Good luck with that.
When manglement makes wide-ranging decisions that affect employees completely differently than they expect.
Our group supports another group. Two different laptops. The group we support has two different VDI networks we use, one of which is pretty close to being air-gapped. In fact, it used to be exactly that and for good reason.
Many hoops have been jumped through to enable us to be able to use our email on all of these platforms. Now, we’re migrating all of our email to M365. This means that the long-established system to gain access to Outlook no longer works. It is only available in the browser client through office.com. Well, that secure network doesn’t access the internet in any way. It’s also where I do 90% of my work. I only have room for one monitor at my desk. I’ve made switching back and forth between the networks work for me with the KVM switch and some clever connections. However, if I don’t have easy access to my email and scheduler, you can expect me to miss a few things here and there.
Now, luckily, I and one other member of my team seem to be the only ones in the entire division who haven’t been migrated. Yay. I’m an outlier, as per frikkin’ usual. I haven’t actually experienced the pain that this has caused. It was sprung on us all at once via an email sent out yesterday morning telling people that it was happening and what they had to do in order to properly back up their contacts and older email and whatnot. No warning at all. One day to do it or it’s gone forever. Missed the email, sick, or on vacation? Too bad. The literal SCREAMING that is going on right now is just staggering.
Sounds like a shit show. Also the Outlook web client is not good. I have regular Outlook for my client email but have to use OWA for my employer email and I hate it. Sounds like your manglement hasn’t considered what a Charlie Foxtrot this will be. Whenever I’ve been part of something like this, it was planned months in advance.
Oh wow, that sucks.
Good luck.
You know your day is about to suck when your doctor emails you after standard blood tests and says that you should stop drinking alcohol and orders even more tests. I don’t drink at all…fuck
Corporate overlords had agreed to an overhaul of WTFHelpdesk’s compensation structure a few months ago. Talks were had between managers and people, and it seemed like it would be a decent bump for everyone. Was supposed to take effect April 1, got delayed for reasons I don’t know.
New compensation letters have finally come out. I go and check mine…wait a minute…do some math…
New compensation is about 5k a year less than what my manager was making it out to end up for me. (For reference, my previous compensation worked out to about 37.5k/year. I was led to believe this new compensation would bump me up to ~45k/year. After mathing new hourly rate * 40 hours/week * 52 weeks/year, it only works out to about 40.5k/year, so that 5k is a pretty comparatively large chunk)
Manager’s off this week. I shot him an email letting him know of this and will be talking to him the first opportunity I can, because this some bullshit if it ends up sticking.
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Hopefully you haven’t developed Auto Brewery Syndrome.
@e4tmyl33t , definitely don’t let this stand. My own Corporate Overlords keep saying there’s tons of tech jobs out there if you aren’t being taken care of.
While that’s true, a fairly large portion of them would likely require me to relocate, which I’m completely unwilling to do, which is one major reason that I haven’t left this shit company at this point (I’m over 10 years here)
Finding a full-time WFH job that will STAY WFH for someone who’s basically spent the last decade as a technical helpdesk SME/knowledge manager is…not fun. And I know just about nothing on actual application development beyond very very high-level concepts.
Good luck, and all of the best…
I’m glad that May 2021 is over. The entire month sucked, especially the part where my family and I watched my mother in law lose her battle with cancer over the first half of it.
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I’m sorry for your loss. Watching someone battle with cancer or any other serious illness sucks.
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I’m sorry for your loss. 
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I just got off the phone with my sister. My mom has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
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I’m sorry to hear that. I’ve seen what that disease did to one of my grandmothers years ago.
Oh, I’m so sorry. That’s another one that’s hard to watch.
I’m sorry to hear that. I spent an afternoon with my (deep breath) mother-in-law’s husband’s mother who is senile. She loved Noodle but asked us how old he was approximately eight times over the course of maybe 5 hours.
I think she knows she’s slipping and tries to cover by ‘mishearing’ or other defensive behaviors.
The really ugly part: due to some family dynamics she has (over the last few weeks):
- Gone on an road trip three or four states away she really didn’t want to go on and was a ‘test drive’ for moving.
- Got COVID on said trip.
- Got a pacemaker due to issues from COVID.
- Got home and was forced into quarantine with family that she was possibly sick of.
- Had an attack of some sort last weekend that involved an emergency room trip. Thought at first to be a stroke, but thankfully not.
I’m at a remove from this but it still makes me feel bad for her.
Belated condolences to all above.
That sucks major big time
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Our 21 yo cat is nearing the end.
She was a shell of herself about 6 months ago, not eating and wasting away. I started feeding her some squishy food and she snarfed it down greedily. She’d been fed kibbles exclusively from the second I got her. Now, that’s all she’ll eat. I assume her teeth have gone a bit soft. She has put on some weight and is much less feeble.
However, she is very unsteady on her feet, can’t jump up very well, and her back legs are very stiff. She sounds like a peg-legged pirate when walking. I’ve made little sets of steps for her to use to get up on the couch and her favourite chair. She can manage to go down the stairs (infrequently) to use the litter box down there, but we’ve moved one upstairs to make life easier for her.
She has started using the living room carpet as her personal toilet once in a while. Not all the time, just occasionally. It’s a traditional Persian design, so it makes finding the little butt bombs tricky.
She isn’t grooming herself, but we torture her once a week with a stiff brush.
She has become very bitchy and pushes the other cat out of any spot she wants. The ‘young’ cat (14 yo) is putting up with it, so far.
We just had a long discussion about her quality of life. The Dragonlady and I, not the cat and I. We’re at the point where we have to make the decision of when to have her put down. I mean, she can walk and use the box and eat and drink and get around the house, but 21 is a lot of mileage on a cat. She can see, we’ve been giving her a steroid so she can digest her food. I see a lot of life in her yet, but it’s almost her time. There may be a touch of kitty dementia.
I spoke with a vet this morning about the procedure, and they say that there’s a week’s wait for procedures like this. That’s a long time at the decline of the life of a cat. There is a mobile vet that will come to your house to take care of it, and we’re looking into that now.
#sadface
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