IT People: not really big on small-talk. 😀
Ha! I don’t work in IT and I need one of those 😂
Love it!!!
We had a few people pull out of their booked windows 11 upgrade appointments. Told my team we should still push it as an update anyway and when they complain shrug and say “sorry, pulling out isnt always effective”.
😂
Hahaha do it.
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The thing is that with a few minor setting adjustments, Win11 behaves exactly the same as Win10.
The only thing an IT department does need to do is disable all the intrusive automations that assume that you are using your work computer for personal use.
You don’t need News and Weather on your work computer and Edge should not even think about saving Credit Card data, especially if you are processing customers credit card payments through a banking web portal.
And don’t get me started on CoPilot. If you use an LLM to do your job, it means your job can be replaced by an LLM. What are you even doing there.
Speaking of which, how do you disable Adobe’s intrusive AI in Acrobat Reader? Adobe doesn’t need to analyse my Pending Invoice Report.
Had a great time in Melbourne. The Jurassic World exhibition was a lot of fun. Took little one into the city and the National Art Gallery which she enjoyed.
But more importantly, Slurpees were a hit and she is more convinced than ever to move back to Melbourne.
shoulda sold her on the aldi middle isle. thats what gets my inlaws haha
First day of the new job. I’m going to approach it with zero expectations.
One of the first things I’m going to do is login to everything on the work pc. Even if I’m just browsing aussie.zone, manager logic is I’m being productive if I’m on the computer, you’re only slacking off on your phone
Good luck! Hope they’re nice and not too obviously crazy.
If anything they seem normie on the boring side. Every workplace likes to think they’re a bit quirky and messed up but this is standard from what I’ve seen
Hope it goes well!
It just feels a bit weird to get my head around this could be long term. Having just come out of a contract I keep approaching jobs like they’re a temporary thing
Good luck mate!
My initial impression is I could see myself working here long term as long as the day to day doesn’t suck. And it may not be too bad
Keep in mind that many IT departments can see everything you do on your computer. Your saved passwords will be stored in the Directory server.
I used to use Firefox for any personal stuff I was doing on my computer and I would use Edge and Chrome for work-related. (Firefox was also faster because it wasn’t being bogged down with AI bullshit).
Our IT department remotely uninstalled Firefox.
I always keep that in mind with work computers. Whilst they can see everything you do, I also figure they need to be looking to know. So whilst your traffic is all being tracked, you need to be doing something dodgy to grab their attention as well
Oh man it’s weird logging back into the work laptop. Will take a few days to get back into the swing of things I reckon
I’m struggling to navigate outlook and SharePoint😁
took me halfa to remember which app was chat and which was email the other week.
I was tempted to log in last night to get a head start, but then quickly slapped myself back to reality
My Monday is going to be Wednesday and I’m mildly dreading it - even though I was back last week for two days it’s like they never happened.
What I’m dreading more is getting myself ready for uni fieldwork and writing up parts of the paper… brain has totally switched off from that.
Hour and half into my day and it’s brutal. Logging in makes me feel like I never had a break.
Moon pretty
I noticed it tonight too, it’s huge!
The kid’s gone away for 3 nights and ngl I’m actually excited.
naked drunk pizza party!
All the good things rolled into one there!
There’s a kfc ad where the party goers are dancing and eating at the same time. I’ve never done that even while pissed. Not that I’m aware of anyway.
I do a GREAT awkward shuffle with a doughnut in my hand as I discovered at the last wedding I attended.
😂
I mean we’ve all done a little happy food dance from time to time but these idiots were full on raging with a drumstick in hand. No one loves kfc that much.
Also it’s always a drumstick. Never a shitty breast or micro wing.
I dunno. I train with some islander lads, that would dance with food. Not stereotyping, they’re just happy party people that like to eat.
😂
There’s that joke about a van load of kiwis going through the drive thru and the driver orders a bucket, a few sides and 1.25Lt Pepsi and then turns around in his seat and says “ok kids. What do you guys want”?
