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While individual incidents are not against any laws if there is a pattern it can be constructive dismissal. You need to record everything. Open an external email account, ask for everything in writing (this alone should ring alarm bells in competent managers but will go over these clowns heads) and when you get them BCC or forward everything to the gmail/outlook account. If you can show many cases where you have an email to tell you X and then an email that you shouldn't of done X then you have them by the balls. Any sane company would then buy you off with a confidentiality clause (for both sides).
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Crowley posted:Forwarding confidential internal email to an external host? That sounds like a surefire way to get fired. In America maybe but it’s more complicated in Britain. As long as you don't have client information in it then the Data Protection Act doesn't come into it (if it’s your personal information you are fine) so that’s the main way they can get you legally. The other is that the company has an email policy about sending confidential information outside of the company network. Now I very much doubt the clowns have anything written down so they can't use it. Even if they did have a policy then you are entitled via the data protection act to any personal information about you and anything relating to your work performance is very much personal data so you have a legal entitlement to it. Now I don't expect the law to get in the way if they want to get rid of you but you can get a big chunk of cash from them. The law in Britain (currently) is that the Employer must prove that they fired you in a legal way so if you can discredit the performance reviews and incidents that they would use to prove the legality of your sacking then they become useless. Westie posted:Nothing stopping you from saving an EML now, is there? That would be the over option as unlike printing out the email it keeps the header information so that it can be proved to come from the company.
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dennyk posted:One thing to keep in mind: don't know how it's handled in the UK, but in the US, vacation/leave time is neither mandatory nor considered "pay" and an employer can generally deduct it for any reason they want, as long as it doesn't go against their own written policies and isn't applied in such a way as to discriminate against a protected class (race, religion, gender, etc.). If leave time is treated in a similar fashion in the UK, it's possible that it could be perfectly legal for them to deduct vacation time for being late (although once you run out of leave time, they can't start deducting actual pay). Not in the UK. Every worker is legally entitled to 5.6 weeks of paid time off every year (employers can include bank (statutory) holidays) full stop end of story. The only people who don't get this are the self employed (contractors). Also holiday pay comes under the general auspice of wages (like commission and bonuses) that cannot have deductions taken from them unless it's a statutory deduction (taxes), overpayment of salary or industrial action without fist being agreed (like in an employes terms and conditions of employment). poo poo that's pissing me off. Being asked to clear some time to do some UAT testing on changes to the pension calculations on the payroll system, only to find out that it's actual testing and the person who knows what the hell is going on is on holiday until after it goes live.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:
If your department acts like a doormat for long enough people will treat you like a doormat. The way to change it will be painful and will need the backing of a director level person but it can be done. The way to do it without looking like a jerk is in the HR meeting tell them that you the IT dept are too overstretched to be able to do this any longer and either the SLA's get adhered to or you get another warm body. If they don't like either option tell them that you can do the last minute jobs but the requesting dept will have to foot the cost of not only the equipment, but the cost of getting it to you via overnight express shipping and to pay for a contractor to set it up for them. This will cost $X per case. After the meeting send an email to the HR people confirming everything you have said in an non-confrontational way and CC as high as you can go. In a sensible company being able to show the cost in man hours that this causes and how to sort it out will make the IT dept look professional and working in the best interests of the company and the other depts look like idiots. Same thing we are going through in payroll with late overtime/expenses claims. It is painful to start with telling people their overtime sheet was late so it will get paid next month or returning expenses claims over 3 months old unpaid but it is working and making our lives berable with the amount of staff we have.
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internet jerk posted:There are some truly awesome highly competent HR people out there. Unfortunately they seem to be few and far. Tell me about it. Modern HR is a complex discipline involving multitudes of laws, judgements and best practice to make sure that the organization gets the best out of its people and is covered against legal claims. The problem is it doesn't require formal qualifications to enter and people still think its the business equivalent of nursing so are not prepared for the grim realty of making sure people don't do anything illegal and that they sack people correctly. Half the HR people i come into contact with i wouldn't trust to tell the time correctly.
