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I'm on 5 calls all the time, so $100 sounds right to me.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I'm on 5 calls all the time, so $100 sounds right to me. I pay for one line and say it costs $100. I love my extra $80/mo
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Jan 23, 2018 20:13
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Hey Jive actually looks pretty good. We won't have to replace a bunch of handsets either, just change a string in our DHCP server.
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We're actually looking to move off our MSP VoIP solution + O365 Skype IM + Zoom (and we have some Zoom conference rooms now too) and move to a unified messaging platform like Ringcentral. Anyone compared Ringcentral to Jive? Any bad experiences with Ringcentral? Money isn't an issue. I understand Ringcentral's online meeting/phone conferencing solution is running on Zoom too which we liked.
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Jan 23, 2018 20:33
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woohoo! Had my first annual review this morning, then the bosses took me out to lunch at Kyoto. Got bumped from $16/hr to $18/hr. 
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Jan 23, 2018 21:24
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Depending on tips, your servers at lunch may make more money than you.
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Jan 23, 2018 21:26
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The Fool posted:Depending on tips, your servers at lunch may make more money than you. gently caress off, I was feeling good. rear end.
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Jan 23, 2018 21:41
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Fair enough. You got a raise and a free lunch, it's a good thing. But you're still underpaid.
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Jan 23, 2018 21:50
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The Fool posted:Depending on tips, your servers at lunch may make more money than you.
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Jan 23, 2018 22:11
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:This was savage and brilliant.
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Jan 23, 2018 22:15
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Congrats on your raise but stay hungry.
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Vargatron posted:Congrats on your raise but stay hungry. Is it? Is this anywhere near The Fool's burn?
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jeez this place is mean today
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Jan 23, 2018 22:23
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Servers at lunch should make good money. They have to endure a lot more than most goon IT people.
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Vargatron posted:Congrats on your raise but stay hungry. Yeah, I'm making them pay for study materials and cert exams. Once I've got most of what I want, I start looking for good bucks. $18's a new high for me, and it's going to help quite a bit though. alg posted:Servers at lunch should make good money. They have to endure a lot more than most goon IT people. While completely true, it's a lovely thing to point out as the first response to someone being happy at a good review and a wage boost.
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It's a joke. Be happy for your raise, it was not an insignificant one. Congrats!
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ChubbyThePhat posted:Yeah. God I hate voip. That said... Thanks Ants posted:Phones should be bought from somebody else and supported by not you. It's easy to set up a FreePBX box, and it'll work great until it doesn't. If phones are important to your business you want to be sure that the person whose rear end is in the fire when it doesn't work knows what they're doing. edit: Not to discourage anyone interested in learning about VoIP from doing so though, if you want to learn there's no better way than running a couple of phones at home or even an experimental system in the tech office at your work, just don't have your first experience be attempting to maintain a production system. wolrah fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Jan 23, 2018 |
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"Hawaii's governor couldn't correct the false missile alert sooner because he forgot his Twitter password"
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Avenging_Mikon posted:While completely true, it's a lovely thing to point out as the first response to someone being happy at a good review and a wage boost.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Ahh come on, we're all friends here, it was all in good fun. Come on, bring it in, let's hug, come on. I feel this poster is making the thread a hostile environment by asking me to hug him
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Phones are one of those horrible things that are unimportant until they are suddenly essential - which means if you want to DIY it you won't get the budget required to do it properly, but you'll goddam hear about it if things aren't working. Just feign ignorance and slap a vendors quote down on your bosses desk - you don't know anything about telecoms, in the same way you know nothing about how to dig in a fibre to your building, but hey I found these guys that can help.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:woohoo! Had my first annual review this morning, then the bosses took me out to lunch at Kyoto. Got bumped from $16/hr to $18/hr. May I ask what you do, and where you're located? I work, aka hate my life, at geek squad for 16.50 (and I had to kiss a lot of rear end to get that) in Los Angeles. I'm at my breaking point dealing with retail coworkers and customers, I'm only there for a couple more months tops, but I'm trying to get a feel for how much I should be expecting next.
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If you're making 16-18 bucks an hour out of college, it's standard for an entry level gig. But past like 3 years of experience, you should start getting into the 20s*. *depending on your location/cost of living
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RE: phone support, this is a ticket just came in:quote:My telephone, in my cubicle, has not functioned properly since I started [here], 4 years ago. That's the entirety of the ticket, no actual details. Luckily we have a dedicated phone person, so I don't have to deal with this one.
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Hungry Computer posted:RE: phone support, this is a ticket just came in: I get tickets like this and inevitably after the four years this would be the very first time the user has actually told anyone
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Jan 23, 2018 23:33
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In the absence of raises I supplement my income with points in my Amazon account.
