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Everything about that job screams "cirrhosis of the liver in 3 months".
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Sickening posted:Everything you want can be done in powershell and turning on logging. Great, thanks for the insights. This is more of a 'going forward' sort of thing. We use SecureWorks for a lot of log monitoring so I am going to reach out to them to see if we can add that WID into our automated reporting.
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Race Realists posted:http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/opp645184.jsp That will haunt you forever.
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quote:Be a committed Christian who demonstrates a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. Exhibit strong commitment and dedication to the pro-life position and sexual purity. Agree with and be willing to uphold the Statement of Principle, Statement of Faith, and policies of the center. Have experience computer networking and able to train others. (Experience is preferred, but not mandatory.) Exhibit excellent organizational skills and typing ability. Be self-motivated, dependable, and responsible. I get that you're desperate but no one should be that desperate.
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Mar 5, 2015 15:26
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Jesus can wait, servers/storage/network cannot.
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Mar 5, 2015 15:42
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I get most of you are recoiling in horror to the Jesus bits, but this is the actually terrifying partquote:Have experience computer networking and able to train others. (Experience is preferred, but not mandatory.) Exhibit excellent organizational skills and typing ability. Be self-motivated, dependable, and responsible. They're looking for someone responsible for everything IT (strike one), experience is not mandatory (strike two), excellent typing ability is considered worth mentioning (strike three).
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Mar 5, 2015 16:19
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This is a volunteer position right? Wow.
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Mar 5, 2015 16:21
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Race Realists posted:http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/opp645184.jsp Look at the bright side, if stuff breaks you can blame them for not being devout enough. 
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Mar 5, 2015 17:49
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Don't need backups, Jesus has all the data retention we need ~~~
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Mar 5, 2015 18:04
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On the positive side, when the filers all fail you can channel Edward G. Robinson "Where is your messiah now?"
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Mar 5, 2015 18:06
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https://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/03/03/no-lunch-hour Jesus. Only 1 in 5 take lunch? I try to take one every day, at least 30 minutes if not longer, away from my desk. I've never found that productivity = hours spent at desk.
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Mar 5, 2015 18:12
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I used to spend all my lunches in the breakroom until people would spend the time asking me about their home computer. Now I eat at my desk and browse the internets.
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Mar 5, 2015 18:15
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Gyshall posted:Don't need backups, Jesus has all the data retention we need ~~~ Nay, blessed be the SAN, that which may bestow upon us terabytes of the Lord's Word. May the Word deduplicate well, so that Thine followers doth not overextend Thine storage budget. May the Word's replication hold strong, so that His Will be preserved through rapture. May the fabric be zoned in accordance to His will, the Lord taketh and the Lord doth giveth. May Thine link aggregates holdfast, so that The Lord's desires be speedily delivered. In the name of the VSphere, the Brocade, and the ghost of DAF, amen. SSH IT ZOMBIE fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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Mar 5, 2015 18:29
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Some days I'll take an actual hour lunch but most of time I eat at my desk. That doesn't mean I'm necessarily working - sure I'm lightly skimming my work emails, tickets, tech documentation but I'm primarily focusing on my personal email, reading the news, SA, blogs, etc. Nor do I understand why everyone must go to lunch at exactly noon. Maybe it's a Midwestern thing 
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Mar 5, 2015 18:36
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I've often told people that first year or so of breakout experience is almost worth doing for free, but I never actually have had anyone do it. So in the interest of science, take it, get some basic experience, flagrantly violate their sexual purity credo by sleeping with all the repressed idiots there, then report back to us with great stories. Please.
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Mar 5, 2015 18:39
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Tab8715 posted:Some days I'll take an actual hour lunch but most of time I eat at my desk. That doesn't mean I'm necessarily working - sure I'm lightly skimming my work emails, tickets, tech documentation but I'm primarily focusing on my personal email, reading the news, SA, blogs, etc. Eh, for the people who DO take lunch where I am, I'd say 75% of them do the exactly at noon thing. I'm anywhere from 11:30-1:30. A year ago they built us a gym, and offer classes and stuff, so 2-3 times a week I do that, it's pretty sweet. A LOT of people do eat at their desk, and work through lunch.
