The one time I fell for one of IT’s fake phishing attempts, it was a very convincing-looking email that appeared to be from a corporate branch I had dealt with a few times. Because of that, I got into the habit of reporting any email from corporate as suspicious. Can’t be too careful!
I got one today that was especially suspicious…it was from “tttt[dot]com”, was only addressed to three employees, and was loaded with bad grammar and spelling. I promptly reported it as a phishing attempt, and was puzzled when instead of getting a “Good catch!” message, I got an email stating that corporate IT would be reviewing my submission. I then realized that “tttt[dot]com” is a very close match to a large organization that corporate purchased a few years ago, meaning that this was probably a misdelivered email resulting from somebody trying to navigate the global address book from a mobile phone.
In other news, management only purchased a single poinsettia this year, so I don’t have to worry about the annual infestation of whiteflies from the dozens of poinsettias being deployed and overwatered.
I’m the same way, tons of tabs open, so once a week or two, I do some “de-cluttering” and bookmark all the tabs.
Sometimes I get lucky, and I can give them a descriptive title, like '23 Miatas, '70s Kit Cars, Treehouse Schematics.
But most of the time, it’s just MISC 12/9/2022.
Which is fine, because I’ve gone back and checked for an old bookmark exactly twice in my life.
Usually, I think “Hmmm, where did I see that treehouse years ago, the one with the trebuchet?” …Google for forty seconds… “Ahh, there it is! Just the page I’d been reading back in those miscellaneous days of 2022!”
New contract, new role, same organization. So my existing online training is still valid, but here’s a dozen more for you. Most of them, while not exactly exciting, were at least relevant. Then there’s Workplace Violence and Active Shooter Response (two separate courses). I’m a remote worker and my employer’s office is over a thousand miles away.
That was two months ago and yesterday I received an email that one module was still due. Umm, nope, I did all those in one day when they were assigned. Let me log in and see if they slipped me another one without telling me. … Here’s your one due module. You never clicked ‘finish’ when you were done. -click- Thanks, here’s your certificate.
I have so much to vent about today, but I’ll just say that 15 minutes would be a luxury at my job. I guess technically it did boot in 15 minutes, but it was 90 minutes before it was useable. Undoubtedly the biggest stress of job these days is the crap tools we have to work with. What really sucks is we have the requirement for better machines, we know what we need, we have the funds to buy what we need, but we don’t have the secret decoder ring to appease the IT department, who’s answer to everything begins with “No”.
I manage capital projects. I have one capital project that is still showing overbudget in some reports but in my report (which is accurate), it is not. No one seems interested in fixing the problem. I don’t know what to do at this point but I don’t appreciate getting the black mark that comes with an overbudget project for no reason.
“Hi, I’m experiencing this problem with the work order dispatch system.”
“Are you sure? I haven’t gotten any reports about a problem.”
“Well, it’s happening. It’s been happening all morning.”
“I don’t think it is, nobody’s reporting it.”
“Me! I’m reporting it. You have a report!”
“But nobody’s said they’re having that problem.”
“I am! Mr. Nobody! I’m having that problem! I’m making a f—ing report!” (has a stroke at my desk at 9:24AM)
I’m so tired of being the canary in the coal mine here for IT problems. Always the first person to spot stuff going south, and almost never believed.
“Good morning, IT jerks. Apparently my computer is broken.”
“Yeah, yeah, we’ll be the judge of that.”
“Okay, see what you think…”(pours cardboard box of very small pieces onto IT desk)
90 minutes? You lucky, lucky bastard! My computer takes 3 hours before the screen even shows that it’s starting to boot up, and then it shoots broken glass at my eyes out of the usb port.
I got a new computer at work. Can you tell this message is all shiny and new?
Anyway, outlook does not autofill email addresses. Oh, eventually it will once I figure them all out and enter them by hand the first time. I should have stuck with the old computer.
Happy 1953, everybody! At least, I’m assuming that’s what it is since this is what passes for humor at my workplace:
This has been posted in various places around the building, accompanying a group picture of some of the ladies at a Christmas function. I found the source file on the server; it was created by a manager. (Yes, the grammar in his emails often looks like that.)
I have another issue with the new computer. Every time I open a Word or Excel file I get an error message. The file opens, but there is an error message that I have to close. When I try to open powerpoint it says I don’t have enough memory. If I try a second time it opens. The IT manager was just in looking at it and is fairly mystified. He bought 5 identical computers in the last 2 months and this is the only one doing it. He’s working on it though.
We’re getting “Zoom phones” installed next week. Today we went to a Zoom meeting in our big conference room where a remote rep gave us a slideshow to show us how it all works.
Except not a single one of us, except our IT department consisting of two bored guys, understood a word he said. This is a law firm and our people are lawyers, paralegals and secretaries. All we want to know is how to place a call, how to answer a call, and how to retrieve voicemails. It seems Zoom telephones have about 8,000,000 bells and whistles and he spent all his time on the bells and whistles.
Well, there’s always Google and youtube to tell us how to place calls, answer calls, and retrieve voicemails.
I work from home now. IS department. Yeah, lot’s of bells and whistles. I don’t need a one of them. I much prefer communication by email. We can lay it all out in email, and I have a record to refer to. But my “work” number is now forwarded to my personal cell phone. Luckily I only get one call a month or so.
I’m not going to complain, or they may try to force another cell phone on me which I will not do.
We’re still using Cisco phones where I work. The web-based interface that let you customize shortcuts and address books hasn’t worked in years; changing a preset phone number involves digging through a menu tree, then painstakingly entering the person’s name using the phone’s keypad. Fortunately, the part of the system that delivers voicemails via email still works.
I guess it won’t surprise you to learn that last year’s Thanksgiving potluck was the first one since I’ve been working there in which the call for volunteers (setup, drink pouring, food heating, cleaning, etc.) went out to the whole company and not just to the women.
That is, like, eighteen hundred kinds of fucked up. Posted in multiple spots?!?
If this same manager has a history of posting/doing other misogynistic bullshit like this, I’d be encouraging every woman working there to file formally with the state labor board.
That manager should lose his job simply due to excessive exclamation points and egregious underlining.
