What Are You Doing Right Now

EddieJennings

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Password update day. The pain of retraining muscle memory is real.

Office 365? That's an annoying day because I'm logged into it in so many places, and Microsoft hasn't figured out how to let you login once per device yet.

O365 is one piece. Have some other AD accounts that have to have periodic password changes.

EddieJennings

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just saw a job posting for Arby's (the local franchisee's company.. there are many franchises ) looking for IT Support..

Funny thing about that is my Sister Branch in Davenport IA supports all Arby's no matter the franchise. . . and I'm already certified to work on the POS system they use at all locations (regardless of Franchise).

I'm debating on sending them my resume.

if [ $would_want_the_job ]; then send_resume; fi

gjacobse

Waiting for an offer letter-
The shorter drive will be nice. And getting back to doing more than limited desktop support will also be nice.

WrCombs

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just saw a job posting for Arby's (the local franchisee's company.. there are many franchises ) looking for IT Support..

Funny thing about that is my Sister Branch in Davenport IA supports all Arby's no matter the franchise. . . and I'm already certified to work on the POS system they use at all locations (regardless of Franchise).

I'm debating on sending them my resume.
if [ $would_want_the_job ]; then send_resume; fi

but that's the thing.. I'm not sure i want to work with restaurants anymore - so there's some debating going on.

scottalanmiller

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just saw a job posting for Arby's (the local franchisee's company.. there are many franchises ) looking for IT Support..

Funny thing about that is my Sister Branch in Davenport IA supports all Arby's no matter the franchise. . . and I'm already certified to work on the POS system they use at all locations (regardless of Franchise).

I'm debating on sending them my resume.

Why debate? Email and find out.

scottalanmiller

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just saw a job posting for Arby's (the local franchisee's company.. there are many franchises ) looking for IT Support..

Funny thing about that is my Sister Branch in Davenport IA supports all Arby's no matter the franchise. . . and I'm already certified to work on the POS system they use at all locations (regardless of Franchise).

I'm debating on sending them my resume.
if [ $would_want_the_job ]; then send_resume; fi
but that's the thing.. I'm not sure i want to work with restaurants anymore - so there's some debating going on.

Are you quitting the job you have now? No. So keep moving forward. Don't stop moving forward completely because the next step isn't the ideal one. Focus on growth and improvement, not on perfection.

Real > Ideal

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just saw a job posting for Arby's (the local franchisee's company.. there are many franchises ) looking for IT Support..

Funny thing about that is my Sister Branch in Davenport IA supports all Arby's no matter the franchise. . . and I'm already certified to work on the POS system they use at all locations (regardless of Franchise).

I'm debating on sending them my resume.
if [ $would_want_the_job ]; then send_resume; fi
but that's the thing.. I'm not sure i want to work with restaurants anymore - so there's some debating going on.
Are you quitting the job you have now? No. So keep moving forward. Don't stop moving forward completely because the next step isn't the ideal one. Focus on growth and improvement, not on perfection.

Real > Ideal

the interview process is always good practice anyway.. even if you end up turning the job down..

scottalanmiller

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just saw a job posting for Arby's (the local franchisee's company.. there are many franchises ) looking for IT Support..

Funny thing about that is my Sister Branch in Davenport IA supports all Arby's no matter the franchise. . . and I'm already certified to work on the POS system they use at all locations (regardless of Franchise).

I'm debating on sending them my resume.
if [ $would_want_the_job ]; then send_resume; fi
but that's the thing.. I'm not sure i want to work with restaurants anymore - so there's some debating going on.
Are you quitting the job you have now? No. So keep moving forward. Don't stop moving forward completely because the next step isn't the ideal one. Focus on growth and improvement, not on perfection.

Real > Ideal
the interview process is always good practice anyway.. even if you end up turning the job down..

Yup. And it gives them a chance to woo you. What if the job is way better than you had guessed?

WrCombs

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just saw a job posting for Arby's (the local franchisee's company.. there are many franchises ) looking for IT Support..

