Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

[quote=Chico23231;1201263]Work just firewalled my yahoo fantasy sports links. those bastards. FFS, I cant work under these conditions.[/quote]

VPN mofo!

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1201270]My work changed the wifi password so I can't listen to Pandora unless I jack my phone bill thru the roof. Need to go get unlimited data now. So either say I'm out more money.[/quote]

Have you tried using Tor Browser or Ultra Surf?
A simple proxy might hide the sites you are trying to get to.

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

[quote=TheMalcolmConnection;1201286]VPN mofo![/quote]

This is the best option!

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

[quote=jamf;1201287]Have you tried using Tor Browser or Ultra Surf?
A simple proxy might hide the sites you are trying to get to.[/quote]

Nope, never heard of them. The internet is too big for me lol.

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

What grinds my gears is when you have people at work, in another department, who is trying to get people in your department fired - including yourself. Me and another system admin have supported the college's ERP system. Think of it as the main program that holds all student and staff data. Anyway, finance has been throwing audits our way, left and right, to find any cracks in our department. They finally were able to get our CIO fired and our delivery manager - both of whom didn't do anything wrong. Now, they're trying to get us, system admins, fired. All because they are trying to cover up things that they do wrong themselves. The VP is in on it - and she's been guilty of saying some derogatory things about one of our system admins - of course, she goes unpunished.

One of the finance chicks was given the interm delivery manager position until they hired someone full time. She still does finance stuff and that job - but we all can see that this was deliberately setup to infiltrate our department, and for her to sort of be a "spy". She's already complained to the VP over me and another system admin. She actually wants either one of our jobs, because she's stated she knows the college's ERP system like the back of her hand and could do our job.

This is the first time I've been targeted, but I'm sure it won't be the last. Like I said before, this group has already been successful in getting our CIO and delivery manager fired - they won't stop until they have cleaned house. Looks like I'll be looking for another job while I still have one. I can't afford to get fired - I have a wife and kid at home!

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

Yikes, man.
Good luck!

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

[quote=metalskins;1201293]What grinds my gears is when you have people at work, in another department, who is trying to get people in your department fired - including yourself. Me and another system admin have supported the college's ERP system. Think of it as the main program that holds all student and staff data. Anyway, finance has been throwing audits our way, left and right, to find any cracks in our department. They finally were able to get our CIO fired and our delivery manager - both of whom didn't do anything wrong. Now, they're trying to get us, system admins, fired. All because they are trying to cover up things that they do wrong themselves. The VP is in on it - and she's been guilty of saying some derogatory things about one of our system admins - of course, she goes unpunished.

One of the finance chicks was given the interm delivery manager position until they hired someone full time. She still does finance stuff and that job - but we all can see that this was deliberately setup to infiltrate our department, and for her to sort of be a "spy". She's already complained to the VP over me and another system admin. She actually wants either one of our jobs, because she's stated she knows the college's ERP system like the back of her hand and could do our job.

This is the first time I've been targeted, but I'm sure it won't be the last. Like I said before, this group has already been successful in getting our CIO and delivery manager fired - they won't stop until they have cleaned house. Looks like I'll be looking for another job while I still have one. I can't afford to get fired - I have a wife and kid at home![/quote]

Sounds like a hell hole. I'm sorry, Met, best wishes to you and your squad.

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Thanks dudes! These people, I'll add, don't have children - have plenty of money in the bank, talk about how they can retire early. They don't understand the lives they affect by pulling this shit.

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

[quote=metalskins;1201308]Thanks dudes! These people, I'll add, don't have children - have plenty of money in the bank, talk about how they can retire early. They don't understand the lives they affect by pulling this shit.[/quote]

That really sucks dude. Best of luck in whatever future path you take.

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

Yeah I'd get out of there asap if possible. Shitty environment to work in when your co workers want to step on your neck. Sorry to hear. IT related fields seem brutal. Best of luck man. God bless.

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

Thanks again guys! Yeah, people within my own department are fine. I like all of them and trust them all. But, the people outside of the department are the ones I can't trust! Of course, I also find out today that we're overdrawn on our account- seemed like insult to injury on that! We're also trying to sell our house. Once we sell our house, then I could actually expand my job search since we wouldn't necessarily be tied to the area. I would rather head up to Virginia, but I don't know if my wife would be willing to move.

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

reach into my big bag of trail mix....pull out a golf ball size clump of raisins. Looks like a glistening turd. I hate raisins.

my chick says that's Kap Karma cause shes a bleeding heart liberal and I was bitching to her about Kaep...right when I pulled it out the bag

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

Continued Education. My state requires that I do continued education every two years. Well nothing has changed over the years so I do the same crap every two years. The online class forces you to go through each page which is timed before you can continue. So, I'm forced to click through each page before I take the test. Hours of wasted time when I could have just taken the test and scored 95 or better.

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

[quote=Back2RFK;1211642]Continued Education. My state requires that I do continued education every two years. Well nothing has changed over the years so I do the same crap every two years. The online class forces you to go through each page which is timed before you can continue. So, I'm forced to click through each page before I take the test. Hours of wasted time when I could have just taken the test and scored 95 or better.[/quote]

sound like a waste of tax payers money...zero surprise

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

[quote=Chico23231;1211579]reach into my big bag of trail mix....pull out a golf ball size clump of raisins. Looks like a glistening turd. I hate raisins.

my chick says that's Kap Karma cause shes a bleeding heart liberal and I was bitching to her about Kaep...right when I pulled it out the bag[/quote]

Raisins suck.