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Crowley posted:In Denmark they go by the name Accidenture. They hosed up the City of Copenhagen's migration to a new (Accenture driven) payroll system so bad it cost them $millions to fix, and in the end they had to roll back several months' of pay for a thousand people that for some reason or other just didn't show up as having been paid or not. Some people got $0 for months while others got quadruple pay. The City had to make emergency bank transfers to cover the affected people and wound up publicly begging all their employees to go over their pay stubs and accounts carefully and transfer any extra pay back voluntarily, because no one knew who got too much. As someone who works in government payroll how the heel do you not know how much you paid someone? I can see how having the wrong salary or hours if it gets cocked up but no output files? No record of what was paid? How did this get past testing? No wonder they are shunned.
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Xae posted:Where I work it takes 6 weeks to get additional disk space added, if you can get Executive Sign off for an emergency order. Have you heard the story of the horse thief who got cought stealing the kings horse and promised to make it talk? It's the same thing. The sales guy only cares about making sales targets right now, being able to do it is the future and maybe they can shift the blame on someone else or it might be able to get done.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:
Some one needs to grow a spine and stand up to the sales people or it will turn into Wolf of Wall Street/Enron. Sales are like frat bros, no doesn't mean no it means try harder. You need to take a leaf out of their book when it comes to laying down professional standards while making it look like you guys are pulling for the team. Tell them you are only staffed for a 4 week turnaround until you can get some more warm bodies but being the team player you will pull out the stops, put other projects on hold to get them the 2 week turnaround. If they want it quicker you can do that but you will need to get some temps in that are not in the budget yet so it will cost their department $X per urgent setup. Make it sound like you are doing everything you can with what you have got but you just don't have it. Provide solutions to the issue so it's sales who sound like the assholes.
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dogstile posted:Really dude? I was using an easy to understand stereotype. I could of said that they are like 8 year olds who push and push until told off then go and push the boundaries another way. It is in the makeup of the sorts of people who become successful in sales to do this. They will push, cajole and outright lie if they think they can get away with it. Just look at the PPI miss selling. I was in the industry at the time and everyone knew it was a con and you shouldn't miss sell it but at the same time unless you met your quotas of PPI you would be out on your ear. People would take sales calls onto private mobiles so they wouldn't be recorded. My friend works support in a scientific instrument company and the sales guys all the time tell them the customer expects it to do Y because they said it would so it bloody well better do Y by the time it ships.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:The CIO had a meeting with the other directors including sales and marketing, it didn't go as well as I would've hoped. He mentioned he would bring up new hire turnaround times and a few other things. One director level person leaving is just corporate life. Three means one of two things 1. One of them is starting up on their own and bringing trusted people with them 2. The ship is sinking and the first people out get the best severance package. Dust off your CV, make sure you have some savings and if they start asking for volunteers for redundancy with a decent package "to help us lean down" take it an run. I was lucky to be offered a good redundancy package just before the big crash and the bank had to be bailed out by the government. The people who left six months after me got half the redundancy.
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Merica posted:Getting told late Friday that five people start the following Monday and need accounts laptops etc. You need them first thing Monday? Well our SLA is five working days but if it is truley and emergancy we will have to have priority saturday shipping, someone will need to be onsite all day to accept the delivery and then build the machines. Late notice saturday work is double time as its the only way to get somone to work it. So thats going to be around $200 for the shipping plus $300 for the overtime. Please supply me with your cost centre and sign off for the cost centre manager and I can get on this. Or I think I might be able to get them to you sometime around Thursday.
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poo poo not pissing me off - getting a new HP Ultrabook to replace the six year old bargin basement Dell desktop. poo poo pissing me off - Having to click though multiple option screens before i can use Office or other products. They are deploying over a thousand of the lapops so why the hell do I have to spend an hour clicking on stupid options that should be configured on the image.
