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Ganon posted:Triple Baconator and a Frosty = owns My arteries are clogging up just reading about that, but yes it sounds delicious.
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spankmeister posted:As far as skin contact, you're absolutely fine, aside from the possibility of burns due to the cold temperatures. I have this retarded thing where I like to burn myself with that stuff. Ask me about frostbite in the middle of summer 
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YOTJ I had an interview today. I'm more or less casually looking for another job. My current just is not great, my title is still officially help-desk even though I haven't done help-desk for a year and 6 months now. I do primarily Linux admin work with VMware as a secondary responsibility. So anyways, I walk into the interview, get the standard 4 people asking me questions thing. I flub a few of the Linux questions, mainly just weird things like what does $@ do in bash. Flubbed one out of all the VMware questions. This apparently impressed the other admins and both managers. The CIO, at least I think it was the CIO, came in the room towards the end of the interview when we were finishing up. He asked me a few questions, told the two non managers to get out, looked at one of the managers and said "Do you like him? Do you want him?" "Yes." He turned, looked at the other manager and said "Do you like him? Do you want him?" "Yes." He turns, looks at me and says "How much to get you to come work for us?"  I named my price, he agreed, and now it's just waiting on HR, a drug test, and a background check. Said price, which I'm not sure if I should mention or not, is a really good move upward for me. I'm still not sure what to think.
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Ganon posted:What's the job title? Linux Administrator.
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Mr Chips posted:I like to think that Goon Matchmaker was so clearly the best candidate that they had no qualms about offering the job there and then. This town is a windows town. When a company comes across a Linux admin that knows what "PS aux" does they generally poo poo themselves on the spot. Most candidates go to the extremes of "yeah, I read about" that to "let me write an essay on the Linux memory management algorithms for you." I'm somewhere in the middle of that.
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stubblyhead posted:
It works out to a 34% increase and that's not figuring in the way their 401K works (3% on top of salary, no contributions required) or the bonus.
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Brut posted:Was your previous salary appropriate for your previous title, or was it more in line with what you were actually doing? My previous salary was "helpdesk" level but I was doing linux admin primarily. The last time I actually did helpdesk as a primary responsibility was close to a year and 6 months ago. So my salary and title were completely out of line with what I was doing and there was/is no intention of ever changing my title to reflect what I do.
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YOTJ UPDATE I got the official offer letter yesterday. It's a bit less than what was thrown out in the interview but still an excellent 21% increase. 5 fewer vacation days a year, but work from home, and some other fringe benefits that compensates. Insurance coverage is also better and cheaper. They're wanting me to start as soon as possible and threw out March 13th as a start date. They don't mind that I'll be leaving for Spain for a week and a day on the 19th either. All in all seems like this is going to work out very well. I just finished drafting my letter of resignation and intend on handing it to my manager tomorrow morning. It feels goods. So very very good.
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Heners_UK posted:I'm wondering, what did you put in your letter (i.e. the written part)? I normally hand in very simple, one line, letters of resignation, and give more feedback verbally... One line saying I'm quitting and the effective date along with a short paragraph thanking them for the experiences gained there. I wasn't able to turn in notice today. The new company advised waiting on the results of the drug and background check. Should know something by Wednesday. It's pretty painful working there knowing my days are numbered and they keep assigning me projects. Not small ones either. Month long fairly complex projects.
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 YOTJ UPDATE Handed in my notice this morning. My boss read the letter twice, took it to his boss who read the letter, the two of them then went to the AVP. I wasn't within earshot or sight of that conversation but it lasted a good half hour. In an ironic twist, the title change for me and this job came through and was going to be announced to me this morning. I'm officially a "Jr. Linux Admin" here. No pay bump. Sorry but I'll take Senior Linux Administrator over that any day. Next Friday is my last day, the Monday after I'm flying out to Spain for a week. I start my new job on the 28th. I'm FREE FINALLY FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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YOTJ UPDATE!! One of the top level execs hunted me down today. He wanted to have a chat about why I was leaving. I listed off a few things but the most important 3 things we talked about : 1) Salary is/was low compared to everything else around here. 2) Rob still has a job and that needs to be rectified asap. 3) It took a year to do a simple title change and even then it never came with a pay bump. To give you a picture of just how lovely Rob is. He's not my manager, he's my manager's manager. He decided it would be cool to call me at 9:00 AM Sunday morning and question me about software he could install on his brother's iPhone so he could track his brother's whereabouts. Rob's also pretty famous for calling someone up, telling that person to call some other person and have that person call him. And if you tell him to just do it himself, well you'll get an earful of "gently caress you!" Everyone that has quit previously has quit because of Rob. It is also because of Rob that of all the people employed a year ago in IT not in management positions, I am the last one that still works there. In other words, when I finally go out the door Friday, IT will have had 100% turnover in a one year period.
