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Kiara SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4185 More actions · Answer 1

Brandie Tarvin (4/4/2012)
Poll of the day.
How many people support systems that do quarter end / month end processes?
If you raised your hand to the first question:
How many additional hours do you work in addition to your regular work week?
How much time during your regular work hours get taken away from your other duties due to this sort of support?
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I just spent 17+ hours working yesterday, am exhausted after only about 3.5 hours of sleep, but still came in early this morning because Things Are Not Done. This is one of those rare days when I have to remind myself that I actually do enjoy my job. Because I do, otherwise I wouldn't still be here.
Except for this morning when I'd rather be doing anything but sitting in the Cubicle of Despair.
I so feel like someone put Dilbert and Alice in a blender, hit puree, and poured the result into my chair (and shoes).

I do.

I rarely work additional hours for them.

And.. question 3 is the million dollar question. At least a couple of days a month. And every time I automate one of those processes, I get to go find another one that a) isn't being done b) should be done and c) automate it. 🙂

-Ki

Kiara SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4185 More actions · Answer 2

Stefan Krzywicki (4/4/2012)
Ever worked with someone who can't seem to handle answering more than one question in an email? I'll ask several related questions and receive an answer to one, so I'll reply and re-ask all the unanswered questions and get an email back answering one and have to repeat this until I get all my answers one at a time, if I'm lucky.

I stopped sending more than one question per email because of this.

I may send more emails, but it saves me a heck of a lot of frustration.

-Ki

Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 3

Okay, I'm confused by the bolding of my name randomly in this post:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1278324.aspx

Is that supposed to mean something or am I just over-sensitive due to frustration with a completely different poster?

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 4

Evil Kraig F (4/4/2012)
Okay, I'm confused by the bolding of my name randomly in this post:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1278324.aspx
Is that supposed to mean something or am I just over-sensitive due to frustration with a completely different poster?

Random event. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along.

I think he's just trying to be clear who he's responding to in particular posts. Not a bad habit, all in all. Nothing big.

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Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 5

GSquared (4/4/2012)
Evil Kraig F (4/4/2012)
Okay, I'm confused by the bolding of my name randomly in this post:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1278324.aspx
Is that supposed to mean something or am I just over-sensitive due to frustration with a completely different poster?
Random event. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along.
I think he's just trying to be clear who he's responding to in particular posts. Not a bad habit, all in all. Nothing big.

K, thanks. Had me doing a headscratch as to if I was supposed to be insulted, proud, or confused. :hehe:

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 6

Evil Kraig F (4/4/2012)
GSquared (4/4/2012)
Evil Kraig F (4/4/2012)
Okay, I'm confused by the bolding of my name randomly in this post:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1278324.aspx
Is that supposed to mean something or am I just over-sensitive due to frustration with a completely different poster?
Random event. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along.
I think he's just trying to be clear who he's responding to in particular posts. Not a bad habit, all in all. Nothing big.
K, thanks. Had me doing a headscratch as to if I was supposed to be insulted, proud, or confused. :hehe:

Only if you want to. 🙂

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Jan Van der Eecken SSCrazy Eights Points: 9029 More actions · Answer 7

L' Eomot Inversé (4/4/2012)

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Sean Lange (4/4/2012)
Lynn Pettis (4/4/2012)
capn.hector (4/4/2012)
Lynn Pettis (4/4/2012)
Or when they address you by that descriptor. That's good as well.
Thanks Coach!!!
No, no, no. That is SSCoach. 😉
All these levels beginning SS look a bit like Schutzstaffel ranks. :laugh:
So should you be addressed as Herr SS-Hauptausbildungslehrführer? :hehe:

Sorry to have to correct you here, Tom. SS stands for Sturm Staffel, i.e. Storm Squadron, not Schutz Staffel, which would mean prettry much the opposite. Loosely translated that would mean Protective Squadron. 😉

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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel

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CapnHector SSCoach Points: 16143 More actions · Answer 9

The Dixie Flatline (4/4/2012)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel

and how different can you get in 6 links?

i got to rolling stone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 10

Who feels like doing the impossible? http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1278455-391-1.aspx

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 11

GilaMonster (4/4/2012)
Who feels like doing the impossible? http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1278455-391-1.aspx

Not me, in fact i think I'll stay out of this one.

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 12

Jan Van der Eecken (4/4/2012)
Sorry to have to correct you here, Tom. SS stands for Sturm Staffel, i.e. Storm Squadron, not Schutz Staffel, which would mean prettry much the opposite. Loosely translated that would mean Protective Squadron. 😉

I'm afraid you are wrong, Jan.

It was originally formed in 1920 as a branch of the Sturm Abteilung and called the "Saal-Schutz" to reflect it's task of providing the muscle to ensure security at party meetings. Over the next 9 years it had several names (including being anonymous for 2 years when it was an illegal organisation) but in 1929 it was renamed the "Schutz Staffel" and Himmler became its reichsführer, and that is the name which it retained until May 1945 (including the few final days of its existence when Hanke was Reichsführer SS); it ceased to be part of the SA in 1934 (night of the long knives) - Himmler had wanted to get it out of the SA for several years, and separating was now essential as it was a joint SS-Gestapo excercise that killed off the inconvenient leaders of the SA.

It would have been very arkward at any time to change the name to Sturm-Staffel because the SA continued to exist and provide military personnel until May 1945, so such a change would have caused a very confusing clash of names. SA-Standarte Feldherrnhalle was formed after the SA leadership was killed in the night of the long knives, not before, and was the first German military unit to cross the Austrian border in the Anschluss in March 1938; although the battalions of this SA regiment were integrated into reichswehr and luftwaffe brigades and divisions in October 1938 there were still, as late as 1945, major military formations which, although they were controlled through the reichswehr, were SA units so far as recruitment went: the Feldherrnhalle Panzer Corps had a lot of SA people, as you might guess from its name.

I can make a guess at why you though it was Sturm-Staffel though. It might even be a correct guess.

SS ranks (which had two standard forms: if xyz was the general SS rank then SS-xyz was the equivalent waffen SS rank) at levels OR-3, OR-8 and OF-1 to OF-4 (7 ranks in all, since there were 2 at OF-1) use the word Sturm, and of course the OR-3 rank was Sturmmann which is usually translated "storm trooper" in English (it's a good translation, as long as you notice that "storm" here is as in "storm the barricade" and not any other meaning of storm) and of course the label "storm troopers" was used for all SS and SA troops collectively in English. Maybe that's what has made you think that SS stood for Sturm-Staffel. In fact the SS (and several other organisations) adopted SA ranks with a few minor changes and extensions, and that's where "Sturm" in the SS rank titles (except for OR-8, Sturmscharführer, which was not the name of the OR-8 rank, or any other rank, in the SA) came from.

Tom

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 13

Why is it people ask if you have had a similar problem, then disagree with you when you have and tell them what was happening?

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 14

GilaMonster (4/4/2012)
Who feels like doing the impossible? http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1278455-391-1.aspx

A lot of attitude on that one.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 15

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GilaMonster (4/4/2012)
Who feels like doing the impossible? http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1278455-391-1.aspx
A lot of attitude on that one.

Well, apparently we can't accept the restrictions he has to work under on this project. Never mind that the restrictions are ridiculous to begin with and make the project almost impossible to complete with any sense performance.