skipdogg posted:

I love my cars but they're a stupid as gently caress financial decision.

Race Realists posted:

crossposting from the thread i made since no one seems to want to answer there

I've just recently finished my community college course and should be getting my Associates in about a month. I want to start off as a help desk and work my way up to Network/server Admin, but a majority of those jobs require a Bachelors. Now here's the thing: A great majority of the Network Admin jobs I see out there ask for a Bachelors in CS instead of C I S. The Comp. Science course at the college I have my eyes set on looks tough, but I'll power on through it if I have to

psydude posted:

Dealing with stupid poo poo was a lot more pleasant with a runner's high.

FISHMANPET posted:

My current job is just awful in about 16 different ways, so I'm looking to jump ship. I think I'm looking for some kind of not entry-level Windows admin job, anybody care to take a look at my resume and critique it? I've actually paid for the resume2interview service from the guy here on SA, but he just kept trying to turn me into a help desk drone, even after I explicitly said that's not what I'm looking for, so I just gave that up. I suppose I could pass him this and see if there's any polishing to be done, but any thoughts from the experts here?

DrAlexanderTobacco posted:

If it's truly an entry-level IT job, the two most important things to show (in my opinion) are customer service skills, and your eagerness to learn. Being on the first line is about providing a good customer-facing side of your business/dept just as much as it is solving the problems.

Whenever they ask you about something you might not know, DO NOT BULLSHIT. Instead, get as far as you can without reaching/guessing, and then explain that's where your knowledge ends - but then explain what you'd do next. Talk to a colleague, look it up on Google, whatever.

mewse posted:

Load up Doom on one of the company projectors

KillHour posted:

At least you're not commission like me. Why did I ever go into sales?

Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:

dilbert

Thanks Ants posted:

WebDAV

go3 posted:

"No."

socialsecurity posted:

We've given people Pydio before it gets the job done and works on a multitude of platforms.

Che Delilas posted:

"Good news! You're getting more responsibilities. This is a great opportunity for you to really show us what you can do! _{Youdon'tgetanymoremoneythough}"

Misogynist posted:

Hedge fund environments are all really weird and full of really weird people. I interviewed with a pretty big boutique trading company a few years back and their culture was like, "yeah, none of the traders leave for lunch, so IT leaving for lunch is kind of frowned upon."

LouisRiel posted:

This is a generically broad question and has probably been asked before, so apologies in advance:

I'm starting my first IT job in a few days doing basic helpdesk work for the local government. So, what I'm wondering is: what makes an ideal entry-level helpdesk employee? What traits/skills should I focus on developing while working there? What makes someone a bad helpdesk worker?

I guess I was just wondering if people had any general advice or stories about their first experiences in IT and what they did to excel/get where they are now.

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.

If I wasn't so spineless I'd have immediately said "No. There has been a misunderstanding here. I am here for a reason and that reason is not cleaning your yard."

Tab8715 posted:

Nearly 99.95% of people that have told me they work 60h/80h weeks are flat out lying with one my past supervisors the biggest offenders. He constantly moaned how much work he did to guilt-trip everyone into putting more hours but as network admins we knew his afternoons mostly consisted of him streaming ESPN Golf.

Vulture Culture posted:

This guy doesn't sound like someone who can even hold it together while giving a bad reference, so it might be worth it to let your new job prospects know in advance what he's going to say and let him foam and make himself look like the batshit crazy you've already painted him to be.

I'd let him do this a few times, then bring up a lawsuit with my state's labor bureau to drive the nail deeper, but I can be a spiteful gently caress with irredeemable people.

Alder posted:

I have a interview scheduled tomorrow for help desk job

I feel pretty nervous as it's only my 2nd interview ever other than a brief stint w/retail work. Anything I should expect? I'm the in process of studying for A+ cert but stuff happened.

Will there be a technical quiz there? Thanks.

Inspector_666 posted:

I loving hate this poo poo. "I need to pay my bills" is the answer to why I want any job. I may come to enjoy it, but nobody is ever going to be really passionate about a loving helpdesk position, and if they are it should be a red flag as far as I'm concerned.

Job interviews loving suck.

