Noodleface
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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i like salary, i'd say i'm working about 2 hours a day and reading about basement renovation shit 6.
chaos
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Got an offer letter today, 20% pay raise, closer to home. Unfortunately, it's dealing with McAfee ePO and related products, which suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Whatever, it will be hard and it will be a step up so I'd be stupid not to take it.
Government PM is calling us all in for a meeting tomorrow. Gee I wonder what she is going to say. Whatever, I have my parachute now.
Government PM is calling us all in for a meeting tomorrow. Gee I wonder what she is going to say. Whatever, I have my parachute now.
Don't take it. We need a forums security expert not some freeware software hacker.
It's a step below Senior Management. All the senior managers at this company have 20+ year tenure with the company. In any case, I seemed to do a good enough job. They are calling my references and will be moving to the next step which is making me an offer.
I was the first and only person they interviewed for the position. Good timing on my part.
chaos
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Yeah I just don't love it. I think a lot of that is how difficult the security of my current environment makes everything. It's a completely disconnected environment, so for each ePO there is no content staging server or master repository, we're schlepping that shit in by hand. And it doesn't seem to play very well with Linux, which makes up a good portion of our environment. idk, maybe in a better suited environment it would be less frustrating.
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I'm with Chaos, McAfee ePO is one of the biggest piece of shit AV platforms out there. While almost all the commercially available AV suites suck at detecting and removing malware, only McAfee makes such an unintuitive management platform. I've worked with Trend, Symantec, SCEP, and Malwarebytes-- they all have intuitive management interfaces that require little to no learning. The first time I loaded up McAfee ePO I couldn't figure out how to accomplish the simplest of tasks without consulting help and/or documentation. I dumped that shit and replaced with a combo of SCEP and Malwarebytes Business. Infinitely better and easier to manage.
Now, that being said I'd never turn down a job because they have McAfee, as that will just be one in a long list of software suites I'd have to manage, and every firm has some shitty piece of software you'll have to inherit and manage. Now, if it was some Oracle shop running Java all over the place and multiple Oracle business suites? Yeah, no fucking way.
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Noodleface
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So at my job we owned the code. Now we're gonna pay someone else to do it. My job will be to look at it and ask them to make the changes. .
Why am I working here?
Why am I working here?
chaos
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They had a big meeting to "make sure no one is listening to rumors" (our contract is up in August, everyone is assuming we're not getting it), make sure we "keep up the great job we've been doing", all that horseshit. Basically, please please please please don't quit.
Noodleface
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We got the same meeting at Emc before we were officially bought out. Then it really did happen.
chaos
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Yeah last time I stuck around after hearing that speech, thinking "but we're invaluable to the customer, and we have skills with a bo staff and skills with magic, they will want to keep us and not fuck us over." I was treated to a 20% pay cut while a couple of my guys got 50% cuts. I noped right the fuck out of there but there are lots of people who didn't have that luxury. Is what it is I guess, this time I'm not waiting.
speaking of the government i got an email today with the subject "drives full".
It said to delete all "noncritical" data from the server as it's full and there's no more storage. This is 1 drive that serves statewide about 6000 employees for everything.
It said to delete all "noncritical" data from the server as it's full and there's no more storage. This is 1 drive that serves statewide about 6000 employees for everything.
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So HR woman called this morning to tell me about the company heathcare, life insurance, 401k and tuition reimbursement. I should be getting an offer sometime today.
The healthinsurance is really good from what she tells me. I should be saving about $800 a month. I think she was trying to use it to lower my expectations about the offer.
The healthinsurance is really good from what she tells me. I should be saving about $800 a month. I think she was trying to use it to lower my expectations about the offer.
