The Work Thread 2 - Get back to work!

[Drumstick]

After you've secured employment elsewhere.

[Winckle]

After you've secured employment elsewhere.

I hope Zilnad doesn't read page 142, report his director, then start page 143.

[Zilnad]

[Victor Mildew]

Perfect response.

And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like I'm reporting you

[Errkal]

I adore when peoples accounts get compromised and they try to blame us.

This woman even had 2FA on via text and still managed to give someone else access to her account.

There was someone I was helping back when I was giving SD hand at the start of lock down, she was trying to log in but wasn’t able to as she wasn’t get 2FA alerts to approve on her phone, but it had been working.

Turned out she gave the wrong phone number so the text to setup the 2FA app went to a random person who followed the instructions, install and configured the app and was approving the requests as they cam up but after a week of that started hitting deny.

Honestly don’t understand how someone can receive at random steps to setup an app and goes “yeah alright” and just starts hitting approve without any idea what it is.

[Squinty]

I'm probably overreacting but would anyone else be pissed off if a director handed out your personal mobile number to another member of staff? I have access to the company phones even while WFH so I don't see any reason to have given someone my own mobile number.

I wouldn't do that, and you have every right to be pissed.

[<]:^D]

I adore when peoples accounts get compromised and they try to blame us.

This woman even had 2FA on via text and still managed to give someone else access to her account.

There was someone I was helping back when I was giving SD hand at the start of lock down, she was trying to log in but wasn’t able to as she wasn’t get 2FA alerts to approve on her phone, but it had been working.

Turned out she gave the wrong phone number so the text to setup the 2FA app went to a random person who followed the instructions, install and configured the app and was approving the requests as they cam up but after a week of that started hitting deny.

Honestly don’t understand how someone can receive at random steps to setup an app and goes “yeah alright” and just starts hitting approve without any idea what it is.

[Qikz]

I adore when peoples accounts get compromised and they try to blame us.

This woman even had 2FA on via text and still managed to give someone else access to her account.

There was someone I was helping back when I was giving SD hand at the start of lock down, she was trying to log in but wasn’t able to as she wasn’t get 2FA alerts to approve on her phone, but it had been working.

Turned out she gave the wrong phone number so the text to setup the 2FA app went to a random person who followed the instructions, install and configured the app and was approving the requests as they cam up but after a week of that started hitting deny.

Honestly don’t understand how someone can receive at random steps to setup an app and goes “yeah alright” and just starts hitting approve without any idea what it is.

I forgot to respond to this before but what the strawberry float.

How do you set up 2FA without their account password though?

[Errkal]

I adore when peoples accounts get compromised and they try to blame us.

This woman even had 2FA on via text and still managed to give someone else access to her account.

There was someone I was helping back when I was giving SD hand at the start of lock down, she was trying to log in but wasn’t able to as she wasn’t get 2FA alerts to approve on her phone, but it had been working.

Turned out she gave the wrong phone number so the text to setup the 2FA app went to a random person who followed the instructions, install and configured the app and was approving the requests as they cam up but after a week of that started hitting deny.

Honestly don’t understand how someone can receive at random steps to setup an app and goes “yeah alright” and just starts hitting approve without any idea what it is.

I forgot to respond to this before but what the strawberry float.

How do you set up 2FA without their account password though?

Depends on the system, we used Duo at the time, its independent to our AD so you didn't need the AD account details to set it up

[Qikz]

Back supporting one of our main clients today (remotely thankfully) and I took too long answering the first call for them and within the first 5 minutes I had that same someone questioning if I was online. wtf dude the day has literally just started chill ffs

[Oblomov Boblomov]

I spoke to another friend about the whole WFH thing at the weekend. He had just gone back last week and says he is relieved to finally be back in an office environment and not stuck at home all day.

Genuinely starting to feel like a weirdo about all this and having to come to GRcade to feel like I fit in .

I'm going to have to start going in regularly (looking like two days a week at the moment) from 14 September and I'm not going to exaggerate and say I'm devastated or anything like that but I am pretty gutted about it.

[Tomous]

I spoke to another friend about the whole WFH thing at the weekend. He had just gone back last week and says he is relieved to finally be back in an office environment and not stuck at home all day.

