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jaegerx posted:This thread is so depressing. You get paid very well to sit at a desk. It could be worse. Lots worse. Wow, no poo poo? Thanks for the astute observation.
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Vulture Culture posted:For what it's worth, I've spun up 10,000 cores (the maximum you can enter in the quota increase form) in East US at once with no unexpected side effects Interesting. Was it one of the popular regions? This was for eu-central-1 and our TAM was hitting the "oh poo poo" button about making sure they got provisioning there for the instance classes we need before our deploy date.
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Virigoth posted:Interesting. Was it one of the popular regions? This was for eu-central-1 and our TAM was hitting the "oh poo poo" button about making sure they got provisioning there for the instance classes we need before our deploy date. east-us is insanely big.
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Internet Explorer posted:Wow, no poo poo? Thanks for the astute observation. Lol you having fun at your management job with no tech skills? You’re so cute. I love you the most.
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Jan 25, 2018 02:23
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Methanar posted:east-us is insanely big. That's what I figured it was. We've never had capacity issues there but in some of the smaller regions we have before which is why the TAMs wanted us to contact them for expansion.
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Jan 25, 2018 02:26
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jaegerx posted:Lol you having fun at your management job with no tech skills? You’re so cute. I love you the most. You about to melt for again?
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Sickening posted:You about to melt for again? Nah I just find it funny that internet explorer tries to rag on me and he’s a manager of nothing and no actual accomplishments he can rely on besides managing nothing.
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Jan 25, 2018 02:27
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jaegerx posted:This thread is so depressing. You get paid very well to sit at a desk. It could be worse. Lots worse. Sometimes I wonder how much simpler my life would be if just threw all of my computers onto the highway and just made pizzas instead.
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I’m sure he’s a good guy at heart but he’s basically worthless to this thread. Don’t end up like internet explorer people. You don’t want that life.
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jaegerx posted:Lol you having fun at your management job with no tech skills? You’re so cute. I love you the most. What part of "I'm bored of my skillset" is hard to understand? I'd feel comfortable walking into any size environment with Microsoft stack and/or VDI/RDS, from the Windows side of things, from the storage side of things, or from the virtualization side of things. Just because I was recently talking about managing topics doesn't mean I'm non-technical. Your ignorance is showing.
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Internet Explorer posted:What part of "I'm bored of my skillset" is hard to understand? I'd feel comfortable walking into any size environment with Microsoft stack and/or VDI/RDS, from the Windows side of things, from the storage side of things, or from the virtualization side of things. And yet you don’t
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Jan 25, 2018 02:31
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jaegerx posted:I’m sure he’s a good guy at heart but he’s basically worthless to this thread. Don’t end up like internet explorer people. You don’t want that life. Hahaha. Hold a grudge much? I'm sorry I made fun of you for working at IBM. Honestly, you remind me a lot of Dilbert.
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jaegerx posted:And yet you don’t Don't what? Walk into a bigger environment? I have 0 interest to.
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jaegerx posted:I’m sure he’s a good guy at heart but he’s basically worthless to this thread. Don’t end up like internet explorer people. You don’t want that life. Hey you're being a piece of poo poo And I'm not saying that in a fun wink wink kinda way.
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Internet Explorer posted:Hahaha. Hold a grudge much? Where’ve you worked again? I’m sure I can google the weird msp in bumfuck Idaho
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jaegerx posted:Where’ve you worked again? I’m sure I can google the weird msp in bumfuck Idaho I spent a very small portion of my career at an MSP and I've never stepped foot in Idaho. Try again. Back on the ignore list for you.
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Internet Explorer posted:I spent a very small portion of my career at an MSP and I've never stepped foot in Idaho. Try again. Dude just don't. Everybody knows jeagerx can be a catty baby sometimes, you don't have to follow suit.
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So I had an interview with a manufacturing company today. Bunch of electrical and mechanical engineers, thought they could get away with doing their own IT for the last ten years. They are the definition of technical debt. They custom built their own CRM database. They built their own front-end file explorer because they didn't know how to properly use active directory security groups. They just bought new servers that are self-designed whiteboxes, and they can't use them because nobody knows how to upgrade vsphere from 4 to 6. I politely told them to call an MSP and pray because I could not take the job for less than a massive six figure salary. It's going to take years to undo their pile of terrible.
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Can I get some recommendations for kicking PowerShell scripting up a notch? Maybe some recommendations on best practice in TYOOL2018. Also what does everyone use as a reference? I'm not sure if it's just my perspective but I find the MSFT docs way less useful than the MDN is for JavaScript.
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Jan 25, 2018 02:41
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Cirofren posted:Can I get some recommendations for kicking PowerShell scripting up a notch? Maybe some recommendations on best practice in TYOOL2018. Powershell in a month of lunches
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Judge Schnoopy posted:They custom built their own CRM database. They built their own front-end file explorer because they didn't know how to properly use active directory security groups. They just bought new servers that are self-designed whiteboxes, and they can't use them because nobody knows how to upgrade vsphere from 4 to 6. What? I find the ribbon bar annoying, LETS WRITE OUR OWN OPERATING SYSTEM! Budget please!
