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Sickening posted:PPM's are going the way of the CISSP professional. Happens every year when something like this comes out. http://www.globalknowledge.com/training/generic.asp?pageid=3158&country=United+States People see dollar signs, chase a cert, get the cert and hope to cash in. Like you said, a couple years ago it was the CISSP, then the VCP, now the PMP.
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blackswordca posted:Ive been out of big corporate for a while, is Six Sigma still a thing or has that been relegated to the bin as well? My current understanding is Six Sigma has value to Six Sigma organizations, but not really anywhere else. The concepts can transfer over though...
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I'm sure it's heavily influenced by high cost of living areas and and Gov contractors needing clearance but I don't think it's that far off. 70K for a VCP with an experienced resume is a loving joke though. Here in Texas a guy with 7+ years and a VCP should be pulling in 85 to 90 base salary. The MCSE pay rate is a joke, I don't know any strict Windows guy pulling in that kind of coin.
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Aug 14, 2013 19:35
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DragonReach posted:Now you do, I actually know a lot of Windows guys pulling in that or better. Doing what? I've worked with a few PFE's the last few years and once my kids are older I think I would definitely enjoy something like that. Going from company to company working on a specific project and then moving on to the next one. Seems like it would keep you interested, something new every week or two.
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Aug 14, 2013 20:10
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How's the compensation work? Are you just a flat salary, or do you need to bill your 40 hours against clients each week? I've worked directly with 2 PFE's in the last few years, one guy for SCCM was onsite at least 8 hours a day and really wanted to make sure we got all the time we were paying for, the other guy working on our AD Upgrade project was less interested in time and more making sure we got what we needed from him. I was fine with it, but he was maybe engaged with us 6 hours a day with a 90 minute lunch. If he was booking his hours against us that might have been a rough weekly paycheck for maybe 20 hours of actual time. If I'm prying, just say so, just curious.
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Aug 14, 2013 20:16
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What's your deployment look like? We hardly ever have issues like that.
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Aug 15, 2013 20:07
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Comradephate posted:This thread moves so fast I always feel like I'm replying to things that happened a million years ago. You don't do like a monthly backup that gets sent offsite for DR purposes? This policy seems odd to me. We have lots of data that might only get used on a monthly or just a few times a year that still needs to be backed up and kept around.
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Aug 16, 2013 06:44
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I blame poo poo on "The Cloud" all the time. No one ever questions it.
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Aug 16, 2013 17:56
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At least he isn't asking for an iPad
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Aug 16, 2013 18:00
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bobua posted:The difficulty of solving an IT problem is directly proportional to the number of browser tabs you have open. "Problem solved..." *closes 173 chrome tabs* This just made me spit tea everywhere, loving hilarious. and true. See boss, I needed 24GB of RAM in my machine for Chrome....
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hihifellow posted:Downloaded the 30 day trial for Solarwinds' Patch Manager yesterday and had their sales department call me today. I set that up here and like it. We used to use Shavlik but since EMC/VMware bought them we didn't renew. I handed it off to some other guys to manage, but We own 4000 seats worth. Solar Winds sales can contact you a lot, but they're pretty nice about things. I get a call once every 6 weeks or so to see how things are going. I'm on my 3rd account rep in 18 months though. Overall SolarWinds is a pretty decent company, and we like using their products. If you wait for their end of quarter you can get a smoking deal from them. You have to be able to get them paid quickly though when the offer goes out. I got such a good deal I fast tracked a PO to them in 6 hours which is basically unheard of in my company. It was so good I don't feel comfortable publicly saying what it was for fear of pissing them off.
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Aug 16, 2013 23:39
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I would have pushed back on that ticket on principle. Doesn't matter it would only take 5 minutes to run the report your setting future expectations that requests like that are acceptable.
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Aug 18, 2013 23:57
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DameWare for local lan, TeamViewer for anything else. Works well for us.
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Aug 19, 2013 17:08
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Benefits could be a lot better, maybe even a defined pension plan or something. Go for it.
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Aug 20, 2013 17:14
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I loved going through peoples email. It blew my mind what people would talk about using their corporate email.
