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Dr. Arbitrary posted:If you decide to take the job, make sure you set aside a substantial chunk of your paycheck for savings. You don't want to be financially stuck if the place ends up being too crazy for you. Every time I start a new job everyone is shocked to hear the about the concept of 6-months of savings. It's weird.
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Re: KillHour  I'd be inclined to investigate it, since the $$$ upside is so high. If you mentioned this before I apologize, but do you have $110-120K-level skills in your market? Is this job a pipedream? Why are they picking you? I definitely wouldn't screw over your bird in the hand and I'd be clear with the director on that (and use it to demonstrate the level of commitment you'd have to them as well) but I wouldn't run from it just because they aren't like every other cookie cutter organization. Would you not go out with a girl just because she wanted you to tie her up the first time? If you're scared, don't, but I say roll the dice because it might be life-changing...
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Jan 29, 2016 16:29
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Well, I'm into that, so  But seriously, yes. I'm easily qualified for the job. I took my current job because the market in my area sucks.
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Jan 29, 2016 16:44
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KillHour posted:I got a call from the guy I interviewed with yesterday. At 10:30PM. So he called you at a really unacceptable hour of the night unprepared? quote:He asked me if I could move up the technical presentation I was supposed to give on the 8th (which I already asked off work for) to Monday morning. "Sorry, I can't shuffle my schedule around like that." quote:Paraphrasing his words: "I don't want to jump into things, because you're not hired yet, but the whole company is doing internal training all next week starting Tuesday, so if you could be in it, that would get you ahead of the curve and would be a big help for our schedule." "If you want me to attend your training I will need to be an employee. I will also need time to consider a written job offer." gently caress this guy. Written offer or bust. Call their HR after you get it and say you're ready to accept (if you are) and see what happens. Edit: And I forgot: quote:Director You know they often let people make up titles to fill egos instead of paying them more money, right?
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Jan 29, 2016 17:04
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To be fair, he texted me at 7:30 and asked if it would be okay to call then.
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Jan 29, 2016 17:10
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KillHour posted:To be fair, he texted me at 7:30 and asked if it would be okay to call then. Yeah, that part I'm not finding unusual if they have a real need to fill the position ASAP. I had a day's worth of interviews for my current job and the director called me direct that evening to work out compensation. I had the offer material in PDF in my email at 7 AM the next morning.
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Jan 29, 2016 17:18
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KillHour posted:To be fair, he texted me at 7:30 and asked if it would be okay to call then. Pursue this opportunity, but temper this guy's expectations or he is going to make your life absolute living hell if you show him that you jump when he says to jump
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KillHour posted:To be fair, he texted me at 7:30 and asked if it would be okay to call then. Unprepared is the key part of that. Now you've actually made it worse, he had 3 hours to prepare to discuss hiring you. Tell them you really have to give 2 weeks notice. "I assume you would want the same courtesy from anyone with whom you work."
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Jan 29, 2016 17:32
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I called him and let him know that I couldn't endanger my position without an offer in hand. He was very understanding and asked me to do a training one on one with him that night, and tentatively keep the 8th open. He seems like a very nice guy. Still a bit crazy though. Edit: and he made it clear that the reason he couldn't just give me an offer is because he needs to hear me present. The job is to be lead technical trainer, so that makes sense. KillHour fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Jan 29, 2016 |
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Jan 29, 2016 17:33
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Okay, here's the problem. I want to hire you, but first I want to know if you're the kind of guy I can trust. I'm going to let you in on a little secret, there's an underground boxing match tonight out by the docks, and it's just for gamblers, lots of money moving around. The thing is, I happen to know that the contender is going to be taking a dive in round 4. The thing is, the bookie there knows me so I can't show my face. What I need you to do is place some bets for me. Take this envelope, it's got $30,000. Remember, the contender gets KO'ed in the fourth round.
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Jan 29, 2016 17:52
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Vulture Culture posted:Thanks for this What is that from?
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Jan 29, 2016 17:53
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I think I convinced my boss to buy us some licenses of PDQ Deploy. 
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Jan 29, 2016 19:09
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KillHour posted:What is that from? It's an infamous historical scam by a guy named Joseph “Yellow Kid” Weil. The mark would be an exceptionally wealthy gambler, the kind of person who could be persuaded to make a million dollar bet. The entire boxing match is a fake, not just the boxers, but the crowd, the other wealthy gamblers, the bookies, the ref, and a doctor. There's literally only one person not in on the scam. The boxer is expected to go down in the sixth round, so there are plenty of opportunities to get the mark to increase his bet. Like, by round 5, they are offering 100 to 1 odds. The mark is convinced that he's going to clean out the entire room. In the sixth round, right off the bat, the boxer who is supposed to take a fall throws a lucky punch that hits the other boxer right in the temple, sending him down like a rock, blood pouring from his mouth. A doctor climbs into the ring and shakes his head grimly, he's dead. So not only is the mark out of his bet, he also has a good reason to never mention this again or he'd be implicating himself in a serious crime. If the con artist wants to continue the scam, he can then blackmail the mark, threatening to rat them out to the police.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:I think I convinced my boss to buy us some licenses of PDQ Deploy. Fantastic, I love that and PDQ Inventory.
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Dross posted:Fantastic, I love that and PDQ Inventory. Yeah, I think the free version of PDQ Inventory will work for us, but basically if I want the paid version we can. Kinda surprised with how cheap their licensing is.
