It’s MS teams, so since we all have it, but never used it, I suspect that’s the reason. The application sucks IMHO though. I think this will actually save a tiny, tiny amount of money. But will take forever to recover.
We are now trying to copy a shit ton of information over to it. Or a different Wiki type platform, that is getting overloaded.
I will be spending a good deal of time searching for shit.
Not too concerned about that. But I’m going to quit my bitchn’. No point in it. I’ve said my piece. The trigger has been pulled on this.
Back when I worked for the government and had a stupid number of different passwords to keep track of and change all the fucking time, almost everyone had a sticky note on their desk with their latest passwords. Being all security conscious, I put mine on the underside of my keyboard. (I had seen a co-worker do that and thought it was a good idea because I tend to use all of my desk top no matter what I’m doing)
In such situations (with the exception of one job that did not allow writing materials or personal electronics at one’s desk), I’ve used a notepad app on a PDA or smartphone to note passwords. Seemed more secure since I didn’t label the note with info on where the contents were applicable and the device in question would never leave my person at work.
We’re scheduled to participate in an off-site team building activity during work hours. I’ll leave aside what we’re actually doing, but it’s fun, and it’ll be nice to see some of my co-workers face-to-face for a change. Our boss told us we should bring our laptops to the exercise so we can continue to monitor throughout the event.
Just to be clear, I handle peronally identifiable information (SSNs, birth dates, etc., etc.) as well as protected health information. It is a terrible idea for me to try to look at my laptop while we’re in a public place. Not just a bad idea, but a violation of company policy. It’s also a bad idea for me to connect to the internet through a public wifi signal. Not just a bad idea, but a violation of company policy. And then I will have to leave my computer unattended at times while I participate in the activities, which you might have gussed, is not only a bad idea but a violation of company policy.
But even ignoring the policy violations, why the hell would you have us monitor our emails while at a team building exercise? We’re only going to be away for four hours, and almost nothing we is an emergency. Thankfully I was able to talk them out of it. But Jesus Christ, seriously?
Beyond pissed this afternoon. In July, I was sent to Oklahoma to be trained on one of our sorting machines. The school lasted two weeks, and I was the only student who aced it (both the written test and troubleshooting several bugs). This past Monday, I flew in for another class, on a different machine. It’s been going well, but this morning, one of my instructors approached me and asked if I felt safe working on this equipment what with the essential tremor I’ve been displaying. I assured him that I do.
This afternoon, right before we were dismissed for the day, my cell phone rang, and I got a voicemail from my manager, notifying me that my return flight had been changed. I checked my email, and, sure enough, my flight home is no longer departing September 2; it’s departing tomorrow morning! Fuckers went and disenrolled me from the course. I immediately went to the training manager’s office to dispute their reasons for doing so, and to appeal the decision. The upshot is that the school, my manager, and whoever is in charge of “reasonable accommodations” will confer about me and eventually decide if I’m to be allowed to train on this equipment.
In the meantime, I take a 4 AM shuttle to the airport tomorrow. Also, in an effort to not spend $62.00 on meals every day, I went to Wal*Mart yesterday, and spent nearly $100 on food that I can keep in the ice chest I brought in my luggage. So my task for this evening is to find some strangers who’ll take twelve cans of beer, eleven breakfast burritos, seven tubes of Go-gurt, five sticky buns, four submarine sandwiches, AND A PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE off my hands.
I’m also gonna ask my union steward if he can swing it so I don’t have to return two weeks of the advance per diem they gave me. Hell, the worst they can say is “No.”
kaylasdad99, that sounds very frustrating. I hope you can get the training some day.
I need to write an email, but I can’t do it right now because I’m very annoyed with my coworker who reviewed a list I needed to create a document. She told me to use everything on the list in the document, and now she wants to leave out some of the things on the list. I’m annoyed because she wasted my time and other people’s time, and I’m pretty sure she didn’t review the list the first time. She didn’t communicate the changes very well. Now she wants me to do extra work that I was told someone else would be doing, which I really don’t have time to do before the deadline.
I’ve probably posted before about another coworker who makes me want to stress eat. This person is very picky, and sometimes tries to tell me exactly how to do things. We’re working on a large poster which will be viewed from a distance, and they have sent me a request for revisions that includes cleaning up imperfections that don’t exist in my file (there’s really nothing I can fix in an area that’s just one color), fixing tiny imperfections that nobody would ever see, and changing things in the bleed area, which gets cut off, so no one will ever see it. I keep reminding myself that I have good pay and good benefits, so it’s all good.
Well, apparently my doctor’s office has been sitting on the ADA paperwork for the last 2 weeks so I just escalated it the medical director. Meanwhile I got an email from the onsite office manager who was confused why I abruptly stopped coming in and wondering what happened.
Ever since some people at work got phished, we have been getting tested with those phishing tests we know and love and warned never to click on anything suspicious. So what has HR started doing this year? Sending out generic emails through a service telling us we have a mandatory training and to click a link and input our credentials. I asked IT and yes they are authentic emails.
Does your IT department offer a service for reporting emails? Where I work, this is installed as an Outlook extension. I take great pleasure in reporting corporate emails like the ones you describe that meet IT’s description of a suspicious email.
Yes it did. And the story gets a bit bit worse for me. Now they’ve put me in an unpaid administrative hold, until I can get my doctor to sign me off as safe to do my job. I’ve got about seven weeks of advance leave, so I’m not going to be dependent on my social security checks, and I’m getting a referral to a neurologist in the morning. The neurologist will bring in a Medtronic representative to tweak the settings on my DBS pulse generators.
After which my union steward will work to convert any leave I take back to administrative.
That’s the way my department does things. Apparently, when IT is awash in phishing reports, they track down whoever set up the third person training and get them to send out a blanket email stating that it’s okay to click the link.
A couple years ago we hired a PhD in physics. The rest of us are EEs.
This guy is beyond annoying. He talks down to people, and thinks he’s an expert on literally everything. Including electrical/electronics stuff. His ego and pride are higher than the stratosphere.
He recently “schooled” a couple young engineers on how thermocouples work. Was extremely loud and confident. I was in earshot of it. Everything he said was incorrect. Afterwards I went to his office. I asked him how thermocouples worked. He said, “Um, um, Fermi levels in bimetallic junctions?” I told him how they actually worked. He was not happy, and has not talked to me much ever since.
He now gobbles up every project that comes into our lab, and “schools” the younger folks on electrical/electronics. The problem is that most of the stuff he spews is completely incorrect.
His office is adjacent to mine. I wear earplugs because of him. I want him to go away.
We really need a Doper Hit Squad. Not to kill people like this, but for much sneakier machinations…
So someone like Dr. Dunning-Kruger, PhD will decide to quit his job, and even switch careers.
I have, somewhere, a book about design which includes an “earworm ambush vehicle” concept - a small remote controlled car with a speaker. You drive it into the office of your victim, hide it somewhere and it plays, quietly and irregularly but frequently the earworm of your choice.
