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blackswordca posted:So an email came in: Okay now you're just making poo poo up.
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blackswordca posted:So an email came in: That's entrapment and you know it 
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Sep 3, 2014 19:28
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MJP posted:No reviews on Glassdoor. I would consider it but dig deeper, which is what you seem to want to do. I would probably bring up your concerns as far as work life balance goes and see what their opinions are.
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Sep 3, 2014 19:48
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Galler posted:This is just for removing document protection as in preventing people from loving up a sheet or whatever. It doesn't bypass 2010's "encrypt with a password" protection.
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Sep 3, 2014 20:32
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Sickening posted:I would consider it but dig deeper, which is what you seem to want to do. I would probably bring up your concerns as far as work life balance goes and see what their opinions are. To counter - would any reasonable employer ever tell a prospective candidate with a straight face "we expect that whatever comes through you will do it without hesitation, complaint, or issue" when someone expresses concerns about "stepping up" as the sole or primary determination of how someone's work output is judged? I'm just really paranoid - my last job was a fairly large enterprise, around 2000 employees throughout the country, and a very large IT department. Fraught with politics - the destructive, Dilbertian kind - and "I need you to stay late tonight" just as I'm about to leave, so frequent due to said politics, combined with a serious Peter Principle boss. I'm at a 75-person operation now. Maybe I'm just trying to find a good reason not to leave a safe place where I'm happy, despite its failings. Anyway, back on topic. A sleep apnea co-worker came in... ...and snored loud enough that it vibrated the floor slightly. Felt it through my feet. Poor guy, he nods off at least once a day, sometimes way more. Fortunately it's quiet enough that no harm is done by letting him do so, but I just hope someone doesn't walk up to see him like that. Wouldn't look good. Edit: From the HR person: "our environment is business professional." Tie every day? Would it be stupid to reply asking "by business professional, are we talking that the day-to-day requirement is jacket and tie?" MJP fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Sep 3, 2014 |
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Sep 3, 2014 21:05
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MJP posted:
In my experience business professional is long sleeved shirt, tie, dress pants, not khakis, and normally a jacket but your company may vary.
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Sep 3, 2014 21:56
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blackswordca posted:In my experience business professional is long sleeved shirt, tie, dress pants, not khakis, and normally a jacket but your company may vary. Yikes. I'm avoiding that like the plague - before this job I worked at two places that didn't allow casual Fridays (the first place didn't allow short sleeves ever) and you'd think it doesn't matter, but you miss jeans on Fridays. I'm gonna reply tomorrow just to give a little space and time asking questions about project load and authority to delegate tasks, healthcare cost details (this is a dealbreaker... my wife's got a couple of pretty bad conditions and we blew through $2500 of FSA for the year by mid-May) and the jacket and tie question.
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Sep 3, 2014 22:00
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Maybe I'm an anomaly but I do enjoy nice business casual clothing, but only if the job pays me enough for me to warrant buying the good stuff.
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Sep 3, 2014 22:05
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MJP posted:Edit: "Hi! Can you please send me a copy of the employee handbook / benefits package details / dress code?"
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Sep 3, 2014 22:12
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Just get a decent looking clip-on tie and you are probably fine.
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Sep 3, 2014 22:12
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My current job is pretty darn casual. Nothing offensive, no shorts, no sandals. T-shirt and jeans is fine. I love it.
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Sep 3, 2014 22:15
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FireSight posted:Just get a decent looking clip-on tie and you are probably fine. We don't need "tie chat, part deux", but you are not fine with a clip-on, ever.
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Sep 3, 2014 22:21
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evol262 posted:We don't need "tie chat, part deux", but you are not fine with a clip-on, ever. "Dress for the job you want, not the one you'll end up with when you wear a clip on tie".
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Sep 3, 2014 22:23
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I'll never understand what people have against dressing like a grown-up. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sep 3, 2014 22:28
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Entropic posted:I'll never understand what people have against dressing like a grown-up. The subsequent responsibilities.
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Sep 3, 2014 22:29
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Entropic posted:I'll never understand what people have against dressing like a grown-up. I can't put it into words how much I want to punch whoever says this in the mouth any time I hear it.
