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Those arrow buttons do exactly what you think they do.
I didn't think they would, but they do.
For a six character two factor authentication code.
One. Digit. At a time.
Sure, I just typed in the code.
But why are those buttons there?
Someone wanted to enforce numeric entry into the field but did so by setting the field type instead of a validation script, and left the default UI settings to add handles to it.
This person from HR is getting very heated and angry with me that I won't violate HR's policies to do what they want me to do.
They want me to give them access to some files. Well there's two people in the district that have rights to grant that access. One is her manager, the other used to be her manager but is in a different department now. So I told her, you gotta talk to them because the policy is that if somebody employed by us has the rights, you have to talk to them. But she keeps pressing me on "what if they won't help me" and isn't liking my answer of "There's nothing I can do if they refuse you. It's not a technical issue at that point, it's a department issue that may need to involve HR."
Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I get that a lot from people since I work under HIPAA
No sir, I cannot confirm nor deny your wife is on the case or has any kind of eligibility.
Yea, I understand you’re holding her insurance card but I still can’t tell you shit without getting an Aithorized Rep form.
Your son…afraid I can’t tell you anything there either. Yes you did call last week and get information but in that time he’s turned 18 and I am no longer able to provide you with any information.
"what if I follow proper process and don't get what I want?"
"non-IT issue"
It's honestly starting to feel like a really heavy-handed security audit or pentest or something.
I'm about two more emails away from "My sister in Satan, badgering me makes me LESS likely to do something I shouldn't do. Just mark me as a pass and move on or something."
One of the questions was "Draw a line along where the tectonic boundary is located:
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David_TA fashion yes-man is no good to me.Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered Userregular
We have a company retreat day coming up and I've been given the clear to get ten minutes to just tell everyone "Hey, remember, official IT policy stance on AI tools is never use internal data" because I'm fairly certain the majority of people who do use AI (which, luckily, is itself a minority) just feed ChatGPT anything and everything.
I've got this fairly large task to do and I just don't feel like doing it at all
I have many small tasks, that, individually, are pretty simple, but collectively, when divided by the hours in the work day, equate to approximately FUCK and THIS.
That said I performed a small act of wizardry and located a 32 year old document in less than a minute despite by knowing JUST the right random location in our completely dysfunctional archive to look.
My coworker was extremely impressed, which will earn me exactly zero extra pay or recognition, but I'm giving myself an atta boy.
Suspect that when this content mill I have my biggest client through inevitably goes under because AI ate up all the shoddy low-standards jobs (and then some), there's a decent chance they just disappear into the void with my last payment. Paid late almost every single pay period this year.
Honestly, this job disappearing sooner than later might be better than this slow roll thing where I can't let go (because I make like $100/hr and would probably be going to minimum wage, because trying to find freelance writing work right now is a nightmare) but live in terror (because I'm not getting enough work to actually cover my share of bills and maybe even if things went back to normal the site just folds one day).
Should just force myself to get a shift or two of whatever I can around here to lock down my bills and treat the writing income as a side hustle until it goes away. But typing that is so much easier than doing it, when I can still delude myself into hoping that things just sort of...work out.
I was tweaking some stuff on a call with my group for a grad class and everyone was stressing because we thought it was a much more involved stage.
then I double checked and not only do we have two weeks for this part, but it’s like 1/4 of what we thought it was and all the tweaks I had done to the plan document was like 90% of it.
Also I had a second round interview for a role where the feedback from round 1 was that “I was the best candidate out of everyone that agency had put forward” and they might also be hiring for multiple positions. As someone with a history with that kind of feedback it of course means they’ll thank me for my time but are going with a candidate that better fits their needs.
But idk. Vaguely positive there. And fuck it my week is over, tomorrow I’m flying to New York to see one of my favorite bands play a limited city reunion show. I can worry about it next week.
Oh, you can't have access to it. We'll send you a copy.
Great, what's wrong with it?
It's not pulling data from X, Y & Z through.
Can I have access to X and Y? Only Z is available to me
No.
Resolution: it will have to wait until I'm in the office (ie: next Tuesday) and can physically use requester's machine to do the necessary, also meaning that they can't use it to do their own work for 90 mins or so. Meanwhile the tool will be broken.
This is an efficient and process-compliant use of company resources to enhance shareholder value and delight our customers.
Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
AHAHAHAHAH. I did it! So it turns out my master plan Excel was broken because somehow the format as table thing decided to format the entire existence of excel all the way until excel actually stops making rows and columns so it was trying to process something like 9.4 million cells. It was even too many to delete even using the super powerful VR computers. Crashed the computers.
This morning I just started from scratch and copied over the formulas and reimported the data and it all runs perfectly and very quick even though it is like 25+ formulas in 400 rows. Made sure not to use the format as table button.
I do admit to enjoying requoting the email I sent as the answer to the email they replied with.
But yes.
It's my goddamned supervisor too, who's consistently spread so thin working on so many projects and calling into so many meetings as to be functionally a ghost or a cryptid or something
Not to defend him, but our team is way too small, especially since the new ERP launched in January
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
I've been more quiet on this than degree attempts in the past*, but this fall I started on a Master of Information Technology. It's an accelerated Masters with two fall semesters, and I just finished Fall A with probably an A (one more final to get graded before I can be sure).
These first courses are pretty easy though, only 1 credit each. Hoping I can keep up the momentum when I take my first 3 credit course in Spring A.
* A big part of the reason I haven't been shouting from the rooftops is because some time ago I started on trying to get enough math to go for a Computer Science or even Computer Engineering degree, and I was probably more loud about that one. I was slowly getting there, but the idea of it being 10 years down the road before I even had a degree, and not even really being able to start on it yet because I only got up to Planar Trigonometry put me off from it. And of course, I'd also have to go for a BA in Computer Science and not a MS, because I was missing too many pre-reqs. I'm way happier to know that 1) the courses I'm taking are directly relevant to my job and 2) at the end of it I'll have an actual Masters. So I'm pretty optimistic right now.
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Also I applied for an internal role as SRE. Really, really hope I can get this one.
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Incredible, there's a global issue with Outlook crashing
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
My workplace it department just got almost that exact message, the tech read it to me, except it said eastern United States instead of Europe
Incredible. I just went back to having to use Outlook after about 7 years off of it, and naturally one of my first days back it's in outage. (and yes, I did get a popup about memory usage about 20 minutes ago)
Keep up the good work, Microsoft, you're still killing it after all these years.
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I do admit to enjoying requoting the email I sent as the answer to the email they replied with.
But yes.
It's my goddamned supervisor too, who's consistently spread so thin working on so many projects and calling into so many meetings as to be functionally a ghost or a cryptid or something
Not to defend him, but our team is way too small, especially since the new ERP launched in January
Yeah fair enough, only do the above when you feel he's earned a sass
Other times, use the bullet point budget: Put the bullet points at the top of the email and the explanations and figures and shit below, and if you need more than 5 bullet points, you're putting too much in an email and it needs to be an actual call and a document or some such. 2-4 is the ideal bullet point number.
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Someone wanted to enforce numeric entry into the field but did so by setting the field type instead of a validation script, and left the default UI settings to add handles to it.
They want me to give them access to some files. Well there's two people in the district that have rights to grant that access. One is her manager, the other used to be her manager but is in a different department now. So I told her, you gotta talk to them because the policy is that if somebody employed by us has the rights, you have to talk to them. But she keeps pressing me on "what if they won't help me" and isn't liking my answer of "There's nothing I can do if they refuse you. It's not a technical issue at that point, it's a department issue that may need to involve HR."
No sir, I cannot confirm nor deny your wife is on the case or has any kind of eligibility.
Yea, I understand you’re holding her insurance card but I still can’t tell you shit without getting an Aithorized Rep form.
Your son…afraid I can’t tell you anything there either. Yes you did call last week and get information but in that time he’s turned 18 and I am no longer able to provide you with any information.
Thank you!
"non-IT issue"
It's honestly starting to feel like a really heavy-handed security audit or pentest or something.
I'm about two more emails away from "My sister in Satan, badgering me makes me LESS likely to do something I shouldn't do. Just mark me as a pass and move on or something."
One of the questions was "Draw a line along where the tectonic boundary is located:
Now to suppress my instinct to rant...
I have many small tasks, that, individually, are pretty simple, but collectively, when divided by the hours in the work day, equate to approximately FUCK and THIS.
My coworker was extremely impressed, which will earn me exactly zero extra pay or recognition, but I'm giving myself an atta boy.
"After those you're going to measure 200 points individually, record them by hand, then draw the contour lines."
