Please share your struggle of the day

[Rufus]

Welp, that sucks then. Hope you can get this sorted with minimal headaches.

[nudemacusers]

that sucks, reminds me of yesterday when my pops-in-law called me asking if we sent anything to their house that had to be signed for, as he just missed the dude after he left the note... said no... so he catches the UPS guy at the end of the long driveway (shared by 4 neighbors), but the guy won't give it to him without ID (nevermind the slip was put there all of 10 seconds ago lol). so he goes back to the house, gets ID, dude gives him the package, and he dropped it off at the wrong house 

dude got all huffy after my dad called him out and just drove off 

[TVC15]

I seriously haven't had an erection since at least mid November. No lie.

[Atramental]

I have a head cold and super sore joints.

And I had a ton of work I needed to get done today but of course that didn't happen...

Still sick with the addition of a rather sore throat.

I basically went this whole year without getting sick and *BAM* sick as a dog for about a week.

[Rufus]

Probably just a side-effect of his meds.

[nudemacusers]

so i pick up a suit from the cleaners and they shortened the sleeve but didn't move the buttons?

wtf am i supposed to do with a blazer that has buttons near the edge of the sleeve

[Joe Molotov]

I seriously haven't had an erection since at least mid November. No lie.

Get your prostate milked for fuck's sake.

FTFY

[sarslip]

Christmas gift for my Dad arrived 

[Fifstar]

Hm?

[TVC15]

What are you wearing?

[toku]

you don't even wake up with one?

[TVC15]

No arousal comes from my dreams.

[toku]

I'm sorry.

[TVC15]

Videodrome is death.

[toku]

Videodrome is death.

It's always painful to remove the casette, to change the program.

[Fifstar]

Spend a couple hours seasoning my iron pan and now after the 7th round of seasoning the patina came off again. 

[sarslip]

Hm?

look at the the sticker on the record....came from amazon.com, was to wrap it and gift for my pops, took the sticker off, but now i got that 3/4 sticker removal thing happening, fuuhk

[Reb]

I had an airplane boner last week. That's a thing right?

[sarslip]

I had an airplane boner last week. That's a thing right?

[Phoenix Dark]

Got a big boner today.


due to seeing this though


I'm fucking someone this week. I can feel it.

[jakefromstatefarm]

Doris burke kinda has that mannish femininity going on

I'd still smash

[Am_I_Anonymous]

forgot to do half the door...damnit.

[Mupepe]

It looks like I'm on the path to change positions at my company.  It'll be a good change with more opportunity and I've been doing this same job for over 5 years now (been with the company almost 10).  But this position has given me the opportunity to travel a lot and with the new position that will pretty much be coming to an end I think.  Can't have it all I guess.

Also, it's year end.  Anyone else involved in financial reporting crap knows how much fun that is.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

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forgot to do half the door...damnit.

I knew it.

Text from wife "The door looks bad"

[Am_I_Anonymous]

It looks like I'm on the path to change positions at my company.  It'll be a good change with more opportunity and I've been doing this same job for over 5 years now (been with the company almost 10).  But this position has given me the opportunity to travel a lot and with the new position that will pretty much be coming to an end I think.  Can't have it all I guess.

Also, it's year end.  Anyone else involved in financial reporting crap knows how much fun that is.

End of year financials. Nothing ever balances the first 10 times you try it. Ever.

Also deal with the Unions, brehs.

[Brehvolution]

After spending $500 on xmas gifts last night, the wife says we still need to to get the girls the Uggs they want. Ugh 

[Joe Molotov]

Christmas gift for my Dad arrived 

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Miles Davis' cover of Don't Stop Believing is amazing.

[Mupepe]

It looks like I'm on the path to change positions at my company.  It'll be a good change with more opportunity and I've been doing this same job for over 5 years now (been with the company almost 10).  But this position has given me the opportunity to travel a lot and with the new position that will pretty much be coming to an end I think.  Can't have it all I guess.

Also, it's year end.  Anyone else involved in financial reporting crap knows how much fun that is.

End of year financials. Nothing ever balances the first 10 times you try it. Ever.

Also deal with the Unions, brehs.

