I don't need IT, ipads fuck ralara every day (IT thread)

[Liare]

last day before summer vacation, it starts tomorrow when i leave work (and it being friday, and this being a civilized country, we got "flex hours" so i can sod off at lunch if i want)

am really looking forward to potter around for two weeks doing nothing but indulging in my geekiness and enjoying beer out of a freshly cleaned fridge. (i may have murdered several new species in the process of that though)

edit.
i just realised that post was more DT content than IT thread content, so here's some IT related content.

i got the helldesk shift this week, and our aircon is out because it's so fucking nasty that it qualifies as a biological weapon if we turn it on, the helldesk area is in the reception section of our department as it doubles as a "personal" contact point too, the kicker ?

its kind of cordoned off from the rest of the department, but in direct sunlight the whole day, so no wind moving and lots of sun, the thermometer hit 40 just after lunch and i have been nodding off most of the day, not a lot of people coming trough, must be related to the smell of a large sweaty bloke, or the fact that there's less than 1/5th of the staff present, take your pick.

[Itiken]

http://sysadminday.com/
Sysadmin appreciation day
there's best be fucking cakes, or i'm going postal on the mail server.

[Ralara]

I give up.

I completely give up.


So... following on from the ipad debacle...

they were meant to be rolled out and up and running after testing by the end of next week.

A couple of days ago the CEO (personally) went to our software development team and demanded that this new app thing for signing up customers has the ability to process debit card transactions. The ipads have already departed! We can't recall them. So the devs rush around trying to make a version 2 of whatever app it is installed on em. But crucially, THEY DO NOT TELL ANYONE ELSE IN IT. No one in projects knew, the support staff didn't know, change manager didn't know - no one outside of 3 people in IT knew.

Then today, out of the blue at 12:30, we start getting e-mails and calls from our [remote places] saying that "the update has failed" and the "2pm deadline" is going to be missed.

So we're like... what? What update? This isn't going live until next week? 2pm?

what?



We get forwarded an e-mail from the head of IT who sent out to all our remote locations (150 of the damn things) saying that it is going live today at 2pm and a new version needs installing.

On locked down ipads which dont have local admin rights.

so you can guess the entire shit storm that happened - crashed the update server, jammed the internet lines of the offices with the updates... nothing is working, a second update is pushed out somehow which disabled wifi on the devices, half the sites don't have a phone signal in them /o\

more and more and more calls (up to 400 support tickets logged in 3 hours).....

Anyway... just about most of it is either fixed or a test is going on or something and 1 site finally manages to get all the updates and be online and SUCCE... nope, "this content requires adobe flash"


...

i burst out laughing.

The app team... made an app... for APPLE iPADS... which uses / needs / whatever... adobe flash player.


I took my phone off the hook and set my out of office and blocked out my public diary with "meeting".

About to go to the pub.

[Irrelephant]

Haha, oh wow. You are already looking for other jobs i hope?

[Itiken]

Genius.

[firefoxx80]

Oh, that is superb. Have some rep.

[Muffinsrevenger]

The app team... made an app... for APPLE iPADS... which uses / needs / whatever... adobe flash player.

I took my phone off the hook and set my out of office and blocked out my public diary with "meeting".

About to go to the pub.

Thank you, just... Thanks you!

[halbarad]

I thought our place had some screw ups recently but that's pretty bad.

[Liare]

once you got another job, you are just going to have to name these people, i want to make sure we never do business with them, ever.

[Ophichius]

Good god Ralara. How the..what the...I don't even...

Find another job, stat!

And then give us all the juicy details on the idiots you're currently working for.

-O

[kzig]

This is front page Daily WTF material, right here!

[Daneel Trevize]

Ralara, king of the IT thread!

[Ralara]

just FYI currently VERY DRUNK and my mate is about to give me a nice 10 inch ... SPLIFF

and then im visiting one of our offices because DHCP has broken and about 30 PCs need to be manually IPed up before server team fixes in the morning... i volunteered ebcause 1) I will put in 3 hours overtime (it'll take less, clearly, but why not?) and 2) i am drinking at the pub next to them.


haha omg, sooooooooooooooooo lol.

i hope i done get fired tomorrow.

[Frug]

Fucking brilliant, Ral. You shouldn't, but someone else should get let go for handling that. That's worse than the crap we do here.

Flash on an ipad. how can you possibly know how to code for an ipad and do that?

[Ralara]

still at work


but nomming on 6 hours overtime now. it's like £20 an hour.


fffff sacul i know u earn 100x that

for me it's \o/ cos im moving out in september

[filingo]

updated title

[Cydo]

Power station command have asked for a PI chart showing outage and downtime infos (nevermind the fact we have a dedicated PI team with system).

First "Iteration" of the agile project (srs shouldn't be an agile there wasn't a second iteration planned, its projects jumping on the badwagon) dev delivers and customers say "we have that already, wtf is this shit" - turns out its pretty much the same as what they have already.

Dev (who is my mate) says back "it's exactly as specified" and shows them the spec. They go quiet and a day later announce they are paying for a second iteration, got to lol.

I think our projects team leader must have a magic hat she can pull work out of, they are literally dragging things out so much.

[Lana Torrin]

updated title

I approve of this new title.

[Liare]

i +rep's Filingo for the new title.

also, i am not supposed to be reading this, being on vacation

[Lana Torrin]

i +rep's Filingo for the new title.

also, i am not supposed to be reading this, being on vacation

Jelly!