Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[1977Brewer]

People still use tapes for backups?

Yup. We kept ours in a ridiculously large safe until we decided that a floor safe did the same job and would actually lock and therefore be fireproof.

 

[Zuljin]

People still use tapes for backups?

We did until I think 2009. We didn't even have a dedicated process control systems guy. It was all some dude who was kind of good with computers, and sometimes the office network IT guy. The system itself was built entirely on contract. Fuqqing crazy.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Yep. Offsite copy with and offsite tape backup every week. Always have disaster recovery planned on top of your disaster recovery. Ya never know.

 

[GrogNerd]

we recommended our customers switch to DVDs for backup. some of their databases were large enough to require multiple tapes, which were getting expensive, required manual intervention to swap & no one was willing to stay past closing time to do that.

when Katrina hit, our customer in Gulfport, MS had a 5-foot wall of water come through and wiped out everything. luckily, the customer would always take the previous night's DVD backup home with her. once they had new computers, we had them restored and back in business in an hour

 

[Rhumbline]

I know this doesn't need to be mentioned to the professional IT types, but as a word of caution, do a test on your backup data.

At two places I've worked, we went to restore data only to find that in one case, the automatic backup was hanging up and timed out, never saving any data. The other case, the initialization tape was corrupted and we couldn't run the restore.

These were medium sized employers with several hundred employees and an in house IT dept.

 

[hunter_le five]

Redundant hard drives on server, which feed to a separately-located array of backup HDDs, which are backed up on the cloud. Because paranoid.

Tapes?

 

[Psylocide]

****, hold on guys. I'll have it up in a minute.

 

[Rhumbline]

****, hold on guys. I'll have it up in a minute.

That would have been funny if I hadn't lived through it... twice.

 

[beernbourbon]

Redundant hard drives on server, which feed to a separately-located array of backup HDDs, which are backed up on the cloud. Because paranoid.

Tapes?

I'm not IT, but learned my lesson the hard way. Lost an entire project because someone boofed up one of the servers, and we were a small company with no IT. Months of work that had to be recreated by hand. After I got down puking everything I had eaten for the previous month, I took it upon myself to take care of my stuff from that day forward:
Company backup-Last company and this one have a backup system in place. (this one, sort of, kinda sketchy, no offsite) so most people have a sense of security about it. I trust it only so far (not my general thoughts on IT, most of you guys in IT, I give ya a ton of credit, and a lot of kudos for putting up with the sh!t you do from us users, current guy.....sigh)
My backup-Every day, project data worked on goes to a thumb drive that goes home with me, into safe. (5 different drives)
Every Friday, different/rotating thumb drives, daily data gets copied over
Once a Month, same thing.

Yes, tedious, time consuming. Go ahead, lose hundreds of thousands of dollars of data.... see how your mind changes as to what is important.

It's only paranoia when you don't have a reason.

 

[GrogNerd]

we gave each of our customers their own email address on our domain, used exclusively within our application for a one-click support request function. I've been using that email adx to sign them up for Dropbox (I get extra space for myself for each "referral" )

our backup program is just a batch file which runs the SQL back up command line, then copies the backup files to Dropbox. I'll also write a xcopy batch file with a shortcut on the desktop for a quick backup to a thumb drive if they want

their on-site IT guys can worry about backing up the rest of their system, I got our sh*t covered

 

[DrunkleJon]

I am going to kill a couple of my coworkers. Twice already today they have sent the Brawny lady prank recording to the help desk line. It is funny the first timebut really gets annoying when they send the same call twice in one day.

From a quick google search I think it was this one http://www.prankdial.com/pranks/crazy-ol-lady

Come on guys. A little originality please. I have heard this same call at least 3 times now.

 

[sablesurfer]

People still use tapes for backups?

Tape back up is the most secure against corruption and the most secure against ANY kind of power loss. Yes, lots of people still use tape back up.

 

[sablesurfer]

Anyone got nicknames for those that annoy them the most? Some examples, not that I would ever do this, but some good ones would be...

Absent - maybe for someone that never answers email nor attends meetings on their system
Worthless - maybe for someone that can never answer a technical question on the technical system they are in charge of
Unoccupied - maybe for the someone that can't recall the details you just discussed 30 minutes ago, and forget a week later

 

[Grannyknot]

Why do you not have a nightly server backup?

We do have a nightly server backup.
The problem is not being able to recover the changes she made to the file between the back up and the screw up.

My point is....I am a project manager. We have an IT dept for a reason. Everyone knows the IT department handles file recovery. As for the lost data....it seems obvious, at least to me, that I can't really do anything about that.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Anyone got nicknames for those that annoy them the most? Some examples, not that I would ever do this, but some good ones would be...

Absent - maybe for someone that never answers email nor attends meetings on their system
Worthless - maybe for someone that can never answer a technical question on the technical system they are in charge of
Unoccupied - maybe for the someone that can't recall the details you just discussed 30 minutes ago, and forget a week later

Yeah.

Stephanie
Helen
Angus (Agnes, I just mispronounced it one day and it stuck)
And the rest are "You answer it!"

 

[slym2none]

Anyone got nicknames for those that annoy them the most? Some examples, not that I would ever do this, but some good ones would be...

Absent - maybe for someone that never answers email nor attends meetings on their system
Worthless - maybe for someone that can never answer a technical question on the technical system they are in charge of
Unoccupied - maybe for the someone that can't recall the details you just discussed 30 minutes ago, and forget a week later

I wonder if the site will let me post the names I have for annoying co-workers...

