I love that he knows you so well, that he immediately goes to “sick power play”, I think this says good things about you :)
At least the manager seemed to have a good sense of humor about it.
Has it gotten so bad that you have to send stuff to the manager to get it printed?
At my work it’s just an intranet with no outside email access. Only the store manager has that. You also are not allowed to plug in USBs to anything. So if you want something printed that was not emailed on the Interoffice mail, you have to email it to the store manager.
I guess you either work for a company with highly sensitive data, or the IT people are overdramatizing a tad bit.
I also believe that IT security is important, but it should remain reasonable.
Sounds to me like more of a power play by management than a sensible security concept.
They said store so I assume they work in retail. Why would a retail employee need a company email? And not allowing people to plug in USB sticks into an intranet (especially with POS machines) is just standard operating procedures.
I could see a small office where the printer is just directly attached to one person’s computer.
Yes, that’s probably how it is here. Still, it’s strange, considering that most reasonably modern printers are fairly easy to set up for any company network.
Presumably, not much is printed here, as there is hardly any need for it anymore.
I had a job where they disabled access to all printers. If you needed a hard copy, you had to email the document to the printer admins and they would print after reviewing it.
Similarly, they were too cheap to pay for zoom licenses so if you needed a meeting longer than 40 minutes, you had to email the zoom admins with the list of attendees and they would create it.
But getting a repeating zoom meeting scheduled was virtually impossible.
Did anyone ever tell you the back story for that rule?
The general answer is every stupid rule was an over reaction to something.
And the owner runs it like a gas station and assumes everyone is stealing from the till.
Thank you for the insight
I’ve seen offices where only a few people were able to connect to the network printer and just ask people if they can print it.
Usually they’ve tries using flash drives but many large printers are also terrible at reading pdf files from them.
Yeah, they often leave out the text in pdf forms. And the drive has to be formatted in a way yours isn’t.
It’s amazing that the faster Ethernet gets and the more powerful network devices become, the fewer things we can do.
Why wouldn’t just about everyone get the ability to print on the device whose sole purpose is to print things? If everything is set up right, you can even set per-user policies so Jarrett doesn’t waste ink printing 50 AI pictures of kittens to hang in his soulless office cubicle.
because printers are evil
And tons of companies block flash drive access now
i always assumed the OP was just home and didn’t have a printer there
Gonna have to try this at least once
Hehe
killed me
Context matter bruh hahahhahahah.
Microsoft office 👻
i HATE microsoft. am a software developer. but literally corporations make you use their shit. how could you even avoid it? having no job or something?
Ye duh
There are many software solutions but people just pretend they don’t exist. Herd mentality. If you water a plant it grows.
We know alternatives exist… They’re not always available.
Holy shit. Read what you reply to first
when YOUR JOB says, “here’s Outlook, fucking use it” what else can you do. did you even read what i wrote?
You think it’s bad when every single source of education uses the garbage
? How? -> LibreOffice
Have you never worked in an office before? IT doesn’t just let you install whatever you want on work machines.
We know alternatives exist… They’re not always available.
Skill issue. Find a better job, duh.
That would be a very stupid reason to search for a new job.
Recruiter: “Oh, I see you left your previous company soon after joining, what happened there?”
“They used Microsoft products, so I refused to touch the computers”
Recruiter “…”
Depends. It’s a factor. My previous employer was acquired by enormous American megacorp, and the first thing they started is forcing Microsoft infrastructure on us, a software development company that had Linux infra already in place. It immediately made all the work a bit more frustrating. Some people left because of that, and they were right to do so, things got way worse since then.
Or if you use your own machine, you still have to collaborate in ways that require Office for one reason or another.
None of my desk jobs have ever allowed a personal computer because of the risk of data leaking.
Was cautioned about an employee at our competitor who used a personal device, it was stolen and it had client data on it including some of their IP, and when that client took legal action, because the employee acted out of company policy they were on the hook for it.
-> technical device - for productive employees that’s an actual option, but you may have to prove to the organization that they benefit from enabling your full potential
Maybe for the positions you may have been in; had I used Linux at any of those other jobs there would constantly be document compatibility issues between LibreOffice and Word, and in an IT position I wouldn’t be able to replicate issues a user is facing, unable to read Windows memory dumps or event logs on my own machine, the RMM doesn’t have a client for a tech to use on Linux, and that’s just scratching the surface.
The benefits of Linux for me (no ads, no telemetry, familiarity of the terminal and config files, open source, privacy, sticking it to big tech, etc.) just don’t translate into things that would make me more productive at work.
only in jobs were you’d be looking for a way out. The only things you can’t do in LibreOffice is be 100% layout identical with the same document opened in Nadella-asshole-soft office (but still you get reasonably close), use macros (and people who create documents with non-VBA macros deserve to be slapped anyways) or use VBA (that’s the real downside, especially in spreadsheet calculations). LibreOffice Basic isn’t really practical to use, sadly.
Uhh, no. There are collaborative tools in Office that are used by the sorts of people who don’t know what LibreOffice is. There’s also certain internal policies that tend to classify information in ways that work with Office.
There are collaborative tools in Office that are used by the sorts of people who don’t know what LibreOffice is.
I know. But I do not see how those would keep the knowledgeable people from working in LibreOffice and saving their documents in OOXML.
There’s also certain internal policies that tend to classify information in ways that work with Office.
If an organization relies on “classifying information in ways that work with Office”, the IT security probably has no idea what they are doing.
well 'scuse you, but you said you were a software developer. any SW dev worth their money can at the very least get a self-administrated technical device not to be hooked up to the intranet, because corporate IT sucks donkeyballs.
What would be the point of that?
You’re just saying dumb shit now to avoid having to admit you’re just wrong.
if I have to explain to you what the point of a technical device that you can self-administrate would be, then chances are you are not a software developer.
… What purpose would a not-connected-to-the-intranet device serve for my job which requires I check in my code to the local fucking intranet.
You have no fucking idea what software developers do, do you? You think IT is going to be fine with usb drives being used to transfer proprietary code back and forth - that’s a security nightmare and not worth the effort. Not that it would work because the is be unable to connect to the servers or databases the code I’m developing uses.
Having a self administered machine, in the office, that I can’t use to do my job is pointless
Thank you for confirming you have never worked in an office.
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i’ve been using open office for decades. do you really think i hate microsoft but just needed to hear about open office? I’m talking about at work, like this fucking meme is referencing.
you literally asked “how” people could avoid nadella-asshole-microshit software
And we’re back to “dump everything into c/memes” again… Stop being lazy.
Not at all the point but whatever. Twist it however you want.
“Stop having fun!”
Is it only a meme if it is shared elsewhere before it is posted to a community about sharing memes? Is c/memes limited to sloppy seconds?
I get his argument. I personally don’t mind it, but people are trying to curate their feeds better. Memes should ideally be for memes.
This better belongs in whitepeopletwitter. Do we have one on Lemmy yet?
Define meme
I second this. Memes used to be image macros and All Your Base. Now any Tumblr screenshot or 4chan greentext seems to count depending on who you ask.
Take me back to cats wanting burgers
Long cat is loooooooong
That is a more specific meme community.
This is a no fun zone! No smiling here! Do you think this is a happy place? This isn’t a happy place, get back to work!
Unfortunately, both this community and the shitposts community allow people to post whatever, per the community rules. This one has no rule about what a meme is, and shitposting explicitly allows whatever.
I used to care too, but it’s just wasted effort.
True.
