Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: stuman

Man, it is a nice day here. 65 , sunny. Sitting on my porch sipping cognac kind of day. Might even pull out a cigar.

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ORIGINAL: stuman

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: stuman


They really dont provide coffee to you guys ? You know how cheap a perk ( pun intended ) that is ? Geez

Yes.....and now that i'm at home i can tell you who the cheap-o's are...."ATT MOBILITY" (Coffee was probably the last perk to go......the only one left now is TP provided for the bathrooms.....we have a pool going on when that'll go and we have to start bringing in our own)


The part that really pisses off the workforce is that we get announcements like the above, for reasons of cost and then days later we get yet another quarterly report card email announcing mounds of financial success in meeting the goals and in one case, 'record profits' Managers litterally cringe when leadership pulls that.

and with all that success.....they can't even provide cheap ass coffee that makes Starbucks seem like some of JWE's Javarian brew. Guess the CEO needed another corporate Jet or something. I keep dreaming of the day when i finally get a bite on the job market and can just quit.....with 2 minutes notice.

and don't get me started on the big I.T. fiasco recently.

I own my own business. it's only 22 employees, but it is a good office. I have worked for multinational firms ( one of the " Big Six " accounting firms ) have started from scratch, etc. And I realize that there is a constant balancing act between being bottom line oriented, and maintaining a motivated workforce.

But I am here to tell you that it doesn't really take all of that much ( free coffee, free soft drinks maybe, lunch/dinner brought in, sensible leave policies and so forth ) to keep people happy. And a happy group of folks is far more productive imo than an unhappy one. It simply requires work ( somtimes a lot granted ) by upper management to implement.

ok, enough of my ranting.

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ORIGINAL: stuman

Man, it is a nice day here. 65 , sunny. Sitting on my porch sipping cognac kind of day. Might even pull out a cigar.

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Aye, I wish ye had ye an Empire still too.

Scottish?

Was goin' for a bit of a Scottish pirate, I was. Argh!.

What-too much?

A smidge.

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

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ORIGINAL: stuman

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: stuman


They really dont provide coffee to you guys ? You know how cheap a perk ( pun intended ) that is ? Geez

Yes.....and now that i'm at home i can tell you who the cheap-o's are...."ATT MOBILITY" (Coffee was probably the last perk to go......the only one left now is TP provided for the bathrooms.....we have a pool going on when that'll go and we have to start bringing in our own)


The part that really pisses off the workforce is that we get announcements like the above, for reasons of cost and then days later we get yet another quarterly report card email announcing mounds of financial success in meeting the goals and in one case, 'record profits' Managers litterally cringe when leadership pulls that.

and with all that success.....they can't even provide cheap ass coffee that makes Starbucks seem like some of JWE's Javarian brew. Guess the CEO needed another corporate Jet or something. I keep dreaming of the day when i finally get a bite on the job market and can just quit.....with 2 minutes notice.

and don't get me started on the big I.T. fiasco recently.

I own my own business. it's only 22 employees, but it is a good office. I have worked for multinational firms ( one of the " Big Six " accounting firms ) have started from scratch, etc. And I realize that there is a constant balancing act between being bottom line oriented, and maintaining a motivated workforce.

But I am here to tell you that it doesn't really take all of that much ( free coffee, free soft drinks maybe, lunch/dinner brought in, sensible leave policies and so forth ) to keep people happy. And a happy group of folks is far more productive imo than an unhappy one. It simply requires work ( somtimes a lot granted ) by upper management to implement.

ok, enough of my ranting.

In other words, yoy're keeping the "Pointy-Haired Boss Award" at arms length

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

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ORIGINAL: USS America

There is absolutely no doubt that our favorite troll has created a new mask and is back.  

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2708098

Leave them to it mate. If it is the same person then they'll manage to draw attention to themselves quickly enough. No point you getting involved and getting in trouble old boy.

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ORIGINAL: stuman
I own my own business. it's only 22 employees, but it is a good office. I have worked for multinational firms ( one of the " Big Six " accounting firms ) have started from scratch, etc. And I realize that there is a constant balancing act between being bottom line oriented, and maintaining a motivated workforce.

But I am here to tell you that it doesn't really take all of that much ( free coffee, free soft drinks maybe, lunch/dinner brought in, sensible leave policies and so forth ) to keep people happy. And a happy group of folks is far more productive imo than an unhappy one. It simply requires work ( somtimes a lot granted ) by upper management to implement.

ok, enough of my ranting.

