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I am dangerously close to quitting my job with no backup plan.Well, depends. Usually as IT you can scrounge up enough blackmail material.
Just sayin
I'm dangerously close to quitting my job with no legal backup plan.
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Keep dressing like that and you might at least get unemployment and severance pay. And hey, maybe even a free psych evaluation!
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Keep dressing like that and you might at least get unemployment and severance pay. And hey, maybe even a free psych evaluation!
It didn't work for Yossarian.
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I am dangerously close to quitting my job with no backup plan.Well, depends. Usually as IT you can scrounge up enough blackmail material.
Just sayin
Ransom a bunch of key company data, passwords, and encryption protocols as you leave?
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I just finished Assassin's Creed: Mordor Shadow Of Mordor. Yeah, it was another game I paused playing while being basically a few steps from the end.
So the next obvious step would be installing Shadow Of War...
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It takes 107 GB on HD. o.O
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Seriously, User, person who I have been blaming Cosmo for, stop calling the company emergency line. You've had at least 4 different people independently tell you the same thing: You are having issues with your home internet. We can't help you with that.
She's called every day since Thursday, usually at least twice a day. I'm still on call until the 15th.
At this point, I think you need to escalate this case up to company HR and this person's supervisor/manager. You all have repeatedly explained the problem to this person. Not only are they wasting IT's time, they are demonstrating they are clearly too f!cking stupid and/or stubborn to listen to basic instructions. That likely means they're f!cking up their job in one or more other ways too. It's HR's job to protect the company from idiots like this.
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At this point, I think you need to escalate this case up to company HR and this person's supervisor/manager. You all have repeatedly explained the problem to this person. Not only are they wasting IT's time, they are demonstrating they are clearly too f!cking stupid and/or stubborn to listen to basic instructions. That likely means they're f!cking up their job in one or more other ways too. It's HR's job to protect the company from idiots like this.Seriously, User, person who I have been blaming Cosmo for, stop calling the company emergency line. You've had at least 4 different people independently tell you the same thing: You are having issues with your home internet. We can't help you with that.
She's called every day since Thursday, usually at least twice a day. I'm still on call until the 15th.
In the real world you would be absolutely right.
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64%...
Why it takes so long to install?!
Oh, right, 107 GB :/
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In the real world you would be absolutely right.At this point, I think you need to escalate this case up to company HR and this person's supervisor/manager. You all have repeatedly explained the problem to this person. Not only are they wasting IT's time, they are demonstrating they are clearly too f!cking stupid and/or stubborn to listen to basic instructions. That likely means they're f!cking up their job in one or more other ways too. It's HR's job to protect the company from idiots like this.Seriously, User, person who I have been blaming Cosmo for, stop calling the company emergency line. You've had at least 4 different people independently tell you the same thing: You are having issues with your home internet. We can't help you with that.
She's called every day since Thursday, usually at least twice a day. I'm still on call until the 15th.
She clearly hasn't been to the Midwest in a long time.
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And finished. Lets see how it plays...
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Night John.
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(I'm sure I've used some variant of this one before, but I like it.)
Hiring Manager: "Tell me your greatest weakness."
Me: "I am brutally honest."
Hiring Manager: "I don't think that's a weakness..."
Me: "Yeah, well, I don't give a f@%! what you think."
This is me and current manager right now.
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Jay-Z is DMing a D&D campaign for his son. Jay-Z's son is playing a fighter and is engaged in a grueling fight with a troll. The troll is clearly too high a difficulty for the fighter.
"Dad," Jay-Z's son exclaims in frustration. "The troll is destroying me!" Just at that moment, from behind a nearby hill appears an army of goblins led by what appears to be an intoxicated lich.
Jay-Z looks at his son and replies with a smirk, "Are you having troll problems? I feel bad for you, son. I've got 99 goblins and a lich on rum."
The perfect joke doesn't exsis......^^^^^^
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I'm sure there's a difference between ignorance and apathy, but I don't know and I don't care.
Oh hey that is my philosophy with hotel guests right now!
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Keep dressing like that and you might at least get unemployment and severance pay. And hey, maybe even a free psych evaluation!
Depends where you're working...
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Ransom a bunch of key company data, passwords, and encryption protocols as you leave?I am dangerously close to quitting my job with no backup plan.Well, depends. Usually as IT you can scrounge up enough blackmail material.
