@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

packing for a trip to Kansas for a week

Don't forget the correct footwear

I'm presently flying the ship solo, coworker on vacation. Got my coffee in my left hand, vape in my right. I'd say I wasn't especially concerned about this as I can deal with most anything that comes up however I know that Murphy's law never sleeps.

@RojoLoco Riding home from work on my motorcycle like....

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

reading this: https://kutv.com/news/offbeat/florida-man-thought-he-stole-opioids-took-laxatives-instead?fbclid=IwAR0k3WGgKGCOmgIV686olix10X9_6iHJUAyDn9b8RVIOrkAdnFsMUPx73IA

O... My ... Goodness ....

I had to explain who "Florida Man" was to my uncle, much hilarity ensued

@scottalanmiller said:

"get board members with a clue".

Complicated problem, easy answer, tough to execute

Dell Optiplex 3020, generic desktop, nothing special.

User booted it up, USB wouldn't respond. Tried a few different devices, unplugged all but keyboard, just nothing would work. Meh, no big deal, shut it off and took it back to the bench for a quick troubleshoot before calling Dell.

At the bench, it worked flawlessly.

Ok fine, bad peripheral or something stupid, went back to see the user working away just fine on the loaner desktop, the same peripherals, no problems.

Wanting to be careful because this is an odd one (and I really hate having to revisit an issue), I checked the event logs. I see it's been going to sleep and waking back up every 2-6 minutes for more than 12 hours solid.

This poor thing was going to sleep mode then being woken (mouse vibrating?) for probably days like this. The event log was so long that I didn't want to waste more time scrolling through it.

Seems fine now but holy smokes I've never felt so bad for a computer before.

!!You got hired by ancient failing company that's chock full of staff. Please add 50 stress counters as you watch your coworkers get pink slipped each day. As you watch you know the clock is ticking until they come for you too....!!

@scottalanmiller said:

My guess is that they were not expecting actual IT people to try to jump in and were afraid that real IT knowing what was going on would risk big time exposure.

If that's the case, why didn't they hire me

I got a very promising phone call for my career today, I'm quite chuffed and there isn't anything work can do to get me down today.

Famous last words.......

@IRJ said:

We are so quick to point everything out as racism these days. Its really sad

I agree, it's just a really short sighted (stupid) move they did to block certain names. Racism implies intent.

A place for me to spill my thoughts on working with these things. Feel free to chip in if you have a thought, suggestion or test you'd like to see done.

@dafyre said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

@wirestyle22 said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

@dafyre said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

@travisdh1 said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

@stacksofplates said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

@travisdh1 said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

Well, my first interview is Tuesday, even before my final pay check is due

Congrats. Doing what?

Branch IT support for a Fortune 500 company in Columbus, OH. Lots of opportunity for promotion from within the company. Also, the same company my brother-in-law works for, so it was easy to get my name in front of the proper people instead of having to get past HR first.

Knowing people helps... My first ever IT job I got of my own recognizance, turns out I was friends with the guy's kid, ha ha ha.

I'm too much of a homebody to ever know anyone. All of my friends are all over the country now

So next time you job hunt... look where your friends live!

Indeed

I've yet to get a job in IT that was not through my contacts

@Dashrender non-standardized keyboard layouts are the evil equivalent level of emperor palpatine.

When you can't find somcthing obivous (with big words), speel it incorectly for more reults.

Is she winking at me or buying a chocolate bar?

Questions that should be unnecessary.

Contact established with Support at 1:30pm, email at 4:42pm requesting permission to reboot, I replied immediately, box rebooted at 4:46 with all errors cleared. I'm a happy camper.

Received the exablox oneblox units and they're setup in the "ring" now. Still highly dubious of any product that I can't find a single bad review or issue with. Time will tell and the abuse of these two will begin soon.

Oh no! Whatever will I do!

Yeah never mind

Most likely a call before you dig error but crazy that they have no other fiber lines into the place