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After weeks of dealing with Bell, I have an answer regarding the IP migration. We cant do it. The current service and the new service are on different APs on Bell's end so we cannot move it. I've already sent emails to the owners, Sr Tech and account lead about this. I didn't get an out of office message so the account lead must be back from Cuba. fakeedit: While writing this post the account lead emailed me asking me for a full list of infrastructure changes that need to be done on the Intranet side and with the GOA. I have no idea. I have never dealt with any of the infrastructure configuration here. The only person who would know was the previous account lead who was fired over a year ago and he didn't document anything. I don't even have access to the switches or router to see the configuration. Given my history with this account lead, im fully expecting to be told to figure it out by end of day. On the plus side, I got a call this morning for an interview with another services company. I was hoping to not work for another one, but desperate times...
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blackswordca posted:On the plus side, I got a call this morning for an interview with another services company. I was hoping to not work for another one, but desperate times... On the plus side, you know the warning signs.
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Nov 27, 2013 22:24
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Paladine_PSoT posted:On the plus side, you know the warning signs. This. When they ask you if you have questions, you should give them a "hypothetical" situation that is out of your scope and ask how they'd deal with it.
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TWBalls posted:Eh, it doesn't bother me enough to bother disabling any of them. I do, however, wonder why in the hell both Parallels and Outlook seem to think that they need an icon in the notification area. They're both on the taskbar for fucks sake. With Outlook, I can understand the 'new messages' icon that is there, but the main program icon is unnecessary. Also a lot of people set their notification area to auto-hide or autohide most stuff, most users I've used it to troubleshoot with, are amazed that outlook has an icon by the clock too.
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Nov 28, 2013 00:22
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ConfusedUs posted:This. Also, for the love of god ask to see their server room. That will quickly tell you their give-a-poo poo level. If the interviews are going well, turn the tables on them and start asking about processes, policies, discuss what you think about them without coming off as a knowitall or condescending. Make sure the place is a good fit for you.
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Nov 28, 2013 00:36
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Also, for the love of god ask to see their server room. That will quickly tell you their give-a-poo poo level. An upper circle of hell is probably a better fit for him than his current job.
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Nov 28, 2013 02:20
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Volmarias posted:An upper circle of hell is probably a better fit for him than his current job. "Rolling weights around forever, huh? And occasionally Plutus comes by and takes a swipe at me? But I don't have to answer any calls or tickets, right -- strictly project work, single task? How much did you say this position pays? Oh, unpaid internship, but on-campus boarding and meals? Hmmm..."
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Stolen from the webcomic thread: Penny Arcade posts the Worst Junior Dev Job In The World Nuns with Guns posted:So if anyone here doesn't have a tumblr (a good thing) or lives under a rock, Penny Arcade is doing something that causes drama again. Here's a testimonial from the guy who had the job previously. He has obviously been mentally damaged to the point of happily thinking work-life balance is bullshit and one should be thankful for every measly dollar your employer gives you for your http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/185114/about-the-penny-arcade-job-posting
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Holy poo poo the people defending that are insane.quote:There is this notion that work/life balance is some kind of sacred goal. I’m sorry, but it’s ludicrous. That’s like saying everyone would be fulfilled by getting married and having 2.5 kids. If you want to work 40 hours and never think about your job after 5pm, great! Find something that does that for you. If you want to work 80 or more hours at something you truly enjoy, in fact you don’t want to stop working ever because you love it so much, shouldn’t that be okay too? Shouldn’t we be so lucky as to have a job that we are so invested in? We are very honest about what working at Penny Arcade requires. No one here has been scammed into working as hard as they do, and the implication that we’re all blind fools with low self esteem for being here is honestly insulting. If you take a job here, you know what you’re getting into, and you’ve decided it’s worth it to you. There won’t be any taking advantage of starry-eyed young twenty-somethings. You need to have a very realistic idea of what this job requires, or you will fail. And we’re not interested in hiring anyone just to set them up for failure.
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Nov 28, 2013 03:44
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When I die put on my tombstone "At least I worked for Penny Arcade"
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Nov 28, 2013 03:53
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I found what *I* want for the holidays. They just opened a brand new This post has absolutely no sysadmin or computer content in it, because i'm off until next monday. Not for lack of work trying, though. gently caress you, i'm on vacation.
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Nov 28, 2013 04:38
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nitrogen posted:I found what *I* want for the holidays. I go to Total Wine for all of my liquor needs. I routinely clean them out of 3.99 six packs when the seasonal beers are being switched over to the next season.
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Nov 28, 2013 04:49
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Holy poo poo the people defending that are insane. They're Penny Arcade fans, they're either insane or awful people (both of which would defend that god-awful posting).
