@thecreativeone91 said:
@PSX_Defector At will and right to work (employee leaving) are to completely different things.
Right to work has to deal with organized labor. At will has to do with hiring and firing.
Me leaving a job is an at-will situation. Me paying union dues in a union represented position is a right to work situation.
@scottalanmiller said:
@PSX_Defector said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@PSX_Defector said:
At-will has its points in that if I wanted to leave tomorrow, there is nothing my company can do to prevent me from going to one of our competitors.
At will does not protect this. Only California protects completely (or nearly so) against this, and they are not at will.
California is at-will. There are different employment laws in California that make it harder to fire someone for no cause, but it's not not at-will.
There is actually only one state that has anything that can be construed as not at-will and it's Montana.
If we consider California to be "at will", who is NOT at will?
Variations on a theme.
California has additional protected classes, like sexual orientation and gender identity, that even other state don't recognize. But if I have someone in my employ in California and want them gone because they like the Green Bay Packers, absent a contract stating otherwise, I can do it. It's the same way that if an employee says "F[moderated] this shit, I'm out!" and doesn't come back, the employer can't force them back to work or restrict them without consideration in the contract beforehand.
Montana is the only state that has any kind of protection for release without cause. But it doesn't stop an employee from saying "F[moderated] this shit, I'm out!"
@scottalanmiller said:
@PSX_Defector said:
At-will has its points in that if I wanted to leave tomorrow, there is nothing my company can do to prevent me from going to one of our competitors.
At will does not protect this. Only California protects completely (or nearly so) against this, and they are not at will.
California is at-will. There are different employment laws in California that make it harder to fire someone for no cause, but it's not not at-will.
There is actually only one state that has anything that can be construed as not at-will and it's Montana.
@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@tonyshowoff said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@tonyshowoff said:
Staples relies on you to make them money, they're leasing your labour, so if they think you're saying or doing anything to ever...
Or what about trying to take there business: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/346177-what-to-do
We have a non-compete clause and I'm betting Staples probably does too.
Not for someone at my level. They wouldn't give a damn if tomorrow I quit to go work at GeekSquad. One advantage of being a pee-on in retail. All those professional restrictions most people deal with don't funnel down that far.
Even Jimmy Johns stops their sandwich makers from trying to make a sandwich somewhere else.
I've seen people "at your level" lose their career options from non-competes. There is no "at my level" protection in the US. Not in real terms.
Those non-compete clauses can be nullified. It's all about consideration for a non-compete. If I'm given 6 months severance when I leave a place that's consideration for a non-compete. If it's boilerplate in their contract, like this a*** [moderated] at Jimmy John's did, it will be nullified in court. It can't be overtly broad either, like "You can't work in the IT industry".
At-will has its points in that if I wanted to leave tomorrow, there is nothing my company can do to prevent me from going to one of our competitors. Now, if they offer me money money money if I leave to not work for my competitors, I might take it.
@thanksajdotcom said:
And I'm aware of that. But also consider the position. I know that technically you could run circles around me, and I haven't seen your CS skills, nor you mine, so we can't really comment on that. However, while I know there are plenty of people who could no doubt outperform me at that job, none of those people would work that job. Even if you were totally desperate for work, you could get something that pays WAY better than what I make, which means, effectively, you would never work there. It's the combination of my skill and the fact I'm willing to work there that makes me unique.
Again, bad way to think. I might need some part time work to supplement my income, like I used to do at the beer store. Do you think they needed a highly skilled Windows engineer slinging beer that would get you drunk for $10 an hour? I might want to live out my dream position of smoking pot and playing Xbox all day but still need something to bring in beer and Doritos money. I could win a bunch of money and want something to fill the time between dips in my Scrooge McDuck vault.
I worked these kinds of jobs back when I was young. But I also moved up. You are about to become a lifer, and being a lifer at a low paying job sucks.
@thanksajdotcom said:
And yes, they could get someone who could meet the qualifications to do my job, but they cannot replace me at that store.
Bad way to think right there.
What if I strolled in over there? Not only can I run technical circles around you, my customer service skills are second to none. My bosses give me all the calls to make to customers because of my ability to "make them run around in the parking lot naked if I said that it would fix their issue".
There is always someone better than you at anything you do. I'm good, but I have plenty to learn still.
@Breffni-Potter said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
There is a direct correlation between me working there and increased store sales. It wouldn't just pack up and shut down, but it would not do nearly as well as it could.
To be blunt.
If you were working for me...And you were delivering revenue, yet you were crap talking about my name and my brand online, You'd be fired, no one will tolerate that in any sector.
This is why everyone is getting at you, You cannot keep doing this.
