The Work Thread

Moggy wrote:We have only ever had one work experience kid. He was pretty awesome, all he did all week was play some online browser game (Runescape I think) and was cheeky as strawberry float whenever anybody asked him to do anything. We genuinely all liked him though, he made it a very funny and entertaining week.

Did you later give Dual a good reference?

Cuttooth wrote:

Moggy wrote:We have only ever had one work experience kid. He was pretty awesome, all he did all week was play some online browser game (Runescape I think) and was cheeky as strawberry float whenever anybody asked him to do anything. We genuinely all liked him though, he made it a very funny and entertaining week.

Did you later give Dual a good reference?

Of course I did. I got Dual.

Death's Head wrote:

Qikz wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Qikz wrote:I replied to that long email yesterday as he asked for responses explaining anecdotally who I think is to blame, why they should be sacked and why I didn't think his points were relevant to me and got a response saying thanks and it was actually very helpful. Got all day to think about what else to say so today should be fun!

FTFY you snake.

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Just had a huge update for a bit of software that caused a lot of slowdown, tried to fix it and something else broke so had to call the software support.

It got fixed and now the companies intranet is down somehow. Today is not fun at all. [emoji38]

My experience of IT people is that they are gooseberry fool. I had an issues with Office a couple of weeks back. First I had to work with the first line in India that took 45 minutes to get nowhere. Then I got "upgraded" to tier 2 people in the UK (who would have dealt with it prior to us offshoring to India) and after strawberry floating about and getting nowhere, they uninstalled Office, installed the latest and all was good. This took in total about 3.5 hours.

Last week I had the exact same issue at home. Found out which update to Office caused the issue, uninstalled it and all was good.

Took about 10 minutes.

I can vouch that IT people are gooseberry fool ( )

Where I used to work, we had one IT guy, ONE for a company with 18 different sites, with some bespoke systems implemented within 12 months, and whenever you had an issue you had to get him, and most of the time you ended up fixing something your self or in terms of hardware issues researching online and solving the problem - which would annoy him to no end, but he seemed to forget we had a fast paced customer business that demanded our technology worked 100% of the time. I've recently switched into working for a Software Company and I spend a good part of my week fixing laptops/removing trojans/resetting OS, despite the fact there's at least 18 Developers in the room, whom say they don't know how to do those tasks or can't get their laptop to work. Blows my mind.

If you ex-employer had one IT guy for 18 different sites I'd suggest that the IT guy isn't the one to blame for "poor IT".

Depending on the size of the sites 1 dude should be fine if managed right with a decent desktop management suite for desktops for software deployment and remote control and such like.

gaminglegend wrote:I can vouch that IT people are gooseberry fool ( )

Where I used to work, we had one IT guy, ONE for a company with 18 different sites, with some bespoke systems implemented within 12 months, and whenever you had an issue you had to get him, and most of the time you ended up fixing something your self or in terms of hardware issues researching online and solving the problem - which would annoy him to no end, but he seemed to forget we had a fast paced customer business that demanded our technology worked 100% of the time. I've recently switched into working for a Software Company and I spend a good part of my week fixing laptops/removing trojans/resetting OS, despite the fact there's at least 18 Developers in the room, whom say they don't know how to do those tasks or can't get their laptop to work. Blows my mind.

I used to try and sort out most IT issues myself but our company have locked things down ridiculously now. They've also restricted access to a number of websites, GR being one of them as it is detected as being related to gaming.

All our IT support is outsourced to India, so done remotely. It is not ideal having time, space and language differences.

Death's Head wrote:

gaminglegend wrote:I can vouch that IT people are gooseberry fool ( )

Where I used to work, we had one IT guy, ONE for a company with 18 different sites, with some bespoke systems implemented within 12 months, and whenever you had an issue you had to get him, and most of the time you ended up fixing something your self or in terms of hardware issues researching online and solving the problem - which would annoy him to no end, but he seemed to forget we had a fast paced customer business that demanded our technology worked 100% of the time. I've recently switched into working for a Software Company and I spend a good part of my week fixing laptops/removing trojans/resetting OS, despite the fact there's at least 18 Developers in the room, whom say they don't know how to do those tasks or can't get their laptop to work. Blows my mind.

I used to try and sort out most IT issues myself but our company have locked things down ridiculously now. They've also restricted access to a number of websites, GR being one of them as it is detected as being related to gaming.

My work is similar but luckily they haven't blocked GR. I have to turn the swear filter on at work though as the filthy mouths on here trip the adult content filters.

Well, I was the IT manager amongst 2 or 3 other roles so I set up and fixed strawberry floating everything. But at least I built the machines so I knew how it all worked. It as just a workgroup.

Small companies are best.

Needless to say I still fix my own problems and I've been using the same MacBook for 7 years. Recently got the temps down by 20-30 degrees to make it go a bit longer.

gaminglegend wrote:Where I used to work, we had one IT guy, ONE for a company with 18 different sites, with some bespoke systems implemented within 12 months, and whenever you had an issue you had to get him, and most of the time you ended up fixing something your self or in terms of hardware issues researching online and solving the problem - which would annoy him to no end, but he seemed to forget we had a fast paced customer business that demanded our technology worked 100% of the time. I've recently switched into working for a Software Company and I spend a good part of my week fixing laptops/removing trojans/resetting OS, despite the fact there's at least 18 Developers in the room, whom say they don't know how to do those tasks or can't get their laptop to work. Blows my mind.

