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Super Slash posted:So uh... when it comes to doing a handover/knowledge transfer of your whole SMB environment what's the best way to go about it? Or at least what are the most important subjects to cover within a day? Just braindump the most critical stuff, show him where your documentation is, and then laugh your rear end off when you hear about him quitting a week after you "trained" him (may have happened to me after my last job)
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Sickening posted:I didn't exactly care about free, just before I buy something again I wanted opinions for options. I have used visio for years for no other reason than that is what was available to me. Do any of the alternatives to visio have any way to generate shapes programatically? I desperately want something I can integrate with an MS SQL DB and say "run this query, create a square for every row returned, and label it with field 1 space field 2 newline field 3 x field 4".
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# ? Aug 23, 2017 20:15 |
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Isn't that UML?
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# ? Aug 23, 2017 20:41 |
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It's looking like I'm going to before the end of the week. new company is trying to get me to give a 1 week or 1.5 week notice. I'd like to not burn any bridges so what does the thread think about giving < 2 weeks notice. seems like bad form but this is my second salaried job
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# ? Aug 23, 2017 20:42 |
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If they want you then I don't see why they can't wait an extra week / half a week. Depends how you feel about your current place, I'd always want to give my notice period though.
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Thanks Ants posted:If they want you then I don't see why they can't wait an extra week / half a week. Depends how you feel about your current place, I'd always want to give my notice period though. this is the correct statement
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Zorak of Michigan posted:Do any of the alternatives to visio have any way to generate shapes programatically? I desperately want something I can integrate with an MS SQL DB and say "run this query, create a square for every row returned, and label it with field 1 space field 2 newline field 3 x field 4". Don't know about alternatives, but I've been able to draw some simple diagrams with Powershell. I have a standard form at work for new servers, and using it I can automatically create Visio diagrams.
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Kashuno posted:this is the correct statement I'd also add that it's not a good sign that your new company is asking this.
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Internet Explorer posted:I'd also add that it's not a good sign that your new company is asking this.
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Dick Trauma posted:On the Mac side I like OmniGraffle. This times infinity. With the pro option you can export Visio format as well.
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Internet Explorer posted:I'd also add that it's not a good sign that your new company is asking this. It's odd. The CEO reached out to me about a month ago regarding the position and things were fairly slow moving until this week. I'm wondering if someone left recently and they've been getting slammed with support calls. I certainly don't hate where I work now so I'd like to be as courteous as possible when exiting as I am not sure that they see this coming. I think I'll stick to two weeks - what's really the difference between starting on a Thursday and starting on the following Monday?
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:oh man... Okay so this isn't as great as I thought. He was actually put on leave right in the middle of several critical projects. All of his work is being reassigned, nobody knows what the gently caress is going on with half this poo poo and we are probably gonna have to start over on most of it. Apparently the whole thing was because he went to the doctor to get bloodwork done, the boss didn't see his out of office notification, and when we had an outage he was unreachable. There were like 4 other people in the office and he wasn't even on call. He came in, manager grabbed him and said "you can't be here" and he left with a really confused face. What in the actual gently caress?
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Okay so this isn't as great as I thought. He was actually put on leave right in the middle of several critical projects. All of his work is being reassigned, nobody knows what the gently caress is going on with half this poo poo and we are probably gonna have to start over on most of it. Hahaha holy poo poo
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Okay so this isn't as great as I thought. He was actually put on leave right in the middle of several critical projects. All of his work is being reassigned, nobody knows what the gently caress is going on with half this poo poo and we are probably gonna have to start over on most of it. What the hell even is this
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ChubbyThePhat posted:
I've been asking myself that all day. It appears like they're gonna fire the most senior member of our team for taking sick leave to go to the doctor. If that doesn't scream "wrongful termination suit" then I have no loving clue what would.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I've been asking myself that all day. They'll spin it as he was late a few times.
