wizardbeard

Edit: This came off intensely aggressive. Sorry.

I'm looking down the barrel of a massive project to shift all of our departments away from network shares to SharePoint. Simultaneously, my team is going to stop supporting "special" permissioned sub-folders, like share/Facilities/Managers/ so people can't see their co-worker's yearly review. Each Sharepoint site's "owner" (read, department manager) will be responsible for access management in their own site.

Also, knowing some of these departments, they will absolutely run up against the limit on amount of files in a single Sharepoint site. My boss seems to refuse to believe that's possible.

This is going to be such a clusterfuck. I am afraid.

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Sincerely: How the fuck are your users utilizing Sharepoint that they don't need to navigate the file/folder structure concept? Just using the search bar every time? Maintaining a list of shortcuts or browser favorites?

How does a file being shared from another user's storage invalidate the need to still know how to get to it?

I can't speak to Google Drive, as I've only used that minorly as an end user. Object based storage is an entirely different use case than document/data organization.

File names and tags with shit chucked in what is effectively a root folder are not adequate for most companies' data organization and "securing so only the right people have access" needs.

I feel like this analogy is perfect, but not just for the reason you used it.

Car manufacturers making cars easier to use and require less maintenance is great. Your point in regards to people just not needing the old skills because of that is spot on.

But car manufacturers have also been making intentional design decisions to make accessing things under the hood require speciality tools or needlessly complex when it is needed. There are cars where you can't replace headlights without removing the whole front bumper assembly. That isn't the fault of the owner/user, and it's not a case of "improvements make old skills obsolete". It's design intentionally hostile to the goal of allowing owners to even attempt it themselves. Scummy as hell, and we should be holding these companies responsible.

Google has done and is doing the same thing with Chromebooks and Android. File system? Folders to organize my files? What?

And now we have people who don't know how to operate their car's headlights, and people who can't find files if they aren't in the "recent documents" list.

I've found that with my "pre gen x" (born in the 60s, does that make her a boomer?) mother, she seems to have really bought in to all the old "computers make everything easy!" marketing, so when whatever she wants to do isn't she just kind of gives up. Also ties into her not understanding the value of my career (sysadmin).

To her, computers aren't complex tools that may take some skills and training to utilize properly, they're "press the button to make it do exactly what I want" and when that doesn't work she gets very frustrated.

That, plus she has had just enough exposure to computers in the 90s that she still on some level sees them as very easy to irreperably break expensive luxury items, so when she is rarely willing to work for it then she's afraid to poke around in menus because she thinks she could break it permanently.

And to be fair, if you don't set up your laptop using "cattle, not pets" strategies, it can be easy to get four levels deep in a menu and tweak some shit that fucks up an entire program. Then your option is to remember what you did to revert it, or just blow the damn thing out and reinstall (if it actually clears settings on uninstall, not a given).

"Executive Innovation Corps" really? You'd think this season's writers could think up something less on the nose.

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I'm not super familiar with it, but the sole mod has been quite outspoken about trying to make it a "big tent" and not allow it to be pulled by every extreme away from the singular goal of taxing the 0.01%, not even going after the 1%.

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A friend's roommate who graduated college late at 28 years old, and had never worked a job before, leveraged their extracurriculars into a management position at a local movie theater. Their parents were still paying for their health insurance, cell phone bill, apartment rent, groceries, etc. They totalled their car and their parents replaced it at no cost to them in two days.

"I don't get why [my subordinate] doesn't just quit. It's a shit job and they obviously hate it. I asked them and they said they had bills to pay, but really? You could just quit and be a little frugal until you find your next job."

I know I'm commenting on this late, but I absolutely love this build!

Do you happen to remember what kit those missile pods are from?

McDickin'

Those are some straight teeth for someone who eats rocks.

Lol, are you kidding me? How magnanimous of you to give me permission to disengage. Thank you so much.

You're the one who came out guns blazing against someone trying to be helpful. Again, it's the internet, different social dynamic than irl for random strangers offering advice. Don't want responses? Don't comment.

Then you kept trying to make weak shit excuses and justifications that I missed context that literally isn't part of this comment thread. You don't get the high ground on this.

Enjoy the block.

Great news for me, not so much for my bank account.