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Collateral Damage posted:Don't you have recyclers in your area who will come pick up scrap metal for free? The owner of this place can never decide what he wants done with old equipment. Once he asked us to give the stuff to a non-computer parts recycling/refurbishing company he also owns that is in one of our warehouses. Then he wanted us to 'donate old computers to churches and shcools' and said he NEVER would have told us to give the stuff to that division... I have to wait until he goes on vacation and try to find someone to give the poo poo away to, or I'll put it on the 'free' tables in the lunchroom. There's a 19" Dell LCD monitor, a 16.5" Dell LCD monitor, some lovely old Sylvania LCD television that doesn't even have HDMI inputs, a white plastic iMac, and 2 broken inkjet printers.
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Can anyone explain to me how Dell drive firmware versions are named? Say I have a disk with fw version AT07, is that newer or older than ATB3? Why cant they just use sequential numbers?
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Sep 13, 2016 18:51
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cr0y posted:Can anyone explain to me how Dell drive firmware versions are named? Say I have a disk with fw version AT07, is that newer or older than ATB3? Why cant they just use sequential numbers?
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Sep 13, 2016 18:54
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Fudge posted:People who are willing to use
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Sep 13, 2016 18:54
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Your company doesn't run EaaP? (Excel as a platform)
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Sep 13, 2016 19:01
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Uhh yah I'm a pretty elite Visual Basic programmer when it comes to the Excel add-in 
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Sep 13, 2016 19:09
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Bob Morales posted:The owner of this place can never decide what he wants done with old equipment. Once he asked us to give the stuff to a non-computer parts recycling/refurbishing company he also owns that is in one of our warehouses. Then he wanted us to 'donate old computers to churches and shcools' and said he NEVER would have told us to give the stuff to that division... Any users fondly remember the inkjets? Take them outback and give a few people some swings at it then after everyone has had their turn run up and go crazy on whatever shards of plastic are left turning them into dust (please make sure to remove all toner first, oh wait, no hazard there). Tip, get a plastic sheet to make clean up easy, and wear safety glasses. It's a very enjoyable event for anyone that used that printer.
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Sep 13, 2016 19:14
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pixaal posted:Any users fondly remember the inkjets? Take them outback and give a few people some swings at it then after everyone has had their turn run up and go crazy on whatever shards of plastic are left turning them into dust (please make sure to remove all toner first, oh wait, no hazard there). Tip, get a plastic sheet to make clean up easy, and wear safety glasses. It's a very enjoyable event for anyone that used that printer. I worked at one place that believed in manually destroying their old hard drives via spike & sledge.
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Sep 13, 2016 20:02
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Gounads posted:I worked at one place that believed in manually destroying their old hard drives via spike & sledge. Therapy at the same time, sounds like a win win situation!
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Sep 13, 2016 20:03
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Pissing me off today: CEO decided to head up a website migration, just a boring marketing 'static' site, from hubspot to wordpress. Should be easy. 1. Hires a guy on fivver to do the migration 2. When that only half gets done, grabs an overseas engineer from my team for better part of a week - smart kid, but no experience in that sort of thing Went live this morning. Get a slack message hours later asking why othersite.ourdomain.com isn't working. Do some digging, figure out that "went live" meant swapping the nameservers to dreamhost without doing anything else. So none of our subdomains resolved. And of course that also explains why it's been such a slow email day. Of course, the guy who moved things is now asleep. And he changed some passwords. And we can't forgot-password that poo poo because email doesn't work. Finally figured out how to get everything reverted. We can 'go live' tomorrow. I offered to oversee this whole effort and do it right from the start.
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Sep 13, 2016 20:49
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porkface posted:Cost of doing business? Or send them a bill. Cost of doing business. They pay tens of thousands of dollars a month for enterprise support so they get to blame us all they want if they so choose.
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Sep 13, 2016 21:50
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MiniFoo posted:loving, OS X, users, I had a user trying to use this on a netgear nas, while our server software was complaining about lack of permissions. I've never seen this poo poo before, and he was like "well....what's the problem?" The problem here is you're using something I've never seen anyone use with our software in almost 3 years (first time seeing it), and it's yelling about permissions, and it sounds like a SSO thing. Maybe you should add the user we need to the egnyte permissions for the folder's you're wanting to back up to the nas?? especially if egnyte is taking over permissions on the box..? idfk how this poo poo of yours works "nah, I don't want to do that, egnyte is being removed and their CS sucks"
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Sep 13, 2016 21:53
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Fudge posted:Uhh yah I'm a pretty elite Visual Basic programmer when it comes to the Excel add-in I went on a date recently with someone who said she made all the Visual Basic stuff for the Excel worksheets and I died quite a bit inside. e: Then it turned out to be our company's main supplier and I died even more.
