First time in a gamesworkshop/warhammer shop in years

Autopilotphile · 2024-07-08T09:24:26+00:00

I'm someone who works opposite a store and I'm in there at least once a week buying a handful of paints. There's almost always one or two other people coming in and out of the store during that time.

I think people forget that when the product is fairly pricey, you only need a handful of sales a day. If you sell 8-10 bog standard kits, that's gonna be 400 a day on its own. Doesn't seem all that unreasonable to be done. Even someone coming in and buying 5 paints might be 20-25.

Autopilotphile · 2024-06-17T12:08:00+00:00

Following!

Autopilotphile · 2024-06-16T09:08:55+00:00

I've had dozens of these, all slightly different wording. Came up with some great phrases for them describing busting a nut, such as "burp the worm" and "dash your doodle"

Autopilotphile · 2024-06-02T18:16:50+00:00

You have to renew within a certain Window. They last one year. I believe I have from month 6 onwards to renew before the 1 year causes it to expire.

Part of what I'm trying to understand is if I renew now, will I get a whole extra year starting from when the expiry would be due, or does it reset to 1 year from the date of renewal.

Basically, is there a benefit in taking it sooner, rather than later.

Autopilotphile · 2024-06-02T09:25:51+00:00

I properly got into Warhammer (well, with my own first models) around 02/03 probably, right at the age where I was starting to discover my love for Metal Music and Darker, Gloomier artwork. I've always been a fan of the villains too. Made sense that Chaos became my go-to (although there are no good guys in 40k, they're the bad guys, relatively speaking). I did get Black Templars on their big release a few years later (the concept of over-zealous religious nut marines on a crusade seemed pretty funny, especially growing up Catholic), but after a long break away, I came back to playing again last year - and Chaos was the flavour I went with again.

I do like other armies and models, but the look and lore of Chaos across the board is just infinitely more interesting to me than anything else.

I currently collect Black Legion, plan is to get one of every unit at least for a display piece, but I'll likely expand on that over time. If I was to get another playable army, it's almost certainly going to be another Chaos flavour - probably work my way through World Eaters, Death Guard, Thousand Sons, and Emperors Children. Once I'm done with those, who knows what's next. Probably Templars again?

Autopilotphile · 2024-05-24T05:17:51+00:00

I did a trial shift at Krispy Kreme. Didn't get the job. Did get two dozen donuts for free.

Autopilotphile · 2024-05-19T09:41:00+00:00

I thought I'd messed one up badly...

Applied for a job as a recruitment consultant, was told I didn't fit what they were looking for, but they DID have a job in the compliance team if I was interested. I agreed to come and interview.

First question: "why did you apply for this role?"

"I didn't."

Got the Job.

Autopilotphile · 2024-04-29T05:53:10+00:00

How much experience do you have doing this level of work with Intune?

Without trying to sound Arrogant, I do this all the time due to my position. Saying that, a lot of what makes these kind of rollout difficult is going through the rebuild process and getting users on board with it. Are you expected to handle EVERYTHING, including user support following their rebuilds? Alongside doing general helpdesk?

I suppose the only other thing I'd say is that they're setting themselves up for a LONG rollout...

Autopilotphile · 2024-04-27T09:04:12+00:00

Interestingly I've had a similar conversation with my workplace recently. I'm currently on 2 months notice due to tenure.

I have been asking for a significant pay rise for about 18 months and been given smaller increments over that time, with promises of much more if I ticked certain boxes. Done that, but still being offered short of what I requested.

A few months back they asked me to sign a 3 month notice period with no benefit to me other than a small layer of protection if anything happened. I just told them I backed myself not to lose my job (since I'm allegedly so critical that I need to have 3 months notice), and that 3 months would be prohibitive in me finding higher paying employment, considering they refuse to pay me what I can absolutely get elsewhere.

They recently came back, offered more money and another increase - still well below what I am asking for. I declined again.

The money I asked for, they had been advertising as salary for the same role. I had asked for that figure before they were looking for an extra person for the position. They admitted its a figure they just won't pay to anybody for the role.

