The conundrum of being a "Jack of all trades" on the Job hunt.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ChrisJ no, only in the SMB. In the enterprise what you describe is completely unheard of. Jobs a rigidly cordoned off and a network admin touches nothing but routers and switches, unix admins never see windows or routers, desktop techs never touch printers, DBAs literally do nothing but database management, etc.
At what size do Desktop techs stop touching printers? When I worked for West Teleservices (a fortune 500 company) we were responsible for printers too.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@ChrisJ no, only in the SMB. In the enterprise what you describe is completely unheard of. Jobs a rigidly cordoned off and a network admin touches nothing but routers and switches, unix admins never see windows or routers, desktop techs never touch printers, DBAs literally do nothing but database management, etc.
At what size do Desktop techs stop touching printers? When I worked for West Teleservices (a fortune 500 company) we were responsible for printers too.
I STILL work on printers and I'm not even local.
Damn that giant print server that serves out every single printer in one location.
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i touch everything. all the time. Servers, switches, firewalls, asa's, desktops, phones, pbxs, network cabling, patch panels, even have a few folks that still have 66 blocks....remember those? haha I like to refer to myself as a Nerd Mercenary.
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@Hubtech said:
i touch everything. all the time. Servers, switches, firewalls, asa's, desktops, phones, pbxs, network cabling, patch panels, even have a few folks that still have 66 blocks....remember those? haha I like to refer to myself as a Nerd Mercenary.
66 blocks are still really common for digital or analog phones.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@ChrisJ no, only in the SMB. In the enterprise what you describe is completely unheard of. Jobs a rigidly cordoned off and a network admin touches nothing but routers and switches, unix admins never see windows or routers, desktop techs never touch printers, DBAs literally do nothing but database management, etc.
At what size do Desktop techs stop touching printers? When I worked for West Teleservices (a fortune 500 company) we were responsible for printers too.
Desktop attached printers or the big units on the network?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@ChrisJ no, only in the SMB. In the enterprise what you describe is completely unheard of. Jobs a rigidly cordoned off and a network admin touches nothing but routers and switches, unix admins never see windows or routers, desktop techs never touch printers, DBAs literally do nothing but database management, etc.
At what size do Desktop techs stop touching printers? When I worked for West Teleservices (a fortune 500 company) we were responsible for printers too.
Desktop attached printers or the big units on the network?
In my case it was both. Granted we rarely tore them apart, a maintenance contract covered them, but we definitely had to do level one troubleshooting, replace toners, paper, make sure it was on the network ,etc.
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Wow. Even in 1,000 person shops I've never seen desktop specialists wasted in paper changing chores.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Wow. Even in 1,000 person shops I've never seen desktop specialists wasted in paper changing chores.
Either lazy or ignorant or both, they are all welcome there (or at least were).
