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FISHMANPET posted:So, basically, I'm really bad about writing resumes. Like, I try and my brain just turns off. So I was hoping that something useful might get pulled out of me through the process. But as the process went on it was just help desk stuff getting pulled out. He was asking questions about how may tickets I was resolving and I didn't really want to answer those because it wasn't relevant. I just kind of gave up on the whole thing because it wasn't taking me in any kind of useful direction. He works by going completely over the top on the details, and then trimming it down or versioning it into something presentable. And of course how many tickets you resolved daily is important...it's your resume
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Did eight hours of live interviews over three rounds & 9 people for an investment firm in Boston that went mostly great. HR came right before the CTO, and I didn't prepare at all for it. She was a partner. That was for a desktop support job. I interviewed at some global executive scouting company and they made me take the global executive aptitude test with the timer on, then do about three hours of thematic aptitude testing where I made up stories to describe pictures etc. That was for a database support temp-to-hire. A school district offered me a job in the room so I took that one and it owns.
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Drunk Orc posted:How well do public schools (K-12) pay? Is it largely dependent on the location and district, or do they tend to compensate IT staff pretty well? I've got an interview for a "Primary Technology Support Technician" position tomorrow. The extremely wordy job names I keep seeing never stop being funny to me. In my (high cost of living) state, techs make $40K, Sys/Network admins $50-80K, tech directors $90-100K. Great insurance, awesome PTO plan, but with a mandatory 11% 403(b) contribution.
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My school district has 10GbE, gigabit internet, 100% dual band wireless coverage, Hyper-V 2012 R2 with a SAN, and 2012 R2 domain controllers  State contracts are fune: It's totally for the kids and not my resume.
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Race Realists posted:The data entry and Office experience is nothing. It's just the "installation and configuration of personal computers and printers on a local and wide area network" part that worries me. I've NEVER done a network install or even made a network (I could, but I doubt it would be very secure). Other people seem to be reading into it differently, but to me that job sounds like they are going to have you inventory a lot of things or translate a paper inventory to a spreadsheet. That's basically what the clerical work is in IT
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Although it is a controversial topic, pathological lying has been defined as "falsification entirely disproportionate to any discernible end in view, may be extensive and very complicated, and may manifest over a period of years or even a lifetime". The individual may be aware they are lying, or may believe they are telling the truth, being unaware that they are relating fantasies. e: I don't doubt that a 24 year old can make bank and do Important Things. Meltdown prone people who can't recognize much less correct their mistakes do not tend to be these sorts of people. Roargasm fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Nov 15, 2014 |
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e: Edited out most of this post, sorry for getting drawn into this. Dilbert, I really hope you are successful and I know your work ethic is insane, but all I see is you getting drunk and acting like an rear end in a top hat
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AAB posted:Am I an idiot that can't find a VoIP thread or is there not one yet? I'm in the process of looking for a new system and my coworker is insisting we get specs and quotes on at least 5. FWIW 40 users now, going up to 100 over the next 9 months. Whatever you go with, make sure you get dibs on not being the lead admin. Being the phone guy sucks. Getting five bids is going to take hours of meetings by the way - you need to know exactly what your analog infrastructure is going to look like before you walk into these things. This is assuming you don't already have a voip deployment.
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AAB posted:There isn't a VoIP setup at the moment. The big goal is to get something in that can also move and grow easily. Its going to be a fun process since only 1 of 3 of us have any experience with this kind of thing. See if you can get a copy of your phone bill and DIDs. In addition to your modem(s), every line that you're paying for does something, probably. C/O trunks and faxes are easy, but they can also be things like emergency services, pagers, alarms, or security doors that need to get patched over or kept intact. I'm sure it's a quick process if you know what you want and how to do it, but we had to lean on the VAR heavily. Get a good one. e: I need to stop reading threads backwards, just saw you're 40 users. My building is gigantic with a 50 year old patchwork infrastructure, so it was a hell of a migration this summer. Roargasm fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Nov 18, 2014 |
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Tab8715 posted:Why? Being a voip guy is no easy feat, pays well and is in and will probably continue to be in high-demand. I am currently doing it for free, so I'm probably a little bitter. I don't think I'll ever develop the skill set to program a box from scratch, I'm just the only guy in the building who knows how to program the auto-attendant and set up extensions. This might come into play at my next review or interview, but for now, it's just dread that the the phones are going to crash and it's going to be my fault  I have brand new PoE switching, but having the phones tied to the network feels a lot different than just having the internet connection.
