Current frustration...

[icecream-guy]

Mideast time zones... their early is too late and their late can often be too early...

haha people at work call me during their working hours 9-5  Im 6-2, so I call them back at 6AM when I can.
some are not understanding but most oblige since we are 6AM - 6PM primary support

AND don't get me started on Cisco TAC. and their weird hours around the world, and trying to get someone to work with at a reasonable hour. without having to requeue.

[deanwebb]

Back to back to back to back meetings where I have to carve out bio-breaks.

[Otanx]

Back to back to back to back meetings where I have to carve out bio-breaks.

Isn't that what the mute button is for?

Current frustration:
The phrase "Faliure is not an option". What? Is the world going to end if my project schedule slips two weeks? I feel like we might be on the nightly news if that was the case. I am pretty sure failure is an option. You just don't want to deal with it. I guess we will just CYA, and deal with it when it happens.

-Otanx

[deanwebb]

Failure isn't an option, true. It's an end-state condition resulting from poor selection of options in the planning, allocation, scheduling, and execution phases of the project.

Two teams go into a game, both having decided that failure is not an option. For at least one of those teams, the end-state is going to be at variance with their preferences.

[Otanx]

Failure isn't an option, true. It's an end-state condition resulting from poor selection of options in the planning, allocation, scheduling, and execution phases of the project.

I may have a new signature line for my work emai. 

-Otanx

[deanwebb]

Failure isn't an option, true. It's an end-state condition resulting from poor selection of options in the planning, allocation, scheduling, and execution phases of the project.

I may have a new signature line for my work emai. 

-Otanx

Enjoy!

[config t]

Classic.

[Otanx]

We started "COVID Schedules" back in March. Basically we work half our hours at home, and half in the office. While I have always suspected that most people are slacking off when working from home I just got told by several people that they just check email every couple hours, and that is it. They said this in front of their boss who seems OK with that. The reason it came up is I wanted them to actually do work on their "home" days. They wanted to assign it to the "office" team for that day.

-Otanx

[deanwebb]

We started "COVID Schedules" back in March. Basically we work half our hours at home, and half in the office. While I have always suspected that most people are slacking off when working from home I just got told by several people that they just check email every couple hours, and that is it. They said this in front of their boss who seems OK with that. The reason it came up is I wanted them to actually do work on their "home" days. They wanted to assign it to the "office" team for that day.

-Otanx

Wow. Meanwhile, the people that are 100% at home pretty much get stuff done in order to alleviate the boredom of being 100% at home.

[config t]

We are due for semi-annual performance evals and I'm told they will all be "non-observed" since the entire team has been working from home. I'm assuming they mean CONUS, Europe and Japan, because here in Bahrain-land we never left the office. If anything I have been busier this year than I was last year.

We started "COVID Schedules" back in March. Basically we work half our hours at home, and half in the office. While I have always suspected that most people are slacking off when working from home I just got told by several people that they just check email every couple hours, and that is it. They said this in front of their boss who seems OK with that. The reason it came up is I wanted them to actually do work on their "home" days. They wanted to assign it to the "office" team for that day.

-Otanx

So much for work ethic. This would super p*** me off.

[icecream-guy]

We are due for semi-annual performance evals and I'm told they will all be "non-observed" since the entire team has been working from home. I'm assuming they mean CONUS, Europe and Japan, because here in Bahrain-land we never left the office. If anything I have been busier this year than I was last year.

We started "COVID Schedules" back in March. Basically we work half our hours at home, and half in the office. While I have always suspected that most people are slacking off when working from home I just got told by several people that they just check email every couple hours, and that is it. They said this in front of their boss who seems OK with that. The reason it came up is I wanted them to actually do work on their "home" days. They wanted to assign it to the "office" team for that day.

-Otanx

So much for work ethic. This would super p*** me off.

We've been troubleshooting AnyConnect "Internal System Error" pop-ups, users are complaining. so after much troubleshooting, DART bundles, and ISE logs, Cisco thinks thye have the cause.... when computers come out of hibernation, from a particular state. the user gets the message...

now... I wonder why these users are letting their laptops go into hibernation mode if they are working all day long.  seems to me that it shouldn't be happening.


personally, I have to account for every activity and time spent on each activity, for every day, and report daily.

[deanwebb]

^ 99% of all client problems are Windows problems, and 99% of all Windows problems are Windows user problems.

Maybe by percentages are off a bit, but not by much.

[Otanx]

I kind of feel a lot of Windows issues are poor admins, not really user issues. Microsoft has made it so easy to admin their systems (which is a good thing) that the admins don't have to learn the underlying technology. So when something goes wrong if a reboot doesn't fix it then many are at a loss. There are what I consider good admins that learn how everything works under the hood, but many don't bother.

-Otanx

[icecream-guy]

^ 99% of all client problems are Windows problems, and 99% of all Windows problems are Windows user problems.

Maybe by percentages are off a bit, but not by much.

reminds me of an old IT term PEBKAC.

[config t]

reminds me of an old IT term PEBKAC.

That one stood the test of time.