Crayola
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I'm so glad everyone within our sector and our 'customers' are internal
I'd end up hunting people down to put their keyboard up their japs eye if I had to deal with mongs like that🤣🤣
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The 'I work in I.T' thread
- Thread starter Donny_Dog
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I'd end up hunting people down to put their keyboard up their japs eye if I had to deal with mongs like that🤣🤣
Gavin.
ClioSport Club Member
Everytime I think it can’t get any worse, some c**t comes out with an absolute pearler 😂
These are internal too, I’d top myself if I had to deal with the general public haha. Maybe the clothing industry was a bad call 🤣
boultonn
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Macan S
ChrisR
ClioSport Club Member
Save. Your. Self.
Snake oil - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I have a few opinions on them, some from clients if there’s (both good and bad), and some from former very senior people there who shed light on some of things that went on.
End of the day if it works for you and someone’s willing to pay for it then knock yourself out 😂
KitsonRis
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This is an accurate representation of most of my days
.Joe
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Mini Clubman
Mostly fueled by coffee and or drink depending on the day
boultonn
ClioSport Club Member
Macan S
I’m sure I’ve seen ‘whiskey’ on the DevOps chart somewhere
I’m an IT PM currently - sort of fell into the role after construction roles before that.
Don’t currently have any IT qualifications but I manage the deployment of various tech projects/upgrades with various clients. Mainly with a certain popular fast food outlet throughout the UK and Ireland.
Don’t currently have any IT qualifications but I manage the deployment of various tech projects/upgrades with various clients. Mainly with a certain popular fast food outlet throughout the UK and Ireland.
Worked in IT for 17~ years (Sometimes feels like 50 years!)... Started as an application analyst in 2007, cut my teeth and progressed into operations / site support for an engineering consultancy, moved into an infrastructure engineer role on the server & storage side, dabbled in data centre management and migrations / consolidations, trigged by a company acquisition and eventual outsourcing of global IT to IBM .
I jumped into another infrastructure role, in the heavy manufacturing sector... Started off interesting, soon realised the aged environment was running on a shoe-string budget and a toxic culture in the IT leadership team - yay. I resigned after 8 months!
In early 2018 an aerospace company announced they were building a new manufacturing facility, local'ish to me - Advertising for an infrastructure engineer to support building and implementing IT systems for the facility. I got the role and immediately 'hit the ground running', the next 18 months where the busiest and most enjoyable of my career - Did a lot, learnt a lot!!
After the place was built and functional, early 2020 I was offered a role working with OT (Operational Technology) integration, essentially securely networking manufacturing equipment to collect OEE data (performance metrics, efficiency, quality) - Another great learning experience.
2022; I was promoted into a senior engineer role, managing ESXI environments across multiple manufacturing facilities (Also following the VMware buy-out mentioned in this thread!!)... End of 2023 I was offered a Product Manager role, in the same team - some trepidation, as my career path has been always technical, but enjoying it so far, still keeping 'hands on', with some strategy / success definition and more meetings thrown in!
I didn't plan to write all that, but there you go!
I jumped into another infrastructure role, in the heavy manufacturing sector... Started off interesting, soon realised the aged environment was running on a shoe-string budget and a toxic culture in the IT leadership team - yay. I resigned after 8 months!
In early 2018 an aerospace company announced they were building a new manufacturing facility, local'ish to me - Advertising for an infrastructure engineer to support building and implementing IT systems for the facility. I got the role and immediately 'hit the ground running', the next 18 months where the busiest and most enjoyable of my career - Did a lot, learnt a lot!!
After the place was built and functional, early 2020 I was offered a role working with OT (Operational Technology) integration, essentially securely networking manufacturing equipment to collect OEE data (performance metrics, efficiency, quality) - Another great learning experience.
2022; I was promoted into a senior engineer role, managing ESXI environments across multiple manufacturing facilities (Also following the VMware buy-out mentioned in this thread!!)... End of 2023 I was offered a Product Manager role, in the same team - some trepidation, as my career path has been always technical, but enjoying it so far, still keeping 'hands on', with some strategy / success definition and more meetings thrown in!
I didn't plan to write all that, but there you go!
Crayola
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Now we all know that's bullshit
There's always some access that's bollocksed when inducting a new starter in any IT field🤣 We had a new starter joint our team once and internal IT hadn't even sent the poor b*****d a laptop
Thankfully I had a spare in my drawer, if not he'd have been sat twiddling his thumbs
boultonn
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Macan S
It’s not uncommon for contractors to not even have network access for one or two days.
How hard can it be etc.
then again when you have 900+ AD groups it’s never gonna be simple.
rctempire
ClioSport Moderator
Its more the amount of people who say "Yes ill start on this date." But they actually don't and get another job. So the kit is potentially lost / returned eventually.
Efficiency is good though if it does work out and you get the kit early.
Efficiency is good though if it does work out and you get the kit early.
Advikaz
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Reminds me of that Brad Pitt film where he calls the tech t**t in because his shaver doesn’t work (it IT because it’s got a plug)
Advikaz
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My mate who works in rail as a contractor … it took them three months to get him a laptop
He just sat there twiddling his thumbs on a grand a day 🤣
S24NRC
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RS197
This has been happening in our place recently, it's painful.