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ConfusedUs posted:I hate salespeople. Make sure you have all this documented and that your boss and the director has this to hand. The sales guy will try and throw you under the bus for this to protect his bonus and maybe even job and the sales manager/director will have to back the sales guy to protect his own bonus. If the sales guy has more than happy to lie to your customers for money and he is allowed to lie to customers by the sales manager/director then he will not think twice about lying to protect himself and the sales manager/director will back him as it will look bad on him. If the blame game doesn't work for the sales people they will try to make it look like it's both your teams fault so they only have to carry half the blame. This is what politicians call "a pox on both your houses" and is about making you look just as bad as they are. The only way to cut through the crap is for your manager/director to hammer home that it's sales fault time and again when the blame storming starts. I may be wrong but having worked next to sales they are like spoiled 10 year olds.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Yeah I don't know how I'd get my hiring done if the HR department wasn't parsing their resume for me and telling me who I should hire based on their (0) years of experience in IT. - Signed, an American. A good HR dept should be filtering out the rubbish applicants (people who don't actually meet the job pre-reqs) and give the hiring manager the good ones. Then they should give a good framework for conducting the interview and maybe even sit in on it to make sure that the interviewer isn't doing something bad or illegal (and be able to answer non-technical job related questions if needed). I have said before HR is a difficult role that needs a deep understanding of employment law and best practice for running an efficient work place. Good HR are like good project managers. Worth their weight in gold. The problem is the people who often gravitate to it are people who see it as the business equivalent of old fashioned nursing (holding hands and being nice) or its a dumping ground for the people no one else wants.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Lets share our favorite stories of marketing/sales assholes. My favorite: Some douchebag sales guy went out and bought a hooker for a client and expensed, my company gladly reimbursed this business expense until the sales guys wife called up questioning what the charge was on their statement. This then led to a whole series of revelations including the fact that accounting had been covering up this poo poo for a while and hiding it from the federally mandated disclosure forms. The sales guy was not fired, he brings in money. The head of accounting who knew about this and fully supported this was not fired, he is an integral part of the companies leadership. Instead the poor payroll person at the bottom of the totem pole was fired for following her orders on charges that she might have not even know what were for. gently caress marketing/sales. When I worked in a international UK bank the head of the corporate relations for sales of the part i worked in wined and dined his clients at a strip club and put it on the business credit card. When he submitted the expenses claim to justify the expense (non-expensesd lines would get automatically taken out of your pay) the person inputted it recognised the name of the club and told their manager, who told the head of finance of the division, who told the director of the division. She spent over an hour yelling at the sales guy and told him in no uncertain terms that that was not kosha. he was to eat the bill himself and got an official written warning for conduct (that is one more gently caress up and your sacked under UK employment law). So of course he just paid for the dinner instead and the clients paid for the strip club. He later got the "Do you want to resign or be sacked?" for trying to expense a set of golf clubs for all the golf days he had to go on. Don't feel sorry for him as he was a real oval office and used his dead mothers blue badge until it expired. Siochain posted:This x 10000000. gently caress Macs. Yes, they're fine, but gently caress Macs. gently caress the people that BUY Macs and insist they are "better" for nebulous reasons. gently caress the people who bought a $200 walmart special PC and then upgrade to a $3k mac and go "OH BUT THE MAC IS SO MUCH FASTER". Well the gently caress you say? Of course a goddamn loving Corvette (insert random domestic performance car here) is faster then your dads old beat to poo poo Yugo. OSX is easier to use in a home setting than Windows is although Windows 10 is getting very close. For work your job says you need to be able to use a Windows computer so learn to use a loving Windows computer. If part of your job was to use a forklift then you should know how to use a forklift and not just shrug your shoulders and say forklifts are magic and I don't know about them.
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Let me guess, you think the Wolf of Wall Street was sexed up. You do not want to see a Venn diagram of very good sales people and people who meet most of the clinical markers for sociopaths
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I don't know what US tax laws are like but in the UK reimbursing expenses is tax free but a flat rate could be considered a taxable benefit and need to have income tax on it.