Funny thing about that is my Sister Branch in Davenport IA supports all Arby's no matter the franchise. . . and I'm already certified to work on the POS system they use at all locations (regardless of Franchise).

I'm debating on sending them my resume.
if [ $would_want_the_job ]; then send_resume; fi
but that's the thing.. I'm not sure i want to work with restaurants anymore - so there's some debating going on.
Are you quitting the job you have now? No. So keep moving forward. Don't stop moving forward completely because the next step isn't the ideal one. Focus on growth and improvement, not on perfection.

Real > Ideal

that's a good point

WrCombs

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just saw a job posting for Arby's (the local franchisee's company.. there are many franchises ) looking for IT Support..

Funny thing about that is my Sister Branch in Davenport IA supports all Arby's no matter the franchise. . . and I'm already certified to work on the POS system they use at all locations (regardless of Franchise).

I'm debating on sending them my resume.
if [ $would_want_the_job ]; then send_resume; fi
but that's the thing.. I'm not sure i want to work with restaurants anymore - so there's some debating going on.
Are you quitting the job you have now? No. So keep moving forward. Don't stop moving forward completely because the next step isn't the ideal one. Focus on growth and improvement, not on perfection.

Real > Ideal
the interview process is always good practice anyway.. even if you end up turning the job down..
Yup. And it gives them a chance to woo you. What if the job is way better than you had guessed?

Hadn't thought about that.

scottalanmiller

@wrcombs you can always turn them down. But unless they are asses, turn them down after getting an offer, not before.

Now Google, I'd never interview there. Totally shit place to work no matter what they try to portray in the interview.

But some company I don't know, like Arby's, heck, leave it up to them to make a good offer and convince you.

I did that with the big bank on Wall St. Didn't think that I had any interest, but in the interview they were such a great team and seemed like such a nice company that they talked me into it and boy am I glad that they did. It was a great experience for nearly a decade!

EddieJennings

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Focus on growth and improvement, not on perfection.

That's the reason why I'm at the job I'm at now -- there was a potential opportunity to be touching Linux systems. Unfortunately, I was put on the Windows administration team. However, it granted me a non-trivial pay increase and work-from-home for the time being, which makes it easier to keep looking for the Linux admin opportunity elsewhere.

WrCombs

I've said it before, but man I HATE payment device companies. . .

siringo

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 I'm weird, actually no, i'm old school, i create a gold image on a device with all updates and apps etc, image it with macrium reflect, copy the image onto 4-6 usb hdds, and image the new devices that way.

I can usually image around 12 devices in 2 hours. Obviously I then need to go and individualise each device, but it works for me.

I do this coz I work at 9 different sites and can't always be gauranteed that I can even get bench space when working at these sites, this makes me pretty self sufficient.

I normally drop the image onto a network share somewhere and load all of them assembly line fashion, but yep.

My annoyance last night stemmed from sysprep requiring all "Microsoft Store" apps to be removed and the multiple trips between powershell and the error log to figure out what was still around that was blocking things.

Ohhhh, I understand and feel your pain.

I've been updating some HP management software on some servers and some backup software as well.

I log in post reboot to find, that Hyper-V manager doesn't display the VMs installed on the Host. The VMs are there and working, you just can't see them.

I've had this problem before once, it's a bugger of a thing to fix from memory.

siringo

a simply magnificent friday morning after a week of terrible weather, gee i hope this lasts for the weekend.

gjacobse

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Waiting for an offer letter-
The shorter drive will be nice. And getting back to doing more than limited desktop support will also be nice.

Well.

Offer letter received. Will go from a total of five days off to

10 holiday days;
3 weeks as PTO; Sick /vacation;
slightly more per hour.

EddieJennings

RCHE / Ansible study

WrCombs

Network + videos and a glass of Cabernet 2016

scottalanmiller

Dinner time. Heading over to Sua Grill and Chill.

jt1001001

@gjacobse congrats! Are you doing Field Day this year?