So we get that sorted out and he says he'll call back. Which he does. Our online order guy tells him that the only way we can sell him a guide is if he orders through our online store. He informs us that he "doesn't know how to use a computer".
The worst people are those who say that proudly, as if knowing about computers meant you were enslaved to technology or whatever. Yeah, yeah, you're now useless in our modern world, don't boast it.
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I'm one of the guys managing the checkout... and yes, human beings are horrible people.
Also, the evening manager caught a thief tonight. They were going through the self-checkout, without actually buying most of the order. I mean, the self-scan said their total was $45. When they were kicked out, and we ran the order through a register, it was $185. You do not make $140 worth of fucking errors without being a complete thief.
This asshole called back later, too, saying she was threatened by my manager, that she refused to get another manager to speak to (uh, she was the highest ranking person in the store, bitch!). Also, she is (I always love this one) filing a police report for assault. The assault was when the evening manager told her "for your sake, please don't shop here ever again." It was not a "I will kill you and rape your dog if you ever return!" It was a "I know you're stealing, you know you're stealing, and you just don't want to come back here again."
I used to work at a hardware store. I did everything there - paint department, sports, rental, register, the floor, lumber yard, etc. And I did everything well, but that didn't stop the store manager from being a complete asshole to me and everyone else. He went out of his way to constantly catch us not doing our job as perfectly as he wanted us to.
He'd place skittles all around the corners of the store, and if we didn't find and clean up every single one of them, he'd give us a warning. He'd place empty boxes around the store, too, in the same test. There were a lot of bags filled with various content for landscaping and gardening outside, big heavy bags, and if they were perfectly stacked, there would be another warning or nice long lecture about our incompetence. It was the same for the individual sodas in the back room. If you got three warnings, you were fired. And even if he didn't give you a warning, as I wrote above, he'd question your intelligence, even for the smallest mistake or stupid thing. It's no wonder so many people quit.
I also hated not being able to sit when everything was done or cleaned and there were no customers. Why can't we just relax at the counter if there's absolutely nothing to do? The job I got after that let me do anything. The manager and boss didn't care if I sat playing a PSP/DS, watch a movie on my laptop, or even read. The boss was a slob and an ass, and if he was being a jerk, we yelled back at him with no repercussions. That was fun. It's always a pleasure being able to say, "What the fuck is wrong with you?" to your boss.
I have fond memories of working at a small amusement park we had in my town when I was in high school. It had a small arcade, bumper carts, mini-golf, and go-karts, and that was it. The owner wasn't around that often, and if it was a slow day, we'd just ride around the go-karts. Unfortunately, the manager was this unpopular kid in our class. He got on a power trip and was unbearable.
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Ug. I do unoffical tech stuff at work. It's not much, but if something is misbehaving, I spent about 10 minutes trying to fix it before A: Fixing it or B: calling tech support. The real tech support is outsources (small non-profit, we don't really need an in house IT). SO they charge 120/hour...meaning paying me an extra 100/month to fix maybe 3-5 problems before we call them makes really good sense.
But jesus H. Christ. The people I'm with know excel better than I ever will. Our records lady's been using it since before I was able to type...but apart from excel and servicepoint they know zero about PCs. It baffles me. I had to show one of them how to determine where a file would be saved....oh well, I like being able to say I work tech support And they do listen to me on equipment purchases so big ++ to them on that. I was able to convince them to replace the terrible POS's we had when I got there (256 ram, 1ghz celerons). Got some low end dual cores with 1 gig RAM...much nicer.
Problem arises though---as I'm the tech guy I must also be good with numbers right? PC's and math go together right (and they do)...but I suck at numbers. Still, I'm in charge of a lot of paperowrk now too I just realized that some pretty major papers used to get grant funding have been misdone for at least the last year...and trying to fix them. I'm done for the week, but I've been recounting and totaling stuff for 9 hours/day for 5 days...all because te computer guy must know math right? I'm half buzzed now to make the numbers stop flying behind my eyes.
