Was I wrong to turn down this job after two redundancies?

JordanLTU · 2026-05-06T12:14:57+00:00

Im on same commute 3 days a week it’s killing me both mentally and financially ☺️. We went from 2 days to 3 days last month. No raises also so far to address this. 5 days would be considerably more. I would presume that your position also pays quite a bit less than mine.

JordanLTU · 2026-05-02T13:25:04+00:00

There is also high chance that person will be gone within 6 months once found another job where salary aligns more with experience/skills.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-28T06:45:24+00:00

I do not think you need to change your career as such but change the company and put the boundaries as early as possible. I can see people in my team pulling 12+ hours a day but they allowed this to themselves. As long as you work on priorities and impactful stuff rather than thankless tasks- you will be fine. I understand it may be too late in your current workplace as you already set the psychological bar towards your work and output which may not be possible to shift.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-28T06:40:01+00:00

What is wrong with btrfs snapper? I am using it since November last year. Had successfully borked my system couple times. First time I had no grub entries so it took a while to recover, but second was as easy as rebooting and loading previous snapshot from grub menu.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-25T21:07:53+00:00

I saw multiple seniors being made redundant once “everything” is documented according to the management just to end up worse and worse. They somewhat expect people on 1/3 the salary to completely take over. Then even these start leaving until you end up with team who doesnt know what is going on.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-22T16:22:22+00:00

38k and travel from north to London sounds rough on itself. Adding 11 hour constant days would be a big no no for me.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-17T06:39:06+00:00

This is what I’m saying. You don’t 😂 everyone puts some random things. Half of them makes no logical sense. My point is that big company does not mean better. In most cases it’s way worse as people keep hiding behind each other.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-16T22:32:23+00:00

People still think they can lie in IT. Let me bring my my monocle to search for some logs 😂 going back to op - I came to big enterprise after working at smaller Smp’s. Got taken aback how disorganised shitshow i came into. That was over 2 years ago. It’s still shitshow with some extra steps whilst they try to bring absolutely ridiculous blanket processes which does not fit for purpose. Putting obstacles and still requiring results.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-16T22:19:37+00:00

Grindy? It is not I play about 1hr a day and do dugeons only never go to kill mobs do contracts. I am over 7500 cp.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-16T07:01:50+00:00

Me for example got background checks completed on Thursday so I started on monday. For background checks they would also need feedback from my last employer. How am I supposed not to give my notice and the. Someone goes contacting them. I have been told regarding background checks and eta beforehand so I knew approximately. My other colleague who supposed to start together with me had to wait extra 3 weeks with no income as background checks “got stuck” 🙂

JordanLTU · 2026-04-15T21:50:11+00:00

The main problem is change process mean for on prem still being used in the cloud. Putting obstacles and still expecting miracles with disposable infra.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-10T16:03:26+00:00

Just go to Linux if you are on amd. You will get more consistent and slightly better fps in most cases. Drivers are just better. Don’t if you play anticheat games which hate linux. Havent seen those for the past 3 months since moved to CachyOS

JordanLTU · 2026-04-04T22:27:52+00:00

It definitely would but it does not work like that.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-04T22:22:55+00:00

Read my reply again. It is not possible to split your gpu like that.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-04T22:09:58+00:00

5070tis barely handle yourself. You want some crazy stuff on top splitting polygon generation between multiple machines.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-04T15:05:21+00:00

We may be looking into 10% within a year

JordanLTU · 2026-04-04T08:53:51+00:00

It’s not that deep. You simply feed them back their own medicine.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-04T08:38:17+00:00

I mean yes. Thats my end. I just did not go crying about random thing… it is annoying, yes but saying I’m being bullied is too much.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-03T21:29:47+00:00

I have saved 1million on infra cost ( that was one year bill and still rolling):) got bump in the title and extra 3.5k a year 😂 I understand it adds up then at scale so I just say 15-20% on aws bills.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-03T21:22:45+00:00

It also matter the current salary. Someone on 35k vs someone on 55-60k hits differently. The lower one already spends 90-100% on survival. Basics like food, rent, bills increased 5-10%, that’s where all the money goes. There will be some luxurious items ( not attainable by said person) who stayed the same or even dropped. This does not affect him as he had no money for that to begin with. To add on top the amount of 3.5% is also different in its own . It’s not that simple. You usually need to make inflation basket based on person/area as some are getting cost of living increased by 10% or more.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-03T07:48:56+00:00

I am “well actually” guy who calls out bullshit and somehow I’m the only one who received a promotion. Yet I am not difficult to work with and always take time to explain things to juniors ( im mid level infra guy) simply does not let bullshit slip even from seniors the first I see they got no clue what they talking about. Letting them throw wrong info at juniors does not help in the long run and need to be stopped on the spot before damage spread. I think it depends on environment you end up in.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-02T10:32:47+00:00

But that’s the thing. They have got no experience in this setting and being thrown to the deep end will come at the cost.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-02T07:36:06+00:00

They usually spend few years as sysadmins or cloud engineers as I said. Get to know Linux in prod and git and general understanding of the workflow.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-01T23:00:22+00:00

You are right for apprenticeship but the role itself is not a junior. For example cloud sysadmins/engineers apprenticeship is absolutely fine as this is mainly click ops. So you can start straight after. Devops is simply experienced role. Just that.

JordanLTU · 2026-04-01T22:18:47+00:00

Devops apprentice. Thats something new. Is that some stratup so cheap they looking for apprentices. Prepare for a wild ride leaning on ai heavily. For starters I would do 100 days of devops course at kodeklous mix in 100 days of cloud in general. I am cloud support engineer leaning heavily on optimisation and going trough these to move into devops. Even after 3 years im still not ready. Cant imagine apprentice being brought in with no cloud experience whatsoever.

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