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Volmarias posted:Yeah but we already had this discussion so either you're moving out of Union, or you're transferring at Newark. I was just hoping for an excuse to use goonsay :v I told the recruiter, didn't tell the client. He put me forth at 105k but we didn't know jack about healthcare costs and Transitcheck. I was able to get that info out of the client and after the face-to-face round 2 I had with them on Tuesday (I think it was Tuesday) they confirmed no Transitcheck and healthcare costs around $150 more per month. I turned that around to the recruiter when I was having my follow-up call with him after the interview and telling him my apprehension over the commute, lack of remote, and helpdesk bits. He said he could try to push for 110, 115, but asked me what the magic number would be for me to drop all reservations and go. I told him 130k - "hey, you wanted a number that would kill my reservations and get me to accept, that's it" despite its unrealistic nature. I have a 7:45 AM on Monday with an MSP near Penn, which has been my first choice since it was put forth to me. They claim it involves minimal client interaction, and then it'd only be for escalated tickets if I had to reach out to the client for info/etc. I'm iffy given my previous MSP experience at a smaller place where literally everyone but the seniors did some form of helpdesk garbage, but it's right across 7th Ave from Penn. For me, it's a good wage. For the position, I think I would push higher. If nothing else, the back-and-forth would buy time while the 7th Ave people play out.
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lovely recruiters are ALWAYS going "give me a number that will allay all your fears", but they don't actually WANT that number because most of the time it puts them out of the running.
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Daylen Drazzi posted:lovely recruiters are ALWAYS going "give me a number that will allay all your fears", but they don't actually WANT that number because most of the time it puts them out of the running. This is actually how I deal with recruiters. Short small talk session, then let them know that I won't be able to look at anything under $X. That has so far stopped the conversation every time, since $X is only just barely within the universe of salaries for the positions I'm in (software engineer/engineering manager). One time it didn't stop the conversation and I had a new job a month later. One recruiter thought I'd be a great fit for a contract position with the "possibility of benefits". I told him that it sounded great, as long as I was 1099'd at $200/hr with all transportation to client and meals for those days expensed to the client.
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Siochain posted:Webroot is 3 kinds of loving poo poo.
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So an interview came in. Had a second interview today, knocked it out of the park. Start the new tier 2 position on Monday. Pay is pretty decent, benefits are good and they have a monthly employee outside work group activity thing they do.
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blackswordca posted:So an interview came in.  A SH/SC success story!
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blackswordca posted:So an interview came in. lets hope that this job doesnt end as quickly as the last 
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My collected favorites from my own experiences as an IT field tech (copied from my Facebook page). Longish but I think its funny. NOC: Oh NO you are using 97% of the bandwidth at your location. Me: Well interrupt my download and tell me to stop. NOC: You aren't supposed to be downloading that big a file. Me: Yes that's right are you telling me to stop? NOC: Well no.... I stepped in POLITICS at work, this may result in unemployment. Ended up in phone call by a VIP on behalf of another bigger VIP and my explaining what I said when asked a question. A question a large number of people this week approached and asked. The call involved me stating "I wont lie" and resulted in the following (paraphrased) dialog: VIP: Don't use the word "indefinitely", tell them "its on hold for now but will resume in the future." Me: Is that the truth or just what you want me to tell them? VIP: Could you just respond "I don't know?" Me: Yes... end of call Phone meeting with boss today regarding "Colleague Development Plan" form we were required to fill out: Boss "you are the only one who left the strengths and weaknesses blank" Me "yes, though if you have something you want me to put on there I can" Longish silence Boss "everyone else put down things like (he listed several examples of strengths from others)" Me "those aren't strengths those are what's required to do the job" Boss "well what would you list on a resume as strengths" Me "I don't I only list facts" The conversation ended inconclusively. I still appear to be employed. End of an email at work today: "If necessary, I will escalate. Thank you for your prompt attention in resolving this." What does "escalate" mean exactly? The colleague is going to mobilize troops on my border? Roll tanks into my cities? Go Nuclear? I, not liking military threats to my sovereign nation, responded with "Escalate if you need to". Also included was an explanation of why the situation was