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I'm one of those people that have a really bad habit of doing "sudo su -" whenever I get a terminal up. I'm working on breaking it, and I'm getting better, but sometimes I still just whip it out. Then again I do linux administration on boxes that don't require stringent security policies. Oh yeah, I also do this in sudoers "username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" Please tell me how awful I am.
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angrytech posted:Very. Why the gently caress would you possibly do that? I think it's dumb as hell to type my password again after I've already authenticated to the box?
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I think I'm getting pulled into the pod. Just started my new job. Boss is cool as poo poo. Fewer servers to take care of. They handed me an ubuntu disc for my workstation and told me to go wild. Catered lunch. People are actually nice and not trolls. This is a complete 180 from my previous employer. Help?
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Just got this in an email:quote:A cord needs to from the switch box to the line in port on the router so that internet is actually flowing through it.
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Krobar posted:YOTJ!!! I've been a help desk contractor at my present company for 19 months (was told 3 to 6 months contract to hire originally) and about a month ago got tired of waiting, so I started looking and just accepted a position at a company that is more pay than my contracting rate, full time direct hire and not being a primary phone monkey! I'm psyched as I've spent the last 10 years doing phone jobs (started in customer service many moons ago). A lot of you guys in this thread and the poo poo that annoys you inspired me so thanks Congratulations!
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guppy posted:Mostly they don't, which is why people get infected with things that they had to explicitly approve for installation. I read this and the first thing that popped into my head: "I might have MRSA? I can get a cure for free? All I have to do is inject this rusty syringe full of sludge from a shady Chinese pharmacy straight into my brain? YES YES YES YES YES"
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Post YOTJ update: Apparently I got out of my last employer just in time. They announced a 10% "reduction in head count to be completed by the end of June." People are screaming ageism because the head count reduction is targeting people over 50. From what I've heard the place is a wreck. My previous manager, in a moment of pure genius, announced that he would be applying for a director position at a local hospital. In a manager's meeting. To his manager. And a VP. Without having actually gotten the position.
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Ask them to write up a theory of everything that can be experimentally proven.
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They did network maintenance in the pod last night. Nannywall is gone finally. 
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n0tqu1tesane posted:Black hole, black sheep, and devil's food cake are all racist too. I often wonder how people get voted into positions of authority when they display such ignorance.
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Bhodi posted:Wouldn't you be just John to your co-workers? This does seem kind of odd and overly reactionary. Where I work we've got 5 of the same first name in my department of 12 people. So we either say the full name or refer to someone by their last name. I can see why he could have taken it personally to be honest.
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Volmarias posted:This. Please tell me that he was watching porn across the VPN or something. Our VPN does split horizon. Anyways. I've had the suspicion that he wasn't doing anything when he was working from home and I knew he was doing nothing at work. There's a lot of systems that he is the only person allowed to log into for security reasons. I can't go into what we do, but suffice it to say, it involves federal "stuff". So I started looking at the performance graphs for the VMs he is supposed to be working on and noticed they were completely idle. To test a theory, I logged in on a VM I could access and there was a telltale, but short, spike in CPU ipon login. I went looking for this spike in the performance histories of these VMs and the only thing I ever saw was cron kicking off. When I caught wind of a project he'd be working on, I turned the machine he was supposed to secure off. It's been off since around the 29th of last month. His project had a drop dead date of the 12th. He had plenty of lead time to get this done. I informed our mutual manager of what I did and learned that he also shared the same suspicion. See, we know he runs his own company "on his own time." It was always suspected that he was using his work from home days as time to do development for that company. Trap laid. Yesterday at 1:30, he sent me an email to only me demanding I create an entirely new VM because he couldn't get to the other one to do what he wanted (probably because it was off...) by the end of my work day (I work 7:00 to 4:00) with some pretty complicated configuration that would have taken me about 3-4 hours to set up properly. I have been working on another project this past week that I was named the infrastructure lead for was directed to inform the project manager if he made any requests of me and to then promptly ignore them. I informed the project manager of his request and went back to my project. Meanwhile, he asks me when I'm going to have his VM built and I tell him that I have been directed to work solely on my project and that my project took prescendence over anything and everything he could ask me to do. He got all huffy, puffy and sent an email to our mutual manager, the project manager for the project he was working on, the project manager for my project, and he CC'd a VP demanding that I be put immediately on creating this VM he wanted. Trap sprung. Within 30 minutes of him sending that email, the VP was at my cube. I had been reassigned to my supervisor's project replacing him entirely. As part of this the VP personally helped me pack up my cube and moved me to the new floor we have specifically for this project with shiny new everything and a fancy white noise system. It's basically developer/infrastructure heaven. While I was packing my stuff up, my supervisor shows up and tears into the VP asking if he was going to get his deadline extended. The VP responds in a very flat tone of voice "Yeah, it's been extended, don't worry about it." The look of "OH poo poo!" on his face when he put two and two together and realized that he just hosed himself with a spiked dildo was priceless.
