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One network engineer, two network technicians, and my boss have now resigned over the past month and a half or so. Three of us left... gently caress.
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Malkar posted:http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6321960&srkey=a225-5203 Seems reasonable.
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Sickening posted:Welp, almost a year to the day my new place of employment is being sold. Same thing happened to my previous place. Well, at least you've been through this song and dance before. Time to break out the resume!
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SubjectVerbObject posted:So my job has gone the metric route, and now is going the 'new process to follow every week' route. It seems like every new process I learn, I forget another one, or my work gets that much slower. I am not sure if this is because I am slowing down as I get into my 40's, or I've lost my passion, or burnout or whatever, but work is not fun. I really felt this way at my last gig. The cure was to get up and out of there. Find a new job. There are a lot of the same problems and a whole batch of new ones (DoD contracting, red tape...) at my new job but the change of scenery is refreshing. Sometimes you just need to shake up your reality a little bit. IT is not my passion, it never will be, but it's the only thing I know and the only skill I have that can pay me the way that it does. I guess what I'm saying is, buckle down, focus and get out. Maybe that means getting out of IT entirely? It could just mean getting into another gig/new-ish environment. It depends on your situation. For me, leaving IT wasn't an option even though if I won the lottery tomorrow I would never touch another computer again. My wife and I had our first child this year and it shook up my priorities quite a bit. 36 here... GOOCHY fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Jan 25, 2014 |
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Jan 25, 2014 19:16
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Keep looking for a new job. That place is a poo poo hole even if they did give you a little more money. Many IT skills are in demand. If you are even remotely social and have a cert or two you're going to have recruiters knocking down the door. EDIT: For poo poo that is NOT pissing me off... I signed on with the primary DoD IT contractor at my site this week. Previously I was with a sub-contractor for 6 months. 15% raise on an already above market salary, for the same work. I'll take it! GOOCHY fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Feb 14, 2014 |
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Feb 14, 2014 02:17
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You need a new job.
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Mar 3, 2014 15:20
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Time for the :itisacar: analogy.
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Mar 3, 2014 16:17
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I've never worked in an environment where storage was blamed first. Network Eng here. It's always "the network".
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Mar 4, 2014 17:13
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Bob Morales posted:I would love to take USB Device Training. Does it come on an interactive DVD with a test, and printable certificate at the end? No DVD but, yes, you'll have a test and a certificate at the end. Congrats!
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Mar 6, 2014 16:58
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You'd have to pay me double my rate to work for an attorney. Even then, I might not do it.
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Mar 8, 2014 15:20
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Volmarias posted:Ye Olde Technologie Journeymenne Love it!! Edit: Why isn't there an IT union? We're a trade just like anything else. I think the unfortunate answer is that a lot of these neckbeards are Libertarian fantasy-landers.
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Mar 14, 2014 00:07
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I have one signature for everything. Honestly, if anybody ever complained about me sending an email with the same signature I'd wonder if they needed more work to do.
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Mar 29, 2014 19:27
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Daylen Drazzi posted:I'm so lucky that I work on a non-classified network where everything is covered by the standard FOUO (For Official Use Only) disclaimer, and have a separate machine and account for the classified network (where everything is either Secret or Unclassified). The only pain in the rear end part about it is that no piece of equipment from the classified network can come within 24 inches of any piece of equipment from the non-classified network, and every couple weeks the IA folks come around with a ruler to make sure that classified keyboard (duly noted with a red Secret tag) is not within 24 inches of my non-classified monitor (duly noted with a green Unclassified sticker). It gets really tricky if you have a someone on the other side of your cube and have to figure out a location for everything. Fortunately I don't have anyone on one side of me, and my classified computer sits on that side of the cubicle. Huh, we have a NIPR machine residing in our SIPR vault that is absolutely within 24" of a SIPR machine. Nobody seems to give a poo poo, including IA.
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Mar 30, 2014 19:42
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They'll back off until the guy who is replacing you is up to speed. Also, politically, you're dead at this organization now if you already weren't. I tried that route in my younger days.
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Apr 11, 2014 14:26
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The only security folks at the DoD contractor I work for are the "pres butan git report" types. None of them are technical in the least. Supposedly our government wants to hire 6000 IT security people over the next couple of years but has no idea where they're going to come from or how they're going to be trained.
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Misogynist posted:Could be worse. I got a pile of Nagios alerts about an hour before I was supposed to leave to, uh, get married. I got it before the people who were working that day, who apparently got blindsided by one of our network engineers breaking a whole rack group worth of switches, triggering isolation response, and killing most of the VMs on our network. Got it back up before someone called me with "you're gonna kill me, but," so I was able to shout "IT'S FIXED ALREADY" and hang up the phone. Congrats on getting married!
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Apr 19, 2014 13:30
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meanieface posted:Pissing me off: boss showing up at my desk and being super-weird about how I needed to log out RIGHT NOW so she could walk me out the door. Story time!
