What do you do?
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Pemulis
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Or you just noticed that the tea party of stuffed animals in your room could never talk in the first place
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Heylel
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Flying penis attacks are so common that they're probably no longer interesting.
Alex
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I don't talk about work with anyone outside of work. Even friends in the office. When we're not at work, we do not discuss work. Other things make us friends - not the fact that we work together.
Honestly, I bet most of my friends don't even know what I do for a living. Except for "computer shit" or "tech shit".
Honestly, I bet most of my friends don't even know what I do for a living. Except for "computer shit" or "tech shit".
Heylel
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One of the best compliments a friend ever gave me was when he said, "I don't really know what you do for a living. Everyone else complains about their job, so I know what they do. But I never hear a word out of you."
And I do love my job, so it was really nice to hear.
And I do love my job, so it was really nice to hear.
chaos
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Heh, DIA company just called me back, offering me more than I make now at DoC but I can tell that I should be able to push that number higher. So I'm going to go for it and see if they bite.
I don't know if I would switch back. I would feel like a retard doing that, and I know it would piss off this new company. The thought crossed my mind of getting the offer and bringing it to my new company and giving them the chance to match or at least give me more or something, but since I've only been here a week I doubt they would. Plus I hated the commute and the job was way more policy than I had been led to believe.
In the end it will come down to about a 25k raise if I switch back to DIA. Thinking I can talk them into some kind of flex schedule as well since the commute sucks so many dicks, like a 4 on 3 off kind of thing. Not sure if that is enough to make me want to switch but it is a lot.
I don't know if I would switch back. I would feel like a retard doing that, and I know it would piss off this new company. The thought crossed my mind of getting the offer and bringing it to my new company and giving them the chance to match or at least give me more or something, but since I've only been here a week I doubt they would. Plus I hated the commute and the job was way more policy than I had been led to believe.
In the end it will come down to about a 25k raise if I switch back to DIA. Thinking I can talk them into some kind of flex schedule as well since the commute sucks so many dicks, like a 4 on 3 off kind of thing. Not sure if that is enough to make me want to switch but it is a lot.
Mist
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Mist
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From tears? From humping them? Because my house flooded?
I'm not even sure in which specific way I'm being mocked here.
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ZyyzYzzy
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chaos
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The client is just clueless, which I can deal with. They've never had a steady IA presence so security is like a foreign concept to them. The company tried to low ball the shit out of everyone, they now realize the error of their ways.
Not the best company in the world or anything, but we don't have to be friends. The thing that sucked was the 2 hour commute every morning.
ZyyzYzzy
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Alex
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We just signed a government defense contractor to a huge ass deal and I was one of the main dudes involved in setting up their solution. It was a nightmare. No wonder the government spends $537956140576140 every year on defense with these dumbasses running their shit.
Big_w_powah
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So, Apparently, my boss's "plan" (whatever the fuck it happens to be) has been signed off on by the VP, but needs one more level of approval as per corporate horseshit. He's been told its just red tape and won't affect the outcome. Yet, he is unwilling to reveal even a broad overview of his plan.
The VP mentioned it to me, today, too....So I dunno WTF is going on. I just know I've been too fucking busy to push for it, and have to spend the weekend finalizing a new system to go into place during my trip Monday, so I wont have time to stress on it...thats good, at least?
The VP mentioned it to me, today, too....So I dunno WTF is going on. I just know I've been too fucking busy to push for it, and have to spend the weekend finalizing a new system to go into place during my trip Monday, so I wont have time to stress on it...thats good, at least?
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Crone
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So I'm probably moving to small town USA in Eastern Oregon, for a job at an Amazon data center. The job is contract to hire, and I had a good conversation today with a guy that works and does what I'd be doing, that the staffing agency had placed there a while ago. Was a what's up type of call, to tell me about the job, what I'd be doing, things like that. Asked him about interview questions and stuff so I can be as prepared for that as possible.
Was a good conversation, but while it's a 50% bump in pay, I can't help but feel it's a step down from what I do currently, but has way more room to grow, because it's Amazon.
Currently I rack and stack network equipment, make sure it comes back online, and if an upgrade, make sure what was connected, is still connected. We get the configs from network designers, and load them onto the switches, and make sure it all works. 60% of the time, no rack and stack needed, it's just an IOS upgrade + config change. That's majority of what I do, on top of that is just basic enterprise network trouble shooting.
The Amazon job is strictly rack and stack, with some basic fiber uplink trouble shooting. Way more physical, and the only logical work I'd be doing is loading up a stub config onto the new devices so they get an IP, then other network engineer dudes, or probably software defined stuff, will do the rest. Real grunt work, and I guess maybe that's what I'm already doing, but it doesn't feel that way? Amazon is just a lot more tiered than Boeing, but was told Amazon network engineers are people I'd work with quite a bit, and it's not uncommon to make the leap over to that side of things after getting some experience?
50% bump in pay, and what seems about a 40% drop in cost of living (comparing just rental rates), makes it good enough, but I'm just venting some concerns.
Was a good conversation, but while it's a 50% bump in pay, I can't help but feel it's a step down from what I do currently, but has way more room to grow, because it's Amazon.
Currently I rack and stack network equipment, make sure it comes back online, and if an upgrade, make sure what was connected, is still connected. We get the configs from network designers, and load them onto the switches, and make sure it all works. 60% of the time, no rack and stack needed, it's just an IOS upgrade + config change. That's majority of what I do, on top of that is just basic enterprise network trouble shooting.
The Amazon job is strictly rack and stack, with some basic fiber uplink trouble shooting. Way more physical, and the only logical work I'd be doing is loading up a stub config onto the new devices so they get an IP, then other network engineer dudes, or probably software defined stuff, will do the rest. Real grunt work, and I guess maybe that's what I'm already doing, but it doesn't feel that way? Amazon is just a lot more tiered than Boeing, but was told Amazon network engineers are people I'd work with quite a bit, and it's not uncommon to make the leap over to that side of things after getting some experience?
50% bump in pay, and what seems about a 40% drop in cost of living (comparing just rental rates), makes it good enough, but I'm just venting some concerns.
radditsu
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Sounds boring. Let me know if another position comes up.
I just spent the day convincing clueless elected officials that buying cameras for patrol cars may actually be worth it.
Big_w_powah
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Honestly..Take the opportunity imho. Theres solid advancement options and a significant increase in expendable income.