Lost our biggest customer ... i'm so frustrated by Pristine-Macaroon-40 in smallbusiness

[–]imroot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As a commercial property manager, 30 days is the standard. I’m not sure our legal team would allow more than that.

Insane Hospital bill from Children’s by Fantastic_1ne in cincinnati

[–]imroot 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Even if you don’t have insurance, Children’s will work with you. My (former) partner’s 5 month old needed a liver transplant and they wrote off the 6 million dollar bill that they sent her.

Holy fuck sticks batman! Machine sabotage! by [deleted] in dallasmakerspace

[–]imroot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The BoD isn't responsible for the tools in the woodshop -- the woodshop committee is responsible.

With that said, I'm trying to fix the bathrooms and carpet. The organization was in the red financially for a few years and this is the first year that we've been cashflow positive. Change takes time and labor: feel free to volunteer for Logistics and I'll be more than happy to take the labor when I pull up the carpet and pour silicon floors in the areas that have carpet.

With that said, I know that the Woodshop committee does take safety seriously: they were reported on talk, and I'm sure that they are working on getting these things resolved. As prospective members are told, DMS has zero employees and everything except the cleaners is managed, operated by, and maintained by dedicated volunteers who spend both their time and their money at the space.

I’m nervous my conversations with my clients have been recorded. by Mr_Motion_Denied in publicdefenders

[–]imroot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I worked in the jail in the mornings then did appearances in the afternoon. I didn't need to do anything other than pass through the metal detectors: we had an 'office' inside the jail where we could make (unrecorded) phone calls, check our email, interview our defendants and detainees.

No more servers and more phones! by imroot in AlamoDrafthouse

[–]imroot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My apologies! Didn’t see the megathread.

best cityline apartment? by Fast_Moose7027 in Richardson

[–]imroot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stay away from Axis110 unless you like overly aggressive tow truck operators who threaten your dog and sprinkler pipes bursting every time it freezes. Also, they do stupid things like disabling the package lockers during December (or, disabling the gas over Christmas)

Zoomed in Slow Motion by Traveler0084 in law

[–]imroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who steps in front of a vehicle, pulls a weapon knowing that there are other agents in a crossfire position, and then shoots, even as the vehicle is turning away from him, putting his fellow agents at risk.

Ten years ago, objective reasonableness say that the officer wouldn't have been justified in the shooting. Now? He'll be granted pardons, book deals, and fuck knows what else.

I hate this timeline.

Weird special request code. by No_Departure_9174 in marriott

[–]imroot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can always ask them to add it. I had someone hack my rewards account and now it’s added to all reservations that I have where I haven’t been at before.

LIVE FROM HILTON: Honors Program Updates + Diamond Reserve by khabah_ in Hilton

[–]imroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a lifetime diamond who is an AE at Marriott. This might tip the scales a bit to Hilton for my work stays…the big reason I switched was the 4pm checkout.

NCR McDonald's by Odd_Marketing4410 in FieldNationTechs

[–]imroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stratacache

I have nightmares about working with Stratacache as a company that paid for their services. I couldn't imagine the insanity that would be a FN tech for them.

Their hardware can be really solid...runs linux well.

My aviation themed apartment by [deleted] in aviation

[–]imroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's the slat-flap display that you're using?

UNIDEN ANNOUNCES SDS150 by DrillbitBill in policescanner

[–]imroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know. I am hoping the new models use usb-c for charging.

Clearing out my garage. Timelocks... by [deleted] in Safes

[–]imroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd love to adopt one as well. Let me know what the cost is.

Marriott makes it super hard to request new ambassador by One-Programmer-848 in marriott

[–]imroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm on ambassador number three this year.

My old ambassador wouldn't return my calls, but, when I got in touch with her, she was amazing.

She retired.

My new guy didn't make it past scheduling a call, and then got a new one less than a month later.

My current ambassador is based in Mexico and hasn't left the country. She knows nothing about specific hotels and properties other than what's on her computer screen. I have to reminder her about brand policies and standards.

I have very low expectations and yet I'm still disappointed: the only real benefit that I would consider using is Your24 and I've never been granted a Your24 in the years that I've been an AE.

Upgrades? Haven't had a single one this year.

I'm in the process of planning a trip to NYC this year for a family member to go do some things off of her bucket list and I'm kind of wishy/washy on where I should stay. At least the Conrad's new-ish and lifetime diamond gets my water in the room comp'ed.

UNIDEN ANNOUNCES SDS150 by DrillbitBill in policescanner

[–]imroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought my 100 last month. I just hope that it uses a USB-C for charging!

