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Accretionist posted:Any of you ever hear of an IT guy pulling off US → EU immigration with a WGU degree? Company I work for has no problem bringing in college drop-outs from outside the EU. It seems to depend more on skill/experience/offered salary so if WGU is a proper institution and not a diploma mill it shouldn't be a problem. edit: A quick google search tells me there are differences between various EU countries. Sprechensiesexy fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Sep 7, 2015 |
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adorai posted:as a sysadmin who is good at scripting but not programming, is ansible still my best bet? I heard ansible was working on some cisco extensions, is that true? Guy writing this blog seems to be dabbling in it: https://pynet.twb-tech.com/
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Tab8715 posted:
All true, until you start doing business in places where bandwidth isn't a commodity. Then the Cloud becomes a problem instead of the magic solution to everything. Anyway, I'm not too worried about my job future as long as I keep my skillset relevant. Sprechensiesexy fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Sep 30, 2015 |
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ManSauceGuzzlr posted:I have a career question for you guys. This is my first year working in IT, I've managed to get both my CCNA and MCSA, and I'm finishing up my Sec+ now. I started at my current company 5 months ago in their NOC as a technician, getting paid a fairly reasonable hourly rate. Two weeks ago I got moved to the security department, which has been really great, I got typical 9-5 hours, a cubicle, and the work is much more fulfilling. However, what I haven't gotten yet is a title change or a salary increase. My new job duties often require me to be on call or review stuff on the weekends, but I'm still hourly so I don't get paid for it. Did they mention anything when you got moved? Like "We will adjust your salary/title in x months due to budget reasons" ? If not, you should probably have a conversation with your manager along the lines of increased responsibilities should come with increased remuneration. And you might want to dip your toes in the job pool as well, see what is being offered out there. Puts you in a better spot if you ever need to negotiate at your current place as well.
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ManSauceGuzzlr posted:The head of security mentioned that he would review my performance in 30-45 days, which was about a month ago now (I think). Other than that they haven't mentioned anything to me. I'd like to have that conversation but I'm not sure how to bring it up without seeming ungrateful. If someone says 30-45 days and forgets or is too busy you're not being ungrateful by reminding them. If you really intend to leave then by all means get offers in your pocket, otherwise you can always try to leverage them into a better offer at your current employer.
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I wonder what the next fad after the cloud is gonna be  The cloud certainly has it uses but I get skeptical when a thing is being over hyped.
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Segmentation Fault posted:I mentally combine Sisqo, Cisco Systems, Sysco Corporation (the company that sells food products), and Captain Benjamin Sisko all the time and I can't imagine a life any other way. "Are your thongs safe in the Cloud?" 
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Oct 2, 2015 01:57
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psydude posted:What you save in money you make up for in medical bills for destroying your back trying to rack them. And that's why Satan invented smart hands.
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Oct 2, 2015 04:13
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KennyTheFish posted:We need a book on how long DT's pod lasts this time. Based off how much luck with jobs he had in the past: Christmas Eve.
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Oct 5, 2015 12:09
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mewse posted:A toilet that makes continuous bathroom noises to mask the bathroom noises that oneself is generating The toilets I used in Japan all had a music button. Never tried it though but I expect crappy music to drown out a furious butt trumpet solo.
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Tab8715 posted:Keeping the lights on doesn't necessarily add business value and it's quickly becoming one of biggest things I dislike about System Administration. If you are not acting as a multiplier to your colleague's business value or adding your own you're doing IT wrong.
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Jan 5, 2016 03:38
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CLAM DOWN posted:please don't troll My income tax this year is around 4,5-5% On the other hand, I pay around $18 for a pint.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Team-oriented positions like helpdesk and MSP spots almost require you're in the same room as your coworkers. When the pace of the job is fast it's always easier to hive-mind through tickets. I tried working from home a few times at my MSP gig and there was a lot of stepping on toes, duplicating work, and not having reference knowledge of recurring issues. It sucked and was extremely unproductive. Seems more like an organisational issue to me. Phone support type of work is a prime candidate for WFH provided you have your organisation and technology in order. I'm no fan of measuring toilet breaks and that type of call center dictatorship poo poo but tickets and break/fix type of productivity can be easily measured regardless of where people are working from.
