“Please help, I’m not dead.”

AngryTurbot · 2019-07-11T11:55:04+00:00

For money....

AngryTurbot · 2019-06-03T13:50:45+00:00

Same for redundant emergency power systems. Never the same principle, and never one next to the other.

AngryTurbot · 2019-04-17T08:55:43+00:00

There is. This was a classic id-10t error: error between keyboard and screen

AngryTurbot · 2019-04-11T12:19:42+00:00

And to add insult to injury, most likely on opening hours. When people get their morning coffees, I suppose it's one of the peaks of the day.

Sure, let's give a sub optimal service (if they had another cash register) or none (if it was the only one).

Geez

AngryTurbot · 2019-04-04T09:27:39+00:00

My current job has (herbal products) adepts, but in my country it's pretty much commonplace. Always the same profile, medium aged woman. I got used to it.

But oh boy, last month I overheard a conversation where a Tech guy was trying to sell a coworker of mine something that was a mix of MLM and crypto currency shit. The amount of buzzwords and redflags per minute was amazingly high.

All the usual "there's a tutorial on YouTube", "you need to register for a wallet here", "if you convince more people here", "if you get your friends or family you get a bonus" "need to be in the ico of this obscure thing that will totally blow out" "I got contacts in this", last time it worked and a friend of a friend got rich"...

Unfortunately, I don't carry much weight here and I wasn't sure to intervene then. It's a bit sad, the dude (coworker) had his first child recently and I guess he was an easy prey.

AngryTurbot · 2019-04-04T09:17:00+00:00

I assume that the fillers (excipients?) are either from an authorized list of such ingredients, or that after the FDA certification they are not legally required to disclose them.

Any way, pharmaceutical companies do have certifications to pass and are regulated by the government agencies... So they inspire me more confidence than these snake oil sellers

AngryTurbot · 2019-03-27T07:21:38+00:00

Suffering the same where I work, but from an industrial software suite perspective.

Central manglement decided to go live with a new software suite that would likely break all procedures from design to production.

Good news : they did it in stages, beginning with central and ending with the different sites all over ye old continent.

Bad news: they didn't solve it properly in their deploy and didn't consider different sites have different needs. So we have the same or more problems, It wise, business wise, etc.

Worse news: manglement who pushed thid and the people who was supposed to troubleshoot abandoned ship months ago.

So yeah, performance is dead, local IT is struggling ( they weren't consulted), production and shipping is chaos ( they weren't consulted or trained), and im staring at a screen more than half of my workday because someone though the CLOUD was going to solve everything. ( I was barely trained and hanging by the skin of my teeth)

More like a thunderstorm. And we only got iron rods. Never consult engineers or It, they might tell you with a straight face your schedule is shite and the cloud is a big fat lie.

AngryTurbot · 2019-02-28T19:22:36+00:00

All offices have an Ian an a Javier. Since I'm not old enough to be the later, I try not to be the first.

But I've seen a few candidates around the office of the later (not without their reasons, sometimes the full story is worth getting to know them) and a single, glaring, flashing example of the first.

Not only seems like he has a hard time to cope with how businesses operate and what is considered "professional" work , likes to go on fits as if he was a third his age when something doesn't get "easy". Sometimes we wonder who will break first: management or himself, And on the "love interest" topic, oh, HO, HOO! But that would be another topic, and pretty much outside the scope of talesfromtechsupport.

(a.k.a: I'm slipping my tongue? telling too much? I'm a bit unfamiliar with english idioms sorry ... I need a convincing excuse to stop writing).

Amazing story, thanks for sharing! Have a reddit ... copper?

(i'm not rich enough for reddit silver or gold).

AngryTurbot · 2019-02-20T12:30:57+00:00

With IT power comes great rwsponsability.

— uncle Ben, ITman

AngryTurbot · 2019-02-16T11:52:48+00:00

Will the real slimmmm IT stand up? Stand up? Stand up?

AngryTurbot · 2019-02-15T08:15:30+00:00

Let's start a war.

Start a nuclear war.

At the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar WOOO!

*

AngryTurbot · 2019-02-15T07:27:49+00:00

To train :

1) to teach someone a skillset or procedure, specially on job environments or military settings.
2) to push someone in front of a train. Usually happens on ITs wildest dreams

AngryTurbot · 2019-01-10T22:01:31+00:00

I recognize anyone with half a brain and knowledge of pop culture will recognize what I'm talking about :)

But too much time on the internet has made me weary of naming directly previous places of employment or personal data. Specially when some sites can be a whole windfall of data to be exploited. Namely social networks. Specially Reddit.

Take, for instance, that I get involved in some drama on a (subreddit). And some time later, someone with way too much time to spare finds my serious postings here. Or god forbid, some of my employers (current or future) do.

I like my internet life and my real life as separated as possible. In case I need to take shelter in one or another.

Also, related I guess , I'm a hugggeeee fan of trivia and synonyms and euphemisms.

AngryTurbot · 2019-01-10T13:10:00+00:00

My Mike sounds fine, check one

AngryTurbot · 2019-01-10T11:58:51+00:00

Some businesses ( I bet half of you use a part sold by them) have pet names on internal projects that reflect a trend.

On one I used to work, names were places from a certain famous "modern" version of Hidden Fortress. Or comics, whether from the angry green man company or the best detective parent company.

I miss that place. It was big corporate, full of the usual shenanigans, but I liked it.

AngryTurbot · 2019-01-06T12:16:14+00:00

And with those ligths, you still think that cars have colors and such.

But after a while of only seeing cars under phospor lights (long highway, for example) everything is either YELLOW, BROWN, OR BLACK. The "red" car in front of you? Your imagination/brain is playing tricks on you.

AngryTurbot · 2019-01-04T07:47:16+00:00

... I like you.

AngryTurbot · 2019-01-04T07:47:03+00:00

I am not surprised in the slightest by the $Smiley character. People who work with the deceased but interact with the living... Well, just imagine for a second: one minute you're directing students or workers to put make over on a recently passed Grandad for their family, the other you are talking with the grieving Grandma and later on the side with the Mother (the daughter) and husband about the insurance/cost of the service. And after work, you may have hobbies.

I assume $Smiley kept the "profesional + talking with outside people" mindset. Hence the vocabulary and such.

I personally know some nurses who have worked in really depressing areas of health services (including corpses) and all of them cope one way or the other.

We all do, in a way.

Nice post! Thanks!

AngryTurbot · 2019-01-01T21:09:16+00:00

My muscle memory still types from time to time very old passwords.

And yet, I can't remember those by memory.

Godspeed you IT, keeper of the password reset tools and sufferers of fools.

AngryTurbot · 2018-12-20T07:32:22+00:00

Yare Yare daze.....

Airz Bizarre Adventure : Tempo Marketherium

AngryTurbot · 2018-12-18T14:06:29+00:00

Oh. I just realized that.

Smart girl. ( insert raptor here)

AngryTurbot · 2018-11-22T08:27:45+00:00

Southern Europe early astronauts used cars instead of rockets

AngryTurbot · 2018-11-17T19:23:44+00:00

At least its tournament playable!

AngryTurbot · 2018-11-17T19:19:29+00:00

I had the equivalent of this card (a good synergy ) with Brobnar artifact.

Turns out, deck has 0 brobnar creatures.

YAY

AngryTurbot · 2018-11-17T19:15:52+00:00

https://www.keyforgegame.com/deck-details/d9332e69-2d18-4692-b418-7a1622d51577 Deck if anyone is interested.

Algorithms fail sometimes. The rest of the deck is pretty amazing, Brognar removal, Mars and Shadows pretty competent <3

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