the way it was and what was being done. This fine bit of diplomacy immediately resulted in: “It’s unfortunate that you feel that way. I will need to escalate this so that it can be resolved sooner than later.” Tomorrow will see if I must repel an invading force. I have had a conversation over the last couple of days with my company's accounting department. "No I am not the end user of hundreds computers and peripherals shipped to my name over the last few years. I am a field tech, the equipment comes to me then gets sent on to its eventual home. Why do you ask?" "Amortization / depreciation for tax purposes." As it turns out accounting only has access to the vendor shipping summary and that has only my address. I would have thought someone might have questioned all the orders several YEARS ago. I had to respond to a complaint about me sent to my boss today. I get a couple of these a year, with what I do its expected. The complaint was I didn't provide training on how to use the newly installed 2nd monitor and my response why was too blunt. "Sorry we are not providing training, just doing the installation, you drag from screen to screen. Any special training will come from your new company <new company>." While doing 40 of these upgrades an additional 5-10 minutes per for training would add 200-400 minutes to the overall project. There simply wasn't time for training in the time allotted nor were we contracted for it. The boss's solution when I asked how he would handle it: "Escalate it to the transition coordinator from <new company>." Um OK so I should say "Please speak to <X> of <new company> regarding training." Is this any less "blunt" somehow? PS Who needs training on how to use a monitor??
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Illuminatus posted:I have no strengths agreed
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Illuminatus posted:Longish Yes. Illuminatus posted:but I think its funny. No.
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One or two were amusing to me, but I really wouldn't be posting anything on my job on Facebook. Maybe that's just me.
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I like the parts where he is just obstinate and confrontational with his superiors and also end users so that's cool.
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Gilok posted:I like the parts where he is just obstinate and confrontational with his superiors and also end users so that's cool. I bet he doesn’t play POLITICS either, aka talk to his boss or coworkers in a reasonable manner. Illuminatus posted:Boss "you are the only one who left the strengths and weaknesses blank" For some reason I get the vibe of someone who yells “am I being detained” at cops a lot.
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Ursine Asylum posted:I bet he doesn’t play POLITICS either, aka talk to his boss or coworkers in a reasonable manner. This was my first thought. Dude, you need to chill out because you come across as pretty caustic.
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Thanks Ants posted:It's possible for something to be considered one of your strengths and a statement saying that to be factual My greatest weakness is that I have too many strengths.
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Hughmoris posted:My greatest weakness is that I have too many strengths. My greatest strength is that I have no weaknesses.
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Let's be honest here.Agrikk posted:Dude, you need to chill out because you come across as pretty autistic.
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Ursine Asylum posted:Let's be honest here. Smiling-with-approval gif from the PYF thread
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My boss once claimed that W3C sued someone over trying to add code to the HTML standard without their permission or something. This is really bothering me because the statement itself is obviously full of poo poo but I think there's some kind of bizarre half-truth in that statement somewhere that's getting twisted into an outright lie. Did W3C sue anyone over something like this?
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Segmentation Fault posted:My boss once claimed that W3C sued someone over trying to add code to the HTML standard without their permission or something. This is really bothering me because the statement itself is obviously full of poo poo but I think there's some kind of bizarre half-truth in that statement somewhere that's getting twisted into an outright lie. Did W3C sue anyone over something like this? W3C publishes recommendations. You can't force anyone to follow a recommendation. W3C also isn't a business, they don't have commercial or political interests as an organization, rather they're formed by employees/volunteers from actual companies and organizations that have an interest in an interoperable and accessible WWW. The main thing I can think of, your boss might be referring to, would be Microsoft being a member of the W3C and not implementing the HTML 4, XHTML and CSS 2 recommendations according to spec, making IE 4, 5, 5.5 and 6 universally loathed by developers. That's mostly just a question of double standard.
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An alarming number of computers I've remoted into over the last few week's have been running either xp or server 2003.