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ORIGINAL: JWE

Yeah, ok, hijack. So shoot me.

Just got a English Springer Rescue dog this morning so I'm now a foster dad. Her name's Delilah, but I hate that name so I call her Delia. She's a bit tubby, so I call her Delia the Ham, as opposed to Abby the Hamster (the other one who is digging seriously into her dog brain, going, dude ...). Just a golly, Jesus, sweetheart who took the left half of the couch and plopped her face on the arm, going 'love me'.

Jeez Louize, Nik, they break your heart, don't they? Hey! .. so! .. well, here's another poor dumb bastard who's heart is bigger than his shoe size. How ya doing with the Dobie??

Ciao. John

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: stuman
I own my own business. it's only 22 employees, but it is a good office. I have worked for multinational firms ( one of the " Big Six " accounting firms ) have started from scratch, etc. And I realize that there is a constant balancing act between being bottom line oriented, and maintaining a motivated workforce.

But I am here to tell you that it doesn't really take all of that much ( free coffee, free soft drinks maybe, lunch/dinner brought in, sensible leave policies and so forth ) to keep people happy. And a happy group of folks is far more productive imo than an unhappy one. It simply requires work ( somtimes a lot granted ) by upper management to implement.

ok, enough of my ranting.

rant away........it relieves stress......i should know. They give me plenty to rant about.

Like getting yelled at for helping fix computer issues because "that is not your job function" Never mind that I discovered what they're whole damn outsourced service couldn't figure out. We got a bunch of HP computers to replace our older ones but users (including myself) immediately started having issues of slow logons, logoffs, slow performance and outright freezes. Sometimes it would take as much as 45 minutes for a computer to boot up and log into Windows. I.T.'s solution is to re-image the computers everytime. Some people have had their putors re-imaged up to half a dozen times. Bemused managers and techs keep running windows disk diagnostics but they always come up clean...same with BIOS based system checks. After dealing with this issue for months, I finally got sick of it and started researching it. Within an hour i found the likely problem. A manufacturerer of one of the hard drive types put into this particular model had issued a firmware patch for issues matching what was going on at our company. I did some checking around, asking to look at people's machines for a sec that had displayed the problems to one degree or another and sure enough, they all had that type of drive. I ended up using my machine as a test machine as i had gotten admin rights to it.....(uh....somehow. :) ) After applying the patch.....BOOM..computer loaded up and logged off 5x as fast as it ever did and hasn't had a problem since. I let my manager know by email as he was getting sick of his team complaining about 'puter issues. Never responded. I let two other managers know. They said they'd let relevent people know. Two weeks later....nothing. Finally i told a user who was having her machine "re imaged" again to let the floor desktop rep know. She came back to me later and said the tech gave her "a blank look" when she said "Firmware patch" Finally i let the director of our center know. A week later, nothing official and people are still having issues. On Thursday i fixed the fifth machine that had gone out as the user could not do any work and was waiting for IT to process her 'ticket' I had to tell her not to indicate me in the solution for fear of getting another "Talking too" by my manager about job functions.

meanwhile the re-imaging continues.....along with the problems. oh well.....if nothing else, it's interview material.

Oh and we now have one of those instant "coffee" dispenser machines too. Only a buck per small cup of the fowlest stuff on Earth.

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: stuman

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: stuman
I own my own business. it's only 22 employees, but it is a good office. I have worked for multinational firms ( one of the " Big Six " accounting firms ) have started from scratch, etc. And I realize that there is a constant balancing act between being bottom line oriented, and maintaining a motivated workforce.

But I am here to tell you that it doesn't really take all of that much ( free coffee, free soft drinks maybe, lunch/dinner brought in, sensible leave policies and so forth ) to keep people happy. And a happy group of folks is far more productive imo than an unhappy one. It simply requires work ( somtimes a lot granted ) by upper management to implement.

ok, enough of my ranting.

rant away........it relieves stress......i should know. They give me plenty to rant about.

