@jaredbusch said in Weekend Plans:

Heading to St. Louis on Saturday. Going to see Deadpool 2 with a friend. Then drinking.

Family / reunion thing on Sunday.

I'm going to KC Saturday.

@i3 said in Office 365 DNS query failed - delayed messages:

@dashrender Yes, it is listed in Office 365 as I had to verify the domain.

Then again - I'm amazed any email makes it out of O365 to their self hosted exchange server.

Do you have their actual domain listed in O365 though? If yes, them I'm surprised they get email from other O365 users at all. I would fully expect other O365 users to basically skip the DNS check when MS knows it's hosting the domain on O365.

@obsolesce said in How Can the FTE Model Compete with the MSP Model?:

Could be better doesn't mean IS better.

I'm not seeing the true value of MSP over FTE, especially if costs to the company are identical.

well, from a company POV, one way an MSP is better is because the client can fire the MSP at will (baring contracts) and no deal with post employee costs - Cobra, Unemployment, etc.

@scottalanmiller said in How Can the FTE Model Compete with the MSP Model?:

Here is the basis of my logic, this is an assumption so this is where I think you have to prove me wrong: An MSP staffer can act identically to an FTE in price, capability, and function making them identical in all ways to an FTE, but also has the flexibility to do other things that an FTE cannot.

I can only give you this in a greenfield situation. I.e. the client is greenfield regarding all staff.

But consider this.

Company Acme today has 100 employees, one of which is payroll/accounting, Sue. They handle all 100 people worth payroll/accounting. Bob works for Acme, and he costs the company after all benefits, etc $100K/yr, additionally he adds, let's say 20 mins of work/week to Sue. Sue is paid $60K/yr.

So Bob leaves and joins a brand new MSP, There's the owner (Joe) and now Bob. That MSP pays Bob $100K/yr after all benefits. This cost is passed directly back to Acme (caveat to come) with no upcharge, and Bob goes back to work at his old desk at Acme.

My question is - Who submits the bills for Bob's time to Acme? How is that person paid for that work? Now the answer seems obvious to me - The owner (Joe) does. But Joe does deserve to get paid for that work, doesn't he? And therefore wouldn't he normally charge say $40-50 per week for that thing that has to be done? If so, then now Acme is paying more for Bob.

Now - if you tell me that Sue, that accounting person, is now getting paid $40-50 less a week because she is not doing the work on Bob's account, then fine, it becomes a wash - but I can tell you, my accounting person here is not paid on the job, she's paid a flat hourly rate, and she's expected to be able to handle an influx of 2-10 people with no actual extra spent clock time - and well, and they succeed at it. So, since Sue likely isn't getting paid less, the Acme will be paying more - basically because they are now over paying Sue.

@scottalanmiller said in How Can the FTE Model Compete with the MSP Model?:

@dashrender said in How Can the FTE Model Compete with the MSP Model?:

Never said there was - but in the case where the MSP's only business is planting butts in chairs at a customer, and then charging the exact cost of that employee to the customer - how does the MSP do billing? The MSP now needs an employee who's job it is to do payroll, etc. Where does that money come from in a company that has zero actual income because they are only deploying butts to seats for actual cost - granted not a real situation, but you stated an MSP could be this way, so I'm trying to see it fully.

All of those costs, like billing, payroll, etc. already exist for the FTE. They are simple shifted to the MSP. I don't know where you think that one employer gets these things for free and another has to pay for them. The client and the MSP have equal costs here, that's why shifting the person from one entity to the other is a break even. There is nowhere for "additional cost" to be incurred.

The extra cost that you are insisting on simply doesn't exist. MSPs only incur new overhead when doing things FTEs can't do. But they never have to do those things so there is no necessity for that overhead. That overhead only gets injected when it proves to be advantageous (which is almost always.) But that proves the point - that MSPs bring advantages.

They only shift to the MSP the bookkeeper stuff of the now gone IT FTE, but the bookkeeper doesn't make less money because they are taking care of one less person - that's my point.

@obsolesce said in Fitness and Weightloss:

@penguinwrangler said in Fitness and Weightloss:

@obsolesce said in Fitness and Weightloss:

@dashrender said in Fitness and Weightloss:

I completely agree with this. Diet alone is all you 'need' to get to your weight loss goals.. it's all about finding the right foods for you.

Well yeah, just stop eating lol. Don't eat anything (literally, nothing) for 2 weeks. I bet you'll drop fast!

If you stop eating eventually of course you lose weight but once you start eating you pack the pounds back on because your body is in starvation mode.

Yeah I was being sarcastic!

This I knew.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finally off of the phone. Now to figure out Windows 1803.

What's to figure out?

How to block it from the command line.

Why do you want to block it?

@bigbear said in Fitness and Weightloss:

You can lose ALL your weight with diet, if it’s stalled somethings wrong.

I completely agree with this. Diet alone is all you 'need' to get to your weight loss goals.. it's all about finding the right foods for you.

Since Jan, I've only dieted and have dropped from 210 to 190. I stalled at 195, I cut from 3 meals a day to 1+... the plus is latte for breakfast (milk and espresso only) and every few days I get a snack of almonds, or cheese or dates (though the dates are gone, not buying more).

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finally off of the phone. Now to figure out Windows 1803.

What's to figure out?