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We still haven't received all of our forms from everybody to be able to do our taxes.
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The owner decided to cancel the cable tv for the hotel because "Everyone streams now anyways. The tv has lots of free streaming options." But guess what? Lots of people are upset that they can't use the tv to, you know, watch tv. And even the ones who like the streaming stuff absolutely hate the remote. The hotels I've stayed at in the last couple years have required me to sign in to my account to use streaming options. No, thank you, I don't think I'll be doing that.
Yeah, just checked in with Shiro because he has much broader work experience than I do (he was a 1970s line worker at an auto factory, for example), and he has the exact same life experience I do: You get 10 paid holidays a day, and they're aligned with Federal holidays as much as possible. So seems like this is yet another, "Screw you, Millenials and younger!" moment... Every company I've been employed by? 6 at most. New Year's Day
Yes, the big 6 federal holidays are there, but not Presidents Day, MLK, Veterans Day, Juneteenth, etc. Illinois also has a state holiday for Casmir Pulaski as well, which is just another day I haven't had off since high school.
Not saying they shouldn't...just that it prepared students better for reality if they don't. I honestly don't understand the point of federal holidays when the vast majority of the country doesn't actually get the day off. And for those with school aged kids, who are out of school but parents still have to go to work, federal holidays are a pox. Either everyone gets the day off paid or nobody does.
Most federal holidays don't get recognized by most businesses.
How does automation get around a thee strikes rule on a timer? you need a million tries to brute force a password then by the time you wait a few million 10 minute spams whatever you're after will be mostly valued as an antique anyway. Because automation doesn't sleep. Brute force attacks are not efficient attacks, but a long term "We'll get in eventually" idea. And really, all they actually need is a company where the Business People dictate to IT how things are going to go, and if you don't like it you can find a different job. Places like that don't have a 10 minute lockout after 3 fails. That would be inconvenient to Business People.
Not entirely true. Brute force attacks are entirely automated now, so the lockout time is really just a speed bump. I agree with you on the password complexity, but the group policy object Microsoft provides for enforcing complexity isn't malleable. It's either on or off, and the instant you get a SOC2 audit (or HIPPA, or PCI, pick your compliance regulation) and they find you don't have the policy enabled you get dinged. Get dinged enough and show an unwillingness to change it and there are consequences, depending on which compliance you're looking at and who's doing the auditing. A lot of the compliance bodies haven't changed their rules. Also, by default, Active Directory doesn't have the ability to check against a list of banned passwords. You have to have a hybrid environment using Entra with password write back (more expensive licensing required) and therefore be more reliant on a cloud environment. Which, by the way, isn't more secure than Active Directory and is also public facing. The quick answer a lot of people come back with is "well just use Linux". That's easy to say. It's not easy or cost effective for a business to completely overhaul their domains off of Active Directory to a Linux equivalent AND have it work with end user computers that they know how to use even badly. Also you have to make sure your business software still works. Not everything is just a platform agnostic webapp. Mixing and matching Linux and Microsoft is an option, but it increases complexity for your IT department to have to handle as well. Some techs won't work on MS, some won't touch Linux, and not every place in the world has a near unlimited talent pool to draw IT employees. Another roadblock are insurance providers and financial institutions requirements. Fail to meet their requirements and you can lose your cyber attack insurance policy and your financial institution may stop acting as your payment processor. And finding a new one? They have a checklist you have to meet too. Just saying there are a LOT of moving (or unmoving) parts at play here, and it's never as simple as people want to believe.
AI door hinges that operate on a subscription...in every door of your home...
Vany, any thoughts?** spoiler omitted ** Data centers. AI. AI data centers. Cryptocurrency. This is a scourge. CEOs are convinced they have to have AI or they'll be left behind. In order to power all this AI...data centers that wreck the local areas where they're being built - power grids don't have enough supply and it relies on the local water supplies for cooling. Which takes away from the drinking supplies...and drives up everyone's electric bills as demand outstrips supply. Video cards have been problematicly priced and have had scarcity issues for several years now due to cryptocurrency. Also, they have RAM chips built into them. We're coming back to that. Yhe companies that make SSDs (effectively just persistent RAM chips) and RAM see a cash cow with the corporate data center push and no longer feel the need to cater to the consumer markets, to the point of publicly announcing they're leaving those markets entirely. This issue isn't going away in a year or two without something drastic happening...like an AI powered device killing someone.
I don't think that Freehold sheds that much. You would be surprised.
Keyboard.
I'd eat your cheesecake. Wait... Yes. That is what I meant.
I need everyone's address for...no reason. Scint/Orthos first. I see you have chosen violence.
That's the sort of behavior where I start wondering when the police officers are going to show up at the door. Holidays!
Happy birthday, you gigantic goof.
I was an only child, sole heir, and executor for my mother's estate. It was 2 years before I was able to touch any of it.
