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22 Eargesplitten posted:My new job's dress code is basically no flip-flops and shorts have to cover the knees. This is just bizarre. I worked at a pizza place with a stricter dress code. Most lower paying jobs have stricter dress codes than high paying jobs? Also, less work involved(more responsibility, so more stress, however)
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RFC2324 posted:Most lower paying jobs have stricter dress codes than high paying jobs? Also, less work involved(more responsibility, so more stress, however) It's also true that the amount of external customer exposure you have, the stricter your dress code is in 90% of cases. So yeah, working the counter for a pizza place is pretty customer-facing.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:My new job's dress code is basically no flip-flops and shorts have to cover the knees. This is just bizarre. I worked at a pizza place with a stricter dress code.
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Jun 6, 2016 19:02
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Collateral Damage posted:Those are pretty reasonable requirements. I'd add "no crocs" just in case. I usually see 'no offensive slogans on your shirt' as well, which always makes me laugh a little.
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The job where I was crawling under counters all day required dress shoes, slacks and collared shirts. Now 90% of the time I just sit at a desk and I can wear anything I want. I guess that does have to do with customer facing in that case, even my on site work will be for internal users.RFC2324 posted:I usually see 'no offensive slogans on your shirt' as well, which always makes me laugh a little. drat, I guess I can't wear my Nunslaughter band T-shirt.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:The job where I was crawling under counters all day required dress shoes, slacks and collared shirts. Now 90% of the time I just sit at a desk and I can wear anything I want. I guess that does have to do with customer facing in that case, even my on site work will be for internal users. At my last job I always wore jeans and sneakers, which was technically a violation of the dress code, but if I was ever brought into a meeting about it, my first question would have been "So does this mean I don't have to crawl around under desks or in filthy "server closets" anymore?" Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Jun 6, 2016 |
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Jun 6, 2016 19:24
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I have to wear nice clothes and crawl around under desks and closets. I'm told that they pay me enough where I'm able to do my laundry.
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Jun 6, 2016 19:26
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No shirt No shoes No service
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Jun 6, 2016 19:28
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CLAM DOWN posted:No shirt But no pants is fine!
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Powershell has audible alarms! Did you ever know that you're my hero?  Time for some John Madden on a random timer.CLAM DOWN posted:No shirt 
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RFC2324 posted:Most lower paying jobs have stricter dress codes than high paying jobs? Also, less work involved(more responsibility, so more stress, however) Kitchens and restaurants may also have stricter dress codes due to health code and insurance reasons.
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psydude posted:Kitchens and restaurants may also have stricter dress codes due to health code and insurance reasons. Even eliminating those, heavy labor(which has dress codes for safety reasons), and other low paying jobs that have actual reasons, you have call centers, which require khakis and a polo at the very least. Yes, there are always exceptions, but there always will be. Very few low paying industries lack a dress code, my point stands.
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Jun 6, 2016 20:02
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Most low paying jobs are also based in a corporation, so that has something to do with it.
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Jun 6, 2016 20:30
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Got my knee length shorts for work. 
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Is that Kevin Smith and also 
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Jun 6, 2016 20:40
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Yes, he's lost weight since then though.
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alg posted:Got my knee length shorts for work. If that's where his knees are I'm concerned
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I just googled "JNCO" to see if I was remembering middle school correctly and am blushing at how embarrassing that style is.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I just googled "JNCO" to see if I was remembering middle school correctly and am blushing at how embarrassing that style is. THEY'RE BACK!!!! http://www.today.com/style/jnco-jeans-return-90s-throwback-comeback-t54096 http://www.jnco.com/ Order yours today! You can keep your whole family in your pockets!
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quote:To ensure accuracy, Cohen said that Guotai brought in "a group of JNCO collectors."
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My girlfriend's mom just got hit by a great malware/social-engineering scammer combo pack. Popped up a fake message with the Wells Fargo logo on it (while she was on the Wells Fargo site) telling her she'd been infected with Zeus and to call the listed number for "Microsoft Tech Support." When she asked them to prove they were actually Microsoft techs, they told her that the firewall picked up the virus so that's how she could be certain. They then went on to explain that her computer had been 80% compromised ("Five of seven layers have been breached!"), threw out a bunch of bullshit techno babble to confuse her, and then requested that she kindly do the needful and purchase the full package to include a "Network administrator, Certified Ethical Hacker, and Computer Forensics Specialist." Fortunately she called me for a second opinion, that opinion being to change all of her passwords, call her bank's anti-fraud department, take her computer in to an actual computer place, get an ad blocker, and report the phone number to Microsoft's fraud department. e: Basically, it's a new variation of the classic Microsoft tech support phonecall scam. psydude fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Jun 7, 2016 |
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Cenodoxus posted:Juggalos. You bussed in some Juggalos. Come on, now. Don't give Juggalos a bad name.
