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I really want to eventually be a developer too. Finally getting some programming other than Powershell and Excel (if you can call making a super complicated report programming) under my belt would open that door.
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Methanar posted:What do you want to do?
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Methanar posted:What do you want to do? This is a very good post and thank you for making it.
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Peachfart posted:I like the salary range. A range of 62k-65k says to me 'Stingy company that isn't willing to negotiate on salary.' It's in the South, but I feel like they need to tack on an extra 20k because dealing with the IT manager there is herculean itself.
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I'm in a proselytizing mood. I have a vehicle. Someone tell me where to go and when and I'll be there.
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Methanar posted:I'm in a proselytizing mood. Executive decision. State&Main, downtown on Jasper and 101st. Shortly after 13:00 (say 13:15?)
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13 15 it is. I'll be the nerd with a plaid jacket and shirt with tan pants. Methanar fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Oct 26, 2017 |
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Sorry to miss this! Co-worker has an appointment at 1 I only just learned.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Sorry to miss this! Co-worker has an appointment at 1 I only just learned. Next time, friend.
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Peachfart posted:I like the salary range. A range of 62k-65k says to me 'Stingy company that isn't willing to negotiate on salary.' That's on the high end for podunk midwest. IT Director xxxxxxx - Bay City, MI $40,000 - $60,000 a year Bring your smarts and positive energy to a growing conglomerate in the Great Lakes Bay Region! Headquartered in Bay City, our team supports a variety of companies including but not limited to: xxxxxxx. As IT Manager, you will be expected to take care of the following duties: Supervise the company’s computer, network infrastructure and internet connectivity. Data management of sensitive consumer data, maintain privacy and confidentiality. Manage and troubleshoot CRM tools, ring central, and BDC phone systems. Troubleshooting for down equipment or services. Conducting formal risk assessments for new systems and significant system revisions. Establishing security and risk management programs. Providing leadership and guidance in IT and enterprise risks to business owners and agency staff. Providing leadership in the areas of problem identification and resolution, answering inquiries, providing guidance, troubleshooting, and ensuring follow-up on all issues to the team. Assisting with the selection and purchase of cost-effective equipment, security and IT needs. Researching and identifing new tools, programs and platforms that support improved efficiency for office staff. Managing and tracking asset (software, hardware) inventory Replacement, installation, and support of laptop, desktop, PC, printers, phones and other similar devices. Developing standard operating procedures, processes, and guidelines pertaining to technical support. Managing relationships with third-party vendors as it pertains to IT. Overseeing and monitor IT budgets and contracts. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or other related technical degree from an appropriately accredited institution. Job Type: Full-time Salary: $40,000.00 to $60,000.00 /year Required education: Bachelor's Required experience: IT: 3 years The worst thing is most places don't even list a salary so you end up wasting a bunch of time to find out they want to pay poo poo.
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Methanar posted:13 15 it is. Dunno why I PM'd you. Tall nerd in blue sweater and black jacket. Gonna be a regular mardi gras wooo.
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Bob Morales posted:That's on the high end for podunk midwest. It makes me wonder if the following is a good career shortcut. Jump from a big enterprise "play with all the new technology" tools position like I have, straight into a small shop director role. It'd seem like a god drat vacation at this point. Then use that 'director' title to pivot right back into big enterprise now that you are a director. Instant ladder climb.
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Today I had lunch with a former coworker of mine, who stayed behind when I got out a couple of years ago. A little background: this is at a bank, she's the SME and primary admin for an application that deals with lending. The system she works on sends information to loan purchasers throughout the loan's lifecycle. One of the documents it sends includes a bunch of information about the loan, dates, amounts, and some IDs that can be used to identify it. One of the fields included on that document uses the primary key of a record in the database, rather than whatever internal ID the loan processors assign to it. A customer called in to complain about one of these documents. The ID listed on this loan document? 666 Her director ended up screaming at her for about 15 minutes about how inappropriate this was, how the vendor could have possibly missed this in their code, etc. She got fed up and walked off, and her boss was eventually able to calm the director down. They ended up going to the vendor for an emergency hotfix to make sure that 666 would never be displayed on a loan document again. I asked what would happen when they got to 6666 Hail IT Satan!
