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Daylen Drazzi posted:It used to be that when a company representative promised something verbally then the company upheld its' end of the deal. I find it infuriating that any company thinks it can pull that poo poo and not have it come back and bite them on the rear end. Every job contract I've ever signed had a section saying "any verbal commitments not outlined in this document are worth exactly nothing". In a situation where money and time off for classes is available and outside existing policy, why would anyone ever think it's ok to NOT get it in writing?
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:a guy from another department just got taken out so viciously by his own supervisor that even I am uncomfortable Sounds like my organization. I'm on some developer mailing lists due to peripheral responsibilities and some the of the things I've seen them say to each other are absolutely brutal. EDIT: It's bad enough that if I ever had a reason to e-mail one of those lists, I wouldn't. I'd go find an engineer on the list to ask my question of in person, in case I missed something. NeuralSpark fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Apr 20, 2015 |
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the spyder posted:Odd situation: When I left my former employer, my boss had no issues with letting me take my ~3 year old Mac Book Air with me. We both agreed it was of no value to the company (age/no other Mac users). Two months pass. I get an email asking for it back. I responded politely, reminding him of our verbal agreement and that I would be happy to write them a check for the sellyourmac.com estimated value if this was a financial issue for them. Like most things done at that company, the was no witness @ the exit interview or anything in writing. If they push it further, I'll just switch to my other laptop and return it, but what a PITA. Accounting: "where's asset tag #abc123"? Ex-boss (not going to admit he let you walk with it): "that jerk the spyder must have kept it, I'll get it from him"
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high six posted:I do a whole lot less work than I did while delivering pizza and get paid a lot more. It's crazy. For moments like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVYHjEeYGFA
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Anyone ever feel like you kinda "chose wrong"? I love being a sys admin. I love projects. VMware is still the greatest thing in the world. That feeling is why I try my hand at woodworking and motorcycle-wrenching. You get the satisfaction of creating something, and it's a distraction from work at the same time.
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Methanar posted:Having EVERYTHING be publicly routable is going to be important when the internet of things kicks in. Your toilet or whatever is going to be communicating with apple's iShit servers regarding your fiber intake which is going to communicate with your wifi enabled slippers, tea kettle etc. Conversely, I don't really want anyone that isn't directly attached to my network talking to my toilet because I can't trust the toilet vendor to not leave 120 ports, including telnet and an SSHv1 server, open. NAT is pretty convenient poor man's firewall. adorai posted:NAT is an excellent example of security by obscurity and it does help, regardless of whether you should rely on that or not. This.
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RFC2324 posted:When you request your FYAD page, the connection stays open until the page is loaded, and so that is a separate connection than your buddy loading up YOSPOS. The session information stored is port mapping information on the external interface. EDIT: Link explains it better
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Laserface posted:After speaking with the HR guy, its definitely below my pay grade, although I went back and threw a bunch of applications at genius/expert stuff too so lets see how they go - I work better with people in person than on the phone, for sure. Late reply but here goes. You don't seriously get considered for other teams unless you've been with the company for more than a year. I've not met anyone that came in through retail / AC that didn't have 3-4 years in those orgs before jumping to corporate.
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FireSight posted:We run Casper, but the Senior Support Services guy, the dude who doesn't want anyone but himself to have admin access to most poo poo, hasn't figured out how to use it to deploy updates or... really anything but get info off of the machines. Casper is the best platform manager for the Mac and could totally do what you need it to do if your guy could be bothered to actually do it.
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KillHour posted:I've had multiple HR people call me about jobs I applied for saying "It's not clear from your resume; do you have a degree?" Gotta fill that checkbox.
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Just heard on a call: "it's hard to confront your own mortality in the face of an IT project" That should be the slogan for this  project
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:<Airwatch being Airwatch> I used to be a contract CE for them and they have been chucklefucks since the very beginning. This type of poo poo from them is never surprising.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:You're being facetious, but I've never been nervous at work, I don't think. Someone should regale us with a story about a time that you thought, terrified, to yourself, "well that's it, I'm getting fired". As long as you're okay now and we can look back and laugh. If you're posting from the library, please don't. For about 30 seconds, I thought I lost 100 TB of current and archival product marketing video footage at large computer company named after a fruit. Thankfully I had the SAN config backed up. NeuralSpark fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Apr 19, 2016 |
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When I see someone in a tie at the office, I immediately assume they're a vendor and trying to sell us something.
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SEKCobra posted:Please educate me about Robert Half, Google isn't doing a great job. Dr. Arbitrary posted:They're trying to get in touch with your current management to replace your department with people getting paid less. You tell them you're looking for a new job and what your salary requirements are, so they contact your management and say "SEKCobra is looking for a new gig, let us help you replace him on the cheap!" and your quiet job search is now a thing. Or they contact the CIO of your whole org and offer to outsource your entire department.
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Sepist posted:There is one downside, I'm pretty sure my fiance is gonna leave me, she hates the hours I put in but all of this OT is going to pay for our wedding. She's used to my 9 - 5 as a contractor where you leave work at work. My engagement didn't survive my first MSP job, mine was all the travel though.
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Internet Explorer posted:I thought PMs having no clue was pretty much par for the course?
