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Sickening posted:It appears my boss has just outlawed working from home for all the admins. He decided this while he was working from home it appears. It seems he is worried about our dept image if we don't have all the staff in the office everyday. Sorry to hear that. I just got the exact opposite news, I can WFH as soon as I finish getting all my token info tied into my accounts and a few other miscellaneous things, and do a test run while at home one day to make sure everything works. this.is.seriously.important. Working from home 1 day a week will save me probably $15 and a 2hour round trip commute, allow me to sleep an extra hour, and not want to slaughter everyone since I work 6 days a week and spend about as much time in a vehicle (truck/car) as I do sleeping a week.
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This pissing me off daily: voip changeovers. Our MSP is supporting a client going through a VOIP upgrade right now and it's a shitshow nightmare of the highest order, I field calls daily with irate end users, today alone one guy has called 4 times about the same issue, has fought my troubleshooting every step of the way and flat out told me he refuses to do anything because, it worked fine prior to the changeover it should work fine now and the tech that was out there completing the changeover needs to come back and fix it. Now it's not this guys fault that his poo poo is hosed and it's not my fault, a huge part of the problem is poo poo project management that poorly planned and poorly executed this, but drat it work with me because I'm trying to help you and yelling/bitching/complaining/threatening is not going to get this fixed faster and just ruins my drat day. This has been my life for the last 2-3months and we've still got another 3-4months left in this project, plus whatever time it takes to resolve lingering issues.
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Misogynist posted:My professional opinion is that what happened wasn't this guy's mistake, and you shouldn't treat it as though it is. You have an IT environment where patient data that you are legally liable for underneath federal law is being allowed to be saved to locations where it is not auditable and not being backed up. In what hosed-up bizarro universe does this get to be a single person's fault? You don't even seem concerned about the lack of auditing, so what other HIPAA mandates is your company completely loving up and slacking off about? The only thing I will say is that the guy SHOULD have backed up the HDD to some sort of network share before the re-image, but I still wouldn't place the blame on this fellow or the new guy that had zero training and oversight.
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Lum posted:I have that one, but the cause for my current lost sanity isn't a 10am conference call, it's that my neighbour (who is thankfully moving out soon) put a motherfucking piano against the other side of my bedroom wall, and their child who I've never seen but I can only assume they have 10 thumbs, gets piano lessons at 8AM on a Saturday, and then around lunch time it's apparently the 10 thumbed family singalong that includes an acoustic guitar and some other instruments that I can't identify but appear to have been made from feline vocal chords. Holy crap, that is ultra ignorant of them. I would load up angerfist, put the sub on the wall and the speakers facing their wall and put that poo poo on max volume. Bonus points if you put something like maniac killer on there, that will probably drive them to either A) go crazy or B) move out v--- I assume, from previous postings, that Lum is a rational individual and would go a normal route prior to going headlong into something that will likely make the neighbors rage. I was just giving an alternative for amusement. MF_James fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Lum posted:They're moving out shortly anyway, only moved in here for a few month as their house got flooded, which is why I've decided not to be too much of a dick about it. The houses here have a really weird layout so they probably don't even know it's my bedroom. Angerfist is good if you like extreme hardcore stuff, I used to listen to them a bit, it's not really a get up and dance type of music for a club though. He was rated #34 on the top 100 DJ list which is kind of weird considering I didn't think stuff that hardcore was popular. Honestly I'd recommend listening just to say you've done it, I recommend Maniac Killa, Raise Your Fist, and Your World Will Shiver (I think this is the song I'm thinking of). Also the korsakoff angerfist song Unleash the Beast is awesome. Korsakoff in general is pretty good hardcore v--Lum is a DJ! MF_James fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Lum posted:One of my hobbies is being a DJ. I actually mix sets live using a little USB MIDI controller and some software. I usually get about 20-30 listeners, including a few regulars, but it's mostly a bit of fun. Here's one of my sets. Angerfist isn't happy hardcore, it's just hardcore, completely different ebb and flow to the music. Although hardcore has a wild variation even within itself, Angerfist is some of the more hardcore stuff you can find, but then you get stuff that people like Caffeine mix that is hardcore, but much lighter by comparison. Sufficiently off-topic at this point, where's the bitching? I could do some bitching, my manager asked me to take over a project for 2 weeks while a co-worker is on paternity leave, full term for his baby was a week and a half ago. Get the gently caress out of the uterus already kid, I've got a second job I have to work with as well and this poo poo is changing my available hours! Last time I do a favor for a future father, drat kid is causing problems already!
