I had a friend who would send sms messages to people in this manner.
You'll note I said "had" because the entire township decided to murder him in the street for it.
I can't say this is something I care about, but I sympathize with the author because people who put in tickets or send me emails without details bother me in almost exactly the same way.
"I'm having trouble with my email."
What trouble? Is there an error message? Describe it. You're an adult, use your fucking words, don't make me drag it out of you.
Oh yes. This does bother me. I have to restrain myself from replying to those emails/tickets with "oh, isn't that terrible!" or the equivalent.
How do you guys go about looking for new jobs? I want to start poking around and seeing what I might be eligible for, but I'm not totally sure what the best options for that would be. I like my current job's independence and ability to play with and learn new things that make me more hireable, but they also definitely don't pay a ton. Education stuff isn't too difficult to look for since there's just a statewide job website I can peruse, but if I wanted to go out of education I imagine I'd be making more.
I had a friend who would send sms messages to people in this manner.
You'll note I said "had" because the entire township decided to murder him in the street for it.
I can't say this is something I care about, but I sympathize with the author because people who put in tickets or send me emails without details bother me in almost exactly the same way.
"I'm having trouble with my email."
What trouble? Is there an error message? Describe it. You're an adult, use your fucking words, don't make me drag it out of you.
Oh yes. This does bother me. I have to restrain myself from replying to those emails/tickets with "oh, isn't that terrible!" or the equivalent.
"My email is broken."
Internally I'm seething, but my go to reply to that is; "Ah ok, what kind of broken?"
That usually gets folks to tell me what's actually wrong. And if they don't, I just die a little more inside.
I had a friend who would send sms messages to people in this manner.
You'll note I said "had" because the entire township decided to murder him in the street for it.
I can't say this is something I care about, but I sympathize with the author because people who put in tickets or send me emails without details bother me in almost exactly the same way.
"I'm having trouble with my email."
What trouble? Is there an error message? Describe it. You're an adult, use your fucking words, don't make me drag it out of you.
Oh yes. This does bother me. I have to restrain myself from replying to those emails/tickets with "oh, isn't that terrible!" or the equivalent.
"My email is broken."
Internally I'm seething, but my go to reply to that is; "Ah ok, what kind of broken?"
That usually gets folks to tell me what's actually wrong. And if they don't, I just die a little more inside.
Bonus points if they reported it via email.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
Guess who's organization accidentally provisioned O365 licenses for 1900 users?
Guess who's organization is now out of O365 licenses?
It's some other poor fool's organization and not yours, right?
That's gotta be why you're telling us this!
Totally.
Bonus points:
This happened via an automated process on Saturday. Someone from the team responsible realized Sunday. They didn't tell anyone until this morning.
I had a friend who would send sms messages to people in this manner.
You'll note I said "had" because the entire township decided to murder him in the street for it.
I can't say this is something I care about, but I sympathize with the author because people who put in tickets or send me emails without details bother me in almost exactly the same way.
"I'm having trouble with my email."
What trouble? Is there an error message? Describe it. You're an adult, use your fucking words, don't make me drag it out of you.
Oh yes. This does bother me. I have to restrain myself from replying to those emails/tickets with "oh, isn't that terrible!" or the equivalent.
"My email is broken."
Internally I'm seething, but my go to reply to that is; "Ah ok, what kind of broken?"
That usually gets folks to tell me what's actually wrong. And if they don't, I just die a little more inside.
The internet is slow.
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"He's sulking in his tent like Achilles! It's the Iliad?...from Homer?! READ A BOOK!!" -Handy
Guess who's organization accidentally provisioned O365 licenses for 1900 users?
Guess who's organization is now out of O365 licenses?
It's some other poor fool's organization and not yours, right?
That's gotta be why you're telling us this!
Totally.
Bonus points:
This happened via an automated process on Saturday. Someone from the team responsible realized Sunday. They didn't tell anyone until this morning.
I'm finding it hard to believe that microsoft wouldn't help you out with that though.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Yes, I know this vendor has a website that requires IE.
Yes, I know that's stupid.
Yes, I agree this is dumb.
But I also don't get to fucking say that we don't use this vendor now because they're so dumb! And I could tell them what our needs are, but they aren't going to fucking care!
We're not going to re-invent the entire fucking IT world as an itty bitty company selling porcelain and steel to itty bitty companies!
"But what they are doing is dumb!"
I DON'T FUCKING CARE ANYMORE!!! Unless you have a bulletproof plan that gets them to adopt other browsers, fuck the fuck off!
I will 100% seek an alternative even if it's worse. I'm not going to support and train users for the next 5 years to use IE10. At some point that's gonna break and it's going to be a nightmare to keep up and retrain users.
Better to just train them on a slightly shittier platform and then when that platform catches up in features, I'm gravy.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
We are not talking about something that's within the IT department's control.
