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A company I worked for had a public IP address that listened for data. Which wouldn't be a big deal, but it accepted ANY data, no matter the type or source, and inserted it directly into the critical production database. For non-techies, this would be like running an open pipe from the middle of your living room to an outdoor festival portapotty.
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More tech nerd bullshit: In the mid 2000s, my employer (a global conglomerate) flew all the on-site technicians to their HQ. They showed off their brand new, privately owned, $30M-to-build AS400 datacenter. That same day they told us 1) The whole company was switching to Novell, and 2) Our division was the only one in the company that had on-site techs, but our jobs were safe!!! When I put my notice in a couple months later, the head of IT said "I hope this isn't because of what we told you about the on-site techs!" :eyeroll: I got word my replacement was fired about 5 months later as they got rid of all the on-site techs. Not a tech nerd summary: Imagine your company sold cell phones and being told in 2021 their new direction was selling Blackberry devices.
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Mar 19, 2021 19:44
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Our parent company sold us materials to make our poo poo. Said parent company made us do "Just in Time" manufacturing training - young, stupid me tried to actually use it. I built out a workflow that would reduce our standing inventory by half, as long as our parent company could ship materials to us in four days. When I presented the idea everybody said "lol that will never happen" and I promptly stopped giving a poo poo about any further company initatives.
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Mar 19, 2021 19:53
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One of the places I worked at provided managed services for customers. One of the customers was a country that wanted us to run some software on their "instance" (lol, we had no instances). When asked what it did we were politely told to go gently caress ourselves. Guess what management decided to do?
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Apr 12, 2021 23:43
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zedprime posted:Company values are amazing entertainment. This entertainment is the best reason to work for a Fortune 500. It's fun in medium sized businesses watching them cargo cult something that was inane to start with. One of previous VPs spent the better part of a week crafting a mission statement for an IT department.
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Apr 17, 2021 14:38
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d0s posted:Yeah I'm gonna wait for the rollout to see if I can figure out how to beat it into my workflow because I genuinely enjoy what I do otherwise, but if I find myself spending more of my day with a mouse in my hand instead of tools after a few month "getting used to it" period, it's resume time It’s resume time now. Trust anybody who has been in this scenario before, it will not improve.
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Apr 20, 2021 13:19
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Dixville posted:I just think it's funny that they think people are gonna secretly search for porn or something under their user info. So this was a LONG time ago, but one of my first jobs was at a manufacturing plant. I was only a month into the job, when corporate IT has me grabbing various PCs and hooking them up in a secured area. Long story short, literally everybody in the facility (except for HR and me) was emailing and storing huge amounts of porn on their work computers. They figured it out because somebody emailed a huge zip of porn to so many users at once it crashed the server.
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Apr 26, 2021 16:17
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SkyeAuroline posted:The only thing that's baffled me about this sort of thing is how anyone below upper management has enough privacy to do this and not immediately get caught, if not by managers then at least by a coworker. When I say everybody except HR and me, I wasn't kidding. The shift supervisors, line managers, and site managers included. The HR rep was a woman, and I assume I was just too new to get included in the group.
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Apr 26, 2021 16:39
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One of the companies I worked at had a widget management system. They sold that software to two other companies in the hopes of generating more business for us. The software had not been designed for other businesses but the Sales VP pushed it through. The customization work was massive and they ended up hard forking the code. For non techies this means nothing you did in one system could be ported to the others, so they were basically building three completely separate systems. They had a 100+ person development team working on all the versions. During a “we’re going to turn this company around” meeting they revealed that all the work of supporting two extra versions of our software netted us about 15k a year in profits, and they had signed long term agreements with each company they couldn’t break.
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May 3, 2021 00:30
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One of the companies I was at bought a competitor, and our CEO in spent multiple meetings on how amazing it was that their platform was in the CLOUD, and we needed to become more CLOUD centric, and they used gsuite CLOUD instead of crappy ol' Office products. The purchased company had just dumped their app into AWS with no consideration of costs. After the first AWS bills came in, we were ordered to move the application to on-prem hardware ASAP. After two weeks of top executives being migrated to GSuite, the company dropped it and moved everybody to Office. "The CLOUD" never came up again in presentations. I love how apparently nobody during a vetting process asked basic questions like "what's your OPEX?"
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May 11, 2021 15:27
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Slotducks posted:oh this reminds me- our company requires us to put our email address in our email signature Because some middle management marketing dumbass is worried that your email signature isnt projecting the right image. During our recent rebranding the marketing director wanted use to install some random bullshit on everybody’s computers to make sure their email signature conformed to company standards.
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Jun 1, 2021 21:11
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Elephant Ambush posted:The upside of learning new things is that you make yourself more valuable. If your boss likes that and you're in the right culture that can lead to a promotion. Yeah, assuming it's a skill that's actually something you want. At one of my old jobs they basically forced me to take a product line/system that was hot garbage and required 24/7 support, without providing any sort of documentation or assistance. On top of that it was for a niche service that I would never encounter again in my career. It was part of what got me out the door from that place.
