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nothing like a 3.5 hour outage starting at 3am to begin the day! Thundering herds and applications that aren’t aware of distributed reads will be the death of me I swear.
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I’m so happy I haven’t beem on call since 2018ish. Might consider it for FAANG levels of compensation but otherwise gently caress that poo poo.
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Apr 24, 2024 13:56
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Hopefully this doesnt affect anyone here but still
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Apr 24, 2024 13:57
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Also FTC ruled that non-competes are illegal for salaries under ~150k. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes
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Apr 24, 2024 15:04
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I wonder how many Biden has left in the chamber this year. I know student loan debt forgiveness is supposedly happening again.
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Vargatron posted:I wonder how many Biden has left in the chamber this year. I know student loan debt forgiveness is supposedly happening again.
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Apr 24, 2024 15:31
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Two weeks til associates degree. Cant wait to job search alongside the esteemed "Renamed Administrator to Amidnistrator because its friggin hilarious!" guy who totally hosed up his AD/GPO schema due to stupid twee poo poo and "Excuse me, can you help me? I dont remember my Admin password" lady.
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Internet Explorer posted:Also FTC ruled that non-competes are illegal for salaries under ~150k. Better than that. 150k and a position of policy making. Also, even for those employees that meet the criteria, only existing non-competes are valid when the rule goes into effect. No new non-compete agreements after the effective date for anyone.
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Apr 24, 2024 16:09
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Dandywalken posted:Two weeks til associates degree. Cant wait to job search alongside the esteemed "Renamed Administrator to Amidnistrator because its friggin hilarious!" guy who totally hosed up his AD/GPO schema due to stupid twee poo poo and "Excuse me, can you help me? I dont remember my Admin password" lady. You've saved like $60k+ and have a more useful degree if you're going into deskside support or sysadmin work. Congrats on the associates.
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Apr 24, 2024 16:11
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Cyks posted:Better than that. Oh snap, I somehow missed that. Nice! Thanks for the correction.
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So the new job is going miserably to the point that I'm literally considering moving to a different city / bigger metro. For the people coming in late, last month I left a stable but stagnant Jr sysadmin (and previously help desk lead of three years with the same company) to move to the non-profit space. I wanted to do some unalloyed good in the world and for my sins they let me. It was in-theory suppose to be a 3 man department with the director, me as network Admin, and a helpdesk person, but I found out in my first day they fired the helpdesk person and I'm covering the function while they work on hiring a new person. It's been a month and we've not even reviewed resumes, let alone started seeing about interviews. My boss is stuck in 2005 and utterly terrified of anything new or different than how he does things, and quite frankly how he does things sucks. He has a hard rule that all software requests, even free / open source ones, have to go through him for approval and he's stonewalled literally everything I've asked for. Up to and including first party Microsoft software. My request for Visual Studio Code was met with the literal response "Why would you need to code? Can't you just use Dreamweaver?". He claims to be coming from a place of security, yet when I bring up actual security concerns (like all the passwords that live on sticky notes) he blows me off as something they can't do anything about, when I've been proposing solutions (Keepass xc to at least get it in a closed, encrypted store? See also software stonewalling) I brow beat him into letting me spin up a box with ITFlow as a open source, on-prem ITGlue replacement, and all he's done since I got it up and running was complain about having to support a Linux box and make me install PHPMyAdmin on it so he could have direct database access (which again, I butted heads against him with, why spin up another web service on the box when you could just use a DB client like DBeaver or Beekeeper?) and then means to security test the poo poo out of it so he can deny it and go back to his paper records. It's not even a company culture thing. We have a sister company in the same building with separate IT staff, and the manager of that will make digs about the paper record keeping and general anachronism my boss has. When he talks about what they use on the other side of the building it almost immediately overlaps with software and processes that are in my wheelhouse and I've been actively asking for. I've been back to looking in indeed for positions, but there's not gently caress around for jobs in Wichita. It may be time to start looking at moving, and I've been trying to figure out where I want to be. The quick and easy options would be either Kansas City or Omaha, but even as far out as Denver or Chicago wouldn't necessarily be awful. I've got some questions for people who've relocated, but it's probably better for the job finding thread. DeathSandwich fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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Apr 24, 2024 16:42
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Get out of Kansas whatever you do. I suggest Houston because Houston is cool and good.