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Humphreys posted:Well dammit, the backup plan if I don't get this new job is move to Canada where my partner is originally from. I was at least hoping the internet was better there. There is a whole thread dedicated to Canadian Internet Access Gets Shittier, or something like that
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^--- 4 10's is nice depending on what you do, I work helldesk... it can get super trying especially since I work 2 jobs and end up working 60-70hours a week plus commute times, but it's nice once my construction job is done for the winter. That looks like 6-10hour shifts to me. Wednesday 230pm-12:30am Thursday 230pm-1230am friday230pm-1230am, and then sunday 12am-10am, monday 12am-10am and tuesday 12am-10am... And that's thinking it's just one job. If it's two jobs it looks like 4-10hour shifts, wed/thurs/fri/sat 230pm-1230am and sunday/mon/tues/wed 12am-10am. Very poorly worded postings either way. *EDIT* drat new page, for content. Every day I am on the phones as a monkey is a little bit of my soul that dies.
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Walter_Sobchak posted:I'm more surprised that you bothered to respond. This. poo poo that pisses me off, cancerous co-workers. We have a guy that left one of our sites offline for 2.5hours after he took a call from them. Their server was fine somewhat, we have a server there to replace the current one and just needed to swap drives and stuff, so he told them to power off the old server, plug the new one in and wait for a callback from one of our level 2s. Well, he never noted anything in our tickets, forgot which site it was, so 2.5hours later when they called wondering wtf is going on we finally figured out who it was and got them up and running again in 20-30minutes after swapping drives over and rebuilding the arrays. This guy has been a problem for a while, has repeatedly been told to immediately speak with someone else when issues like this and other "higher level" issues come up. He does not do this and has repeatedly caused issues to drag on for hours longer than they should. Pretty sure he's getting fired over this today.
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rolleyes posted:I'm going to be controversial and give some love for printers. Our company recently changed from using HP to Ricoh. Now I have absolutely no idea how painful they were or weren't to set up as I have no involvement in that, but holy crap are they orders of magnitude faster than the old HPs and the group who set them up deserves medals, raises and general congratulations. Printers are fine as long as you aren't using lovely personal printers. When you have the nice MFPs from Ricoh etc with service contracts printers are great. I supported 20+ of these Ricoh MFPs, rare was the day where the printer was the cause if it not working (aside from obvious hardware faults that we could invoke our service contract for), more often it had to do with server2003/2008 causing issues and something needing restarted etc. Most of the printer hate is because of the personal printers people have to support
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Misogynist posted:Pinterest's biggest demographic is women in the Midwest, so that doesn't surprise me. Interesting, because my GF LOVES pinterest... and we live in the midwest  I had also never heard of pinterest until she brought it up. I'm also of the generation that started growing up with computers, albeit not as advanced as they are now, I was 5 when we got a 286, maybe slightly younger. I have zero desire for twitter/vine/wtfeverflavoroftheyearis. Although snapchat I'm marginally interested in and might start using. I have literally never even loaded the twitter or vine websites and probably half of the other social media crap except facebook, myspace(what happened to you pornspace), and linkedin.
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sanchez posted:Twitter is great for knowing when service providers are having issues they're not talking about, I use it for that all the time. Haven't had to deal with outages from comcrap in a while, but thanks for the insight!
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Simpleboo posted:So I had to do some setup for a new workstation at work today. The guy before me labeled all of the wall jacks to (in theory) correspond to a jack on a patch panel. Today I come across a jack labeled "15-6" and until I did some trace work did not realize that it is instead "14". So I checked the rest of the building and nothing is labeled correctly. Also, the patch panel looks something like this http://imgur.com/38ZjVPF Close to the thing of nightmares... but not really. I deal with this on a daily basis at 2300 different sites that some wiring schmuck went out and labeled in some abstract way that made sense to him BUT NO OTHER loving PERSON ON EARTH. God why can't people just label things 1, 2, 3 etc till infinity! Or at the very least, label the same at BOTH ENDS. This is seriously what pisses me off daily and induces a mass amount of rage.
