More shit that pisses you off: What does that say about the quality of your emails?

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Malkar: Aug 19, 2010; Taste the cloud

Bob Morales posted:

Or install something like Cygwin or some other way to run 'grep' inside of WIndows.

http://www.wingrep.com/

# ¿ Nov 29, 2013 22:27

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 09:33

Malkar: Aug 19, 2010; Taste the cloud

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6321960&srkey=a225-5203

My coworker went to buy that at the store. It was listed at the same price. Called their tech support line, they also confirmed that that is the correct and accurate price.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2014 14:48

Malkar: Aug 19, 2010; Taste the cloud

spog posted:

That can't be right, surely?

No protection for less than 2 years? What are we, America?

If you were America you'd never get protection.

Pissing me off: My boss just foisted his on-call shift onto me. Yay. Guess I get to sit by my phone for the rest of the week, and weekend.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2014 23:06

Malkar: Aug 19, 2010; Taste the cloud

stubblyhead posted:

The conventional wisdom is that leaving a job after just a few months isn't that big a deal to potential hiring managers. Sometimes things just aren't a good fit, and it takes a little while to figure that out. I'd say around six months is the max you could pull that off, though.

I think you mean minimum?

Anyways, I've only been at my current job for 3 and a half months. It was pretty dreadful and the pay was poo poo for the skillset- so I found another one. They didn't seem to have any issues with how briefly I had been working here.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2014 23:47

Malkar: Aug 19, 2010; Taste the cloud

This is now the thread where everyone tells Sickening what to do with his ~~blood~~ ink money.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2014 17:40

Malkar: Aug 19, 2010; Taste the cloud

TheFuzzyLumpkin posted:

Europe is correct. If you really want to, put a grand aside and rent a boat every now and then - you get to go boating without the horrors of boat ownership, and get to take an excellent trip.

Go to the Amalfi coast.

Yeah, just join a local boat club. All of the fun of boat ownership, almost none of the hassle.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2014 22:02

Malkar: Aug 19, 2010; Taste the cloud

Sickening posted:

Lets talk about titles again. Here is one I saw today for a vmware webinar.

Ben Goodman
Lead Evangelist, End-User Computing

It screams to me "please look at how big of a douche I am".

My last gig had a CIO "Chief Innovations Officer". After 10 years with the title he still hasn't delivered that first innovation yet.

My company has a Chief Technology Evangelist. And an evangelism team. But, it's a start-up, so evangelism is kind of important?

# ¿ Apr 2, 2014 19:53

Malkar: Aug 19, 2010; Taste the cloud

Mustache Ride posted:

You know whats pissing me off? Fizzbuzz poo poo in this thread.

Actually, that's not true, whats actually pissing me off is everyone in my department, including some schmuck from the legal department, got free passes to a conference in Vegas, and I had to stay and mend shop because I'm the low totem pole or some bullshit.

Why can't I go to Vegas? I like nightclubs and casinos too!

They found out your SA username and thought you'd make things uncomfortable.

# ¿ May 22, 2014 04:46

Malkar: Aug 19, 2010; Taste the cloud

I feel like it's the same situation as you find with apartment reviews. People only post them when they're pissed, or asked to, so they're inherently broken.

# ¿ May 29, 2014 04:16

Malkar: Aug 19, 2010; Taste the cloud

The latest tweet from one of the guys involved int he security audit is:

"Last I heard from Truecrypt: "We are looking forward to results of phase 2 of your audit. Thank you very much for all your efforts again!"

And then there's these lovely instructions on how to encrypt your files on Mac:

Note the encryption type.

# ¿ May 29, 2014 17:38

Malkar: Aug 19, 2010; Taste the cloud

Atlassian really knows how to make friends with the womenfolk.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2014 19:55

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 09:33

Malkar: Aug 19, 2010; Taste the cloud

Dick Trauma posted:

I know someone had asked for a catch-up megapost but frankly I'm too burned out to spew out all the terrible crap I've put up with over the last year.

This week the office manager has started a new harassment campaign: turning my A/C off when I step away from my office. Our offices are next to one another but he and I are on separate HVAC loops and we each have our own thermostat. Works great, first time I've ever had my own thermostat and it's necessary due to the amazing amount of sun we get on our side of the building. In the afternoon the A/C barely can keep up, and if you turn it off you never will. Starting Monday if I leave my office for more than 20 minutes I come back to find he's turned the control wheel to the top, turning off the A/C. No one else sits in our corner of the building and I doubt anyone else hates me enough to put so much effort into this. I leave work before him so he turns it off after I go, making sure that my office is cooking when I arrive in the morning.

So this evening before I leave I'm going to smear hand lotion on the control wheel. It's a small thing but I don't have any other options. Maybe it will annoy him or gross him out.

Next week I'll have been here for a year, and two weeks from now will be the one year anniversary of the last status meeting I had with my boss. It will also be the one year anniversary of the last meeting I had with the CEO. They were both supposed to meet with me together every two weeks but after the beginning of March 2015 they would just cancel the meeting week after week until they finally stopped scheduling it.

Although the CEO contacts me about once every two months to yell about problems with his iPhone I've received no feedback for the entire year. No positives, no negatives. Nothing. On the few occasions my boss or the CEO speak with me it's entirely one direction, even if they ask me a question like when they're having a tech issue. They never let me finish a sentence. Never.

So I've been invisible except when there's a problem. It struck me that I can't remember the last time someone I worked for said something like "Good job" or "keep up the good work" or something to that effect. The most minor of positive comments. At the same time I also don't get any constructive feedback. It's just... nothing. Probably 2003 was the last time I had a boss that now and then would say something encouraging. He was a good guy that had my back and didn't treat me like an appliance. I'm really weary of being an appliance.

I'm glad after a year and a half of not reading this thread, I can come back to something familiar- Dick Trauma being poo poo on.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2016 05:36

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