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TheEffect posted:Also, if a company gives you the greenlight to use whatever title you want on your resume take them up on it man! Don't go overboard and say you were a director or something, but definitely make yourself sound good. Essentially when you're job hunting you're trying to sell yourself to a company. Don't undervalue your previous accomplishments or work experience. This pretty much. Don't lie about it but put down whatever is actually applicable to the job you're interviewing for. My title is related to Operational Security but if I was applying for a straight up analyst position I'd apply with my title being "Intrusion Analyst" or whatever sounded good but was truthful. You can at least get by any title checkers that way.
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Sepist posted:Unless your rockstar contractor refuses to take less money for the F/T employment and there's too much red tape to get that kind of pay grade approved in this years budget Yeah.. I think we're about to lose a great employee because of this. Paycut and requiring moving to another (terrible) state 
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I'm taking a rare "full" day off - full meaning, I don't even have my phone syncing emails, Outlook is closed, and my home VOIP is set to do not disturb. I'm gone, I'm out, find someone else. However, my boss asked if we could have a quick phone call at 9am. Okay, that's fine. And my boss, knowing how I value my time and what I think of people who can't read clocks, called me at precisely 9am. You've got to respect that. Except he was calling to let me know he's giving notice today. Son of a bitch. I love working with and for this guy, because he does what a boss needs to do - provides cover, shelters me from the bullshit, listens to my hairbrained schemes to spend company money, and then lets me execute. I don't know who they're going to bring in, but I know that it's not going to be what it was.
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Aug 29, 2014 17:16
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I'm taking a rare "full" day off - full meaning, I don't even have my phone syncing emails, Outlook is closed, and my home VOIP is set to do not disturb. I'm gone, I'm out, find someone else. However, my boss asked if we could have a quick phone call at 9am. Okay, that's fine. And my boss, knowing how I value my time and what I think of people who can't read clocks, called me at precisely 9am. You've got to respect that. That sucks man. I already told my current boss if he leaves he better take me with him. He said if he leaves he'll be taking us all.
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Aug 29, 2014 17:28
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Except he was calling to let me know he's giving notice today. Son of a bitch. I love working with and for this guy, because he does what a boss needs to do - provides cover, shelters me from the bullshit, listens to my hairbrained schemes to spend company money, and then lets me execute. I don't know who they're going to bring in, but I know that it's not going to be what it was. Sorry to hear that, I'd feel exactly the same about my current boss and would probably quit rather than go through the total shitshow that would result if he left.
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Aug 29, 2014 17:32
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Who I'm reporting to, and the quality of that relationship, is the single largest factor in my job satisfaction.
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Aug 29, 2014 18:43
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I don't think most HR Departments or Recruiters would throw your resume aside if they saw a title that wasn't sufficient. At some point everyone goes from Help Desk Technician to System Administrator.Sarcasmatron posted:Who I'm reporting to, and the quality of that relationship, is the single largest factor in my job satisfaction. This and having one primary supervisor not a dozen.
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Aug 29, 2014 19:26
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In other news, Oregon AG: "Oracle sold the State of Oregon a lie." Statesmen Jorunal posted:Oracle committed fraud and racketeering, breached contracts, and made a series of false claims in its dealings with the State of Oregon's Cover Oregon website project, according to the lawsuit filed Friday morning by Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum's office. I knew Oracle was always kind of sketchy but drat.
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Aug 29, 2014 19:28
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Surprise: Oracle is literal poo poo. Who knew?!
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Aug 29, 2014 19:29
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Not the CEO
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Aug 29, 2014 19:32
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Oregon AG: "Oracle sold the State of Oregon a lie." Literally everyone else on earth: "...no poo poo. What the gently caress did you expect from Oracle?"
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Even if we knew better and share in our collective lack of surprise, I hope this puts a massive dent in Oracle's pocketbook*. * - Sidebar, I almost didn't say pocketbook because I don't know if this is even a word anymore. Also, why did "billfold" fall out of use? What a fantastic word. The truly important matters of the day.
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Aug 29, 2014 19:42
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I dunno, my grandma still says pocketbook. So to her it's still a word.
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It really only gets used in the sense of "Hit them in the pocketbook," I don't think I've ever heard someone say something like "Let me see if I saved the receipt in my pocketbook"
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Aug 30, 2014 21:59
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Docjowles posted:Oregon AG: "Oracle sold the State of Oregon a lie." I would be VERY surprised if the truth is anything except "both sides are 100% full of poo poo and just trying to avoid spending money on the other"
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Except he was calling to let me know he's giving notice today. Son of a bitch. I love working with and for this guy, because he does what a boss needs to do - provides cover, shelters me from the bullshit, listens to my hairbrained schemes to spend company money, and then lets me execute. I don't know who they're going to bring in, but I know that it's not going to be what it was. Throw your hat into the ring.
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Aug 31, 2014 22:14
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I've got a coworker who is interested in doing some side work doing home PC repair. I recall there was a website that people were recommending for that kind of thing but I can't remember what it was. Anyone remember or know good places to get started on that kind of thing?
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Sep 2, 2014 04:17
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Geekatoo might be the site you were thinking of.
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Venusy posted:Geekatoo might be the site you were thinking of. I'm almost certain you're right. Thanks!
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Day one of my sysadmin degree program. Everyone is in front of a computer with no hard drive and the BIOS screaming about it. I must show restraint. I must not grab a Linux live USB out of my bag...
