The thing is, I'm saving for a wedding and a house so I've been frugal lately
If I spend $20 on something I can get for free, I'm going to catch shit for it
hahaha
I've done too many "listen, babe, lets wait until next month for that" to just throw a $20 away. Especially because she knows we qualify for a free copy of ML and she knows I claimed it already, since I had her give me the serial from her MBP to get it.
the task was assigned to a co-worker and I and for whatever reason, the coworker basically jumped out of his seat and went to go do it (not asking me or the other admin)
no - not for the printers
to many rules
anyways
he comes back and i instantly get a call from my boss with the manager of that department conferenced in
what did you do? you didnt do what the task said, blah blah blah
a: i didnt do it so stop yelling at me
b: co-worker did it
person conferenced in, as i do most of this type of stuff, thought it was me doing it so automatically assumed it was me and not the coworker
coworker overhears the conversation and questions what happened, at which time i explained, the user didnt need a printer installed, they needed to be added to the address book
It's a bit slack of your boss to conference in someone else when he's there to reprimand you. I'd be annoyed if I got reprimanded for something I didn't do, but I'd be furious if someone else was there too.
i DO NOT like to be yelled at, especially if someone else fucks up on my behalf
@MarkHenderson i was
so i yelled at the coworker - i have no problem if you dont know how to do something and need help, but if you dont know, ask before you fuck something up and dont know what you did
he tried to talk to me later in the day and i ignored him
he nor i haven't talked to each other since - and i feel he thinks I'm in the wrong
My boss used to do a similar thing. When it's just us, things are great, but if he gets a client or someone in the office or at a meeting, he starts showing off and demanding this and that. He used to do it all the time during meetings until I took him aside one day and called him on it
i have senority over him, i have skill over him and i'm the admin, not him (hes a bitch programmer trying to play admin, and not a very good one at that)
1. Your boss should know better to reprimand you infront of someone else without getting the full story 2. Your co-worker should not have done something he wasn't meant to 3. You shouldn't make things personal when they're just work
@lsiunsuex You say you agree, but then you say you're OK with acting like a bitch about it, which means that your issue is not going to get resolved. Basically you're after validation that acting like my 2 year old when I tell him he can't have dessert because he didn't eat any of his dinner is OK
unfortunately, we don't have titles. yes, i'm a sys admin, yes, i'm also the web developer, but if the fucking garbage needs to be taken out cause everyone in house keeping called in sick, your ass better get a pair of gloves and go do it - for those of us who have been there from the start and are partners
this kid isn't a partner and those people don't share the same work ethic the rest of us do
If there are problems, then you need to be the agent for change
@lsiunsuex Of course not. If you have skin in the game, no employee is ever going to have your work ethic. I'm the oldest employee at this company, and my boss always complains that new people we hire just don't treat the business as if it was their own.
he questions why hes not a partner and we try to explain it; how he has a shitty work ethic, how he fucks around to much. which is why i dont think i owe him an apology. he doesn't get it
i have tried in the past to explain to him why the other admin and i work 11 hour days on salary. why we answer our phones off hours and the company doesn't pay for them. and then bonus day comes and partner nominations are made and hes not one of them and he wants to bitch and wine.
kpi ?
maybe i'll take him into the server room and talk to him
@lsiunsuex Key Performance Indicator. Objective targets that he must meet. For example, being in the office for at least 8 hours a day. Not missing deadlines.
"Not being a dick" is not objective
"Don't do tasks that aren't assigned to you" is objective and can be measured
Honestly, if you want to change this situation, I stongly recommend doing some PD (personal development) into managing staff 101
Something like a 2-day course
That basically teaches you how to measure productivity, what to do when people aren't meeting their goals, how to hire effective people, etc
i'm not a manager although sometimes i'm treated like one - i report to the owners and no one else (which is why i'll never be manager here, but thats a different problem)
Although honestly when you get into managing other people, you never stop learning and there's no one size fits all boot. But you have to start somewhere
@lsiunsuex Then do it anyway. Even if you're not officially a manager, this will give you better skills to deal with stuff when you find yourself managing anyway
E.G. It could give you the skills and the confidence to speak to your boss and tell him that reprimanding you with soemone else on the phone is not appreciated
Exactly. Plus, spending a long time in the one job without any PD under your belty can look bad when you move on. "Hmm, he's been with this company for 6 years, but he hasn't done any further development. So are all his skills 6 years old?"
You'll just either have to ask for permission to do it on a few work days, or do it in your own time
Dealing with conflict in the workplace is a large part of managing staff
For example, my Dad manages hundreds of staff in his job. He made one change - he changed his office door from being a solid wood door to one with a large glass panel in it. Now all of a sudden, people are coming to talk to him about their issues with staffing because they felt safe in his office. Turns out that a lot of people didn't want to go talk to him about his issues because they don't like being in a closed office with a man.