We're talking about companies with names you'll see advertised when you watch football. You don't get to just abort business with these guys and not lose your own.
We are not talking about something that's within the IT department's control.
We're talking about companies with names you'll see advertised when you watch football. You don't get to just abort business with these guys and not lose your own.
What stress at your job? Don't you mess with computers all day? -All of my family when I talk about being stressed at work.
We are not talking about something that's within the IT department's control.
We're talking about companies with names you'll see advertised when you watch football. You don't get to just abort business with these guys and not lose your own.
Depends on the industry. Maybe you can't, but I can.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
For instance, one hospital up here refuses to adapt and requires IE7 for their weird little web portal. Guess what, my doctors can't access it remotely even though I theoretically could get them connected. It's probably different if it's a vendor you need to use for x, y, z but, still.
I'm going to shame the fuck out of their sales people and tech support when I get ahold of them because I am not supporting IE10 or lower.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
We are not talking about something that's within the IT department's control.
We're talking about companies with names you'll see advertised when you watch football. You don't get to just abort business with these guys and not lose your own.
Depends on the industry. Maybe you can't, but I can.
We are not talking about something that's within the IT department's control.
We're talking about companies with names you'll see advertised when you watch football. You don't get to just abort business with these guys and not lose your own.
Depends on the industry. Maybe you can't, but I can.
Yes that is what I'm saying.
just shame them constantly about how it only works in IE
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
We are not talking about something that's within the IT department's control.
We're talking about companies with names you'll see advertised when you watch football. You don't get to just abort business with these guys and not lose your own.
Depends on the industry. Maybe you can't, but I can.
Yes that is what I'm saying.
just shame them constantly about how it only works in IE
I doubt they care.
Mostly just huntin' monsters.
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We are not talking about something that's within the IT department's control.
We're talking about companies with names you'll see advertised when you watch football. You don't get to just abort business with these guys and not lose your own.
Depends on the industry. Maybe you can't, but I can.
Yes that is what I'm saying.
just shame them constantly about how it only works in IE
I doubt they care.
Depends on how big they are and how big you are. If you're not spending 10k and have some significant pulling power in the local area to influence others it's a thing.
But we're all talking coded messages, near as I can tell you are all talking about something shitty like teamviewer that pretends it's bigger than it actually is.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Jeez, my users are getting phishing emails from someone who has done a remarkable job of faking a signature on the emails to make it look like it came from one of the bosses, asking for people's cell numbers. It's not the bosses actual email signature either. But it looks like it totally could be! Damn you scammers, I have enough problems without dealing with this!
Jeez, my users are getting phishing emails from someone who has done a remarkable job of faking a signature on the emails to make it look like it came from one of the bosses, asking for people's cell numbers. It's not the bosses actual email signature either. But it looks like it totally could be! Damn you scammers, I have enough problems without dealing with this!
Had something similar recently and it turned out to be part of a pentest (but one the head of IT was not informed by).
Jeez, my users are getting phishing emails from someone who has done a remarkable job of faking a signature on the emails to make it look like it came from one of the bosses, asking for people's cell numbers. It's not the bosses actual email signature either. But it looks like it totally could be! Damn you scammers, I have enough problems without dealing with this!
There are already proofs of concept for deep fake voices/voice filters, so phone calls will get way more interesting soon.
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Jeez, my users are getting phishing emails from someone who has done a remarkable job of faking a signature on the emails to make it look like it came from one of the bosses, asking for people's cell numbers. It's not the bosses actual email signature either. But it looks like it totally could be! Damn you scammers, I have enough problems without dealing with this!
There are already proofs of concept for deep fake voices/voice filters, so phone calls will get way more interesting soon.
Pfft, then we'll just go to video ch-oh wait.
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Guess who's organization accidentally provisioned O365 licenses for 1900 users?
Guess who's organization is now out of O365 licenses?
It's some other poor fool's organization and not yours, right?
That's gotta be why you're telling us this!
Totally.
Bonus points:
This happened via an automated process on Saturday. Someone from the team responsible realized Sunday. They didn't tell anyone until this morning.
I'm finding it hard to believe that microsoft wouldn't help you out with that though.
We don't need their help. There's automatic over-provisioning. We only had ~100 unused licenses, but O365 will let you provision beyond that with... I forget the name, but basically temporary licenses that are only good for 30 days. That gives us more than enough time to identify the accounts that were created automatically and decommission them (which will reclaim the licenses). We were back up to ~90 free licenses last time I checked.
So it wasn't the end of the world, but it was a hell of a way to start a Monday (and would have been way easier to clean up if the people responsible had fessed up when it happened).
We are not talking about something that's within the IT department's control.
We're talking about companies with names you'll see advertised when you watch football. You don't get to just abort business with these guys and not lose your own.
