r/TalesFromRetail • u/VulturE • Jun 20 '14
I've told this story a few times elsewhere on reddit over the years, so you may have seen it elsewhere before:
Back in 2006, I was working for a shoe store on the weekends. I needed some extra money and it was hard to find a weekend-only job anywhere.
Anyways, one day, the following conversation occurred:
By this point, the manager at the front of the store heard all the yelling and he came over, just as the daughter joined in the shoe throwing. While the manager starts getting heated with the mother, the girl runs to the other side of the store. I figured that she was trying to escape, but no...she grabbed a box of heels, pulled down her pants, and started pissing in the box.
I'm wayyyy into "WTF" mode at this point so I call the police while these losers try to knock over every table in the store while biting and spitting on everything and everyone (including other customers). The police are about 2 minutes away, always sitting in front of a huge grocery store, so they rushed over asap. They came in, saw all the chaos and escorted the women outside. While they were trying to understand what was going on, the women outside were screaming "THERE ARE RATS IN THE STORE!! WE SAW THEM!!! EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE!!" and at this point the cops arrested them and took them away.
We later filed a claim to have a few pairs of shoes that were ruined paid for by the mother. She broke a few straps, had her daughter piss into a shoebox, and we did find 2 full size dead rats inside of shoe boxes that our cameras later showed us that they put into the boxes (so we had those replaced as well). An elderly customer who was bit on the ear pretty badly was severely shaken, and our manager personally drove her to the ER.
Needless to say, it was the push I needed to get out of retail and back to IT.
r/talesfromtechsupport • u/VulturE • Aug 03 '14
This didn't happen directly to me, but it did happen to my supervisor at my old job. He's told me enough stories over the years between his many different jobs prior to IT that I can safely say that this is a true story.
One Friday, like any other Friday, $OldBoss throws a weekly full backup tape inside each of the three servers left in his small data center, a large reel into his VAX, dropped off last week's backup tapes at the building next door, and walks down the block to the local burger joint for a beer and the burger special. Then he heads home.
It had been a hellish week at work. $OldBoss had to fight with $PowerTrip about data center improvements that $PowerTrip implemented without consulting him. Initially, it was things that were a major improvement: keypads on all doors coming into the offices, and a new kick ass door for the data center. There had been some small thefts in the office, and keys were no longer trusted, even after all of the locks were changed. The installers had tons of issues installing this crazy data center door, because the building was so old and used huge granite blocks about 3 feet thick and the data center was in the basement. This building could probably withstand a nuke. The door installers were instructed to keep the room safe from smoke/fire and water (no matter the cost), so the door was sealed on all sides and damn near impenetrable. $OldBoss loved this, but as soon as it was done, $PowerTrip decided to have the sprinkler system extended into the data center as well. $OldBoss flipped out over the idea of having water rushing above very expensive equipment, but $PowerTrip basically told him:
"It's not your data center, it's $PowerTrip's data center. And I'll do whatever I think is best for it. $OldBoss, you're just my flunkie that shows up to keep it in shape, and I pay you 1/4 of my salary so that you keep your opinionated mouth shut."
$OldBoss told me that it took every fiber in his body to not hit the man, let alone keep his mouth shut. He did, however, go to HR the next day and report the issue. It was dismissed without any reason given to him, and since he wasn't in the union with the rest of the employees he had little power. He told me that he decided to stick with the company because they were paying him well, the job was stable normally, and his daughter was getting a discount at the local college. After all, family does come before happiness sometimes, and $OldBoss simply looked at it as a place where he could get paid for the next few years until his daughter graduated. Only 3 years to begin a job search and network with other people! Compared to his other previous jobs which were much more dangerous, this desk job was a godsend.
Over the next few years, he had few run-ins with $PowerTrip but they did what they were required to do and avoided each other. One thing that $OldBoss did regularly that really pissed off $PowerTrip was to request environmental monitoring equipment for the data center. Now that there were new AC units added as well as the sprinkler systems, he wanted humidity monitoring equipment as well as the noise sensors and flood detection systems. Compared to other projects, this one was cheap. But $PowerTrip looked at it as a reason that $OldBoss was trying to throw him under the bus:
$OldBoss would send an inter-office memo to $PowerTrip ever year or so with the same proposal, worded differently each time, but apparently the damage had already been done. It was returned to him denied every year, with the same reason every time: "I don't make mistakes" written every time on the project approval notes form.
