The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread

Tazz

@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

PM your credit card details and I’ll fix all your problems.

This should be a group effort to help a brutha out.

Kilemall

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I could tell a story about how the KYC program works at Citi that would amuse at least two people in here. ;-)

Don’t tease, please.

Jam

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I could tell a story about how the KYC program works at Citi that would amuse at least two people in here. ;-)

Don’t tease, please.

Just one more expression of sincere interest and I’ll tell the story!

Gators1

I have contacts at your credit card company and/or bank. Give me the details as well.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/companies-hard-line-stance-on-returning-to-the-office-is-backfiring/ar-BB1hH0pZ

It’s a stark shift from the company’s pre-pandemic approach, which allowed a sizable portion of SAP’s workforce to be remote.

So, before anyone had even imagined the pandemic, many SAP employees could work fully remote but, now, because it’s fashionable for CEOs to hate on WFH they’ve got to go into the office 3 days a week. Fuck these uninspired clowns running big companies.

Kilemall

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/companies-hard-line-stance-on-returning-to-the-office-is-backfiring/ar-BB1hH0pZ

It’s a stark shift from the company’s pre-pandemic approach, which allowed a sizable portion of SAP’s workforce to be remote.

So, before anyone had even imagined the pandemic, many SAP employees could work fully remote but, now, because it’s fashionable for CEOs to hate on WFH they’ve got to go into the office 3 days a week. Fuck these uninspired clowns running big companies.

We were already WFH most days due to a DR initiative to give everyone laptops and remove the office as a failure point of losing admin control of apps and systems. I wish we would still meet once a week as working face to face in a concentrated time is like getting two days in one, but no one else is biting.

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

as working face to face in a concentrated time is like getting two days in one

You’ve said something similar before. I don’t agree but not in the way that means I think you’re wrong. Maybe my experience has been different. Or I’ve been WFH for so long I can’t even remember what it’s like to be able to do that face to face stuff. I find Teams, screen and document sharing etc to be a pretty effective way to collaborate.

Kilemall

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

as working face to face in a concentrated time is like getting two days in one

You’ve said something similar before. I don’t agree but not in the way that means I think you’re wrong. Maybe my experience has been different. Or I’ve been WFH for so long I can’t even remember what it’s like to be able to do that face to face stuff. I find Teams, screen and document sharing etc to be a pretty effective way to collaborate.

We’re functional that way just fine, but I found that having people right there triggered more hey what about this problem thoughts, immediate conversations and faster communication. Also true for collaborative troubleshooting.

I got to thinking about the last time I was in an office (apart from a week or two). It was 2014 and I did 3 months onsite at a client. One guy who had taken over supporting an estimating app I’d written many years earlier, leaned over and asked me a question that gave me a fright because the road he was going down would have fucked with the historical integrity of the thing (earlier estimates worth many millions of dollars would no longer have added up). Due to his reserved personality, I wonder if he would have asked the question if I hadn’t been there.

Dunno. My biggest problem these days is it’s too easy for people to interrupt me with questions that, if they’d spent an extra five minutes thinking about, they could have easily worked out themselves. To combat that, depending on who they are, I now make a point of delaying my response to “quick call?” requests for a short while. Now about half the time when I get back to them they tell me they’ve resolved it.

Lob12

I go to the office twice a week to work with people who work from home.

Gators1

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

as working face to face in a concentrated time is like getting two days in one

You’ve said something similar before. I don’t agree but not in the way that means I think you’re wrong. Maybe my experience has been different. Or I’ve been WFH for so long I can’t even remember what it’s like to be able to do that face to face stuff. I find Teams, screen and document sharing etc to be a pretty effective way to collaborate.

We’re functional that way just fine, but I found that having people right there triggered more hey what about this problem thoughts, immediate conversations and faster communication. Also true for collaborative troubleshooting.

Yeah, I kind of miss the side conversations when at home. We are supposed to be in 3 days a week but I have not been consistently doing that, maybe hoping they will just fire my ass because I can’t seem to leave. Most of the people I work with on the IT side are in Arizona though so I do teams calls from the office mostly. I have some conversations with the people on the business side, but it’s not really enough that I would say I need to be in the office to collaborate. Quarterly in person meetings would be good I guess, but I also loath flying across the country to talk about bullshit with my incompetent coworkers.

tigger

I think WFH is fine if you are actually available and responding to requests. If you aren’t, it becomes rather annoying and I would prefer being able to walk up to someone’s desk saying hey, how is this and that.

Kilemall

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I think WFH is fine if you are actually available and responding to requests. If you aren’t, it becomes rather annoying and I would prefer being able to walk up to someone’s desk saying hey, how is this and that.

This is not that.

Gators1

Well make this something then because I have fucking been waiting for you to do this for TWO MONTHS!!!

Lob12

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I think WFH is fine if you are actually available and responding to requests. If you aren’t, it becomes rather annoying and I would prefer being able to walk up to someone’s desk saying hey, how is this and that.

This is harassment! Stay away from my desk, math monster!

Gators1

Right as I am busting my ass to go to the cloud, there is this…

The Big Cloud Exit FAQ

Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overpriced enterprise service contracts. The mission was set! A month later, we placed an...

tigger

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Right as I am busting my ass to go to the cloud, there is this…

The Big Cloud Exit FAQ

Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overpriced enterprise service contracts. The mission was set! A month later, we placed an...

Don’t know what the company does but an interesting read.

Kilemall

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Right as I am busting my ass to go to the cloud, there is this…

The Big Cloud Exit FAQ

Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overpriced enterprise service contracts. The mission was set! A month later, we placed an...

Don’t know what the company does but an interesting read.

The software I used to support on the mainframe had a hosted option since the early 90s. We never went there, cause part of the deal was that you had to run their canned stuff. You could do online workflow/screen customization without hardcore devs, but any customized adhoc reports cost you setup fees and runtime cost center costs.

We got the locally managed version and did all sorts of things, some of which boggled the software company. We were known for innovative mangling of their stuff, including blowing through reporting limits.

My installation library naming scheme was explained to them cause it allowed us to safely deploy many update levels at once. It became the standard for deployment, and exists today in their windows version geared for smaller hospitals.

So ya pretty much already learned to blow off hosting when you have the need for control and it didn’t cost near as much as buying consulting services.

It did cost either way, but we had virtually the fastest accounts receivable in healthcare.

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