Burned by Eschewing Best Practices
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@Reid-Cooper I've been asked to sit in, not to question. Meaning I don't get the option to raise those questions.
As if I'm supposed to be a fly on the wall, yet when we go to have a private discussion regarding the very same things you've mentioned in "Ask them . . . " that the result is "well you should've asked when they were here"
I totally get what you're saying and it is good advice, but my point was more about "What should be done to not be a passive person in the meetings upfront?"
IT Guy/Sales Person battle royal!
If that makes sense?
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@Reid-Cooper I've been asked to sit in, not to question. Meaning I don't get the option to raise those questions.
Then I guess the real answer is... you are there only to be kept up to date, your opinion is not requested. If they don't care about your input, just sit there and watch them get sold down the river. No skin off your back.
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
I totally get what you're saying and it is good advice, but my point was more about "What should be done to not be a passive person in the meetings upfront?"
If you are not allowed to talk in the meeting, then nothing.
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Man, that would kill me. I'm about trying to help offer the best solution, and when I see someone leading someone off in the wrong direction, I feel a moral obligation to call out someone's shit.
If the people can't handle that, or don't want you to open your mouth, you shouldn't be there.
Not that I'm suggesting to hurt yourself financially - the world we live in tells us to make our money where we can, because if you don't someone else will swoop in and take what should have been yours... but damn, if they really don't want you to talk, why do they even have you there?
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@eneeldssi said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Man, that would kill me. I'm about trying to help offer the best solution, and when I see someone leading someone off in the wrong direction, I feel a moral obligation to call out someone's shit.
That's a common trait in IT.
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HP MSA in DAS configuration failing whenever a host reboots.
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This will take a while to get through haha
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@tiagom said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
This will take a while to get through haha
Yeah, it's a pretty good collection. Sadly we missed years of things and we still only notice them every so often.
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HP P2000 (MSA) ....
Single controller failing causes both controllers to fail taking down the whole enclosure.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1766518-replacing-hp-p2000-g3-sas-with-hp-msa2000-g3-sas
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Just in case it goes away, because I'm so tired of hearing people tell me that I'm insane for thinking that this is even a possibility.
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@scottalanmiller clearly both the OP and HP are wrong, dual controllers CAN'T take out the entire enclosure. It's literally impossible..
Get with the program!
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I suspect this topic to get worse.
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
I suspect this topic to get worse.
"We currently have 12*SAS 15k disks in RAID6 and hot spare (3 drives lost) in each SAN, 300Gb HDs in SAN1 (2.7TB), 600GB HDs in SAN2 (5.4 Tb)."
No no you can only still lose two drives at once even with that hot spare.
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I've stopped emptying people's Recycle Bin because I keep finding out people "store stuff there" cause they "know how to find it" quickly.
One particular boss of mine used to "store" stuff in the Recycle Bin (same with email trash) because it was so easy to just click <delete> on a file and know exactly where it went to find later. She would eventually purge trash items over a certain age.
One too many times getting a deer-in-headlights look when someone found out I emptied the trash while cleaning up the system. "I wanted those files!!!!"
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@guyinpv Wow that's amazingly stupid.
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@tiagom said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@guyinpv Wow that's amazingly stupid.
And I couldn't get them to stop. They would just chuckle "ya ya ya I know I shouldn't put stuff there, but it's just easy and fast for me to work that way..."
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If you made a script to auto empty the trash, they would stop very quickly haha.
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@guyinpv said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@tiagom said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@guyinpv Wow that's amazingly stupid.
And I couldn't get them to stop. They would just chuckle "ya ya ya I know I shouldn't put stuff there, but it's just easy and fast for me to work that way..."
It's easier and faster for me to just drop your paycheck into the shredder, I think I'll do that from now on.
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@travisdh1 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@guyinpv said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@tiagom said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@guyinpv Wow that's amazingly stupid.
And I couldn't get them to stop. They would just chuckle "ya ya ya I know I shouldn't put stuff there, but it's just easy and fast for me to work that way..."
It's easier and faster for me to just drop your paycheck into the shredder, I think I'll do that from now on.
and it saves on postage too
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@Dashrender said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@travisdh1 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@guyinpv said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@tiagom said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@guyinpv Wow that's amazingly stupid.
And I couldn't get them to stop. They would just chuckle "ya ya ya I know I shouldn't put stuff there, but it's just easy and fast for me to work that way..."
It's easier and faster for me to just drop your paycheck into the shredder, I think I'll do that from now on.
and it saves on postage too
psshh, direct deposit yo. It's 2016.