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If that is actually what's going down, it sounds like the ship is sinking.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I've been asking myself that all day. "Whoops he's going to hit his pension" termination. It won't be wrongful unless he's in a special state, union, or contract. That pension has me hopeful it's the latter.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:If that is actually what's going down, it sounds like the ship is sinking. Nah that's definitely not the case. However I wouldn't be surprised if they're just using the absence as an excuse to get rid of him. He regularly questions the terrible decisions of our management, openly disagrees when bad knee jerk reactions to problems are made, and generally refuses to take the blame for the issues caused by management. So naturally, he never got along well with the management. H110Hawk posted:"Whoops he's going to hit his pension" termination. It won't be wrongful unless he's in a special state, union, or contract. That pension has me hopeful it's the latter. Nah, he already GOT it. Plus he's not even fired yet, he's still on leave. I'm flabbergasted honestly. Sickening posted:Sounds like a micromanager that has and employee who refuses to be micromanaged. VVV bingo. But why now after 5 loving years?
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ChubbyThePhat posted:If that is actually what's going down, it sounds like the ship is sinking. Sounds like a micromanager that has and employee who refuses to be micromanaged. GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Nah that's definitely not the case. Yep. I mean doing these things all require a bit of finesse though. He probably knew the risks.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Nah, he already GOT it. Plus he's not even fired yet, he's still on leave. I'm flabbergasted honestly. Do days on administrative leave count towards pension vesting?
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Nah that's definitely not the case. This sounds like an actually good manager.
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Yeah I was going to say. My manager agrees on every subject with his manager, and is worthless.
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H110Hawk posted:Do days on administrative leave count towards pension vesting? Not sure, but he's already vested as of today anyway and vacation time counts which I'm sure he still has. ChubbyThePhat posted:This sounds like an actually good manager. I think he would have made an actually good manager.
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So I splurged and bought myself a 1TB SSD for my home PC, ostensibly (and honestly) with the intended purpose of serving as the storage for my VMs. In reality I only need like 150-200GB max for that. The rest will be Steam games, probably. I enabled Hyper-V on my PC and I have two VMs, Server 2016 and W10. Got them talking to each other (took longer than I'd like: first I had to figure out the right network adapter, get their IPs/masks configured, and then an exception on the firewall for ICMP Echos) and now I'm about to promote the 2016 VM to be a DC. I really, really should've done this stuff a long time ago. Even in the basic setup stuff I feel like I'm learning a lot.
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Internet Explorer posted:I'd also add that it's not a good sign that your new company is asking this. If you haven't given notice yet, this is an opportunity for a signing bonus. "Leaving my current position on less than two weeks notice would come at a cost to my professional reputation, so I consider it only fair that I be compensated in some way."
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:I really, really should've done this stuff a long time ago. Even in the basic setup stuff I feel like I'm learning a lot.
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For those of you stuck managing iSeries devices, does anyone use a hosted provider? We have one in-house that we're looking to either move off-site o just switch to a vendor who will host it for us. It's critical for our day-to-day operations at the moment so it has to be included in our soon-to-be-revamped DR setup,
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I've never used a hosting provider but given how unique the whole platform happens to be there's a big benefit to simply outsourcing the whole thing. DR depending how far you want to go can be simple as an Option 21 Backup to tape or virtual tape which any decent System Admin can at the least perform backups. For a restore you'd probably want help from a Vendor or IBM. Power HA is also an option but obviously needs care and isn't cheap.
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Tab8715 posted:I've never used a hosting provider but given how unique the whole platform happens to be there's a big benefit to simply outsourcing the whole thing. I agree, we have the benefit of having 2 programmers for it in--house but as our use of it continues to dwindle we really don't want to have to deal with the whole hardware/software upgrade dance. Our current DR strategy is simply that, restoring a 21 backup at a colo we rent from an MSP. However as we look to move our prod infrastructure to AWS or something we don't want to be stuck with the iSeries on-prem.