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Screaming for 15 minutes? gently caress you buddy, here is my lawyer.
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GreenNight posted:Screaming for 15 minutes? gently caress you buddy, here is my lawyer. Right? I wasn't there, so I don't know how intense it got, but it's still pretty hilarious (to an outside observer) that this was even a thing. Excuse me, this is a Christian loan, no swearing or devil numbers!
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That seems to be a pretty benign thing to freak out about though.
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I think I would have died laughing if someone was yelling at me over that.
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Has anyone used Egnyte or heard from someone that does? My fiancée's work currently uses google drive for filesharing needs, they are a 10 person company, no domain or anything, hosted VOIP solution blah blah blah. They fall under HIPAA (google is compliant apparently, I have never looked) and the owner + another person complain that google drive is hard and want something more user friendly, Egnyte came up and I'm trying to ask around since I have no loving clue. Is it good? Easy to use? Any pitfalls? poo poo like that.
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I've heard the name, and I recall it wasn't under favourable circumstances, but that's all. If HIPAA is involved though, it might be worth going to The Goon Doctor and asking in the Health Care Stories thread. A big range of medical workers there with a lot of different HIPAA-compliant software knowledge.
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MF_James posted:Has anyone used Egnyte or heard from someone that does? My fiancée's work currently uses google drive for filesharing needs, they are a 10 person company, no domain or anything, hosted VOIP solution blah blah blah. They fall under HIPAA (google is compliant apparently, I have never looked) and the owner + another person complain that google drive is hard and want something more user friendly, Egnyte came up and I'm trying to ask around since I have no loving clue. I helped implement it back in my MSP days for a few clients. It is most certainly wasn't as easy as google drive 3 years ago. Permissions were a loving pitfall nightmare, but I guess end users wouldn't really be concerned with that other than "hey this person can't see the file." Versioning is confusing as gently caress but at least it works. Most users never knew versioning was a thing Egnyte offered because it was buried and difficult to revert / find old poo poo. Maybe it's improved, but my impression is if they do not have a dedicated IT person to hand-hold them through it and deal with the permissions, don't do it.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:It is stuff like this though that reminds me how wildly responsibilities vary from position to position. I see IT directors for a department of 3 and then I think about our IT director who oversees I want to say about 25,000 VMs and it just boggles my mind that they're the same title. I am that IT Director of a department of
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We turned out trial of evident.io on for a couple accounts and now I am having thoughts that it is best to involve tools like this and audit your security early on. It would be a lot easier to get alerted and correct things as you build instead of fix a bunch of things to match best practices.
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Welllllll I spent most of my work-day agonizing over my email response of a counter offer, only to immediately get an out of office response. Gonna give it a day or so and then call I suppose. Asked for an additional $8k, hoping for at least $3k. Fingers crossed.
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Bob Morales posted:That's on the high end for podunk midwest. My company's operations center in Detroit is throwing 60-65k at people just to get them to work weekends. It's not even that hard of a job, like 90% of it is restarting windows services or app pools. I'm having a hard time finding new jobs in the area that will beat it on pay, seeing postings for sys admins with AWS certs and 3-5 years of experience for less than I'm making as a server janitor.
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MF_James posted:Has anyone used Egnyte or heard from someone that does? My fiancée's work currently uses google drive for filesharing needs, they are a 10 person company, no domain or anything, hosted VOIP solution blah blah blah. They fall under HIPAA (google is compliant apparently, I have never looked) and the owner + another person complain that google drive is hard and want something more user friendly, Egnyte came up and I'm trying to ask around since I have no loving clue. It's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo
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xsf421 posted:My company's operations center in Detroit is throwing 60-65k at people just to get them to work weekends. It's not even that hard of a job, like 90% of it is restarting windows services or app pools. I'm having a hard time finding new jobs in the area that will beat it on pay, seeing postings for sys admins with AWS certs and 3-5 years of experience for less than I'm making as a server janitor. Verizon had people on call like that... like one team that was the windows service restarter. The guy had no idea about actual server performance or how the application worked when we had to call him one night.
