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@scottalanmiller said in Should You Job Hop for Your Career in IT - SAMIT Video:

@ccwtech said in Should You Job Hop for Your Career in IT - SAMIT Video:

@scottalanmiller Why couldn't I sell the services that a highly trained employee has?

So again, we are back to you being a service provider so to whom will you sell these skills? New customers? That's job hopping. See my point?

Not at all... I can expand services and reach markets I am not reaching now because I don't have the assets to handle those jobs.

@scottalanmiller Why couldn't I sell the services that a highly trained employee has?

Also, study after study shows that the #1 reason people quit is job satisfaction. I don't believe I.T. is an exception. I think an employee who feels valued will stay at an employer longer than one who doesn't feel appreciated.

@scottalanmiller I'm new at being a boss. I doubled my staff 2.5 weeks ago. I hired my first full time employee. A person who doesn't have a ton of experience but is very intelligent, learns fast, is a hard worker, is great with clients and cares about my customers. I'm willing to develop her skills and as that happens I am happy to pay her more.

@scottalanmiller The incentive would be to develop the employee so they can move up in the company and make more money. I'm willing to pay my employee's more if they bring more to the table and make me more money.

What is the incentive for an employer to put any type of training or professional development into an employee if they are going to use that training to work for another company?

@aaronstuder said in Javascript pop up in Firefox on Yahoo Finance:

PiHole

Looks interesting... I think I'm just going to have him use Chrome. Not that Chrome doesn't come with it's own problems, but at least a good work around for this issue.

The odd thing is still that only on that network does the .js pop up appear. I guess it comes down to the fact it's a known issue with FF and until they fix it you just have to have add ons.

@danp That's good info. I'm wondering if you can just leave finance.yahoo.com up in the background. The pop-ups aren't always instant.

None. I did a nuke and pave and fresh install of FF from Ninite.com.

Here is an example: https://youtu.be/A5Q0efHMbU4

They don't want to block finance.yahoo.com and the multiple pages it's loading are too many to block.

Untangle doesn't appear to be compromised (from what I can see). I use Comcast and am geographically ~ 2 miles from their office and can't replicate it. I do use a Meraki instead of Untangle and many other parts of my network are different however. I haven't tried hooking a computer directly to the modem to see what happens if I do that... (I just thought of that while writing this.)

Very likely but I can't reproduce it outside of their network. Outside of their network the page loads and stops loading. There isn't the constant lower left activity showing several links loading.

That's my thought as well. I had Untangle support remote in. They looked at the settings and can't see any issues. I was using Comcast DNS (default from the WAN) on untangle and using Google DNS as the forwarders on the Domain Controller DNS. I switched both to Webroot's Secure DNS (paid service) and still no difference. I turned on the Adblocker feature on Untangle and no help there.

I just got the Moto Z2 Force and loving it.

I have a client that when they go to finance.yahoo.com they will often get a pop up Window for a Firefox update and asking them to run a firefox-patch.js file. They are smart enough to not run it.

It only happens in Firefox, and only on Yahoo Finance.

In the lower left hand corner, instead of loading and stopping, it keeps trying to load different pages.

I have run every known AV Scanner, looked for issues using FRST and even nuked and paved. After nuke & pave, going back to finance.yahoo.com I still get the the pop-up. This happens on any computer in the network.

I am even using Webroot Filtered DNS as the forwarder on the Windows DNS Server as well as in Untangle.

I'm scratching my head trying to think of what else may be causing this.

Wow... where is the 'dislike' button? That stinks. I'd love to see what a good alternative is.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@ccwtech said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to do 3 DR's at once.

1 - Client that I told many times to buy a UPS for their server that has frequent power outages. They had good intentions but never got around to doing it. (They have one now!)
2 - New client that thought they could do it on their own that shared out every drive on the server, every drive on each workstation and got hit by a crypto virus that encrypted virtually every file on every computer (inc Server) that they own
3 - Client that 'moved' his server all by himself (without turning anything off first) - Still trying to figure out this one.

Oh, and keep up with my normal customer calls/tickets.

Fun day.

Weekend... all weekend!

@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@ccwtech said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@ccwtech said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to do 3 DR's at once.

1 - Client that I told many times to buy a UPS for their server that has frequent power outages. They had good intentions but never got around to doing it. (They have one now!)
2 - New client that thought they could do it on their own that shared out every drive on the server, every drive on each workstation and got hit by a crypto virus that encrypted virtually every file on every computer (inc Server) that they own
3 - Client that 'moved' his server all by himself (without turning anything off first) - Still trying to figure out this one.

Oh, and keep up with my normal customer calls/tickets.

Wow, just wow. Honestly #2 had me literally laughing (sry you are dealing with all of this).

Yeah, I had to be nice and tell him that doing that is 'generally not best practice'. Didn't want to add insult to injury. I think he got the point.

Sucks right now, but if everyone knew how to do I.T. I'd have to find a different job!

LOL you are a better person than I am. And you are right, that is job security for you :).

I just wish all the 'job security' didn't come at once!