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Ankh
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Location: Trelleborg
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 Posted: Fri, 24th Jun 2022 10:44 Post subject: Idiots at work |
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So im the boss of a workshop and recently we re-hired a guy who used to work at our place like 11 years ago. We did this cos we have a huge order which i don't really have time to finish myself.
Anyway, the guy our owner hired is just as anoying as i remember him to be. He is almost impossible to understand due to a piercing in his tounge and i think i've met slugs with more brain than him.
So far i've had to spend shitloads of time explaining things to him, trying to get him to actually take initiatives and do something and show him the most effective way of working (kind of hard to explain, he is doing everything backwards...kind of).
We have 30mins of paid breakfast and 30 mins of lunch - but our owner usually is ok with us taking afternoon break at 14:30 for some coffee. This guy however fail to realize that the afternoon break is supposed to be taken IF there is time enough for it...but he takes it every god damn day and for 20-30 minutes even though he has shitloads to do and a timelimit on when they are to be completed.
Anyway, i usually just ignore the ones who don't actually do their job and concentrate on making sure the workshop is in perfect order instead - but yesterday I had enough. I'm not supposed to babyshit the idiot, im only here to support him when something goes wrong. Other than that, he is the one who has been temporary hired to reduce my workstress. I've got more than one person can handle really, and if you combine this with trying to keep order on a big workshop...well...its really stressy 
Btw, the guy have been with us for a month, but on the first day he told me that it looks like he will be staying and that went to the bank to get a loan for a car (he lives abit from our town...if you are a swede you know the distance beteen Ystad and Trelleborg). Anyway, he bought a car for €20.000....i told him are you out of your mind? You could have had one for €1000 (since he really don't have the money for a new one)...but he said "no, i need this one as its more comfortable"...bloody hell. Who the hell takes a loan right now and without certainty of keeping his job?? lol what an idiot.
/rant over.
shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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Frant
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| Posted: Fri, 24th Jun 2022 11:54 Post subject: |
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Ugh. What a complete nitwit.
I'll write my own "story" here although it's more of a general story of a specific job I had.
At most workplaces I've worked at we had a 10-15 minute coffee break (no more.. never) around 10:30, 30 minute lunch, 10-15 minute coffee break at around 14:30. Obviously coffee breaks were skipped if we had seasonal work loads (I worked at a small fish business where we smoked/raw spiced salmon, smoked mackerel in many different variations and towards xmas we produced massive amounts of smoked eel etc.).
The only job I've had that was more lax than that was as an "IT-technician", the popular term for most computer jobs at the time; my job included many different things including system admin (win2k active directory, novell 4.xx, citrix, terminal server etc., what you'd call a NON-homogenous network structure) I had an office in the town hall building in the particular department I worked for as the sole technician. There were days that were really slow when I spent the time optimizing the servers, updating software, replacing hardware scheduled to be replaced etc., ie. I managed my own time as I saw fit most of the time. Other days I had to drive around all over the county to fix weird or really stupid issues that people working in remote areas had with their equipment, networks and so on.
I still fulfilled all my tasks as soon as they came in, completed my work well and so on and thus I didn't have a boss breathing down my neck. In fact, at that job I had the best boss I've ever had. He was the administrator for the equipment, budget etc. for IT, inter-departmental stuff and some other stuff and basically trusted me to the point where he only checked in on me to see how things were. I was good at my job though.
Before I was hired for the job I had spent 6 months studying system engineering focusing mainly on Windows Server incl. NT 4.0 and Active Directory, SQL servers, TCP/IP (yay, memorizing the OSI model only to realise that I basically never had any use for it), backup solution, RAID-solutions, gateways/routers etc... yeah, all of that stuff.
The last two weeks of the education was a 2-week internship with an employer. I was placed in the town hall on the floor of that particular department and followed the IT-tech that was there at the time. I was a bit surprised over his lack of some basic crucial knowledge (which later explained the high consultation fees the department had paid previous to my appearance). He was a great guy though, he was just hired in that position since they didn't have anyone else at the time. This all took place during a time period (2000+) when computer techs in various disciplines were headhunted due to a severe lack of educated computer techs and specialists.
