Where in the World is Bob Saget?

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englanddg

englanddg

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StarWarsGirl95 said:
I will remember your advice since I want to be one of those business leaders. But for Disney, not for the government. While I do think it's important to make sure your workers aren't "sluggish" (my dad is second in command at his firm and he has complained about another attorney not working hard enough so he's had to kick her butt) it's important to also treat your workers fairly especially when you have ones that work hard as you sound like you do.
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When in the board room, do not assume that technology is anything more than automation. It is NEVER a solution, merely a tool to ease the process. If used inappropriately, it will act inappropriately.

In the industry we have a several terms for that, but GIGO is the most apt for my example. GIGO means Garbage In, Garbage Out.

Today I had a 2 hour meeting where sales managers swore up and down that the system was sending all scanned documents to insurance carriers, and since we were getting cancellation notices from carriers due to not having the documents, the system was broken. Turns out...after I did some research (which they were impatient and didn't want to allow me to do), approx 70% of their complains / notices we received were because the end user agents didn't do their job and scan the documents into the system. The remaining approx 30% of complaints were for carriers we never transmitted to, and agents were supposed to fax completed documents.

ALL of this was easy to see using pre-built reports on the system, but the sales managers either have no idea what they are doing, or didn't take the time (I suspect a combination of both) to do even a minimal amount of research before making it a "huge" issue that dragged me into it.

Of course, at the end of the meeting, they asked me why the latest programming request they had (which they requested on a whim on Weds) wasn't done.

I'm...just irritated and griping. But it is annoying.
 
Darth Tater

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Did you know there are at least 140 moons in orbit around the planets of our solar system, all ranging from bodies larger than the earth's moon to small pieces of debris.
From 1610 to 1977, Saturn was thought to be the only planet with rings. We now know that Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune also have ring systems, although Saturn's is by far the largest. Particles in these ring systems range in size from dust to boulders to house-size, and may be rocky and/or icy.

Most of the planets also have magnetic fields, which extend into space and form a magnetosphere around each planet. These magnetospheres rotate with the planet, sweeping charged particles with them. The sun has a magnetic field, the heliosphere, which envelops our entire solar system.

Ancient astronomers believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, and that the sun and all the other stars revolved around the Earth. Copernicus proved that Earth and the other planets in our solar system orbit our sun. Little by little, we are charting the universe, and an obvious question arises: Are there other planets where life might exist? Only recently have astronomers had the tools to indirectly detect large planets around other stars in nearby solar systems.
 
Nemo14

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I think that dispite our good intentions, Bob has written us off, so I guess it's time we faced it.
So, with apologies to Diana Ross....

Set me free, why don't you Bob? Get out my thread, why don't you Bob?
'Cause you don't really "like" me You just keep me postin' on
You don't really read me But you keep me postin' on
Why do you keep a coming around Playing with my heart?
Why don't you get out of my thread And let me make a new start?
Let me get over you The way you've gotten over me, hey
Set me free, why don't you Bob? Let me be, why don't you Bob? '
Cause you don't really "like" me You just keep me postin' on
Now you don't really want me You just keep me postin' on
You say although we broke up You still wanna be just friends
But how can we still be friends When reading you only Breaks my heart again
And there ain't nothing I can do about it
Woah, set me free, why don't you Bob? Woah, get out my thread, why don't you Bob?
Set me free, why don't you Bob? Get out my thread, why don't you Bob?
You don't really "like" me but you keep me postin' on
You don't really read me but you keep me postin' on
You claim you still care for me But your mouse and keyboard need to be free
Now that you've got your freedom You wanna still hold on to me
You don't want me for yourself So let me find somebody else, hey hey
Why don't you be a man about it and set me free
Now you don't care a thing about me you're just using me
Go on, get out, get out of my thread And let me post at night '
Cause you don't really "like" me You just keep me postin' on

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Nemo14

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Darth Tater said:
Did you know there are at least 140 moons in orbit around the planets of our solar system, all ranging from bodies larger than the earth's moon to small pieces of debris.
From 1610 to 1977, Saturn was thought to be the only planet with rings. We now know that Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune also have ring systems, although Saturn's is by far the largest. Particles in these ring systems range in size from dust to boulders to house-size, and may be rocky and/or icy.

Most of the planets also have magnetic fields, which extend into space and form a magnetosphere around each planet. These magnetospheres rotate with the planet, sweeping charged particles with them. The sun has a magnetic field, the heliosphere, which envelops our entire solar system.

Ancient astronomers believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, and that the sun and all the other stars revolved around the Earth. Copernicus proved that Earth and the other planets in our solar system orbit our sun. Little by little, we are charting the universe, and an obvious question arises: Are there other planets where life might exist? Only recently have astronomers had the tools to indirectly detect large planets around other stars in nearby solar systems.
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It's not rocket science....
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StarWarsGirl

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Darth Tater said:
Did you know there are at least 140 moons in orbit around the planets of our solar system, all ranging from bodies larger than the earth's moon to small pieces of debris.
From 1610 to 1977, Saturn was thought to be the only planet with rings. We now know that Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune also have ring systems, although Saturn's is by far the largest. Particles in these ring systems range in size from dust to boulders to house-size, and may be rocky and/or icy.

Most of the planets also have magnetic fields, which extend into space and form a magnetosphere around each planet. These magnetospheres rotate with the planet, sweeping charged particles with them. The sun has a magnetic field, the heliosphere, which envelops our entire solar system.

Ancient astronomers believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, and that the sun and all the other stars revolved around the Earth. Copernicus proved that Earth and the other planets in our solar system orbit our sun. Little by little, we are charting the universe, and an obvious question arises: Are there other planets where life might exist? Only recently have astronomers had the tools to indirectly detect large planets around other stars in nearby solar systems.
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No, I didn't, but thanks for the informative morning. ;) Actually, the last paragraph I knew, but the rest...
 
StarWarsGirl

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englanddg said:
When in the board room, do not assume that technology is anything more than automation. It is NEVER a solution, merely a tool to ease the process. If used inappropriately, it will act inappropriately.

In the industry we have a several terms for that, but GIGO is the most apt for my example. GIGO means Garbage In, Garbage Out.

Today I had a 2 hour meeting where sales managers swore up and down that the system was sending all scanned documents to insurance carriers, and since we were getting cancellation notices from carriers due to not having the documents, the system was broken. Turns out...after I did some research (which they were impatient and didn't want to allow me to do), approx 70% of their complains / notices we received were because the end user agents didn't do their job and scan the documents into the system. The remaining approx 30% of complaints were for carriers we never transmitted to, and agents were supposed to fax completed documents.

ALL of this was easy to see using pre-built reports on the system, but the sales managers either have no idea what they are doing, or didn't take the time (I suspect a combination of both) to do even a minimal amount of research before making it a "huge" issue that dragged me into it.

Of course, at the end of the meeting, they asked me why the latest programming request they had (which they requested on a whim on Weds) wasn't done.

I'm...just irritated and griping. But it is annoying.
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Patience is a virtue that many lack unfortunately. Sounds frustrating beyond belief.
 
StarWarsGirl

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englanddg said:
I made a comment in a meeting today to one manager that if she needed to call the helpdesk to learn how to use MS Excel, she probably shouldn't be telling me how to run our IT infrastructure.

It...didn't go over well...but I wasn't in the best mood yesterday.
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No, I don't think that would go over well, but you're right.
 
luv

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I didn't know planets other than Saturn had rings.

Makes the former Tom Morrow joke slightly less funny, I guess.
 
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