God dammit.
Subdividing Flight maps into quadrants in civil air patrol is how I knew I loved geography
Honestly, this job disappearing sooner than later might be better than this slow roll thing where I can't let go (because I make like $100/hr and would probably be going to minimum wage, because trying to find freelance writing work right now is a nightmare) but live in terror (because I'm not getting enough work to actually cover my share of bills and maybe even if things went back to normal the site just folds one day).
Should just force myself to get a shift or two of whatever I can around here to lock down my bills and treat the writing income as a side hustle until it goes away. But typing that is so much easier than doing it, when I can still delude myself into hoping that things just sort of...work out.
then I double checked and not only do we have two weeks for this part, but it’s like 1/4 of what we thought it was and all the tweaks I had done to the plan document was like 90% of it.
Also I had a second round interview for a role where the feedback from round 1 was that “I was the best candidate out of everyone that agency had put forward” and they might also be hiring for multiple positions. As someone with a history with that kind of feedback it of course means they’ll thank me for my time but are going with a candidate that better fits their needs.
But idk. Vaguely positive there. And fuck it my week is over, tomorrow I’m flying to New York to see one of my favorite bands play a limited city reunion show. I can worry about it next week.
Currently waiting for Delicious in Dungeon, Frieren, Vinland Saga, and One Piece to arrive, so that'll be fun to process.
I just want the state to pay me to snorkel in the river
Me:this was poor judgement and you can learn from it, This was a mistake and nearly got your ass fired!
*wimpers*
Me:You are being given a boon, take it and run before our hands are forced by regional powers.
I think we've all been here.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Yeah OK, I'll give it a go. Where is it?
Oh, you can't have access to it. We'll send you a copy.
Great, what's wrong with it?
It's not pulling data from X, Y & Z through.
Can I have access to X and Y? Only Z is available to me
No.
Resolution: it will have to wait until I'm in the office (ie: next Tuesday) and can physically use requester's machine to do the necessary, also meaning that they can't use it to do their own work for 90 mins or so. Meanwhile the tool will be broken.
This is an efficient and process-compliant use of company resources to enhance shareholder value and delight our customers.
I had a similar thing to this every day ever
This morning I just started from scratch and copied over the formulas and reimported the data and it all runs perfectly and very quick even though it is like 25+ formulas in 400 rows. Made sure not to use the format as table button.
Wheeee
Read the previous email you sent them?
I do admit to enjoying requoting the email I sent as the answer to the email they replied with.
But yes.
It's my goddamned supervisor too, who's consistently spread so thin working on so many projects and calling into so many meetings as to be functionally a ghost or a cryptid or something
Not to defend him, but our team is way too small, especially since the new ERP launched in January
These first courses are pretty easy though, only 1 credit each. Hoping I can keep up the momentum when I take my first 3 credit course in Spring A.
* A big part of the reason I haven't been shouting from the rooftops is because some time ago I started on trying to get enough math to go for a Computer Science or even Computer Engineering degree, and I was probably more loud about that one. I was slowly getting there, but the idea of it being 10 years down the road before I even had a degree, and not even really being able to start on it yet because I only got up to Planar Trigonometry put me off from it. And of course, I'd also have to go for a BA in Computer Science and not a MS, because I was missing too many pre-reqs. I'm way happier to know that 1) the courses I'm taking are directly relevant to my job and 2) at the end of it I'll have an actual Masters. So I'm pretty optimistic right now.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
There is? I haven’t seen or heard of it at all today, what is causing it?
It's actually a Microsoft 365 problem
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1g0ejp6/anyone_else_currently_experiencing_strange/
My workplace it department just got almost that exact message, the tech read it to me, except it said eastern United States instead of Europe
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1g0lmp3/outlook_having_a_rough_day/
Incredible. I just went back to having to use Outlook after about 7 years off of it, and naturally one of my first days back it's in outage. (and yes, I did get a popup about memory usage about 20 minutes ago)
Keep up the good work, Microsoft, you're still killing it after all these years.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Yeah fair enough, only do the above when you feel he's earned a sass
Other times, use the bullet point budget: Put the bullet points at the top of the email and the explanations and figures and shit below, and if you need more than 5 bullet points, you're putting too much in an email and it needs to be an actual call and a document or some such. 2-4 is the ideal bullet point number.