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Inspector_666 posted:I had a woman get really mad at me because the Passport that she bought for herself didn't have a removable battery. So, how do you use it without the ability to do a battery pull? Do you buy a new one every 7 days?
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BaseballPCHiker posted:
Wow, possibly a new hire possibly a few months down the road, meanwhile he and other managers are leaving the company. You're in denial. You aren't the captain of this sinking ship, there's no reason you should go down with it. Get your resume updated and start looking.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:The CIO had a meeting with the other directors including sales and marketing, it didn't go as well as I would've hoped. He mentioned he would bring up new hire turnaround times and a few other things. One director level person leaving is just corporate life. Three means one of two things 1. One of them is starting up on their own and bringing trusted people with them 2. The ship is sinking and the first people out get the best severance package. Dust off your CV, make sure you have some savings and if they start asking for volunteers for redundancy with a decent package "to help us lean down" take it an run. I was lucky to be offered a good redundancy package just before the big crash and the bank had to be bailed out by the government. The people who left six months after me got half the redundancy.
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Che Delilas posted:Wow, possibly a new hire possibly a few months down the road, meanwhile he and other managers are leaving the company. I'm not in denial I don't expect one at all actually. I'm thinking I'll just try and wait out the storm until my stock options kick in later this summer. This place has really good benefits that will be hard to find somewhere else.
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Varkk posted:What are stock options for a dead company worth? In a lot of cases, the 'stock options' are 401k matching that vests after a certain time period. 401k stock in companies entirely unrelated to the one you actually work at.
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Varkk posted:What are stock options for a dead company worth? I honestly dont think our company is going down, there are zero signs of this. In fact our stock went up from like $25 to $30 in one day this week after our earnings call and they keep talking up growth and expansion. I just think there is some major reorganization going on. If I stick around until my options vest I can make some extra money and might even be able to get promoted depending on how things play out. BaseballPCHiker fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Feb 3, 2015 |
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BaseballPCHiker posted:I honestly dont think our company is going down, there are zero signs of this. That's the first sign! 
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BaseballPCHiker posted:I honestly dont think our company is going down, there are zero signs of this. In fact are stock went up from like $25 to $30 in one day this week after our earnings call and they keep talking up growth and expansion. I just think there is some major reorganization going on. If I stick around until my options vest I can make some extra money and might even be able to get promoted depending on how things play out. From what I can tell, your reported problems are only really pertaining to the IT section of the business - The "CIO" sounded more like an IT Management Consultant IMO. If you think there's a good chance the *company* - and not the department - will stay alive, then by all means ride it out. But at the very least I would suggest you update your CV, put your ear to the ground and see what's out there. You don't need to worry about applying but it's useful to just refresh your mind once in a while.
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spog posted:So, how do you use it without the ability to do a battery pull? Do you buy a new one every 7 days? On a blackberry you just hold down the power button for 10 seconds to reboot. Many other phones you have to hold down two buttons to do a soft reset.
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Logging into ArcGIS Online though ArcMap gives you a username field where back space removes two character instead of one. Why? Who knows!
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DigitalRaven posted:loving hell this. This right here. And the other 30% just requires me to stand next to them while they show me an error that for some reason do not show up when they take the time to do whatever they try to do properly... I actually "fixed" a coffeemachine like this. On my last interview I mentioned this and said that after 15+ years in the industry you get these magical powers and that I have them. I got the job heh. spog posted:Did they start off the call by saying that there was a fire: or were they complaining about not being able to get email and you eventually troubleshooted the route cause as being the server melting? No, but that would not have surprised me. At those factories they only hired people not fit for anything else but put screws in bags. They said something like this ~"So, there is a fire. We are supposed to call you guys for stuff like this, right?" -Wrong.
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John Dough posted:Logging into ArcGIS Online though ArcMap gives you a username field where back space removes two character instead of one. Why? Who knows! Probably written in ArcPy.
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I'm using the restroom. I take my time in there, wifi works, you know. I get an email and a text from my boss that just says, "where are you?". I rush back to the helpdesk and I see nothing obviously on fire, so I go to my boss's office and ask, "hey is everything okay?" He gets super defensive saying he was checking on me this morning to make sure I alright, I knew he was going to be late this morning, he didn't see me, etc. etc. What the hell? I've been doing this for a while now, if I need help I know how to get it.
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Blackberry.txt Ticket: User complains her blackberry is slow. Resolution: Gave user an iphone. Took her blackberry to the gun range for target practice.
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Well that's obviously better, but I'm pretty sure a few people here would try to take me to the gun range if I took away their Blackberry.
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In a rare stroke of good decisionmaking, corporate has decreed that we're shitcanning BES come April. To avoid swamping ourselves with questions we're not replacing them all at once, but the solution to any Blackberry problem right now is to replace it with an iphone, and the few blackberries that manage to go 3 months without requiring an RMA will be replaced some time in March.
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Well that's obviously better, but I'm pretty sure a few people here would try to take me to the gun range if I took away their Blackberry. At this point the only thing that the iphone needs is a hard case with a decent* physical keyboard that slides out and you could probably tell people that it's the "new blackberry" *gently caress phone sized chiclet keyboards, there are no decent ones
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I had my interview this morning with that confrontational HR VP and it went really well. In person she was friendly and asked good questions. The company is lacking for systems and instead of hypotheticals she asked me about what I could see implementing for her (HR department of one) as well as accounting. Toward the end of the interview she said "I like you, and I want you to meet the CFO and managing director as well." Those will be scheduled separately. I was prepared for it to be as ugly as that phone call but it went as well as possible. Everything she told me about the company tech environment issues got the wheels in my head turning as it's all stuff I've dealt with before in one way or another. At one point she said "I don't want to try and fool you into thinking everything runs perfectly here" and I said "If you told me everything ran perfectly I'd want to work here to see what you're doing. If you said you had problems I'd want to work here to fix them." Also I got to wear my new suit for the first time and I think I looked good. For an I.T. guy.  Thank you all for being so supportive. I'll keep you updated.