Now, instead of staff bitching between themselves, he actually knows whats going on and gets shit sorted
and thats why we don't have offices. 1 big room, 8-10 of us with desks aimed towards the middle - with the idea that ideas and problems flow easily without picking up a phone
someone can over hear a problem and offer insight type thing
so dude sits right next to me - pass him on my way out for a smoke, etc...
we need more communication which the root of most of our problems
when the air conditioner died for the server room on the 4th of july and the room got to 90 degrees, no one, had any conversation about wtf happened on the 5th. no one told the other admin or i, no one filled out an incident report to our knowledge. lack of communication? definition of
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... at some point, text wrangler did an update and now it groups all open documents into this left hand file navigation box - how the f' do i turn that off and open all files in their own window. ?
olympics - so you have like 2 more days to accomplish this?
I have a directory that is showing up with the permission mask drwsrwsr-x. When I try to reset the permissions to 755 the S still remains.
What is the "s" and why cant I change the permissions back to 775 (drwxrwxr-x)?
@MarkHenderson I'd say the more paranoid and on edge people are the more the terrorists have gotten exactly what they wanted. But I'm bitter because my government is basically shredding our entire body of law and 200+ years of judicial precedent because of the "T" word...
@voretaq7 Well it's a real pain, because I'm not liable for any fraudulent transactions anyway. So it takes a week to get a new card, I can't use this card on the internet (they did unlock physical terminal transactions), and it's not even my damn fault
She did offer to unblock it for me, but then I am liable, so siiigh
And while I was on the phone to them I got a missed call from an American number, which has piqued my curiosity
It's a pretty common mortgage feature here. Some banks charge for it, but some don't. We don't pay for it. But, our mortgages are also variable interest rates
There are fixed rates, but they have so many restrictions on them that nobody uses them. They're always locked in at a high rate, and you can't make additional repayments
Mind you, our countries cash rate is at about 4% at the moment, so the banks are pocketing that extra 2% for themselves
So don't worry, our banks are greedy bastards too
And they pass on rate rises within about 3 micro seconds of the reserve bank raising the cash rate, but when tey cut it it takes them 2 weeks to announce their decision, and another 2 weeks to actually pass it on
@Andrew True. We only have 4 and they're all profitable and stable (which is what you want for a bank. Oh how we love to hate them for doing their job)
@voretaq7 My first hate for Safari came when I tried to change my home page to Google and it cried like a little bitch telling me "no please don't leave apple.com! You can search from the nav bar! Please don't gooooooooo"
@MDMarra I don't have anything against it really, it the company that makes it that I dislike... Mostly because they can convince people to pay them way too much money for what they produce and I'm jealous I didn't have that idea first.
@MichaelHampton Yeah but are they hurting anyone by doing it? Not really. Of all the things that annoy me on the internet, that one is pretty low on my list
@MarkHenderson The point is, these users don't understand what's going on. So no matter how you dress up the address bar, make the HTTPS lock obvious, or whatever, they're still going to get burned.
I had to educate someone that the end of the domain, not they start of it, is what identifies a site. So www.apple.com.dodgy.scam.site.cn is not actually Apple and they have not won $100000
@MarkHenderson ever ordered anything delivered through Amazon, shipped via DHL? I'm wondering who they use in Australia & if I can check my tracking number with them
I once had a dickweed in Germany ship me a bus ticket via surface mail. I got to Frankfurt 6 weeks later, shouted at them and got my ticket re-issued, got home, and the ticket arrived 2 days after I got back
@MarkHenderson I found www.dhl.com.au from a quick search. It even has a phone number listed. :)
@Andrew I've shipped a lot of stuff out of the US. Sometimes the tracking info doesn't update until after it clears customs in the destination country. I had customs in the UK hold a package for almost 3 weeks once.
I saw a show once where they wanted to move an airport building from one side of the runway to the other, so they jacked it up, but because it had to cross a runway, they had to get a fucking drug snuffer dog onto it
Man, I love how Stack Exhchange sometimes reminds you of questions on other sites that you'd totally forgotten about. Just got a notification about a badge for this question:
I keep hearing about Ground Beef, but I'm from Australia and I've never actually seen it before.
Is it the same thing as Minced Beef? Or different? Is Minced beef an acceptible substitute if they're not the same thing?
@MichaelHampton We love it. We go through a 500g jar in about a month. My son just sticks his finger in and licks it off like jam. Although even that's a bit too much for me.
@MichaelHampton I thought I might get to go to the US a few months ago, and i was planning on taking roughly one pallet of Tim Tams to share around. Didn't get to go in the end, and y'all missed out i'm afraid.
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I have a directory that is showing up with the permission mask drwsrwsr-x. When I try to reset the permissions to 755 the S still remains.
What is the "s" and why cant I change the permissions back to 775 (drwxrwxr-x)?
It's been around forever, right?
I keep hearing about Ground Beef, but I'm from Australia and I've never actually seen it before.
Is it the same thing as Minced Beef? Or different? Is Minced beef an acceptible substitute if they're not the same thing?
