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Paladine_PSoT posted:Expense those. Beat me to it.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Expense those. And some Unix books.
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Sickening posted:When I was leaving they scheduled an interview with me and the CEO next week. I took that as "Meet with ceo, get offer, figure out if this is the place for you." I notice that you omitted the type of work and your opinions on that in your description of job #3. Were you happy with what the work would be?
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Sickening posted:Looks like I am purchasing a beanie this weekend and growing a beard. Anybody seen my mac book? Oh boy, are you GOING ROGUE? 
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I hate it, I'm not accepting direction from a 24 year old. I was 24 once, I wouldn't be capable of being a CIO.
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Jul 29, 2017 02:29
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I imagine a company with a 24 year old cio is going to be like a real life Linus tech tips.
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ProperCoochie posted:This effects me because I'm the newest guy. They will both dump work on me so they can satisfy their own interests. There have even been advanced tasks the director has given them specifically because of their insight and experience that they've pushed onto me to complete. And it's all acceptable. Cut out the middleman. Instead of telling your credit-stealing colleagues that the job is done, email the user directly and make it clear you took care of it. That way the users know the "senior techs" aren't personally handling the "really important" issues, and you have a record of your work and that they're passing these tasks off to you. There's not much you can do about them goofing off and not working, but at least you can make sure your efforts get recognized.
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Sickening posted:When I was leaving they scheduled an interview with me and the CEO next week. I took that as "Meet with ceo, get offer, figure out if this is the place for you." I would have run so fast from your #3 description because I worked at a visual effects shop where everything was about company image and how cool a workplace it was, when in actuality they were sweatshopping the workers. I would have gone for your description of #1. Honest, laid back company but lots of work to do? That's my jam.. salary would have been an important consideration tho.
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Sickening posted:
I'd go with umber two after firmly establishing I'd have carte blanche to remake things in my image, plus a mandate from CEO that people must Do As I Say in terms of IT policy. I had this gig once and it was loving awesome. I built a department, redid the infrastructure and learned a fuckton in the process- all of which translated into a sweet slot on a resume and a bump in my resume, a jump to Principal Consultant for my next gig and some sweet sweet stocks the gig after that. A++ Would fly again.
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ProperCoochie posted:I'm just there to work. The two are there for work and something else. It's unbalanced and unfair. I don't know what to do. They are sort of essential to the current operations so they're in some ways invincible. I don't want to rat but I don't want to be exploited. I feel that any complaining I do would just hurt me more in the long run. Like I said, my reputation is almost entirely in their hands. Me being a good employee equals me letting them do as they please. How can I improve my situation? Thanks for reading. At the end of the day no matter what you do it sounds like this isn't a good fit for you. Do the work, document what you do, learn as much as you can, and yotj the gently caress out of there. It's never going to change, you won't win the fight, and after you leave those guys will hire somebody else to make their lackey.
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Jul 29, 2017 04:04
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Proteus Jones posted:Meltdowns are always welcome in email I'm CC'd in. Something like this happened when I was at Geek Squad. Some idiot in the corporate office sent out a Squad-wide notification email, but addressed it to the DL for every single store. The 'please stop replying' emails crashed Best Buy's email system - twice. It lead to a higher-up replying-all to threaten termination for anyone else that replied-all. After that, for the most part it was used by disgruntled people as a way to air all their problems with the company on their last day, it was great. I too saved that chain, just in case i ever ended up needing to use it. I wound up doing what was technically an internal transfer at the time, so I didn't get to contribute  .