GL account balances

Even worse is dealing with capital carryover or people who waited til the last minute to cap projects

No unions for me luckily

[Am_I_Anonymous]

It looks like I'm on the path to change positions at my company.  It'll be a good change with more opportunity and I've been doing this same job for over 5 years now (been with the company almost 10).  But this position has given me the opportunity to travel a lot and with the new position that will pretty much be coming to an end I think.  Can't have it all I guess.

Also, it's year end.  Anyone else involved in financial reporting crap knows how much fun that is.

End of year financials. Nothing ever balances the first 10 times you try it. Ever.

Also deal with the Unions, brehs.

GL account balances

Even worse is dealing with capital carryover or people who waited til the last minute to cap projects

No unions for me luckily

 

Add in that I'm refinancing concurrently and you understand my pain bro.

 :deadpos

[I'm a Puppy!]

I once worked for a company that was never able to fully close their monthly books, let alone year end.

Yeah, that was the company where the police came in, arrested the CEO and dragged him out in cuffs.

The stories I could tell about that place.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

This is only going to make sense for about 5 people here but goddamnit....

F500 tire maker wants to add 10 wireless access points to a lab facility. Ok, got a heat map? Sweet.

Architect: We want to have gig connectivity through these points as we are BYOD company.

Ok no problem. Here are the Aruba's you should use.

Architect: Okay we want Cat5e cable

What? It's in a magnetic lab environment. You need shielded cable.

Architect: We don't want to play that much

Huh? Your waps are 10,000 dollars, the cable is going to run you about 500 dollars a box.

Architect: no...we like the 150 we pay for Cat5e

Did you READ your heat report on EMF?

Architect: Let me do that real quick...Oh

EXACTLY


I wish I charged by the hour.

[Brehvolution]

You don't get to be a F500 company unless you skimp on your CAT5 wire boxes.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

You don't get to be a F500 company unless you skimp on your CAT5 wire boxes.

Unfucking real. We'll pay 600 dollars a piece for intelligent patch panels we can't figure out but fuck off paying an extra 100 dollars for C6E breh.

[Brehvolution]

You know what's ridiculous? The prices of 10GB equipment. 

We've been on 1GB  switches for almost 10 years now. The pricing is almost 10X that of gigabit and it's bullshit.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

You know what's ridiculous? The prices of 10GB equipment. 

We've been on 1GB  switches for almost 10 years now. The pricing is almost 10X that of gigabit and it's bullshit.

GBICS breh.....gotta love cisco. If you ever need to upgrade I can provide a cheaper alternative.

If I had my way I'd go complete SM fiber which can run 40gig but nobody wants to pay for that

[I'm a Puppy!]

Don't charge by the hour brehs

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Don't charge by the hour brehs

Bidding situations brehs.

Out this way we bid on jobs just like everybody else.

[Mupepe]

I once worked for a company that was never able to fully close their monthly books, let alone year end.

Yeah, that was the company where the police came in, arrested the CEO and dragged him out in cuffs.

The stories I could tell about that place.

Please do share. Our F&A group busts their ass every month to close the month on time. Hats off to them. Month to month isn't so bad for my part of the organization. Year end though... Fuck them all

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I once worked for a company that was never able to fully close their monthly books, let alone year end.

Yeah, that was the company where the police came in, arrested the CEO and dragged him out in cuffs.

The stories I could tell about that place.

Please do share. Our F&A group busts their ass every month to close the month on time. Hats off to them. Month to month isn't so bad for my part of the organization. Year end though... Fuck them all

What he can't say is the CEO (and by proxy the CFO) was taking money off the books.

[Brehvolution]

We have 2 of these right now. The server NICs are a couple hundred a piece too. By comparison, you can get an 8port 1gb switch for $65.

[Mupepe]

I once worked for a company that was never able to fully close their monthly books, let alone year end.

Yeah, that was the company where the police came in, arrested the CEO and dragged him out in cuffs.

The stories I could tell about that place.

Please do share. Our F&A group busts their ass every month to close the month on time. Hats off to them. Month to month isn't so bad for my part of the organization. Year end though... Fuck them all

What he can't say is the CEO (and by proxy the CFO) was taking money off the books.

I got that much. But I assume he had specific LOL stories of incompetence

[Am_I_Anonymous]

We have 2 of these right now. The server NICs are a couple hundred a piece too. By comparison, you can get an 8port 1gb switch for $65.

