What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Good morning, everyone!
Uck, not enough coffee. Course there never is. I'll really get moving around lunch time
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Editing audio for YouTube video.
Welcome back- hope the ceremony wa what you both wanted.
It was. Execution of everything couldn't have been better.
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happy 2:22pm tuesday 1 march 2022 to everyone.
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Getting ready to walk somewhere for breakfast.
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Uploading videos to YouTube. We finally decided to make simple videos for our last band. 2 albums worth being uploaded now, 1st album still needs to be done. Links will be provided when available.
Gotta do something while the new album gets mixed and mastered.
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What's your YouTube channel?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What's your YouTube channel?
The band is State of Unrest. Still building the page, I'll post it here when published.
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experience.
i'm not sure people really want experienced people when they put out a job/position advert?
i'm no longer the sharpest knife in the drawer, I was back in the day, but not now & that's perfectly normal and natural.
but I am much more experienced and also older.
when you are older you tend to end up working under someone younger and it's not uncommon for a younger person to interpret an older persons suggestions and advice as being negative or not with current trends.
history does repeat itself and it's repeated history that an older person may have already dealt with and learnt from, that may appear as current and cutting edge to a younger person.
younger people do get annoyed by what may appear as a lack of interest in change by older people, that's normal. older people do get annoyed by younger overseers requesting change that experience would tell them is not worthwhile.
what brought this spiel on?
just been asked by a younger manager to do something that includes work that will have no point. it won't be referred to in the future and won't be used in the present. but because it's all bells, whistles and flashing lights it is wanted.
if i were to mention that, from my experience, i can see that it will be of no use, i have little doubt i will be considered negative & not interested in change. so i will go ahead and do the work, i won't offer my experience, i will just say yes.
this is not a shot against younger people. i did exactly the same when i was younger, it's human nature. i look back at how i treated some older workers when i was younger and cringe. that's because i didn't understand at that age.
and who is young? if you're 40, 20 is young. if you're 60, 20 is still a child.
so to those in positions of management / overseeing, don't jump on the 'negative' bandwagon too quickly. consider who is saying what and where they've come from, where have they worked before and for how long.
we all need to remember to be respectful and patient with others.
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Getting ready to return home after working out at the beach all day (because that's where my main desktop remains for the moment.)
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@siringo there is always a respectful way say someone's suggestion is outdated or not valid, not applicable, not useful, etc.
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Was lucky today. this happened about 11am. Quiet day. Was able to retrieve all VMs from last nights backup.
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@siringo Yikes!
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@siringo Glad you had backups.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Was lucky today. this happened about 11am. Quiet day. Was able to retrieve all VMs from last nights backup.
Those are some weird sizes on the surviving disks, as well.
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Good morning all! Coffee time.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Good morning all! Coffee time.
Could I have mine with Bourbon please?
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Making rookie mistakes even though I know better - I ended up removing a user's Exchange mailbox
I was reviewing and updating our MS 365 licensing yesterday so that I could make any necessary adjustments before the pricing increases that went into effect today. I noticed that one user had both MS 365 Business Premium and Standard assigned, so I removed the Standard license. However, I was either trying to do too many things at once or was interrupted by a drive-by request, and Exchange Online ended up getting unchecked under Apps for them. Obviously, this is going to remove the mailbox. I didn't realize this at the time, and the user called me up today saying that they couldn't send or receive emails. At first, I thought it somehow got irrevocably deleted when the Run Tests: Deleted Mailbox tool told me that the original wasn't recoverable. That's when it dawned on me and I said to myself, "Idiot! You didn't make sure Exchange Online was still selected under Apps when modifying their licensing yesterday".
Just another example of one of those "wow, that was stupid - I'll only ever do that once" moments...
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@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Making rookie mistakes even though I know better
Sadly it is a thing that happens. It's how you deal with it after the fact and what you learn from it.
In theory though - the user should not have lost any mail - or at most - a few hours worth... In theory..
