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I moved from a job that was a 5 minute walk to another job because I didn't want to go back into the office, lol
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Basic Linux training? I personally have some minor issues* with this one I'm recommending but I've heard good things from a couple junior admins we had go through it to get some basic Linux experience. Linux Journey. YMMV. * I started just answering the questions without reading the training bits to see how it was, and for a handful, it didn't accept my perfectly good solution because it wasn't the specific solution it wanted, and in some cases mine was arguably a better solution. That said, that's slightly pedantic, and their solutions were fine for what they're trying to accomplish. It's not designed around "Senior Linux Admin with ~24 years of professional Linux experience" and honestly that's fine for its target audience. None of the stuff was WRONG exactly. [Edit: they also don't say bad things about emacs when they really should] ssb fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Feb 2, 2022 |
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Feb 2, 2022 23:07
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Hughmoris posted:Just lol at that. When I WFH, if my day starts at 0800 that means I'm rolling out of bed at 0757. This has caused a wee bit of tension in my house as the wife still has to go to her office. So she gets up at 6:45 and I just roll over and snooze until 8, as she sighs heavily Arquinsiel posted:I am fully remote now and it turns out that the company culture of "start whenever" and fun projects has resulted in me regularly doing an extra hour or two of work. It helps that it's the kind of place that the boss emails around at 1PM on a Friday and goes "we have no client work on, everyone start your weekend early" though. We're like that now. Stand ups don't start until 10am and if you don't make it no big deal, you can just enter it in Slack later. You schedule customer meetings as you see fit so that you can also work some internal projects. Kid got sick and kept you up all night? No problem, just log in later if you want and push any meetings you had. You want to go for a walk? Sure, take an hour. Same for food shopping or if you have to take your cat to the vet. I meet with my boss monthly for one on ones, or see him at a few other meetings. He will email or send Slack messages really early in the morning (he's got young kids) but will always tell you that his working time is not your working time and there is no need to reply right away. We block off Friday afternoons and you're free to do what you want. Usually get caught up on email or even just having a team "bitch session" on Discord. Bonzo fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Feb 2, 2022 |
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Feb 2, 2022 23:11
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Log into the laptop at 8, run awake.ps1 so teams doesn’t tattle on me, then take the dog for a walk until 9ish during morning standups. Oops we went too far on the trail now we’re home at 930 and work can actually begin. Hour+ lunch that is blocked off for everyone by the cio, then go meet my daughter at the bus stop at 350, come back, then set away and shut down the laptop at 4pm to cook dinner. Mysteriously work still gets done!
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Feb 2, 2022 23:25
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shortspecialbus posted:Basic Linux training? This guys channel is decent https://youtube.com/c/LearnLinuxtv
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Feb 2, 2022 23:37
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Seriously, this kind of thing is so much better. I got what would have taken me two weeks wrapped up, reported, and delivered to the client in under two days this week. I wasn't even pushing myself. That's me done until Friday, when I knock off at ~1PM to go do an exam that makes me get even more money for this much work.
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Feb 3, 2022 00:05
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I’d happily work somewhere that respects “give and take” as a two way street. Sometimes I’ll work later to get something done rather than nickel and dime the company for a couple hours OT, but I don’t expect people to be monitoring the time I’m sat at my laptop in exchange for that. A lot of this WFH backlash seems to be from middle management who have made entire careers from assessing people based on vibes and presence now having to actually look at what people are contributing.
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Feb 3, 2022 00:08
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Thanks Ants posted:I’d happily work somewhere that respects “give and take” as a two way street. Sometimes I’ll work later to get something done rather than nickel and dime the company for a couple hours OT, but I don’t expect people to be monitoring the time I’m sat at my laptop in exchange for that. All of this is true. My team lead is happy with the work I do. And if something needs a bump in priority, he's always very clear about if I should shift that way. It's rare that I have nothing pressing to do, but being remote makes it easier to start new tasks because I don't have to contend with traffic. We still have some management that's very butts-in-seats focused and I can't wrap my head around this mentality, especially for younger people at a supposedly modern company.
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Feb 3, 2022 00:40
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I just want to brag about my on call I've been doing rotations for a year and a half and got called a single time. When I got logged on the guy said, nevermind I don't need help. Free moneyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Feb 3, 2022 00:59
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Hughmoris posted:Pull up, thread! Also an excellent distance to ride a bike, e-bike, or e-scooter!
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Renegret posted:I just want to brag about my on call Those are the best.
