What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
And they still can't give me a salary range after two interviews.
Have you met his boss yet? Man, sounds like time for a one on one with his boss. Maybe just reject the job and go talk to his boss anyway - tell him how much their guy is hurting them.. and since you withdrew your name, you're telling him because you believe in good IT, and that guy is clearly not giving it to them.
I believe he reports to the president (she was in the interview today and said the same thing about the salary). He might be good at bench work because he was talking about how the cabling was bothering him and whoever set it up before he was there didn't use patch panels, etc (but that's low level stuff). But he's one of the "Systems Admins" (there are 2 for like maybe 5 servers). They are "swamped" with work and need another person to come on.
huh - swamped with Bench Work I'm guessing - end user problems.
I have 5 servers and 88 staff members - IT department of one. 80% of my time is spend taking care of end user problems, not server problems. As I'm sure you know, as long as the server are setup correctly, they require very little hand holding.
Ya but you have more servers (possibly, they are running their other VMs on virtualbox) and more staff and only you doing it. They have 3 people and adding another, and only maybe 25 of the staff are using computers, the rest is in a warehouse doing packaging and blending.
Holy crap! They have two and want a third for 5 servers and 25 users? WTF? Sounds like they need a complete overhaul.
Perhaps you should offer to do a write up of their entire environment and make recommendations about changes, but not take a job there.
I mentioned something about moving to XenServer or some other type 1 hypervisor in the first interview, and he said they don' t have the money for that, that's why they're using VirtualBox (didn't really know what to say to that). They have Windows Server physically installed on different servers and then they are running VMs in VirtualBox on the servers. It's a mess from what I've heard. They gave me a "tour" today, but I didn't get to see the server room.
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@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
And they still can't give me a salary range after two interviews.
Have you met his boss yet? Man, sounds like time for a one on one with his boss. Maybe just reject the job and go talk to his boss anyway - tell him how much their guy is hurting them.. and since you withdrew your name, you're telling him because you believe in good IT, and that guy is clearly not giving it to them.
I believe he reports to the president (she was in the interview today and said the same thing about the salary). He might be good at bench work because he was talking about how the cabling was bothering him and whoever set it up before he was there didn't use patch panels, etc (but that's low level stuff). But he's one of the "Systems Admins" (there are 2 for like maybe 5 servers). They are "swamped" with work and need another person to come on.
huh - swamped with Bench Work I'm guessing - end user problems.
I have 5 servers and 88 staff members - IT department of one. 80% of my time is spend taking care of end user problems, not server problems. As I'm sure you know, as long as the server are setup correctly, they require very little hand holding.
Ya but you have more servers (possibly, they are running their other VMs on virtualbox) and more staff and only you doing it. They have 3 people and adding another, and only maybe 25 of the staff are using computers, the rest is in a warehouse doing packaging and blending.
Holy crap! They have two and want a third for 5 servers and 25 users? WTF? Sounds like they need a complete overhaul.
Perhaps you should offer to do a write up of their entire environment and make recommendations about changes, but not take a job there.
I mentioned something about moving to XenServer or some other type 1 hypervisor in the first interview, and he said they don' t have the money for that, that's why they're using VirtualBox (didn't really know what to say to that). They have Windows Server physically installed on different servers and then they are running VMs in VirtualBox on the servers. It's a mess from what I've heard. They gave me a "tour" today, but I didn't get to see the server room.
This sounds like an epic project in the making. Unless they're going to give you a mandate to change it and pay you buckets of money I'd stay well clear.
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@MattSpeller said:
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
And they still can't give me a salary range after two interviews.
Have you met his boss yet? Man, sounds like time for a one on one with his boss. Maybe just reject the job and go talk to his boss anyway - tell him how much their guy is hurting them.. and since you withdrew your name, you're telling him because you believe in good IT, and that guy is clearly not giving it to them.
I believe he reports to the president (she was in the interview today and said the same thing about the salary). He might be good at bench work because he was talking about how the cabling was bothering him and whoever set it up before he was there didn't use patch panels, etc (but that's low level stuff). But he's one of the "Systems Admins" (there are 2 for like maybe 5 servers). They are "swamped" with work and need another person to come on.
huh - swamped with Bench Work I'm guessing - end user problems.
I have 5 servers and 88 staff members - IT department of one. 80% of my time is spend taking care of end user problems, not server problems. As I'm sure you know, as long as the server are setup correctly, they require very little hand holding.
Ya but you have more servers (possibly, they are running their other VMs on virtualbox) and more staff and only you doing it. They have 3 people and adding another, and only maybe 25 of the staff are using computers, the rest is in a warehouse doing packaging and blending.
Holy crap! They have two and want a third for 5 servers and 25 users? WTF? Sounds like they need a complete overhaul.
Perhaps you should offer to do a write up of their entire environment and make recommendations about changes, but not take a job there.
I mentioned something about moving to XenServer or some other type 1 hypervisor in the first interview, and he said they don' t have the money for that, that's why they're using VirtualBox (didn't really know what to say to that). They have Windows Server physically installed on different servers and then they are running VMs in VirtualBox on the servers. It's a mess from what I've heard. They gave me a "tour" today, but I didn't get to see the server room.
This sounds like an epic project in the making. Unless they're going to give you a mandate to change it and pay you buckets of money I'd stay well clear.
Hopefully that's why I haven't heard a salary price yet, they're counting how many buckets per hour I'll be getting.
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Just recorded a 30 minute video on a topic.
The microphone decided to distort and break down, killing off the video. Doh.
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Just ordered a new laptop and SSD for the boss. He's been doing without for more than a year now. I am surprised he made it this long with only a Surface Pro 2.
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@travisdh1 Why are you watching security footage?
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@johnhooks said:
ok......
Funny thing is technically google is virtualized. Just not in the way he's thinking with Vmware/Hyperv and a Guest OS. It's software level with containers and very powerful.
Most people don't have that scale of things doing the same task though.
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Good morning everyone. Just waiting for the car place to come and fix the car
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Morning @scottalanmiller
Deciding do I spend all day trying to get FOG working again or leave for a evening at home project??
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Car is getting fixed right now. Should be able to drive again soon
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@hobbit666 said:
Morning @scottalanmiller
Deciding do I spend all day trying to get FOG working again or leave for a evening at home project??
My vote is the home project ...
Of course it's 4:15am ET... my project should be sleeping.. but alas.. it eludes.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Car is getting fixed right now. Should be able to drive again soon
It's rare that they will come to you, but as you are on a small island.. that may be the norm.
Not something more serious than a dead battery is it?
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Nope, just a dead battery.
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Car just got returned. Dealing with stuff in Greece is so awesome. Everyone is so friendly and helpful.
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@gjacobse said:
My vote is the home project ...
Na decided to waste company time
instead of configuring a M4100-50G switch with 3VLANS and DHCP. -
Had a gorgeous morning here, got the wife to sit out on the terrace for bread and oil...
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Unfortunately while walking to the grocery store, the local terror dog jumped at Dominica and scared her, she stepped back and twisted her ankle badly on uneven asphalt and fell down in the street. Hurt her ankle badly, like she did a year ago in Spain, and cannot walk again.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Unfortunately while walking to the grocery store, the local terror dog jumped at Dominica and scared her, she stepped back and twisted her ankle badly on uneven asphalt and fell down in the street. Hurt her ankle badly, like she did a year ago in Spain, and cannot walk again.
Poor thing hope she recovers soon
