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Re: Random randomness
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 2:23 pm
by Paingod
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 2:26 pm
by LordMortis
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 3:40 pm
by Paingod
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 3:51 pm
by malchior
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?
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 7:23 pm
by Anonymous Bosch
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 6:21 pm
by Enough
Nazi furries, who know that
was a thing?
Apparently some are even Trump furries lol...
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:53 am
by Paingod
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:55 am
by ImLawBoy
What about we remove those pictures and move them into the R&P thread?
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 8:30 pm
by Max Peck
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:02 pm
by Holman
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??
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 10:19 pm
by Daehawk
Something I thought some of you might enjoy ....I plan to try them sometime soon'ish.
Coconut raspberry scones( biscuits)
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:59 am
by MonkeyFinger
You planning on savoring them with noosa® for the ultimate tea party?
ps.
A scone is not a biscuit.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:54 am
by hepcat
I really hope the next Batman movie gives us a Bruce Wayne that's based on Dudley Moore's Arthur...
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 9:57 am
by GreenGoo
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 10:59 am
by Smoove_B
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:13 am
by Remus West
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:22 am
by GreenGoo
Is silver out of fashion?
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:28 am
by Smoove_B
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:29 am
by coopasonic
GreenGoo wrote:Is silver out of fashion?
I think iron is bane to the fae.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:35 am
by Isgrimnur
Staples.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:37 am
by Zarathud
The Demon Snails are afraid.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:45 am
by GreenGoo
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 1:52 pm
by Daehawk
You dont want to know how much cat urine and turds are in playground sand.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:07 pm
by Archinerd
I wish you would stop digging those up. I go through a lot of trouble to get just the right mix for each playground.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:46 pm
by GreenGoo
Daehawk wrote:You dont want to know how much cat urine and turds are in playground sand.
And iron filings, don't forget those.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 6:56 pm
by Daehawk
Arrrrrrr I be forgetting to talk like a pirate all day today grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:10 pm
by Anonymous Bosch
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:22 pm
by Blackhawk
Just get steel wool and a pair of old scissors.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:27 pm
by Holman
Anonymous Bosch wrote:
FTFY.
Robert Louis Stevenson FTW!
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:59 pm
by Anonymous Bosch
Holman wrote:Anonymous Bosch wrote:
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 11:03 am
by stessier
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are getting divorced. Apparently over his parenting style. This surprises me and I don't know why.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 11:59 am
by GreenGoo
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:20 pm
by hepcat
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:22 pm
by LordMortis
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:27 pm
by Isgrimnur
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:27 pm
by hepcat
Try the rib s at BM (hmmm...appropriate acronym). You'll change your tune.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:28 pm
by LordMortis
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:34 pm
by Rip
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:38 pm
by hentzau
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.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:38 pm
by LordMortis
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.