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People are idiots, but the ones responsible for a 2000 cross-globe printer list are especially idiotic.
9:40 sending sand and stones? that's the best you can do? old batteries. for the extra fun for them to dispose them correctly. perfect, if they are still old NiCd batteries.
The story about the test ofen and temperature limits reversed reminds me of a story a friend told me.. At the time he was studying electrotechnical engineering and financed his life by installing medical equipment for doctors. Like heart monitors and similar. He described the usual experience at a doctors office that the doctor would assemble all nurses and assistents and having them take notes of the whole explanation the technician gives. But when he arrived like 14 days later for a checkup and maybe corrections to the setup of the machine he would inevitably find either sticky notes but more commonly tiny scraps of plaster glued to the surface next to controls and arrows indicating the most common settings to be used - and years later he'd learn that the machine only ever was used at these standard settings and never adjusted to match the actual patients conditions (like weight) .. you wonder how we developed that sophisticated equipment but at the same time the persons using them never adapted
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Story 3: I do agree with the thought that someones personal device should never be used for anything work related...that said...I love my Yubikeys :) Story 5: Right-click the "Recycle Bin" and click "Properties" Tick the box at the bottom "Display delete confirmation dialog" "Apply" then "OK". This is set OFF by default in M$ now.
45 mile pleasure ride 23!!! Miles UPHILL. I dont think those words kean what you think they mean
even yubikey require some knowlage to setup properly plus you need to use
S1 OP MADE A HUGE MISTAKE. He already knew Jason was a BH. Why confess that mornings won't do? Ask Jason what times suit him, saying to GF in an undertone that "I hope he doesn't say afternoon" Also there are so many banks and branches around. If Jason is a BH, why not try another branch ( same bank) or another bank altogether?
The"Are you sure before deleting prompt", is something you have to set up yourself,.at least over the last 3 or 4 decades If Not . If you hit Delete, Computer goes Ok here you go Boss, DELETE!"
Oh gods!! I'v'e had to hold my ex husband's hand and walk him through tech stuff. Sometimes he knows how to do stuff, but if it gets too technical, it becomes a broken record of "Okay And?" Or "Are you SURE we're doing the right thing?" While I'm trying NOT to let him fry his computer or download a virus or two. *Don't ask, LOOONG story* Good on you OP for actually having the mental fortitude to get the user back on track.
What a brilliant way to make a statement Rob your wife's suggestion was pure genius and your patience is commendable love the podcast keep the amazing stories coming!
Story 1) I wouldn't be surprised if their network was created in the old days and just got expanded over time as is, with either time, cost or 'if it ain't broke' preventing any changes. Something similar seems to be the case with my employer, given the time IT once misconfigured one of our devices and they had it connected to a different store's server......sometimes I wonder what a hacker would make of our network if they just knew our IP range.
A company I worked for was being bought out by another company. As time went on I was required to do less and less. I finally told my superiors that I was going to quit. My reason being that self respect would keep me from being payed for what I did not deserve. They asked me to stay. I was still a keyman. Five months later they severenced me 3 months. I then went back to being valuable. I have no respect for people who would take pay for no work.
I once printed the entire registry of patients with AIDS in Washington State to a printer on the wrong floor of my building, a printer belonging to people who most definitely did not have clearance to view the list. This was back in the 90s when AIDS epidemiology was politically fraught (for instance we had instructions on what to do if the office was attacked by a particular group of extremists who were trying to publicly expose AIDS registries in various cities and states). Fortunately I was able to get to the printer before anybody handled the print-out, wait until it finished printing, and drag it back to my floor.
I've actually never heard the term PICNIC error, but I like it. Until now I've used Pebkac- Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair
I almost had something like the first story happen. ordered a game from nintendo & a few months after it came out, I got an email saying I need to pay the difference of 1¢. I thought it was just a rounding error, but the email was clear that I _must pay_ this or it WILL be sent to collections. called them a few days later, & it was just a goof on their end.
I have learned a lot about simple tech support issues. Not very well,but enough to not be an idiot.
Gay dude wasnt very gay if he was all about the ladies
Yeah, honestly if I need to keep a company authenticator app on my phone in order to keep my job, I should be able to charge the company digital rent on my phone. That's storage space that *I'm* not using, my *Employer* is, on my personal device.
My phone has 250 GB storage and Microsoft Authenticator is 100 MB. That's 0.04% of my storage. My device cost $700. Even if claiming that the entire storage is the entire value of the entire phone, I'd be getting $0.24 in rent over the lifetime of my device. I think I'd rather just charge my phone at work and call it even.
@@HKlink Okay, but if you want to use third party cloud storage for your own company's data and applications, you have to pay a fee, so why do corporations get a free pass, just because it's "only" 100 mb on a 256gb mobile server? Especially when that 100mb is actively performing important functions for that company? You could easily charge 25¢ per day, not over the life of the device.
