I have total certainty about our future.
So now weâre all going to be like jolly sardines in a tin.
Because companyâs cutting down on expenses. One leased building have to go, and we all have to move back into the main building.
As for now we have no idea where IT (me) is going to sit⌠I need a workplace - a desk is NOT a workplace to plonk computers/laptops/etc onâŚ
This is going to be so interesting. I may be hiding in the server room permanently after this move. MUhuhaha.
No, my former boss has not returned to take back her old job. But yes, I would very much like it if she did that. And yes, if she wants to recruit me when she lands another job, assuming the offer is right, Iâd easily work for her again. Get some semblance of order back in my work life.
Calm down with the stationery, itâs an office email not a MySpace page.
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Can I like this more than once?
And who the hell does an orange cloudy background with a script font? Like anyone to actually read your email?
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Thank you!
And curse you Microsoft, for even including this in Outlook. For personal emails, on non-business emails, maybe. Business? Hail no!
I used to get a ânewsletterâ from a distant acquaintance. Purple swirly-script font, peach blossom background (and brighter peach blossom margins!), and five images in their âsignatureâ - with the obligatory âaffirmation of the dayâ, âword of the dayâ, and âBible verse of the dayâ. Saying that the signature was as long as the body of the email doesnât begin to illustrate the horror.
Iâm done for the day.
I had a screen cap at work of a signature block employing six fonts and five colors. It was about half a page by itself.
We had an actual signature block policy that limited things to a single font and color and to only include specific information, but it was widely ignored by important people. This example was one such.
PST files are not allowed. If you donât believe me, go ask $IT_Director. Heâll tell you the same thing. Iâm sorry your online archive doesnât work the way you want it to. Perhaps you should put in a ticket for us to address that problem rather than trying to use a workaround that is specifically prohibited.
It appears that youâve taken the idea of âeverybody is in salesâ and expanded it to be âeverybody is required to be in sales and has a quotaâ. Do we have time for this? Of course we do! We have nothing else to do all day except look for ways to bring you money.
This.
Iâve implemented a standard email signature across $company (which also prevents any fonts or stationery from being applied. Muahahaha).
Our SOE included signature templates but more than a handful of users had modified the font and colour, and title. One guy here (whose last name is Miller) even slapped on the âMiller Chillâ logo in place of the $company logo.
We have a standard, but it includes the âX best place to work in Indianapolisâ and âHealthiest X Company in Indianaâ logos. Which on some peopleâs interpretation of the signature is pretty big. Most people, myself included, just copy and pasted the sample. There are some people here that work for more than one of our companies, I donât envy them.
And for replies my signature is my name and my phone number, thatâs it. I hate it when the signatures start piling up in a chain.
I can understand people who put quotes on their signature, but I donât get the ones that canât keep it under two lines.
Also, your email disclosure needs to go. No one reads it, you have it half grayed out anyway, and itâs short novel length.
Our corporate standard includes a changed-every-month graphic, links to FB, YouTube, and LinkedIn, plus our own information.
NONE OF THAT IS NEEDED ON INTRA-COMPANY MAIL, D@MN IT!
Most of us on the tech side get that, and use a plain text
Name | Title | Phone
but plenty do not.
Our ticketing system adds all attachments when you auto-create a ticket via email, or reply to add to one.
So tickets get 6 attachments WITH EVERY REPLY.
Iâd hate to think how many FB icons we have in the attachment storage.
This.
As if my emails go to someone else before getting to me. Itâs not the post office. If someone else is opening your email, then you need to change the password on your computer.
No, you cannot have your old monitor back. Why do you even want it? I took your 20" 4:3 aspect ratio monitor and gave you a 22" 16:9 one. Give it a couple days. Youâll get used to the 16:9 aspect ratio. The old ones are going to the land of shattered hopes and broken dreams (aka e-waste recycling).
tl;dr: Users donât deal well with change, even when it works in their favor. I wish I could blame it on older folks being set in their ways, but this woman is 26 years old, tops.
So the one VM host decided to have a little tete-a-tete with a borked RAID-5 array, and went south to greener pastures.
I was running two virtual Smoothwalls on said VM host. This caused the scan 2 email funtionality to bork horribly (as it could not find a proper gateway to the 'net) and other fun things.
One rebuilt later (Smoothwall is very quick in deploying from scratch) and things was up and running again. But now for some queer reason DNS is not working nicely. Opened the DNS ports, the DNS server resolves correctly and all that⌠butâŚ
Will sort this stuff out sooner or later. For now the lusers are quiet (they can now scan and email their preciouses documents again).
Lessons to be learnt from this :
- When a RAID array shows a borked disk, replace ASAP AFTER doing a good backup.
- In my case said disk was never replaced because this machine was deemed a non-critical system. And thereâs no money in the kitty eitherâŚ
Need to start a new thread actually. But, ya, damagers donât understand fully the issues with RAID5 vs RAID6⌠they think if you have RAID youâre all good to go. And having backups is OK.
It is NOT. It is preferable to replace the faulty hard drives ASAP because of unwanted downtime, having to rebuild the server and all thatâŚand that WILL cost more than a 1TB (or 2TB or whatevaaah) hard drive.
Damagers - they exists in order to enforce red tape 
This is so damn true. I swear in a RAID the other disks copy the error.
Who the hell designs an enterprise-y database-driven program/process in such a way that it assumes that one user account will only ever execute said program/process? And then falls over when a second user runs it (not even concurrently! On different days!)?
Okay, on one hand, I appreciated the effort that went into making the event a little more special for a few people. On the other hand, I wasnât really enjoying having to take 4.5 hours out of my work day for what amounted to a 15 minute meeting that could have just as easily been handled through e-mail. But since you canât e-mail food (yet), we had the meeting.
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No, going from importing the new hire data thatâs already in the HR system into the payroll system to manually entering it into the payroll system is not an improvement.
Oh, wait. I did say that. And she still didnât get it.