My laptop is finally ready to use. It only took 28 minutes to fully boot up. I wonder how that looks on Salience reports? I assume they start counting my time once booted up. So I’m now required to be in the office 8 hours and 28 minutes each day.
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Hah. Reminds me of some good ol' times in the CKFR days.
Someone in my circle of friends discovered that you could control-c out of some super-long-running boot-time process and, as far as we could tell, the laptop still finished booting and we could do what we needed. We didn't care, as it cut the boot time by 2/3rds.
Well, someone finally had some other problem and a help desk person physically came to their cube * gasp * to take a look. He looked at some log and noticed that a certain boot task was aborting every day. He asked my friend about it and he flat out said, "Oh, yeah. We all control-c out of whatever that thing is!" The tech's eyes grew wide and he simply said, "Uhh, please stop doing that. Have your friends stop doing that."
Nothin else was ever said and we just went back to enduring the boot cycle.
Ahh, the good ol' days.
It shows as unaccounted time in Sapience
I can confirm that my laptop also takes 20-30 min after a reboot to be usable again. I can also confirm that I've got a low disk space threshold alert as well (<15gb avail).
I'm aware of at least three installs on my last couple machines (including current) that could be classified as "tracking software", Sapience being the most discussed here. And a new "monitoring" software agent will be installed soon to provide "helpful" automated pop-ups and alerts from desktop support including automatic ServiceNow ticket generation on your behalf.
Reboots are automatically done on a 2-3 week basis. Software updates on browsers is a nearly a daily occurrence now and they force a restart of any browsers you use. Single sign-on is all but, necessitating you log into a web app with the same credentials as many as three times due to layering of more and more security software, plus at least one multi-factor step. All web sites are mandated to a 15min inactivity logout, as well as as remote server logons. You'll easily find yourself spending about an hour day just (re) logging in to things.
I also know that of the last three generations of machines handed out, they've gotten cheaper and cheaper quality hardware with each replacement. The dell machines that most were moved off of recently were under-spec'd and cost-cut to the point of removing options that on retail Dell's were an $8-10 option that would've made the docking stations more usable (that option on a bulk-buy the size of Fiserv would've likely been $1-4) were declined. The new Microsoft machines barely run office.
The lockdown on allowed software is reaching intolerable levels. Common software such as the Zoom and WebEx clients are now forbidden; forcing one to use the web versions instead. Developers and Engineers have to work with their hands tied behind their back since they're restricted to the same degree you'd normally expect for non-technical user roles. Accessing servers is being removed constantly, and requires SVP access to get back.
Overall, for a "fintech", I'd give us an "F" on use and understanding of tech as an organization.
GET out!
Don't forget the constant forced restart for updates. My computers performance is garbage for the first few hours after restarting. Runs at 80% cpu with only background processes running. They don't make it easy to actually get work done.
If you look at the available disk space on your hard drive, I am sure that is contributing to your boot-up time and system performance.
I have supported information tech for over 20 years in large and small environments. Boot time of 28min is unacceptable in any form. This is what one gets when outsourced to Pune of course. I would be interested to know if similiar issues among your colleagues. BTW I was with an IT team in the Alpharetta office that is long gone.
Pretty sure this will not be counted as working, same as the time spent on in person collaborations.