What Are You Doing Right Now
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Yay, I get to wrestle with a customer's poorly configured DNS server!
Burn it with fire?
As opposed to with water?
Water works good too... but fire is more fun!
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Yay, I get to wrestle with a customer's poorly configured DNS server!
Burn it with fire?
Wish I could... this particular customer has no internal IT, a bad MSP, and they generally call our support for dumb IT questions. But they don't ever talk to me directly, so that's a plus.
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@minion-queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@minion-queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Good morning!!
At least it's snowing again!
NOT HERE!!!
It is snowing here.
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You can't make this crap up:
So I had a call a bit ago with someone (who found me on facebook) that is looking for IT work. Willing to work for any wage. Was going to ITT Tech but didn't graduate because they got shut down. He can't find a college to take his credits from ITT Tech (well yeah). So I ask what his experience is. He is great with his smartphone (I ask what his phone is. it's not a smartphone). He doesn't own a computer and never has. He is a receptionist for a Gym that's the only job he has ever had.
I give the guy points for wanting to work in IT and reaching out to someone and being willing to do anything. But ummm, no. I did offer him an internship position, I did tell him he had to get a computer and internet etc. first.
I can't make this crap up.
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@minion-queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You can't make this crap up:
So I had a call a bit ago with someone (who found me on facebook) that is looking for IT work. Willing to work for any wage. Was going to ITT Tech but didn't graduate because they got shut down. He can't find a college to take his credits from ITT Tech (well yeah). So I ask what his experience is. He is great with his smartphone (I ask what his phone is. it's not a smartphone). He doesn't own a computer and never has. He is a receptionist for a Gym that's the only job he has ever had.
I give the guy points for wanting to work in IT and reaching out to someone and being willing to do anything. But ummm, no. I did offer him an internship position, I did tell him he had to get a computer and internet etc. first.
I can't make this crap up.
This belongs on "I Can't Even".
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Making lunch for the kids.
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Guiding my dad through setting up an Ubiquiti Bridge and then a router in the DR over the phone.
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Guiding my dad through setting up an Ubiquiti Bridge and then a router in the DR over the phone.
Is he in the DR or the US?
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@minion-queen can I have a job
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@minion-queen can I have a job
Can I pay you minimum wage ???
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@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Guiding my dad through setting up an Ubiquiti Bridge and then a router in the DR over the phone.
Is he in the DR or the US?
He is the DR, and I am in US and I am guiding him. Now all done.
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Guiding my dad through setting up an Ubiquiti Bridge and then a router in the DR over the phone.
Is he in the DR or the US?
He is the DR, and I am in US and I am guiding him. Now all done.
Sweet. Have you considered setting up a personal FreePBX box and sending him a phone that will connect to it? No more International calling rates.
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@minion-queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@minion-queen can I have a job
Can I pay you minimum wage ???
Sure but I get quadruple overtime after 5 hours with a minimum of 40 hours a week.
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@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Guiding my dad through setting up an Ubiquiti Bridge and then a router in the DR over the phone.
Is he in the DR or the US?
He is the DR, and I am in US and I am guiding him. Now all done.
Sweet. Have you considered setting up a personal FreePBX box and sending him a phone that will connect to it? No more International calling rates.
Why buy a phone. . . just use Linphone or Zoiper.
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@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Guiding my dad through setting up an Ubiquiti Bridge and then a router in the DR over the phone.
Is he in the DR or the US?
He is the DR, and I am in US and I am guiding him. Now all done.
Sweet. Have you considered setting up a personal FreePBX box and sending him a phone that will connect to it? No more International calling rates.
We talk through Whatsapp and Telegram so far, I can link him to my VoIP.ms account though if I wanted to.
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@minion-queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@minion-queen can I have a job
Can I pay you minimum wage ???
Why pay him at all?
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Kids just headed off to their homeschool book club at the Carrollton Public Library.
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Running MTR reports to determine packet loss to/from a Vultr VPS.
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Kids had fun at the library. Heading to the park with friends now.
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Gotta say, it's been a week since the drama hit on
and I've been on the road nearly 50% of that time, so I've been almost totally absent over here, and our activity has been great and reader traffic is up like 50%!
