Daily Discussion Thread: 🌖🌕🌘 Monday, 13 January, 2025
Daily Discussion Thread: 🌖🌕🌘 Monday, 13 January, 2025
Daily Discussion Thread: 🌖🌕🌘 Monday, 13 January, 2025
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.
🤭
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
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!
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.
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.
The staff at the place I was at a few moves ago had a fingerprint sensor to clock on. It was about a decade old, and by the time I moved out, was really really struggling to scan anybody's fingerprints. Lucky for them, it didn't do auto lockouts, but the bright sparks also had the bright idea to remove the option to clock on with a number after a couple of years of being fingerprint only. Which was fine until it cracked the shits
Also, don't want to think about how many filthy fingers went in there 🤢
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...
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.
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?
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
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 occasionally
Managed 5 hours in a row of sleep again! Hell yeah.
I fell asleep at at about 930, and my buildings fire alarm went off at 1130 ☠️
Fuuuuuuuck that!
Back to work today....about 300 odd emails to get through, thankfully less than 25% will be pertinent.
An old colleague reached out to me over the weekend, regarding a role at his current work (large company, pretty cool project). Emailed their recruiting person to get some more details about it.
Good news is, clothes might actually dry today outside!!
Ripped my boardies riding back from the beach last night. The bum seam from sitting on the seat. They're very old. So with a bit of poor sewing, some stitchofix fabric adhesive stuff and some duct tape (lol) we're going to see if it holds tonight. Should probably bin them but i just want to see if it works.
Just so long as the duct tape doesn’t go awry and get stuck to your nethers…
Wasn't that the jock's backstory in Breakfast Club?
"Worst wax job ever, 0/10 recommend"
Thank you Seagoon! 🙌🏼💜🙌🏼
Huh. My crimson tide has synced with the full moon.
No one tell my mum 😂😂
That explains a lot!
Just met my new manager. Seems like a nice guy. Let's see how nice he is next week when I ask for a raise.
Holidays are officially over - just got my first debt collection call of the year.
Optus sold my debt to them, I never paid my last bill due to the Optus data leaks. Sorry not sorry.
I'm never gonna buy a house or anything, or take out a loan, so why should I care? Besides that, my only debts are HECS/HELP and my TAFE fee (which I pay in installments by DD every month).
YOLO 🤷🏼♀️
I've got something outstanding (student union stuff) from latrobe uni from about 10 yrs ago. $111. they sent it to me 5 years after finishing the course lol. No letter, no email. Just sold it off to billchaser. 5 years! Get spammed every few days over sms. I should block the # but they make me feel loved. I ain't payin'.
First day back in my course tonight. I have like 10 mins til I need to begin the process of getting on (involves multiple sign ons and OTPs, eugh). Haven't used my laptop since before I moved, so windows has decided that I HAVE to do updates. Started 5 minutes ago, and we're only 4%.
FFS windows.
Edit: had to join on my phone so I wouldn't be late (pain in the arse. Everything bloody logs me out even day🙄). Windows finished updating about 20 mins later and I'm not on the laptop again
The flies recently have been absolutely insane. Since that coincides with the end of TheStench™️, I'm going to assume that either they ate TheStench, or they flies I killed laid their eggs in TheStench, and now they've run out of food
There's a gap in the skylight in the laundry that I can't put back myself because when I tried the entire thing fell out and it was a bitch and a half to put back in. The flies have been escaping from there. I went in and absolutely doused it with fly spray last night, and there are at least a hundred dead flies everywhere now. There's a few dozen on the floor that escaped the gap, and I counted about 90 in the skylight. Ugh
On the double downside, all the flys have brought a number of spider out of hiding. There's at least 2 living in my fruit bowl, and I've seen a bunch of others around. Thankfully not gigantic ones, but I'm still scared of spiders so it isn't exactly ideal
Next weekend I reckon I'm doing bug bombs. This house was empty for a fair while before I moved in, so it'll probably do good. Gonna buy a cobweb thingy too
Goodnight everybody . Sweet dreams 😘
I need your advice guys:
Now there's only 2 of us in a team of what should be 4 people. I'm the high performer of the 2 of us. Significantly.
I have the most difficult clients and have the most responsibility.
Next Thursday my probation ends.
I am underpaid 25-30k compared to the same role elsewhere.
Should I attempt a negotiation of salary?
I'm crowd sourcing opinions. I've never done this before. I'm in a really strong position as I will no doubt be training any new staff, and will get the most difficult client of the guy who just quit.
You totally should.
You could broach it as expectations of the role/output given you’ve lost a team member. Their response should give you a pretty good indication of whether they’ll come to the party.
