You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Now with 3x more gears...

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Today is a probably a good day to go home early. Last night our IT group had a scheduled outage to replace a switch in our datacenter. Of course that has screwed everything up this morning and none of BI reports updated at their scheduled times. Now I need to track down where the issues stems and get this resolved. I also brought some new pants into the office today. Changed into those after my bike ride and within the first five minutes of wearing them I spilt coffee on them. It is going to be a long day.

Edit: if things weren't bad enough before our network went down at the downtown office now so no work can get done.

Do they not have backups/rollbacks? Go back to the previous day?

[woob]

Originally Posted by Reggie28

My 2022 F-350 will not take a full jug. The Chevy/GMC trucks I have ran take the full jug and have room for more.

Yeah, our VW wagon won't take a full jug either, and it annoys me to no end. Huge kudos to any manufacturer who builds their resevoir to take a full 4L jug. I love my Sierra for that.

[woob]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

Do they not have backups/rollbacks? Go back to the previous day?

Sounds like either they didnt let BI know that this data center switch replacement could impact their scheduled report runs, or the BI group didn't plan for a manual report run after IT was done their switch cutover?

Regarding a rollback plan on the cutover, maybe they couldn't rollback on to the old switch due to hardware failure or such?

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by woob

Sounds like either they didnt let BI know that this data center switch replacement could impact their scheduled report runs, or the BI group didn't plan for a manual report run after IT was done their switch cutover?

Regarding a rollback plan on the cutover, maybe they couldn't rollback on to the old switch due to hardware failure or such?

I was told that there was going to be network outage from 6 to 8pm last night. All of my data migration/ETL and report updates occur between midnight and 7am should I shouldn't have been impacted. But nothing ever goes as planned and whatever was done yesterday has brought down my processes today. I can't even trigger a manual update because I get a server connection error. Whatever, hopefully tomorrow is a better day.

[Shazam]

Good god, considering how trivial it is to have redundant switches wtf.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Shazam

Good god, considering how trivial it is to have redundant switches wtf.

Sounds like it isn't the switch that's the issue. I always for computer stuff say that worst case scenario is to reverse what was done to get it back to where things were before.

Someone must have triggered something in the software (ie: Update or hardware recognition) that broke everything in a manner it could not be reversed.

[TorqueDog]

I have been spending the weekend and part of this week trying to unpack in my new place, which currently looks like the moving truck exploded inside it.

Last night, it was about 9:27 PM, I hadn’t eaten anything for dinner, so I decided to treat myself to a Clive Burger and vanilla custard shake via Skip. I go through and put my order together, then a friend sends me a quick text which I go and respond to. Flip back to Skip, place the order and “your order is empty”.

What? What do you mean my order is empty? I can see my order, it’s right there.

Sure enough, I back out of the restaurant menu all the way, go back in, and… they’re now only delivering f—king beer. I guess their food order cut-off is 9:30 PM (which it doesn’t mention anywhere). Why in the hell would I want to order beer from Clive Burger? At least say it somewhere that there’s a separate cut-off for food and for beer, pricks.

[CroFlames]

Holy cow I would be fuming. That is a legit GG.

[GirlySports]

You should call them, it might be a glitch in the system they might not even be aware of. They close at 10pm so I guess there's a cut off for food. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't just deliver beer either, that would be stupid.

[Erick Estrada]

You know it doesn't matter where you live or who your neighbors are. Every year the same thing. The signs come up a week ahead and always a bunch of vehicles left on the street when the street cleaners come by despite empty driveways up and down the streets.

Also when you make the mistake of picking up the phone with a telemarketer on the other side and rather than be a dick, you politely give them a moment to say their thing and then in the middle of you saying thanks but no thanks, they abruptly hang up on you. And these people wonder why nobody wants to talk to them.

[Weitz]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

You know it doesn't matter where you live or who your neighbors are. Every year the same thing. The signs come up a week ahead and always a bunch of vehicles left on the street when the street cleaners come by despite empty driveways up and down the streets.

Also when you make the mistake of picking up the phone with a telemarketer on the other side and rather than be a dick, you politely give them a moment to say their thing and then in the middle of you saying thanks but no thanks, they abruptly hang up on you. And these people wonder why nobody wants to talk to them.

Thankfully I don’t live around a bunch of animals.

[btimbit]

I can't wait to move the car that I keep on the road just to have someone else park there anyway. Always feel like a fool when I'm out there sweeping up gravel myself because of some other ignorant twat

[cam_calderon]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

You know it doesn't matter where you live or who your neighbors are. Every year the same thing. The signs come up a week ahead and always a bunch of vehicles left on the street when the street cleaners come by despite empty driveways up and down the streets.

Also when you make the mistake of picking up the phone with a telemarketer on the other side and rather than be a dick, you politely give them a moment to say their thing and then in the middle of you saying thanks but no thanks, they abruptly hang up on you. And these people wonder why nobody wants to talk to them.

Why do you take the call? Unless it's work related where you might need to answer unknown numbers, I can't see any reason to answer.

[Ironhorse]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

You know it doesn't matter where you live or who your neighbors are. Every year the same thing. The signs come up a week ahead and always a bunch of vehicles left on the street when the street cleaners come by despite empty driveways up and down the streets.

The city enables this behaviour with their soft, kid gloves treatment. If they actually towed cars like they say, this would not be an issue. Have a fleet of two dozen tow trucks move in at 8:00am; then these useless twats will learn in a hurry.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Ironhorse

The city enables this behaviour with their soft, kid gloves treatment. If they actually towed cars like they say, this would not be an issue. Have a fleet of two dozen tow trucks move in at 8:00am; then these useless twats will learn in a hurry.

To make it more efficient (and fun), the tow trucks can move the vehicles into the nearest driveway with space. Hopefully the shame they feel when their neighbours come by and ask them to get their car out of their driveway will be some good negative reinforcement.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Wormius

To make it more efficient (and fun), the tow trucks can move the vehicles into the nearest driveway with space. Hopefully the shame they feel when their neighbours come by and ask them to get their car out of their driveway will be some good negative reinforcement.

Why are you punishing me and my empty driveway? The neighbor isn't going to curse at the city, they will curse indirectly at me.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by Wormius

To make it more efficient (and fun), the tow trucks can move the vehicles into the nearest driveway with space. Hopefully the shame they feel when their neighbours come by and ask them to get their car out of their driveway will be some good negative reinforcement.

Better would be loaded in to flatbeds for the inpound lot.

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by Ironhorse

The city enables this behaviour with their soft, kid gloves treatment. If they actually towed cars like they say, this would not be an issue. Have a fleet of two dozen tow trucks move in at 8:00am; then these useless twats will learn in a hurry.

Unrelated but it’s funny how we’ve decided as a society that twat is acceptable but a c-major isn’t.

They both cut. And mean the same thing.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

Unrelated but it’s funny how we’ve decided as a society that twat is acceptable but a c-major isn’t.

They both cut. And mean the same thing.

I think in Britain they still use c-major. It has a different meaning then used in the US.

Words are banned based on sexism or racism and C-major and twat in England aren't gender specific.

In America, people call women specially C-major, not men. And Americans don't use twat so they haven't banned it.

[SportsJunky]

I always have to stop and think wait, is it "affect" or "effect"? I should know this by now but it still trips me up.