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I'm sorry to bring this up after ZDs ordeal but I just got my first paycheck in 7 months and my IBS basically disappeared. I feel like a new person.
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Matt Zerella posted:I'm sorry to bring this up after ZDs ordeal but I just got my first paycheck in 7 months and my IBS basically disappeared. I feel like a new person. Go celebrate with some taco bell
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Aug 31, 2018 17:25
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Matt Zerella posted:I'm sorry to bring this up after ZDs ordeal but I just got my first paycheck in 7 months and my IBS basically disappeared. I feel like a new person. Goodbye IBS, hello cirrhosis
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Aug 31, 2018 17:28
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Matt Zerella posted:I'm sorry to bring this up after ZDs ordeal but I just got my first paycheck in 7 months and my IBS basically disappeared. I feel like a new person. Nah, it's ok. I'm done with the pity party. Got a couple of leads already. Congrats. It looks like someone convinced them to keep me on the payroll for one more pay period, until September 15th. So that's a little pressure off. I'll have to find out who to thank for that.
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Aug 31, 2018 18:03
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Zapf Dingbat posted:Nah, it's ok. I'm done with the pity party. Got a couple of leads already. Congrats. loving 16 days of vacation from that hellhole while you look for a new job? from what you've posted, this is the best present they've ever given an employee.
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Aug 31, 2018 18:06
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Atlanta's a pretty good IT job market. I know it takes us a while to find people.
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quote:Wow, it was late when I wrote that post. What I meant was that our services are not HIPAA compliant and we sell it to medical companies. Most don't think to ask whether they are. I've seen some evidence that the service provider bears some liability along with the customer for HIPAA. This is 100% true. If a company that deals with phi/pii contracts services out to another company, it is the hiring company's responsibility to ensure to contracted company is fully hippa compliant. Drop the tip and burn that company to the ground.
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Aug 31, 2018 21:20
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Aunt Beth posted:
In case of Germans please use the above.
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Aug 31, 2018 22:39
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This is truly the greatest ASCII art gift since the shrug pic (which I guess is not actually ASCII, before someone Well Actually It is Unicode's me on that)
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Aug 31, 2018 23:35
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skipdogg posted:Atlanta's a pretty good IT job market. I know it takes us a while to find people. Curious, what kind of folks are trying to find?
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Sep 1, 2018 00:02
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Anyone willing to take a look at my resume and give their thoughts? I haven't had much luck getting interviews in the past few months. I'd post it in the resume thread but I feel like IT people are much more helpful https://www.docdroid.net/8hiqmmc/scrubbedresume.docx
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Sep 1, 2018 02:05
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:Anyone willing to take a look at my resume and give their thoughts? I haven't had much luck getting interviews in the past few months. Just my two cents. I'd remove the "effective communicator and team leader" bullet from the skills section. Use that area to play buzzword bingo to a degree with anything that would show up for recruiters word searches. Like what OS's are you familiar and proficient with? Any industry specific software you could list or something like that. Otherwise I think it looks pretty sharp. The few times I've been involved in hiring I always liked seeing people who rose through the ranks somewhere and had a nice clean format that could keep things down to a page or two.
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Sep 1, 2018 02:43
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:Anyone willing to take a look at my resume and give their thoughts? I haven't had much luck getting interviews in the past few months. I like the theme of making your resume compact and on a single page. A single page resume is king even with someone with a lot of experience. The best advice I can give is to make the resume a tad more stylish. This thing at first glance looks like a manual from a 1970's vacuum cleaner. I too am horrible at this and I have my wife give mine softer edges and a more modern look. Basically a less busy version of this.  Obviously skipping out on the honors, skills, and rewards as well as the languages type sections. The goal is to be compact, easy to read, cut out all the clutter, and most of all professional enough to stand out. Sickening fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Sep 1, 2018 |
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Sep 1, 2018 05:18
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I'd keep honors and awards but I'd advise to use a PDF not a Word Document.
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Sep 1, 2018 05:39
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The idea of a picture on a resume is wild to me but its apparently pretty common in other countries
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Sep 1, 2018 06:09
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Tab8715 posted:I'd keep honors and awards but I'd advise to use a PDF not a Word Document. Definitely use a PDF, don't risk formatting fuckups.
