Internet Explorer posted:

Worst part of IT right here. I know it was always bad but I feel like it got a lot worse after the economy downturn. Fire all your decent support and engineers and just waste the customers time until they go away. Unfortunately, all these years later its still crap.

Race Realists posted:

Anybody ever worked at NCR before?

KS posted:

None of that should be happening.

I think Shoretel's pretty good. The best ad for a Shoretel system is being forced to admin a Cisco UC system. Their phones feel like they're a decade behind, though, and that sucks.

Race Realists posted:

Anybody ever worked at NCR before?

Methanar posted:

Did another revert and same issue: could receive but not send. Waiting fixed it.

At least the sending failed silently so nobody was mad, and everything that was queued up during the down time ultimately went through. I got 15 test emails immediately on my phone.

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

With all you've set up, you should be really proud of yourself. There's a lot of people working in IT who have been doing it for years and will never come close to accomplishing what you've done.

Good job!

adorai posted:

Small business IT is really great to work in for learning, enterprise is great for pay, security, and work/life balance.

Race Realists posted:

Anybody ever worked at NCR before?

crunk dork posted:

I jumped from one MSP to another after about 5 months and I'm not a fan either, I thought it was the one specific company I was working with but now I realize it's just the nature of the work I don't like. Out of curiosity, what don't you like about it?

QuiteEasilyDone posted:

If you want to know about the quality of an organization, ask if you can use their facilities quickly. That should give you a rather good inside look at the organization and its potential quirks.

If they're solely under the purview of the company you're working for, a shitshow often belongs to a shitshow company.

Tab8715 posted:

No, but one my coworkers has for nearly a decade. What's up?

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crunk dork posted:

I jumped from one MSP to another after about 5 months and I'm not a fan either, I thought it was the one specific company I was working with but now I realize it's just the nature of the work I don't like. Out of curiosity, what don't you like about it?

Race Realists posted:

Anybody ever worked at NCR before?

adorai posted:

I will admit that there is a very steep learning curve on Cisco UC. However, the community and public documentation is amazing compared to basically every other phone system except asterisk. We acquired the assets and liabilities of a failed institution from the FDIC, and they used shoretel, and finding real documentation without going through (read: paying) a partner was impossible.
I've worked with many NCR techs, and heard horror stories of infinitely more.

Thanks Ants posted:

SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:

Is asterisk still garbage?

Race Realists posted:

Anybody ever worked at NCR before?

theperminator posted:

Worked in an MSP+Cheap Webhost for 8 years and nothing could make me go back.

I think that kind of job is good to start out with though, I wouldn't have gone from phone support monkey to sysadmin without it.


I found FreePBX to be quite good, made managing voicemail,IVR,all that garbage really easy without having to edit asterisk files myself.

Judge Schnoopy posted:

The success of the business relies on squeezing the most work out of the fewest employees. The work has to be par or better to reduce future work, so quality work must be completed in very short amounts of time, while also dealing with the fluff crap that continually crops up everywhere.

Race Realists posted:

in other news
http://adcap.applytojob.com/apply/0...ZHUf7nT66wAltgA

sounds WAY too loving good to be true.

crunk dork posted:

So the laptop that work provided me is big as hell and a pain in the rear end to carry around. It looks like the netbook market is almost nonexistent now thanks to tablets, but does anyone have any suggestions for a small lightweight laptop that still packs a decent punch?

crunk dork posted:

So the laptop that work provided me is big as hell and a pain in the rear end to carry around. It looks like the netbook market is almost nonexistent now thanks to tablets, but does anyone have any suggestions for a small lightweight laptop that still packs a decent punch?

Roargasm posted:

I went to play with the New Macbook today and it feels exactly like a Chromebook (for $1K more). My daily driver is a T440 or a Chromebook 2, I'm in SSH or Rdesktop 100% of the time. I used a Surface Pro 3 for a few months and it runs very hot and loud.

Still haven't found the perfect laptop. drat the new MB is light and quiet (no fans at all actually) but not worth the price at all. Guess I shouldn't care if work will buy it

Race Realists posted:

Just curious.
in other news
http://adcap.applytojob.com/apply/0...ZHUf7nT66wAltgA

sounds WAY too loving good to be true.

evol262 posted:

If you're doing rhcsa, I'd skip Linux+. But guys with traditional unix experience don't usually have a lot of trouble getting in. I'd probably go to a generalist admin position that's Linux/windows at a smaller shop (they'll hire you to do 50% Linux work with hp-ux experience and a little luck in the interview given that it sounds like it's been a little while) and specialize more if you want to.

evol262 posted:

The community and history also make my eyes glaze over. I'm into open source and everything, but the zealots and people who've never really had to make Linux do anything complicated comprise enough of the community that it's hard.

The ecosystem is something (like windows) that you just get a feel for. Work with it and you start reading the Linux thread or hacker news or whatever, and you'll see trends come and go the same way as you already see it for windows if you read the windows threads.

