E-mail I received

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I have a Full-Time PC Technician position in Eatontown NJ that your background looks great for. Ideally want A+ Certification, BS or Master’s Degree, windows experience, and ability to upgrade memory/storage, install drivers, and repair defective laptops. 60-70k Salary. If interested – send me back your most recent resume so we can get the process started.

Please see new bullet points below for requirements:
Looking for A+ Certified computer technician.
Looking to pay between 60-70k.
Technician must have his master’s degree, in a high tier college.
Technician should easily know his way around a computer or laptop. If I give him a laptop, ask him to upgrade the memory, storage, install drivers, and upgrade windows, he would be able to complete task with ease.
Can easily identify issue and repair any defective computers or laptops.
Able to manage a team of about 8-12 technicians.

Interview process – I will have a laptop with spare memory and storage handy. I will ask the technician to upgrade the memory and storage, so that I can see he easily knows his way around computers/laptops. I will than provide a thumb drive that has a windows 10 pro installed, and ask him to install windows 10 pro on this laptop that was once windows 7.

I will also have some defective machines handy to see if the technician can easily identify the issue. Than have an easy time repairing it.
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So it's a benchtech position that allows an A+ Cert as the equivalency of a masters degree. You're supervising 8-12 other "technicians" but no supervisory experience is required. 70k for a bench position.

What

My reply e-mail: How on gods green earth is an A+ certification equivalent to a masters degree? This is a bench tech position paying 70k a year? Very confusing job posting

@Dashrender said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@Dashrender said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@Dashrender said:

@wirestyle22 said:

I can't even express how grateful I am to have been approved to get some linux servers going. Proxy servers and a file server.

As in they allowed you to buy new hardware?

Vultr and new hardware

cool.

This entire quest I've been on has reached a beautiful conclusion. My executive director asked about encrypted e-mail and I was able to convince her to spend money on O365 per user to give us that functionality and it solves my issue of a local install. Sometimes things works out.

Eh? What does that have to do with a local install?

By combining one of the free plans (free for non-profits) and the $2/month plan (for non-profits) I get the locally installed version as well as encrypted e-mail. We get a lot for that $2/month and I used it as a selling point for her successfully.

I always approach users with understanding and patience. A lot of people have anxiety related to computers and are convinced they cannot learn it, but do because of how I handle them. The end result is they feel more confident, they do a better job and we have a great working relationship.

@NattNatt said:

@Dashrender said:

@NattNatt said:

@Dashrender said:

@NattNatt said:

What style of shoes are we talking here....as in what are they for? Everyday use, sports use, smart use...? We need more details!!

daily drivers.... I wear Champion tennis shoes to work and pretty much everywhere. I have dress shoes for the rare time I need them, so I am looking for a replacement for my daily driver.

They don't need to be tennis shoes to replace them.. it's not like I'm going out running in them... so a damn comfortable non making my feet hot pair of shoes would be fine too.

M DC Pure SE are super comfy and last a long time for me, but I know that style isn't everyone's cup of tea

yep kinda plain

Yeah, some look better than others, I have a pair that seems to be discontinued, but they're black grey and white (can't be anything TOO exciting for work)...

I get away with murder dress code wise. We are required to wear business attire but they also allow flip flops for some reason. First day I wore a suit with flip flops. Come at me HR

@Fredtx said in Follow-Up After Interview:

Yea, that makes sense. I wasn't sure if it would give an impression that I wasn't interested if I didn't follow up.

Also, after I interviewed with operations managers/etc I immediately interviewed with the HR manager. HR did tell me she's sure that I'm actively applying for other companies and to have patience as it's a long process for their hiring. I'm still going to actively apply at other places though. If I've already been eliminated I would really like to know if there was anything wrong I did so it can help me with future interviews.

You should always remember the names of the people in an interview and e-mail them a thank you after the meeting imo. It's not a check-in but it acknowledges that you remember their names and puts a personal touch to it. Not required, but it's nice.

@wrx7m said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@NattNatt said:

@Dashrender said:

@NattNatt said:

@Dashrender said:

@NattNatt said:

What style of shoes are we talking here....as in what are they for? Everyday use, sports use, smart use...? We need more details!!

daily drivers.... I wear Champion tennis shoes to work and pretty much everywhere. I have dress shoes for the rare time I need them, so I am looking for a replacement for my daily driver.

They don't need to be tennis shoes to replace them.. it's not like I'm going out running in them... so a damn comfortable non making my feet hot pair of shoes would be fine too.

M DC Pure SE are super comfy and last a long time for me, but I know that style isn't everyone's cup of tea

yep kinda plain

Yeah, some look better than others, I have a pair that seems to be discontinued, but they're black grey and white (can't be anything TOO exciting for work)...

I get away with murder dress code wise. We are required to wear business attire but they also allow flip flops for some reason. First day I wore a suit with flip flops. Come at me HR

In one of my previous jobs that I didn't like so much, we were allowed to wear khakis with a company branded polo or a button down shirt with a tie. I got tired of the crappy polo shirts that would shrink up and not in so I started wearing short-sleeved plaid button down shirts and a tie that I left tied but would put on at the beginning of the day and take off for lunch and repeat. The not was super tight after awhile. It got interesting when a nice lady that worked a couple offices over cleaned out her husbands tie collection and gave us all his old ones. They were super ugly and went "nicely" with the plaid shirts I wore.

Here, I can wear jeans with button down shirts or polos but I gave that up a long time ago. I now wear jeans and t-shirts with a hoodie when it is cold.

We have casual Fridays here. I want to build a model head of Pops from Regular Show wearing a full suit and see what they say. Technically I'm not violating the rules.

Pops.

@travisdh1 said:

@DustinB3403 said:

@MattSpeller Yeah no fooling around with this build.

