Random randomness

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 2:23 pm

Paingod wrote:User: Can you run these reports for me?
Me: I've documented the process. Here's the 'How-To' so anyone can do this and here's a list of people who have access to run it. (User is at the top of the list)
User: Great, thanks! Let me know when it's done.

So, there's a follow-up. I spent a week trying to perform subtle social engineering with this user and finally got her to a point where she was able to log in remotely and run her own reports. I basically worded it like the last IT Admin was overly paranoid, that I trusted them to get it done right, and spent days patiently explaining the steps when she ran into issue after issue trying to do this herself. When she finally got it right, I was thrilled.

This morning I get an email from the person sitting right next to her...
Can you please run that (after-hours) report when you get a chance? If you're not able, (user) said she can do it, just let us know.

It is not doing me a favor to run your own gorram reports instead of asking me to do it. I swear I got an instant headache.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 2:26 pm

I play a half on hour errand boy every morning running and often hand delivering reports. While I've got better things to do, I don't find it stressful and I get paid a lot of money for being an errand boy. If the other 8.5+ hours of my workday were like that, I'd be a happy happy man when it comes to work.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 3:40 pm

It's a waste of my time to do someone's job for them, but more importantly, these are reports that must be run after normal business hours. So I'd need to log in at 9:00pm and kick off a report, check on it after an hour, and then make sure it finished when I get up in the morning. I'd rather have the user do that.

If it was on the clock, so to speak, I'd care a whole lot less. We're both salaried, though, so there's no benefit in me doing it instead of her.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 3:51 pm

I overheard a millenial squee with delight to her friend that a mall kiosk to print Instagrams was the most best idea ever. I wonder if she has ever heard of the wheel?

Anonymous Bosch · Post by **Anonymous Bosch** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 7:23 pm

Paingod wrote:It's a waste of my time to do someone's job for them, but more importantly, these are reports that must be run after normal business hours. So I'd need to log in at 9:00pm and kick off a report, check on it after an hour, and then make sure it finished when I get up in the morning. I'd rather have the user do that.

If it was on the clock, so to speak, I'd care a whole lot less. We're both salaried, though, so there's no benefit in me doing it instead of her.

Yeah, but on the bright side, that would absolve you from having to spend more time with 'er indoors / she who must be obeyed.

Enough · Post by **Enough** » Thu Sep 15, 2016 6:21 pm

Nazi furries, who know that was a thing?

Apparently some are even Trump furries lol...

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:53 am

Disturbing? I mean, to each their own, but I've never met someone who'd happily endorse Trump and was a Furry. Huh.

Have you ever bumped into that person at work that refused to work? A lot of folks at my new job think I'm an absolute rockstar because the guy before me was such a putz. I've been here for two months and I'm still running into problems people are having and they say "Well, the guy before you said it couldn't be fixed" or "He said that was just how it was" ... WTF, man. We're talking like 5 and 10 minute fixes. I'm still apologizing for his behavior and telling everyone they shouldn't have had to put up with that.

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:55 am

What about we remove those pictures and move them into the R&P thread?

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 8:30 pm

Florida sinkhole causes radioactive water to leak into aquifer

About 980 million litres of radioactive water have leaked into Florida's main underground source of drinking water, officials in the US state say.

The leak occurred after a huge sinkhole opened up under a phosphate fertiliser plant near Tampa, damaging the stack where waste water was stored.

The water contained phosphogypsum, a slightly radioactive by-product from the production of fertiliser.

The phosphate company Mosaic said the leak posed no risk to the public.

It added the contaminated water had not reached private supplies and the firm was recovering it using pumps.

"Groundwater moves very slowly," senior Mosaic official David Jellerson was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.

However, Jacki Lopez, Florida director of the Center for Biological Diversity, told Reuters news agency: "It's hard to trust them when they say 'Don't worry,' when they've been keeping it secret for three weeks."

The sinkhole - about 45ft (14m) in diameter - at Mosaic's New Wales facility in the town of Mulberry was discovered by a company worker on 27 August.

