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Where's a good place to get cheap whitebox Supermicro servers? One of my engineers is building a Cassandra environment for a proof of concept and has a decent chunk of change to play with, but wants the most hardware he can get for the dollar without building his own stuff. I found ServersDirect.com and their pricing seems really good. We're an HP shop for corporate stuff, but he doesn't want anything but basic whitebox servers. Any recommendations? We're looking for just a bunch of 1U pizza boxes with a single 6 core and 32/64GB RAM. A few servers will have dual proc and 128GB RAM. He needs 38 servers and has 100K to play with (maybe a little more). Bob Morales posted:What about exit interviews? They're so amazingly pointless. It's not like the company is going to say "OH HEY MAYBE WE SHOULD MAKE ALL THESE CHANGES NOW THAT DOGSTILE TOLD US ABOUT THEM" We don't even do exit interviews anymore. I found out HR recently switched to a post employment survey that they send to your personal email account after your last day. skipdogg fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Mar 31, 2014 |
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Bob Morales posted:What about exit interviews? They're so amazingly pointless. It's not like the company is going to say "OH HEY MAYBE WE SHOULD MAKE ALL THESE CHANGES NOW THAT DOGSTILE TOLD US ABOUT THEM" 1) there exists a culture of trying to fix it 2) the person conducting the interview is not in your former chain of command Your resignation letter should be nothing but logistical details, and terse to commending praise if you happened to like working there. evil_bunnY fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Mar 31, 2014 |
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Never say anything in exit interviews. It's pointless, and it's documented that you badmouthed your ex-boss.
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I don't mind doing an exit interview if there is something that needs to be said and was why I left. I mean you shouldn't bad mouth it but if there was something really wrong then why not at least bring it to light? However, if it's and obvious "I'm leaving because X much more" then yeah why bother. dogstile posted:Luckily for me I don't have to offer to help find a replacement and i'm not in a senior position. Half the reason i'm leaving is because these assholes won't trust me to log into a database, right click and select "run". Ah well that sounds pretty bad then, hope new experiences await which are better. Working a lower position or on "documentation" is something I do see fairly common, at least in my area. Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Mar 31, 2014 |
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Mar 31, 2014 19:47
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:I don't mind doing an exit interview if there is something that needs to be said and was why I left. I mean you shouldn't bad mouth it but if there was something really wrong then why not at least bring it to light? Because like people have said over and over again, with rare exceptions, there is literally no advantage to you saying anything.
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Syano posted:Because like people have said over and over again, with rare exceptions, there is literally no advantage to you saying anything. Some people will never understand this.
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Mar 31, 2014 20:03
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But I'm a special flower dammit and if they only take my totally awesome advice everything will be so much better.
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Syano posted:Because like people have said over and over again, with rare exceptions, there is literally no advantage to you saying anything. Yeah I know that's most likely true, because all companies are awesome, policies are flawless, and senior staff is never the problem! But at least if you do it you know you tried.  skipdogg posted:But I'm a special flower dammit and if they only take my totally awesome advice everything will be so much better. I think that's going a bit far. Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Mar 31, 2014 |
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Mar 31, 2014 20:17
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:Yeah I know that's most likely true, because all companies are awesome, policies are flawless, and senior staff is never the problem! But at least if you do it you know you tried. Nothing is perfect but no one with 2 feet out the door has anything to gain by pointing that out, which is the point of this whole discussion: You quietly move along to greener pastures and you let them marinade in their own poo poo and misery.
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Mar 31, 2014 20:34
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Jesus Christ, Germany
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'Gotta have a picture with every article' is going to extremes I see.
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three posted:Some people will never understand this. Well, luckily I do. I'm applying to every job within distance right now, i'll take anything of equivalent wage that's roughly the same distance. This place is toxic. E: Before I was just applying for things that were straight upgrades. I'm cool moving sideways so long as I get to a better work environment.
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"Germany's labor ministry has banned managers from calling or emailing staff out of hours except in emergencies." Ha! I'd like to see how long that lasts.
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Seems perfectly fine? It's not a law, just the labor ministry itself making this pledge. For people who are paid to be on call, or for emergencies (that are hopefully real emergencies) nothing will change, but it should re-assure workers about putting down their phone once in a while.
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If you have to do an exit interview, stick to saying nice things. Think of all the things that made your life easier, people who helped you and things that you hope they'll keep doing in the future.
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I get that it's perfectly fine, it's just amazing to me that a country would actually step up and say "Hey... they're people. Leave them alone."
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It's not the country as in part of the law, it's one government department (following other large employers). The article is badly written.
