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My last 3 titles at my current employment have never been used at the company before and they made them up because they don't give raises higher than cost of living unless you get "promoted".
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Do any of you have tips for working at a startup? Gf got interviewed at a local tech startup (they make custom search algorithms and just got a contract with TI) to be their mobile app designer, and neither of us are sure what questions to ask. The last thing she wants is for the company to be purchase by Google or something and then she is out of a job. She's already interviewed with the CEO, the lead engineer and next week talks to their one HR person, who will detail their offer sheet.
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Aug 9, 2014 17:54
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Docjowles posted:I'll preface this by saying I've worked at a couple startups, and I enjoy it. I don't mean to be bagging on them. That said, a couple things to keep in mind: I appreciate this. The company is 2 years old, so not exactly brand new and they sound decently stable, financial wise. Her current job is extremely stable (doing Java for a billion dollar insurance company) and she already told them she needs to be blown away to consider leaving. Thanks for the advice.
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Aug 9, 2014 20:46
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Awesome, thanks for the info. A lot is going to come down to what they offer. She is still young (graduated college a year ago), where as I'm 33, so now's the time to do the start ups and so forth, if it makes sense, salary and benefit wise.
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Aug 10, 2014 01:17
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Inspector_666 posted:If it involved re-racking everything I would totally do it. I like racking stuff. Want to come "rack" a few Cisco switches on a "cabinet" towards the ceiling of one of our manufacturing plants? Only about 105F up there and extremely dusty with tons of spiders. It's considered an actual rack!
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Aug 11, 2014 15:49
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Sitting in the doctors office. I like how all their computers are windows xp.
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Aug 12, 2014 18:29
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Yeah I'm not sure if either of us will fully understand equity compensation if there happens to be any. And it's not like she can afford a lawyer to explain it to her.
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Aug 13, 2014 00:26
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Yeah Epic here in Madison, WI only accepts applicants with four year degrees.
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Aug 15, 2014 19:47
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Just answer interviews like this, ok?
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Aug 18, 2014 16:34
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600 person company. 100 or so in the office, all whites. Rest in the manufacturing plant. All minorities.
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Aug 18, 2014 17:08
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Not necessarily. About 4 or 5 years ago we moved from GroupWise to Exchange and I can count on one hand how many times I had to use Powershell, and that was only to get a report of mailbox sizes.
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Aug 20, 2014 18:18
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Right but I was more talking every day management. One offs like that are for sure better in Powershell. We're not big enough to ever see those type of projects.
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Aug 20, 2014 18:31
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mayodreams posted:I literally just did this for ~800 users. I am finally on the tail end of the implementation, but Jesus Christ I am glad it is almost over. I haven't had a work free weekend in 2 months. We had it easy - no public folders, no archiving and no pst files. Suck it, users.
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Aug 20, 2014 23:22
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Na, they didn't have any of that stuff with GroupWise so they didn't know what they were missing.
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Aug 20, 2014 23:39
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I spend less than $50/week and I don't just eat ramen and hot pockets. That's groceries and not going out.
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Sep 4, 2014 17:32
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I'm salary but I can't remember the last time I worked late or weekends. The worst it gets is if I spend an hour at home updating servers at 10pm while drinking a few beers and watching Netflix. Not too bad.
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Sep 9, 2014 14:17
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Cisco rep took me out to an expensive meal, which was a wonderful gesture until I remembered that it's coming out of their margin. "Here, have a little bit of what you overpaid us back." Well the dinner goes directly to your stomach, the amount your company paid doesn't come out of your paycheck.
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Sep 12, 2014 19:20
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PCjr sidecar posted:I'd guess that'd cost about fifteen million merits. Black Mirror, yay.
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Sep 13, 2014 22:24
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I'm the same as dogstile. Working out just drains me and I want to sleep immediately after.
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Sep 18, 2014 23:15
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Cardio mainly. But I've stopped for a while until I move into my new house.
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Sep 18, 2014 23:21
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Gf got offered a job at a 5 year old company for 10 grand more than she is making now. Absolutely no benefits except for some stock and vacation. She could get Obamacare for around $230/mo for a very good plan. She currently is really disliking her job at the insurance company, but she does get a good 401k matching and benefit package. She is only 24, so maybe that stuff doesn't matter right now. She has no clue what to do. The big catch of the company for her is that she would be working on a whole bunch of stuff instead of staring at Java code all day bored out of skull.
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Sep 22, 2014 19:40
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The new job has zero 401k, her current is 50cents of every dollar up to 6%. She sent back a counter offer with an extra 5k salary and 3 weeks of vacation but they said sure, we can increase your wage, but we're halving your stock options. She wants to take it less for the money, but believes it's a better career move.
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Sep 22, 2014 20:06
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Tab8715 posted:Eh, so it's more like a 3% match and now it's halved how much is required to vest? 4 years. The stock she would be getting would be worth $30,000 at current rates.
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Sep 22, 2014 21:02
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Bob Morales posted:I want a big list of computers just like we have where I can get on any of them in one click. Teamviewer does that.
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Oct 13, 2014 19:01
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adorai posted:Ever tried dameware? I have found it to be between sccm and vnc in terms of usefulness. I think Dameware is internal only, so basically worthless for outside workers unless they are connected to VPN.
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Oct 13, 2014 19:36
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Depends what the size of the office is. I do tons of Desktop Support, but my official title is Network Administrator and I get paid like one.
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Oct 19, 2014 15:37
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psydude posted:DAF's new "gently caress you, got mine" attitude runs pretty contrary to this, which is a shame I know a few IT folks with this attitude. It blows.
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Nov 29, 2014 18:49
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Yeah the company I work for, they match half up to 6%. So I have to give 6% and they will match 3%. Also the 5 years before you get it. It used to be 12% but they used the 2008 economic downturn to take quite a few things away.
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Dec 17, 2014 18:25
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Zenworks has a pretty sweet imaging tool, but you could also use the free Microsoft tools. Both zen and MS can PXE boot.
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Dec 17, 2014 18:58
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Cheap, easy, useful. Pick two.
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Dec 29, 2014 21:15
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I was discussing intranet software, obviously.
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Dec 29, 2014 21:58
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You can be like my boss and implement Sharepoint without any training and expect people to just use it because "it's made by Microsoft, how hard can it be".
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Dec 29, 2014 22:06
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We got rid of Novell 3-4 years ago. Hard to find support anymore.
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Jan 7, 2015 23:04
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I liked GW a lot when we ran it. We had an ActiveSync server for mobile phones, but it was nice that Exchange has that built in.
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Jan 7, 2015 23:20
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We're doing network maintenance this Saturday, which means we're taking down the entire network for about 4 hours. We sent out emails detailing this over the past month. Today the CFO came in and said all the auditors are coming in Saturday, and does this mean they can't get email and network access???
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Jan 15, 2015 04:32
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We have a poo poo ton of twinax still in the walls. That stuff is no fun when you need to snake new cables.
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Jan 20, 2015 22:30
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Our IT dept fridge is in the server room heh.
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Feb 2, 2015 02:33
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evol262 posted:You'd be surprised how effective keeping things under the tiles is No doubt. Our server room is carpet on top of concrete. The carpet isn't even the fancy no static electricity carpet. The building is from the 1920s so go figure.
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Feb 2, 2015 15:09
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The heat is out in the office, so it's 46F in here. I might as well go hang in the server room which is a nice balmy 75F.
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Yes, you can setup a private cloud that connects your datacenter to AWS. You specify which ports you want to communicate on and it's all firewalled traffic. It's as secure as you make it. It's also expensive depending on the amount of traffic.
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