What grinds your gears? - Page 306

Rince · 23rd March 2009, 19:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ab

Well-meaning departments that pitch "company intranet / wiki / document repository / knowledge base / information-sharing" projects to management.

Newsflash: noone gives a shit.

we (IT) found out about one of the other business group's wiki in the CEO's 2008 Year in Review.....

WTF?!??!?! WTF did they get a wiki? WE supporting that fucking thing? Damn developers!

Ab · 23rd March 2009, 19:18

Every company I have worked for has at some point been the victim of such a proposal. Massive amounts of time and money and attention get diverted away from more important shit, and the amazing proposed "intranet / (etc)" either

a) doesn't happen, so the time, money, and attention were wasted, or

b) happens, but no-one other than the developers gives a shit and no-one uses it, so the time, money, and attention were wasted

IF YOUR PROPOSAL INVOLVES THE WORDS "INTRANET", "WIKI", OR "KNOWLEDGE-SHARING" IT SHOULD BE REJECTED.

Reformed_Quint · 23rd March 2009, 19:26

We have a _massive_ intranet at work.
Its fucking shit and no one uses it.
The amount of money and time spent on it is wasted...

No one listens to me when i say how shit it is, fucking management.

Helious · 23rd March 2009, 19:38

we have a wiki at work, it could be useful. noone uses it though.

i've been here nearly 1 year, i think i've gone into the wiki maybe 6 times?

Reformed_Quint · 23rd March 2009, 19:43

we all have profiles on them (kinda like a social network) to see people from different offices so you know who your sending work to etc.

Took them 8months to realize that my picture is of me with a cardboard sword and a box on my head.

Helious · 23rd March 2009, 19:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reformed_Quint

Took them 8months to realize that my picture is of me with a cardboard sword and a box on my head.

FUCKEN ROFL! I think I know the pic you're talking about

BathTub · 23rd March 2009, 20:19

Use our Wiki fairly regularly, almost daily, and right from day one since it has a 'new employees guide on it' and a 'so you've been roped into helping a new employee...' page as well.

Reformed_Quint · 23rd March 2009, 21:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by Helious-

FUCKEN ROFL! I think I know the pic you're talking about

Kinda... creepy that you do...

Have to take a tie to work tomorrow for a 'proper photo'. *sigh*

Helious · 23rd March 2009, 21:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reformed_Quint

Kinda... creepy that you do...

not since you posted it on nzgames !

Helious · 23rd March 2009, 21:43

ok, this is not what you were talking about, but was it at least the same night? or do you often put boxes on your head? ;p

CCS · 23rd March 2009, 21:44

Nice pink ipod case, guy!

chubby · 23rd March 2009, 22:18

nice knowing what product that is,......... guy

Reformed_Quint · 23rd March 2009, 22:22

Hahaha yea, same night. The Doctors try to discourage my cardboard paraphernalia customs.

\o/ gay ipod.

Helious · 23rd March 2009, 23:38

Funnily enough, I've got mates who've disowned me because "I do drugs". My memory is better than theirs will ever be

CCS · 23rd March 2009, 23:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by chubby

nice knowing what product that is,......... guy

It's only the biggest selling mp3 player. What an incredible guess I made.

Helious · 24th March 2009, 00:28

I'll be honest, I had no idea. I kinda thought it was a Nintendo DS, but that's just retarded.

I've never owned, or will own an IPOD. And I've never owned a (portable) console.

StN · 24th March 2009, 08:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ab

Well-meaning departments that pitch "company intranet / wiki / document repository / knowledge base / information-sharing" projects to management.

Newsflash: noone gives a shit.

/blowing smoke up Fluffer...

Our Intranet is very good, but several areas are trying to move to Sharepoint. We've advised that there needs to be a major shift in how documents are filed "you need to fill in the meta data dude" - "what's that?" before it would make any sense, so wikis have started cropping up. The tech ones are fine, I'll wait a little to judge the rest.

JiggaRoll · 24th March 2009, 08:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ab

Every company I have worked for has at some point been the victim of such a proposal. Massive amounts of time and money and attention get diverted away from more important shit, and the amazing proposed "intranet / (etc)" either

a) doesn't happen, so the time, money, and attention were wasted, or

b) happens, but no-one other than the developers gives a shit and no-one uses it, so the time, money, and attention were wasted

IF YOUR PROPOSAL INVOLVES THE WORDS "INTRANET", "WIKI", OR "KNOWLEDGE-SHARING" IT SHOULD BE REJECTED.