You should post iops numbers if you go this way, just so we can drool some more.

Don't do this. Please. I'll have to add pages to my diary to account for the emotional baggage this will create.

Posting from my new test ChromeBox (i3). This is fantastic for such a low price. I can't believe it.

@Dashrender said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@Dashrender said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@wrx7m said:

Can you log in to your spam filter/log and search for mail coming from that person who claims they are sending email to the correct address?

In my Barracuda SVF 300 I can see all the messages coming in that are to non-existent email addresses. In fact, I have had this problem before and had to show a department manager that they were sending it to a person who got married and since changed their last name and, of course, the email address had to be updated.

It's showing her e-mails coming it at 0 KB but all other e-mails coming from that domain are fine including secure e-mails.

Are they actually being received, or are they being rejected?

It shows the attempt. Apparently they fixed it but they didn't tell me what they did. shrug

PEBKAC error

I'm sure

@RojoLoco said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Imagine... ten years of "why aren't you practising more" and no matter how much I did always getting the same thing. It's like the slow kid being told to "study harder" when they have a serious learning disability. I really thought that I was lazy but couldn't put in more time realistically and it just sucked. Suddenly I went from the worst student ever to the star pupil and ended up doing guitar performance at university - even after my high school music teacher and my guidance counselor told me I couldn't even get into college.

I thought when I was younger that I had a learning disability because I asked so many questions. I realized later on that the teachers weren't using language specific enough for me. There was too much variability in their speech and I was thinking of all the possibilities of what they meant. I took AP courses in HS. You never know what you're capable of.

Sounds like you went to an American public school. Glad you graduated, you could have just as easily been stuck into special ed, which can almost prepare you to be a lifelong fast food employee.

Honestly it was my Grandfather and my Dad who saw greatness in me. Without them I never would've achieved anything.

@dafyre said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@dafyre said:

@wirestyle22 said:

Is it possible to use this in conjunction with a File Server to provide an alternative means of accessing and also provide domain authentication or am I way off base here?

That is pretty much what ZeroTier is for. The easiest way to use it though, is an all-or-nothing approach. Every computer runs it (AD Domain Controller, DNS servers, Workstations, Laptops). Otherwise, you get fun issues with DNS returning wrong IP addresses.

You mean even domain connected workstations? Is this just for mapping purposes?

Pretty much, yes. There are other ways you can do it and not have to install ZT on everybody's computer... but it can muddy the waters a bit.

If ZeroTier is linux compatible I wonder if you could turn a Raspberry Pi into an external NIC kind of like external hp jet direct cards. What do you think @scottalanmiller

Update: Oh my god they even have it for Rasbian.

@scottalanmiller said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

And for many, I think just working makes more sense. How many people who, for example, work at the front desk of a hotel as an adult (I did this, I think it's a decent job) would have benefited by starting in that career or one related to it at 14 and getting experience and money when they were younger and contributing to a skill that they could use later in life. They could be fully trained and experienced and ready to be fully qualified adult workers by 16 or 17 and have a long career with a vastly higher lifetime income than the current system which encourages then to not start that career until they have a college degree of worthless information at keeps them out of the workforce until they are 22. That's eight years of making money traded in and four years of losing money. That's huge.

I think we should be teaching social interaction in school a lot more as well. That benefits you in basically every field (and in life) unless you're coding in a room alone. I see adults every day that have no social skills.

Yes, the current school system actively teaches the worst interactions. Paul Graham has a great essay on it in "Hackers and Painters" where he talks about how the school system treats students akin to criminals. They are detained in a thirteen year sentence for something that they did not do and thrown into a social system with guards that often abuse them or don't care for them and fellow inmates with no adult social skills and it becomes Lord of the Flies. Kids don't learn how to behave as adults, they learn how to behave as inmates.

I'd laugh if it weren't so sad and true

http://www.raspberry-pi-geek.com/Archive/2013/01/Converting-the-Raspberry-Pi-to-a-wireless-print-server FYI--doesnt have to be wireless obv

welcome @vmnomad !

@IT-ADMIN said:

i just took a look on Qt Designer, it looks good, anyone use it before??

Use this: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

I don't make a lot of suggestions here as this is mostly a learning experience but I know a lot of coders who swear by it. True to its name it's not a quick and dirty style guide. This is if you want to learn python the right way.

@Minion-Queen said:

@DustinB3403 said:

@Minion-Queen That is rough... must've been a bad break-up.

Although is any breakup on good terms?

Yeah they have been divorced for a few years and he is getting remarried this summer. And she is pissed that he is happy.

Reminds me of this. Guy has pics of his new wife only for alimony checks. Basically me if I ever get a divorce:

Has anyone used them and if so what is your opinion?

@johnhooks said:

Just had someone here try to tell me that when you go into a directory, your secondary groups aren't taken into account. You have to change your primary group to whatever the gid is of the directory.

So I demonstrated for him that secondary groups are definitely used for permissions and all he said was "I don't think that's how it works."

....................

I had someone say their internet was down from their e-mail that they RDP'd into today remotely.

@scottalanmiller said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@KyleCaminita said:

that makes it much nicer GFI has different policies for company owned vs byod.

The concept of people bringing in their own devices just gave me PTSD

I love it. If BYOD causes any concern, use that as a way to find something wrong with your network. If your network is secure, BYOD causes no concern. BYOD is only scary when the network is insecure and we are hoping it doesn't fall apart.

That's a good way to look at it SAM. I'm going to try to adjust my outlook!

I went on lunch and held the door open for a random guy and he held the door open for me at the same time, neither of us willing to budge. I looked him in the dead of his eyes and said "canadian standoff?" He didn't think it was that funny.