The Horrors of the "Professional" World - Stories that will make you wonder how we exist.

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Pulled, cleaned, and serviced 10 2U units today. That's not the horrible thing. What's horrible is that between the units there were 4 working fans. Three power supplies had to be replaced: one fan did not work and the PSU was starting to melt and another PSU was sparking and lighting on fire on boot.

"Professional"
 
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LordKaT said:
"We can't connect to your server why do you guys suck so much?!"

> an hour passes

"Oh, we didn't configure a public facing IP on our NAT."

wat
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Not enough :drink: for that. How do they function? Is that kind of low even possible?
 
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Just got this company-wide e-mail from a vendor we use.

"it seems that there has been no payment from your account since 2015."


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Huh, do you work where I do? Because there's several businesses around us that only accept cash anymore rather than billing it to the company.
 
LordKaT said:
Send help.

The company we were working with to provide server rack space, multi-gigabit internet connectivity, and cooling to our own datacenter has gone bankrupt and is about to be liquidated.

Send help.
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Jury rig some shitty IKEA furniture into new server racks, leech internet from all your neighbors, and invest in as many desk fans and as much vodka as possible. I find that with enough motivation alcohol one can bullshit their way through anything. I believe in you.
 
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Having to take an employee aside and have a discussion with them about how they smell awful and it is adversely affecting the workplace, having to ask whether it is a medical issue or they just have poor personal hygiene, and having to instruct them to rectify the issue if the later, sucks. Why can't people just behave like civilized human beings?

EDIT - Fixed typo.
 
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Cato said:
Having to take an employee aside and have a discussion with them about how they smell awful and it is adversely affecting the workplace, having to ask whether it is a medical issue or they just have poor personal hygiene, and having to instruct them to rectify the issue if the latter, sucks. Why can't people just behave like civilized human beings?
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Do you work with Pixyteri?
 
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Silver Chariot said:
i won't disagree (you save someone's life only for them to chimp at you), but do tell us a story
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It's less about dealing with ungrateful, spergy louts (which thankfully I haven't dealt with in any great number) and more the fact the people you deal with are just idiots.
>Kid shears his knee down to the bone, reporting party refers to it as a "slight cut on the leg"
>palm frond falls and brushes against a guy's arm, he starts freaking out and hyperventilating.
>hypochondriacs in general
>ten-year-old girl suffering from minor asthma attack doesn't know her mom's phone number or her own birthday
>lifeguards backboarding a kid when he just had a small friction burn on his back
>twenty-something who got involuntarily committed to the ER for "suicidal ideations" taking up a bed all night and playing on her phone while an injured firefighter had to get a line drawn on him in the waiting room
>frequent flyers who abuse the EMS system because they like the attention
>when I encounter someone who needs help and I'm off-duty, bystanders with no medical training try to butt in and tell me what I should and shouldn't do

This is to say nothing of the stories my instructors have told me, such as one guy who OD'd on heroin so his friends tried to wake him up by injecting him with instant coffee.

Now I'm no veteran at this job but in my short experience the number one medical emergency in the world is people overdosing on Stupid Pills.
 
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Replicant Sasquatch said:
Now I'm no veteran at this job but in my short experience the number one medical emergency in the world is people overdosing on Stupid Pills.
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There's at least one story in this thread or maybe another here that just reading it scarred me that I won't link to it or even describe it.
 
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LordKaT said:
Send help.

The company we were working with to provide server rack space, multi-gigabit internet connectivity, and cooling to our own datacenter has gone bankrupt and is about to be liquidated.

Send help.
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I put my titanic 20TB media server in an attic where it's got good airflow and tons of dust and rockwool for the fans to ingest. Works fuckin' perfectly. Are you using Windows Server 2003 or an inferior product? :lol:
 
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It's never a good thing when electrical equipment makes godawful sounds like grinding gears.

The shower of sparks is generally a second clue things have gone very, very badly.

However, rubbernecking at the destruction afterwards is kind of fun.
 
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Sensor A ---> Reading software address A ---> database location A ---> Report A
Sensor B ---> Reading software address B ---> database location B ---> Report B
etc

However, due to be constantly interrupted, the programmer did stuff like this:

Sensor A ---> Reading software address A ---> database location A ---> Report A
Sensor A ---> Reading software address B ---> database location B ---> Report B
etc

So I have this vast river of data, and I just learned I can't trust any of it. Everyone's shitting themselves, and trying to stick their dicks into things. This is fixable, if everyone doesn't dance the Charleston in the lifeboat at the same time. Which means it isn't fixable and everything is doomed.
 
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Replicant Sasquatch said:
I think all you niggers need to do a stint in emergency medicine before you complain about people being rude or whatever other shit you deal with in a job.
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A-fucking-men. Emergency medicine has its own level of exceptional that you have to deal with. I worked in the ER at a level 1 trauma center and... yeah, you summed it up pretty damn well.
Skilled care- I also worked in a facility that had a long term care unit, a postop rehabilitation unit and a dementia unit, and I can't say which was worse... the patients' families or my lazyass coworkers who took hourlong smoke breaks in groups of four, leaving two of us alone on a 30 bed unit. Assholes. (I don't really blame the patients, yeah it was exhausting to deal with the cranky chronically ill long term patients and it sucked getting punched, kicked and bitten by deceptively strong eighty year olds with Alzheimer's but they really couldn't help it.)
 
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Right!

In a past life I was in charge of all the temporary traffic management for a central London borough.

I met a newly appointed supervisor for a utility company, who needed to do a quick and dirty job cleaning out a duct line to install a data cable. Unfortunately the access chamber was smack in the middle of a major junction.

After discussing the available options (temporary traffic lights, lane closures etc), the setting up of which would have taken at least as long as the job itself, he turned to me and uttered the immortal line...

"how about we turn up an a Saturday morning when your not around, and just do the job?"

How he expected a "Yeah, we will only be ignoring 2 acts of parliament and various associated codes of practice, crack on" I'll never understand.
 
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