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A few weeks ago, I basically caught someone in the act of trying to use a faked traveller's check (they were trying to buy hundreds of dollars of gift cards with a $500 traveller's check... and also, they had more of them sitting in their wallet.) It was signed with a real name and they even gave me their ID to verify ... I had to give a statement to the police, and apparently the name was good and they just went straight to her house (she bolted from the store when I picked up the phone while looking at her check. I was never trained in how to handle this sort of thing.)
After that stupid incident, now there's a $2500 reward for anyone who leads to the arrest of people using faked coupons or checks.
The first time we took his call, we didn't even know what he was trying to ask us. He just kept mumbling about if we had guides in our office or something. Once we finally got him to explain what he wanted, we told him that the guy who handles sales through our store was out sick.
We he mumbling or was he talking like the KFC Guy (not the actual clip, but the voices from it) from Family Guy? Because I've had the unfortunate pleasure of dealing with those who actually speak like that and it's not fun. They get all huffy and act like you're an idiot because you don't understand their terrible bastardization of the English language. I've dealt with deaf people who can enunciate more clearly.
The first time we took his call, we didn't even know what he was trying to ask us. He just kept mumbling about if we had guides in our office or something. Once we finally got him to explain what he wanted, we told him that the guy who handles sales through our store was out sick.
We he mumbling or was he talking like the KFC Guy (not the actual clip, but the voices from it) from Family Guy? Because I've had the unfortunate pleasure of dealing with those who actually speak like that and it's not fun. They get all huffy and act like you're an idiot because you don't understand their terrible bastardization of the English language. I've dealt with deaf people who can enunciate more clearly.
Given how the rest of the conversations went, I have to assume it was more like the KFC guy. Not fun times. Well...sorta fun.
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A few weeks ago, I basically caught someone in the act of trying to use a faked traveller's check (they were trying to buy hundreds of dollars of gift cards with a $500 traveller's check... and also, they had more of them sitting in their wallet.) It was signed with a real name and they even gave me their ID to verify ... I had to give a statement to the police, and apparently the name was good and they just went straight to her house (she bolted from the store when I picked up the phone while looking at her check. I was never trained in how to handle this sort of thing.)
After that stupid incident, now there's a $2500 reward for anyone who leads to the arrest of people using faked coupons or checks.
$500 traveler's checks are almost always fake. Always call a manager over if someone gives you one... it's guaranteed to be fake, especially if they're buying gift cards with it. Good call on your part.
There's also a $950 Moneygram money order floating around out there. I mean... if you are in the business of using Moneygram, why the fuck would you ever take one in that amount when you know they don't go over $500?
I had a lady come in to our store around 3 pm the day the PS3 launched wanting a console. She was shocked, absolutely shocked that we didn't have anymore.
So I'm a "part-time PC specialist" for the local ISD here. It's basically the best college job ever: infinitely flexible hours, $10 an hour (and regular raises) and a TON of free time.
On an average day all I really do is drive to whatever schools I've been assigned tickets for and replace dead hard drives, motherboards, whatever. Very rarely does something complex happen.
Anyway, the network traffic from the Technology Center spiked WAY up one day and their internet access slowed to a crawl. Since we block any streaming video and social sites (youtube, facebook, anything even remotely bandwidth raping, or with potentially "harmful or offensive" content) we had no idea what it was. Some phone calls are made and it seems that one teacher there is downloading a LOT of videos from a site that isn't blocked (yet). The principle there goes to question the teacher, who lies and says there are no videos.
I get called into my boss's office and told to go check out this teacher's computer NOW and see what the hell he's doing. I drive over, walk right into the room without saying a word and start looking at files (I have a name badge, so he knows who I am, but is reluctant to talk to me). I find his videos in a few seconds and he walks over to explain that "Oh, THOSE! I was downloading those for my STUDENTS. It's totally class related. for srsly."
Guess what he was downloading (and what was added to the blocked site list)? http://www.hiddenfrontier.com/
That's right, Star Trek fan episodes AT WORK. And on top of that, he was a dirty liar to his immediate boss. He must have been downloading a couple dozen videos all at once from there and other Trek sites, it's the only way he could have clogged our decent sized tubes.
Earned me a free shot at the Christmas party from my boss. 8-)
I don't really have a full time job right now, but I've been doing some IT contract stuff for companies run by friends of the family.
