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2021-02-12 06:49:06

#1826

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6771|PNW

re: mac's deleted post

The admin meme triggered my alarm bells, I was practically an intern for like half the staff, including the principal, helping them get ready for the admin stuff. I was sitting in a sweet spot where I figured out the software and they hadn't. At least I got a solid A+ out of it and some leeway on the other dull, business-as-usual busywork.

It's funny sometimes how unwanted data presented well can make a better impression than goal data presented badly. Maybe I should've been a bureaucrat.

2021-02-12 07:24:05

#1827

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +635|3718

My school had some kids as helpers during their cafe or homeroom stuff. I had one girl who in her freshman year would walk to the other side of the building to drop off and pick up paperwork from the copy room for the vice principal secretary who is an old lady. The kid was very happy to feel like they were important and also be able to go into areas that are off limits to students. It was adorable that the kid would show up to homeroom, drop off her back pack and then tell me "I am going to go pick up the paperwork". A kid loving paperwork would make a good bureaucrat someday too.

2021-02-12 07:28:34

#1828

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6771|PNW

For a lot of kids, I imagine it could be their first experience with feeling important or being taken (halfway) seriously. Heck of a drug.

2021-02-12 07:34:33

#1829

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +635|3718

I think experiences like that are super important for kids to have. That is one reason I am so lenient when it comes to a lot of stuff. Being an adult is hard and we should at least give kids a few good years before we send them off to be miserable 9 to 5 workers.

2021-02-12 08:03:32

#1830

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6771|PNW

100% agree.

Can also get them ready for some of the nonsense they'll have to deal with, that even if they do everything right some ass might try and get in the way. Motivation is a nice thing to impart so that they might not settle for a highly replaceable position in a 9-5 drudge. One less student graduating with those already dead-inside eyes has to be gratifying on some level.

Of course opining without any college background on child/teen psych.

2021-02-17 17:14:36

#1831

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,973|6631|949

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
I have an interview scheduled for Monday with the person who would be my boss. Things are moving quick!

I think I did pretty well in the interview, but the guy was hard to read, and naturally as I have more time to reflect on it I can't help but nitpick every little thing and think about what I could have done better. I followed up yesterday (this past Monday was a holiday here) and was told that they are done with interviews but still assessing everything. I guess it's a good thing that the response wasn't a rejection letter.

2021-02-17 17:19:16

#1832

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +635|3718

You probably did fine. Look how far you came in life already.

2021-02-19 06:29:15

#1833

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,736|6736|Oxferd Ohire

I'm still annoyed that when I had a call with our BI guy about us using PowerBI he was basically being a salesman on IBM Cognos.
He used to be a Cognos consultant. Saying stuff like you did great, but we're going all in on IBM. Another plant manager was on PowerBI but I gave him cognos and he loved it much more.
Never did get a response about getting access to it.. we've centralized IT, only remote support for 150ppl/40pcsl/a boatload of printers, and if we do the same to BI I'll let them sit in their own shit like IT. I refuse to help them.

2021-02-19 08:52:29

#1834

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6771|PNW

You have an official bi guy?

2021-02-19 09:27:20

#1835

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +635|3718

RTHKI is famously bi himself

2021-02-19 09:30:21

#1836

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,736|6736|Oxferd Ohire

BI director yes. Why, I'm not really sure.

And only for Adams

Last edited by RTHKI (2021-02-19 09:30:33)

2021-02-19 09:45:13

#1837

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,973|6631|949

Business Intelligence is important, especially for companies that are remotely managed. Roll up reports can be good tools to manage output, productivity, efficiency, spend, etc. The key is getting the right datasets. I prefer to create my own for that reason.

2021-02-19 10:15:53

#1838

Larssen: Member; +99|1886

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
I have an interview scheduled for Monday with the person who would be my boss. Things are moving quick!
I think I did pretty well in the interview, but the guy was hard to read, and naturally as I have more time to reflect on it I can't help but nitpick every little thing and think about what I could have done better. I followed up yesterday (this past Monday was a holiday here) and was told that they are done with interviews but still assessing everything. I guess it's a good thing that the response wasn't a rejection letter.

Interviews suck. You can only guess what to expect going in and it's just a small window of time in which you have to hit just the right notes. Those right notes being 80%+ personality fit....

2021-02-19 10:34:02

#1839

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,736|6736|Oxferd Ohire

Yes BI is important. That's a bit of what the my boss and I do. But their centralization of everything is shit. Biggest plant and customer service doesn't know what's going on here. 50pcs and you need a password to install anything. IT is remote(to us), takes days to respond, and has like 4 people.

Same corp tried to push an erp older than me for the last 25years but every time they came to show it off it failed to work. My training to become the on site expert involved being given two crappy outdated instructions books, a sandbox environment, and two days to wander around corporate.

It annoys me but I get paid and enjoy most of what I'm doing. I'm not the head of any of these projects just the person who does em.

2021-02-19 10:39:19

#1840

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,973|6631|949

Erp older than you....oracle?

