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Got through my probation period at new job  37500 euro gross is a good salary to live in Amsterdam right? On a side note, I've reflected on my previous job. And they would always say "We want to hire you internally full time but we just can't at the moment we'll have to keep on hiring you via the other company you work for" It feels really really good to have told them I'm not going to work there anymore, I found a new place to work. It really sucked to be told after hearing that I was the 1st person to be hired if a spot freed up. "Sorry, even though we are glad we have you and find you an great coworker. We cant hire you internally." To be honest. I didn't look for another job until I saw that a position was freed up. Asked about it and was told. We aren't going to hire you. We want someone else. 3 weeks later after that and I was hired at my new job. It didn't hit me how much that bothered me until I started working at this new place. I have more energy, Sleep way better and enjoy work more.
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Collateral Damage posted:Congratulations. Thank you, I pay €700 in rent. €250 for groceries, €220 water/electricity/gas. € 87 health insurance/ €45 mobile phone €55 internet €200-300 miscellaneous stuff, games clothes, going out to eat etc,,, Looking to buy a house though. in a different city near amsterdam. I usually manage to put aside €1000 monthly into my savings account. It's at €5000 now.
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Sefal posted:Got through my probation period at new job It's above average and not bad at all. Housing cost in Amsterdam is really inflated, the further away the lower the cost (and the more life-sucking your commute will be).
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https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus/status/826591961444384768 drat quote:Problems Encountered That's some poo poo. It's astonishing to me that they apparently never validated backups in any appreciable way. We're restoring production data weekly at a minimum, and we're lower profile than gitlab. Walked fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Feb 1, 2017 |
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Feb 1, 2017 15:02
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Sefal posted:Got through my probation period at new job Mind sharing more info on your job description, years of experience, and technical skillset? Just curious what it takes to get that salary in a pricy city like Amsterdam.
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air- posted:Mind sharing more info on your job description, years of experience, and technical skillset? Just curious what it takes to get that salary in a pricy city like Amsterdam. Techincal operations engineer: Manage the AD DNS DHCP (standard windows stuff), manage the Datacenter. Monitor the gameservers. upgrade the servers. what i'm actually doing is automating a lot of stuff with powershell at the moment. Experience, 1 and a half year Skillset: MCSE certified, stuff i've done; * Migrate the WSUS Server to Windows 2012R2. Create a plan of action. Plan a rollback scenario, Impact analysis. Create a test Plan. Test it in the lab environment. create documentation * Migrate the DHCP servers to Windows server 2012R2. Create a plan of action. Plan a rollback scenario, Impact analysis. Create a test Plan. Test it in the lab environment. create documentation * Updating applications. Plan a Rollback scenario. Make an Impact analysis. Test it in the lab environment * Automating processes via powershell, build Powershell scripts. examples; deactivate accounts, delete the home directory when the account has been sitting in the deleted ou unchanged for 90 days. * Install applications. Test, package and deploy the application across the organization. Create documentation. Sefal fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Feb 1, 2017 |
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Health insurance in Europe? The dream is dead
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Sefal posted:Techincal operations engineer: Manage the AD DNS DHCP (standard windows stuff), manage the Datacenter. Monitor the gameservers. upgrade the servers. Cool thanks! And my understanding of healthcare in Europe is that yes there's socialized systems through the government, but you also have the option to buy privatized healthcare, which is likely to be worth the money and has more perks compared to insurance in the USA.
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Feb 1, 2017 16:35
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alg posted:Health insurance in Europe? The dream is dead No idea what the Netherlands is like, but a lot of places with universal health care have extra insurance to pay for. Like for me in Canada, my company pays for (or I would if they didn't) "extended health" which includes things like physio, prescriptions, counsellors/therapists, and I forget what else. And dental isn't included in universal health care here either. The public system is basic health, hospitals/ER/doctors/specialists/surgeries/not dying/etc.
