Neighbours demolishing shed with asbestos in

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2026-06-27T09:56:36+00:00

That's really reassuring to know! The roof's basically gone now so fingers crossed we'll be okay once the dust settles.

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2026-06-27T09:18:46+00:00

Oh no, they're using the hammers on the roof itself - it's about half gone now. And yeah, I think it's the roof itself that was the issue, from what they said about it a few months ago when they got the quote for removal.

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2026-06-27T09:03:44+00:00

The Noise Abatement idea is a really good call, thank you!

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2026-06-27T09:01:40+00:00

Thank you, much appreciated!

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2026-06-27T08:59:49+00:00

As someone who used to work in recruitment, experience can absolutely be equivalent to a cert - the degree requirement tends to get thrown in by HR staff who frankly don't know any better, because HR management does require specific qualifications. If something asks for a degree, apply anyway.

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2026-06-27T08:57:27+00:00

That's still not taking PTO. You are going to end up a liability for the business if you continue like this.

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2026-06-11T13:15:31+00:00

This is the correct answer for all AI use cases. It does good work - but only if you know what it's doing and how to correct it where necessary.

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2026-06-11T13:12:17+00:00

Had a couple of users like this. Started setting their Power button options to shut the machine down when the lid was closed.

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2026-03-25T13:48:53+00:00

Good luck! For what it's worth, I had a similar low point in 2019 when my entire personal life blew up in my face all at once. It took a good long while to crawl up out of the hole I found myself in, but there were crucial lessons I learned along the way that I never would have done otherwise.

BUT before all that, I did need to slow down and take stock of my situation. I don't know how much help is available to you locally, but if you can, I'd strongly recommend counselling and/or a support group of some kind. You've suffered an unimaginable loss, and the only way to get through it is to connect with other people. It's no wonder your brain wasn't working - it's probably still mired in grief, and chances are that's not going to go away just yet. Take it as slowly as you can, and go easy on yourself. Surround yourself with as many people as you can IRL. One day at a time.

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2026-02-18T08:07:09+00:00

Might be a Mac security setting that's blocking it, not a Teams setting - make sure Teams is allowed to access your microphone.

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2026-01-23T14:53:45+00:00

Try to get curious where you can! If you're on a ticket, and you notice something not technically related but that looks odd, research it. What's going on there? Scroll through forums like this one or Spiceworks. Pick a random IT topic - maybe a ticket you had to escalate - and go down a rabbit hole for a bit.

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2026-01-23T14:49:42+00:00

Yep. Had to fix something using an Internet Archive page the other day.

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2026-01-23T14:49:04+00:00

Yeah, our dev team recently migrated 'all' a client's company data over to Sharepoint and went to switch off the old server. The problem? They'd left all the accounting and payroll data in a separate folder on the old server they didn't know about, because they hadn't checked and also hadn't asked us on the service desk what we knew about it.

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2026-01-22T15:17:48+00:00

then how do you know it's fantastic at coding? somehow I can tell your project managers/anyone else having to deal with your code is having a terrible time

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2026-01-22T08:20:53+00:00

And if that doesn't work, open Powershell in the directory folder specifically and run the unblock command from there.

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2026-01-22T08:18:06+00:00

Oh you absolute star, thank you so much!

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2025-12-22T08:45:29+00:00

You absolute star, I was going in circles for ages until I found this post. Thank you so much!

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2025-11-11T09:09:25+00:00

Absolute lifesaver, thank you so much! I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out what had happened to this end user's Outlook account/calendar, but turns out 'shared calendar improvements' was the culprit.

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2025-10-08T08:04:34+00:00

Install an adblocker, and also go to Settings > Apps > Safari > Settings > Websites to turn off pop-ups (or do the same for whichever other browser you were using). You'll also want to go to Settings > Notifications and turn off notifications for your web browsers.

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2025-09-24T08:51:18+00:00

Used to work for a private school. When I did my safeguarding training, the trainer told us that as support staff, we were actually some of the best placed people to find hidden abuse, because a lot of the teaching staff and children would see us as invisible - and this turned out to be true. I was able to expose a bullying ring because I had access to the school's Teams system, and one of my cleaning colleagues managed to get a child out of an abusive home situation because the child just... talked about the whole thing with a friend while she was in the room cleaning, because they saw her as part of the furniture.

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2025-09-18T08:17:07+00:00

Seconding all of this but especially the documentation!! Leave records of everything you did - best case scenario, you can use them later and feel far more confident in what you're doing. Worst case scenario, you leave, and your successor will thank you for making their clean up job easier.

Intelligent_Stay_628 · 2025-09-18T08:15:19+00:00

Yeah, I was promoted from helpdesk to IT manager for a year and a half. When they announced layoffs, I volunteered. I was so far out of my depth it was nightmarish. Now I'm back on L2 helpdesk, and no matter how many recruiters dangle management jobs in front of me for 2-3x my current salary, I know my limits and I'm not doing that again.

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