Well, she did cause exactly the thing to happen that traffic laws are there to prevent. But still, I think the stern talking to was probably enough, if only because a fine discourages people to call these things in, and probably really screws poor people.
Edit: I don't think this lady in her nearly brand new Volvo is going to be too hard up though.
JebusUD on
and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
It was 100% her fault, but I don't know if that matters. That's the thing that I'm a little worried about is it somehow affecting my insurance rates.
If you are absolutely completely not at fault then your insurance company should have no excuse to try and raise your rates but it may be worth asking when you file the claim and even then keeping an eye on your rates after
Put in for a field tech job, fixing laptops. Decent money and a shorter commute. Plus way less boring than what I am currently doing. Wish me luck fine folk of the tubes.
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Some states have mandatory citations if you're at fault in an accident.
Yea, while it's cool of Jebus to not want that citation issued it will probably make the whole insurance thing much easier since it's clear she was at fault.
ALWAYS call the police when you get in a car accident except DON'T because they will CHARGE your dumb ass
If you're at fault for an accident then yeah you're going to lose money because 1) you broke the law and 2) you caused property damage. Also, if you don't call the police that can easily come back to bite you in the ass later, possibly from your insurance.
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
Went to an interview today and got hired on the spot. 200 percent pay increase from my previous job. Also the office is a ten minute walk away from where I live. This being Los Angeles, that's a goddamn miracle.
The euphoria... So much better than any drug I've had.
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
So, I spent 2009 to January 2015 unemployed(got laid off from my IT job because of budget cuts, could never find work in that field again because of years of nobody hiring, and then, once hiring went back up, "break in employment", living off of my VA disability. Nuka and I became a couple in 2013, then she moved in with me in early 2014 and she got a local job at a grocery store. I did some work at a warehouse summer of 2014 but injured my arms. Ended up getting hired on at a different store for the same grocery chain, union protected job, Seattle enacts a minimum wage hike-
We've since moved into a larger apartment with both of us on the lease, I'm the top person in my area at work, got a real bank account after years of having to use prepaid cards because my credit was so bad, got a credit card for the sole purpose of further increasing my rating, and then now tonight, after many nights of research and talking it over with Nuka opened an investment/trading fund. It feels really weird, after all of those years of being dirt-ass poor, trying to be financially responsible and investing for the future.
Also Nuka and I are engaged and oh man I am so lucky she is the bestest ever
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Just had to confiscate any and all wireless routers/access points because leaving them unplugged with a sign on them saying "Leave Unplugged" due to a recurring IP conflict apparently isn't enough for people. You plug one in, and the entire network shits itself and dies. I've made that clear numerous times, but someone has a pathological need for Wi-Fi here.
Fuck it, they're locked up and in my office. This is why we can't have nice things. If you don't have an ethernet connection in your office, you don't have internet. Suck it up.
Just had to confiscate any and all wireless routers/access points because leaving them unplugged with a sign on them saying "Leave Unplugged" due to a recurring IP conflict apparently isn't enough for people. You plug one in, and the entire network shits itself and dies. I've made that clear numerous times, but someone has a pathological need for Wi-Fi here.
Fuck it, they're locked up and in my office. This is why we can't have nice things. If you don't have an ethernet connection in your office, you don't have internet. Suck it up.
...you still have wifi, right? I mean, what good is working in IT if you don't have access to stuff others don't.
Is anyone here a Microsoft Certified Trainer? I have a couple questions about the program: What are the prerequisite certifications, and how is the prerequisite year of training accomplished prior to getting certified? Can you just be an uncertified trainer while you work towards the requirement?
If you know, feel free to PM me.
It appears to be less a certification and more of a VIP-style buy-in group. Like, you apply, and if you're accepted, you pay a membership fee and boom you can add "MCT" to your signature block.
Right, I read that too. But I was curious if there are any Microsoft certifications that are considered ineligible for the program's requirements, and how you accomplish a year of instructional experience prior to certification if you're just a plain ol' IT guy.
