Cranjis McBasketball
Crow T. Robot
Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
Peace Love and Nothing But
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 1, 2020 5:02:22 GMT -5
Times you thought, no way this works and it does....
Was thinking about the time me and a friend, also my co-worker, but I think of him as a friend first because he was, were gonna sign up for a workshop. He got all the approval to go and got a hotel room booked. I later got approval and went to the bosses, "So where am I staying and how am I getting there?" I basically got back, "Figure it out". And later "Just go together" I replied that was fine, we're happy in each other's company and are friends, but aren't really sleep in the same single bed friends. You can see the 1st class organization I work for. It came back to "figure it out". So I spoke to my friend, he told me where he booked the hotel.
So I dial them up and explain, "Hey, I'm Cole, I'm with blah, blah, my co-worker Fred has a room booked, I need to change that, also by the way, the credit card the room is booked under is Troy, so just make that change".
They said it was fine. I said there's no f***ing way they just change the room based on a phone call from a guy who just dials up, no matter how accurate his information. I actually asked my mom to borrow her credit card, so when this all fell apart, I had a place to stay.
Somehow it worked.
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Post by Cyno on Aug 1, 2020 15:20:16 GMT -5
Status effects in any RPG that isn't a Megaten or Pokemon game. Especially in boss fights.
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J. Hova
Don Corleone
Emotionally exhausted and morally bankrupt
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Post by J. Hova on Aug 2, 2020 1:10:18 GMT -5
Every time I've ever worked on a car.
Probably the biggest one is every acquisition we've done in Canada. A little backstory, I'm a network engineer, and one of my main job functions the last five years has been our mergers and acquisitions. So in mid 2017, my boss calls me and asks if I have a passport, which I didn't at the time. He told me to go get one the next day and I'm going to see a meeting invite for the following day. I read between the lines pretty well and all I asked him was if I was going to go over an ocean at any point. During due diligence, it becomes apparent that the company we are purchasing in Toronto has an interesting network, meaning they don't know anything about it, it's all been managed services or lease agreements and it 'just works'. I'm shitting my pants over this acquisition. I went up there so many times between then and our go live weekend to build networks in parallel, build a data center, etc. Come go live weekend, the data center tech that they were providing to us was a no show, so I have to be in two places at once (office and data center), so I go to the data center about an hour away and get all of that squared away in about two hours, all the while people (including senior management) are texting me wanting updates so they can give the go ahead for other people to start working. I get back to the office about 8pm and find that a portion of the uplink ports on the core switch in the office aren't functioning. I'm about ready to hit the bottle at this point. I finally after making multiple calls to the hardware vendor and my team back in the States, decide that even though it isn't 'supported', the form factor of the uplink module from their old leased switches is the same as what I'm using and swap those out....bingo, bango, bongo. I just wish I would have thought of that 3 or 4 hours earlier than I did. Funny part about all of that is that our Sr. Dir of Tech Ops was there with me in the office until about 1:30 am, he and I were the first two in the office the next morning at about 7. It made us laugh a bit that next morning.
Fast forward a few months and now we are expanding into Alberta (Calgary, Edmonton, and Red Deer). I learned I can't be two places at once, so I damn sure can't be three places at once. I took one of my team members with me this time and decide I'll work out of Calgary and he'll be in the other two offices as Calgary's office was about double the size of the other two combined. The first thing that drove me nuts on that was that they got rid of their IT staff prior to the go live with the exception of a couple of guys who I'll just say if they weren't working there, they'd be lucky to be parking cars for a living. I may as well have been trying to explain astrophysics to a fish. Meanwhile, we had issues with getting the WAN circuits in at the Edmonton and Red Deer offices. I literally sent my coworker to the offices with no circuits active and I activated them while he was in transit. I got one done with five minutes before he walked in the front door.
And despite all of this, people wonder why I drink.
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Cranjis McBasketball
Crow T. Robot
Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
Peace Love and Nothing But
Posts: 41,897
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 2, 2020 2:39:53 GMT -5
I thought of another one. It's a George Carlin joke.