2021-02-19 10:51:18

#1841

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,736|6736|Oxferd Ohire

A slightly newer modified ibm as400

Last edited by RTHKI (2021-02-19 11:04:42)

2021-02-19 11:15:32

#1842

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,973|6631|949

We use an erp system across all divisons. It was built in-house. No one has an index for what it can accomplish, so the knowledge and training is passed down from employee to employee like a Greek epic. It also was built for manufacturing so there are features that are incomplete for anything other than manufacturing. I've been trying to get our MIS team to build up capabilities, but no one will sign off on it because they don't know what is needed (because they only have manufacturing experience, as opposed to pre-sale, post-sale, distribution, warranty, post warranty, RMA, etc). I literally let a $40,000 mistake happen to prove my point, because in the long run it will save the company money, but they don't trust me because I'm not Taiwanese so this is the result.

2021-02-19 11:56:39

#1843

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,736|6736|Oxferd Ohire

At least ours isnt in house I guess, largely. as400 -> 3rd party variant of it -> in house mods
afaik it works o k for sales and manufacturing and whatnot except for one unique manufacturing division which is the part they were never able to build over 25 years.
but theyd forget how that division worked instantly cause every time they came down theyd have to start from scratch

2021-02-19 23:21:46

#1844

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,810|6105|eXtreme to the maX

A woman at my company spent about 20 years perfecting the IT systems, they were dreadful and completely unworkable, the new owners blew them all away immediately.

The new owners are well focused on IT systems and management processes, but completely unfocused on customers or sales.
I'm confident we've lost our most profitable business unit which supplies to one customer, plus our next two best customers from other business units in just the last three months.
The first two depended on just one engineer who was treated like shit, the third I doubt anyone has even noticed yet, it'll take a quarter or two of annihilated sales to pick that up.

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2021-02-20 09:03:04

#1845

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6771|PNW

My business is focused on sales and customers to the exclusion of IT systems that make a whole lot of sense to me. The reliable income is great but the management overhead is nothing short of a nightmare. I have some influence but there seems to be a limit on how much new stuff people in their 50s or 60s are willing to learn without utterly rejecting everything.

Doing everything in my power to get one guy to sign off on getting his office Windows 7 office PC replaced. That thing originally had XP on it when THAT was new.

There's ticking from two sources, and he has the side off with a USB fan pointed up at the AGP video card to prevent system shutdown. It takes 50 years for the computer to boot up and remote access has unearthly lag and is driving one of our office workers utterly insane.

2021-02-20 22:29:21

#1846

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,810|6105|eXtreme to the maX

It gets more and more tiring learning new stuff, last office update did nothing except move all the functions to new menus and complicate the menu structure, and every time you think "why in the fuck would they do that?" and leave the most useful functions hidden away.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2021-02-20 22:31:25)

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2021-02-21 00:55:27

#1847

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6771|PNW

Personally if I was overseeing UI rearrangements, it would just be provided as a template to switch to and not changed by default. Annoys me when my phone changes layouts in updates too, or gets impatient and self-updates regardless of whether or not it's connected to wi-fi. Like, stop.

2021-02-21 01:04:36

#1848

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +635|3718

unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Personally if I was overseeing UI rearrangements, it would just be provided as a template to switch to and not changed by default. Annoys me when my phone changes layouts in updates too, or gets impatient and self-updates regardless of whether or not it's connected to wi-fi. Like, stop.

I noticed a Chrome update on my phone a few days ago changed how tabs worked. Interesting thing is that I didn't notice a Chrome update had taken place until I saw the tabs. Android Chrome does shadow updates it seems and thinking it over so must Desktop Chrome since it has never asked me to install an update. And Google must be security patching it.

2021-02-21 01:27:23

#1849

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6771|PNW

fwp, the thing I hate the most about smart phone life is microing it in and out of wifi. I'm sure there's a (simple) way to tell it to only automatically connect to a specific network when in range, but meh.

If I don't then I'll pick it up one day and see that it's shot like 2GB over my plan, probably mostly updating apps I don't use. I barely even watch youtube on the thing.

2021-02-21 01:45:05

#1850

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,810|6105|eXtreme to the maX

unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Personally if I was overseeing UI rearrangements, it would just be provided as a template to switch to and not changed by default. Annoys me when my phone changes layouts in updates too, or gets impatient and self-updates regardless of whether or not it's connected to wi-fi. Like, stop.

Solidworks did a major update a while back which completely changed the colour palette. It was actually an improvement but took a lot of adapting to as it just takes the brain time to absorb the change, and there was uproar as it was unexpected and unannounced.
Eventually they patched it so you had the option of choosing the old or new.

https://www.javelin-tech.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/previous-release-icons.png

https://www.javelin-tech.com/blog/2015/ … con-style/
https://www.javelin-tech.com/blog/2016/ … r-release/

Now the old style looks like shit but its a case study in not making a major change and annoying the user base.
At least it wasn't ProE which seemed designed to give users strokes.

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