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CLAM DOWN posted:A lot of people's hobbies and activities that filled their entire lives were things that aren't allowed/are cancelled/shut down/etc right now. So while I recognize "just find a hobby" sounds easy on the surface, it can be a lot more difficult than that and this is taking a serious mental toll on a lot of people including yours truly. I definitely think there's a balance to be had, I had to deal with a breakup and a 300 mile move about a month before it started getting really bad in the US, and for the last couple weeks of me being alone before the move back to family, my life consisted of "go to work, interact on the surface level with my coworkers, go home, drive through fast food, play tarkov, go to bed", and by the end of it I was absolutely losing it. It doesn't help that I'm an introvert that craves human contact (pretty sure i have some as of yet undiagnosed mental condition which doesn't help). There would be days where from 5:01pm on I didn't physically interact with another human being until I went to bed, and on the rare occasion there were days when I could count the number of words in the afternoon I spoke on less than two hands, and if I removed the words I spoke to my cat from that number, it could very possibly be less than 1 hand.
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CLAM DOWN posted:High five, breakup pal. I went through that at the beginning of March as well as the sudden death of a cat before this virus poo poo exploded. It's been a rough time to say the least. I'm just happy the breakup happened before everything went south, otherwise we would either have been living together while the breakup was happened, or we would have been trying our best and failing at keeping it together and ending up breaking up and still being stuck together. It sucks but given that we probably weren't gonna be able to make it, having her end things prior to virus going (unknowingly) made it at amicable.
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Zero VGS posted:Bluejeans was so loving bad back then it almost cost my my job. Company meetings would just gently caress up when I did absolutely everything correctly. For example there was a bug where a user would share their screen and it would just share up a black screen that would block other people from sharing and you couldn't ever unshare without taking down the whole meeting. Bluejeans was founded by some Indian dudes so of course their tech support was the most meme level useless script-readers possible. Holy crap dude. their sales team must hate you for getting that deal locked in.
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Apr 16, 2020 20:09
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Before I left my old job, we were trialing some of the Kensington thunderbolt docks and they were pretty good.
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May 14, 2020 20:18
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The Advanced Network Devices kit hooked up to Informacast is not that bad. Looks like their speakers are around 400 each on CDW, but use PoE.
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May 28, 2020 18:52
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Gabriel S. posted:Healthcare and Lawyers I get but why schools? kid: repeatedly smashes Chromebook to the point of breaking it and discipline isn't doing anything to make him stop "It's educational equipment so keep giving him Chromebooks"
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Jul 29, 2020 03:11
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I'm in post interview limbo with a school district and it's the worst. "We'll reach out to you by Monday". The Monday they were referring to was last Monday. Not stressing about it now though, busy studying for Sec+ to get it on my next batch of applications.
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Sep 28, 2020 22:16
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In non boat money related topics: How normal is imposter syndrome at new job. I just got the offer for k-12 school district IT Systems Administrator with my last gig being k-12 district but only IT Services Tech I (so like 1.5 steps lower than sysadmin). I feel confident enough that I can do it because they think I can do it but man it still feels a little like "am i supposed to know all this"
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Oct 13, 2020 17:29
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DelphiAegis posted:Given the history in this thread, I hope that job offer isn't for a school district in Georgia. Or was it Mississippi? California so it's okay (annoyingly they're in a county that was permitted to open), but overall they're taking it relatively seriously it seems like More than anything the even more terrifying part is the fact that I'm now considered management I was not expecting to have management tied to my title anytime soon
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Oct 13, 2020 17:39
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Defenestrategy posted:I have seen "senior" level IT people who don't know crap besides how to cram for certs and sell themselves and they clear north of six figgies. So if someone is gonna have a job and not be good at it, it might as well be a goon in this very thread! now thats the spirit. Sadly they're not offering 6 figgies (mid 60s) which overall I don't mind too much, there was another district offering 77k for a relatively similar specced position, but they've also had the position open since April and they haven't done anything with it I figure it'll let me get my feet under me as far as infosec/actually being sysadmin then pivot up to big figgie positions either in private sector or public sector
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Oct 14, 2020 00:58
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CLAM DOWN posted:Security rules but please actually be interested in it, and don't just go into it for the money. My cybersecurity instructor at a state college was also in charge of multiple overall area commands of a branch of the armed forces when it came to information security so I am very interested in it. (the figgies are just a bonus)
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Oct 14, 2020 01:52
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Sickening posted:It definitely sounds more prestigious than it is, that is for drat sure. Our armed forces security is... not good. I mean I definitely wouldn't tell him that in person because he can kick my rear end six days from Sunday 
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Oct 14, 2020 02:22
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Defenestrategy posted:Seconded, I'm not saying all ex-mil cybersec guys are bad at cybersec, but it sure seems like it from my relatively small sample size. It really does seem all the military has in cybersec is dudes who can read STIGs and tell people who know what they're doing to do them, without knowing what, why, and how of the STIGs implementation. If you had a STIG that said "All network cabinet fluid coolant must remain topped off" you'd have some idiot with a sec+ and five years in arguing with me about how we need to get coolant for our small rear end local compute. I'm trying to be reasonably vague about him to avoid doxxing either him or myself, but I'm pretty sure he's the real McCoy due to certain things he offhandedly has mentioned as well as his job history on LinkedIn.
