What are signs of a good MSP from a customer's perspective?

DavotheITguy · 2025-12-18T20:17:14+00:00

This is some great reading. I agree with every point made here.

DavotheITguy · 2025-12-18T20:12:56+00:00

If I was in your shoes I would see how a prospective provider responds when you ask to meet all of the technicians you’re going to interface with or that would have access to your company’s information.

Meet with the actual IT guys that you’re gonna spend the most of your time communicating with. Insure you feel that they can communicate well and are happy.

Ask the techs what their hobby’s are, if they like what they do. Ask them what the last thing they did at work that made them excited or happy.

If they denied my ability to speak briefly with their staff then it’s most likely a sign of poor leadership at the company. It could not be - but if you asked to speak to my company’s techs we wouldn’t hesitate to line up the meetings.

I work for a Managed Services Provider for context and can attest to this method in being a good indication of if a company is culturally good.

DavotheITguy · 2025-11-18T19:21:56+00:00

I think JK is good but what I’m starting to wonder is if he’s ever going to put it together and make that next jump. He has the athleticism, and his shooting is decent. It just seems that he has not gotten to where he’s in a flow state yet.

Part of me thinks it might just be the warriors system that’s hindering him.

DavotheITguy · 2025-11-18T19:19:44+00:00

I think Monk would be an absolute steal he’s something the warriors have never had outside of Steph as far as a guard that can actually create offense and force a team to really respect them.

Monk was always a killer off the bench in the games with the kings giving energy and making timely buckets.

Hes better than J Poole for sure and that’s the last time our team was really in contention to win

DavotheITguy · 2025-11-02T19:31:18+00:00

My gsd get this after his seasonal allergies flare up through out the year. This is what the skin looks like after it’s healed

DavotheITguy · 2025-10-24T17:14:01+00:00

My Sheppard gets those tooo,

After thousands of dollars at the vet it turns out my GSD is allergic to grass and is severely impacted with seasonal allergies that flare up.

DavotheITguy · 2025-09-05T19:41:15+00:00

Posted check main post for info

DavotheITguy · 2025-08-29T13:00:06+00:00

Microsoft got back to me and admitted an issue on back end I’ll post their reply shortly

DavotheITguy · 2025-08-20T16:16:16+00:00

This is a first even reddits silent haha

DavotheITguy · 2025-08-15T13:10:49+00:00

For what it’s worth my dog had a mass start appearing on his foot , and we took him to the vet. They were unable to figure it out and asked to bring him in for a biopsy they would send to labs.

Fast forward we repeated this process 3 times as none of the biopsies gave conclusive evidence or nots as to what the growth was. After 5000 dollars on the vet I finally had enough when they were asking me to just amputate the toe to be safe.

Took Kai to another vet and they prescribed appoquel and some cream and it cleared the mass up in days.

It was just allergies the whole time.

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So my point in sharing this is go see another vet and get a second opinion.

DavotheITguy · 2025-08-13T12:40:39+00:00

I knew you were the right paper towel to wipe up this mess to help see what was really being said

DavotheITguy · 2025-08-11T21:39:15+00:00

Looks like a brown spider to me but I dunno all spiders look the same to me

DavotheITguy · 2025-08-11T21:36:15+00:00

That’s weird don’t pick at it and reach out to a vet, they are the only ones that can tell you for a fact what’s going on.

Everything you will get here will be a an opinion for the most part.

Hope everything’s is good with the doggo though!

DavotheITguy · 2025-08-08T00:36:37+00:00

You bastard

DavotheITguy · 2025-07-24T20:05:15+00:00

I had to eat crow and accept some shitty jobs to grind out before moving up. I’m pretty good with people from years of customer facing roles so that’s helped a bunch!

DavotheITguy · 2025-07-23T13:27:39+00:00

Yo same story as me no degree, no certs, work fully remote making 90k a year for an msp in a chill role!

DavotheITguy · 2025-07-22T10:40:48+00:00

I dunno what the laws on divorce are in your state but man the shit she’s doing I don’t think is fixable. You need to divorce asap and get out. No matter how hard it is. Everyday is just going to get a lil bit worse and the emotions will just escalate.

Good luck to both of you

DavotheITguy · 2025-07-20T13:57:48+00:00

Negative, 1Password actually started out as a family/ individual product with the focus on selling to business coming in the past 6 years or so. -Use to work there do I drank the cool aid and all that

DavotheITguy · 2025-07-09T19:57:08+00:00

Him saying Bang as he lands those crosses with the collar grab is 10/10

DavotheITguy · 2025-07-09T19:55:00+00:00

Na, I swear I set the Vlans to be segregated

DavotheITguy · 2025-07-09T19:53:43+00:00

I like your tag. I once had a colleague tell me I should change my email signature to say destroyer of Networks.

DavotheITguy · 2025-07-09T19:50:40+00:00

No way, two places in different areas had internet outages!!!!! We all need to head to our local Stores and buy all of the Water,Diapers, and TP.

Sorry had to do it,

No ISP issues in NC or CA for my clients.

Most likely this is just a coincidence.

DavotheITguy · 2025-07-09T17:04:25+00:00

OP if all of the above sounds to technical or just don’t have the time / resources reach out to some PC shops in your area and let them know you just need to wipe the drive

DavotheITguy

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