DigitalMocking posted:

Guy was in working on our security system today. This is cameras, badge readers for all 4 of our buildings.

The system is available externally for monitoring/remote administration.

The password? 1234

I just walked out and went to lunch at 11, came back around 2. I just can't loving even.

Avenging_Mikon posted:

Today two separate people have spelled my name incorrectly in email replies where my name is part of my signature. It's a common name, and uses the common spelling. There's a variant that people think is common, but in my entire life I've only met one person using that variant.

It pisses me off that they can't look down to spell my name correctly, and I can't graciously correct them, because no matter what it comes off as a dick move. It just hits me as a hugely disrespectful action. Almost as bad as the people on the phone who call me by my co-worker's name just because it starts with the same letter.

Irritated Goat posted:

Please stop putting your entire god drat request in the subject I also don't need a full greeting in it too.

"Hi friends, I need to be unlocked from <application>". gently caress. It's irrational but it's annoying as poo poo.

This goes along with people who put "famous" quotes in signatures, insert their religion into work junk, and all the other dumb rear end common e-mail things.

Oh, and gently caress abusive rear end loving coworkers. Worker A calls us upset because her Boss told us to uninstall Office because it was a different version than everyone else's. Well, in the middle of it, our entire loving data center lost power so we didn't finish. Boss yells at Worker A instead of just finding out a status.

Judge Schnoopy posted:

Avenging_Mikon posted:

Make a faraday cage for the office, and put a WAP in.

Edit: BAAAAHAHAHAHAHA.

Sometimes I love the infrastructure team. They already completed the "investigation" for the condescending guy.

AAAAAAHAHAHAHA. Eat poo poo mister "there's a flaw in the system."

MF_James posted:

Why does capitalization matter in a username?

Jaded Burnout posted:

Nice. The ones I've seen have been non-magnetic and required a cloth and cleaner to get anything off at all.

Inspector_666 posted:

One of our softphones is having issues with the latest version of Chrome. The vendor's response is to downgrade several versions and see if it works.

Downgrading Chrome is extremely not supported by Google to the point where finding an offline installer is proving impossible unless i want to trust s0ftware.com or the like, and even then I have no idea how to turn off the auto-update feature like in Firefox.

Why can't things just loving work.

BaronVonVaderham posted:

Ugh we just added this to cover similar security stupidity. I love having to get a code on my cellphone literally every time I want to log into the VPN to test something in a QA environment, log into my email every morning, etc.

I get why it's there, I just wish the stupidity of others wasn't such an inconvenience since I need to log into various things constantly throughout the day and get a code every single time.

Oddly, our texts always come from a different number each time, which is both weird and mildly irritating.

The Macaroni posted:

I hate when people feel the need to put backgrounds in their Outlook emails. But what the actual gently caress is this? Are they trying to make it so nobody can read their email?

stevewm posted:

Dunno why the hell they had to replace the modem.. They swapped it with the same model that was already there.

I have a feeling they have provisioned a new account for us and we will be getting a 2nd bill. Has already happened once at that location!


Edit: Finally!!!! It is working again! YAY!

Che Delilas posted:

Pistols at dawn, sir!

My company did this very thing. We had a very demanding customer, and they threatened to leave. We negotiated a deal where they would pay us extra for extra custom feature development. We basically white-gloved them for about 2 years, spending ultimately far more time and energy than they deserved and prioritizing their work over customers with 5x the footprint. In the end they decided to change to a different provider, in part because we couldn't keep up with their ridiculous demands, and what we got out of it was the cash and a whole lot of resentment from our other customers (again, some much bigger than this one) who had been asking us to work on their own priorities.

It didn't sink us. But it did chase off a couple of great people who were sick of getting jerked around, seeing their work get continuously thrown on the floor for the sake of a customer who we all knew would never be satisfied. And we're still trying to smooth the ruffled feathers of our other customers. Well. The management is.

Kyrosiris posted:

I'd say it's only as good as the company that implements it. I've taken far more vacation time at my current job (roughly ~4 weeks over a year and a half) with unlimited PTO than I ever did at my last gig that had two weeks shared vacation/sick leave but ran a skeleton crew where every PTO request was met with "well are you really suuuuuure you need this time off? you're gonna be making someone work overtime if you do " pushback.

monsterzero posted:

Thought I found a deal on some new, bulk packaged 2-port 10GBe adapters through a server parts refurbisher/reseller. Guess they were cheap because half of the cable retainer tabs in the RJ45 ports were busted, and that's apparently true for the vendor's entire stock. Now I've got to go back and ask for more money for the project. :/

Bigass Moth posted:

When you get up at 4 am to shovel your driveway every day for six months straight you will have a different opinion on snow.

CollegeCop posted:

IF YOU ARE GOING TO DRINK COFFEE, LEARN TO MAKE COFFEE!

That is all.

dragonshardz posted:

I work for a department of my state's government and I have also had some colleagues who have the same mindset. It's so completely alien; like why would you sit for two weeks on a ticket that takes you all of five minutes to complete?

I'm not constantly stressed out or overworked, either; I get things done as they come in and manage my time wisely. The emptier my pending queue is, the better.

Wibla posted:

That's a fire waiting to happen, and your insurance company going "well too bad about your datacenter, we're not paying for that".

Bob Morales posted:

New job had me get:

Credit check
Background check (no theft, assault, or firearms charges)
5 panel drug screen
Physical
Up to date on immuniziations

devmd01 posted:

Our entire Corp office was ported to teams for telephony lmao.

22 Eargesplitten posted:

The company has a $0-premium HDHP for employees (like $170/paycheck if you're married, which I will no longer be in a few weeks), but I'm definitely going to hit that deductible fast, it's just that it's still cheaper than paying the premium for the PPO on top of paying for the copays for the PPO.

AlternateAccount posted:

Yeah I don't know what a GOOD solution is, I wonder what our BC team says. But I feel confident SMS shouldn't be part of it.

taqueso posted:

Weedle posted:

this is pretty much what i said. i didn't propose any numbers or anything but i told her that if the scope of the job is going to change that significantly then it needs to be formally reviewed and negotiated with hr before i'll agree to anything

Thanatosian posted:

It's a term that encompasses people leaving the organization, whether quitting, being laid off, being fired, dying, whatever. Is there a more common, less euphemistic term for that? I'm not aware of one.