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KillHour posted:I just Why did you move backwards in jobs?
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Moey posted:Why did you move backwards in jobs? Not a bad deal if you are getting paid more, since there is no where to go but up the ladder.
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Jan 3, 2016 04:22
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GreenNight posted:Not a bad deal if you are getting paid more, since there is no where to go but up the ladder. True, but I would look twice at someone in an interview who went from infrastructure to help desk.
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Jan 3, 2016 04:33
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Moey posted:Why did you move backwards in jobs? Hard to find sales engineering jobs in Buffalo, especially ones in security, and I was running out of unemployment. I tried to apply for networking engineer positions, but HR people saw sales on my resume and assumed I wouldn't be able to do the job and any hiring managers that saw my resume immediately pegged me as over qualified.
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KillHour posted:Hard to find sales engineering jobs in Buffalo, especially ones in security, and I was running out of unemployment. I tried to apply for networking engineer positions, but HR people saw sales on my resume and assumed I wouldn't be able to do the job and any hiring managers that saw my resume immediately pegged me as over qualified. Makes sense. You were involved with large scale camera systems right? I may need to pick your brain at some point from a storage perspective.
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Thanks guys. I'll give that stuff a shot. I'm on board with the GPO thing, but I'm only desktop support. I can get into the GPOs, and I'm sure they won't mind if I have someone look over what I'm doing. I'll also try the OCT. If these work like I think, this will save my team a lot of headaches going forward.Swink posted:Except you can only do it with ProPlus versions of Office these days. Basically an XP machine was generating hella tickets over the Christmas weekend, so my coworker reimaged it to 7. It was half done on his desk on Monday and he was off that day, so I finished it up and pushed it back out (which I've come to regret). Now it's back to generating hella tickets and my lead is pissed at me in particular since I'm the last dope to touch it (even though some of these errors just happen on their own). There is no backup of the old profiles and the new profiles are too busted to bother with. The main points are AS400 and Chartmaxx. Chartmaxx in particular is a disease. I'm going to figure out where it keeps its configs so I can throw that into any GPO I come up with so I don't have to set up a scanning profile for everyone's profiles.
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Jan 3, 2016 09:59
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Moey posted:True, but I would look twice at someone in an interview who went from infrastructure to help desk. I had a job interview like that, I've been looking for sysadmin roles and one job that found me was a NOC tech paying way above what I was making. When I told them in the interview I liked learning new systems/continual learning they said nothing ever changes here so don't expect that. 
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Jan 3, 2016 13:06
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notwithoutmyanus posted:I had a job interview like that, I've been looking for sysadmin roles and one job that found me was a NOC tech paying way above what I was making. When I told them in the interview I liked learning new systems/continual learning they said nothing ever changes here so don't expect that. Well then, they won't be too surprised by people leaving who feel they are stagnating with them.
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Jan 3, 2016 15:21
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Daylen Drazzi posted:Well then, they won't be too surprised by people leaving who feel they are stagnating with them. If they are up front about it, there are plenty of IT people who would consider that paradise. Particularly Windows admins.
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Jan 3, 2016 15:32
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Moey posted:Makes sense. You were involved with large scale camera systems right? I may need to pick your brain at some point from a storage perspective. Yeah, feel free to PM me or whatever.
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Jan 3, 2016 16:49
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RFC2324 posted:If they are up front about it, there are plenty of IT people who would consider that paradise. KillHour posted:Yeah, feel free to PM me or whatever. Will do, thanks.
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Jan 3, 2016 17:38
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Moey posted:True, but I would look twice at someone in an interview who went from infrastructure to help desk. It's technically a contract job because the bank is going through a merger. Easier to explain that you took a contract that paid well enough than to explain a >6 month gap in your resume. Also, the hiring manager made it very clear he wanted to hire me because he knows I have experience that would be valuable to the bank, but that this is the only opening he could offer me right now. I don't expect to end up on the infrastructure team, but I could probably spin anything above level 1 support as career progression, or at least broadening my skill set. Edit: Also, not having a degree hosed me. Stay in school, kids. KillHour fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Jan 3, 2016 |
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RFC2324 posted:If they are up front about it, there are plenty of IT people who would consider that paradise. 
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gently caress don't remind me. Upgrading the company to win10 is our next project.
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Jan 4, 2016 04:34
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ilkhan posted:gently caress don't remind me. Same. We're still trying to get a handle on Microsoft discontinuing support for dot net 4, 4.5, and 4.51 as well as ending support for IE10 with ~3 weeks notice. I can't imagine how terribly our "SURPRISE WINDOWS 10 AND MDM" push for everyone is gonna go. Yes, I can. For starters, our version of Juniper doesn't work with M$ Edge browser. 
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Jan 4, 2016 04:46
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Same. What?
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How is it 3 weeks' notice? I don't even work in Windows administration directly, and I've known about support dropping for pre-IE11 versions for ~9 months now. A cursory Googling finds articles from February 2015.
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We're still trying to get our devs to depreciate .NET 1.1 
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Jan 4, 2016 05:40
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Back to work after 2 weeks. Time to perform the ritual for myself.
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beepsandboops posted:We're still trying to get our devs to depreciate .NET 1.1 What.
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spankmeister posted:Back to work after 2 weeks. Time to perform the ritual for myself. Same here. Coffee and log files! Swink posted:Except you can only do it with ProPlus versions of Office these days. Not to be a bitch, but I can't find any info on this (and I don't have a non Pro Plus to try with). Do you have a source? Crowley fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Jan 4, 2016 |
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Jan 4, 2016 09:57
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Shared Computer Activation only works with ProPlus (Enterprise plans) of Office 365 so I would assume the other deployment goodness is the same. This article only mentions ProPlus when talking about product deployment: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219422(v=office.15)
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Jan 4, 2016 11:12
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I don't know what I did to please Electronic Recycling Santa, but when I check the bin at work today I find a pristine Latitude E6520 with quad i7, Nvidia, full HD, SSD and 8 GB RAM, plus I pulled another SSD from an old Precision tower someone had thrown out. Seriously, the laptop does not even have a scratch on it! I don't know who's throwing these out, but I'm thankful.