They said they needed me to trace some cables and check the settings on all the NICs in a data center for one of their clients. So, I agreed and went in Tuesday morning. Walking into the data center, everything looks good and I'm thinking I can get this done fairly quickly. Then, I walk around to the back of their server racks and am greeted by this:
Also, keep in mind that the above picture is only half of the cables they're using. I spent four solid days just trying to make sense of that and the mess that was every patch panel in every rack they had.
A little detail on the picture. Often, if they needed to connect two things 10 feet away, they would grab whatever cable they had laying around. If it happened to be 25 feet long they'd just stuff it wherever they could, or, if they had two 6 foot cables, they would use an in-line female/female connector thing. The only thing they did correctly was run all their fiber through conduits; however, they failed to label each conduit on both ends so without climbing on top of their racks it's impossible to tell which is which.
Maybe I'm just spoiled from having worked at places where we cut everything to length and religiously document where things go.
The Black HunterThe key is a minimum of compromise, and a simple,unimpeachable reason to existRegistered Userregular
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Why do people always assume we have more out back?
Out back is not a gigantic warehouse with thousands of boxes of goods, also, if the item really is at a great special price, enough for you to come out here at 5pm to get some, maybe, just maybe, other people might think the same thing.
On my first day the store manager and a visiting store manager were collaborating trying to save a file from a CD into the back room computer's My Documents folder.
Seriously, between the two MANAGERS neither of them knew how to do it.
I did not stay there longer then 4 hours before quitting.
Erachimon: That looks like our servers. I'm afraid of having to replace those because I'll have to wire them if/when that happens...and dealing with that godawful tangle is scary. The worse part is there are 12 agencies in our building, and everyone's servers are in the same room--and they're all in at least that bad of shape, so I can count on killing everyone's networks atl east once or twice.
I don't really have a full time job right now, but I've been doing some IT contract stuff for companies run by friends of the family.
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Maybe I'm just spoiled from having worked at places where we cut everything to length and religiously document where things go.
You have no idea how lucky you are if people actually do their jobs right. My boss and I originally inherited the network we're working on, and the Network Admin before us did the EXACT same thing. We didn't even have a wiremap originally. We eventually cleaned it all up when we replaced the cables, but it was a mess and a half.
So I work for a big booze-producing company. They're called Diageo. Produce damn near every fucking thing you can think of. Guinness, Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Captain Morgan...
Anyway. I work in "Consumer Care" (i.e. call center). Consumer calls in on the Goldschlager line.
Goldschlager is a cinnamon schnapps drink with flakes of real 23k gold in it. In total, there's about $2-3 worth. Completely non-toxic, complete gimmick.
"Yeah, I read somewhere on the internet that the gold in Goldschlager cuts your throat."
"I can assure you that's not true."
"No, it's not a bad thing I hear it cuts your throat and then since the alcohol goes straight in your bloodstream you get drunk faster."
"...no. That doesn't happen."
"Then I'm gonna sue!"
"...the Internet?"
"Yeah!"
"The whole Internet?"
"Damn right! Fuckin' liars!"
"...well, good luck with that."
"Gonna sue you too!"
"Why?"
"Because it doesn't get me drunk faster!"
That was a happy ten-minute phone call. Of course, complaining about drunken fuckwits is like being a reviewer complaining about having to review bad things.
Isn't gold a heavy metal? How could this not be bad for you?
I don't really have a full time job right now, but I've been doing some IT contract stuff for companies run by friends of the family.
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Maybe I'm just spoiled from having worked at places where we cut everything to length and religiously document where things go.
You have no idea how lucky you are if people actually do their jobs right. My boss and I originally inherited the network we're working on, and the Network Admin before us did the EXACT same thing. We didn't even have a wiremap originally. We eventually cleaned it all up when we replaced the cables, but it was a mess and a half.
I took one look at that photo and screamed a little inside.
Yeah seriously, they NEED to document that crap, that's nothing to be 'spoiled' about, it's their freaking job.
Whenever we had to put together stuff like this (fortunately, I don't think I ever had to re-wire someone else's handiwork), everything had its wiring plan, and all cables had the notation at both ends. It's far too easy to remove a cable and then forget where it was supposed to go.
