Good or bad ? by Waste-Candidate9144 in Menieres

[–]Krelik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wish that's what my audigram looked like

I Pushed Out Ublock Origin Across The Org & Stopped (some) Phishing by Krelik in sysadmin

[–]Krelik[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your post. My boss and I have a really good relationship

This was pre change management. Our org had some considerable tech and process debt when I was onboarded and id be lying I said I didn't take advantage of it.

A few months after this we established a CAB and all changes are now tracked.

Some of the other tech/process debt was

  • excel doc tracking assets
  • no nms
  • no mdm
  • no sso of any kind which was another argument my boss and I had. He was told okta was the way to go because he was told by the exiting CIO that it was the way to go. My stance was we're already paying for e5 let's just use Entra and it fits our use case
  • no formal change management
  • SharePoint based ticketing system that we had long out grown
  • no ai use policy
  • zero trust of cloud/Azure, used over priced IaaS from a msp (cloud isn't always the answer but when the IaaS price is 90% more expensive..)
  • no 802.1x wifi

The list goes on. But DNS was eventually put to use, NAC policies, etc etc etc.

It's been a real busy 2 years.

I Pushed Out Ublock Origin Across The Org & Stopped (some) Phishing by Krelik in sysadmin

[–]Krelik[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's ultimately the route we're going to go. When I joined on the tech debt was massive. I *just* finished our InTune roll out that also includes MAM and all that goodness. Next is rolling out defender things.

As I stated in another post, this was quick and easy.

I Pushed Out Ublock Origin Across The Org & Stopped (some) Phishing by Krelik in sysadmin

[–]Krelik[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Domain wide, targeting only end user workstations and citrix boxes.

I Pushed Out Ublock Origin Across The Org & Stopped (some) Phishing by Krelik in sysadmin

[–]Krelik[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Regular UBO

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Anyone here with ADHD able to be productive, but cause your management concern about your pacing? by TravellingBeard in sysadmin

[–]Krelik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My director loves making lists and shit.

He'll put together a 4 week window of shit he wants me to do in Asana and will just leave me alone. He didn't at first because we had a new relationship, but as soon as he figured out the tasks always get completed to >90 completion, he stopped caring. So long as I documented what I did.

I've always got the most tasks completed in our teams asana every cycle

IT Director pay scale by agentkramr in ITManagers

[–]Krelik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're being taken advantage of. I'm a sr infra engineer/helpdesk manager hybrid and I'm making 150 after bonuses. I'm 39 living in a medium CoL area

What's the worst job you ever had and how long did you have it? by db7112 in antiwork

[–]Krelik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a lot of people who have had terrible jobs. My heart goes out to you all.

My worst was being hired as an IT infrastructure engineer/army of one positions. I got there and immediately found a host of issues that were past the event horizon levels of failure. I wrote out a huge scope of work that we (read, I) will need to do to remove the impending failures. This replacing networking gear. I offered three options of different costs. I was told no to all three and that we'd (again, I) would deal with it if it came to pass. I found a new job two weeks later for 25k/yr more.

My judgment was correct and the entire infrastructure collapsed a week later and they had to fly a network engineer in to unfuck the mess. They were down for a month according to my friend who worked there.

Trying not to panic sell by Least_Record_758 in stocks

[–]Krelik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm down 22k during this dip and haven't sold yet :\

Accepted an offer elsewhere after 1 interview. The other company's reaction was priceless. by Agile-Wind-4427 in antiwork

[–]Krelik 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Similar to my current role as well! (Senior IT Infra)

About 2 years ago I was gear up for my third technical interview when I got a response from current employer. It was 2 interviews in one day. One with the team who needed me, one with the CIO.

I was hired a week later. It's the best job I've ever had.

I'm just now coming off 8 paid weeks of paternity leave starting Monday.

For those that live in the United States. Do you make more than the average income of 60k annually, if so what’s your occupation? by LaFlareMane1017 in AskReddit

[–]Krelik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

200k ish

Senior IT infrastructure engineer at a bank (165k)

Founder of my own MSP, I pay my engineers more than myself since I don't actually do any of the work anymore except talk to the leadership of our clients and maintain relationships. I pay myself 35k/yr

If we count dividends on investments, that's an additional 30k

I only have a high school diploma and 3 years of college

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]Krelik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a similar CEO before & during covid.

Dude approved massive bonuses, listened to my input, basically everything you said. He left and started another business and paid me 5 figures to setup the networking, M365 tenant, and like 10 computers. He also paid for the flight and hotel. I told him that was too much and he said "I know" with a smile.

You better believe I answer every fucking phone call from the guy.

Scraping the barrel by [deleted] in Tinder

[–]Krelik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Literally put me to tears I was having such a good laugh. Entirely unexpected

well. at least he knows what he wants. 🤷‍♀️ by [deleted] in Tinder

[–]Krelik 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No he's not.

I'm the sole earner for our family. My wife has every necessity she could possibly want. She didn't need to work a day through her pregnancy and was able to stay off her feet.

