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blackswordca posted:So a two week notice was given in. I'm sat here grinning like an idiot. I'll be drinking in your honour tonight dude!
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With blacksworda moving on, who will take his place as 'guy with the shittiest job'? Someone always rises to take the mantle. Will it be you? I'm excited and horrified to find out!
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May 29, 2014 11:05
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Race Realists posted:Curious. Any IT support guys here in Georgia? What's it like? I work in IT in higher ed in Georgia (Atlanta). If you want to know more about general IT around here, PM me and we can chit-chat about it.
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May 29, 2014 13:02
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Or a security vuln did. Either/or. CVE-2014-3445 posted:Where “a” is the file number to back up and “k” is the MD5key used to authenticate the administrator, however if “k” does not match the correct key rather than disallowing the unauthenticated user to back up the file the service will provide the user with the correct key. For example:
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May 29, 2014 13:19
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I feel like changing your avatar, but it's already someone cutting away chains and I can't think of anything better. 
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May 29, 2014 13:22
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Potato Alley posted:As someone who works for an MSP, admittedly in the Bay Area, this seems quite reasonable. I didn't phrase that properly. What I was trying to say is that they currently have 24 hour support from an MSP that they're paying $12k per month for and are intending to replace that with one person for whom they will pay significantly less. And I don't think that one person should be me.
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May 29, 2014 13:28
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Swink posted:With blacksworda moving on, who will take his place as 'guy with the shittiest job'? Someone always rises to take the mantle. Will it be you? Did CorvetteFischer ever get a new job?
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Dick Trauma posted:I didn't phrase that properly. What I was trying to say is that they currently have 24 hour support from an MSP that they're paying $12k per month for and are intending to replace that with one person for whom they will pay significantly less. And I don't think that one person should be me. I bolded the important part, because that job would suck at any wage.
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May 29, 2014 14:07
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There was a discussion about the horrors of Scrum on the previous page. We are total scrum-lords at our dev team and it works wonders for use. We have: 5- to 15-minute stand-up meetings where we skype in whoever hasn't showed up to work yet (usually 1-3 people, one of them being me) We work on one subtask at a time which is a part of a user story that is sometimes part of an epic. We usually manage to avoid user story bloat. Weekly grooming sessions that take 2-3 hours. 2-week sprints where we try to work on a collection of tasks averaging a total of 40 velocity points, less when there are holidays. Retrospectives at the end of the sprint The only thing which is fairly useless is the weekly Triage which doesn't usually amount to anything more than moving some issues around in Jira and putting "Triage: Needs Grooming" in its comments. I think it works mostly because we devs define the process ourself. That way we can instantly stop doing whatever is a waste of time. Like, for example, worrying about completing a task before the end of the sprint, even if it is not the most important one, because "we need the story points in this sprint to show managamant that we are effective". We are no longer doing that!
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May 29, 2014 14:07
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Not knowing anything about scrum all I can say is my god, the buzzwords.
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May 29, 2014 14:12
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Yeah, I think I may understand the concept of scrum in general in terms of efficiency but seeing words that basically sum up as points in an epic story that is groomed just sounds unrelated to programming, even if I think I understand the premise - although I don't understand why you would need to highlight 40 significant items for a single project? Is there a good site/group of sites that highlight parts of scrum that would make sense of this?
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May 29, 2014 14:16
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Swink posted:With blacksworda moving on, who will take his place as 'guy with the shittiest job'? Someone always rises to take the mantle. Will it be you? I think if you are posting in this thread, you either have a lovely job, had a lovely job, or will have a lovely job.
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May 29, 2014 14:20
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Standups are the only good part of scrum. But my god, don't drink the Kool-aid. Any methodology which includes regular "sprints" instead of "do your job, every day" is doing something wrong. "User story"? "epic?" Is this the Iliad or Beowulf of development?
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May 29, 2014 14:38
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I bought a bunch of Dell Optiplex off eBay to replace failing PCs at work, and they are working fine. They claim to each have a valid Win 7 Pro COA on them, which are activating fine for me. Does anyone know what would happen to these if someone else uses the COA key from them? I want to avoid a situation where say someone from the previous company wrote one of these down and tries to use it on his own Dell at home then I get a ticket from Marketing telling me their PC is pirated. Does the holder of the physical COA always get priority if I have to call Microsoft or something?
