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We just hired a couple new programmers, and one is a woman! This is literally the first time in my career that I've worked with a lady code monkey. She's a junior but learning pretty fast. 👍
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Can you show up to the interview with the different name and when they call you by the different name, correct them and say actually it's _____ I did that for the first nine or so out of fourteen interviews I did between my last job and this one. I only started getting calls back for a second round after I stopped asking for this, and especially answering honestly when asked why I wanted this 
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Oct 7, 2022 14:06
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I’m starting to ask in every interview if they have a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement they could send me, because I couldn’t find one on your website? Their move.
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devmd01 posted:I’m starting to ask in every interview if they have a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement they could send me, because I couldn’t find one on your website? Oh nice. I've definitely applied for a few places because of their highly visible diversity stance, but I never thought to turn it around and ask for their diversity statements if it wasn't there.
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Oct 7, 2022 16:23
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I remember back in like 1999 when I was first interviewing out of college and they asked if I had any questions, I asked about domestic partner benefits. Not because I had any pressing reason to care, but to see how they'd react. The power dynamic in dotcom-boom-land was quite a bit different than this, but I know "if they flip out I wouldn't want to work for them anyway" figured into my thought process
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Oct 7, 2022 16:28
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devmd01 posted:I’m starting to ask in every interview if they have a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement they could send me, because I couldn’t find one on your website? quote:Cock Punchers Ltd. has a strong commitment towards diversity, equity and inclusion. None of what we say is actually true, but it makes a great snippet to pass around. Did you know that one of our VPs is a minority? That's right, our COO Deepak passes well enough with us that he can be our token person of color to show how not racist we are. We also have a woman, too, I think? Or did she quit? I forget. We had the black lady from HR become our chief of Diversity. We don't actually do anything that she suggests, but it shows that we care about different, diverse voices in our community of upper class jagoffs. I would not look at their Diversity Commitment Declaration or whatever the gently caress, I would look at how many people who do not look like me are actually there, along with what Glassdoor and the community at large says.
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Oct 8, 2022 20:52
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Yeah. For larger companies a quick linkedin search will give you a reasonable snapshot of the company demographics. Bunch of white guys that all went to the same uni is a big red flag
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Oct 8, 2022 20:57
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Resurrecting the thread a bit to say that my team has started to add this into our job postings and I think its great:quote:Please Keep Reading... The last person we hired was a woman so now there are two of us out of a team of 12. 
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Oct 31, 2022 15:18
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You love to see it 💕 Which gives me an opportunity to update on my job search! There is none. Not a single interview. No callbacks. According to LinkedIn, no one is even looking at my applications. Just gonna start going door to door in the business district with a sandwich board that says "will project manage 4 food"
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Oct 31, 2022 15:23
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A Frosty Witch posted:You love to see it 💕 I seem to be having decent enough luck dealing with recruiters, tho I am willing to do contract to hire at a telco for that 6 figgies. Got a 2nd interview coming up this week at charter, and they are hiring sr engineers and devops like crazy right now.
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Oct 31, 2022 17:23
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A Frosty Witch posted:You love to see it 💕 I had this problem when I was looking for a new job a few years ago. Just silence from open positions that'd I'd be perfect for. Nothing for weeks. You might be doing this already, but what I found moved the needle for me was to get one of those semantic tools where you put in your resume and the position description and it creates a matching score (like Jobscan). you can then tweak your resume to increase that score by including words/rewriting to the PD. Its total BS that you have to do this, but in the modern HR environment your resume doesn't get seen by a human until it gets through an automated system like this. I re-wrote every resume I sent out using this and it did improve my hit rate.
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Bone Crimes posted:I had this problem when I was looking for a new job a few years ago. Just silence from open positions that'd I'd be perfect for. Nothing for weeks. Pretty sure Frosty Witch mentioned that they got a ton of responses when they sent out resumes with their dead name, so, yeah. Less a resume issue and more a "stuck in the south for family reasons" issue.
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Oct 31, 2022 18:08
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Fun fact: I'm in Denver now. The world is universally lovely
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Volmarias posted:Pretty sure Frosty Witch mentioned that they got a ton of responses when they sent out resumes with their dead name, so, yeah. Less a resume issue and more a "stuck in the south for family reasons" issue. what does dead name mean here?
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wargames posted:what does dead name mean here? The name I went by prior to transitioning and changing my legal name.
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Oct 31, 2022 18:46
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Volmarias posted:Pretty sure Frosty Witch mentioned that they got a ton of responses when they sent out resumes with their dead name, so, yeah. Less a resume issue and more a "stuck in the south for family reasons" issue. Ah, well, that's not the same problem at all! That's really lovely. Sorry.
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Oct 31, 2022 19:11
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I'm 190 applications into my job search. I've had interviews with seven companies, two of which got to the second interview and one that got to the third. No job tho.