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Nov 28, 2013 05:47
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How much do you guys think a job requiring that skillset is actually worth, before factoring the silly hours they apparently expect? I've seen estimates ranging from $150-200k. Wonder what they actually plan to offer. EDIT: Also, I guess they plan to put all that on one person with absolutely no team or backup? 
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Nov 28, 2013 10:47
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At least Penny Arcade is honest and upfront about underpaying and overworking people. 
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Nov 28, 2013 10:56
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guppy posted:How much do you guys think a job requiring that skillset is actually worth, before factoring the silly hours they apparently expect? I've seen estimates ranging from $150-200k. Yeah, it's gonna be a shame when he snaps and leaves them 100% in the lurch. That's what usually happens when you rely on 1 person for 24/7/365 oncall support.
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Nov 28, 2013 11:05
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nitrogen posted:I found what *I* want for the holidays. Pfft, unpeated scotch. Aberlour A'bunadh is a great scotch for 10% of that price, though I do love Balvenie double wood. I'd still rather have 30 year Oban. IT related because any tickets that come in today will be seen next to a glass of whiskey.
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That Penny Arcade job is pretty much the solo IT position at every small company with an online presence ever, so it's not really that unusual. They're just being more up-front about it instead of completely hiding it behind buzzwords. There are folks out there who do like that sort of intense work and don't mind the hours. That said, the experience they're asking for is pretty absurd; I doubt they're going to find anyone with that much experience in all those separate fields who would be willing to work four jobs for what is probably an entry-level salary. They really should be looking for another young guy without much experience who can learn quickly and doesn't mind spending a couple years being underpaid in exchange for what is probably some decent experience with various IT work, like their current admin when he started.
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dennyk posted:That Penny Arcade job is pretty much the solo IT position at every small company with an online presence ever, so it's not really that unusual. They're just being more up-front about it instead of completely hiding it behind buzzwords. There are folks out there who do like that sort of intense work and don't mind the hours. That said, the experience they're asking for is pretty absurd; I doubt they're going to find anyone with that much experience in all those separate fields who would be willing to work four jobs for what is probably an entry-level salary. They really should be looking for another young guy without much experience who can learn quickly and doesn't mind spending a couple years being underpaid in exchange for what is probably some decent experience with various IT work, like their current admin when he started. When I was twenty years younger I loved that kind of work. Now that I'm old and fat and lazy I say no.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:When I was twenty years younger I loved that kind of work. Now that I'm old and fat and lazy I say no. I'm not even thirty and I'm a big "gently caress that" to stupid on call and work loading bs. I'm leaving my current gig in a week to make forty percent more and no on call with a narrow defined job.
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The Electronaut posted:I'm not even thirty and I'm a big "gently caress that" to stupid on call and work loading bs. I'm leaving my current gig in a week to make forty percent more and no on call with a narrow defined job. Yes, this. I'm a software engineer, and pager duty is such utter bull. It's acceptable if you're young and single and hungry for the experience, but once you have a family suddenly being on the clock all day every day gets less exciting.
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It's one of the big reasons I find it hard to ever leave my job. Sure I'm salary but I'm not on call and I can't remember the last time I've worked more than 40 hrs in a week.
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I make about $3000 being on call every year, but man I hate it and it's not worth the 3am calls. I don't care if Nagios thinks it's a critical error, for the ninth loving time this month the god damned eDocs server is *supposed* to reboot at 0030, that's the only way to make the loving memory leak not suck.
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GreenNight posted:It's one of the big reasons I find it hard to ever leave my job. Sure I'm salary but I'm not on call and I can't remember the last time I've worked more than 40 hrs in a week. Until the last 2-3 months, it was that way with my job. Lately, the stupidity of our corporate overlords has started to make my job more stressful than it's been in a long time. That, plus next week we move to our new building which turns my commute from a 35 min each way to nearly an hour each way. It sucks, because I have a mostly good team (even the idiots will yield) and i don't want to think about having to YOTJ. The reason this comes up, is, my boss has been trying to call me today to build stuff. Apparently its absolutely urgent that some whiny customer is demanding it. I'm glad that i took actual vacation, o I dont feel bad about having my phone off and listening to panicked voicemails tonight. Building emergency poo poo on thanksgiving. I mean really?
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Antioch posted:I make about $3000 being on call every year, but man I hate it and it's not worth the 3am calls. I don't care if Nagios thinks it's a critical error, for the ninth loving time this month the god damned eDocs server is *supposed* to reboot at 0030, that's the only way to make the loving memory leak not suck. You know that you can tell Nagios to not bother you about certain things between certain hours, right?
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Why all the fuss about that job posting? They'll likely get hundreds of applicants. If you don't like a job, find something else.