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Jan 29, 2016 23:54
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Alright, hopefully I'm not spamming but I'm sending this in Tomorrow! Any final ideas, thoughts, suggestions? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YnpEE1cbE_HtrT2NHzRKKz8CPYJBv4QnFSQ2Vc7JvaM/edit?usp=sharing
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Jan 31, 2016 00:21
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I'm not sure expecting to complete the A+ belongs on the resume or not, it seems a little odd to me but maybe some of the people with more experience hiring can chime in there. Might be something for the cover letter instead.
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Jan 31, 2016 01:26
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Turtlicious posted:Alright, hopefully I'm not spamming but I'm sending this in Tomorrow! Any final ideas, thoughts, suggestions? "Perform troubleshooting on OSX 10.6+ and tablets" is confusing. Troubleshooting on what running OSX 10.6+? Tablets running what?
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Jan 31, 2016 01:32
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Turtlicious posted:Alright, hopefully I'm not spamming but I'm sending this in Tomorrow! Any final ideas, thoughts, suggestions? Be way more specific. "Delivered Targeted IT Support Training for 8 employees" - more of that
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Jan 31, 2016 03:18
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rafikki posted:I'm not sure expecting to complete the A+ belongs on the resume or not, it seems a little odd to me but maybe some of the people with more experience hiring can chime in there. Might be something for the cover letter instead. Yeah, I'd leave that out. That or just specify that you're pursuing/studying for it and leave out the date that you plan to take it (June is quite a while from now).
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Jan 31, 2016 15:54
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Darril Gibson released his new book for those of you look to get certified and get ahead in life in general http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...RCKAT5UAYQLRQHP
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today we are having an all hands meeting with the ceo to learn about this mystifying new topic known as SEO or search engine optimization ...
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Feb 1, 2016 16:07
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Tell him he can improve your search results by emailing Ken@popehat.com and asking to write a short article for his site about what you do.
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Feb 1, 2016 16:13
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Teleworking question: if there are a dozen of remote workers, and no actual office or central servers/network, what's the best way to create a distributed "private" network? Does Merkai (or similar) have a teleworking product that creates a private network through VPNs, without there being a central point?
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Feb 1, 2016 16:43
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Fork Tor.  Edit: Use Kazaa to share files.
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KillHour posted:Tell him he can improve your search results by emailing Ken@popehat.com and asking to write a short article for his site about what you do. Tell him he can jump to the head of the line if he sends a series of follow ups with increasing snippiness and entitlement.
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flosofl posted:Tell him he can jump to the head of the line if he sends a series of follow ups with increasing snippiness and entitlement. Ken is a good guy; no need to get angry with him. Mention how much you love ponies, though. That helps.
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Alfajor posted:Teleworking question: if there are a dozen of remote workers, and no actual office or central servers/network, what's the best way to create a distributed "private" network? Does Merkai (or similar) have a teleworking product that creates a private network through VPNs, without there being a central point? Better question: what are you using this VPN for? If you just need to share files there are better options. If it's under like 25 people then yeah you could probably throw together a huge and terrible mesh VPN with a bunch of Meraki Z1 gateways but again I'd be asking "why" first.
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Like everyone else said. If there's no central location then presumably there are no central resources either. So you don't need a VPN. If you wanted to create a server-less environment with distributed workers then I'd look at putting domain controllers in  and setting up DirectAccess to ensure you can manage the Windows endpoints. No idea what you'd do for Macs.
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Thanks, that's kinda why I'm stuck too, don't know the why. I"ll probe some more in depth.
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Alfajor posted:Thanks, that's kinda why I'm stuck too, don't know the why. I"ll probe some more in depth. http://xyproblem.info/
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Alfajor posted:Thanks, that's kinda why I'm stuck too, don't know the why. I"ll probe some more in depth. More than likely when they say VPN they actually mean some sort of centralized file sharing like a shared network drive. There are so many cloud storage providers out there now, just pick whichever one works best for your users.
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Feb 1, 2016 18:08
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Sharepoint!
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Feb 1, 2016 18:18
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SharePoint is good and cool
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CLAM DOWN posted:SharePoint is good and cool Sharepoint on O365 means you don't even have to manage anything but the content. Works great for simplistic usage in our shop and OneDrive for business means I can sync all my junk docs and such into a library in the MySite section of the Sharepoint instance as well. Great for both business personal storage and business shared storage.
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So true, so true. Printed, and posted next to all my subversive posters in my office.
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Alfajor posted:Teleworking question: if there are a dozen of remote workers, and no actual office or central servers/network, what's the best way to create a distributed "private" network? Does Merkai (or similar) have a teleworking product that creates a private network through VPNs, without there being a central point? SpringCM works really well for sharing files. Citrix sharefile and Egnyte are good but without a Windows server there are cheaper file hosting services.
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My presentation/interview is in 2 hrs and 45 mins. I'm just twiddling my thumbs and in that time I think I may have a heart attack. So... How's everybody doin?
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KillHour posted:My presentation/interview is in 2 hrs and 45 mins. I'm just twiddling my thumbs and in that time I think I may have a heart attack. Tired, We started deploying to Tokyo today and I learned that our deployment process has 0 documentation and most of the developers have no idea what they are doing. Just ask "the guy who did it last time" (who left the company 4 months ago) to do what he did last time. You should probably play some video games to take your mind off the presentation, it'll be fine.
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KillHour posted:My presentation/interview is in 2 hrs and 45 mins. I'm just twiddling my thumbs and in that time I think I may have a heart attack. Everythings going well. 
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