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For the third week someone put the weekly staff call on hold, triggering deafening hold music and making it impossible to continue the meeting, lol
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Play posted:For the third week someone put the weekly staff call on hold, triggering deafening hold music and making it impossible to continue the meeting, lol praxis
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May 12, 2021 20:47
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goatface posted:You should sell someone on the need for disaster recovery drills. This is honestly one of my favorites and I couldn't agree more. I'm a big advocate for regularly practicing anything that causes large amounts of pain. At my org we rotate data centers every three months to ensure we're keeping our data centers in sync with the level of automation we currently have and that our DR procedures work as planned. So so so many people ask "why" with the most "wtf" sound in their voice when I tell them how often we shift production traffic between data centers. The last organization I worked at was a major pre-paid debit card institution that had absolutely no hope of coming back online if our main data center went offline. I'm eternally grateful I'm no longer there. Even better, during the yearly DR exercise we would inevitably make it roughly 10 minutes into the simulation before some part of the business inevitably said "oh yeah, we can't do x-y-z" which would bring the whole thing to a halt and IT leadership would still sign off that our DR plans worked.
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May 12, 2021 21:07
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Play posted:For the third week someone put the weekly staff call on hold, triggering deafening hold music and making it impossible to continue the meeting, lol 
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May 12, 2021 21:13
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Play posted:For the third week someone put the weekly staff call on hold, triggering deafening hold music and making it impossible to continue the meeting, lol Was it this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8XdUNhNmU
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May 12, 2021 21:17
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I used to have a coworker who responded to any statement of happiness or unhappiness that it was or wasn't Friday with, "You're wishing your life away!", which always caused me to wish someone would bludgeon her to death with a stapler.
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May 12, 2021 21:21
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thathonkey posted:hardware cant fail it can only be failed. ah wait im thinking of capitalism Our build/test team burned out 27 custom PCIe cards recently, two program's worth of parts worth over $100k combined because they kept hot swapping them during the test phase, which they had been explicitly told not to do as it would void the warranty and burn out the RAM on the card. This happens every six or so months when they want to make sure the build configurations work, but don't want to bother cycling the power over and over.
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May 12, 2021 21:24
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Lazyfire posted:Our build/test team burned out 27 custom PCIe cards recently, two program's worth of parts worth over $100k combined because they kept hot swapping them during the test phase, which they had been explicitly told not to do as it would void the warranty and burn out the RAM on the card. This happens every six or so months when they want to make sure the build configurations work, but don't want to bother cycling the power over and over. That is beyond frustrating into downright infuriating. The thought of some chassis-intrusion shutoff switch came to mind, but the kind of people who will do poo poo like hot swap PCIe cards will just tape over the intrusion sensors or what have you.
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May 12, 2021 21:52
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Lazyfire posted:Our build/test team burned out 27 custom PCIe cards recently, two program's worth of parts worth over $100k combined because they kept hot swapping them during the test phase, which they had been explicitly told not to do as it would void the warranty and burn out the RAM on the card. This happens every six or so months when they want to make sure the build configurations work, but don't want to bother cycling the power over and over. But will there be consequences for them?
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May 12, 2021 23:30
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Sad King Billy posted:At I.B.M in Portsmouth, they used to task a middle manager or HR person with the task of ensuring that people used the handrails when they walked up or down the stairs. About 15 years ago Woolworths Australia built a new head office in a business park in Bella Vista. The Managing Director at the time would yell at people for not keeping all window blinds on a floor open to the same level because it made the building look messy from the outside. He also implemented a bag check for the thousands of staff on exit from the building because store staff were subject to bag checks and support staff should have the same conditions. Apparently the queues from 5-6 were insane. He also yelled at a staff member for bringing McDonalds into the office for lunch because why wasn't the company store downstairs good enough. Fortunately he has left now and the current MD is much more sane and chill.
