Sent my boss a rambling rant via SMS that 'we need to look for a new computer guy'
The inciting event?
I temporarily turned on a passcode requirement on company phones while testing some security settings for the tablet project I'm working on. After he complained he couldn't receive email (because he refused to set a passcode, even temporarily) I removed the passcode requirement and told him it was fixed.
well you're probably safe, they still need a guy to replace the paper in the printers after the yacht pamphlets are issued
but if anything, it probably makes things feel less bad about you trying to leave I'm sure.
Yup, my boss agreed to a phone call w the folks I did the informal interview with last month to give them my current employer's blessing about making me a formal offer.
I'm confident, but still pretty nervous and keyed up about the whole thing. My boss is pretty bummed too.
Of course he's bummed. He has to stay behind and deal with the mess the IS is creating.
Drama at work. They just started a new thing where they want people to sign a form stating they will pay the company back for training costs if they leave the company before 2 years (with some sort of pro - rated deal for leaving earlier than that). I haven't seen the contract, as I am probably not up for training due to not wanting to travel because of baby. But the first person who was approached declined to sign. They already paid for the training course, do they are pressuring somebody else to sign and go. I understand where the company is coming from, but there is no way I'd tie myself financially to this place. They promised a specific raise after 3 months, and failed to deliver. .. They don't pay their bills and are on shaky financial feet. I could see them not giving raises for 2 years and holding the training costs over our heads.
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
It's Annual Review Time, wherein our heroes are regaled with stories from the past year of their triumphs and conquests! Virtues are extolled!
Thanks are given!
Appreciation expressed!
Apologies issued!
...because "man, we really appreciate how far above and beyond you went last year, but our salary adjustments got budget-capped sooooo..."
Man I love vague and confusing requests. We have this project that used to be in Stage 1, and is now in stage 2. I sent stage 2 to one of the managers who insists on taking the lead, even though I feel like he isn't really sure what we're doing.
Manger: "I like it. Please return it to how it was before Stage 1."
Me: "Do you mean return it to Stage 1, or a stage before that?
Manager: "Yes. I liked it more before Stage 2."
Me: "I'm sorry, are you saying that you liked Stage 2, but you want it reverted to before Stage 1, because you liked Stage 1?"
Manager: "By next Wednesday please."
I love this job but deciphering this guy is turning into a full day affair.
It was such a weird thing, too, because A) I've never met this person and I didn't say anything at all that could be even loosely interpreted as prompting such a discussion.
Basically 'Morning!' 'Morning. How's it going?' 'Not too bad. Watching something called 'Loose Change' and let me tell you...'
WATCH THIS SPACE.
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Awesome, so Adobe has moved a bunch of their apps to a cloud-based frippery product. Which is whatever. But the apps themselves phone home to a licensing site, and none of the apps are proxy-aware. Security refuses to grant an exception through the firewall and have told me to ask Adobe to change their software.
Hey, new person! How's it- oh, you're already talking to me about how 9/11 was an inside job because of that 'Loose Change' thing you watched.
Now, it's going to look like I'm walking away and never talking to you again, but-
Sometimes I worry that the folks I work with think I'm boring, or don't do anything interesting.
Because I never talk to my coworkers about anything other than work (and banal things like: "Boy, I sure do think that car looks cool" and "I had a great dinner last night at <place>.").
UnbrokenEvaHIGH ON THE WIREBUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered Userregular
so, I have a ticket that one of our user's email signature hasn't updated yet to show their new assistants' name. We have a program that runs as part of the login script to keep email signatures up to date based on what is set in their profile. So I decide to rule out the obvious potential cause of the problem, and check the hardware audit to see when the computer was rebooted last.
"oh, March 11th. That's not so ba...
wait, it's only the 7th today.
Awesome, so Adobe has moved a bunch of their apps to a cloud-based frippery product. Which is whatever. But the apps themselves phone home to a licensing site, and none of the apps are proxy-aware. Security refuses to grant an exception through the firewall and have told me to ask Adobe to change their software.