Last week I got told by my boss "We need an Intranet so I can communicate with staff, have one ready by next Wednesday." I explained what is usually involved if he wants it to be actually useful and that he would have to spend some money. Also told him it might be better to communicate by email as at least people check that regularly. His reply was "Web pages are easy, my friend made me one the other week for free, you should know how to do that. Just get it done."

Great.

Whiplash · 24th March 2009, 09:02

Make him a web page on Geocities.

flic · 24th March 2009, 09:22

I thought that pink thing he was holding was his wallet and he was looking and his picture window and swooning over how dreamy his DL photo is :P

Reformed_Quint · 24th March 2009, 10:06

^^ heh pink wallet.

dylan · 24th March 2009, 10:08

An intranet can be a great thing. I worked at a place where the young I.T. fella built it when things were quiet; middle / upper management were hardly involved (in fact I don't think they knew about it for months) and possibly as a result, it became an integral part of the company. Usage was split roughly 50 / 50, between the social aspect - pictures of nights out, facebook (before facebook existed!), QOTD (i stole that from nzg), and then commonly used documents and forms etc.

It just depends on the company, if it's approached from a buzzword point of view, it's got more chance of failure, rather than a desire to share information in a practical manner.

StN · 24th March 2009, 10:29

What GMG today? The incongruencies of something called maths...

HP standalone LTO4 drive = $X

HP Robotic tape library with 2 LTO4 drives = $Y

HP LTO4 upgrade drive for library = $Z

I have a robotoic tape library with one drive, and I'd like to go to two. On the face of it, I expect $Z to be slightly more than $X due to housing jiggery pokery. But $Z should be less than half of $Y, because $Y includes 2 drives and the robot.

But the upgrade kit, which from what I can tell, contains little more than a straight drive, is (at first cut) around 4 times the price of $X.

Much sharper pencils come out, and it seems that the upgrade kit is now 84% of the cost of a brand new twin drive library.

Reformed_Quint · 24th March 2009, 10:29

The new word.

WHAT THE FUCKITY FUCK all big and colourful with zero usability... Where the fuck has the bar gone where i can change where my bullet points are.

ARGGHHHHHH typing a doco has taken me an hour and i've gotten no where, cause i can't find anything!!!

waaaaaaaaaah

[BT]MikeMan · 24th March 2009, 11:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by StN

What GMG today? The incongruencies of something called maths...

HP standalone LTO4 drive = $X

HP Robotic tape library with 2 LTO4 drives = $Y

HP LTO4 upgrade drive for library = $Z

I have a robotoic tape library with one drive, and I'd like to go to two. On the face of it, I expect $Z to be slightly more than $X due to housing jiggery pokery. But $Z should be less than half of $Y, because $Y includes 2 drives and the robot.

But the upgrade kit, which from what I can tell, contains little more than a straight drive, is (at first cut) around 4 times the price of $X.

Much sharper pencils come out, and it seems that the upgrade kit is now 84% of the cost of a brand new twin drive library.

Ahhh yes the Tape Library game.

They discount the libraies with drives to get sales and once you are locked in sting you for the upgrades.

Also the warranty on the drive is costed at 24x7x4 as the drive inherits the warranty support level of the library.

Sgt Seb · 24th March 2009, 11:44

Fucking "Item on loan" receipts you get when taking a book out from the AU library. I don't need a fucking receipt for each book god damn...

xor · 24th March 2009, 12:09

We've got everything in our intranet. Users don't really have an excuse to say they don't know how to divert their phone, archive an inbox, manage the size of their inbox etc with all sorts of user things. So when a user calls asking us how to do something we simply tell them to look on the intranet.

Same goes for leave forms and a lot of other processes within the business. And people actually use it! it's pretty cool to see.

GMG: being at work and getting owned in a game of squash

dylan · 24th March 2009, 13:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reformed_Quint

The new word.

WHAT THE FUCKITY FUCK all big and colourful with zero usability... Where the fuck has the bar gone where i can change where my bullet points are.

ARGGHHHHHH typing a doco has taken me an hour and i've gotten no where, cause i can't find anything!!!

waaaaaaaaaah

haha

hahaha

Yeah it's quite different eh

fidgit · 24th March 2009, 13:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reformed_Quint

The new word.

WHAT THE FUCKITY FUCK all big and colourful with zero usability... Where the fuck has the bar gone where i can change where my bullet points are.

ARGGHHHHHH typing a doco has taken me an hour and i've gotten no where, cause i can't find anything!!!

waaaaaaaaaah

They did that because they kept getting feature requests for stuff that they'd built in to Word several versions back but only Power Users could find them. [hint - usually they were in menus!]

