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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I use a separate audio interface that fantom powers my studio mics so I don't have to be arsed with using the software button in whatever lovely conference software I'm using. So now I want to set up two mics and pan them hard L/R for a cool stereo effect. Maybe put one on the opposite side of the room for an subtle delay/reverb in one ear.
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Had a 3rd interview today. Very laid back, talking about what kind of projects they are working vs mine, vendor preference, scaling a network. Real nice change of pace compared to the normal trivia quizzes.
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Agrikk posted:So now I want to set up two mics and pan them hard L/R for a cool stereo effect. Maybe put one on the opposite side of the room for an subtle delay/reverb in one ear. https://www.pcb.com/sensors-for-test-measurement/acoustics/specialty-microphones/surface I want to stick a couple of these to the seat of a leather chair, boost the poo poo out of the input gain, and just let rip; a deep broccoli fart.
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angry armadillo posted:I have an interesting project approaching the point of the fun bit, you could say. If by rostering you mean a who is active on that project/job and if you guys have Microsoft Teams, there is a shift management platform baked in. We tried it and it's functional, nothing terribly fancy but it's workable.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:https://www.pcb.com/sensors-for-test-measurement/acoustics/specialty-microphones/surface Well they ARE designed for air turbulence testing. How could you not?
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A site remodeled their boardroom to support a new fancy video conference system, and during the planning, I provided Cisco’s room planning docs, along with general advice on how to set things up. We go to test the system, and find they had ignored almost all of the advice and now they aren’t happy. The room has 5’ high windows on the north and west sides, and they only put in light blocking shades on the west side. Even a semi bright day means anyone in the room have a strong bright light behind them, the camera compensates by making things dark to handle the light. They also bought a 85” TV for the wall, which is so huge that there isn’t room to mount a camera at the right height, so it’s about table height. Plus, the camera that was mounted in there is already damaged, if I had to guess it was plugged in while someone used a saw or power intensive tool on the same circuit. We are already getting flack from senior mgmt about this like it was our idea. We provided advice, we were ignored and here we go. Just like the last site that did this.
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I've spent the last 3 years in help desk two different jobs. I got my lucky break recently and I've been permanently moved over to the NOC. I can't get over how much better my life is. My boss is chill. There isn't really pressure. The main emphasis is to use any downtime for studying certs. Help desk was endless pressure: Alerts, clients, SLAs, there was no tier 1 so I had to do everything. My favorite all time ticket was to move a cabinet out of an exec's office. I will go get a master's degree and teach or something vs ever going back to help desk. GnarlyCharlie4u posted:We have 3 more open positions. You're welcome to try but don't say I didn't warn you. What state is your company in? This person may just like help desk. Some people do, they like to be busy and in the action. In the group I worked with I was the only one who aggressively wanted to be moved out of a help desk role. The others liked the action. 
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DropsySufferer posted:What state is your company in? This person may just like help desk. Some people do, they like to be busy and in the action. In the group I worked with I was the only one who aggressively wanted to be moved out of a help desk role. The others liked the action. VA. On our team "everyone does everything" so there will still be plenty of helpdesk for him, don't worry. But I can see his eyes gloss over when we start talking about servers/network/storage/telephony/basically anything that isn't <install printer> and I'm a touch worried for him. He's openly admitted that he's, "not a fast learner" which is fine. The most frustrating thing is that he apparently needs a new prescription for his glasses so he can't see poo poo. It's so bad that he apparently has a hard time reading and can't even tell what time it is on a wrist watch. So anytime I try to actually show him things, he can't really follow along.
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DropsySufferer posted:I've spent the last 3 years in help desk two different jobs. I got my lucky break recently and I've been permanently moved over to the NOC. I can't get over how much better my life is. My boss is chill. There isn't really pressure. The main emphasis is to use any downtime for studying certs. Weird, your helpdesk is what the NOC is at my company. Helpdesk deals with clients, but not alerts or anything else.
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PBS posted:Weird, your helpdesk is what the NOC is at my company. Helpdesk deals with clients, but not alerts or anything else. I think at our place the we have people that only triage incidents and alerts generated via automation and route them where they need to go (so like T0?). T1 NOC/Helpdesk handles calls and resolves any incident that can be resolved by following a specific script 100% of the time. Anything that requires some investigation and decision making goes to T2 NOC. The Buck Stops Here level of escalation is "T3" which are basically system/network engineers and SMEs. At least that's how it was explained to me. I think there are some people who have overlapping roles, like T1s who have proven they can make solid decisions being allowed to work some of the simpler T2 stuff and some T2 people who assist T3 with investigating thorny and interesting problems.
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What’s it called when you do everything and also work on multiple teams (asking for a friend)
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Woof Blitzer posted:What’s it called when you do everything and also work on multiple teams (asking for a friend) Doormat
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SlowBloke posted:Doormat
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Woof Blitzer posted:What’s it called when you do everything and also work on multiple teams (asking for a friend)
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Woof Blitzer posted:What’s it called when you do everything and also work on multiple teams (asking for a friend) Proactive Teamplayer.
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Woof Blitzer posted:What’s it called when you do everything and also work on multiple teams (asking for a friend) Exhaustion? Burnout? YOTJ?
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Woof Blitzer posted:What’s it called when you do everything and also work on multiple teams (asking for a friend) Underpaid!
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How you guys get jobs where you have multiple bosses baffle me.
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Sickening posted:How you guys get jobs where you have multiple bosses baffle me. I'm not a dog so I don't have a boss  But go work for a company with a matrix organisation, you will have more managers than teammates. Especially when your actual manager doesn't have your back when you tell someone who thinks they outrank you to go play in traffic.