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Renegret posted:I just want to brag about my on call We just had our now yearly "So, what do all of you think about on call" meeting. They tried to sneak it in differently this year, this time just wanted someone who was available to answer questions about who the help desk should contact. Which doesn't make sense, as pretty much anyone in our 2 groups can answer any question in their group. But can't do much for the other, so we'd have 2 people having to do this. What wasn't answered is if the person who is on call can't fix the problem, then what? Do they call someone else? But if that person isn't on call, what insures they are around to do anything about it? Also, they didn't really mention how it would work with hours people have. Most people in our group are morning people, so they are in at 7am. But the rest come in at 8. So do we adjust hours to cover this window? Because coming in at 7 and potentially working 12 hours sucks.
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Feb 3, 2022 05:08
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AlexDeGruven posted:All of this is true. I can't control you if I can't see you, and as manager it's my job to control you while you're at work so nobody notices MY slacking!! 
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Feb 3, 2022 05:28
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CitizenKain posted:We just had our now yearly "So, what do all of you think about on call" meeting. They tried to sneak it in differently this year, this time just wanted someone who was available to answer questions about who the help desk should contact.
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Feb 3, 2022 12:44
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Arquinsiel posted:I am fully remote now and it turns out that the company culture of "start whenever" and fun projects has resulted in me regularly doing an extra hour or two of work. It helps that it's the kind of place that the boss emails around at 1PM on a Friday and goes "we have no client work on, everyone start your weekend early" though. My new gig is also fully remote and we have rough hour expectations (I'm 9-5 local, which is so much nicer than the 7-4 I had at $JOB-1) but it's also crazy flexible if need be. I recently had to put my cat down and everyone actively told me to get my rear end off my work laptop and be with my partner and grieve. It feels nice for my team to value me as me and not just a cog to the company machine. 
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Kyrosiris posted:My new gig is also fully remote and we have rough hour expectations (I'm 9-5 local, which is so much nicer than the 7-4 I had at $JOB-1) but it's also crazy flexible if need be. I recently had to put my cat down and everyone actively told me to get my rear end off my work laptop and be with my partner and grieve. Yeah. A lot of "if I can't see my people they're not working" management got their methods completely invalidated with the pandemic. We had a record year in 2019, sent everyone home in March of 2020, and then doubled 2019's record. But there are still leaders who insisted on going back to the office as quickly as possible and "strongly encouraged" their people to do so as well, even though their actual productivity showed better performance being remote.
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I'm full remote due to a TBI sustained back in early December; management still wants everyone, including service desk, in the office. Got a job offer from the job fair thread, had to put it on hold during my treatments. They said they'd hold it for me, I hope that holds true as recovery is taking longer than anticipated. My job counts the minutes I put in tickets. I've had appointments every day this week; Monday was occupational therapy, Tuesday was acupuncture, Wednesday was speech therapy, today is optometry, tomorrow is med management, Saturday is an MRI. I get to make up the minutes those appointments cut out of the workday until I hit 40 hours. I am very very jealous of those 9-5 "just get your work done" jobs; my last position as a printer tech was like that. I put in 11.5 billable hours yesterday around speech therapy just to make up for what I couldn't finish after occupational therapy. If short term disability were an option I'd be on it.
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Feb 3, 2022 15:08
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AlexDeGruven posted:Yeah. A lot of "if I can't see my people they're not working" management got their methods completely invalidated with the pandemic. We had a record year in 2019, sent everyone home in March of 2020, and then doubled 2019's record. Thats what killed me about my last job. The whole reason I quit is because they wouldnt let us work remotely despite having a record breaking year for profits all while working from home! I talked to the internal recruiter that hired me for that position a few weeks ago, since I know her casually through some other friends, and she said they're struggling now to fill positions of tech people that left for full time remote jobs.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Thats what killed me about my last job. The whole reason I quit is because they wouldnt let us work remotely despite having a record breaking year for profits all while working from home! Yup. Adapt or die. I still see posts go by for "Remote during the pandemic". Sorry, my dudes, I'm definitely not relocating, especially to a much more expensive area. Literally the only job I would relocate for would be IBM Lab Services, and that would be to Austin. But even then, I probably wouldn't go anywhere near Texas until the political climate in this country changes dramatically.
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Feb 3, 2022 15:29
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Just want to mention that I had an absolutely excellent Wednesday. https://twitter.com/mrbellek/status/1488826156325511168 (Hopefully that also shows the first tweet) Two hours after this, I had my yearly performance review. It went very well. Been walking on sunshine for the entire day.
