Need Help with Office politics
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In place upgrades are available from nt to 2000 and upwards. But always from n to n+1.
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I forgot rule #37 of the Internetz:
Don't use sarcasm or hyperbole
:'(
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There are several ways to indicate that you're doing so ...
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Of course, if your sarcasm/ hyperbole is obvious enough, you don't need these indicators.
Having the cake at the end made it look more like you were completely serious, at least to me.
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Not sure about any of the NTs, though.
Any of the NTs from Vista on will, under some circumstances, allow in-place upgrade.
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I'd take a dozen of so good QA testers over a hundred off the street user-turned-tester any day.
Some of the QA at our work pretty much make me reproduce the issue by writing my own test as theirs can't be run without some sort of magical incantation and sacrifice.
Usually I don't get the log reports or test logs but just some screenshot (even though UI is largely irrelevant in my work).
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A fun one I used to get was a screenshot (embedded in a word document, natch) of the application after failing, with a generic error message above a "More Details" button which was, of course, never expanded. Mostly this was from clients so there was a limit to how acerbic I could be when asking for some actual details, but when internal people sent the same thing, they got a quick lesson in what a helpful error report looks like
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I'd take a dozen of so good QA testers over a hundred off the street user-turned-tester any day. Some of the QA at our work pretty much make me reproduce the issue by writing my own test as theirs can't be run without some sort of magical incantation and sacrifice. Usually I don't get the log reports or test logs but just some screenshot (even though UI is largely irrelevant in my work).
The worst bug report I ever got was a screenshot pasted into word, printed, and scanned back in. The scan was then emailed into our help desk with a description like "It won't save".
I wish I was exaggerating.
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I got those as well when I was in a dev role. Ugh.
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but when internal people sent the same thing, they got a quick lesson in what a helpful error report looks like
i have a form letter for that.
Closed - CNR - LOCKED
Based on your error report a developer has attempted to reproduce the issue for debugging and has not been able to make the issue present itself.Dev believes this was therefore a transitory error and should no longer be an issue. If issue is still patent please open a new ticket with detailed reproduction steps.
Thank you and have a fluffy day.
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Dev believes this was therefore a transitory error and should no longer be an issue. If issue is still patent please open a new ticket with detailed reproduction steps.
Ok, patent law has gone too far now.
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Adjective form definition 1. ;-)
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What's that sound?
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What's that sound?
the sound of at least one of us wooshing. trouble is with this echo in here i cna't tell which one of us wooshed and which one was making a funny.
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My patent law post was definitely in jest, after that climate change/patent law thread.
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wait. that one morphed into patent law? i thought it was still firmly stuck in climate chaos.....
/me wanders off to reread the C language blog thread to confirm.
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For a good 50 posts or so. I think that it was around post 222.
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It was only temporary.
I just realized I should have said "It got better."
Filed Under: Missed opportunities
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i have transfered my like from your previous comment to this one.
huzzah!
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+č for the use of "huzzah!"
I have been hearing a radio commercial lately--I think it's for a sub shop or something, the punch line involves a stupid conversation about "pastrame". Anyway at the end the announcer gives the idiots a suggestion, probably to buy a second damn sub and shut up already, and I'm pretty sure one of the three of them says "bully for you." I like to imagine whoever it was as non-ironically wearing a Teddy Roosevelt-style moustache and monocle.
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clearly you didn't bother reading post #80
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Clearly you've never had anyone start a reply to you with the word 'clearly'.
...Or seen any of the users here mention that thing about the internet and reposts.
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Oops. Couldn't be bothered rechecking the whole topic to see if it had been done already.
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Oops. Couldn't be bothered rechecking the whole topic to see if it had been done already.
You should be more careful the internet does not tolerate redundant information.
Clearly you've never had anyone start a reply to you with the word 'clearly'.
That was true the first time I read it.
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Not quite as bad but what our HR department did is, for the 2015 vacation days they embedded a HOL file inside a docx file. So it basically became a Windows/Outlook only thing as most email clients don't support HOL file format and why they didn't just attach an ICS file is beyond my comprehension.
When questioning the person who did it they pretty much said they don't care as they only want to serve Outlook users.
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I've worked with one tester who was golden,sadly
left workescaped a couple months back.FTFY
administrivia
LOL - I'm going to steal that next time I'm pigeonholed into writing endless reports! I'm sure I'll get a few people here to appreciate it!
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I seriously don't know which way i should head anymore
Sorry if someone already answered this, as I've seen a few "don't know" responses to this point and reading Discourse at 2AM is not recommended. Anyhow:
Just pick one (or two) and go with that (those), chance of success > 0%. If you stay indecisive, chance of success = 0% as you'll be literally accomplishing nothing. Even if the platform you picked is dropped completely, there will still be legacy apps that need support while you ramp up another skill.
Side effects may include setting goals, focusing, feelings of accomplishment, creative coding "just to see what this does", and possibly even happiness. You have been warned. ;-)
LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You
