I have just finished the main storyline of Assassin's Creed: Unity.
Oh, boy, the controls are annoying and I care little for the overwrapping story (the series would be perfectly fine, if not better with the modern memory-searching arc never introduced in the first place, with each game being simply the story of assassin's and templars in the corresponding periods), but I liked the story in period, the characters (Marquis "We used each other"* De Sade), and visiting XVIII century Paris (though the controls made the traveling around less pleasurable than it could be).
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I am not helping it, am I?
I say fit them for a nice pair of shoes. Of the cement variety...
Nice!
On the other hand, it might be an improvement over WW...... Dr. Darling...... Dr. Darling...... Dr. Darling...What have I done?!
We haven't been at the gaming table with NH, GothBard, the Impii and Shiro in three years, so he isn't much of a Whingey Wizzard anymore.
I mean, he could be The Gamer Formerly Known as Whingey Wizzard.
Dr. D. is temporary.
I feel like their is a different story for everyone of the lyrics of that song though.
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I have a book somewhere where they compile the stories of how he wrote every Nirvana song.
I have a book somewhere where they compile the stories of how he wrote every Nirvana song.
That's freakin sweet.
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Glad NH is ok and had everyone help him while he was hospital bound . Yes, I'm like 90 comments late. I've been busy trying to get back to Ohio. Which is going well. Tala has two companies emailing her job offers later today, so we can apply for apartments proper with proof of (coming) income.
I was never into Nirvana, or any grunge music really. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is the only Nirvana song I could name or recognize.I have a book somewhere where they compile the stories of how he wrote every Nirvana song.That's freakin sweet.
Challenge accepted!
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But not untouched. No. It had been moved. And disorganized. When I left, there were stacks of queen flats, queen fitted, king flats, and king fitted sheets. All organized and ready for to be bundled with the appropriate sized top sheet, put into bins, and then put away in the housekeeping closets. I come in, and all of that has been put into a bin, more or less at random. All the fitted sheets were together, and all the flat sheets were together, but the kings and queens were all intermixed, so I had to check each one as I took it out to make sure it was the size I needed. And all the top sheets had been folded and stacked. But, again, they were intermixed, so I had to check each one to see what size it was. Which involves partially unfolding it so I can see the tag. Which isn't as big a deal as it may seem, since they were all folded incorrectly as well. So even if they had been organized by size, I still would have had to partially unfold them, so I could refold them, and make the bundles.
And, of course, the mound of laundry from today's cleaning was completely untouched in the corner. So I had to sort those, and am working my way through it all. I'll get it done, there isn't anywhere near as much as yesterday, but it's really f~%*ing annoying. And knowing that I'll probably have about this much tomorrow since the manager is working 2nd shift again doesn't help me maintain my calm.
Can we set it on fire now? Or at least the manager?
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Why not both? Light the laundry aflame and then toss the manager on.Can we set it on fire now? Or at least the manager?But not untouched. No. It had been moved. And disorganized. When I left, there were stacks of queen flats, queen fitted, king flats, and king fitted sheets. All organized and ready for to be bundled with the appropriate sized top sheet, put into bins, and then put away in the housekeeping closets. I come in, and all of that has been put into a bin, more or less at random. All the fitted sheets were together, and all the flat sheets were together, but the kings and queens were all intermixed, so I had to check each one as I took it out to make sure it was the size I needed. And all the top sheets had been folded and stacked. But, again, they were intermixed, so I had to check each one to see what size it was. Which involves partially unfolding it so I can see the tag. Which isn't as big a deal as it may seem, since they were all folded incorrectly as well. So even if they had been organized by size, I still would have had to partially unfold them, so I could refold them, and make the bundles.
And, of course, the mound of laundry from today's cleaning was completely untouched in the corner. So I had to sort those, and am working my way through it all. I'll get it done, there isn't anywhere near as much as yesterday, but it's really f~%*ing annoying. And knowing that I'll probably have about this much tomorrow since the manager is working 2nd shift again doesn't help me maintain my calm.
