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

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Aber said:
Hot Desking veteran?
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Or someone insecure in their employment. I've had jobs where when things got shaky people would start to take personal items home. You see Carol from Accounting loading her car with plants at the end of a day it's a sign.
 
Nah this dude's been here for a while, isn't a roamer or does site rotations. He's at "that desk" as much as anyone is at a desk here.
 
Microsoft Intune Admin Center has a massive UI flaw.

When assigning a primary user to a device, I have to go to the middle of the screen to get the Change Primary User button, then the top of the screen to search for them, then the bottom of the screen to select them, then back to the top of the screen to save the change.

Terrible. Up-down-up. Did nobody do UI testing on this?
 
arthwollipot said:
Microsoft Intune Admin Center has a massive UI flaw.

When assigning a primary user to a device, I have to go to the middle of the screen to get the Change Primary User button, then the top of the screen to search for them, then the bottom of the screen to select them, then back to the top of the screen to save the change.

Terrible. Up-down-up. Did nobody do UI testing on this?
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These days.... ? :D
 
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My company, which I will admit has been great throughout the pandemic, giving us 40 hours of covid sick leave each year since it began, and a 'wellness' week off, and allowed us to work from home, has now swung its pendulum in the other direction.

Someone, somewhere has decided we IT folks get far too many perks.

We are required as of April 11th to return to work. In a new building. Freestyle seating (in case you don't know, thats where you don't have an assigned desk you carry all your stuff with you and choose an open desk when you arrive). Awful enough, but the thing that has most of us screaming from the rooftops is that they have decided one 27" monitor is the company standard and you will just have to deal with that.

ONE. 27. Inch. Monitor. Are you crazy?

There's a slack thread with people screaming from the rooftops how their productivity will suffer greatly. They don't care. Deal with it.

This may seem like first world problems to a lot of you, but I'm quite pissy about it. One 27" monitor. Insanity. Just Insanity.

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zooterkin said:
I've been using UNIX systems since 1983 (including administering some and playing around with kernel and other systems code, though I've probably forgotten most of what I used to know), and Windows since 1988 (some programming, but mostly as a user). I've just got my first Macbook, and I've just worked out it basically runs UNIX (somehow the information that OS X was a switch from their in-house OS to UNIX passed me by), and the prospect of not having to deal with M$ Windows again gives me a great feeling of calm.
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The current OS is the bastard child of the Mach microkernel and one of the many flavours of BSD (4.4) with a bit of Apple's own code rolled in. This was over 20 years ago btw and it has evolved as much as Windows has in that period.

If you only used Unix as a user, a lot will be very familiar, but administration is very different to traditional Unix.
 
Faydra said:
<RANT>

My company, which I will admit has been great throughout the pandemic, giving us 40 hours of covid sick leave each year since it began, and a 'wellness' week off, and allowed us to work from home, has now swung its pendulum in the other direction.

Someone, somewhere has decided we IT folks get far too many perks.

We are required as of April 11th to return to work. In a new building. Freestyle seating (in case you don't know, thats where you don't have an assigned desk you carry all your stuff with you and choose an open desk when you arrive). Awful enough, but the thing that has most of us screaming from the rooftops is that they have decided one 27" monitor is the company standard and you will just have to deal with that.

ONE. 27. Inch. Monitor. Are you crazy?

There's a slack thread with people screaming from the rooftops how their productivity will suffer greatly. They don't care. Deal with it.

This may seem like first world problems to a lot of you, but I'm quite pissy about it. One 27" monitor. Insanity. Just Insanity.

</RANT>
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A great time for them to learn about today's labor market.
 
zooterkin said:
I've been using UNIX systems since 1983 (including administering some and playing around with kernel and other systems code, though I've probably forgotten most of what I used to know), and Windows since 1988 (some programming, but mostly as a user). I've just got my first Macbook, and I've just worked out it basically runs UNIX (somehow the information that OS X was a switch from their in-house OS to UNIX passed me by), and the prospect of not having to deal with M$ Windows again gives me a great feeling of calm.
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I haven't turned on my sole Windows device since I retired, and I share your great feeling of calm.

I think the OSX software is one of the BSDs underneath.

I briefly ran OpenBSD and FreeBSD on a couple of my devices.

I think that the BSDs are more UNIX-like than the various linuxes, but don't really have enough experience to comment further.

(Hmm... Four sentences that begin with 'I' that doesn't look good.)
 
JoeMorgue said:
Dear User.

This is gonna sound weird since I hate people who "nest" at the desks and have stacks and paper and potted plants and goddamn ice makers and coffee pots and picture frames at their desk so trying to reach behind a monitor and unplug a cable or something like that it like tiptoeing through one of those massive domino setups but... why don't you have ANYTHING on your desk?

You've worked here for years. As long as I've been here. And you've got nothing. You've got a computer, two monitors, a phone, a keyboard, and a mouse. You don't even have a mousepad. Your cubicle walls are blank. No pictures, no plants, no sports knicknacks, no religious motivational messages, no certs or diplomas, no work related stickies or postits, no personalization or spice or flavor of any kind.

No judgement per se, but it's just weird.
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Weird yes, but also mandatory 'clean desk' policy at many, many workplaces.

(Including my last employer.)

Work somewhere like that for long enough and that just happens to a person.
 
novaphile said:
Weird yes, but also mandatory 'clean desk' policy at many, many workplaces.

(Including my last employer.)

Work somewhere like that for long enough and that just happens to a person.
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I remember when I was in high school, the teacher was trying to get us to remove our bags and books from our desks. "Clean desk, clean mind!" she said.

"Empty desk?" I asked.
 
Faydra said:
<RANT>

My company, which I will admit has been great throughout the pandemic, giving us 40 hours of covid sick leave each year since it began, and a 'wellness' week off, and allowed us to work from home, has now swung its pendulum in the other direction.

Someone, somewhere has decided we IT folks get far too many perks.

We are required as of April 11th to return to work. In a new building. Freestyle seating (in case you don't know, thats where you don't have an assigned desk you carry all your stuff with you and choose an open desk when you arrive). Awful enough, but the thing that has most of us screaming from the rooftops is that they have decided one 27" monitor is the company standard and you will just have to deal with that.

ONE. 27. Inch. Monitor. Are you crazy?

There's a slack thread with people screaming from the rooftops how their productivity will suffer greatly. They don't care. Deal with it.

This may seem like first world problems to a lot of you, but I'm quite pissy about it. One 27" monitor. Insanity. Just Insanity.

</RANT>
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I have a vision of all 40 people on the floor crowded around that single monitor, each with their own tiny little Window open. It's like something out of Brazil.
 
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