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Sep 3, 2014 22:31
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Sep 3, 2014 22:34
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m.hache posted:"Dress for the job you want, not the one you'll end up with when you wear a clip on tie". This is why I wear my batman suit to work.
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Sep 3, 2014 22:37
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Entropic posted:I'll never understand what people have against dressing like a grown-up. Ties are the devil and a dress code will always be the dealbreaker for me with jobs. I have managed to stay with companies who don't give a poo poo about dress code, but do care about personal hygiene. I find the second part is much more important.
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Sep 3, 2014 22:46
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Jesus christ i'm sorry I started the tie chat so can you guys stop being so pig-headed about it now? The conversation has gone from "ah, i keep forgetting how to tie my tie" to "why are you guys refusing to wear ties" in a thread where nobody has said they're refusing to wear one, they just don't like it. Preferences are a thing, can we all move on?
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Sep 3, 2014 23:18
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This is like the third thread I follow that has been derailed by arguments about clothing, what the gently caress?
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Sep 3, 2014 23:22
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Wear a formal kilt and you can skip the tie.
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Sep 3, 2014 23:26
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Entropic posted:I'll never understand what people have against dressing like a grown-up. A lot of people do better work later in the day or after eating, so allowing employees to come in at 9 instead of 7 and opening your cafeteria for breakfast has tangible benefits over asking why they can't wake up early like a grown-up, rely on coffee alone like a grown-up, and dress like a grown up.
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Sep 3, 2014 23:50
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Entropic posted:I'll never understand what people have against dressing like a grown-up. Meh. PCOS Bill posted:I can't put it into words how much I want to punch whoever says this in the mouth any time I hear it. This. Humbug Scoolbus posted:Ties are the devil and a dress code will always be the dealbreaker for me with jobs. I have managed to stay with companies who don't give a poo poo about dress code, but do care about personal hygiene. I find the second part is much more important. ...aaand this. I discovered during my last gig that putting on slacks and a collared shirt because I have to destroys my soul faster than anything else. I called them my "poser clothes" because I felt like a corporate drone instead of the bright and shiny special snowflake that I know deep down that I am. I'll never say never, but I cannot imagine working for any company that forbids me wearing shorts, chuck taylors and my metallica T-shirt at my desk. Now dressing up for a night on the town? Gimme that suit and tie, a nice steak and elegant cocktails, please. Agrikk fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Sep 4, 2014 |
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Sep 4, 2014 00:08
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Entropic posted:I'll never understand what people have against dressing like a grown-up. Goons/IT
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Sep 4, 2014 00:40
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Putting the kibosh back on clotheschat
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West coast IT does it like this: East coast IT does it like this:  (No more loving clotheschat take it to YLLS if you want to post non-shittily about it)
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Sep 4, 2014 01:48
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dogstile posted:I could totally get behind these jobs. I'll take 10 of them and 10 salary's please. Are backups and restores really that easy? My dad runs the US operations of a German company. Their office only has five people so its not worth it to hire a fulltime IT person, but I'd guess overall about 10% of the total work hours in that office go towards restoring backups due to constant virus/malware problems. It's hard to screen those out when you have tons of legit clients that speak poor English and will actually send one sentence Engrish emails with a self extracting EXE attachment on a regular basis.
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Sep 4, 2014 11:29
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Xequecal posted:Are backups and restores really that easy? My dad runs the US operations of a German company. Their office only has five people so its not worth it to hire a fulltime IT person, but I'd guess overall about 10% of the total work hours in that office go towards restoring backups due to constant virus/malware problems. It's hard to screen those out when you have tons of legit clients that speak poor English and will actually send one sentence Engrish emails with a self extracting EXE attachment on a regular basis. It really does depend on what sort you're doing. Full backups are easy. Differential backups are a little more complicated from what i've heard, but I've never actually had to restore any of our differential backups so I don't know if that's different (feel free to tell me if you know). Whenever I have to check backups are running, I check that the schedule is set to run, I check to see if it backed up last night and if they're really persistent I run one at that moment and stop it to see if it starts creating the file its supposed too. I also have a test system that I can restore things to, in case they're worried the backups that my company takes don't work. Restoring takes a little bit longer, but its not complicated.