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May 13, 2021 00:00
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a while back I posted about the crusty system (©1998!) the company that bought us out is switching us over to. we're in the phase of training on it and nearly every question we have about how to manipulate and display data within it is answered by "paste it into excel and do it there". this is a company valued in the billions
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May 13, 2021 00:35
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Atillo posted:He also implemented a bag check for the thousands of staff on exit from the building because store staff were subject to bag checks and support staff should have the same conditions. Apparently the queues from 5-6 were insane. Paid overtime for standing around staring at your phone? I mean, you got paid for that right? lol
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May 13, 2021 01:00
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d0s posted:a while back I posted about the crusty system (©1998!) the company that bought us out is switching us over to. we're in the phase of training on it and nearly every question we have about how to manipulate and display data within it is answered by "paste it into excel and do it there". this is a company valued in the billions Hello and welcome to my corner of hell, the company is welcome.
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May 13, 2021 01:16
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Batterypowered7 posted:But will there be consequences for them? promotions all around
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May 13, 2021 01:27
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thathonkey posted:promotions all around I remember that old meme.
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May 13, 2021 01:30
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d0s posted:a while back I posted about the crusty system (©1998!) the company that bought us out is switching us over to. we're in the phase of training on it and nearly every question we have about how to manipulate and display data within it is answered by "paste it into excel and do it there". this is a company valued in the billions There's a way, but everyone who knows how refuses to share that knowledge, and only a sleect few know that he knows. That's how this works.
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May 13, 2021 02:06
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Sad King Billy posted:At I.B.M in Portsmouth, they used to task a middle manager or HR person with the task of ensuring that people used the handrails when they walked up or down the stairs. Oh my god this hit me so hard. So I work in a very saftey conscious environment because well you fall down the stairs your flesh looks like a cheese grater hit you. Our main job is very call and response dependant and we have one for walking up and down the stairs "Hands on rails!" Then either the person walking or someone else yells "snails on stairs" with pictures of snails on stairs at the top of both stairways. I a few years ago added " woo saftey!" to the call out and it's caught on. What's funny is it started as a completely sarcastic fake thing and now they all do it. It's gone to other shops via my daughter fiance and roommate who all work for the same company. Just blew my mind seeing that. Shouldn't be surprised though.
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May 13, 2021 02:20
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SlaveToTheGrinds posted:Oh my god this hit me so hard. So I work in a very saftey conscious environment because well you fall down the stairs your flesh looks like a cheese grater hit you. Our main job is very call and response dependant and we have one for walking up and down the stairs "Hands on rails!" Then either the person walking or someone else yells "snails on stairs" with pictures of snails on stairs at the top of both stairways. I a few years ago added " woo saftey!" to the call out and it's caught on. That is a really unfortunate missing comma.
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May 13, 2021 02:36
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CaptainSarcastic posted:That is a really unfortunate missing comma. That's what happens when you work sixty hours a week for two months.
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May 13, 2021 02:39
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Play posted:For the third week someone put the weekly staff call on hold, triggering deafening hold music and making it impossible to continue the meeting, lol Was it Opus #1? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqB8v14U_zs If so, that person owns. Not all heroes wear capes, etc. etc. CaptainSarcastic posted:That is a really unfortunate missing comma. 
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May 13, 2021 06:18
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I know I posted about this before but one of the companies I worked with a bunch had their hold music be songs in different genres about being on hold. So like the first one up was a country track where the refrain was "Im on hoooOoold/waiting for the meeting to begin/Im on hoooooold/waiting for them to let me in"
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May 13, 2021 06:24
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Next week try to obviously badly hum the hold music while you're waiting.
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May 13, 2021 06:33
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Atopian posted:Next week try to obviously badly hum the hold music while you're waiting. Definitely don't stop for at least 10-20 seconds after somebody picks up.
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May 13, 2021 06:39
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Atopian posted:Next week try to obviously badly hum the hold music while you're waiting. Hold hold hold hold holdhold hold holdhold Sung in the style of the star wars theme
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May 13, 2021 06:51
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Son of Rodney posted:Hold hold hold hold holdhold hold holdhold The song you're looking for here is called "The Imperial March", champ. 
