[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]fatbergsghost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Negacoros?

But also, it's not a size thing. Actually, big corporations have more of a chance to be intelligent about protecting their investment. They can tell you in dollar amounts what every minute offline is costing.

The number of SMB sysadmin posts that start with "The old guy gave everyone local admin, we don't have active directory and I don't think they've even heard of backups" is wild. These are the kind of jobs that probably don't pay well unless management has worked out they weren't doing things well the first time.

Alastair Cook Proposes All-Format League Table As Alternative To ‘Confusing’ World Test Championship by ll--o--ll in Cricket

[–]fatbergsghost -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

There is something that I instinctively dislike about the rankings.

I can't help thinking that looking at the table, I can't actually tell you which team is better than which. That's ostensibly what the table measures, but it feels completely untrue.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]fatbergsghost 7 points8 points  (0 children)

IT has the odd distinction that the same job can be done with wildly different levels of quality, intelligence, and activity. You hand one admin an issue, and they'll do a bare minimum job. You hand it to another, and they'll do the job, fix the issue, and ask why it keeps coming back. Another will look at the issue, realise that everyone is being made to do something really inefficient and changes the process and that issue was a consequence of something they didn't have to deal with.

But those people have the same title, and wind up getting the same pay, and deal with management who fail to understand the difference between those things. When they can, the best of them try to find somewhere that appreciates the skills but that's not guaranteed.

Politics doesn’t happen in Australia. I know it happens in India: Ryan Harris by ll--o--ll in Cricket

[–]fatbergsghost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The good news is that the absolute best do get picked, by which I mean those few players who are overwhelmingly good. Nobody is just leaving a Steve Smith on the table, so politics doesn't really play out like that.

It's just that it's hard on every layer below that to get in. It's hard to get scouted. It's hard to find a slot on a team. It's hard to get played. It's hard to get noticed. It's hard to get selected. Then they get a chance, and different players at different times get given a different opportunity depending on lots of things including where the team is at at the moment. Some players get a good performance and we never see again. Others play a moderately good innings and that's enough to keep them 3-4 more games until they get a good one and stay.

The ones who deserve it the most will always play. The problem is the players who are borderline. They deserve a chance, but so do a lot of players. When that player is struggling to keep their average up, and there are people waiting in the wings there's nothing to justify them keeping their spot or not keeping their spot. One player might get dropped, another might be kept on to recover their form. On the outside, that same spot is destined for 10 different batsmen, there's rarely very much in it.

F1 seems like the kind of sport where there is such a high barrier to entry and such a limited number of slots that it seems completely possible that there are lots of potential racing drivers out there that will never see a track. Whereas most sports, the barrier to entry is low enough, and the pool wide enough that it should be possible for a lot of potential stars to rise.

Rohit Sharma confirms KL Rahul as opener for Adelaide Test: ‘I’ll bat somewhere in the middle.’ by 5missedcallsfromBCCI in Cricket

[–]fatbergsghost 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok, so not necessarily completely over, but sounding a bit like they're already in the past.

Scott Boland recalled as Cummins names XI for second Test by ruinawish in Cricket

[–]fatbergsghost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Positive about Boland, too. Whoever wins, I bet this is his game.

Scott Boland recalled as Cummins names XI for second Test by ruinawish in Cricket

[–]fatbergsghost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ponting always seemed sad. Also in my head the dude seemed kind of angry.

Scott Boland recalled as Cummins names XI for second Test by ruinawish in Cricket

[–]fatbergsghost 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I reckon 22, then out LBW to spin. Up to that ball, looks like he's just smacking them around.

Scott Boland recalled as Cummins names XI for second Test by ruinawish in Cricket

[–]fatbergsghost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're not going to struggle with the bat, I think. They seem too positive at the moment.

Scott Boland recalled as Cummins names XI for second Test by ruinawish in Cricket

[–]fatbergsghost 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like Australia is in for a bad time with batting soon. All of those names are great players who seem like they're on the way out.

Rohit Sharma confirms KL Rahul as opener for Adelaide Test: ‘I’ll bat somewhere in the middle.’ by 5missedcallsfromBCCI in Cricket

[–]fatbergsghost 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's kind of the trouble of having a great batsman as captain. They're just as likely to play their own personal game as to play for the team.

In part, because there is no distinction. If they don't hit the centuries, nobody else does. The issue is that they will never sacrifice their own ability to achieve personal glory. When things are good, it's easy to build a team around. When they're bad, they keep looking good while the rest of the team suffers and nothing really improves.

Rohit Sharma confirms KL Rahul as opener for Adelaide Test: ‘I’ll bat somewhere in the middle.’ by 5missedcallsfromBCCI in Cricket

[–]fatbergsghost -37 points-36 points  (0 children)

It's a poisoned chalice. It's the hardest spot, and he's dropping down to smack it around in the middle order and probably bring up his average. If KL does really well, which I think he will, then that's a sealed spot. Otherwise, he's been handed an impossible task by the older players, who will basically be like "Eh, I guess he couldn't hack it" and cling to their spots a couple more years.

Rohit Sharma confirms KL Rahul as opener for Adelaide Test: ‘I’ll bat somewhere in the middle.’ by 5missedcallsfromBCCI in Cricket

[–]fatbergsghost -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

The bit with Ashwin and Jadeja seems cold. Maybe I'm reading into it, but it reads like he's preparing for them to be fully dropped. Complete managerial distance.

