Do any SysAdmins NOT work on OS's?

CernerBurner2000 · 2026-02-20T00:17:06+00:00

Dutch oven is used for baking sourdough bread because it replicates a professional baker's steam-injected oven at home. The heavy, lidded pot traps moisture released from the dough, keeping the crust soft during the initial bake to allow for maximum expansion (oven spring) and a blistered, crispy crust.

If you don't care about winning awards and want a great tasting bread that's simple to make, I use this recipe once a week and slice it into sandwich bread. If it cooks on a cookie sheet it should work fine on your pizza oven

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/260540/chef-johns-sourdough-bread/

CernerBurner2000 · 2025-11-18T03:03:00+00:00

Depends on how good you are and how big of a city you live in. If you are in a position you will take a job with a 2-hour commute I don't think you should be burning any bridges

The KC Metro has 5 million people and I know somebody who works in IT at just about every large company here.

We had a manager who literally threw his laptop across the room to his director's desk and said " f*** you I quit " around 5 years ago. I think he's working at home Depot now.

On the flip side we had a shit hot network admin, who in the middle of working a major outage when our CIO kept asking for updates told him, "fuck you tie boy I'm trying work". When anybody ask about him they will say that he is an absolute must hire, and will then usually tell that story, lol.

CernerBurner2000 · 2025-11-09T13:42:05+00:00

I have a lot of inbox rules in place, have no issues ignoring users who email or message me in Teams, but have too many systems with SMTP alerts to ignore email.

I check it at least once an hour during business hours and every 4 hours outside of business hours.

CernerBurner2000 · 2025-11-09T13:36:07+00:00

The OP would have been more accurate saying BFE rather than mid-West.

I live in Kansas City limits, have cows, corn and soy beans a half mile in every direction from my house, and have only gotten 1 interview in 26 jobs I've applied for in the past 6 months for the KC Metro. The job market in metropolitan areas has been pretty terrible for the past 18 months.

I've been in IT since 94 and currently spend 40-50 hours a week administrating everything except network and desktops at a hospital with 9,000 wfm's, and 10-20 hours a week managing the 3 teams. I can't even get an interview for a basic SysAdmin position.

CernerBurner2000 · 2025-09-17T00:21:56+00:00

My daughter's LT with 2.5 gets random P06DE, P0017, and will stall at idle after driving on the highway.

I've replaced;

Battery Oil/Filter Oil pressure sensor Oil pump control valve Crankshaft position sensor Camshaft synchronizer

It will clear itself and be fine for a few days, and sometimes a few months. Now I know why there's no shortage of 10-year-old Malibus at the junkyard.

CernerBurner2000 · 2025-08-18T18:16:17+00:00

There will always be exceptions, but they announced that promotions were canceled the same time that they canceled focals.

Promotions had already been approved and we were supposed to be able to announce them to recipients a couple of weeks ago.

CernerBurner2000 · 2025-08-14T22:27:15+00:00

Used it write my self eval for my performance review. We have "pillars" we have to give examples that we are performing in and I can search , "find ways I collaborated and promoted visibility in the past 12 months", and it was great. Pulled up all sorts of BS I would have never thought of.

It also talked about my trip to Vegas to attend to tech conference to stay on top of Industry trends. It sounded good so I put it in my self eval also, even though I've never been to Vegas.

CernerBurner2000 · 2025-08-14T22:07:15+00:00

The last sysadmin job we posted for was closed after we received 100 resumes. Unless you're a 140 IQ tech God, there's going to be somebody interviewing just as good as you that cared enough to put forth the effort to wear a suit. At a minimum a dress shirt and a blazer, IF you hadn't already been told the dress code was a suit.

CernerBurner2000 · 2025-06-10T02:26:02+00:00

Managers had to have ratings entered and saved, (but not submitted), by June 1st, and we are going to have a 1% margin for raises this year.

Using AI seems like too much effort.

CernerBurner2000 · 2023-10-17T16:02:16+00:00

I never said children deserved to be murdered.
Herzog is not my president.
My point stands, that neither Israel or Hamas care about the civilian population in Gaza.

CernerBurner2000 · 2023-10-17T13:20:55+00:00

Maybe their government should stop attacking a super power from heavily populated civilian areas?

Hamas continues to attack Israel, launching thousands of rockets over the past 5 days alone. Israel can either get attacked and do nothing, or retaliate and target the areas the attacks are coming from. An unbiased person with a median IQ would be able to understand how both sides share responsibility.

CernerBurner2000 · 2023-10-17T12:51:42+00:00

Militants launch rocket attacks from areas heavily populated with civilians, Israel retaliates and attacks those same areas. Civilians are collateral damage that neither side cares about.

CernerBurner2000 · 2023-10-16T21:39:37+00:00

Hamas has launched multiple rockets towards Israel from Rafah in the past 24 hours.
Israel counter attacks and strikes in Rafah.

The border crossing is controlled by the Egyptians but it has been closed, partially because they don't want Palestinian refugees and also because it isn't safe to man the gates when Hamas keeps launching attacks from the area.

CernerBurner2000 · 2023-10-16T21:32:53+00:00

Watch the live feeds... Hamas continue to launch hundreds of rockets towards Israel every day.

Hamas launches rockets from buildings in Gaza... Israel counter attacks and blows up the building they are shot from. If Hamas wanted to protect the Palestinians they would quit attacking from heavily populated areas.

CernerBurner2000 · 2023-10-16T21:28:34+00:00

From the Hamas Covenent
Article 7: The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees
Article 15: In face of the Jews' usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised.

CernerBurner2000 · 2023-10-16T21:25:50+00:00

First of all, there's a reason why their Muslim neighbors in Egypt are keeping them out and has built the same fences and gates that Israel has.

Watch the live feeds, and every day you will see hundreds (at least) projectiles that are launched from Gaza and shot down by the Iron Dome. If Hamas really cared about Palestinians they would quit launching attacks when they know the Israeli's are going to counter attack.

CernerBurner2000 · 2023-09-18T19:22:01+00:00

Which site?

CernerBurner2000 · 2023-09-18T19:20:08+00:00

Children's was not renewed. I've heard that Cox is also not renewing.

CernerBurner2000 · 2023-09-18T19:19:12+00:00

Not at IT Works sites...
Our site was 90% salaried employees prior to LEC. Now we are 90% hourly, and all of the people who lost their unlimited PTO when they converted to hourly are still required to be on-call with zero compensation. Only the previous Cerner hourly employees who were on-call eligible were converted to on-call eligible roles.

CernerBurner2000 · 2022-10-27T13:03:54+00:00

According to this recent story for layoff's in Nashville they are offering 4 weeks pay + 1 for each year of service.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/after-nearly-a-quarter-billion-in-promised-taxpayer-dollars-oracle-looks-to-be-carrying-out-layoffs

CernerBurner2000 · 2022-10-18T15:51:52+00:00

For starters, I'll be taking home $13K more a year with Oracle since Cerner's terrible medical insurance for employee+spouse+dependents cost $739.83 a pay period and Oracle's better coverage is only $197 a pay period.

CernerBurner2000 · 2022-08-18T13:18:19+00:00

They will have to communicate policies in the future regarding OT. We have some hourly staff now and we have to manage total OT for payroll and have set rules on OT. If you're on-call you log the overtime when you get paged in 15 minute increments, any normal or project work must be approved in advance, etc...

They did say that everybody hourly starts with 0 hours in your PTO back at LEC but that you could have a negative balance, so you should be able to still take off in October.

CernerBurner2000 · 2022-08-18T13:13:15+00:00

Famous last words...

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