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MF_James posted:Has anyone used Egnyte or heard from someone that does? My fiancée's work currently uses google drive for filesharing needs, they are a 10 person company, no domain or anything, hosted VOIP solution blah blah blah. They fall under HIPAA (google is compliant apparently, I have never looked) and the owner + another person complain that google drive is hard and want something more user friendly, Egnyte came up and I'm trying to ask around since I have no loving clue. I wrote an absurdly long post maybe two weeks ago about my experiences, I think in the poo poo that pisses me off thread. Don't have time to find it right now, but the takeaway was that two years ago they were hilariously overpriced and their solution was a barely concealed implementation of rsync, and had lots of issues with permissions and so on. That said, they may have gotten better. Edit: or this is probably more likely Thanks Ants posted:It's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo it's poo poo
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Anyone have an experience with this poo poo? https://www.onbase.com/en/ Boss man is looking to implement it and hire someone to manage it.
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GreenNight posted:Anyone have an experience with this poo poo? If it's implemented properly, and has a decent team behind it, it's great. We use it, but we're so big we're running into scaling issues that the development team never foresaw. JHVH-1 posted:Verizon had people on call like that... like one team that was the windows service restarter. The guy had no idea about actual server performance or how the application worked when we had to call him one night. We're a bit higher than that, kind of mid-level sys admins. We're weirdly handicapped in that we're not allowed to make changes on production systems, despite having access and knowledge.
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xsf421 posted:If it's implemented properly, and has a decent team behind it, it's great. We use it, but we're so big we're running into scaling issues that the development team never foresaw. Our plan is to give the company a shitload of money to implement it properly and then manage it until we hire someone.
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GreenNight posted:Our plan is to give the company a shitload of money to implement it properly and then manage it until we hire someone. Then hopefully you'll be great. We had to redo our DB schema for it last year because our docID tracking number hit the 32 bit integer cap, for an idea how high it'll scale before issues. Even then, everything still worked, we just had issues with new docs.
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xsf421 posted:My company's operations center in Detroit is throwing 60-65k at people just to get them to work weekends. It's not even that hard of a job, like 90% of it is restarting windows services or app pools. I'm having a hard time finding new jobs in the area that will beat it on pay, seeing postings for sys admins with AWS certs and 3-5 years of experience for less than I'm making as a server janitor. Is it an experienced or entry level job?
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We're a small manufacturing company with less than 300 employees. I think we'll be OK.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:Dunno why I PM'd you. Tall nerd in blue sweater and black jacket. Gonna be a regular mardi gras wooo. Uh oh. Chubby's not posted since then! MURDER MOST FOUL!
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Is it an experienced or entry level job? There's no degree or formal experience requirements, as long as you know your way around windows server a little. I started as an intern with no degree or formal IT experience and transitioned to full-time in about 45 days. I admit that's kind of rare though. We typically hire people who are t1/2 helpdesk and looking to move up, or people from other technical fields who might not have a ton of IT knowledge, but show that they can learn.
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Ah, okay. There’s a Delray goon in TFR who could really use a break, but he hasn’t done any IT that I know of.
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I found the right guy by asking around "do you have stairs in your house" in the restaurant.
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Methanar posted:I found the right guy by asking around "do you have stairs in your house" in the restaurant. Nerd. You just lost all the respect you won from that big effort post.
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Bob Morales posted:That's on the high end for podunk midwest. I live in Seattle and the lowest I can imagine someone(a crappy barely qualified hire) taking for that job around here would be 70k. Anyone who knew what they were doing would be approaching 6 figures. Edit: One of my friends here works for EA and makes easily over 130k/year building internal tools.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:It is stuff like this though that reminds me how wildly responsibilities vary from position to position. I see IT directors for a department of 3 and then I think about our IT director who oversees I want to say about 25,000 VMs and it just boggles my mind that they're the same title. Key is it has to be just big enough that "IT Director" will get you exposure to actually doing the management work that is expected of the role. Example, the IT Director title on my resume means fuckall as it was a company with about 125 total employees and the IT department amounted to me, and a guy who did both Customer Service for the company and L1/2 Help Desk work for me.
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