Dilbert As gently caress posted:

How do people in Private IT live with this slowness? I mean gently caress this is annoying as gently caress.

It's like work on poo poo, and answering emails at home is hard... Holy poo poo, there is little push do devolve in advanced certs or knowledge of IT just "going with the flow". I hated those MSP's/VAR's maybe, Varrow and charlotte are different to a VCAP-DCD/EMCISAv2/CCNA-DC.

Probably should publish my certs on linkedin sometime...

Dilbert As gently caress posted:

Probably should publish my certs on linkedin sometime...

OWLS! posted:

My boss is literally Dilbert as gently caress about twenty years down the line.

Bob Morales posted:

Scaramouche posted:

The non-compete is unenforceable for two main reasons:
1. "In IT in the US" is too broad a clause and interferes with constitutional 'life liberty and happiness' things. "In category (x)/industry (y)" is generally how they run, and usually with a geographic component too.
2. 1 year is too long and is also a restraint on quality of life. Generally 3-6 months is the max I've seen that's actually enforceable, though it does vary state by state (California as stated, basically ignores them).

Source: 8 years in the startup world, I've probably signed more non-competes and NDAs than I have rent cheques. And unlike many I actually read them.

Enforcement gets chancy too, because if it does go to court, and you can prove that a company inserted a deliberately infringing clause, they can be on hook for damages on a larger scale.

Chalets the Baka posted:

It's real, and it's less about management and oversight than it is about control and asserting authority. We go into the room, present ourselves to the CTO, who then goes last after all of us and speaks only in buzzwords. My ears ring every day with "take that offline", "ping them on this", "get that on your radar", "this will be a game changer", "get them in the loop on this", and other poo poo I really can't comprehend anymore.

MF_James posted:

I used to report to the owner's son (effectively the owner at this point as he's taking 99% of the responsibility) and have a TON of respect for the guy, he's super smart and generally a pretty effective manager. One day in a meeting he said something like "Let's talk offline about this issue" and it really rubbed me the wrong way and made me think slightly less of him. I don't know why, it's not something I can definitively point to but it just bothered me, I get what he meant... He didn't want to eat up everyone's time by talking about something he and I should talk about outside of the meeting, but it just really bothered me.

Che Delilas posted:

My first programming gig in the corporate world had a computerized assessment test I had to take before they would do a face-to-face interview. It was just a screen, apparently they had a lot of applicants who lied about being able to program at all. Fair enough. It was 10 multiple-choice questions. A few were about programming, a few were about SQL and database concepts. Two questions were a picture of the Visual Studio 2008 or 2010 toolbar, with an arrow pointing to one of the buttons that said, "what does this button do?"

I use keyboard shortcuts for everything. I don't push a button to comment selected lines, I use Ctrl+E, C because it's about 5 times as fast as moving my hand over to the mouse and clicking a button. The questions were there to make sure I'd be familiar with the programming environment they were using, but that was a little off-putting.

I have enough experience now that I won't put up with that kind of silliness again. I'll link you to my GitHub and you can ask me questions, or you can give me FizzBuzz if you must.

Che Delilas posted:

FizzBuzz has exactly one purpose: weeding out the people who have never programmed in their lives and lied about that fact on their resumes from the applicant pool. I'm willing to put up with it because apparently there are a lot of those people out there. Having you do it in multiple languages is missing the loving point though; even pseudocode is enough.

psydude posted:

I know it's probably the wrong thing to do, but I can't help but be pissed off at helpdesk workers when they give me a retarded response to my ticket.

Me: I can't log in to BlackBoard for this course even though classes are starting in less than a week.
Helpdesk: You have to have registered for class first.
Me: (paraphrased) I registered the first day registration was available, you loving moron. Why else would I be emailing support about this?

Potato Salad posted:

Heavens -- what are you doing that requires 24 Tbps??

flosofl posted:

I've actually sent emails out to our team members using the term "Minions". Of course everyone knows it's tongue in cheek... at least that's what I want them to think.

MC Fruit Stripe posted:

Yeah I live less than 5 miles from a Tilted Kilt, a Hooters, a Twin Peaks, and a Wild Pitch. Boobs in your face is a thriving industry in North-DFW.

Dilbert As gently caress posted:

I don't give a gently caress anymore what this subforum thinks, I've already set my path up to achieve the impossible. The rest is up to me to full fill it

Dilbert As gently caress posted:

Proving how much you can be is poo poo without doing it so why talk about it?