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I work for a DoD contractor. The Network Enterprise Center at my facility requests project work from the network group that I work for, and we do it. Design work and new turn-ups have been slow lately so the rinky dink projects are starting to come out in droves. Last week, I was asked to dispatch out and retrieve a Cisco 3560G and an APC battery backup unit from a building that was no longer being used by the client. I dispatched out and decommissioned the switch and put the APC back into inventory. This kind of work is quite a bit below my pay grade, to be honest, but I did it. Yesterday, someone from the base facilities security office noticed one-and-a-half weeks later that they could not reach the buildings on-site controller for the badge reader to get into the door(s) of this building. I told the gentleman that per my bosses, bosses, boss  - we had been instructed to terminate network connectivity to the building since no one was going to be using this (small) building any longer. Long story short - we had to install media converters at both ends and ultimately had to install a gigabit ethernet module into a Cisco 6500 because it didn't have any copper ports available.  "We don't want to install a switch back out there!"Ultimately, we had to install a "switch" on the other end to make it work. For one copper ethernet port. There will never be any other copper ethernet termination in this closet. There was no other expeditious way to make it happen any other way ($$$). gently caress me. <3 u govt GOOCHY fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Jun 14, 2014 |
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Huh, I work with Cisco TAC to replace defective PSUs for Cisco 6500s and 4500s all the time. They're nothing but helpful. Matter of fact, just yesterday I had one on my desk less than 24 hours after I opened my ticket requesting a new one. I've had this experience with replacing defective SUPs too. Hopefully I won't run into that kind of push back in the future.
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Jun 27, 2014 13:34
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They're just going to read that survey and take it as, "Our service wasn't that bad this guy is just insufferable." Sorry, that's just how I'd take a survey that was filled out like that.
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Jun 28, 2014 09:46
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We all know people like that. I made every effort to help a guy out of a bad situation a few months back. I told him to get his Sec+, at minimum, lined up. As we all know it takes even a neophyte three weeks to study for that cert and pass it. I'm still waiting six months later. He apparently doesn't think his situation is that bad.
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Jun 29, 2014 21:01
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I take all my vacation every year. It's there for a reason. Also, I've always had bosses who would essentially get angry if you didn't schedule yourself to be away from work at some point. Even if you were just taking the vacation to sit at home and play XBOX you should do it. My coworker is taking this week off to kayak fish and golf all week. Not going anywhere special, just hanging out.
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Jul 2, 2014 03:25
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The manager does have a point. When I was in the MSP game we had literally one person show the aptitude to come out of 3rd shift support and join the engineering team. The rest would surf the internet all night, come in half stoned/drunk, late all the time, etc. This guy showed drive and a willingness to learn. He picked up after hours maintenance projects frequently. He was one out of ten employees of that shift? Fifteen? That was over a multi-year period of time. I can't blame it on the people 100%, though. That company's internal training and metric tracking was horrendous.
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Jul 6, 2014 16:11
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Stealthgerbil posted:People who don't listen are the worst. We told a client to get a static IP at their house to set up a VPN so she can RDP into her computer at work. My boss told the person, I told the person, but no static IP when I stopped by today Many carriers don't even offer static public hosts for residential class service.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:The filling of datastores causes massive problems. 16GB of memory allocated to a server which will never use more than 2GB just makes me think you're stupid. You need a new gig, duder. Your posts have been getting more and more stressed out lately.
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Scaramouche posted:The piss particles will reach Mars sometime next July. Nobody's going to want to touch that rover. You are breathing someones piss particles right now. We all are.
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Volmarias posted:Let's go further. The moment you pee? That's right; dicks touching dicks. 
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Aug 27, 2014 21:20
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Next time I see the HR gal drinking coffee... Nnnnggggg.
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Aug 27, 2014 21:28
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Silly goonz posting on a comedy web forum something awful dot com llc.
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Aug 28, 2014 00:27
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poo poo pissing me off? My boss that thinks he can spout his racist opinions about the "thugs" in Ferguson all day long. He's been out of the Marines for a little over six months and is under the impression that our office supports the same hoo-rah, macho bullshit that they do. Protip: We don't.
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Nov 26, 2014 08:21
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I just vent here. I have a wife and a young child to take care of so I can't risk anything. Just grin and bear it.
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Nov 26, 2014 15:50
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Dick Trauma posted:I quit. Not a good day. Gotta hear the story behind this one.
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Nov 26, 2014 21:09
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I've been at that stress level before and it's not fun. Hopefully you can land on your feet and have some interviews after the holiday season. This is a tough stretch for hiring. A lot of companies shut it down for the next couple of months unless it's an absolute emergency that they hire some IT savant for something.
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Nov 26, 2014 23:52
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Collecting action figures from his desk was a nice touch of flair. I like it. Nobody is taking me seriously. *grabs Spawn action figures and storms out *
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Nov 28, 2014 02:29
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Someone doesn't know how DHCP works and I'm not entirely sure it's just the "network engineer".
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Dec 6, 2014 04:07
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I should check my own clearance status. I've been waiting on word regarding my TS for about six months. Will the JPAS site tell me one way or the other?
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Jan 30, 2015 00:42
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My bosses method of troubleshooting - swing the hammer, if the hammer doesn't fix it, swing it faster and harder and that will eventually fix the problem.
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Jan 30, 2015 23:04
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Take the new job. Do not stay for a merger unless you really like pain.
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Mar 5, 2015 02:42
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There are too many Libertarian neckbeards in IT for a union to really take off.
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Anybody have a boss or co-workers who talk *at* you, not to you? I won the sweepstakes. Two out of three of my co-workers are so incredibly narcissistic that they will come over to my cube to just talk about whatever it is they are doing lately, nonstop. There's very little input from me in these "conversations" because even when I do provide my end both of these guys will just continue to talk as if nothing was said by anyone else. No pause, no flinch, no head nod - just continuing to talk. You know how a normal conversation has a pause for a give and take? That doesn't exist here. What's the point? I have been walking this Earth for almost 38 years at this point and have never seen anything like it. Not this bad, anyway.
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