021 10:26
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The best OS is the AWS Lambda Linux AM2 docker image because it shuts off every 15 minutes or less. All meetings should be joined from this OS
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My work is very security conscious, and my particular area more so than most. That’s good, I get it. But getting zoom, gotomeeting, bluejeans or some other oddball meeting software to work has been a nightmare. The guys have said “you have meeting software, just use that!” And seem to not understand that we might be trying to join someone else’s meeting ever
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Feb 26, 2021 14:17
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Outrail posted:20200127 filename This is violence.
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Time_pants posted:This is violence. It triggered me and when I finally forgot about it you brought it back up. 
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Feb 26, 2021 15:50
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Without wanting to traumatize posters too much: What's the actual best method for document control? I like having the date but more than one edit a day turns into 20210226a bullshit. Just Filenamev01 through v99 seems the most straight forward and idiot proof (hah). No 'final' version, just pdf it or call it final when it's really done. All prior pdfs or 'finals' get deleted.
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Feb 26, 2021 16:54
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Yep my bad, ate a probation for it.
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Feb 26, 2021 16:57
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My sister is a video editor. She sent this screenshot with a caption like: "This is what you get when teenagers try to keep track of the versions!"
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Feb 26, 2021 17:09
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Outrail posted:Without wanting to traumatize posters too much: What's the actual best method for document control? I like having the date but more than one edit a day turns into 20210226a bullshit. Just Filenamev01 through v99 seems the most straight forward and idiot proof (hah). No 'final' version, just pdf it or call it final when it's really done. All prior pdfs or 'finals' get deleted. That's basically what I do. I ain't saying it's the best, but as long as there's only one version in the end it solves most of the issues.
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Feb 26, 2021 17:12
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Barudak posted:You just reminded me a year ago one of the accounts I worked on sent out a huge email that we were going to switch to agile development and we had to brief the client and all this jazz. None of the material ever went into describing what a story was, calibrating points, and you know the other stuff that makes agile like actually function. Everyone worldwide starts panicking as nobody anywhere in this business has ever done agile before because, uh, this is an advertising company and Agile makes no loving sense whatsoever. There is no training material ever shared and every market is left to their own devices to figure out how the hell they're supposed to make it work. It's fascinating to read this thread about real software developers using Agile and it having a positive impact. I'm not in advertising but in a non-tech role and we've gone whole hog with Agile. And Scrum. And Kanban. And now we're Scrumban (someone in another thread assured me that was real.) All moving towards "Activation" that is going to change everything but I cannot find a coherent explanation of what that will be. Sure is a good excuse to give consultants millions of dollars and keep our management in meetings every minute of the day.
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Feb 26, 2021 17:15
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Outrail posted:Without wanting to traumatize posters too much: What's the actual best method for document control? I like having the date but more than one edit a day turns into 20210226a bullshit. Just Filenamev01 through v99 seems the most straight forward and idiot proof (hah). No 'final' version, just pdf it or call it final when it's really done. All prior pdfs or 'finals' get deleted. Yeah I just have version numbers (just a simple '1.1' ascending from there), then when it's finalized I take all of that off and just leave the actual document name for wider distribution.
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Feb 26, 2021 17:18
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I've been working in a T&D department exclusively on Agile for years and it works just fine It makes a hell of a lot more sense than Gantt charting yourself into oblivion
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Feb 26, 2021 17:21
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:My sister is a video editor. She sent this screenshot with a caption like: "This is what you get when teenagers try to keep track of the versions!" Final copy pro
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Feb 26, 2021 17:31
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Agile methods work well for a certain class of problems, but they're no substitute for a functional organizational culture. A lot of organizations have horribly dysfunctional cultures or try to apply agile to the wrong things (or both), and that never ends well.
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Feb 26, 2021 17:37
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ClothHat posted:Imagine 70 people simultaneously singing happy birthday over Zoom. A coworker thinks they are a mindfulness instructor now, as they took a four hour course and got a certificate, so during yesterday's mandatory meeting there was ten minutes of 40 coworkers on video with eyes closed breathing intensely. As my video/sound were off I just glanced every few minutes to confirm they were still at it and kept doing work.
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Anyone else here have some boomer bosses that whip themselves up into a frenzy about WFH andhow we need to get back into the office every few weeks?