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May 13, 2021 07:01
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Zarin posted:Was it Opus #1? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqB8v14U_zs Cisco didn't even pay the dude that wrote Opus 1! https://www.thisamericanlife.org/516/stuck-in-the-middle/act-one-2
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May 13, 2021 07:19
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Zarin posted:The song you're looking for here is called "The Imperial March", champ. Nerd nerd nerd nerd nerdnerd nerd nerdnerd Sung in the style of the star wars march
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May 13, 2021 07:29
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Son of Rodney posted:Nerd nerd nerd nerd nerdnerd nerd nerdnerd May is more the Star Wars month than March for whatever reason God drat you got me good here, RIP me, this feeble rejoinder rings hollow even in my own ears, well played
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May 13, 2021 07:45
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CaptainSarcastic posted:That is beyond frustrating into downright infuriating. The thought of some chassis-intrusion shutoff switch came to mind, but the kind of people who will do poo poo like hot swap PCIe cards will just tape over the intrusion sensors or what have you. Knowing the people who did this/do this constantly, one of the first things they usually do with any hardware is "modify" it to meet their exacting standards. By exacting standards I mean remove all safety measures. The number of things that "break" or "didn't work when we got it" is so high that I'm starting to think I'm the one with weird expectations that stuff we buy works. Batterypowered7 posted:But will there be consequences for them? No, never. Our entire team runs on the concept of no negative consequences. Just yesterday we had five different parts that needed RMAs because either our design team had misidentified parts or our build team had broken/burned out equipment. I've tried explaining I can't trust anything anyone loads into demand because of all these misses and that we need to be more accurate, but it seems that things only get worse.
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May 13, 2021 11:46
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SlaveToTheGrinds posted:Oh my god this hit me so hard. So I work in a very saftey conscious environment because well you fall down the stairs your flesh looks like a cheese grater hit you. Our main job is very call and response dependant and we have one for walking up and down the stairs "Hands on rails!" Then either the person walking or someone else yells "snails on stairs" with pictures of snails on stairs at the top of both stairways. I a few years ago added " woo saftey!" to the call out and it's caught on. I think it's funny when this kind of thing spreads. At my work, when there is no supervisor on duty, the person with the most seniority is given Lead Hand designation. They get a small pay bump for that shift, and they're expected to make minor decisions ("Do this call first, then that one. You, go and back up that other guy at his call" sort of stuff). On my shift, I started referring to it as wearing the Daddy Pants. I didn't realize that it had gotten around until I was filling in on another shift, and a guy who I don't normally work with goes "So who's wearing the Daddy Pants today?"
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May 13, 2021 13:03
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Outrail posted:Paid overtime for standing around staring at your phone? I mean, you got paid for that right? lol Fun fact Amazon won a court case about that recently, the answer is a bit fat no!
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May 13, 2021 13:15
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Zarin posted:Was it Opus #1? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqB8v14U_zs I used to genuinely like Opus #1. Then I found out the hard way that Mazda corporate uses it as their hold music, and a couple hours worth of hold time later I can't stand it any more. Shame.
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May 13, 2021 13:27
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Does anyone know what Zscaler is and if it's gonna report that I spend time on dead gay comedy forums during work hours?
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May 13, 2021 16:07
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Looks like leadership has decided that the "Work Appropriately" initiative at work means that come July we'll be in the office Tuesday and Thursday and WFH the other three days. No indication how long that'll last, but it'd be nice if it was put into place indefinitely.
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May 13, 2021 16:17
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Fun fact Amazon won a court case about that recently, the answer is a bit fat no! 
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May 13, 2021 17:29
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I have this woman whose job is making BOMs and she only makes BOMs for half the items and uses descriptors for the rest. Uses small, medium and mini interchangeably. Then acts shocked that the product size doesn't match the artwork. Like.....c'mon. Just make the loving BOMs.
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May 13, 2021 17:34
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kntfkr posted:I have this woman whose job is making BOMs and she only makes BOMs for half the items and uses descriptors for the rest. Uses small, medium and mini interchangeably. Then acts shocked that the product size doesn't match the artwork. Like.....c'mon. Just make the loving BOMs. what?
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May 13, 2021 17:36
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nexus6 posted:Does anyone know what Zscaler is and if it's gonna report that I spend time on dead gay comedy forums during work hours? As implemented by my work it's just a VPN. Edit: so yes, it's tunneling your home connection through your work network. So if they didn't already know exactly what sites you're on, they do now. Imagined fucked around with this message at 17:44 on May 13, 2021 |
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May 13, 2021 17:42
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ben shapino posted:what?
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May 13, 2021 17:42
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BOM? BOM!
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