Best posts made by david.wiese

me thinks you have gone and drank to much
not seeing this in ff

we just purchase open licenses for both windows and office. Roughly $240 for each license and we own them. One master key using network authentication. pretty straight forward for me. I run inventory reports through spiceworks for our true up and there we go.

@JaredBusch said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@david.wiese said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@JaredBusch

@JaredBusch said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

I will add to this discussion with this.

When I look to hire another person for @Bundy-Associates that I will most certainly be looking for the self motivated person that is going to be able to work in a very atypical environment compared to most places.

Someone with a lab environment that teaches themselves outside of work will most certainly rank over some 8-5 working Joe. @david-wiese and @RojoLoco will most certainly not be employed by me.

I work 24/7. I may only average 6 to 8 hours per day and 42 hours per week. But those hours are spread out over all 24 hours of the day and all 7 days of the week.

Any employee of ours will be expected to do the same.

I personally wouldn't want to work for an organization like that. I value my time and would not be expected to work like that. That sounds horrible. I guess for positions like that it takes a special kind of person that has no life outside of the job.

Also that description right there is what is wrong with the American culture. To much emphasis put on work and not enough put on life outside of it. Like I have already stated, I work to live, not live to work.

Read the reply I made about about math and hours.

yup and my comments do not change. I do not want to work 7 days a week. Even if you are only putting in an average of 42 hours a week, you are still putting in time each day therefore not taking time off to do other things.

i am also seeing some weird things where it says at the top of the Recent Topics page 12 new posts 55 updates but when i refresh the screen by clicking on that link 1 or 2 new posts and a few updates to other threads.

@IRJ my dads inkjet was just ruined by using a third party cartridge in his HP printer. All it takes is 1 time and you have your justification to not using 3rd party cartridges.

@JaredBusch

@JaredBusch said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@wirestyle22 said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@Veet said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@JaredBusch said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@Veet said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@JaredBusch said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

I work 24/7. I may only average 6 to 8 hours per day and 42 hours per week. But those hours are spread out over all 24 hours of the day and all 7 days of the week.
Any employee of ours will be expected to do the same.

In return what can an employee expect from the organization ?

Depending on skill, an hourly rate between $30 and $50.

Seriously ? Is that all an employee can expect from your company ? An hourly wage ? pity ...

I'm sure they have healthcare, dental, vision, 401k, etc too. What is to be expected?

Actually, nope nothing except an IRA match. Everything else is in the rate.

wow, just wow. I would never work for you then if this is the attitude you have towards your employees.

clicked on the reload and this is what i see...

@tonyshowoff but these are different than those other phishing scams that you can tell are completely fake. These are detailed down to the very person who signs off on the wire transfers. The one we had here knew the name of our president, ceo, cfo, vp of finance and controller and had crafted the emails to look like it was being sent from the cfo to the controller (who signs off on the wire transfers). The email address that was being used was once again .co and not .com. They hid the email header information so these guys are really good. Using a real bank account that was detailed enough to get the name on the account, account number, routing number (which i know is easy to find). Whoever is doing this does their homework.

@wirestyle22

@wirestyle22 said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@david.wiese said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@JaredBusch

@JaredBusch said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

Regarding paid time off. I get $2/hour more for not having 80 hours of PTO.

If my rate was $30, then in a 2087 hour year I would earn $62,610 with $2,400 of that being the 80 hours of PTO. So that means I was paid $60,210 for the 2007 worked hours.

So making $2 more means a rate of $32 in a 2007 hour year (assuming unpaid 80 hours were taken) means I was paid $64,224.

That is $1,614 more than the full 2087 hour with PTO $30 wage.

i'll take a $1600 hit for having my nights and weekends and not being on call 24/7

He's not on call. He explained that before. I made the same assumption.

if you are working on weekends updating servers then you are on call (in my opinion). On call to me means you work when the client has time for you to work. IE you put your life on hold for the client.

anyone else seeing the issue that I am where it shows "there are xx new posts. click here to reload" there are only or 3 new replies to existing posts? Another example, it just popped up 33 new posts. When i clicked to refresh there was 1 new post that i saw. Am i just missing something?

i was watching that thread closely to see what happened, Interestingly enough it played out just like i thought. Someone took something out of context and was offended, complained like they do to their parents when a kid hurt them and it went from there. Granted I was that person once upon a time where I called out a post for using similar language. I then took a step back and asked myself why was i so offended over something that was said. I came to realize that it's the internet and well if it is not a personal attack and not truly offensive, why should i react? Bill doesn't this sound familiar to the conversation we had about the legit or be concerned post?

@scottalanmiller said:

@david.wiese said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@aaronstuder said:

Do you run CAT 6 End to End? or Do you use 5e sometimes?

Pretty much just CAT5e. Cheaper, easier to run.

how is it easier to run? It all depends on if you get solid to stranded wire.

Even all stranded, CAT6 is quite a bit more effort.

I've pulled 5e and 6 in through the rafters in my shop and to me there is no discernable difference between the 2. Even when punching down/terminating the cables.

and then 10 new posts after my last post. It kind of looks like after i click to reload it is not dropping the number of new post and just keeps on adding. Something isn't refreshing correctly.

@RobQ i agree the poster was just making a joke (however poor that joke was, lol) and had no intention of creating flamewar that broke out due to other posters. The thing is the OP wasn't the one that was wining about it, he got dragged into it because someone else took offense.

I just handed in my 2.5 weeks 1.5 weeks ago. I was originally going to give 3 weeks but my appendix decided it no longer wanted to be apart of my body. I am the only computer support guy here so I felt bad, plus my new gig doesn't start until Sept. 6th and I didn't want to go a week without being paid. That being said, the company just posted the job last Friday, still haven't posted the job internally, and very few know that I am leaving. Now I get to train a contractor for 2 days and try and find motivation to stay the entire day of my last day. I went to my boss and told him I would like to leave a few hours early (so I could get a head start driving north to go camping) and he said "I fully expect you to put in a full day and wrap up the remaining projects."

@scottalanmiller I like that there are no points here. I always felt like people just wrote up how-to's just to get the points, and those how-to's did not have any value to them. They were just doing it to get points to get to the next level. I always approached the points as one that shows how knowledgeable someone was, boy was I wrong about that!

@Dashrender

@Dashrender said in Microsoft Teams:

Teams requires the meeting owner to attend to make make the meeting happen (at least we haven't found a way around this yet). Zoom does not have this requirement.
Said another way - in a Zoom meeting, you have the option "Enable join before host" This allows the meeting to happen with or without the person who scheduled it.

This was a problem for us, as we want schedulers to schedule meetings for their bosses (providers) and the schedule not be involved in the meeting at all. Luckily we found that if you have calendar delegation rights to the person who will be in the meeting, though Outlook, you can schedule a Teams meeting on their behalf.

False: As long as someone has the auto generated link (generated from within teams calendar or the via the outlook plugin) anyone can start the meeting. I have been using Teams for 2 years now and have never had to have the person that created the meeting actually attend.

Example: A meeting request is sent by me. My co-worker clicks Join Meeting from outlook, teams, or the meeting reminder (if one is setup) the meeting is started. All attendees will get a pop-up (assuming the teams client is running) saying XYZ has started the meeting, do you want to join?

firefox browser shows his name as dong1

congrats for that one

currently reading an interesting post in SW about a company that went bankrupt and this guy is saying they run cracked software, all i can say is wow.....