Thanks Ants posted:

Also have a read of this first: http://blog.capwatkins.com/the-sliding-scale-of-giving-a-gently caress

adorai posted:

poo poo like that pisses me off that a government banking examiner has the balls to write me up for not having a documented windows update policy (despite being able to show the results of the properly configured wsus server, approvals, and update status) but then their employer can basically post everyone's poo poo in plain text on the internet.

Methanar posted:

Summer job while I wait to go back to school.

I make really really bad decisions.

Eonwe posted:

What I've learned from working in IT for a few months: its fun but nobody will follow directions and the IT execs actively like ruining performance in departments

Right now we are getting a new ticketing system that is worse and if our time logged isn't 7 to 8 hours a day we hear about it never mind the fact that there are calls walkups just looking over tickets etc that don't necessarily have a ticket to file time to

Dick Trauma posted:

Today I sent out the email to let everyone know Windows AD passwords will now have to be complex, will expire and not be reusable.

Of course I checked with my boss first to get approval. She told me she'd been using the same password for seven years.

NZAmoeba posted:

Surprised not to see this look inside the working conditions of Amazon being discussed: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?_r=0

quote:

The internal phone directory instructs colleagues on how to send secret feedback to one another’s bosses. Employees say it is frequently used to sabotage others. (The tool offers sample texts, including this: “I felt concerned about his inflexibility and openly complaining about minor tasks.”)

“You walk out of a conference room and you’ll see a grown man covering his face,” he said. “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”

At Amazon, workers are encouraged to tear apart one another’s ideas in meetings, toil long and late (emails arrive past midnight, followed by text messages asking why they were not answered),

But workers are expected to embrace “frugality” (No. 9), from the bare-bones desks to the cellphones and travel expenses that they often pay themselves. (No daily free food buffets or regular snack supplies, either.) The focus is on relentless striving to please customers, or “customer obsession” (No. 1), with words like “mission” used to describe lightning-quick delivery of Cocoa Krispies or selfie sticks.


Even many Amazonians who have worked on Wall Street and at start-ups say the workloads at the new South Lake Union campus can be extreme: marathon conference calls on Easter Sunday and Thanksgiving, criticism from bosses for spotty Internet access on vacation, and hours spent working at home most nights or weekends.


One ex-employee’s fiancé became so concerned about her nonstop working night after night that he would drive to the Amazon campus at 10 p.m. and dial her cellphone until she agreed to come home. When they took a vacation to Florida, she spent every day at Starbucks using the wireless connection to get work done.“That’s when the ulcer started,” she said.


Amazon employees are held accountable for a staggering array of metrics, a process that unfolds in what can be anxiety-provoking sessions called business reviews, held weekly or monthly among various teams. A day or two before the meetings, employees receive printouts, sometimes up to 50 or 60 pages long, several workers said. At the reviews, employees are cold-called and pop-quizzed on any one of those thousands of numbers. Explanations like “we’re not totally sure” or “I’ll get back to you” are not acceptable, many employees said. Some managers sometimes dismissed such responses as “stupid” or told workers to “just stop it.”

Noelle Barnes, who worked in marketing for Amazon for nine years, repeated a saying around campus: “Amazon is where overachievers go to feel bad about themselves.”

Wrath of the Bitch King posted:

Vulture Culture posted:

Maybe it was Baja California and the person telling me the story got their details mixed up? Narco-submarines are pretty popular:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine

crunk dork posted:

Anyone else notice that email preview text in Outlook 2013 is suddenly blue with some users? Seen it twice so far today with two completely unrelated businesses.

Methanar posted:

I'll take good care of the cloud guys

PBS posted:

Free 6mo pluralsights sub up on slickdeals.

devmd01 posted:

restore the DHCP database if needed

CLAM DOWN posted:

Hey all, I would like to survey the thread about something, would really appreciate your help. I'm trying to gather info outside of my own job history and experience, and I would like to use the results I expect from this as ammo at my current job.

1) Does your org allow working from home and/or remote work?
2) If yes to (1), how often/how much is allowed?
3) If yes to (1), are there any documented requirements for it to be allowed?
4) If no to (1), are there any reasons given why not?
5) Would you consider working for an org that does not permit working from home/remote work?
6) What country are you in?
7) Public or private sector?
8) Union or non-union?

Thank you extremely much.