[-] GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 months ago

I worked for an MSP that merged with a copier company. Copiers got more and more capable, and so of course people wanted to use their "advanced" features, hence the merger with an IT company.

When they sold a copier, they would sell limited IT engagements. Things like handing information and help to customer IT, or if they lacked IT, limited help like placing it on the network, installing the drivers to use it as a printer, setting up scanning to network. This was done remotely by a level one technician, Joe this time.

Well, install day came, and after Joe helped out the customer claimed that some computers could print, some couldn't. And some computers couldn't access anything else on the network. They hired a local IT guy that threw Joe under the bus, and the customer yelled at my boss. As one of the level 2 techs, I was told to "fix what Joe fucked up" right in front of Joe. Shit boss, different story.

I travel out there, look at their problem, but was told I couldn't touch anything until their IT guy showed up. So I used the time to ask questions, and tour around since I had a hunch.

Local IT guy strides in 15 minutes late, smug as hell. I talk and lead him to the basement, following the signal strength of a weirdly named wifi signal, and get a solid full strength connection in front of a locked closet. I ask them to unlock it, and ask about the router I see on the shelf, and point out that I believe it's their issue.

Local IT guy installed a router as an access point, and did it so wrong that it was acting as a 2nd DHCP server on their network, handing out different addresses. In layman's, their computers had 2 bosses with differing orders. Therefore local IT guy broke it, and blamed Joe cause he didn't understand what he did.

I praised Joe from that day for being the first technician I knew capable of physically installing gear remotely. He was an excellent tech, and a good colleague.

[-] GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago

It may not be a recession, but our economy is in shambles. It turns out, all that money that was supposed to trickle down for over 40 years didn't. Apparently if you let the rich keep their money, they do. Who woulda fuckin thought.

What are we gonna do about it? Bitch on the internet, cause if we even got a general strike going, we would just be slaughtered selectively and demonized universally until the protest dies down. All because we would dare to ask for our fair share.

[-] GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 months ago

...he expects authorities to use “good common sense.”

He knows they're gonna murder someone, right?

[-] GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 months ago

I mean, recently someone found the mother of all software vulnerability attacks because their login took half a second longer than it should. Steel being 2.5x heavier than usual sounds like an easy spot compared to that.

[-] GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Lmao, I had a chat with a couple of these folks. Keep taunting them and burying them when they step out of their echo chambers. The whole "both sides" and "I'm gonna piss away my vote on a 3rd party in 2 party system" schtick couldn't be any more hollow than it is this year.

Biden sucks. Trump is a blight on this earth. Like it or not, you get those two choices, and the literal fuckin Nazis and the scum that break bread with them are really motivated to get their dictator "for a day" back in.

[-] GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 months ago

Swing and a miss. NPR(and by proxy, BBC) and Al Jazeera mostly, with some social media articles where I am extremely critical of the source.

Trump was also doing the things we were scared trump would, the whole fucking time. Has been caught red handed, lied flagrantly, and suffered zero consequences because his cronies wouldn't punish him. Either time has allowed you to forget exactly who the definitive worst option is, or you're a lost cause Trump worshipper actively trying to push us closer to literal fascism.

I'll give you that I wish there were a better democrat candidate than Biden, and I doubt I will be alone wishing that as I vote for him. Because Jesus Christ, the alternative was and is obviously so much worse.

[-] GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 9 months ago

Maybe they're just mispronouncing the word "terrorist", they aren't the most educated folk ya know. They did give those terrorists too light a sentence anyway.

[-] GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 10 months ago

I would be surprised if this could lose, even in Texas. The court will have to confront the double standard of Texas laws applying to other states, but other states laws not applying in Texas. Setting the precedent that states must comply with medical laws from other states would be a major win for Texans, which is why they can't let it happen.

[-] GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 10 months ago

I applaud them for doing that before the front fell off this time. Hope they don't encounter any waves out there.

[-] GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago

If by economy you mean business owners, business real estate, and the stock market, yes. The RTO mandates certainly aren't about protecting the workers or productivity though.

Remember, the workers, buying power, and productivity are part of "the economy" too, it's not just what the stock market is doing. RTO mandates are harming that for jobs that can be done remotely.

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