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Arsten posted:Come on, now. Don't give Juggalos a bad name. They don't need any help in that area, I'm afraid.
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psydude posted:They then went on to explain that her computer had been 80% compromised ("Five of seven layers have been breached!") That's some fantastic math on their part.
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71% doesn't sound as good. Also she should have gotten clarification on which of the 7 layers of the OSI model had not been compromised, this is key information Also earlier I asked the thread about what monitoring tool to use for these guys before I move on to my new job. I found one that has most of it's support only written in german, so I implemented that one.  Maybe they will decide to abandon it and use the one that they actually pay thousands of dollars in support to
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Yesterday, I sat through a meeting to talk about cracking down on security because our security officer got rekt by a congressional committe live on C-SPAN and we don't want to be the next OPM leak. Today I received an e-mail with only the following text: "[Toshimo]'s account has had the domain admin removed and global admin added." IDK WTF that even means, but it can't be good.
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Had an interview for a new job yesterday. Got the offer just now but I just turned it down even though it would've been a 28% pay increase. The interview process left me feeling not great about the company culture and structure of the department. Basically, at this point in my career wearing a t-shirt and jeans to work is more important to me than being forced to wear khakis and a tie and deal with all of the corporate hoopla that goes along with that. I also wasn't thrilled about having to do on-call rotation, something I haven't done in years and have no desire to go back to. I value my work-life balance and I got the impression that they don't. C'est la vie.
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You're interviewing the company as much as they are interviewing you. If you feel like it's not a great company in a situation where they can more or less script everything and present a very stage managed image of the company then imagine what it's like day-to-day.
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At my job we have an on call rotation and I've never had a better work-life balance  I earn so much comp time I'll be able to retire 3 years early and get paid for a ton of vacation.
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Has anyone ever used Nutanix hyperconverged solutions (ie. NX-3000 series)? Good or poo poo?
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CLAM DOWN posted:Has anyone ever used Nutanix hyperconverged solutions (ie. NX-3000 series)? Good or poo poo? hyperconverge is so new I doubt anybody here has their hands on it. We're kicking off a Cisco hyperflex deployment this month and I'm very interested to see how the environment actually runs. We asked Cisco for a reference and they were only able to get us a company with hyperflex in their test environment, because they couldn't get us a contact somewhere that has it live. looks like crazy good poo poo though from Cisco's side and their current "early adopter" discounts are insane. HP's offering looked like garbage, and we didn't have time to look into nutanix.
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We're balls deep into a 3Par implementation. So far so good.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:hyperconverge is so new I doubt anybody here has their hands on it. We're kicking off a Cisco hyperflex deployment this month and I'm very interested to see how the environment actually runs. We asked Cisco for a reference and they were only able to get us a company with hyperflex in their test environment, because they couldn't get us a contact somewhere that has it live. It looks really good, so naturally I'm skeptical. Nutanix claims to have been in this market space for 6 years now and has some pretty big customers, so I'm hoping someone here has some experience.
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Does Nutanix offer inline dedup and compression out of the box? Having that with Cisco was a dealbreaker over HP, who wanted to sell us a software package on top of the appliance. The biggest concerns we ran into with hyperconverge were IOPs and upstream connectivity. Because of the network RAID every hyperconverge environment we ran into warned against housing database clusters and mission critical, high capacity virtuals. My senior admin was throwing a fit about that warning when we considered moving Exchange to the new environment because he can't understand that the limitation of 150k IOPs is still way better than the 30k from our current SAN housing Exchange. Other than that, all hyperconverge is based on 10Gb network uplinks. If you have a 1Gb core, expect pushback from your vendor to upgrade at some ridiculous amount.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Does Nutanix offer inline dedup and compression out of the box? They do, it looked like a pretty nice solution actually. And yeah, we're at a 10Gb backbone/core for the location this would potentially go in, looks like the Nutanix chassis would have a top of rack switch for both networking and storage traffic between nodes. So 10Gb is pretty much necessary.