I don't really have a full time job right now, but I've been doing some IT contract stuff for companies run by friends of the family.
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Maybe I'm just spoiled from having worked at places where we cut everything to length and religiously document where things go.
You have no idea how lucky you are if people actually do their jobs right. My boss and I originally inherited the network we're working on, and the Network Admin before us did the EXACT same thing. We didn't even have a wiremap originally. We eventually cleaned it all up when we replaced the cables, but it was a mess and a half.
I took one look at that photo and screamed a little inside.
Yeah seriously, they NEED to document that crap, that's nothing to be 'spoiled' about, it's their freaking job.
Whenever we had to put together stuff like this (fortunately, I don't think I ever had to re-wire someone else's handiwork), everything had its wiring plan, and all cables had the notation at both ends. It's far too easy to remove a cable and then forget where it was supposed to go.
NOTHING is as bad as it was at my college. The IDFs and MDFs are so horribly done that it looks like a shotgun went off loaded with RJ-45s. There is literally a net of wire between the door and the routers and switches. That's what you get for having underpaid students do your wiring.
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One thing I don't get is the people who cripple their computers with viruses and spyware. I like pron, and every now and then I'll acquire an illicit app for one reason or another, but to my knowledge, it's been a good six or seven years since I last picked up a piece of malware. At least, I'm pretty sure my system is clean.
One thing I don't get is the people who cripple their computers with viruses and spyware. I like pron, and every now and then I'll acquire an illicit app for one reason or another, but to my knowledge, it's been a good six or seven years since I last picked up a piece of malware. At least, I'm pretty sure my system is clean.
Relatively sure.
Possibly sure.
Fuck.
Most computers aren't 100% clean. They've got a tiny spyware hidden in there, or some malware, but most people (myself included) won't even notice it because it has virtually no effect on the machine's performance at all. However, the PCs we get at work are horrible. There are hundreds, often thousands of viruses and pieces of malware hindering its performance, to the point that it's unbearable.
I don't even try for 100% clean--but I do run a check ever Saturday (full virus scan, Ad-Aware, Spybot) and keep Windows and Firefox up to date. It helps a lot. Last time I cleaned my parent's machine it had--I shit you not--something like 30 different virii (viruses?). Spybot recognized and killed about 600 different pieces of malware, with Ad-Aware catching another few hundred. I had a "talk" with my younger brother about his surfing habits.
I had a lady come in to our store around 3 pm the day the PS3 launched wanting a console. She was shocked, absolutely shocked that we didn't have anymore.
That's funny. Did you direct her to the hundreds of stores that were still fully stocked?
zing!
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edited February 2008
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Frank Sinatra Night. Sinatra is one to be taken in moderation. For example, if you are a Yankees fan, and your team has just won, when they play Sinatra singing 'New York, New York', that is an acceptable amount of Sinatra. A captive audience forced to listen to him all night? RAGE.
In other news, Nintendo has finally resorted to sending us a sign for Wiis that specifically says "This product is currently out of stock."
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Frank Sinatra Night. Sinatra is one to be taken in moderation. For example, if you are a Yankees fan, and your team has just won, when they play Sinatra singing 'New York, New York', that is an acceptable amount of Sinatra. A captive audience forced to listen to him all night? RAGE.
In other news, Nintendo has finally resorted to sending us a sign for Wiis that specifically says "This product is currently out of stock."
Are MP3 players allowable?
I'm surprised no one has murdered this man yet. I think a jury would actually find it justifiable.
Seriously, wherefore art tho Wiis? WTF!?!?! It's after Christmas. Hell it's nearly Valentines Day for chrissakes. Grrr! I know they're making 1.8/month but for some reason, my friends in Japan, Brazil and India can find them pretty much all over--the guy I know working in Japan off a Fulbright grant just emailed me a photo he took on his phone of a fat stack of the things. Readjust your allocations damnit!
I just got a call, in response to my resume being on craigslist, and the caller said he was calling about an "interview opportunity" didn't mention what the job was, or the business name at all.
Seems kinda shady, should I even bother returning the call?
May as well return the call and find out what's going on. Sometimes places are just hesitant to give all their details to a voicemail. Worst that happens is you find out what it is and say no.
