We have dedicated phone rooms…no one uses them for persona l calls…only for concall where they need speaker phones. Drives me nutz.
Autodesk has those.
At Wells Fargo, the break room was large enough that there was plenty of room to talk on the phone without annoying everybody else. In fact, one end of the room was a “quiet area”, and was used for calls often.
At Cingular, we had to go out to the very small patio to make calls. That was also the place where the call center director, at one point, confiscated all cell phones and locked the doors so that people couldn’t leave.
I stand corrected. Obviously “blithering idiocy” is a career choice.
You know, I’d be pretty happy too if you just decided to “work from home” every now and then. My day would be a whole lot quieter, more efficient, and less stressful overall.
Another laptop blagged.
That’s it. I’m seriously considering resigning and looking for something different.
Dear $Damager
Stop moaning about your $shit_laptop and start thinking ways and means to get lusers to be more responsible regarding company equipment.
We had to replace a lot of laptops (blagged/stolen) recently, the budget for new laptops is FUBAR, hence the reason why we have to purchase cheap $shit_laptops…
^ said damager ordered himself a top-of-the-line laptop…
…and the server’s continuing to creak ominously.
Par for the course, yay for that!!!
NOT.
Another pet peeve is that Finances and Procurement bypass IT directly.
Those two laptops that got blagged? I put in a RFQ to see what is there. Got a quote, forwarded it to Finances so that we can look at what is there and what we can afford.
THis was 9 days ago.
Today two new laptops got delivered. Windows 8.
Sans Office 2013.
Waste of money and time. Had they included IT in the loop, I would have told them what software to purchase.
LibreOffice will be installed instead.
The interns started only three weeks ago and already you forgot their names. Then you moan about how busy you are when you don’t even have to worry about the dozens of little things that keep this place running smoothly. Getting tired of hearing and seeing this kind of crap, man.
Thank you for forcing another update on $device that makes it run three times slower than it already did. I just love having to stand there doing nothing while I wait for it to process the command I gave it. And thank you for pushing yet more software on the laptop that also slows that down to where I’m having to make sure it’s disabled so I can, you know, actually be able to do my work with it.
The bad thing I was worried about and told everyone could happen a couple months ago is now happening. I told you it could, and everyone agreed that that would be bad and we shouldn’t be doing this this way. But we had already done it so we had to live with it. And now that it’s happening, it’s still my problem to fix it, despite the fact that because you all did it this way is why it’s a problem now.
We started (and finished) set up on a client that didn’t have finalized reinsurance rates, and now things have come up that are trashing the unfinal rates, that people have sent out as sold rates, while we still don’t have a check, or everything we need to go forward. If we hadn’t already set it all up we’d be waving goodbye to this client, as it is, I need to make it work.
I almost always can make it work, but just because James Bond can disarm a bomb hanging upside down from a biplane while being shot at by dozens of terrorists, doesn’t mean he’d rather not be doing it in a bar with a martini.
Dear $ProjectMangler
The next time WSUS and SEP need to be audited, send me to site rather. QA can do diddly squat.
Or you can go on pissing money away.
By the by, have you actually considered paying me extra for supporting $site? If not, then I won’t work for free.
Sure, I’ll be more than happy to pay off the money I owe the company that caused the incident that led to my disability, refused to grant workers’ comp, refused to allow absences so that I could get professional help, and then fired me.
Tell you what, have them take it out of my final paycheck, and the seven years of back-interest on it. Send me the change.
Ok, background first.
In self funded group medical benefits, which is where I work, there is something called reinsurance. Basically the client pays for the employee claims out of their pocket up to a certain amount, after that amount the reinsurer pays for the claims. So it’s a deductible for the employer.
We’re talking a minimum of about 20k and up to 1mill+. Usually in the size groups I work with it’s between $50k and $200k.
The nightmare group I’ve been working on is finally 99% worked up. But there is a heart patient at the group who is having some real problems. Predicted claims for the coming year are over $400k, and maybe a heart transplant. So, the reinsurer doesn’t want to insure the company on this individual at the group deductible of, in this case, $325k, since that would pretty much guarantee at least a $100k hit, and maybe a $500-$600k hit, and that’s more than they are getting paid for the whole group, bye bye profit and operating expenses.
They offer a $425k laser on the individual, and a contingent additional laser of $450k if he gets the heart transplant. A pretty fair offer for someone with uncontrolled diabetes and a ventricle replacement already installed. We get the client to accept this, yay!
And then they send me an update that he’s in the hospital with an infection in the device and will be in for X amount of treatment for Y weeks.
The thing with risk is that at some point you have to close the door on updates, you want to provide as much information as possible up front, but then stop when you are done. Otherwise it’s a constantly moving target. Everyone was happy before, now we’re back to square one.
Shit. It took you a month to get me the initial answers, and now you get diarrhea of the fucking mouth.
I did say a modified version of that, but I have a feeling I’ll be saying it multiple times this time.
Only an idiot would do a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead on a piece of tripe like Educating Rita.
And you’re overqualified.
Company have another entity, but totally separate. So without proper consultation done with me (and without renumeration adjustment) as well, I’ve become the “IT guy” for the separate entity.
Thought fuck this, and didn’t do anything when they asked me for IT assistance, but they, however, got somebody else to do their IT. Keep in mind it was in another office ± 15kms away from our current offices.
Recently the separate entity moved into an empty building next to us, then all of a sudden IT requests came in. Did a few, then decided to sod it all, and spoke to the one damager whose responsibilities also include this separate entity.
He told me that there were no contract signed with myself etc, and that I have the right to refuse doing work.
ANd guess what? Today they had an internet outage. Everything was fine on my side, as their server was in our server room, I checked internet access, everything was 100%.
So… the ball is in their court, not mine. If they want me to come do work for them, they can jolly sign a contract and start paying me. Not before.
I work for money. If you want loyalty, get a dog. Finish en klaar.
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Dear $Mangler
I don’t work for free. You guys installed the networking equipment, now there’s a big boo-boo about internet and emails not working. Yet it was all working fine until sometime last week?
Somebody changed something on the networking equipment, and it was not me.
Stop calling me. You may escalate the call to my Boss, he will tell you the same.
Good luck.
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And once again intelligent conversation is left laying in a heap of garbage, with its throat cut.