MC Fruit Stripe posted:

Except he was calling to let me know he's giving notice today. Son of a bitch. I love working with and for this guy, because he does what a boss needs to do - provides cover, shelters me from the bullshit, listens to my hairbrained schemes to spend company money, and then lets me execute. I don't know who they're going to bring in, but I know that it's not going to be what it was.

Zero VGS posted:

They pay me back before 30 days so I don't pay interest, and like I was saying our company doesn't do company cards which is why they asked in the first place.

I should clarify, of course I'm replaceable, but they'd never make back the value they get from me. I'm not replaceable for my wage, we literally had interviewees with equal qualifications to mine laugh and walk when we told them what they'd start at (my wage).

Edit: I guess what I'm getting at is, I think the only reason they're not paying me what I ask is because they think they can get away with it. I was making 20/hr so I asked for a raise to 30, they gave me 25 instead of completely balking. Just like with the new job, I told them the offer was too low and they came back 5k higher. It's obnoxious how I can't know what's really on the table without these ultimatums.

Zero VGS posted:

The company just doesn't have company credit cards, at least they do not exist in our subsidiary. They only do purchase orders or pay vendors, so they had to set me up as a vendor.


The credit card thing is valuable to the CFO in a very quantifiable way, and of course no one else is willing to do it, it looks a bit shady sure but they've never been late paying me back and it's something to hold over them.

DrAlexanderTobacco posted:

Do you have red bull and caviar in an IV hooked up to you, or something?

TWBalls posted:

$131. a week on food is shockingly low?

psydude posted:

Relative to whom? I bought a whole goat in Afghanistan for $15.

Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:

Anybody have any familiarity with 2008 R2 / 2012 R2 kernel hardening? edit: Specifically locking down the files on a domain controller.

Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:

Looking for info on PGP or other disk encryption for a domain controller. I'll browse through that thread. Thanks.

Maneki Neko posted:

That's what being a salaried employee means

jaegerx posted:

Yes

Docjowles posted:

It's explicitly called out in our labor laws that IT work is exempt from overtime pay, in fact!

Misogynist posted:

Jeez, BGP whack-a-mole in the southeast US tonight.

Inspector_666 posted:

I'm salaried with OT, but it kicks in when work is done between certain hours, not by hours worked per week.

In fact, according to the handbook I am expected to work a minimum of 40 per week.

So pretty much I can get stuck doing 11 hour days more than once per week and get no OT.

H.R. Paperstacks posted:

you are expected to work more than 80hrs if necessary

Inspector_666 posted:

I loving hate my job and spend my days full of barely checked rage.

Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:

Pretty much because I can't just up and move to the utopia you live in.

Otherwise I'd be there like now.

Chalets the Baka posted:

"Labor" is a dirty word in American lexicon, especially if you pair it with "law". Americans will sacrifice themselves and their family if it means enriching their employer even marginally. It's especially bad in IT where it's mostly Randian untermensch and endless startups who will behead you on film if you even mention the word "union". And the only people who own guns are the ones who would defend to the death their "right to work" for nothing. Everything here is a race, and it's always to the bottom. We really are a bunch of retarded creatures.

psydude posted:

When you're salaried, you're being paid for your skills and your level of responsibility.

H.R. Paperstacks posted:

Work more efficiently and don't get taken advantage of.

Mechanics work in a similar manner. They bill a set rate for set hours on a job, if they take longer, that's on them, their loss. If they work faster and finish ahead of schedule, they still get the fixed amount and can start on the next job earlier.

psydude posted:

You're really misunderstanding where we're coming from. Legality and culture have nothing to do with it. His point is that when you're salaried or doing contract work, you get paid the same even when you work fewer hours.

NippleFloss posted:

You should always, as an employee, be looking out for yourself. Yes, it would be awesome if labor law or cultural standards kept employers honest in their dealings, but they don't. Some employers are great, but there are also unscrupulous ones that will not hesitate to take advantage of you if you let them. There is a pretty common attitude in America that employers are doing you a favor by employing you, and you don't have the right to ask for anything beyond the paycheck they are gracious enough to give you. The nice thing about IT is that it's important enough, and the skills are uncommon enough, that a good IT worker is not easily replaceable, so you have more leverage than a lot of employees. You should always be prepared to use that leverage when you're being asked to work for many extra hours without compensation.

If you're in a job where you are being asked to work extra hours and you have not laid out your expectations for compensation for those additional hours then you need to remedy that. Whether it's comp time, overtime, or a simple understanding that when things are busy you'll work extra, but when things are slow you're coming in late and leaving early, you need to advocate for yourself. You should also be looking for a new job consistently if you're not being fairly compensated. And when you negotiate with that new employer you should lay out your expectations and ideally get them formalized in your offer.

Labor in America has been so browbeaten that most of us tacitly accept that employers have all of the power because legally they do. But they still NEED employees for their business to function, and as much as they'd like you to believe it, employees aren't fungible. Any one isn't just as good as any other. You should be mindful of that and be comfortable letting your employer know that you're mindful of it, and that you expect to be treated fairly in return for your labor because an employment contract goes both ways, and needs to be a mutually beneficial exchange.

Dilbert As gently caress posted:

nvm

dogstile posted:

It's almost as if most people want to unwind after working. Saying most good engineers are alcoholics or socially stunted is pretty funny too.

titaniumone posted:

Our infra group rolled out a compute cluster with monster resources - something like 80 systems each with 6-8 cores, ~32GB ram, and 10TB storage.

We were testing out a bunch of stuff with it and one of the experiments was processing data with Hadoop. As I was trying it out I noticed it was horrendously slow on any large jobs.

I found out the bottleneck was the network. All 80+ systems were connected using 1GBe ethernet.

RadicalR posted:

Hopefully, this is the correct thread. What resources would you guys recommend for learning Powershell 4.0?

psydude posted:

Requirements:
-BS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering (MS preferred)
-Cisco Certified CCNP or higher (Cisco Certified CCIE preferred)

Compensation:
-1099
-16/hr

psydude posted:

Hello friend! Thank you very much for reply. 1099 is without doubt best form of compensation for this position, ensuring you get most monies you are having of earned!

-Sandeep Kunash

Erwin posted:

I am so sorry.

Tailored Sauce posted:

IIS owns.

JHVH-1 posted:

I think I have rebooted a server 8 times today already while configuring ADFS related services. I really don't like dealing with windows. I think windows admins that say they actually enjoy it and thing it is good must be suffering from Stockholm syndrome. It feels like I am in some fantasy world where normal internet standards get their own Microsoft names (and there are also magical wizards to help you configure things)

evol262 posted: