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Old 13th April 2012, 13:10     #32161
Stalk3r
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by leadinjector
what grinds my gears is paying 200 something dollars to replace my stupid router and power supply

what oils my gears is that stalkers asian boy wont be beaten tonight
hey, i gave you number 1 super best plice, you buy now, you can trust i have no complain of product

and my asian boy beats me

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Old 13th April 2012, 21:24     #32162
dylan
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Dunno, I'm gonna play devil's advocate here and say... why are you being an IT Mexicant when you could be an IT Mexican?

IT costs that company money. Having customers - that is, people who aren't part of the company - makes that company money. Being nice to people and making them happily-disposed towards the company is often a key part of getting those people to decide to become customers. Marketing, in other words.

So, rather than looking at this from an IT point of view and shitting yourself about the potential security disaster that could result from giving Wifi access to the public, why not see it from a marketing POV: making people like the company might help them decide to be customers or make them decide to keep being customers, and giving them wifi is a way of making life easier for them and people feel positively-inclined towards companies that make life easier for them, and it sounds like front office have been giving away Wifi access already, so why not make it as easy as possible for everyone and mitigate the potential harm?

Start from a position of "Wifi access is going to happen whether I like it or not because that's good customer relations" and then work backwards to how you can make it safe, rather than sperging out about how the front office staff are retards. Why didn't you say to your customer "hey let me think about it for a few minutes and then I'll get back to you with a proposal as to how we can accomplish what you want without endangering the internal infrastructure of the company?"

I mean, I dont know what your relationship is with this outfit - you refer to them as a customer rather than as "front desk" so I presume you're outsourced 3rd-party support. But I would have seen this as an opportunity to leave YOUR customer with warm fuzzy feelings about how helpful you are by helping them give THEIR customers warm fuzzy feelings about them.

Fuck, setting up a wifi hotspot DMZ isn't rocket surgery. Having a customer think "fuck I hate IT, what a bunch of unhelpful cunts" and give away access to the internal network unmonitored anyway probably ain't the greatest outcome.
Yeah, I hear ya, and I agree with you.

I have always been a friendly and helpful IT person and save my sperginess for threads like these

My account of what happened was overly condensed. That conversation for example was about 15 minutes long and did include detailed and patient discussion of alternate ways of doing things. At the end of which I was basically told to stfu and do it anyways.

My gear grinding came from the viewpoint of going out of my way to try and help someone achieve what they wanted to achieve, yet to get treated with disdain, suspicion, and borderline rudeness, I just didn't write my post well enough to convey it.

edit: I am totally stealing the Mexican / Mexicant thing, it's fucking epic

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Old 13th April 2012, 21:30     #32163
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU0fxKABJLE
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Old 13th April 2012, 21:53     #32164
BaM
Freeloader
 
^^ ban
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Old 13th April 2012, 23:38     #32165
LordP
 
Does anyone else have trouble reaching the name servers for nzgames.com? (iSERVE currently)

Every few days I have trouble reaching them, and nzgames fails to load and I start shaking...

I'm with Orcon, not sure if that's relevant.
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Old 14th April 2012, 01:19     #32166
verve_rat
 
I'm also with Orcon and the only trouble I've had is just now. Took 30 odd seconds after a few goes to load this thread. All the others are fine but loading the GMG currently GMG.
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Old 14th April 2012, 02:25     #32167
Nothing
 
Yeah, also with Orcon here, have noticed that NZG pages often take a long time to load late at night. They seem to be pretty quick during the day, but often after 1am I find that they can take quite some time to load.
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Old 14th April 2012, 20:45     #32168
chiQ
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Does anyone else have trouble reaching the name servers for nzgames.com? (iSERVE currently)

Every few days I have trouble reaching them, and nzgames fails to load and I start shaking...