Sounds like a plan!
On the one hand, it's nice to have the house to ourselves again.
On the other hand, knowing that the tile edges still need to be sealed, the transition needs to be installed, the giant pile-o-garbage in our side yard needs to be hauled away, I need to show Head Contractor all of General Contractor's mistakes, and then I need to fix them all, I wish these two buffoons would get off their butts and finish up.
And as I mentioned, I'm sitting on a five-figure payment they won't see until they're done, so you'd think there would be a little motivation there.
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HR, my manager, and the manager above him are so concerned about the health and well-being of their employees that their response is...they can quarantine at the office and keep working. "We'll just tell people that try to go into their areas that they can't go into their areas."
I don't even know where to begin.
Their actual concern is that Operations has hired for thousands of work-at-home positions and IT has to get the computers loaded, packaged, and shipped out, and management decided to have all of it done at one location. By three people.
As I've been telling my management for close to a year, we're not staffed for that. We don't have the physical facilities for that. The three of them have no way of being able to fulfill this fever dream. My management is going, "They just have to work harder, get it all done every week, and Vany, you have to keep on them about limiting their overtime every week. We really need them to keep to about 40-43 hours." THIS IS NOT PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE WITH THE CURRENT SET OF CONDITIONS IN PLACE, AND EVERYONE WHO HAS THE POWER TO CHANGE THOSE CONDITIONS IS ABJECTLY REFUSING TO DO SO.
Surprising nobody who has rational thoughts about this, these three people are trying to quit. I'm not bothering to try to convince them to stay. I can't. I'm encouraging them to get out as soon as they can.
One of them has accepted a new position but that job doesn't start until May. One of them has already told HR they're about to quit due to the working conditions in that office, and that was before the COVID exposure. The third is making her budgetary calculations to determine if she can pay the bills for the next couple of months with the stimulus checks and quit to look for another job.
My suggestion is to move this process out of the existing office and into a separate small facility...like an old mechanic's garage or a Morton building or something. As long as it's in a location we can get reliable dedicated data circuits in. Something that has storage, easy access for deliveries/pickups, room to work. Start with hiring about 10 additional people to do nothing but inventory, shipping, imaging, and that whole process. Pre-approve for the hiring of 10 additional positions that can be filled if the initial 10 people aren't enough. Let the three existing IT people handle everything else that still has to get done.
And then the most important part of this: get this done before it becomes a problem. We already know it's going to be a need. Get it done 2-3 months early and start the processes and numbers at a small, easy to manage clip so that when the numbers ramp up quickly it's not as difficult to adjust to the increased pace.
Granted, I suggested that around June/July of last year, when Operations knew they were going to be doing this starting in September-Nov. Management finally allowed for the hiring of a single temp last December. That revolving door of people has been spinning ever since as a 1 week with someone and 2 weeks to get a replacement after they quit pattern (and that doesn't increase the chances of spreading COVID AT ALL). Within the last two weeks they finally had two permanent people start...but management didn't let them do any of the technical part of the job, and limited them to just unpacking and packing of boxes. Yeah, those two have quite predictably quit. HR has advertised it as an IT job, and are trying to attract IT people. Other than imaging, which is a repeatable process that can be taught to just about anyone, nothing about this is actually IT. It's inventory and shipping. In this company, they've left that under the IT umbrella.
Yeah, I can't keep working here.
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Vany, get a job as a night auditor. Join Vid and I in the pain. You too can learn to hate people. And room parties.
I've been in IT for 23 years. I'm not saying there's not more to learn in this field, but I'm pretty sure I'm on post-doctorate work at this point. I'd have to go into criminal justice to hate people more.
Additionaly, I have enough trouble bringing myself to do my own laundry.
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I must be a night auditor savant, because I've never had the job but I'm already an expert at hating people.
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Today I'm performing an urgent analysis of service requests submitted to Global Megacorporation by customers. And I really do understand the bitterness and hate among service and IT professionals.
"This import didn't work! It says, 'Parent record not recognized'!"