Like getting yelled at for helping fix computer issues because "that is not your job function" Never mind that I discovered what they're whole damn outsourced service couldn't figure out. We got a bunch of HP computers to replace our older ones but users (including myself) immediately started having issues of slow logons, logoffs, slow performance and outright freezes. Sometimes it would take as much as 45 minutes for a computer to boot up and log into Windows. I.T.'s solution is to re-image the computers everytime. Some people have had their putors re-imaged up to half a dozen times. Bemused managers and techs keep running windows disk diagnostics but they always come up clean...same with BIOS based system checks. After dealing with this issue for months, I finally got sick of it and started researching it. Within an hour i found the likely problem. A manufacturerer of one of the hard drive types put into this particular model had issued a firmware patch for issues matching what was going on at our company. I did some checking around, asking to look at people's machines for a sec that had displayed the problems to one degree or another and sure enough, they all had that type of drive. I ended up using my machine as a test machine as i had gotten admin rights to it.....(uh....somehow. :) ) After applying the patch.....BOOM..computer loaded up and logged off 5x as fast as it ever did and hasn't had a problem since. I let my manager know by email as he was getting sick of his team complaining about 'puter issues. Never responded. I let two other managers know. They said they'd let relevent people know. Two weeks later....nothing. Finally i told a user who was having her machine "re imaged" again to let the floor desktop rep know. She came back to me later and said the tech gave her "a blank look" when she said "Firmware patch" Finally i let the director of our center know. A week later, nothing official and people are still having issues. On Thursday i fixed the fifth machine that had gone out as the user could not do any work and was waiting for IT to process her 'ticket' I had to tell her not to indicate me in the solution for fear of getting another "Talking too" by my manager about job functions.

meanwhile the re-imaging continues.....along with the problems. oh well.....if nothing else, it's interview material.

Oh and we now have one of those instant "coffee" dispenser machines too. Only a buck per small cup of the fowlest stuff on Earth.

Boy, that kind of bureaucratic bullsh*t drives me crazy. I do not understand that type of mentality.

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: stuman
I own my own business. it's only 22 employees, but it is a good office. I have worked for multinational firms ( one of the " Big Six " accounting firms ) have started from scratch, etc. And I realize that there is a constant balancing act between being bottom line oriented, and maintaining a motivated workforce.

But I am here to tell you that it doesn't really take all of that much ( free coffee, free soft drinks maybe, lunch/dinner brought in, sensible leave policies and so forth ) to keep people happy. And a happy group of folks is far more productive imo than an unhappy one. It simply requires work ( somtimes a lot granted ) by upper management to implement.

ok, enough of my ranting.

rant away........it relieves stress......i should know. They give me plenty to rant about.

Like getting yelled at for helping fix computer issues because "that is not your job function" Never mind that I discovered what they're whole damn outsourced service couldn't figure out. We got a bunch of HP computers to replace our older ones but users (including myself) immediately started having issues of slow logons, logoffs, slow performance and outright freezes. Sometimes it would take as much as 45 minutes for a computer to boot up and log into Windows. I.T.'s solution is to re-image the computers everytime. Some people have had their putors re-imaged up to half a dozen times. Bemused managers and techs keep running windows disk diagnostics but they always come up clean...same with BIOS based system checks. After dealing with this issue for months, I finally got sick of it and started researching it. Within an hour i found the likely problem. A manufacturerer of one of the hard drive types put into this particular model had issued a firmware patch for issues matching what was going on at our company. I did some checking around, asking to look at people's machines for a sec that had displayed the problems to one degree or another and sure enough, they all had that type of drive. I ended up using my machine as a test machine as i had gotten admin rights to it.....(uh....somehow. :) ) After applying the patch.....BOOM..computer loaded up and logged off 5x as fast as it ever did and hasn't had a problem since. I let my manager know by email as he was getting sick of his team complaining about 'puter issues. Never responded. I let two other managers know. They said they'd let relevent people know. Two weeks later....nothing. Finally i told a user who was having her machine "re imaged" again to let the floor desktop rep know. She came back to me later and said the tech gave her "a blank look" when she said "Firmware patch" Finally i let the director of our center know. A week later, nothing official and people are still having issues. On Thursday i fixed the fifth machine that had gone out as the user could not do any work and was waiting for IT to process her 'ticket' I had to tell her not to indicate me in the solution for fear of getting another "Talking too" by my manager about job functions.

meanwhile the re-imaging continues.....along with the problems. oh well.....if nothing else, it's interview material.

Oh and we now have one of those instant "coffee" dispenser machines too. Only a buck per small cup of the fowlest stuff on Earth.

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Oh, and iPhone Morning Tithe.

Bigger boys stole my sig

(in reply to Terminus)

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Won't be doing it much. It takes too long, and the screen's too damn small.

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Why isn't this in the game? The game is borked and the developers suck!

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ORIGINAL: scott1964

Just say no to trolls.

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Won't be doing it much. It takes too long, and the screen's too damn small.

Wifi.