- So, registered for meta.d
- got a PM from "Jeff"
- PM showed 4 icons
- meta.d has 3
- just got banned from my own bug report
- Total time: 10 minutes.
literally LOL'd when I got blocked from my own bug report.
literally LOL'd when I got blocked from my own bug report.
Facebook strikes again (kind of):
Parallel lines have so much in common.
It's a shame they'll never meet.
My wife accused me of being immature.
I told her to get out of my fort.
Women only call me ugly until they find out how much money I make. Then they call me ugly and poor.
How many Germans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
One, they're efficient and not very funny.
What do you call a dog with no legs.
It doesn't matter; it's not going to come.
Someone stole my Microsoft Office and they're gonna pay.
You have my Word.
What's green, fuzzy, and if it fell out of a tree it would kill you?
A pool table.
Apparently, someone in London gets stabbed every 52 seconds.
Poor bastard.
How do you find Will Smith in the snow?
You look for the fresh prints.
I went to a really emotional wedding the other day.
Even the cake was in tiers.
We have a genetic predisposition for diarrhea.
Runs in our jeans.
A physicist sees a young man about to jump off the Empire State Building.
He yells "Don't do it! You have so much potential!"
A hot blonde orders a double entendre at the bar.
The bartender gave it to her.
Want to hear a word I just made up?
Plagiarism.
Why do cows wear bells?
Because their horns don't work.
What did the pirate say when he turned 80?
Aye Matey.
To the handicapped guy who stole my bag -
You can hide but you can't run.
I took the shell off my racing snail, thinking it would make him run faster.
If anything, it made him more sluggish.
And the Lord said unto John, "Come forth and you will receive eternal life"
But John came fifth, and won a toaster.
Q: How do you think the unthinkable?
A: With an itheberg.
Someone stole my mood ring,
I don't know how I feel about that.
I tried to catch fog yesterday,
Mist.
The first rule of Alzheimer's club,
Is don't talk about chess club.
Why does a chicken coop have two doors?
If it had four doors it would be a chicken sedan.
I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high.
She looked surprised.
Source: http://www.tickld.com/x/jaw/the-25-best-two-line-jokes-ever
The company had been in transition (read: downward spiral) for months - having graduated from the 8A program, and getting transitioned from the Prime on their main government contract to a subcontractor role, both the top and bottom line revenue declined. The management, while being loyal to the staff, held on to people for far too long even when it was clear that those people would never find new billable work under that contract or otherwise.
Fast forward about 6 months and the company is in dire straits (but the C Suite people refuse to tell the ground staff) - they've been taking out, but withholding contributions to staff 401(k), health insurance payments, and taxes (note there is currently a federal investigation into these activities). Instead, we have a holiday party where we announce that the publicly traded company is going to become Employee Owned. In addition, they file Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in order to take the company private.
This starts a veritable shit storm, culminating with the CEO being forced out, him (probably illegally) surrendering his ownership for $25K, and him sending an email with a salutation of "Love" to which we all thought it meant he was about to off himself.
At this point, the various board members start fleeing like cockroaches and the round-robin of temporary CEOs starts. The longest stint was 10 days, the shortest was 72 hours. All of them had some previous fiduciary responsibility for one of the things the feds are now investigating, and they showed up to "fix" it before the music stopped and the cash was gone.
Then, it hits the rank and file - we miss a payroll. The new prime (on that major contract I spoke about previously) terminates our sub contract the next day (a Saturday), and informs all of our staff that they must "re-badge" with the prime in order to show up to work on Monday. It turns out, that they've were actively recruiting many of our staff during the turmoil - which was expressly forbidden in the subcontract agreement between the two organizations (a standard anti-poaching clause)*.
At this point, the lay of the corporation is this: the publicly trade company itself owns a majority of the shares an voting interest of the company. There are no board members an there are no employees of the holding company. The wholly owned operating company below it has 2 board members who have been told to STFU and GTFA and no employees (they've all been fired or quit**). The companies the operating company owns have no board members and no C Suite executives. It's almost literally a ship with no captain.
And now it starts to get crazy (yeah, I know that wasn't insane enough?).
After the missed payroll on Friday (keep in mind we are in bankruptcy at this point, so we have lots of protection from debts), someone willing to buy the ground level operating companies comes along. They're constrained by the court, so they can't just invest money and pay the missed payroll, but they work within the constraints over the weekend and the payroll is made on Monday. and can't make an official offer to purchase the corporate assets (read: the people and contracts) until a court hearing. Before that hearing takes place, it turns out that some paperwork wasn't filed, so we're discharged from bankruptcy.
This is actually a huge problem; many of the assets the company holds (read: the people and contracts) are collateral for much of the debt, meaning they can no longer be sold without the debtor's approval (there are ~20). One of the operating companies (Company Z), which was recently acquired, isn't encumbered by this debt, but has a lot of its own legal and debt issues.
Ultimately, 10 days after the missed payroll, the two remaining board members, who showed up to help fix this problem when the bankruptcy attorney called, choose to accept the offer to buy this unencumbered company because it's the only offer on the table, and they have a responsibility to return the best value to the owners on these decisions. Had the sale not gone through, that Company Z would have essentially lost all of its value for various reasons. The structure of the organization is such that there was one back office company (Company B ), and then a number of front facing companies. Following the sale of Company Z, the board planned to fire most of the Company B staff since it represented 50% of the whole organizations remaining employees.
Needless to say, the shareholders of the publicly traded company did not like the sale of Company Z ... and attempt to remove the two board members (which they have no legal way to do). To do this, the investors decide that they do have some majority voting authority (which doesn't exist because of the aforementioned CEO return of ownership to the company), and "install" the head accountant (an employee of Company B ) as CEO of all of the companies the day after the sale of Company Z. They proceed to remove the two remaining board members and attempt to begin to unwind the sale of Company Z.