Edit: I suppose it is worth mentioning I'm a Plain Ol' Systems Engineer whose company is developing a Microsoft Training Program, and the guy running it made it sound like I could be considered (and the company would provide the "official" training), but I'm not sure how a year of instructional experience is accomplished unless you're already an instructor.
Just had to confiscate any and all wireless routers/access points because leaving them unplugged with a sign on them saying "Leave Unplugged" due to a recurring IP conflict apparently isn't enough for people. You plug one in, and the entire network shits itself and dies. I've made that clear numerous times, but someone has a pathological need for Wi-Fi here.
Fuck it, they're locked up and in my office. This is why we can't have nice things. If you don't have an ethernet connection in your office, you don't have internet. Suck it up.
This reminds me of something that happened last year.
I work in a large law firm in Los Angeles. (Most of) Our IT is incompetent. Anyone can connect any device to our network (and get internet access) without authentication. The implementation to prevent most individuals from doing anything bad is to only have a single ethernet port in each office. We daisy-chain that for VoIP and network access.
We had a new associate decide he need more internet connected devices. So he went to Best Buy and purchased a router. He attached this home router to our network, and connected all his devices (2 laptops and something else) and started working. His router started a broadcast storm in our headquarters. For non-techies, his router was doing the equivalent of jamming a t-shirt down a toilet, across our entire network. All work ground to a halt. Our IT was incapable of identifying where the problem was, so the entire headquarters could not use our computers or phones. This happened at 9:00 a.m. I left after 4:00 p.m. that day and they had not found the offending item yet. Probably because their solution was to go office by office and unplug the ethernet cable. If I remember correctly, they found the router around 7:00 p.m. and left a handwritten note not to plug it in again.
Very sad. After having this particular pocketknife for over a decade, I finally walked through a TSA checkpoint in the airport without putting it into my check-in luggage, and I now no longer have this knife.
Been on vacation the last few days, got back to a nice paycheck, maybe the second biggest I've had my whole life.
Also came back to finding out my new boss is an idiot who I hope doesn't last long. Was 2 hours late opening one day, called off the next, screamed at the other employee and made her break into tears yesterday, lies to customers, keeps trying to get off every god damn weekend. Super fun.
I play Clash of Clans with several of the people on my team. We go to war with other clans a couple times a week. Today I get a chat message from one of them consisting of "hey man we need someone to *** their number 10 guy" and it took me longer than it should have to realize he was not telling me to go ass somebody.
Probably good news! The place I interviewed at on Monday just called me back today to let me know they're going to be doing a background check and stuff. They wouldn't bother with that unless they wanted me for the position yeah?
Just had to confiscate any and all wireless routers/access points because leaving them unplugged with a sign on them saying "Leave Unplugged" due to a recurring IP conflict apparently isn't enough for people. You plug one in, and the entire network shits itself and dies. I've made that clear numerous times, but someone has a pathological need for Wi-Fi here.
Fuck it, they're locked up and in my office. This is why we can't have nice things. If you don't have an ethernet connection in your office, you don't have internet. Suck it up.
...you still have wifi, right? I mean, what good is working in IT if you don't have access to stuff others don't.
I have everything. And I laugh maniacally about it.
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Tommy2Handswhat is this where am iRegistered Userregular
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God working in retail I wish that we could listen to NPR. Instead it's just the same pop hits or 80s classics on satellite radio over and over and over. Sometimes they play pitbull radio, which is literally just pitbull songs. Not even the old ones, I don't think I've ever heard anything off the boat lift but I have heard that one with t-pain at least four times on the same day. I'm starting to enjoy it. Kill me.
Just had to confiscate any and all wireless routers/access points because leaving them unplugged with a sign on them saying "Leave Unplugged" due to a recurring IP conflict apparently isn't enough for people. You plug one in, and the entire network shits itself and dies. I've made that clear numerous times, but someone has a pathological need for Wi-Fi here.