I very much suspect the truth is in that case that they just don't want to do it.

So the meeting was nothing. A few people, and I mean a few outside of my bosses (including me) suggested a few things to try to improve our service which was fine, but nothing was really set in concrete and I had a hilariously hard time trying to understand what anyone was saying over the phone lmao.

Moggy wrote:

Death's Head wrote:

gaminglegend wrote:I can vouch that IT people are gooseberry fool ( )

Where I used to work, we had one IT guy, ONE for a company with 18 different sites, with some bespoke systems implemented within 12 months, and whenever you had an issue you had to get him, and most of the time you ended up fixing something your self or in terms of hardware issues researching online and solving the problem - which would annoy him to no end, but he seemed to forget we had a fast paced customer business that demanded our technology worked 100% of the time. I've recently switched into working for a Software Company and I spend a good part of my week fixing laptops/removing trojans/resetting OS, despite the fact there's at least 18 Developers in the room, whom say they don't know how to do those tasks or can't get their laptop to work. Blows my mind.

I used to try and sort out most IT issues myself but our company have locked things down ridiculously now. They've also restricted access to a number of websites, GR being one of them as it is detected as being related to gaming.

My work is similar but luckily they haven't blocked GR. I have to turn the swear filter on at work though as the filthy mouths on here trip the adult content filters.

What a bunch of strawberry floating banana splits WE ARE













BASTARDS

darksideby182 wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Death's Head wrote:

gaminglegend wrote:I can vouch that IT people are gooseberry fool ( )

Where I used to work, we had one IT guy, ONE for a company with 18 different sites, with some bespoke systems implemented within 12 months, and whenever you had an issue you had to get him, and most of the time you ended up fixing something your self or in terms of hardware issues researching online and solving the problem - which would annoy him to no end, but he seemed to forget we had a fast paced customer business that demanded our technology worked 100% of the time. I've recently switched into working for a Software Company and I spend a good part of my week fixing laptops/removing trojans/resetting OS, despite the fact there's at least 18 Developers in the room, whom say they don't know how to do those tasks or can't get their laptop to work. Blows my mind.

I used to try and sort out most IT issues myself but our company have locked things down ridiculously now. They've also restricted access to a number of websites, GR being one of them as it is detected as being related to gaming.

My work is similar but luckily they haven't blocked GR. I have to turn the swear filter on at work though as the filthy mouths on here trip the adult content filters.

What a bunch of strawberry floating banana splits WE ARE













BASTARDS

Looks like you missed the part where I said that I put the swear filter on so that it doesn't automatically block the site.

Moggy wrote:Looks like you missed the part where I said that I put the swear filter on so that it doesn't automatically block the site.

So if I take away your swear filter privileges you won't be able to post any more?

Karl wrote:

Moggy wrote:Looks like you missed the part where I said that I put the swear filter on so that it doesn't automatically block the site.

So if I take away your swear filter privileges you won't be able to post any more?

It doesn't always put the block on, I guess it has to be really excessive and really filthy swearing.

But yeah it'd probably slow me down quite a bit if I couldn't use the swear filter.

It'd probably kill the site as well though when the whole site drops to a total of 4 posts a day.

No block at my work. Could browse porn if I wanted to get fired.

Moggy wrote:

Karl wrote:

Moggy wrote:Looks like you missed the part where I said that I put the swear filter on so that it doesn't automatically block the site.

So if I take away your swear filter privileges you won't be able to post any more?

It doesn't always put the block on, I guess it has to be really excessive and really filthy swearing.

But yeah it'd probably slow me down quite a bit if I couldn't use the swear filter.

It'd probably kill the site as well though when the whole site drops to a total of 4 posts a day.

It's about the quality of posts, not the quantity

Snowcannon wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Karl wrote:

Moggy wrote:Looks like you missed the part where I said that I put the swear filter on so that it doesn't automatically block the site.

So if I take away your swear filter privileges you won't be able to post any more?

It doesn't always put the block on, I guess it has to be really excessive and really filthy swearing.

But yeah it'd probably slow me down quite a bit if I couldn't use the swear filter.

It'd probably kill the site as well though when the whole site drops to a total of 4 posts a day.

It's about the quality of posts, not the quantity

You don't have the post count to pull this off.

For some reason the Staples website is blocked at my workplace. I'm not sure if you have Staples over there, but it's a chain of office supply stores. I asked someone why this was and they mentioned it had something to do with who was allowed to order supplies.

I really don't understand that logic though, surely being able to just see the website isn't going to mean you can order things from the website using the company account.

Rightey wrote:For some reason the Staples website is blocked at my workplace. I'm not sure if you have Staples over there, but it's a chain of office supply stores. I asked someone why this was and they mentioned it's had something to do with who was allowed to order supplies.

I really don't understand that logic though, surely being able to just see the website isn't going to mean you can order things from the website using the company account.

People with access tondo many cards or petty cash could use, if they want to control supplies and ensure the best value I can see why they would block it.