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MANime in the sheets posted:Something like this happened when I was at Geek Squad. Some idiot in the corporate office sent out a Squad-wide notification email, but addressed it to the DL for every single store. The 'please stop replying' emails crashed Best Buy's email system - twice. It lead to a higher-up replying-all to threaten termination for anyone else that replied-all. After that, for the most part it was used by disgruntled people as a way to air all their problems with the company on their last day, it was great. Reminds me of way back in college, some email came in addressed to a weird list name I'd never heard of, and it turned out it was in fact an email list of all undergrad AND grad students (about 25,000 people) and the senders had failed to put the list name in BCC. Out of curiosity, I sent a whois <listname> to the listserver, and.....got a response (!) - whoever set up the list hadn't removed default whois rights. So I saved the entire list of addresses, just for the laughs (lulz were unheard of at that point, not that I would have used that phrase anyway), and mentioned it to a couple friends to laugh about how stupid the list admin had been. A year later one of those friends was running for student body president or something dumb, and asked if he could have the list, at which point I said "sure but you didn't get it from me". At which point he promptly emailed essentially a "vote for me!" mailer to the entire list. TURNS OUT, he was not a trustworthy friend (which I mean, running for student politics so that should have been obvious) and rolled on me when they asked him where he got that list of email addresses. However, I never actually got any heat over it - just got an email from someone in IT services demanding to know how I got that list, and when I told him I heard no more about it, so at least they didn't try to blame me for their mistake. Amusingly when I think about it now I'd be in the admin role and I'd be loving annoyed at that snotnosed kid for adding more work to my day, so I guess there's that. (On the other hand, I'd hope that I'd set the list rights correctly when creating such a list).
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Anyone loving around with PowerApps yet?
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goobernoodles posted:Anyone loving around with PowerApps yet?
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Whats the longest you guys let an employer wait on replying to an offer?
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Jul 31, 2017 16:29
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Long enough to figure out the cost of a new boat.
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If signs are looking good, I usually ask them at the end of interview what kind of timeframe for a response.
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Sickening posted:Whats the longest you guys let an employer wait on replying to an offer? 
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Sickening posted:Whats the longest you guys let an employer wait on replying to an offer? 16 seconds
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Okay, finally figured out what my boss was doing while I was pulling all his dead weight. I am 100% leaving the company, I don't have anything to lose, and he has basically stopped responding to any emails. It seems, since may of last year, he has almost completely been focused on bitcoins.  It seems that 3/4 of all his internet browsing is bitcoin. It seems to have started when we got crypto'd and he learned how much a bitcoin was worth. Now considering that he has no less than 4 different bitcoin wallets he checks on the daily I assume he is either trading or mining them. Now I have to figure out if I want to check for bitcoin mining software or not. He has 3 desktop monstrosities in his office all running vm's. I can only assume these are using resources in some way. If I am leaving already why should I care right?
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Sickening posted:Okay, finally figured out what my boss was doing while I was pulling all his dead weight. I am 100% leaving the company, I don't have anything to lose, and he has basically stopped responding to any emails. If he's running them on company machines in company time, that's the company's money he's stealing.
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Jul 31, 2017 18:04
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Sickening posted:Okay, finally figured out what my boss was doing while I was pulling all his dead weight. I am 100% leaving the company, I don't have anything to lose, and he has basically stopped responding to any emails. Denounce him.
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Sickening posted:Okay, finally figured out what my boss was doing while I was pulling all his dead weight. I am 100% leaving the company, I don't have anything to lose, and he has basically stopped responding to any emails. most bitcoin poo poo gets tagged by whatever garbage AV software happens to be running and it should be apparent based upon CPU usage
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Sickening posted:. If I am leaving already why should I care right? Because what's more glorious than rightfully pinning someone's rear end to the wall on your way out the door?
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Because what's more glorious than rightfully pinning someone's rear end to the wall on your way out the door? You do a company a favour on the way out? Seems like the opposite of burning bridges to me. But yeah, nail that oval office to the proverbial cross.
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Crush him, and post the story in one of the funny Bitcoin threads(all Bitcoin threads are funny Bitcoin threads)
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skipdogg posted:Clean out his wallets on your way out  Totally do this, but make sure you don't touch the wallets for a good long while afterwards 
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Well, it seems things might be okay. He might have outsourced his mining. https://www.genesis-mining.com/ comes up quite a bit through his daily browsing.