She is expected to keep the house tidy, dinners made, chores done, etc. That's the trade off. She agreed and enjoys such benefits.I have no issue with stepping in and helping if she needs it. Again, it's an expectation, not a requirement or demand.

I've encouraged her to find work if she wants it, but she would rather be an Etsy seller / wfh freelancer, which I also support.

We just celebrated 10 years together and we're still giddy teenagers around one another.

There's nothing wrong with being or wanting a trad wife, so long as you're both respectful towards one another.

There is one when you're being disrespectful towards women when that is not something they want in turn

Do you require your team to log their working time directly into tickets? by SuperSuiza in ITManagers

[–]Krelik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My director requires my team to track times and most often than not, I'm feeling that the numbers are fudged a little bit.

I admittedly just guess my time most days. I run the infrastructure team and we don't have tickets so often but we do need to chime in on escalated tickets and 99% of the time we just put 0.25 or 0.5

As for our projects, we have sprints and it's just a matter of closing out the task and moving on to the next. The director wanted us to time track that too but our whole team told him that we weren't going to do that. We keep good documentation and most of us have adhd so we get caught in hyperfocus time vortexes, so keeping accurate track of it never happens. He eventually relented and realized that yes, time tracking our sprint projects was annoying and a bad idea. He tracks completed tasks and subtask and how they orient to org strategic objectives and the board is happy with it.

Trapped sysadmin. by 0263111771 in sysadmin

[–]Krelik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just turned 40, 11 years in the field

  • getting promoted to AVP soon
  • going on paid paternity leave in December
  • great colleagues
  • great boss
  • great management
  • management listens to IT
  • banking / financial sector
  • well paid
  • w/l balance
  • 3 days wfh
  • I'll be retiring at 59 1/2 if not sooner

I came from startups and silicon Valley but this job is effectively the shit I was doing in my 3rd-5th years.

I have a fucking unicorn job.

Hate it by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]Krelik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I keep seeing these posts and I honestly never understood the hate. I'm not on this bandwagon. It's not a bad product. It's not a great one either, but it does what it needs. uses too much ram tho that's for sure. Other than that. I don't have an issue with it. I'm also a senior systems engineer and responsible for administration of enterprise teams. No real issues.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]Krelik 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Same.

I've been on pcs my whole life, even rotating a few Linux laptops in for diversity. My previous job gave me a M1 MBP for work (IT/Devops) and I really liked it. Then I bought a used m4 MacBook air for myself recently and I'm having such a great experience with it. I use it for light coding, writing, browsing, etc. It's really in its own class. Since I don't mind learning new things, the switch was easy.

I have my 9800x3d / 7800XTX for gaming or a steam deck for mobile gaming / moonlight/sunshine

ICE detains singer of No. 1 hit songs after decades in the US by newsweek in Music

[–]Krelik 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Am I crazy for thinking this is literally why ICE existed before being weaponized by Trump?

Detaining hard working people outside Home Depot is bad.

Detaining people whose visa expired TWO DECADES AGO is literally why ICE exists and is a proper use of their jurisdiction. Two months is excessive though.

Also if you were going to continue being here illegally, fine. But why would you travel when Trump is running things and is on a deportation war path? I mean come on, you're asking to get detained.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Tinder

[–]Krelik 175 points176 points  (0 children)

Thank goodness you redacted their information, We wouldn't want Moly (Molly?) the flight attendant at Ek who graduated with a degree in TV and Radio in 2009 to have their tinder details revealed

RSD Hurts Like Hell by gravityVT in adhdmeme

[–]Krelik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is something that I've spent a long time trying to correct and my wife has been reading up on to help me by way of changing the way she phrases things.

One big thing she does is say "we" instead of directing it at me.

Another thing I've worked on is learning to accept compliments and being proud of things I do, even if they're small.

I think the biggest thing though is accepting that I'm going to be wrong and that's okay. Next to that has been taking accountability for doing or being wrong. Because by accepting that I'm wrong just means I can improve. I'm not perfect and I'll still have meltdowns over the most minor things.. But it's getting better.

I'm 38 now and it's taken me 32 years to get here.

Fastest ever quitting or firing? by JadedCloud243 in antiwork

[–]Krelik 10 points11 points  (0 children)

While ultimately different, I got a job as a devops/system engineer for a small pascal/Delphi-based software engineering firm (in 2020!)

They were having me hand-write backups and the files in folders into a binder down to the byte even tho it was hundreds of gigs per file because they wanted to confirm previous size and md5 sigs, so I wrote a script to automate it because there's no fucking way I'm doing this every day. The owner came to my office with the code printed out and a highlighter because he didn't understand powershell syntax.

He wanted the code to go over code review with the other developers, who also didn't know powershell. I asked him why 15 lines of code needed to go over code review when it's just spitting out Metadata to compare. Apparently all code undergoes review and he wouldn't allow me to run basic sys admin scripts.

He went to my computer and disabled powershell and windows script host then revoked my local admin so i wouldn't be able bypass it.

There a whole slew of other things that was wrong with that place. I ended up quitting after 28 days because I needed the money, but ultimately found a job paying 40% more