lamaros
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I had an hour and a half interview, on the phone, for a six month contract position. I don't think interview length is necessarily indicative of too much. Perhaps of the company's efficiency...
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Rasix
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Today I have beaten Microsoft Word. Small victory, but I'll take it.
They'll still bitch about the formatting.
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Yegolev
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Anything in that victory about loading Word 97 docs into 2013 and making them look nice?
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Merusk
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Oh good I'm not the only one having that struggle. Not just Word but Office 2013 appears to be handling some fonts differently and that fucks all kinds of things up. In particular post script or type 1 fonts get problematic where they were fine before.
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Phildo
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Anything in that victory about loading Word 97 docs into 2013 and making them look nice?
Run it through 2007 first? Also, I had my first-ever Java incompatibility at work today. Upgraded to the latest version and suddenly some stupid Comcast software stopped working. |
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Yegolev
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Anything in that victory about loading Word 97 docs into 2013 and making them look nice?
Run it through 2007 first? OK sure, one more VM on my laptop.  Also, I had my first-ever Java incompatibility at work today. Upgraded to the latest version and suddenly some stupid Comcast software stopped working.
Welcome to the club, buddy. Next, place a support call so the person on the other end can tell you to change your Java version and try again. |
Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Oh, I did! That's how I knew it was an incompatibility instead of some arcane setting that needed to be changed.
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Yegolev
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Java: Bringing "I cannot help thee with that" to IT better than anyone else.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Rasix
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You know it's bad when I have specific versions of Java installed on different Windows VMs to deal with this bullshit.
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Trippy
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Phildo
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May it never come to that here. I'm just going to never update that one client again and hope that no one else uses Comcast's shitty receptionist software.
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Yegolev
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In my case, the VM was ultimately needed because the corporate Skynet would keep updating the Java and Java settings on my W7 image. So I just started using a RHEL 32-bit VM that I had already made up for some dumb purpose. I really should not need to set up another VM for another Java because linux.
MS Office is a different deal, though. Not ready to attempt to have multiple variants of it on a single OS, but I'm also not ready to set up more VMs and TRY to find particular Office variants to install on them. I'll take the crappy formatting, thanks.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Chimpy
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You can run every version of Office on the same computer with no issues other than disk space and needing to run more updates. They keep their files/registry settings separated by version.
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Numtini
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Just got for real carded when buying gin. Making me feel pretty god about my mumble mumble self that first bought legal drinks when Ronnie was el jefe.
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If you can read this, you're on a board populated by misogynist assholes.
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Trippy
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Maybe it's a place that cards everybody?
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Lantyssa
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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I get irrationally irritated when I get carded. Yes, I know you have to follow the law, but can't you give your employees a TINY bit of operational leeway? I am obviously not some 19 year old who can grow facial hair trying to sneak in. I just want a fucking drink, and the less interaction with your dimwit staff I am forced to endure before I get that drink, the happier everyone will be.
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Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Numtini
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No, they ask if you're over 21, but this was a legit card.
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If you can read this, you're on a board populated by misogynist assholes.
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Paelos
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I get irrationally irritated when I get carded. Yes, I know you have to follow the law, but can't you give your employees a TINY bit of operational leeway? I am obviously not some 19 year old who can grow facial hair trying to sneak in. I just want a fucking drink, and the less interaction with your dimwit staff I am forced to endure before I get that drink, the happier everyone will be.
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Salamok
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No, they ask if you're over 21, but this was a legit card.
Yeah sometimes the 18 year old cashiers can't tell the difference between omfg 21 is old and omfg 40 is old. |
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Evildrider
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No, they ask if you're over 21, but this was a legit card.
Yeah sometimes the 18 year old cashiers can't tell the difference between omfg 21 is old and omfg 40 is old. I got carded today buying a 6 pack. "Sorry we have to card if we think you are under 30 years old." Looks at card "Oh shit, you're 40?" Fuck you kid.. give me my beer. |
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Morat20
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Anything in that victory about loading Word 97 docs into 2013 and making them look nice?