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Mar 5, 2015 18:40
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SSH IT ZOMBIE posted:https://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/03/03/no-lunch-hour I eat at my desk and stop working whenever because it means I don't waste a hour doing nothing because I am being forced to. I work 8-4 with no "real" lunch and it works out great.
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Mar 5, 2015 18:46
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We go out to lunch every day, and bill for it since we mostly talk shop.
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Mar 5, 2015 18:53
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My boss asks me out to lunch often and talks shop then makes me pay for my own half. Now I just tell him I have other plans. poo poo gets expensive.
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Mar 5, 2015 18:59
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"But Technician, why has my IP Phone stopped working and lost it's address?" "DHCP works in mysterious ways" Also not taking lunch is madness, if someone really needs me to do something I'll do it and extend the time of my break.
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Mar 5, 2015 19:54
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I almost never take lunch. I can't relax in the middle of work, so what's the point? This way I get done an hour faster, I just stop by a drive-through or get something I can eat in my car.
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Mar 5, 2015 20:33
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I've started skipping lunch and started going for long walks. I always just get sleepy as hell after lunch, and my wife is going to force feed me when I get home, whether I'm hungry or not.
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Mar 5, 2015 20:43
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I just had an amazing conversation with another sales rep I work with re: full duplex. He was trying to say that a 700mbps wireless link is going to give 1400mbps of throughput because the manufacturer said it's full duplex so "it's faster than the gigabit fiber run they have now!"  I told him "That's like saying your dick is 12 inches because it's 6 in AND out."
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Mar 5, 2015 20:49
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I almost never take lunch. I can't relax in the middle of work, so what's the point? This way I get done an hour faster, I just stop by a drive-through or get something I can eat in my car. Well, anecdotally, 10 years ago, when I was hourly, we just filled out a timesheet. 9-5:30 went on the timesheet, unless sick. Everyone went out to lunch. The reality is sometimes we'd work off hours, and our boss didn't care if we took comp time. Technically not legal by department of labor standards, but no one seemed to care. The hourly people on the team were treated a lot more like salary folks with PTO. It kind of worked out for everyone. Apparently that was abused in some departments, lawsuits happened because some employees worked all sorts of OT without getting paid for it. Kronos came along, and all that ended. Fortunately by that point I was salary. I haven't had to punch a clock in years, but it sounds like we're going to start soon. At least once a day to show you came in. For people talking about finishing an hour faster, are you all hourly? Or salary? Pretty sure electronic timesheets killed off the concept of the lunch hour for all our hourly people. Most of them opt to leave early, and eat at their desk.
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Jesus christ take a break, even if it's just a walk outside for a bit. I'm in a fortunate position where I'm in central London so a walk over to the Houses of Parliament, London Eye, St Pauls cathedral etc. is easily doable which gives a decent reason to get outside, but even when it wasn't I'd go and find a bench somewhere and sit for a bit. If you're salaried then the work still gets done, and there's the understanding that slower weeks have you leaving earlier. I'd hate to have to work to a clock outside of making sure I was at appointments when I said I'd be.
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Mar 5, 2015 22:13
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KillHour posted:I told him "That's like saying your dick is 12 inches because it's 6 in AND out." Hahaha this is great
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Mar 5, 2015 22:28
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Thanks Ants posted:If you're salaried then the work still gets done, and there's the understanding that slower weeks have you leaving earlier. That is the theory.