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poisonpill posted:Anyone else here have some boomer bosses that whip themselves up into a frenzy about WFH andhow we need to get back into the office every few weeks? My chair keeps wanting to meet in the office to talk about documents we can both access online to prepare for a meeting that's going to be entirely on zoom. I just don't get it.
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Cum Galleon posted:One of our marketing guys has a MacBook and refuses to install 'micro$oft poo poo' so has to access everything via the office web portal (that doesn't count as Microsoft apparently). My company doesn't give you an option on the OS/hardware you get assigned. Everyone gets a specific model of Dell laptop or desktop depending on your role and it's always running Windows 10. One of the developers who retired last year when the COVID packages came out absolutely refused to touch Microsoft stuff and had modified one of the spare toughbooks that an internal customer had declined to use to be his personal machine. Because his job was to write programs that would run on machines hooked to our company network he never set off any alarms. We had another guy who repurposed a retired rig to be his personal email server so he didn't have to touch Outlook. You would get emails from firstname@lastname.com when he wanted something or had a problem. Part of our team's overhead budget each year had been keeping these two things going so the developers didn't have to use Windows.
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poisonpill posted:Anyone else here have some boomer bosses that whip themselves up into a frenzy about WFH andhow we need to get back into the office every few weeks? So far no, surprisingly. Some of our MegaCorp depts do need to be in the office to look at product samples but they got them spaced out enough that they've been back in for a while and I think that was a sort of pressure release valve as upper management sees people there rather than empty spaces. A VP made an offhand comment taking into account where an employee had moved to in proximity to the office, and while I don't want to read too much into it, it sounded like they may been at least considering more WFH in the future. I'd be fine with 100% WFH, our office is a dump without enough parking and located in an upscale unaffordable suburb so nearly everyone has a long commute. I get more done from home and don't mind working an extra hour some days to finish up work, while I almost never did that in office as I needed to leave on time to beat traffic.
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When covid started it was floated that maybe we don't really need an office space at all, ever. Staff could work from home indefinitely and they could just store our equipment in their garages or something. Never mind we do a lot of field work and need drying racks and freezer space for samples and also I'd need to turn my spare room into a wetlab and I wouldn't have room in my garage for all of my poo poo. Still it's possible right? They only dropped it when I said if the company wanted space in our homes they'd have to pay rent, and the combined cost would be larger than just renting a drat office.
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Our office is talking about far, far fewer people being in the office full time generally, but that's mostly the admin side people. There were already people doing my job and living 400-odd miles away who only ever came to the office for a day every 3-6 months. It is at the point where it might push bodies down so low that discussions are ongoing about conversion of some open plan back into offices for the people who want a permanent desk for F/T work in the building. They'll probably just compress everyone down and search for tenants though.
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My favorite is dealing with Exchange emails on Apple Devices because they just don't work easily together, and either side with blame the other for the issues. One owner of the company will claim that his device acted a certain way but it was years ago so it might have just been a false memory. Also doesn't help that Apple and other tech companies will drop features with no replacements, and I get to be the one to explain to people that no it's not my fault that your favorite game no longer works on your 15 year old device and the only way to fix it is new hardware. All these constant patches and new versions are really loving with the boomers. Thank you Microsoft for coming out with a subscription Office and then coming out with a 2021 version too
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I live like a block from my office so I really don't mind going in again. Right now I'm wfh one day a week and I never get anything done on that day so it's probably for the best. Office is pretty spacious so I don't feel that threatened
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Play posted:I live like a block from my office so I really don't mind going in again. Right now I'm wfh one day a week and I never get anything done on that day so it's probably for the best. Office is pretty spacious so I don't feel that threatened I also live like one block away, but I don't want to go back because I like just wearing pajamas and my cats keeping my feet warm and I can do all the same things from my home anyways
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Outrail posted:Without wanting to traumatize posters too much: What's the actual best method for document control? I like having the date but more than one edit a day turns into 20210226a bullshit. Just Filenamev01 through v99 seems the most straight forward and idiot proof (hah). No 'final' version, just pdf it or call it final when it's really done. All prior pdfs or 'finals' get deleted.  I haven't had to worry about this since using Google Docs, since it natively handles multiple edits and version history. If you can't use a web tool like that, I'm sure you've got some SharePoint instance you can use. It's got atomic locking, I know, but it's better than nothing. If you don't have SharePoint: - If you're at least a little tech savvy, along with everyone who would touch that doc, you might want to consider using version control software. - If not, you don't have much of a choice but to do filename-based time-stamping. If you're making multiple edits a day, add the hour + minute to the timestamp. You can, of course, also search by the last modified timestamp, assuming you don't touch anything in the file and auto save.
