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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:This can't be stated enough. You're going to deal with the shittiest software you've ever seen, all sold in various flavors of unsigned ActiveX controls from 2003, requiring JRE6, etc. It's a clown show. I work at a credit union with a bunch of people who have worked at other credit unions and banks, and this is very true at the vast majority. There are a few pushing forward, though; we've already got a bunch of production workstations on Windows 10, most of our servers are 2012 r2, and most of the servers going forward are going to be server 2016.
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Extremely Penetrated posted:Could I please get a reality check on my career prospects? What is going on in the rest of your life? I used to live in a rural area, and could still be there, probably doing a lot better financially just because of the cost of living differences, and having nothing better to do than hang out with my parents. But there's also a good chance I would have sucked on the wrong end of a 9mm, because I loving hate rural areas. Are you married? Do you have kids? Do you really like the outdoors, or doing yardwork? Do you just want to spend your time playing video games or reading or watching media at home, by yourself? If your answers to all of those questions are "no," then you're probably bored to loving tears, and don't realize it just because you're comfortable. If you're working for the feds, you can probably transfer to a city fairly easily, and actually have poo poo to do with your off time. Otherwise, I recommend stashing as much cash as you can, riding out the next 20 years or so, and retiring at 50.
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theperminator posted:Even without the VPN, choking the net connection with other crap isn't gonna help. I believe his response will be along the lines of "remote access what-ly?"
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Mar 28, 2017 05:57
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Proteus Jones posted:The billable work is weird because typically Information Security is a cost center at the corporate or regional level (depending on if you have a local security group under the corp security group). Charging departments for security audits, assessments and operational activities is just weird, especially if it's mandatory. It will probably cause cost cutting or austerity practices in terms of personnel and/or hardware and software licensing to offset the new charge against their cost center. Yeah, you'd think charging departments based on how much security checking they do would create some terrible perverse incentives.
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Jul 12, 2017 01:24
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Sepist posted:My bosses last day was today. No goodbye email, no lunch with coworkers, no socializing whatsoever. He's been on PTO since he announced his resignation. Came in, handed off some last minute knowledge, surrendered his laptop and security fobs, and was gone. Never had a coworker that I was close to leave in such a fashion, kind of weird. Sepist posted:Little bit of both. Management is pretty pissed he refused their juicy counter-offer and he's pretty pissed at them for making GBS threads all over any of his business input. I never gave him any grief though, he could have went to lunch with me :| Shoot him an email if you got along well with him, ask him to grab lunch and catch up in a couple of weeks.
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Jul 20, 2017 00:36
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Dallas is like Boston thought it was 15 years ago, which is to say, we're the best city and we're quite happy to tell you that. You should move to Dallas instead of here, is what I'm saying.
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Jul 21, 2017 23:42
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Peachfart posted:I'm going to be I have heard of places that consider wearing a suit to an interview a negative, but I've never actually seen one myself, and it's usually hip startups I hear that about. The recruiter for my current employer told me to wear one to an interview unprompted (and this is a place where IT is explicitly exempted from the dress code), but I have historically asked "I normally wear a suit to an interview, is that appropriate?". If there's some secret anti-suit bullshit that they're going to lie about, you probably don't want to work there anyway, and saying you normally wear one makes it seem less like you're trying to weasel your way into an interview with shorts and sandals. Here's the thing about interviews: it's a loving crap shoot. The single biggest factor in whether or not you get a job is how good the other applicants are. And that is something you have zero control over. How you present yourself is something you do have control over, and if they're looking at two people with similar credentials, and one of them appears to give enough of a poo poo about the job to show up in a suit and the other doesn't, they're probably going to go with the guy who gives a poo poo. This goes double if they include non-technical people on the interview panel, who are going to judge you mostly on the kind of impression you make, and the level of professionalism you display.