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Guess what he was downloading (and what was added to the blocked site list)? http://www.hiddenfrontier.com/
That's right, Star Trek fan episodes AT WORK. And on top of that, he was a dirty liar to his immediate boss. He must have been downloading a couple dozen videos all at once from there and other Trek sites, it's the only way he could have clogged our decent sized tubes.
Being that this was about a teacher, and the boss's statement of "get down there NOW," I was expecting kiddy-porn.
I just got a call, in response to my resume being on craigslist, and the caller said he was calling about an "interview opportunity" didn't mention what the job was, or the business name at all.
Seems kinda shady, should I even bother returning the call?
What Houk said. It could be legitimate, it could be door-to-door kitchen knives/vacuums.
They wanted me to manage "a regional sales team" and "recieve a percentage based income" selling cellphones and video phones that are "endorsed by Donal Trump"!
They wanted me to manage "a regional sales team" and "recieve a percentage based income" selling cellphones and video phones that are "endorsed by Donal Trump"!
Endorsed by Donal Trump, and you didn't accept the offer?!
Guess what he was downloading (and what was added to the blocked site list)? http://www.hiddenfrontier.com/
That's right, Star Trek fan episodes AT WORK. And on top of that, he was a dirty liar to his immediate boss. He must have been downloading a couple dozen videos all at once from there and other Trek sites, it's the only way he could have clogged our decent sized tubes.
Being that this was about a teacher, and the boss's statement of "get down there NOW," I was expecting kiddy-porn.
Oh we've had that too. It was one of our IT guys several years ago (before I started). He was suddenly called back to the office one afternoon and met by the friendly neighborhood FBI. I believe he recently got out of prison.
They wanted me to manage "a regional sales team" and "recieve a percentage based income" selling cellphones and video phones that are "endorsed by Donal Trump"!
Endorsed by Donal Trump, and you didn't accept the offer?!
Well as they mentioned about 6 times in 2 minutes, they're very proud too have Donal Trump on their team, and, well, I know him, he couldn't pass up an opportunity like this one.
I'll wrangle up a digital camera on Monday and post our wiring nightmare that made the fire code inspecter say and I quote "I'll just pretend I did not see that " and back slowly out of the room.
Pic should be on on Tuesday.
Edit: it should also be said that I work in Radio, and our cables are very different from Cat5 cables. Although we do have a few of those mixed all willy-nilly in the tangle.
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The worst people are those who say that proudly, as if knowing about computers meant you were enslaved to technology or whatever. Yeah, yeah, you're now useless in our modern world, don't boast it.
I'm one of the guys managing the checkout... and yes, human beings are horrible people.
Also, the evening manager caught a thief tonight. They were going through the self-checkout, without actually buying most of the order. I mean, the self-scan said their total was $45. When they were kicked out, and we ran the order through a register, it was $185. You do not make $140 worth of fucking errors without being a complete thief.
This asshole called back later, too, saying she was threatened by my manager, that she refused to get another manager to speak to (uh, she was the highest ranking person in the store, bitch!). Also, she is (I always love this one) filing a police report for assault. The assault was when the evening manager told her "for your sake, please don't shop here ever again." It was not a "I will kill you and rape your dog if you ever return!" It was a "I know you're stealing, you know you're stealing, and you just don't want to come back here again."
So, yea, she's a bitch.
I used to work at a hardware store. I did everything there - paint department, sports, rental, register, the floor, lumber yard, etc. And I did everything well, but that didn't stop the store manager from being a complete asshole to me and everyone else. He went out of his way to constantly catch us not doing our job as perfectly as he wanted us to.
He'd place skittles all around the corners of the store, and if we didn't find and clean up every single one of them, he'd give us a warning. He'd place empty boxes around the store, too, in the same test. There were a lot of bags filled with various content for landscaping and gardening outside, big heavy bags, and if they were perfectly stacked, there would be another warning or nice long lecture about our incompetence. It was the same for the individual sodas in the back room. If you got three warnings, you were fired. And even if he didn't give you a warning, as I wrote above, he'd question your intelligence, even for the smallest mistake or stupid thing. It's no wonder so many people quit.
