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Author Topic: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.  (Read 211635 times)

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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #750 on: May 10, 2010, 04:13:03 PM »

Every 30 minutes? Great Boris Yeltsin!

My normal policy is to fire one off at like 9:00 am and another at like 2:00 pm.

What about SAN snapshots?  You guys use those at all?

30 minutes seemed like over kill and there's a limit to how many VSS jobs you can run in any given day before they start complaining. SAN snapshots, I'm not too sure about. I, thankfully, only have minimal interaction with that aspect of the job. A different area handles them. I request space and they usually carve it out for me, unless it's from the iSCSI array. Then I do it myself.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #751 on: May 10, 2010, 04:16:28 PM »

Boss: Hey, come out to the shop and help me tear apart these greasy, filthy 12 year old computers.

Me: How about tomorrow, when I'm not wearing $80.00 dress pants?  :roll:
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #752 on: May 10, 2010, 04:22:09 PM »

Boss: Hey, come out to the shop and help me tear apart these greasy, filthy 12 year old computers.

Me: How about tomorrow, when I'm not wearing $80.00 dress pants?  :roll:

Yup, I was tasked at my old job to help FM&P tear down a gigantic sorter machine and it pretty much wrecked my outfit.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #753 on: May 10, 2010, 04:26:42 PM »

You know, it's not that I'm prissy about getting dirty in the course of my job or anything.  But I bought these pants at Brooks Brothers, ferfucksake!   :x
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #754 on: May 11, 2010, 02:27:02 PM »

Woo hoo!  I don't have to go to this complete waste of time tomorrow! 


Here's how I got out of it.

Me: [to my boss] This thing you wanted me to go to tomorrow, it looks like a complete waste of time tomorrow.

Boss: Ok.

*20 minutes later*

Boss: [sticks head into my office] Hey, you know that thing I wanted you to go to tomorrow?

Me: Yeah?

Boss: I think I'll just have you skip it.  It looks like a complete waste of time.

Fin.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #755 on: May 12, 2010, 07:16:07 PM »

Isn't it great when people reliably steal your ideas?
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #756 on: May 13, 2010, 09:03:25 AM »

Isn't it great when people reliably steal your ideas?

My sentiments exactly.  His idea, my idea... I don't care, as long as I get out of it.  :)
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #758 on: May 21, 2010, 09:42:57 AM »

Him: Here. Set up this incredibly complex ticketing software I just discovered three minutes ago and didn't bother reading anything about.

Me: Where?

Him: Er.  I'll make room on one of our virtual hosts.

Me: You mean the virtual hosts that are already inadequate for the jobs they're barely doing now?
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #759 on: May 21, 2010, 09:57:02 AM »

I had a great time explaining to one of the bosses that just because he have a ESX server, that doesn't mean it magically can support an infinite number of virtual servers with a bajilliangazillion RAM each.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #760 on: May 21, 2010, 10:00:46 AM »

I don't know how to take notes.

All through high school, college, and church, I never needed to take notes. I would listen, study the material and pass the test via memorization. The only things I ever jotted down during lectures were the comments made that were not already in the text provided. My notes are like "..." long. Everyone else would be filling up notebooks and I would be memorizing texts. I never officially taken notes in my life.

The new job requires me to take a recording or transcription of a meeting and turn into detailed business notes that can be turned into the grant givers to prove that "this is what we did with all your money". I don't know how to do this because I've never taken notes before.

Things I have learned about note taking so far:
1.) This is an art form not easily learned.
B.) This is not a numbered list
III.)This is going to take a while before I catch on

What I'm going to have to do:
Sit down and tell my boss, "I don't know how to do this, because... well... I've never had to do it before."

I never thought something that was an advantage to me in school would turn out to be such a pain in the ass at work.

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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #761 on: May 21, 2010, 10:41:28 AM »

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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #762 on: May 26, 2010, 09:57:00 AM »

Dear Adobe,

I can appreciate why you insist on force-feeding the "Adobe Reader Speed Launcher" down Windows' throat.  By cramming the entire fucking program in memory on boot, it really does speed up opening PDFs.

However, I feel I should point out that this is the wrong way to do that.

The correct way to speed up launching Adobe Reader to open PDFs is to eliminate some of the ridiculous and unnecessary bloat from the program itself and tighten up your gawdawful code.

It's a PDF reader.  It doesn't need to drag a poor old Windows workstation to its knees just to open a 12 page document.

For examples of how this can be accomplished, see other PDF readers, such as Foxit Reader.  They managed to create a PDF reader that doesn't put an obnoxious and resource-wasting "speed launcher" into Windows' startup routine (that takes msconfig.exe to remove) and still fires up in the blink of an eye.