Yeah, right.
We started this same discussion at my place a few months ago. I've actually had to put the upgrade off for a couple users because I couldn't get that exception request through. They won't give me a reason beyond "we don't do that." Which is helpful.
so, I have a ticket that one of our user's email signature hasn't updated yet to show their new assistants' name. We have a program that runs as part of the login script to keep email signatures up to date based on what is set in their profile. So I decide to rule out the obvious potential cause of the problem, and check the hardware audit to see when the computer was rebooted last.
"oh, March 11th. That's not so ba...
wait, it's only the 7th today.
oh god."
I'm gonna go have a cry
Hahahaha. This reminds me of something that happened to a friend/co-worker of mine when he still worked desktop support. One of the senior managers (over the system engineering group...) comes in and says he needs a "windows expert". So my friend goes over to his PC and the thing is completely locked up. Just...frozen. No interrupts, no ctrl+alt+delete, nothing. So my friend says "Sorry, nothing I can do" and hard boots it. This senior manager suddenly looks stricken and says "...I was working on an e-mail for over six hours."
"Did you save?"
"No..."
"Sorry. It's gone. When was the last time you rebooted?"
Drama at work. They just started a new thing where they want people to sign a form stating they will pay the company back for training costs if they leave the company before 2 years (with some sort of pro - rated deal for leaving earlier than that). I haven't seen the contract, as I am probably not up for training due to not wanting to travel because of baby. But the first person who was approached declined to sign. They already paid for the training course, do they are pressuring somebody else to sign and go. I understand where the company is coming from, but there is no way I'd tie myself financially to this place. They promised a specific raise after 3 months, and failed to deliver. .. They don't pay their bills and are on shaky financial feet. I could see them not giving raises for 2 years and holding the training costs over our heads.
don't
sign
shit.
First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKERS
Drama at work. They just started a new thing where they want people to sign a form stating they will pay the company back for training costs if they leave the company before 2 years (with some sort of pro - rated deal for leaving earlier than that). I haven't seen the contract, as I am probably not up for training due to not wanting to travel because of baby. But the first person who was approached declined to sign. They already paid for the training course, do they are pressuring somebody else to sign and go. I understand where the company is coming from, but there is no way I'd tie myself financially to this place. They promised a specific raise after 3 months, and failed to deliver. .. They don't pay their bills and are on shaky financial feet. I could see them not giving raises for 2 years and holding the training costs over our heads.
don't
sign
shit.
Yeah, def. They are going to try to get their money back for the training, because no one would. The latest request was that somebody sign up for a credit cards to pay for their own flight and hotel, and the company would reimburse. Hahaha
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
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so, I have a ticket that one of our user's email signature hasn't updated yet to show their new assistants' name. We have a program that runs as part of the login script to keep email signatures up to date based on what is set in their profile. So I decide to rule out the obvious potential cause of the problem, and check the hardware audit to see when the computer was rebooted last.
"oh, March 11th. That's not so ba...
wait, it's only the 7th today.
oh god."
I'm gonna go have a cry
So that means any windows updates that require a restart never got ran? Our System Admin would explode if we went that long without installing updates.
funny story
the hard drive server that receives and pushes out windows updates to computers on the network filled up, and no one noticed for possibly months? when someone did eventually catch on, they cleared as much space as they could, and it immediately filled back up with new updates
so they cleared it again
and it filled up again
I'm not sure where this process stops, but it sure explains why users were calling on Monday morning wondering why they had installed 40+ updates on friday when they were leaving, and another 20-30 when they got back to the office.
UnbrokenEvaHIGH ON THE WIREBUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered Userregular
had a user the other week call to complain that he'd lost a document he'd been working on when we did a scheduled after-hours software upgrade that included two automatic reboots
so I checked his computer for A) autorecovery copies of the documents, B) any sign of a local working copy from our document management system
between checking those files, and the document history records from within the DMS, I was able to determine with absolute certainty that he had checked out the document at noon two days before the upgrade, and in the 2.5-3 days he had it open and was working on it, he clicked "Save" precisely zero times.
