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[#] Sun Sep 12 2021 18:24:27 EDT from Nurb432

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At least THIS time if it goes south for me personally, i can early retire if i need to as the 'company' wont go away, just many in our agency.  If i cant do a lateral into another agency, then I go find something back in private sector to supplement income a bit until the house is paid off and to re-gain insurance ( the bigger deal ). Too young for medicaid or SS ( or is that medicare, i can never remember which is which )

In previous collapses like this, i was too young, so i was simply screwed and just had to start over.  I did get out before others did as i saw it coming, but it was the same result, leaving and starting over.

Sun Sep 12 2021 05:18:09 PM EDT from LoanShark

there is a reason why the movie Office Space brought in the management consultants for the opening scenes.

 



[#] Fri Sep 17 2021 09:55:51 EDT from Nurb432

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Against better judgement i ordered a new laptop for myself. i dont NEED one.I didnt really need to be wasting money. But i did anyway.  I have grown sort of fond of this little flip-top chromebook i have. Wasn't sure id like the idea, but its actually kind of neat having both a tablet and a laptop at same time. Not even taken my real tablet out of the house since i got it. Problem is its really low on storage, like 16g for the OS and only 10" ( its also ARM, a selling point, for me anyway :) ).  So the new one is 13" ( i'm getting old.. :( ) and 256g. It is intel in this case.

Shipping from china ( i know.. shoot me ) with an eta of 2.5 weeks.  I'm taking bets with people at the office that it shows up before they find my macbook. Got asked again by purchasing yesterday " have you seen your new computer yet ".



[#] Fri Sep 17 2021 10:15:06 EDT from Nurb432

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"deploying a short cut to our desktops with an ico file is really difficult'  ( we are actually just asking to have an existing one replaced.. one they pushed out several years ago. new logo, new text, same link. )

 

wtf



[#] Mon Sep 20 2021 14:37:20 EDT from Nurb432

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Well, i guess Apple won the race. Got an email that its waiting for me in our dispatch area. WFH today so it will get picked up tomorrow. If i had ordered them at same time. the 'personal' laptop would have beat it by a month at least.



[#] Fri Sep 24 2021 10:10:33 EDT from Nurb432

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"ya we are just going to change several thousand AD accounts, why would we tell any of the other teams"

 

wtf



[#] Fri Sep 24 2021 11:57:05 EDT from Nurb432

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"we posted it on the project charter page, dont you spend 2 hours every day looking at it? " oh and another 2 hours looking at submitted CMRs" 

No, i rely on the PM to do their damned jobs. 

Fri Sep 24 2021 10:10:33 AM EDT from Nurb432

"ya we are just going to change several thousand AD accounts, why would we tell any of the other teams"

 

wtf



 



[#] Fri Sep 24 2021 12:50:49 EDT from LoanShark

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we posted it in the filing cabinet of the 3rd sub-basement of the regional planning office on alpha centauri

[#] Fri Sep 24 2021 13:06:09 EDT from Nurb432

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“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”



[#] Fri Sep 24 2021 13:07:17 EDT from Nurb432

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Every so often i see signs posted " meeting cancelled " on the door to a hearing room ( public stuff )  but its never posted anywhere else. People all the time come in, "dammit, why dont they tell people"

Fri Sep 24 2021 12:50:49 PM EDT from LoanShark

we posted it in the filing cabinet of the 3rd sub-basement of the regional planning office on alpha centauri

 



[#] Fri Sep 24 2021 14:08:48 EDT from Nurb432

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“There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now. … What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.”

Fri Sep 24 2021 12:50:49 PM EDT from LoanShark

we posted it in the filing cabinet of the 3rd sub-basement of the regional planning office on alpha centauri

 



[#] Tue Sep 28 2021 16:08:43 EDT from ParanoidDelusions

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This used to happen at Intel quite often. 

As if they didn't understand we all had e-mail, pagers, and push-to-talk Motorola phones that had a group broadcast mode. 

 

 

Fri Sep 24 2021 13:07:17 EDT from Nurb432

Every so often i see signs posted " meeting cancelled " on the door to a hearing room ( public stuff )  but its never posted anywhere else. People all the time come in, "dammit, why dont they tell people"

Fri Sep 24 2021 12:50:49 PM EDT from LoanShark

we posted it in the filing cabinet of the 3rd sub-basement of the regional planning office on alpha centauri

 



 



[#] Sat Oct 23 2021 09:35:31 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Heh. My work laptop, which they sent me in July because I needed a re-image and they decided to just replace the machine instead of letting me re-image it, had been sitting in my office plugged into the dock with the lid closed from the day I got it until this past week. On a whim I decided to take it out on the deck (balcony/veranda for you non-US folks) and work outside because it was so nice out. I went to wipe a smudge off the screen and accidentally discovered ... it has a touch screen!

[#] Sat Oct 23 2021 09:43:08 EDT from Nurb432

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lol



[#] Mon Oct 25 2021 06:44:26 EDT from darknetuser

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Update on the crisis that had the boss start throwing stapplers and yelling at people when untested systems were put into production.

Apparently the customer was happy with the service despite the fact I had to force the whole thing to work in degraded mode. So happy he is buying a bunch of kilobucks worth of materials and services from the boss, which has caused the boss to be so happy as to hand me a juicy bunch of extra cash for fixing the crisis.

So not that bad an outcome I guess.

[#] Mon Oct 25 2021 08:32:53 EDT from Nurb432

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Earned money is always good.



[#] Tue Oct 26 2021 16:55:37 EDT from Nurb432

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arrrgh. idiots. 



[#] Fri Oct 29 2021 09:25:55 EDT from Nurb432

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  • "Please send me a copy of the email you sent to the system so i can verify its content"
  • "ok, here is what i got" 
  • "um, no that is what was sent to you i need what you sent back out"
  • "oh, that must be in my sent items then"

 

Really? This is a "senior" IT person.  Id give a non-tech end-user slack, but even then, this is pretty fundamental stuff in 2021...

 

Hes a nice guy, but geesh. 



[#] Sat Oct 30 2021 11:48:23 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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boss, which has caused the boss to be so happy as to hand me a juicy
bunch of extra cash for fixing the crisis.

Heh. Nice way to make some money if you can handle the abuse.

And that's really the thing, isn't it. If you make enough money you can take a lot more of the crap.

[#] Sat Oct 30 2021 17:30:47 EDT from ParanoidDelusions

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Used to work with a black guy at MCI and then Legoto/MCI in support. 

He used to get treated like shit sometimes, and I'd ask him how he put up with it... 

He said, "I take the money and smile." 

 

Sat Oct 30 2021 11:48:23 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
boss, which has caused the boss to be so happy as to hand me a juicy
bunch of extra cash for fixing the crisis.

Heh. Nice way to make some money if you can handle the abuse.

And that's really the thing, isn't it. If you make enough money you can take a lot more of the crap.

 



[#] Mon Nov 01 2021 10:52:29 EDT from Nurb432

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Could fit in hardware too, but its our office's fault so here it is instead:

 

New macbook. Will run all freaking day on OSX or Linux, even in a VM.  Add a windows VM to the mix and battery lasts about 4 hours. CPU pegged the entire time due to the windows VM, due to security scans and crap. 

I sort of wondered how long it would run, forgot to plug the power into the usb hub this morning. So around 10 am i found out :) 



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