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Arquinsiel posted:No, it was Stream Global Services at the time, since bought out by Convergys. Arvato had the other half of the contract, and I *think* there might have been another smaller op that we never dealt with but it's happily been a long time. EMEA support. Happily they managed to be so terrible that they voided my NDA when breaching contract, so I can say whatever the gently caress I like about my time there. If they have a problem with it then they can see me in court. Again. It must be nice living in a place where employment law means something other than "Bend over worker, we're going in dry".
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# ¿ May 17, 2018 04:47 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 01:40 |
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Nerdrock posted:A human came in a week ago... Ours arrived at 29 weeks 4 days (the water broke a week earlier and Mrs. Schadenboner was in the hospital) so I know this feel. I hope everything gets better. Kangaroo care is really helpful, it seems like.
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# ¿ Jun 6, 2018 22:41 |
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Thanks Ants posted:It’s always DNS It's not always DNS* but it's never not-DNS, if that makes sense? *: Ron Howard: "It was always DNS"
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# ¿ Jun 9, 2018 12:17 |
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RFC2324 posted:I loved my 12s. I don't really unwind after work, so having so many days clear is p awesome We're all 3.5 12s (3x 12-hour shifts and a sixer but I'm actually 3 12s and a 7 since the weekly meeting starts an hour before my half-day does). And we're hourly. And all of us are scheduled this way. And our new manager is persistently confused about why we're all getting OT.
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# ¿ Jul 11, 2018 22:29 |
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Jaded Burnout posted:I would very much like a job like this
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# ¿ Jul 12, 2018 17:00 |
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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway, friend.
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# ¿ Jul 22, 2018 07:13 |
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ilkhan posted:My whole company just got invited to a rafting day, with the company paying for the rafts. What about the life-jackets though? Is this part of a RIF plan?
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# ¿ Aug 16, 2018 20:07 |
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It seems like the VOIP handset market is more-or-less the buggy whip market c. 1918, but they're still pricing as if it were the dressage riding crop market c. 2018? All's I'm saying is I don't see "VOIP Handset" becoming even an Observer-Status Olympic sport any time soon, metaphorically speaking?
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# ¿ Aug 17, 2018 19:36 |
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The large-retail-chain-headquartered-in-milwaukee (the one that didn’t just go tits-up) makes Mrs. Schadenboner pay a fee for my company offering (awful small/medium-business) insurance but I hadn’t heard of places doing a straight ban. hosed up.
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# ¿ Sep 19, 2018 15:24 |
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2019 03:54 |
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chin up everything sucks posted:Do I need to once again reiterate my horror story of being one of Ubiquiti's 4 tech support about 5 years ago? Also, what’s the deal with the dancing banana with the Ubiquiti sign smilie?
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# ¿ Jan 25, 2019 22:29 |
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Ganon posted:I was just looking at a job posting at a finance company and it mentioned a "trading turret" so I googled it hoping it was some kind of terminal with a gun, now I kind of want one That sure is a ... thing!
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# ¿ Jan 25, 2019 23:38 |
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I don’t even own a printer...
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2019 02:50 |
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I likewise am glad to learn of this. Also: “Queefy”, .
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2019 22:14 |
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SoftNum posted:Capslock was useful when mainframes would throw a shitfit if you used lower case. Kinda like the pause, break and sysreq keys For the longest time I thought SysReq meant "System Required" and was in reference to the "Print" that's also on the key, like "If have a printer (the titular System Required) and you push this button it will print".
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2019 16:00 |
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The Macaroni posted:There's an IT relics thread? I thought this was it?
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2019 18:37 |
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The Macaroni posted:Hate when people do that, and there's no excuse just because you're "letting go" or whatever. My wife had a really choice internship lined up back in college, but there was a holdup pending approval from some particular manager. It was taking a while, and it turned out that it was taking extra time because he was out of the office--with a terminal illness.
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2019 01:33 |
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I might have asked this once but how many amps is a penny? Like, when you use a penny as a fuse it doesn't melt, but there's presumably some amperage which would cause it to melt?
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2019 02:02 |
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Thanks Ants posted:Protip - Office documents are just zip files And a lot of unzip programs don’t respect the password flag on a .docx. At least that used to work?
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2019 02:50 |
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Geemer posted:Well, at least they're not saving plaintext passwords in the file. Anymore!
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2019 17:53 |
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Thanks Ants posted:Guess who found a SQL server with real time scanning of the database files turned on You should reply advising them that the correct way to say this is “this server performs really poorly” then set it “Pending Customer Response”, hth?
