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RyuHimora posted:I might not have a choice soon. Taking the job meant giving up a lot of financial assistance I was getting, so I'm actually not quite making ends meet paycheck to paycheck. The sad part is I think I might be able to make just as much money by combining my two previous jobs (Subway/Amazon driver) without giving up that assistance, and I really liked delivering for amazon. This job is almost certainly not worth this poo poo they are putting on me. As soon as you have something lined up, you must name and shame in case anyone else here gets contacted by this company.
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Oh cool some recruiters sent over some stuff that sounds right up my alley but wait they need my references, pfftRecruiter A posted:By speaking with your references from three viewpoints (supervisors, peers, subordinates or mentees), I’ll be able to paint a 360° picture of you as an employee to use in our marketing efforts. Recruiter B posted:The unique thing about lovely RECRUITER that sets us apart from a lot of other recruiting companies is that we only want to represent the best of the best in the market. So we reference check every candidate we work with before sending their resumes across to our clients. Unique eh? I've still yet to find a competent/trustworthy 3rd party recruiter 
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CrazyLittle posted:Only if you're actually treated as a 1099 independent contractor and can set your own hours, schedule, work environment, etc, and freelance for competing companies. This is not going to happen. They will continue to treat you as a regular employee even though that violates federal labor laws. I largely agree with this. I just turned down an $80/hr 1099 gig. It wasnt worth it; also watch the offer letter because they will stick you with liability insurance requirements and/or push a lot of their own liability on to you. I've seriously considered setting up an LLC to take on some 1099 gigs; but its never been quite worth it to me; instead I just hardball my W2 negotiations for remote/flex time and have been pretty successful as such.
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CrazyLittle posted:They will continue to treat you as a regular employee even though that violates federal labor laws. This is the first thing I thought about. You're a statutory employee in this situation.
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Walked posted:I largely agree with this. I just turned down an $80/hr 1099 gig. It wasnt worth it; also watch the offer letter because they will stick you with liability insurance requirements and/or push a lot of their own liability on to you. Oh, and if you do decide to take the job, get a second job with their competitor company B, and then hire your own subcontractor to do the work at company A for a lower hourly rate- which is a totally viable and legal thing for an INDEPENDENT contractor to do.
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CrazyLittle posted:Oh, and if you do decide to take the job, get a second job with their competitor company B, and then hire your own subcontractor to do the work at company A for a lower hourly rate- which is a totally viable and legal thing for an INDEPENDENT contractor to do. It's 1099s all the way down
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nimper posted:It's 1099s all the way down it's the UBER of IT work
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Well this feels pretty drat weird, I've been given a job offer and for the first time in my life I actually have a choice about it... before IT I've had to take whatever crap came my way. I'm going to reject it though, jazzy office and cool environment but rota/over night working would mess up all sorts at the moment, more calls are coming in so hopefully  approaches.
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We are looking into BoardPacks 365 to replace some custom Wordpress install, anyone have any experience with it? Any non-obvious gotchas that we should watch out for?
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The Fool posted:We are looking into BoardPacks 365 to replace some custom Wordpress install, anyone have any experience with it? Any non-obvious gotchas that we should watch out for? Don't use WordPress
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I don't charge anything less than 120$/hr for contract work. 2 hours minimum.
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That's a lot of loonies an hour eh!!!!
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Argh if you put in your documentation: when X automated process runs, then Y needs to happen afterwards, make sure the loving automated process X is actually updated to do the loving Y thing. Half my day is shot because of laziness of others. Person that did this? "Oh yeah, I meant to follow-up on that, forgot about it, thanks for finding."
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MF_James posted:Argh if you put in your documentation: when X automated process runs, then Y needs to happen afterwards, make sure the loving automated process X is actually updated to do the loving Y thing. Half my day is shot because of laziness of others. lol wait so the person actually did the documentation but not the thing? Usually it's the other way around.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:lol wait so the person actually did the documentation but not the thing? Oh no, the documentation merely had a single line that said "When new accounts are created, they will need added to this group" It was a system config change document, they were adding a gMSA, that account is only usable by objects that are in a specific group, there were also a few other changes that happened involving the gMSA. We have an automated process that creates computer accounts, these computer accounts are the ones that specifically need added to the group above (other accounts we manually create which is rare, such as standing up new backend servers), so really when doing the above change the automated process should have been updated, but for :reasons: was not. *edit* and I'm fairly divorced from our team that does changes; most of the time I am not informed until they happen or are about to happen. This has created a whole slew of fun problems where the change team pushes poo poo out, things break (but they don't actually do validation) and I'm left trying to figure out what the gently caress happened because no one is reachable to tell me what they did. My work has seriously devolved into an Us (support) vs Them (Change Team) thing because they push poo poo and break everything then expect us to figure it out. No motherfuckers, revert your changes and figure it the gently caress out, don't dump your steaming pile of poo poo on my lap. /rantoff MF_James fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Jan 31, 2017 |
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RFC2324 posted:Don't use WordPress We are replacing it, thanks.