I also hated not being able to sit when everything was done or cleaned and there were no customers. Why can't we just relax at the counter if there's absolutely nothing to do? The job I got after that let me do anything. The manager and boss didn't care if I sat playing a PSP/DS, watch a movie on my laptop, or even read. The boss was a slob and an ass, and if he was being a jerk, we yelled back at him with no repercussions. That was fun.
I have fond memories of working at a small amusement park we had in my town when I was in high school. It had a small arcade, bumper carts, mini-golf, and go-karts, and that was it. The owner wasn't around that often, and if it was a slow day, we'd just ride around the go-karts. Unfortunately, the manager was this unpopular kid in our class. He got on a power trip and was unbearable.
But jesus H. Christ. The people I'm with know excel better than I ever will. Our records lady's been using it since before I was able to type...but apart from excel and servicepoint they know zero about PCs. It baffles me. I had to show one of them how to determine where a file would be saved....oh well, I like being able to say I work tech support
Problem arises though---as I'm the tech guy I must also be good with numbers right? PC's and math go together right (and they do)...but I suck at numbers. Still, I'm in charge of a lot of paperowrk now too
A few weeks ago, I basically caught someone in the act of trying to use a faked traveller's check (they were trying to buy hundreds of dollars of gift cards with a $500 traveller's check... and also, they had more of them sitting in their wallet.) It was signed with a real name and they even gave me their ID to verify ... I had to give a statement to the police, and apparently the name was good and they just went straight to her house (she bolted from the store when I picked up the phone while looking at her check. I was never trained in how to handle this sort of thing.)
After that stupid incident, now there's a $2500 reward for anyone who leads to the arrest of people using faked coupons or checks.
We he mumbling or was he talking like the KFC Guy (not the actual clip, but the voices from it) from Family Guy? Because I've had the unfortunate pleasure of dealing with those who actually speak like that and it's not fun. They get all huffy and act like you're an idiot because you don't understand their terrible bastardization of the English language. I've dealt with deaf people who can enunciate more clearly.
$500 traveler's checks are almost always fake. Always call a manager over if someone gives you one... it's guaranteed to be fake, especially if they're buying gift cards with it. Good call on your part.
There's also a $950 Moneygram money order floating around out there. I mean... if you are in the business of using Moneygram, why the fuck would you ever take one in that amount when you know they don't go over $500?
Fix'd. No such thing as a $500 dollar traveler's check.
I've got a Holiday warning from American Express that says you're wrong. $500(and $1000) are very rarely issued, but they do exist.
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On an average day all I really do is drive to whatever schools I've been assigned tickets for and replace dead hard drives, motherboards, whatever. Very rarely does something complex happen.
Anyway, the network traffic from the Technology Center spiked WAY up one day and their internet access slowed to a crawl. Since we block any streaming video and social sites (youtube, facebook, anything even remotely bandwidth raping, or with potentially "harmful or offensive" content) we had no idea what it was. Some phone calls are made and it seems that one teacher there is downloading a LOT of videos from a site that isn't blocked (yet). The principle there goes to question the teacher, who lies and says there are no videos.
I get called into my boss's office and told to go check out this teacher's computer NOW and see what the hell he's doing. I drive over, walk right into the room without saying a word and start looking at files (I have a name badge, so he knows who I am, but is reluctant to talk to me). I find his videos in a few seconds and he walks over to explain that "Oh, THOSE! I was downloading those for my STUDENTS. It's totally class related. for srsly."
Guess what he was downloading (and what was added to the blocked site list)?
http://www.hiddenfrontier.com/
That's right, Star Trek fan episodes AT WORK. And on top of that, he was a dirty liar to his immediate boss. He must have been downloading a couple dozen videos all at once from there and other Trek sites, it's the only way he could have clogged our decent sized tubes.
Earned me a free shot at the Christmas party from my boss. 8-)
They said they needed me to trace some cables and check the settings on all the NICs in a data center for one of their clients. So, I agreed and went in Tuesday morning. Walking into the data center, everything looks good and I'm thinking I can get this done fairly quickly. Then, I walk around to the back of their server racks and am greeted by this:
Also, keep in mind that the above picture is only half of the cables they're using. I spent four solid days just trying to make sense of that and the mess that was every patch panel in every rack they had.
