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MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Windblows? I'd expect to hear that from like, the guy with the sweetest gaming rig on the helpdesk, but farther than that I'd expect a little decorum.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2014 05:24

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 02:59

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Misogynist posted:

I don't wear a helmet in my car or a seatbelt on my bike. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel.

I'd like to +1 your post.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2014 06:48

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

I have two new work hobbies.

1) Pretending to be drunk on conference calls.
2) Being drunk on conference calls.

Overheard recently: "I've got an oversized glass of merlot and I'm ready to learn, surprise me you vagabond."

# ¿ Oct 20, 2014 23:01

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

The salary negotiation guide explicitly states not to discuss salary until you're getting the job, so I would absolutely love to be asked that question by a recruiter so that I could ask "ooh they've decided to hire me?" in response. This hasn't happened, just something I want to do, because lovely recruiters should be treated shittily.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2014 08:03

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Tab8715 posted:

Which guide are you referencing?

Why this one, my good man. All future comments are quotes, not stealing attribution just posting some highlights. That said, and I'll add my edit here because this part isn't a quote, there are large parts of the salary negotiation guide that I disagree with, but I do think it's something that should be read and learned from, even if I don't consider it gospel.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

When Does A Salary Negotiation Happen?

Only negotiate salary after you have agreement in principle from someone with hiring authority that, if a mutually acceptable compensation can be agreed upon, you will be hired.

If you�re still at the job interview and you�re talking price you are doing something wrong. (Read the room: it is entirely possible that you came for a job interview, finished it, and proceeded directly to a salary negotiation. That�s probably suboptimal, but it is OK. Just don�t give the employer the option of having the schedule be job interview, salary negotiation, and back to job interview if they discover that you have a spine.) The ideal resolution to the job interview is for both sides to be optimistic about the arrangement, and then you close with a warm handshake and �I look forward to receiving your offer by, oh, would tomorrow be enough time for you to run the numbers?�

You then have a high likelihood of doing your salary negotiation over email, which is likely to your advantage versus doing it in real time. Email gives you arbitrary time to prepare your responses. Especially for engineers, you are likely less disadvantaged by email than you are by having an experienced negotiator talking to you.

MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Oct 25, 2014

# ¿ Oct 25, 2014 08:16

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

DrAlexanderTobacco posted:

It's the worst feeling, isn't it? My work output remains mostly the same but you've always got this nagging feeling that you're just slacking off.

That's because I am. :ninja:

# ¿ Nov 21, 2014 23:45

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

I can't speak to the first, but to your second question, no, no one cares enough to verify your certification.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2014 22:01

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Contingency posted:

The way the interview went was:

"You said you were certified. Did you bring your cards?"
"No, but I sent your company a link to my MCP transcript earlier."
"Cards are important. You should have brought them."

Car dealership.

I have like ten certs - they came with cards?

I'm probably not getting that job either...

# ¿ Dec 1, 2014 05:34

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

We're doing a phone interview with a guy right now. I asked a question about 20 minutes ago, and one of my coworkers asked him a similar question just a moment ago. The guy got upset and was like, like I told you, blah blah blah.

Should I need to tell someone that getting annoyed at our questions in a phone interview, where all questions are generic softballs, is probably a bad idea to move to the next round?

# ¿ Dec 12, 2014 20:24

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

flosofl posted:

My gast is completely flabbered when candidates do this.

Oh god I love word play, I'm gigglin, I'm gigglin so hard, this is fantastic, thank you so much.

MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Dec 12, 2014

# ¿ Dec 12, 2014 23:44

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Why, didn't you hear, Dell would be happy to charge you once for the convenience of ReadyRails, and a second time for an adapter so they'll work on a two post rack.

I'm not entirely sure what you're looking for at the end result but if you google "dell readyrails adapter" the first couple of results should give you all the options you'll need.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2015 02:27

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Yeah every time I mount some big rear end 3U router on the front two rails, I shudder, but I've never gone back to the datacenter to find it crashed onto my servers.

e: I will admit though, the sheer OCD in me wants to install some rails for larger devices to rest on, though, to get what I'd consider an even cleaner installation.

MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Feb 8, 2015

# ¿ Feb 8, 2015 02:34

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

psydude posted:

On the other hand, I've worked with tons people who somehow feel that they need to put in more than 40 hours a week without ever taking comp time or speaking with their manager about reducing their workload or changing their responsibilities.

Uh, excuse me sir, how else will I achieve self actualization if not by pleasing my boss? I need an authority figure to praise me at all times.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2015 03:58

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

That's how I always do it - no way to make the day shorter but it can always be longer.