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Dick Trauma posted:I had my interview this morning with that confrontational HR VP and it went really well. In person she was friendly and asked good questions. The company is lacking for systems and instead of hypotheticals she asked me about what I could see implementing for her (HR department of one) as well as accounting. Toward the end of the interview she said "I like you, and I want you to meet the CFO and managing director as well." Those will be scheduled separately. Nice, very well done dude. They'd be dumb not to hire you.
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Dick Trauma posted:Thank you all for being so supportive. I'll keep you updated. You go girl!
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Good luck DT! As a side note, I just had a recruiter ask me to take off a fortune 500 company kernel development gig on my resume because it was only for 3 months. 
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Coredump posted:I'm using the restroom. I take my time in there, wifi works, you know. I get an email and a text from my boss that just says, "where are you?". I rush back to the helpdesk and I see nothing obviously on fire, so I go to my boss's office and ask, "hey is everything okay?" He gets super defensive saying he was checking on me this morning to make sure I alright, I knew he was going to be late this morning, he didn't see me, etc. etc. What the hell? I've been doing this for a while now, if I need help I know how to get it. Coredump 
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Kazinsal posted:poo poo that pisses me off: MOAC online labs. Page late but yes. I had a server 2012 class and at least twice I had to do troubleshooting to do what should have already worked. Even emailed my professor to tell him I couldn't do a lab because two server VMs couldn't see each other. Edit: More poo poo that pisses you off: DT cheer squad edition. I'm all for it though, hope it works out!
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Coredump posted:I'm using the restroom. I take my time in there, wifi works, you know. I get an email and a text from my boss that just says, "where are you?". I rush back to the helpdesk and I see nothing obviously on fire, so I go to my boss's office and ask, "hey is everything okay?" He gets super defensive saying he was checking on me this morning to make sure I alright, I knew he was going to be late this morning, he didn't see me, etc. etc. What the hell? I've been doing this for a while now, if I need help I know how to get it. You'll have to send him an email every time you have to take a dump from now on, preferably work hours only
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mewse posted:You'll have to send him an email every time you have to take a dump from now on, preferably work hours only Documentation isn't complete without screenshots.
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Dick Trauma posted:I had my interview this morning with that confrontational HR VP and it went really well. In person she was friendly and asked good questions. The company is lacking for systems and instead of hypotheticals she asked me about what I could see implementing for her (HR department of one) as well as accounting. Toward the end of the interview she said "I like you, and I want you to meet the CFO and managing director as well." Those will be scheduled separately. http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ I hope it goes well, but hte cynic in me says they are going to low-ball your salary offer. Push it up, and don't forget to push for a well known senior management title (VP of X, C title, etc). Also, if you run into a salary wall, try for additional vacation days, stock options, retirement matching, etc, which are all accounted for differently.
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I'm working with an outside recruiter who has already submitted me at the salary he and I agree upon that's within the employer's specified range. The title is VP of I.T. because like with the one person HR department they want to have all the department heads at the same org chart level. VPs are common in this industry, same as at my last job so I don't have any illusions about how much authority I'd actually have. Hell, the job might even suck! But what I want is: 1. The money. If they agree to what I'm asking it will be about $30k more than the last job. 2. The title. It's been ten years since I had a title higher than "I.T. Manager" and I badly need something to show my emphasis on management, not pulling out paper jams. 3. The time to continue working on my marketability while collecting a paycheck. It's something I should've done at the last job but I was too distracted. That means getting a couple of certs, and maybe taking classes to shore up my weak points. If I can get this job (or one like it) and keep it for a year I think it will help my resume look like I'm on the way up, not stuck in a lower level slot because no one recognizes my skills.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Documentation isn't complete without screenshots. 
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ratbert90 posted:As a side note, I just had a recruiter ask me to take off a fortune 500 company kernel development gig on my resume because it was only for 3 months. This is good advice. Nobody cares who you worked for for 3 months, especially if you have other embedded Dev work or driver work. Just put "kernel development" under "skills" if it really bothers you
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evol262 posted:This is good advice. Nobody cares who you worked for for 3 months, especially if you have other embedded Dev work or driver work. Just put "kernel development" under "skills" if it really bothers you Eh, it was a temp gig and the VP of the division gave me a glowing review. I know it was just for three months, but I finished my work in 3 months, they gave me 6. 
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Dick Trauma posted:Also I got to wear my new suit for the first time and I think I looked good. For an I.T. guy. See, I told you that with a decent suit you will do well. Barney Stinson was not just a successful ladies-man.
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Dick Trauma posted:I had my interview this morning with that confrontational HR VP and it went really well. In person she was friendly and asked good questions. The company is lacking for systems and instead of hypotheticals she asked me about what I could see implementing for her (HR department of one) as well as accounting. Toward the end of the interview she said "I like you, and I want you to meet the CFO and managing director as well." Those will be scheduled separately. Good news! I wouldn't have expected that to go well -- given your past experience over the phone. Good luck.
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Well that's obviously better, but I'm pretty sure a few people here would try to take me to the gun range if I took away their Blackberry. Take them out to the gun range. If they like Blackberry that much they're not useful people and will not be missed.
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lmao I have someone that doesn't understand "Thats the limit of the service, you are going way over. Please condense what you have to make it more manageable or back it up some other way." They also don't get that you can't transmit over 20GB in 30 seconds on a generic wifi data connection. So my boss got emailed and I'll have to copy and paste this from the 4 emails I sent it in. Lovely.
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