Job thread

[Rasix]

Ok, so was your old team the SVC/Storwize team?

As someone who uses/manages several hundred thousand dollars worth of them, I would like to know if the QA/QC is going (farther) down the shitter 

Same development org, same executive owner.  Not the same product. That's had a similar org structure to what my product is moving to. Of course, our quality numbers were a lot better in every conceivable metric. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So no, SVC/Storwize will be same as ever.

[Yegolev]

I've been advised that people don't like advice unless it is asked for.

That said, I'll paraphrase myself: Dump it into LinkedIn and go get some beer.

[Yegolev]

On a lighter note, the soon-to-not-be-VP that I was previously once-removed from is from Edinburgh.  I mean for real, not one of those weirdo English that moved north.  I came over to announce that I had submitted an exception change request, to which he replied something along the lines of "da ye nee me ta approve it" or something.  Fortunately the soon-to-not-be-director that I dotted-line report to was there to translate.

[Ironwood]

from Edinburgh.  I mean for real, not one of those weirdo English that moved north. 

 

That's the textbook definition of an Edinburgh person.

[Yegolev]

I suppose that explains a lot.

[Fabricated]

I'm getting rotated to an area of campus I never wanted to go to since the parking sucks, the support area is a gigantic collection of little buildings, our office space there is terrible, and there's nothing to eat in the area. Managed to dodge the bullet of being rotated there for like 5 years but now I have to just deal with it.

[shiznitz]

and there's nothing to eat in the area.

GrubHub?

[Yegolev]

He probably means an area which is "large" by university standards.  I have to drive two+ miles for thai food.

[Sky]

The struggle is real.

[Yegolev]

My new favorite phrase.

[Fabricated]

He probably means an area which is "large" by university standards.  I have to drive two+ miles for thai food.

This area I'm going to be in is a huge research park and it's literally a mile+ walk to the nearest actual business. This area wasn't planned particularly well. Not much parking either so if I drive somewhere my parking spot will almost certainly end up taken and I'll end up parking at the nearest parking garage which is also coincidentally a mile+ away. Sucks.

[Chimpy]

Buy a cheap bicycle, keep it locked up at work for lunchtime.

[Merusk]

Exercise? What are you one of those goddamn millennial hipster kids with their skinny jeans and their hatred of processed foodstuffs and refined sugar?

Also: Wtf, scout me for a job then never call me back. Assholes. 

[Yegolev]

This morning, someone seagulled me with http://oneops.com/

I'm really going to take a hard look at it.  Anyone else?

[Ard]

All I can say is that the blurb at the very top of their website makes me want to punch someone.

[Yegolev]

Agreed.  It almost stopped me cold.  The grammar in the Getting Started was almost another stopper, but I'm persisting.

I'm now lurking in their Slack org.

[Merusk]

Walmart cloud services..wtf.

[sickrubik]

So. Friday, got the news that the County offered me the job. Turning in my resignation from the beer distributor today. I have a feeling I'll end up with about three meetings this week about it. The week before the VP pulled me into his office specifically when my direct boss was not in the office and talked to me about what I was doing for the company, and what I wanted to. Hinted at a management position after some restructuring.... so, this could get interesting. At this point, it would have to be a serious increase in pay, though.

[Viin]

Nothing really ever changes. If you want new challenges it's best to go somewhere else, at least in my experience. Congrats!

[Ironwood]

That is my experience also.  With the additional caveat that money doesn't help if you really want a move.  It just sticks at you and makes you more frustrated.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Job funtime update!

So they are merging R&D and my group, along with a few other smaller groups, into one as some sort of "transformation" of IT services.  My counterpart in R&D is taking a new position elsewhere in the group.  I know have several people (our financial analyst for one, my boss is onboard, too) advocating for me to take over her position and do the job for the merged group, since all the finances will eventually come together.  Plus, my month-end is far more accurate than the other group.  She's an employee with two dotted line contractor reports, which would be a step up, that's for sure.  Now to see what happens and if anything, can it be done before that stupid furlough comes around?

[Yegolev]

IT transformation?  Welcome to 2010!

[RhyssaFireheart]

IT transformation?  Welcome to 2010!

We're a huge multi-national bio-pharma company - what do you expect?    I'm amazed our separation from the parent company only took 3 years.

