If there are so many concerns about people needing to use the Ethics & Compliance Hotline that you need to put an icon on peoples’ desktops for it, maybe there’s a larger problem in the company that no one’s talking about? Either there’s too many Ethics concerns, or you don’t trust people to find it on Yammer despite the fact that everyone gets opted into following that channel (even after unsubscribing, you get re-subscribed a month or so later) and spammed with messages from that channel weekly.
What’s that saying about how companies hire? A companies hire A players. B companies hire C players?
Maybe you shouldn’t be talking openly about “we don’t need to achieve perfection, B+ is our real goal.”
I know that I’m not an A player. But I want to be one. Which means I need to surround myself with A players who I can learn from. And I don’t think I’ll get that here.
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Choose mediocrity, and you will be forever saddled with it.
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We’re way past the configuration stage for this project. We’re in validation. If you’d actually attended the configuration sessions - all of which you were invited to - you could have brought up your questions/concerns then. Now is too late.
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Wow, so you just posted right on LinkedIn that you’re looking for a new job and AFAIK, you’re still working here. That’s…a choice.
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Where can I drop my CV off for an once-over by you guys?
tl;dr Force10’s boss and IT director take their jobs entirely too seriously.
Email from my boss this morning:
Hello $Force10,
Why wasn’t I notified you’d be leaving early 11/27? I don’t have any email, Webex, or phone call notifying me. As has always been the case, I need to be aware if you will be out or are unable to work your normal shift.
What I wish I could say:
Are you fucking serious right now? An hour, on the day before a holiday when a bunch of people are already gone? That I put in the proper PTO request for (albeit about an hour before I left)? When literally everyone I support is in another state and my tickets are 100% remote? We’re not doing brain surgery here. No one is going to die. We’re not a call center that requires constant coverage. $This is a standard offer that $IT_Director always makes on the day before a holiday. And no I didn’t ask her because she was out of the office and I believe in leaving people alone when they are scheduled off. This impacted our operation not at all. It’s just that you and $IT_Director take this way too seriously. Plus she’s a control freak and you’re her enforcer. It’s bad enough I have to be in the office five days a week when it’s not necessary. because of the aforementioned control issues. $Old_Boss treated us like adults and pushed back against $IT_Director’s BS instead of enabling her. I’m starting to see why your site is down four techs and needs my (and two other remote techs also in California’s) assistance. You’re the complete opposite of $Old_Boss and I’m over it.
And of course the only email I received in that last hour I was supposed to be here was a coworker letting me know he received a laptop we were waiting on from an offboarding ticket. Hardly earth shattering. My employer is lucky the job market is ass right now. It’s been six months since I was assigned to work with the Colorado team My previous boss here in California (who sits like 20 feet from me) was very hands off and as long as the work was getting done and no one complained she pretty much left us alone. Now I feel like I’m working in a call center again with the level of micromanagement. I just last week graduated from having a one on one with my boss every day to once a week.
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What the frunk?
You know that snapshots are not a viable backup solution. That’s why only our team can create them; everyone abuses that idea. Snapshots are to create a restore point during testing. Snapshots are deleted automatically after 48 hours. Snapshots take up valuable resources.
For what you need, talk to the backup team.
I have personally told you this a dozen times before.
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Bosses be like : Incoming ransomware! Snapshot everything, that’ll protect our data!
Ransomware : cackles
Bosses : surprise pikachu face
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A good backup strategy means having storage available for backups.
No storage means no backups.
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A good backup strategy means never having to say you’re sorry.
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I don’t get paid enough to drink the corporate Kool-Aid. I know you make more than me but not enough to drink the Kool-Aid. So why are you? Get off my ass.
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Had a chat with the one contractor (employed by one of our clients).
Says his hours have been cut to halfday. He works from 08:00 to 12:30 then fuggoff for home.
His work (more than once) have asked him to attend a meeting in the afternoon, and he flatly refuses, because they will not pay him.
Nothing his company can do, he is legally justified to refuse to work for no pay.
Don’t get passive aggressive with me, young one. I am old and full of rage.
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Unprofessional? Nah. I just don’t have a stick up my ass.
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Thanks for making me feel and look like a fool, team.
(Today was supposed to be “ugly sweater” day. Guess who the only one wearing an ugly sweater is.)
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Yes, ‘restricted change window’ includes you. We will not be making any changes to the infrastructure at this time. You know this. Your request affects more than you might expect.
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Why am I on this call?
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2.5 years later, OneDrive is still slower than molasses in January.
Every time employees like myself are sent a new laptop, we have to have it retrieve a group of files for use on our jobs. We can’t manually migrate the files by copying them to an external drive and put them on the new laptop because the sync process won’t work right afterward. (The fact that it gets to a point where it still won’t work even when you do it right is a separate issue.)
I’m currently watching it take 5 to 12 seconds to retrieve files as small as 50KB. I’ll ballpark it and say there’s about 10K of files that total 40GB.
Every time on a new laptop or when I have to start over, it’s a multi-day sync process. And because these are corporate laptops, they like to go to sleep or they like to shut down when the human isn’t moving the mouse or pressing keys, and the sync gets interrupted and has to be restarted. (Before you ask, security on the laptop detects “keep alive” programs.)
This time, there’s a new level of teh suk. Either OneDrive changed how files are accessed since 2.5 years ago or someone on our corporate side changed it so the default is “files can only be accessed when OneDrive is running”.
These files are going to primarily be used in an offline state in locations where an internet connection may not be available or isn’t needed at the time. I’ve got it re-syncing after applying the “Always keep on this device” flag to all 10K files. I really hope that when new files are added to the repository that I won’t have to look at the sync folder on my laptop to see if the new files it retrieved also need to be manually marked to be kept locally on the laptop.
“Use OneDrive” they said. “You won’t lose any data” they said. “You’ll always have the newest files” they said. I need babysitting pay for this.
“Come out to the coast. We’ll have a few laughs.”
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