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We switched from Outlook to Gmail about 8 years ago, bless whoever pushed that through. Self-updating browsers so no more multiple versions of IE, access from mobile devices, and easy to find resources. Plus they enabled two-step verification by default which despite boomer complaints about needing to carry their phone to meetings if they are setting up a presentation has definitely saved the company millions by making it harder to prevent bad actors from having a field day with accounts. That changeover was an interesting learning experience, some longtimers had real questions about changes from Outlook to Gmail and once assisted retained the info. Others would point at an Excel document and complain "the Gmail" had broken it.
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AHH F/UGH posted:Here's the best email I ever got from one of our field techs. No information, no context, no nothing - just three words, his typical Windows 3.1 background, and his name. Oh god, I got PSTD from my call center job from that email. The supervisors would always send out emails in with wordart, coloured fonts and clipart out the rear end to try to make us sell more internet upgrades, or to announce a pizza party that they had to micromanage because their existence would be without meaning. The only good thing I have heard from that place since I left 5 years is that they fired a Supervisor who was forging signatures on letters of discipline because she was too scared to serve them to her employees but she had no problem giving out terminations and suspensions. Also the gay supervisor who sexually harassed any good looking fit men but got away with it because he was best friends with the person running the call center got arrested jerking off loudly in a gas station bathroom.
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Play posted:I live like a block from my office so I really don't mind going in again. Right now I'm wfh one day a week and I never get anything done on that day so it's probably for the best. Office is pretty spacious so I don't feel that threatened Longer commute here (35 min) but same. There's one person within 30 feet of me that I don't have multiple walls in the way for, I make almost no contact outside of that, and WFH is hell thanks to a combo of no usable office space + our network being garbage (another layer of legacy software I might not have talked about) + ADHD shredding my focus without the social pressure of coworkers around to keep me on task. One of 6 or 7 people in the whole company that came in during that last bit of winter hell up here. Better than trying to work from home (and I forgot my laptop anyway).
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poisonpill posted:Anyone else here have some boomer bosses that whip themselves up into a frenzy about WFH andhow we need to get back into the office every few weeks? I'm not a boomer and don't really care if people come back, but I am annoyed that all of our people that work from home probably do less than 2 hours of work per day. But that's a person thing not a WFH thing. I work at somewhat of a factory, and we've been working here the whole time, except the upstairs admin staff (basically sales and HR), who all work from home now. When covid started, all those admin people were part of the main phone tree. When they all left, even though they're able to answer their phones at home as well, guess what? Nobody did, and it eventually fell to me. So I was doing my normal job of managing a department, IT, phones, and now answering about 70% of the calls to the main line of our office. I had customers calling the main line looking for sales, and I'd start to direct them to the sales guy for that part of the company (Apple dipshit from my previous post), and the customer would say they've been trying to get ahold of him for weeks with no answers, could they please deal with anyone else but him. So I just started forwarding them all directly to his boss instead. Maybe I'm just bitter that there are plenty of people here still that haven't missed a day at all to keep this company actually productive so we all have jobs but every time I have to call a sales person they're doing literally anything but working.
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Outrail posted:20200127 filename how dare you attack me like this
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SkyeAuroline posted:Longer commute here (35 min) but same. There's one person within 30 feet of me that I don't have multiple walls in the way for, I make almost no contact outside of that, and WFH is hell thanks to a combo of no usable office space + our network being garbage (another layer of legacy software I might not have talked about) + ADHD shredding my focus without the social pressure of coworkers around to keep me on task. Yeah. Probably not a coincidence that I also have pretty bad ADD. Also I'm just straight up lazy and when I'm chilling at home I just want to play video games and drink beer, not work.
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Couple of years ago our company was bought out by an US multinational. Slowly but surely things have changed from let's do it (originating in a team) to just do it (some boss' stupid idea). Inventiveness and cooperation have been replace by fear and competition. I'm expecting a black swan event
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