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cowgirl836 said:
Do IT teams ever have things ready to go when someone starts? I swear, we've had people we knew would be coming on for six damn months and they get in first day "oh whoops, don't have yours ready yet"


I was supposed to get a brand new computer when I started (saw the order request myself months later). Nope. My boss was upgrading same time, so they gave me her worn out 4 year old computer. Well, I run tons of data stuff. I don't even know what the size of that thing was, probably like a memory of 10k.

So we asked for me to actually get that new computer four years in. That one had a whopping 320 hard drive. Day 1 it was already 75% full. My personal laptop at home was more powerful. So we had to go thru hoops of goddamn fire to upgrade the hard drive to the 8mb one I have now. It's quite possible that I run more data directly through my computer (and not a server) than anyone else in the company. And it had to go to the head of IT to be approved. My boss approving it out her own freaking budget was not good enough. This one was "new" but already a very old model. It was ridiculous.
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When I worked in Help Desk, it would literally take me maybe 2 hours max to get a fully loaded computer with everything the manager had requested for the new employee. That was at a government agency with a bunch of hoops to jump through. When we merged with another health department and I had to basically do 150 new hires, it took me a week. But that was before I turned into a cynical IT guy that didn't give a ****.
 
ISUCyclones2015 said:
When I worked in Help Desk, it would literally take me maybe 2 hours max to get a fully loaded computer with everything the manager had requested for the new employee. That was at a government agency with a bunch of hoops to jump through. When we merged with another health department and I had to basically do 150 new hires, it took me a week. But that was before I turned into a cynical IT guy that didn't give a ****.
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I don't know what the deal is here then. Usually they are missing programs that were on the list and have to go back to ask for things like a mouse, a keyboard - you know, really odd things hardly anyone with a computer needs.
 
cowgirl836 said:
Do IT teams ever have things ready to go when someone starts? I swear, we've had people we knew would be coming on for six damn months and they get in first day "oh whoops, don't have yours ready yet"


I was supposed to get a brand new computer when I started (saw the order request myself months later). Nope. My boss was upgrading same time, so they gave me her worn out 4 year old computer. Well, I run tons of data stuff. I don't even know what the size of that thing was, probably like a memory of 10k.

So we asked for me to actually get that new computer four years in. That one had a whopping 320 hard drive. Day 1 it was already 75% full. My personal laptop at home was more powerful. So we had to go thru hoops of goddamn fire to upgrade the hard drive to the 8mb one I have now. It's quite possible that I run more data directly through my computer (and not a server) than anyone else in the company. And it had to go to the head of IT to be approved. My boss approving it out her own freaking budget was not good enough. This one was "new" but already a very old model. It was ridiculous.
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Have you tried re-starting it?
 
cowgirl836 said:
I don't know what the deal is here then. Usually they are missing programs that were on the list and have to go back to ask for things like a mouse, a keyboard - you know, really odd things hardly anyone with a computer needs.
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It's probably just negligence, laziness, or a combination. Or the manager said something like "yea there's a mouse there somewhere" so the IT guy doesn't provide a mouse.
 
coolerifyoudid said:
Have you tried re-starting it?
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Honestly, that gets a lot of flack but the reason why it is used so much is because there could be a number of processes or services that get's messed up for whatever reason. Instead of manually trying to narrow it down which takes a lot of time, restarting the whole computer just restarts all those processes so they get back in sync and up and running.
 
ISUCyclones2015 said:
It's probably just negligence, laziness, or a combination. Or the manager said something like "yea there's a mouse there somewhere" so the IT guy doesn't provide a mouse.
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the worst seems to be when they are supposed to have dual screens with a docking station. Not a chance in hell that's ready to go.

Last person never got a phone extension either. I mean, they only asked like once, but it wasn't set up, either. Now the new person is here and I bet the phone doesn't get set up for them either.
 
"*Headdesk* Moment of the Day"

Coworkers who don't seem to understand that they REALLY shouldn't sign medical forms for their parents if they don't hold power of attorney.
 
SaraV said:
"*Headdesk* Moment of the Day"

Coworkers who don't seem to understand that they REALLY shouldn't sign medical forms for their parents if they don't hold power of attorney.
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that's not legal. How can they do that?
 
cowgirl836 said:
the worst seems to be when they are supposed to have dual screens with a docking station. Not a chance in hell that's ready to go.

Last person never got a phone extension either. I mean, they only asked like once, but it wasn't set up, either. Now the new person is here and I bet the phone doesn't get set up for them either.
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You nerds sure are nerding the joint up. Nerds.
 
I keep thinking that this will be the year that I get into a fantasy football league and try it out. Then this guy in my office starts rambling on about his strategy, his players, who he's setting, how's he's so much smarter than the other guys in his league (blah blah blah) for hours on end and squashes any enthusiasm I had.
 
coolerifyoudid said:
I keep thinking that this will be the year that I get into a fantasy football league and try it out. Then this guy in my office starts rambling on about his strategy, his players, who he's setting, how's he's so much smarter than the other guys in his league (blah blah blah) for hours on end and squashes any enthusiasm I had.
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You're not missing much. I struggle to find the appeal of it. It actually made me not enjoy watching football when you see people cheering for someone to score a touchdown against the team they support just so they can get ten extra fantasy football points.
 
There were a few fantasy football draft parties at work yesterday, at least they tipped well.
 
ImJustKCClone said:
I figure it's kind of pointless for me, since it would take an act of God to get me to watch pro football...even the Superbowl. :)
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Oh, I bet you were watching!

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This weekend, my daughter made a picture for me. It had all sorts of stuff on it (little puffballs, streamers, glitter,etc) and I can tell she spent quite a bit of time on it.

One of our cats (maybe both) got a hold of it and just destroyed it. The dining room looked like a craft store exploded. The cat had also swallowed some of the little streamers and promptly threw them up to add to the ambiance.

My daughter saw the carnage and got pretty pizzed. I was kinda curious to see how she was going to handle the situation, and I was getting ready to intervene if I thought she was gonna do something mean to the cats. But she did a great job and kept her cool while mildly scolding them.

I was pretty proud of her. Well, I was as proud as one cleaning up cat puke could be anyway.
 
cowgirl836 said:
that's not legal. How can they do that?
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Small town Iowa. I don't think they understand that If Something Were To Happen, they have no legal standing.

cyrocksmypants said:
Now this is just ridiculous. I mean, the Puppy Bowl is fine, because puppies are adorable, but who wants to watch two hours of cats sleeping, knocking glasses of water off tables and ruining your blinds?
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