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skipdogg posted:Where's a good place to get cheap whitebox Supermicro servers? One of my engineers is building a Cassandra environment for a proof of concept and has a decent chunk of change to play with, but wants the most hardware he can get for the dollar without building his own stuff. Check your PMs, I might be able to help out.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:I get that it's perfectly fine, it's just amazing to me that a country would actually step up and say "Hey... they're people. Leave them alone." I like the principle that if you can't get your job done within normal work hours then you're bad at it or your manager is incompetent at managing resources.
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:And your username fits this perfectly.... lol. HalloKitty posted:It's funny, my girlfriend has the exact same experience. If you don't believe that these biases exist, just read any discussion of race or gender dynamics on Hacker News or Reddit. Half the stuff in the poo poo HN Says threads in YOSPOS are about these types of people. Men's Rights Advocates and others who use misunderstood, misguided  eugenics and evolutionary biology arguments are all over the place, and a surprising number of upper-middle-class white guys have no problem sharing their opinions on why African-Americans or women are just biologically wired not to be interested in tech. Never mind that organizations like Per Scholas or Black Girls Code are seeing tremendous enrollment over the last couple of years.I don't mean to place the blame solely on the shoulders of industry, of course. Race and gender dynamics are extremely complicated, and even more complicated in the United States where it's very easy to conflate race and poverty. But people do need to recognize the problems where they arise, and try to take steps to address the inequality.
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three posted:I like the principle that if you can't get your job done within normal work hours then you're bad at it or your manager is incompetent at managing resources. I think that this is a good policy for people to take, as long as the government doesn't go too far in codifying it. Ricardo Semler, the guy who wrote Maverick! about Semco's unorthodox approach to management, wrote an entire book called The Seven-Day Weekend about flexible working conditions and how competent management can (and must) make it easy for their employees to get "me time" during the week if the company expects them to answer emails on the weekend. I've found that approach works really, really well for me (my wife is a night nurse with an unpredictable schedule) and I'd hate to see the benefits legislated away for others because a committee of Parliamentarians are set on throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Germany tends to take pretty progressive stances on labor laws, and they're seeing their own pretty healthy startup scene, so I imagine they'll take a moderated approach and a soft hand.
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Misogynist posted:wrote an entire book called The Seven-Day Weekend about flexible working conditions and how competent management can (and must) make it easy for their employees to get "me time" during the week if the company expects them to answer emails on the weekend. I work at a place that is very flexible, kind of like this. It's a happy medium that works well for us. I have a Dr. Appt Wed afternoon. I'm going to leave around 2 and then work from home the rest of the day. Some weeks I work 50 hours, others I'll work 30. When they need me, I step up,, when things are quiet, I can take off a little early, or 'work from home' for a day. In exchange for my company having flexibility for my schedule, I have flexibility for them. If I have to do something late night, or on a Saturday, no big deal. The company is flexible for me, and I am more than happy to be flexible for them. I don't know that I could work some place where I had to be in a cubicle at 8:01AM no matter what. I wouldn't be very flexible with them I could tell you that. I'm in a great situation now and it really is nice. We're all treated like adults, we get our work done with good results and everyone is pretty drat happy. edit: I have 2 young kids (4 and 2) and because of my workplace's flexibility I have never missed a milestone checkup, if they're sick the first words out of my bosses mouth are 'take care of the family first'. I feel very fortunate to work somewhere that this is the case. skipdogg fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Mar 31, 2014 |
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Wow so my previous companies out of the blue let one of their highest VMware engineers go because he said he was moving in a few months, and wanted to give them a few months notice because how high up he is. This comes after they let a good engineer go because he couldn't update a senior staff member every 5 (not joking he had a message log)minutes on how quick he'd be done or if he was finished yet.
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Just had a second interview for a position and I bombed it for 25 minutes. Interviewer took it in a bit of the wrong direction so when it came to "do you have any questions for me" i was frankly confused as to what the position was. In 30 seconds and two questions she told me the position is exactly what i'm looking for (project coordination, identifying bottlenecks and clearing them for more efficient engineering team operation). I then had about 4:30 to tell her why she should hire someone she had just spent 25 minutes talking to about things that have nothing to do with that. gently caress it. 14 weeks unemployed is enough. I'm fighting for this. I'm going to write it all out in email, and send it to their senior recruiter then ask him to forward to the interviewer. It's hail mary time.
