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skipdogg posted:So get ridiculous with them. This is almost exactly what I just did with the recruiter. Of course he replied that it was an MSP, which was on my no list, and asked if I wanted to apply anyways. You don't have to "be ridiculous" though, just list what you want & don't want. If they reply then you can weigh the good versus bad to see if it may still be worthwhile. If they do not reply or refuse to confirm something then you probably don't want to work there anyways. Content: Pissing me off. Upgrading a Cisco ASA5510 from software version 7.0(6) to 9.1(4). They changed so much stuff that it is hard to tell what is what now. I kinda knew what different things were in the old running-config but the new one is a LOT different. And since it is so different I am not sure if the upgrade messed anything up, or more accurately WHAT it messed up. We bought a 2nd unit for backup and I am upgrading it to the latest version before putting it in and then will upgrade the current box to the same version. Something is not right in the conversion because some of my outside VoiP phones do not work. Does anyone know of a good resource for learning the ins and outs of the latest Cisco Asa software? I am trying to read stuff on the Cisco site but it is making my head hurt.
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Today I got an e-mail out of the blue about a paid internship opportunity with a healthcare company, on either the QA or COBOL teams. I have no idea how I ended up on a list that would include either of those. Also COBOL. 
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Inspector_666 posted:Today I got an e-mail out of the blue about a paid internship opportunity with a healthcare company, on either the QA or COBOL teams. Internship on a COBOL team? As if anyone who knows COBOL would take an internship when they can get a 150k+ job instead. poo poo that's pissing me off today: Gmail and their constant erosion of the simple, clean mail solution it used to be. I don't want to receive mail from random idiots on G+, and I really don't like that Google made it out-out. Outlook.com is looking better and better every day, if only there was an iPhone app for it. 
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Crowley posted:Internship on a COBOL team? As if anyone who knows COBOL would take an internship when they can get a 150k+ job instead. I dont have google plus anymore, how will it work?
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Jan 10, 2014 21:40
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You can now email your Google+ contacts without knowing their email, that's it.
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FISHMANPET posted:You can now email your Google+ contacts without knowing their email, that's it. and anyone on G+ can email you, even if they don't know your email. Wonderful. (granted, they can only mail you once until you reply) Google posted:Receiving email from people outside your circles Edit: Sirotan said I should post the opt-out instructions too. You can find them here, right at the bottom of the page. Crowley fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Jan 10, 2014 |
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Jan 10, 2014 21:45
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Crowley posted:Internship on a COBOL team? As if anyone who knows COBOL would take an internship when they can get a 150k+ job instead. The tabbed inbox was a nice addition for creating a very simple "filter mail into stuff I don't care about seeing quickly and stuff I do" that's much quicker to configure than the filter creation process.
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So, the company I work for was bought by a huge corporation at the beginning of 2013. They are still switching systems over. The latest thing to switch over was our timekeeping system. I find the whole time keeping regulations here slightly insane. First of all, you are supposed to fill in your time card each day. As a new policy due to the integration into corporate's timekeeping system if you do not have your timecard finished and electronically signed by 2pm on Friday your paycheck will not be direct deposited, and you will instead get a paper check at some unspecified day in the future. As salaried employees. Wtf.
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Khisanth Magus posted:So, the company I work for was bought by a huge corporation at the beginning of 2013. They are still switching systems over. The latest thing to switch over was our timekeeping system. I find the whole time keeping regulations here slightly insane. First of all, you are supposed to fill in your time card each day. As a new policy due to the integration into corporate's timekeeping system if you do not have your timecard finished and electronically signed by 2pm on Friday your paycheck will not be direct deposited, and you will instead get a paper check at some unspecified day in the future. As salaried employees. Wtf. Was this a financial company by any chance?
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Sickening posted:Was this a financial company by any chance? Nope. IT contractor.
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quote:Unfortunately, your expectations are higher than our salary range based on your skill level and certifications specific for the position at [company]. O no my certifications
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Crowley posted:Internship on a COBOL team? As if anyone who knows COBOL would take an internship when they can get a 150k+ job instead. If you get pciked you either go to QA or COBOL training. Here's the full e-mail: quote:Hi, Note that I also do not have a Comp Sci, Mathematics or related field degree. And yes, they did misspell analytic in the e-mail. EDIT: honestly the posting doesn't sound terrible, but I have no interest in either QA nor programming, am not a recent college graduate (unless a year and change counts) and have no idea who this person or company are.
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Inspector_666 posted:If you get pciked you either go to QA or COBOL training. Recruiters love coders straight out of college. The profit margins are insane.