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ltugo posted:Anyone here self-employed? Help me make a decision here. It is generally not a choice between one or the other straight up, the nature of the work dictates if you are a 1099 or a W2. A big downside is that if you have any problems with your employer you will have to sue them instead of working with the DOL.
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I worked for a msp once. I was 19. I realized it was gonna end up me being happy I got to play with a baby nas. That's pretty much 90% of you in this thread. You're not IT. You're the weird guy from the snl IT skits. Go fill up the paper in the printer for me. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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You're computer janitors. Best Buy geek squad do your jobs. You just get paid a little more than them.
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jaegerx posted:I worked for a msp once. I was 19. I realized it was gonna end up me being happy I got to play with a baby nas. That's pretty much 90% of you in this thread. You're not IT. You're the weird guy from the snl IT skits. Go fill up the paper in the printer for me. LOL
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Hahahaha. You're precious.
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skipdogg posted:I haven't bought a printer in 5 years or so, but I swore off HP's a long time ago. Anything 3xxx series or less was a piece of poo poo. 4xxx and up series stuff might still be OK. How are those printers working out for you? Can you fill them up for me?
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jaegerx posted:I worked for a msp once. I was 19. I realized it was gonna end up me being happy I got to play with a baby nas. That's pretty much 90% of you in this thread. You're not IT. You're the weird guy from the snl IT skits. Go fill up the paper in the printer for me. 
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flosofl posted:My favorite is the ATT pushing firmware to their modems without informing everyone and basically resetting the modem to factory state. And then play dumb, even as far as sending tech who doesn't check in with the networking team, and closes the ticket with "tested circuit - no trouble found". No you idiots. It's the god drat modem, which you manage, that has been changed from static IP in bridge mode to DHCP with NAT. If you gave us access to the modem, we wouldn't even call you goobers. You still using personal cable modems for your internet?
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jaegerx posted:How are those printers working out for you? Can you fill them up for me? Don't know, moved on from that like 5 years ago. Submit a help desk ticket if you're having printer problems.
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skipdogg posted:Don't know, moved on from that like 5 years ago. Submit a help desk ticket if you're having printer problems. Do I ask for l3 if that's you?
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Are you okay, need someone to talk to?
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jaegerx posted:You're computer janitors. Best Buy geek squad do your jobs. You just get paid a little more than them. Looks like someone's feelings got hurt.
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Methanar posted:Are you okay, need someone to talk to? I'm good. I don't have any printer issues
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jaegerx posted:You still using personal cable modems for your internet? No, you tool. DSL connection for remote sites.
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I know when I have printer issues who to ask though. Sickening posted:Looks like someone's feelings got hurt. Can you fix my antivirus?
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flosofl posted:No, you tool. DSL connection for remote sites. That's cute.
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jaegerx posted:You're computer janitors. Best Buy geek squad do your jobs. You just get paid a little more than them. I would agree that an MSP employee is likely to be in a support only role, with very little strategic decision making. There also may occasionally be project work. That doesn't mean you should be a dick about it. People make a good living doing it and it's good experience for others.
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jaegerx posted:I know when I have printer issues who to ask though. 
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Sickening posted:[imgl]http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Woody-Harrelson-Wiping-Tears-Money.gif[/img] So that's a no? Can you atleast refill the paper tray or do you outsource that?
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The doc is a good read. Who hasn't accidentally deleted their prod db off the wrong server and then discovered their 5 different backup/replication solutions all don't work! https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus/status/826591961444384768
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Yeah that's quite hosed up Pretty sure these guys are hilariously incompetent "Replication isn't working and I dunno why, better wipe the data!" quote:db2.cluster still refuses to replicate, though it no longer complains about connections; instead it just hangs there not doing anything quote:Sid: try to undelete files? quote:Problems Encountered
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Apparently clinical narcissism looks just as weird on a mid-level IT employee of no particular regard as it does on a President.
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As far as I know he's a dev, not IT. Some MSPs and a lot of them can be really horrendously bad but there ones that do even in the era of  computing provide solid and stable careers.After a decade in IT, I'm moving towards development. Pay is okay but there's a significant lack of stability.
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