Let's put it this way. I got laid off from the big red V and still refer to it in vague terms. My current employer has a large online presence in social media, so I will never mention them by name or even by fake vague name. And I use a pseudonym online rather than my real name.
It's not a good thing to mention your employer with your real name and include the word "sucks". Surprised it hasn't happened yet.
@thecreativeone91 said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
It's the reason I'm good at my job and why people come back to see ME and ONLY me
So the store would close down if you left? Was it not open before you started?
The first rule of being indispensable is to come to the understanding that you are totally dispensable.
Given that Staples ran just fine without you for your time in Texas says to me that you are over-inflating your self-importance.
Now get back to work.
@scottalanmiller said:
@Breffni-Potter said:
@mlnews said:
With cloud, if things fail, you restore in seconds with another instance unless the ENTIRE site is down.
Still doesn't help if people are using on site servers, I'm talking about data backup only in the cloud.
Ah, that's really a different animal that datacenter usage. The thread is about colo vs. IaaS. That's really backup as a service that you are talking about which doesn't exist in cloud because cloud computing is a specific thing that doesn't apply here.
Actually, I am the VDR expert. 
Big red V's solution is built on Zerto. Replicates your VMs from any site over to the DR environment in Miami or Virginia. Then it's just a few settings here and there, some power ups, and you are back in business. Great idea, shame that big red V can't support it because they shitcanned their SME for it. So don't go with them.
I have other things in the pipe for this, but can't speak about it.
I know you ain't coming over to my provider then. Our basic systems start at ~$300. You pay for what you get though.
@thecreativeone91 said:
Where's the power trip? He's the boss. He gets to do what he wants. Sounds like you just have an issues with him being a boss or rather you want his position.
I believe I have mentioned this more than one to AJ.
Suck it up boy.
@thanksajdotcom said:
So you'd think they have a pretty good AD setup, right? Well, they've got Server 2008, 2008 R2, and 2012 for their AD, which means it's at a 2008 level. However, LDAP is handled by a SOLARIS server! HOLY CRAP! Their Windows AD ties into the Solaris server for user accounts, etc. Oh wait, it gets better. DNS isn't handled by Windows either. They've got BIND setup on a Linux server, which also ties into Windows AD.
That's because OpenLDAP and BIND are 10000x faster than Windows in a wide disparate network.
Remember, AD follows standards of LDAP and BIND, it's pretty good about it too. There isn't any reason why you can't use it, other than having lazy Windows admins who don't know how to integrate it. When you have potentially thousands of devices requesting access, there is no reason why they should be tied down to one technology when things like BIND run so much faster than Windows DNS.
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Singing... talking about food.... I wish offices I worked in were not full of people gambling and discussing sports. but that's how work is.
Ughhh... all offices are like that? I just thought ours was unique since we are in the sports industry.
All of the big ones that I have been in devolve to sports and gambling.
I guess it's good I work for whom I work for. I'm the only one who really gambles. Our conversations devolve into why I have a grand sitting on my desk in $20s. I tell them it's because I'm gonna make it rain, then hit someone with it.
@Nic said:
Well people have been making the obligatory food jokes, but I'm not sure that you'd actually stand a chance of winning with one of those
What, you don't want a cow named Hamburger? Or Veal?
@IRJ said:
You might be able to get $10-20 in scrap for it.
Sadly, that's about right. Was trying to get a spot price for steel to maybe get a few more bucks, but its pretty bad.
Probably has about $50 worth of gold in it. Some specialized recyclers here in Dallas can get that, the lead, and the copper. Although there isn't much left after that. I would say $100 total for the whole shebang.
@scottalanmiller said:
@PSX_Defector said:
But much like Canada broadcasters, there has to be a majority local ownership. So 51% of the company is owned by some goons. I know IBM has been looking hard at not going to India, preferring to deal with Brazil, Indonesia, and the Philippines. And dealing with the lackadaisical work ethic of Brazilians versus India, that's some real reasons to wonder about the subcontinent.
Actually we've looked into some of this and both India and the Philippines are 100% no-go business sites for us. No consideration at all. Their shady business setup stuff means that you don't want anything to do with them. Sadly, not shady but due to horrible business setups, Canada ends up falling into that boat.
Heading south, rather than east, this year to attempt to offload work in that direction. So many highly educated, non-corrupt countries with eager workforces ready to work at US levels without the shady problems. No need to do business with regions that are run by corruption.
In the hosting sphere, Costa Rica is a great place for lots of stuff. I used to have gambling servers located there, worked real well for us.
Most of Latin America is good for technology, although full of corrupt shit going on.. Mexico has giant contact centers in most of the major cities, just stay out of Mexico City. Panama has a highly educated workforce. Brazil, despite being lazy as shit, are able to do a lot of things. Argentina has had a brain drain, but is still pretty educated versus the rest of the area.