Anyway, during my last day there the boss called him in. 20 minutes later he came out and looked distressed, telling me the boss wanted to see me. They had fired him from the position and was offering me the job, effective immediately. It did feel horrible since we had a lot of fun and had started to become friends. He did tell me that it wasn't my fault and he didn't blame me in any way. Thankfully he got a new job just weeks later at a school. But in truth, he wasn't even close to qualified for the job. The time he had worked there they had to hire consultants on a very regular basis to deal with the more technical stuff (server configurations and problem solving, communication problem solving etc.) and they only called in the consultant perhaps once a month when the Novell server had crashed and could only be controlled and fixed through a serial port connection. In other words, the department save a lot of money since the IT consultant fees were sky high (in ~2000 I think they charged €100-150/hour for a single consultant).
Almost a year later the council had pushed through a major change where they would form a new department, the IT-department, where some of the current IT-techs/specialists/whatever from each department would move to. They wouldn't need all the current techs since the whole point of consolidating the IT to it's own department in order to streamline things to become more efficient (lol, that's NOT what happened but that's another story). Since it was a public workspace (town hall) they were bound by the employment laws and regulations more-so than private companies and thus I had to go due to the last-in-first-out employment policy. My boss and his "protegé" spent two weeks before I had to be let go working out the budget and presenting it to the bosses above that they wanted to keep me since it would be much cheaper for the town hall and my department instead of paying a rather fat fee to the IT Department to send some random individual to do the work I did. The people upstairs didn't care, they only wanted to push through their plan no matter what.
Silly jobs:
One day a woman working as an administrator at an elderly home called me and said her computer keeps beeping when she try to turn it on. I asked her all the usual questions but nothing seemed to work. Finally I said I'd be there in 15 minutes. I took the car, drove out there and entered her office. The first thing I saw was that she had a huge stack of papers and folders where the corner of the stack sat on the escape key. I moved the stack and problem solved. The woman was pretty apologetic and looked a bit flushed.
Another day another woman called and said the network didn't work in the main work area that had networked PC's. I pinged etc. and nothing got past their local gateway so I drove there. I quickly saw that the fat coax cable that was nailed to the wall all the way had been completely split in two. I stood there and scratched my head and wondered how in the hell that had happened. I was told that a rather large woman with pointy high heel shoes had "stumbled" on the cable with the pointy front of her shoe and broken it in half. I have yet to understand how her shoe could have gotten inbetween the wall and the cable. I also can't imagine what it looked like when she stumbled on that network cable so hard that she managed to rip it apart. It must've been a gloriously funny fall.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
"The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer
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tonizito
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Location: Portugal, the shithole of Europe.
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| Posted: Fri, 24th Jun 2022 15:52 Post subject: |
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| Frant wrote: | Silly jobs:
One day a woman working as an administrator at an elderly home called me and said her computer keeps beeping when she try to turn it on. I asked her all the usual questions but nothing seemed to work. Finally I said I'd be there in 15 minutes. I took the car, drove out there and entered her office. The first thing I saw was that she had a huge stack of papers and folders where the corner of the stack sat on the escape key. I moved the stack and problem solved. The woman was pretty apologetic and looked a bit flushed.
Another day another woman called and said the network didn't work in the main work area that had networked PC's. I pinged etc. and nothing got past their local gateway so I drove there. I quickly saw that the fat coax cable that was nailed to the wall all the way had been completely split in two. I stood there and scratched my head and wondered how in the hell that had happened. I was told that a rather large woman with pointy high heel shoes had "stumbled" on the cable with the pointy front of her shoe and broken it in half. I have yet to understand how her shoe could have gotten inbetween the wall and the cable. I also can't imagine what it looked like when she stumbled on that network cable so hard that she managed to rip it apart. It must've been a gloriously funny fall. |
Classics!
I'll add the "cleaning lady turned off router/switch to plug in the vacuum cleaner" and "AP power injector plugged off in order to plugin some fancy lamp to set a better mood for an important meeting, but then the wifi didn't work...".
And some moron complaining about low wifi signal due not wanting to mount the AP's on the ceiling due to "muh aesthetics", and the filed guy told him to his face to choose between good wifi signal or his precious aesthetics 
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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