A little detail on the picture. Often, if they needed to connect two things 10 feet away, they would grab whatever cable they had laying around. If it happened to be 25 feet long they'd just stuff it wherever they could, or, if they had two 6 foot cables, they would use an in-line female/female connector thing. The only thing they did correctly was run all their fiber through conduits; however, they failed to label each conduit on both ends so without climbing on top of their racks it's impossible to tell which is which.
Maybe I'm just spoiled from having worked at places where we cut everything to length and religiously document where things go.
Out back is not a gigantic warehouse with thousands of boxes of goods, also, if the item really is at a great special price, enough for you to come out here at 5pm to get some, maybe, just maybe, other people might think the same thing.
At, you know
peak hour, 5 hours before you came
On my first day the store manager and a visiting store manager were collaborating trying to save a file from a CD into the back room computer's My Documents folder.
Seriously, between the two MANAGERS neither of them knew how to do it.
I did not stay there longer then 4 hours before quitting.
You have no idea how lucky you are if people actually do their jobs right. My boss and I originally inherited the network we're working on, and the Network Admin before us did the EXACT same thing. We didn't even have a wiremap originally. We eventually cleaned it all up when we replaced the cables, but it was a mess and a half.
Isn't gold a heavy metal? How could this not be bad for you?
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Pure gold is non-toxic. Gold flake is often used to decorate things like wedding cakes too.
I took one look at that photo and screamed a little inside.
Yeah seriously, they NEED to document that crap, that's nothing to be 'spoiled' about, it's their freaking job.
Whenever we had to put together stuff like this (fortunately, I don't think I ever had to re-wire someone else's handiwork), everything had its wiring plan, and all cables had the notation at both ends. It's far too easy to remove a cable and then forget where it was supposed to go.
NOTHING is as bad as it was at my college. The IDFs and MDFs are so horribly done that it looks like a shotgun went off loaded with RJ-45s. There is literally a net of wire between the door and the routers and switches. That's what you get for having underpaid students do your wiring.
Relatively sure.
Possibly sure.
Fuck.
Most computers aren't 100% clean. They've got a tiny spyware hidden in there, or some malware, but most people (myself included) won't even notice it because it has virtually no effect on the machine's performance at all. However, the PCs we get at work are horrible. There are hundreds, often thousands of viruses and pieces of malware hindering its performance, to the point that it's unbearable.
Why do people download all that shit?
Dude. FREE toolbars! You don't look a gift toolbar in the mouth.
Fixed.
That's funny. Did you direct her to the hundreds of stores that were still fully stocked?
zing!
Frank Sinatra Night. Sinatra is one to be taken in moderation. For example, if you are a Yankees fan, and your team has just won, when they play Sinatra singing 'New York, New York', that is an acceptable amount of Sinatra. A captive audience forced to listen to him all night? RAGE.
In other news, Nintendo has finally resorted to sending us a sign for Wiis that specifically says "This product is currently out of stock."
Are MP3 players allowable?
I'm surprised no one has murdered this man yet. I think a jury would actually find it justifiable.
Seems kinda shady, should I even bother returning the call?
Being that this was about a teacher, and the boss's statement of "get down there NOW," I was expecting kiddy-porn.
What Houk said. It could be legitimate, it could be door-to-door kitchen knives/vacuums.
They wanted me to manage "a regional sales team" and "recieve a percentage based income" selling cellphones and video phones that are "endorsed by Donal Trump"!
So im not!
Endorsed by Donal Trump, and you didn't accept the offer?!
Oh we've had that too. It was one of our IT guys several years ago (before I started). He was suddenly called back to the office one afternoon and met by the friendly neighborhood FBI. I believe he recently got out of prison.
Well as they mentioned about 6 times in 2 minutes, they're very proud too have Donal Trump on their team, and, well, I know him, he couldn't pass up an opportunity like this one.
I'll wrangle up a digital camera on Monday and post our wiring nightmare that made the fire code inspecter say and I quote "I'll just pretend I did not see that
Pic should be on on Tuesday.
Edit: it should also be said that I work in Radio, and our cables are very different from Cat5 cables. Although we do have a few of those mixed all willy-nilly in the tangle.