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Prepping for an interview on Friday hopefully allowing me to get away from where I work now!

Just finishing off agreeing and signing a new job! Exciting news

Watching the British Inbetweeners, drinking Cobra, looking forward to asking GFs dad tomorrow over dinner and beers for permission to propose to his daughter. Fun fun.

Hi folks,

This position is based in London, Camden, UK. If anybody in UK/London knows anybody that could be interested feel free to have them message me. Probably good for somebody interested in training/law, or a recent graduate within law.

Location – Camden Town, London. Salary, £24k pre probation, £26k post probation. 20 days holiday plus bank holidays. Hours: 9am - 5:30pm with 1 hour lunch.

Company

We are a London based legal technology company specialising in the development and distribution of digital research platforms involving case law and legislation. Our partners and clients include law professionals in over 50 countries, including law firms, governments and academic institutions. With the recent release of a brand-new product we are looking for talented individuals to join our company at a very exciting time.

The Role

As a Training Executive you are a high achiever, with a passion for training, technology and the law and have joined our team based in Camden Town, London.

Your role will primarily focus on, but not be limited to:

• Organising, improving and performing customer training
• Planning and running online sessions for existing and potential customers
• Working and improving the customer helpdesk and becoming an expert on our platforms

Training is performed online and in person therefore national and international travel is required.

We track performance through a range of KPIs including, but not limited to:

• Customer feedback
• Helpdesk response time
• The volume of training booked and performed

This role is office based in Camden Town, Monday to Friday, 9am – 5:30pm with flexibility and travel required.

Key Attributes

Candidates should be:
• Confident in dealing and liaising with a variety of customers
• A strong and confident presenter
• Able to meet and exceed targets
• Able to work well within a tight knit team
• Efficient with their time management skills
• Able to communicate professionally, both written and verbally
• Able and eager to learn
• Familiar with MS Office

Any questions, feel free...

Best,
Jim

For real, if 55k is similar to what you make now, and the benefits are the same, but the drive is 4x longer, and you don't need to move jobs... Pass. Nope. Not for you. Working g for an MSP sucks imo.

"Dear xyz,
Thank you for the offer of 55k. I appreciate your offer but must decline. I am comfortable in my current role; to entice me to leave a comfortable job with a far longer commute I would need a fair increase in wages and benefits. I'd reconsider for 65k and 10% bonus, private healthcare and life insurance, and x days leave per year.

I'd be very excited to work with you but the finances must be financially viable. Sadly, 55k does not meet that requirement for me.

If you can reconsider I'd look forward to agreeing a contract. Otherwise I wish you luck in your search."

Boom.

Applied to a job earlier today and just had an email confirming an interview. The interview details say the format is an online meeting where I sit in front of a webcam and answer automated questions which may be reviewed later... and is scheduled for 2h 40m minimum... PASS... too impersonal to me.

From those, option 2.

Laughing my ass off at red tape. Get a project. Reach out to specific vendors and get get the pricing and options. List four good options, with a #1 recommendation suitable for us. Get together with the C levels, and get it shot down as 'C' levels want to verify what we actually need from the options (which I did already). C levels spend several weeks in meetings, internally, externally... and come back with the exact same #1 recommendation. Pfft.

I've only worked SMB. I'd like to try Enterprise some day but worry everything would be too impersonal. With SMB, some of them have been like a family. Real nice. I've worked some that were truly nasty though - I'd go SMB, but move until the right SMB is found.

Wow. Poor. Feel sorry for anybody applying.
"I want a performer! Not someone watching the clock!" - that says it all. Bad first impression!

^ it goes with saying they no doubt want somebody to work above their normal hours too all the time, be always contactable, never take holiday and be willing to only be paid peanuts.

@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@quixoticjeremy If you could be a shitty scientist or a fantastic window washer, what would you choose to be?

Likely window washer.

All I do is clean Windows all day anyway!

