What's your pet peeve in RL?

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

My jaw keeps popping.

It's really annoying and slightly troubling.

[Satori]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I hate that facebook always gives me adverts for gay dating and purchasing underwear.
I find them offensive that is all they can suggest to me especially since I've been in a relationship for almost 8 years and dont use those sites and I don't purchase underwear like that.
For things involving money I use my laptop because its faster and more secure.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

adblock works wonders

It also unemploys people.

Just puttin' it out there.

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

It also unemploys people.

Just puttin' it out there.

[Armando]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

It also unemploys people.

Just puttin' it out there.

It's not like you can't whitelist the sites that you know aren't total assholes about their ad selection and placement.

[Firewind]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

It also unemploys people.

Just puttin' it out there.

So does hanging up on Telemarketers and ignoring people selling The Big Issue but I bet you do that anyway.

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I have nothing against people trying to make some money and I don't block ads on my phone for the sites I visit most, but between ads that are animated and lag my computer to fuck and the ones that want to play me some irritating noise in the background (there was one, about ten years ago, that was the sound of a fly buzzing around), I feel much better leaving them off.

[Ketaru]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

So does hanging up on Telemarketers and ignoring people selling The Big Issue but I bet you do that anyway.

I hang up on telemarketers these days. And it feels geeewd. There used to be a time I would just let them talk, even if I had absolutely no intention of getting whatever they're selling, then just politely decline. But nowadays? Just hang up.

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Management getting carried away with trying to plan ahead rather than addressing the problems we have right now.

So our firewall has been on the fritz. No licensing left for it, so we're basically limited to a finite number of devices being able to access the internet before it steps in and starts blocking traffic. Other than that the thing is fine, but since we have more people and servers in the office than we used to it's becoming a daily chore having to go in and reset the firewall to boot the various peripherals off to make room for actual users to connect to the internet.

Now keeping in mind that a lot of this operation is held together with duct tape and positive thinking, the most sensible course of action would be to just purchase a license and not have to worry about how many devices we have, right? It's not even that hard to do. You fork over the money, you get a license key and you punch it into the web interface of the firewall and you're done. Simple, direct, easy, straightforward, fixes the problem with no trouble.

Instead the higher ups decided that it'd be a better idea to purchase a whole new firewall. Admittedly ours is old as dirt, so I can sort of see where they're coming from in that regard. On the other hand, configuring a whole new firewall will cause significant downtime on account of me being the person tasked with it and not being terribly familiar with firewalls. I can hobble along and get by with most of the day-to-day stuff, but configuring a new one from scratch is probably going to result in some downtime as I try to figure out what I'm doing. Buying the license does not have this problem. It would literally involve zero downtime. But no, new hardware it is.

When we talked with a sales rep, they assured us that we'd be able to import the settings from our old firewall into the new one without any issue. So now that the new hardware is here, I find that that was a damn lie. The exported settings are not at all compatible with the new firewall. There's apparently a converter service offered by the manufacturer which will convert the old settings into a compatible format for the new firewall, but wouldn't you know it, they borked it. They insist you upload your settings file and then convert it server side before sending you back a compatible file. Here's the thing though, the 'upload' button just links back to the URL you start on, so it doesn't actually upload anything. You just go in a circle all day. It's great.

The simplest solution is still the best.

[Mezlo]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Management getting carried away with trying to plan ahead rather than addressing the problems we have right now.

So our firewall has been on the fritz. No licensing left for it, so we're basically limited to a finite number of devices being able to access the internet before it steps in and starts blocking traffic. Other than that the thing is fine, but since we have more people and servers in the office than we used to it's becoming a daily chore having to go in and reset the firewall to boot the various peripherals off to make room for actual users to connect to the internet.

Now keeping in mind that a lot of this operation is held together with duct tape and positive thinking, the most sensible course of action would be to just purchase a license and not have to worry about how many devices we have, right? It's not even that hard to do. You fork over the money, you get a license key and you punch it into the web interface of the firewall and you're done. Simple, direct, easy, straightforward, fixes the problem with no trouble.

Instead the higher ups decided that it'd be a better idea to purchase a whole new firewall. Admittedly ours is old as dirt, so I can sort of see where they're coming from in that regard. On the other hand, configuring a whole new firewall will cause significant downtime on account of me being the person tasked with it and not being terribly familiar with firewalls. I can hobble along and get by with most of the day-to-day stuff, but configuring a new one from scratch is probably going to result in some downtime as I try to figure out what I'm doing. Buying the license does not have this problem. It would literally involve zero downtime. But no, new hardware it is.

When we talked with a sales rep, they assured us that we'd be able to import the settings from our old firewall into the new one without any issue. So now that the new hardware is here, I find that that was a damn lie. The exported settings are not at all compatible with the new firewall. There's apparently a converter service offered by the manufacturer which will convert the old settings into a compatible format for the new firewall, but wouldn't you know it, they borked it. They insist you upload your settings file and then convert it server side before sending you back a compatible file. Here's the thing though, the 'upload' button just links back to the URL you start on, so it doesn't actually upload anything. You just go in a circle all day. It's great.

The simplest solution is still the best.

tl;dr Management wanted a current firewall and they made my job harder in the short term. /rage

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

They didn't want a new one until the sales rep fast-talked them into getting that instead of a license.

A license would have fixed our problem.
The new firewall has created additional problems.

I'm also bitter because I beat them over the head for nearly a month about needing the license upgrade so I wouldn't have to babysit the firewall all day, so after dragging their feet they're prolonging the issue even further. All the while I have to hear all day long from people about how the firewall is blocking them.

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Holy crap my smoke detector is sensitive as balls! Not only is there no fire, there's not even smoke. What the fuck.

[Satori]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I've been working flat out for 3 weeks, Every day i've been in some 8hr shifts some 14hrs. Finally had a day off and decided I'm going to probably sleep for most of it and just chill in my pj's. I stayed up late and played ffxi went to bed a 6am and fk me the phone rings at 11am can I come in asap we've got a d&v outbreak and 6 nurses out of action.

come home to facebook and see somebody slagging off my hospital.
I decided to comment simply "F**K you it's a hospital not a hotel"
I know we're a public service but people really do take the piss on the service part. They seem to not understand the sacifices we make to provide such a rubbish and shitty service.

[Squiggs]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Holy crap my smoke detector is sensitive as balls! Not only is there no fire, there's not even smoke. What the fuck.

Needs new batteries?

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Not getting a good night's sleep.

I've been having trouble sleeping all week and it's starting to show. I kinda want to take a nap.