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Sepist posted:There is a strong rumor going around that the company buying our company is going to let go of half the staff and send their positions overseas but give everyone a years salary severance (they did this with another recent acquisition), I soooo hope this happens.
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Inspector_666 posted:That is actually a pretty fantastic payout. Just like regular income, AFAIK. So if he gets a job within a month and collects that income he'll be paying quite a bit, but still. I'd love to be given a year's salary to cert up and find a better job.
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Dark Helmut posted:Did they allude to the company name/size etc? In a small company someone could theoretically be responsible for all that, right? I work for a small shop (~100) and currently do more than that. I have mid-level guy that helps out, but he is more user facing. I involve him with projects as I can to further his career and pick up a handful of tier-1 tickets every day so he does not burn out. If he's working on something that requires concentration I watch the Helpdesk for the half-day / day. [Edit: I just wanted to clarify that I do not think this is exceptional or abnormal. Most SMBs have you wearing many hats. It just depends on how much you lean on consultants / MSPs. I have worked at much larger companies. Both have their pros and cons.] Internet Explorer fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Inspector_666 posted:That is actually a pretty fantastic payout. It's likely a structured payout over 12 months just like your ordinary salary. Even if it's paid as a lump sum it's still ordinary income, but you would want to change your withholding to a fixed number (your actual target total tax amount) rather than letting it ride as a normal exemption based withholding. If you take on a second job in this time frame make sure you spend a lot of time figuring out your W-4 situation so you don't have a hilarious tax bill.
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Job postings like that are generally asking for someone who is passingly competent in those areas, not an expert, even if they don't know it. That's too much for anyone to be truly good at all of it, but you could certainly keep it all running by yourself in a small environment. A lot of it is pretty low touch, day to day. That said it's still not worth it for the amount of money offered.
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NippleFloss posted:Job postings like that are generally asking for someone who is passingly competent in those areas, not an expert, even if they don't know it. That's too much for anyone to be truly good at all of it, but you could certainly keep it all running by yourself in a small environment. A lot of it is pretty low touch, day to day. The chance at having a day where your EMC goes down, grinding VMWare to a halt, causing havok to the SQL database, and you're the only one there to get everything back up and running is reason enough to never take this job. I hope they left off backups from the job list because they have an MSP regulated backup system, and not simply because the backups don't exist
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Don't be silly, the backups are on a 32GB pen drive in the previous employees top shelf
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Inspector_666 posted:That is actually a pretty fantastic payout. It's part of your gross income, so it's taxed accordingly. I had 8 months severance through a similar situation (not outsourced, but redundancies). Withholdings were the same as a normal check from payroll (in terms of percentage), except no 401K or insurance premiums. Still had SSN, Fed and State tax withheld as per my W-4 on file. Japanese Dating Sim posted:Just like regular income, AFAIK. So if he gets a job within a month and collects that income he'll be paying quite a bit, but still. I'd love to be given a year's salary to cert up and find a better job. You ain't kidding. I already had my current job set up, so I left that one, had two weeks off, and then started this one. It was crazy seeing my gross income that high, but it wasn't too bad since I'm pretty conservative on my withholdings. My typical refund was a little less that year. Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Sepist posted:Don't be silly, the backups are on a 32GB pen drive in the previous employees top shelf I think you mean a pair of 32GB flash drives.
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Thanks Ants posted:I think you mean a pair of 32GB flash drives. 6 32GB flash drives in a RAID 0 array.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:6 32GB flash drives in a RAID 0 array. Triggered. I have seen this. Unironically. Used as actual storage 
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http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/04/28/virtual-console-60-port-usb-flash-drive-duplicator/ This isn't RAID but it came up when I searched for that and
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/04/28/virtual-console-60-port-usb-flash-drive-duplicator/ That's extremely useful if you work in any field where you need to hand out flash drives loaded with collateral or software.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:The chance at having a day where your EMC goes down, grinding VMWare to a halt, causing havok to the SQL database, and you're the only one there to get everything back up and running is reason enough to never take this job. There are plenty of people in the IT world who handle that level of stress on a daily basis. Small IT departments of a couple of people are rarely experts in their field, like NippleFloss said, but if you are an IT guy and that scenario scares you... work at a larger shop that allows for specialization. In this example, you have support from EMC and VMware, and hopefully have a backup of the SQL database for worst case scenario. Your SAN going down is always going to be a bad day.
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:Varonis is DLP/file nanny stuff. Not sure how that would fall under the purview of the same guy that manages VMWare/EMC stuff, not to mention System Center. Its a stupid job posting. In order for Varonis to be remotely useful you've got to couple it with other TA tools, that's someone's full time job, or you might as well stop giving Varonis 17k a year. Fun fact: We didn't have the staff to deal with varonis this year so we just let our licensing lapse until we can get an infosec group spun up in 2017.