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May 29, 2014 14:51
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You can't use those keys on a non-Dell PC and using them on a Dell PC is kind of pointless since that PC will have its own sticker. MS is also relatively chill for licensing issues if you have a somewhat reasonable claim, I doubt they'd even make you send in a picture or anykind of effort like that they'd probably just reset the activation counts instantly if you aren't calling in about a similar problem 10 times a year.Bisse posted:Weekly grooming sessions that take 2-3 hours.  
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May 29, 2014 14:53
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evol262 posted:Standups are the only good part of scrum. ^^Grooming is the dumbest name^^ To be honest the buzzwords make me a bit embarrased. But the actual workflow of 'have a set of small, clearly defined tasks, do the most important one at the moment, and plan your work before you do it' is a godsend. Bisse fucked around with this message at 14:57 on May 29, 2014 |
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May 29, 2014 14:54
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If I was going to point out the bad things about scrum, it'd be: * Those moments when you're going through an issue with a manager or colleague from another team, when suddenly: "But this issue's headline is not formatted in the form of a user story! And by the gods! The definition of done is just a short one-liner! And this can clearly be split into this and this task! No these things are important, we need standards!" So no we are arguing semantics instead of talking about the technical task we came to talk about. * The 2-week sprints. It's all fine and nice until the last two-three days, when suddenly people start reorganizing work maximize collection of imaginary points before an arbitrary deadline. * We have a manager who actually looks quarterly on our story points as some kind of performance metric for our team. Let me point out that the points are based on guesses on a tasks complexity before a task is started, are not changed if the task actually grows in size, and tasks that take longer than 2 weeks simply don't show up in the statistics. So the statistics are based on complete guesses from before a task is started and have nothing to do with the actual work. Luckily when asking about "why is this week showing 2 points instead of 4020" she accepts the answer that "uuh we care about working efficiently on important things, not on collecting imaginary points".
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May 29, 2014 15:05
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evol262 posted:Standups are the only good part of scrum. I'm surprised you guys are making fun of it without knowing much about it. "Epic" is a really big story (collection of stories), e.g. something that is a month or so worth of development. Bisse posted:If I was going to point out the bad things about scrum, it'd be: KoRMaK fucked around with this message at 15:12 on May 29, 2014 |
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May 29, 2014 15:09
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So a story is a new word for an incident, and an epic is a problem?
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peak debt posted:So a story is a new word for an incident, and an epic is a problem?
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People aren't making fun of the concept of breaking work into manageable chunks and prioritizing, they are making fun of the asinine buzzwords that are used to describe the process.
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Potato Alley posted:albeit it's over a mafia front restaurant in Bayview because the Tenderloin is too gentrified these days). Hey, if you gotta live in a bad neighborhood, doing it right above a mob joint is probably one of the better ways to go about it. sfwarlock posted:Or a security vuln did. Either/or. Oh my God, that's amazing. Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 15:43 on May 29, 2014 |
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May 29, 2014 15:34
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Inspector_666 posted:Hey, if you gotta live in a bad neighborhood, doing it right above a mob joint is probably one of the better ways to go about it. It's a good way to make useful friends at least.
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May 29, 2014 15:35
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Inspector_666 posted:Hey, if you gotta live in a bad neighborhood, doing it right above a mob joint is probably one of the better ways to go about it. Right up until they burn the place down for insurance fraud. Without letting you know to get out.
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May 29, 2014 15:38
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Swink posted:With blacksworda moving on, who will take his place as 'guy with the shittiest job'? Someone always rises to take the mantle. Will it be you? I work on a help desk of 5 techs supporting 10000 users. I could probably tell more stories.
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jim truds posted:I work on a help desk of 5 techs supporting 10000 users. I could probably tell more stories.
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The buzzwords may be stupid, but scrum works, and is useful in that it provides an actual structure to the agile concept, and also gives you something to pitch to your customers/users to get them on board with changing how things get done.
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May 29, 2014 16:16
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Bisse posted:If I was going to point out the bad things about scrum, it'd be: Those sound more like bad things about where you work, instead of bad things about scrum.
