Rants

[CronoT]

So, the palce I work at now had an opening for an IT position. Me, I've got about 5 years of real life experience, and in exactly the things they wanted. So, I send in my resume. A week and a half later, I get a nice little email telling me I wasn't even considered good enough for an interview. Okay, I guess I can understand that, since I don't technically have a degree.

All I have is 5 years of admin experience with PC's, serviers, networks, printers, corporate email, and managing to keep it all running smoothly. So, they end up hiring some geeky looking kid who looks like he's barely in his 20's. Now, when I say geeky looking, keep in mind I went to work on Halloween dressed as Link from Legend of Zelda. We're talking Turbo Nred here.

So, now that they have 3 people in the IT Dept, for one facility, with about 500 PC's, you'd think everything would be perfect. I wish I lived in your fantasy world. Now, I don't know how many and/or roughly where the servers are stored, but the IT in that place has been crap for some time, and getting WORSE. They're having network cable failures, IP conflicts on multiple PC's, and also TFTP errors on about one in every 10 units. That was an error so obscure, I had to look it up. It turns out, while I known the end part for a while through simple observation, they've been remotely wiping and reimaging every user level PC in that place with a boot image file, every night. The user level PC's had been controlled by a PXE boot since I started working there, but the nightly reimaging thing is pretty new.

Part of me has been horrified by how bad the IT has been handled there since the day I walked in, which was over a year ago. I was professionally insulted by how bad it all was. Now, I'm starting to get personally insulted, because they didn't even give me an interview, and things are only getting worse. It's getting to be that unless you have a piece of paper with your name and some other **noel**'s name on it, you're not getting a professional job. Whenever I think about that, I go back to one of the things that one my professors told me before the school closed down: In the real world, your average diploma has about as much monetary worth as a roll of toilet paper.

[Saddy]

some companies are sticklers for the whole having a degree/cert thing but many aren't. blue has no degree or certs and he constantly gets calls and emails for jobs [i'm kinda like his secretary lol]. he's a linux system admin [well the only linux system admin] for one of the largest "death care" [funeral homes/cemeteries] companies in the world. before that he worked for datapipe. he started there as a pm. he says he wishes he had stayed in project management. XD you just have to keep trying. blue takes contracts [short term] all the time, especially if he thinks he'll gain skills that he can add to his resume. i kinda hate having recruiters calling the house all the time cause i hate the phone, but it's worth it.

[MafiaFlood]

..... oh, i thought they were pooping. You did not make that very clear in the thread title.

[TahoeDenver]

Sounds like they need to get their **noel** together.

[CronoT]

Something that I forgot about in my initial post but wanted to mention is that on evry PC I log into, the Windows XP firewall is disabled.

A pair of chimps randomly throw feces at the wall could manage IT better than these morons.

[Kinnolo]

It's assumed to not be poop.

[UnCoMmOn23]

Yeah some companies take the whole degree thing really seriously. I'm in IT currently (sys admin) and I ALMOST didn't make it in. Here is a bit different though. Our new VP or director or what the hellever is "kingdom building". He's basically getting rid of people little by little and replacing them with people that he used to work with from his previous job. 

The writing on the wall says "you're all fired"

[MafiaFlood]

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Kinnolo wrote:

It's assumed to not be poop.

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I saw S***ING and read it as **noel**ting. Oh, wait. Now that I look at it, that word has more letters than the one he actually used. O_o

[Kinnolo]

Exactly.

[wacky1980]

i feel for ya.

it took me 7 years to get an IT job after i graduated, which of course meant that i was undereducated severely after missing 7 years of training. fortunately for me, the job i took was working in a windows server 2003 environment, with about 30 networked pc's, all running xp.

in 2010 lol. i got lucky there. however, since i've come on, now there are two people in the IT department; myself, and the 50-year-old woman that knows so little about IT in general that the bank had literally outsourced 90% of their IT needs to third parties. of course, she's been there for 16 years so she's considered the "IT director" . i'm still not allowed to troubleshoot pc's because we're still under contract with a local computer services company. we virtualized our network services about a year ago, and the whole project was outsourced to a vendor. for awhile, i wasn't even allowed to access the server without first asking permission from our vm manager, who is physically two states away.

but it's getting better. over the last six months, i've been farmed into the manager of policy and compliance for IT. i manage all our vendor agreements, and i've recently been given control of mail and active directory. if all my hard work over the last six months contributes to a satisfactory FDIC IT exam coming next month, i'm on the hook to be promoted to the official title of "network security admin" in addition to my current duties. considering my current title is "assistant IT director" i'll take any job title that no longer implies my expertise level is lower than that of the current IT director.

[CronoT]

Well guess what... there's a NEW error running through the center now. Once again, so obscure, I had to look it up. Turns out, it's related to VNC. The error is:

WARNING: The ServiceHelper hook entry could not be removed from the registry."

Can you all finally admit you're just a bunch of 3rd rate F*** ups and let someone who knows what they're doing take over. I'm surprised the center hasn't burned down at this point.

[westpark]

Most employers nowadays are just hardcore when it comes to degress/diplomas. Without those -- you really have no professional credibility.

[CronoT]

It already looks like they're doing a great job of failing all on their own. Yesterday, I tried to move a computer on a desk from one side to the back, and that somehow knocked the network AND the power out for several of the PC's at the same group desk. At this point, I hope they don't crash the entire network.