I'm such a dumb ass.... I set up my year end archive on Monday but forgot to change the schedule date to 2016 so it never ran this morning. facepalm

Notice was given and they tried to get me to stay at least until the merger date and even tossed money at me. Rather than take the risk of loosing this job opportunity I decided to say no. They were understanding and admitted that they are just being greedy and had to try and keep me. So there it is. I start on Jan 18th as a PM for an MSP. Let the fun begin!

@DustinB3403 said:

Sing-Along Version!

On the first day of SAN-less, my true love gave to me.... one dropped LUN.....
On the second day of SAN-less, my true love gave to me.... Two firmware bugs.....
On the third day of SAN-less, my true love gave to me.... Three heartbeat problems...
On the fourth day of SAN-less, my true love gave to me.... Four Random Errors....
On the fifth day of SAN-less, my true love gave to me.... Five Crashing Drives
On the sixth day of SAN-less, my true love gave to me.... Six blown capacitors
On the seventh day of SAN-less, my true love gave to me.... Seven smoking floppies.
On the eighth day of SAN-less, my true love gave to me.... Eight angry users
On the ninth day of SAN-less, my true love gave to me.... Nine ranting managers
On the tenth day of SAN-less, my true love gave to me.... Ten fuming clients
On the eleventh day of SAN-less, my true love gave to me.... Eleven help desk emails
On the last day of SAN-less, my true love gave to me.... Twelve unrecoverable VM's

How fitting that there are 9 managers and only 8 users.

We just moved to group police for drive mappings. Took some trial and error to get it working the way we wanted but we got it.

I've never used SharePoint but I'm guessing that something like that could replace the need of mapped drives.

I was just given an offer from this MSP for a Project Manager position. Not as much money as I want but more than what I'm making plus extra stuff to sweeten the deal. Benefits are a touch better but a bit more expensive.

I'm going to take the holidays to think about it but it seems like a pretty easy decision even though I feel bad jumping before the merger is complete.

I love all the favorites like Frosty and Rudolph but It's a Wonderful Life is my favorite.

I really do like the OID one though. So much time spent researching and finding OID's for my Nagios install.

But the months of sales calls isn't worth my time just for a t-shirt. It's the biggest reason I don't ever consider their products when evaluating for something. Too pushy.

A friend will check to see if you're ok... A best friend will clear your internet history first.

Seriously dude... Sorry it happened, glad you are giving it a go to fix it. You'll never be alone around these parts. I wish you the best in doing whatever is best for you (and your kids if you have any).

Good stuff! It looks easier than VMware to navigate and I like that the web client works in Firefox so it should work in Chrome.

What is your backup plan going to be for your VM's? I figure it may be a different post but just wondering what your thoughts are since Veeam and Unitrends (agentless) is currently not possible.

2nd interview for the PM position is in the works of being scheduled.

My current boss and I have a great relationship so I did inform him that I've got some nibbles happening and will probably need to get some time off to see what happens. He totally understands and is also frustrated with how little communication there has been with the new people. I also fully trust him that he isn't going to spill the beans to them.

@MattSpeller said:

@Ambarishrh said:

What are you getting yourself as a gift for Christmas/New year?

Hand cut leaded crystal Scotch decanter set with glasses

32gb usb3 flash drive

Scotch

Scotch and nice Scotch glass set. Can't go wrong with that for a self gift!

Yup... I personally have a clear conscience to look for a new job and fortunately I have time to find one that I really want and will enjoy since the merger is 5 months away. I am also able to look in any city that I want to look which is pretty cool.

Also my future boss talked to me again early last week and again said that I did have a job (and bonus) and I shouldn't worry. I asked again about getting more money for adding 10 hrs per week and all the miles I will be driving and he said there wasn't any more money at least for the first 6 months to a year. I don't know how his math works but that sounds like a pay cut to me.

I also interviewed with a manufacturing company who was looking at moving their IT in house but I just didn't get as excited about that one. Seems like they need a lot of TLC in working out lingering issues that their current MSP is failing at resolving and it just isn't as structured (security wise) as I'm used to so permission get given out freely and I'm just not sure I want to come in and upset everyone as I strip access away. It's still on the table but I just need to decide by next week if I want to move forward and meet with the Ops manager and the company owner.

Well I had my interview with this MSP on Thursday and it went awesome! They have a phone engineer position and a network engineer position so I got to talk to both their phone team manager and their network team manager. As we are talking, one of them brings up my project management experience and we start talking about that so they bring up a third position that hasn't been officially created yet because they haven't found anyone that would be a good fit by having IT and PM experience. I couldn't believe that they didn't have a dedicated PM on staff. Well I jumped all over that! I love the stress and satisfaction of managing multiple projects and putting together & executing the plans. Totally got me excited. I guess we will see what happens over the next week to see if they make an offer.

Started cabling things when i started working for Time Warner and i got my first computer and internet. I didnt go to school for IT for a few more years but i knew that was my path. Pulling cables is still my favorite thing to do. Love climbing around in a drop ceiling or driving a lift around a retail store or cubicle farm.

@MattSpeller said:

Supposing that NTG's internet is powered by 1HAMP (1 hamster power), what would you need to run it 24x7 with any degree of reliability?

To begin, some definitions:

RAIHAM 1 - Two wheels, with a hamster each.
RAIHAM 0 - Single wheel, two hamsters
RAIHAM 10 - Two wheels, two hamsters each

Given the below data sets, we see hamsters run an average of 4 hours per day
http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/114305/analysis-of-hamster-wheel-rotational-data

As hamsters are nocturnal and primarily active at night, you will need to have at least 6 RAIHAM's setup on separate light/dark schedules.

Assumptions:

• Hamsters are fed and cared for
• Hamsters will run together on the wheel

NTG's hamsternet will require 12 RAIHAM 10's setup into 6 banks of 4 hour offset groups to achieve even close to 99% uptime.

NTG's hamsternet will house 48 hamsters, who will run on average 192 miles every 24 hours.

Well then... I'd say you need to get a hobby but it looks like you already got one.

So I had a great conversation with someone at an MSP and they told me that I would be a great fit in their team if I was interested. I've never worked for an MSP but I know a lot of you are a MSP or have worked for one before so I wonder if you guys can shed some light on how it all works. The pay was explained to me and I like that it is a salary with some incentive to do as much billable hours as you can. It's a decent sized company so I'm sure the benefits are average. My real concern is how do you deal with all the training to stay current and how do you keep every customers system details straight. LOL! Another thing would be do you know of any specific questions I should ask them or red flags I need to look for when interviewing with them because I'm sure it has to be a little different from a regular job interview.

@Ambarishrh said:

Next Mangocon... in Dubai then!

I always wanted to visit Dubai! I'm down.