Learn from that, Adobe, and maybe I'll start installing your PDF reader on servers and workstations again.  Until then, ta.

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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #763 on: May 26, 2010, 10:09:41 AM »

Dear Adobe,

I can appreciate why you insist on force-feeding the "Adobe Reader Speed Launcher" down Windows' throat.  By cramming the entire fucking program in memory on boot, it really does speed up opening PDFs.

However, I feel I should point out that this is the wrong way to do that.

The correct way to speed up launching Adobe Reader to open PDFs is to eliminate some of the ridiculous and unnecessary bloat from the program itself and tighten up your gawdawful code.

It's a PDF reader.  It doesn't need to drag a poor old Windows workstation to its knees just to open a 12 page document.

For examples of how this can be accomplished, see other PDF readers, such as Foxit Reader.  They managed to create a PDF reader that doesn't put an obnoxious and resource-wasting "speed launcher" into Windows' startup routine (that takes msconfig.exe to remove) and still fires up in the blink of an eye.

Learn from that, Adobe, and maybe I'll start installing your PDF reader on servers and workstations again.  Until then, ta.

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Dear Adobe,

What he said, and the horse you rode in on.

Hugs,

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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #764 on: May 26, 2010, 10:23:27 AM »

I should probably point out that Foxit Reader has its own obnoxiousness, but that's all in the checkboxes in the installer (which want to install a stupid toolbar, and hijack your searches to Ask.com of all places... as if!).

Once it's installed, Foxit is a perfectly fine PDF reader for most purposes.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #765 on: May 26, 2010, 02:20:15 PM »

I started using Foxit after that one thread.

The only problem I run into is opening .pdf files in a browser. I get the 'ol 'server busy' error with the "switch to .." and "reset" options.

Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, but it's a small price to pay in my mind to get rid of Adobe Reader and it's Sumo Grip on my computer's balls.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #766 on: May 26, 2010, 03:21:24 PM »

I actually rip FoxIt reader out of all the Dell machines with images I receive.   Since it's pre-installed it's got tentacles in places that I really do not like.  I may have to go back and give it a try.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #767 on: May 27, 2010, 08:41:58 PM »

Same thing happened to me with this job at the university. They got lazy and didn't check back with Florida for my Florida state background and I ended up having to wait another week before I could start.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #768 on: June 14, 2010, 10:51:17 AM »

Most people understand that there is always more than one solution to every problem.
Let's pretend you are one of these people and you just found 2 ways to transfer the configuration of a network device to your PC for backup reasons.

The first method works and meets your requirement. The second (which is basically the same, just with a few added switches or options to the command) does not work and the connection times out.

Do you:

1) Just use method one and forget about the second. Who cares? Especially when method one meets your requirement.
a) Open a case with the manufacturer of the network device's tech support because you absolutely MUST know why the second method doesn't work. Never mind the fact that you have a workaround that meets your requirement, you have to know for what reason, in an ocean of variables, the second method doesn't work.

Just curious.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #769 on: June 14, 2010, 11:06:44 AM »

a) Open a case with the manufacturer of the network device's tech support because you absolutely MUST know why the second method doesn't work. Never mind the fact that you have a workaround that meets your requirement, you have to know for what reason, in an ocean of variables, the second method doesn't work.
That one.

Just curious.
And that's why.

I am, of course, not proud of that, but I would be viciously curious as to why the second, if it's so similar to the first, does not work. I wouldn't be able to forget about it. I don't know that I would pester IT repeatedly for an explanation after being told "just because", but I would have to know, even if that meant pestering some geek in a forum somewhere.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #770 on: June 14, 2010, 11:28:11 AM »

The second (which is basically the same, just with a few added switches or options to the command) does not work and the connection times out.


Why doesn't it work?
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #771 on: June 14, 2010, 11:31:16 AM »

Yay, finally have job to bitch about.

Don't get me wrong, I love what I do. But I'm one of those writers who gets about 1000 words into a short story and is convinced it's shit, no matter what. I have no ability to judge my own work objectively.

...so I guess I'm bitching about myself in relation to my job instead of the job itself. :w:
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #772 on: June 14, 2010, 11:51:04 AM »

I am, of course, not proud of that, but I would be viciously curious as to why the second, if it's so similar to the first, does not work. I wouldn't be able to forget about it.

Why doesn't it work?

Horay! Job security!
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #773 on: June 15, 2010, 04:36:50 PM »

I've done that before.  I also have a nice storage room that only a handful of us have access to.

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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #774 on: June 15, 2010, 05:21:04 PM »

I can't keep doing this redundant work. I cant keep my eyes open. I sneak off to the bathroom every once in a while to take naps... Those are nice.

How much sleep are you getting at night?
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