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Feb 3, 2022 16:10
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Sywert of Thieves posted:Just want to mention that I had an absolutely excellent Wednesday. Nice! Receiving praise for your hard work is always a great feeling, and is why I always try to publicly applaud others' efforts. It costs me nothing and it usually makes their day. Side note: I love a good optimization story. What's the gist of your refactor?
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Sywert of Thieves posted:Just want to mention that I had an absolutely excellent Wednesday. That’s awesome, it’s always nice to get recognition when you put in some good work. Sadly doesn’t happen often enough in a lot of places.
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Feb 3, 2022 16:42
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At $JOB-1 I had an Outlook folder specifically for things just like that. It was my smallest folder by multiple orders of magnitude but it was the most impactful in terms of job satisfaction and burnout reduction.
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Feb 3, 2022 16:52
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My management realizes we are terminally underpaid and tries to make up for it with a constant stream of recognition. It's pretty nice, but I'd rather have the money
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Feb 3, 2022 17:07
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AlexDeGruven posted:Yeah. A lot of "if I can't see my people they're not working" management got their methods completely invalidated with the pandemic. We had a record year in 2019, sent everyone home in March of 2020, and then doubled 2019's record. I negotiated full remote, it went suspiciously easy until I got a message asking why I wasn’t in the office. “You’re full remote except for the days I want you to come in” 
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Feb 3, 2022 19:17
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xsf421 posted:I negotiated full remote, it went suspiciously easy until I got a message asking why I wasn’t in the office. “You’re full remote except for the days I want you to come in” Lmao 
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xsf421 posted:I negotiated full remote, it went suspiciously easy until I got a message asking why I wasn’t in the office. “You’re full remote except for the days I want you to come in” lol WTF.
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xsf421 posted:I negotiated full remote, it went suspiciously easy until I got a message asking why I wasn’t in the office. “You’re full remote except for the days I want you to come in” I mean, did this person ask you to come in and you ignored it? Did this person expect mind reading?
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xsf421 posted:I negotiated full remote, it went suspiciously easy until I got a message asking why I wasn’t in the office. “You’re full remote except for the days I want you to come in” The benefit of living a few thousand miles away from how is that they can’t pull this poo poo on me.
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Feb 3, 2022 19:41
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Be like IBM and tell 1,000 people they have to be on site in Missouri by end of year. This happened right before covid.
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xsf421 posted:I negotiated full remote, it went suspiciously easy until I got a message asking why I wasn’t in the office. “You’re full remote except for the days I want you to come in”
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xsf421 posted:I negotiated full remote, it went suspiciously easy until I got a message asking why I wasn’t in the office. “You’re full remote except for the days I want you to come in” You know what to do... 
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If my WFH time starts at 8am, I roll out of bed at 8:30am. Sometimes 9am. Unless someone has me scheduled for an early meeting or pings me earlier on Slack.
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Hughmoris posted:Side note: I love a good optimization story. What's the gist of your refactor? It was a semi-unattended import of 68 csv files into a few databases that consisted of a huge mess of shell scripts, php files, perl scripts and filter lists that all piped stuff to each other, generated even more PHP on the fly, written by an old (ex-)sysadmin. There really wasn't any way to go but up when I rewrote the whole thing. It went from 8 hours to run to about 25 minutes.
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Sywert of Thieves posted:It was a semi-unattended import of 68 csv files into a few databases that consisted of a huge mess of shell scripts, php files, perl scripts and filter lists that all piped stuff to each other, generated even more PHP on the fly, written by an old (ex-)sysadmin. There really wasn't any way to go but up when I rewrote the whole thing. It went from 8 hours to run to about 25 minutes. KISS, motherfucker, KISS
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Comprehending that level of poo poo is an achievement TBH.
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chin up everything sucks posted:If my WFH time starts at 8am, I roll out of bed at 8:30am. Sometimes 9am. Unless someone has me scheduled for an early meeting or pings me earlier on Slack. I would do this too but my overbearing coworker starts asking where anyone is even its a minute after the hour.
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we have daily WFH check-in meetings at 8:15 which is weird because it disrupts me from getting into any real work I were to start at 8:00
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cage-free egghead posted:I would do this too but my overbearing coworker starts asking where anyone is even its a minute after the hour. Coworker, not manager? <30 minutes later> "Sorry I was busy with some tasks". Offer no other explanation if pressed on it. Repeat until they give up. gently caress that noise.
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