I Would Fire Someone For....
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So here's a story I'll share.
A friend was fired and here are the details I know.
Long ago a new server was installed. It was a VMWare ESXi host with SAN.
A backup solution was not purchased.
The IT guy asked for management to provide funds to purchase a backup solution. management said no.
There was not enough left over storage to use NTbackup.
Shadowcopy was used in the few instances where people needed a file restored.Old boss left, new boss onboard.
The network was hit by cryptoware on a Friday and not discovered until Monday, The Shadowcopy window was past. All data was lost.
New boss makes employee clean up the network and new boss approves new backup solution.
Several months go by, the new boss is micromanaging the employee.
New boss fires employee saying they don't have time to micromanage the employee.The employee believes the new boss was only micromanaging because of the previous failure, not because the employee wasn't getting tasks done, of course we can't know the reality of that situation.
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I would fire someone for...
...recommending Lenovo.
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@BBigford hahahahahahaha. too true!
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Neglect. Not doing your due diligence is a big thing for me. Checking that backups are running regularly. etc.
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Failing to learn basic functions, after repeatedly showing the employee how to do a specific function.
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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.