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Agrikk posted:Wait, what? Who the hell decides the ends of a drop don't need to be named the same? You know, if I could tell you who does it, they would be dead already and I'd be in jail, but it happens daily. I'll also end up with half good half terrible number schemes where they started with 1, 2, 3, but then switch to frontoffice1 or something dumb, guess what the patch is always labeled? 1-24! Time to play magical cables and checking the switch (hopefully the guy I am talking to understands link lights) so I can figure out what goes where, god forbid if they have a bunch of extra cables running from patch to switch so like 10 things have no link lights.
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Dick Trauma posted:A person who has made themselves curiously unreachable scheduled an a/v vendor to work on a holiday so guess who had to drop everything to come in? There are reasons I dislike pretty much everyone everywhere now. "Sorry, I am currently engaged in something extremely legal involving prostitutes, massive amounts of drugs and guns because this is my day off, find another whipping boy" Obviously that's not exactly what to say but hell if something along those lines wouldn't be funny.
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you ate my cat posted:I work in telecom tech support. Got a call today from a dentist office that couldn't make local calls to one particular exchange. Let's say XXX-123-YYYY. I ask for an example, they ask the receptionist who first reported the issue, and they say they can't remember any of the patients the tried to call that day with that number. It took me a minute to realize that she gave you a cell/house number? My first thought was that she gave you the office number, but it was a cell/home and not the office.. right?
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Daylen Drazzi posted:Normally I don't have a problem with getting a day off work due to weather, but this is not the week I want it to happen. I've got a dentist appointment on Thursday, as well as late-night patching, and I was sort of planning on being off after lunch on Friday so I could take care of some last minute details before I move into my apartment on Saturday. I cannot wait until Spring gets here and all I have to worry about is rain. this a million times, I've gotten pretty lucky this year because I was given the ability to work from home recently, thank god too because we've had -10F nights/days which is like -30 or -40 with the wind and my car didn't start probably 4 days, on top of the snow on other days where I couldn't move my truck because it's a loving ford ranger that weighs nothing.
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Bob Morales posted:We have MySpace, Yahoo games, and Everquest blocked. By IP address. Haha awesome, I can't believe you have everquest blocked by IP address
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This not pissing me off: My company has moved me to a WFM project headed up by our lead PM (the owner's son) for our largest account, I've been creating/executing the test plan, assisting with T2 issues, and other misc things that pop up such as bringing up issues that aren't a part of our testing (features that already were handled in previous project, but randomly have broken etc). This has been a huge boost to my morale, I felt (rightfully so) that my 'drive' and technical ability was being underutilized as a T1 call center agent, and I've been rewarded! They dumped me into the project to take over for my brother, who was the test lead. The last month has been hectic as loving poo poo because I got dumped into this work about 2 weeks before our first go-live (we're rolling out over 2300+ remote locations and should be done by the end of december) and it's been crazy getting up to speed with everything, scope of project etc. Finally, today, is my first day where I'm not feeling very overwhelmed and have a good grip on the project, what work I can/should do, how to do it quickly etc etc. things kind of pissing me off: The PM I'm under, while extremely intelligent, with lots of experience and generally a good head on his shoulders, can be a bit spastic. He will tell me to do something because it's on his mind, but doesn't really care about it actually getting done. Not a big deal, I've kind of figured out how to prioritize stuff now that I've been here a little. Then, on big things I know he Wants Done, he won't give me specifics of how he wants it done, so I'll take a guess because he's got a ton of crap going on so I can never catch him for 5-10minutes of "show me how you want this done once and I'll do it like that forever" session, and he won't respond to my email requests asking for clarification. Basically I'll do Thing however, then when I turn it up to him, we'll sit for an hour, while he looks it over and then he will just re-do the thing how he wants it. tl;dr new position, no more t1 call-center crap (hopefully forever), with minor annoyances like a PM with ADHD
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hihifellow posted:shutdown /r(eboot) /f(orce all programs to close) /t(ime to shutdown in seconds (miliseconds? can't remember)) 0 /(co)m(puter) <target> It's extra fun when you're logged into some device and screw this up like I did. I may or may not have been logged into a print server and did a reboot... except the reboot was 10 minutes from now. The best part? It helpfully logged me out after the shutdown command, but wouldn't let me log back in to do an immediate shutdown, it also wouldn't do anything else except wait for the reboot to happen. Thank god I didn't accidentally put 10 days or something dumb, although I was on the phone with someone on site at the time so they manually rebooted.