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Has anyone ever used Nutanix hyperconverged solutions (ie. NX-3000 series)? Good or poo poo? Depends on what you're doing with it. Their usual foot in the door is VDI where the ability to scale out in discrete chunks makes a lot of sense because VDI deployments often involve a phased approach and you're aggregating a number of relatively small, well defined workloads so the sizing is straightforward. In general I'd say it's pretty solid, our customers range from very happy with it to just sort of sanguine ("It's fine, not much to say") about it. The big limitation is going to be around large monolithic workloads. A single SQL server that pushes tends of thousands of IOPs isn't a good fit due to the CVM acting as a choke point for the workload, but most customers aren't doing that. If you don't have any singular heavy hitter applications and your IO requirements are distributed across a number of servers and hosts then it will probably be a good fit. The fact that there is no storage management to do and that you get per VM visibility into analytic data and per VM management of snapshots and replication is very nice. There are some trade offs around failure states and things like performing maintenance since dropping a host into maintenance mode will invalidate a portion of your cache and those blocks may need to be re-read into cache wherever the VM lands, which can cause performance to change. Likewise, a host failure will force data out of cache and generate a lot of east-west network IO as the data for those VMs is re-localized and the parity is rebuilt in spare space. You'll probably be happy with it though, it's the most mature hyper-converged solution out there and the largest player in the space. Judge Schnoopy posted:hyperconverge is so new I doubt anybody here has their hands on it. We're kicking off a Cisco hyperflex deployment this month and I'm very interested to see how the environment actually runs. We asked Cisco for a reference and they were only able to get us a company with hyperflex in their test environment, because they couldn't get us a contact somewhere that has it live. It's not that new. HyperFlex is new to Cisco, but even that is just an OEM agreement with Springpath, a company that was founded in 2012 and has at least a few customers out there. Nutanix has been around long enough to go through at least one hardware refresh cycle and there's certainly customers out there. There's even a Nutanix SE (I think an SE?) who posts here occasionally. Judge Schnoopy posted:The biggest concerns we ran into with hyperconverge were IOPs and upstream connectivity. Because of the network RAID every hyperconverge environment we ran into warned against housing database clusters and mission critical, high capacity virtuals. My senior admin was throwing a fit about that warning when we considered moving Exchange to the new environment because he can't understand that the limitation of 150k IOPs is still way better than the 30k from our current SAN housing Exchange. The bigger issue with applications with using hyperconverged storage for applications with significant IO demands is that the host itself acts as the storage processing layer so A) a single VM will be limited by the resources available on a single host; the single VM IO capacity doesn't scale with the cluster and B) the software storage controller itself takes resources from the host to perform storage IO, so you may end up starving the your application of compute resources to serve it's storage needs. Those are both sizing exercises though, not necessarily flaws. Things like RAC cluster and Always-On availability groups already do a ton of east/west IO, so it seems a little weird to complain about east/west traffic being a sticking point. You just need to design your network appropriately, but isolated east/west traffic is easier to plan for than a lot of disparate north south traffic. Also, your Exchange admin sounds like a doofus. Since 2010 Microsoft has dramatically reduced the IO requirements for Exchange DB storage. They recommend sticking it on SATA disk because low latency isn't very important if your CAS servers are properly sized. In a 50,000 user mail environment on Exchange 2010 the largest IO draw that I saw, by far, was the background database maintenance IO, and that was all big big sequential reads. And that was reduced in 2013. Making sure Exchange has a bunch of IOPs available should be pretty low on the list of storage needs.
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NippleFloss posted:Also, your Exchange admin sounds like a doofus. Since 2010 Microsoft has dramatically reduced the IO requirements for Exchange DB storage. They recommend sticking it on SATA disk because low latency isn't very important if your CAS servers are properly sized. In a 50,000 user mail environment on Exchange 2010 the largest IO draw that I saw, by far, was the background database maintenance IO, and that was all big big sequential reads. And that was reduced in 2013. Making sure Exchange has a bunch of IOPs available should be pretty low on the list of storage needs. He is. We have maybe 20 virtuals, looking to migrate 10 physicals to virtuals, and then we're moving Exchange to virtual. We currently have 2 CAS and 2 Mailbox servers for 200 mailboxes (90% of which are hard capped at 2 gigs, and the largest is 10 gigs) which seems like massive overkill. When senior admin brought up his exchange concerns to the hyperflex team it sounded like they were trying really hard to stifle their laughter. No matter how many times they tried explaining that coming off of HP G1 blades connected to a low-end Nimble into Hyperflex will always be an improvement, he still couldn't get over the wording some guy put up on a webpage somewhere.
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End of my second day, I have done jack poo poo both of these days, aside from getting training in systems I have no access to. I know I should just enjoy it, but I'm irrationally afraid of getting in trouble despite not having access to anything.
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On the road to replace TrendMicro with Cylance. Their PoC hasn't detected anything crazy that is making us convert on the spot, but the nice dashboard, ease of deployment and configuration is already sealing the deal for us. Plus, it's the hot poo poo at the moment, so that's cool too.
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