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anthonypants posted:Zero certifications? Not even DevOps League? I think I have a "Certified Xylan Routing Engineer" certification around somewhere from 1998 or so. Other than that, I've never taken any time to get certs.
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Turambar posted:Isn't a curtain salesman a Windows professional? 
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larchesdanrew posted:A new job responsibility almost came in.
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We've decided that you and the facilities coordinator will be trained in bodily fluid cleanup so you can clean up any messes.
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beepsandboops posted:How does a school not have janitorial staff?! Where he's at I'm surprised they don't make the local prison population clean up the poo poo.
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beepsandboops posted:How does a school not have janitorial staff?! They're waiting to see who flunks classes that semester and can offer first dibs on the job to.
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feedmegin posted:20 years, 0 certs, 1 degree (in History)  
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larchesdanrew posted:A new job responsibility almost came in. Literal IT Janitor.
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beepsandboops posted:How does a school not have janitorial staff?! I worked at a charter school until about a week ago that had one part-time janitor for 250 students. He didn't even come in every day. It's surprisingly common and works about as well as you think. I don't work there anymore because they cut my hours down to 15, then asked me to work them on-demand for cutthroat rates, then replaced me with an incompetent 18 year old from the local college when I refused. Now management has been silent but the teachers are begging me to come back, but I  'd into Wawa's management structure so that ship has sailed.Sad to be out of IT for now but glad to be out of the Orlando contract market.
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beepsandboops posted:How does a school not have janitorial staff?! The students are responsible for cleaning as part of their work study. We contract with a janitorial company to come do the more intensive cleaning once a week.
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Is this a charter school by any chance? Sounds like a money saving tactic to me.
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Sep 29, 2016 18:43
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No, but they do live on campus. It's not for saving money. We pay the company that cleans once a week as much as we'd pay someone to work full time. It's about teaching them to respect their surroundings, fulfill their obligations, and develop good habits. These halls are downright spotless, and I've seen kids jump all over someone for littering or leaving a chair pulled out when they leave. They take it seriously.
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Migishu posted:Is this a charter school by any chance? Sounds like a money saving tactic to me. He lives in bumfuck Mississippi, it's not like the school has any real budget most likely.
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Sep 29, 2016 18:59
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larchesdanrew posted:No, but they do live on campus. It's not for saving money. We pay the company that cleans once a week as much as we'd pay someone to work full time. It's about teaching them to respect their surroundings, fulfill their obligations, and develop good habits. These halls are downright spotless, and I've seen kids jump all over someone for littering or leaving a chair pulled out when they leave. They take it seriously. No argument here. Japanese schools do it so I don't see why schools here shouldn't either if they have the opportunity.
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Turambar posted:Isn't a curtain salesman a Windows professional? I'm a little late to this, but holy poo poo.
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Migishu posted:No argument here. Japanese schools do it so I don't see why schools here shouldn't either if they have the opportunity. I talk poo poo about the management of this place a lot, but there's a reason this was one of the top ten high schools in the country when they ranked those things. The academic and student life side of things are incomparable and extremely progressive, not even just for Mississippi. It's just the current regime is a bit of a mess at the moment.
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larchesdanrew posted:I talk poo poo about the management of this place a lot, but there's a reason this was one of the top ten high schools in the country when they ranked those things. The academic and student life side of things are incomparable and extremely progressive, not even just for Mississippi. It's just the current regime is a bit of a mess at the moment. Hopefully they won't slip and fall off the list because of this particular incident.
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pr0digal posted:Hopefully they won't slip and fall off the list because of this particular incident. yo is that a poop joke son
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Certs helped me get into good IT jobs immediately, but having a degree and social skills definitely helped. Certs imo are good professional milestones and give me something to focus improving on. I've met plenty of people with no certs who have great technical minds, and even more with lots of dumped certs who couldn't do basic cli configuration.
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Turambar posted:Isn't a curtain salesman a Windows professional? goddamn son. I'm really torn between this being promoted vs the current thread title staying because they're both so good. I mean, so bad, but so good.
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larchesdanrew posted:I talk poo poo about the management of this place a lot About time they came to you to talk poo poo.