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Jul 24, 2017 21:50
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Starkk posted:I'm in Seattle and my company still requires ties for everyone, you can prob guess who I work for just from those two bits of info
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Jul 25, 2017 07:51
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Being actually at work helps keep me on-task, and also helps stop me from associating my home with work. I like the physical and psychological separation it provides. Having a twenty-minute walk to work probably doesn't hurt, either.
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Jul 26, 2017 01:52
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:This is less of an IT-related question and more of a learning thing, but it's pertinent to working in the field I think. And hopefully I'm not the only one that has problems with this. Certs are good for studying for because they're a very clear goal, with an endpoint (passing the test). It can really help to discipline and direct your studies, plus it's something you can put on a resume.
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I have terrible imposter syndrome. Honestly, I think by some pretty clear objective measures I'm pretty much an imposter, flat out. I'd been working small-shop IT for seven years (and really doing bupkis as far as any sort of growth or learning goes) when I got a job in desktop support, mostly on the strength of my interview (I'm very good at interviewing), but also because I'd just gotten my A+. My boss really likes me because I got hella good reviews on my tickets, but that's mostly because I'm just really personable, and the users are really nice here, so as long as I'm apologetic when I gently caress up, they're fine. I spent eight months doing that and learning that I didn't know loving poo poo about actual IT, and then a dude quit who had been here for 12 years and was largely single-handedly responsible for managing our core database. They added some responsibilities to his job, then split it in three, and my boss told me to apply for one of the three, and basically handed to me on a silver platter. It's a loving fantastic job that allows me to grow into being a DBA without needing to be one to start. I have one coworker who is ten years younger than me, went to school for this poo poo (I majored in Political Science), already has way more certs than I do, and knows more about my job than I do (he got cross-trained by the guy who was leaving). I feel like I ask him way too many questions. The dude who replaced me in my old job is currently going to school for this poo poo, is twelve years younger than me, has more certs than I do, and knows a lot more about most of the job than I do in spite of my having done it for eight months; I'm lucky in that I have some more practical experiences than he did, so can occasionally get one over on him. The VP who's likely about to become CFO thinks that I'm the only one in IT worth a poo poo, mostly I think because I'm the main one he interacts with, and his protege is a friend of mine. I do my damnedest to let my coworkers know how much I appreciate them. I love my team, I love my job, but I've just been extraordinarily lucky. I earned my Network+ a couple of months ago, and really need to buckle down now on some Oracle certs, get some better idea of what the gently caress I'm doing, so I'm less reliant on our software vendor for queries; the last couple of months, I've gotten to the point where I feel comfortable correcting some of their queries (usually typos, or misnamed columns), and actually wrote my first query for a fix a couple of weeks ago (goddamn printer interface for our software wouldn't load correctly, and had apparently been like that for at least a couple of years; it was a null that just needed a value), and stuff like that is about all that keeps me from thinking "they're going to fire me anytime, because I'm not nearly good enough at this."
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Jul 27, 2017 01:32
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The mandatory five-day no-contact every year is one of the advantages of working in the financial industry. Though, I'm otherwise a big fan of taking my vacation as long weekends during the summer. Took a week to go to Taiwan this year (the first time I've left the country in, like, twenty years, aside from Canada) and loving loved it. It's a super-easy place to visit, even if you don't speak the language, and has hella cheap, delicious food. If you don't know what else to do with your vacation, I recommend it.
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Aug 15, 2017 02:23
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Aug 17, 2017 23:30
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I just finished my on-call shift. $200 for a week on call, really not bad. And it's a six-person rotation, so it's not terrifically frequent, either. Only real downside is not being able to drink much those weekends. What's the thread consensus on BYOD versus two phones? My work gives me an iPhone SE (which is fine for an email/texting/calling device), but we also have Boxer as a BYOD option. Does the one-phone convenience outweigh the separation of personal and professional that comes with two devices?
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Aug 20, 2017 04:08
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Verizon just shut off our internet for lack of payment. Their response was basically "oh, you meant that contact information? You needed to fill out this other form..."