I think it's more that each business group (R&D, mine, Doc Mgmt, etc.) all have their own IT groups to support them and there's probably a fair amount of redundancy outside the specific knowledge areas (e.g. regulatory isn't patient safety isn't discovery isn't R&D), so they are looking into that.  I do feel bad for my counterpart though, since the position she's moving into is about resource demand management.  Yeah, good luck with that nightmare.

[Samwise]

Welp, after 16 years at one company I might be interested in looking for a new job.  We got bought -- my options were worth a bit and that softens the blow, but it wasn't quite enough to retire on, and so far the signs are increasingly pointing to this not being as fun of a place to work under the new owners.  So I'm not out of work (if they're smart they'll even throw some extra money at me to get me to stay for a while) but I'm feeling like it wouldn't hurt to sniff around and see what offers I can get.

So how does one do that these days?  The last time I was out job hunting I was 15 and it entailed distributing resumes on foot.   

[Chimpy]

Kiss up to Surly, he might be able to get you a job at the infinite loop 

[Viin]

I use Indeed to send me daily emails of new postings for job descriptions in locations I'm interested in. If I find an interesting position at an interesting company, I see if anyone I know on LinkedIn works/worked there and I hit them up with some questions about the company/manager/etc. Then you tailor your resume to the position (use the keywords found in the job description!!!!!) and post it via their online jobs portal *and* get anyone I know to hand carry a copy to the hiring manager.

[Ironwood]

Welp, after 16 years at one company I might be interested in looking for a new job.  We got bought -- my options were worth a bit and that softens the blow, but it wasn't quite enough to retire on, and so far the signs are increasingly pointing to this not being as fun of a place to work under the new owners.  So I'm not out of work (if they're smart they'll even throw some extra money at me to get me to stay for a while) but I'm feeling like it wouldn't hurt to sniff around and see what offers I can get.

So how does one do that these days?  The last time I was out job hunting I was 15 and it entailed distributing resumes on foot.   

Dude, I didn't want to shit up your FB feed, but that announcement and wee writing from 'The Old Boss' sent FUCK NO shivers right up my spine.

Over here, I'd be talking to some good peoples at good agencies, not to be desperate or anything, but just to introduce myself.

[Yegolev]

Besides Indeed, the main places for professionals are LinkedIn and Glassdoor.

I don't know where our job postings will end up, so I can't yet suggest looking at Weather Underground or Weather@IBM (I don't know what we are called since I didn't really read that branding document), but I do assume they need people.

[Merusk]

Yeah, Glassdoor and professional-based sites are how I go about it when randomly looking for other opportunities. (always keep an eye out.)

Also 90% of it is who you know, so start pressing your network as Viin said. Lots of jobs in my industry never get posted because someone knows a guy or knows-a-guy-who-knows-a-guy who'd be a fit at an unannounced opening. I imagine it's the same in software.

[Fabricated]

New area kinda sucks about as much as I expected. I went from having my own office to being stuck in a broom closet with 3 other people. We did get given a bunch of new office space but despite this being a nearly new building a lot of network and power jacks have to be added to the new space before we can move in.

Also not very mentally stimulating. I went from working with a lot of interesting people to help buy/build/support cool engineering shit to playing phone tag with people overseas who don't know how to use VPNs or RDP, as well as watching our poor student workers janitor tons of Macbooks with printing issues because OSX is fucking shit piss garbage. You can tell who doesn't do any real work here by seeing if they have a macbook.

[Merusk]

See if you can find a good resource to learn CUPS. My minion did from our Contracted Mac-pro and it's made a night and day difference with regard to managing macs for printing.

[Sky]

The best advice I can give from 15 years of admin on macs (in my own humble, not enterprise way) is: ignore OSX as much as possible and just use the bsd underpinnings. I can't remember the last time I used the server's GUI, because it's all but useless. Just Terminal in and get things done. Also why 'mac people' make shitty admins, they can't terminal.

[Yegolev]

My MBP is a very fancy terminal.  Super fancy.  Not so great for Diablo III.

[Trippy]

Not so great for Diablo III.

Switch to the 15".

[Yegolev]

Not so great for Diablo III.

Switch to the 15".

I have that one with custom 1TB flash storage.  It's mostly a right-click problem.  Although, I haven't tried it since I picked up the magic mouse.  Using the pad is not possible with Project Zomboid, not from what I've managed.

The MBP is awesome for worky-work.