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Sep 1, 2018 06:16
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George H.W. oval office posted:The idea of a picture on a resume is wild to me but its apparently pretty common in other countries Yeah, a picture seems wild in the USA. Not quite as crazy as extensive caste information that I've seen from some Indian applicants though. And the guy who wanted to have a majority of the interview be about that.
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:Yeah, a picture seems wild in the USA. We’re looking too and get 90% indian applicants. Sometimes HR send me the same CV multiple times, making me assume HR is poo poo at keeping track who applied and the Indians know that (and keep reapplying). Most them don’t match the role even in the slightest which makes sorting theough a brazilian applications annoying as gently caress. And I assume these are just the ones that slip through HR because of buzzword bingo.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Definitely use a PDF, don't risk formatting fuckups. Also to make it more of an effort for Recruiters and HR to "trim down your resume for the target audience" Back in the day I had to jettison a recruiter because of this. This was back when I used to do network architecture/engineer work, and some recruiter thought it would give me a leg up on the interview if he added DBA skills.
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That advice is going to get more questionable as more people find out about Word 2016’s PDF to .doc conversion feature. The only time I tried it, the formatting was severely hosed up. Maybe it was some settings were wrong, but do you trust a recruiter to not gently caress it up when trying to take out your phone number and email? E: to be clear, I’m not saying that giving a recruiter an editable format is good, just that PDF is getting to be less of a good option.
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Sometimes they request doc because they have to add their firms info to the resume. I stick with the classic resume format resume to interviews used like 6 years ago. I don't like the fancy ones
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Just my two cents. Thanks, I'll get rid of that line going forward, I think it was for one specific job. Sickening posted:The best advice I can give is to make the resume a tad more stylish. This thing at first glance looks like a manual from a 1970's vacuum cleaner. I too am horrible at this and I have my wife give mine softer edges and a more modern look. I'll try to make it a bit more stylish, it does look a bit bland. Tab8715 posted:I'd keep honors and awards but I'd advise to use a PDF not a Word Document. I always send PDF, I just uploaded a word doc this time in case someone wanted to go all out and mark it up
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I'm having a hard time figuring out what I want to do with my job situation. What makes this complicated is I will have my bachelor's degree by the end of the month.I'm not working right now which puts me under financial pressure though I do have a savings. A manger from a company I used to worked for contacted me about a job. It's desktop support tier 1/2 position at for an MSP the pay is $21/hr which is not that great for the state I live in and I suspect for the position. I would take this job right away though and just use it until I found something better. The problem is I'm friends with a friend of that manager and I wouldn't just do that to them. Which means I'd be stuck with this job for six months at least I'd want to put a "token effort" in at least. I'm already interviewing elsewhere and the pay range I'm in is around 25 - 30. With a degree my possibles are expanded. My friends and family think I should keep looking for better jobs and not take the position. It's hard though when I'm under financial pressure. I could take a loan from family but I really don't want to do that. I'm conflicted about how to proceed on this. I wish that manager never contacted me. I have three months of savings so I can probably find another job before it runs out. Nothing is 100 percent though. I hate to ask my family for a loan "just in case". I wish I had a third option. Tell me if I'm wrong? My gut tells me the best choice is to forget the job I'm being offered job and keep looking for something that is at my level of value and skill and that I actually want with a future.
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DropsySufferer posted:My gut tells me the best choice is to forget the job I'm being offered job and keep looking for something that is at my level of value and skill and that I actually want with a future. Your gut is right. Even if you do have to compromise job-wise for financial reasons, the job you're being offered now will not be difficult to find elsewhere months from now. Also, if assistance is being offered by family and friends considering taking it if you need it. My advice is to not settle and go for it. It's better to try and fall short, than not try and regret it. Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Sep 3, 2018 |
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DropsySufferer posted:Tell me if I'm wrong? My gut tells me the best choice is to forget the job I'm being offered job and keep looking for something that is at my level of value and skill and that I actually want with a future. What is your degree in? What state are you in? $21/hr for helpdesk isn’t anything to sneeze at assuming you’re not in some super high cost of living area. Plus, it’s easy to work hard, start racking up certifications, and double that at an MSP in two years. Do you need $21/hr, or do you just need ANY job? Go work at Starbucks or wait tables at chili’s or something for a while, have fun with your co-workers and then don’t feel bad about quitting when your ideal job comes around.