The sinkhole later caused the waste pond to drain, and the contaminated water has now seeped into the aquifer.

And that is how the first Nuka-Cola bottling plant came to be.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:02 pm

ImLawBoy wrote:What about we remove those pictures and move them into the R&P thread?

Great. Now we have to put up with furries in there??

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Sep 17, 2016 10:19 pm

Something I thought some of you might enjoy ....I plan to try them sometime soon'ish.

Coconut raspberry scones( biscuits)

MonkeyFinger · Post by **MonkeyFinger** » Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:59 am

You planning on savoring them with noosa® for the ultimate tea party?

ps. A scone is not a biscuit.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:54 am

I really hope the next Batman movie gives us a Bruce Wayne that's based on Dudley Moore's Arthur...

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 9:57 am

hepcat wrote:I really hope the next Batman movie gives us a Bruce Wayne that's based on Dudley Moore's Arthur...

Next one is Lego, I believe. Could still be based on Arthur however. Don't give up hope.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 10:59 am

Daughter tells me this morning that she needs containers filled with a mixture of "salt and iron" for her Halloween costume so she can fight creatures of The Dark. All accounts suggest I've raised a nerd.

Remus West · Post by **Remus West** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:13 am

Smoove_B wrote:Daughter tells me this morning that she needs containers filled with a mixture of "salt and iron" for her Halloween costume so she can fight creatures of The Dark. All accounts suggest I've raised a nerd.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:22 am

Is silver out of fashion?

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:28 am

Well, she found a "silver" chain to wear on her belt to bind creatures, but couldn't figure out how to get iron filings so she asked me.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:29 am

GreenGoo wrote:Is silver out of fashion?

I think iron is bane to the fae.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:35 am

Staples.

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:37 am

The Demon Snails are afraid.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:45 am

Smoove_B wrote:Well, she found a "silver" chain to wear on her belt to bind creatures, but couldn't figure out how to get iron filings so she asked me.

Take a magnet to the local playground and run it through the sand.

Worked for me when I was 10.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 1:52 pm

You dont want to know how much cat urine and turds are in playground sand.

Archinerd · Post by **Archinerd** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:07 pm

I wish you would stop digging those up. I go through a lot of trouble to get just the right mix for each playground.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:46 pm

Daehawk wrote:You dont want to know how much cat urine and turds are in playground sand.

And iron filings, don't forget those.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 6:56 pm

Arrrrrrr I be forgetting to talk like a pirate all day today grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Anonymous Bosch · Post by **Anonymous Bosch** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:10 pm

Daehawk wrote:Arrrrrrr I be forgetting to talk like a pirate an English West Country bumpkin all day today grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

FTFY.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:22 pm

Just get steel wool and a pair of old scissors.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:27 pm

Anonymous Bosch wrote:
Daehawk wrote:Arrrrrrr I be forgetting to talk like a pirate an English West Country bumpkin all day today grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
FTFY.

Robert Louis Stevenson FTW!

Anonymous Bosch · Post by **Anonymous Bosch** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:59 pm

Holman wrote:
Anonymous Bosch wrote:
Daehawk wrote:Arrrrrrr I be forgetting to talk like a pirate an English West Country bumpkin all day today grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
FTFY.
Robert Louis Stevenson FTW!

Well, it's really Robert Newton's performance as Long John Silver in Treasure Island that deserves the credit. But it's amused me since I was a wee nipper, as that particular accent has always sounded to me more like the English equivalent of a rural hayseed farmer (as demonstrated in this Youtube vid). And I say that as someone with family from there, so no offense instended to any OOers from that particularly bucolic part of England.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 11:03 am

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are getting divorced. Apparently over his parenting style. This surprises me and I don't know why.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 11:59 am

stessier wrote:Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are getting divorced. Apparently over his parenting style. This surprises me and I don't know why.

Excellent.

I fully admit that this is my ugly side, but I've never liked Jolie's sanctimoniousness nor how Pitt treated Aniston when they split. Pitt and Jolie together were insufferable, despite their seemingly good heartedness and charitable behaviour.