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# ¿ Apr 22, 2019 18:50 |
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Digital_Jesus posted:Anything AV related that isn't windows defender is poo poo, and windows defender works fairly well for what it is honestly, especially when you're using it with a more advanced endpoint management suite like sccm. Wish you would protect yourself in the online world (by not being online (so we wouldn’t have to read your posts (which, by not being online, you would be unable to make))).
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2019 21:12 |
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Digital_Jesus posted:Who's slapfighting? Everyone should have AV, just dont bother paying for more than MS already gives you and don't expect it to be a miraculous catch-all that makes you immune to infection? Yeah, third party AV is complete poo poo. I’m legitimately unsure if it’s better/less bad to use third party AV or to “raw dog it” (as the kids say these days), both options being far inferior to using Defender which is real good and which everyone should use. I just like nesting parentheses.
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2019 23:26 |
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my cat is norris posted:A Russian email address sent our service desk address a little test email at 4:48 PM yesterday. The mistake was in accepting mail from Russia, hth?
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2019 01:36 |
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:It's only 10am, and I'm ready for a drink. Who's with me? Your only mistake was to ever stop drinking, hth?
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# ¿ May 1, 2019 19:45 |
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:If I hadn't finished off the beer in the fridge last night, this mistake would never have been made. I mean, everyone makes mistakes. What’s important is that you’re serious about lessons learned and you don’t repeat the error?
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# ¿ May 1, 2019 19:59 |
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Fil5000 posted:"Oh yeah, what's the weather like in NOTTINGHAM then if that's where you are" I mean, bleak and post-industrial?
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# ¿ May 14, 2019 23:18 |
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PremiumSupport posted:Unless you need storage space for some reason, a workstation machine in this day and age should have an SSD rather than a spinning disk. If it’s important enough to need it’s important enough to store. Storage should be on a nas or a san, no loving exceptions and no loving spinners.
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# ¿ May 17, 2019 15:45 |
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I mean no single-spinners on endpoints, obvs. Big spinners on RAIDed and backed-up storage is fine unless you’re af and can spring for all-flash arrays in which case “you do you” (as the kids say these days). But spinners on desktops/laptops in 20-loving-19 are malpractice per se in my book.
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# ¿ May 17, 2019 16:33 |
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[IMG:Drake turning his head and putting up a hand unhappily] [IMG:Drake looking and pointing approvingly]
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# ¿ May 17, 2019 23:59 |
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Schedule a meeting with him, then gank his lappy when he’s away?
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# ¿ May 18, 2019 00:03 |
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Arquinsiel posted:in case the difference is just an exclamation mark or something. RON HOWARD VOICE: It was.
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# ¿ May 21, 2019 14:36 |
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ConfusedUs posted:There's a difference, here. Every organization should be free to choose from multiple products to find the one that best meets the needs of the org. But once they've chosen, allowing users to fragment it makes for lots of friction. What if: Democratic Centralism but software?
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# ¿ May 24, 2019 14:31 |
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stevewm posted:The computer janitor probably hit the reboot button when they where putting the bit-mop back in the closet.
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# ¿ Jul 9, 2019 19:14 |
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Fil5000 posted:This is the same for literally every productivity metric ever and it's infuriating to me that managers almost always just go "faster equals better, kick the slow people in the teeth until they game the system" instead of going "hey why is Steve doing three million widgets an hour when the median is forty, maybe we should look at what he's doing" Except that the median will invariably be (re-)set to Steve. Management by metrics is a disease.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2019 19:14 |
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The Macaroni posted:This was a couple pages back, but just wanted to say that this post made my morning. Happy things happen once in a while. See I read this as the supervisor having chimed in to poo poo on the OP but maybe not?
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# ¿ Jul 29, 2019 15:47 |
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Heners_UK posted:Between this and the thread's attitude to printers, I'm concluding that we have a secret general hatred of paper. What's so secret about it?
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# ¿ Aug 6, 2019 13:42 |
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:And there's a link (rasterized in one of the scanned images) to a Google Doc where half the data ACTUALLY lives. Oh god, don't stop, I'm almost there...
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# ¿ Sep 17, 2019 21:09 |
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This really should include "2,147,483,648" somewhere in the setup though?
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# ¿ Sep 24, 2019 14:42 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 01:40 |
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Renegret posted:gently caress you, you don't get to see that I looked at your e-mail. No way in hell you're going to use that against me when I choose to ignore you. I do this but I also request explicit received and read receipts for all messages. E: And I have a rule to auto-delete the receipts because: gently caress reading through those. Schadenboner fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Oct 1, 2019 |
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