Fuck it, they're locked up and in my office. This is why we can't have nice things. If you don't have an ethernet connection in your office, you don't have internet. Suck it up.
This reminds me of something that happened last year.
I work in a large law firm in Los Angeles. (Most of) Our IT is incompetent. Anyone can connect any device to our network (and get internet access) without authentication. The implementation to prevent most individuals from doing anything bad is to only have a single ethernet port in each office. We daisy-chain that for VoIP and network access.
We had a new associate decide he need more internet connected devices. So he went to Best Buy and purchased a router. He attached this home router to our network, and connected all his devices (2 laptops and something else) and started working. His router started a broadcast storm in our headquarters. For non-techies, his router was doing the equivalent of jamming a t-shirt down a toilet, across our entire network. All work ground to a halt. Our IT was incapable of identifying where the problem was, so the entire headquarters could not use our computers or phones. This happened at 9:00 a.m. I left after 4:00 p.m. that day and they had not found the offending item yet. Probably because their solution was to go office by office and unplug the ethernet cable. If I remember correctly, they found the router around 7:00 p.m. and left a handwritten note not to plug it in again.
No one fired. No changes to the network.
This literally happened to me two weeks ago. Someone plugged into a switch with a device that already had an IP assigned to it and blew the entire network. We spent two days trying to track it down, and finally we unplugged one simple cable and everything went back to normal. Now we have recurring IP conflicts that I'm gradually filtering out, mainly by assigning static IPs over 200 in the Wi-Fi routers, but until I can get all that done no one will have Wi-Fi. They've proven they can't handle it.
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MetalbourneInside a cluster b personalityRegistered Userregular
Met a new supervisor last night. Cis guy who asked me my pronouns and told me in very certain terms that if a customer gives me problems because I'm trans he will throw them out.
So far, the most problematic co-worker I have is a sup I don't work with who just tries too hard to validate my femininity for me. She does things like pointing out makeup sales, and one night when I came in wearing pants she said, "whoa, you're in pants, did you lose a bet?"
I mean at least she's the "I'm trying too hard" kind of problematic and not the other one. She's actually one of my favorite people at work. Ironically, when she's not treating me like a girl.
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Tommy2Handswhat is this where am iRegistered Userregular
So, I spent 2009 to January 2015 unemployed(got laid off from my IT job because of budget cuts, could never find work in that field again because of years of nobody hiring, and then, once hiring went back up, "break in employment", living off of my VA disability. Nuka and I became a couple in 2013, then she moved in with me in early 2014 and she got a local job at a grocery store. I did some work at a warehouse summer of 2014 but injured my arms. Ended up getting hired on at a different store for the same grocery chain, union protected job, Seattle enacts a minimum wage hike-
We've since moved into a larger apartment with both of us on the lease, I'm the top person in my area at work, got a real bank account after years of having to use prepaid cards because my credit was so bad, got a credit card for the sole purpose of further increasing my rating, and then now tonight, after many nights of research and talking it over with Nuka opened an investment/trading fund. It feels really weird, after all of those years of being dirt-ass poor, trying to be financially responsible and investing for the future.
Also Nuka and I are engaged and oh man I am so lucky she is the bestest ever
Oh my god, weaver I am ecstatic for you guys. That's an incredible feeling, you two deserve to enjoy the hell out of it & each other.
Just had to confiscate any and all wireless routers/access points because leaving them unplugged with a sign on them saying "Leave Unplugged" due to a recurring IP conflict apparently isn't enough for people. You plug one in, and the entire network shits itself and dies. I've made that clear numerous times, but someone has a pathological need for Wi-Fi here.
Fuck it, they're locked up and in my office. This is why we can't have nice things. If you don't have an ethernet connection in your office, you don't have internet. Suck it up.
This reminds me of something that happened last year.
I work in a large law firm in Los Angeles. (Most of) Our IT is incompetent. Anyone can connect any device to our network (and get internet access) without authentication. The implementation to prevent most individuals from doing anything bad is to only have a single ethernet port in each office. We daisy-chain that for VoIP and network access.