Turns out it’s actually true.
The Samoan guys I worked with called a Maccas family meal a Samoan Happy meal.
Boardies bum seam repair survived (to my surpise)! No moons, and the tape didn’t stick to the no no region.
Guessing the salt water won’t be good for the adhesive though.
And yet another wave:
I think it’s time to thank the boardies for their service and retire them. Duct tape sounds like it will not end well!
:( they did good, but you’re right.
Hot tea being spilled left and right at work today, I love hearing the drama when I’m not a part of it!
☕💅🏼
So here’s the gossip.
One of the remaining 3 (of which i am one) account managers resigned.
So his clients get divided up between me and the other one.
Yay.
can you decline?
Nope. Not with my probation 10 days away.
So what happens after your probation ends in 10 days?
What options do you have at that point?
I have a better position to negotiate as they can’t just fire me on the spot.
And now that I’m one of only 2 account managers it strengthens my bargaining position. This team should have 4 people. Not 2.
Ah ok. Will you stay or look for another place?
Seems like the place is being gutted at the moment.
I need to stay long enough to move house. It’s near impossible to be approved for a rental whilst on probation.
Please tell me they are at least openly looking for another?! You’re already stretched so thin!
Who knows. I only found out because my co worker told me. Nothing from management about it.
Of course not! Just keep breathing, probation is nearly up!
I found emails from a director here to customers advising that someone had left the business 2 hours before it was announced to staff.
This happened in December and they haven’t said anything to us. Which is pretty bad…
That’s so shit!
Welcome back to the Office. Change your password this instant! 15 attempts to think of something suitable later…
thank gates/jobs for a fingerprint login.
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Try using a short sentence that includes punctuation…eg. That 1 toy is mine! … As long as you tick the boxes for required characters is should work…
Alright, doctor booked for this stupid migraine thing. Gonna get the physio to take a look as well.
Mine came from a shoulder injury.
thats just it, no new injury or anything like that I’m aware of. So I figured getting assessed isnt a bad idea.
That’s definitely a good idea mate. Also I would press for an MRI as well. For peace of mind.
Getting assessed it a great idea! In my early 20s I had months of chronic exploding head migraines, auras, blindness, vomiting from pain. Had an MRI and CT scan with nothing there. Dr gave me a big fat script for codeine - I understand why people get addicted to it, let’s put it that way.
Determined it was stress induced from living with my unmedicated schizophrenic mum 😂 haven’t had them like that since I moved out and went NC. There so many factors that can cause migraines, so getting checked out is always a fantastic idea!
Fingers crossed it’s nothing serious!! 💜💜
Good plan. I’ve had MRIs, CTs, a lumbar puncture and all sorts of fun. And regular eye tests are worthwhile- apparently weird eye pressure can manifest in interesting ways.
They’ve never found anything useful on all my tests but it’s always good to know it’s ‘just’ migraine and not a brain tumor or something exciting like that. And there are better migraine drugs coming out now.
First day on the new job was uneventful and went pretty much as expected. A bunch of long meetings, didn’t get a laptop until 2, and then couldn’t login anyway. So I really just hung out in the office for 8 hours.
I could see this job being alright as long as the day to day doesn’t suck. I have a feeling it may be alright but I’ll just have to give it more time
lovely day here, think I might go to bunnings and get some orchid mix :)
I have stuff to do but I might take a break for a few days
Could you grab me a roll of fallopian tubing and a metric adjustable spanner?
on train
one guy singing what sounds like a prayer softly to himself
one woman on the phone in English but switches to demon beast growling occasionallyMaybe there are no words in English to express what she needs to say. Or there’s a demon beast on the other end…
You could have said Hello. I’d have stopped growling then.
I was trying to learn demonic speech.
Lessons could potentially be made available. Some sacrifices may be necessary.
