IT BS thread

I agree with the sentiment, but I have had some interesting occurrences in the past.
When I left my first 'real' job, my manager just about cried. My contact had been extended by a year and I was part the expiration by a few months. He knew he couldn't match the package I was agreeing to at the new place.

At the last place I left, my boss got in trouble with the executive staff for not providing a counteroffer. My vacancy hasn't been filled for over a year. I still hear from my old dev team. One guy is constantly talking about how good my legacy code is, how well it interfaces, and how hard it is to create more of what I was doing. I railed for a year about how a certain app needed to be fixed up, which they never did. Once I left, they hired a consulting team to analyze the app for $300/hr (Yeah I wasn't getting paid a fraction of that), and they came to the exact same conclusion I did.

Every now and then you get some sweet justice.

 

Told a cute girl I'd fix her MacBook pro... that was my first mistake. Apparently you can't make or create offline install media for OS X anymore. They force me to drive 40 miles to the Apple store to get the OS reinstalled.

Their online recovery/reinstall keeps failing with an ambiguous code too. Reminds me why I got rid of apple shit 4 years ago.

 

Come on be honest, you bad mouthed the guy before you. I think it's a requirement I know I've hired a gem when they ask why it was done that way. Sometimes the answer is the previous guy was dumb ass, sometimes the answer is look closer grasshopper and learn from a master. But, most of the time the answer is the previous guy just did it that way, tell me how you'd like to improve it.

 

One place I worked had the salary requirement question and some applicants didn't even get an interview because they put too high or low of a figure in that question. Too low and I figured they weren't experienced enough, too high and maybe they were too experienced. Your buddy would do well to learn the going rate. I got mine from the salary sites and talking to other employers in the area. Another tactic is to just answer negotiable to that question. One gig didn't want to pay as much as I wanted, so I negotiated more vacation and stock options.

^+1^

 

I will add context to this one. In the past year I lost my department do to a hostile takeover of the guy who worked for me but talked a good game and plays politics way better than I do. Learned a lot from the experience but mainly to not be so naive.

Anyway since this person got control of the department there has been a high turnover rate and every time something comes up with a customer he blames on the employee that just left.

Its easy for management the blame the guy that last left. Its much harder to take responsibility for those you manage and their decisions.

 

And are they also charing you for the reinstall? The only time I've delt with Apple is when I had an iPod fail on me. They wanted $150 just to diagnose it! I eventually talked them into a free replacement.

 

Surprisingly not, they just wired it into the Ethernet and imaged it from the server they have in the back. Process took maybe 10 minutes after the initial wait. They said they could give me Yosemite but it ended up with El Capitain, oh well!

 

Yeah, some organizations just suck. In my experience that suckage always starts at the top and works its way through the organization. If upper management turns a blind eye to lower level managers misbehavior, the best thing to do for anyone with a whit of sense is to run the other way. Personally, I don't have a lot of patience for behavior like what you describe from my managers or people. I have a finely tuned BS sensor and IMHO any good manager can smell BS from a mile away. But life isn't fair, bad managers get promoted and narcissists start companies all the time. All I can say is my life has always improved when life took me, willing or not, away from those kind of people.

 

This is funny shit.

 

Morning

Does anyone here use a Corsair h100i (h100i, h100i gtx or h100i v2) CPU cooler?

 

I have one I'm using. Not sure if it's the exact same model number, because mine is from 2013

 

How have I missed this thread?!

I could hash most our company's problems up to operator errors lol

 

Most likely you have the original h100i.

What processor are you using? What temps (idle/load) are you getting?

Sorry for the questions. Just trying to compare.

It's always operator error but you can't tell them that lol

 

ID10T

 

I only have to interact with app teams instead of users. App team is a fancy way to say "power user".. or a user that knows how to use the app but doesn't know how it actually works. I tell them they are wrong constantly... To the point that if they need something, they ask someone else because they know I'll tell them no because all of their ideas are stupid.

 

I'm a desktop technician so I deal with all types of customers/users... :/

 

I feel your pain bro.

 

Sorry, I wasn't at my computer last night, so I missed your message.
I don't pay attention as much to my computer as I did back in college days, so I'd have to run a test for you.
However, I also misspoke about having a H100i - I could have sworn I had one, but my case configuration would make it impossible. I have a BitFenix Prodigy case, and my Newegg order history shows I bought an H60. Now that I'm thinking about it more, I mounted the H60 to the back of the case. I also had an all-in-one video card CLC as well on my first card that was mounted to the top underside of the case, which I believe was the one that held dual 120mm fans. I've since swapped to a better card that is back to standard cooling - partially because the CLC doesn't fit on any other card, and coincidentally I've put my optical drive back in, which would have smacked into the radiator.

That all being said, I'm not sure my setup now applies to your test. If it does, I'm busy these next two days, but work from home on Friday and could try setting up a test to run while I do my job. Processor would be a i5-3570K Ivy Bridge (this, specifically)

If I'm of no help, I can at least say that if you have been considering these sorts of coolers, I had done some post-research to my build and found out that I should have probably bought a Noctua NH-U14S, which has been shown to do the job better. Since I don't overclock, my primary concern was noise - my past builds have been very noisy until coming into the CLC coolers, but in the future I'll probably go back to the 'tower of power'
For fun reading, this thread is applicable to your interests. My only concern with the large tower coolers is their weight; so if you have a vertically mounted board, I'd research how safe that setup may be.