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hihifellow posted:shutdown /a aborts the pending shutdown If only I could have logged back into the device to do that, but it refused all incoming connections after I executed the command, which is (I'm guessing) a design oversight/flaw.
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poo poo pissing me off WFM applications and extremely aggressive roll-out schedules I need to drink all the booze tonight.
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monster on a stick posted:I know someone who works for LinkedIn and they make seriously mad cash between salary and stock; as far as I know they don't get paid overtime. They're not even that high a level. I think I see why he doesn't get paid overtime.
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More poo poo that pisses you off: touching dicks all day by proxy edit: lets take this a step further, you realize how man times a day do you touch your face? Well thats how many times a day dicks are touching your face, you have multiple dicks all over your face all day. Vvv more poo poo that pisses you off: touching kevin bacon's dick MF_James fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Volmarias posted:Let's go further. The moment you pee? That's right; dicks touching dicks. If you shake a woman's hand, is that basically sex? Since she probably has touched her vagina at some point while in the bathroom, or touched her underwear and by proxy her vagina.
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Does anyone here administer an environment that uses SEP/SEPM/LUA? I'm finding it hard to get decent answers from their "support" and their community forums range from barely comprehensible to answering questions I didn't even ask. We are going to be in the process of shifting versions of SEP, currently we have 2 version out there, 11.0 and 12.1 RU4. I want our LUA to start downloading 12.1 RU5, but the LUA server doesn't have enough space for all 3 defs (don't get me started on why a production server has ONLY A loving 120GB HDD in it). My plan is to test download 11.0 and 12.1 RU5 only in our QA environment and figure out space requirements from there. Now, if I delete 12.1 RU4 from our distribution and download center, will it purge those definitions? Basically, since space is an issue, we can't hold all 3 defs at once and I want to know if it's going to get rid of those defs so automagically or if I'm going to have to do some fuckery to get rid of them from our LUA and also our SEPM server. *EDIT* also yes, poo poo pissing me off daily are all things related to symantec. MF_James fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Oct 24, 2014 |
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poo poo pissing me off - Symantecs Live Update Server, if the server it is on runs out of disk space during anything it tries to do anything (download or push out definitions) it will decide to no longer push out AV updates, but it will happily tell you that it works fine. This is also a problem because 15 or whatever the gently caress years ago that this server got installed it was installed with 120GB of space (don't ask about the small size it's a loving nightmare and we can't expand it at all). Now I get to waste a day tomorrow uninstalling/reinstalling this poo poo since that's the only way to fix it.
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ConfusedUs posted:Everything we do with a performance impact (full virus scans, backups, etc) happens overnight when no one is using the system. Yeah we have AV scans scheduled for sunday nights (like 10pm) when people should be in bed/with family/whatever that is not work. If you are working, well, deal with it.
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NZAmoeba posted:An attempted upload where the network connection died part way through? Or the user is an idiot and doesn't want to admit it.
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Swink posted:User is idiot and doesn't realise it. I had someone pull this on a project I'm working on, he claims he updated a shitload of changes (he's our client) and that they've disappeared because I was also working on the same document and I must have hosed it up. My manager publicly sided with him and told me in private he knows that the guy just didn't do the work required of him. I just did the work since it was like an hour or two only but jesus if you're lazy/incompetent/whatever don't try to drag me down with you fucker. *edit* when I say my manager publicly sided with him, he asked me to go through the revision log and look for the changes and update the current document with them. I looked for about 10 minutes and realized it was a waste of time and just did the changes to the recent document myself. MF_James fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Oct 31, 2014 |
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Sylink posted:I dont understand, does he wanted it printed then emailed to him ?? He apparently wants it printed, in color, emailed to him, notified of the email, and then he's going to strip the color from it.