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Houston is only cool until you have the misfortune of stepping outside. Chicago is a good place to earn a living but a bad place to live.. unless your idea of leisure is getting piss drunk there is fuckall to do outside your home. Climate change has had an overall positive impact on the area though, winters are much more mild and summers aren't as oppressively muggy as they used to be. Denver is pretty great from an outdoors perspective but cost of living is pretty hosed up, it's near the top for the country.
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Houston is okay but it's still Texas which with a lot of good and a lot of bad. I'm also getting into the bind where it's looking like I am going to have to re-locate. It really, really sucks but I can't seem to pick up anything in California or Vegas. I don't know what it is but Phoenix, Dallas, New Jersey and Atlanta are pretty hot markets with recruiters harassing me but I'm a West Coast person.... so 
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George H.W. oval office posted:Get out of Kansas whatever you do. I suggest Houston because Houston is cool and good. I extremely do not want to go to a state higher on the CHUD-O-METER than Kansas if I can help it. I get that the Texas metros trend to be pretty reasonable but it's already bad enough as is without going to a state that is off the federal power grid so the power company can jack up your power rates the moment frost shows up. I'd also rather avoid the super huge metros like NY or LA because I don't think I could deal with the density or the cost long term. The easy options are KC or Omaha, the medium options are Denver or Colorado Springs, hard options are like Phoenix and Chicago and Atlanta. Chaos option is like Cleveland or Pittsburg. The nice thing is that I'm a traveling swing dancer and I've been to big national events and have a built in social group wherever I go at least. Edit: xzzy posted:
Shockingly enough, I know the swing dance scene there is really, really strong and I know a couple of the scene leaders there, so there's actually more there for me than you'd think. DeathSandwich fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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DeathSandwich posted:Kansas City hit me up
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That sort of job is one where if you aren't careful you accidentally stick around for a couple of years and become completely worthless to employers who aren't living in the early 2000s
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Thanks Ants posted:That sort of job is one where if you aren't careful you accidentally stick around for a couple of years and become completely worthless to employers who aren't living in the early 2000s Oh gently caress Is it a pheromone thing? Should I roll around in a big pile of docker containers to blend in?
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DeathSandwich posted:I extremely do not want to go to a state higher on the CHUD-O-METER than Kansas if I can help it. I get that the Texas metros trend to be pretty reasonable but it's already bad enough as is without going to a state that is off the federal power grid so the power company can jack up your power rates the moment frost shows up. I'd also rather avoid the super huge metros like NY or LA because I don't think I could deal with the density or the cost long term.
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tokin opposition posted:Oh gently caress It would have to be kubernetes pods but yes
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Hotel Kpro posted:We moved to northeast of Denver, it's not bad, houses are lol but not lmao expensive. I'm mostly here for the hiking. Have you considered Minneapolis? Cheaper than CO, great for drinking, winters can be rough though
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My wife and I moved from Florida to Colorado about 10 years ago and it was probably the best decision we've ever made.
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Good call since a lot of Florida is probably going to be under water within a few decades.
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xzzy posted:Chicago is a good place to earn a living but a bad place to live.. unless your idea of leisure is getting piss drunk there is fuckall to do outside your home. Climate change has had an overall positive impact on the area though, winters are much more mild and summers aren't as oppressively muggy as they used to be. what? This is possibly one of the most insane things I have read in this thread. Like, dead of winter when we have unreasonable cold and with wind chill it's -20 and below? Yes, otherwise lol this statement is absolutely bonkers and I am pretty sure you've never been or lived in Chicago.
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MF_James posted:what? This is possibly one of the most insane things I have read in this thread. Yeah those three days of POLAR VORTEX sure are a hardship. Ponds don't even freeze thick enough to skate on anymore. It ain't nothing like it was 20 years ago where it would be subzero every other week with a foot of snow blowing around.
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xzzy posted:Yeah those three days of POLAR VORTEX sure are a hardship. Ponds don't even freeze thick enough to skate on anymore. I am even more confused now, do you only like winter and what goes along with it and that's why there's nothing to do in Chicago? I wasn't saying it was a hardship, just that you don't go outside during that time, because it sucks.
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Nope, the only point I was trying to make is that winters in Chicago aren't anywhere near as harsh as they used to be. That's generally a good thing (though I do love snow). As for having nothing to do, there's very limited natural areas. Lots of bike paths sure but you gotta drive 4+ hours to get to a proper campground in a dense forest. Most of the recreation is indoors.
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xzzy posted:Nope, the only point I was trying to make is that winters in Chicago aren't anywhere near as harsh as they used to be. That's generally a good thing (though I do love snow).