Just sayin
I was more thinking along the lines of thrawling exect level personel email to see if there are juice bits to blackmail them with.
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We approve!
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That's fair but The agents of hydra alias rarely considers consequences.
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The perfect joke doesn't exsis......^^^^^^Jay-Z is DMing a D&D campaign for his son. Jay-Z's son is playing a fighter and is engaged in a grueling fight with a troll. The troll is clearly too high a difficulty for the fighter.
"Dad," Jay-Z's son exclaims in frustration. "The troll is destroying me!" Just at that moment, from behind a nearby hill appears an army of goblins led by what appears to be an intoxicated lich.
Jay-Z looks at his son and replies with a smirk, "Are you having troll problems? I feel bad for you, son. I've got 99 goblins and a lich on rum."
You would prefer 99 Phil Collins' and a witch on drums?
99 Gollums and a Mitch turned nun?
99 Robins and he'll switch out guns?
99 columns and the snitch has a bun?
99 luftballons?
Are the balloons red?
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Considering that "99 Luftballons" is the German version of the song "99 Red Balloons", no. They are blue.Are the balloons red?The perfect joke doesn't exsis......^^^^^^Jay-Z is DMing a D&D campaign for his son. Jay-Z's son is playing a fighter and is engaged in a grueling fight with a troll. The troll is clearly too high a difficulty for the fighter.
"Dad," Jay-Z's son exclaims in frustration. "The troll is destroying me!" Just at that moment, from behind a nearby hill appears an army of goblins led by what appears to be an intoxicated lich.
Jay-Z looks at his son and replies with a smirk, "Are you having troll problems? I feel bad for you, son. I've got 99 goblins and a lich on rum."
You would prefer 99 Phil Collins' and a witch on drums?
99 Gollums and a Mitch turned nun?
99 Robins and he'll switch out guns?
99 columns and the snitch has a bun?
99 luftballons?
Then no unacceptable.
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That dice roller really doesn't like you.
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Blackmail is never as fun as it sounds.
Or at least that's what I gather from the people that have tried blackmailing me.
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How to fall down a flight of stairs:
Step 1.
Step 2.
Step 3.
Step 4.
Step 6.
Step 11.
Step 19.
I used different steps last time I did that. Hope I didn't do it wrong.
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I used different steps last time I did that. Hope I didn't do it wrong.How to fall down a flight of stairs:
Step 1.
Step 2.
Step 3.
Step 4.
Step 6.
Step 11.
Step 19.
You did! Do it over.
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In the real world you would be absolutely right.At this point, I think you need to escalate this case up to company HR and this person's supervisor/manager. You all have repeatedly explained the problem to this person. Not only are they wasting IT's time, they are demonstrating they are clearly too f!cking stupid and/or stubborn to listen to basic instructions. That likely means they're f!cking up their job in one or more other ways too. It's HR's job to protect the company from idiots like this.Seriously, User, person who I have been blaming Cosmo for, stop calling the company emergency line. You've had at least 4 different people independently tell you the same thing: You are having issues with your home internet. We can't help you with that.
She's called every day since Thursday, usually at least twice a day. I'm still on call until the 15th.
I am completely on your side in this Vany, but I am having an issue on the main job where the only thing my boss(who I have issues with, as you know) can tell the two part time workers underneath him(who are dealing with issues themselves and at least one of whom is just as far behind the times as my boss is with respect to technology) is to call IT. He legally cannot tell them anything else with respect to company laptops/property. Maybe there is a similar situation here?
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I was more thinking along the lines of thrawling exect level personel email to see if there are juice bits to blackmail them with.Ransom a bunch of key company data, passwords, and encryption protocols as you leave?I am dangerously close to quitting my job with no backup plan.Well, depends. Usually as IT you can scrounge up enough blackmail material.
Just sayin
Why not both?
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Freehold: No. I know what you're saying, but that's not the way we work.
We have made it clear to all of management that home internet issues are outside of our scope as a corporate IT department. Once we identify an issue as home internet, which our company doesn't even reimburse, the most we can tell a person is to reboot their home internet equipment and if that doesn't work to call their internet provider. For a variety of reasons both practical and legal we can't touch an employee's home network/internet. We tell them they can reboot their home internet equipment because most ISPs have the automated answering service (IVR) tell you to do that.
