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psydude posted:Quick informal survey: how many of you work for companies that do 100% tuition reimbursement? I'm not talking $5000 in tuition assistance, I'm talking the entire degree paid for. My hospital does not. We receive $2500 in tuition assistance a year, but we owe them 1 year of employment after the class they paid for ends.
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I'm in way over my head here at my new job and have a quick question I hope someone could help me with. The IT department created 10 VMs for a project I've been assigned. My workstation is running Windows 7, as is all the VMs. Instead of using the graphical remote desktop tool that is packaged with Windows 7 and controlling a VM through the GUI, how do I just connect to the VM through a terminal? What I'm trying to accomplish is to log into the 10 VMs and schedule a program to execute at a specific time. The only way I know to do it is use the remote desktop tool -> connect to VM -> go into the VMs control panel -> use task scheduler -> disconnect. Then repeat that for the 9 other VMs.
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Aug 15, 2014 18:07
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CLAM DOWN posted:For example: FISHMANPET posted:The Task Scheduler gui can also connect to the Task Scheduler on a remote computer, you just right click on where it says "Task Scheduler (Local) and put in the name of the computer. Not sure what kind of firewall access that requires though. Thanks for the help. It appears that I'm able to accomplish what I need by using the task scheduler gui to connect to other machines. I didn't have to do anything with permissions or firewalls thankfully. This entire thing has been frustrating. It started off with someone discovering I wrote a basic AutoIt script to help with a copy/paste task and it has ballooned into me creating a script that will automate testing on medical software using 50 VMs simultaneously. All within a work week. Hughmoris fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Aug 15, 2014 |
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Aug 15, 2014 19:03
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*Disregard, I figured it out.
Hughmoris fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Aug 16, 2014 |
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Aug 16, 2014 04:06
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Dark Helmut posted:Drink for the following terms: Today I had someone say "That was my ask last week". 
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Aug 18, 2014 21:07
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PCjr sidecar posted:I saw a documentary about the stress that counting on bonuses can put on your mental well being and how it can negatively affect your family. I think it was called National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. A one year membership to the Jelly of The Month Club is legit. 
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I'm getting a taste of my first salaried position. We are having a major software upgrade to our system tonight that has been in the works for weeks. Worked 12 hours then came home. Will be on the phone for another 2 hours doing testing, then working 14 hours for the next two nights doing support. Edit: Turns out, the upgrade started an hour late. And Lotus Notes decided to crash, hospital wide, so no emails or sametime chat to coordinate this.
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Sep 9, 2014 02:53
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evol262 posted:Why do people assume salary means "get hosed and work a ton of hours for no extra pay?" By all means, stay late when you need to. Go in when you need to. But also leave early when it's slow and you've worked a lot. But a planned issue shouldn't mean an extra, uncomped 20 hours. Yeah, I'm new to the team, been here about 3 months now. I have no problem putting in the work. However, once this project is finished, we won't have anything big on our plate for a while. I plan on getting in a little late, leaving a little early to balance things out. I'm not the type to break my back only to get shat on.
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Sep 9, 2014 04:08
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:We have the FREEDOM to work unlimited hours at a fixed salary. Freedom aint free!
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Sep 9, 2014 04:50
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jaegerx posted:Company but I'm sure since his usual call is like $100 an hour he probably gets a decent amount. Elevator repair everyone. It's our future. Meh, it has its ups and downs like any other job.
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Sep 9, 2014 06:12
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Zero VGS posted:Against my better judgement I went to that job I turned down expecting to give them a free consultation in IT. The CFO grabs me and says "look, we want to hire you." So I'm like okay, then why did HR offer me less than I'm making now? And he said yeah, they made a big mistake. So I said okay, I keep my Lead Sys Engineer title, if I'm "downsized" I want two months salary, I want comp days for any overtime worked, and I want 80k base salary, not the 55k you guys were slinging. This makes me smile. Congrats!
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Sep 12, 2014 02:03
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Zero, I might have missed it but have you received your job offer in writing yet?
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Sep 16, 2014 03:09
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evobatman posted:Put the money you feel they owe you into your consulting fee. This idea is probably best. Don't burn bridges, just get yours on the back-end.