"I checked your system and the parent record doesn't exist."
"This web service used to work but now it doesn't!"
"I checked your system and you updated your own password but didn't fix the autofill on the request form."
"This process is generating an error!"
"We deprecated that process in 2018."
It really is land of the, "Checking the manual or my own work is too hard! You need to do it FOR me!" crowd...
Champion Bugler I may be, but I'm certainly no Bugle Major, no.
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I managed to get my reports finished and submitted on time. Tonight I get wine and ice cream for my efforts.
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Glad NH is ok and had everyone help him while he was hospital bound . Yes, I'm like 90 comments late. I've been busy trying to get back to Ohio. Which is going well. Tala has two companies emailing her job offers later today, so we can apply for apartments proper with proof of (coming) income.
That is excellent news!
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Wow. Some of these service requests really boil down to, "Can you read the docs to me out loud?"
Seriously.
The one I just documented was, "I want to do this <simple thing>. Can you please send me the steps?"
So the agent linked them to the doc with the steps, and they insisted on a call. Where the agent read the doc out loud to them while they did the steps. And they were happy.
This person should not be allowed near any computer, much less implementing enterprise-level software for major corporations.
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My suggestion is to move this process out of the existing office and into a separate small facility...like an old mechanic's garage or a Morton building or something. As long as it's in a location we can get reliable dedicated data circuits in. Something that has storage, easy access for deliveries/pickups, room to work. Start with hiring about 10 additional people to do nothing but inventory, shipping, imaging, and that whole process. Pre-approve for the hiring of 10 additional positions that can be filled if the initial 10 people aren't enough. Let the three existing IT people handle everything else that still has to get done.
I started my IT career working for a company who specialized in 'leasing' IT Personal on a temp worker base to companies just for this kind of thing.
Every worker was on the payroll for the company, and then they would just send you to some other company to fill in for a while. Whether it was project base, to cover for temporary extra needed personel.
It worked like a charm.
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Vany, get a job as a night auditor. Join Vid and I in the pain. You too can learn to hate people. And room parties.I've been in IT for 23 years. I'm not saying there's not more to learn in this field, but I'm pretty sure I'm on post-doctorate work at this point. I'd have to go into criminal justice to hate people more.
Additionaly, I have enough trouble bringing myself to do my own laundry.
Oh, come join me and do IT for a huge non-profit organisation where the IT level of some people is that you have to explain that if the power is out the computer wont turn on.
Yes, Im sure.Yes, computers use power.
So does the internet.
My suggestion is to move this process out of the existing office and into a separate small facility...like an old mechanic's garage or a Morton building or something. As long as it's in a location we can get reliable dedicated data circuits in. Something that has storage, easy access for deliveries/pickups, room to work. Start with hiring about 10 additional people to do nothing but inventory, shipping, imaging, and that whole process. Pre-approve for the hiring of 10 additional positions that can be filled if the initial 10 people aren't enough. Let the three existing IT people handle everything else that still has to get done.I started my IT career working for a company who specialized in 'leasing' IT Personal on a temp worker base to companies just for this kind of thing.
Every worker was on the payroll for the company, and then they would just send you to some other company to fill in for a while. Whether it was project base, to cover for temporary extra needed personel.
It worked like a charm.
Well, what I put up there was actually my second suggestion. Before that, and the one I'm still bringing up in a Cap Yesterday style "2nd Edition fixed that" running gag...this area of the company utilizes a lot of VDI, and all you need is to either go to the website or use the VDI client software - same address in either case - and you can access the VDI.
You...don't...need...company...supplied...computers...for...this...
I know Bring Your Own Device policies aren't magical panaceas for all work-at-home ills, but we're already not reimbursing our employees for making them use their home internet, and we're dictating how good of home internet they have to be paying for to maintain a reliable connection to the company network. What's one more step of "use your own computer to go to this website and work from that"? A LOT of companies already do this.
"35 monitors were lost by the shipper."
"Bring Your Own Device fixed that. Hope they were insured."
"It's February and we've already spent our entire shipping budget for the year."