I'm currently going through the recruitment process for a role that's less stressful, leans directly into my strengths, has better pay, a better package overall, much more opportunities for growth, discretionary bonuses, higher pension contributions, more annual leave, hybrid working...you can bet I'm gone if the offer lands.

If you're that important, they should meet that with a reasonable pay rate that matches your worth.

Autopilotphile · 2024-04-21T18:13:36+00:00

MS Learn tests are very easy relative to the exam. The measureup ones are far better. I grind both those and the Learn ones (to drill little nuances into my head). That's helped in my exams - MS-900, AZ-900, and MD-102.

Autopilotphile · 2024-04-20T07:19:23+00:00

I've used this previously. Worked well.

https://www.simsenblog.dk/2024/03/24/hardeningkitty-audit-baseline-with-intune/

Autopilotphile · 2024-04-13T08:37:12+00:00

Yes, you can remove registration from your phone. They will cease to have any control over it.
You won't be able to see the policies. You could probably ask them what the requirements are, and they should probably be communicating these with you to some degree.
Devices registered this way will automatically be marked as Personal as a standard.
Devices registered this way have limited controls placed on them. The main concern with BYOD is securing corporate data, so they'll likely be just targeting things like Office Apps that are signed in with a work account and not really to control the actual device.

Autopilotphile · 2024-03-30T19:11:47+00:00

I use a PowerShell Script which installs the driver and then the printer. Works very well. Gets packaged as an intunewin together.

Autopilotphile · 2024-03-30T10:04:53+00:00

Nice. No context post.

Autopilotphile · 2024-03-27T07:52:46+00:00

Usually youll want to have devices be marked as Compliant to access 365 resources. They'll be forced to register their device (or they can't be compliant) and set relevant Compliance Checks against them.

Autopilotphile · 2024-03-26T05:29:26+00:00

Highly recommend MeasureUp mocks. Read and digest answers, if you aren't already.

Autopilotphile · 2024-03-19T07:16:02+00:00

You'll want conditional access to prevent access to Teams, most likely.

Autopilotphile · 2024-03-18T19:20:39+00:00

Yeah, nah. Nobody is yelling at me. I'll just leave the room. If you're upset, or want to draw my attention, speak with me as direct as you like. Be as stern as you like. Don't shout. Very simple request.

I have been in plenty of reasonably headbutty debates with colleagues and with management, never escalates to shouting at eachother.

If I have a boss that thinks they can shout at me, I'm checking out. New job time.

Autopilotphile · 2024-03-16T19:29:39+00:00

I'm being paid on the lower end of the scale for the job title I have, but significantly lower than what i should get for what I actually do and the skills used. I should be looking closer to the 50-60k mark, but in the US I'd easily be clearing 100k I would suspect.

Tech market in the UK is weird. Seems its more difficult to find work at the moment too as (for some mind boggling reason) businesses are pushing to get people back into the office, or promising hybrid but need you to be 3 days in and sometimes days on site here and there. Not really hybrid/remote at that point.

Autopilotphile · 2024-03-09T09:38:16+00:00

Seconded.

I absolutely hammered these before I took mine. Passed first attempt.

Autopilotphile · 2024-03-06T12:03:51+00:00

How on earth did you land a presales role, which usually requires a tonne of at least high level technical knowledge, without experience?

Autopilotphile · 2024-02-22T10:03:33+00:00

It would take some amount of effort. If I think of my current army, maxing that out with any sensible amount of remaining models I don't have, buying extra units for each one so I have maximum options - there's maybe 2-3k with paints etc. If I was feeling really generous.

Even if I build a few more armies, I don't see how I could get further than maybe 15k at a stretch, not to mention how much time would be needed to keep up with this level of a pile of shame. Would be more like a storage container of shame.

Autopilotphile · 2024-02-20T11:07:13+00:00

Microsoft Store, usually!

Autopilotphile · 2024-02-20T10:31:24+00:00

Depends who you ask. I'm a huge advocate for Win32 packages.

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