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Saving things to our disk is also an ordeal because they are pushing OneDrive. Christ don't remind me. The galaxy-brains at my work decided every file on ever

Saving things to our disk is also an ordeal because they are pushing OneDrive. Christ don't remind me. The galaxy-brains at my work decided every file on every PC needs to go into OneDrive on a constant-update basis. Between the fact we're still stuck using HDDs instead of SSDs and our network hitting 16 megabits per second on a good day, most people have managed to get an impressive amount of reading done while waiting for their PCs to do anything at all.

Arrath 5y ago
We were recently notified that external USB storage will soon be banned, and to use OneDrive to transfer files. My question to IT of "Hey we have clients that explicitly only allow the use of their own (incredibly terrible) file transfer platform, and block OneDrive. We've been burning stuff to CD with a usb drive and hand delivering it, if you ban those wat do?" Got the form "this is how you use OneDrive" response back. Love it.
- miohtama 5y ago
  Sounds like an organizational issue in your work place. Usually these are the best dealt by changing the employer. They rarely get fixed from within the organization itself.
  - spaetzleesser 5y ago
    Throwing a fit while the VP is around often helps :). It always amazes me how quickly things get done when the guy who controls the budget wants something.
  - GekkePrutser 5y ago
    Making it impossible to work with clients also tends to lead to the loss of those clients and as a result changing one's employer due to the employer no longer existing :) This includes the VPs in question so usually these things get fixed before it gets that far though. But not before everyone else in the org has had a chance to practice their facepalm skills though. In other words I feel your pain :)
- dehrmann 5y ago
  > We were recently notified that external USB storage will soon be banned With how often USB drives with PII get lost, this is probably a good idea. I'd prefer Dropbox over OneDrive, though.

Arrath 5y ago

We were recently notified that external USB storage will soon be banned, and to use OneDrive to transfer files. My question to IT of "Hey we have clients that explicitly only allow the use of their own (incredibly terrible) file transfer platform, and block OneDrive. We've been burning stuff to CD with a usb drive and hand delivering it, if you ban those wat do?" Got the form "this is how you use OneDrive" response back. Love it.

miohtama 5y ago
Sounds like an organizational issue in your work place. Usually these are the best dealt by changing the employer. They rarely get fixed from within the organization itself.
- spaetzleesser 5y ago
  Throwing a fit while the VP is around often helps :). It always amazes me how quickly things get done when the guy who controls the budget wants something.
- GekkePrutser 5y ago
  Making it impossible to work with clients also tends to lead to the loss of those clients and as a result changing one's employer due to the employer no longer existing :) This includes the VPs in question so usually these things get fixed before it gets that far though. But not before everyone else in the org has had a chance to practice their facepalm skills though. In other words I feel your pain :)
dehrmann 5y ago
> We were recently notified that external USB storage will soon be banned With how often USB drives with PII get lost, this is probably a good idea. I'd prefer Dropbox over OneDrive, though.