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I've been applying for months but no responses. I haven't had "Director" in my job title for years and I'm sure that's hurting my chances 🤷♀️ The CEO and Operations Director have a meeting Tuesday morning to discuss what I told them. I told them I expect an answer by next Friday. I told him the company won't last another 6 months the way we're going. We need to make serious changes now and they need someone with experience and the skillset to make it happen. I'm that person. I also told him that I'm not waiting 6 months. I'm not staying on a sinking ship while the captain plugs his ears and ignores the water pooling around his ankles. We make drastic movement to fixing our problems or I'm not going to be sticking around. We'll see. I'm taking off the rest of the afternoon with a bottle of wine and a bubble bath 
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larchesdanrew posted:We'll see. I'm taking off the rest of the afternoon with a bottle of wine and a bubble bath 
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Jul 8, 2022 20:58
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larchesdanrew posted:We'll see. I'm taking off the rest of the afternoon with a bottle of wine and a bubble bath 
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Jul 8, 2022 21:07
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larchesdanrew posted:We'll see. I'm taking off the rest of the afternoon with a bottle of wine and a bubble bath 
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larchesdanrew posted:I've been applying for months but no responses. I haven't had "Director" in my job title for years and I'm sure that's hurting my chances 🤷♀️ Gatdamn, does top surgery have an option for "insert extra spine" nowadays or something? You are an inspiration especially considering the poo poo you had to go through with the CE and that school position. Amazing to see, I hope you find the rewarding job you so deserve.
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Jul 8, 2022 21:10
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larchesdanrew posted:We'll see. I'm taking off the rest of the afternoon with a bottle of wine and a bubble bath Hell yes.
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Jul 8, 2022 21:11
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Just had a new hire ask for a 2nd laptop because he bikes into work and doesnt want to drag his laptop back and forth.
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Jul 8, 2022 21:15
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sounds like a reasonable request
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Jul 8, 2022 21:20
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I'm gonna give him a stick PC and two monitors, one for home and one for the office. Good to go.
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Jul 8, 2022 21:24
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Just hand him an old Nokia Lumia and let him use Continuum. Way easier to carry around
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Jul 8, 2022 21:28
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GreenNight posted:I'm gonna give him a stick PC and two monitors, one for home and one for the office. Good to go. hows he gonna get that monitor home on his bike tho
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Jul 8, 2022 21:40
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larchesdanrew posted:Just hand him an old Nokia Lumia and let him use Continuum. Way easier to carry around I wanted that to work out so badly
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Jul 8, 2022 21:41
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i am a moron posted:hows he gonna get that monitor home on his bike tho Guess I'll have to Fedex it to him, 3 miles away.
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Jul 8, 2022 21:46
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Same, I wouldn't be fussed about it running any applications but as a decent quality RDP client with RemoteFX support it would be a great option.
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Jul 8, 2022 21:47
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i am a moron posted:hows he gonna get that monitor home on his bike tho GreenNight posted:Guess I'll have to Fedex it to him, 3 miles away. He can utilize his Leather Personnel Carriers.
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Jul 8, 2022 22:29
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GreenNight posted:Guess I'll have to Fedex it to him, 3 miles away. No, you're missing a perfect opportunity to make duct tape straps for the box the monitor comes in. https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Duct-Tape-Backpack Hand it to him and be sure to take a picture of his face.
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Jul 8, 2022 23:03
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larchesdanrew posted:I've been applying for months but no responses. I haven't had "Director" in my job title for years and I'm sure that's hurting my chances 🤷♀️ Honestly? Just take the feedback briefcase and add it to your resume, and add 'working director' to your resume anyway. When people ask, say 'people quit, I got more duties without responsibilities', and I'm interviewing because they -wouldn't make it official, here's my reviews. You don't need tolie on a resume when honesty works better. Like, you already prepared the briefing, its part of your resume from here on out in the same way letters of reference and contacts are.
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I can’t wait to find out exactly how Rogers hosed up and took down a quarter of Canadian internet service yesterday, but they’ve been super tight-lipped about the cause of the outage so far. There was basically no cellular coverage for most of northern Ontario all day yesterday because the main provider is TbayTel who are a Rogers reseller. Entropic fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Jul 9, 2022 |
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Jul 9, 2022 16:45
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I want a story of changes being pushed with no supervision and there not being a permission structure in place to prevent new hires at a junior level from doing the same thing. Give me the messiest situation possible, with a report that leaves people wondering how the network even functioned in the first place.
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Thanks Ants posted:I want a story of changes being pushed with no supervision and there not being a permission structure in place to prevent new hires at a junior level from doing the same thing. Give me the messiest situation possible, with a report that leaves people wondering how the network even functioned in the first place. The published cause will be "A coordinated attack by squirrels fried all the redundant transformers at the same time"
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Jul 9, 2022 16:54
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It's probably DNS
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Renegret posted:It's probably DNS Definitely Nutty Squirrels?
