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Author Topic: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.  (Read 211633 times)

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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #25 on: March 21, 2007, 06:47:39 PM »

Those bastards!

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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #26 on: March 21, 2007, 09:16:15 PM »

Can I still go do the "fire on their necks" thing?
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #27 on: March 21, 2007, 09:35:56 PM »

If I cared enough to get worked up about it, I'd say go for it.  I'm just worn down and let down, and can't really be bothered to do much at the moment.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #28 on: March 21, 2007, 10:30:09 PM »

How 'bout a massage on the neck, then? Then when you feel better, we can go do the fire on their necks thing. How's that?

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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #29 on: March 22, 2007, 07:02:11 AM »

Thanks all for your well wishes.  Alas, I did not get the job.  I have no idea why.
Sorry to hear that. No being selected for a job you really want truely sucks and it would be good for you to find out "why". Call the manager and ask him/her.

There will be other opportunities. Don't let it get you down.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #30 on: March 22, 2007, 08:23:07 PM »

That sucks, V. :(
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #31 on: April 06, 2007, 04:23:25 PM »

I was informed last week that a set of test machines from a remote site that we housed locally where no longer needed, all the code data had been transferred, and that the machines could be decommissioned. So I went and removed them from the domain, did the normal decom procedure and then powered them off. Earlier this week Boss told me to go ahead and wipe them out entirely, gut them for spare parts and then chuck the machine onto the 'haul this shit away' pile. No problem. Ran the HP System Erase utility, removed the hard disks and put them in the spare cabinet, yanked out the RAM and the RAID card, then tossed the rest.

10 minutes ago I get a voice mail stating that some production machines were dependent on a process that was running on a certain test machine and that it needs to be turned back on so the guy who codes the job could move the job off the machine and onto a new server.

Ok, no need to panic. The machine is pretty much non-existent at this point, but I've got tape backups of it and I know for a fact that it was being backed up because last Thanksgiving I had to restore some files from tape to this machine so I'm not too worried yet. I fire up the restore console and browse to the machine name and see when the last back up took place.

Last backup date was the week after last Thanksgiving.

PANIC TIME!

 :? "Hey, boss, why did *server* stop getting backed up? Who unchecked it from the backup policy?"

"Oh, I did. We ran out of backup licenses and I didn't want to pay for more of them so I took all the remote site test servers out of the backup pool to save money. AREN'T I BRILLIANT?"

 :x "What the hell? They need a restore done now for an important application! What am I supposed to tell them?"

"SUCKS TO BE THEM LOL! By the way, do you like my new laptop? DUAL CORE!"

 :x "Yeah, it's much nicer than the one you bought yourself last month. And the one you got yourself at the end of last year because we had left over budget and you had to spend it all. What happened to those two anyways?"

"EBAY LOL"





I'm pretty sure he was kidding about the ebay thing, but why buy yourself new laptops and cellphones when we could have used the money for extra backup licenses?
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #32 on: April 06, 2007, 04:52:10 PM »

I love that babbling smiley. Very expressive.

I feel your pain, d00d.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #33 on: April 06, 2007, 05:07:39 PM »

Damn that sucks Xolik, you have my sympathy.

I spent 4 hours reconfiguring our DSL router. Some dumbass did a password reset. Just because he wanted to get into the linked pop box (not that we ever use it). After 3 hours I found out that although you don't use the firewall on the router, you still have to enable it with zero rules else it won't allow incoming data to the ip adress pool. So much for logic.

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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #34 on: April 06, 2007, 05:13:13 PM »

My condolences dude. I'd recommend a big slurpee and some MST3K.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #35 on: April 06, 2007, 06:32:33 PM »

OH GOD THE BACKUP TAPE IS UNREADABLE
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #36 on: April 08, 2007, 10:08:00 AM »

Try it backwards?
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #37 on: April 10, 2007, 11:32:15 AM »

OH GOD THE BACKUP TAPE IS UNREADABLE

Check your PMs. I sent you a little something...
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #38 on: April 10, 2007, 01:33:41 PM »

"Before you install this very complicated auditing software, you absolutely positively MUST read the 'getting started guide' ok, Xolik? You won't be able to do shit until you go over what is covered in this guide. For God's sake, read it cover to cover!"

 :-D "You got it, chief!"

*time passes as I search over every single .pdf sent to me for the 'getting started' guide*

 :? "Hey, boss, I don't see any 'getting started guide' in here"

"Oh, we had a problem with this in the past. That document may not actually exist."

 :x "I hate you with the intensity of a thousand suns"
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #39 on: April 10, 2007, 04:56:47 PM »

Translated:

QA:  Why doesn't this do what we want it to do but never asked for?
Me:  Hmmm.  Because you didn't ask for it.
QA:  Is it because we had you do something completely unrelated to this?
Me:  No, that doesn't affect this situation at all.
QA:  Would you have time to look at it and tell us why it isn't doing what we want but never asked for?
Me:  Yes.
... Time elapses...
QA:  Did you figure out why it doesn't do what we never asked for?
Me:  Yes.
QA:  Why?
Me:  Because you didn't ask for it to do that.
QA:  Interesting.
Me:  Indeed.
QA:  How hard would it be for you to make it do what we never asked for?
Me:  Hmm.
QA:  If you have time, can you make an estimate of what it would take to make it do what we never asked for it to do?
Me:  Yes
... time elapses ...
QA:  Did you make an estimate.
Me:  Yes, it will take approximately 3 minutes.  It took longer to figure out where the change was needed.
QA:  Ok, we'd like you to go ahead and do that.
Me:  Ok.