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Jeoh posted:I went on a date recently with someone who said she made all the Visual Basic stuff for the Excel worksheets and I died quite a bit inside. Hope you cut off contact with that ridiculous person
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Sep 13, 2016 22:06
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Agrikk posted:Cost of doing business. They pay tens of thousands of dollars a month for enterprise support so they get to blame us all they want if they so choose. I feel there is a market for this, a company you can ring up and blame/shout abuse to while the real technicians can work on the issues and get them resolved in peace.
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Sep 13, 2016 23:21
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Pissing me off today: the continuing saga of the cto loving over my team. A developer on another team quit with no notice when pissy users drove her too far. The CTO said "no problem, just take this developer from another team(the team I'm on), she knows your systems somewhat". So now we are losing a developer Monday, and her usual tasks have been dumped on me, despite me being appointed team lead for one project, having other development tasks for our regular releases still, as well as any difficult issues that come up because I'm the only one my boss trusts to diagnose and fix those promptly and well. I better get the official promotion to team lead I've been promised after the first of the year or I'm going to start looking elsewhere.
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Sep 13, 2016 23:26
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Sounds like you should start looking now! Unfortunately Q4 is always the worst for job postings since a lot of companies tie fiscal to calendar year.
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Sep 13, 2016 23:44
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devmd01 posted:Sounds like you should start looking now! I kind of have been enjoying the challenge presented by my responsibilities at this place up till this point. Every previous job I had always been bored out of my mind at the amount and level of work I had to do. I think that I pretty much hit the limit of what I can handle at the "team lead in addition to my normal responsibilities" before having this latest thing dumped on me though.
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Sep 14, 2016 00:00
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I've literally never seen an 'official promised promotion' pan out. You either get promoted or they use it as a carrot (or, and I doubt it applies here, you're part of a succession plan). In the case of the carrot it's a sign of a lovely working environment. It's like getting friend zoned by your workplace. Don't spend any more time trying to gently caress, just move on.
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Sep 14, 2016 00:09
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Been at new job for barely a week now, really like it. Cool environment, good coworkers, fantastic boss, reasonable users. So karma decides to balance it out by having me develop a perineal abscess, and I've been in and out of doctors offices all day not being at my new awesome job.
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Sep 14, 2016 00:33
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I really enjoy trying to find technical docs from a suppliers webportal which takes 5 minutes to load the login screen, another 10 to actually login and then have to give up because model numbers don't register. Then I have to call them, and listen to the company reps try the same thing. Eventually I give up - send an email and wait 1-2 days for a PDF. I wonder if there are any web filtering in Turkey that are preventing clean and clear internet access to me on the other side of the world?
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Sep 14, 2016 09:56
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Fudge posted:I've literally never seen an 'official promised promotion' pan out. You either get promoted or they use it as a carrot (or, and I doubt it applies here, you're part of a succession plan). In the case of the carrot it's a sign of a lovely working environment. It's like getting friend zoned by your workplace. Don't spend any more time trying to gently caress, just move on. Yep, never stick around for promises unless they're in writing. Last two jobs did that, I wised up with the second and gtfo faster. Then again, it was a pretty drat lovely company!
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Sep 14, 2016 13:46
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poo poo that i'm sure will piss me off shortly: microsoft EA renewal conference call in an hour. can't wait to see how hard we get screwed with the new core licensing.
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devmd01 posted:Yep, never stick around for promises unless they're in writing. Last two jobs did that, I wised up with the second and gtfo faster. Then again, it was a pretty drat lovely company! If it's a promotion in name only, 'acting' something or other, promised in the future, or 'a secret' (the most hilarious of promotions) you have not/are not getting promoted. Promotions come with more money and more responsibility, if you've already taken more responsibility without more money and the title you hosed up.
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Sep 14, 2016 14:10
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Bob Morales posted:Dammit. Kid isn't very smart then, he could've easily cleaned up some of that crap and hocked it on Craigslist for straight profit. I did that with a past job when they'd get rid of older laptops, usually stuff that was 2-3 years old but still in good condition - DBAN the drive, scrounge some more RAM, install Windows, hock online and make a few bucks for a couple hours of easy work. Company didn't care since they paid a recycler to take stuff every couple months and I was (slowly) getting rid of clutter in our storage room.