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Dunno-Lars posted:Definitely Nutty Squirrels? Don't kNow, Sorry
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Renegret posted:It's probably DNS
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Jul 10, 2022 02:59
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Arquinsiel posted:I've seen rumblings of BGP and being locked out of their own server rooms. Facebook 2?
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larchesdanrew posted:Don't kNow, Sorry Désolé, No Service, because Canada.
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Canuck-Errant posted:Facebook 2? 
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Bob Morales posted:Home dir sizes: A customer of mine in the gaming industry is looking to spin up a thousand 128-core 1TB ram workstations for graphics rendering. They’ve discovered that copying down artifacts from a central repository to their desktop takes over twelve hours during the initial provisioning, so they’ve said “fuckit” and now have a couple dozen FSx ONTAP instances using snap mirror to create snapshots of a Lun to mount via iSCSI to each desktop. Before we had users with dozens of TB worth of build versions on their home drives. Files. Files everywhere.
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The monthly bill on that 
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Jul 10, 2022 19:31
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If a recruiter ever messages me about a job that is appropriate for my skill level, experience, and pay scale, I'll eat my pants. Just got one asking me if I'd be interested in Tier I helpdesk at a startup for a third of what I make with required relocation across the country that isn't reimbursed. uhhh
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larchesdanrew posted:If a recruiter ever messages me about a job that is appropriate for my skill level, experience, and pay scale, I'll eat my pants. they all seem to think I want to move to texas or florida to pull cable or install desktops. if I want to crawl under someones desk, I can make a whole lot more money than just installing desktops
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Yeah if someone thinks you're going to move into pulling cable then you might as well retrain as a spark and make bank
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I avoid this nonsense by never having made a LinkedIn account. The worst I get is Google occasionally contacting me, and it's not exactly a terrible position, just not one I'm interested in.
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larchesdanrew posted:If a recruiter ever messages me about a job that is appropriate for my skill level, experience, and pay scale, I'll eat my pants. I get that poo poo all the time. They see help desk experience and call it a match. Throwing poo poo at the wall, hoping one sticks. Did get hit up on a promising one. Appropriate level, full time remote, and pay scale is good (really good, actually). Got a second interview this week.
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AlexDeGruven posted:Did get hit up on a promising one. Appropriate level, full time remote, and pay scale is good (really good, actually). Got a second interview this week. Yeah, I got my current gig through a LinkedIn message, but it was an internal recruiter for the company in question, not an external person. I feel like internal recruiter versus external tends to be the difference.
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Spoilered for whining about gender in tech stuff. Prefacing this with reminding you that I'm trans. I found a job opening for an IT Director at a local private school, which is exactly my skillset. I have receipts from my work at the high school that are all very impressive. I redid my resume to be more aesthetically pleasing and sent it along. A couple hours later I got a response that they had just filled the position and best of luck to me. A real shame. But it started eating at me. Why was the job listing still up? LinkedIn only reported one applicant and I haven't seen this job advertised anywhere but their own website, that doesn't even show up when you google "Private Schools in [area]." My natural conclusion was either nepotism or discrimination (my pronouns are in my resume). I submitted my old pre-transition resume with the same info, but just my deadname listed. An hour later they asked when I could come in for an interview. Hilariously crushing, especially coming from a school that specifically touts diversity and inclusiveness in its mission statement and courses. Now I'm starting to wonder if I'm not finding jobs specifically because I'm a woman/trans. I mean, I know that's it, and I knew this was the reality when I decided to publicly transition but oof, it's so demoralizing. Bleh. I just want one solid break. It's been like 10 years of low blow after low blow. Oh well, we keep trucking ever onward.
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Also that sounds legally actionable, but like... way too much loving effort 
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Arquinsiel posted:Also that sounds legally actionable, but like... way too much loving effort Yeah I generally have to seriously weigh the financial burden of upsizing my combo to a large at my one budgeted fast food meal every two weeks. I absolutely don't have the time or money to fight some snotty private school for being bigoted.
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larchesdanrew posted:Yeah I generally have to seriously weigh the financial burden of upsizing my combo to a large at my one budgeted fast food meal every two weeks. Steps you could take without breaking the bank: --Call local employment lawyers and ask for a free consultation. Explain what happened, ask if it's worth pursuing, ask if they take cases pro bono (free) or on contingency (they take part of the winnings), and, importantly, ask what you should do when/if you run into this situation again. --File complaints with the feds and the ACLU https://action.aclu.org/legal-intake/report-lgbtqhiv-discrimination https://www.eeoc.gov/youth/how-file-complaint
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