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Docjowles posted:The ISP is definitely debatable. Maybe I'm being too pedantic, but I'd only call a company's core business "IT" if the stuff I as an IT worker do day-to-day (system administration, network administration, provisioning storage, writing code etc) is what the customer pays us for. So to me there are very few companies in the "IT industry", basically MSP's, vendors, web hosts, software development shops where the app itself is the product people are coming to buy. I don't think that just because a company makes its money as a website means it's an IT company. The CEO of Pandora probably doesn't go around telling investors they're in the IT industry. Exactly this. Most people who say that they are in IT are generally speaking fulfilling an IT function at a company that is not in the IT industry.
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I got a call to interview for a job I applied for last week Two quick questions about resumes/old jobs. 1. A company I worked for was acquired after I worked there about 2 years. I worked for the new company for another 2 years or so. It looks like I job-hopped so I have to explain what happened - would I be better off just saying I worked for the new company for 4 years? I'm not sure if that's 'right', and the other thing about it is that the job was quite different, since I became part of a bigger IT department and wasn't the entire department anymore. 2. The company also changed names recently. So do I put down the name of the company when I worked there, or what it is now? I'm leaning towards just leaving it for the sole fact that I worked with two people who are now working at that company.
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Bob Morales posted:I got a call to interview for a job I applied for last week Put the current name of the company as one job as long as you held the same position. The new company will have all of the old HR records, which is really all that anyone will need. I was in a very similar situation: two positions within the same company and then it was acquired by another company after I left.
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Bob Morales posted:I got a call to interview for a job I applied for last week New Company (formerly Old Company) is how I'd approach #2 if you have space for it in your resume layout.
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I'm hoping that the Application Systems Administrator job I applied for is not too terribly different from my current System Administrator job - the posting was at the local university and pays a bit more than I currently make (and in 2 weeks I'll be making a hell of a lot less, so it's got that going for it). I figure I might as well go ahead and violate Commandment 2 of the IT Industry, since I've already violated #1 - Thou Shalt Not Apply for an IT job in Health Care. I'm hoping to have my final resume version back from the ResumesToInterviews guy by the end of the week, but in the meantime my current version seems to be pretty good with some minor tweaking and cleanup. Time to start shotgunning applications so I can start interviewing in a couple weeks. In other news, my doctor told me at my physical yesterday that I now have high blood pressure and my triglycerides are too high, so now I'm on a water pill for the blood pressure and some other drug for the triglycerides. I told him that I thought my BP of 150/102 was rather low, all things considered.
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I'd be curious what it was back when you were nearly suicidal at that healthcare IT hell hole. Most assuredly higher...
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Healthcare IT in my area seems to pay the most. A lot of people from my old job including me have jumped ship for a job in the healthcare related industry and have gotten considerable bumps in pay to go along with it. The downside has been dealing with systems where there is no standardization and poorly written software. I am more of a Sr System Administrator, but I have heard it is much worse for the helpdesk, desktop support side. owDAWG fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Apr 2, 2014 |
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owDAWG posted:Healthcare IT in my area seems to pay the most. A lot of people from my old job including me have jumped ship for a job in the healthcare related industry and have gotten considerable bumps in pay to go along with it. The downside has been dealing with systems where there is no standardization and poorly written software. The increased pay may have more to do with getting a new job, period, rather than that new job being in the healthcare industry per se.
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Alfajor posted:I'll be there Wed and Thurs! I'm intending to go to their official party on Wed night at LIGHT Nightclub I'm expo pass only so I'm not in the cool kids club for the party. I'm in Vegas though so if anyone has any suggestions for stuff I shouldn't miss while I'm in town, I'd love to hear it. I'm gonna go see Carrot Top!
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owDAWG posted:Healthcare IT in my area seems to pay the most. A lot of people from my old job including me have jumped ship for a job in the healthcare related industry and have gotten considerable bumps in pay to go along with it. The downside has been dealing with systems where there is no standardization and poorly written software. This is the key to Healthcare IT. Be far enough removed from the doctors/nurses/users that you never have to deal with them. I'm a SR Sys Admin too at a very large Healthcare company and I can't remember the last time I had to talk to a user.
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scanlonman posted:What's the standard for download/upload speed for a office with 10 people? We currently have 30Mb x 3Mb, but can upgrade to 60mb x 4mb for extra. We don't do VOIP, or anything crazy like that. Mainly outlook and facebook... Email is hosted off site. You're graphing/logging your bandwidth usage, right? That should tell you if you need more or not. I really doubt you're going to notice an increase in performance by upgrading from 30x3 to 60x4.
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Bob Morales posted:I got a call to interview for a job I applied for last week I can't speak for everyone but I've never had a single IT job last over 2 years. I go where the money goes and not single employer has even remotely questioned my employment history.
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