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Stupid customer (massive shopping chain). Well not stupid customer, but stupid out-sourced IT department of customer. We have to send a file in acknowledging orders they placed to us, each day. They made some changes so we have to get re-approved or whatever. The reviewer guy sends the file back with all these errors. 'quantity 0 should be blank' - not according to your manual 'serial number must be not be blank' - not on items that don't have serial numbers or line items like a warranty or maintenance agreement 'numbers should not be in scientific notation' - Is this your first time using Excel? Look at the actual CSV data, it's correct Bob Morales fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Sep 14, 2016 |
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One of our sites doesn't have a NAS, and trying to copy from another site's NAS goes at <400kBps. So I left it copying overnight. I come in and it is asking if I want to replace files with another 3 gigs to go. The worst part is it's my fault for not doing a cmd/powershell copy with force. E: good news, my replacement PSU for my home desktop just got here, so I'm going to be able to use my graphics card again soon.
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Sep 14, 2016 15:29
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Bob Morales posted:'numbers should not be in scientific notation' - Is this your first time using Excel? Look at the actual CSV data, it's correct I would 100% publicly embarrass somebody over this.
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Sep 14, 2016 15:32
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Fudge posted:People who are willing to use FileMaker for anything are figuratively retarded and literally the worst. Wellllll, of course, everyone knows you should be using 4D.
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Sep 14, 2016 15:47
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Inspector_666 posted:I would 100% publicly embarrass somebody over this. Seriously, if the guy had just expanded the loving column he would have seen this.
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Sep 14, 2016 15:52
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Inspector_666 posted:I would 100% publicly embarrass somebody over this. Jeesez gently caress, that is embarassigly incompetent. And this guy is the Reviewer?
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Sep 14, 2016 16:23
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devmd01 posted:Yep, never stick around for promises unless they're in writing. Last two jobs did that, I wised up with the second and gtfo faster. Then again, it was a pretty drat lovely company! Seriously, I had my fake promotion story from a few years ago, and I'm glad I left.
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Fudge posted:People who are willing to use FileMaker for anything are figuratively retarded and literally the worst.
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Sep 14, 2016 16:30
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vibur posted:Using FileMaker for something right now. It works perfectly for me and the 15 other people that use it, too, so gently caress you, buddy. source your quotes!
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vibur posted:Using FileMaker for something right now. It works perfectly for me and the 15 other people that use it, too, so gently caress you, buddy. If it's for anything more than PTA meeting notes or tracking bake sales you have made a spectacularly bad decision.
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Sep 14, 2016 16:38
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FileMaker is a good product that can be used for a wide variety of tasks. Like all software when it's used for the wrong task or you try to exceed its capabilities it will become a source of pain.
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Dick Trauma posted:FileMaker is a good product Because? quote:that can be used for a wide variety of tasks. It allows people with no skills make garbage database apps on top of crap databases. That's the extent of what it's capable of. quote:Like all software when it's used for the wrong task or you try to exceed its capabilities it will become a source of pain. Like some extremely lovely pieces of software it is a bad option for just about everything for people that don't understand what they're doing or what else is available. Their support is horrible, probably because their product is such a janky piece of poo poo.
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Fudge posted:I've literally never seen an 'official promised promotion' pan out. You either get promoted or they use it as a carrot (or, and I doubt it applies here, you're part of a succession plan). In the case of the carrot it's a sign of a lovely working environment. It's like getting friend zoned by your workplace. Don't spend any more time trying to gently caress, just move on. This. In 28 years of working, this has always been true.
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DigitalMocking posted:This. In 28 years of working, this has always been true. This gives me pause. So this February I was sort of shopping around for a new job because my team was being slowly let go (people quitting and a couple guys got let go and they didn't replace them). I assumed I was next so I started shopping around. Turns out they were not going to get rid of me, but instead they moved a couple guys from another overseas office to my office, including a new manager. The manager is only here for two years on his Visa, and he is here to fix a bunch of issues and hire a new team. They told me that once his two years are up, he wants to go back to Italy, and they'd have me in mind to manage the team. So, he's been in charge for six months, and he's spent most of the time working with me, clearly to hand over everything once he's gone. He's even straight up told me that he's aiming in two years for a specific promotion, and that the two of us can work together to make each other look good so we get it. I feel like I'm not being strung along, and they are actually going to follow through. In the meantime, I otherwise like my job, I'm paid well, I have plenty of reasons to be happy, so I don't think I'm being strung along, but who knows.
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