"One, the company knew this was coming, so why wasn't the budget for this expanded over previous years to compensate? They have all the projected new hire numbers in front of them plus historical data of turnover. Also, Bring Your Own Device fixed that."
I know I don't have all the answers, but I do know a company that's going out of its way to trip over their own feet when I see it.
Also...this gem...
IT: "We don't have computers in stock for all these people. We have to buy more. A lot more."
Finance: "Ok."
Three Months Pass
Finance: "Why have you bought all these computers? You've spent your entire budget for the year for new equipment. You should be using the equipment you already had extra in inventory!"
IT: "We did. That covered about the first 500-750 employees."
Finance: "Prove it by tomorrow. Anything extra you spend on new equipment this year has to be approved by the Operations side now, because the money will be coming out of their executive bonuses."
IT: "..."
Me: "You know...BYOD..."
IT: "Shut up."
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Vany, get a job as a night auditor. Join Vid and I in the pain. You too can learn to hate people. And room parties.I've been in IT for 23 years. I'm not saying there's not more to learn in this field, but I'm pretty sure I'm on post-doctorate work at this point. I'd have to go into criminal justice to hate people more.
Additionaly, I have enough trouble bringing myself to do my own laundry.
Oh, come join me and do IT for a huge non-profit organisation where the IT level of some people is that you have to explain that if the power is out the computer wont turn on.
Yes, Im sure.
Yes, computers use power.
So does the internet.
Yep. Have to go through that too. And the Operations people ask me what I'm doing to restore power to the building.
I've also been asked to fix an elevator.
And someone reported a broken coffee maker to me.
And 6 years ago I was asked to reboot the internet because a website wasn't working right. Quite literally. They put in a ticket for it and everything.
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Wow. Some of these service requests really boil down to, "Can you read the docs to me out loud?"
Seriously.
The one I just documented was, "I want to do this <simple thing>. Can you please send me the steps?"
So the agent linked them to the doc with the steps, and they insisted on a call. Where the agent read the doc out loud to them while they did the steps. And they were happy.
This person should not be allowed near any computer, much less implementing enterprise-level software for major corporations.
Sorry, I have a very specific kink.
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I HAAAAAAAAAATE WRITING PROGRESS REPORTS.
It's 300 words per kid. It shouldn't be that difficult. But I get the same feeling I used to have writing term papers, because I feel like I'm the one being graded and judged.
I would suggest writing up each kid as a SupaStah! wondrous item, but that's probably the wrong answer.
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It just shows you how much crap people are willing to put up with for nice weather.Everyone accuses California of being inauthentic.
So why do people keep moving here!?!?!?!?!?
{Mr. Rourke impersonation:} Welcome to Fantasy Floridas Man IsLand!
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I like people.
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I like people.
I like individuals. People drive me nuts.
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I like people.
It's a blessing that you do. Maybe it comes naturally for you. Some people are just friendly folk.
Honestly? Being cynical isn't exactly fun and it's rarely intentional. It's not like most folk grow up wanting to disdain their fellow human. Most of us are just burned out idealists who've been disappointed too often by standards set too high. Some of them are just grumpy bastards.
I think you being from the Midwest helps. I swear that was the most friendly place I've ever lived.
...and will again. We just signed our lease! It's not AS cheap as the last place, but still cheaper than this dump, but bigger, and with amenities in the complex, and away from the college/party/noisy part of town.
Yay!
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I think you being from the Midwest helps. I swear that was the most friendly place I've ever lived.
...and will again. We just signed our lease! It's not AS cheap as the last place, but still cheaper than this dump, but bigger, and with amenities in the complex, and away from the college/party/noisy part of town.
Yay!
Congrats!
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Try this one: I love people. I hate the public.
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Hmmm...I came in tonight, there is nothing in the washer, there are two bins of sorted laundry, two bins of unsorted laundry, both dryers are full, and the good dryer said that it finished the last cycle more than 9 hours ago. I wonder if the manager did any laundry?
I think you know the answer to that.
Mrgh.