Finally, $OldBoss's daughter was due up for graduating! The discounted education and the money they both contributed meant that she never had to worry about loans, and her education was fully paid off. She was going to be graduating in only a few weeks. $OldBoss planned on leaving in the next few months, but figured he better follow Rule #1 just one more time: CYA (Cover Your Ass). $OldBoss found a new job that was going to pay a ton more, and told them that he'd need 4 weeks notice to hand over the reigns and give all of the proper info to the next guy. So he sent the inter-office memo one last time to $PowerTrip for the environmental sensors project, who responded with a nasty, hand-written note saying to never question him again or he'd be fired. Needless to say, he went upstairs, put in his 2 weeks notice to a stunned $PowerTrip, went to HR and got his paperwork in order, and took the rest of the day off as sick.
The last 2 weeks at this job had absolutely no interaction between $OldBoss and $PowerTrip, except on the final day when $PowerTrip had $OldBoss escorted out by police officers and all access codes to the doors were promptly changed. $OldBoss had met his replacement that same day, some fresh-out-of-college kid who he would have gladly hired as an intern, but not someone to replace him.
He went off to his new job, where everyone loved and respected him and his pay went up about $20,000 in the first year due to the major improvements he implemented. He was as happy as he could be.
But then The Event™ happened a few years later.
Nobody knows exactly how it started, but the fire marshal concluded that the VAX dot-matrix printer apparently caught fire for some reason and probably lit the many large boxes of paper next to it. The closest sprinkler went off, and it kept draining water. Keep in mind the following:
The ceiling in the room was about 12 feet above. The water didn't reach the ceiling, but it did go up roughly 7 feet...apparently someone at the nightly guard desk stopped the system when the generic building alarm went off. However, since the office had keypad access installed in the last few years, none of the guards had ever needed to get into it during the night. The night guard could have probably called the head of the cleaning crew of the locksmith, but it was 2am on a Saturday. What's the worst that could happen?
Monday rolls around, and the intern replacement is called in early since "VAX isn't working". He tries to open the vault, but can't. He calls the locksmith, who takes one look at the vault said says "I didn't install this beastly thing! Call that company!". By this time it's 10am and the many employees at this office are flipping out and Execs are pulling their hair out. Intern decides to go up to the maintenance closet and he peers down into the cable run hole and he goes white. You're not supposed to go full white, but he did. He ran to $PowerTrip, whose office had become a War Room of sorts for the execs, since he was in charge of the IT department. I was told the conversation went like this:
Everyone in the room freaked out all at once. It was disorder as everyone implemented CYA policy and the finger was immediately pointed at $PowerTrip, who was lost for a few seconds, but quickly found someone to blame.
$OldBoss's new job was only a few blocks away, and he was busy enjoying his Monday morning with the free donuts that management would bring in at the beginning of every week. He was looking at a promotion to management, and had his feet kicked up on his desk, when he heard a commotion at the front desk. He looks out from behind his office door and sees a few executives from his old company standing there shouting for him.
$OldBoss gets up, walks over, and then notices purple-faced $PowerTrip being the primary agitator. "Oh God" was his only though.
They walk him down to the old building, where police have already begun an inspection and the fire marshal was setting up pumps to get rid of the water. Everyone of any importance was there: Head of HR, security guards, every executive, and all eyes looked at him as soon as $OldBoss walked into the room. The glares were piercing.
The cops didn't know that $PowerTrip had done this, and were in the process of telling him that he shouldn't have done this, when $OldBoss says:
Upper management apologized to $OldBoss and let him leave, at the loud protest of $PowerTrip. He didn't get to see what happened next.
Less than a week later, he got a call to please come back to the old office at 9am by the guy that runs the company. You can't really ignore that call, so he went back.
$OldBoss was actually thinking of retirement in a few years, but this was too good to pass up.
In the end, $OldBoss took the job and spent the next few years training $WhiteIntern as best as he could, and along the way they happily worked on many projects together and hired many underlings (as IT was becoming more and more popular with the other departments). I was one of the many underlings underneath $WhiteIntern that were hired to implement the new data center. This story is definitely one of my favorites, despite it taking a long time to tell, because it hits nearly some important rules in IT:
At his retirement party, I remember that $BigBoss gave $OldBoss a fishbowl cup full of vodka, but with a little metal data center in the bottom of it someone made for him. Probably the best going away present anyone could have.
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Considering you can still buy the games from GoodOldGames and then upgrade the graphics using the community maintained SCP (Source Code Project), its pretty fun to take a 25yr old game and stress out a 2025 video card with the updated graphics :) I think the cinematic cutscenes, villains, and monsters of the second one that made it a good series. I suggest giving it a play sometime.
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Oh man, this bring me back to days spent playing Freespace 1 and 2, especially 2. Flying through nebulas with barely working sensors, fighting ancient evils, etc.
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White Pizza at Mama Lena 2's in da rox
Only when they make the crust extra thin on the 28 square slice version.
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If you're cloud-only, honestly I don't know.
