@dafyre I'm just an AI anyway guys. This is what your tax dollars bought. I know, disappointing.

Here's my two cents:

You can't justify killing someone for stealing alone, however the homeowner could not have known the intention of the person breaking into their home. It's tragic that someone chose to steal and even more tragic that they died for it, but this is an unfortunate part of doing things that put people in a situation where they could feel their life is in danger.

@thwr 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:

@dafyre I'm just an AI anyway guys. This is what your tax dollars bought. I know, disappointed.

what's the I in AI? Just kidding

Illiterate

@johnhooks said:

@aaronstuder said:

@johnhooks said:

I've heard too many people say they would just shoot the person in the knee. That won't fly.

Why not?

The robber could turn around and sue you. There was a story of a guy who was breaking into someone's house. He fell down their stairs and got hurt, but sued the owners and won because the stairs weren't up to code.

injustice is rampant

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

@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.

On call to me is unscheduled work

@hobbit666 said:

@wirestyle22 said:

CCNA and Security+ Books came today ^_^

And will be out of date in a few months lol

As long as I have time to take the tests and gain knowledge that's a start

You've really made a lot of progress here Scott. This will be a great read on this 4 day weekend.

@travisdh1 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

What is this, lol.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1512744-proxy-server

I've heard smart people use these words, let's toss em out and see what comes out on top?

I wish I could say I haven't done that

smh

@travisdh1 said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

The FDA is currently confiscating everything of value at work.

Most of you know I've been thinking about another job for a long time already, well, guess what!

My immediate plan is to incorporate my name as an LLC, so I can do some consulting work. I'd appreciate a heads up if any of you know of a good full time position.

Sorry you're in this kind of situation man. Idk where you are located but If I hear of anything opening up in NJ I will definitely let you know. The down side is you'd most likely live in NJ.

My co-worker accidentally threw her voice like a ventriloquist. I heard her directly next to me, turn around and saw her across the room. Weird.

What profession would you guys have been in the 1950's? Typewriter repairmen?

@Joy Hi!

@scottalanmiller said in Getting Salary Screwed in NJ:

Forked this over.

hahahahahahahahaha

Tightening my 5 year proposal for my company

@Dashrender said in Negotiating for a Job You Are Leaving:

@dafyre said in Negotiating for a Job You Are Leaving:

@Mike-Davis said in Negotiating for a Job You Are Leaving:

It's pretty sad that people with tech skills only see their next step as moving to management.

I see the only step UP as management. Anything else that keeps me in the trenches, in my mind, is a lateral move.

Is there something wrong with lateral moves, especially if the pay more?

Also, would not an engineering role be a promotion vs now?

I think management is a completely different skill set and I would consider it the start of a new career more than a promotion

@MattSpeller said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@brianlittlejohn said:

@scottalanmiller What made it so bad?

Interface. It's a "moron interface" designed for people who never need to go to the menu. So if you never need ANYTHING but a massive web browser button and never want to so much as manage a file, it's only kind of crappy. But ChomeOS does that way better. It's the worst of all options... overly simple so you can't actually do anything, totally wastes the desktop space and makes getting to apps a huge pain.

My favourite part is when it punishes you for searching for things by thrashing the disk and using lots of fades / animations / GPU heavy stuff.

Sounds like Windows

@gjacobse The hard part of that is honesty. Most of the people I'll be competing with will be lying. I've seen it everywhere. It's hard to compete with people that might as well not exist (they aren't actually who they are presenting). I will typically get the job once I stop becoming a name on a piece of paper, but it's hard to get past that point.

@scottalanmiller said:

Like everyone rushed to read the site, then were exhausted and took the next hour off?

Lunch?

If this conversation were about how to go on a date, this would be your advice:

Girl: So tell me about yourself
Me: I am a human male

@NattNatt said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@NattNatt said:

@wirestyle22 said:

2:30 PM is my presentation o.O

Be a boss, and own that shit. (whatever it is)

5 year plan

Does it involve an island in the Bahamas? If not, why not?

I'm saving us so much money it's honestly crazy (with help from ML of course).

@scottalanmiller said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

@Dashrender said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

@Dashrender said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

@scottalanmiller said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

Also notice, according to ASVAB... there is no title, whatsoever, for the ENTIRE SMB IT space. Not a single one.

And really - there probably shouldn't be. As mentioned - though not accepted by Scott - Generalist would not be acceptable to most people hiring in the SMB space, at least with my very limited exposure.

So of course, Scott's right - we should only 'talk' about correct things, and not have discussions around incorrect things - bad practices - but at the same time, knowing your audience and making your resume suit that situation is key.

Right, knowing the truth and knowing how to market are two different things. But you can't market well if you don't know the truth.

Then you have to decide if you are going to market well within the truth, or just lie.

So I either lie or I market myself poorly. Great.

@BRRABill said:

@wirestyle22 said:

I'm saving us so much money it's honestly crazy (with help from ML of course).

It's amazing the amount of money ML saves people. At least me.

• Free print management (Ton of money saved)
• Free O365 (non-profit)
• OwnCloud/ODFB Replacing file Server (unsure of which yet) No refresh for that server = money saved
• Replacing Expensive Sonicwalls with Edgerouters + Squid for content filtering
• Replacing ridiculously expensive, overkill machines in client computer labs with Chromeboxes. Instead of $1k per pc it'll be $150.
• Hosted Blackbaud (non-profit financial software) -- No refresh on that server

The list goes on.