There's also gems like "Because then we wouldn't be running any anti-virus, and I'd have to explain to 800 Luddites why that's the case, and I look like a lunatic. Much easier to just run MSE even if it's a placebo."
And my personal favorite: "Frothing anger aside, you do have a point. We could easily put it in our proposals, and everyone would buy it, but we haven't, mostly because I'm kind of a contrarian asshole and this is an easy way to tell the establishment to suck it. Our clients save some money, we defy the odds...win-win!"
I don't understand not getting your clients to properly license software because the benefits for the MSP are substantial (you get free volume license editions to use internally too!)
seriously though at $job[-1] MS threw products at us
"If you want to use it in production you need to buy a production license..." (..."which we'll basically work out to be $1 if you have a dozen clients using it")
@HopelessN00b Unfortunately the job market still isn't that great, and most folks aren't independently wealthy enough to just quit a job that sucks without reasonable prospects lined up. Job hunting sucks (perhaps you enjoy it, but you'd be the only one I know who does), and for junior admins it's a nontrivial task -- would YOU hire some of the junior-types posting on SF these days if they suddenly landed on your desk? — voretaq7 ♦1 hour ago
@ewwhite I tell people the homeless people suck here, and all I get is "It's much worse in ... ". I don't care that there are worse places, they suck here
If you are in the exact center of something, and exist as a three dimensional being, does that mean that you are also north, south, east, and west of it too?
@HopelessN00b My grandmother offers the homeless people around here a job doing yard work... In the middle of Texas... In the middle of summer... They were better off homeless.
I should become a panhandler. I'm a sysadmin, so I've got the dirty, smelly, slovenly look down pretty good, paired up with the forlorn 1,000 yard gaze of a refugee. Yeah I could totally be a panhandler.
I have a server 2012r2 machine that I just installed KB2919355 (the mega 800+MB patch recently released for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012). Server is a Dell Poweredge R710. Disks are 2x500GB SAS in RAID1 on an H200 controller.
The server was working perfectly until the update - and I have the de...
@Wesley Only problem is 10 years experience as a panhandler makes you extremely less marketable in the job market, for some reason. No appreciation for out-of-the-box thinking in corporate America.
@NathanC Ah, so they're doing it wrong. Be happy to fix that for your boss for the the low, low price of how ever many 10's of thousands of doallrs I can negotiate out of him...
I haven't been sleeping well recently... It takes over two hours to fall asleep, and I only have 6 hours of sleep scheduled to begin with... I hate being a human...
@Skyhawk I get up for work at ~6:30am, and I don't get home until ~6:30pm, then I catch up on the news, TV shows, house work, and yard work, by the time I'm done with just the important stuff it's pas 10pm, then I need to shower and prepare for work the next day, and I finally go to bed at around midnight...
@KevinSoviero Schedule 8.5 hours for sleep. Avoid bright light (especially full spectrum and blue) or loud noises 1 to 2 hours before sleep is scheduled. f.lux or redshift can help a lot.
Sex usually helps me get to sleep... I hear tell of people you can hire for that, too... though it's frowned upon, and possibly illegal to hire professional "sleep assistants" for some reason I don't really understand.
@KevinSoviero you spelled out something like 90-120 minutes each way for the commute, I think. Or work days that are too long. You can move closer to work instead of changing jobs. You could negotiate getting a telecommuting day or two in the week...
I have a server 2012r2 machine that I just installed KB2919355 (the mega 800+MB patch recently released for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012). Server is a Dell Poweredge R710. Disks are 2x500GB SAS in RAID1 on an H200 controller.
The server was working perfectly until the update - and I have the de...
