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mayodreams posted:I've done two O365 tenancies with ADFS here and it is really not hard to do. Good for you. Hopefully your response makes that guy think twice before harasing potential employees. Its hard enough to go through the interview process without giving out past/current salary details.
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Dark Helmut posted:
Does this also apply to the West Coast? I will be looking for a more system admin type job in the next year or so, but I grew up with the honest belief that ties were for weddings and funerals. Are suits really desirable over here? I have never worn one to an interview, always went well.
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Race Realists posted:Just got a call from my school wanting me to come in for an interview for a part time IT job on wednesday. What kind of part-time IT job?
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Always take as much money as you can get. Your company would(and many do) fire you in an instant if they could save a few bucks a year. 'Company Loyalty' is a scam to keep timid people in their jobs for less money. A new hire at my company worked for 5 years at a large retail company with no raises. While they let go 3 employees because he worked so hard(and cutbacks). When he went back to school and was offered a new job with us, they offered him a massive raise(like 50%). He finally realized they had been screwing him the whole time. Get what you can from your job, because otherwise you will be walked on.
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stubblyhead posted:I can only speak for myself, but I think for me it's been about 5% being pretty smart, about 10% personal networking and a solid 85% pure loving luck. This is accurate for nearly everyone in a good job, even if they don't believe it themselves. I had a horrible job until the father of one of my friends recommended me to a position, and I moved up from there.
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RoryGilmore posted:50k/year in NYC. No formal job description, it's a startup so it's basically 'do whatever is needed to help the company grow' now, which is being the main support for multiple clients both remotely and on site (it's just me so I'm doing everything from the low level support with users to maintaining the servers/backups/etc), developing our presence online, training new hires for the lower level work, and now setting up clients in additional offices (so setting up the networks/servers there and working with vendors to get the things we need). 50k in NYC for all that? You are getting screwed. Oh, and since they are moving you to salary without any negotiation, get ready for 80 hour weeks until you resign!
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Not really, it was a miracle my boss didn't make me take two more tickets after my 13 hour day yesterday. We've always been understaffed. I think it's because the people doing bean-counting see our call volume and think it's fine, but they don't realize that our calls are frequently an hour + drive apart. I regularly make a 3 hour drive each way for two of my sites. It's funny, we lost our biggest contract because the parts weren't available and we had too many tickets for our number of employees nationwide, but they really haven't learned anything. Are you salary, or just getting absurd amounts of overtime?
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Bhodi posted:It sounds like you hate working, don't worry in a few more years you'll barely even feel it anymore Just going to empty quote this...
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evol262 posted:The boot camp apprenticeship/internship seems to be "we pair you with an experienced dev with a company and work you to death for a few weeks. Now you're a developer! It probably means like most people in their late teens/early twenties, they think they know a lot more about IT then they actually do. My issues with the older generation revolve around not knowing where the power switch is or giving up when something unexpected happens. With younger people its more frequently "Well, it did this, so I googled it and tried this. And now it won't turn on!"
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Knight posted:Today was a nightmare. Internet connection down and spotty network problems lead to finding the router had a hardware failure, and replacing it took us through a circus of poo poo because neither of the groups who had installed our new phone system bothered to record how the vlan was configured, the owners's decision to daisy-chain the PCs through the phones and save money instead of running separate lines to avoid a common failure point proved disastrous, meaning we had neither phones nor PCs working at those stations until the vlan was reconfigured, and our company's history of just adding switches, cables, and panels on top of old redundant ones sufficiently sent everyone on wild goose chases while doing this. 6 hours of downtime. Tomorrow I get to start pushing out 30+ VPN logins and clients. I have seen this at a few places I work with. When I took all my CCNA courses, Cisco spent a few chapters screaming 'BACK UP YOUR drat ROUTER/SWITCH CONFIGS!!!', is it really that common to not keep backups of configurations?
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SaltLick posted:The key to being a success in hell desk is not being the stereotype of a grumpy, smelly, IT guy. If you can talk to people and not make them feel like an idiot while helping them you will go far. This is the key to almost every job.
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Che Delilas posted:Honestly, my message is to the people inside the industry. Imposter syndrome was discussed on the last page, and people come into these threads with cases of it regularly. Again, because it's so second nature to us, many of us don't step back and think about what the troubleshooting process really entails, and how much work our own experience and knowledge do for us automatically. I like to point this out explicitly so IT people, especially the newcomers, will hopefully feel less anxious about it, or at least think about it. This is very true. If my wife went on Google to try and fix an error message that popped up, it would take her hours as she would have to look up referenced terminology, figure out which solution actually applied to her situation, etc. It's also about knowing how to search. If my computer is crashing with an error message, searching for 'my computer is crashing' won't help much. 'error 0x00452' is better. The best would be attempting to identify what seems to be occurring when it crashed, perhaps a time or a specific program. 'word crash error 0x00452' should quickly find the problem. And while I'm sure many of you think that is common sense, you probably don't deal with non-technical people often enough.
