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    • WrCombs
      WrCombs @scottalanmiller last edited by

      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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      @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      Meetings. Always meetings.

      employees forgetting to clockout.. always employees forgetting to clockout

      hahaha

      I wish I was joking ; every day I get a call from one of these customer about someone not clocking out.

      Any why do you and or your company care? that's an HR issue of your client's - there is literally nothing you can do to make them clock out.

      Are they paying you to listen to them whine that they don't do their own portion of HR?

      Because they call us to help get them clocked out or resolve the issues with clock in / out when it's messing with their real time labor reports.

      and to add - this is part of being a Managed system provider for POS systems - we have to be able to help them with every part of the POS - so when people don't clock out it causes issues in the front of house, especially when they decide to try and fix it themselves without talking to us first; which is an easy fix - It's a training issue from corporate that I've brought up multiple times

      It is not. What are you are doing is nothing to do with being an MSP. MSPs support on the IT side, they don't do the work for the end users.

      Imagine being an ERP MSP, and being expected to enter new products or pack boxes. Sure, you can offer those services, but at that point you are becoming the manager, not doing an MSP service.

      It is to the powers at be in this fucking company.

      Yes, the non-MSP powers.

      you would be surprised how often that is thrown out during discussions with new clients

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      • scottalanmiller
        scottalanmiller @WrCombs last edited by

        @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        Meetings. Always meetings.

        employees forgetting to clockout.. always employees forgetting to clockout

        hahaha

        I wish I was joking ; every day I get a call from one of these customer about someone not clocking out.

        Any why do you and or your company care? that's an HR issue of your client's - there is literally nothing you can do to make them clock out.

        Are they paying you to listen to them whine that they don't do their own portion of HR?

        Because they call us to help get them clocked out or resolve the issues with clock in / out when it's messing with their real time labor reports.

        and to add - this is part of being a Managed system provider for POS systems - we have to be able to help them with every part of the POS - so when people don't clock out it causes issues in the front of house, especially when they decide to try and fix it themselves without talking to us first; which is an easy fix - It's a training issue from corporate that I've brought up multiple times

        It is not. What are you are doing is nothing to do with being an MSP. MSPs support on the IT side, they don't do the work for the end users.

        Imagine being an ERP MSP, and being expected to enter new products or pack boxes. Sure, you can offer those services, but at that point you are becoming the manager, not doing an MSP service.

        It is to the powers at be in this fucking company.

        Yes, the non-MSP powers.

        you would be surprised how often that is thrown out during discussions with new clients

        It's not a bad thing, it's just not an MSP service. Doing the operations of customers is not, in any way, MSP. Just like how having a service plan on your car doesn't include a chauffeur.

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        • scottalanmiller
          scottalanmiller last edited by

          We will do that stuff for our clients too. But we charge for it, and show that it is cheaper to have us do it than to have their own staff do it. We've had DIRECTORS of customers fired before because they realized that for less than minimum wage prices we could do the work part time that their full time salaried director could not. Saved themselves an easy $80K eliminating their director with an hourly secretary from us, lol.

          We weren't just a fraction of the cost, we did the work that she couldn't handle doing!

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          • JaredBusch
            JaredBusch @scottalanmiller last edited by

            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            having a service plan on your car doesn't include a chauffeur.

            fuck, I have to drive myself?

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            • gjacobse
              gjacobse last edited by

              By no means am I well versed in using Powershell, but I’ve managed to put a decent effort in solving some day to day tasks to a few scripts… likely a better way to accomplish what I have this far- I’m a realist - but it works and solves the tasks as is…

              In a single script;
              Bitlocker: check, disable, enable and push code to AD
              Did/enable computer account, adds date and ticket when disabled
              Connection test
              Reboot with message.

              Spot for TPM check- still sorting that.

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              • RojoLoco
                RojoLoco last edited by

                Sipping on some cold brew. Got a new rig for Xmas, but we just opened it up this week. 1st batch is great, a bit on the lighter side (only 12 hrs brew time). And we used fine ground coffee since that's what we had on hand. Coarse ground is on the way, but I'll probably make a 2nd batch with some fine grind.

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                "Recipe" if anyone is interested:

                3 cups fine ground coffee, light roast
                1 gallon of spring water

                Pour water slowly through coffee grounds, stirring with a chopstick as you go. Refrigerate for 12 hours, pull the filter out slowly, letting it drain well.

                Next batch will be 24hr.

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                • scottalanmiller
                  scottalanmiller last edited by

                  Coffee here. Just had the first morning meeting. Wife is shopping for a backpack for me. I head out to go backpacking for almost a month starting in four days. Two weeks with one of my employees, then two weeks with @Texkonc

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                  • scottalanmiller
                    scottalanmiller @JaredBusch last edited by

                    @JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    having a service plan on your car doesn't include a chauffeur.

                    fuck, I have to drive myself?

                    Sucks, right?

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                    • EddieJennings
                      EddieJennings last edited by

                      Reading about nginx configuration.

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                      • jt1001001
                        jt1001001 @EddieJennings last edited by

                        My now 7 year old birthday party today. Sadly, interrupted with a frantic call and now waiting at the ER as my dad fell earlier today.

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                        • EddieJennings
                          EddieJennings @jt1001001 last edited by

                          @jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          My now 7 year old birthday party today. Sadly, interrupted with a frantic call and now waiting at the ER as my dad fell earlier today.

                          I hope your father's ok.

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                          • jt1001001
                            jt1001001 @EddieJennings last edited by

                            @EddieJennings Thanks. He's stable but still in the hospital getting more test done.

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                            • JaredBusch
                              JaredBusch last edited by

                              Fun times!!!!
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                              • scottalanmiller
                                scottalanmiller last edited by

                                Getting ready for my trip! I'm off on vacation in 40 hours!

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                                • scottalanmiller
                                  scottalanmiller @jt1001001 last edited by

                                  @jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  My now 7 year old birthday party today. Sadly, interrupted with a frantic call and now waiting at the ER as my dad fell earlier today.

                                  oh no, that really sucks. 😞

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                                  • EddieJennings
                                    EddieJennings last edited by

                                    Digging through Fedora Infra's Ansible repo to figure out how something works, so I can then work on a ticket 🙂

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                                    • scottalanmiller
                                      scottalanmiller last edited by

                                      Last minute uploads and packing!

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                                      • JaredBusch
                                        JaredBusch last edited by

                                        Just landed in Fort Lauderdale.
                                        Here for ITEXPO

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                                        • RojoLoco
                                          RojoLoco last edited by

                                          After talking to the area's top Subaru expert, I have discovered that my trusty '06 Outback is beyond repair. Apparently the flat 6 motor is ridiculous to work on, and if my car had the regular 4 cylinder, repairs would be very reasonable. At least it has a bunch of catalytic converters that are worth $$, and some other new-ish parts to sell. Hopefully some Subaru enthusiast will buy her to rebuild.

                                          Now I just have to actually find another car... they seem to be in short supply these days.

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                                          • scottalanmiller
                                            scottalanmiller @JaredBusch last edited by

                                            @JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            Just landed in Fort Lauderdale.
                                            Here for ITEXPO

                                            Cool, have fun!

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