So now, they changed it so that no one can find anything, and thus, no ones at a disadvantage!

Ritalin · 24th March 2009, 14:01

A curse on those who hide wasabi on the inside of sushi.

crocos · 24th March 2009, 18:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sgt Seb

Fucking "Item on loan" receipts you get when taking a book out from the AU library. I don't need a fucking receipt for each book god damn...

Australia: It only has one library.

doppelgänger of someone · 24th March 2009, 19:01

ahem, AU => Auckland University

Each book has different due day, depends a lot of conditions (e.g. lecturer preference) hence different receipt, but the old skool, stamp on the front page, is a lot more green.

Pimp-X · 24th March 2009, 20:43

No, not THAT Mr. Perkins.

EvilLumpy · 24th March 2009, 23:33

Having to be extremely subtle that it's my birthday again, really gmg

Word · 25th March 2009, 06:24

Playing Left 4 dead on Expert trying to pass a campaign. Taking almost 4 hours and getting owned just before i jump on the boat to finish the map.

Macca@Work · 25th March 2009, 08:57

Stepping in dog shit.Not realising it right away until you get to the train station and wonder what the stench is.

herp · 25th March 2009, 11:36

The cunts at AA saying I need to pay $42.30 for a replacement driver license, seeing as my last one was stolen (*ahem* lost) just so they can process my application for a full license and then pay them $110 for that.

Money grabbing cunts.

Sgt Seb · 25th March 2009, 11:48

Can't you just get a replacement restricted license?

herp · 25th March 2009, 11:49

And the ROBOT girl at the LTSA who just repeated memorised lines to every question I asked.

I dont want them to send out a replacement card because I'm only using the temporary license to apply for my full, so why bother sending out a restricted card when I don't fucken need it!!!!

herp · 25th March 2009, 11:50

Need a full license sebby so i can apply for my international license and drive overseas.

Ayyyyyyyyyyyy

23rd March 2009, 21:44	#12211
CCS Stunt Pants	Nice pink ipod case, guy! __________________ I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?

24th March 2009, 09:22	#12220
flic Dee Hast Mish	I thought that pink thing he was holding was his wallet and he was looking and his picture window and swooning over how dreamy his DL photo is :P __________________ In the future, everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes

24th March 2009, 20:43	#12233
Pimp-X Drunken Annoying Superhero Bastard	No, not THAT Mr. Perkins. __________________ If there is one movement I could get behind in this world, it would be the discrimination and abuse of fucking idiots.

23rd March 2009, 19:18	#12202
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	Every company I have worked for has at some point been the victim of such a proposal. Massive amounts of time and money and attention get diverted away from more important shit, and the amazing proposed "intranet / (etc)" either a) doesn't happen, so the time, money, and attention were wasted, or b) happens, but no-one other than the developers gives a shit and no-one uses it, so the time, money, and attention were wasted IF YOUR PROPOSAL INVOLVES THE WORDS "INTRANET", "WIKI", OR "KNOWLEDGE-SHARING" IT SHOULD BE REJECTED.

23rd March 2009, 19:26	#12203
Reformed_Quint	We have a _massive_ intranet at work. Its fucking shit and no one uses it. The amount of money and time spent on it is wasted... No one listens to me when i say how shit it is, fucking management.

23rd March 2009, 19:38	#12204
Helious	we have a wiki at work, it could be useful. noone uses it though. i've been here nearly 1 year, i think i've gone into the wiki maybe 6 times?

23rd March 2009, 19:43	#12205
Reformed_Quint	we all have profiles on them (kinda like a social network) to see people from different offices so you know who your sending work to etc. Took them 8months to realize that my picture is of me with a cardboard sword and a box on my head.

23rd March 2009, 20:19	#12207
BathTub	Use our Wiki fairly regularly, almost daily, and right from day one since it has a 'new employees guide on it' and a 'so you've been roped into helping a new employee...' page as well. __________________ Kevin: You know, when we actually do unleash the dragons... Mike: When we do, right. Kevin: Oh yeah, when we do, I would hope that we're smart enough to attempt a doctrine of appeasement with them, you know we offer them, I don't know, New Zealand in exchange for them not burning down my house,.. Ah, I mean our houses. Mike: Good Kevin, that's real brave. Mike Nelson & Kevin Murphy - Reign of Fire Rifftrax

23rd March 2009, 21:43	#12210
Helious	ok, this is not what you were talking about, but was it at least the same night? or do you often put boxes on your head? ;p

23rd March 2009, 22:18	#12212
chubby	nice knowing what product that is,......... guy __________________ "Take four red capsules, in ten minutes-take two more. Help is on the way."

