Hey, I am just helping to keep your vanity thread moving along, no matter how silly it makes you look.
YOU'RE WELCOME

 

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I got an awesome review also. They did give me a raise, but it was only like 3% so it was pretty much like nothing (imo). Though I am not pissed off enough to leave my job (I actually like it). But, I will be more than likely leaving sometime this year or at least change job functions inside the company.

My review keeps getting pushed back and it's annoying me. 3 times my manager has had to bump me to later in the week and now it's meant to be next Tuesday

I work for one of the largest financial services firms in the country (7000+ employees , 400 partners) and I have ownership of a process that noone else knows or understands anymore. So I'm really far down the ladder and end up accountable to the CEO and Chairman on contracts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Because of the level of accountability everyone else is too scared to help, including my owner manager and dept head.

If you know anything about partnerships as well you know that politics are a massive part of the culture so the worst part about my job is stakeholder management. I'm not exaggerating either, we're talking about perceived meanings of me addressing one person before another in an email or CCing one person but not another.

 

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iPhone double post fail

 

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You know what to do Tali. The only suggestion I have to offer is, and I mean this quite seriously, learn Mandarin, become fluent in it, and learn how to communicate technical information in Mandarin. It would be helpful to Mrs Tali as well and the two of you learning it together would make it much easier. Other than that I wish you good fortune.

 

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Yeah, I ended up renaming the corrupted directory and forcing creation of new .edb files which screwed all the inboxes, but the demand was having e-mail available immediately and screw the consequences. I'll keep trying to find ways to tease the data into somewhere somewhat less corrupt, but I have low expectations.


Thanks for the vmware link, I'll take a look at it in detail. I took the quick survey and was a little put off by the expectation of the number of employee it is set up to serve. We are down to ten, which is somewhat less than 100. We've been considering trying out a regular desktop because only three of us put any real demand on the server at the moment, and of course a desktop is much cheaper.


Good luck with any new job, staying with the (suckass) paycheck is clearly the best move until you have another job, but that doesn't make it less painful.


Smelly - wow that would drive me crazy. I'd probably get fired because I just wouldn't care enough to worry about that as long as I was good at the actual work part.

 

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