Little Things You Hate

Oddjob said:
Your department wants to feed all of your work into the AI monster and have the AI monster spread all the secrets all over the internet.

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Yeah. At the very least, I cant see how putting confidential and sensitive government documentation on a microsoft server somewhere is a good idea...
 
Haakon said:
Do I have to learn to like Sharepoint? Am I wrong for hating it and just wanting a set of folders on a driver in Explorer...? Using a browser to get into files is just so fucking annoying, and not being able to navigate around folders easily sucks.

Looks like I'm being forced onto sharepoint now, and have to migrate many hundreds of files into it...
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you can synchronise your sharepoint to a folder on your laptop so you can play around with files in the same way you have for the last 27 years.
 
slowmick said:
you can synchronise your sharepoint to a folder on your laptop so you can play around with files in the same way you have for the last 27 years.
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ill ask IT. i wont be surprised if anything remotely useful like that is disabled..
 
silentbutdeadly said:
It depends where you are. Victoria has had legislation for a while that targets 'underquoting' so the response from the industry is to use a price range rather than a single figure...which allows much more wriggle room. I think NSW has similar legislation inbound.

When we sold our last place near Mildura in 2018, we all (us and the agent) agreed to just put $275k on it cause we needed a quick sale. Scored six offers within the first week. None were under $300k and one was $320k. We picked the one that had the least preconditions and shortest turnaround. The extra coin over our expectations covered all our costs and then some so that was handy.

But we could technically have been subject to the underquoting legislation, given the outcome. I think the out was that even the agent wasn't expecting the results!
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NSW has similar legislation in place however as others have stated it would have to be grossly disproportionate and probably multiple complaints before there would be any chance of a prosecution.
 
should be a simple fix - you cannot advertise a lower price range than the reserve at auction. serious buyers will be paying not trivial amounts to get inspections on places done only to find they were never in the market for that home anyway. maybe some leeway as things change - the range must be set 10 days out or something.
 
oldcorollas said:
Sharepoint can be useful for previous document versions.
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Have worked out "syncing" it with explorer so am less pissed off with the situation now. That browser interface is a fucking pita. But other issues im having are probably with some godawful implementation and file structures...
 
Cloud sharepoint more annoying than local server version.. and something something virtualised apps (so can't copy sheets between two open excel files, because of cloud v local sharepoint shite)

So it might get worse :)
 
Sharepoint is garbage. Your department is a long way behind @Haakon we were rolling that shit out more than 10 years ago before I left the commonwealth leisure set.
 
oldcorollas said:
Cloud sharepoint more annoying than local server version.. and something something virtualised apps (so can't copy sheets between two open excel files, because of cloud v local sharepoint shite)

So it might get worse :)
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Its all cloud, authenticator app gets rolled out many times a day - monumental pain in the dick. Have to use personal phones too which pisses me off.
 
Stredda said:
It's a relatively new tactic that they have come up with over recent years. As you have no idea what someone else may have offered, if you really want the place you really have to go in with your best offer straight up. This often leads people to over stretch themselves trying to put in a high offer that they may not have even needed to do. It's like going to an auction and bidding on an item but not being able to hear what the other bidders are offering.
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Exactly. I don't understand the confusion about this. Simple blind auction.
 
Haakon said:
Do I have to learn to like Sharepoint? Am I wrong for hating it and just wanting a set of folders on a driver in Explorer...? Using a browser to get into files is just so fucking annoying, and not being able to navigate around folders easily sucks.

Looks like I'm being forced onto sharepoint now, and have to migrate many hundreds of files into it...
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It's good if you have the choice of what you use it for.

For a team hub it's good - excellent for project management (we use our own system, not the annoying Teams setup), good for having numerous people work on a single doc at the one time when deadlines are short, good for living documents as it helps with version control, etc. etc.

When used wisely it's a helpful tool. The only thing that I detest about it, is that it uses the online version of Word/Excel/etc., which has less functionality than the app versions. This means formatting can get badly borked out when transferring between the two.
 
Minlak said:
More a LTIDU than a LTIH (Little thing I don't understand)

So 15 years ago I worked in Real Estate and you went to a house and settled on an asking price lets say $679,000 (this becomes relevant soon) - People would look and offer whatever lets say $650,000 and negotiate from there.
Our neighbors are currently selling there house and it is listed at Offers Above $679,000 (see the relevance now) so in my mind that would be the bare minimum price they would accept - Nope! not how that works their first offer was $700,000 and they said we will take $710,000 but the buyer cant get to that figure - After the open house on the weekend they now have an offer om Saturday of $745,000 and their agent is telling them to sit on it until Tuesday as he is expecting more offers.

So how are you supposed to know what is in your budget if they are fielding offers almost $100,000 above asking price.

Also yeah market up here is crazy they bought for $320,000 4 years ago and have done pretty much nothing and in less than a week of listing will have sold for $750,000 ish

I mean its good news for us our house is bigger and we are thinking of selling very soon too - but yeah seems crazy to just put random price on you have no hope of buying it for
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I bought my shoebox of a house in Sydney 10 years ago, the under quoting for auctions was insane. And before you say don't buy at auction, everything sold at auction! I ended-up with a spreadsheet, for an agent quoted price of $1m - for a renovated house the auction price was circa. $1.5m (+$500k), and for unrenovated/unlivable it was $1.35m (+$350k). After 8 months of looking I finally managed to use this formula to win a property at auction, and I paid +$10k more than I predicted (at that stage I didn't care).
 
johnny said:
It's good if you have the choice of what you use it for.

For a team hub it's good - excellent for project management (we use our own system, not the annoying Teams setup), good for having numerous people work on a single doc at the one time when deadlines are short, good for living documents as it helps with version control, etc. etc.

When used wisely it's a helpful tool. The only thing that I detest about it, is that it uses the online version of Word/Excel/etc., which has less functionality than the app versions. This means formatting can get badly borked out when transferring between the two.
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This.

Also I have a SharePoint database with draws content from the folders and automatically populates a spreadsheet with data and links to the documents, has made my life so much easier. I just checked my spreadsheet and it has over 3,500 active cells of information. I don't even need to go searching for a document I can simply click on the link in the spreadsheet, or share the link to someone else that needs/wants the document.
 
Freediver said:
Some scumbag stole my number plates. Apparently it's getting quite common, they get used to do drive offs at petrol stations.
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It was probably my mate from high school (actually that was 25 years ago...surely he's grown up by now). Or do you have an EV?
 
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