Genuinely starting to feel like a weirdo about all this and having to come to GRcade to feel like I fit in .

I'm going to have to start going in regularly (looking like two days a week at the moment) from 14 September and I'm not going to exaggerate and say I'm devastated or anything like that but I am pretty gutted about it.

One thing they will be a big factor is living arrangements. Had lockdown been last year, I'd have been WFH in a small 1 bedroom flat in central Birmingham and bouncing off the walls. But we moved to a house with a garden in a quiet little village just before lockdown and I love WFH. I definitely wouldn't have 12 months ago though.

[Oblomov Boblomov]

I spoke to another friend about the whole WFH thing at the weekend. He had just gone back last week and says he is relieved to finally be back in an office environment and not stuck at home all day.

Genuinely starting to feel like a weirdo about all this and having to come to GRcade to feel like I fit in .

I'm going to have to start going in regularly (looking like two days a week at the moment) from 14 September and I'm not going to exaggerate and say I'm devastated or anything like that but I am pretty gutted about it.

One thing they will be a big factor is living arrangements. Had lockdown been last year, I'd have been WFH in a small 1 bedroom flat in central Birmingham and bouncing off the walls. But we moved to a house with a garden in a quiet little village just before lockdown and I love WFH. I definitely wouldn't have 12 months ago though.

Big time. I'd have had very similar, but two years ago instead of one (used to live on Bromsgrove Street – we could have been neighbours?!) and I agree it would have been much, much worse. Certainly during peak lockdown, anyway; not so bad now.

[Jenuall]

Personally I operate much better in an office environment and I think the kind of work we are doing benefits from it as well.

I agree that individual circumstances such as the suitability of your home space and whether you are alone at home or with others or whether there are kids around etc. are all important factors in determining how much you have got on with working from home and how desperate you might be to get back into an office!

[Tomous]

I spoke to another friend about the whole WFH thing at the weekend. He had just gone back last week and says he is relieved to finally be back in an office environment and not stuck at home all day.

Genuinely starting to feel like a weirdo about all this and having to come to GRcade to feel like I fit in .

I'm going to have to start going in regularly (looking like two days a week at the moment) from 14 September and I'm not going to exaggerate and say I'm devastated or anything like that but I am pretty gutted about it.

One thing they will be a big factor is living arrangements. Had lockdown been last year, I'd have been WFH in a small 1 bedroom flat in central Birmingham and bouncing off the walls. But we moved to a house with a garden in a quiet little village just before lockdown and I love WFH. I definitely wouldn't have 12 months ago though.

Big time. I'd have had very similar, but two years ago instead of one (used to live on Bromsgrove Street – we could have been neighbours?!) and I agree it would have been much, much worse. Certainly during peak lockdown, anyway; not so bad now.

I was near the Mailbox, not that far away then!

[<]:^D]

dont you mean the dog poo box?

[Oblomov Boblomov]

MS Teams updated this week and there's a new 'together mode' feature for meetings that just cracks me up. Anyone else used it yet?

[Lotus]

Starting to dislike Teams now. It runs like gooseberry fool on my laptop - gets the fans going mental - and I'm sure they've changed the status settings. Before I could set it as 'busy' and just leave it all day, and the only time it would change is if I was in a call (then revert back to busy). Now I set it as busy, and I only have to look away from my screen and it changes to show me as 'away'. At least with Skype, or even shite like Jabber, you could set how long you had to be away before your status changed.

[Zilnad]

Third customer this week to accuse the company of money laundering

Individually I'd say their complaints were full of gooseberry fool and didn't make any sense but as a collective I'm starting to wonder if I should be getting worried

Can I come work with any of you, please? The agency I'm with aren't doing a great job at finding work. They've put my CV through to one company since I started dealing with them over a month ago

[Rocsteady]

Starting to dislike Teams now. It runs like gooseberry fool on my laptop - gets the fans going mental - and I'm sure they've changed the status settings. Before I could set it as 'busy' and just leave it all day, and the only time it would change is if I was in a call (then revert back to busy). Now I set it as busy, and I only have to look away from my screen and it changes to show me as 'away'. At least with Skype, or even shite like Jabber, you could set how long you had to be away before your status changed.

I have this too, it keeps flipping me to away. Sometimes even when I'm clicking on other windows.