Noodleface
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We aren't far behind. There's plenty of talks of storage being sold to Broadcom as well.
IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
ronne
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Yea I'm in a decently comfortable financial position so I'm not in any particular hurry, but I'd be lying if I claimed the constant interview/ghosting process wasn't starting to wear on me.
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ronne
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That much of a disparity means the recruiter isn't doing their job.
I'm not an IT professional, but since our IT department is understaffed, I've basically had to become one. That includes things like implementing open source alternatives to vmware(thanks for the price hike,Vinen ) like qemu. For the parts that I understand, 125k sounds reasonable to me. Especially in an area like Chicago.
I just redid my homelab to proxmox for mostly the same reasons I assume. Feels like the push everywhere is to abandon VMware as soon as possible at every level of enterprise that isn't literally State Farm and whatever other colossal institutions that simply can't move that quickly.
Kuro
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Guy who was supposed to train me for three months before I replaced him is getting Fired on my fifth Friday instead. Gonna be a mess trying to figure out what all random things he's admin on since this organization has zero documentation.
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Siliconemelons
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I am like Captain Kirk in ST6 "I have never trusted klingons, and I never will... I will never forgive them, for the death of my boy." whenever I hear VMWare or HP...
VMWare for Datrium and HP for WebOS
VMWare for Datrium and HP for WebOS
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Palum
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HP printers, never again. Those fuckers started putting the always connected requirement on everything and network people nearly all committed suicide.
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Siliconemelons
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I also hate SAP because they sent good ol boy Leo Apokrawhatever to HP that got WebOS killed, then golden parachuted his butt into an early million + retirement and "consultant" life... while completely decimating HP as a company that was on the verge of overtaking Dell, becoming a strong "3rd option" in the phone market (that no one to date has done) and continuing to be /the/ printer people for consumer level.
The problem was execution not idea / plan - what he did by a stroke of the pen overnight, was indeed what the next batch of leadership did do (with HPe etc.) - but he did it completely wrong, and that was /his job/ as the CEO was to do it right lol.
The problem was execution not idea / plan - what he did by a stroke of the pen overnight, was indeed what the next batch of leadership did do (with HPe etc.) - but he did it completely wrong, and that was /his job/ as the CEO was to do it right lol.
Noodleface
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Turns out supporting 3 generations of products that all have issues coming in as a single person is not possible.
The funniest is the groups using them all think they are more important than the others, which who am I to really argue with..
They've said they're bringing more people on but I don't trust a company that just laid off 10% of it's staff.
The funniest is the groups using them all think they are more important than the others, which who am I to really argue with..
They've said they're bringing more people on but I don't trust a company that just laid off 10% of it's staff.
Siliconemelons
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Draper, Honeywell, Raytheon and Lockheed are always good places to start with military and creds....heck nowadays even w/o creds lol
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Noodleface
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Lot of places are looking for TS/SCI on LinkedIn (the cesspool that it is).
Draper lowballed me on salary because I didn't have TS
Draper lowballed me on salary because I didn't have TS
Palum
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That sucks, also my experience. They don't really care about qualifications, just if they don't have to pay to get you a clearance.
Asshat Foler
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Potentially any company operating on secret cloud. Could be lucrative. Not exactly fun because you’ll just be the monkey turning wrenches while some team in India builds the product but money could be better than a traditional defense company.
Omi43221
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I should also add, particularly interested in companies around the Orlando or Daytona area.
Vinen
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You basically summed up Hock Tan's goal. He wants the business to focus on top customers. Others who don't bring in significant revenue can go pound sand. At least thats the feel I get. We have significant cuts in my Division today. I appear to have survived this round. I lost team members which sucks ass. People who have skills we can't replace.
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Palum
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Just because you can't replace them doesn't mean you won't have to do their work!
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Vinen
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In this case I mean. We literally don't have the skillset they had. Talking years of experience. I know the product well so your point is valid.
TJT
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Depends a lot on exactly what your network admin experience entails. Like what tools did you use, what kind of infrastructure, what was the scale of it, etc.
Noodleface
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I see you didn't see Jeff Clarkes famous words last year during our big layoffs.
"do less with less"
Yes. Literally the dumbest shit I've ever heard.
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Control
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I don't normally bitch about work because things are usually pretty relaxed in my little chunk of the world, and I really appreciate that, but occasionally some version of this happens:
Someone's thing breaks. My thing, which has been happily running without being touched for months is subtly (or not so subtly) blamed. The other thing gets rebuilt. Now, my thing, (which still hasn't changed) doesn't work (also subtly my fault). "Now here's 10 things you need to try to make your thing work again." Great, none of those worked. Are you sure nothing changed about your thing that you just rebuilt? "of course not!". So it's been over a week of jumping through hoops while waiting for someone to flip the right switch so that I can inevitably change everything back to exactly how it was before the debacle.
Someone's thing breaks. My thing, which has been happily running without being touched for months is subtly (or not so subtly) blamed. The other thing gets rebuilt. Now, my thing, (which still hasn't changed) doesn't work (also subtly my fault). "Now here's 10 things you need to try to make your thing work again." Great, none of those worked. Are you sure nothing changed about your thing that you just rebuilt? "of course not!". So it's been over a week of jumping through hoops while waiting for someone to flip the right switch so that I can inevitably change everything back to exactly how it was before the debacle.
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