We had a new associate decide he need more internet connected devices. So he went to Best Buy and purchased a router. He attached this home router to our network, and connected all his devices (2 laptops and something else) and started working. His router started a broadcast storm in our headquarters. For non-techies, his router was doing the equivalent of jamming a t-shirt down a toilet, across our entire network. All work ground to a halt. Our IT was incapable of identifying where the problem was, so the entire headquarters could not use our computers or phones. This happened at 9:00 a.m. I left after 4:00 p.m. that day and they had not found the offending item yet. Probably because their solution was to go office by office and unplug the ethernet cable. If I remember correctly, they found the router around 7:00 p.m. and left a handwritten note not to plug it in again.
No one fired. No changes to the network.
This literally happened to me two weeks ago. Someone plugged into a switch with a device that already had an IP assigned to it and blew the entire network. We spent two days trying to track it down, and finally we unplugged one simple cable and everything went back to normal. Now we have recurring IP conflicts that I'm gradually filtering out, mainly by assigning static IPs over 200 in the Wi-Fi routers, but until I can get all that done no one will have Wi-Fi. They've proven they can't handle it.
Out of curiosity, would it be possible to assign static IPs to absolutely everything and then if somebody wanted to connect something new, they would have to go to you for the number and access? I'm sure this isn't possible or has its own issues, but just came to mind while reading these issues and wondering how that works.
I think the default answer to the question of "can't you just give everything a static IP?" is and should always be, "Sure, you go ahead and do that. I'll be over here doing literally everything else and still working less than you."
I think it's amazing that I can say I genuinely love Help Desk work and still only manage to be offered a temp/contract position. People must think there's something wrong with someone who actually enjoys this type of work.
My work history is food service management. This is so overwhelmingly easier it's not even funny. Plus I get a diversity of work on a day to day, so I don't really get bored.
Plus when I do my job right (and nobody else in IT does anything dumb), I get so much free time.
I'm not sure where else to post this so I guess here, since it happened when I left work.
Got rear ended on the way home whoo hoo!
It wasn't all so bad. Police came our and wrote a report. I already called the insurance company. I think the lady that hit me thought I'd be coming out raging mad or something, since she seemed real apologetic. It was totally her fault, but I just can't muster up any anger, nor would I want to. Life is too short to be an angry person. I just told her shit happens.
I actually felt more bad for her. She got a flat and had to have a tow, and was leaking what was probably washer fluid. Plus the cop gave her the look what you're doing lecture and a citation.
So I guess we will see how using insurance goes. I haven't made a claim since I started driving... 11 years ago. It was 100% her fault, but I don't know if that matters. That's the thing that I'm a little worried about is it somehow affecting my insurance rates.
If you're in a no fault state, make sure to file for no fault benefits asap. You may need some medical attention(minor even) and it's free basically.
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Well, she did cause exactly the thing to happen that traffic laws are there to prevent. But still, I think the stern talking to was probably enough, if only because a fine discourages people to call these things in, and probably really screws poor people.
Edit: I don't think this lady in her nearly brand new Volvo is going to be too hard up though.
but they're listening to every word I say
She hit another car why shouldn't she get a citation
also If you are absolutely completely not at fault then your insurance company should have no excuse to try and raise your rates but it may be worth asking when you file the claim and even then keeping an eye on your rates after
Yea, while it's cool of Jebus to not want that citation issued it will probably make the whole insurance thing much easier since it's clear she was at fault.
Working nights has been rough, but I am glad I don't have to be here during the day.
If you're at fault for an accident then yeah you're going to lose money because 1) you broke the law and 2) you caused property damage. Also, if you don't call the police that can easily come back to bite you in the ass later, possibly from your insurance.
The euphoria... So much better than any drug I've had.
We've since moved into a larger apartment with both of us on the lease, I'm the top person in my area at work, got a real bank account after years of having to use prepaid cards because my credit was so bad, got a credit card for the sole purpose of further increasing my rating, and then now tonight, after many nights of research and talking it over with Nuka opened an investment/trading fund. It feels really weird, after all of those years of being dirt-ass poor, trying to be financially responsible and investing for the future.