@fredtx said in Job offer:

@irj

I had to retract my resignation, which they were happy I wasn’t leaving yet. I guess I got too confident, and jumped the gun. Also, I was planning on taking a week off after my departure before I start the new position.

Yeah, as I am sure others have said - never resign until the new job is in the bag. Offer made, signed, confirmed receipt and start date, references checked.

So, pointed out that a physical SAN is likely not the solution needed and to look at other options such as vSAN, and to be really sure if he still wants a SAN thay physical is the way to go - as it's likely not.

I expect vendors have stepped in. Said you need a SAN, and the OP is set. By highlighting and having him question it I was hoping to help the OP reason that a physical is the wrong direction...

But, as he specifically asked 'which SAN is better', the posts were removed as it's... Not helping towards answering the question of which SAN is better. Very limiting as neither are better for the use case and more the wrong questions was asked IMO.

Anyhow, I used to be very active years ago then took a job with an MSP for a year. In that time, it was hard to be active and I sort of died out on the forums. In the last year I am back with a SMB so have more time to be active again... In my year out I can see the SW community really has changed a lot in the wrong direction. To have posts removed as they are not answering directly enough, when answering cam help convince the OP to do something wrong, is bad.

Planning how to propose.

Hi folks,

Hopefully one of you have an answer to this; some of our sales team from the UK will be going to SF in December. This is to do demonstrations of our product at a conference (web access is needed). The conference is in the Hilton Hotel, specifically: 333 O'Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA Hilton Hotel.

The problem: for 4 days internet access, the Hilton want to charge close to $4000 (before tax I assume). That is insane cost for 4 days of Internet access. Other options must be possible and would cost far less...

I have never been to the US, so have no idea what sort of 3G/4G or wireless/comms options are available. I assume the same as the UK (probably better). If so, in the UK I can get a 3G/4G dongle which can plug in to a laptop and give Internet access. With roaming charges on, this will cost, but would work in the US, and will still be < $4k.

The tricky part is this: Would we get coverage at the Hilton Hotel in SF? I had a look online, but couldn't find anything that helped. What is coverage like in the SF for carriers? Would we likely get 3G/4G? We would use BT mobile dongle from over here, I just assume this would work in the US via roaming charges and just switch carrier like it does when in Europe...

Another option: for $4000 we could get a laptop, loaded with two licensed 2012 R2 VMs, and run our site offline locally. That still comes to less than 4k! Shocking price. But, this means sales need to know how to troubleshoot VMs as I cant exactly remote in to the lappy when they have no Internet access (potentially risky)...

Third option: just pay the $4000 - yes its an option, although, its one I would hate to follow. Is Internet access really that costly in the US?!

Other options? Thoughts? (Also posted on Spiceworks).

Thanks,
Jim

@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Watching the British Inbetweeners, drinking Cobra, looking forward to asking GFs dad tomorrow over dinner and beers for permission to propose to his daughter. Fun fun.

Good luck

I'm sure he will say yes but a good reason for steak and beers. Got the ring all ready for Oct 1st already too

I have put in an IPOD before at an SMB. Although nothing failed before I left, at least not that I know of (as it was years ago), I now have the knowledge to build better solutions anyway. So would not do that again. This was 4 hosts, 1 EQL SAN. An MSP I worked for always put them in, even once they were aware of the issues. Sometimes, you cannot teach people as 'it always worked'... pfft.

If I were the OP, I would work with the business to define if, and why,, a failover cluster is needed. If not, things get so simple. Two hosts using replica to each other and great (tested) backups, is likely more than enough. If host A fails, start the replicas on B. If B fails, start the replicas on A. Have each doing 50%). Then backup on and off site and test both. If a cluster is needed, defo a vSAN like starwind.

Waiting to hear if i'm going to be offered a contact for a position I have been interviewing for.

Fire employee for using work resources for personal issues, and not for work.

Kidding of course.

Sitting in the open plan office waiting for my last day here pretty much doing nothing but hoping time goes quicker.

Penultimate day, new job Monday. Bored.