If you go east, but not past the Middle East, you can get folks in Europe. Big Red V outsourced a metric fuckton of work to Hungary, because VDSI sucked so bad. Mind you, the caliber of employee is not up to western Europe standards, but you can find a diamond in the rough. Any further east and you wind up getting corruption in the gubmint.
Big thing about going to other countries, which AT&T learned the hard way, it's not a 1:1 ratio of employee. AT&T hired lots of replacements for US based reps. When you get up to a 20:1 on the load, it's a bad thing. It's like having a bunch of Atom servers in a blade chassis versus a single Xeon 2U unit. Yeah, the Atoms are cheaper, you can throw more at it, and can spin them up pretty fast. But a single Xeon box could outperform all of them without breaking a sweat. For single thread, very specialized workloads, they are great. For general and deeper workloads, you need something better.
The only thing you need the drives on the box to do is to boot up. Even then, boot from SAN has been great for the past few years. Although these are older than shit, so boot from SAN wouldn't be so hot.
Other than understanding the nuances of how blade management works and getting some practical experience with Fibre Channel, these are giant heat generators. Get it for cheap, might be worthwhile. Gonna need a SAN, and I doubt you wanna know how much a FC switch/SAN is gonna cost ya.
@scottalanmiller said:
@PSX_Defector said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Ambarishrh said:
Is this direct IBM or someone else? I can't believe that they couldn't get you the required stuffs for interview!
Exactly, this is extremely fishy. What makes you confident that this was really IBM? This is not the kind of thing that IBM would want to happen in an interview as it makes them look extremely bad. And it is not the kind of problem that IBM would be likely to have. Something seems very, very wrong here.
Yeah, no foreign companies run anything in India. They may have the name somewhere on there, but it's actually a local company with the usual kickbacks, grift, and corruption that I've come to know from the subcontinent. The big red V has VDSI, a division that had no accountability with regards to the rest of big red V, which made chastising their shittastic work very hard because they didn't report to anyone, even the CEO. AT&T completely outsourced (and pulled it back from them because they sucked so bad) and others just partner with Tata and all the others.
When it comes to employment in India, nothing is what it seems.
I know that IBM and Citigroup actually hire there, real staff in real facilities. True employees working directly for the parent company. But most firms, especially lower end ones that don't do direct business there that are just looking for cheap labour, don't really hire there. This does not sound like real IBM at all.
But much like Canada broadcasters, there has to be a majority local ownership. So 51% of the company is owned by some goons. I know IBM has been looking hard at not going to India, preferring to deal with Brazil, Indonesia, and the Philippines. And dealing with the lackadaisical work ethic of Brazilians versus India, that's some real reasons to wonder about the subcontinent.
Given the shady shit going on with this, I wouldn't be surprised it was India Box Machines.
@scottalanmiller said:
@Ambarishrh said:
Is this direct IBM or someone else? I can't believe that they couldn't get you the required stuffs for interview!
Exactly, this is extremely fishy. What makes you confident that this was really IBM? This is not the kind of thing that IBM would want to happen in an interview as it makes them look extremely bad. And it is not the kind of problem that IBM would be likely to have. Something seems very, very wrong here.
Yeah, no foreign companies run anything in India. They may have the name somewhere on there, but it's actually a local company with the usual kickbacks, grift, and corruption that I've come to know from the subcontinent. The big red V has VDSI, a division that had no accountability with regards to the rest of big red V, which made chastising their shittastic work very hard because they didn't report to anyone, even the CEO. AT&T completely outsourced (and pulled it back from them because they sucked so bad) and others just partner with Tata and all the others.
When it comes to employment in India, nothing is what it seems.
@thecreativeone91 said:
@PSX_Defector said:
@garak0410 said:
Because this thing creates and modifies 100's of not 1000's of files when they make the cells, it could be encountering network congestion and it just stops with that error.
Sounds like a shitty program. Nothing should be making that many calls to files. Especially over SMB.
You might be hitting some kind of session limit. Check your file server to see if there is lots o' sessions.
Client Side Windows only allows 10 session in Windows XP (both Technically and by the EULA). Windows 7 and newer (and maybe vista) have 20 session allowed technically, but I believe the EULA may still only allow 10 concurrent sessions not sure.
I'm not sure what the concurrent session limit is on servers, I don't think there is a default one but you can easily hit the resource limitations of a server or network.
I'm thinking something inherent to the protocol and the limits of Windows. Much like a cheap router can't handle millions of TCP sessions, Windows is hitting some kind of limit and causing an issue. Not a MS set limit, but an actual legitimate cannot do this kind of limit.
There doesn't appear to be anything specific about that, but then again, we don't expect applications to open thousands of connections all at once.