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I can't give a source because the docs are atrocious but any product that isn't pro plus uses click to run for deployment which doesn't cater for /admin. This is via my own experience prepping for a 2016 rollout. I want to be wrong about this. I really do.
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evobatman posted:I don't know what I did to please Electronic Recycling Santa, but when I check the bin at work today I find a pristine Latitude E6520 with quad i7, Nvidia, full HD, SSD and 8 GB RAM, plus I pulled another SSD from an old Precision tower someone had thrown out. Bloody hell! I guess someone didn't get the memo that you're supposed to be, you know, not spending money right now.
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Jan 4, 2016 11:47
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larchesdanrew posted:T-minus one hour before I start this new position Don't worry. The crazy won't show until tomorrow.
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Crowley posted:Don't worry. The crazy won't show until tomorrow. You probably won't have a login or computer. Good luck sir
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Virigoth posted:You probably won't have a login or computer. Good luck sir Oh man, this reminds me. I should have a workstation and phone today - only 2 weeks after I started!
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My first thing here is a staff meeting in the auditorium. I've watched a 90 pound woman eat 7 complimentary donuts in the last ten minutes and now she's headed off in the direction of the bathroom. Someone smells like a wet sheep. There are two goons sitting in the back comparing tablet games and neither looks like they've ever made the acquaintance of a shower. I think things are gonna work out entertainment-wise  Edit: I spoke too soon. A parade of obese women just filed in and shoved their way past me. The smell was tremendous and they each had no less than 4 donuts grasped in their claws.
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larchesdanrew posted:My first thing here is a staff meeting in the auditorium. I've watched a 90 pound woman eat 7 complimentary donuts in the last ten minutes and now she's headed off in the direction of the bathroom. Are any of these people part of the IT team? If they are just users you can deal with it a big better. I remember at my last job a lady that was super big, never showered, and her desk was a mess. I went to swap her computer out and caused a cloud of flies to bombard the air and she yelled at me for "disturbing them". I decided enough with that bullshit the room stunk and told her to clean that poo poo up before I go on the floor again. She eventually needed some operation that 300lb+ people need every so often and was out for several weeks. A professional cleaning company declared the rug unsalvageable and recarpeted the entire thing. That's how her computer got replaced. Everyone else in IT talked about her like she was the plague, and she hated everyone in IT except for one guy who she was in love with and would try and get anyone else that went there fired if it wasn't him and would ask about him constantly.
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The larchesdanrew story continues. 
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A woman just loudly lost her mind because they didn't put out a sign-in sheet until after she sat down at the very back of the auditorium and she had to walk AAAAALLLLL the way back down and why don't we sign in electronically since it's the 21st century and OH MY GOD while I was writing this fat girl #3 just pulled out a literal porkchop from her purse and is eating it like a cookie what is this place. Larchesdanrew is back, baby 
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larchesdanrew posted:A woman just loudly lost her mind because they didn't put out a sign-in sheet until after she sat down at the very back of the auditorium and she had to walk AAAAALLLLL the way back down and why don't we sign in electronically since it's the 21st century and OH MY GOD while I was writing this fat girl #3 just pulled out a literal porkchop from her purse and is eating it like a cookie what is this place.  A porkchop would be nice right about now though ask her if she'll share
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Renegret posted:
It wasn't in a sandwich bag or anything. It was just free floating in her purse.
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larchesdanrew posted:A woman just loudly lost her mind because they didn't put out a sign-in sheet until after she sat down at the very back of the auditorium and she had to walk AAAAALLLLL the way back down and why don't we sign in electronically since it's the 21st century and OH MY GOD while I was writing this fat girl #3 just pulled out a literal porkchop from her purse and is eating it like a cookie what is this place. Is this the real life?
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larchesdanrew posted:A woman just loudly lost her mind because they didn't put out a sign-in sheet until after she sat down at the very back of the auditorium and she had to walk AAAAALLLLL the way back down and why don't we sign in electronically since it's the 21st century and OH MY GOD while I was writing this fat girl #3 just pulled out a literal porkchop from her purse and is eating it like a cookie what is this place. Okay, I'm starting to think you're actually just a talented writer and we're all in some sort of promotional ARG for your new novel coming out later this year.
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Hey larches - correct me if I'm wrong here but didn't you turn down a different oppertunity for this school job? Regretting that yet?
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larchesdanrew posted:A woman just loudly lost her mind because they didn't put out a sign-in sheet until after she sat down at the very back of the auditorium and she had to walk AAAAALLLLL the way back down and why don't we sign in electronically since it's the 21st century and OH MY GOD while I was writing this fat girl #3 just pulled out a literal porkchop from her purse and is eating it like a cookie what is this place. This can't be a real thing. It just can't. Please larchesdanrew, I will not even be made if you just admit it's all a farce.
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This is pretty standard fare corporate IT. I've seen people at my old company in entry level roles that would sit and eat all day every day. They were taller horizontally than vertically, and many had to use crutches because of weight or get gastric bypass done or have mobility scooters. 400 lbs was not unheard of. Once every few months there was an oven test which results in around 1500 pizzas being made in an oven and their section would be the first in line every time to get two free pizzas, often not working for multiple hours waiting in line for the next batch.
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