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So your DCs are going to be on the cloud. Your productivity software is already there, as is your CRM. What's happening to the business every minute the ISP is down? The numbers are pretty easy to run because your revenue will be zero and you're paying all of your employees to play minesweeper. You should be looking at price as it relates to SLA, not as an expense
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Nov 21, 2014 23:48
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Chickenwalker posted:I'm working as a catch-all post-production support guy. We maintain all the edits, media servers, A/V equipment, client PCs and keep the network going. I work 60 hours a week and get paid less than $40k a year. How badly am I being screwed? That's pretty much market rate for people who can't do arithmetic Dilbert As gently caress posted:I have lots of money; who cares? Prove it
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Chickenwalker posted:$31,680 is less than $40,000. What's the going rate for people without reading comprehension? You're asking if you're getting screwed while providing cursory info at best, don't expect me not to be a smartass
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Neo Dilbert is basically Michael Cera wearing a leather jacket in Arrested Development
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Drunk Orc posted:While we are on the topic of certifications, is it better to list them in their own section on your resume, or should they be incorporated into an education section? Should I provide a license number to let people verify it? I list certs first, then my liberal arts BS, work experience, and technical skills all in separate sections respectively. Went with a well known professional on SA
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I had to take an international CEO talent test one time for a database support temp to hire (it was an international CEO headhunting firm). It was absurdly hard, a huge jump above any GMAT sample question I've ever seen, and on a timer. After the hour was up I left the office with my eyes glassed over and my jacket buttoned up wrong. Then I did three hours of projective psychological tests at home.
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Drunk Orc posted:I'm not going to pay into the pension here at first as its voluntary, but if something that pays decent opens up and I can get the position I might consider sticking around for that reason. Only being 10 minutes from my house on side streets owns too. You should contribute anyway, it's likely a pre-tax deduction and you're probably eligible to get contributions back at 0% interest if you leave before you're vested. School IT is great, just make sure that you set clear rules and adhere to them as a department because teachers are masters of slippery slopes and one-offs
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evol262 posted:The new website is terrible and I haven't figured out how to get to a lot of things yet, but I really hope this is trolling. *CEO wipes daughter's apple sauce off iPad screen* ah yes, this is the Linux I have been hearing about
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MrMoo posted:Please let me know the best way to replace a HDD with a bootcamp install. I have two mac minis that are depressingly slow and I want to replace with an SSD but I do not want to reinstall anything. It's easy with the built in OSX disk utility. You can just image the disk and restore it back onto the SSD - I think I used an external adapter to restore to the SSD but I don't remember. Bootcamp doesn't affect the loader at all
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Don't be afraid to admit you don't know something inside of your department, but never admit fault for anything outside of it  Seriously. Just never admit anything is wrong or broken to sales or they will never stop bringing it up and blaming their problems on it
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Tab8715 posted:On the same subject is Windows Server DHCP the most widely used DHCP Service? It seems immensely popular and I've never seen anything else dishing out addresses. I use Zentyal at home because I'm a nerd but Windows DHCP comes out of the box with easy to use filters, multiple scope assignments, premade options, WDS support, etc. e: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2132.txt I'm going to use a monitor and a mouse thanks for the advice though 
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"If nothing else, Linux users are smart, and their greatest challenge is to find smart ways to prove it to you" -Powershell In A Month of Lunches
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Cannot wait to get YOTJ'ing in 2015. Love the current internal gig in sys admin and IT management, done some amazing projects, but it's been a couple of years and hopefully the next move is the "big" one. I would do it in a second but I was hoping they would find me first 
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I'm personally disgusted by it, but I read the white papers about Frontier and exhaustive regression in the leak and it blew my mind. I would love to get my hands on something like that, but for science e: I really appreciate the feedback though. Morale means a lot to me, even if the tech is virtually future magic Roargasm fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Jan 3, 2015 |
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theperminator posted:Being a sysadmin is going to kill me I think, a bunch of people left above and below me and my teammate and now we're left doing the work of at least 6 people. I'm green and probably have a lighter workload than you, but I started going gray for a couple of months and was loving losing it and I read Limoncelli's Time Management for System Administrators (there's a Kindle edition). He dives right into the core concept that having to remember 500 things at once (my job, and I assume yours) ruins your alacrity on the job, even if you don't consciously realize it. I started writing down absolutely everything and only focusing on what was right in front of me. My stress level went way down, I stopped worrying about fires and focused on the work I was doing, which hopefully leads to fewer fires anyway.