I'm with Orcon, not sure if that's relevant.
No. Not from BaM's house, my house, my various family members' homes, or work. All are on different networks, and one is Orcon.

iSERVE *is* Orcon. You're on the same network. Talk to Orcon.
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Old 14th April 2012, 21:36     #32169
crocos
 
if customer = the purple one
then induce delay
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Old 14th April 2012, 22:53     #32170
LordP
 
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iSERVE *is* Orcon.
Huh, I probably should have known that.
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Old 15th April 2012, 11:51     #32171
pxpx
 
Little cunt vandals set fire to my for sale sign for my house last night, in Glenfield (any locals would have heard the police chopper flying around at about 1am looking for them).

The sign was attached to my neighbors fence, if the fence went up, it could have caught their house alight too (fence is attached to house)

They got another couple of signs down the road too. What the fuck, please remove yourselves from the gene pool.

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Old 16th April 2012, 09:57     #32172
aR Que
 
Trademe, Keywords have gotten so fucking bad.
I don't bother searching 'supra' anymore because i get more RB results than a drift event. So instead i search '1ggte' you know, cause only the cool kids roll the g, bam, bmw 316 returned in the results.

/Quit trademe.
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Old 16th April 2012, 10:08     #32173
pxpx
 
^ are people just spamming keywords in their auctions?

Wonder if you can report them to trademe, it does impact their user experience and I'm sure they'll have some form of performance metric associated with it.
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Old 16th April 2012, 10:14     #32174
CCS
Stunt Pants
 
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Old 16th April 2012, 10:33     #32175
aR Que
 
*shrug*

What are the rammifications, the seller gets a terse email? Meh, Easier for me just to go spend my money on hookers.

Also, i'm not talking about 1 or two entries, search 'supra' and behold (make sure you're in automotive otherwise you'll get shoes >_<)

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Old 16th April 2012, 10:37     #32176
CCS
Stunt Pants
 
So stop whining.
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Old 16th April 2012, 11:17     #32177
aR Que
 
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So stop whining.
I do what i wanna do.
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Old 16th April 2012, 11:33     #32178
CCS
Stunt Pants
 
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I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?
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Old 16th April 2012, 11:38     #32179
tor
 
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ahahahahaha
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Old 16th April 2012, 12:21     #32180
crocos
 
Minor gear-grind, but stuff.co.nz crashes both IE8 and Firefox when viewed from work. Haven't experienced this with any other sites. Retarded.

I blame the proxy "solution" we've got here at work.
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Old 16th April 2012, 18:08     #32181
cyc
Objection!
 
Very angry Work/Life balance

.... goes both fucking ways, Dear Moronic Bitch At My Work. I am sick and tired of your low energy and general zombie-like state that manifests itself every day starting from the afternoon.

Whilst this person's tiredness/low energy is undoubtedly genuine and is apparently the result of not being able to sleep well, work has offered her unlimited counselling sessions to address any issues that she may be having that causes her to sleep poorly. The partner here has even offered her a so called wellness grant where we agree to reimburse her for her costs if she would attend a bloody sleep clinic/specialist. Has she taken advantage of either? Nope.

Whatever problems she has in her bloody life, she owes it to other people to at least TRY and fix it so that all her problems and mistakes aren't dragged back to work. Oh and thanks for turning up at the farewell drinks for our long-serving secretary late and actually half falling asleep during the time we were trying to take a nice team photo for her retirement. That's really classy of you.

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Old 16th April 2012, 18:18     #32182
tor
 
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If you were having as much sex as her you would be tired too and counselling ain't going to help.

Be happy for her and dream one day you can join her in the world of "work is just for the money".
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Old 16th April 2012, 18:25     #32183
xor
 
Pics of tits or GTFO
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Old 17th April 2012, 08:04     #32184
GM
 
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Be happy for her and dream one day you can join her in the world of "work is just for the money".
I love how people demand engagement, its like bombing for peace and fucking for virginity.
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Old 17th April 2012, 08:56     #32185
aR Que
 
So... you're saying that you're a chump if you take ownership of your work, take a bit of pride and expect your colleagues to show the same level of interest in completing projects to a certain standard that will reflect positively on you, your mates and your work?