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hooked up my tv as a monitor
3 screens for my pc now, bitches
time to rotate one so nobody can see my shit
: (
I do have 2 PC's though, I guess I could use my less beefy one to hook up another 4.
Of course he's bummed. He has to stay behind and deal with the mess the IS is creating.
boy it sure is fun being understaffed
lmao get on my level
Now, it's going to look like I'm walking away and never talking to you again, but-
Virtues are extolled!
Thanks are given!
Appreciation expressed!
Apologies issued!
...because "man, we really appreciate how far above and beyond you went last year, but our salary adjustments got budget-capped sooooo..."
whomp-whomp.
They moved one of the night shift guys to day shift to help with some coverage, and he gets all his news from Alex Jones.
Good ol' Crazy Carl...
Manger: "I like it. Please return it to how it was before Stage 1."
Me: "Do you mean return it to Stage 1, or a stage before that?
Manager: "Yes. I liked it more before Stage 2."
Me: "I'm sorry, are you saying that you liked Stage 2, but you want it reverted to before Stage 1, because you liked Stage 1?"
Manager: "By next Wednesday please."
I love this job but deciphering this guy is turning into a full day affair.
Basically 'Morning!' 'Morning. How's it going?' 'Not too bad. Watching something called 'Loose Change' and let me tell you...'
Satans..... hints.....
Satans..... hints.....
Yeah, right.
Sometimes I worry that the folks I work with think I'm boring, or don't do anything interesting.
Because I never talk to my coworkers about anything other than work (and banal things like: "Boy, I sure do think that car looks cool" and "I had a great dinner last night at <place>.").
Because they are my coworkers.
Not my friends.
I feel like my coworker is Godmode's dog.
"oh, March 11th. That's not so ba...
wait, it's only the 7th today.
oh god."
I'm gonna go have a cry
We started this same discussion at my place a few months ago. I've actually had to put the upgrade off for a couple users because I couldn't get that exception request through. They won't give me a reason beyond "we don't do that." Which is helpful.
Hahahaha. This reminds me of something that happened to a friend/co-worker of mine when he still worked desktop support. One of the senior managers (over the system engineering group...) comes in and says he needs a "windows expert". So my friend goes over to his PC and the thing is completely locked up. Just...frozen. No interrupts, no ctrl+alt+delete, nothing. So my friend says "Sorry, nothing I can do" and hard boots it. This senior manager suddenly looks stricken and says "...I was working on an e-mail for over six hours."
"Did you save?"
"No..."
"Sorry. It's gone. When was the last time you rebooted?"
"Uh...6 months ago. I've gone that long before!"
it just seems like they're asking for commentary along the lines of there not being very much cents involved
don't
sign
shit.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
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So if I met him he would just start yelling at me whenever I stood up?
funny story
the hard drive server that receives and pushes out windows updates to computers on the network filled up, and no one noticed for possibly months? when someone did eventually catch on, they cleared as much space as they could, and it immediately filled back up with new updates
so they cleared it again
and it filled up again
I'm not sure where this process stops, but it sure explains why users were calling on Monday morning wondering why they had installed 40+ updates on friday when they were leaving, and another 20-30 when they got back to the office.
And sniff your butt.
"A report"
So...creepy fanfiction, I'm guessing.
so I checked his computer for A) autorecovery copies of the documents, B) any sign of a local working copy from our document management system
between checking those files, and the document history records from within the DMS, I was able to determine with absolute certainty that he had checked out the document at noon two days before the upgrade, and in the 2.5-3 days he had it open and was working on it, he clicked "Save" precisely zero times.
He had to submit a one page report on how his jeyboarding lessons are prigressing
Edit: this is what I get for phone posting. Laughing too much to want to correct it
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NEW BOSS
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I WANT TO DROP A MIC AND WALK OUT OF THIS PLACE FLIPPING EVERYBODY DOUBLE BIRDS AND THEN FIREBOMB THE BUILDING
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.