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Walked posted:https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus/status/826591961444384768 4 of the GitLab engineers (including Infrastructure lead) put up a livestream as they restore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc0hPGerSd4 Wow, that takes some balls. Looking forward to the postmortem 
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Alfajor posted:4 of the GitLab engineers (including Infrastructure lead) put up a livestream as they restore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc0hPGerSd4 I have to applaud their response and accountability if nothing else. Respect.
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Feb 1, 2017 17:31
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Walked posted:I have to applaud their response and accountability if nothing else. Respect. I'm torn. It's cool they're explaining what went down, but at the same time, I'd be terrified to have anything hosted by them.
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CaptainGimpy posted:I'm torn. It's cool they're explaining what went down, but at the same time, I'd be terrified to have anything hosted by them.
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I'm looking at Helpdesk softwares again, but this time I actually have money to spend. Kaseya, FreshService, Comodo, and Samanage are the primary contenders-- do you all have any opinions on any of them? Or, is there another you are happy with that you'd like to share? We're mainly looking at ticket tracking and hardware asset inventory, which just about everything does standard. It's just a matter of what 'extras' we get with the product.
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Feb 1, 2017 20:04
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 !!!Moving to a more senior-level position at a company that appears to have it's poo poo together in a not-dying industry like my last three jobs, a drat nice bump, and a 3 minute shorter commute, woooo. Best of all, no more dealing with loving end-users, they have an entire separate service desk for that.
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Feb 1, 2017 20:13
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CloFan posted:I'm looking at Helpdesk softwares again, but this time I actually have money to spend. Kaseya, FreshService, Comodo, and Samanage are the primary contenders-- do you all have any opinions on any of them? Or, is there another you are happy with that you'd like to share? We're mainly looking at ticket tracking and hardware asset inventory, which just about everything does standard. It's just a matter of what 'extras' we get with the product. my company is looking to switch from ManageEngine's ServiceDesk to Kaseya for ticketing, asset stuff and the integration it all has with their remote management agents - which we already use. we got a demo from a rep and it was pretty slick. the ticketing system ties in with the agents so a client can submit a ticket and you simply click a link to open a remote session on the machine in question.
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So tell me if I should start looking for a new job. I will be migrating systems from a much larger and more complex AD environment into a smaller AD environment which I have no access to and there is no documentation on the systems. Then migrate the systems that were migrated to the smaller AD environment back into the AD environment that hosted the larger more complex infrastructure and were originally in the larger AD environment. I will be expected to facilitate the migration with no input on any of the decision making of how its done.
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Feb 1, 2017 20:47
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owDAWG posted:So tell me if I should start looking for a new job. I will be migrating systems from a much larger and more complex AD environment into a smaller AD environment which I have no access to and there is no documentation on the systems. Then migrate the systems that were migrated to the smaller AD environment back into the AD environment that hosted the larger more complex infrastructure and were originally in the larger AD environment. I will be expected to facilitate the migration with no input on any of the decision making of how its done. What? I have no idea what you're asking tbh. AD Migrations aren't that bad, but I've been around the block a few times with those. Getting enough resources is the main problem I run into.
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Feb 1, 2017 20:50
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owDAWG posted:So tell me if I should start looking for a new job.
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owDAWG posted:So tell me if I should start looking for a new job. I will be migrating systems from a much larger and more complex AD environment into a smaller AD environment which I have no access to and there is no documentation on the systems. Then migrate the systems that were migrated to the smaller AD environment back into the AD environment that hosted the larger more complex infrastructure and were originally in the larger AD environment. I will be expected to facilitate the migration with no input on any of the decision making of how its done. I can't even think of a reason for doing this, why the gently caress? Admittedly I have not done any large scale migrations, mostly 5000ish objects getting moved during restructuring of AD.
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CloFan posted:I'm looking at Helpdesk softwares again, but this time I actually have money to spend. Kaseya, FreshService, Comodo, and Samanage are the primary contenders-- do you all have any opinions on any of them? Or, is there another you are happy with that you'd like to share? We're mainly looking at ticket tracking and hardware asset inventory, which just about everything does standard. It's just a matter of what 'extras' we get with the product. I've been hearing a lot of good things about LabTech, they just got acquired by connectwise, and I met the CTO a while back. I'd check them out.