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Sickening posted:What company doesn't give food to their contractors but gives food to their full timers? Like are the contractors suppose to sit there and watch everyone else eat? IDGI. Microsoft is notorious for this. It's like a loving caste system, and the contractors are Untouchables.
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Mar 27, 2018 01:51
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Matt Zerella posted:3rd rejection. This time I did 2 interviews and I really loving wanted this job. This loving sucks and I feel like crap. I'm not saying you shouldn't examine your interview skills, resumes, cover letters, etc., but keep in mind that finding a job is--to a certain extent--roulette. You have to be lucky enough that they liked your resume, your cover letter, and your interview more than whoever else they happened to look at. It may not even be that another person was "better" than you, but that they just happened to not hit some pet peeve of the interviewer or something that you did, that they only found one spelling mistake in the other person's cover letter, but two in yours (even though theirs had five and yours only had two), that they were looking for someone with widget X skills specifically, and you've never even heard of widget X, or it's so obscure you didn't bother putting it on your resume and your interviewer wasn't the one making the hiring decision, so didn't ask you about it, or they really don't like Helvetica at the place you're applying and that's the font you chose to use, etc., etc., etc. Definitely try to improve the things you can, but keep in mind that a huge portion of the job hunt is just completely outside your control, and there's absolutely nothing you can do about.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:What's the pay like for a HHAOYHEMACFSDCIAFFKS WGSDCSALTDRSAILIPSFWIABIFLTA-6,000,000-OMTCFAIABD? The real question here is did you go through that post manually and do that, or did you automate it?
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insidius posted:tl;dr
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I've never taken one of the Microsoft tests, but from what I've heard, it sounds like they're built around making you memorize Microsoft's marketing materials.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:People have billed for interviews before. Under no circumstances will you get any money, but sometimes the best revenge is being petty and firing a shot because why not? (e: Under no circumstances should anyone ever do what I say) IANAL, but you can probably send them an invoice for that. If they pay it, should be clean. Trying to force collection of it, though, is a whole other story.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Goddamn you guys interviewing is hard.
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Sickening posted:I just declined my 2nd snooty steak house invite of the quarter. I just dont have the desire anymore. No amount of free booze and 30$ sides of mash potatoes gets my butt in a seat to talk to vendor salesmen. I would rather see my kids. This is why I don't have kids.
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Matt Zerella posted:Recruiter thinks an offer is coming but its going to be contract to hire. God loving dammit employers are loving garbage. I'll probably take it and keep looking. You cant commit to me, I'm keeping my options open. This is the correct move. Though, watch it if they try to slip a non-compete in on you. Sprechensiesexy posted:These are by no means senior level positions, 2+ years experience required so when an expert level applicant comes along we pay extra attention. So far my impression is that we act on a good faith basis which means we have some ugly interviews but I prefer that to the adversarial and distrustful stuff like drug tests, references, background checks and salary histories. Washington State is in the process of banning the salary history question, and if you're asked that, it should be a red flag.
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Aunt Beth posted:Does Microsoft have a system center thing like this that I’ve managed to never hear about? Because getting all of our random Task Scheduler jobs centralized would be amazing. There are a bunch of Windows options out there for job management. We use Automic Applications Manager, because it's the solution our main software vendor supports. From the perspective of someone who's only used Task Scheduler otherwise, it's... Pretty good. Setup is fairly arcane (at least for our use case), but once it's up it's pretty robust. Scheduling can get really complex, you can use SQL queries as job variables, and the scheduler can schedule just about anything you can imagine (run the job in the third, unless the third is a weekend, in which case run it in the following Monday? No problem). It is not terribly intuitive, however.
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Aunt Beth posted:I’m fine with unintuitive. I see it’s a CA product. Does that mean it costs an arm and a leg? We're licensed through our software vendor, who includes this with their software that costs roughly your first-, second-, and third-born, so probably.
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Ranter posted:Does the cost to this department also include all the additional hours required by the rest of IT to support MacOS? Developing systems and processes for deploying and managing MacOS, creation of documentation/KB for L1 support, changes to enterprise systems to support Mac, etc? There's more than just hardware $$ at play. Cost of ownership is a concept that too many executives/managers/teams have never heard of and/or thought about.
