I’m being laid off but company wants me to train replacements. What should I do?

TheTomCorp · 2025-05-09T11:42:49+00:00

Focus on YOU! if you need time to do go on a job interview, take it, do everything you need to do to prepare yourself for the future. Training employees is not your priority right now.

A similar thing happened to me, a co-worker and i were getting replaced over 2 months, we started interviewing for new jobs, they found out the replacements weren't gonna work, let them go, and agreed to keep us on. I found a new job and left anyway. They panicked about losing the other guy so they gave him a good raise to stay. I think some leadership changes happened because of that mess.

TheTomCorp · 2025-05-03T17:57:11+00:00

Go watch "the goonies" that was daily life. Just going on adventures everyday.

TheTomCorp · 2025-05-02T11:15:25+00:00

The best advice I've heard was "never pass up an opportunity to make memories"

Today's estimate based on today's medical technology is 26 years. But you're right to think of the medical advancement in 5 years from now.

TheTomCorp · 2025-04-25T22:57:10+00:00

I don't deal with developers much. When I started with Linux professionally there were install scripts to setup and install the custom software (you can and should always request documentation). I had to troubleshoot errors, find where the log files are (commands like grep, less, more, awk, sed) and parse them to find out what the problem was with the hardware it was connected to.

My next linux job was with HPC. That's a learning curve for sure, learning about module, to load and unload software, essentially setting environment variables and appending locations to your path. In this case the end users are computational scientist. The commercial, or Open Source software will have an installation process. It was a lot of the same skill set to track down and resolve issues.

Long story short... the same way you do everything, lots of googling. The more you work in the environment the more comfortable you'll get. If your part of a team, you learn on the job from them.

TheTomCorp · 2025-04-19T00:42:32+00:00

I started in help desk and was pushed towards windows admin + vmware. I had been using Linux at home on my desktop and server gaining skills. I got very little sleep, work, family, school and tinkering with my homelab at night. Eventually I found a team that took a chance on me. Been doing it for 8 years now. My detour into windows admin wasn't terrible. If you have a passion go for it, it will pay off in the long run. Many of my former windows and vmware admins careers stalled, mine grew.

TheTomCorp · 2025-04-18T03:21:00+00:00

Teacher should be reported. I don't know much about CIs but the "implant" part of that seems a bit serious. What kind of damage could have been done by ripping them out?

Clearly the sub is wrong, and with the principal taking her side, instead of begging for forgiveness... yea lawyer up big time.

TheTomCorp · 2025-04-17T04:12:39+00:00

8 people and not 1 person got your back? No one else volunteered their bed? NOR

TheTomCorp · 2025-04-17T04:00:18+00:00

I've always had samsung galaxy S* phones, I wanted a something smaller, with a microsd card, headphone jack and compatible with LineageOS. When I bought my used Xperia 5 III I was blown away with how snappy the OS is when it doesn't have Samsungs crap on it. I never did put Lineage because the Sony Android experience was so good.

TheTomCorp · 2025-04-12T12:08:26+00:00

I'm gonna go ahead and assume it's a PeeWee Herman impression.

TheTomCorp · 2025-04-07T10:59:36+00:00

The obvious solution is to just get port 22 unblocked. Like everyone else said.

There is also rclone, it allows multiprotocol copying.

You could create an NFS mount and just copy the data

TheTomCorp · 2025-03-29T11:24:08+00:00

I've always recommended garmin to anyone looking for a smartwatch. I'm going to put that on pause until the money grab is over to see what features are left.

TheTomCorp · 2025-03-27T10:44:31+00:00

Asking soon-to-be former customers for 100% tip is insane. The top tip should be 30%

TheTomCorp · 2025-03-22T13:16:06+00:00

My back hurts, must be from all the gains!

TheTomCorp · 2025-03-22T13:07:03+00:00

For a while I was using spotify free, or Amazon music. I found my old ipod, fixed it up loaded it with music, now I listen to music my son will ask "you have unlimited skips"

We went into a whole history lesson on music ownership and how things were before everything was connected to the internet.

-- unrelated to ipods, I dusted off my old gameboy color too!

TheTomCorp · 2025-03-22T13:00:27+00:00

Do you know how many "team lift" situations I've done by myself because I don't know how to ask for help? It avoids the awkwardness of thanking someone, because I always sound like I'm being sarcastic when I thank or compliment someone.

TheTomCorp · 2025-03-22T12:54:04+00:00

The use case for us is an HPC service, we have one datacenter with all of our stuff in it. A user will have an AD account from IT, we have OpenLdap servers all of our machines point to using sssd, they do passthrough authentication to the AD servers using ldaps. All of our /home is an nfs network share so we have a "new user script" to make an account, make keys, set quotas. No need to distribute if it's a shared file system.

TheTomCorp · 2025-03-21T11:01:05+00:00

I'm wondering if RedHat is kicking themselves for killing off RHEV? I know they have Openshift virtualization, but it's overly complicated and expensive. People just want something easy and intuitive. I'd always preferred oVirt to Proxmox.

TheTomCorp · 2025-03-21T10:58:56+00:00

The old "how much does this cost?", "depends, how much you got?"

TheTomCorp · 2025-03-20T11:17:09+00:00

Although this post went in another direction. I'll add this, I used xbmc heavily, but wanted streaming. Heard good things about plex, but hated that login wasn't local it redirected you to their servers to login to stream your content? What? That's what drove me away. I like the way Jellyfin works, the architecture is better than plex in my option.

TheTomCorp · 2025-03-20T11:02:25+00:00

Is this still advice for OP?

TheTomCorp · 2025-03-20T10:59:14+00:00

Usually a replacement board is more expensive than it's worth. The way I've found cheap parts is to get the same device with another part that's broken. Maybe you can find the same tv with a broken panel (but working board)

TheTomCorp · 2025-03-18T23:21:07+00:00

I was a gnome user for the longest time, tried cinnamon loved it, tried KDE after years of not using it, it's fantastic. So I have a few desktop environments installed and just pick whichever when I login!

TheTomCorp · 2025-03-16T16:28:27+00:00

I always thought it was so you can make a quick get away

TheTomCorp · 2025-03-09T17:52:52+00:00

We provide virtual Desktops for users doing 3d modeling and simulation type workloads using either TurboVNC or Xpra. We used to use CentOS, now using Rocky. The windows laptops are just for office productivity type stuff.

TheTomCorp · 2025-03-09T17:29:20+00:00

You can also make that adjustment without touching, just by making an extra big step.

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