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Thom and the Heads posted:
So I told the CEO that, out of respect for my current employer, I'd like to stick to two weeks notice (I set the expectation that I'd need at least two weeks at least three times during our previous conversations). In the same email where he asked me to give a week notice, he said I'd have an offer yesterday. Radio silence. No offer, no followup email.
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Thom and the Heads posted:So I told the CEO that, out of respect for my current employer, I'd like to stick to two weeks notice (I set the expectation that I'd need at least two weeks at least three times during our previous conversations). In the same email where he asked me to give a week notice, he said I'd have an offer yesterday. Radio silence. No offer, no followup email. If they don't respond because you want to give a 2 week notice, they're really lovely and you dodged a bullet
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Thom and the Heads posted:So I told the CEO that, out of respect for my current employer, I'd like to stick to two weeks notice (I set the expectation that I'd need at least two weeks at least three times during our previous conversations). In the same email where he asked me to give a week notice, he said I'd have an offer yesterday. Radio silence. No offer, no followup email. NO offense, but if the CEO is calling you for a support job the company is dogshit.
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Anyone purchased independent ST/LT disability insurance? If so, who's a good provider? The startup that hired me has a group health insurance plan, but they don't have disability insurance yet.
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FWIW. My predecessor got fired on the spot and they wanted someone ASAP. They still respected my 1 month notice period.
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Spring Heeled Jack posted:For those of you stuck managing iSeries devices, does anyone use a hosted provider? We have one in-house that we're looking to either move off-site o just switch to a vendor who will host it for us. It's critical for our day-to-day operations at the moment so it has to be included in our soon-to-be-revamped DR setup,
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Oh god yes. I learn more in my lab than I do at work. That's not diminishing my job at all, but the job is about maintaining those five nines and working on whichever project we sold to whoever is throwing money at us this month. At home, it's "you know, I'm hearing the word Jenkins a lot lately, let's grab a copy, install it, and see what trouble we can get into." My challenge right now is two-fold on working to expand my skills for the future. I could easily grab an unused DL580 G7, take it home, and go hog wild, but: - with three kids 3 and under, there just isn't any goddamn time to do any lab stuff at home unless I take away from what little leisure activity time I have - after working on systems all day, the last thing I want to do is come home and deal with more computer poo poo. I used to have a couple of VM hosts for messing around, keeping a separate Sabnzbd VM, etc, but got rid of them because you don't mess with Production, aka keep the wife acceptance factor high. I'm not terribly concerned right now, if I truly need to learn something I can carve out work time to do a pluralsight course, POC something with old hardware, etc. Down the road I'll definitely need to do more learning on my own, but for now, it's going to have to be learn as things are thrown at me.
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Do not take a DL580 into your home, please I beg you. Just slap an extra DIMM of memory into whichever PC you've got kicking around. Lab VMs are very lightweight - even an extra 8gb of memory could get you 6 running VMs at a time since you're just one person doing one task at a time - give the domain controller like 800mb of memory, an app server 1.3gb, etc. Not building it out like production. You can fit so many VMs on a standard desktop PC. Also remember that not every VM needs to be running at a time. If you're practicing your SQL queries, maybe your Chef server doesn't need to be up, for example.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Do not take a DL580 into your home, please I beg you. Yeah, I've got an i5-6500k (kinda wish I'd gone for the i7 now, but meh, I don't need it) with 16GB of RAM at home and I was just giving them each 2-4GB of RAM, which was definitely overkill, but caused no problems. Once I have the need for more than two VMs running at a time I'll probably drop it down. Also before I went to bed I successfully promoted my 2016 VM to be a DC, got DNS going, got my W10 client looking at it for DNS and go it to resolve the server via hostname. Had it domain-joined before I had to sleep. Felt pretty good. I'm technically supposed to be studying for CCNA Security but that's all book and video learning right now, and this is more fun.
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If you get an AWS account you can have all the VMs and simultaneously teach yourself another valuable skill.
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