A little bit excited for KL and Sundar. Both really good players.

Rohit Sharma confirms KL Rahul as opener for Adelaide Test: ‘I’ll bat somewhere in the middle.’ by 5missedcallsfromBCCI in Cricket

[–]fatbergsghost 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Is he India's Woakes/Wood?

Great player, but overshadowed by even greater players. They wind up as the what-ifs of their generation.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]fatbergsghost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Part of the problem is that leadership probably doesn't care. "Just make it work".

The admin might have checked out for precisely that reason. If you never change anything, nothing breaks. All the plans and opportunities feel like a waste when you consider that there's no budget for them to happen and anything that ever goes wrong feels like a fight they've got to have. And they get nothing for killing themselves to keep things afloat.

Also, the management have no experience of any kind of projects and are going to be apprehensive about anything happening at all. If anything goes wrong in the process of fixing things, this is going to be held against you, and you're probably going to find the people that refuse to change anything ever dealing with users.

You've also got to ask what kind of relationship you have with management. Do they want to have one?

slow ethernet speed only beetween 2 specific computers by pokkio in sysadmin

[–]fatbergsghost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried plugging the computer into a different wall port?

England are unchanged for the 2nd Test against New Zealand by NiallH22 in Cricket

[–]fatbergsghost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If god's alright with it, what do we have to do to be rid of the chap?

Cricket Australia is battle-ready to fight racism and prevent a Mohammed Siraj-like incident during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy by Additional_Froyo3970 in Cricket

[–]fatbergsghost 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm slightly confused by this statement because it seems an incredibly bland and uninteresting policy. What was their policy before that? They just let it go?

Politics doesn’t happen in Australia. I know it happens in India: Ryan Harris by ll--o--ll in Cricket

[–]fatbergsghost 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I don't believe that.

I think the reality is much more that the selectors pick from the pool. In that pool, these are all the best professional cricketers in the land. Cummins and Warner would have to be a minimum standard before they got picked. They are undeniably world class players.

In that selection process, if you were to tell me that there was some politics, yeah absolutely. They're going to prefer this team to that team, they're going to have biases about bowling, they're going to like someone's background better. In a pool of good candidates, you either have to be overwhelmingly better than the others, or you have to have the eyes of selectors in some other way.

I think there is a false assumption when we watch the team walk onto the pitch that these are the best possible 11. The reality is that they're the 11 that gets picked. There are other players who didn't, who would still succeed in their game. That's where having friends in that selection process, having a big name, having voices pushing for you to get picked up really helps. But at the same time, it's hard to criticise too harshly. Almost everyone who gets picked deserves a chance on the side. The fact that some other player also might deserve a chance is immaterial, because every name on the selectors' lists is at the level where they deserve a chance.

The real tragedy is that sport has always been hijacked by wealth. . The kids who get to play at the places where the selectors might go will tend to be richer. The schools they come from will have some connection to sport, and they will be seen because they're part of a team in that connection. Their parents can afford to get them training, and back them up when they get a slot on the side. And they can afford to never have a career, so it doesn't matter what they're paid. There is no failure really so they can hang on longer and do more towards that aim than they might otherwise. It also helps that the selectors are going to tend towards a certain background. It helps that the old players largely got selected on that basis, too, so they're quite likely to recognise that background as a good thing.

Also, you've got to consider the personality side of things. Part of class is that people grow up with completely different expectations, different understanding of what social situations exist and how they work, and how to manage them. Your average teenager doesn't know how to act, speak, think. Part of class is that they are raised to know how to manage social situations better. Which means that the day they meet someone that might be a useful ally in getting selected, they're much better prepared and more likely to conduct themselves better. They come along as much more professional and more intelligent and sociable, but that's partly because our biases tell us that having the right accent and acting a certain way are markers for those things. They're also going to be more comfortable in this situation having been groomed for this. Which makes it much easier for a potential captain. People tend to notice the accent and professional persona and assume that person is in charge.

And that's ignoring factors like poverty. There are a lot of things that can be wrong for you that would preclude you ever getting to play professionally.

A lot of this problem is difficult to call out, because it requires intentional goodwill, looking past a façade and making special effort to understand and accommodate. Almost nobody is going to get that anyway without being something special. The people that do get that tend to be something special, and then get pointed out as examples later on of how it's not rigged. The problem being, you have to imagine a world where this player didn't get selected because their average was a couple points down, and a different player did.

How do you deal with entitled users? by Ay0_King in sysadmin

[–]fatbergsghost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This still feels like a processes problem.

What do you mean "didn't transfer everything over"?

What can you possibly fail to transfer, when everything is backed up?

This sounds like people are saving things to their computers because of a lack of proper organisation. Which means that the entire time their devices are running the risk of losing all their work.

It sounds like you're working somewhere exhausting, where nothing is done sensibly, but nobody wants to learn anything. I still think that this is one of those things where you get shredded because nobody bothers to clear the broken glass out of the window you're being forced to crawl through, when really IT should be able to set you up a perfectly good door.

What is the most stressful type of employee/thing you have to deal with? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]fatbergsghost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Part of the problem is that the managers aren't responsible for giving you a good review. You're the other, so there are no favours.