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Frank Viola posted:I've been hearing a lot of good things about LabTech, they just got acquired by connectwise, and I met the CTO a while back. I'd check them out. LabTech got bought by ConnectWise a few years ago (4 or 5). I haven't use Kaseya, but I absolutely hated both LabTech and ConnectWise. They may be the kings of the integrated PSA/RMM sphere for MSPs, but they are both terribly designed and awful to use. I particularly hated LabTech's scripting engine and their UI. I suspect it's just your normal niche market software sucking.
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How is the CEH certificate regarded for getting started inthe security field, does it do anything for your chances or is it similar to CompTIA security+?
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If I am on the fence about a job then I probably should give it a miss, right? Had an interview today, was really informal and more of an hour and a bit chatting, getting to know their environment and the way they work etc. They seem to have a decent IT team, budgets are good, pay is decent, but it's an ad agency and everything I've heard about them is that they want stuff done yesterday and you're going to be running around permanently while your projects get sidelined. The role was also pretty much a massive generalist position and I really think it's worth moving to a more specialised role. They have a team that manage web hosting for customers on various cloud providers and they have operations guys for that, but this role has nothing to do with cloud anything which seems like it's going to be insanely career limiting in a few years time when I look to move on. The most in-depth they seem to go on a subject like networking, for example, is configuring switch VLANs or bringing up VPN tunnels urgently - it doesn't seem like a massively technically demanding role and the salary is there to make up for the amount of poo poo that is going to roll your way. I would like to get out of my current job but I'm not going to be pushed any time soon and can afford to look around. Even just writing this out was helpful to be honest, but thanks in advance for any input.
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Internet Explorer posted:LabTech's scripting engine This was my first foray into programming, and by god is it designed for code-babies. The level of hand-holding Labtech does (and ultimately handcuffing) is incredible, so people who have no idea what Powershell is can still make scripts. Then I learned Powershell and gently caress Labtech scripts forever.
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Thanks Ants posted:If I am on the fence about a job then I probably should give it a miss, right? Yeah, all of that sounds pretty bad. If you're alright at your current place, sounds to me like you should keep looking. Judge Schnoopy posted:This was my first foray into programming, and by god is it designed for code-babies. The level of hand-holding Labtech does (and ultimately handcuffing) is incredible, so people who have no idea what Powershell is can still make scripts. Yeah, it was amazingly awful. God forbid if you start getting into even remotely complex stuff. It's like trying to manage systems with a buggy version of QBASIC. And god drat was it slow. Did I mention buggy? And buggy.
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LabTech is terrible and I think it mainly exists as a way of charging clients for poo poo they don't need but can be reported on to show it actually "working".
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Crosspost from BFC: So I have what I assume is going to be an offer letter/salary negotiation meeting tomorrow for my first real IT job (internal hire, currently in operations/customer service) supporting users, both internal and external, of our web apps and mobile apps (mostly escalations from the operations team, who would do very basic troubleshooting). I'm in Chicago and Glassdoor is showing an average of ~40k for helpdesk, which seems low to me, considering I currently make ~41k for ops with no degree and no real prior experience other than customer service. Any thoughts on how to approach this? From basic perusal of GD it seems like the average is being pulled down by intern/student worker type jobs, and most real helpdesks are closer to 48-50k here. Our biz analysts make somewhere around 65k, I figure I'd ask for 55 and hope to get 50ish. Also I know I shouldn't be the first to give a number - I am going to do my damnedest to avoid that.
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RE: Ticketing systems. I used BMC FootPrints at a previous job, and use Kaseya now. Kaseya isn't horrible, and the remote connections and agent/patch management is really slick. It kinda blows as an actual ticketing system compared to FootPrints (which might just be because of the way it was set up), but it's usable.