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poo poo pissing me off Having to constantly switch out CD's from drives because the specialist software we use checks the CD is in the drive as a form of copy protection. Is there any way to automatically mount ISO's automatically on start up in windows 7 and 10? I know 10 can mount them with a right click but I need it to be more transparent to the users
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Super Slash posted:You could use WinCDEmu to mount the ISO and keep the drive after a restart; http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/tutorials/persist/ I know its from a couple of pages back but this really helped. Who in this day and age uses the physical CD as copy protection. My manager thinks this is witch craft in a good way
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Jerk McJerkface posted:I love the "we have that start up mentality" pitch when you interview. "oh, so you mean that you are constantly on fire and nothing is planned out and we all to die but there's a foosball table?" Great! Its amazing how "we have a start up culture" means "you will work yourself to a heart attack in your 30's" and not "when we IPO you can retire a millionaire when we all cash in".
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poo poo pissing me off 1. Excel "helping" me by auto formatting what it thinks is a date as a date with no loving way to tell it not to. If it was a loving date it would already be in the format dd/mm/yyyy. 2. LOOKUPs only working for small values to large values. If the column is large values to small ones it just won't work. loving price of poo poo programmed by cockwombles.
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Index and match has got me far but I am now looking looking at having to rewrite the data format. I currently need to look for the correct column, look down the column for number then look across that row for the value in the first column. Can this actually be done without vbs?
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dogstile posted:No phones allowed in meeting rooms. She also made the decision not to have some form of Dictaphone in meetings, preferring to go with the bring in another person and just have them try to keep up with the conversation. Did you know it's perfectly legal in England to secretly record any meeting you are present in as long as you don't record periods when you are not in the room. Yes this stood up in court as a company tried to get a recording of a disciplinary meeting thrown out during a wrongful dismissal case.
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Peachfart posted:I'd say a better response would be 'Due to the late notice, this request will take a few days to complete. Please notify us earlier next time.' No no no, passive aggressiveness doesn't work, it shows how your dept is not a team player and is not enabling the money makers to make money. What you need to say first thing Monday is to apologise for the late response but the helpdesk only runs 8-5 Monday to Friday and that you would be glad to support the managers business plan to turn the help desk 24/7 with the increase in headcount and budget. As it stands this will have to be a rush job so the equipment will need to be same day delivery (with the increased cost) and as the working time for Monday and Tuesday is currently fully allocated this will have to be done as overtime and as it will be a couple of hours evening refeshments will also have to be supplied. Please authorise this additional expenditure and supply your cost center so you can get on this asap. Please bear in mind that some day has to be ordered before noon. In future could you give us the 5 days notice as is SLA so this additional expenditure won't need to be incurred. In all seriousness by saying no you look like the bad person to these sociopaths who run things. By giving them the only practical solution you turn the tables on them to say yes or no.
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Super Soaker Party! posted:Hedgefunds in my admittedly limited experience seem to grok the time vs money issue - I have a former coworker who is now at a hedgefund, and they don't gently caress around with bad technology or spending time trying to make lovely solutions work. Desktop/laptop got malware or infected? Instant flatten, gently caress you if you had saved any files on it. Do it again? Written up. Third time? Fired. (When he said that I almost fell over, imagine such an amazing environment). Fully SCCM'd, everything done according to "what's the best solution that will make our workers the most efficient", not "what's the cheapest". Sounds pretty drat great frankly and how a company should be run. Yep, hedge funds live by "time is money". I knew some one who used to do desktop support for a hedge fund in London and they had the same experience. They paid for a 3 hour resolution SLA for desktop tickets. If the problems wasn't fixed in 3 hours there was hell to pay. It meant they had a pile of imaged desktops, mice, keyboards, monitors and cables ready to be switched if the problem couldn't be sorted with just making sure the cables were plugged in OK. Was high pressure though because they didn't care if some fuckwit doused 15 machines in fire extinguisher foam as a joke, you had 3 hours to get the desktops up and running. Weekend upgrade hosed every machine on the floor? They better work by 8am Monday morning and if that means you spend 24 hours straight fixing every desktop then congratulations on the overtime and get to loving work. .