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Antioch posted:I make about $3000 being on call every year, but man I hate it and it's not worth the 3am calls. I don't care if Nagios thinks it's a critical error, for the ninth loving time this month the god damned eDocs server is *supposed* to reboot at 0030, that's the only way to make the loving memory leak not suck. Just kill the process and service and restart the service. code:Pilsner posted:Why all the fuss about that job posting? They'll likely get hundreds of applicants. If you don't like a job, find something else. Making job postings like that acceptable cheapens every other job in the industry. If someone's willing to work for ~Penny Arcade~, which provides absolutely no work-life balance, for no pay, then why isn't everyone else willing to do the same?
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I'm guessing the environment at Penny-Arcade is a bit different from all the service companies, schools, and Tony-infested hellholes other people work at.
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Mattavist posted:I'm guessing the environment at Penny-Arcade is a bit different from all the service companies, schools, and Tony-infested hellholes other people work at. The only difference is that the senior management is younger.
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Mattavist posted:I'm guessing the environment at Penny-Arcade is a bit different from all the service companies, schools, and Tony-infested hellholes other people work at. It pleases me that 'Tony' has become a sort of brand name for horrible fuckin' bosses.
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How do you accidentally change the *.lnk file association in Vista so that all your desktop shortcuts try to open in IE? I've fixed it, but I'm trying to figure out how the hell they did it in the first place.
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Entropic posted:How do you accidentally change the *.lnk file association in Vista so that all your desktop shortcuts try to open in IE? I've fixed it, but I'm trying to figure out how the hell they did it in the first place. It may not be an end user thing. Ive seen malware cause it as well as a glitched IE update cause it as well.
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blackswordca posted:It may not be an end user thing. Ive seen malware cause it as well as a glitched IE update cause it as well. Yeah, running MBAM now. I've learned never to underestimate the bizarre things users can do by accident though.
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A while ago the city was doing some work near one of our schools and had to turn the power off for the entire building. It was scheduled on a day there was no school, and we had a few weeks notice, so we sent an email out stating that power would be off for the morning, etc. One person had a question: Will the power outage affect his computer?
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So.... a phone call came in. Account lead was giving me crap for not having a ticket done. The ticket was to grant access to all users for this client to have access to the ticketing program so they could see their own tickets. ive been busy with outages and other things when I got a little snappy at him on the phone.  Damnit blackswordca, why isn't this work done? Its not that hard, I thought you were smarter than this. Ive been busy fixing higher priority issues hah yeah, like what? like the crap you and Sr Tech are constantly breaking for starters .... *hangup*heh.. whoops.
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blackswordca posted:So.... a phone call came in.  Balls, you're using them. edit: There's nothing wrong with this. If anyone gives you crap about how you talked to him, go on the offensive about how he addressed you first. Fight for your dignity, though you shouldnt have to. Paladine_PSoT fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Nov 29, 2013 |
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computer parts posted:The only difference is that the senior management is younger. But still a bunch of raging arseholes according to some sources.
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McGlockenshire posted:You know that you can tell Nagios to not bother you about certain things between certain hours, right? It's not Nagios, it's the barely literate dipshit overnight 'ops' guys that cause me grief.
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computer parts posted:The only difference is that the senior management is younger. And more transphobic.
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So this happened to my coworker today while in the same room: He asks our "manager" about a pc that was ordered a few days earlier during our morning meeting by (person responsible for destination department) and the guy replies with "(person responsible for department) should have mentioned it in our morning meeting" and hangs up. Baffled, my coworker calls (prfd) back and tells him that he got no status because "manager" hung up before he even could mention the order. So (prfd) calls "manager" and tells him how its not ok to just hang up like that. He then calls my coworker back and tells him that "manager" denies ever doing so. Another (prfd) my coworker and I sat there for a minute just staring at each other completely baffled. Also "manager" is only supposed to be managing our inventory but because he is friends with my boss he is the one in charge of ad and other integral things. A few days ago he added the policy to stop grouping on the taskbar and pinning to it. I confronted him a few times and he admitted to it after 3, when I asked him to change it back he said it is department policy. Of our department. Lol. "Always has been". No. So I asked him to change it for us because it ruins workflow. "Thats not possible for single accounts or groups". gently caress off. This guy has no IT background and in the years hes been here he has learned almost nothing. He constantly fucks up and then sticks with it to not look dumb even tho everyone just shakes their head. But boss wont see it. Even the (prfd)s talk about it all the time, and they are basically equal with the boss. This guy is literally the one thing dragging this department down. Delays things for months because he cant figure the simplest things out and blames it on external companies. And hes supposed to only be managing the inventory...
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