What Are You Doing Right Now
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@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender till said employee leave one on desk and the one in there travel bag in conf room and no idea where they put the one we tod them to leave at home (Then calls me asking for what to do at home without a charger)
You can only fix so much stupid...
Very few people I know have a dedicated space for a home computer these days - they pull out the laptop and set it up when they need it - if you send a home computer home with them... they might end up hating the requirement of a permanent fixture for it.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Very few people I know have a dedicated space for a home computer these days
Yeah, that's another reason I like to push for that. It's only a trend but the kind of people I'd want to hire are the kind of people who would have a home work space. People who have initiative, do things on their own, don't solely do work type stuff when at the office as something that they don't like to do. I want someone passionate about their work, and those people almost always have home offices or some kind of good work space.
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@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Mistakes were made Friday when I left work - I didn't grab my laptop charger, but I grabbed my Laptop with a full battery.. After a weekend of helping with 10 minute calls / etc - I woke up to about 2" of snow - a van that doesn't drive well on dry streets- I'm not comfortable driving it 30 minutes across town in snow plus not being able to leave the neighborhood, and not enough gas in the "safer vehicle" from running around for everyone while they were out of town.
Opted to work from home today noticed laptop was down to 50% and thought I should plug it in... Oh well. Lesson learned I suppose - always grab the charger.
Laptop officially died. Clocked out, waiting on my boss to call me back so I can explain.
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@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender till said employee leave one on desk and the one in there travel bag in conf room and no idea where they put the one we tod them to leave at home (Then calls me asking for what to do at home without a charger)
Heh.. The State sent people home,.. when they started coming back in rotation or full time - had a user come in and their external devices didn't work.... Turns out,.. someone snatched the power supply from her dock setup. ..
Agency was charged to replace it.
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@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Mistakes were made Friday when I left work - I didn't grab my laptop charger, but I grabbed my Laptop with a full battery.. After a weekend of helping with 10 minute calls / etc - I woke up to about 2" of snow - a van that doesn't drive well on dry streets- I'm not comfortable driving it 30 minutes across town in snow plus not being able to leave the neighborhood, and not enough gas in the "safer vehicle" from running around for everyone while they were out of town.
Opted to work from home today noticed laptop was down to 50% and thought I should plug it in... Oh well. Lesson learned I suppose - always grab the charger.
Laptop officially died. Clocked out, waiting on my boss to call me back so I can explain.
Oops..
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Mistakes were made Friday when I left work - I didn't grab my laptop charger, but I grabbed my Laptop with a full battery.. After a weekend of helping with 10 minute calls / etc - I woke up to about 2" of snow - a van that doesn't drive well on dry streets- I'm not comfortable driving it 30 minutes across town in snow plus not being able to leave the neighborhood, and not enough gas in the "safer vehicle" from running around for everyone while they were out of town.
Opted to work from home today noticed laptop was down to 50% and thought I should plug it in... Oh well. Lesson learned I suppose - always grab the charger.
Laptop officially died. Clocked out, waiting on my boss to call me back so I can explain.
Oops..
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@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Mistakes were made Friday when I left work - I didn't grab my laptop charger, but I grabbed my Laptop with a full battery.. After a weekend of helping with 10 minute calls / etc - I woke up to about 2" of snow - a van that doesn't drive well on dry streets- I'm not comfortable driving it 30 minutes across town in snow plus not being able to leave the neighborhood, and not enough gas in the "safer vehicle" from running around for everyone while they were out of town.
Opted to work from home today noticed laptop was down to 50% and thought I should plug it in... Oh well. Lesson learned I suppose - always grab the charger.
Laptop officially died. Clocked out, waiting on my boss to call me back so I can explain.
Oops..
️ Oh well.I should add - I forgot my charger a few months back. I was lucky enough that the laptop was USB-C and I had a USB-C cable and supply at home. it was a fifty power power supply - but it let me run all day regardless...
Why fifty pounds? It's a portable battery / inverter ...
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Another day, another QB issue. This one user created (misplaced company file).
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almost 8 years to the day since this thread started
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@mattspeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
almost 8 years to the day since this thread started
Wow, that's crazy. It has been quite a long time.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@mattspeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
almost 8 years to the day since this thread started
Wow, that's crazy. It has been quite a long time.
Eight years.... that's when I joined. July 2014. That is just crazy. I am glad I have along for the journey Met a fabulous group of people, spoken out when prior I would not have, and learned a few things.
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Yeah, it is really weird to think about how long we have mostly all been here.
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And to think about how much has changed. It is also really weird to think about things in terms of COVID. The pandemic has been a major factor now for two whole years, or a full quarter of the time that we've had the community!
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Listening to discussion on how to deal with a exited users ODfB and Email account.
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Uh huh..
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Latest discussion is on equipment we apparently don't own,... and is leased.
And the lease expires in a month. And we had a support agreement when issues arose - that we didn't know about.
Previous IT management dumped a load on the future IT management...
I feel a storm brewing...
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Learning Sharepoint - different approaches to building sites.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Learning Sharepoint - different approaches to building sites.
Eww... I'll take pissed off previous IT for $1000, Alex.
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@wrcombs That's why I have a couple power supplies for laptop. Keep one at desk at home, and the other stays in bag. If by chance I accidentally leave the charger at a client's or something, I'm not screwed.
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@krzykat said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs That's why I have a couple power supplies for laptop. Keep one at desk at home, and the other stays in bag. If by chance I accidentally leave the charger at a client's or something, I'm not screwed.
That is very easily way lighter than toting this thing around:
It literally weights about 50pounds