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Signed the paperwork for a promotion yesterday. Dropping the associate tag, now just a windows sys admin, ~13% raise (still being way underpaid). I asked for a promotion almost 3 months ago, loving management was going to wait until my 1 yr mark in the role which is arbitrary. I had to push the issue with the senior manager (I have a supervisor, manager below that). Ruffled some feathers but I used our open door policy with the Director who was giving me advice on how to handle the issue and who said he was willing to step in if the right thing was done. Def going to be jumping ship within a year or atleast to another department, can't stand my management, I used to work for the gov in another line of work where "time in grade" was a thing. But this isn't the government and arbitrary time in role can get hosed.
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jaegerx posted:This thread is so depressing. You get paid very well to sit at a desk. It could be worse. Lots worse. You can still be miserable sitting at a desk. Nobody here is saying the literally have it worse than line workers or whatever, but it's still loving lovely to feel like you're trapped in a hellish job.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:They built their own front-end file explorer because they didn't know how to properly use active directory security groups. My eyes got really big at the first part. Then somehow you managed to get them even bigger. I actually love spearheading insane cleanup like this. I’ve never encountered anything as severe as custom file browsers as a workaround but I just want to spend a week observing and another week writing a report on that environment. This would be an amazing job... if the staff understood that they need help, and had at least some shade of a budget to accomplish the remediation
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jaegerx posted:he’s a manager of nothing and no actual accomplishments he can rely on besides managing nothing.  Missing: 5 direct reports. If found please return to Stripe c/o Dignity, PO Box 31933 I do want to start contributing more but to be honest I've just kinda spent my entire post career shooting the breeze. I lurk the tech threads and have a pretty good collection of links and insights copied into OneNote, but I always don't feel like I need to try to win the race to answer a question that 4 other people are going to answer, so I probably seem a bit aloof. MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Jan 25, 2018 |
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The Fool posted:Powershell in a month of lunches Thanks. I've seen this mentioned elsewhere so with this recommendation as well I should probably pick it up.
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Aunt Beth posted:My eyes got really big at the first part. Then somehow you managed to get them even bigger. I actually love spearheading insane cleanup like this. I’ve never encountered anything as severe as custom file browsers as a workaround but I just want to spend a week observing and another week writing a report on that environment. This would be an amazing job... if the staff understood that they need help, and had at least some shade of a budget to accomplish the remediation The biggest problem is that they don't understand how bad their environment is. They think their file browser is awesome because they stopped people from accidentally deleting 10 year old files or dropping them into the wrong folder. They want the new IT guy to adopt it and make it better. They are super proud of their whitebox server nodes because they were 1/5 the cost of Dell servers. They're sitting on a shelf, completely unused. The shelf unit has three giant racks with servers and SANs stacked up. I asked if they were planning on getting a server cabinet and they said nah, the current setup has better ventilation. A simple bump into the corner of the shelf would shake the SANs enough that drives would likely die. Their firewall is a Ubiquiti edgerouter. When asked if they were willing to upgrade to proper Cisco gear, they said I would have to justify it by providing marked network performance improvement. I seriously wish these guys well, they all seemed really cool and happy to work there, but they need an IT jesus. What they claim to want is a half-IT guy half-C++ coding guy, because they don't think their IT work is a full-time job.
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Oh good lord. Nooooooope.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:The biggest problem is that they don't understand how bad their environment is. They think their file browser is awesome because they stopped people from accidentally deleting 10 year old files or dropping them into the wrong folder. They want the new IT guy to adopt it and make it better. I know that smell. It smells like "spiceworks mvp".
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Cirofren posted:Thanks. I've seen this mentioned elsewhere so with this recommendation as well I should probably pick it up. More tips now that I’m not in a hurry: Don’t be afraid to ask questions, this thread ( https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3286440&perpage=40&pagenumber=60 ) and r/powershell are both good resources. Look around your environment for small repetitive tasks. Make them easier with powershell, then automate them, then move on to larger tasks, repeat forever. Learn git. Sooner rather than later it’ll make your life easier. After you’re comfortable with git, start looking at cd/ci and associates practices. Making a change to a script, pushing it to your git repository, then having it automatically test and deploy to your server is a damned good feeling.
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Sickening posted:I know that smell. It smells like "spiceworks mvp". Where's Scott Alan Miller when you need him?
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Maintenance window! It's 11:04 and we're all still here in the office just trying to loving download windows patches. We've been at it since 6 and the patches were supposed to have downloaded by noon today. what the gently caress is happening  Has anyone tried Old Forester whisky? Shits fire yo, and fukkin cheap at <$20/bottle
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Maintenance window! How are you getting the patches on the servers? SCCM?
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jaegerx posted:This thread is so depressing. You get paid very well to sit at a desk. It could be worse. Lots worse.
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I’m 26 and making $2k less than the median household income in my town. Not even joking I feel a little bit guilty because of how much better I’m doing than the rest of the burnouts I used to hang out with.
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I got a little scared today half way through my private bus ride home because I had decided to not go to the bathroom before leaving. But I didn't poop myself today. So yeah, I'm worth the money. Thank you very much.
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Yeah, as much as I complain it's worlds better than the last couple jobs I had before getting into IT. Like as a bouncer where I saw coworkers get shot and stabbed*; then the management decided we all needed protective vests, the costs deducted from our pay. Or working as a gas station attendant, where I got robbed working solo on the graveyard shift. At least that kind of poo poo wont happen here. *they lived
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