Generic Pet Peeves

There is already one for Solidworks, but sometimes we have things get under our skin that are unrelated to software. It’s generally the organic beings we interact with.

Here’s my first example. It’s clients that send us pdf’s with drawings, and they need to be rotated before I can read them. Yes, I know it’s not that difficult for me to rotate them, but it boggles my mind that someone would send out a drawing that way. I couldn’t do it.

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People leave voice msg: “Call me”

The guy who is ruining the morale of the good employees because he brags about how little he actually does during the day. (And the boss who won’t fire anybody, for any reason.)

When people go against their word

When you attend a meeting and are asked if there is an issue moving a server to Azure, and they tell you it must be moved, no exceptions?

And now we have issues… o[

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Well at least they asked. :laughing:

“Why can’t I email .exe files? The IT department just makes up stupid rules for no good reason.”

grumph

(Edit: That is the grief I get from others. Not my view.)

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Not only are you, Matt, the answer to that question, but you are the answer to so many more! UU

Even worse, why can’t I open .exe files in the emails I receive?..

Because you are a danger to yourself. The next step is to stop all EXEs from executing and move everything to the harmonious cloud where there are no more files for you to hurt yourself with.

Cross threaded twist ties. It should tighten clockwise, like a screw.

When someone is driving 5 mph under the speed limit, and won’t move out of the left lane, it should be legal to run them off the road.

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I am about to drive home in the rain, which means everyone on the interstate will be driving 40 mph, with their flashers on, in all 4 lanes.

I have no problem if you are afraid of driving on wet roads, but please, get the heck out of the far left lane.

I can send you a reg file to block all exe files.
You’ll be surprise how many IT didn’t block running of reg file.

If anyone is afraid to drive, get a Uber, taxi, bus, or walk.

Our company approach now is to block everything, then only unblock selective stuff based on what needs it. More secure I suppose, but business slows to a crawl as you have to open tickets and justify every change. The red tape get thicker and thicker.

If you see your computer has Sophos, good luck. It default to block everything. It was blocking Soildworks bug report because of .ASPX or something like that in web connection. Took them a few days to figure out how to unblock it.

Haven’t seen that one but our PCs have Win Defender, McAfee, and Carbon Black. When something stops working or works very slowly it becomes a game of hunt for the offending antivirus software. Had a couple of PDM reports that are run from EXE files that went from 5 seconds to 5-10 minutes. Windows Defender was the culprit but no one could tells us why or how to fix it. Not every PC would exhibit the behavior either.

Check extension of the report file. Add it to exception.
CAD program like to create a temp file first and rename it at the end.
So the temp file could have another extension.
If possible, add all CAD file extension to exception.
Also where does the EXE create file, local or server?