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Jun 14, 2021 17:45
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Armauk posted:And the managers aren't doing anything to triage the attrition? They're bringing in donuts on Friday! What else do you want?!?!?!
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Jun 25, 2021 20:11
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I have almost been terminated for attendance like three times this month despite not missing any work because our HR department is such a shitshow. Any time my schedule changes they completely gently caress up actually entering it in and the automatic tracking software thinks I haven’t gone to any of my shifts despite having 40+ hours a week in. How do you gently caress up this bad this consistently? Your HR might suck rear end but payroll and time software is a loving cesspool to setup and manage.
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Jul 7, 2021 22:46
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Volmarias posted:You are eaten by a
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Jul 12, 2021 16:04
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manpurse posted:It's now 10 weeks since I asked for a ram upgrade on my workstation (I only have 8 gigs). FWIW on the IT side, every ticket I've ever seen requesting more ram or a faster system is because they were doing completely stupid. Like the person who was trying to open 2GB excel files.
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Jul 13, 2021 00:21
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ultrafilter posted:The problem is clearly the management who let the company get into a state where no one can disappear for a week without all hell breaking loose. Yeah, let’s not all get out tongues out for the corporate boot, in this thread of all places. It’s pretty hosed that a vacation has now been turned into something you’re expected to still monitor your job for.
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Jul 26, 2021 02:12
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I was in an IT team that was all in the same US time zone but expected to support things across the globe and on call 24/7. We were getting destroyed and other teams would do poo poo like put in an "EMERGENCY" ticket at 5pm and then leave for the day expecting us to figure out what the problem actually was and fix it with no input from them. Went to our VP and told him how bad things were, and his response was, "So you're all working over 60 hours per week? Because I have to be able to justify more employees". That was my "noping the gently caress out" on that job. They had multiple other people leave shortly after me, and one of the remaining guys leveraged that fact for a 50% pay raise before he bounced 6 months later. Crackbone fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Aug 10, 2021 |
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IME, if a business has been around for more than a few years but is still less than ~25 employees, run screaming. Those are the places where they found a profitable niche but the people running it are so toxic/stupid they can't grow any bigger.
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Aug 19, 2021 22:09
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My current job actually has a good bonus structure that they've kept good on for the whole of their history, but that stuff is a rarity. Also, anyplace that tries to group "bonuses" into your base rate is just lowballing you.
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Our previous CEO managed to poo poo the bed in every way possible. - built out a new office in a crowded metro region - They then forced a bunch of people who worked in the old office to the new one (doubling/tripling their commute) - New office was an open floor plan - They installed a fuckton of cameras ( ~1 per 5 people) with sound recording “for employee safety” Crackbone fucked around with this message at 13:41 on May 31, 2022 |
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Fun quitting story from maybe 5 years back: My Brother in law took a truck driver job, when he got hired on they agreed he would be home for the major holidays. December rolls around, and they tell him he’s delivering a load out of state over Christmas. He immediately dropped their truck off and quit on the spot. Cue the “oh wait we can work this out” from the managers, which he completely ignored. I don’t like my BIL much but you don’t gently caress with his family time.
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ChairmanMauzer posted:CEO Feels Terrible About Laying Off 900 Employees Over Video Chat, Does It Anyway I just read a few articles, that dude is pure unfiltered Captialism. loving psycho: https://www.thedailybeast.com/bettercom-ceo-vishal-garg-threatened-to-burn-his-business-partner-alive-now-hes-a-billionaire "And he kept his eye on even the smallest of details. Office managers were chastised if they filled the mini fridges with water brands other than Fiji or Perrier. Garg also insisted on a stockpile of Gerolsteiner, his sparkling beverage of choice. “Why do we have biscotti here like this??” he once demanded to know.Staff came to expect these kinds of dress-downs. A sample email from Garg, which Forbes obtained: “You are TOO drat SLOW. You are a bunch of DUMB DOLPHINS... SO STOP IT. STOP IT. STOP IT RIGHT NOW. YOU ARE EMBARRASSING ME.”"
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StrangersInTheNight posted:so I got so frustrated with all the stuff at my company I put in my resignation, talked with my manager, we agreed on my last day in early January (just about two weeks from now) to wrap out some things, pass my duties on, etc. I don't have no kids and some money saved so gently caress living life frustrated every day, I gotta move on. Make sure when they call you in a week begging for help you ask for 5x your previous hourly rate
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bee posted:It's me, I'm the dumb poo poo your work does Yes, exactly. Just drop it.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I suspect Outagamie County Circuit Court Judge Mark McGinnis might be a chud rear end in a top hat. He's apparently a giant piece of poo poo: https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2018/12/20/reviewer-recommends-removing-judge-mark-mcginnis-truancy-court/2369276002/ TL;DR: He was booted from truancy court because he was so verbally abusive to the children there.