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Feb 16, 2016 17:41
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frogbert posted:Telstra's NTP servers are tic.ntp.telstra.net and toc.ntp.telstra.net. I think those are acceptable names. I wish they were an acceptable ISP. I also wish they would stop buying other decent ISPs.
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Feb 26, 2016 05:52
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CLAM DOWN posted:Lmao y'all clearly haven't flown Air Canada Rouge before, it brings whole new meaning to the phrase "worst airline" I see your airline and raise you China Southern Airlines.
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DigitalMocking posted:I fired a guy for literally doing a bump of coke on his desk as I walked in the door with a customer in at at-will state. You don't have contracts that cover this kind of poo poo? Under influence on the job = fired.
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psydude posted:CCNA can probably get you up to the 100k mark in certain areas. CCNP will probably be good for up to 160k. After that it becomes a bit tougher to rely on solely being competent, because you're typically selling your services to multiple customers who will want that CCIE or VCDX in your signature block. Here in Singapore IT salaries are all over the place. I've seen network engineering jobs offer $20K USD per year and see them go as high as $150K+ as well. It seems mostly based on what industry you are in and less on what particular certificate you have.
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Kashuno posted:I saw the picture and immediately skipped over the whole post should I go back and read it? I stopped reading at the part where they were saying making significant network changes at Friday 7pm is the cool and smart thing to do.
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Docjowles posted:Network engineer spotted These days I prefer Powershell for my network automation tasks  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW1FpcpiDns
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psydude posted:Yep. As I'm sitting here an hour past when I was trying to end this change window because a customer straight up didn't tell me about an extra switch they have, I'm keeping in mind that my company is basically paying me to travel around the world to various vacation spots for weeks at a time over the next few months. Sounds suspiciously like my job. Travel to awesome place, do job, have awesome food and drinks on the beach while company pays for it.
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Vulture Culture posted:The college discussion is cool and all but personally, I'm finding Four Roses bourbon to be quite nice. Where I live drinking is a very expensive hobby. That being said, I still managed to build a nice collection of exotic booze while traveling around Asia. I can't drink most of them though, even a single glass of (Japanese) whiskey gives me a nasty hangover.
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Aug 3, 2016 07:14
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a cop posted:Where the gently caress do you live where alcohol is expensive, generally? Not doubting you, just flabbergasted. Singapore http://www.globalalcoholprices.com/alcohol_prices/Singapore/ Yep, that seems right.
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Aug 3, 2016 07:18
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angry armadillo posted:What is the world of IT like in Australia. I have the opportunity to do some work over there later in the year. The Australian government regularly publishes a list of skilled occupations they are lacking manpower for, all flavours of IT are currently on that list so if you want to move there this is a great time to do so. Here''s the list https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Work/Work/Skills-assessment-and-assessing-authorities/skilled-occupations-lists/SOL
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However! Like every former British colony, Australians are obsessed with their red tape and all other things associated with bureaucracy. For example, I had the unfortunate pleasure of dealing with an Australian ISP. If you ask them to provision a circuit for your shiny new branch office, it will take them about 8 months to deliver said circuit. It will take them 8 months and 8 teams and if asked if any of these teams can work in parallel to speed up the process they will laugh. The Australian bureaucracy will not be rushed because a team delivering a fiber connection in your server room cannot be expected to terminate said fiber in the CPE a previous team deployed there 3 weeks ago.
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CLAM DOWN posted:In Canada we got a new circuit for a new office in like under 2 weeks, I dunno what you're talking about Good on you mate, have some ice hockey to celebrate eh? I'm talking about the Indias, Australias, Myanmars and Hong Kongs of this world where her majesty's bureaucratic legacy still can be felt.
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I like socializing with colleagues over a pint, I do not like HR imposed team building activities. Am I worse than Hitler?
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I can expense up to $75 a day for food and "a reasonable amount of alcohol", so far I haven't hit the limit on what reasonable is. I almost fly exclusively with Singapore Airlines and while they are good they will never ever offer anyone a free upgrade for some reason.
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Aug 24, 2016 05:57
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Ricky Bad Posts posted:I think this might be the right thread.. Call Center design and implementation seems like a very lucrative niche. We have a dedicated internal team and they make good money, especially since they get stock bonuses as well.
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SEKCobra posted:Honestly this seems really badly done, considerign there's no specification on how to enter data (salary) and no information on the fact if it's before or after tax. Completely useless data right there. I see 2 Singapore entries there. One of their salaries and benefits depresses me immensely.