I did know the waitress somewhat, I was a regular to her. So I sat at the bar with my girlfriend. She asked what we would like. I said, "Is the garnish free?" she says, "Yes", so I said, "I'll just have a plate of garnish".
She brought us one, of cheese and pickles and whatnot.
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agent817
Fry's dog Seymour
Doesn't Know Whose Ring It Is
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Post by agent817 on Aug 2, 2020 10:32:56 GMT -5
"Hey, that's not the 'wallet inspector.'"
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Push R Truth
Patti Mayonnaise
Unique and Special Snowflake, and a pants-less heathen.
Perpetually Constipated
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Post by Push R Truth on Aug 3, 2020 8:40:31 GMT -5
Two stories, both from work:
During my second or third year in the office the back toilet flooded (brown water, not clear water). My old office was like 15 feet away I said "I'm taking the next three days off and I'm not using vacation for it." and walked out. I still got paid and they didn't deduct any hours from my vacation/sick/comp. Still shocks me to this very day like 20 years later.
I dropped 2 boxed delivery pizzas for a going-away party at work (before COVID in the long ago) and upon opening the boxes there was zero blemishes on each pizza. Like nothing happened at all. If it wasn't for the video evidence on the security cameras I would have been the only one that knew.
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Magnus the Magnificent
King Koopa
didn't want one.
I could write a book about what you don't know!
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Aug 3, 2020 9:21:27 GMT -5
I helped my now ex-brother-in-law construct a make-shift muffler (No Dusty Rhodes jokes, please) out of a soda can for his, uh, not-quite legal moped about two years ago.
Last time I saw him he still uses it and it works remarkably well.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Aug 4, 2020 8:59:16 GMT -5
I helped my now ex-brother-in-law construct a make-shift muffler (No Dusty Rhodes jokes, please) out of a soda can for his, uh, not-quite legal moped about two years ago. Last time I saw him he still uses it and it works remarkably well. Related: Dusty was probably onto something cause I get the sense he'd used a muffler before. |
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Aug 4, 2020 10:25:27 GMT -5
Status effects in any RPG that isn't a Megaten or Pokemon game. Especially in boss fights. Bio works on Seymour in his Flux forms in FFX My reaction was what the f*** |
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Futureraven: Beelzebruv
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
The Ultimate Arbiter of Right And Wrong
Spent half my life here, God help me
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Aug 4, 2020 11:09:24 GMT -5
At a festival a few years ago, I'm dancing with my then gf and her friend.
A guy comes over, with a couple of girls, basically challenges me to a dance off.
The girls with him are preferring my dancing, so being a douche, he tries to surprise me with a kick to the nuts.
In one motion, I bring my knees together blocking it, use the momentum to do a backwards roll, coming up flipping the double bird.
As I reach my feet, I spin on my heel, walk away with my arms raised, a girl either side of me.
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Aug 4, 2020 13:06:24 GMT -5
I had an ex who did a lot of surveys for money. I couldn’t believe it was a real thing. And when I did my first one..and got my money..I walked out all sketch thinking someone would stop me before leaving like “give that money back! You don’t get any for answering questions!”
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Post by ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul on Aug 4, 2020 13:30:57 GMT -5
Status effects in any RPG that isn't a Megaten or Pokemon game. Especially in boss fights. Obsidian's unity based games, PoE and Tyranny have been most satisfying with that. |
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Post by Cyno on Aug 4, 2020 16:52:34 GMT -5
Status effects in any RPG that isn't a Megaten or Pokemon game. Especially in boss fights. Bio works on Seymour in his Flux forms in FFX My reaction was what the f*** I love gaming the AI in that fight in how it treats Reflect spells. Confusing the thing into making Seymour Flux cast Flare on itself even though I dispelled his Reflect is fun times. |
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Aug 4, 2020 17:07:32 GMT -5
Bio works on Seymour in his Flux forms in FFX My reaction was what the f*** I love gaming the AI in that fight in how it treats Reflect spells. Confusing the thing into making Seymour Flux cast Flare on itself even though I dispelled his Reflect is fun times. Yea you can 100 percent break that game once you know what you doing. It’s the first play through that can give you problems |
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