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At a US company for 3 years in Santa Clara valley: 3 weeks PTO and sick leave (different buckets), both rollable and bankable to some large number, up to 10 days of comp time as determined by my manager on a project performance basis, all bank holidays save for one, and traditionally the week of Thanksgiving off (just got the email last week) EDIT: This made me look it up, and they are both bankable to 240 hours. NeuralSpark fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Oct 14, 2016 |
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Thanks Ants posted:https://www.jamf.com/products/jamf-pro/ This is the Right and True answer. Don't bother with Apple's Profile Manager. EDIT: Ha, first post on page 666 
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CrazyLittle posted:They will continue to treat you as a regular employee even though that violates federal labor laws. This is the first thing I thought about. You're a statutory employee in this situation.
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TIL that blood letting is still a treatment for some diseases
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I live in 850 sq ft with my girlfriend, and it's a little cramped at times. I'd like to have a another office-type room and a garage.
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I think I read in this thread that if you worked with Microsoft's own licensing team on your needs and they got it wrong or recommended the wrong thing MS was still like "too bad gently caress you"?
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Dick, I've seen you post in the Healthcare Thread. Don't be Asproigerosis.
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TheFace posted:I haven't had a single job in IT where having my BS in Computer Science mattered, outside of having a good start on programming skills that have helped me automate as much of every job as possible. And I'd argue that at this point I'd have learned that on my own anyway. Pretty much this. Discrete structures, file processing, etc all went right out the window as soon as I got my first post-uni job. It helps to be able to read some C every now and then, but I spend my days automating stuff with Python and my org treats me like I’m Prometheus coming down from Olympus with fire.
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Thanatosian posted:Microsoft is notorious for this. It's like a loving caste system, and the contractors are Untouchables. Most of the large tech companies do this as well. There was a stink made a few years back in CA about contractors being statutory employees because they were being treated like employees, getting lunch and attending holiday parties and the like. So now they are excluded lest someone sue.
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Nerdrock posted:Jamf has poo poo for more than just being an MDM. it does system imaging and some other stuff too, I guess. You'll need a headcount just to build / maintain all the installer packages you'll need to keep around.
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Anything else less than two weeks PTO in a professional setting in is an indication that something is really wrong and would give me pause about accepting a position there. Krispy is getting hosed, even with good insurance.
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Vargatron posted:South Carolina for me. Heard that some growing up in Tennessee 
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myron cope posted:Our company was bought by another last week. It won't be a finalized deal until it's approved by regulators in a couple states but of course it will be. I'm worried, but not tremendously. The biggest thing that would suck is losing this laid back job. We pretty much get to do what we want and not get bothered by bosses. As long as regular work gets done nobody goes crazy. But it's possible that the culture changes once the new owners are in place anyway. I always thought that the "nothing will change" statement during an acquisition really meant "please don't start leaving, we need to document what the talented people around here, the ones that could leave easily, do and what they know so we can then have your boss unceremoniously lay them off at 2 pm on a Friday, and then lay him off at 5". NeuralSpark fucked around with this message at 09:15 on Nov 1, 2018 |
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I took over running a video production house, and everything was the SAN. Can’t log in cause you locked out your account by banging your password in too many times with your sausage fingers? It’s the SAN. Printer not working? “The SAN isn’t letting me print!” Final Cut crashed because you made a 15GB project file in a 32bit program? “It’s the SAN, gonna go home ‘cause I can’t work  ” Adobe Premiere crashed because Adobe? It’s the SAN.I ended up hanging an LCD in the break room with a realtime status readout of all the infrastructure using stoplight-style indicators. Didn’t help.
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Agrikk posted:It’s because you have three raid-5 arrays striped in Raid-0. It was actually 32 member RAID-0 where each member was 4 8-drive RAID-5s in a RAID-0 NeuralSpark fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Nov 10, 2018 |
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While I wouldn't post it in a public place (esp. 'cause goons), I know what all my team members make and what a lot of co-workers in other groups in my division make. Honestly, there aren't many surprises there. Fortune 5 company.
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Internet Explorer posted:oh my god "You want me to put what on it?"
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CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:A well known university medical center wants to hire me for a substantial boost over my current salary. However, I have only been in my current job for 6 months and my boss is well known in the field, so moving so soon might earn me some bad guy points in the community. What would you do? Your boss would make the same jump for a "substantial boost", and you should too. GreenNight posted:GET PAID YO This.
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Thanks Ants posted:Full tunnels, ugh BUT MUH DATA...DLP DLP DLP!
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CitizenKain posted:I don’t know what it is with DVR systems, but for sending video quality that looks like poo poo, it sure sucks up bandwidth. If someone views cameras at another site, it can easily take 9mbps out of a 10mbps link. Meanwhile two video conference units can talk at 1080p for around 2. The few systems I messed all used MPEG-2 which isn't nearly as efficient as more modern streaming options
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:No matter where you go, the entire IT department is 2 people and the entire establishment is comprised of Karens. This. This environment also creates either A) the best services consultants ever or B) the worst curmudgeonly neckbeard IT guys ever. When I ran a team at a MSP, I recruited almost exclusively from education. The good ones that could deal with making the aforementioned 20-year-old poo poo work for the Karens in the office had no issue going on-site to a customer's location.
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