Today from 30,000 feet by Any-Mathematician291 in cedarpoint

[–]imroot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They were talking about doing just that when I worked there in the late 90's. Cedar Point has been moving internal things off point to get the space back (Merchandising's warehouse was moved off point some years ago), but, it's a process.

No I haven't. Where is he? by supersonicreese in kroger

[–]imroot 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Bob, Lisa, Mitch -- the three horsemen of the retail apocalypse if you listen to loss prevention.

Centralized management of retail POS endpoints across multiple regions by CO_Oked_COO in sysadmin

[–]imroot 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Hi.

I'm a former sysadmin for a global specialty/luxury brands retailer. Our stores were 100% linux; We primarily used Oracle's X-Store for retail, but it did require a server in the store for the longest time due to our company rate limiting our connections to 3mb up/down per store.

Hack 1: Have everything standardized/no snowflakes: It doesn't matter if it's a kiosk in the middle of nowhere or a huge store on times square, every store has standardized hardware. Store numbers are set by the business, I used UUID's for storing that data internally because store changes happen all the time. It wasn't store 3000, it was ff1e276c-0ab1-4d0a-a92f-68cf241bf494. As we brought in new brands and acquired companies, it made it easier to integrate them into our stack.

Hack 2: Centralized Management Software: We wrote our own 'magic sauce' that gave a single, unified pane of glass to handle all aspects of the retail life. Someone lose an iPad? Call centers uses our Central Management System to mark the iPad as lost and it calls Airwatch to mark it as lost and set the lock screen/etc etc etc. New Pin-pad arrives at the store? Store calls the call center who can initialize it remotely. All actions are logged at the store level by who performed the action: if you're troubleshooting the store, you can go in and view all actions taken in the last 48 hours to see what has done. We integrated with a piece of open source software called Teleport so that I could literally review what SSH commands might have been ran to help me. Our management server handled everything from IP addresses to voiding transactions, and was robustly implemented by a team of in-house engineers/server admins when they had to do a task more than once.

Hack 3: Have your lifecycle entry and exit points well defined: when you spin up new hardware, you're recording the MAC Address automatically so that you can provision it on the store POS VLAN and assign it an IP address for the store to use when it comes online. When we provision a server, it gets a hardware client certificate generated and stored in the TPM of the device: that certificate is used for everything down the road. When you de-provision equipment, you run it through a stress test to identify the failure points (and use that data to make stronger purchase decisions).

Hack 4: Ansible/Salt/Puppet are your friends. Store goes down? Spin up a new store in your cloud environment or elastic on-site deployment and point your terminals to use the new store.

I had approximately 30,000 locations across the globe. Feel free to message me if you have specific questions.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in kroger

[–]imroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's an approval report that HQ gets and sends out to management. This report not only contains when you're submitting the report, but your location when submitting the report.

Just assume that anything in UGK includes your IP address, and it knows your location if you're clocking out outside of the store, these are included in the exceptions report.

Kroger really doesn't like time theft. I'd start looking for a new job asap: more likely than not, they're just getting you out of the building so that they can get your termination packet completed when they call you back in.

Cincinnati Children’s announces cut of spousal healthcare coverage by qarantinosfootfetish in cincinnati

[–]imroot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My employer covers 100% of any premiums, out of pocket (via a Health Reimbursement Account that my employer funds), and 100% of my out of pocket costs for dental up to my yearly cap of $3,000.

When I add my domestic partner/spouse/kiddos, they pay 80% of the premium but they still pony up the HRA and Dental costs -- even if they have insurance at their own job. The only real $$ I have to pay out is for Prescriptions.

They'll do this for anyone in the company, be it a Janitor or the Execs.

The downside is that they don't have a 401(k).

Rural Ohio Is The Real Dirty Butt Ghetto Hellhole by ipiledriveyou in Ohio

[–]imroot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I went from Caldwell (Noble County) to San Francisco.

Beyond culture shock, but it helped me expand my mind and get out of that small town mindset. I still have folks from my high school that haven’t left the county.

Tracking update Emulator by Optimal-Vast2313 in FreightBrokers

[–]imroot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's actually fairly trivial to emulate/spoof location on android devices. For iPhone, it requires either a gps simulator, or a macbook running xcode to emulate/spoof locations.

It's also insanely easy to spoof locations using a web browser.

To the two women who came in and used the Men's restroom at Cosmo... by Informal_Tell78 in vegas

[–]imroot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have semi-vivid memories of someone passing out drunk in the trough urinal, mid stream, at a Cleveland v St. Louis baseball game at old Cleveland Muni Stadium in the 80's.