'Sup, FaWtLfolk?Hiya! Long time no see :) Admitting your mistakes and taking responsibility goes a long way. It won't fix it, but you don't need me to tell you that.
I've now been working for 10 days straight, and 13 out of 14 days.Employees pay with organ failure because we don't pay employees enough to get a bunch of them is NOT a viable business model.... Snow removal in WI. It's hard to get people willing and capable. Most quit fairly quickly.
*hugs*
I would simply like to add my voice of agreement to this sentiment.
Yes. And my cats looked at it, said nope, and I haven't been able to get it out of my house since. My wife bought it against my wishes because I knew our cats weren't going to touch it. I would pay a lot of money to make it disappear. I'd think about hiring David F'in Copperfield for a private show to get this outta here.
If I knew you wanted one of those I'd have shipped you ours. For free.
...I get that. My maternal grandmother was born just before the Depression... All of my grandparents were Depression era. Grandad (paternal grandfather) was the only one who would talk about it much. "During the Depression I was just grateful that I was a boy. It meant I always had something to play with when I woke up every morning." I was 6 when he told me that.
Put up a sign pool closed due to alligators and hope there isn't a druid for whom that's a bonus?I worked at 2 hotels in Florida that had outdoor pools. Gators were always a possibility. Never happened while I was there, but heard about it happening previously, and another hotel nearby had it happen while I was down there. It happened to my in-laws.
I used to have a couple of those as well.
I was personally and directly informed that I am not allowed to provide Valeros a proper blowgun to avoid future dart swallowing.
Probably should give the lad back some points if he doesn’t own a monocle, smoking jacket, and fluffy white cat. No. He just needs to try harder. Maybe spend some of that money to get the proper accoutrements. Truly commit to it.
When the bar is "which one at this price point is the least crappy"...
I hate printers and copiers. I'm generally not fond of the companies that sell and/or lease these devices to other companies. I utterly detest technicians that lie to their customers and tell them that I'm the idiot who's doing everything wrong. For some reason they get very silent when I send them proof of their incompetence, include the customer on the email, and explain it so that the customer understands my point.
Huge congrats to them.
Owls well that ends well. Oh dear. There he is again. Just when I was convinced it was all a hallucination, the voices come back to say "Hi." And then they wave. Just like a lunatic. And I always wave back. I can't stop myself. Not even sure if I want to. Not all of the voices are bad you know. No I don't know where this came from. Why would you ask?
Mine do the same thing, but it's usually in St. Louis.
At least the cop was reasonable about it with the verbal. I know one city in between us where they would have gone straight to a ticket with no discussion on the matter.
"Checking email" is not even considered a daily task at some organizations. I have someone that will only converse via email on Tuesdays.
Justified people rant Hey, don't send them over here. I got enough of them to deal with already.
I lost my humanity years ago. Err...umm... Hi!? (Yes, good recovery. I'm certain no one noticed.)
Let's make the water turn black! You have got to stop whispering such sexy things into my ears.
Or he wanted to walk 4/10ths of 500 miles so he could walk 800 more.Drugs. I have never liked that song, but I like it a little bit more now just because you caused Freehold pain.
Drugs.
Cosmo. Dude. We've talked about this. It's Friday. You killed power to an entire town last night. I was *eventually* able to get my client's servers to come back up and behave normally, but it took a few hours and I have to get a root cause on why the SAN took four hours to stabilize after coming back up. Then I got notified that a different client in a different town in the complete opposite direction was having horrible noises coming from their server room. Go out there and yeah...UPS battery backups aren't supposed to make crackling sounds. This is all on you. Knock it off.
Yeah, 93F with 75% humidity is not doing me any favors. I'd rather do 105F in Arizona than this.
If you didn't leave a message, then it wasn't important and I'm not calling you back.
I blame Cosmo for also being one of the people who bought that corner store. Also for picking the other buyer, who is likely Cosmo's clone. I blame Cosmo for cloned sheep as well, obviously. The logic is sound.
Oh, I knew you were going to enjoy that one.
Yes, I will make that speech naked. Adds to the absurdity of the request.
I have been asked again, by the same person at the same client. The request was a report of all employees who have more than 200 unread emails in their mailbox and how much over 200. No. "So how am I supposed to know who is behind in their work? Open all their emails? Please advise?" I can't tell you how to manage your employees, but I can tell you that's a useless metric for basing anything from. I can also tell you "No.". You should also STEP DOWN AS THE CEO.
Obviously you agreed to do it. No, I didn't. *I* found it creepy. Also, I don't have the level of access needed to furnish the client with the requested data. And I'm very happy for that to remain true.
Today I was asked by a client to do something both creepy and also illegal in multiple countries. It was a great day.
On Wednesday I worked from 8am until 6:40am Thursday. There will be whisky.
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