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larchesdanrew posted:No, but they do live on campus. It's not for saving money. We pay the company that cleans once a week as much as we'd pay someone to work full time. It's about teaching them to respect their surroundings, fulfill their obligations, and develop good habits. These halls are downright spotless, and I've seen kids jump all over someone for littering or leaving a chair pulled out when they leave. They take it seriously. I'm imagining Jill freaking out about a gum wrapper somebody dropped on the ground while 10 feet away little Bobby is making GBS threads all over the floor. Nearby, a teacher watches on, pulls a pork chop out of her purse, and begins eating.
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Internet Explorer posted:I assume in that case those machines aren't on a domain? So I imagine a lot of SaaS, or do you use something like Citrix? Most self-provided machines were running a Home version of Windows, so no domain, yeah. What I ended up doing was installing the openvpn client and a vnc server (which I made sure to show them didn't run by default, they'd have to turn it on if they wanted to invite me to remote in, no I'm not watching you do whatever you do when you take the laptop home at night). Then a desktop shortcut to a file share on the main server, for which they'd use their active directory login. Once they'd done that, they could fire up the actual program we used for the business, which could be configured to point to the central database via that file share. This was a seriously ghetto setup, but it was all I could do. Oh, but before doing that, I'd usually have to run combofix on them to get rid of enough malware for them to be actually usable... 
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That sounds really, really loving awful. I am hating my job these days, but reading this thread (and the other 3 like it) really help with that!
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MisterZimbu posted:I'm imagining Jill freaking out about a gum wrapper somebody dropped on the ground while 10 feet away little Bobby is making GBS threads all over the floor. But that is none of your concern
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So recently we implemented smart card login. It has not gone well. We were hoping things had stabilized itself today until outlook started prompting for the smart card pin and promptly blocked out the user's card.
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MisterZimbu posted:I'm imagining Jill freaking out about a gum wrapper somebody dropped on the ground while 10 feet away little Bobby is making GBS threads all over the floor. I forgot about the pork chop 
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quote:Oh, but before doing that, I'd usually have to run combofix on them to get rid of enough malware for them to be actually usable... We have a policy where is IT says a laptop cannot be trusted due to malware / virus even Bing suspected, a bit torrent client is enough, it is a no go. Laptop can be banned at any time and only removed by IT formatting clearing it on their own time at their own price. Have fun buying a new laptop to go another round. But we laptops are only given VPN access for someone trying to work overtime. They can come in for that if they really want to. We have no remote users that aren't in IT, and if you are in IT setting up a VPN client is child's play.
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klosterdev posted:Exactly what it sounds like. Computers remain useful for a lot longer than they used to be, and most people just use them for basic web browsing and word processing, which depending on the type of usage can be practical as far back as late-model Core 2 Duos. (aka old people on a fixed income who just want to check their email) I am currently running pretty happily on an upgraded (PSU, RAM, HDDs, and GPU) Core 2 Quad as we speak. I am not old, but I am a poor.
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Samizdata posted:I am currently running pretty happily on an upgraded (PSU, RAM, HDDs, and GPU) Core 2 Quad as we speak. I am not old, but I am a poor. What GPU? Core2Quad was a bottleneck years ago.
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PBS posted:What GPU? Core2Quad was a bottleneck years ago. 2Gb EVGA GTX 760. Ended up getting it for free.
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PBS posted:What GPU? Core2Quad was a bottleneck years ago. Bottleneck for what exactly? The only thing I wanted to do with mine, and haven't been able to, is let Plex transcode on the fly.
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Sheep posted:OSHA would like a word. Well, that's why the training. OSHA has to be fine with someone cleaning that sort of thing up, it's not like it can just sit there forever.
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I meant that if these threads are anything to go by, the training is likely to be "here's the mop and the bucket, gloves are over there."
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Please do not mix up the wash bucket with the speculum bucket.
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Sheep posted:I meant that if these threads are anything to go by, the training is likely to be "here's the mop and the bucket, gloves are over there." look at mr. excess over here with his fancy gloves
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larchesdanrew posted:look at mr. excess over here with his fancy gloves 
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Mop and bucket, but you gotta bring your own water.
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GreenNight posted:Mop and bucket, but you gotta bring your own water. and mop handle.
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So what happened eventually, Larches? Did all that stuff get cleaned up? If so, who did it? Any repercussions of you saying you would not do it?
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