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FISHMANPET posted:I assume that superiors assumed he was actively working on this project all the while, and he did what he could to perpetuate that myth? Yes. He was "writing scripts" the entire time.
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Goon Matchmaker posted:Yes. He was "writing scripts" the entire time. So the retard sent me and my new manager the scripts he wrote today about noon. Out of curiosity I poked through them. Two things: 1) The guide we're using for securing the system is written against RHEL 2) We're using Ubuntu (Mainly because retard pushed for Ubuntu) So I get the scripts, extract them, and write a for loop to print out the file name and cat it so I can see them all at once.  Half the scripts are literally: "echo SUCCESS! {Whatever item} has been applied successfully!" The other half are literally the command copy and pasted from the RHEL guide into the script. In other words, they either flat out won't work, will appear to work but silently gently caress things up, or will outright break the server. I let my manager know and when I have lunch with the VP on Wednesday I'll also let him know. I think out of like the 40 or so he wrote, 5 might apply successfully and not gently caress anything up. I've also been having to root the boxes he was previously administrating because he still hasn't caught on that replying to emails in a timely manner (less than an hour) is a wise idea.
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Citizen Z posted:For a high tech company, we sure do hate progress of any sort. I've noticed this at quite a few places I've worked at. What's funny is when you get the reverse. Low tech company running bleeding edge everything with a massive tech budget.
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rolleyes posted:I swear to god some people just organise meetings to compensate for the fact that they have no clue how to do their job. A coworker of mine has a theory that people that organize meetings do so to show that they have dominance over your time. Basically the managerial version of e-penis. I really wish I could remember the exact phrasing he used because he nailed it.
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Crowley posted:If you want exchange on your phone, you'll have to accept the remote wipe. Or get a hack that makes your phone lie to exchange. Or use something like Enhanced Email. I prefer the lie hack for ICS devices and enhanced email for gingerbread.
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I hate every single thing about IBM and their servers. Every. Single. Thing.
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AlexDeGruven posted:Qualify this. x, p, or i? X series.
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I'm at home downloading software because we can't get enough bandwidth in a datacenter. Irony?
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Ugh... Company just institued a policy that I'm not sure is legal. They're threatening to withhold pay checks if salaried employees fail to fill out a timesheet and submit it by end of week. The retarded thing is that the timesheets aren't even relevant. You can't report that you worked more than 40 hours a week and the timesheet application is so unreliable that about half the people in the office can't enter time.
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Dravs posted:I think the key word is threatening. I can't see them going through with it, it is just some posturing by some prissy HR person surely. You did sign a contract didn't you? Yes, and it specifies bi-weekly payroll direct deposited by Friday at midnight and the amount.
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"TomBosleyExp" posted:a good way to completely gently caress a linux/unix machine is 'rm -rf /' as root Even this doesn't work anymore. You have to add --no-preserve-root
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este posted:To this day, though, if I don't know what's causing a problem, I will blame on "those drat solar flares". I worked with a SAN administrator that did this. Something goes wrong with the SAN? Sunspots. Always sunspots. Never "I am incompetent and a complete gently caress up, fire me."
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angrytech posted:A spider came in: I had a spider living in my shower for a few weeks. We agreed that he would stay on the ceiling and catch bugs, which he did an amazing job of, and I would let him live. Sadly after 3 weeks of this mutually beneficial agreement, he got greedy and came off the ceiling while I was showering. Needless to say he's now decomposing in the sewer system somewhere. I named my spider Aedansbane.
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Things are starting to break down in the office. We've got a looming deadline of Jan 1st for a major project. My manager is threatening to put his resignation in. The project manager is looking for another job. Upper management doesn't seem to give a poo poo that everyone down here is starting to get extremely hostile towards each other to the point where we're having angry shouting matches on an hourly basis. Ugh.
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