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Agrikk posted:I was cleaning up in my garage just now and decided to tidy up the cabling in my cabinet. I saw this weird discoloration in one of the empty rj-45 ports so I pulled out a flashlight for a closer inspection.
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No spider that fits entirely in an Ethernet port can be that gross.
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Sep 21, 2018 22:46
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Try and grow a pair, then remove the spider husk. Might work.
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Sep 22, 2018 00:45
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Inspector_666 posted:No spider that fits entirely in an Ethernet port can be that gross. redeyes posted:Try and grow a pair, then remove the spider husk. Might work. gently caress that. All spiders are the devil’s own spawn. But: Success! I went back a couple hours later and he had started to build a web from the corner of my cabinet down to the bezel of the switch. Out came the shop vac and schoop! I’m glad I didn’t have to burn my house down. Agrikk fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Sep 22, 2018 |
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Sep 22, 2018 01:23
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Friday is our arbitrary "code freeze" for the sprint. I've bitched about how we run that in here before, update: we're officially down to essentially five or six days of coding per "two week" sprint at this point. This sprint I got the big 8 point behemoth story, so it's fun trying to get that done inside that tiny window. This team has a horrible habit of last second meetings and poo poo to distract you that hasn't improved; Wednesday I got tapped to do a hotfix deployment I had absolutely nothing to do with except, "Hey that guy hasn't done one in a while." (because my code doesn't break poo poo  ).I managed to get it done just under the wire at about 11am Friday. Code review? There was ONE legitimate criticism, I had missed a new service that had been recently added. It was a pain, but not too overly difficult to go in and basically duplicate my work on a different area (I see why it was added, it's gorgeous compared to the old poo poo). The rest, though? Nonstop demands to change this variable name, change this default value to a constant we add to our endless data.py files, oh can you modify this other service that's out of scope to just return '1' for the conversion rate if the currencies are identical (like I had pointed out when it was written a week ago)? Oh and I don't like using the session object to detect a request's country in HERE, can you move it out to HERE? But what's infuriating is my code WORKED, and there were also messages every 15-20 minutes wanting updates on when testing can begin. So....why don't we just loving test it as is, and you spawn a subtask for me to clean up cosmetic poo poo over the next 3 days when I will be forbidden from getting a started on code for next sprint so I'll have nothing to do? Our "Agile" process is hopelessly broken. These arbitrary deadlines are the entire cause; if there wasn't a needless scramble to get everything in that day because someone heard another company use the term "code freeze", this would have all worked just fine....it's tedious to track down every function call across 25 or so files affected to update the arguments passed into it (since they want to move where poo poo like conversion rate gets calculated), but it's not really that bad UNLESS it's 4:30 on a Friday with a pointless cutoff.
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Sep 22, 2018 17:35
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Sounds like a good arguement to ask for a phat raise since your'e the only one who can work with the system - and/or use that as leverage to hands-off from it, OR make the process better if you have to be involved. Sorry your work is frustrating
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Sep 22, 2018 21:49
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TheParadigm posted:Sounds like a good arguement to ask for a phat raise since your'e the only one who can work with the system That's the plan when my one year comes up after the holidays. I'm also one of the only senior level devs who hasn't been promoted into something else this year after a bunch of people left. Still my best job yet, but gently caress I wish they could get their poo poo together and stop creating constant chaos.
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Sep 22, 2018 21:53
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Why'd everyone quit?
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Sep 22, 2018 22:21
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Nothing bad, we're just a fairly small company so 2-3 people bailing is noticeable, especially when it's timed to coincide with some promotions and trying to expand. I think one moved to Seattle, another is going back to school or something.
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Sep 22, 2018 22:24
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Agrikk posted:I’m glad I didn’t have to burn my house down.
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Sep 23, 2018 22:48
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Nah, summer is winding down and spiders are getting into making babies season. They probably looking for love.
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quote:The enabling of xp_cmdshell goes against security recommendations from Microsoft. This has been clearly documented by Microsoft for about the last 15 years to my memory.
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To (mis)quote someone from one of the IT threads "I don't know if my new job is more or less corporate than my last one, but at least I haven't heard 'scrum' in a while". God drat do I ever not miss agile. I'm sure it works in some settings but "slow moving dinosaur of a financial institution" is not one of them
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Antioch posted:To (mis)quote someone from one of the IT threads "I don't know if my new job is more or less corporate than my last one, but at least I haven't heard 'scrum' in a while". oh boy. Did you have 1 hour stand ups?
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I sure am a fan of the security certificate for the customer facing mail server expiring yesterday. That doesn't generate many calls at all.