Like if I need to switch to night shift right now, I stay up until about 4am, anyone can do that without too much discomfort, then I sleep until like 2pm because I'm always behind on sleep so I welcome the catch up, then I'm up at 2pm and boom, night shift. Reverse as needed.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2015 05:59

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

jaegerx posted:

Melatonin. Only way I can switch back and forth somewhat naturally. The other case is getting blackout drunk.

How am I supposed to lecture my children on the perils of alcohol and the need to drink responsibly, when I know full well that if you need to be asleep, whiskey will get you there toot suite.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2015 06:07

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Made the mistake of asking what a coworker (but not an IT person) makes, and then made the further mistake of not realizing what he meant when they said "$70"

I thought he meant $70 per hour to do what he does - my mood has never changed so quickly in my life.

Only to then realize he meant $70k per year, oh okay yeah you have my permission to make that given what you do.

Never ask. Never ask.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2015 19:13

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

I'd like to know enough to even sign up for that test - but yeah, pass it.

vvv 10 years and a lot of alcohol.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2015 21:21

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

psydude posted:

A lot of CCIEs also have secondary and tertiary sources of income - teaching, book deals, outside consulting, etc.

Yeah, it's also easier to be a director than a CCIE.

During the Great Depression, Babe Ruth was once asked what he thought about having a higher salary than the President. "Why not? I had a better year than he did."

# ¿ Apr 5, 2015 00:08

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

Powershell is useful if you're in a windows environment.

Just tonight I had one of those "I need to live and breathe Powershell" moments. Trying to roll out a web application and the add role feature is just being a right bastard for me. It's throwing an error that it failed to open the runspace pool. My old friend google is pointing me to all sorts of winrm changes - quickconfig, enumerate a listener, the ole stop-and-start. No fixes. I bounce off every corner of the internet. It's a new server, I know the app works, what is going on here.

I switch to installing the roles I want via Powershell, and we're right back in business. install-windowsfeature -name web-mgmt-compat you magnificent beast.

I really need to flip the mental switch and turn Powershell from being a useful alternative to being my primary approach. It's too vital and too powerful for me to maintain this pre-2009 "you can use it to pipe information to a csv" mentality I have.

MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Apr 7, 2015

# ¿ Apr 7, 2015 08:30

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Are there websites that aren't porn or animal videos or somethin?

# ¿ Apr 9, 2015 02:18

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

"I just want the best for my kids" is a brilliant bit of implied "I guess you don't love your kids as much as I love mine".

# ¿ Apr 9, 2015 22:02

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

go3 posted:

you can either care and raise your kids yourself or pay a bunch of money and have it done by third parties but hey it beats just letting them rot while you veg out on American Idol

I'm giving serious thought to enrolling my kid in Snoop's child rearing program so they can have some real world experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhbrAkY_58s

# ¿ Apr 9, 2015 22:08

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Japanese Dating Sim posted:

Seriously what the gently caress is going on

Honestly is this any worse than the usual topics?

- Is having a degree a good thing?
- What should I do to get off the helpdesk?
- Unions
- Should I do this thing which will obviously improve my career?
- I had an interview today.

We basically talk about the same things over and over, why not mix it up?

I'll start - Kevin Harvick, how's he doing that?

# ¿ Apr 9, 2015 22:24

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Sickening posted:

I had to google who Kevin Harvick is.

Between this and your misuse of queue when you meant cue earlier this morning, you're pushing me baby.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2015 22:34

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Is it wrong that I think his first offer should be "go gently caress yourself", with an undertone of "give it to me for free or you'll wish you had"?

Domain squatters get no respect.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2015 04:07

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

FISHMANPET posted:

Yeah that's literally the only difference. It's a licensing difference, not a technical difference.

The reason I know this isn't true is because my old boss insisted on everything even our VMs being datacenter because it's obviously better so why don't you stop lying

Yeah that was a fun "everyone needs to listen to fruit stripe now" meeting we had over that one.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2015 02:29

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

KillHour posted:

That's weird; Microsoft disagrees.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/ieitpro/archive/2012/10/08/windows-server-2012-editions.aspx

Boy you missed the tone of my post by about a mile.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2015 04:12

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Working in IT.

I don't know how many of you saw Red vs Blue, the Halo machinima. I saw 7 or 8 episodes and thought it was hilarious, but it was also nothing that really grabbed me and made me feel like I need to see everything. So anyway, I've seen 8 episodes, and that was 10 years ago. But there is a scene that is burned into my brain (although what I'm about to post, I googled, so I could get the other wording right). My point is, every time I have to deal with something ridiculous - not necessary stupid, not cruel, but a total lack of planning and foresight, my brain goes right back to this old Red vs Blue scene (at 3:30)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7UFQkH25vw&t=211s

Church: Well, enough gabbing out of us, let's take this bad boy out for a spin. Go ahead and hop in, Tucker.
Tucker: Me? I can't drive that thing.
Church: You're telling me you're not Armor Certified?
Tucker: I ca- I don't even know how to use the loving sniper rifle. Don't you know how to drive that?
Church: No! Holy Crap! WHO IS RUNNING THIS ARMY!?