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Sickening posted:How you guys get jobs where you have multiple bosses baffle me. Here's something else, Sickening: I have eight different bosses right now. Eight! So that means when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. On a side note: thanks everyone for the thoughts/advice on handling onboarding at the new job. People have returned back from vacation and things are slowly starting to pick up. There is still no structure to the onboarding/orientation but I have a laptop and access now, so I can keep myself busy.
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Sickening posted:How you guys get jobs where you have multiple bosses baffle me. I'm on a federal contract for my company and I don't think I have a boss at my location. I guess the client but they're just happy that I show up when I'm supposed to.
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Hughmoris posted:Here's something else, Sickening: I have eight different bosses right now. Eight! So that means when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. Sounds like your real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing your job. But you know, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.
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Sickening posted:How you guys get jobs where you have multiple bosses baffle me. I only report to one person, but it doesn't seem unusual to have other managers on projects you're working on. They can't exactly give you orders directly, but technically speaking they're above you on the org chart.
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NPR Journalizard posted:Sounds like your real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing your job. But you know, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired. This guys a straight-shooter with 'upper management' written all over him
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:I only report to one person, but it doesn't seem unusual to have other managers on projects you're working on. They can't exactly give you orders directly, but technically speaking they're above you on the org chart. Pretty much. My company has ops and development split out, though there is a lot of collaboration and cross-functional work. I report to the director of ops for all HR purposes, but have a strong dotted line to the head of development, too. I’m not formally accountable to him at all, but we meet regularly and it’s in my and my team’s best interests to keep him happy. I can and have told him to pound sand from time to time, though, if he’s asking for something unreasonable. And my boss has my back on that which is great. Doesn’t come up too often though since we talk regularly and have a decent relationship.
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Our CISO is currently going through a manic episode of pushing Azure (we are already giving AWS and GCP millions a month) I havent really looked too much into it but he's basically saying azure has "figured it out" and is way better than both of those cloud providers.
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Sepist posted:Our CISO is currently going through a manic episode of pushing Azure (we are already giving AWS and GCP millions a month) I havent really looked too much into it but he's basically saying azure has "figured it out" and is way better than both of those cloud providers. I'd ask if this is the same Azure that had major customer-impacting outages.
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Sepist posted:Our CISO is currently going through a manic episode of pushing Azure (we are already giving AWS and GCP millions a month) I havent really looked too much into it but he's basically saying azure has "figured it out" and is way better than both of those cloud providers. your ciso does not know how to cloud though tbh if Azure keeps the JEDI contract it's not the worst idea in the world to stay leveraged with them.
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Sepist posted:Our CISO is currently going through a manic episode of pushing Azure (we are already giving AWS and GCP millions a month) I havent really looked too much into it but he's basically saying azure has "figured it out" and is way better than both of those cloud providers. If he can’t give you specifics then he is full of poo poo. I am a big fan of azure ad. I am a big fan of sql deployments through azure for my own purposes. There however is a lot of places it lags behind the other public clouds.
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Sickening posted:If he can’t give you specifics then he is full of poo poo. I am a big fan of azure ad. I am a big fan of sql deployments through azure for my own purposes. There however is a lot of places it lags behind the other public clouds. Like what? We currently use AWS for storage and Az for compute and AD stuff.
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Defenestrategy posted:Like what? We currently use AWS for storage and Az for compute and AD stuff. I personally think that aws security toolset is less of a dumpster fire than azure in its implementation. You already mentioned storage and I would say that s3 is way less painful than azures. Lambda rules and I don’t know how I could use anything else imo. List goes on and on.
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It's not a terrible idea to be able to do your stuff in different clouds whether that is for resiliency reasons or to take advantage of features that exist in one but not the other, but constantly changing the flavour of the month reminds me of when everybody wanted to write their web app in Ruby on Rails just because it was the new thing.
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I’m the “cloud-agnostic” chant with no investment to a PaaS or containerization strategy, forcing lowest-common-denominator implementations on full-fat VM hosts.
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I'm in a stalemate. I keep finding ways to not attend a tedious meeting, and they keep finding ways to reschedule it. Agh!
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I'm in a stalemate. I keep finding ways to not attend a tedious meeting, and they keep finding ways to reschedule it. Agh! This game of cat and mouse has existed for a long time. You should accept the meeting, then have an emergency come up five minutes before. Send an email to start without you, you'll be on as soon as you are able, then show up three minutes before the meeting ends to announce that you need to drop for another call.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I'm in a stalemate. I keep finding ways to not attend a tedious meeting, and they keep finding ways to reschedule it. Agh! There's an old engineer (real engineer, like with machines) who showed me the secret of just not attending. It absolutely works most of the time for anything that's not a legal compliance kind of thing. No one actually cares if you attend the time waste meeting or not.
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I decidedly don't want to attend the meeting in 15 minutes, but this one is different in that I have to be there because I'm the one who asked for the thing the meeting is about. It's just that I know dealing with the people I have to justify it to is going to be terrible. Also, 5:30 meetings just suck.
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KillHour posted:
My work is pretty good about those. They try not to schedule them, but because we work over many time zones sometimes you have to. They are happy to let you go home early and set up there for the meeting, which is nice.
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NPR Journalizard posted:My work is pretty good about those. They try not to schedule them, but because we work over many time zones sometimes you have to. They are happy to let you go home early and set up there for the meeting, which is nice. I don't have them too often either, but only because they hate when I bill them for it.
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