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. Of course then you have all the remaining steps, like evaluating the answers and discarding useless and/or harmful information and on and on. My point being that when an IT person thinks, "I just Google the problem am I really getting paid for this?" they aren't accurately representing the steps they actually take.
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Methanar posted:Well I got treated like an equal today and it was pretty nice. Until they told me I'd be cleaning the yard (raking loving dirt) for the next 4 days. I had already set up my own desk and build my own computer, put it on the domain and then I was pulled away to be told lolyourrakingdirt. I was given a tour, told about the AD structure, projects, shown the server room; then dirt. This is either a hilarious joke or you have zero self respect. Or possibly both. Truly a computer janitor.
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ElGroucho posted:Did you accidentally join the military, RakeGoon? Mods, you know what you have to do. metavisual posted:And "RakeGoon" is the best name ever....RakeGoon should change his username to that!
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CLAM DOWN posted:A lot of IT people tend towards arrogant and selfish conservatism/libertarianism so it's actually a good thing to make sure the kind of stuff Vulture Culture mentioned is brought up and not smugly dismissed. It has less to do with 'I'm too good for this' and more to do with 'that isn't my job, I wasn't hired for this'.
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psydude posted:I'm pretty lazy, so I make a point to never work more than I have to. Exactly this. Work intelligently, automate everything, turn off all devices at 5pm.(and cut out at 4 if possible) People who work 80/week are either too dumb to do their jobs properly or suckers.
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jaegerx posted:His name is evol. And despite being a Linux tech I hate him too. This is what I though of also.
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The guy who keeps working at his abusive job is an idiot who needs to grow a pair and leave. But that certainly doesn't mean that all millennials can be painted with a 'needs to be babied' brush. That's mostly media bullshit and the changing perceptions of (rather spoiled) boomers.
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I get 3 weeks vacation(non-banking), 4 'personal holidays', 6 sick days(that bank) and 7 or 8 holiday days. Not shabby(for  ) but I have been here for 8 years.Edit: I'd definitely like more vacation days. I think 5 weeks a year would be a good sweet spot.
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evol262 posted:I don't think it's possible to have too many vacation days... I disagree. I like my job(most of the time), and being off for too much time would hurt my knowledge growth, ability to work on long-term projects, and massively contribute to boredom. I hear stories of people taking off months and that is baffling to me.(personal feelings, everyone is different) But a week off nearly every 2 months? That would be nice.
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Gonna be vague here, but a position has opened up in my company that would be better in many ways, and offer me more of a challenge than my current position(though it would only be a minor pay increase and that section of the company is in flux, it would be more focused on working with servers and not endusers). However, my company is insane and requires me to ask permission from my manager before we can apply for an internal position, in department or outside of dept.  I sent my boss an email asking if he minded if I took a look at the position and... silence. I tried bringing it up and he gave me an odd look and changed the subject. How does someone approach this? Just... push the issue? I try to be tactful at work, which has helped over the years, and I really don't want to burn any bridges(especially since in most cases, my current boss is an awesome guy). Oh, and keep in mind my bosses' boss is an rear end in a top hat who will undoubtedly attempt to block my transfer. Mrit fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Jun 21, 2015 |
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rafikki posted:Oh Cisco Holy poo poo. At least most sane people will have all in-band management on a separate vlan, which should prevent this from being a big issue.(disclaimer - I'm still working on my CCNA)
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TerryLennox posted:That laptop is Methanar's ticking time bomb.
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Methanar posted:Not the email server. Just the only way of interacting with the email server. This is slightly different.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I know this is a dumb thing to get excited over, but I just used logmein for the first time. I feel like a wizard, setting up printers by IP (because gently caress WDS) from 1000 miles away. WDS is horrible, and many printer issues can be traced to Microsoft's class drivers being poo poo.(as that is what WDS will automatically install)
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Are the Robert Half IT salary guides worth anything? On Tuesday I'm going to have a meeting discussing conversion to full time. I need a significant raise to be able to stay at this position, because I didn't realize how hard health insurance and a second person's significant medical expenses were going to gently caress my wallet. On the bright side, the amount I need is still within the Robert Half guide's range. Almost no company will give a 70% raise. You'd be better off getting a new job. Disclaimer: I got a 45% raise once, but I was horribly underpaid, the company was desperate to keep me, and it still took 5 months and the intervention of the Sr. Vice President to get it approved.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:The incoming director of IT has no IT experience. He's just a friend of the CEO. Managers don't necessarily need to be skilled in the field they are managing as long as the staff is intelligent and he listens to them. But you are probably screwed.
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