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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> The answer will be that then they can remotely fix things when I'm not
> around, or if I don't know the fix.
If you're around, they can ask you for the password, and then you'll
change it when they're done. If you're not around, the boss can get the
password out of the sealed envelope in the safe as well as make sure
they've filed the appropriate paperwork.
If nothing else, *you* should have an account and *they* should have an
account, and the auditing should show who is logged in when and doing
what. They should not have any excuse to turn off auditing of privileged
operations.
> If there's one thing I've figured out, it's this: The Director of IT may
> or may not be any good at IT, but he is *guaranteed* to be better at
> politics than you. He had to get there somehow...
Of course.
> In fairness, they're not geniunely *trying* to make my job harder.
> They're just not terribly organised, and they don't really think through
> the consequences of their actions. And they're hopeless at communicating...
Changing the passwords regularly ensures that they communicate, is all.
Hopefully you've written up formally your AAARRRRGGHH experience and
passed it to your boss and your legal department.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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John VanSickle wrote:
> You work for idiots. Naturally you have stress.
To put it succinctly... yes.
Assuming I survive this migration, my next priority is to gently
*remind* the various agencies that I'm still looking for work...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Assuming I survive this migration,
Hopefully it's a transition and not a migration.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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You think that's bad?
http://qdb.us/81636
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> You think that's bad?
>
> http://qdb.us/81636
Oh God, that has surely GOT to be fake! >_<
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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And lo on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:29:25 +0100, andrel
<a_l### [at] hotmail com> did spake, saying:
<snip>
> If they had given him the power that goes with this responsibility, he
> should have given these guys the documents that explain the legal
> requirements and told them to go home and come back the next day after
> reading it. As it is his power to do appears to be just below that of
> the cleaning lady.
Yeah the conversation should have run:
"Have you read all the documentation regarding our legal requirements to
document all changes?"
"What legal requirements?"
"Please go and see our QA manager and she'll walk you through it all"
End of responsibilty. If they go through the legal stuff and don't do it,
then it's their fault. If they don't go through the legal stuff after
you've told them about it and subsequently balls it up, then it's their
fault.
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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>> Don't worry, I know exactly how you feel, I am at the end of a 3-day
>> "supplier evaluation workshop" from our largest customer - and I have a
>> ton of action items that need to be completed by lunchtime Monday...
>
> Well, I suppose to some extent my plight isn't quite as bad as the project
> manager for the new building. We were supposed to take ownership on 17
> March. However, somebody wheeled some heavy item into the recention area
> and cracked several floor tiles. This caused them to have to retile the
> reception area.
How about this one:
Me: "Hey, electrical engineer dude, what is the maximum current our product
will draw from the power supply?"
<some hours of calculation later>
"2.8 amps"
"OK, well our target is 1.2A, are you sure you can't improve that?"
<some more hours later>
"OK we reduced the maximum to 1.8A"
(WTF!)
"OK I will inform the customer and see what they say"
<some days later>
Customer: "1.2A is the absolute maximum available, if you want more than
that your product won't work. end of story."
"Hey engineer dude, we really need to meet this 1.2A target"
<some 20 minutes later>
"OK I think we can meet it, tell them it's ok"
Now, I *really* cannot wait until we make the first samples of this product
and see how much power it actually uses :-)
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:11:32 +0200, "scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
>How about this one:
>
>Me: "Hey, electrical engineer dude, what is the maximum current our product
>will draw from the power supply?"
><some hours of calculation later>
>"2.8 amps"
>"OK, well our target is 1.2A, are you sure you can't improve that?"
><some more hours later>
[Snipe]
LOL
It depends how you define Amps and "1.2"
--
Regards
Stephen
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> LOL
> It depends how you define Amps and "1.2"
I'd imagine it's going to be defined exactly how the person who designed the
power supply defined it :-)
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>
> > Why does that all of the sudden make me feel as if I'm one of the
> > mole-people.
> >
> > "Thriving community down here, in the deep recesses of the underground."
> >
> > :)
>
> I always liked to thing of POV-Ray, and especially off-topic, as an
> elite underground sect of engineers, mathematicians, physicists and
> programmers...
>
> --
> http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
> http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
"...an elite underground sect of engineers, mathematicians, physicists and
programmers..." Yes, I like that...
But some of us out here are so asocial that we're even more invisible than
Invisible (me for instance)... Yeah, I admit it, I'm a lurker. I've spent SO
much time reading the posts on these forums, for years now, but I hardly ever
post anything myself. Of course my World of Warcraft addiction has occupied
most of my free time for a couple of years. I'm trying to come out of my shell a
bit though, so we'll see...
Anyway, the fact that Gilles has been able to create his web comic around your
(mostly) silly posts is quite hilarious to me... Awesome work!
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