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Bigass Moth posted:An alarming number of computers I've remoted into over the last few week's have been running either xp or server 2003. Most of my workplace is still running XP because my boss wouldn't test out our old rear end radio software in 7 nor would he consider running XP in a VM. Yes, these computers are connected to the internet 
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Haquer posted:Most of my workplace is still running XP because my boss wouldn't test out our old rear end radio software in 7 nor would he consider running XP in a VM. Those computers are so owned.
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Haquer posted:Most of my workplace is still running XP because my boss wouldn't test out our old rear end radio software in 7 nor would he consider running XP in a VM. Wow, those special extended support contracts with Microsoft must cost a fortune.
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nielsm posted:W3C publishes recommendations. You can't force anyone to follow a recommendation. W3C also isn't a business, they don't have commercial or political interests as an organization, rather they're formed by employees/volunteers from actual companies and organizations that have an interest in an interoperable and accessible https://www. See, that's what I thought. My boss unfortunately has a lot of cargo cult type knowledge where he's tried to figure stuff out on his own based on bits and pieces he's picked up and it's assembled into something that doesn't at all resemble reality. One time he insisted to me that there are eight governing bodies of the Internet. I asked him to name some, so he googles "governing bodies of the Internet," finds an NPR article in the results, points to it, and says "NPR, that's one."
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Segmentation Fault posted:See, that's what I thought. My boss unfortunately has a lot of cargo cult type knowledge where he's tried to figure stuff out on his own based on bits and pieces he's picked up and it's assembled into something that doesn't at all resemble reality. So going by that, the 8 governing bodies are: Wikipedia, blogspot, metafilter, NPR, The Economist, about.com, acm.org and the Nigerian Communication Commission. That sounds about right.
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SubjectVerbObject posted:So going by that, the 8 governing bodies are: Where does yahoo answers fit in?
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Yahoo answers is the lower house of the Internet Governing Body. It pre-filters legislation for the BIG 8.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Wow, those special extended support contracts with Microsoft must cost a fortune. Hahahdklhgasdlkg;alkf  This place is so hosed (and I'm certain most of this backwards rear end town is the same way).
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Renegret posted:Where does yahoo answers fit in? How is webbsite formed. How markup get rindered.
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Ursine Asylum posted:Let's be honest here. On the other hand if you can't handle slightly autistic people you probably shouldn't be an IT manager...
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There are other Nextgen support people here? Hi! We have one of the larger environments that NextGen supports here at my company. Eastern and Central time zone database servers, we used to have just one environment but it became too large so we had to separate it, that was a fun project! 8 or so different non production environments, each timezone has a development, demo and a few random other test environments. We have a NextGen tech that basically works onsite here as a contractor for any issues we need resolved ASAP, but he is about useless. Our support internally is setup kinda uniquely, we have separate EHR and EPM teams, a general support team, and then I get escalated any issues those guys can't figure out, good times let me tell ya.
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peak debt posted:On the other hand if you can't handle slightly autistic people you probably shouldn't be an IT manager... quote:Phone meeting with boss today regarding "Colleague Development Plan" form we were required to fill out: Joking aside, that sounds like he was handling it as well as possible, although thinking to himself "never promoting this guy".
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mattfl posted:There are other Nextgen support people here? Hi! We have one of the larger environments that NextGen supports here at my company. Eastern and Central time zone database servers, we used to have just one environment but it became too large so we had to separate it, that was a fun project! 8 or so different non production environments, each timezone has a development, demo and a few random other test environments. We have a NextGen tech that basically works onsite here as a contractor for any issues we need resolved ASAP, but he is about useless. Our support internally is setup kinda uniquely, we have separate EHR and EPM teams, a general support team, and then I get escalated any issues those guys can't figure out, good times let me tell ya. It's weird that other people here get to deal with nextgen. Ours is a single site cloud hosted app hosted by a reseller and my biggest complaint is support is useless. If it can't be solved by clearing IE's cache then it's something with our network. What that something is is anyone's guess, but it can't be their ducked up java ssl tunnel with the expired cert, no siree. I think that's more on the reseller than nextgen though. Don't get me started on the software they use to scan insurance cards.
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