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Sefal posted:Yeah. I wish the 6 figures salary wasn't USA exclusive. But paying staggering amounts for health insurance is though, thankfully
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I'm surprised more schools don't have cctv in classrooms. "Little Johnny wasn't the disruptive pupil" Here is a video of him throwing a chair "The teacher groped me" Here is the video of you never being in the room "A computer has been stolen" Oh look its Teacher X who has a gambling problem
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Thanatosian posted:MailChimp would probably have something to say about that, their deliverability metrics are a big deal, and adding people who don't opt-in hurts them. Also if any of these people are in Europe then the GDPR as well.
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Things that are mystifying me: The network cabling in our new building we will be moving into soon. Three story building with a small footprint, jack points in the two open plan floors with ducting all around the room. The middle floor with offices and the toilets has the cabling go around the outside of the building with plenty of jack points. So far so OK, looks like a normal retrofit for an 80's built office and we won't have to do much infrastructure, just throw in a switch. Odd - all the cables on each floor go out a hole in the wall, even on the ground floor into the same plastic, interior ducting on the side of the building. WTF - None of the cables come back into the building and it isn't external rated CAT5e. I can't check because they are in a courtyard that we can't access yet because the windows have bars on them and no other way into it yet (we will be putting a door in from the ground floor). I suspect this building was used by the business next door as overflow before being left empty then sold off so the cables go into their building. Are they connected still to a network? Haven't plugged in yet to find out. Also it has a phone network with some kind of PBX but gently caress that noise, rip it all out and start from scratch if we need more than the phone in reception.
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klosterdev posted:Are non-American hospitals this bad, or is it 100% the corporatist poisoning of valuing human lives brought on by for-profit-medicine Hospitals in the UK are not that bad but they have their own set of issues. Mostly around lovely management and not enough money/warm bodies to do the work the government wants them to do but staff are not seen as disposable. Oh, and now with added we can't recruit enough nurses because a massive chunk of them might not have the legal right to work in the UK after the 31st of December because the government is being run by toddlers who couldn't organise a pissup in a brewery.
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Thanks Ants posted:I have no letter in the PC and I must print I have no letter but I must print A4
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The lifespan of laboratory equipment can be twenty or thirty years, maybe even longer as the good stuff often gets hand-me-down to less well funded departments/teaching spaces. The software that run this equipment is often a POS and will only work with the machine it was coded for, newer versions of the software that can run on modern computers will often deliberately not work with the older machines.
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sixth and maimed posted:poo poo pissing me off: Teams message from Admin lead at 9 PM this morning "Good morning, we've got an intern starting and she can't access her mail. Yeah, sorry, forgot to tell you." As per SLAs there account will be created within 3-5 working days. If you need it quicker then it will be overtime on our part, what is your cost center so we can charge the OT to your budget? When people have to pay for their oversights it all becomes more efficient (for most).
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Whipstickagostop posted:Got the phonecall on Friday from one of the Directors that they want to start bringing me back to the office. You might want to preemptively talk to ACAS to get some talking points about The Equality Act 2010 the next time it comes up. If they really want to force you to come in then laying the ground work now for your constructive dismissal case will help. Or they may not realize they are being quite so dickish about this.
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Whipstickagostop posted:Finally got a response from the Director. A week later. Sent to me when I had the day off to travel to the next county for a medical appointment as the NHS is so backlogged at the moment I couldn't get seen at my local hospital for 2 months. Yeh, they want you back in the office because they are dicks and don't give a poo poo about your health or the law. If you are part of a union have a chat with them now. If not ACAS or even an employment law solicitor. Your days are probably numbered already, now it is about gathering the evidence to get a nice payout for disability discrimination. You did well with asking what people had to do because you were in the office. It will be worth keeping your own copies of everything as well and keep up with pressing them for details and examples.
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