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Arquinsiel posted:Nthing that the correct response there is to call the cops and turn your boss in too. Solid odds you count as a mandatory reporter in whatever part of the world you occupy. Let me clarify that this was more than 20 years ago and I was 19 and the job was the only thing keeping me in an overpriced apartment instead of back at home. You are, by the way, right about the mandatory reporter bit. EDIT: In other words this Renegret posted:But yeah if boss drops the ball I would say you have an ethical responsibility to report. Though at that point it can be really scary especially if you're young and inexperienced.
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sfwarlock posted:At my second job, little hole in the wall computer shop, I found CP on a customer computer while doing backups for a Windows reinstall. And I'm not saying "She might be 16 might be 20." I'm saying "Holy poo poo, she's ten." I had a similar situation to this happen nearly 20 years ago at my first job. I lasted another three days before I quit. The the shop closed down years ago but I absolutely should have gone to the cops about it.
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sfwarlock posted:Let me clarify that this was more than 20 years ago and I was 19 and the job was the only thing keeping me in an overpriced apartment instead of back at home. I want to make clear that my post was not so much directed at you, but rather intended for other people reading your story who might end up in a similar situation today. Obviously 20 years later, after the damning evidence was handed back to the perpetrator is not gonna yield any results, it would already be a hard case to prove after the owner handed the computer back. I don't think anyone truly faults you for fearing for your livelihood. My main point is, that calling the police and then having to say "Oops sorry, you are right, I should have consulted you before reporting a kiddy fiddler!" to the owner is far easier than going against "You report this, I fire you!". Like I said, no matter the dollar signs in someones eyes, very few people will suffer the face loss of actually saying "You dipshit called the police on A PEDOPHILE? How dare you! That cost me money!".
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Thankfully these days I work infrastructure-level IT at a university, so I'm immensely unlikely to run across anything unless we have a compromise, but I did run into something when I worked at a local ISP and computer store back in the 90's. The owner of the place was on the "it's their computer leave it alone" side of things, and I couldn't really afford to lose the job, but I had to live with myself afterwards so I made an anonymous tip with all the details to the FBI. I don't know what ever came of it. One other time unrelated to anything I ran across some blatant poo poo when browsing for something or other and I filled out the FBI online form about the whole thing. Dunno what came from that either. I'm arguably happier not knowing, honestly.
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Recruiting has to be the most widely ignorant field in the universe.The worst recruiter posted:Hello A Frosty Witch, If you're going to automate your entire process, at least make sure your automation works cause goddamn.
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The opposite end of this happens as well. For reference, my resume is a solid 15 or so years of Android development, no server side work.Unsolicited recruiter email posted:<Volmarias> – I’d love to talk to you about an opportunity at DUMB_STARTUP_NAME - the startup bridging the gap between the decentralized crypto space and traditional financial institutions - allowing people to move between the two in a quick, safe and compliant manner. Me posted:"I think your experience would be extremely relevant" ok but it isn't so Recruiter posted:Hi <Volmarias>,  I'm not going to do your job for you.
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cr*pto companies are INSANELY desperate for development staff right now. even after cr*pto has been crashing. the catches: 1. the words "cryptocurrency" or "blockchain" on a resume are poison. they're looking so hard because cr*pto devs tend to be blithering incompetents, and you will be assumed to be one. 2. they will try to pay you in magic beans wherever possible. 3. they rugpull their staff the same way they rugpull the suckers. block that recruiter every way you possibly can and think of new ones.
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I got one a while back and I just told them they'd be better off trying to hire someone who wouldn't actively work to destroy the company and the entire field. They didn't even bother with the followup pitch.
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I just usually get recruiters trying to hire me for my own job. We're a pretty big team with some really uncommon requirements so finding someone who hits any of the bullet points gives them a huge boost. One day I'm going to get frustrated enough to be an rear end in a top hat to them instead of just ignoring it.
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Renegret posted:I just usually get recruiters trying to hire me for my own job. We're a pretty big team with some really uncommon requirements so finding someone who hits any of the bullet points gives them a huge boost. Press them and see if you can find what the pay range is, and compare to what you currently make. *Reminds me of a story that I think a Goon posted. A member of their sales team cold called a company and offered them a killer deal that would beat the price they were currently paying for the service. Turns out, that company was already a customer of theirs and of course accepted the new terms.
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Hey, a sale's a sale right? Metrics and suchlike.
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Hughmoris posted:Press them and see if you can find what the pay range is, and compare to what you currently make. I'm FTE and the recruiters are always for contracts so it's not really 1:1. No benefits, no insurance, and we treat our contractors like dog poo poo.
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We treat the FTEs like dog poo poo too but that's besides the point
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I think I should get into IT recruiting. It must be nice to be able to be so completely loving awful at a job and still keep it.
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AlexDeGruven posted:I think I should get into IT recruiting. It must be nice to be able to be so completely loving awful at a job and still keep it. The more generalized name of that job description is Human Resources.
