RANT: All the Issues are My Fault and You Won't Answer My Questions
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Maybe not an employer but still... http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/926832-venting-about-your-employer-online
Seriously? I don't see how this could possibly apply.
Sharing too much information online and ranting out someone you where helping..
We all rant about end-users, etc. This one isn't even tied to a job. That's why I don't understand why you're making an issue out of it.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
Now I thought I'd scheduled my cron job to reboot the FiOS router last night at 5AM EDT but I accidentally enabled WAN telnet and not local telnet, so it didn't.
You enabled telnet on the WAN! =O
Did you set the username and password to admin/admin too? =P
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@Aaron-Studer said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
Now I thought I'd scheduled my cron job to reboot the FiOS router last night at 5AM EDT but I accidentally enabled WAN telnet and not local telnet, so it didn't.
You enabled telnet on the WAN! =O
Yeah, that was an accident. I meant to enable it over the LAN. I'm not worried. Anyone could have figured out the username (it's "admin") but the password is fully complex and 17 characters. It was open like that for 12 hours tops. Everything was fine.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
It was open like that for 12 hours tops. Everything was fine.That's just what the hacker would say! O.o
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@dafyre said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
It was open like that for 12 hours tops. Everything was fine.That's just what the hacker would say! O.o
My point is that even if they did try to brute force it because someone happened to stumble across an open WAN telnet connection, they'd run out of time before they'd get in. I'm guessing but being fully complex and 17 characters, they'd have a tough time doing that in 12 hours.
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Well...17 characters in 12 hours
GPUs have only gotten more powerful. I actually need to do a test with my GPU as it's fairly beefy.
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@Breffni-Potter said:
Well...17 characters in 12 hours
GPUs have only gotten more powerful. I actually need to do a test with my GPU as it's fairly beefy.
That's the number of password combinations there are in a 17 character password: 4.1812034e+33
Assuming 26 upper-case, 26 lower case, 10 digits and 33 symbols/punctuation marks.
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You sure bitch about Staples a lot, either your managers or customers, that certainly cannot be good. The fact you mention that company by name at all is reckless.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@tonyshowoff said:
You sure bitch about everything a lot
FTFY
I complain about a lot of things, sure. However I also have made many comments about how much I enjoy working there, how much I care about my job, some of the great people I work with, and so on. I don't deal well with people who are lazy or apathetic at the store, because that job is very personal to me. It's the reason I'm good at my job and why people come back to see ME and ONLY me. So yes, I complain. But it's because I'm frustrated by things that I can't fix, and I'm the kind of person who likes to fix things.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
It's the reason I'm good at my job and why people come back to see ME and ONLY me
So the store would close down if you left? Was it not open before you started?
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@thanksajdotcom said:
I complain about a lot of things, sure. However I also have made many comments about how much I enjoy working there, how much I care about my job, some of the great people I work with, and so on. I don't deal well with people who are lazy or apathetic at the store, because that job is very personal to me. It's the reason I'm good at my job and why people come back to see ME and ONLY me. So yes, I complain. But it's because I'm frustrated by things that I can't fix, and I'm the kind of person who likes to fix things.
Management, HR, etc never see the complements, 10,000 complements mean nothing compared to 1 complaint, and they can take any complaint and make it into a bigger deal than you think. You have to remember that other people cannot understand/read your own feelings about things. Also consider if someone important saw any one of your bad comments, none of your good ones, by the time you tried to explain it to the person firing you, it'll be too late.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
So the store would close down if you left? Was it not open before you started?
Not sure how I'd take that comment.
There is nothing wrong with taking pride in your work, having worked in some teams where I KNOW I was putting more effort/quality in but that was my own drive that wanted to deliver, Yes the team would still get it done but sometimes the part you play can make it much better.
I agree that AJ needs to be a lot more careful with all the negativity on-line, I've seen a lot of in my short time on this community. Yet that comment wasn't the most helpful you could have made.
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I don't mind my own employees bitching about things or customers, but never online, at all. In fact I'm sure there's probably a clause in your contract/work agreement/whatever where you aren't allowed to do anything which may embarrass the company. We have that. I've fired people for doing exactly what you've done here. The main thing is: you're a low level employees, the fact you have a manager in your store says you're in no real position of administrative authority, which means the store will go on without you. Nobody wants to promote someone who talks crap about the company or customers, but especially the company, and especially in public one the Internet by name.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
It's the reason I'm good at my job and why people come back to see ME and ONLY me
So the store would close down if you left? Was it not open before you started?
The store did okay before I got there, significantly better while I was there, and once I left in June 2013, it has since done quite poorly in the tech department. Since I've come back, the entire store's business has picked up. I've looked at the numbers. There is a direct correlation between me working there and increased store sales. It wouldn't just pack up and shut down, but it would not do nearly as well as it could.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
It's the reason I'm good at my job and why people come back to see ME and ONLY me
So the store would close down if you left? Was it not open before you started?
The first rule of being indispensable is to come to the understanding that you are totally dispensable.
Given that Staples ran just fine without you for your time in Texas says to me that you are over-inflating your self-importance.
Now get back to work.
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@tonyshowoff said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
I complain about a lot of things, sure. However I also have made many comments about how much I enjoy working there, how much I care about my job, some of the great people I work with, and so on. I don't deal well with people who are lazy or apathetic at the store, because that job is very personal to me. It's the reason I'm good at my job and why people come back to see ME and ONLY me. So yes, I complain. But it's because I'm frustrated by things that I can't fix, and I'm the kind of person who likes to fix things.
Management, HR, etc never see the complements, 10,000 complements mean nothing compared to 1 complaint, and they can take any complaint and make it into a bigger deal than you think. You have to remember that other people cannot understand/read your own feelings about things. Also consider if someone important saw any one of your bad comments, none of your good ones, by the time you tried to explain it to the person firing you, it'll be too late.
Oh I know that. Thankfully I know none of those people will ever see this. Even if the word Staples is triggered in corporate's monitoring of the online usage of it, there are pretty much no links to their site from this site and no one at corporate cares about what I have to say. We have a hard enough time getting them to address REAL issues that are brought up by someone like the GM.
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@tonyshowoff said:
I don't mind my own employees bitching about things or customers, but never online, at all. In fact I'm sure there's probably a clause in your contract/work agreement/whatever where you aren't allowed to do anything which may embarrass the company. We have that. I've fired people for doing exactly what you've done here. The main thing is: you're a low level employees, the fact you have a manager in your store says you're in no real position of administrative authority, which means the store will go on without you. Nobody wants to promote someone who talks crap about the company or customers, but especially the company, and especially in public one the Internet by name.
Every company pretty much has this clause. Never seen one that didn't. Many hold you legally responsible for damage you may cause to the company with statements as well.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
There is a direct correlation between me working there and increased store sales. It wouldn't just pack up and shut down, but it would not do nearly as well as it could.
To be blunt.
If you were working for me...And you were delivering revenue, yet you were crap talking about my name and my brand online, You'd be fired, no one will tolerate that in any sector.
This is why everyone is getting at you, You cannot keep doing this.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
Oh I know that. Thankfully I know none of those people will ever see this. Even if the word Staples is triggered in corporate's monitoring of the online usage of it, there are pretty much no links to their site from this site and no one at corporate cares about what I have to say. We have a hard enough time getting them to address REAL issues that are brought up by someone like the GM.
You're using security through obscurity. I've been told twice before by my own employees that they didn't think anyone would see what they wrote either. People find things, usually by accident, and it gets reported, and you have your photograph with what I assume is probably your real initials, it wouldn't be hard for someone to figure this out.