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DigitalMocking posted:Its a stupid job posting. In order for Varonis to be remotely useful you've got to couple it with other TA tools, that's someone's full time job, or you might as well stop giving Varonis 17k a year. I feel like I harp a lot on our InfoSec group (because I do), but we have Varonis and our InfoSec guys barely use it. When upper management last asked about reporting and why Varonis wasn't alerting on AD security group changes the group said "Because Systems didn't teach us how to use it."
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/04/28/virtual-console-60-port-usb-flash-drive-duplicator/ Anyone have a link to that idiot who made a giant usb hub based jbod/raid that was posted a while back? I was trying to share it the other day.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/04/28/virtual-console-60-port-usb-flash-drive-duplicator/ We actually used this/something like this because we had to make ~2500 USBs that contain exactly the same data. They have their uses.
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mayodreams posted:Anyone have a link to that idiot who made a giant usb hub based jbod/raid that was posted a while back? I was trying to share it the other day. Was it in fact DAF who worked at the place with the 20 TB RAID 0 or whatever insanity it was? I remember those screenshots. Ahhh, DAF, whose masterful quote still graces our thread title.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Got contacted by a recruiter for a job, the duties of which include (copied directly from the email): gently caress me. edit: I am the type of person who doesn't get terribly stressed out though and I have learned to be better at delegation, so it's not quite so bad. I spend more time answering questions from my team and forwarding emails than anything else these days, although I still keep some of the fun stuff like internal penetration testing for myself. adorai fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Mar 4, 2016 |
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I bet you make more than 50k/y
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Tab8715 posted:I bet you make more than 50k/y He was only joking about the 50k a year bit. Yeah, I would hope that job posting makes more than 50k a year. I was in a similar situation to adorai when I was 21 and I was making a good deal more than 50k/year. I make significantly more than 50k a year being the IT guy for the smaller shop I mentioned earlier.
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Potato Alley posted:Was it in fact DAF who worked at the place with the 20 TB RAID 0 or whatever insanity it was? I remember those screenshots. I remember what you're talking about, and it definitely wasn't him. Pretty sure it was around two years ago, but I want able to find any posts about it.
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^^ I actually remember that situation as being a DAF post, too, but not going to waste my night looking for it.Judge Schnoopy posted:6 32GB flash drives in a RAID 0 array. is it time to repost server_drive.jpg already? (I don't remember where this came from, it's not mine, has been reposted down through the ages. but it was some poor goon's reality) 
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Docjowles posted:is it time to repost server_drive.jpg already? (I don't remember where this came from, it's not mine, has been reposted down through the ages. but it was some poor goon's reality)
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Vulture Culture posted:This almost seems reasonable compared to some of the duct tape and glue things I've been working on recently Tell us more about your openstack deployment, because I am probably about to roll out my own in Q2-3 
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Tab8715 posted:I bet you make more than 50k/y
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So, looked at my schedule which was changed. I had 4 hours scheduled as "social media management" and 4 hours as "Counter internet terrorism specialist" I have 2 shifts of each next week. So now I have to learn Facebook Twitter Instagram and Pinterest, get the passwords from the random people in charge of each. All but Instagram ended in a pissing match. The Instagram dude just laughed. Soooo many dick pics to be sorted for re... Whatever Instagram does. Tried to explain to my boss how clueless I am and he just said it's nerves. I'm smarter then I think I am, that kind of stuff. Counter terrorism (CT I've decided to call it) is checking history on computers, setting up user instead of admin accounts and using our remote monitoring system for terrorism. I know nothing about network security, so I'm reading manuals on that and studying / saving for my comptia. I'm going to ask CEO if he'll front me on it. Say it's needed for my counter terrorism duties. I get next week's schedule tomorrow. Excited to see how many shifts like this I get. Oh yeah, also plugging the computers into the UPS because they weren't for who knows how long. Also put passwords on the routers and stuff. So... Yeah, this is insane and I can't explain it to my co workers, or explain it to my girlfriend since it stuff confuses the hell out of her. How do I protect our network?
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Eeee that's borderline info let's say between 400 and 800 with multiple ancillary offices.
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Turtlicious posted:So, looked at my schedule which was changed. I had 4 hours scheduled as "social media management" and 4 hours as "Counter internet terrorism specialist" I have 2 shifts of each next week. So now I have to learn Facebook Twitter Instagram and Pinterest, get the passwords from the random people in charge of each. All but Instagram ended in a pissing match. The Instagram dude just laughed. You've put yourself into a position where you can learn some really good skills. This is quite advanced stuff so you are going to probably struggle a lot. But you'll be able to leverage this into a high paying job if you get it down. I want to guess 80-120 depending on the area. There's an enterprise windows thread, you'll want to be in there. I don't want to pry too much, but I assume you have a domain. Once you start taking away local admin privileges from people (They will hate this), you can use group policy to manage the entire system. You can do stuff like take away a user's ability to delete internet history etc. You can set up auditing so that any time someone logs into a computer, there's a record. For file shares, you can set it so that any time someone moves or deletes a file, there's a record. If this was a movie, you just got jumped by some local skinhead, accidentally knocked him on his rear end, and your parents decided that you have a talent for fighting and you've been sent to a kung-fu monastery. Prepare to get your rear end kicked, and if you survive you're going to be a beast.
