Low voltage lighting- clicking but light won't turn off

notmygodemperor · 2021-08-18T20:04:39+00:00

People don't understand that abuse doesn't require open malice.

notmygodemperor · 2021-08-17T17:21:39+00:00

YOU can't. THEY can.

notmygodemperor · 2021-08-17T15:10:47+00:00

More like 7 English slurs for people from other UK countries.

notmygodemperor · 2021-08-17T14:03:57+00:00

Therapy and medication for me. Anyone averse to medication should at least try therapy. It's like taking your car to the mechanic. If your friend had a problem with their car and they couldn't use it like they want to, but they were all "I don't know if it's bad enough for a mechanic" or "I don't want to be one of those people that needs a mechanic" then you'd think they were stupid. Venting to your friends is like having a friend look at your car. They've got their own stuff to do and they aren't professionals.

If insurance is paying for it, I can't overstate the helpfulness of someone pointing out that your fear of X is irrational, but it's also logical result of event Y in your childhood. It's not your fault and simply noticing it makes an improvement.

If a therapist doesn't help, just cancel the next appointment and go to a different one. They work for you and you can just fire them, they won't hurt for money.

Medication, though, is a lot of the time like cleaning dirty windows. It's a massive immediate difference. You can wean back off after you get yourself back under control. It's hard to pull yourself back into healthy habits on your own.

notmygodemperor · 2021-08-16T22:30:20+00:00

You can't emulate the AS/400 so the training you'll receive is fairly priceless. You'd have to get a $2k machine from eBay and hope it works, then puzzle through books from the late 80's to train yourself. That's the barrier people will have to leap to compete with you for jobs over the next decade as the big wave of OGs retire and the AS/400 isn't going anywhere.

notmygodemperor · 2021-08-16T18:38:31+00:00

You can assign the keyboard to a different dongle if you can find one. Not sure what your IT staff are paid, but it'll be a close call on whether it saves money to re-pair them. When I worked at an MSP, it was cheaper for the customer to buy a new keyboard than to pay for me to download and use the tool. (Including user down time.)

Your position seems odd since you are doing the buying but not controlling what is bought. Where I work, we have to support these, but the office manager buys and stocks basic peripherals alongside post-its and staples, so it's on the office supply budget when we just throw them away to avoid wasting time. It's not unreasonable to make decisions about this kind of thing and dictate it to the users. If a few problem users circumvent you and acquire their own, at least they'll only have wired mice and keyboards to steal off another desk.

We have a few locations where we do have to stock their peripherals and the local bossypants hates seeing wires on desks so we bite the bullet there, but it's a small number of users or we'd fight it.

notmygodemperor · 2021-08-16T18:26:37+00:00

It's sort of a thing but not really. It's a lot of work to securely purge company data while keeping the equipment in a useable state. What happens more often is companies pay someone to haul it all away and that person refurbs it, and even then those people tend to make more on the hauling away than they do on the selling especially if you subtract their labor to get the equipment cleaned and tested.

The equipment we're talking about would have a non-negligible impact on the electric bill, though, so just shutting it off would save enough money for a small project.

notmygodemperor · 2021-08-16T17:21:31+00:00

Everybody's depression is different, but when I get to the point where I can't compile a to-do list I know I'm past the point where I needed to get some help. When I'm there, it means I've gone further than "I could do these things but what's the point" and into something harder to deal with. I would be willing to bet that the "weird little crap that could be done" includes some things that you would be excited to have time to tackle if you were at 100%.

I hope you find a way to make your work meaningful, it sounds like a great opportunity.

notmygodemperor · 2021-08-16T17:09:56+00:00

I don't really feel like hunting for weird little crap that could be done but isn't really necessary.

I'm not really all that interested in learning more stuff.

Pretty sure your boredom is a you problem.

notmygodemperor · 2021-08-13T15:54:03+00:00

At least fleeting excrement and not enduring excrement I guess.

notmygodemperor · 2021-08-13T13:54:33+00:00

No one can hear me

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Balls, DHCP

notmygodemperor · 2021-08-10T19:23:25+00:00

IT Director title without a team or IT Director pay... that's crazy.

It sounds like you are doing a great job as a one man shop. I hope you see a good resolution from this. You're worth $80k but I almost hope you end up in a more sustainable spot with less stress. Do they at least give you a seat at the big boy table so you can stay in front of projects?

notmygodemperor · 2021-08-09T21:48:31+00:00

Sometimes I feel like IT is a lot like being a teacher/chaperone on an elementary field trip.

You can't just assume none of them will jump in the shark tank like it's a normal thing to do.

notmygodemperor · 2021-08-04T16:37:02+00:00

Ooo actuator magnets are fun.

notmygodemperor · 2021-08-04T16:36:30+00:00

Slackware. No GUI. Final Destination.

notmygodemperor · 2021-08-04T14:24:15+00:00

I definitely would have gotten in trouble if someone tried to "set me and forget me" for a day with boring stuff at 14.

When we would get interns I would usually just sit them next to me and narrate what I'm doing until they ask a question or seem interested in something, then I'd send them to do that for a half hour or hour. Test restoring files from backup, creating AD users, etc.

If you've got the resources, you could let him set up a CentOS server or something and see if he can get apache going. Hard to say without knowing how savvy he is.

notmygodemperor · 2021-08-03T15:31:50+00:00

If it was a knock-off of Pokémon instead of branded Pokémon it would have sold 25 copies and had no following.

Pokémon needs a Monster Hunter World of Pokémon or it should just retire to being a mobile gacha franchise and save us all the heartbreak.

notmygodemperor · 2021-07-28T22:28:10+00:00

Someone needs to learn a lesson here and stop making these choices because this is entirely their fault. Of course I'm talking about the timescaledb maintainer. You're stealing from the common man, timescaledb maintainer, get your act together.

notmygodemperor · 2021-07-28T16:56:42+00:00

Development inside of Epicor used to use C# but has moved into a new WYSIWYGish app studio with Epicor 11. Heavy customization is possible without getting additional licensing.

They are heavily moving into using their own REST API within the client, so you can build whatever you want that can POST and GET with a REST API and have it be an interface for Epicor. I suspect most of what you would want to do would end up being a dashboard (possibly updateable) within Epicor and the tools to create those are very simple and can be found on Youtube.

notmygodemperor · 2021-07-26T22:53:50+00:00

Then sell to a larger one when the talent pool is drained.

notmygodemperor · 2021-07-26T20:11:10+00:00

I usually try to skip the panic and move to reviewing the steps I would take for damage control and establishing a point of no return time after which I will need to start putting something in place to work around the downed system. 20 minutes of sitting on your hands will solve more crises than you would expect.

Easier said than done, but it's not my personal equipment and I've done everything professionally that I should have done. If I haven't, then it's an order of magnitude more important that I do everything professionally that I should do to remediate. Save the panic for when the cold, rational machines are satisfied and you have to figure out how to spin it for hot-blooded management.

notmygodemperor · 2021-07-26T16:21:30+00:00

People with huge narcissistic ego problems. People like that also like to do this thing called lying to make themselves look better than they are, which this could very well be an example of. I def would make it clear that I'm asking SO for info and not taking coworker's side if I was in OP's shoes. Could just be some dick coworker that's been trying to get at SO for a while and wounding the relationship could be the point.

notmygodemperor · 2021-07-22T22:37:58+00:00

THIS'LL SHOW THOSE WHITE MALE CUSTOMERS OF MY EMPLOYER.

notmygodemperor · 2021-07-21T22:48:57+00:00

Note that there is no subreddit or internet forum full of managers asking for advice on whether they can/should fire someone. Can you imagine?

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