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Aug 20, 2013 22:56
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Hahahaha Nah. When people would leave the company I'd dump their email to a PST, and you just kinda poke around and they signed up for facebook with their corp email, or have personal conversations with their wives and family in corp email. Just doesn't make sense, open a browser tab and use a gmail/yahoo account. My wife works at a bank and emails me dumb poo poo like "Can you get some OJ on the way home for the kiddo, she's out" and I keep telling her all that stuff is recorded forever. A job alert email came in this morning... "IT Operations Specialist 45/hr" I click on it to see what it is.. quote:Monitors, maintains and enhances the Lotus Domino...... Nope. Close tab, not interested. skipdogg fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Aug 20, 2013 |
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Aug 20, 2013 23:12
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We had to fire a guy once for taking pictures of his erect penis (in the bathroom at work), and then emailing them to girls on Craigslist from his company email account.
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Aug 20, 2013 23:51
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drat. I bet if this person spent half the energy doing their job instead of keeping track of how many times they had to clear a paper jam they'd be the loving CEO.
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fluppet posted:And now we're into day two of lync not working, office 365 really is a loving joke. What the hells going on? We've never really had an issue with Lync.
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Aug 21, 2013 16:08
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I keep a D610 around for poo poo like that. Oh, here's your loaner, I'll let you know when this one is fixed. Enjoy WindowsXP on a single core laptop with a 5400 rpm drive and 2GB of RAM. Take better care of your poo poo.
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Aug 21, 2013 17:04
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Helushune posted:Pray you never have to try and RMA something to them. Several of our Asus laptops broke while under warranty and it's been an absolute nightmare trying to get them RMA'ed. Asus seems to go out of their way to prevent you from doing so. We gave up and I'm currently using one as a Windows 8 client and trying to get it to play nice with our group policy settings. Why are you guys using consumer grade stuff for work? Business class laptops from one of the big 3 (HP, Dell, Lenovo) is the only way to go. If your on a budget, the Vostro stuff from Dell is serviceable.
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poo poo pissing me off.... my dumbass didn't plug in 1 of my OOB management ports on my servers, and of course that server doesn't want to reboot properly after I installed some patches. Guess my dumb rear end is driving 75 miles each way tonight to fix it. No one to blame buy myself. Do always plug in your iLO cards people.
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Aug 23, 2013 03:16
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Drive 75 miles, get up here, reboot server, Drive Array Battery is dead. My timetable to decommission this fucker just got pushed to tomorrow. iLO card is plugged in now though. One more reboot and it's time to drive home.
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Antioch posted:Checking in with today's "gently caress Printers" You can install x64 drivers on a x86 print server. I have 64bit drivers installed on 2003 32bit print servers with no problem. You just have to add them from a x64 client with the drivers already installed. It's not too hard. You can take care of this in less than an hour probably. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732946.aspx or http://social.technet.microsoft.com...er-x86-sp2-help 
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blackswordca posted:So a bunch of emails came in. poo poo's rolling downhill to you good sir. Guarantee that guy got bitched out for something and now he's going to crawl up your rear end for a while.
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Aug 23, 2013 19:47
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Fun fact, a clean install of Server 2003 R2 w/SP2 needs 133 high priority windows updates. Why couldn't they have released an SP3?
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There are a lot of Windows folks out there lacking in knowledge.
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coyo7e posted:I don't get why firefighters would need a lot of IT equipment, though. Not like you can mount that poo poo to your chest and run around a burning building with it. Our local FD just got all new iPads with this software that can query a database and display the floorplan inside.
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No Your Other Left posted:Why the hell are you taking the day off for a videogame? Suck it up and wait until the weekend. I work with people in their 30's that do this. I don't understand it. Back when I was involved with our call center we would see a massive spike in callouts when a new hit game or WoW release came out. Who calls into work so they can play a new video game?