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Turtlicious posted:So, looked at my schedule which was changed. I had 4 hours scheduled as "social media management" and 4 hours as "Counter internet terrorism specialist" I have 2 shifts of each next week. So now I have to learn Facebook Twitter Instagram and Pinterest, get the passwords from the random people in charge of each. All but Instagram ended in a pissing match. The Instagram dude just laughed. None of this is discussing when your business cards arrive.
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H110Hawk posted:None of this is discussing when your giant loving raises arrive. fixed
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Turtlicious posted:So, looked at my schedule which was changed. I had 4 hours scheduled as "social media management" and 4 hours as "Counter internet terrorism specialist" I have 2 shifts of each next week. So now I have to learn Facebook Twitter Instagram and Pinterest, get the passwords from the random people in charge of each. All but Instagram ended in a pissing match. The Instagram dude just laughed. I'm going to need weekly updates on your anti-terrorism hijinks. If you really want to look smart run something along the lines of these on your file servers in front of your boss: Get-EventLog system | Where-Object { $_.EventID -eq "414" } | format-list Get-EventLog security | Where-Object { $_.EventID -eq "4797" } and on your DC Get-EventLog security | Where-Object { $_.EventID -eq "4648" } @echo off color 2 :start echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% goto start Methanar fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Mar 4, 2016 |
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Got contacted by a recruiter for a job, the duties of which include (copied directly from the email): This is basically the position we're hiring for except we have a network guy so it's backup on the cisco and replace Cylance or Varonis admin with a couple of other very specific and rarely used applications. I'm a happy "Systems Specialist" that flies under the radar. I thought about applying, but no tech has made it in that position for a full year without quitting or being fired. Not sure it's worth the <10k pay raise.
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Start working toward your CISA, CISSP, work for a big 4 auditing company and make bank. Congrats on your new lucrative career track
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Methanar posted:
Methanar is pretty new, but he's already surpassed me in a few areas of expertise. He's using powershell here and that'll make you an IT beast in the Windows world. We've got a powershell thread in Cavern of Cobol that you could learn a lot from. Feel free to mercilessly ask us "How do I do X." It will help more than just you.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:
the most I have learnt is when goons get into arguments about the answer to question like this, and you learn a lot about the why.
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H110Hawk posted:None of this is discussing when your business cards arrive. I made a sample, thoughts?  Potato Alley posted:fixed I went from 15 -> 17 /hr that is the only raise I will see. e: Thanks for offering to help, I super appreciate it. So I've set up the user accounts on about 30 computers today, and I'm finding different versions of our software and everything. I'm thinking of making a disk image, and just doing unattended installs. I have no idea what power my new title gives me, but I'm hoping I can ask for help to push buttons. We have no central network system to push out updates. I've got 100+ computers in operations (since I now have to fix the Non-Tech computers that work on the call floor,) and that's going to be annoying. Company policy says nothing should be saved on computers, and they're just set up in rows. I know there has to be an easier way to do this. One person upgraded to Windows 10, which is fine, but I'm not sure what our licenses are. I've found multiple computers where employees have ripped off the OS stickers as well. I wrote a letter about how "terrorists" could use our keys, forcing us to spend money. Tor guy was being grumpy since I asked him to knock that poo poo off, and started changing User Accounts. Apparently, now I also fix Printers. The user didn't have the right drivers, so I'm throwing those on a flash drive for everyone else I find out with the same issue. Someone installed Steam on the Operations floor, and was remoting in to their home computer to do steam play I think? I'm not sure, I just changed his U/N to "DON'T LOG IN AT WORK" There's a lot more, but apparently when I go back to work Sunday, I'm scheduled for half a shift of Ticket Work (Idk what the IT name for that is,) and then another 4 hours of Counter Terrorism. The next day, I start with 4 hours of social media, then another 4 hours of ticket work. It's very random. Someone was logged into their personal Chrome account, and linked their histories, left lastpass open. I just removed the account and sent them a personal email. I ended up getting off like 3 hours late, because there was so much to do, an hour in, I had to go back, grab a binder and create little worksheets so I can keep track of everything. This does not seem like a 17/hr job. I'm creating a game plan for my CT shift. I have no idea how much I can play out the "Terrorism" card, but I'm not going to be able to just wing this. Turtlicious fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Mar 4, 2016 |
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