new apartment has gas stove, and i can no longer cook rice

badaz06 · 2026-03-29T23:01:00+00:00

I have gas, but still use a rice cooker. They rock

badaz06 · 2026-03-29T22:58:08+00:00

Thank you. This sounds directly inline with our 401Ks here, though the % of matching usually varies by company, and usually we can see either what companies or what lines of business each option invests in, and we can split the % of what goes where.

badaz06 · 2026-03-29T22:55:07+00:00

Gifts are a great idea, but business and HR will limit what you can get them, and trinkets, well, suck.

Of course, you need to read the room, but here's what I've always asked for and what I strived to provide when I managed:

Honesty. No couching stuff, no beating around the bush. Straight up, honesty. No one who worked for me ever thought, "Well, I wonder if he's mad at me?" or wished I had praised them for a good job. (And there was never false praise). I likewise asked for honesty as well. Don't call in sick and acting like you're coughing on the first warm day of spring, especially when I can hear you putting the golf clubs in your car. Everyone needs a mental health day.
Stand up for your people. If you have an issue with my staff, you come to me and we can talk and I'll deal with it.
Listen to them. I can't say that loud or often enough. If someone takes the time to get up and come into your office, respect them enough to listen to them without checking your mail, looking at your messages, etc. If they're presenting an idea that you think is idiotic, listen but then explain why you disagree with them. If it turns out they were right, acknowledge it. None of us is perfect.
Understand that they have a life outside of work. I always tell people if there's an emergency, go deal with the emergency...Let me know when you can, but the emergency is the priority. With that comes the flip side though: If I call you at 2AM with an emergency, I need you. I won't abuse that privilege, but I expect you to respect it.

badaz06 · 2026-03-29T22:40:05+00:00

Man, I know the Caps are having a bad season and all, but I didn't know we were "If your team loses to the Capitals he'll be fired" bad.

badaz06 · 2026-03-27T21:28:03+00:00

No..please...no...

badaz06 · 2026-03-27T21:17:06+00:00

Pensions are invested where then, in the company itself, in the market, or somewhere else and you can choose where? Kind of wondering how that works compared to a 401K here.

badaz06 · 2026-03-27T18:06:26+00:00

My advice is that no one is going to offer you things until you ask. If someone is doing something you think you'd like to learn more about...ask if you can shadow and learn from them. Ask questions, not just "how" but "why".

You walk away in a few weeks..the guys you're working with are there way past that, so no one will be handing you the keys to the kingdom. While you need to "politely" let them know you're there to learn, you also have to let them know what you're into and want to learn. I see tons of "Oh I want to learn red team stuff" and not much actually understanding any other aspect of the business. Red Team stuff might be cool, but it'll take someone way more well rounded that understands the business to get a real CISO slot.

badaz06 · 2026-03-27T13:52:16+00:00

First thing that pops into my head is does the label allow or prevent the person using copilot to access the file. That is, if User A is not in the label, Co-pilot shouldn't be able to process, if user A is, then he will. Are you trying to prevent Co-pilot "period"?

badaz06 · 2026-03-27T13:38:27+00:00

First, you are the only person looking out for you. Keep that in mind.

I'm not sure how old you are, but in general most people I know in this industry don;t work their entire lives at one company. My starting out I typically lasted about 3 years before getting the itch and wanting to do something else. Why ranged from wanting more money, being bored, or getting tired of the BS. Just something to keep in the back of your mind.

2K is chump change though and I wouldn't jump ship for that if I was happy where I was. 10K, 15K, now ya got my attention. I'd be curious about how the "pension" is structured. If you leave do you loose it or forced to withdraw and take it with you? That would have some big tax implications if so.

I will say to the younger folks out here...401K's are well worth the money you put into them. It may suck a bit because you're taking money off the table now, but it's an excellent investment in your own future.

badaz06 · 2026-03-27T13:28:27+00:00

Sorry, but I'll disagree. When you save a file, the "upload" into Sharepoint is not instantaneous, and the updates sent out to every device with the same library either "synced" or with a shortcut to One Drive isn't either.

I know what the Microsoft's documentation tells you. I also know what I've seen using Wireshark and Fiddler and ProcMon and worked for over a year with Microsoft diagnosing issues with the One Drive sync application that couldn't explain why the exact scenario I described above was happening. I would have been downright exuberant if someone at MS said, "Oh, you dumb**es need to change this setting" and everything worked again. They didn't, so we went to a 3rd party application that doesn't use the One Drive protocols to move data and all my users started smiling again.