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I need some opinions here. I work in clinical informatics at a smaller hospital, its a new job that I've been doing for 3 months. I provide solutions and support for our doctors and nurses etc... I'm not a programmer in the least bit but I've been trying to teach myself. I've wrote several small scripts that has made our team's life easier and removed some of the workload. Following up on the success of my scripts, I asked for READ-ONLY access to the test environment database. I'd like read-only access to the test environment so I can learn to write queries to provide my team with useful reports. Also, I want to expand my knowledge and skills. With the response I received to my request, you would have thought I asked for keys to the kingdom. I was essentially blown off, the vibe I got was that it was way outside of my scope. Is it outlandish for me to request this access? Can I really screw up that much with read-only access in a testing environment? We had a rep from the software vendor here for a few days and the reports he was able to pull from our database were full of useful information. I'd love to be able to do that.
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Sep 16, 2014 18:32
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Tab8715 posted:It is a hospital and there's a probably a ton of red-tape for a variety of good and not so good reasons but that said... As an SQL novice, what are the chances that I'd accidentally write a query using READ-ONLY access and bring down the database? That was the reasoning I received today when I denied by our application manager, even when I told him it was the training database and not production. So, I've asked three different parties and have been stone-walled. Which sucks because I really want to become proficient in SQL to pick up a new skill, plus be more marketable. PLUS our entire team depends on two people for anything involving databases, HOSPITAL WIDE, and one of them is out for 2 weeks due to a medical issue. At this point, I'm not going to push it. I realize this is a minor issue and I enjoy the people I work with but it is a bit annoying. I feel like they are stifling my professional growth. And at a certain point, that might become an incentive to look elsewhere. *I'm going to walk myself through the free Stanford database class and go from there. Hughmoris fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Sep 17, 2014 |
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Sep 17, 2014 01:04
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Misogynist posted:What is a "training database," exactly? My hospital has two environments, the live production environment with actual patients that all of the clinical staff works from. Then we have a testing/training database where we create patients and perform various testing. The test/train database is a mirror copy of the production environment, except its loaded with dummy patients. Feels like the perfect ground to learn how to write queries and reports that can be used in the production environment and be beneficial to the team. Tab8715 posted:I suppose you could accidentally write a query that would return the entire database and that could potentially slow things to a crawl. Yeah, I'm understanding that there is a logical reason to not wanting someone inexperienced touching things. Its just a little frustrating. Oh well, I'll get over it. Hughmoris fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Sep 17, 2014 |
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Sep 17, 2014 01:12
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Misogynist posted:I'm assuming you're American. If this is the case, it doesn't matter who's out sick or on vacation, you will never directly touch a database with patient data in it until you have the word "database" in your job title. The hospital is under extremely strict HIPAA regulations to restrict access to this data and audit that access regularly. It sucks, but there's good reasons for this. You raise some great points. I guess I'll put SQL goals on the back burner for a while and focus my energies on other things.
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Roargasm posted:Told a user that we couldn't support the printer he found because it was too old and way out of scope. Came in this morning and found this in my mailbox You know he is strutting around his coworkers, talking about how he straight up served the IT guy.
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I'm about 3 months into my first corporate/IT job. I had no clue it was possible to have this many meetings and conference calls. And the amount of corporate speak I've been exposed to... I thought it was only in TV and Movies.
Hughmoris fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Oct 20, 2014 |
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Oct 20, 2014 17:05
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Vague question here regarding how corporate software licenses are handled. Say if Bob is hired and the company purchases a license for Microsoft Visual Studio so he can do some work. Later, Bob is fired. Am I correct in assuming that the company owns the license and they can give it to the next person that fills Bob's shoes without incurring additional costs? And the next and the next etc..? I'd like to get a copy of Visual Studios at work so I can help out on a project. I'd like to avoid looking like an idiot when I walk over to the IT department and ask if they have any Visual Studio licenses lying around.
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Rexxed posted:Yes if there's a developer that uses something in particular the company will buy it and the license will be owned by the company while their employee uses it. They may want to do the install, they may have licenses, they may have you have your manager request it for you and then it'll get purchased and IT will put it on your machine, but there will be a way to request specific software from IT (unless they say no). adorai posted:Generally speaking, they won't have any. I can tell you if you asked me for a copy I would just install it for you and let our annual Microsoft license true-up catch it. Thanks for this. I'll pass it up my chain and see what happens. I'm thinking they'll tell me to buzz off, since its not within my departments scope.
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angry armadillo posted:we actually have forensic investigators to deal with this. We double teamed the guy, escorted him off site whilst someone else got his PC pretty much like you said. How'd you figure out he was gunning for your passwords?
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*Sorry, ignore this. Better suited for the certification thread.
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Anyone here do work with BOXI reports? How'd you get into it? The one and only BOXI report writer for our hospital is not having his contract renewed and I'm trying to convince the powers that be to let me dip my toes into it. It'll be my first real foray into databases and reports.