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stuxracer posted:A perfect response if your reforward was also blank.
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Thanks Ants posted:Our helpdesk are functionally useless, the team-lead doesn't manage the team in any way whatsoever, and the guy who is supposed to be the escalation point from them dodges every single issue that it's possible to dodge, whilst adding nothing remotely helpful to the process. Jesus, what helpdesk does 30 tickets a day, whenever I see people come up with that I honestly don't understand what these people get paid to do. Our helpdesk is a total staff of 20-25, we are not a 24/7/365 but pretty drat close, deals with an avg of 700 NEW tickets a day while also following up on other tickets, project work, etc etc etc. What the gently caress do some of your helpdesks do that THREE people are needed to handle 30 tickets a day? *EDIT* I guess this is why the term computer janitor is what helpdesk is often referred to as, but I just never thought that it was true, our helpdesk definitely handles t1-t2 application/hardware issues. MF_James fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Nov 19, 2014 |
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evol262 posted:It's hard to find good PMs. This guy sounds like he's a newly minted MBA who has no idea what his actual job is. The job of a PM is to coordinate and manage expectations. It is not to update excel documents and forward emails from Team A to Team B. The PM should be evaluating whether or not Team A's concerns are within scope and addressing why it wasn't part of a requirements document, and who missed that req in the first place, and... Most PMs suck. Oh I know what a good PM is supposed to do, my brother is a great PM and I learned a great deal from him. Also thanks for the minor english lesson, I'm generally pretty good about who/whom I honestly don't know why I used it there, but whatever.
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Manslaughter posted:If you're going to assign someone to QA the color adjustments I did to your web page don't assign it to a colorblind person, it's awkward for everyone involved. Amazing! Not pissing me off: 4 day weekend PIssing me off right now: documentation and trying to get poo poo done so I can leave at 2pm and avoid the awful traffic that will be chicago highways on my way home.
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Dick Trauma posted:I'm not going to disagree with you, but my financial security issue is not really for myself as much as my parents. They're old and don't work anymore and made their own bad decisions. I've been sending them money to help them stay afloat and before too long they won't be able to take care of themselves. That's why I need to get that money. Things could fall apart for them very quickly and I need to be standing by to bail them out. Don't help anyone, let them up the creek without a paddle, they'll still come out just fine in the end (honestly they're not a trading firm so having network issues isn't going to destroy them and cause them to lose literally millions of dollars in a second) and perhaps they will learn something about keeping talent instead of abusing it.
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fromoutofnowhere posted:So I start tearing into this HP system looking to troubleshoot a video card problem, and I'm looking at this machine thinking that they really over engineered this thing. I get and understand airflow and stuff, but drat this thing is heavy with all the plastic internals and poo poo. Hell, there are fans dedicated to certain parts of the case. What ever, unplug this, undo that, chuck the video card (which was huge and heavy for a quadro) into the box with the paper and static bags piled up in case I needed them, aaand I get to hear my boss squeal like a stuck pig. After he caught his breath and I stopped bug eyed staring at him he managed to croak out that I had tossed a $4k something card around. Honestly, in my opinion, if someone handed me a desktop machine, I would assume at most it's worth 400-800 unless otherwise noted, I don't mean that I would beat it up and poo poo, but I wouldn't treat the machine like it was worth $4000+ unless explicitly told that it was $SUPERIMPORTANTEXPENSIVEHEAPOFSHIT$$$$$ Although I've never worked anywhere that has engineers/graphic artists/movie developers etc on staff.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Yeah really - if I wanted political nonsense, I'd click this facebook link about how President Obama revealed himself as a communist, I won't believe what he said! I foolishly drove into the office, a co-worker and I are here, he's working on a password manager upgrade, I'm reading the forums... I also passed him some documentation on renewing an IIS cert, so I was somewhat useful. I've had 3 tickets that I can feasibly do right now and I have another that I will take care of later tonight at like 8-9pm. I should have just WFH
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