Unpaid intern? I spent over a week earlier this year investigating the arcane world of fonts, specifically to try to work out why a font wasn't the same on two Windows machines, both running the same version of the OS and in the same language. (Turns out, that foreign language versions of Windows running in English don't necessarily have the same base system font, although most do. I spent most of the time learning enough to format a google query to find that out). Stupid fonts. I rewrote our library to override the "Get the base font from the OS" to one of my choosing. (Which if you're running ANY version of Windows in English, you have installed). |
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Ingmar
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Anything in that victory about loading Word 97 docs into 2013 and making them look nice?
Run it through 2007 first? Also, I had my first-ever Java incompatibility at work today. Upgraded to the latest version and suddenly some stupid Comcast software stopped working. We have Business Objects users who can't ever upgrade their Java because it will break BO. Same company makes both. >< Can't wait to get them on NetSuite, which I'm sure I'll hate in a year, but at least it will be new hate. This only became something I had to think about recently, at least. |
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Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Yegolev
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SAP is even more picky about Java versions than most web GUIs. One client still needs Java 1.4 on some SAP servers.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Draegan
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So I had my interview yesterday. Crushed it. The interviewer was pretty good. He asked me some basic interview questions which took up the first 10 minutes. Then asked me if I had any other questions. We talked for 40 more minutes where I interviewed him. He immediately texted my recruiter that it went very well. Then later that day the recruiter called me to tell me he was very excited about me.
The last interview I went on was a Skype interview where the company told me that I wasn't dressed for the interview. :/ They proceeded to interview me for 40 minutes asking me stupid questions (what are three words that best describe you) and asking them different ways multiple times. They also had a lot of other bullshit complaints like I didn't have enough experience with CRM software. Motherfucker, it's just client relationship logging.
In any case, now I have to fly out to their head quarters to interview with the president of the company and a few other people for the day. I'm excited.
Now the biggest problem is that if I get this job, I have to give my 2 weeks. I work for a very small company and it's almost family like. Gonna be rough. Especially since they just hired a new guy to be my counterpart and now they would have to do it all over again. That and I'm going on a trip (reward for meeting goals) with my immediate boss (who also met goals for the same company) with our spouses. I'm gonna get awards and shit. It'll be an awkward moment.
This whole process moved pretty fast.
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schild
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There's no reason to ever feel bad in 2014 for leaving any company for a better opportunity.
You're a mercenary just like everybody else. Highest bidder wins. Loyalty is dead.
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HaemishM
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Loyalty died with pensions.
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Sky
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I'm happy I don't have to live in the soulless world you guys seem to inhabit.
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Lantyssa
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Not until the soulless world closes your library at least.
I want to live in your world, but that's been tough once the University let me go and my best opportunity was landing in a hive of scum and villainy.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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schild
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Loyalty died with pensions.
Pensions were a terrible idea to begin with. I'm happy I don't have to live in the soulless world you guys seem to inhabit.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaan, this has nothing to do with soulless. These are businesses. Paying people when they stopped working is precisely the most pointless idea man has conceived, economically speaking. |
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Yegolev
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I'm pretty happy in the land of the soulless. I really, at this point in my life, don't need to have "feelings" for my fellow wage-earners. We are all there for one reason: money.
I sure as shit don't want to have to deal with the low-stakes politics of small or even medium companies. People at massive corps are almost always much more rational about shit.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Paelos
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I meet with people all the time who are looking for more people in my industry, the tax practitioners are old and dying off, and they have almost nobody really willing to replace them.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Ironwood
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Loyalty died with pensions.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Draegan
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There's no reason to ever feel bad in 2014 for leaving any company for a better opportunity.
You're a mercenary just like everybody else. Highest bidder wins. Loyalty is dead.
This is quite true. My office consists of essentially 6 people. The average employment time is about 20-25 years. Normally I wouldn't feel bad, but this is a particular tricky time for them. |
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HaemishM
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Loyalty died with pensions.
Pensions were a terrible idea to begin with. Pensions were a great idea for the workers and still are. They'd be even better if the law actually mandated that businesses which made those promises actually, you know, kept those promises instead of foisting the whole issue of senior citizens either having to work to their literal deaths or starving onto a government that is ill-equipped to deal with the issue. |
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