At least you aren't dealing with these piles of bullshit

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/nexus-7000-series-switches/index.html


Cisco Catalyst series 

Cisco nexus series 

Edit: For Brehvolution

http://www.championone.net/

[Brehvolution]

Thanks breh.

[sarslip]

1hr 10 minute phone call with  Dell . 

Issue still unresolved. 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

1hr 10 minute phone call with  Dell . 

Issue still unresolved.

Still work with dell in 2014 brehs

[TVC15]

woke up at 1030am. Been wearing the same underwear for 3 days. Haven't worn anythin but underwear for three days. I kinda want some Cinnamon Toast Crunch and/or Moons Over My Hammy.

[sarslip]

 

[Madrun Badrun]

Cinnamon Toast Crunch

[Brehvolution]

1hr 10 minute phone call with  Dell . 

Issue still unresolved.

What's the issue?

Still work with dell in 2014 brehs

What's wrong with Dell? I've never had any issue with them. We probably do $100k-$200k a year  with them for equipment. Support has always been top notch for me. :shrug

[Am_I_Anonymous]

1hr 10 minute phone call with  Dell . 

Issue still unresolved.

What's the issue?

Still work with dell in 2014 brehs

What's wrong with Dell? I've never had any issue with them. We probably do $100k-$200k a year  with them for equipment. Support has always been top notch for me. :shrug

They have great servers....anything more than that and you're risking being customer #13029 unless you're somebody like general dynamics.

[I'm a Puppy!]

I once worked for a company that was never able to fully close their monthly books, let alone year end.

Yeah, that was the company where the police came in, arrested the CEO and dragged him out in cuffs.

The stories I could tell about that place.

Please do share. Our F&A group busts their ass every month to close the month on time. Hats off to them. Month to month isn't so bad for my part of the organization. Year end though... Fuck them all

Loads of stories, not sure which I can share but I'll do the ones that are out in the public due to the court hearing

- They were never able to close their books
- Towards the end of my stay there I would look at the accounts and know they did not have enough to cover payroll. Then on payday magically, money would appear from nowhere. I'd look in other accounts for a transfer or something but no, the money just appeared. This was the main reason I left, I figured eventually they'd get to the point where the money would no longer magically appear for payroll. Sure enough a few months after I left they bounced their entire payroll.
- In look through their CoA there were some account codes that I couldn't find anyone who knew what they were for, but they had regular activity
- I once came into work and was told not to touch my computer at all until 5pm. Because they had sold all our equipment to one of our child companies for the day and then they would sell them back to us at day's end. I guess not touching the computer was a legal technicality.
- We had a hosted solution that we paid more for than most F500s pay for their architecture. We had one of the biggest SANs of the time in the entire country though no one could tell me why we'd even need a SAN let alone such a huge one. Came to find out later the CEO owned substantial amounts of both the hosting company and the SAN company
- I lost like 40% of my 401k there. Because they ended up going bankrupt.
- we ended up going without a CFO, at all, because no CFO would sign off on the books. There was a person in charge but was the VP of IT.

Loads more and worse stuff but this is the stuff I can share.

[Brehvolution]

Corporate fuckery

[chronovore]

I made an attempt to get back to US game development in 2012, landed a good gig at a reputable developer, and did well there. My wife’s dad got really sick, so we postponed (aborted) the move to the USA. During my time at the developer, the dev gave away nice pint glasses with etched logos and the year. After leaving it at my sister’s for 2 years, I managed to pack it up nicely and bring it back to Japan, a reminder of the last game dev job I had, and how much I enjoyed that team.

I had it here for two days before dropping it in the sink and shattering it.

[toku]

read the signs

[Rufus]

Yeah, did the shards spell Oscar?

[chronovore]

read the signs

It spelled “clumsy dumbass.” 

[Positive Touch]

had to spend $80 watching the Rams suck today :/

[Huff]

Friend of the family who was basically an uncle died this morning from esophageal cancer.

He'd been in hospice for the past couple months after fighting for two years so it wasn't exactly a surprise. Still hard to hear

[Tasty]

had to spend $80 watching the Rams suck today :/

I've paid more to see rams sucking.

Wait

[Tasty]

Starting Monday with literally no sleep because I'm a shitty procrastinator