The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.

[barakta]

<snip>...and she appears to have resorted to Decaf.

Impugning my reputation, merely cos I left the decaf tea out last night when I restocked the small-jar... I was on full-caff this morning thank you very much!

[Kim]

Does anyone know what Sharepoint is actually supposed to do or how it works? It's sort of like a shared drive, but then in different views, it's like some kind of intranet, and in other views, some weird kind of document management system. What the fuck is it?

Version control for people who willingly wear ties, innit.  Will fuck up your data every bit as well as git, but leaves you with the warm fuzzy feeling that it probably isn't your fault.

[barakta]

I don't mind using SharePoint if I can sync the drive to my folders in explorer. If I can only use it through a browser I hate it.

I have managed for-now to get ShitPoint to sync thru OneDrive. It's not amazing, it takes a while to sync and I have to fuck about with aliases or it does bad things to my folder structure. I have to search in the HorridWebShitPoint if I want to sort from our root level directory (I can't access more up, so had to sync each folder inside our shared root individually which suuuucks).

No one I work with understands my fury on this. The windows file system/Explore is generally keyboard navigable and used to be well behaved. Now it and ShitPoint are both glitchy and have a habit of reloading files while you're mid-filename edit or something - which is just plain fucking rude.

[Auntie Helen]

After about two years at work of tearing out my hair, trying to get one drive and SharePoint to sync to my machine, I finally managed to do it. I made sure I didn’t touch anything to break it, and it carried on synchronising exactly what I wanted.

New computer at the beginning of this year, guess what I discovered yesterday. So I have to somehow start again, remember how I did all these links, pass them onto my colleagues who use these documents I produce, and all that with all the other delights of a new computer, such as one of my monitors, randomly shutting off for no good reason.

[Regulator]

SharePoint is the IT version of Marmite...

Beg to differ.  Some people like Marmite.

Yes... and they're all members of the lunatic fringe of the Tory Party.

[Regulator]

Does anyone know what Sharepoint is actually supposed to do or how it works? It's sort of like a shared drive, but then in different views, it's like some kind of intranet, and in other views, some weird kind of document management system. What the fuck is it?

Version control for people who willingly wear ties, innit.  Will fuck up your data every bit as well as git, but leaves you with the warm fuzzy feeling that it probably isn't your fault.

SharePoint is mandatory to get the correct security certification for NHS work.  It sucks.  And it's a nightmare if you want to do proper version control...

[Cudzoziemiec]

<snip>...and she appears to have resorted to Decaf.

Impugning my reputation, merely cos I left the decaf tea out last night when I restocked the small-jar... I was on full-caff this morning thank you very much!

I breathe a sigh of relief.

[barakta]

 

[fimm]

Dear colleague, the sentence you want is "The question is..." not "The ask is..."

[mrcharly-YHT]

Dear colleague, the sentence you want is "The question is..." not "The ask is..."

 An 'ask' is usually a requirement, not a question.

[TheLurker]

Dear colleague, the sentence you want is "The question is..." not "The ask is..."

Aye and it's not a fucking "learning" either. 

[ian]

I have worked with proper enterprise document management systems like Documentum. Sharepoint isn't that.

[Beardy]

I think that Sharepoint is the repository for all the bits of code that MS have cut out of acquired applications over the years that someone didn’t want to throw away.

‘Hey Bill, what should we do with this calendar function we cut out of Visio?’, “hey Bill, this file system that we didn’t want in Minecraft is quite good, what should we do with it?”  Etc.

To which the answer became, put all those bits in a new application and call it Sharepoint. Most corporate IT firms will buy anything from us if we tell them it’s a new standard.

[Tim Hall]

People who when they park their cars in locations where on street parking is a bit limited, such as outside my Rural Idyll, and don't "shuffle up" but have half a car space in front and half a car space behind are Quite Annoying.

[Basil]

Had my hair cut this morning.  I'm now really cold.

[T42]

FFCT membership card gets a millimetre or two larger every year. Procrustean truncation required to fit CC slots in wallet, whereupon the plastification buggered off.  The organisation has never been the same since the committee had a brain fart and changed the name to FFvelo without consulting the membership.

[Diver300]

I don't know if there are lots of bots of Facebook Market, or just real people on there are failing the Turing test. I have answered the question "Is it still available" about 10 times. What really pisses me off is the lack of response after that.

[robgul]

I don't know if there are lots of bots of Facebook Market, or just real people on there are failing the Turing test. I have answered the question "Is it still available" about 10 times. What really pisses me off is the lack of response after that.

I think people just ask because there's a pre-written text in FB and like so many people with social media (WhatsApp!!!!) are just trigger-happy.

All the stuff I list on FB Marketplace (and Freecycle/Gumtree) has "if it's listed here it's available" at the bottom of the text description -  and don't answer the "is it available" messages   (but I do make sure to delete the item as soon as I have the dosh in my hand - or collected in the case of Freecycle)

. . . for the "I'll send  UPS/DPD/Fedex with the money" messages I respond asking if they'd like to speed up the process if I send my bank details to them now 

[lissotriton]

I don't know if there are lots of bots of Facebook Market, or just real people on there are failing the Turing test. I have answered the question "Is it still available" about 10 times. What really pisses me off is the lack of response after that.

Probably much of it is people accidentally pressing the button, while scrolling past on their phone.
Could reply and ask when are they able to pick it up.

[Wowbagger]

Dontcha just hate it when you get to bed time, really looking forward to sinking into a delicious comfy mattress and snuggling under a nice warm duvet and you have completely forgotten that when you got out of that self-same bed earlier in the day you stripped it so that you could put the linen in the laundry?

[canny colin]

Yesterday in Sitges , sunny Spain . Got cut up on a roundabout by a Range Rover  thingy proudly bearing a union Jack flag , GB and UK stickers . Two weeks cycling in Spain and that's the only time I have had cause to swear at a motoron . Just like in good old blighty , I had right of way and they thought, "fuck him ".

[perpetual dan]

I stayed in a hotel last night that wanted to charge per device per night for WiFi. Which I’ve not seen in a long time. They also had a little radiator in the cupboard, which was needed (though to be fair it meant the ineffectual AC noise could be switched off).

[ElyDave]

Does anyone know what Sharepoint is actually supposed to do or how it works? It's sort of like a shared drive, but then in different views, it's like some kind of intranet, and in other views, some weird kind of document management system. What the fuck is it?

Version control for people who willingly wear ties, innit.  Will fuck up your data every bit as well as git, but leaves you with the warm fuzzy feeling that it probably isn't your fault.

Oi!

I ain't worn a tie in the workplace for over 20 years, but I still have to use sharepoint. And its definitely not my fault

[Mr Larrington]

I stayed in a hotel last night that wanted to charge per device per night for WiFi. Which I’ve not seen in a long time. They also had a little radiator in the cupboard, which was needed (though to be fair it meant the ineffectual AC noise could be switched off).

I don’t think I've stayed anywhere that charged for wifi since 2012.  Obv some places* have had such terrible Internets that it was much simpler not to bother, mind.  Name and shame!

* Usually in far-flung parts of Canuckistan.

[Kim]

Does anyone know what Sharepoint is actually supposed to do or how it works? It's sort of like a shared drive, but then in different views, it's like some kind of intranet, and in other views, some weird kind of document management system. What the fuck is it?

Version control for people who willingly wear ties, innit.  Will fuck up your data every bit as well as git, but leaves you with the warm fuzzy feeling that it probably isn't your fault.

Oi!

I ain't worn a tie in the workplace for over 20 years, but I still have to use sharepoint. And its definitely not my fault

Bet someone with a tie made you use it, thobut.