I Would Fire Someone For....
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- Lying (I'm open for virtually anything, but flat-out lying is not ok)
- Stealing
- Keep doing the same mistakes over and over (after someone noticed that and explained the problem)
- Someone who keeps refusing to learn
- Pushing work to others -> laziness
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@BBigford said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
I would fire someone for...
...recommending Lenovo.
Seen similar comments to this before, whats the deal with lenovo?
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@tiagom said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
@BBigford said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
I would fire someone for...
...recommending Lenovo.
Seen similar comments to this before, whats the deal with lenovo?
Superfish is just one example
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@tiagom said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
@BBigford said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
I would fire someone for...
...recommending Lenovo.
Seen similar comments to this before, whats the deal with lenovo?
Some people don't like them, and IMHO there really was a large quality drop when IBM sold notebooks, servers and desktops to them. But on the other hand, IBM equipment used to be very good stuff. Still have a few 3550-M3 running (Xeon 55xx), rock solid. Not even fan failures or a broken power supply. So it isn't that worse (yet), but that's just my opinion.
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I would fire someone for causing dumbasaphobia.
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@DustinB3403 said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
@tiagom said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
@BBigford said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
I would fire someone for...
...recommending Lenovo.
Seen similar comments to this before, whats the deal with lenovo?
Superfish is just one example
There is so much bloat-, spy, crap- and whatever-ware installed on most notebooks from most vendors... When I get a unit, it gets a fresh image anyway. Or do you use an OS installed by someone you don't know on a machine that may hold confidential data?
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@tiagom They package seemingly any software with their devices. So much bloatware and it has historically had security vulnerabilities.
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@wirestyle22 said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
@tiagom They package seemingly any software with their devices. So much bloatware and it has historically had security vulnerabilities.
What are your reasons for choosing a server or notebook vendor? The installed bloatware or "valuable addons" like all the WLAN connection management crap? You are choosing a well-made device, the hardware, not the software. The preinstalled image is nothing more than a demo IMHO, and you shouldn't really use that for production.
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@thwr said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
@wirestyle22 said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
@tiagom They package seemingly any software with their devices. So much bloatware and it has historically had security vulnerabilities.
What are your reasons for choosing a server or notebook vendor? The installed bloatware or "valuable addons" like all the WLAN connection management crap?
Most of those "valuable addons" can be downloaded from the web anyways. Why anyone would bother with 'oh I really need that new locky variant...
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@BBigford said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
I would fire someone for...
...recommending Lenovo.
Sadly I'm willing to bet that tons of IT pros don't know about the Lenovo Superfish issue.
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@Dashrender Oh I recall it quite well... and agreed.
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@thwr said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
@tiagom said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
@BBigford said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
I would fire someone for...
...recommending Lenovo.
Seen similar comments to this before, whats the deal with lenovo?
Some people don't like them, and IMHO there really was a large quality drop when IBM sold notebooks, servers and desktops to them. But on the other hand, IBM equipment used to be very good stuff. Still have a few 3550-M3 running (Xeon 55xx), rock solid. Not even fan failures or a broken power supply. So it isn't that worse (yet), but that's just my opinion.
I'd say that most Lenovo gear is physically pretty good! I have two Yoga laptops from them. The first was released a year before Superfish was discovered, and the second a few months before. Luckily the second didn't have the issues when I wiped and reloaded it, where the first one I had to replace the wifi card myself before wireless would work correctly (crappy Superfish drivers!)
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@alex.olynyk said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
That wasn't just consumer lines tho. I remember posting something over on SW about them changing a bunch of product categories to avoid the backlash of having bad things appear on them. A week later, they did the superfish announcement. Didn't even try to hide their lies!
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I am aware of the Lenovo Superfish issue and we don't use lenovo here. But when i get new equipment first thing i do is format and reinstall to get rid of all the crapware.
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@tiagom said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
I am aware of the Lenovo Superfish issue and we don't use lenovo here. But when i get new equipment first thing i do is format and reinstall to get rid of all the crapware.
Superfish was BIOS level tho. Good luck getting rid of that.
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@thwr said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
@wirestyle22 said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
@tiagom They package seemingly any software with their devices. So much bloatware and it has historically had security vulnerabilities.
What are your reasons for choosing a server or notebook vendor? The installed bloatware or "valuable addons" like all the WLAN connection management crap? You are choosing a well-made device, the hardware, not the software. The preinstalled image is nothing more than a demo IMHO, and you shouldn't really use that for production.
Sure, maybe I could give that to you, but in the case of Lenovo, they actually put in hardware keys in some laptops that prevented you from using the wifi vendor's generic driver. You had to use Lenovo's on crappy Superfish driver, so there was no way to get away from it.
And if Lenovo cares so little for its consumer customers, why do you think they care more about their business customers?
Sadly people don't care about these things, like their privacy, and don't hold their feet to the fire, and corporations have deals already in place they don't/won't walk away from... so the problem will likely never be solved.
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@travisdh1 said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
@tiagom said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
I am aware of the Lenovo Superfish issue and we don't use lenovo here. But when i get new equipment first thing i do is format and reinstall to get rid of all the crapware.
Superfish was BIOS level tho. Good luck getting rid of that.
Superfish wasn't BIOS, their Lenovo support tool was. Superfish was in the Key'ed NIC and drivers.
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@Dashrender said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
@travisdh1 said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
@tiagom said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
I am aware of the Lenovo Superfish issue and we don't use lenovo here. But when i get new equipment first thing i do is format and reinstall to get rid of all the crapware.
Superfish was BIOS level tho. Good luck getting rid of that.
Superfish wasn't BIOS, their Lenovo support tool was. Superfish was in the Key'ed NIC and drivers.
Just goes to prove why to stay away from Lenovo, I can't even keep all the bad stuff they've done straight in my head (which one is the actual problem, my head or Lenovo I'll leave to you all.)
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and now back to why an IT person should be fired.