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cryme posted:I have done and still do some work with BOXI. I was an analyst for the EMR applications and learned it basically out of necessity since the people initially trained on it changed positions, and I had some previous SQL experience. That is pretty much the position I'm in. I'm a clinical informatics analyst with a nurse background. I've been slowly trying to work my way through the free Stanford online database class, although I'm wondering if it might be overkill for what is involved with BOXI reports. I'm just excited to pick up a new, hopefully marketable skill. Hughmoris fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Jan 3, 2015 |
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Jan 3, 2015 02:48
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This might be a long shot but since I know we have a lot of health care IT folks, I figured I'd ask: Does anyone have experience using Medical Logic Modules or Arden Syntax?
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cryme posted:I did, albeit briefly. Didn't care much for it. I'm looking at digging into care alerts a little for my job. From what I've seen so far, it looks clunky and archaic as hell.
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cryme posted:Nailed it on the head (McKesson?). Limited functionality. Rules engine in our current system is way more powerful. Shot you a PM.
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Danith posted:Ahh thanks. Boss is Director of IT. Maybe I'll just go for Systems Administrator. Assistant To The Director of IT?
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Anyone here have a non-technical undergrad degree and a technical Master's? I'm a nurse and I'll graduate with by BSN in May. I currently work in my hospital's Clinical Informatics department and I'm thinking about pursing a technical Master's such as CS or IT, instead of the traditional Master's in Nursing. Any advice for taking this route? I think this popped up a bit ago but I never saw much information on the topic. Hughmoris fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Mar 27, 2015 |
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TWBalls posted:I wouldn't be doing it to do nursing duties. I'd be getting into Clinical Inforaticist position. Basically a liason between Doctors/Nurses and EMR. I'd likely have to be teaching them how to use the software, open tickets to the vendor, stuff like that. From what I can tell of our current CI, the majority of their job is telling the users "That's not my job, call I.T.!". TWBalls posted:Thanks to HR leaving paperwork right out in the open, I know of at least one nurse that makes a bit more than this. Makes me want to start taking nursing classes. Come visit us in the Nurse & Nursing School Megathread: Do go, lots of jobs, die loved. As someone above mentioned, you would be cleaning up lots of poo poo. Literally. And you more than likely wouldn't land a Clinical Informatics position until you spent a year or two bedside. I'm a registered nurse and a Clinical Informatics Analyst, and I'm pretty much living the dream. 
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Apr 3, 2015 05:55
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Vague question here but what would be the typical career path or certification ladder to go from help desk with an A+ to CCIE?
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Apr 3, 2015 21:21
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FISHMANPET posted:Old boss was just a grunt in the military, where he learned enough about leadership to think that being told to do something is all the motivation a person would need to do the thing. It's almost scary how accurate that is.
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May 25, 2015 17:01
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psydude posted:Because I hate the DC area trope of "So what do you do for a living?" I generally try to dance around the subject of my career as much as possible, but when I'm pressed and reveal that I'm a network security consultant I usually get something akin to the following: That's a pretty good one.
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For those of you who get to play with databases, how'd you get your start or your experience in them? I'm been trying to get my foot into learning the basics of databases and so I can write simple queries/reports but I keep getting shut down at my job. No one in my department has database access, or knows how to write reports or queries. Instead, we have to depend on unreliable contracted employees. I've been asking for read-only access to a training environment but I can't even get that. Frustrating to say the least, as I feel that my professional development is starting to stagnate.
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Recently given an option of WFH for one day, or working four 10-hr days. Decisions decisions...
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LochNessMonster posted:I wouldn't take 4x10, but only because I've been working 4x9 for the past 3.5 years. Living the dream. When I was working as a bedside RN, I was 3 x 12 hrs. Having 4 days off every week is the good life.
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Jun 8, 2016 23:21
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Cthulhuite posted:It's disconcerting to wake up at 3am to a phone call from the office, where you can hear your own voice telling you there's a fire. Is that you, Cthulhuite? Is this me?
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Anyone here currently/formerly a junior DBA and able to shed a little light on the day to day work? I work in a clinical informatics position at a decent sized hospital and there has been an internal job opening for a junior DBA. I have zero experience in the field but I do have a background in tech support, can use google, and can solve problems.
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Work is now allowing my team to work from home a few days a week. Today was the first day. It is awfully quiet around here... almost too quiet. I could see how full-time WFH could get a bit lonely.
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