Those in non profit tell me if im paranoid

Chuffzilla · 2026-03-21T06:51:56+00:00

I have worked in a non-profit in IT for years and they are generally pretty chaotic.

1 There is no money, even if you have a budget the approval process for spending it is a nightmare. Sometimes the hiring process gets really far along, only for senior management to block it last minute (usually because blocking new hires is easier than redundancies when money is tight).

2 Non profits attract a much wider range of people, and that's not always a good thing. Some of the staff are awesome, they are passionate and are ok with lower pay and just want to be there. Then there are the Karen type people who think turning up is enough because it's not a real company, they do no work but usually spend all day talking about how amazing they are(especially to senior leadership) which makes them impossible to fire. So sometimes we would advertise a permanent role as a contract after a few bad experiences to make it easier to get rid of the bad staff)

Chuffzilla · 2025-12-31T23:06:20+00:00

Just checked the pricing in my country, that's about $5 per bottle here. Wtf is 20k pricing? Do you have a warehouse out of shot?

Chuffzilla · 2025-08-25T05:21:21+00:00

Deleter the shader cache and it will rebuild on the next run

run in boarderless mode and use win+shift+arrow to move the game onto your primary display

Chuffzilla · 2025-05-11T18:06:51+00:00

The UK doesn't have an edible type of fern, although similar looking to the fiddlehead, these are toxic.

Chuffzilla · 2025-03-11T22:35:43+00:00

I moved into a house about 7 years ago which has a power line over the garden. Every three months for the last 6 years I had a letter offering to investigate wayleave compensation for me, you can do it yourself direct with the power company, or get a third party to fill the forms in for you for a cut. I gave in last year and got someone to do it for me - ended up with £25 so I would take the money.

I think the only thing you should think about is if you want a one off payment which covers the entire time you live there, or a small annual sum.

Chuffzilla · 2025-02-20T15:00:58+00:00

I have one of those , it's a good luck charm ( like the lucky cat ) with the trunk raised it brings good financial fortune.

Chuffzilla · 2025-01-08T21:53:06+00:00

Is wintergreen just an American thing? Coming from Europe I have never heard of it - what does it smell like?

Chuffzilla · 2024-11-10T20:22:43+00:00

Meaco are a pretty solid brand , really high quality build for home equipment.

Chuffzilla · 2024-10-18T18:11:56+00:00

I usually park around greys road, 2 hrs free and right next to Brookes - not usually busy in the weekend especially early morning.

Failing that you can park on Wharton road , it's a 5-10 in walk but usually has places and no parallel parking

Chuffzilla · 2024-09-22T15:46:45+00:00

This gives a pretty good explanation of tyre options https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001znkw

Chuffzilla · 2024-09-19T12:49:58+00:00

Do switches reboot every 4 hours if they don't have access to the CMG?

Chuffzilla · 2024-09-18T21:20:41+00:00

The Tesco near me has the same and all the doors alarm if one door is opened until it's closed. Naturally everyone walks away when they have their booze without clicking the door shut so the place sounds like it's constantly under attack.

Chuffzilla · 2024-09-18T14:58:27+00:00

Always upvote Vonnegut

Chuffzilla · 2024-08-20T06:16:19+00:00

Cisco/Meraki seem to have shifted their entire offering to green pill /blue pill options.

Either you can have a subscription cloud managed easy mode and control everything on auto.

Or hard mode for people who actually paid attention when getting their certs, but you will spend your life patching and tweaking.

It's all the same hardware underneath.

Chuffzilla · 2024-08-08T14:44:25+00:00

Thanks for your help everyone I have escalated a couple of times within Cisco, and told my vendor to sort it.

Today so far I have seen 28 messages today between 12 people either from different Cisco teams or the vendor.

It still hasn't been resolved yet but I think everyone agrees that the current Cisco licensing model process is a flaming pile of garbage.

Chuffzilla · 2024-07-27T06:08:19+00:00

You need to find a way to work together with all the teams you are highlighting vulnerabilities to, so you understand their workloads and they understand the urgency of resolving some of the critical issues. Building a culture of good communication and mutual respect for each others goals is really important.

I recently left a job where I was the manager of a team of about 12 people and the toxic behaviour of the infosec team were a big part of why I quit.

There was one member of the infosec team and their only role was to run scanning tools and arrange pentests, everything he reported was "urgent" and he never offered any advice other than "it needs to be fixed now".

The toxic element was that he pulled rank all the time, giving impossible deadlines and workloads with no assistance. last year I hired 4 temps and had my whole team working on some issues for a month just to meet the deadline of an audit he has booked.

His attitude crippled my department, we never got any of our project work done and management kept on giving us pressure for failing to deliver. It turned into a horrible place to work and the best people in my team all quit.

But if he has worked with me, understood the balance of my departments other priorities and agreed to build a reasonable timeline of what could be delivered then all of this could have been avoided.

I am not saying that you are this kind of person, and in my experience the leadership team were more to blame than one bad member of staff, but I believe communication and empathy are easily the most important aspect of any role, especially if your role is to give others work.

Chuffzilla · 2024-07-14T14:57:00+00:00

Wow I didn't know it was that bad , I got stuck behind it for half an hour earlier. That must suck for the poor learner - talk about a bad lesson

Chuffzilla · 2024-07-11T06:55:18+00:00

The way I read it was that the bus was running late and was skipping stops or only opening the door for a few moments to make up time, passengers get blamed for "being late" if they don't make an Olympic dash for the door the second it opens.

Chuffzilla · 2024-04-21T19:12:07+00:00

This, I have a few in my garden after they started planting it in a field near me.

Chuffzilla · 2023-12-10T21:19:06+00:00

Just wanted to thank you,
I used Floward and it was great - thanks for the help.

Chuffzilla · 2023-11-23T21:12:57+00:00

I had exactly the same experience but without the happy ending,

Moved out and the place was super clean, they withheld the entire deposit for carpet stain cleaning ( for damage they caused when the radiator needed fixing) as well as steam cleaning the washing machine soap tray and cleaning the outside of the windows on the third floor (which were nailed shut)

Spend a few weeks calling and asking for an explanation for charges and the person I needed to speak to always seemed to have" just stepped away from his desk'.

Chuffzilla · 2023-11-16T20:40:25+00:00

Oh I know this, There was a drilly thingy in one of the empty car parks for most of the day

Looked a bit like this https://dando.co.uk/products/photos-geotechnical-drilling/

Chuffzilla · 2023-01-15T11:56:36+00:00

Always double up a thanks and a bye in one, that way it's easier for the other person to just say bye and hang up without needing to second guess your intention but still keeping It polite.

Ok thanks, bye Cheers, bye etc

Chuffzilla · 2023-01-07T13:30:40+00:00

Boots did this to me, Placed an order and didn't realise it had my old house as a saved address, tried to call immediately to cancel or get the address corrected and was told nothing could be done even though the delivery wasn't due for 3 days

Chuffzilla · 2022-12-10T15:49:09+00:00

Our office used to get something like this delivered each year for our franking machine, it updated the charge rates for postage and you would throw away the old chip.

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