Depends on the industry. Maybe you can't, but I can.
Yes that is what I'm saying.
just shame them constantly about how it only works in IE
Not only do we have multiple business critical websites that require MSIE11, we have others that don't work at all in MSIE11, and we have to make sure our users know which browser to use for each site.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Also, not only that, we have one specific major vendor whose critical website:
1) Only works in MSIE11 because it requires a specific ActiveX MSIE plugin
2) Breaks often, usually due to network/server/loadbalancer problems on their hosting
3) Whenever a user calls them to troubleshoot, their tier-1 support asks us to turn on Compatibility View
4) the website actually does not work in Compatibility View, ever, at all. This advice never works.
No, we cannot go to a competitor. There is no competitor. They may not have a monopoly in their industry in the legal sense, but they have a de facto monopoly.
We could stop offering the service to our customers that relies on this vendor, but our C-level execs and our board won't take that option for strategic reasons, not the least of which is that we're under contractual obligation in some cases and we could literally be sued.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
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Oh yes. This does bother me. I have to restrain myself from replying to those emails/tickets with "oh, isn't that terrible!" or the equivalent.
That's generally what you should do before you even hit the Internet.
Guess who's organization is now out of O365 licenses?
It's some other poor fool's organization and not yours, right?
That's gotta be why you're telling us this!
"My email is broken."
Internally I'm seething, but my go to reply to that is; "Ah ok, what kind of broken?"
That usually gets folks to tell me what's actually wrong. And if they don't, I just die a little more inside.
Bonus points if they reported it via email.
Totally.
Bonus points:
This happened via an automated process on Saturday. Someone from the team responsible realized Sunday. They didn't tell anyone until this morning.
The internet is slow.
That's an OSHA violation, pretty sure.
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Well, somebody gonna get hurt real bad.
This one is easy.
Just ignore it and if anyone asks you about it say you never saw it.
I'm finding it hard to believe that microsoft wouldn't help you out with that though.
COG's gone. We need some thread jokes.
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Yes, I know this vendor has a website that requires IE.
Yes, I know that's stupid.
Yes, I agree this is dumb.
But I also don't get to fucking say that we don't use this vendor now because they're so dumb! And I could tell them what our needs are, but they aren't going to fucking care!
We're not going to re-invent the entire fucking IT world as an itty bitty company selling porcelain and steel to itty bitty companies!
"But what they are doing is dumb!"
I DON'T FUCKING CARE ANYMORE!!! Unless you have a bulletproof plan that gets them to adopt other browsers, fuck the fuck off!
Change my mind.
Better to just train them on a slightly shittier platform and then when that platform catches up in features, I'm gravy.
We're talking about companies with names you'll see advertised when you watch football. You don't get to just abort business with these guys and not lose your own.
What stress at your job? Don't you mess with computers all day? -All of my family when I talk about being stressed at work.
Depends on the industry. Maybe you can't, but I can.
I'm going to shame the fuck out of their sales people and tech support when I get ahold of them because I am not supporting IE10 or lower.
Yes that is what I'm saying.
just shame them constantly about how it only works in IE
I doubt they care.
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Depends on how big they are and how big you are. If you're not spending 10k and have some significant pulling power in the local area to influence others it's a thing.
But we're all talking coded messages, near as I can tell you are all talking about something shitty like teamviewer that pretends it's bigger than it actually is.
I can only imagine the panic in IT.
...I went to lunch.
Had something similar recently and it turned out to be part of a pentest (but one the head of IT was not informed by).
There are already proofs of concept for deep fake voices/voice filters, so phone calls will get way more interesting soon.
Pfft, then we'll just go to video ch-oh wait.
We don't need their help. There's automatic over-provisioning. We only had ~100 unused licenses, but O365 will let you provision beyond that with... I forget the name, but basically temporary licenses that are only good for 30 days. That gives us more than enough time to identify the accounts that were created automatically and decommission them (which will reclaim the licenses). We were back up to ~90 free licenses last time I checked.
So it wasn't the end of the world, but it was a hell of a way to start a Monday (and would have been way easier to clean up if the people responsible had fessed up when it happened).
*laughs in Fed Govt*
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
1) Only works in MSIE11 because it requires a specific ActiveX MSIE plugin
2) Breaks often, usually due to network/server/loadbalancer problems on their hosting
3) Whenever a user calls them to troubleshoot, their tier-1 support asks us to turn on Compatibility View
4) the website actually does not work in Compatibility View, ever, at all. This advice never works.
No, we cannot go to a competitor. There is no competitor. They may not have a monopoly in their industry in the legal sense, but they have a de facto monopoly.
We could stop offering the service to our customers that relies on this vendor, but our C-level execs and our board won't take that option for strategic reasons, not the least of which is that we're under contractual obligation in some cases and we could literally be sued.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.