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dogstile posted:It really does depend on what sort you're doing. Full backups are easy. Differential backups are a little more complicated from what i've heard, but I've never actually had to restore any of our differential backups so I don't know if that's different (feel free to tell me if you know). Here's an idea: do a test restore of one of the differentials.
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:"Hi! Can you please send me a copy of the employee handbook / benefits package details / dress code?" That's perfect. I phrased it like "I had a few granular questions about culture and dress code, which would be more expeditiously answered if I had a copy of the employee handbook - could I have a look at it?" and just sent. After sleeping on it I think I'm about 80/20 in favor of staying at my current job. I'll be honest, the extra money and short commute would be great, but my gut digested the cultural bits and came up questioning. Hell, a response came in already: quote:We can't distribute the handbook to non-employees, but our dress code is corporate, so most men wear slacks, collared shirt and tie, no suit. Without adding to the dress code derail, NOPE.
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Sep 4, 2014 14:35
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spankmeister posted:Here's an idea: do a test restore of one of the differentials. We have a guy specifically to do that, i'm not allowed to touch the differentials. Would have tested it already if I could. I'm not sure if you response was meant to be snarky or not. E: Yes i'm aware that's weird. I'll probably try it at home. dogstile fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Sep 4, 2014 |
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Sep 4, 2014 16:00
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dogstile posted:We have a guy specifically to do that, i'm not allowed to touch the differentials. Would have tested it already if I could. I'm not sure if you response was meant to be snarky or not. Why would anybody be allowed to touch one type of backup and not the other?
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Sickening posted:Why would anybody be allowed to touch one type of backup and not the other? I'm not sure. If its a full backup, first line/second line can deal with it if they feel comfortable. If its differential it goes straight to third line as (and i'm quoting here) "it can get a bit weird". The one second line guy who tried to just do it got an earful for even attempting, so i'm not bothering.
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dogstile posted:I'm not sure. If its a full backup, first line/second line can deal with it if they feel comfortable. If its differential it goes straight to third line as (and i'm quoting here) "it can get a bit weird". I just don't even know what the gently caress "it can get a bit weird" would even mean in this scenario. Someone is just making poo poo up at this point.
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Sep 4, 2014 16:15
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Sickening posted:I just don't even know what the gently caress "it can get a bit weird" would even mean in this scenario. Someone is just making poo poo up at this point. I can't see why I couldn't do it, now that i've looked it up. Only thing I can see being that different is that they do it from the database instead. That makes sense, because only third line are allowed to touch the SQL database. That's our protocol here. So the "it can get a bit weird" is more than likely the third line tech giving me the "because you're not allowed, gently caress off" response.
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Sep 4, 2014 16:18
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dogstile posted:We have a guy specifically to do that, i'm not allowed to touch the differentials. Would have tested it already if I could. I'm not sure if you response was meant to be snarky or not. Plus it gives people who don't regularly handle backups a chance to learn the procedure, because you can be sure that the one time you lose a whole disk array is when your backup guy is on a six week wilderness excursion with no phone or internet access.
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Collateral Damage posted:Regularly testing your backups is a good idea, you don't want to wait until you're in a live situation to find out that your restore procedure doesn't actually work. Oh i'm not saying we don't test our backups. While the backups only go to one guy most of the time, we have six third line guys who can all do the backups. We also have two internal systems guys who aren't allowed to take holiday at the same time. We're not in any danger of being stuck up poo poo creek without a paddle. I'm just saying I only deal with one type. I assume its to split the workload and because i'm not high enough up the ladder for them to trust me to do anything in the database except to check replication. I'm not arguing that it makes sense, i'm just saying I didn't have as much knowledge on differentials as I do for the other backup type. When the company trains people up to third line, they do walk them through a restore. dogstile fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Sep 4, 2014 |
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Sep 4, 2014 16:31
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dogstile posted:We have a guy specifically to do that, i'm not allowed to touch the differentials. Would have tested it already if I could. I'm not sure if you response was meant to be snarky or not. Haha that's hosed up. Brb putting "Director of Differential Backups" on my linkedin.
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