Rhymenoserous posted:

I started IT life as a *nix admin, and I've never paid much attention to the community or the history. It's fluff and unnecessary information. What I need to do is get sendmail working. At no point does this require I have any knowledge about what dick measuring contest linux torvalds is engaging in today. Or what kernal developer hates the other. Or what version of ______ software was the first to integrate with PHP. Linux grognards bask in this meaningless knowledge that doesn't actually move you forward on the path to getting loving sendmail working.

So I ignore them.

psydude posted:

This is a pretty common misconception among a lot of the customers I work with. It's pretty rare that anyone I know at my company or the other companies in the area works more than 40 hours per week, and if we do then there's comp time involved (plus consulting firms tend to be incredibly flexible with works hours due to their nature). Occasionally some projects will see you spending several weeks out at another customer site across the country, but that's generally a once or twice a year thing, and to me it's generally worth not having to drive to the same office every day and deal with the same environment. Like all things, it depends on the individual - if you're married and have young kids, or are taking care of a sick family member or something, then yeah, it can be burdensome. But if you're single and like to travel, it's great.

With that being said, it's definitely a good idea to ask about these things in the interview, particularly in the technical phone screening when you're on the phone with an actual engineer that works there.

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Molly Jay, an early member of the Kindle team, said she received high ratings for years. But when she began traveling to care for her father, who was suffering from cancer, and cut back working on nights and weekends, her status changed. She was blocked from transferring to a less pressure-filled job, she said, and her boss told her she was “a problem.” As her father was dying, she took unpaid leave to care for him and never returned to Amazon.

“When you’re not able to give your absolute all, 80 hours a week, they see it as a major weakness,” she said.

A woman who had thyroid cancer was given a low performance rating after she returned from treatment. She says her manager explained that while she was out, her peers were accomplishing a great deal. Another employee who miscarried twins left for a business trip the day after she had surgery. “I’m sorry, the work is still going to need to get done,” she said her boss told her. “From where you are in life, trying to start a family, I don’t know if this is the right place for you.”

A woman who had breast cancer was told that she was put on a “performance improvement plan” — Amazon code for “you’re in danger of being fired” — because “difficulties” in her “personal life” had interfered with fulfilling her work goals. Their accounts echoed others from workers who had suffered health crises and felt they had also been judged harshly instead of being given time to recover.

A former human resources executive said she was required to put a woman who had recently returned after undergoing serious surgery, and another who had just had a stillborn child, on performance improvement plans, accounts that were corroborated by a co-worker still at Amazon. “What kind of company do we want to be?” the executive recalled asking her bosses.

The mother of the stillborn child soon left Amazon. “I had just experienced the most devastating event in my life,” the woman recalled via email, only to be told her performance would be monitored “to make sure my focus stayed on my job.”

NZAmoeba posted:

Surprised not to see this look inside the working conditions of Amazon being discussed: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?_r=0

crunk dork posted:

So the laptop that work provided me is big as hell and a pain in the rear end to carry around. It looks like the netbook market is almost nonexistent now thanks to tablets, but does anyone have any suggestions for a small lightweight laptop that still packs a decent punch?

NZAmoeba posted:

Surprised not to see this look inside the working conditions of Amazon being discussed: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?_r=0

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The internal phone directory instructs colleagues on how to send secret feedback to one another’s bosses. Employees say it is frequently used to sabotage others. (The tool offers sample texts, including this: “I felt concerned about his inflexibility and openly complaining about minor tasks.”)

“You walk out of a conference room and you’ll see a grown man covering his face,” he said. “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”

At Amazon, workers are encouraged to tear apart one another’s ideas in meetings, toil long and late (emails arrive past midnight, followed by text messages asking why they were not answered),

But workers are expected to embrace “frugality” (No. 9), from the bare-bones desks to the cellphones and travel expenses that they often pay themselves. (No daily free food buffets or regular snack supplies, either.) The focus is on relentless striving to please customers, or “customer obsession” (No. 1), with words like “mission” used to describe lightning-quick delivery of Cocoa Krispies or selfie sticks.


Even many Amazonians who have worked on Wall Street and at start-ups say the workloads at the new South Lake Union campus can be extreme: marathon conference calls on Easter Sunday and Thanksgiving, criticism from bosses for spotty Internet access on vacation, and hours spent working at home most nights or weekends.


One ex-employee’s fiancé became so concerned about her nonstop working night after night that he would drive to the Amazon campus at 10 p.m. and dial her cellphone until she agreed to come home. When they took a vacation to Florida, she spent every day at Starbucks using the wireless connection to get work done.“That’s when the ulcer started,” she said.


Amazon employees are held accountable for a staggering array of metrics, a process that unfolds in what can be anxiety-provoking sessions called business reviews, held weekly or monthly among various teams. A day or two before the meetings, employees receive printouts, sometimes up to 50 or 60 pages long, several workers said. At the reviews, employees are cold-called and pop-quizzed on any one of those thousands of numbers. Explanations like “we’re not totally sure” or “I’ll get back to you” are not acceptable, many employees said. Some managers sometimes dismissed such responses as “stupid” or told workers to “just stop it.”

Noelle Barnes, who worked in marketing for Amazon for nine years, repeated a saying around campus: “Amazon is where overachievers go to feel bad about themselves.”