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Inspector_666 posted:Note that I also do not have a Comp Sci, Mathematics or related field degree. And yes, they did misspell analytic in the e-mail. What do you expect from a presiges healthcare company that offers dential? Go for an interview the beginning and Febrary and you might be trainning soon! I'm totally shite at typing and can misspell all day long, but I'm not sending client/applicant-facing documents, either. :twitch: "Spell-check, motherfucker, can you s... why am I even asking?" 
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:What do you expect from a presiges healthcare company that offers dential? Go for an interview the beginning and Febrary and you might be trainning soon! Oh sory, when I wrote $52,000 in the last e mail it should bee $25,000, I asume your still intrested in the postion?
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Turn up to the interview to correct their spelling.
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Khisanth Magus posted:So, the company I work for was bought by a huge corporation at the beginning of 2013. They are still switching systems over. The latest thing to switch over was our timekeeping system. I find the whole time keeping regulations here slightly insane. First of all, you are supposed to fill in your time card each day. As a new policy due to the integration into corporate's timekeeping system if you do not have your timecard finished and electronically signed by 2pm on Friday your paycheck will not be direct deposited, and you will instead get a paper check at some unspecified day in the future. As salaried employees. Wtf. Your company's name doesn't happen to include the word net, does it?
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Khisanth Magus posted:So, the company I work for was bought by a huge corporation at the beginning of 2013. They are still switching systems over. The latest thing to switch over was our timekeeping system. I find the whole time keeping regulations here slightly insane. First of all, you are supposed to fill in your time card each day. As a new policy due to the integration into corporate's timekeeping system if you do not have your timecard finished and electronically signed by 2pm on Friday your paycheck will not be direct deposited, and you will instead get a paper check at some unspecified day in the future. As salaried employees. Wtf. This sounds like a prime candidate for an automated script. I don't suppose you have a copy of WinRunner...
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Crowley posted:and anyone on G+ can email you, even if they don't know your email. Wonderful. The big problem is that this means that spammers can email you from your G+ profile, and they only plan on that sending account working once anyway.
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skipdogg posted:So get ridiculous with them. What is amazing to me is that, if you looked solid on paper and interviewed well and I was ready to hire you right now, I would get shot down by HR if I were to offer you $105,000. What is so hosed about HR is that the message that they send to a potential employee is exactly the opposite of what they should be sending. If you ask for $100k and I offer you 90k, what is the message you receive? The message is that we really want you but no we don't value you and we don't really care that you are happy to come aboard here or not. The argument that I had, over and over again with our HR folks is that if we could offer them more than they asked for, we would have that employee for loving life, man. (or until the poo poo job for which they were hired fully revealed itself). Seriously. A senior systems engineer spot at my last gig made between $105-120k and we had a guy ask for $110. I asked HR to pay him $115 because I wanted him to feel valued and appreciated right out the gate and I felt he was worth it. We brought him on for $110 (and I couldn't tell him that I tried for $115) and since he came on with us, I suppose he was satisfied. What I could never make HR understand is that for a measly five k per year more, we could have made this guy's day and made him an advocate for working at our company. ("Dude, they offered me MORE than what I asked! Can you believe that poo poo?") Sure, it's 5k per year more for his entire career here but it is still a tiny fraction of the total salary expense for the entire company. Even assuming you do this for every employee, isn't a 3-4% bump in salary expense company-wide worth the performance gain and retention longevity received by a high-morale team?
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Volmarias posted:The big problem is that this means that spammers can email you from your G+ profile, and they only plan on that sending account working once anyway. Because spammers never just sent emails at random before??
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Inspector_666 posted:EDIT: honestly the posting doesn't sound terrible, but I have no interest in either QA nor programming, am not a recent college graduate (unless a year and change counts) and have no idea who this person or company are. I still get these from time to time and I graduated 11 years ago. IT recruiters are both hilariously bad and - for the company - hilariously expensive. There's a reason that every company I have worked for has had some sort of bonus system if you can introduce them to one of your friends who is a good programmer.
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Install Windows posted:Because spammers never just sent emails at random before??
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anthonypants posted:But now they don't even need to buy your e-mail address. I can't see why Google's spam filter would be any less effective against spam from a Google+ account. If anything it should be more intelligent as it can consider things like the age of the account and whether or not it's connected to any of your circles. That's not to say I didn't disable this option immediately (mostly because I don't use Google+) but it's not necessarily the drama people are trying to make it out to be.