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Sep 24, 2018 09:14
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Agrikk posted:I was cleaning up in my garage just now and decided to tidy up the cabling in my cabinet. I saw this weird discoloration in one of the empty rj-45 ports so I pulled out a flashlight for a closer inspection. It's just trying to get into the world-wide web.
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Sep 24, 2018 12:31
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It's just trying to get into the world-wide web. I see what you did there
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Someone added a bunch of checkbox fields to our item records: COUNT IN WAREHOUSE_LOC_1 COUNT IN WAREHOUSE_LOC_2 COUNT IN WAREHOUSE_LOC_3 COUNT IN WAREHOUSE_LOC_4 .... Like twenty of them. gently caress.  Let's re-invent the cycle count system because people won't use the built in one, and gently caress up our database at the same time! Bob Morales fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Sep 24, 2018 |
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Sep 24, 2018 16:34
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Bob Morales posted:Someone added a bunch of checkbox fields to our item records: That is unconscionable!
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Bob Morales posted:Someone added a bunch of checkbox fields to our item records: Not gonna lie. I laughed. Because it's not me.
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I tried to move away from one of my coworkers because she never stops talking and complaining about the job and how broke she is. Sadly though all of the seats on the other side have been taken by other people who thought she was really annoying and had the idea to move before me. Now I'm stuck here and it's really getting on my nerves. I'm breaking over here you guys. I even told her to shut up the other day and several of my coworkers hi-fived me. It's getting ridiculous. I should also mention that our new manager loves her for some reason and is for sure going to take her side even though her tickets make no sense and she closes all of them out without ever following up. Just "I'll call you back and give you an update" - *closes ticket*. It's insane and I'm looking for a new job because the fact she hasn't gotten fired yet is insulting to me. CerealKilla420 fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Sep 24, 2018 |
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Sep 24, 2018 18:55
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Bob Morales posted:Let's re-invent the cycle count system because people won't use the built in one, and gently caress up our database at the same time! You need a new job
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Holy gently caress I just spent 9 hours untangling the biggest rat's nest of code conflicts and bugs. I now have a list of poo poo to rant about at retro later this week..... Short version of today: It turns out they assigned another massive story relating to this exact system I've been modifying to someone else on another team. Until I found some merge conflicts I had to resolve on Friday, neither of us was even aware in passing that the other was assigned work in even vaguely related areas, let alone identical sections of code. Had there been any actual planning that took place (there WAS a cross-team meeting planned, it never happened, then someone said that basically 3 random people at HQ had divided the poo poo for this sprint), SOMEONE (read: me) would have noticed the overlap and punted my story to the following sprint, as the other ticket was clearly a prerequisite. That said, I did it. There's a PR up, though anyone who wants a single line edited can kindly gently caress off until morning, even if it means not getting it in under this arbitrary release deadline. I shouldn't have had to do it at all, but I'm proud that I pulled it off. The upside: I now have my new team lead and the QA lead on my side trying to fix all of this nonsense, and they're going to help drive this poo poo home in retro if there's any pushback. We're still 3 against the world, but it's a start. It just makes me so angry that we pay MULTIPLE full-time "scrum masters" whose job it is to run the show and prevent exactly what just happened. If not that, what the gently caress are we paying them for?
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Thanks Ants posted:You need a new job On the one hand, this is 100% true for Bob's long-term psychological (and probably physical) health. On the other hand, you need to consider how reading about Bob's job makes most of the rest of us feel about ours. "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few... or the one."
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I've been asked to perform a particular efficiency calculation on our daily production which will be a bit tricky at first but if I get out in front of it I think we can find an elegant solution...oh and you want it retroactive to January MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE ASKED FOR IT IN JANUARY THEN
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The place I work at hired a new CIO recently. His idea of reasonable workloads involve dumping three more programs to admin on me, increasing my hours worked per week to around 50 average, and threatening to fire me when I make the entirely reasonable request for either more efficient tools to admin these programs, more pay, or some extra benefit for the extra hours worked. I used to really enjoy showing up to work and consistently had pretty high management reviews. I came back to work today after a few days of vacation and have never felt so demotivated.
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I remember when I worked support complaining to my manager that it just wasn't possible to get my regular caseload done in a 40 hour week. I figured this would get some traction since they were making work-life balance a thing at the time, but her response was "we never said this job would be a 40 hour week." Alright, fine, no argument for that I guess, but a few months later when I told her I was transferring to another team her reaction was along the lines of "Wow, I'm so surprised! I thought everything was going great, what's the problem?" I said: "You're fine, the team is fine, but this job is just too hard - I don't want to work this much." I thought: "If you think 50 hour weeks one after another into eternity are no problem, you can find someone else to do them." Eletriarnation fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Sep 25, 2018 |
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Sep 25, 2018 14:40
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Bob Morales posted:Someone added a bunch of checkbox fields to our item records: This is like the platonic ideal of the dumb-rear end denormalization and hosed up data modeling I fight against with pretty much every client. It's... it's almost beautiful in its perfect stupidity. Also, Thanks Ants posted:You need a new job and so do I.
