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13th August 2022, 09:11 AM | #1321 |
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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13th August 2022, 09:27 AM | #1322 |
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My money's on timed restrictions, that's a good idea. The other ideas still need a login to distinguish.
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13th August 2022, 12:21 PM | #1323 |
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Could Person A use a citrix session or rdp to a server?
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13th August 2022, 02:33 PM | #1324 |
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Perhaps the easiest solution is to get rid of Person A from the front desk. Put them somewhere else where they can get on with their job without having to do front-desking. Completely non-technical, so "Not a Service Desk issue".
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13th August 2022, 03:04 PM | #1325 |
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But then they wouldn't be able to share a desk over different shifts. Employees love doing that, don't they?
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13th August 2022, 09:44 PM | #1326 |
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No, the easiest solution would be to murder both persons, and also whoever replaces them. By the time you go through five or six replacements nobody will take those jobs and management will give up. That's also a non-technical solution, and it saves the company money as well so it's the best choice.
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14th August 2022, 06:54 AM | #1327 |
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15th August 2022, 11:25 AM | #1328 |
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- Update. Turns out User B has a company issued laptop and always has. She's going to use that for the job fairs.
- On that why do so many users demand laptops and literally never take them away from their desks? |
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15th August 2022, 11:29 AM | #1329 |
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Dear Users.
- If you plug a 1500w Space Heater and a Laser Printer (I don't remember the exact numbers but ever new more energy efficient one draw big power numbers at certain parts of the printing cycle) into a cheap 20 dollar Walmart power strip and then plug that into the wall... you're gonna trip some breakers. This isn't an IT problem. I don't need to know about it or fix it. - It's August. In Florida. Why do you need a space heater? |
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15th August 2022, 12:09 PM | #1330 |
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In a passive-aggressive feud with whoever sets the thermostat for the AC?
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15th August 2022, 12:16 PM | #1331 |
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15th August 2022, 01:22 PM | #1332 |
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15th August 2022, 01:24 PM | #1333 |
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15th August 2022, 02:00 PM | #1334 |
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I just can't function without my oily rags near half-full gasoline containers by my desk.
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15th August 2022, 04:09 PM | #1335 |
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15th August 2022, 10:28 PM | #1336 |
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16th August 2022, 01:40 PM | #1337 |
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The funny thing is the closest thing I have to a desk/work area is a ramshackle setup in the server room which is legit frigid and the idea of just hauling in a space heater never occurs to me.
I just put on a jacket and go about my day. These broads are acting like they are in a Jack London story. |
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16th August 2022, 05:56 PM | #1338 |
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After working in male dominated work spaces I worked in one, in the entertainment industry, where it was fifty fifty.
It was always too hot in winter. And the women still wore all the winter gear indoors. Maybe they should stop wearing skirts and dresses. Pants are far more practical |
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16th August 2022, 09:46 PM | #1339 |
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I'll bet they're not permitted lots of places, but no one that is aware of that fact knows of their presence.
Still better than the guy trying to test a rack-mount server in his cube. Which until the OS starts has to run the fans at full power. I swear someone has finally figured out how to stuff two CFM-56 fans into a 1U box. And at boot, it punches the TOGA button. |
16th August 2022, 11:35 PM | #1340 |
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That thing our service provider took almost a year to fix? Just gone down in production, "can we provide some testers in the early hours of Sunday morning?"
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17th August 2022, 03:58 AM | #1341 |
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17th August 2022, 04:42 AM | #1342 |
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Dunno. Probably not. We haven't had any failures, but have been told we have to test it, so I'm copying other teams jobs. Who will also be testing. What a complete waste of time
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18th August 2022, 03:43 AM | #1346 |
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We didn't have one nearby. We threatened to lock him into a closet.
He was apologetic that he didn't realize quite how loud it would be. One more server in the server room or even in the lab doesn't sound like a big deal. (Especially if you're wearing hearing protection like you're supposed to). Then in a regular office you realize it's insane when it turns on. |
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Two gemlike questions, from two different people, on the same day:
1. "Why didn't the July report have the August data on it?" 2. "Why doesn't this data reflect the changes I forgot to ask for?" Honorable mention to the person who panicked because the latest figures showed "very low numbers" for one particular thing. Yeah, the numbers for that thing are low. They were low every month this year. And last year. And the four years before that. In fact, those numbers are low every month since we started recording data. This person had no idea what the numbers normally are, they just saw it for the first time ever and decided it was unusual and cause for a fuss. |
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26th August 2022, 09:22 PM | #1353 |
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27th August 2022, 02:56 AM | #1354 |
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Typical non-helpful support staff not trying to help build synergy and efficiency across the organisation.
1) don't you understand if they could have the August data they'd be able to get ahead in their workload and be able to plan better?!? 2) how am I meant to know what I need to know - it's all computers and that's what you are meant to do?!?!? |
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27th August 2022, 05:50 AM | #1355 |
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My former company used to do something called front-loading at the end of each quarter. They would pull all the orders for October 1 and process them as September 30 items, to make the quarter's numbers larger. I never understood it because they were just translating them from the next cycle.
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27th August 2022, 06:27 AM | #1356 |
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27th August 2022, 07:07 AM | #1357 |
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27th August 2022, 07:18 AM | #1358 |
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Amen! That's why for every high-falutin', summarizin', mathin', complex query I do I also write a parallel version that uses the same logic except just returns the base level detail, hundreds and thousands and sometimes millions of rows. So if anybody dares to challenge my accuracy I can spit out bazillions of rows of data, dump it into Excel, and send to to them and their bosses asking "show me where you think the error is".
Or sometimes if someone questions my logic in a call I'll share my screen and show them the SQL and go through it bit by bit, Socratically asking about each piece. "This is the part that excludes the deceased from the counts. Did you want to include the deceased in the counts, Kevin? No? Then this bit is right and we move on to the next bit. You can see in the notes I included that this bit was added on 3/1/2017 per your request, Kevin, and it quotes the email you sent me asking for this to happen. Did you not want to have this part happen, Kevin? Yes, you did? Then this bit is right and we move on to the next..." And if they're especially annoying to me I'll type in more notes, right in front of them, "--confirmed correct in call 8/27/22 by Kevin, Nancy, Joan..." listing everyone in the call. My performance reviews usually include the word "thorough". I thoroughly enjoy thoroughly proving that everything that ever happens is never, ever my fault. CYA ought to be painted in four-foot-high letters on the wall of every IT office. |
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27th August 2022, 07:55 AM | #1359 |
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Dear xFinity support bosses: Get your people some decent headsets -- ones that can filter out all the other people shouting in the obviously close quarters. It doesn't help on top of an accent that's difficult to parse, and as one with hearing difficulties anyway it makes for a difficult experience. Also, adopt standard words for spelling out difficult words. "I" as in "information", or "N" as in "nuance" are just as hard to parse. (Exaggerating here to make the point.)
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