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ProperCoochie posted:I'm having a big political issue at work, and I need some advice. Do you meet with your Director at all or is it always a team thing? Usually a one on one is where you'd mention things (if he's professional and not a douche) I wouldn't rat them out for things you don't have direct proof of. These guys can likely bury you and already do sandbag you. I'd ask your age etc but honestly you need to be firm about your own responsibilities and deadlines to your coworkers. So who cares if they show up late and or leave early; say nothing. Do your own work. If they're running a side job out of the business only report it if its something major, not web-surfing research. The guy doing it can justify / erase the logs, you'd be wasting your time. Who cares if they brag about being the toughest nerd on the block? Their behavior is irritating but you need to focus on your own performance. That is why your boss gives the projects to them and not you. Your boss seems like he doesn't care about what his underlings do, so long as they produce results. If you have the emails where they are asking you to do their work, you have proof that you've been doing their jobs for them. If your boss isn't a dick: Simply mention to your boss that their requests are impacting your projects/deadlines or making you lose productivity and that you won't be responding to those requests anymore. Quantify that productivity loss if needed and if he agrees BCC your boss whenever this pawning work off on you occurs and when the drama unfolds he at least will know whats going on. Tickets are always going to come in. Users are always going to need help. It doesn't need to only be you that solves the issues. If it's assigned to the other two guys its their responsibility. If they email you and get no response and ask, say you'll get to things when you have time. Verbally. Then never do it. When the boss asks why poo poo isn't done and they both point at you, he'll start to wonder what he's paying them for. No one is going to look into them so long as they are performing well. Even if it is by breaking your back. If anything, you need to start documenting your work as when it comes time to let someone go it won't be them. tldr; Whatever you do, keep it about work and only stuff you can prove. Quantify the work/productivity stuff and don't bring up the other poo poo. It will sound like a story. (Unless you have witnesses, time stamped pics, and some other form of proof. Your word won't be enough because they've minimized you out of the equation.)
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Sickening posted:Okay, finally figured out what my boss was doing while I was pulling all his dead weight. I am 100% leaving the company, I don't have anything to lose, and he has basically stopped responding to any emails. *Ahem*...    We got a pallet of computers, and put a pallet of video cards in them for people to run dual monitors. They all wound up mining alt-coins for my coworker.   Here's a fun game: Spot the Buttcoin Miners  Through the gap in the rack you can see 2 stacks of ASICs   another 3 stack of ASICs on the top left corner, the 3 milk crates to the right contain computers with 1000+ watt PSU, and 4 R9 - 290x each for a total of 12 cards For some reason I can't seem to find the pictures of storage closets full of hundreds of ASIC miners. Ambient temps in that closet would peak over 150°F. Power was routed to them by 50' extension cables that ran through the ceiling from an adjacent room that had available outlets. There were 50 or so desktops that my coworker had crammed whatever bullshit low profile video cards he got the company to pay for in stacks on top of abandoned cubicles. He spent literally all day checking the bitcoin market and writing front ends and dashboards for his Litecoin mining pool. Our server room had to have six 30A breakers installed because his bitcoin/litecoin miners took all the power.  This was from my last job. It was a crazy place.
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That ladder tray just sitting there wondering when it's going to be used.
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My boss saw fit to block imgur at work because "file sharing/image hosting". The interview on Monday can't come soon enough...
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George H.W. oval office posted:But how much did he make from that hilarious operation? When Litecoin hit $40 (the first time) he would have had a quarter million dollars in LTC. Of course he didn't sell then... (or ever?) Thanks Ants posted:That ladder tray just sitting there wondering when it's going to be used. It did eventually get used. And I did manage to fix a good bit of the infrastructure before I quit. The problem is that every time I cleaned up and made space, the boss would demand to cram some new piece of poo poo Goodwill server in there somehow and spew wires all over the place OR more bitcoin miners would entropy their way in there. GnarlyCharlie4u fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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