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Kazinsal posted:Day one of my sysadmin degree program. Everyone is in front of a computer with no hard drive and the BIOS screaming about it. But maybe it's a test...
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Inspector_666 posted:But maybe it's a test... Yes, a test to see if you can think like a user. You'll have to submit a ticket (by phone, or, better yet, flagging down some passing student in the hallway and having him/her do it for you) to the wrong help desk (in this case, I suggest facilities or a backup team, if your school has one), with something not only wrong, but offensively wrong. "User Jomothy called in to report that Student Sambatha said that Instructor Robecka is having minor issues with the scanner in classroom 127x. Plz do the revertful."
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In this thread we're spending our day documenting, documenting, documenting.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:In this thread we're spending our day documenting, documenting, documenting. Yes. SOC procedures. Yawn.
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Turns out the computers were unrelated and after a short tour of the campus they let us wander around for... Three hours. It's now 11am. Orientation is 1:30pm. Time to get lost on the bus system, or maybe figure out what's behind the door with a radiation warning on it...
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Kazinsal posted:Time to get lost on the bus system, or maybe figure out what's behind the door with a radiation warning on it... Tie cupboard.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Surprise: Oracle is literal poo poo. Who knew?! Replace Oracle with any software vendor that also does it's own consultancy. Salesforce hosed my company in the arse hard with their "Professional Services". 3 years down the road and a good 25% of my time is spent fixing their crap and replacing the test classes they wrote that always return true just to get coverage above the contracted 90% number.
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I started my first day at this new gig and had a training session via GoToMeeting, and poked around their wiki and ticket system. I'm like feeling a little overwhelmed with information overload but at the same time a little underwhelmed with how they organize things. Since there are two sys admins and one guy above us, I don't yet know how much input I will end up having in what happens. This is the first time I switched jobs in a place where they actually appreciated me, so it all feels weird. I guess the worst thing that happens is I decide this place isn't for me after 6 months or whatever and end up getting another pay raise out of it.
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Chiming in with the gently caress Oracle crowd. After our last storage architect left, the company decided not to replace him, and so handed all of his responsibilities to an already over-worked and under-staffed ops department. Sounds like a recipe for success, eh? He left us in the middle of a migration off of our 10 year old storage infrastructure to a bunch of misconfigured (by him) multi-million dollar Oracle appliances. Not all of our issues stem from the previous guys gently caress-ups, we've had several tickets in with Oracle and they've had to write custom workflows and OS patches to actually get the properly configured machines to not fall over in production. Getting anything from their support is like pulling teeth, just glad I'm not the guy that has to bitch and moan
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Does anyone have recommendations of online training for end-users on network security? Like something that teaches them general best practices: what do suspicious emails look like, don't use bittorrent to download and old version garageband for work, that kind of thing.
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Promoted! One year and two months in, they're sticking "Senior" in front of my Systems Administrator title.
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Awesome.  My boss gave his notice, but is also willing to listen to counter offers. If they give him enough money, he'll stay. What my poor boss's boss doesn't know is that if my boss doesn't stay, and I'm expected to pick up the slack, he will immediately receive from me, my new salary demands. 
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NevergirlsOFFICIAL posted:Does anyone have recommendations of online training for end-users on network security? Like something that teaches them general best practices: what do suspicious emails look like, don't use bittorrent to download and old version garageband for work, that kind of thing. It doesn't matter - you could have them do the same training every day for six months, and after all that they'd still open a loving phishing email or click on the .exe attachment from UPS about a delivery they didn't know they were getting.
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In lieu of formal training, why don't you just send out some suspicious-looking honeypot emails every once in a while, but instead of a malicious .exe attached to it, you attach a Powershell script that sets their speakers to full volume and opens up one of those gag "HEY EVERYONE, I'M LOOKING AT GRANNY PORN" flash pages? They'll catch on after a few incidents. Maybe.
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"Er Jimmy why are people getting these virus emails that's what we pay you to stop!!!!!"
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YOTJ, I'm currently employed and bored, just got an exciting new job offer, but it's going to need some serious tweaks. (a) I'd be making 5k more than before, but it's salaried instead of hourly, and the new place isn't exactly renowned for work-life balance. (b) Job title going from "Lead Systems Engineer" to "Senior Desktop Support" (uhg) (c) Lots of perks at my current job I can't get at the new one (free meals, etc) that make it $20-30k more valuable than the new job All I can think to do is: 1) Insist (a) and (b) be changed to what I want (the new job freely admits my offer is low but they honestly don't have the budget for higher, so they should be able to make some concessions, right?) 2) Tell my current job they can keep me for 20ish hours a week (so I can maintain access to perks), on the conditions of no off-hour trouble calls, I work nights and they raise my wage to match the new job. This is absolutely, wildly in their favor because I've been the only person running the network for 5 years, but the CEO is a dopey, pointy-haired hired gun and I have a feeling he's not going to know what's best for himself or that it's practically impossible to get someone with my level of skill for my level of pay.
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That doesn't sound like a parallel move at all. Certainly not upward.
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My opinion keep looking and don't take job a. 5k isn't worth it
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That sounds like a step backwards, and the only reason I would ever advise someone to do something like that is if your health or sanity were on the line. 5k sounds like you'd be making more, but going from hourly to salary will likely leave you making equal to or less than what you currently make. Pass unless it is clearly a huge stepping stone (it isn't). Boredom is okay - it gives you more time to study and work on certs, so use your time wisely.
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I guess it sort of depends where you are on the pay scale but if you could get the new and keep the old for only 20 hours it would work out. There's also free food,
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