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May 29, 2014 16:34
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Yea and really the terms apply, although a bit hyperbolic, but when you work for more than a week on one feature it feels like an eternity. So epic is fitting for that. Stories work too as a good descriptor for sets of tasks. I think I rolled my eyes at the dumb names too but after I started using it I realized that it's the exception to the dumb buzzword trappings
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Freelance family work came in... Apparently my father (  I'm almost 30 so no you shut up dad!) has committed me to helping my godfather's business to replace all of their computers. Sure, that's no problem, anything for family.Now it has turned into my replacing the computers, cleaning up and recabling their network, replacing a UPS out of pocket and, hopefully, getting reimbursed, and upgrading them to a new version of quickbooks and transferring everything over. The kicker was when he insinuated that this was going to be pro bono, but he'd pay if I insisted. No poo poo, you're going to pay. I've never done anything on the side that wasn't just virus removal or a screen replacement. I don't even know how much to charge, but I've got a new baby and I'm loving broke so I'd better get something out of this.
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Uhh, if they hired someone to do all that work, a consultant would be like $75-$115 per hour. We pay our consultants from an MSP $185/hr. Pro bono, what the gently caress.
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larchesdanrew posted:Freelance family work came in... "Hey look, I know my dad said I would do this for a great discount but he wasn't authorized to make that offer on my behalf. This is a lot of work. I cannot do this pro-bono."
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GreenNight posted:Uhh, if they hired someone to do all that work, a consultant would be like $75-$115 per hour. Well, helping family is a messy business. Generally your parents and their parents expect help because they have helped you without expecting payment before. Being that you are helping his business makes it tricky. Can the business afford to pay someone, then yeah that should be done. Are they in trouble and can't afford it, meh it might be good to do some reasonable pro bono stuff. I guess it all depends on how close to your family you are I guess.
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Bisse posted:When my job involves designing a system that scales to billions of incoming entries per months, all searchable, it helps to have a clearly defined roadmap, and a clearly defined task to tackle, with high and clearly defined demands on quality and testing, compared to "just come in and write some code!" KoRMaK posted:Programmer checking in, it works. Sprint is a weekly meeting where we plan poo poo. Scrum is 15 minutes in the morning to touch base with everyone on the dev team and make sure we aren't stepping on toes. Programmer checking in. I guess I'll reiterate that I'm a developer for Redhat. I'm not arguing that having clearly defined scope, goals which are achievable in a 30 day timeframe, team planning towards those, and accountability for daily actions are all good things. Especially compared to agile's sometimes-directionless methodology and the "6 month project" timeline that inevitably doubles in scope and runs over deadlines. I'm saying that the terminology used by shops that really buy into it is ridiculous, and that products with a regular release cadence and good PMs can mostly "just come in and write some code" with daily/weekly standups, in my experience.
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blackswordca posted:So a two week notice was given in. I was catching up with this thread today and as soon as I saw you were in the references stage a few pages back I was hoping for this post. Congrats! A three year review is coming up on Friday. I wonder what the best way to say that our parent company has taken away the things I'm interested in doing (brought in their own MSP from NYC to do our network install and admin it and pretty much cut me out) and is slowly removing all responsibility from my department.
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Webbeh posted:I work in IT in higher ed in Georgia (Atlanta). Is it possible you could just explain here? I dont have the PM option available because im poor I am really curious what IT jobs are like Georgia. BornAPoorBlkChild fucked around with this message at 17:45 on May 29, 2014 |
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Race Realists posted:Is it possible you could just explain here? I dont have the PM option available because im poor If you take one in Atlanta, don't live too far from work unless you like sitting in traffic for 3+ hours a day.
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KoRMaK posted:That'd be an epic. It's honestly not that crazy, more just a slow death. We have 5 guys answering around 300 calls + 150 emails a day. Because of the way we stagger shifts we really only have 3 at a time. We have another 5 doing our 2nd level work. 3 of them are great at the job, 2 are useless and depend on me and another level 1 guy. One of them just supports our corporate office, 800 users. We just have a lot of incompetent people in IT because we pay poo poo and have no budget. I've been promised a level 2 job for 6 months now.
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I have a weekly call in my diary that seems to be called a scrum, I didn't really get the buzzword relevance I just thought the project manager is a weirdo. The reality of it is the project manager organised a 1hr call for 9:30 every week but wanted to make it 2 hours by adding a scrum for 10:30 so we make a drink and then just carry on... Or in my case never come back!
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Arboc posted:A ticket came in... blackswordca did the needful Never been happier for anyone else in this thread - I mostly saw the Tony saga after the fact. You are an inspiration to us all, blackswordca. At least, to me - seeing your struggle last year convinced me that I too should YOTJ, and I did so back in November. Been a lot happier ever since. Best of luck and health to you always.
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