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I just saw a job posting on Linkedin for a "First line support resource". Some companies are not even trying anymore  Also I had a call with a recruiter today and she was 45 minutes late which made me irrationally angry.
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evobatman posted:Recruiters are trash. I've been through about 20-30 agencies, local and national, via e-mail, phones and meetings after I got laid off. Don't be afraid to cut contact with the ones that are a waste of your time, and do take good care of the ones that get you actual real poo poo, like the ones I mentioned above. One guy didn't even read my CV before we met, thought I was someone else and wanted to put me on a lovely ISP support job. I told him in nicer words to gently caress off. One very senior recruiter in the IT industry in my city has spent a lot of time talking with me, but have just spent that time pumping me for leads in the places I have been earlier instead of coming up with something tangible. This one is an internal recruiter, she reached out to me after I applied for a position but has been annoyingly passive so far. I get the impression internal recruiters don't realize that they are the face of the company they are representing and I am interviewing them as much as they are interviewing me.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I P triple sec, but I'm starting a twelve-step program. Well played good sir. Please educate me on these twelve steps to oblivion.
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Erwin posted:Anyone here travel for work? I have an offer in hand that would require traveling roughly 1 week per month, M-F, to work on client sites. I've never traveled for work but I'm old enough to think that I might really hate it after a few months. When I'm not traveling, it's 100% remote, so that may make up for it. I don't have kids, but I do participate in evening things (orchestra, etc) that I would be sad to miss 25% of the time. It sounds like the clients are more likely to be in California than in the middle of the continent. My previous job had me travelling a lot, think about 40-50% of a month. What do you want to know?
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Erwin posted:I'm trying to figure out whether I'll enjoy it or not. I realize it comes down to personal preference, but how did you like it? Did you feel like you were working standard hours and were able to spend the evenings relaxing in whatever city you were in, or did you feel like you were on the clock for the entire time you were traveling? Was it a net positive or negative in your overall experience with that job? Well my travel was for projects that typically were from Wednesday till the next Monday/Tuesday. So I worked pretty much 70-80 hours during that time including weekends. Needless to say I didn't do a lot of sightseeing even though I have been to almost every country in Asia during my time. I did make it a point to spend my daily reimbursement limit in good restaurants every day. Best advice I can give you is to make sure your company has good travel arrangements. You don't want to be fronting the money for hotels and flights because that poo poo adds up fast.
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Thanks Ants posted:Our sales guy quoted someone a bunch of IP phones and no PoE switch Quote the customer for a PoE switch for obviously reasons. Pocket the difference in price as a bonus, take the sales guy's bonus and one of his kidneys as compensation.
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Thanks Ants posted:How are people gearing up to handle the expected increase in 'requests' to unlock devices when travelling through borders? I know some companies that send staff to China have a phone and laptop that are only used for that purpose because it's expected that somebody will try to gently caress with them, but the US have been making noises about it as well now. Is all foreign travel going to be reduced to burner phones and laptops that only run Citrix clients? I've been to China multiple times for business during the last 2 years, they never gave a poo poo about the contents of my laptop and phone. Never heard of anyone else travelling there that they had issues either. The only time I heard of a colleague using burners was a guy going to Russia. The worst experience I had with customs was in the US but didn't involve any kind of laptop or phone accessing.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:There's no way to know what kinds of routes will be created with dynamic routing, better to just set up static routes. That way we know what's really going on, and besides, job security. You laugh, but at my previous company someone removed OSPF and replaced it by static routes on about 120 routers
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Thanks Ants posted:How many boats are you going to purchase? He left in a plane, he returned with a fleet.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Are there legitimate reasons for turning off Spanning Tree? At my previous company, small branch offices wouldn't have much of an architecture beyond a firewall and some access switches. Those switches would be 1 virtual chassis so no spanning tree was needed. Anything more complicated than that would require some form of loop prevention.
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MF_James posted:metrics, my boss wants the same bullshit (sort of, it's actually like every 3 days) but he's also complained about people putting bullshit notes in tickets, such as "Waiting for ESXi hosts to be patched to resolve this issue, hosts are slated to be patched over the next 3 week" repeatedly. I love how bad managers get triggered by cynical participation.
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