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Oct 31, 2022 19:21
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I'm trying to get out of calibrating and into IT for the second time by getting some kind of network admin job with a CCNA and 85% of a degree. I'm considering taking a commute from Fort Collins to Denver if I need to. I just want out of calibrating poo poo
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There's no way that a FoCo-Denver commute is better than your current gig
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Right now it's Fort Collins to Boulder so you're right, it would be slightly worse. Alternatively I could ride out my position until I get my degree done and do an internal transfer when an opportunity shows up, but that's 7+ months away.
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Finish that degree.
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Wibla posted:Finish that degree.
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Anyone else get unreasonably exciting when they get to close the oldest ticket in the queue? No? Just me? I'm a gigantic weirdo?
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Renegret posted:Anyone else get unreasonably exciting when they get to close the oldest ticket in the queue? No, I am looking forward to closing the one I have from March that is actually a recreation of a previous case that was opened last November.
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I have a tech onsite deploying computers for a new client. This client is a new build, so most of this onboarding has been dealing with construction. We recommended a licensed low-voltage vendor in the area and the client declined, saying they already had a guy. By the time I was brought in for onboarding, the cabling had already been run, with the vendor coming out later to terminate lines once construction was almost finished. I requested that I be contacted and kept in the loop on when the vendor would be back out so I could work with him and make sure things were done correctly. Cabling guy comes out and does his work and I find out a week later. Thanks, ya'll. Our guy gets onsite and finds this:  haha. ha. eeergh. All the cables are Cat5e, just fyi. And 6 of the drops just don't work. I called the wiring guy to ask wtf. I inform him this has to be properly terminated with a patch panel and all lines labelled. I also asked him why he used Cat5e when the standard is at least Cat6.  "That's what they had at HomeDepot."Uh....... I ask the client who tf this guy is, and he finally lets me know HE'S THE HUSBAND OF ONE OF THEIR NURSES. He's not a licensed low-voltage vendor at all. Just some dude. Guaranteed none of what he did is up to code. Anyways, I get the guy to come out and fix everything because it's the least he could do. We find that he didn't do one of the drops he was supposed to and ask him to get that installed today. "Oh that'll be quite the ordeal. I won't be able to get that done for weeks."Tech onsite: "I found this. Can I just use this?"  
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tale as old as time~~~
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Renegret posted:Anyone else get unreasonably exciting when they get to close the oldest ticket in the queue? Yeah I kinda get a kick out of seeing low-number tickets finally pop up in sprint planning, 3+ years after they were created. I always imagine some greybeard pharmacist ordering new meds and going "oh hey, they finally fixed that one thing!
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Zil posted:No, I am looking forward to closing the one I have from March that is actually a recreation of a previous case that was opened last November. This one was a thorn. It was only from mid August but our tickets tend to be very short lived and I get cranky when one takes more than a week. We had a very slow moving back and forth with TAC for an issue that we couldn't ignore because it caused an outage when it happened. They wanted some on-site testing but it was a remote site in the boonies and nobody wanted to go there during an overnight maintenance window just to run some tests. I had to trick someone into handling it by pulling an "oh by the way" when he was going out there for something else. I didn't even read the RCA. Saw the "this is fixed in version-" DON'T CARE CLOSING TICKET OK THANKS BYE
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A Frosty Witch posted:Tech onsite: "I found this. Can I just use this?" 
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Witch, I hate that this keeps happening to you and I'm sorry, but it sure does make for entertaining reading.
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Shes a great storyteller
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I remember using one of those things for phone line connections 20 years ago. It wasn't good then, I cannot imagine it's gotten much better.
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Volmarias posted:I remember using one of those things for phone line connections 20 years ago. It wasn't good then, I cannot imagine it's gotten much better. I am using one to connect my downstairs TV, works without issue. Using one in professional networking environment? Ehhhhhhhh.
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our imaging guy, whom everyone suspects of having a second job because he's almost never in the office, is sure as poo poo in the office tonight to meet tomorrow's deadline for having completed the new image for our public pcs. i was wondering how that was going to go because i kept checking to see whether he had picked up the test machine i left on his desk and as of this morning he had not. currently it is 7:43 pm and he is thumping his keyboard and muttering "i hate this fuckin poo poo"
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Weedle posted:our imaging guy, whom everyone suspects of having a second job because he's almost never in the office, is sure as poo poo in the office tonight to meet tomorrow's deadline for having completed the new image for our public pcs. i was wondering how that was going to go because i kept checking to see whether he had picked up the test machine i left on his desk and as of this morning he had not. currently it is 7:43 pm and he is thumping his keyboard and muttering "i hate this fuckin poo poo" If you fire him, I can do his job.
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Y'all don't wanna hire me. If I've learned one immutable truth, it's that every business I join inevitably turns into a circus and sinking ship at the same time, leading to hilarious antics to share online while the business goes bankrupt and I'm getting assured I'm doing a great job the entire time.RFC2324 posted:Shes a great storyteller Aww 
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Renegret posted:Anyone else get unreasonably exciting when they get to close the oldest ticket in the queue? No, there is something oddly satisfying about it.
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