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xzzy posted:Nope, the only point I was trying to make is that winters in Chicago aren't anywhere near as harsh as they used to be. That's generally a good thing (though I do love snow). Are your ideas of "something to do" limited to drinking or camping? Like live shows/theaters, music venues all over hell, parks, paths, and beaches, street festivals, museums and related, those just don't count?
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I guess citrix really pissed off epic since they're offering free assistance getting off of citrix lol. Of course they have no ulterior motives of their own surely
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LMAO I never thought "Chicago is a sleepy town with not much to do" would be the most insane take I ever read on these forums but here we are. It's probably true that if your idea of leisure is nature stuff far from civilization then yeah, but there's lots more ways for people to entertain themselves. Re: skill atrophy, I was really worried that would happen at my last job, that I'd stay too long and get too good, building skills that are only relevant in that environment. Thankfully I got a years notice that I was getting fired, and which gave me plenty of time to find my next role. Completely lucked into a position where I knew almost none of the tech stack, but they liked my vibes and hired me anyways. Now I'm killing it, and it turns out the most important skill I ever possessed was being able to figure out something completely new and alien in record time.
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The Chad Jihad posted:I guess citrix really pissed off epic since they're offering free assistance getting off of citrix lol. Of course they have no ulterior motives of their own surely I'm so glad when we migrated from Cerner to Epic we ditched our huge citrix farm, it was nothing but headaches. Horizon is so much nicer.
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It feels like once you've been in IT long enough you know enough to figure anything out given enough time. Except for regex. gently caress that poo poo.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:It feels like once you've been in IT long enough you know enough to figure anything out given enough time. The biggest single skill I learned in my decade + of a working IT is search engine aggregation. I always joke if someone is describing me a problem on the phone and I say 'hmm interesting' that's code that I'm buying time as I punch it into Google / duckduckgo. If it's a task I do once every other year (hi, Cisco phone certs), I have to look it up every time because I will forget. It's a reason why when I'm involved in hiring and interviewing I ask almost 0 "name that powershell command" questions and stick to personality and critical thinking questions. You can train someone how to do technical things easily. You cannot easily train someone out of being an rear end in a top hat.
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DeathSandwich posted:The biggest single skill I learned in my decade + of a working IT is search engine aggregation. I always joke if someone is describing me a problem on the phone and I say 'hmm interesting' that's code that I'm buying time as I punch it into Google / duckduckgo. If it's a task I do once every other year (hi, Cisco phone certs), I have to look it up every time because I will forget. I wish I could put in fancy sounding words on my resume how good I am at finding poo poo on google.
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"Senior search analyst" sounds way more marketable than "I can add reddit or 'stack overflow' to my searches".
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DeathSandwich posted:The biggest single skill I learned in my decade + of a working IT is search engine aggregation. I always joke if someone is describing me a problem on the phone and I say 'hmm interesting' that's code that I'm buying time as I punch it into Google / duckduckgo. If it's a task I do once every other year (hi, Cisco phone certs), I have to look it up every time because I will forget. Being able to find the information you need is, to me at least, so much more valuable than knowing a bunch of things. At the call centre for example, we had an extensive knowledge base of procedures, troubleshooting articles, and so on (some of them being internal versions of the public support articles), and what differentiated a good advisor from a mediocre one was being able to research, to find the right thing. Especially true since these could change (with a heads-up for important changes, it wasn't like, loving us over), so what you "know" from Friday might be obsolete on Monday. Within this week I've been able to solve a few problems by just messing around with things and some educated guess Google searches. An Excel macro wouldn't work cause of an intoned letter in the file path, but it worked for someone else (with the same intoned letter). Educated guess, probably something about the letter. Can't paste it into the macro, so probably a region setting. Yup, working one had a diff. region, changed region, able to do it no problem. Or someone extracting some text from some cells in Excel. Looked up Excel functions, found TEXTBEFORE/TEXTAFTER, there you go.
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So this might be a weird question but can anyone recommend a headset for use in a data center? I have to travel to our data center soon and it is LOUD. I basically have 2 requirements: - Needs to be really good at noise cancelling. The Corsair headset I've been using just isn't really cutting it. - I'm going to be on the phone a lot with my NOC and with Cisco etc. So it needs Bluetooth voice capabilities and ideally also wired but I can live without that. It would be even better if it doesn't completely break the bank too. Anyone have any recommendations? Charliegrs fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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