.Joe
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Mini Clubman
expired SAML certificate caught me out on that last month, definitely a fun one
andybond
ClioSport Club Member
If its documented and standardised it need not be complicated.
Accurate naming conventions and none nested groups FTW.
Crayola
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I usually take the opportunity to wash my car or crank one out
Sometimes both simultaneously
I've seen many customer environments where they neither up to date documentation nor any sort of standarisation. I dealt with one customer in my last role (professional services) where they just kept making a new standard any time something new happened/something changed. So. Many. Standards.
Advikaz
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That sounds actually horrendous.
I do a lot of migration works with clients, and the housekeeping / tidy aspect is the biggest headache usually. Had a beauty this morning. 3.4tb in a repository, and nobody knows what it is 😂
Worsened now with co pilot as some clients permissions are a state
Seen it many times...
Been there... Severs named after knights of the round table, Star Trek characters, Trains or some random location abbreviation.
And pretty much nothing documented, all tribal knowledge - This was an Enterprise organisation FFS!
Been there... Severs named after knights of the round table, Star Trek characters, Trains or some random location abbreviation.
And pretty much nothing documented, all tribal knowledge - This was an Enterprise organisation FFS!
andybond
ClioSport Club Member
Its not unusual, sadly.
I do enjoy entire business being run on Excel Macros as well. Enterprise IT at its finest.
"John created that Excel in 2007, but he retired 5 years ago..." etc. 😅
SharkyUK
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andybond
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Have we worked at the same place?
Crayola
ClioSport Club Member
No. I work in one of the sectors that will avoid a meeting if possible
Death by meetings. No thanks, it's bad enough having 1/2 a day disrupting my workflow and YouTube time
Advikaz
ClioSport Club Member
Had a good one earlier from a BA of all people..
We have 35 numbers and want a fully functioning voip solution without any overheads at all. We don’t want teams voice as it’s too expensive. Can you sort a phone system away from 3cx. We don’t want to host anything. Or have anything hosted either. We also want to drop our SIP.
f**king. Help. Me.
We have 35 numbers and want a fully functioning voip solution without any overheads at all. We don’t want teams voice as it’s too expensive. Can you sort a phone system away from 3cx. We don’t want to host anything. Or have anything hosted either. We also want to drop our SIP.
f**king. Help. Me.
SharkyUK
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I'm either a software developer (code monkey) or software engineer depending on who the employer/client is and how formal the engagement is! 🤣
I have been writing software for about 40 years now (I started when I was around 7 or 8 years old) and that's pretty much been my working and hobbyist life (other than a sporting opportunity or two that might have led somewhere). I always wanted to make computer games and so that became my goal from a very early age and guided my academic path as a result. After graduating from university, I started working in game development for two of my gaming heroes (The Oliver Twins). With a keen interest in graphics technology and visuals, I specialised in 2D and 3D graphics programming and that became my specialist area (in addition to general programming duties). During my time working in games, I also enjoyed a spell as co-founder and tech lead for a dotcom business (remember that era?) before eventually leaving the industry around 2007.
In 2007 I made the move to Wales and started working in R&D for a defence company, again specialising in graphics/visualisation and high-performance computing. I was working predominantly on modelling and simulation technology and, quite interestingly I thought, my R&D team of 14 people consisted of 12 former game developers. The difference is that we weren't socially awkward and inward as the stereotype would perhaps have you believe!
In 2015 (or thereabouts) the cancellation of a major project resulted in mass layoffs. I was made redundant and decided to go solo, thus starting my own software development business. That happened in early 2016 and is still going strong today. I still specialise in 3D graphics and the latest technology in that area (and game development) but I also offer my software engineering skills across various languages, tech stacks, and different industries. I also really enjoy my job and have been able to work with and learn from some fantastic people and businesses.
I have been writing software for about 40 years now (I started when I was around 7 or 8 years old) and that's pretty much been my working and hobbyist life (other than a sporting opportunity or two that might have led somewhere). I always wanted to make computer games and so that became my goal from a very early age and guided my academic path as a result. After graduating from university, I started working in game development for two of my gaming heroes (The Oliver Twins). With a keen interest in graphics technology and visuals, I specialised in 2D and 3D graphics programming and that became my specialist area (in addition to general programming duties). During my time working in games, I also enjoyed a spell as co-founder and tech lead for a dotcom business (remember that era?) before eventually leaving the industry around 2007.
In 2007 I made the move to Wales and started working in R&D for a defence company, again specialising in graphics/visualisation and high-performance computing. I was working predominantly on modelling and simulation technology and, quite interestingly I thought, my R&D team of 14 people consisted of 12 former game developers. The difference is that we weren't socially awkward and inward as the stereotype would perhaps have you believe!
In 2015 (or thereabouts) the cancellation of a major project resulted in mass layoffs. I was made redundant and decided to go solo, thus starting my own software development business. That happened in early 2016 and is still going strong today. I still specialise in 3D graphics and the latest technology in that area (and game development) but I also offer my software engineering skills across various languages, tech stacks, and different industries. I also really enjoy my job and have been able to work with and learn from some fantastic people and businesses.
ChrisR
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I sell a product that can help with that 😂Anyone else getting the enjoyment of watching management try to implement DevSecOps without having a scooby what it is?
Currently it’s just a pen tester pressing buttons in Jenkins
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