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jre posted:Nice casual racism in the ticket thread Oh come on, of course the Scots are hoarders - they don't even drink their liquor until after they've left it lying about for 10-30+ years!
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bitterandtwisted posted:Had my first visit to a remote site in the Highlands of Scotland. The server room was an Aladdin's Cave of poo poo.
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Jeoh posted:#NotAlLScots
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:In the interest of preventing a shitstorm, I took my friend back to the office Seriously, why would you do this?
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Jeoh posted:#NotAlLScots Ok, I have got to ask. What's the deal with your avatar? Is there a story behind it or something? I've seen it for years but never asked till now.
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RFC2324 posted:a few pages back, but Star Citizen is a thing now? Like, you can actually play it? The vast majority of the tickets are refund requests 
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nitrogen posted:Ok, I have got to ask. What's the deal with your avatar? Is there a story behind it or something? I've seen it for years but never asked till now. While we're at it, can someone please explain the "tetten" avatars?
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Volmarias posted:While we're at it, can someone please explain the "tetten" avatars? I'm pretty sure there's an explanation in this thread somewhere, I'm looking for it now. I do know that it's German for "tit".
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AlphaKretin posted:I'm pretty sure there's an explanation in this thread somewhere, I'm looking for it now. I do know that it's German for "tit". Thanks, I'll search there later.
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 is Flemish for tits. My avatar is Ridder Bauknecht, a comic book character by Jeroom. Here's the full comic:  "Bauknecht was pampering a damsel.." "When suddenly" " " "Where?!""But the short distraction proves fatal to Bauknecht" "Upon which he mumbles..." " "We changed to tuigleven cause goons are tuig in Dutch and a goon saw some tuigleven graffiti irl. We buy lots of stupid poo poo. CharlieMopps and Sprechensiesexy also have avatars.e: All lurking Dutch/Flemish/Afrikaans (or those learning those languages) goons are welcome in our [url=http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3695908]Teutoonse rondjeruk[url]!
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An interview came in. We're interviewing a network tech / firewall dude for a SIEM / IPS role. Very similar area of expertise, but very different hardware/policies. We've been told by higher ups we're not allowed to ask technical questions of the candidate. What sort of questions are left???
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"Can you give us an idea of your past work experience?" Really though, you should ignore that mandate if given the chance because it'll bite you hard. If you're getting handheld with someone else sitting in on the interviews, maybe see if you can go give some technical questions in a followup phone interview behind their back?
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iRend posted:An interview came in. So this happened at my last job. We hired a network tech from FedEx. One day he saw a bunch of switches laying in our network admin's closet and asked if he could play around with one. They were old so he said sure, why not. The new guy commented how heavy the switch was as he carried it out. He plugged it into his ups which started beeping right away. The "switch" was a rack mount ups. He spent 4 hours finding a console cable and trying to configure it. That was his last day. I'm sure he'll be better than that and that was hardly the sole reason for firing him. But not being able to ask technical questions scares me ever since that. Ugato fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Jan 18, 2016 |
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Mattavist posted:Seriously, why would you do this? Because she's a special snowflake.
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iRend posted:An interview came in.
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iRend posted:An interview came in. Ask your higher ups why no technical questions, and what they expect you to asses e: and then report back with their answers here because I'm really curious what their reason is. It's like a puzzle. We hired a guy and I realized I assumed too much and should have hit harder on some questions, such as "how to you clone a git repo? how do you create a new branch? how do you manage remotes and push a branch to a remote? how do you write a migration to add and remove a db field? how do you setup virtualbox to run ubuntu? how do you setup a mature app on yor new vm?"  I'm pretty sure they can learn it, but fuuuck I don't want to take my time coaching them on that. I might have to tell them that. KoRMaK fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Jan 18, 2016 |
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iRend posted:An interview came in. Culture fit  But seriously wtf ?
