What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
That's illegal, reading email is work. Someone has to do it so other things can be done.
In some places (not many), even being ABLE to read your email makes you billable for that time. That's why some employers are not cutting staff off from messaging and emails when the end of the day comes around so that it is impossible for them to claim to have decided to read emails when they shouldn't.
This is kinda a big thing for my boss - she doesn't want non salaried personal to have remote access to email to prevent anyone claiming they were working during non work designated times.
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@Dashrender Even a salaried employee can be capable of overtime hours (you yourself are likely one).
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender Even a salaried employee can be capable of overtime hours (you yourself are likely one).
Sure, but OT is a different discussion.
As for me - you're possibly right - but the idea of trading in always punching a clock for the possible little bit of OT, not worth it to me. Plus I can get comp time when I work more than normal, I'm happy with my situation.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller still, is there only 1 employer in Nebraska?
I really think WRCombs is simply failing at these interviews if he's not actually looking and applying.
No many jobs have sent me rejection emails ; Going a different way, not qualified.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
odd.. I work from home ; Get more done
Not odd, the entire industry has known for decades that you send people home to work, you bring them to the office for politics and to serve the egos of managers. Nearly everyone is way more productive at home. That's why nearly all good companies don't just allow it, they encourage it.
as that may be true: i was saying odd because of hours and how I have to put less hours on my time card because I worked from home.
you have to put less hours on your card because you work at home? Did I miss something?
I can only put what "work I did" so basically Billable hours only.
I think this is the problem. "Work You Did" and "Billable Hours" can't be the same. There is work time that isn't billable to a customer (unless they are faking hours.) So if you only put the billable hours, there is an issue.
Biggest problem here is @WrCombs not knowing shit about what his talking about and mixing terms up all over the place.
SO what are the accurate terms then ?
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller still, is there only 1 employer in Nebraska?
I really think WRCombs is simply failing at these interviews if he's not actually looking and applying.
No many jobs have sent me rejection emails ; Going a different way, not qualified.
Not failing at interviews, not even getting in the door.Then use a head hunting company to find positions for you. Certainly they would have a litany of potential openings that you could apply to.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Lastly.
Find another job already. You're being taken advantage of.
working on it.
There HAS to be somewhere better than this. It's hard to believe that just about anything wouldn't be an improvement, and that there aren't places looking to hire. What do you feel is holding you back from finding something else? What limiting factors seem to be coming up? It's been a year now, at least, and you have already saturated the experience potential of the shop that you are in.
Security, Having a job while i'm finding another. It's not lack of trying, it's lack of knowledge, so I'm working on getting the knowledge to go.
Nothing is holding me back, Except going somewhere where I'll get less Pay to start out. It's hard at 36k /yr right now, Can't take much of a cut. -
Spinning up my server 2019 VM with AD, thinking I need practice with Hyper-V as well..
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Except going somewhere where I'll get less Pay to start out. It's hard at 36k /yr right now,
Don't offer your self to any position for less that what you make currently, that's just insane.
You said you aren't even getting to an interview with any of these potential positions and I really have to wonder how that is. Are these positions so coveted in Nebraska that as soon as something opens up a perfect fit is found immediately?
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Spinning up my server 2019 VM with AD, thinking I need practice with Hyper-V as well..
thought?It never hurts to learn, the question is what are you practicing with Hyper-V? Setting up the interfaces and creating a few VM's?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Except going somewhere where I'll get less Pay to start out. It's hard at 36k /yr right now,
Don't offer your self to any position for less that what you make currently, that's just insane.
You said you aren't even getting to an interview with any of these potential positions and I really have to wonder how that is. Are these positions so coveted in Nebraska that as soon as something opens up a perfect fit is found immediately?
I'm just not the fit apparently.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Spinning up my server 2019 VM with AD, thinking I need practice with Hyper-V as well..
thought?It never hurts to learn, the question is what are you practicing with Hyper-V? Setting up the interfaces and creating a few VM's?