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Thanks Ants posted:Jesus christ take a break, even if it's just a walk outside for a bit. I'm in a fortunate position where I'm in central London so a walk over to the Houses of Parliament, London Eye, St Pauls cathedral etc. is easily doable which gives a decent reason to get outside, but even when it wasn't I'd go and find a bench somewhere and sit for a bit. When I do take a actual lunch this is the real reason I want to get out of the office and move around. Unfortunately, given sub-urban sprawl this isn't always possible.
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There are slower weeks? As far as I can tell, weeks are just on a feedback loop of acceleration. I usually eat at my desk and then wander around outside for close to an hour. But I haven't been able to do that in months due to the weather.
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Mar 5, 2015 23:30
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Can anyone recommend a flash-drive with a physical write-protect switch that isn't totally shady? Something like 64gb that I can set to read-only after I turn it into a boot drive with images, so it never gets corrupted from constant removals, or gets a virus on it.
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I took a tour today of my new employer's largest location. I think I might be working at Aperture Science. No portals or companion cubes were in plain sight.  Also my candidate for weirdest thing I've ever found in an MPOE: 
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Zero VGS posted:Can anyone recommend a flash-drive with a physical write-protect switch that isn't totally shady? Try looking up some "secure" usb drives or hard drives. They have encryption built in to them, and often have read only mode capabilities. They are fairly pricy, like you might expect to pay 100-200 for something 64 gigs. Edit: Oh, for imaging. Maybe just try an SD card with write lock switch + USB reader?
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KillHour posted:I just had an amazing conversation with another sales rep I work with re: full duplex. He was trying to say that a 700mbps wireless link is going to give 1400mbps of throughput because the manufacturer said it's full duplex so "it's faster than the gigabit fiber run they have now!" Someone needs to explain to him what a "duty cycle" is.
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Mar 6, 2015 00:34
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Dick Trauma posted:I took a tour today of my new employer's largest location. Do they blow stuff up? It looks like they blow stuff up or break things. You may be the new Sr. VP at the coolest place ever.
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Mar 6, 2015 00:36
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flosofl posted:Do they blow stuff up? It looks like they blow stuff up or break things. Its dick trauma, with his luck he'll be what they blow up and break.
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PCjr sidecar posted:Its dick trauma, with his luck he'll be what they blow up and break. How do you think he earns his name?
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I could use some general advice here. Got approached by a headhunter regarding a director position, which is awesome, but almost makes me nervous as poo poo because i'm not really sure how prepared i'd be for the job. The technical side of things I think i'd handle just fine, but its the actual budgeting/forecasting/business side of things that I feel like i'm lacking. I'm sure I could learn on the fly, but also not sure how great of an idea that is. Any suggestions on books/info I can read up on and get a better grasp on things? For the first time in a long time i'm a bit overly nervous, but love the idea of the challenge. Gut tells me to just go for it.
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flosofl posted:Do they blow stuff up? It looks like they blow stuff up or break things. If that room is in use and you aren't part of it you will definitely be told to  GoatShaver posted:I could use some general advice here. I made the jump from I.T. Manager to Director many years ago. I was lucky to do it somewhere fairly small where I had some assistance with the budgeting side, but if you're going to be thrown to the wolves in a larger place that level of responsibility can break you. By the time I got to a $500k budget I felt comfortable, but if I'd started there I think I would've fumbled it. Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Mar 6, 2015 |
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MagnumOpus posted:I watched burnout consume a colleague and close friend of 15 years. Brilliant guy wrestling with emotional demons to begin with. Wasn't the overwork that killed him, it was how management made it worse. He caught a tiny tyrant to report into after a management shakeup. This guy was absolute garbage: zero empathy, deceptive, and prideful. Disrupted work from week one, which I believe was intentional effort to force problems that then had to be solved his way. After months of this my buddy finally loses his temper and sends a email to his boss copying our senior director, calling out trashbag manager on his incompetence while dropping a couple f-bombs. Goddamn. I loathe to condone violence and vendetta to someone but I would acquit your friend if he ever went full BOFH on that bollard-looking rear end in a top hat.
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