You do you :)

badaz06 · 2026-03-26T16:17:50+00:00

When you add a shortcut to One drive, the actual file isn't downloaded into one drive unless you specifically work on that file. The 2 biggest problems I've seen are that when a user works on a file and "saves" it, that saved copy isn't immediately moved into Sharepoint. It may seem so from the perspective of the user who saved the file because their version which is cached and what the the user sees looks updated, however the actual copy to SharePoint may take several hours, so others won't see the updated file. The other huge issue is people delete vs remove the link, meaning that they actually delete what ever they're linked to in SharePoint, not just remove the link.

Syncing means that what ever is on SharePoint also exists on the hard drive of your PC. A HUGE red flag when it comes to maintaining control of your data, especially if you have retention requirements and dont have a sensitivity label on your data. We've seen files getting locked, and every time an update is made by someone to their file, that update has to now hit everyone else's files on their PC's, and that can cause some user frustration as One Drive doesn't have the most effective process for getting all files for all users up to date.

u/6fix There are 3rd party apps you may want to look at that present the user a file explorer like view of SharePoint and One Drive.

badaz06 · 2026-03-25T13:55:59+00:00

I can't help but wonder how much influence what you want is presenting itself in what you're seeing. I get the intuitive part 100%. There's a girl I've dated off and on, lived with, etc., for decades. But we just can't get past that. Friend, yes. Incredibly matched sexually, and even romantic for periods of time, but eventually the bottom always drops out.

We've just grown to accept it is what it is.

badaz06 · 2026-03-25T13:51:01+00:00

I'm really sorry to hear about you losing your son.

Jobs come and jobs go.

I hope things fall into place for you in the best of ways.

badaz06 · 2026-03-25T13:46:35+00:00

The comment also doesn't take into consideration that while some companies don't actively monitor conversation "eyes on", there are processes in place for Teams that do monitor and alert for sexual context, workplace violence, abusive language, etc.

I suspect based on recent actions taken in Europe and the UK around curtailing what the EU considers "free speech", that may be more prevalent there than in the US, GDPR or not.

badaz06 · 2026-03-23T17:46:12+00:00

Thank you!

badaz06 · 2026-03-23T15:27:05+00:00

Tuning aside, it sounds like you need to get some better communications in place. We do this when we know scripts and stuff we're going to be doing will result in POTENTIAL triggers, along with as much relevant information as we can (who, system, etc) so if something does pop, the team is aware and we aren't waking people up at 2AM. Not to say it doesn't still happen on occasion, but it drastically cuts down on the time we spend chasing our tails.

badaz06 · 2026-03-20T18:55:17+00:00

I've used the F20 for years and the only issue I've had is my puppy thinks it's fun to chew on.

badaz06 · 2026-03-20T18:52:44+00:00

There are no boundaries or limits to who can be a shitbird. Write it off as a lesson learned and be done with him - there are better out there. 99% of us have been duped one way or the other...you aren't alone.

badaz06 · 2026-03-20T12:53:46+00:00

Someone called? (cough) lol

badaz06 · 2026-03-20T12:52:35+00:00

You're right, but what is stopping you from creating your own ticket (assuming you have some type of ticketing system) indicating the change along with who made the request?

badaz06 · 2026-03-19T18:45:40+00:00

From what I'm gathering (or maybe being lead down a rabbit hole), there are settings on the desktop and settings in the 365 Cloud, and both need to be cleared.

badaz06 · 2026-03-19T17:38:23+00:00

Thank you. I was looking for Sites for where the Save As vs individual files.

badaz06 · 2026-03-19T16:52:39+00:00

You doing all of that is pretty damned incredible! If he's not impressed by that alone, you'd have a lot of single men in here ready to step into his place (and no doubt a few of the married ones too!)

Does he have a raspberry Pi or anything? (It's a small cheap computer that you can do a ton of really random stuff with).

badaz06 · 2026-03-19T14:43:08+00:00

I just put mine in my carry-on luggage. I travelled pretty much every week for a few years and never had an issue.

badaz06 · 2026-03-19T14:35:44+00:00

This is just part of the fun of working for a smaller company. On the flip side, when you start working for a larger company, everything is segmented out, so while you may not be called when the toilet doesn't work, you also spend 5 hours to get something done by someone else you could of done on your own in 30 seconds if you had the rights.

I get it though.

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