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Oct 14, 2020 03:07
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Their glassdoor reviews look sketchy. Everyone is super positive. 16 people aren't all going to like a company that much.
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Oct 14, 2020 18:06
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SpaceSDoorGunner posted:That's basically my plan. I'm shooting to get working on either Net+ or Sec+ around the time I'd be starting there. The other "good" option in this region is the veteran job program MSSA (I think it's basically a Azure devops course?), which I've heard worse things about, cloud computing isn't really my thing except as it applies to other domains, and I'd to pay tuition to take. Can confirm Sec+ opens a shitton of doors. Scroll back a page or two, but my job offer can be summarized as "apply on Friday, the day after I get Sec+, get a call the next Monday asking to schedule an interview for Friday, interview Friday, get a call on Tuesday with job offer" I have also found out by comparing to the salary schedule that I am definitely considered classified management, and I only work 225 days a year (which seems like less than I was previously working as a IT Systems Tech I).
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Oct 15, 2020 05:53
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Should I ask for a different laptop from work (currently got some Dell stuff) since my new boss said "if you want a different laptop let me know"? I'm leaning Thinkpad, but I'm not sure if I should go with T480s or X1 Carbon.
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Oct 22, 2020 03:20
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cheque_some posted:Both are good, the X1 is lighter, but at the expense of some useful ports. The T480s is already pretty light, though. That's kinda my big concern with the X1 losing a native Ethernet port. I've heard the keyboard on the T480s is not great though. eta: the T480s is also cheaper which i figure is an easier sell etata: well looks like cdw only has a T480s with spinning rust at the moment, I can't abide by that Raymond T. Racing fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Oct 22, 2020 |
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Oct 22, 2020 04:32
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Darchangel posted:The T480s is now two generations old. New model is the T14. And the X1 8th gen just came out as well. We just finished testing to make sure they played well with our imaging system, etc. Looks like the SKUs CDW sells of the X1 gen 8 don't have the ethernet adapter included. Thanks CDW.
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Oct 22, 2020 20:23
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Zotix posted:How much do you negotiate when offered a position? I've heard you should always negotiate even if it's just a little bit. Of course it always depends, my current job and my former job have both been public employment. In other words: "here's exactly how much you'll make don't bother trying to counter"
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Nov 10, 2020 04:59
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Biowarfare posted:I was under the impression that with some luxury car brands this is actually the case, and being out of LTE service area or extremely underground renders your car unstartable or unbootable Kinda true. In some cases, the kill-switch is looking for a constant signal, and LoS results in the car locking itself down to prevent faraday cage style attacks or being shoved in a shipping container and shipped overseas and sold under the table.
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Nov 23, 2020 05:38
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skipdogg posted:Nope gently caress all that. Find a new job. Plenty of them out there. No one is even going to hold a 6 month job on your resume against you. If anyone asks, just say "It wasn't a good fit", and leave it at that. Apparently my LinkedIn sucks because I'm not beating recruiters away with a stick? How do I sign up for this situation please
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Mar 20, 2021 21:46
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I'm not 100% sure if my LinkedIn is just not good, or I'm not entirely desirable enough (in terms of work history etc) to be getting recruiter cold calls out the butt like some of you here. I've had exactly 1 since getting resignation/fired back in February, and it was for a company with absolutely atrocious Glassdoor reviews ("expect 80 hour workweeks for salary exempt employees"), and a resume that mentioned zero technical things and was basically all managing/paper-pushing type stuff.
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All I know is that if I get this job I’m hoping I’m a very qualified candidate for, even though it’s a step down in pay from my last job and roughly equivalent to my job before that, and a worse title than either of them, it’s a company that I’m really passionate about and seems to support their employees so fingers crossed.
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Jul 26, 2021 02:28
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jaegerx posted:You’re so cute yes but also a 4.8 on glassdoor
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Jul 26, 2021 05:28
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LochNessMonster posted:I hope it’s not the same company I worked for, where the HR Director ordered multiple people to leave a 5 * review whenever a negative one popped up (which was frequently). I’m more than half a decade away from even touching thirty so I’m not too stressed about the figgies right now anyway. and in any case, this position isn’t even IT, it’s CS, but is the springboard to other teams at this company like dev or security
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Jul 26, 2021 15:29
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LionYeti posted:Trying to figure out why my new Apple business thing isn't letting me ya know do business with Apple Apple Business/School Manager is a sick joke inflicted on all of us
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Jul 26, 2021 18:17
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Isn't the general rule for doubling up: expect that one will never be on your resume and can't be used for references or anything, and be prepared for the situation where you have to leave both off because they're both real mad at you?