My point is - it turns out that someone has provisioned a node so large that it can be the only VM on its ESXi host. One host, one VM. This VM does not need to be anywhere near this big.

Holy crap, who is running this army??

# ¿ Apr 15, 2015 05:44

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

A lot of the humor of my posts in the poo poo that pisses you off thread is the curt way I reply to stupid questions in emails.

To distro: "Stripe, what's the IP to this server?"
Reply all: "What am I, DNS?"

To distro: "We're seeing this problem, please advise."
Reply all: "Did you try reading the error since it tells you what to do?"

To distro: "Stripe, this server is at 84%, please advise."
Reply all: "84% of what? And what would I do about it if I knew?"

Things like that. My point is, a couple of distros are on an email chain right now, and a guy from another department just got taken out so viciously by his own supervisor that even I am uncomfortable. My god, praise in public, push heel of boot onto skull in private, people.

e: Let's put it this way. If you go to the next paragraph and you're still piling on, this email probably shouldn't include other departments.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2015 21:05

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Question for fathers, just something I've been thinking about. I work from home and can basically do whatever I want. Is this the god send for having a kid that I think it's going to be? Saving all that money on day care while they're an infant, being around 24/7, etc? Or is it too much of an interference with your job?

# ¿ Apr 27, 2015 22:10

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Had to activate a copy of Server tonight which couldn't reach Microsoft activation - typically this means that annoying phone prompt exercise. Called them up and tonight it asks would I like to do it via smart phone. Yes I would. It sent me a URL, let me just type all the numbers in and boom, I was done in 45 seconds rather than the usual 4 minutes. And even better, you take that URL and prune as many "&customerid=949599xxxx&phone=949599xxxx&yourSSNis=2227xxxxx&yourbankbalanceis=42.01" parts of the URL, and you have something you can bookmark for future use. I love it.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2015 06:30

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Tab8715 posted:

We're reading the learn Powershell in a Month of Lunches in the lets read IT Thread.

Whoa. I browse the forums only through my control panel, which is to say I only see threads which I am subscribed to. This means I don't see new threads such as that, and this is the first time I've heard of that. What a fantastic thread idea, I'm going to lurk a bit and see if I can't catch up.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2015 18:39

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

The only way Sheep's reply is confusing is if mayodreams's post was confusing, which it wasn't. I'd like to propose this degenerate into a fist fight.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2015 22:27

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

I just quoted The West Wing in an email. I'm that guy now.

e: It was requested that instructions be written so that 'anyone' could do a task. This task could all but decimate our production environment. To illustrate why I was not going to provide instructions so that 'anyone' could do it, I punctuated my point with "This isn't school, I work with people who can play"

Maybe I'll make a game of it, progressively more ridiculous quotes in emails. See if I can work "when the president sits, no one stands" into an email.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2015 22:59

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Negative, because your salary is for 40 hours and you even get to use those things during those 40 hours, how tremendous.

# ¿ May 1, 2015 01:12

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Immaturity? Maybe.

Being able to Google is great - you know you're on your game when you enter a phrase and an error code so perfectly that you don't even have to click the link to see the resolution, it's just immediately obvious what it is.

But that being said, it is wonderfully cathartic to Google what is actually on your mind from time to time. If Outlook is crashing with error 0x0491924B and the DLL is like, trendmicro.dll, sometimes it's a great stress relief valve to instead search for "why the gently caress would microsoft allow trend micro to crash outlook instead of just disabling the loving module?" that kind of thing.

# ¿ May 4, 2015 22:08

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

KillHour posted:

That example was far too specific to be something you made up.

lol, in truth that particular one is honestly off the top of my head, but I'll absolutely Google in that way when I've reached the "there's no way this problem should ever be a problem" portion of my day.

I do remember once Googling something about "what ignorant gently caress programmed an error in a pop up window that immediately closes?" or something equally aggressive, and ended up just browsing Stack Overflow for like two hours because it was more fun than trying to figure out why a program was crashing.

e: It's not an anger issue to be clear, I just like to Google the unfiltered version of it before I'm like "alright fine... time to google something more effective"

MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 22:15 on May 4, 2015

# ¿ May 4, 2015 22:13