IT meteorologists?

[ray1970]

I?m not smart enough to fix it myself.

That?s why I rely on other people to do their jobs.

Sorry if me bashing on your chosen profession a little has offended you.

[Delfuego]

Takes more than that to offend me. I replace under-skilled IT guys regularly. But if your company only pays low wages to IT employees, they will only attract low end talent...

[ray1970]

I have no first hand knowledge about the IT people but generally speaking my company pays all of its employees rather well. I?m guessing they likely make more than I do.

Perhaps it?s my general lack of knowledge of anything IT related that gives me cause to believe that some of them generally don?t know what they?re doing. Maybe they?re all stud ducks and it?s just a lot more complicated than I think it is.

[Ridge]

You'd be surprised how little most IT folks make. Most organizations see IT as an expense.

[ray1970]

But IT people know computers and stuff. That?s Silicon Valley type money.

[Gman]

Silicon Valley type money isn't really "IT".

[crays]

Ray,

I had the same issue at work when they made some big IT changes (that never do anything positive, only gum up the works). Not necessarily the same message, but this site was blockd due to some of their general keyword filtering.
After about 2-3 weeks of not being able to access the site from my work computer directly, or through bookmarks, one day I clicked on a thread link that was in one of my notification emails from the site. VIOLA!! It accessed the site without issues and allowed me to navigate around the site. After 2-3 weeks of accessing the site that way, I found that it must have become "recognized/accepted" and now I can access it via bookmark, typing in the url, etc.

If you get email notifications from the site, try that. May not work, but it worked for me.

[Gman]

Airwatch, like most MDM solutions, will allow you to unregister the device. You also lose any applications and data that were encrypted on the system.

[gnihcraes]

I'm old, did retail for years, dos, all versions of windows etc, moved into server support, hp xompaq ibm, netwok support, older cisco stuff. Had kids and needed more time at home. Its way easier for me to be desktop support now and know the network and server side. Heck, network support is shocked that i know something aboit what needs done. I'm also helping the server group on things some of them don't understand.

Share security? Hidden share?
Add a port to a vlan...

What do these certifications mean? I'm not up on the latest stuff, but the basics we all should know.

I like where I'm at mostly, 8-5 and being desktop, im not working after hours and can blame the others when it doesnt work monday morning.


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[brutal]

I'm old, did retail for years, dos, all versions of windows etc, moved into server support, hp xompaq ibm, netwok support, older cisco stuff. Had kids and needed more time at home. Its way easier for me to be desktop support now and know the network and server side. Heck, network support is shocked that i know something aboit what needs done. I'm also helping the server group on things some of them don't understand.

Share security? Hidden share?
Add a port to a vlan...

What do these certifications mean? I'm not up on the latest stuff, but the basics we all should know.

I like where I'm at mostly, 8-5 and being desktop, im not working after hours and can blame the others when it doesnt work monday morning.


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No doubt.

My current client called off their production cutover earlier in the week because the coding and system support staff couldn't figure out some issues they were having on their test system. I'm primarily infrastructure and systems and storage level stuff mind you but have done switch/route, WAN stuff, security, and too many other things worth listing.

Got down to the wire today on a "dry run" of production cutover after I had them hours ahead of schedule and folks were getting a bit flustered so I asked if the data errors they were getting that were blowing up the screens could possibly be an issue with the data itself. The error is rather generic and not helpful at all to debug. I say, "So have you actually tried looking at the data (table) outside the application? They look, Um, it's "masked data" that's not getting unmasked, as in it's column level encryption on SSN's in those tables that contain them and they don't have the correct keys. Duh. Oh, you restored an older version of the key management middleware and then upgraded it, and then later (keyword later) moved production data over without the keystore ro going back through that software migrate/upgrade? DUH.