Please be letting me know this when you apply for the job, cheers.
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Old 17th April 2012, 09:48     #32186
GM
 
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So... you're saying that you're a chump if you take ownership of your work, take a bit of pride and expect your colleagues to show the same level of interest in completing projects to a certain standard that will reflect positively on you, your mates and your work?.
Yes. You are a chump if you think you have any business judging your workmates performance outside of their performance reviews.

Like you would have any chance of making it past the cv check where I work, but if somehow you did, let me just say, good luck and welcome to the real world.
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Old 17th April 2012, 09:56     #32187
CCS
Stunt Pants
 
^^

Penis.
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I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?
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Old 17th April 2012, 09:59     #32188
GM
 
^Spunk pants
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Old 17th April 2012, 09:59     #32189
pxpx
 
Cunning linguist

GM take your fancy pencil and GTFO.
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Old 17th April 2012, 10:01     #32190
GM
 
My pencil is fancy.
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Old 17th April 2012, 10:12     #32191
GM
 
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So... you're saying that you're a chump if you take ownership of your work, take a bit of pride and expect your colleagues to show the same level of interest in completing projects to a certain standard that will reflect positively on you, your mates and your work?
"You know what, Stan, if you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there, Brian, why don't you just make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?"
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Old 17th April 2012, 10:20     #32192
tor
 
People that consistently bitch about colleagues work ethic tend to be the laziest incompetent arses in the workplace in my opinion.

Even if they can do their job they spend so much time gossiping and bitching and crapping on that they are fucking awful to work with.
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Old 17th April 2012, 10:41     #32193
DrTiTus
HENCE WHY FOREVER ALONE
 
Give her some Zopiclone.
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Old 17th April 2012, 10:42     #32194
Cowboy
 
Sleep Stream 2 on teh iphone. Feels good man.
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Old 17th April 2012, 10:52     #32195
cyc
Objection!
 
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So... you're saying that you're a chump if you take ownership of your work, take a bit of pride and expect your colleagues to show the same level of interest in completing projects to a certain standard that will reflect positively on you, your mates and your work?

Please be letting me know this when you apply for the job, cheers.
In my case, I don't even care so much about her effect on me. I don't have to like her -- it's the effect that she has in terms of undermining the image that our team wishes to project and the complaints that we've gotten about her from clients. Anyone who's worked with German and Japanese people consistently know that they have pretty high work ethic and motivation and our clients' people haven't taken well to some of the side effects of her "tiredness". About 40% of our work comes from those two countries.

After months of playing decent employer/employer's representative, the partner leading our workgroup and I basically told her today that she either starts attending somewhere relevant for help and changing or we start looking at warnings and possible dismissal.
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Old 17th April 2012, 16:30     #32196
aR Que
 
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Like you would have any chance of making it past the cv check where I work, but if somehow you did, let me just say, good luck and welcome to the real world.
One day I hope I am as cool as you.

'the real world'

lol.
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Old 17th April 2012, 18:19     #32197
GM
 
o_O

You're butt hurt because I copied the last sentence of your post? Way to go homo.
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Old 17th April 2012, 20:51     #32198
crocos
 
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Like you would have any chance of making it past the cv check where I work, but if somehow you did, let me just say, good luck and welcome to the real world.
Amusingly, the same would just as easily be said of you trying to work at the same place as RQ.
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Old 18th April 2012, 08:10     #32199
GM
 
No shit, that was my point.

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Please be letting me know this when you apply for the job, cheers
Applying for a job at RQ's work: you need to tell him you're not the type of person who will bag their work mates because they're shithouse at their job - like it was any of your or his business anyway.

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Like you would have any chance of making it past the cv check where I work, but if somehow you did, let me just say, good luck and welcome to the real world.
Applying for a job at GM's work: I say good luck and welcome to the real world.

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Old 18th April 2012, 08:17     #32200
xor
 
Vrtigo, GM and Chubby.
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