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I talked with my manager. He has clarified, in that instead of us asking technical questions, he wants us to pose situations which might arise and ask how the potential employee might deal with them. Without going into any kind of technical detail. So, not allowed to ask "Do you know how to configure and troubleshoot an IPS?", but can say "The client says their website is down and you have been called into the conference call. What do you do?" Slightly less useless than I thought. Still useless. There is no reasoning for this, beyond corporateness. They want us to judge the hire based on potential rather than current skill. I'M NOT TRAINING UP ANOTHER CLUELESS FUCKWIT ARGH
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I've never been an interviewer, but here's an idea: Maybe hide the questions into a scenario: "A less experienced technician comes to you for help. The manager of housekeeping can't print a report. The computer is on the network. The Technician is pretty sure that the printer isn't broken because he was able to print a test page from the printer's control panel." "Talk me through your thought process, and tell me what you'd tell this junior technician." Change the details around to fit your job description.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I've never been an interviewer, but here's an idea: The heating has stopped working in the building, diagnosis?
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"A ticket comes in to switch the contents of 20 cubicles to comply with new corporate
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"Internet no longer works, what do you do?" "I add the IE shortcut back to the desktop" "You're hired, when can you start?"
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FreshFeesh posted:"A ticket comes in to switch the contents of 20 cubicles to comply with new corporate With a MINIMUM answer of at least five words. To weed out responses like "update my resume" and "go get a drink".
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Renegret posted:"Internet no longer works, what do you do?" I got my first IT job in helpdesk as a student because my first answer to "a user is having password problems, they've tried to log in several times without success. What steps would you take to troubleshoot this?" was "check if caps lock is on" 
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Neddy Seagoon posted:With a MINIMUM answer of at least five words. To weed out responses like "update my resume" and "go get a drink". "Work on updating my resume" and "Go get a drink of bourbon". 
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It sounds like that guy already has the job from someone higher up, they just have to not blow it
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KoRMaK posted:Ask your higher ups why no technical questions, and what they expect you to asses He thought the rack mounted ups was a switch? Just clarifying because that's so stupid I had to reread that many times.
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Bigass Moth posted:He thought the rack mounted ups was a switch? Just clarifying because that's so stupid I had to reread that many times. OHHH, now it makes sense, he plugged an UPS into an UPS.
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Email Marketing Manager posted:If you could run a report of who, how many, what date (from the sales team) is sending BCC blasts of 10+. The grammar pedant in me has flipped out and killed himself. Email Marketing Manager posted:Here’s the collateral on how to do this; it’ll need to be done by the SF admin, thus I’m coming to you. J Is "collateral" Noveau Corporate Garbage Heap for "documentation" now? Also, I should look for a GPO to turn off Outlook turning smileys into wingdings or something.
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FireSight posted:+1 Zendesk and gently caress 'CA Helpdesk' We use Unicenter, not too bad.
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That reminds me. There's a guy at work that pronounces UPS phonetically (as if it's the plural form of the word up). It drives me crazy.
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Fortis posted:Also, I should look for a GPO to turn off Outlook turning smileys into wingdings or something. Seeing random Js in emails is much better imo.
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KillHour posted:That reminds me. There's a guy at work that pronounces UPS phonetically (as if it's the plural form of the word up). It drives me crazy. I used to feel this way about GUI and "gooey" but now I don't really care
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KillHour posted:That reminds me. There's a guy at work that pronounces UPS phonetically (as if it's the plural form of the word up). It drives me crazy. Big ups to that guy
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Segmentation Fault posted:I used to feel this way about GUI and "gooey" but now I don't really care
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nexxai posted:Wait are their actually people who spell out G-U-I? Every single person I've ever met that's had to communicate the concept of a graphical user interface has pronounced it "gooey". I've heard both and I'm indifferent. I used to be bothered by people who pronounce VoIP like a word, but I grew out of that. I'm sure I'll get used to UPS, too, but for now 
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KillHour posted:I've heard both and I'm indifferent. I used to be bothered by people who pronounce VoIP like a word, but I grew out of that. I'm sure I'll get used to UPS, too, but for now
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I have no idea how else you'd say "VoIP" unless it's pronouncing it like one word. Spelling out each letter takes forever.
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Thanks Ants posted:I have no idea how else you'd say "VoIP" unless it's pronouncing it like one word. Spelling out each letter takes forever. I've heard people insist on calling it "Voice over IP" but I work at VoIP service company and literally everyone here pronounces it like one word. 
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