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Kaseya is going to be about 18k for us, Freshservice and Comodo around 12k, and Samanage 7k. All billed annually, of course. Thanks for the opinions, dudes. It's so drat time consuming to go through the vendor demos, deployment demos, and keeping them all separate in my head all while doing my other daily duties.
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How crazy is SCCM? I've never used it but we were talking about it today so I'm looking at maybe the trial version, but the MS site for it has just page after page after page of hierarchy this and topology and links to sub pages on primary sites and secondary sites and configuration nodes... I kinda just want to install it and see what happens, but it looks so complex that is that even really an option? We don't really have a strong need for it. We're still a "midsize" company that is now starting to act like a big company. So they're starting to really focus on security and change management and process controls and whatnot. We can't make an AD account now, the "account team" does and then sends it to us for email. Does it just have WSUS built in, or does it do updates differently? Just wondering if it's a crazy idea or worth looking into. I also think it's pretty expensive, but we would buy it if it was worth it.
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It's definitely complicated, but if you guys are large enough to have an "account team" it is probably time to start looking at it.
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SCCM is really good at what it does. You could definitely use the free trial MS provides to get a feel for it. It a pretty gigantic set up that requires a fair bit of initial configuration, but once you're past that it's not too hard to push out patches, applications and so on. A lot of things hook into SCCM, like WSUS and WDS to extend their functionality. Something to remember is you can't just buy SCCM alone, you buy the whole System Center suite which is a ton of software and includes MS SQL licenses. I think it's actually not that unreasonably expensive if you use all the software the suite gives you.
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LochNessMonster posted:How is the CEH certificate regarded for getting started inthe security field, does it do anything for your chances or is it similar to CompTIA security+? I don't think it's going to hurt. I'm not that familiar with EC-Council certifications, so personally it doesn't weigh much one way or the other in my decision. It does weigh what gets focused on during the tech skills interview. A GIAC certification will carry far more weight with me, but I don't expect that from entry level security.
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I'm looking to update my resume (I haven't touched it since I was working helpdesk, and I'm now in DevOps). I am really rusty at this. Any tips? Wasn't there a goon service that would do this?
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myron cope posted:I kinda just want to install it and see what happens, but it looks so complex that is that even really an option? Few comments, no partular order SCCM is more of a what do you want to do with it product, than 'this is what it does'. Rolling it out just for the sake of rolling it out is probably a waste of your time. If you want to use some of the features it has, AND you have the time to work on it, it's a worthwhile endeavor. It's not terribly expensive if you're a big enough company to already have an EA. Workstation Client CAL's are part of the Core CAL Suite and Enterprise CAL Suite, so if you have an EA, and already license either of those CAL Suites, you've already paid for the workstation client part of it. It looks like the SCCM server software isn't a separate license anymore for workstations. If you want to manage Servers with the System Center Suite, get ready to pay out of the nose, the licensing changed and I don't even fully understand it right now. It's licensed by physical core now. All of our systems are licensed with Datacenter Core Infrastructure Server Suite licenses, which are stupid expensive, but we don't have to worry about stuff cause we pay out the rear end to license all of it.
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BoyBlunder posted:I'm looking to update my resume (I haven't touched it since I was working helpdesk, and I'm now in DevOps). I am really rusty at this. Resumes 2 Interviews or something like that used to be the awesome Goon run service. But the dude sold off the business a while ago and people have not gotten the same level of quality since then. I haven't heard of a slam dunk replacement for it, unfortunately. The BFC subforum has a "help fix my lovely resume" thread near the top (not literally that name, but I'm phone posting)
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myron cope posted:How crazy is SCCM? I've never used it but we were talking about it today so I'm looking at maybe the trial version, but the MS site for it has just page after page after page of hierarchy this and topology and links to sub pages on primary sites and secondary sites and configuration nodes... I kinda just want to install it and see what happens, but it looks so complex that is that even really an option?
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BoyBlunder posted:I'm looking to update my resume (I haven't touched it since I was working helpdesk, and I'm now in DevOps). I am really rusty at this. I would use the goon thread for resumes and maybe some random highly rated fiverr resume writer
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