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Sickening posted:How is taking time off to do something you like to do confusing? I don't know. I'm in my 30's now and scheduling vacation time around a video game release seems to be bluntly honest, loving childish. Calling out of work sick for it is unfathomable. I've taken mental health days to sit at home and play video games before. Between work, school, raising 2 children, and everything else that comes with the mid 30's 'American Dream' it's the only time I could play a video game. Sometimes you just need to shoot some bitches in the face. I get it. A guy I work with took the entire HALO 4 release week off for vacation. A grown rear end guy in his 30's with two step kids at home. Maybe it's me but I can't wrap my head around a video game being that loving important to me. I have so much other poo poo going on in my life, playing video games is ranked so far down the list it's below straightening up the poo poo in the garage. I haven't turned my PS3 on since my birthday in February, even if I did find a few hours of free time to turn the drat thing on, it would probably just be wasted doing system updates anyway :/
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Sickening posted:I find it interesting that you see this as being irresponsible somehow. Its thinking like this that leads that leads to toxic work environments in small ways. Where did I say this was irresponsible? I have no issue with someone taking a day off to play video games or dick around and be unproductive. I do it all the time. I get something absurd like 32 paid days off a year and if work is slow I'll take a mental health day to burn some PTO no problem. I took a day off work to play Resistance 3 all day and it was fun. I'll putz around the house, run some errands, go shopping whatever. Scheduling your life around a video game release date though? Yeah, that's a bit much in my opinion.
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Sickening posted:So its the fact that he scheduled around the release date? At this point I don't get what you think is a bit much. Compare these two scenarios and see if you can tell which one I think is too much. Scenario 1: Hey boss, things look to be slow this week and I have quite a bit of PTO built up, do you care if I take Thursday off for a mental health day? <Goes home and plays a video game he rented at redbox that came out 2 months ago> Scenario 2: Hey boss, I know there's a lot going on lately but GTA5 comes out tomorrow and I really need the day off. If I'm not online at exactly 12:01AM tonight murdering pimps and prostitutes my life will literally have no joy in it and my internet friends will thing I'm not cool anymore. Now maybe I'm loving mental or something, but Scenario 1 I have no issue with, Scenario 2 is what I would call "A Bit Much". Not sure how else to explain it.
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This one is nasty enough I'm asking my boss to have corp communications send out an email blast about email attachments. We live by the mapped drive and just one of these folks bringing this in could cause major issues for entire departments.
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Hey I just learned in my VMware class that SQL Express is only a supported config for 5 hosts and 50 virtual machines or less. So my mind is blown right now. SQL isn't even that expensive. Less than the cost of 2CPU licenses of vSphere 5 Ent.
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Those charge backs will never hold up. You getting a virus, purchasing a greendot at CVS or 7-11, then using that to pay the ransom is not a valid charge back. Not only that, special rules apply to cash and cash like products
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:Yeah I am going to I need to know where to buy those A google search of bottle opener thumb drives came up with a lot more hits than I thought it would have. I don't drink much so I forget how much IT folks love their booze.
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That's loving ridiculous. 2 of our larger offices have gym and shower facilities, and the one I work at is across the parking lot from a gym, and also has shower facilities. There are at least 3 people I know who either go running or work out and shower during their lunch break. Perfectly acceptable behavior.
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Fil5000 posted:In a right to work state, drug tests seem particularly baffling. I mean, if they thought you were taking drugs and it was affecting your work they could just fire you and say it was because it was Thursday, right? There's liability issues at play as well. My brother works for <national home improvement chain> and they drug test both randomly and anytime there is an <incident>. If there is an <incident> and you test positive for drugs, the company is basically off the hook as far as liability and your workman's comp claim will probably be denied as well.
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I've never understood why the gently caress people can't handle using corp.company.com or ad.company.com. Is DNS too loving confusing?Nativity In Black posted:So I'm getting tired of my current position and rather than look for another similar position I'm considering getting some business cards printed up and striking out as a "consultant." Have any of you other goons done anything like this successfully? It's a tough market if you're talking about IT generalist stuff. On the low end you are competing with every 18 to 20 year old that knows how to run malwarebytes, or install a video card and can post an ad on craigslist to do these things for 20 dollars flat rate. On the upper end you have to deal with an already crowded MSP space. If you have a more specialized set of skills, freelancing can work, but honestly general break/fix work has become so commoditized its not worth the effort. skipdogg fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Sep 24, 2013 |
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stevewm posted:Is using .local all that bad? I cannot see any major company using Bonjour/ZeroConf, so what exactly is the problem with .local? It used to not be a big deal but is becoming more of an issue. A long time ago .local was a recommended way to set up a domain. That has changed but the people who learned it have not. The main argument I see is managing DNS is too loving difficult for these morons to handle and they get confused. No one is saying you name your AD Domain company.com. You can name it internal.company.com or ad.company.com or corp.company.com. You can set the friendly netbios name of the domain to whatever the hell you want. Basically there are zero good reasons to use a .local these days and plenty of reasons not to.
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