When I am talking to people about access to wifi but no internet I like to say there are 2 draw bridges & their router is the island in between. The first bridge is down so they can connect to their wifi but the one connecting them to the internet is still up.
One guy explained the parking lot analogy like this. You're arrive at a bar. It's early in the evening. There are plenty of empty tables to find a seat. As the evening goes on all of the seats get taken. So you have to hunt more for an empty one. And the next patron has to wait until you're seated before he can hunt.
I am going to bet that the first guy used the exact same password for *everything* that needed for a password, because that was "his password." So of *course* he thought changing his password for the college changed it for everything... because now he has a "new password."
She earned it
I'm actually surprised that the guy who thought you could run a whole computer off of a CMOS battery, well, even *knew* there was such a thing as a CMOS battery.
Story 1: seems like some high school admin thought having getting advanced Music person to school for introduction, Sometimes this works, If advanced professors are more empathetic and patient and set higher standards for them. In this case, it failed like a bomb with arrogance and laziness.
My big brain tech moment of the week. Finally thanks to youtube learned how on a dual boot setup to change the defualt "earlier version of Windows" in the boot options list to say Windows XP. Seriously why can't the defualt be older version of Windows name?
I had a credit card bill, paid the bill as it was sent to me. It ended up with a 59 cent credit. This card was being cancelled. COntacted them after receiving a statement for 2 month. THey said they didn't do refunds under a dollar, that I should donate it. I said no. The next statement showed the 59 cents gone. I was a little perturbed. The next month I got the statement again with a note saying the customer service person that donated the 59 cents was terminated as on the phone recording I said no. Called them back to see if they would restart the card, they said no. THen asked me if I wanted to go to electronic statements. I told them no and have been getting monthly statements with the 59 cent credit for the last 4 years. I will never get it stopped. LOL
I hate MFA. I do genealogy work for other people. In the past, to access their Ancestry account, I just needed their user ID and password. I could work on their genealogy any time, day or night. Now they have MFA, which makes my work impossible. If I log into someone else's account, Ancestry sends a code to their phone, even when I'm working at 2AM. They aren't going to send me the code before it expires. Yes, I can get added as an editor, but I really need to be logged in to their account in order to update their tree from Family Tree Maker, the software I do my work in. I can enter data ten times faster in FTM than in Ancestry and then export the tree to Ancestry. Now I can't do that.
Story 3 - You want me to use my personal device for work. I'm sorry, unless you PROVIDE me with a work phone, specially for MFA purposes then I wont be using it, otherwise you are paying me to have it on my phone. Why, many MFA applications designed by companies have the companies thinking they have the right to have access to your personal phone's location services, not to mention other information apps can obtain from your phone; which they dont need to be having,
The company I work for lets you set 2FA with an app OR a call. I use the send code and my buddy uses the app.
Having any kind of data let alone some authenticator on a personal device would be considered a security violation at all the companies I worked for. That is why most people have now a company smartphone and not only a company landline on their desk.
I once got a 1 cent check from Tricare
Story 2 ji like what you said buy the other land on the other side then turn it into a dog park heheh
Conspiracy theory. Someone set up the printer specially to trick people on the network to send it to their printer so they can steal it.
MFA might not be complicated, but heaven if it's annoying and stressing.
Especially when you need to get in the site and you are in a phone dead zone. 🙄 I have to get to the send code and walk 50 feet across the floor to get signal on my phone. Very irritating!
@@gryphenicedancer8796 and do you even have time to do the walk before the code expires? Some apps give you very little time.
@@fabriziopedani5315 Most of the time I can. It depends on signal strength for my phone. It's irritating when I have to get on several different sites, and they all need authentication. 😑
I worked at a helpdesk contracted for PC for different companies. I was on a defense contractor's line. I had a woman call and ask what her laptop weighed vs the new one she's getting. We at the helpdesk don't know what they have or what the new one was. We didn't do the ordering. So I had to spend 8 minutes to get the info. 8 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
If it's top secret, she should not have had access to print to that printer. Top secret networks should not have unsecured or unclassified devices on them. That's the kind of thing that could get the contractor's clearance revoked.
If she works with in the classified area it's normal to see the items with in that same area. It is more odd that she could connect out of the safety zones. It might also mean other people can possibly connect in to the zone from outside.