Also Nuka and I are engaged and oh man I am so lucky she is the bestest ever
Satans..... hints.....
I've got work early and she's gotta get up early for maths finals so bedtime for us.
Fuck it, they're locked up and in my office. This is why we can't have nice things. If you don't have an ethernet connection in your office, you don't have internet. Suck it up.
...you still have wifi, right? I mean, what good is working in IT if you don't have access to stuff others don't.
If you know, feel free to PM me.
Edit: I suppose it is worth mentioning I'm a Plain Ol' Systems Engineer whose company is developing a Microsoft Training Program, and the guy running it made it sound like I could be considered (and the company would provide the "official" training), but I'm not sure how a year of instructional experience is accomplished unless you're already an instructor.
This reminds me of something that happened last year.
I work in a large law firm in Los Angeles. (Most of) Our IT is incompetent. Anyone can connect any device to our network (and get internet access) without authentication. The implementation to prevent most individuals from doing anything bad is to only have a single ethernet port in each office. We daisy-chain that for VoIP and network access.
We had a new associate decide he need more internet connected devices. So he went to Best Buy and purchased a router. He attached this home router to our network, and connected all his devices (2 laptops and something else) and started working. His router started a broadcast storm in our headquarters. For non-techies, his router was doing the equivalent of jamming a t-shirt down a toilet, across our entire network. All work ground to a halt. Our IT was incapable of identifying where the problem was, so the entire headquarters could not use our computers or phones. This happened at 9:00 a.m. I left after 4:00 p.m. that day and they had not found the offending item yet. Probably because their solution was to go office by office and unplug the ethernet cable. If I remember correctly, they found the router around 7:00 p.m. and left a handwritten note not to plug it in again.
No one fired. No changes to the network.
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surprise trip to europe to be the face of the project to the customer, and I get to miss the 4th of july weekend? sign me up fuck
Also came back to finding out my new boss is an idiot who I hope doesn't last long. Was 2 hours late opening one day, called off the next, screamed at the other employee and made her break into tears yesterday, lies to customers, keeps trying to get off every god damn weekend. Super fun.
I have everything. And I laugh maniacally about it.
E: oh, that was the first page of the thread, huh
This literally happened to me two weeks ago. Someone plugged into a switch with a device that already had an IP assigned to it and blew the entire network. We spent two days trying to track it down, and finally we unplugged one simple cable and everything went back to normal. Now we have recurring IP conflicts that I'm gradually filtering out, mainly by assigning static IPs over 200 in the Wi-Fi routers, but until I can get all that done no one will have Wi-Fi. They've proven they can't handle it.
So far, the most problematic co-worker I have is a sup I don't work with who just tries too hard to validate my femininity for me. She does things like pointing out makeup sales, and one night when I came in wearing pants she said, "whoa, you're in pants, did you lose a bet?"
I mean at least she's the "I'm trying too hard" kind of problematic and not the other one. She's actually one of my favorite people at work. Ironically, when she's not treating me like a girl.
Oh my god, weaver I am ecstatic for you guys. That's an incredible feeling, you two deserve to enjoy the hell out of it & each other.
Out of curiosity, would it be possible to assign static IPs to absolutely everything and then if somebody wanted to connect something new, they would have to go to you for the number and access? I'm sure this isn't possible or has its own issues, but just came to mind while reading these issues and wondering how that works.
if you or anyone you know is into that stuff and lives around the Minneapolis area, let me know!
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My work history is food service management. This is so overwhelmingly easier it's not even funny. Plus I get a diversity of work on a day to day, so I don't really get bored.
Plus when I do my job right (and nobody else in IT does anything dumb), I get so much free time.
I mean, I gotta do it
But doing that always suuuucks
If you're in a no fault state, make sure to file for no fault benefits asap. You may need some medical attention(minor even) and it's free basically.
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