And four hours later, I’m still waiting for someone to reset my account. 
My clients spend hours putting together detailed milestone schedules for their products, which include one line item for a task I do. It’s really helpful to know what to expect so I can plan around it…at least in theory. Because lately, “May 6” means “tomorrow” and “won’t need you til Friday” means “uh, I know it’s 6am on Thursday but can you come in today?” They go the other way, too, where “Monday” frequently slides to Tuesday or Wednesday, but at least in that case I’m aware I’ll have to do the task in the coming days. Pulling a project ahead by two weeks and giving me less than a day’s notice is incredibly irritating.
I get a data fix request.
I make the fix.
The application does not reflect that.
The person who owns the application does a refresh. It STILL does not reflect the data.
Calling me (the one who did the data fix) to figure out why. I confirm that yeah, we’ve got the correct data. Something is wrong in the refresh process. Looking at it 3 different ways: same story. It’s not a data problem.
The next morning, it’s STILL not a data problem.
I’ve wasted at least 4 hours on this over 2 days.
I hate this. Built a new computer for the Mrs. and it is great. i7 - 12th gen. Plenty of DDR5 RAM. NVME SSD card. The works.
Her stupid-ass Harry Pothead game won’t sync with the server.
“I though this was supposed to be a good computer. Something’s wrong with it.”
“It’s a software issue, not a hardware issue.”
Repeat every 3 to 4 days.
Are you talking about the computer or your wife? 
Apparently people are happy at work these days. Nobody has posted to this thread for a month and a half!
Corporate IT has decided to start blocking downloads. But, for some reason, only from Chrome. I can still download using Edge. Which isn’t my preferred browser, but oh well.
The other day I got an email from IT that a certain piece of software on my computer needed to be updated. I have an installer for the software already downloaded on my laptop, so I ran it. That didn’t do what I needed – the current version is like 4.4.xxx, mine is 4.1.xxx, and the update only updated the .xxx part.
So I go out to the company’s website to download a new installer for v4.4.xxx. You used to just be able to click on the download link, but now they are harvesting contact data, so I have to enter my name and email address first. Then when I try download, it gets blocked. Crap, I’m in Chrome. So I open Edge, and go through the whole process again, and get blocked again.
I wound up having to remote into one of my project servers, downloading the installer there (which didn’t get blocked) then copying it to my laptop so I could install the latest version.
My district allowed us to use both Google Classroom and Schoology to put online resources for our students. As of the end of June, we will only be allowed Schoology and all access to our Classrooms will be cut off. Guess which one I have spent years building into a comprehensive resources for my students - so much so they could probably do the entire class on line with lectures, videos, etc.
More likely, so many of us are retired that there’s nobody left working to post to the thread. Except you.
Put your back in it, Man! Lots of us are counting on you!
Oh I’m still working and have plenty to rant about but it’s all so exhausting in real time, I don’t care to write it all out!
Recent highlights include multiple test delays because management forgot to schedule the test with certain support teams. Documentation delays because the “project manager” never actually planned to have certain documents authored by anyone, despite said documents being required by law. In a presentation to regulatory authorities to introduce our team, my senior manager forgot to include me (guess who the only remote worker is? Out of sight, out of mind indeed…and yes, I called him out on it).
There is so much to bitch about. But like I said, I’m exhausted, which isn’t helping at all.
I had a similar reaction to a rantworthy thing today for the generic monthly rant thread.
It was vexing enough to live through once. When I started a post then found myself becoming more annoyed, not more catharsisified (is too a word ), I abandoned it in relief.
Catharsicated?
Catharsisized?
Going by the etymology, you could say cleansed.
Lotta ways to make that sentence work. But once I had “catharsis” in mind I just had to force it in there as an adjective somehow.
English is as DIYable as you (well me) want it to be.
This is why corporate shit never works. There is ALWAYS a work-around when people spend their days working in IT.
I once worked for an online casino, but had access to live data. Customer lists, especially the high-rollers are highly prized and kept top secret.
A friend of mine, who also worked there, as we stood outside smoking, worked out a very simple way to steal and share customer information in a near undectable way via altering browser request headers (it is trivial, but I won’t share it)
Security theatre has been the bane of my life for years.
It might have worked, considering that they also recently put a policy into place where you can no longer copy files between local and remote desktops. But we managed to get a waiver on that one because so much of our day to day work requires it, and IT couldn’t come up with any kind of workaround for us.
I agree totally. Not to mention that it’s fun.
But, yes, sure. Files are binary data. I could write a python script to do the copy. I could obfuscate the copy so “they” don’t know what is being moved.
I mean, people hire programmers to solve problems, they have to understand the problems that they want to be solved are only a certain subset of those presented. There are inheritantly more, but usually lesser problems that also need to be solved along the way.
As a software engineer, when I am told “this is not possible” my mind goes into overdrive.
That copy problem can be solved in about 7 different ways (off the top of my head), from simple to insanely complex (FTP, HTTP, SMTP, Source control…),. Why bother? Trust your employees, big bosses. After all, we make money when you make money.
(Note: SMTP is not… ideal… for large file transfer!)
I am at my wit’s end with people who cancel meetings they scheduled themselves, at the last possible minute. It’s so routine that it’s baked into the workplace culture; everybody feels quite free and unashamed, and I’m afraid to say anything because (a) Northwest Nice – in the PNW, the slightest suggestion that another’s action is problematic in any way is taken by everyone as a stab in the heart, which will never, ever be forgiven; also (b) the very worst offender is my boss, and we all know how much good criticizing the boss does.
Just now a co-worker (my own “rank”, if it matters) cancelled a 10:30 meeting at 10:25, just saying “something came up.” All the attendees except me filled the DM box with smiley faces and hearts. I am seething. It is not OK to do this; any person who must unavoidably do it should be ashamed, or at the least, minimally apologetic. Not here! Just business as usual, rewarded with good vibes and love.
My boss – the aforementioned worst offender – does this all the time with no compunction, but does it without fail every 2 weeks with our required all-staff meeting which is every Thursday at 11:00. See, the required meeting is every week, but every OTHER week, the boss has a standing conflict at 11:00. I happen to know this because I’m in the same conflicting meeting myself. So does the boss simply adjust the staff calendar to have the required all-staff meeting every two weeks? Why, no. Every other week, at 11:00 on the dot, she PMs the group and says “sorry group, I have to cancel because something came up.” Like it’s a complete surprise, every time.
WT actual F??? Who does this? Who thinks this is OK?
It’s so crazymaking. I spend time asking myself: is it really a surprise to you, are you really that stupid? Or is it a power move? “Look at me – I’m an AWESOME rude badass, huh? FUCK y’all!” It could really be either; it’s impossible to know.
Can confirm. We’re supposed to have a conference call once per week with one of our vendors, but it’s not unusual for the vendor’s rep to cancel the meeting with an excuse like “stuck in another meeting” or “forgot about a plant tour”. (It happens so much that it’s actually become a bit of a joke…“Has the meeting been canceled yet?”) This guy used to have a team of about 8 people who joined him, effectively making him just a coordinator; now he’s having to do all the work himself, along with what I gather is an increased workload within his own department. That’s really no excuse, but it’s been going on so long that it’s almost expected at this point.
It’s almost as irritating as people who message you with “Are you planning to show up at the meeting?” when they never bothered inviting you to the meeting in the first place.
Does that open the thread to Dyck jokes?
I’m not familiar with the show, but go for it! 