23rd March 2009, 22:22	#12213
Reformed_Quint	Hahaha yea, same night. The Doctors try to discourage my cardboard paraphernalia customs. \o/ gay ipod.

23rd March 2009, 23:38	#12214
Helious	Funnily enough, I've got mates who've disowned me because "I do drugs". My memory is better than theirs will ever be

24th March 2009, 00:28	#12216
Helious	I'll be honest, I had no idea. I kinda thought it was a Nintendo DS, but that's just retarded. I've never owned, or will own an IPOD. And I've never owned a (portable) console.

24th March 2009, 09:02	#12219
Whiplash Bobo Fettish	Make him a web page on Geocities.

24th March 2009, 10:06	#12221
Reformed_Quint	^^ heh pink wallet.

24th March 2009, 10:08	#12222
dylan Huh?	An intranet can be a great thing. I worked at a place where the young I.T. fella built it when things were quiet; middle / upper management were hardly involved (in fact I don't think they knew about it for months) and possibly as a result, it became an integral part of the company. Usage was split roughly 50 / 50, between the social aspect - pictures of nights out, facebook (before facebook existed!), QOTD (i stole that from nzg), and then commonly used documents and forms etc. It just depends on the company, if it's approached from a buzzword point of view, it's got more chance of failure, rather than a desire to share information in a practical manner.

24th March 2009, 10:29	#12223
StN I have detailed files	What GMG today? The incongruencies of something called maths... HP standalone LTO4 drive = $X HP Robotic tape library with 2 LTO4 drives = $Y HP LTO4 upgrade drive for library = $Z I have a robotoic tape library with one drive, and I'd like to go to two. On the face of it, I expect $Z to be slightly more than $X due to housing jiggery pokery. But $Z should be less than half of $Y, because $Y includes 2 drives and the robot. But the upgrade kit, which from what I can tell, contains little more than a straight drive, is (at first cut) around 4 times the price of $X. Much sharper pencils come out, and it seems that the upgrade kit is now 84% of the cost of a brand new twin drive library.

24th March 2009, 10:29	#12224
Reformed_Quint	The new word. WHAT THE FUCKITY FUCK all big and colourful with zero usability... Where the fuck has the bar gone where i can change where my bullet points are. ARGGHHHHHH typing a doco has taken me an hour and i've gotten no where, cause i can't find anything!!! waaaaaaaaaah

24th March 2009, 11:44	#12226
Sgt Seb Up Unt At Dem!	Fucking "Item on loan" receipts you get when taking a book out from the AU library. I don't need a fucking receipt for each book god damn...

24th March 2009, 12:09	#12227
xor	We've got everything in our intranet. Users don't really have an excuse to say they don't know how to divert their phone, archive an inbox, manage the size of their inbox etc with all sorts of user things. So when a user calls asking us how to do something we simply tell them to look on the intranet. Same goes for leave forms and a lot of other processes within the business. And people actually use it! it's pretty cool to see. GMG: being at work and getting owned in a game of squash

24th March 2009, 14:01	#12230
Ritalin	A curse on those who hide wasabi on the inside of sushi.

24th March 2009, 19:01	#12232
doppelgänger of someone	ahem, AU => Auckland University Each book has different due day, depends a lot of conditions (e.g. lecturer preference) hence different receipt, but the old skool, stamp on the front page, is a lot more green.

24th March 2009, 23:33	#12234
EvilLumpy	Having to be extremely subtle that it's my birthday again, really gmg

25th March 2009, 06:24	#12235
Word	fuck Playing Left 4 dead on Expert trying to pass a campaign. Taking almost 4 hours and getting owned just before i jump on the boat to finish the map.

25th March 2009, 08:57	#12236
Macca@Work	Stepping in dog shit.Not realising it right away until you get to the train station and wonder what the stench is.

25th March 2009, 11:36	#12237
herp	The cunts at AA saying I need to pay $42.30 for a replacement driver license, seeing as my last one was stolen (ahem lost) just so they can process my application for a full license and then pay them $110 for that. Money grabbing cunts.

25th March 2009, 11:48	#12238
Sgt Seb Up Unt At Dem!	Can't you just get a replacement restricted license?

25th March 2009, 11:49	#12239
herp	And the ROBOT girl at the LTSA who just repeated memorised lines to every question I asked. I dont want them to send out a replacement card because I'm only using the temporary license to apply for my full, so why bother sending out a restricted card when I don't fucken need it!!!!

25th March 2009, 11:50	#12240
herp	Need a full license sebby so i can apply for my international license and drive overseas. Ayyyyyyyyyyyy