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Speaking of Linkedin, I added a ton of you from the goon group - I'm Scott. The group is pretty dead so when I make a post begging for a job in the coming months I'll probably just link to it here
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incoherent posted:.....Imagine stuxnet on an internet of things level.... Another convincing reason not to buy a fridge with a wifi card in it.
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We used to play Heroes 3 hotseat at my old job  All the kids just want to play lollers now
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I started running Cat6a for our phones and WAPs and went back to 5e for now. It's a bitch to work with and everything is twice as expensive including patch panels and labor (because gently caress working with Cat6a yourself). If you can afford it I would do it, but you're not missing out otherwise.
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Fingers crossed for Windows 10 on ARM
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On the subject of finally learning how to use the Windows command prompt/ps, I just learned that you can pipe output to clip.exe to copy it to your clipboard "echo goonlord | clip.exe" like that 
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Crowley posted:"echo goonlord >> Output.txt" Outputs to file and appends to existing files. Awesome thanks!
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Rotating shifts are TERRIBLE for you. Health, sanity, literally everything
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Literal death is more significant than spiritual death. Don't work 8PM -8AM on an on/off schedule thanks and god bless
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MagnumOpus posted:Amazon has some big players that they are working with who provide a ton of revenue or in the case of Netflix a very profitable shared technical experience. Was going to ask something about this and found Netflix's tech blog: http://techblog.netflix.com/ Really cool read especially for someone who's becoming interested in .js development and ops. AWS seems poised to become an absolute giant but there's nothing special about that business model that other companies can't copy.
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Gyshall posted:Confluence/Jira is the poo poo, son. Relatively cheap and you can run it in house too. I run starter edition of both in house just for my department and love it . Jira is completely cost prohibitive if you're not sharing accounts through, I think it's $10 for ten users and $1000 for a hundred? Beats the $1200/yr "IT management" system that I gutted through And now I have evidence when I shout "gently caress printers" from the rooftops 
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MagnumOpus posted:Get some subcategories in your system and pareto chart that poo poo, son. Good call I'll look into it. If I had to guess it's probably something like: 300 - Are you loving serious user? 40 - Are you loving serious HP? 20 - Please stop buying refurb toner that explodes
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I have 140 printers for 128 FTE. Absolute loving joke but purchase of those and projectors are getting "centralized" for 15-16  I'm not fixing to start paying for their toner but people cannot stop cheaping out and buying these refurb cartridges from OfficeDepot that melt and explode
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Zero VGS posted:Another silly compliance question: Is it technically OK to run a Windows 7 or 8.1 Pro workstation as a server, if I'm not using any actual Windows Server roles on it? For instance if it ran only Spiceworks and nothing else, I don't need CALs right?  ).I'm overgeneralizing big time but for an SMB the only client services that Server 2012 R2 can offer without CALs, which Windows 8.1 Pro cannot do period are: AD/DNS/DHCP, WSUS, Volume activation, WDS, backup server, and centralized fileshare management. Single-host Hyper-V is the same (need server or baremetal for a cluster), IIS is the same. Remote Desktop Services is the VDI solution in 2012 R2 and is the huge draw for the CAL model. Just hosting a normal remote desktop session also requires a CAL because gently caress you pay me, whereas something like Teamviewer would not, because it's not a Windows service. edit: 2012R2 has a beefed up print server, probably as a justification to require CALs *for your printers* Roargasm fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Feb 17, 2015 |
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Gyshall posted:You do actually need a device CAL for anything getting DHCP from a Windows server, or if you authenticate against a Windows domain. What. Am I supposed to fill out paperwork to transfer licenses every time people get new toys for Christmas? The cloud first, mobile first world sucks 
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