Do it. Ask A Manager has some good advice on how.
You'll probably have the most leverage now with 2 of 4 in your team remaining, once they replace the other two they might start to think you are easily replaceable too if you decide to leave. Right now, it sounds like they cannot afford to lose you.
Staff turnover has a business cost too - rehiring, retraining, slower service to clients in the meantime which may cause business losses etc, if they're smart they will factor that into your pay request.
That's my train of thought pretty much.
Now is the time to strike.
Do it, do it, do it.
it's often easier to get a new position than get a raise
and what happens if the boss says no? will there be repercussions against you?
Still so humid 🥵
Loving this music from the movie, Knight of Cups. Exodus, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qYBw2zf0Kg
it's a 4 hobbit movie, so beautiful,
I'm not sure what it's about, seems to be someone drifting through place, time, experience, people and emotions . The only time he spoke of his life was when he spoke of the experience of a loving relationship.
How far is too far to travel for a job?
I saw an ad for a job that's about 45 minutes one way by car (non-peak) and around an hour and a half by PTV. It is similar to my former uni commute in peak times. It would only be for two days a week so maybe it wouldn't be that bad.
An hour each way is bearable I think, but does depend on a few things.
If I'm driving for an hour, I want to be driving. Not sitting in traffic. Used to work in Geelong and it was like an hour door to door. It was great, but also going against traffic.
Depends on how many days in the office. I gottta commute into town ends up being ~1.5 hours door to door 1 way. Fine twice a week, but any more than that starts to become pretty unfeasible.
It’s completely personal. For me a 45 min drive twice a week would be completely ok, especially for the right job. Easy actually. Lots of people do this or more everyday. I wouldn’t do the 1.5hr PT, double the commute time isn’t appealing since I have car and don’t mind driving. But if I didn’t have the car option might be ok for twice a week. 1.5hrs each way 5 days a week would probably be a no for me at this point in my work life. But entirely depends on how good this opportunity is for you. Is it something not easily found, or good pay, chance to progress your career etc?
I used to go to a specialist high school a 15 min drive away from where I was living. About an hour and 15 by PT, but I usually preferred to take a simpler way with less running (required to make those connections), which bumped it up to about an hour and a half to an hour 45 depending on how fucked the trains were that particular morning.
I think that personally an hour and a half on a train is okay, 2h max, but if it's peak hour and a packed train, that drastically goes down and reduces to about half an hour. By car, I'd be okay with an hour as a passenger, but 30 minutes would probably be my preferred limit as a driver. But I'm still a learner, so by the time I was a full license holder, I would probably be okay with an hour as a driver as well
I guess it also depends on a few other things, though. How'd you find the uni commute? Did you find it draining? I ask because some people find travelling alone to be draining, and if you're going to waste half your energy on trying not to road rage in a traffic jam, do you really want that to immediately precede your work? Or are you the sort of person that finds that kind of useful - like a chance to listen to a bit of pump up music and invigorate some energy into yourself before getting on the grind for the rest of the day?
Another thing to think of: what's your start time, and how much time do you need each morning? Personally, I need at least an hour in the morning before I can tolerate human interaction, and about 20 before I've officially woken up from sleep. So if I had an 8am start time and 45 minute commute, I'd round that up to an hour for a bit of margin, and then I'd be waking up between 6-6:30 each day. But I also know people who'll get up as soon as their alarm goes off, take a quick 5 minute dunny run, 2 minute shower, then they're out the door less than 10 minutes after waking up
It's doable. As long as there's parking you can make the drive work for yourself and it's good to know you can get there by public transport if necessary.
If you were doing that trip more than 2 days it would suck
That would be my limit personally (if that driving is not stop start). I did 2 days /week with a similar driving commute except it was 45 min peak, I was able to handle it but I absolutely wouldn't have done an extra day - did turn that down when it was offered. Eventually left it in favour of a job with a 5-15 min commute and I wouldn't trade it for the world...
Only something you can answer for yourself.
I’ve known people who have driven from point cook to get into work though admittedly it wasn’t the best logistically.
It’s what you can tolerate and how badly you want the job or need the money.
More than 30 mins by vehicle.
Cheers goonsy
I'll be around tonight, unless anyone else wants specifically to do tonight's thread
Watching a bit of the tennis. Don’t follow it except for when the AO is on, and then I have instant options on the commentators, court fashions, audience, tv coverage, player attitudes, and weather.
IT People: not really big on small-talk. 😀
Ha! I don’t work in IT and I need one of those 😂
Love it!!!