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kensei posted:The previous thread is not in the GoldMine, where do I file the bug report? Sorry, I was away from a personal PC for a bit. Into the GoodMine it goes. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3845247 A Frosty Witch posted:I sent an email to lowtax about it. Hopefully we'll hear back soon. Thank you for the new thread title. Sorry, I know the thread is new, I'm abusing my power, etc., but it needs to be done.
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Internet Explorer posted:Thank you for the new thread title. Finally, my unfinished business is complete and I can move on to the afterlife
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A Frosty Witch posted:Finally, my unfinished business is complete and I can move on to the afterlife That doesn't absolve you.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:That doesn't absolve you. Are you suggesting it's still some of her concern?
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Agrikk posted:The actual problem we face is that the people we interact with in the daily don’t report to their superiors about operational issues due to a culture of pass-the-blame. [Customer] has a toxic culture of assigning blame rather than being solution focused and we’ve literally been in conference calls during customer outages during which production was on fire and yet eight people on the customer side argued about whose fault it was while we listened awkwardly and tried to redirect the conversation towards fixing the problem. I was on a project for a large bank/financial services company where everyone was such a stupid, miserable rear end in a top hat to one another it blew my mind. Like they would spend an entire hour long call bickering and blaming one another and half the time it was about poo poo that wasn’t even adjacent to the project I was on. In eight years of consulting it was the only project I’ve ever demanded to be removed from and set my bar for ‘how lovely companies can be’ even lower than it had been. I assume it’s a response to a top-down culture that is punitive about mistakes, or they are purposely hiring miserable fuckwits for some reason.
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A Frosty Witch posted:I sent an email to lowtax about it. Hopefully we'll hear back soon. I literally just learned about this three days ago, Anyone else lose like 3 years recently?
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SyNack Sassimov posted:Are you suggesting it's still some of her concern? That doesn't concern you.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:I literally just learned about this three days ago, Anyone else lose like 3 years recently? I mean, yes, everybody. But don’t feel too bad. It was news for like a week and then completely disappeared as everyone forgot about him like they should.
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The thread also got shitcanned pretty quickly once everything that needed to be said was said. So if you weren't around as much during that period, it would have been easy to miss.
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The thread was dancing a fine line between "ding dong an rear end in a top hat's dead" and "Do we really want his living children to read this thread?".
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Kurieg posted:The thread was dancing a fine line between "ding dong an rear end in a top hat's dead" and "Do we really want his living children to read this thread?". Plus there was a crazy person that kept reregging to defend Lowtax and to call Lady Ambien a liar.
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Crossposting my post from the corporate thread because of the outcome: I'm now being what feels like victim blamed for the Outlook on my new work laptop that IT just gave me not working. Two different people in IT, my boss, and my wife: "Well did you change any settings?!?" "Uh yeah I've been here 9 years, this is my third laptop that the company has given me... I did whatever I wanted with the prior two and had no issues, and was not warned that changing settings on this new laptop would cause Outlook to poo poo itself if I did crazy poo poo like "opening emails" and "scheduling meetings", so I turned off the dumbass "guess the next word I'm going to type" setting and changed a few other minor usability things." God forbid I change a few minor settings so my current experience matches my old experience so I can work more efficiently. I'm now on my second brand new laptop in as many months and even on the new-new one, Outlook is still crashing even after I did not change any settings. Today Microsoft word started crashing when I tried to.... open a word doc. We found out that the issue is DNS, because we use OneDrive and IT now thinks the crashes are happening because of DNS issues we're having.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Crossposting my post from the corporate thread because of the outcome: Posting bullshit like this in this thread at 4:54 on a Friday....yeah pretty much tracks with the rest of your post.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Today Microsoft word started crashing when I tried to.... open a word doc. Twice. And I didn't write it down 
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A peer on the day side over in the warehouse was having an issue where excel kept hanging up so he put in a ticket and when on the phone with tier 1 they told him his problem was that he has more than 1 spreadsheet open and needed to only open them one at a time. 
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Arquinsiel posted:I managed to pick the exact hex code for orange today that when you put it into the colour picker in MSPaint it silently crashes to desktop. Wait, what? Are you serious? This sounds like "grandma keeps crashing her computer but she's not computer illiterate, she's just cursed" territory.
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Reminds me of the 8k file size bug in Dreamweaver many moons ago.
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tactlessbastard posted:A peer on the day side over in the warehouse was having an issue where excel kept hanging up so he put in a ticket and when on the phone with tier 1 they told him his problem was that he has more than 1 spreadsheet open and needed to only open them one at a time. Excel will regularly not open a second file until I close the first one, so that tracks.
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My favorite excel quirk is that it is incapable of having two files with the same name open, even if they are at different locations.
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An escalation came in at 4:30 on Friday for a user having MFA issues: -user confirmed that she was getting multiple codes but cant authenticate as she cant understand the codes -user mentioned that she does not understand how to authenticate -however user disconnected the line -called back, got voicemail, left a message We aren't helpdesk, we're infrastructure and networking. I am kinda surprised at how miffed I am at the very idea of going back to end user support, but someone else can explain how to type numbers into a box. Feels good to be able to reply with "This doesn't concern me".
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Sywert of Thieves posted:Wait, what? Are you serious? This sounds like "grandma keeps crashing her computer but she's not computer illiterate, she's just cursed" territory.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Crossposting my post from the corporate thread because of the outcome:
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Knormal posted:What exact version of Office do you have? Like go into About and find the full 16.234.3235443 or whatever it says. That sounds a lot like a problem I spent like a month swapping out laptops for and getting ready to elevate to HP because reimages weren't fixing it, until I discovered our Office patching method had stopped working and there was a version of Office released mid-2022 that just flat-out randomly crashes. And that just happened to be be the version pushed after a reimage then never patched. If I remember I'll find the exact version that caused problems from my work PC tomorrow.
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RFC2324 posted:There were some true giants in the industry in those early days I wonder if that's because things were less complicated to computer back then?
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My guess is less abstraction layers between the user and the bare metal. Made it so getting a computer to do anything at all was low-level stuff.
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Teams is giving out good advice now.
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Xerol posted:Teams is giving out good advice now. Same
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Xerol posted:Teams is giving out good advice now. Crack or whisker
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SixFigureSandwich posted:Excel will regularly not open a second file until I close the first one, so that tracks. Are you in cell edit mode on the first one? If I double click on a cell to make the cursor blink in the text entry area at the top, subsequent spreadsheets won’t open until I hit enter in the first one to commit changes in the cell. Could that be the issue? 
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Entropic posted:Post your best UI buttons with bad vibes 
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 There was also a version of the printer queue dock icon that if you clicked on it just said "Stop Jobs" and I was like 
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Agrikk posted:Are you in cell edit mode on the first one? Turns out that is exactly the issue, lmao
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