Posts by Maichail

Bratty Uber throws tantrum, threatens to cut off California unless judge does what it says in driver labor rights row

Shifty

At the moment, drivers can pick their shifts, and if not busy, won't make minimum wage.

That was was of the arguments during the UK London court case, the drivers weren't working at the busiest times, therefore technically being paid less than minimum wage, but that was down to driver choice. They lost that argument, but I'm still not 100% why.

If Uber are classed as employer, then I'm guessing it will be down to Uber to dictate when you work. So that will be every Friday or Saturday unless you want to use your holiday pay.

They won't pay you for sitting around during non busy times.

These arguments aren't going away any time soon. Where I live Uber has forced the other taxi companies to offer competitive rates. So ringing the local taxi company no longer costs you triple. So I guess there is that.

You had one job... Just two lines of code, and now the customer's Inventory Master File has bitten the biscuit

Backups

I can remember a time when the hardware engineer pulled the wrong drive and trashed the raid 5 array. NT 3.51

The restores did not work.

This was one of my first roles in desktop\server support, and I spent the night rebuilding the server from scratch as the actual server guy went home. (The server guy was not our normal server guy who was on holiday). The data volumes were ok, it was just the OS volume that would fail to boot fully after the restore.

I then spent some more time looking at the backups, and the actual problem was that the admins weren't removing the home drive shares when removing user accounts.

This cause the netlogon process to take too long to start, which then caused the follow on services to fail to start.

The server guy wasn't asked back again.