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Hughmoris posted:The more generalized name of that job description is Human Resources. I want to retain at least part of my soul, though
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AlexDeGruven posted:I want to retain at least part of my soul, though Like an action figure, it's much more valuable to sell New-In-Box rather than as parts.
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AlexDeGruven posted:I think I should get into IT recruiting. It must be nice to be able to be so completely loving awful at a job and still keep it. So, about that last part...
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About a month ago I was contacted for what was my job a few years ago, printer tech at a hospital. The pitch ended with "what will it take for you to make this move?" I answered with "$100k and an alpaca". The next day one of my former coworkers told me he'd been fired.
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Oyster posted:About a month ago I was contacted for what was my job a few years ago, printer tech at a hospital. The pitch ended with "what will it take for you to make this move?" I answered with "$100k and an alpaca". Post pics of the alpaca
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Oyster posted:About a month ago I was contacted for what was my job a few years ago, printer tech at a hospital. The pitch ended with "what will it take for you to make this move?" I answered with "$100k and an alpaca".
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divabot posted:cr*pto companies are INSANELY desperate for development staff right now. even after cr*pto has been crashing. I received a cold-call for a crypto startup and the rep breathlessly exclaimed that I was a lucky candidate under consideration. When asked what my salary requirement was I told him $500,000 in cash, non-sequential unmarked bills, delivered up front in a green duffel bag. It was critical that the duffel bag was green. He never responded, weirdly.
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Agrikk posted:I received a cold-call for a crypto startup and the rep breathlessly exclaimed that I was a lucky candidate under consideration. When asked what my salary requirement was I told him $500,000 in cash, non-sequential unmarked bills, delivered up front in a green duffel bag. It was critical that the duffel bag was green. So one of those "Remove all green M&Ms" for artists. If the duffel bag is not green, something will be wrong with the bills. Smart!
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That's why you ask for cold hard cash, in amounts too big for it to be viable to pay in coins. When they hand you a big wad of room-temperature notes you just waltz out of there and claim breach of contract.
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I got an offer from a crypto company in the spring because a friend worked there, and the cash offer was stupid high. ~4 months later they've reorged, changed their name, and my friend got a new job Never Do Crypto except as an r/overemployed kind of thing that you don't put on your resume maybe
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Crypto as a second job. Listen to my Ted Talk, it's only $500 a ticket.
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GreenNight posted:Crypto as a second job. Listen to my Ted Talk, it's only $500 a ticket. Do you accept doge?
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$500 in doge so I can sell when it goes up 5% and make that huge $25.
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Renegret posted:I just usually get recruiters trying to hire me for my own job. We're a pretty big team with some really uncommon requirements so finding someone who hits any of the bullet points gives them a huge boost. What happens if you send them a resume with your middle name on it, and go through the motions ? I think there's been a few tall tales of people who see how far they can get, hiring themselves a minion who is also themselves.
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JUST CLEAR YOUR BROWSER CACHE STOP ARGUING WITH ME JUST DO IT, IT'LL FIX YOUR PROBLEM CLEAR YOUR BROWSER CACHE omg i hate users sometimes
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my cat is norris posted:JUST CLEAR YOUR BROWSER CACHE "I did already" the user lies
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my cat is norris posted:JUST CLEAR YOUR BROWSER CACHE If you have intune and you feel petty, you could do a proactive remediation, ran hourly, that kills all the browsers processes and flush the cache until the user replies with a "problem solved".
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RFC2324 posted:"I did already" the user lies “I rebooted twice today already. “ “Did ya now.” As task manager shows 24 days uptime. Best trick I came up with for getting stubborn users to do what I want is to take a moment to 
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I've had to educate users that rebooting does not mean closing the laptop lid and immediately reopening it. Gotta admit though, sometimes I wish it was!
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We had this fun issue that it took me a long time to figure out. Microsoft has been pushing down BIOS updates for HP laptops. One specific model laptop will blue screen after this happens. It took ages of Google and research to find the HP article mentioning that this happens if you do not update the audio driver before you apply the BIOS update. Yay. The fix - 1. Revert the BIOS to older version 2. Login to Windows and manually install the new audio driver 3. Go back to the BIOS and update back to latest 4. Now this fucks up all docking stations. The fix? a. Shut the laptop down. Unplug the dock b. Hold the power button + F6 to do something???? For 30 seconds c. Now the dock works again. Bunch of poo poo.
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my cat is norris posted:JUST CLEAR YOUR BROWSER CACHE Have them use Private or Incognito Mode, depending on the browser. That proves it's either a cache issue, or a browser extension, usually. GreenNight posted:We had this fun issue that it took me a long time to figure out. Why is Microsoft pushing HP BIOS updates? That's a thing I never want to happen.
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Darchangel posted:Why is Microsoft pushing HP BIOS updates? That's a thing I never want to happen. The first thing I did was edit a GPO to disable drivers being installed via Windows Update. I think they're doing it for Windows 11 compatibility.
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