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Starting a job and then leaving because a better opportunity came along will not burn bridges with anyone reasonable. If it does ruin a relationship it isn't a relationship worth keeping. People understand when you are changing jobs because the new one pays 50% more.
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lampey posted:Starting a job and then leaving because a better opportunity came along will not burn bridges with anyone reasonable. If it does ruin a relationship it isn't a relationship worth keeping. People understand when you are changing jobs because the new one pays 50% more. The key is to provide business value for whatever amount of time you're there for. If you blow them away with your technical ability and show them why you deserve more, they can't be mad for benefiting from your work on your way up. And to reiterate, if a manager or owner or whomever is mad at you for providing solid quality work before you leave, that's on them.
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wrong thread!
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Zapf Dingbat posted:
Zapf Dingbat posted:My boss is starting a cryptocurrency mining thing, using our datacenter resources. Zapf Dingbat posted:I'm a subordinate to a 20-something family friend of the owner with no technical knowledge, and whose entire job consists of harassing us over Slack to look at a ticket. Zapf Dingbat posted:My new ops manager to me today: "If the company owner wanted me to wash his car or cut his grass, I'd do it. You have to be a team player." Zapf Dingbat posted:24/7 on call is implied but not expressly written down. That is what I was pushing for when I got the mowing the lawn speech. I wasn't made aware of the gentlemens agreement when I was hired. Zapf Dingbat posted:The CEO's new favorite pastime is to publicly berate his employees (me especially) on Slack who don't know how to do something in this hosed up environment. Zapf Dingbat posted:Am I about to get fired for not working on my day off? Zapf Dingbat posted:Just got fired. Not a team player. Not willing to jump in on my off time I guess. Should have washed that car.  Seriously though you should have bailed on that place a long time ago. Enjoy your two weeks of vacation and go look for a job that isn't a soul-sucking chest wound.
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Sep 4, 2018 10:02
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Entire azure region offline? Nice.
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Sickening posted:Entire azure region offline? Nice. Yep, our login servers are hosed and nobody has e-mail. Except me, I left my computer on last night 
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“Localized spike in temperature” Data center is on fire
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DropsySufferer posted:My degree is in information technology. It sounds fair to me, but I have a question. You say you're about done with your degree. Have you done any other tech work while you were in school? All IMO - If you've already done an entry-level job then by all means skip this one and keep looking. If not, then your degree isn't worth much and this job you are talking about is what getting your foot in the door looks like. If you're smart and driven, you won't be there long. Especially if it will help you be more financially secure. 15-20 years ago you could jump into a better job with a degree and no experience, but I don't see a lot of job postings these days that are looking for people with 0 experience.
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Employers use degrees as a means to suppress salaries depending on the existence or non existence thereof. This has been my radical socialist post for the day. Real talk though, go ahead and take the entry level gig your friend has available. Nobody can fault you for jumping ship in a few months for a better deal. Unfortunately the job market is predicated on looking out for number 1 (yourself) and sometimes you have to make uncomfortable moves. As long as you're professional and provide 2 weeks when resigning, there shouldn't be a problem. Not only that, but there' so many candidates for entry level positions that it's not like the business is going to be crushed by having to get in a new employee.
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Azure is down this morning. Ugh.
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Tab8715 posted:Azure is down this morning. Ugh. Okay it's not just me lmao
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Are you all feeling ...........blue? (I'm. Just going to show myself out. Sorry.)
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Tab8715 posted:Azure is down this morning. Ugh. Regions being down exposes funny flaws. In the south central region we have/had a few low priority websites. The documentation for them was a total lie. The previous leaders setup multiple replicated sites/databases all loadbalanced. On the documentation, all these origins are in different regions of azure for obvious reasons. In reality they were all in the south central azure region, even the linux load balancer.  I mean its nice finding clown show setups and make them not poo poo, but now we have to throw out every piece of infrastructure documentation because we can't trust any of it. Full Audit time. Lovely.
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So AWS is fine but Azure has a region down. On the other hand Azure's status page actually lists it as down instead of being down with a green status. Hmmm, I think this round is a draw.
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