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Nitramster posted:May I ask what you do, and where you're located? I work, aka hate my life, at geek squad for 16.50 (and I had to kiss a lot of rear end to get that) in Los Angeles. I'm at my breaking point dealing with retail coworkers and customers, I'm only there for a couple more months tops, but I'm trying to get a feel for how much I should be expecting next. Edmonton, Canada. So not really comparable to LA at all unfortunately. It's also my first actual IT gig. Prior job experience is, newest to oldest: 1. Staples tech department, sales and break/fix 2. College dorm front desk worker 3. Editorial assistant at a university publisher 4. Movie theatre worker. So my official experience is 365 days in applicable IT environments, and I have a degree in Professional Communications. My applicable IT training is a CompTIA A+ certificate and a half-read Powershell in a Month of lunches book. Vargatron posted:If you're making 16-18 bucks an hour out of college, it's standard for an entry level gig. But past like 3 years of experience, you should start getting into the 20s*. Yeah, that sounds about right. If the raise matrix they gave me holds, I'd be at $20/hr in my 3rd year, if I stayed here. And we all know the best salary boosts come from when you hop to a new company, so by 3rd year I'll likely be looking for a new position to grow in to. Btw, if any of you fuckers doxx me with the information I put above, I will cut you. :p
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I wouldn't worry about it too much, Ryan. e: Avenging_Mikon posted:So my official experience is 365 days in applicable IT environments, and I have a degree in Professional Communications. My applicable IT training is a CompTIA A+ certificate and a half-read Powershell in a Month of lunches book. I actually thought you had a longer resume based on assumptions made from your posting history. The Fool fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Jan 23, 2018 |
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Edmonton, Canada. So not really comparable to LA at all unfortunately. It's also my first actual IT gig. Prior job experience is, newest to oldest: I'm in Winnipeg and $18 seems pretty ok for entry level in Edmonton
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mewse posted:I'm in Winnipeg 
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Ahh come on, we're all friends here, it was all in good fun. Come on, bring it in, let's hug, come on. Don't touch me, I do not like it
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The Fool posted:
I talk a big drat game, but I’m actually a newbie at being a professional. We cool, sorry I flipped.
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I was specifically requested to wear a tie today and turns out I have no dress shirts I can do the top button on nor do I even own a blazer and I have exactly one barely passable suit I bought at Macy's, ask me about still not being professional at 36.
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My place finally changed the dress code so I don't have to wear a loving tie everyday and dry clean my poo poo and oh god it's the only thing that kept me for rage-quitting recently.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:While completely true, it's a lovely thing to point out as the first response to someone being happy at a good review and a wage boost.
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Dick Trauma posted:In the absence of raises I supplement my income with Internet Explorer posted:My place finally changed the dress code so I don't have to wear a loving tie everyday and dry clean my poo poo and oh god it's the only thing that kept me for rage-quitting recently. Ask me about having to wear a dress shirt and tie, slacks, and dress shoes, while still having to crawl under rear end in a top hat's desks to plug in goddamned network cables and poo poo, and schlep around PCs. No, I'm not bitter, why? Thank god they relaxed that policy years before I left, and I moved to another office that didn't dress that way in the first place. Current gig is blue jeans and t-shirts, and I'm so shell-shocked I can't bring myself to do it. Still wear polos and short-sleeve button-downs. Am wearing blue jeans, though..
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A buddy of mine has been a server for 6 or 7 years and is happy pulling down 65k plus benefits. That's a decent wage but to get there he has to work poo poo hours, usually 6 days a week, and regular overtime. He's also hit the ceiling for advancement because he doesn't have a degree and won't make Manager. The IT ladder goes waaaaaay higher and 65k should be achievable in a few years, with six figures a few years after that. Don't worry about making $18 an hour to start. I started at an MSP for $14 an hour and four years later I'm taking six figure interviews while I coast in my pod.
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Sheep posted:I was specifically requested to wear a tie today and turns out I have no dress shirts I can do the top button on nor do I even own a blazer and I have exactly one barely passable suit I bought at Macy's, ask me about still not being professional at 36. if someone asked me that I'd hand in my notice. if they want to tell me how to dress, they should have also put actor in my job description
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Judge Schnoopy posted:A buddy of mine has been a server for 6 or 7 years and is happy pulling down 65k plus benefits. This really confused me.
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Truga posted:if someone asked me that I'd hand in my notice. No, you just wouldn't get hired by a place that wants you to dress like that, because you'd show up to the interview under dressed and they'd look at you funny and never call you back.
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