It is important to note at this point that the company pays bi-weekly.
The "new" CEO proceeds to attempt to issue payroll, for which he has full knowledge cannot be made. Because of the structure of the ground level companies, payroll Company B is paid, but the client-facing employees are not paid. They attempt to claim that "nobody" got paid.
At this point, the board members who the CEO tried to fire decide that the shareholders had no authority to appoint him. They "remove" him as CEO, and then fire all of the Company B staff. The board members then enter into an agreement with the now sold Company Z for the services Company B previously provided.
Because of how payroll works, the fake CEO refuses to turn over the 2nd factor key to Company Z - mostly because he's a raging asshole. The people who purchased Company Z pay the front office employees from their own assets, assuming they'll eventually balance the problem when they gain control of the bank accounts.
At this point, ground level staff learn that our health insurance has been terminated due to non-payment of premiums by the company.
Fast forward 10 days, and, on a Wednesday, I am sent to the remote office where all of Company B staff were located as a "cleaner" - my mandate was "so we have no idea what is going on, just make decisions and close it down within a week". Keep in mind that we've not paid the rent for this location for about 6 months and they are not happy with us. The staff of the location we were renting from are completely awesome, friendly, and helpful. I wouldn't have been able to accomplish my job without them.
I land back home on Tuesday at midnight. On Wednesday, we learn that the head accountant and former fake CEO has gotten the bank to suspend access to all of the bank accounts. At this point, it will take 60-90 days of court battles to get hold of that money. Its about a week since the last paycheck, and we are all owed for about 2 weeks of work. The board members inform us we are all fired because they can't pay us and have no idea if or when that might happen.
Oh, and the icing on the shit cake is that, since the $25K was not paid within 30 days to the originally forced out CEO, he regained his ownership stake.
And that's how a company dies.
*I got to play digital forensics person on this, so I saw the emails - it was some of the worst OpSec ever.
**The Douchebag in Possession is legally prevented from having his resignation accepted, so he, technically, is the CEO on paper though he peace'd out once he "fixed" the 401(k) issue***.
*** It didn't actually get fixed.
Edits were to fix Markdown, add a sentence, and I a word.
Moar bad jokes from the bowels of FB:
It's hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally
A Roman walks into a bar and says, "I'll have a martinus."
The bartender replies, "don't you mean a martini?"
The Roman replies, "if I had wanted a double I would have asked for it!"
Entropy isn't what it used to be ....
There's a band called 1023MB, but they've got no gigs.
@codinghorror - can you seriously stop curating this place like it's your prize garden? Topics wander. Get used to it. It's really annoying when I'm trying to read a topic and it indicates that there are 5 new posts, but then they won't load so I have to hit refresh only to find out you're a micromanaging prick and can't deal with discussion topics being on one and only one topic. </rant>
We fixed it. Both NICs had:
DEFAULTROUTE="yes"
Because we're idiots, apparently.
If you head down to the slides, you can see this gem:
(caption: A bunch of ThinkPad laptops, driving displays around the room.)I ... just ... come on IBM just use a server with some video cards.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Addons/Extension_Signing
Starting in Firefox 40, you'll be warned if the add-on is not distributed through the Mozilla add-on store. By Firefox 42, you won't be able to install an add-on from anywhere but the store.
The last time we tried to get an add-on into the Firefox store, it was submitted on May 25 - Mozilla still has not bothered to perform a review in order to list it in the store. Thanks Mozilla!
I know what add-on platform we are dropping.
BWAHAHA it gets even better:
##FAQ
...
- What about private add-ons used in enterprise environments?
- We haven't announced our plan for this case yet. Stay tuned. In the interim, ESR will not support signing at least until version 45, which won't come out until 2016.
Expected:
I've not been here for a week - and I know there are notifications.
Actual:
One notification listed.
route is: https://what.thedailywtf.com/notifications
where I am looking for ALL notifications and there is only 1. See below:
@anotherusername said in How will you deal with the coming Firefox apocalypse?:
@rad131304 I found the source for it a while back... I'll repost it:
Firefox tries to contact Mozilla once a day to check for security updates. This is called the “updater ping”. The ADI number is the aggregate number of these pings that were seen on a given day and can be understood as the number of running Firefox installs on that day.
@anotherusername Thanks.
@anotherusername Ah ok. Active Daily Installs sounded like a measure of people downloading the installer to me.
@anotherusername Ok - then can you elaborate?
@anotherusername No I get that - it's tracking YOY installs by day. I still don't see how this is a useful metric since it's a relative year to year comparison that has tons of factors not tracked by this information. What was happening last year that might have spiked installs? Is there a reason installs might be depressed relative to baseline now? Without long term data or decent error information this graph is not particularly helpful.
@el_heffe said in How will you deal with the coming Firefox apocalypse?:
Looks like the 7 people still using Firefox are going to be pissed
Firefox Active Daily Installations:
So you're telling me that YOY installs might have not been in sync?
I hate Firefox but this graph still seems not really helpful.
Full Disclosure: I"m only about 6 posts into the thread
EDIT: I'm also done trying to read the between messages ... it's dumb even for this place
@blek said in Kind of a cool app ...:
Also why does any link generated by NodeBB to any app I try have Arabic (or something) words in it when the whole page is in English?
2nd! I was curious about that as well
@accalia crap didn't realize it was doing that. We use google chat at work so I'm always logged in.
Basically it's an app that detects the bluetooth signal of some credit card skimmers.