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Jul 27, 2021 17:31
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xarph posted:They've been trying to kill off local vaults and wifi syncing via neglect for years. Taking 100MM on the grounds that you're worth 2B from the VC company that brought you Crashplan's enterprise refocus is a whole new level of welp. wifi syncing and local vaults are gone in 1Password 8 (which is the currently available Linux version, and the early access Windows version)
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Jul 28, 2021 16:44
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GreenNight posted:Before interview. Then yes, you need way more than just 4. I think all of mine (at least the more covid-adjacent ones) have been in a bundle of 30-40 to get a handful of interviews, and only one recently has gotten me a job
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Aug 11, 2021 16:02
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Ataxerxes posted:Where can I buy this? Go buy at least 25 of them: https://www.aviatorgear.com/p-29301-33-oss-dumpster-fire-ocp-patch.aspx
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NotNut posted:What's something I could say I was doing during a gap on my resume? Freelance app development? "During covid I was very grateful to my spouse/parent/pet pig for them to be able to support us while i was taking care of a parent/kid/pet horse"
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Aug 16, 2021 02:47
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Unless it caches admin status locally, combining Macs and domain accounts still sucks for me IMO issue: "teacher can't add their printer at home to their new Mac due to it not considering them an admin" resolution: disconnect from school wifi, switch to local admin account, toggle the checkbox on their account to make them an admin for real (instead of it being enforced by checking with the domain), log back out of local admin account, reconnect to school wifi After a few weeks of that, we said screw it and went with local accounts
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Aug 16, 2021 23:10
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Look it may have been technically a downgrade from my previous job (as well as a pay cut) (but I was also only there for a few months and admittedly wasn’t a good fit) but I too am  starting in September as customer facing support about a SaaS company I’m super passionate about.
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Aug 19, 2021 04:01
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skipdogg posted:Some of the salary numbers in this thread that get tossed around seem pretty high to me. Higher than average. That's the other thing to keep in mind. I sit and look at my 47k doing customer support at a company you've definitely heard of and I go "oh man that sucks" then I remember that I can't even rent a car without paying a young renters fee for another year Raymond T. Racing fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Aug 24, 2021 |
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Aug 24, 2021 18:25
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skipdogg posted:I was making 14 bucks an hour when I was 24 years old doing tier 2 DSL tech support for a SWBell contractor. You're doing great. It was a little disheartening because this is a downgrade from my last position (sysadmin for a school district), but also I was way overwhelmed by the amount of work for how little support I got when it came to onboarding (here's the keys, knock yourself out) and it wasn't the right position at the right headspace, and new company is a company that I'm super super passionate about and they were passionate about me (took a year, had someone on the inside recommend I apply, multiple different positions to get to this point)
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The Iron Rose posted:I see this a lot too, and I hate it for me, personally. I want to go back to the office! Please pay me money to do so! This is why I'm very thankful that for the entire existence of new-company, they've only existed as a remote institution, and basically don't really have an office space (they do, but only one, and not even in the country I live in)
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Aug 24, 2021 20:13
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I'm not sure why you would expect me to have a problem with someone offering me a job while I'm job hunting. I'll anonymize my resume either tonight or tomorrow and send it to you and anyone else who is willing to take a look. I know the thing that I’ve seen mentioned in the BFC resume thread for this kind of thing is don’t over anonymize your resume, it makes reviewing pretty much impossibly apparently (which makes sense, hard to get a sense of where you’re at if it’s just Acme Corp.)
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Internet Explorer posted:I'm not sure I agree. People should do things that make them feel safe, and getting doxxed sucks. I am not going to care what the names of companies you worked at are. If you really think it adds context, just ad the industry and the size. Right yes I completely agree, but replacing all your company names with Acme is going a bit too far. luminalflux posted:Eh dunno how much of a drawback it is, since you'll still need to learn all about the internal stuff that makes up AWS but is never surfaced to the user. Per someone in a Discord I'm in, lots of memes making fun of bezos and Amazon warehouse working standards, and awful awful tampermonkey scripts because the product owners refuse to improve it, so other teams have to use tampermonkey scripts to do what they need to do
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wargames posted:so "top 50" schools and screw all other college people. without crossing into stuff that doesn't really belong in SH/SC, pretty much. my state school had a large-ish company you've heard of pipeline, so a lot of software engineering focused classmates ended up either interning or heading straight there. that gets you the connects to pivot to FAANG longer term if that was something you wanted whether or not it's right, if you've got 0 experience and 0 connections, you're going to be judged on who printed out your diploma
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George H.W. oval office posted:I'm kinda eager for this IT focused resume session and seeing all of the resumes in The One True Format™ from the old goon resume service. Of all the resumes I've helped improve for friends, it's always copying it over to that format and boy what an improve that alone is. Do you have a sanitized example of this? I've been using this one for a while (with less colors) and I've been pretty happy with it, but it's probably not an efficient use of space 
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