Sounds like a great Idea.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Except going somewhere where I'll get less Pay to start out. It's hard at 36k /yr right now,
Don't offer your self to any position for less that what you make currently, that's just insane.
You said you aren't even getting to an interview with any of these potential positions and I really have to wonder how that is. Are these positions so coveted in Nebraska that as soon as something opens up a perfect fit is found immediately?
I'm just not the fit apparently.
Are you certain that there isn't just some glaring issue with your resume?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Except going somewhere where I'll get less Pay to start out. It's hard at 36k /yr right now,
Don't offer your self to any position for less that what you make currently, that's just insane.
You said you aren't even getting to an interview with any of these potential positions and I really have to wonder how that is. Are these positions so coveted in Nebraska that as soon as something opens up a perfect fit is found immediately?
I'm just not the fit apparently.
Are you certain that there isn't just some glaring issue with your resume?
Dont think so.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Except going somewhere where I'll get less Pay to start out. It's hard at 36k /yr right now,
Don't offer your self to any position for less that what you make currently, that's just insane.
You said you aren't even getting to an interview with any of these potential positions and I really have to wonder how that is. Are these positions so coveted in Nebraska that as soon as something opens up a perfect fit is found immediately?
I'm just not the fit apparently.
Are you certain that there isn't just some glaring issue with your resume?
Dont think so.
Care to post a sanitized version of it for review?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Except going somewhere where I'll get less Pay to start out. It's hard at 36k /yr right now,
Don't offer your self to any position for less that what you make currently, that's just insane.
You said you aren't even getting to an interview with any of these potential positions and I really have to wonder how that is. Are these positions so coveted in Nebraska that as soon as something opens up a perfect fit is found immediately?
I'm just not the fit apparently.
Are you certain that there isn't just some glaring issue with your resume?
Dont think so.
Care to post a sanitized version of it for review?
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Spinning up my server 2019 VM with AD, thinking I need practice with Hyper-V as well..
thought?Single host Hyper V operation is very simple. I wrote an article over at @StarWind_Software's blog a while ago which explains the basic networking stuff (the articles there are all great). Could be a good starting point.
More advanced topics include things like backups, MAC spoofing (required by VPNs, for example), VLANs vs multiple NICs (important for VPNs and firewalls for example), resource allocation, correct snapshot usage, different virtual disk types, underlying storage architecture (beware, that's the personal topic of @scottalanmiller :p) etc. IMHO, backups and the underlying storage are by far the most important things to learn.
I prefer the learning-by-doing approach. You could, for example, build a working VPN server. Try SoftEther on a Linux VM, a really cool and free to use multiprotocol VPN server. Let it authenticate inbound SSTP connections against your Active Directory. Or play around with Veeam B&R.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Spinning up my server 2019 VM with AD, thinking I need practice with Hyper-V as well..
thought?Single host Hyper V operation is very simple. I wrote an article over at @StarWind_Software's blog a while ago which explains the basic networking stuff (the articles there are all great). Could be a good starting point.
More advanced topics include things like backups, MAC spoofing (required by VPNs, for example), VLANs vs multiple NICs (important for VPNs and firewalls for example), resource allocation, correct snapshot usage, different virtual disk types, underlying storage architecture (beware, that's the personal topic of @scottalanmiller :p) etc. IMHO, backups and the underlying storage are by far the most important things to learn.
I prefer the learning-by-doing approach. You could, for example, build a working VPN server. Try SoftEther on a Linux VM, a really cool and free to use multiprotocol VPN server. Let it authenticate inbound SSTP connections against your Active Directory. Or play around with Veeam B&R.
Thanks, I'll look into that.
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Sitting around a large office waiting for a phone port from HyperCore to Skyetel to complete so that we can check all the phones that we just installed.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sitting around a large office waiting for a phone port from HyperCore to Skyetel to complete so that we can check all the phones that we just installed.
umm WTF?
You use old school *67 call forwarding or carrier call forwarding during the pre port timeframe.
then you already know everytihng is working because you were jsut forwarding to a SKyetel purchased number already.