In this specific case we have had three technicians besides myself all independently come to the same conclusion: every symptom she tells us about speaks to a home network or home internet problem. My guess is a failing/flakey modem or router.
She has been told multiple times what she has to do. She just keeps calling the corporate emergency line instead.
Her manager was directly informed about the nature of the problem no less than four times by me alone.
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I'm glad I sprang for the super nice modem before the pandemic hit because we have two kids and the General all school or working from home plus me twiddling on my phone or watching something on an app and we haven't had any slow down or other issues.
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Also, my frustrations aren't just a user or three hundred. Management decisions that directly affect members of my team, yada, yada, yada.
My team is outnumbered by the operations staff by about 750:1 and getting worse. In the last 6 months they've hired over 2000 positions with about a 50% turnover rate. My US team has been allowed to hire 2 positions and eliminated 1. So...1. My US team also supports and assists the teams in the international offices.
Additionally, there's a lot of small business/family-owned business style thinking that simply doesn't work or shouldn't even be expected in a global company of thousands of employees.
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So, this was an interesting little "thing" I realized that's one more "different" thing about me.
Our contractor was talking about his $70,000 truck, and his $12,000 shotgun, and his $8,000 levels, and this, and that, and the other thing.
And I started wondering, "Hmm... what's the most valuable thing I own?" Other than the house, of course, because stupid Bay Area real estate. And the answer is likely the Prius, with a Kelly Blue Book value of $1951. We don't have jewelry, furs, gold, gems, or china. We don't keep a bunch of cash in the house. We don't have priceless antique furniture. And so it is that nothing I own is worth even $2000.
And I'm totally OK with that.
Guess I'll lose my membership card to Conspicuous Consumerism R Us, but considering our economic level I found it intriguing that we really don't own anything of much value.
The saddest part? The *one* thing that would have topped $2000 was GothBard's grandmother's wedding ring, which was bequeathed to GothBard in her will, but was stolen off her finger at the hospital when she went in for the final time.
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Guess I'll lose my membership card to Conspicuous Consumerism R Us, but considering our economic level I found it intriguing that we really don't own anything of much value.
Not as long as you eat at restaurants with expensive menu items, and travel for a month or longer in Europe.
Conspicuous consumption includes far more than 'possessing things'.
There's been a huge cultural shift to flaunting your "experiences" rather than your "things" as markers of wealth
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Ha! Our car isn't even worth a grand anymore I bet.
I guess you could say we're priceless.
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The saddest part? The *one* thing that would have topped $2000 was GothBard's grandmother's wedding ring, which was bequeathed to GothBard in her will, but was stolen off her finger at the hospital when she went in for the final time.
The f@&$?!?
Also, yay abandoning corporate inspired consumerism greed!
But mostly "the f@!%?!?" to that last part.
People are the f%~*ing worst.
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Guess I'll lose my membership card to Conspicuous Consumerism R Us, but considering our economic level I found it intriguing that we really don't own anything of much value.Not as long as you eat at restaurants with expensive menu items, and travel for a month or longer in Europe.
Conspicuous consumption includes far more than 'possessing things'.
There's been a huge cultural shift to flaunting your "experiences" rather than your "things" as markers of wealth
Multiple studies show that pleasant memories count far more for overall happiness than things possessed, so there's some reasoning for that.
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So, this was an interesting little "thing" I realized that's one more "different" thing about me.
Our contractor was talking about his $70,000 truck, and his $12,000 shotgun, and his $8,000 levels, and this, and that, and the other thing.
And I started wondering, "Hmm... what's the most valuable thing I own?" Other than the house, of course, because stupid Bay Area real estate. And the answer is likely the Prius, with a Kelly Blue Book value of $1951. We don't have jewelry, furs, gold, gems, or china. We don't keep a bunch of cash in the house. We don't have priceless antique furniture. And so it is that nothing I own is worth even $2000.
And I'm totally OK with that.
Guess I'll lose my membership card to Conspicuous Consumerism R Us, but considering our economic level I found it intriguing that we really don't own anything of much value.
The saddest part? The *one* thing that would have topped $2000 was GothBard's grandmother's wedding ring, which was bequeathed to GothBard in her will, but was stolen off her finger at the hospital when she went in for the final time.
Dude.
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About to go home. Good night, everyone.
NOOO!!! Don't leave me! ~sobs~
Have a good night!