Random Tech (or IT Work!) Fail

**Zetanio** · 2018-07-25 11:31

Oh, I'm not denying that it's a good product.

**Buffy** · 2018-07-25 11:32

Originally Posted by Corrderio

Is it just me or does it seem like everyone who does UI gravitate towards Mac?

This is because so many native tools work more easily on a mac. Windows has worked hard to bring in better developer type tools and interfaces, but the mac terminal is so simple to use, it's amazing. I swapped from Windows laptop to mac when I started to learn to code and I'm really glad I did.

You don't have to though, I work out of git bash on my workspaces account (windows 10) which works as a terminal and I use Atom on both platforms with sshfs to mount my drive remotely so I'm always working out of the same file.

**BaneTheBrawler** · 2018-07-25 12:25

Originally Posted by Buffy

I mean...it's one click download and install, works on phone, tablet, mac, and pc and has integrated voice and video capabilities, plus unique one time call in meeting numbers and can integrate with your organizations windows ANT server to let people log in with their username/password. It's pretty pimp.

"i clicked the blue S just like i always do, why can't i call so-and-so? just make it work, that's your job"

**Zetanio** · 2018-07-25 12:31

^

**Ratatapa** · 2018-07-25 14:01

Reboot your computer it should fix it

(but it wonm't fix idiocy)

**Corrderio** · 2018-07-27 10:26

TFW when you want to say fuck it and rewrite an entire app in Angular since the current version is nothing but spaghetti code.

**Ragns** · 2018-07-27 11:12

Originally Posted by Corrderio

TFW when you want to say fuck it and rewrite an entire app in Angular since the current version is nothing but spaghetti code.

I have yet to see a project that isn't spaghetti in the last 12 years.

**Corrderio** · 2018-07-27 11:52

Fair point but for some context:

1. The file upload function doesn't work

2. Another Developer found another problem he isn't fully sure why it happens because

3. This uses a ton of javascript libraries no one here is familiar with (Durandal, Breeze, and Sugar to name a few)

4. The guy that wrote this is no longer with the company

Overall all the more reason I'm pushing with my boss to let me rewrite this in Angular if the business does want to add more functionality. I'm confident I can rewrite this from scratch faster than I would be trying to maintain it with how it is now.

**Zetanio** · 2018-07-27 11:57

If I hear/see another email about compliance I'm going to throw a brick through my boss's window.

**Corrderio** · 2018-07-27 12:35

I'll gladly order the bricks for you. I have to do that shit every quarter.

**Ratatapa** · 2018-07-27 12:50

Originally Posted by Zetanio

If I hear/see another email about compliance I'm going to throw a brick through my boss's window.

Which compliance

**Jamison** · 2018-07-27 12:54

We were just told that because of an "incident" at another site we'll have to do an audit of permissions of every shared folder on all fileservers to make sure no one has incorrect permissions. The wording makes it sound like someone got ahold of finance and HR docs that they shouldn't have been able to.

**Melena** · 2018-07-27 13:11

Working in Healthcare, me and our HIPAA compliance officer had to stalk about 200 people to do their stupid 45 minute HIPAA compliance training online so that Risk Management would get off our ass. We also occupy 3 buildings we lease, and one of them someone threw a rock through the window, then forced their way through a keycarded door to get to our HR office and stole a bunch of shit. Since they gained access to the filing room where all employee records are kept, it appears they are going to set us up with credit monitoring as well as a precaution.

**Zetanio** · 2018-07-27 15:15

Originally Posted by Ratatapa

Which compliance

Everything. Emails, data retention, data security, transmission of data, etc etcetcetc

**Hellfury** · 2018-07-27 17:11

Company I work for finally started waking up to information security with GDPR. They've moved on from the stone age to the bronze age, but this is turning into a "careful what you ask for, you might just get it" nightmare for me, documentation and compliance wise. It's all been documented in my head, risk assessments done on a notepad etc. while I did stuff, since no one else gave a flying fuck anyway. So it got sacrificed on the altar of time, and now I have to actually document it all. This ISACA standard recommendations document is no joke. it's my own fail, but fml!

**Yabby** · 2018-08-01 13:45

We are downsizing our local system and we have got to the point where the massive SAN is way too big for what we need locally. The person before me made all these randomly named volumes splitting up the aggregate 20 to 30 times. Figured now would be a good time to rework the system into something that makes sense.

So i started building a new volume and migrating all our systems over to it. Once the old volume wasn't being used, i would bring the volume offline for one week to ensure nothing bad went down (I would remove the volume from my datastore before hand). I have been actively doing this for a month now and I finally finished everything on my end. Delete all the offline volumes, remove the aggregate (We want to use it for spare disks for other aggregates). Two more weeks go by and I get an IM from the assistant director of IT.

Where is XYZ Volume? It should be mounted to XYZSAN. This motherfucker had an old ESXi server hooked up in his office that no one knew about, where he had a few servers running for network traffic monitoring. This server isn't in the production cluster so it isn't being backed up, but he connected it to our production datastores. I made sure non of our producation servers were on the volumes before bring them off line, so i knew nothing of mine was being used. The volume in question was offline for almost 5 weeks before i deleted it, two days after it was deleted he noticed he couldn't connect to his servers.

Sorry about your luck buddy, try not hiding shit from me.

I should also note that i put in change controls, and personal IM's to this guy, that i was doing this and he said nothing......

**Hellfury** · 2018-08-01 17:04

Originally Posted by Yabby

Spoiler: show

What do you mean you told me, I didn't get any information about this???
You got several e-mails on the subject matter.
Well I didn't read them, you should have told me it was important!
It had "Important" in the subject line.
Well there should be a better system for this!
...

**Melena** · 2018-08-01 17:09

I had someone a few years ago tell me they ignored the high importance flags on Outlook because it's obviously an attention gaining scheme and not truly important when I asked if he even noticed the e-mail my supervisor sent out about a scheduled network maintenance that was going to affect network shares and printing for about 30-45 minutes.

**Yabby** · 2018-08-02 07:50

Originally Posted by Hellfury

What do you mean you told me, I didn't get any information about this???
You got several e-mails on the subject matter.
Well I didn't read them, you should have told me it was important!
It had "Important" in the subject line.
Well there should be a better system for this!
...

My favorite part is when he asked why there wasn't an alert that the share was down.

"Well, you have to configure alerts on vsphere..... you didn't do that....... and i couldn't do that because i didn't know it existed."

**Ratatapa** · 2018-08-02 07:57

Company wants me to let customers send us videos and pictures of claims (they are a flooring manufacturer)

ERP company doesn't have a way for customers to upload file on the website (half the client doesn't use the ERP site anyway)

Comapny wants me to create them access on the company dropbox, i'm like fuck no, I don't have time to teach customers how to go into a dropbox and upload files

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