Like I said, my ugly side. Sometimes you just dislike people, no matter how seemingly "good" they are.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:20 pm

The next time I think to myself, "Self, you know who might make good barbecue ribs? Boston Market!", I want myself to punch myself as hard as I can in the nuts.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:22 pm

I was blissfully unaware of this trivia until a barrage of social media complaints about everyone is talking about this when they should be talking about important issue x. I suppose I can empathise. I can remember when it seemed like every "news" item was incomprehensibly about Taylor Swift. That must have been the time I put up my pop culture blinders.

Now if only I could become this unaware about things political, I'd be sitting a happier man unaware of the shit going on in the world and the Internet's opinions of that shit.

The Internet informed me not long ago that I will be a much happier person if I stay away from the news (and Internet opinions of the news), that news is slowly killing me.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/ ... lf-dobelli

Edit: That trivia being Brad and Angelina, not Hepcat's experience with Ribs.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:27 pm

Because I tacked on to my trip for vacation day, boss is trying to take away PTO rather than account for one day as a travel day. I will now be fighting with him over this via HR.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:27 pm

Try the rib s at BM (hmmm...appropriate acronym). You'll change your tune.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:28 pm

hepcat wrote:The next time I think to myself, "Self, you know who might make good barbecue ribs? Boston Market!", I want myself to punch myself as hard as I can in the nuts.

Maybe you could cleanse you palette with Golden Coral ribs?

I have a thing where I try the Cheese Steak Hoagie or the Pulled Pork from just about everywhere. I find that I am 95+% of the time extremely disappointed with the Hoagie and that the Pull Pork is inevitably "meh" but I keep doing it, much to my hearth health's chagrin. I just keep hoping for that nattie 20 on the Hoagie or that rare Pulled Pork life changing moment. They happen, but not nearly often enough. I need to learn to treat these sandwiches like pizza or brownies. It's exceptionally rare that I walk away disappointed by a brownie or pizza.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:34 pm

LordMortis wrote:
hepcat wrote:The next time I think to myself, "Self, you know who might make good barbecue ribs? Boston Market!", I want myself to punch myself as hard as I can in the nuts.
Maybe you could cleanse you palette with Golden Coral ribs?

I have a thing where I try the Cheese Steak Hoagie or the Pulled Pork from just about everywhere. I find that I am 95+% of the time extremely disappointed with the Hoagie and that the Pull Pork is inevitably "meh" but I keep doing it, much to my hearth health's chagrin. I just keep hoping for that nattie 20 on the Hoagie or that rare Pulled Pork life changing moment. They happen, but not nearly often enough. I need to learn to treat these sandwiches like pizza or brownies. It's exceptionally rare that I walk away disappointed by a brownie or pizza.

Or better yet cleanse it with a McRib.

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:38 pm

Here on our campus during the summer months we have communal bicycles that we can take from building to building. Nice service to have, we have a big campus and it keeps people from hopping into their cars when they have an in-face meeting in one of the other buildings.

But what gets me is the clown that rides a bike out to his car in the parking lot. I always park out in the far parking lot for my building, it's maybe 100, 150 yards. And every night, when I walk to my car, I see a bike standing in the parking lot, between the cars, where some lazy ass decided to leave it after riding from the building to his car. I was trying to give the guy the benefit of the doubt...maybe he worked in South plaza, and was dropped off there every morning, and rode one of the bikes from there. That I could almost see, that's about a half mile walk. But the other day I finally saw this person riding from our building out the the lot. Didn't see his face, just his back, and he was gone by the time I got there.

I have no idea why this annoys me to the level that it does, but it just pisses me off.

Thanks. Needed to get that off my chest. Carry on.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:38 pm

If you ever get the hankering for the illusive McRib, go to Meijer and get OnCor's BBQ Rib like product. You get a bazillion of those things for like two bucks on sale. Way more than your stomach will ever process without a full on rebellion.