I learned there are way more coolerthings in life like being a cosplay dude asked by vendors to come along

Dilbert As gently caress posted:

They let me take it as "off days" for the vendor I travel with. I already spoke about it, they were really weirded out but accepted.

Whatever, workout, study, be a man slut... whatever, I stopped caring.

Inspector_666 posted:

I had to sit down and have a talk with my mom about this. I was still living at home, but it was a 3 hours commute every day to work and I really didn't feel like coming home and then having to drive somewhere else to troubleshoot why some family friend's wifi wasn't working.

Kazinsal posted:

I would unironically drop out of university and move to SF to wear a wizard hat while working on routers and poo poo.

flosofl posted:

Like they'd self-identify in *this* thread, of all places

Tab8715 posted:

Do tell.

Tab8715 posted:

Where do you work?

There are hundreds of MSP/VARs. Some are great and others I'm perplexed as to how they exist.

SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:

I took the RHSCA Test last year, however they switched it from RH6 to RH7 right after I signed up for it. The exam requires you to setup a RHEL VM, but the first problem is that you don't have the root password. In RHEL, there's a technique you can reboot the server into "single user mode" (sort of no networking safe mode) and reset the root password, but on RHEL7 it requires an entirely different processes.

So if you came to the test knowing RHEL6, but not RHEL7, you can't even start the exam. Like one gentleman than came in, sat down for a few minutes, realized he couldn't do it and got up and left.

Boogalo posted:

Annoying: Got called in on Saturday to work on something our exchange consultant mis-configured when he set up our cluster a month or so ago. Killed the whole afternoon but at least we could work from the Sr Sysadmin's house and he has a well stocked beer fridge.

Not annoying: I'm salaried/exempt and didn't expect anything other than an attaboy but happily woke up this morning to an email offering Monday off for helping on Saturday. This is how its supposed to work, right?

Tab8715 posted:

Jag, what was your past RS position?

Of course, you won't get OT if you're salaried but you should at the very least get comp time off. Come in late or leave early.

Tab8715 posted:

Is every ex-racket this bitter? I'm noticing a common trend...

Aside from San Antonio supposedly being a boring city RS sounds like a good place.

Or did.

SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:

Pissing me off right now:

Tonight is a large code migration from to production on this project I'm working on. I'm just an SA on this, but there's a handful of files that need to be moved from UAT to Prod. The devs provide a list of the files, with a note to back them up on prod, and then copy them from UAT. The MAJOR BANK'S production support manager rejected the entire migration plan because we didn't give him a list of commands to move the files over. We get on a call where he tells us that he doesn't know the skill set of the person he will have on the team, so he can't count on them knowing how to transfer files between Linux servers, and the person likely won't know what a symlink is or how to remove and add them.

Our PM flipped out on the call, how they can they possibly have this team manage and support a Unix system if they don't even know basic Linux commands? He lost his mind, but the client PM shut him down, and basically said "if we can't migrate Friday, we can't go into production on our dead line and we have to wait until the next prod migration window which is in weeks.

Guess who has to get on a webex from 10:30pm until 4:30 am and hand hold these knuckleheads through ten rsync commands (that I provided them verbatim so they can just copy and paste)?

Also before anyone says use something like chef or puppet or svn or whatever, yeah, I know but the bank doesn't allow us to use anything on their systems so we have no choice but to do it this way.

EDIT: oh also they scheduled a complete power outage of the data center the prod VM cluster lives at, so the server are actually off for another half hour. Wonderful.

Volguus posted:

You are 100% correct that there are plenty of more bad opinions where those came from. You do, however, seem to be confused about a couple of things:

1. I do not, and never said, that mfa in general is a bad thing. I am using it for paypal, digital ocean, blackblaze, google, (ignoring the lol-sms from the banks), work. You know, important poo poo. Stuff that matters.
2. Mandated MFA is a bad thing for a git backup service (yes, you've read that correctly). Why did I used github? For convenience. Impede that in any way shape or form and im taking my toys and move to another git backup service. "But github cures cancer". I don't care. Never did, never will.

Now, they are free to demand whatever poo poo they want, those are, after all, their computers. I am also free to complain about it on a dead gay comedy forum. And you are free to disagree all you want.

Internet Explorer posted:

A lot of new monitors have PIP. Mine even lets you select the source for audio.