What Are You Doing Right Now
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Where is everyone this morning? Man this place is slow.
Hiding in the dark...
It is always dark down there on the bottom of the world in the shadows, right?
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That's why Australia has so much desert, no rain because it is blocked by the norther hemisphere. It's in the rain shadow of the globe
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@scottalanmiller is it possible that SMB IT feel that their management doesn't know squat about IT yet they are making decisions that to the IT person just seem wrong.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller is it possible that SMB IT feel that their management doesn't know squat about IT yet they are making decisions that to the IT person just seem wrong.
Does it matter? It's not IT's place to take over management if they don't like the decisions. Inform management, be available to consult, of course. But all employees feel that management is doing things wrong, but only IT takes this tact of trying to take over and work around so commonly.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Where is everyone this morning? Man this place is slow.
Just got to work at a quarter of 6, and I brought in donuts. We're adding some Cisco 4500s and changing the network so that the core isn't reliant on a single, old 6509 an the new design will have redundancy from the firewall throughout.
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@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Where is everyone this morning? Man this place is slow.
Just got to work at a quarter of 6, and I brought in donuts. We're adding some Cisco 4500s and changing the network so that the core isn't reliant on a single, old 6509 an the new design will have redundancy from the firewall throughout.
We'd have to do that work between the hours of 1 AM and 1:15AM.... can't have downtime!
Part of that was sarcastic...
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Where is everyone this morning? Man this place is slow.
Just got to work at a quarter of 6, and I brought in donuts. We're adding some Cisco 4500s and changing the network so that the core isn't reliant on a single, old 6509 an the new design will have redundancy from the firewall throughout.
We'd have to do that work between the hours of 1 AM and 1:15AM.... can't have downtime!
Part of that was sarcastic...
I completely agree, but the business made the decision on the time. I wanted to do it at 10pm or so. Instead, we're kicking off at 6:30 for some of the servers and 7 for the network, with an anticipated finish 90 minutes later.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Where is everyone this morning? Man this place is slow.
Hiding in the dark...
It is always dark down there on the bottom of the world in the shadows, right?
Nah, just a Pink Panther reference
However, in Antarctica it's dark for 6 months of the year and that's the next land mass south. -
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
That's why Australia has so much desert, no rain because it is blocked by the norther hemisphere. It's in the rain shadow of the globe
Not the last three days. We've had huge amounts of summer rain. Flooded classrooms & roads, the river is flowing better than in winter and solid, consistent rain (the likes of which I haven't seen in over a decade).
Over here in the west, we get a lot less rain than the east coast, but this year we seem to have swapped summers. We have their rain and they have our heat waves... SUCKERS!
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Thinking what IP range to give stuff we put in the Datacentre as part of the MPLS.
Was going to but Zabbix, Unifi, RADIUS, OSTickets, ScreenConnect etc all in there. On a Dell Server running XenServer.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller is it possible that SMB IT feel that their management doesn't know squat about IT yet they are making decisions that to the IT person just seem wrong.
Does it matter? It's not IT's place to take over management if they don't like the decisions. Inform management, be available to consult, of course. But all employees feel that management is doing things wrong, but only IT takes this tact of trying to take over and work around so commonly.
oh - well I see people working around management's request/requirements all the time - so I don't think it's limited to only IT. Perhaps it's that IT persons just like to complain about it more - or (and who know why) feel that their opinion should have more weight that other people think their's should. I.E. Suzy in IT feels that since no one else in the company really understands IT, so what she says should go. Suzy will come to forums and ask for advice on how to get their way.
Meanwhile Bob a receptionist, just does whatever he wants regardless of what he's told, but doesn't have a place online of like minded individuals to rant about it.I'm grasping sure, but perhaps you see where I'm going.. perhaps I'm just crazy.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller is it possible that SMB IT feel that their management doesn't know squat about IT yet they are making decisions that to the IT person just seem wrong.
Does it matter? It's not IT's place to take over management if they don't like the decisions. Inform management, be available to consult, of course. But all employees feel that management is doing things wrong, but only IT takes this tact of trying to take over and work around so commonly.
oh - well I see people working around management's request/requirements all the time - so I don't think it's limited to only IT. Perhaps it's that IT persons just like to complain about it more - or (and who know why) feel that their opinion should have more weight that other people think their's should. I.E. Suzy in IT feels that since no one else in the company really understands IT, so what she says should go. Suzy will come to forums and ask for advice on how to get their way.
Meanwhile Bob a receptionist, just does whatever he wants regardless of what he's told, but doesn't have a place online of like minded individuals to rant about it.I'm grasping sure, but perhaps you see where I'm going.. perhaps I'm just crazy.
How often do you see a receptionist get told what to do and directly disobey and convey to someone that they know better and care more than the person paying them about what the company needs (not what they need, but the company) and try to "take ownership" against the management's will? It must happen, but I feel like it is very rare. I'm not talking about the way he greets someone on the phone, I'm talking about deciding to override the business' contracts or changing vendors or refusing to let people in the door or similar.
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You know things are bad when you can judge what people use based on their problems. Just had a post say that VPNs cripple his voice traffic to the point of not working. I said that shouldn't happen, what do you have a slow Cisco ASA? Yup, that was the issue. That easy to fix.
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@art_of_shred said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got muted by someone on SW, but not during a discussion. Very odd. I've never been muted when not saying anything before.
Some times you just rub people the wrong way, try switching hands...
But who, and where?
I'd suggest start randomly rubbing people with your other hand and see if they perk up.... to many grumpy people to know who specifically muted you...
Was it @Dominica who muted you? Are you in the dog house?
Ok, so we have it clearly established here that @DustinB3403 thinks of Dominica as a grumpy person. That is all.
WTF @DustinB3403 ? I leave for a few days and you're talking sh!7 about me?
Nah, just joking. I am a grumpy person.
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I'm about to throw my effing laptop across the room if wordpress doesn't let me start customizing my damn website template. Argh!
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@Dominica said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm about to throw my effing laptop across the room if wordpress doesn't let me start customizing my damn website template. Argh!
Isn't this a Wordpress issue, and not a laptop one?
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@DustinB3403 I'm sorry, are you expecting me to be rational when I'm pissed off?
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@Dominica I'd actually rather write the code manually.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dominica said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm about to throw my effing laptop across the room if wordpress doesn't let me start customizing my damn website template. Argh!
Isn't this a Wordpress issue, and not a laptop one?
Yeah, but she cant physically throw wordpress. The laptop is the closest accomplice.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dominica I'd actually rather write the code manually.
omg, I was just saying to @Minion-Queen last night that it was so much easier when you had to do everything by hand, lol. Sure it didn't look as fancy but at least it effing worked!