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Eletriarnation posted:I remember when I worked support complaining to my manager that it just wasn't possible to get my regular caseload done in a 40 hour week. I figured this would get some traction since they were making work-life balance a thing at the time, but her response was "we never said this job would be a 40 hour week." This is pretty much my exact thought here. I very much do not plan on doing infinite fifty hour weeks for absolutely nothing in return. I value a healthy work-life balance more than I value pretty much anything else at this point.
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One user bust out laughing at the sight of me carrying 3-5 nicely wrapped cables. They thought it was the funniest poo poo ever, colored LAN cables in particular being something that this person had only ever seen running along walls or sitting in a rats nest. Not something to be held or moved between rooms. After some probing from their coworkers, it turns out they have just never transported a cable or possibly plugged in anything more than a power cord if even that. Turns out that anything more complicated than a toaster, this person had always found someone else to set up. They didn't really get that no, the cables to your computer and TV do not just grow out of the back. They thought that cables spontaneously generate??? I can only be so mad; they outed themselves as super-dumb in front of a few people.
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Heran Bago posted:One user bust out laughing at the sight of me carrying 3-5 nicely wrapped cables. They thought it was the funniest poo poo ever, colored LAN cables in particular being something that this person had only ever seen running along walls or sitting in a rats nest. Not something to be held or moved between rooms. Haha you're carrying them things what supposed to be in the walls!
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I'm not sure I'd have been able to be patient enough to figure out why it was so funny
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My request to move desks was officially denied. I really don't know what I'm going to do about this distracting co-worker issue. I think you guys are right she has to have some sort of mental illness because she just doesn't stop openly and loudly complaining about the job to anyone that will listen. I hear her complain about her debt (and her inability to pay it) along with the amount of money she makes (we all make the same more or less) and I'm done with it and from what I've heard from other co-workers it sounds like they're done with it too. In fact the reason that I can't move desks is because everyone that previously sat near her moved to the other side of the office and as a result there are no spaces left for me to move to. They all moved because they were so sick of her complaining and didn't want to deal with it. I've tried asking her politely to be quiet so I can work without distraction on several occasions but she just continues to do it regardless. In fact one time I told her to be quiet because I was on the phone with a client and they could hear her complaints. She just responded with "that is so rude!" and later I over heard her talking about how I was "harassing her". I've honestly started looking for another job because of her. I should also mention that she is REALLY REALLY bad at her job and literally never follows up on support tickets. She'll just tell a client that she'll get back to them and then closes the tickets out without resolving the issue which creates a headache for the rest of us when they client calls back angry. I figured that she would probably get fired for these sort of things and more but our new manager seems to like her for whatever reason so that hasn't happened and it doesn't look like it's going to happen. I'm not sure what to do about the situation because I'm running out of patience. I've been just drowning out her voice with Brian Eno in an attempt to center myself but god drat I'm really starting to lose it.
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Get a note from a therapist that it's causing you distress. There was a person where I'm at many years ago that were able to get their seat moved for having a doctor's note about a dust allergy that was aggravated by old cubicle walls. Either they move your desk or fire you. 
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Organize a time for all your coworkers to go to HR at the same time. One person is a nuisance, a whole team is a big problem.
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Are noise-cancelling headphones or earplugs an option?
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Heran Bago posted:Are noise-cancelling headphones or earplugs an option? Wrong orifice 
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This ain't it, chief.
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Heran Bago posted:Are noise-cancelling headphones or earplugs an option? I have over the ear headphones and they block out the sound but she's still loud enough and her voice is distinct and shrill enough that I can hear it over whatever I'm music I'm listening to. It isn't so much a problem when I'm just sitting at my desk doing paper work but when I'm on a phone call with a client I can't block out her voice and I've heard a few complaints from clients that can hear her voice in the background. Polio Vax Scene posted:Organize a time for all your coworkers to go to HR at the same time. One person is a nuisance, a whole team is a big problem. This isn't a bad idea but I don't think I would really be able to organize my coworkers like that. I would be really surprised if any of them would want to deal with HR, and honestly I don't either. I've had bad experiences with HR in the past and I'm convinced it might just make the situation work in one way or another. But then again you're probably right that a whole team going to HR would probably get something done. spog posted:Wrong orifice LOL
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Are your calls recorded? If they are, pull the recording for one where a client complained about hearing your coworker and play it for your supervisor so they understand the complaints are coming from customers. Most places will act on customer complaints much faster than employee complaints.
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