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Crowley posted:Internship on a COBOL team? As if anyone who knows COBOL would take an internship when they can get a 150k+ job instead. How desperate are people for COBOL, really? My mom did it for about a decade roughly a billion years ago and is looking to go back to work.
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Pudgygiant posted:How desperate are people for COBOL, really? My mom did it for about a decade roughly a billion years ago and is looking to go back to work. Our entire business hinges on a program written 30 years ago that nobody knows how to maintain, and would cost tens of millions to replace. We need changes made due to new taxes/laws/acqusitions/random c-level requests. Please come fix our piece of poo poo. Sincerely, every fortune 500.
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COBOL is in high enough demand that Computer Science programs are starting to teach it again. It's not sexy work, so lots of young techies want nothing to do with it. At the same time, there are lots of legacy systems that nobody wants to upgrade, but the support is retiring out of the work force. Supply and demand is keeping compensation fairly high, especially for people with a lot of experience.
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rolleyes posted:I can't see why Google's spam filter would be any less effective against spam from a Google+ account. If anything it should be more intelligent as it can consider things like the age of the account and whether or not it's connected to any of your circles. Well you say that...
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luminalflux posted:In It should be noted that this is the minimum that a company must follow. Plenty of companies give you full pay for the full duration of the first 14 days. Though I'm not certain of the limits, I'm pretty sure that what the state reimburses you after 14 days is only a certain percentage of your salary up to a maximum. I believe you a given 80% of your salary up to ~30k SEK (equivalent to about $55k), which is really quite low. A developer for example might expect to earn ~50-60k SEK, or about $100k usd yearly in Stockholm (capital).
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the first sick day you don't get paid for. The following days you get 80% pay (minimum, collective bargaining agreement can set this higher) from your employer, day 2-14. Though after day 8 the employer doesn't have to pay though if the employee can't produce a statement from a doctor that they can't work. After 15 days the state pays your sick pay.
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I take back everything I ever said about coming in sick if you absolutely have to. I'm dizzy as hell, i'm shaking, i feel cold and I have no balance whatsoever. gently caress the guy who gave this to me, its awful.
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MW posted:It should be noted that this is the minimum that a company must follow. Plenty of companies give you full pay for the full duration of the first 14 days. Though I'm not certain of the limits, I'm pretty sure that what the state reimburses you after 14 days is only a certain percentage of your salary up to a maximum. I believe you a given 80% of your salary up to ~30k SEK (equivalent to about $55k), which is really quite low. A developer for example might expect to earn ~50-60k SEK, or about $100k usd yearly in Stockholm (capital). Here the first 4 days are paid by the employeer and then you have 3 weeks full pay and after that it declines to half I think. Some certain groups have slightly longer drop off tho.
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MW posted:It should be noted that this is the minimum that a company must follow. Plenty of companies give you full pay for the full duration of the first 14 days. Though I'm not certain of the limits, I'm pretty sure that what the state reimburses you after 14 days is only a certain percentage of your salary up to a maximum. I believe you a given 80% of your salary up to ~30k SEK (equivalent to about $55k), which is really quite low. A developer for example might expect to earn ~50-60k SEK, or about $100k usd yearly in Stockholm (capital). I...think some of your numbers are off by a factor of 10?
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teethgrinder posted:poo poo that pisses me off ... for some reason cannot get CouchDB, any modern version, to run on CentOS6 when compiling from source. The old packaged 1.0.4 version runs great, but the programmers need anything a bit newer. Never been stymied this hard before when setting up servers. So little documentation about it, apparently very few people run Couch on CentOS, and the couple of guides that exist don't work. No errors when/if compiling Erlang, Spidermonkey, and CouchDB. It just doesn't start, with no errors logged anywhere. I feel like some dependency got updated (ironically) in CentOS which is breaking it. Erlang is really tricky and lovely about hostname resolution. Have you tried troubleshooting with Erl?
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Jesus gently caress OpenVPN (the commercial version) has dick all in the way of useful documentation, so you email the support people and it's run by a stereotypical Linux nerd who seems to think " well the thing you are trying to do is in this documentation here that search doesn't find and isn't linked from the page you were looking at at all"
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Have you seen the OpenVPN support forums? It's the other extreme of "how do i do computer?" OpenVPN and per-client LZO compression is a great example of the documentation and support completely failing. I'd love to know why they don't just add LZ4 compression and fix the configuration and negotiation.
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Westie posted:Talking of money, apparently I'm paid 46% less than the average rate for someone in my role. Time to  and exaggerate your current pay.
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