What Are You Doing Right Now
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@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Talking to people in India who are telling me it's against policy to give me access to systems that I am required to use in order to do my job...FML
They are just doing their job... exactly the way they have been instructed to do it. Word by word.
Not saying it's the same with all the people from India (that would be stupid, there are > 1 billion people), but I've heard a story once where an Indian company was tasked to build a small website. "There shall be links on the left side in a menu". They did just that: Putting the word "links" multiple times there.
I love getting told to send emails and open tickets when we've done this, MANY times, and we constantly just get ignored...
Maybe you missed to add some keywords like "inquiry", "invoice" or "order"
Or words like "DO YOUR F***ING JOB ***HOLES!" Well, maybe not...
Everyone could say that to you too though. I try to give people the patience I want. Granted I'm human and I'm depleted of resources sometimes.
It just gets frustrating being told to send emails and open tickets, when we've done that multiple times, had them closed without follow-up or just blatantly ignored, and we ask again, because there are only a few things we do here onsite, and I'm missing access to one of the most key systems I need, as well as the system I use most often...and if my coworker isn't here when I need that done, it doesn't get done right now. Including an AD password reset...lovely right?
I get it man. Believe me. The owner of my company literally does not want to hear a single excuse and I think it's very much to my benefit. I didn't realize how many excuses I made before I started working here. I don't blame anymore anymore and I take everything upon myself. If something happens outside of my control I just accept responsibility and he respects me for it. I actually think @JaredBusch is very similar to my current boss. I think I'm going to grow a lot professionally but also as a person working here.
I'm learning a healthy amount of apathy working here. Basically, if they won't give me what I need to do my job, and I've done my due diligence and made sure I have my own CYA in place, I'm not stressing about it. It still gets frustrating working with people who wouldn't qualify to work retail tech jobs...
Yup, remember... NOT getting access is part of your job is that is what policy dictates.
It's not policy. It's just incompetent people not doing their job. But you're right. Not my circus, not my monkeys. If I can't do my job because I haven't been given the ability to by people above me, and I've made sure to do my due diligence, I'm covered and it's on them, not me.
Yup, pass on the fact that you are blocked, make sure you are not hiding it. Don't complain, don't act like something is wrong... just make sure you aren't the blocking point and enjoy the time off.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Talking to people in India who are telling me it's against policy to give me access to systems that I am required to use in order to do my job...FML
They are just doing their job... exactly the way they have been instructed to do it. Word by word.
Not saying it's the same with all the people from India (that would be stupid, there are > 1 billion people), but I've heard a story once where an Indian company was tasked to build a small website. "There shall be links on the left side in a menu". They did just that: Putting the word "links" multiple times there.
I love getting told to send emails and open tickets when we've done this, MANY times, and we constantly just get ignored...
Maybe you missed to add some keywords like "inquiry", "invoice" or "order"
Or words like "DO YOUR F***ING JOB ***HOLES!" Well, maybe not...
Everyone could say that to you too though. I try to give people the patience I want. Granted I'm human and I'm depleted of resources sometimes.
It just gets frustrating being told to send emails and open tickets, when we've done that multiple times, had them closed without follow-up or just blatantly ignored, and we ask again, because there are only a few things we do here onsite, and I'm missing access to one of the most key systems I need, as well as the system I use most often...and if my coworker isn't here when I need that done, it doesn't get done right now. Including an AD password reset...lovely right?
I get it man. Believe me. The owner of my company literally does not want to hear a single excuse and I think it's very much to my benefit. I didn't realize how many excuses I made before I started working here. I don't blame anymore anymore and I take everything upon myself. If something happens outside of my control I just accept responsibility and he respects me for it. I actually think @JaredBusch is very similar to my current boss. I think I'm going to grow a lot professionally but also as a person working here.
I'm learning a healthy amount of apathy working here. Basically, if they won't give me what I need to do my job, and I've done my due diligence and made sure I have my own CYA in place, I'm not stressing about it. It still gets frustrating working with people who wouldn't qualify to work retail tech jobs...
Yup, remember... NOT getting access is part of your job is that is what policy dictates.
It's not policy. It's just incompetent people not doing their job. But you're right. Not my circus, not my monkeys. If I can't do my job because I haven't been given the ability to by people above me, and I've made sure to do my due diligence, I'm covered and it's on them, not me.
Yup, pass on the fact that you are blocked, make sure you are not hiding it. Don't complain, don't act like something is wrong... just make sure you aren't the blocking point and enjoy the time off.
I try but it's frustrating wanting to help people and not being able to. Also, if I am unable to do it, and my coworker has gone for the day, he will most likely have to come back to the office after he's already left for the day, meaning he'll be put into overtime, and have to leave his young daughter to come 20 minutes back to the office to unlock an AD account. The cost, financially, and in a ding to moral, could be staggering for this one system not allowing me access.
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I hereby renounce "Sysadmin Day 2016" as I just found out that this year it coincides with my evil ex's birthday.
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Doing some serious cleaning in the garage. So much stuff being thrown out.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dominica was playing with Play-Doh
Is dannngerouuus and could attack at any tyme.
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dominica was playing with Play-Doh
Is dannngerouuus and could attack at any tyme.
TUX!!!!!
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Watching a concussion training video.
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Just hit your head hard. You need a video to teach you that?
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@scottalanmiller said
Just hit your head hard. You need a video to teach you that?
Uh, watching a video on how to diagnose concussions???
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said
Just hit your head hard. You need a video to teach you that?
Uh, watching a video on how to diagnose concussions???
Ah, is that the follow up to the one on how to give one to yourself?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said
Just hit your head hard. You need a video to teach you that?
Uh, watching a video on how to diagnose concussions???
Ah, is that the follow up to the one on how to give one to yourself?
Yes but you need to watch it BEFORE you give yourself one so you know what to do.
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said
Just hit your head hard. You need a video to teach you that?
Uh, watching a video on how to diagnose concussions???
Ah, is that the follow up to the one on how to give one to yourself?
Yes but you need to watch it BEFORE you give yourself one so you know what to do.
But then you have to remember when the time comes to use what you learned...GL with a concussion...LOL
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said
Just hit your head hard. You need a video to teach you that?
Uh, watching a video on how to diagnose concussions???
Ah, is that the follow up to the one on how to give one to yourself?
Yes but you need to watch it BEFORE you give yourself one so you know what to do.
Or else you don't remember to watch the second one
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said
Just hit your head hard. You need a video to teach you that?
Uh, watching a video on how to diagnose concussions???
Ah, is that the follow up to the one on how to give one to yourself?
Yes but you need to watch it BEFORE you give yourself one so you know what to do.
Or else you don't remember to watch the second one
Beat ya to it!
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Also upgrading all my unused Windows 8 retail license keys to Windows 10.
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Traffic is up dramatically over the past few hours. No idea why.
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@scottalanmiller said
Traffic is up dramatically over the past few hours. No idea why.
Willy (me) is back in da hizzouse.
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said
Traffic is up dramatically over the past few hours. No idea why.
Willy (me) is back in da hizzouse.
word.
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I found some books that I wrote when I was a little kid while cleaning the house. this is some good stuff.
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Every time I see the addy to colocationamerica.com
I read
Which makes the little cartoon shield/flag look much more amusing than I care to admit.