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Fcdts26 posted:How many of you have separate work cell phones? Feel like my phone never shuts off with work crap and iOS is awful at automating turning notifications on/off or only allowing certain things to alert me. Considering just getting a cheap android google fi phone and moving everything over to that. Company gives me $200 a month towards a phone and home internet. My work provides a separate phone for me. I prefer it. Yeah, carrying a second phone is a pain in the rear end, but I like the separation it helps me to maintain. We have a six-person weekly on-call rotation, during which we occasionally get pages in the middle of the night; I sleep the sleep of the dead, so I need something real loud and annoying. I pump that phone through a bluetooth speaker with the most annoying ringtone I could find.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:The problem is if the boss goes down the whole department will go with it, myself included. What the gently caress? Seriously, pull the ripcord.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Going through training and met a database admin fresh out of college. He didn't really know what an odba admin does. He very sure he's got one of the best jobs in the company though, and he's super excited to do database adminstration. 
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May 9, 2018 05:42
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The exempt/non-exempt labor laws may as well not exist. As long as you're making over the minimum, businesses will declare you "exempt." That limit desperately loving needs to be raised to somewhere on the level of $75,000, but the Chamber of Commerce-types are fighting hard against the minimal increase the Obama administration tried to do, and I somehow doubt the Trump administration is going to take up the mantle on it.
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Alfajor posted:I had an interview for an SRE role last Friday. They said I was 1 of 2 candidates, and that I would hear back by today, the following Friday. I use a wireless Logitech trackball (because you have to buy the wired ones from eBay for $90+) with my laptops (a $250 Acer Chromebook for personal and a Lenovo T480 for work) because the first thing I like to do with any laptop is turn the touchpad off. I'm not sure if it's because I have big hands or bad ergonomics (probably both), but the touchpad being on means me inevitably clicking around various points on the screen whenever I try to type more than a sentence. Also, I've said this before, but two monitors is such a small investment for such a huge loving return. When my office moved HQs, they gave everyone dual monitors, and it was awesome. If your employer is making you work on a single sub-19" monitor, you need to  .
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May 18, 2018 20:27
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DigitalMocking posted:One of our clients fell for a spoofed email and sent > 50k to "Our CFO Ms. Lisa" and was mad at us. Can you send me his email address? I think he's about to get contacted by the FBI's anti-fraud division. I'm sure once he gives them all the account info, they'll be able to help!
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My company has a policy to cash out pto on request. We have a hiring freeze right now, and this is reminding me I want to cash out about half of the 200-odd hours I have accrued.
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Nerdrock posted:i got.. not fired. My PTO was spent going to doctors and dealing with buying/selling a house, so my paternity leave is "congratulations you're just not getting paid for the week you were with your family in the hospital" and also "doesn't matter if you've put 10 days into the 'sick bank' its only there to request from for when YOU'RE sick so gently caress you" EDIT: I'm just assuming you're in America, because I can't imagine this happening in a civilized country.
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Kashuno posted:are you loving kidding me Welcome to solo-IT for a small shop.
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Internet Explorer posted:That's true, but you're generally not paying your solo-IT guy for a small shop 28k a year. And they generally have a little more experience. Otherwise you're basically playing roulette with your business. No offense, Defenestrategy. Are you not from America? "Small shop" means "half-rear end everything, treat your employees like poo poo, and expect the loving world from them while providing them with zero budget."
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lampey posted:You can look at glassdoor to see what the competition is paying. The local market is more important than trends. Title inflation, can make it hard to compare roles. Differences in other benefits, and differences in expectations around availability and required experience for the same role will all effect salary. Generally non profit and education will pay less even with similar benefits. The specific job and the group you are working with matter more than the generalities.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Scotch/whisky is disgusting... Mods...?
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The retaliatory bourbon tariffs are probably going to more than make up for any of the losses from that warehouse collapse.
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