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Dear Users… (A thread for Sysadmin, Technical Support, and Help Desk people) Part 10

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My money's on timed restrictions, that's a good idea. The other ideas still need a login to distinguish.
 
Perhaps the easiest solution is to get rid of Person A from the front desk. Put them somewhere else where they can get on with their job without having to do front-desking. Completely non-technical, so "Not a Service Desk issue".
 
But then they wouldn't be able to share a desk over different shifts. Employees love doing that, don't they?
 
Norman Alexander said:
Perhaps the easiest solution is to get rid of Person A from the front desk. Put them somewhere else where they can get on with their job without having to do front-desking. Completely non-technical, so "Not a Service Desk issue".
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No, the easiest solution would be to murder both persons, and also whoever replaces them. By the time you go through five or six replacements nobody will take those jobs and management will give up. That's also a non-technical solution, and it saves the company money as well so it's the best choice.
 
TragicMonkey said:
No, the easiest solution would be to murder both persons, and also whoever replaces them. By the time you go through five or six replacements nobody will take those jobs and management will give up. That's also a non-technical solution, and it saves the company money as well so it's the best choice.
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So outsourcing then?
 
- Update. Turns out User B has a company issued laptop and always has. She's going to use that for the job fairs.

- On that why do so many users demand laptops and literally never take them away from their desks?
 
Dear Users.

- If you plug a 1500w Space Heater and a Laser Printer (I don't remember the exact numbers but ever new more energy efficient one draw big power numbers at certain parts of the printing cycle) into a cheap 20 dollar Walmart power strip and then plug that into the wall... you're gonna trip some breakers. This isn't an IT problem. I don't need to know about it or fix it.

- It's August. In Florida. Why do you need a space heater?
 
In a passive-aggressive feud with whoever sets the thermostat for the AC?
 
gnome said:
In a passive-aggressive feud with whoever sets the thermostat for the AC?
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No the building isn't cold, anymore so than any other public building. It's just part of the "Old Lady Persona" they all are cold all the time.
 
JoeMorgue said:
No the building isn't cold, anymore so than any other public building. It's just part of the "Old Lady Persona" they all are cold all the time.
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I've never worked in an office where space heaters weren't specifically forbidden because they're fire hazards. Damn, next to unattended candles it seems like space heaters are mentioned in a lot of news reports about fires.
 
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I've never worked in an office where space heaters weren't specifically forbidden because they're fire hazards. Damn, next to unattended candles it seems like space heaters are mentioned in a lot of news reports about fires.
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Yeah I don't know how they are so tolerated either, but they are all over the place. Electric blankets too.
 
I just can't function without my oily rags near half-full gasoline containers by my desk.
 
JoeMorgue said:
Yeah I don't know how they are so tolerated either, but they are all over the place. Electric blankets too.
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I worked in an office where every second cubicle seemed to have an electric fan heater till they got banned.

There was one cubicle where they must have thought it was too hot to actually aim it at anyone directly so they just aimed it up at the ceiling.
 
The funny thing is the closest thing I have to a desk/work area is a ramshackle setup in the server room which is legit frigid and the idea of just hauling in a space heater never occurs to me.

I just put on a jacket and go about my day. These broads are acting like they are in a Jack London story.
 
After working in male dominated work spaces I worked in one, in the entertainment industry, where it was fifty fifty.

It was always too hot in winter. And the women still wore all the winter gear indoors.

Maybe they should stop wearing skirts and dresses. Pants are far more practical
 
TragicMonkey said:
I've never worked in an office where space heaters weren't specifically forbidden because they're fire hazards. Damn, next to unattended candles it seems like space heaters are mentioned in a lot of news reports about fires.
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I'll bet they're not permitted lots of places, but no one that is aware of that fact knows of their presence.

Still better than the guy trying to test a rack-mount server in his cube. Which until the OS starts has to run the fans at full power. I swear someone has finally figured out how to stuff two CFM-56 fans into a 1U box. And at boot, it punches the TOGA button.
 
That thing our service provider took almost a year to fix? Just gone down in production, "can we provide some testers in the early hours of Sunday morning?"

Swear words
 
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