IT BS thread

I'd try percussive maintenance. Looks like a damaged display board from what I've seen with my touchscreens at work.

 

I sure would like to know which board so I can replace it. I don't really want to spend another grand on a tv. Guess I'll have to take it apart and investigate.

 

Goddamnit Microsoft. We had a deal.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/1...e-pushing-windows-10-to-machines-with-win7-81

 

BS move.

 

So my new rig has a Skylake 6700k. I was getting random system crashes every 2-3 hours when gaming; mostly on during stressing games like Fallout 4; it wouldn't crash if just web browsing or watching movies. I thought it was a bad graphics card but on a hunch I upped the cpu voltage to 1.25v (1.2 is stock); two days and no more crashes. Interesting.

 

Keep an eye on your temps. I've heard whispers of heating issues on even stock chips, forget even mild OCing

 

Temps are good, max out about 50-53°C under load with a Zalman 9500 cooler.

 

OK, good deal.

Watch your RAM heat, southbridge/northbridge, GPU, etc as well

 

Merry Christmas! oh and here's your year end performance review. I freaking hate performance reviews, writing them or getting them. The IT thread in all this is I'm writing reviews for IT people. Anybody here gotten a review that motivated them? Or are they just a downer that HR forces on us so they have documentation on the poor performers? I'm open to suggestions cause I suck at it.

 

Reviews are all about either trying to have a paper trail to fire someone, or in the literally 1-5% of people that suck up to all the managers get exceeds expectations. For people who didn't suck up to all the managers or management isn't trying to fire they are pretty much useless.

 

THIS

The company I'm at now we don't even bother doing them.

Of course, we're a small company & don't even bother having an HR department or tracking days off.

 

Had mine today. Retired from the Navy almost 20 years ago, performance evals were always a PITA, hated doing them with a passion. But always did the best I could with them. Don't envy you. Mine today was good and yeah it motivates me some. I think most people like to hear they have done a good job, as long as they actually have.

Enterprise environment now and I'm a tech spec, gone about as far as I can up the ladder which is fine by me. Don't have to worry about the management part so much, I have the best of both worlds. Still have to sit in meetings a lot yet get things done. I don't miss the small company work or small pay with little benefits they give either but helped get me to where I am today. Started out working for a VAR and was inside a lot of different vertical markets. I think the vertical market you're in plays a large role in personal satisfaction also. But inspiring your people is important no matter what the job it is or where.

 

We don't even have exceeds expectations as an option. Either Achieves Expectations or needs further development. There is no try, there is only do or do not

 

You are 100% correct about reviews being a way to document the poor performers out the door. Every HR department I've worked with "trains" us every year and they make a big point about not "over rating" someone. They say "because you never know when someone's performance is going to fall off." So the net result is the good performers get reviews that aren't entirely fair. (and for some funny reason it impacts their morale)

I like this. How many "needs further development" before someone is shown the door?

 

After the 6 month probation period almost impossible to get someone fired based on evals alone. You need a tall stack of one on one counseling documents and your ducks in a row that you tried to "coach" them. You can have their annual pay raise held with the eval having enough NFD however.

 

my sony more or less did the same thing. bought another one. these things are disposable now a days. Parents had a RCA picture tube tv that lasted 30 years. Sometimes i miss the simpler technology.

 

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8600935&cid=51285611

This comment on the Slashdot article pretty much sums up being in IT.

 

QFT.

I'm getting out though. I start Nursing school on Monday after being in IT for 7 years professionally. I'll have a low-level part time IT job during school for the next 2.5 years and will get some IT contract work through staffing agencies in the summers which I have off but for the most part I'm done with the shenanigans of corporate IT.

 

I can see why one can think that, and to be honest, I could too if I chose.

I've been doing this for ...uhhh...around 20 years now. Even today, I still spend silly amounts of time resetting peoples passwords, putting fucking paper in the printer, plugging IN device_x so it'll magically start to work, etc

But I also get to help people. I get to see them come to me pissed off and rankled, and go away happy as shit that I solved their issue and got them back working. I get to bring networks back up after service outages and restore entire multimillion dollar companies to full functionality from ZERO. I get to change the internet itself by swapping out various and sundry things....DNS entries, website code modifications, AWS pushes in real time....

I barely got a GED instead of a prison sentence 25 years ago. That I can do these things without a college debt load at all is astounding. And they STILL pay me $60K a year in Oklahoma to babysit a couple dozen people from losing data when Excel shits the bed.

How could you turn this down?

 

Very few people are happy as shit when I solve a problem for them. Bunch of ungrateful bastards...