 

[SharonaZamboni]

Many coworkers had nicknames. Break a Foot Brenda, later amended to Break a Foot, Steal a Bird (suspected of taking a frozen turkey). Krispy (kinda baked), Notso (name was Bright), Gyrene...

 

[1977Brewer]

My maintenance guy has nicknames for everyone. All cartoon characters. Most of them are oddly spot on.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

There are people here who will take the last donut, danish, pastry, etc...
But they won't throw the box/container away. They just leave the empty box/tray/container on the counter, with crumbs everywhere of course, and usually sticky spots on the counter too. Sigh.
Regards, GF.

 

[TheCADJockey]

There are people here who will take the last donut, danish, pastry, etc...
But they won't throw the box/container away. They just leave the empty box/tray/container on the counter, with crumbs everywhere of course, and usually sticky spots on the counter too. Sigh.
Regards, GF.

I'm the one that cleans that **** up. Worked in so many restaurants in college that it has become second nature. Get some funny looks from the kids in assembly when they see someone from engineering cleaning up their filth.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

I'm the one that cleans that **** up. Worked in so many restaurants in college that it has become second nature. Get some funny looks from the kids in assembly when they see someone from engineering cleaning up their filth.

I know the feeling, I'm the one who cleaned it up this morning. I also bought dish soap so nobody has any excuse to leave dirty dishes in the sink. People can be as big of a pig as they like at home, but at work we all need to try to keep things reasonably clean & tidy.
Regards, GF.

 

[TheCADJockey]

I know the feeling, I'm the one who cleaned it up this morning. I also bought dish soap so nobody has any excuse to leave dirty dishes in the sink. People can be as big of a pig as they like at home, but at work we all need to try to keep things reasonably clean & tidy.
Regards, GF.

Oh, I don't deal with the dishes. If I see someone leave a disgusting bowl in the sink, I either take it to their station and give it to them saying they forgot it in the kitchen... or just throw it in the trash.

 

[dkwolf]

There are people here who will take the last donut, danish, pastry, etc...
But they won't throw the box/container away. They just leave the empty box/tray/container on the counter, with crumbs everywhere of course, and usually sticky spots on the counter too. Sigh.
Regards, GF.

Not here. Nobody will ever take the last of something - they'll cut it in half. And the next guy cuts that in half...

 

[Homercidal]

Annoyed with our spam filter right now. We have to do business with a company in China. Apparently their email server is in an IP address range of some spammers (surprise!) so their IP is blacklisted. Our spam filter will not flow mail from their server until they are delisted.

So I'm apparently supposed to step these people through the process of delisting their IP (Which may not be possible if there are spammers or viruses on machines in the IP range) before we can get emails to flow properly between them. After all this time we've had to use gmail as an end-around, I am not confident they can figure out how to delist themselves.

So here I am in touch with our spam filter provider, AND the service they use who refuse to make that exception. And now I'm up to trying to delist this company myself because they are Chinese and conversing about the stuff we know about (moldmaking) is difficult enough. I can't imagine what it would be like to try and talk a mold shop guy through delisting their own email server so we can communicate without having to set up a bunch of gmail accounts and have everyone work through that.

I should take a half day now and go home and brew some beer...

 

[SnakeRidge]

There are people here who will take the last donut, danish, pastry, etc...
But they won't throw the box/container away. They just leave the empty box/tray/container on the counter, with crumbs everywhere of course, and usually sticky spots on the counter too. Sigh.
Regards, GF.

What about the folks who cut a donut in half and then leave the rest? Days later there is the box with 5 stale half donuts sitting on the table. Trust me honey, it's not the half donut that makes you so Rubinesque.

 

[Quadrupled]

Not annoying but funny - a guy whose cube is by mine lets one rip without care about once every hour or two. The part that makes me chuckle is that it sounds identical to Fat Bastard letting one go.

And the sound effect...

 

[Hoppity]

Annoyed with our spam filter right now. We have to do business with a company in China. Apparently their email server is in an IP address range of some spammers (surprise!) so their IP is blacklisted. Our spam filter will not flow mail from their server until they are delisted.

So I'm apparently supposed to step these people through the process of delisting their IP (Which may not be possible if there are spammers or viruses on machines in the IP range) before we can get emails to flow properly between them. After all this time we've had to use gmail as an end-around, I am not confident they can figure out how to delist themselves.

So here I am in touch with our spam filter provider, AND the service they use who refuse to make that exception. And now I'm up to trying to delist this company myself because they are Chinese and conversing about the stuff we know about (moldmaking) is difficult enough. I can't imagine what it would be like to try and talk a mold shop guy through delisting their own email server so we can communicate without having to set up a bunch of gmail accounts and have everyone work through that.

I should take a half day now and go home and brew some beer...

I think Hillary has some experience in this area and may be 'in-between projects' soon.

 

[Homercidal]

I got them delisted yesterday. It wasn't really hard once you decipher who to contact to get to the removal page and fill out the form.

 

[Psylocide]

I've decided to be the annoying co-worker as of yesterday, the target, our CAD engineer.

Just a quick background, dude is a major league doofus and thinks Farm Simulator is the best game ever and also comes into my office to talk to the side of my head about stupid **** I don't care about all the time.


Yesterday, I hatched a plan. Whenever he's out of his office, I'm going to start leaving one (clean) balled up tissue on his extra work-desk per day until they pile up.

Well, when I walked by this morning, it was gone. And then it hit me... this was even better.

I'll continue to drop one balled up tissue on his desk per day and he will pick them up. If he even asks, I'll just poker face him and act like "dunno what you're talking about."

Then one day, after it becomes a normal occurrence, I'll just stop.

A couple weeks later, I'll start it up again.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

they still keep showing up. and now there's more of them.