@@sirBrouwer - It's more than likely her access level allows her to have that sort of access to outside printers. The issue is what was discovered, similiar names for printers. I worked in a company that was the same setup and the manager, not my direct one, had the ability to print to another office they worked in because their access was setup as such. Problem was, the office name was placed AFTER the printer name and if you were in a hurry to print, which that manager always was, they would grab that printer name from the list 6 out of 10 times. So, I made a suggestion to them to ask IT to rename the printers on the list with the office name first, IT of course came back asking "Why should this need to be done?" Which had not only me face-palming, but the manager and my direct manager when he was told. So I simply suggested that the manager reply back and keeping the conversation chain in check, CC the IT manager into the email since it wasnt them that replied, that if this was done this way it would stop a lot of problems of my manager wasting corporate resources because they were printing on a printer that was 150 kms away. The IT manager replied back saying that it would be done immediately.
Good afternoon Rob 👍 Enjoy the rest of your Sunday 👋🤗
The story about setting up MFA .... well, first, my reaction to the comment about using Yubikee - it is NOT THAT SIMPLE - simply because corporate often refuses to pay for it. So now picture this; you have BIG corporate in energy sector and board member switching up from old device with W10 to a new one with Windows 11; part of user enrollment is setting up MFA. Well, guess what? A member of our country board of directors is using old cellphone (something like Nokia 3310 or very similiar - no touchscreen phone with Android or iOS). SO - no way in hell you can install any kind of MFA app on to that dinosaur. Yubikee? Nah, will not authorize the purchase (for one of the members of BOARD OF DIRECTORS). At that point I would simply said "not my issue anymore, handle it however you like"; then somehow personal assistant shows up and figure what? User had iPad somewhere, which he does not use - so we finally managed to get the MFA running via iPad ..... and cases like these, where unfortunately were no "not used" devices on which we could run MFA settings, were dozens - mostly corporate techs in the field. So yeah, the idea is good, but sometimes good ideas will burn like supernova when it crashes with reality.
Yeah, MFA for work sucks, and Yubikey is way less expensive than providing a work minimum spec smartphone.
Story four. Good on that accountant and op for clarity. And Rob, i thought the 3D printing was the job, and this the hobby...? Story 5: classic picnic error.
KZread has been my full time job for 5.5 years !
Random Deleted Files Story: That didn't go where I thought it would... I thought it would be like a different story where the ID10T User was storing files in the Recycle Bin (which automatically empties itself once per month) and was complaining when she couldn't find an older file she really needed for her work... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
I thought that she just connected the laptop to a external monitor and that part of the desktop just moved to said secondary screen. Only the screen it self is not powers on.
My computer's recycle bin never empties until I empty it.
@@bite-sizedshorts9635 Home & Student Windows versions generally don't auto-empty unless you specifically turn that feature On. However, I believe most Business Windows versions are set so Recycle Auto-Empty is defaulted to On so unless you change that, your Recycle Bin erases itself once per month to clear out space on the Local Drives...
Explain yo me why Mars hasn't started producing plain and caramel M&M from peanut free equipment? I know there is a cost, but if NABISCO was willing to change their Oreo methods to take Myslim and Jewish customers from Hydrox....
I remember having a Nextel phone. Darn thing would go off in my pocket while I was working. My boss did not like that and told me I had to turn the darn thing off while on the clock. I dropped their service for something cheaper only after 2 months.
Story 2: Most people stopped after their kindness was taken advantage of or kept getting dragged into things that they were not a part of. That's my understanding, at least from everyone I know. It's the one bad apple ruining it for everybody else.
Maybe the top secret files went to hunter's laptop! 😅
While I myself also work in IT, I also hate it how I need to use my personal devices to install work-related apps. And on top of that, I'm required to install different apps that do the same thing, like both Signal and Telegram... Meanwhile the majority of the work-related conversations are held in Discord.
So the step son posted this story thinking "Man my step dad is such a karen." Everyone meanwhile agreeing that no he was not a karen to the point the step son made an edit kind of sorting backing the company lol
Good afternoon
Last: Rob must be good at spreading the manure
Wifey says I'm pretty good at digging myself into a hole...
S 1 I have an effective way to deal with Qarens/ Kens that I learned from watching someone do it. Keep cupping a hand and holding it behind the ear and saying "Eh?" and promptly answering someone else who decides to poke their nose. Like a 3 rd person saying, "She wants to know where Campbell's Soup is?" And going back to "eh?" for the rude Qaren Variations could be "Don't mumble. Aren't you wearing your teeth today, dear?", "Enunciate better. Didn't you have a good English teacher?"
13:00 Soup! In my country, the waitress and cook would have called the manager over to tell him the FL00ZY needs to be told to go and not come back ever, the very first time she sent the soup back. They aren't making any profit off this Qaren either We respect customer rights AND employee rights AND owner/ mgt rights. But then we are not as advanced a nation as USA/ Canada/ those in Western Europe! (sarcasm)
Wow, Story 3 OP is so much different from others who would do the malicious compliance.