Sometimes I just want to bang my head against the wall.  OF COURSE, if I had just DONE what I knew they would want in the first place, they would log a million bugs about how my program "wasn't coded to specifications." 
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #40 on: April 11, 2007, 08:30:34 AM »

The girl who took over my job when I left here is out sick today.  So now everyone thinks that I can just do my old job AND the job of the woman that I'm actually filling in for this week. 

Well sure, I CAN....but I don't want to.  This is my vacation.  I want to sit here and answer the phone and sort the faxes and surf the internet.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #41 on: July 23, 2007, 11:44:12 AM »

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NO. I CANNOT MAKE YOUR SHACK LOOK LIKE A CHALET.
There is only so much photo editing I can do before it's just flat out lying to vacationers. Also, since I didn't have 5 MILLION dollars to spend on a villa in the Puerto Villarta I obviously have no sense of money. I live paycheck to paycheck and CLEARLY can't comprehend the importance of money. /sarcasm.

Jesus Christ playing ping pong, people! Just because you fall in that 1% of people that hold most of the money in the US doesn't mean you have to be such a douche. Maybe if you spent a little of that money on a digital camera instead of sending prints from 1974 you could book your whole ski season or summer season. Maybe, JUST FUCKING MAYBE, if you would shut your fucking mouth for 5 seconds I could explain to you how to point and click on the button that says "CLICK HERE TO UPLOAD PHOTO". AND MAYBE.....JUST FUCKING MAYBE.....you'll spend some of that money on a computer that runs something better than NETSCAPE 3.0 OR GET THE FUCK OFF AOL! THAT might just fix your view ability problems. JUST A THOUGHT!

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I really hate when I have to take tech support escalations on photo issues. I know I started out in tech support but I'm the photo editor now. [whine] I really shouldn't have to take these calls anymore when tech support is perfectly capable of telling these people the same shit I'm going to tell them.[/whine]
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #42 on: July 23, 2007, 11:50:33 AM »

Isn't the first thing that you tell them "Shut the computer down and wait two minutes.  Then restart your computer".

That should solve almost any problem, this according to most tech support I've ever spoken with.   :w:  :wink:

At any rate it should give you four or five minutes, longer on older machines, to think how best to screw around with them next.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #43 on: July 23, 2007, 12:29:15 PM »

Well, that's the thing, I don't do tech support anymore. I scan, upload and edit all photos for our site and deal with *complex photo issues. These kinds of things aren't issues I need crammed into my day since I'm pretty busy as it is with ski season coming up ;_;

*meaning when people don't understand uploading at 320x240 or need to go through all the legal processes when trying to upload copy written photos. Or even deal with actual bugs with the site not displaying the photos properly. The size issue is really dumb but takes me all of 2 seconds to fix so usually it's just easier to have them e-mail the photos to me and let me upload them. I HATE talking to customers now.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #44 on: July 23, 2007, 03:19:44 PM »

One of our Board Members is on AOL.  I can't believe I have to send reports to an AOL address.  Complete and utter idiot too. 

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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #45 on: July 27, 2007, 02:55:54 PM »

I swear I'm the only person that checks the goddamn server logs in this place. We've had a machine running with a disabled DIMM bank for two years, nobody cares.  :x
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #46 on: July 27, 2007, 07:05:20 PM »

I swear I'm the only person that checks the goddamn server logs in this place. We've had a machine running with a disabled DIMM bank for two years, nobody cares.  :x

You've had a machine for two years? The Board of Ed would love you.
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« Reply #47 on: July 27, 2007, 11:08:48 PM »

What I like the best about my job is the 'suprise maintenance' aspect. Especially when it's brought about by my own stupidity. The cables in one of the racks are just a total rats nest. I'm slowing moving servers out of one rack and placing them in another while doing a proper cable job because the guy before me was a total fartknocker. Well, this one pair of cables was so tightly wrapped up around each other that it looked to me like one big ball of twine. So I think 'fuck it' and give it good hard pull. They came out alright, along with the power cord to one of the SQL servers.  :-o

I learned a few things here: One is that you don't just blindly pull on cables even if it looks like you've got their layout all figured out and the other thing is that Compaq (HP) is run by a bunch of damn dirty liars. This server had two power supplies, both plugged in and getting juice, yet amazingly enough when one supply lost power the whole fucking thing shut down. When it comes back up again, it tells me the F: can't be found, which is not good because C, D, E, G, and H are all there and everything is local disk. After freaking about about 15 minutes going over reboots and trying to remount the failed disk, the log tells me that the F: bought the farm about 10 months ago and nobody noticed\cared and our monitoring software didn't do a goddamn thing about it.  :x

I'm going to make it my mission to go over all the ancient equipment in our data center and see what other gems I can find. Hell, today alone I found a bad DIMM and failed volume. Who knows what Monday will bring? It's like Christmas!   :lol:
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Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
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