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A company I was at brought on a new high level director. He flew somebody in for an interview, but A) Didn’t inform anybody on his team about it B] Didn’t show up to the office that day C) Didn’t answer his phone Any guesses on how long that director lasted? Two loving years
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Mar 14, 2022 23:10
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It’s amazing I’ve lived through phones being the only way to communicate to being the only way we won’t.
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Mar 28, 2022 00:54
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I know there are people that loving MAGA'ed, but it's hard for me to conceive they are dumb enough to put all of that in writing.
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Apr 22, 2022 15:49
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Fun times at my job, which is normally pretty chill. Senior developer got caught actively disabling all our security/AV/management software. HUGE loving security violation. CTO finds out and is extremely pissed off, but not at the dev though! Our security director gets told this should not have been reported through official channels (in other words “we wanted to bury this quietly without repercussions”). I don’t have any personal stake or liability but looking at resume polishing.
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Apr 27, 2022 15:21
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Splicer posted:...on their personal machine or companywide? Neither is good but... I don’t want to get into too much detail but suffice it to say it was flagrant and kind of the “last straw” for me in security exceptions (or evasions) the company keeps wanting to make.
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Apr 27, 2022 15:43
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Motronic posted:Because of a mistake that continues being made: thinking it's a good idea to have a single person do both, i.e. DevOps. This is fine and good for your 10 person startup. It's massively stupid to think you can staff several hundred plus people who are actually good at both all the way down to a junior level and keep running your no-longer-a-startup-company that way. DING DING DING We’re past the inflection point where the above realization should have happened, despite repeatedly explaining that.
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Apr 27, 2022 17:29
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Tex Avery posted:American railroads are so god awful right now that, as we speak, the CEOs of four out of the five major railroads that operate in the US are sitting in a hearing with the Surface Transportation Board Nothing will happen, our neoliberal/fascist government will do nothing but wring their hands and yell a little on tv.
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rotinaj posted:I started a new job at the end of last month. When I got here, I found out that the guy who preceded me in this job left suddenly in December. A different lady took over for a month or two, then also left. Two of my new coworkers are leaving within four months, and one of them is the guy who is training me. My new boss started a week before me, and my boss’s boss doesn’t want to be here and is constantly dipping out whenever she can. Get the gently caress out. That’s hell world libertarian nonsense Like literally do as little as humanly possible to avoid getting fired and use all your energy in getting a new job.
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Apr 28, 2022 15:42
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lesserworm posted:I work for a large company and my team is feeling the negative effects of relying on contractors. Most of us were brought on as contractors. During lockdown, the people in charge of renewing contracts ignored time limits and just renewed everyone no matter how long they'd been there. As of last month, they've seemingly started paying attention again. My coworker, who'd been working there for three years had her extension denied. The solution here would be to convert her to full time, which is what our old boss and our new boss want. She's amazing at what she does and had multiple teams relying on her specifically. But converting to full time is apparently a mysterious, arcane process with a million hoops to jump through. Yeah, that's a "do as little as possible and look for another job". You'll get done dirty just like her.
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It's now been almost 6 weeks since one of our senior developers got caught disabling all his laptop's security software. The incident investigation is "still in progress". I wish our VPs would just say "this guy is too important so we're going to ignore this" instead of just hoping our security officer forgets.
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May 29, 2022 22:44
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Wait, I don’t get it. Would there be a legit reason for him to do that, or would it indicate he was trying to take malicious action? Or just that he’s so senior nobody really cares? So as somebody else correctly speculated, the dev in question has full admin rights because nobody wants to challenge them. The person also has near admin level access to our production software, because they won’t build out a proper deployment process. Senior dev disabled all of the security software because “he couldn’t develop” with it on. It wasn’t malicious, but if his account got compromised somehow the damage it could do would be severe. The VP who’s in charge of handling the situation has just memory holed the whole drat thing. Great message to send the devs that there’s no repercussions for doing whatever the gently caress you want in our systems.
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insta posted:I don't know what his situation was, but I ended up disabling anti-virus for awhile while IT sorted out the whitelists because they specifically enabled it on our local build directories. Believe you me, an antivirus does *not* like a hojillion DLLs and EXEs popping into and out of existence in a nested directory structure. He put in tickets asking for all sorts of stuff, and the admins responded saying "we can't just turn everything off, here are some thoughts on solutions we can offer, or we can schedule a meeting to figure this out". He never responded and instead just disabled all his poo poo.
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Mgmt: “We have to get user data growth under control.” Us: “Here’s a report that 50% of the files on our shares haven’t been opened for two years.” Mgmt: “We can’t delete that stuff! What if they need it?” 
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Got a recruiter fishing me for a senior position. Asked about benefits and they listed PTO as “PTO/Sick time 10 days, non-negotiable”. Good luck with that!
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