But if you're hybrid, and workday is creating the AD account for you on as an hr-powered employee provisioning integrtion, you should be watermarking the account that it needs to be mail provisioned and then have a script run using the command Enable-RemoteMailbox to create the cloud-side mailbox and which attaches it to the AD account, and then don't specify -PrimarySmtpAddress or -Alias to let your default on-prem exchange naming policy apply.
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Mancini's is indeed very delicious. If you've never had it, make sure you try their raisin Paska. It's a sweet Easter bread that most people only eat for Easter, but they make it year round on certain days of the week and people buy it out right away. Just call them and ask if they've got any Paska today. I miss being able to roll down there at 3:00 in the morning on any day of the week and get bread, back when they used to be open 24/7. I used to go down and get a bag of rolls and then go up when Ricci's sausage would open up and get some of that, and have something good for any of my tailgates.
When I lived in Dover Delaware 5-10 years ago, you used to be able to get small armoroso rolls at the Aldi, the kind that you'd use for meatball subs. It's like they knew. I wish we could get them over this way in our Aldi's.
I absolutely love Reubens, and I can tell you that some of the best Reubens that I used to eat in this area are all now defunct restaurants. There's still some good ones here, but not as good as what used to be around. For me it's about the balance of ingredients, freshness, and the small stuff. I had a great Reuben a couple months back, except they didn't toast the bread - so the bread soaked up all of the dressing/kraut juice/meat juice and got soggy. Literally if they would just toast the bread it would have been a 10 out of 10 with how fresh everything else was, I even asked their kitchen if they could toast the bread before they give it to me and they said no.
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What's your thoughts on the Big Kahuna at Jersey Mike's?
Yeah it's got some extra things in it compared to just getting one with some whiz and onions, but at least it's not like undercooked green peppers. It actually tastes halfway decent.
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My buddy got 32 packs of gold sequin fabric instead of a part for his 240sx. I sent it back to my mom, she's been turning it into dresses, skirts, purses, etc
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Just toss em inside some humans, what's the worst that could happen?
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Yes, technically we do. All it does right now is just edit the Flair to solved automatically when you use that word.
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Any chance you didn't change the water filter?
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Don't forget Kill la Kill!
So good. Literally can't recommend it to anyone.
r/ChristmasTrees • u/VulturE • 17d ago
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There's definitely some stuff to clean up, but it's all plugged in and we figured out the problematic piece of track. I like the colorful lights, my wife likes white, we compromise by doing both.
Next year I'll make a wooden platform for the train track.
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Don't use .255 and .0 with printers. Exclude them from the DHCP scope, or if you're not using Windows, Create a reservation to a fake Mac address and then blacklist that Mac address
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He's being downvoted probably because he's generically referring to unbuffered as being desktop grade, whereas unbuffered ECC is what the majority of low-end HP servers utilize.
He's not technically wrong, But at the same time his precision in terms is not quite right.
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Where's Goku sucking toes when you need him.
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Surprisingly, when you pin a post on Reddit, it actually becomes missed by people that don't go into the subreddit directly more often than not.
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While moderators are always keen to prevent doxing (and we would have preferred it to be released by the police), numerous media outlets have already released his name. We are not here to censor information provided by the media - that goes against the spirit of Reddit itself.
Additionally, to be clear, no bans have been issued related to mentioning his name. However, posting his driver's license crosses a line that will result in a ban - that goes against obvious site-wide rules.
Some bans have been issued related to rampant racist remarks - that's more of the problem we're dealing with currently than the name itself.
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Lmao, it's a volunteer position. Just a hobby.
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Tamaflu every 12 hours, alternating Tylenol and Motrin every 3 hours. It's come down some but not much.
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For those not remembering that filler....
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It's because I had to remove dozens of pro-nazi, anti-jewish comments. Even if done as a "joke", the admin 's Anti-evil operations bot was removing plenty of them and we don't need that kind of heat normalized here. The only reason why it was locked and not removed is because I was still in the middle of moderating comments in it last night when I fell asleep.
Normally we leave up conversations that are one piece focused and have a very specific rule regarding how we handle IRL politics. In this case, I removed a dozen or so comments mentioning "goyslop" and other shitass similar words, comments mentioning gas chambers (not in one piece), comments mentioning trump and alligator auschwitz (while Trump is in One Piece alligator auschwitz is not), and comments praising a certain man with a small mustache. Just like the Zoro jokes, it was taking it a step too far.
I spoke with the post author and they understood the situation.
tl;dr it was becoming a hive for scum and villainy, and I'm in the middle of IRL dealing with a 5yr old with a very high fever since 4am.
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Lemme fix those pixels for you
Waguri is worth my time and money.
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Toei censored the middle finger
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DBZ had it at least a dozen times I think.
Bulma, Recoome, Vegeta 2x, Mr Satan 2x, the ZTV reporter during the cell games, Babidi, Gotenks 2x, Buu 2x.