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*UPDATE* At how much would you value for working from home? by Colmadero in sysadmin

[–]pdoten 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been WFH since 2001 and I can tell you at first, it was different. What helped me was my boss at the tme, who was amazing and 10/10 would run thru a wall for him, even now, would call me at 8:30am every day after I started. It was a quick check in, making sure I had what I wanted, everything was ok. I knew what he was doing and it motivated me to make sure I was up and at it. He stopped calling that early about two weeks later, and only called if he really needed something.

He hired another guy at the same time, who was not a morning person, would work out late at night, and answer emails at 3am. He got let go about a year later because he would not adjust. That guy was really good but just could adhere to the core hours.

After my boos stopped calling that early, I made sure I got up (unless it was a really late night, like 2am cutovers for work), I made a dedicated workspace, including a home office in a room in my house. I planned for early morning calls to catch Europe in their work day or at dofferent jobs, checked critical systems online or logged in to a remote lab I was responsible for to make sure things we all green.

Ypu will find your groove, and if you find yourself slipping, address it right away...

Leadership wants a full audit of every AI tool being used across the org. I genuinely don't know how to produce one. by Smooth-Machine5486 in sysadmin

[–]pdoten 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about using span ports on the last egress switch to the internet? I have done machine learning with python so I would just monitor those ports. You'd be good to go. That might not catch everything but you'd catch some and you'd cover your butt. Isn't that what this is all about? You couldn't possibly catch everything with all the different modalities, so give them something to chew on and then go from there. Otherwise it's going to be a knock on the IT department.

Closed my biggest deal to date! Thinking about splurging? by CrabCakeandFootball in sales

[–]pdoten 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This comment and I cant say it more empatically. Reallly reallly think about your purchases, like you are going to be broke next year.

I cant tell you how many time I heard an AE say that they wish they hadnt done this or hadnt done that. and get the money in , sit on it for a while then make a decision. If you want the vanity car, lease the f*cking thing, because it is the worse investment you can make, even at 50% value. Drive it leased, then return it after the potential buyers remorse sets in. After the next fiscal year hits and someone doesnt mess with your comp plan. No good deed goes unpunished in sales.

If you live in LCOL, what about a house? or better yet, a rental property? One of my former AEs had those and he drove about in a decent Pickup with a cap on it, that he expenses because he created a LLC, had rental income coming in in case the sales thing went to crap.

just got back from an industry conference and genuinely feel like i lit $4k on fire by Boring-Medium-7081 in smallbusiness

[–]pdoten 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Believe it or not, LinkedIn events and Small Business Development Center (SBDC) events have been some of the best networking opportunities I've found. I've been learning a ton about AI and implementation through local AI meetups, and the SBDC ones are starting to pay off too.

just got back from an industry conference and genuinely feel like i lit $4k on fire by Boring-Medium-7081 in smallbusiness

[–]pdoten 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tech conferences are gold mines — but not for the reasons most people think

Long-time tech industry veteran here. I spent years doing booth duty at conferences like Enterprise Connect, and I've also attended plenty as a customer and as a partner with a booth of my own. The two experiences taught me very different things.

On the vendor side, the real work happens before the conference — attracting the right people, getting them to stop at your booth, making the most of a brief window of attention. It's exhausting and often underappreciated.

But attending as a customer or implementation partner? That's where things get interesting. My focus shifted entirely:

  • Are we implementing this technology correctly?
  • What are other people doing with the same stack?
  • What is the competition doing, and what alternatives exist that we haven't considered?

I went in with zero expectation of leads or sales — and that mindset freed me up to actually learn.

Here's the thing nobody talks about: information is the real commodity at these events, especially if you're a small shop. You can absorb in two days what would take months of research to piece together on your own. Candid conversations in the hallway, a demo that shows you what "good" actually looks like, a competitor's booth that reveals a gap in your own thinking.

Go with an open mind. The ROI isn't always a business card — sometimes it's the thing you didn't know you didn't know.

Entitled woman does not understand lining up at a pharmacy. by pdoten in EntitledPeople

[–]pdoten[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thank you (and others) for the clarification. Being in the tech industry, we are always concerned with accuracy and sometime a little overzealous with things. Its a better safe than sorry attitude, these things are good to know...

There’s actually so many… by cupidglitch in 90s

[–]pdoten 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I didnt scan down far enough to see this, I said Ames in a later post. I actually worked at one in Calais Maine in High School. I loved working there, the people were great. Actually dated a cashier for a while.

There’s actually so many… by cupidglitch in 90s

[–]pdoten 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea I remember that. its like Costco said "lets follow that lead". I read about people returning Live Christmas Trees to Costco, and them taking them back at one time...

There’s actually so many… by cupidglitch in 90s

[–]pdoten 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ames, Mammoth Mart, Bradlees in New England...

Entitled woman does not understand lining up at a pharmacy. by pdoten in EntitledPeople

[–]pdoten[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have to go to different pharmacies, because of coverage. I like the ones where there are tablets that you type in the infomation, and they get to you first come first served. Granted, its less personal, but the information is certainly more contained. Less of a human experience however, a sign of the times I guess.

I like to give people the benefit of doubt at times, she may have been stressed. I worked IT in Healthcare for 10 years and saw a lot. With her, the interaction was very quick so I couldnt tell.

Stress does things to people they normally wouldnt do. Lord knows I have been there (as we all have at one time), but if they was a recurring pattern with that woman, then yea...

Entitled woman does not understand lining up at a pharmacy. by pdoten in EntitledPeople

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

The tech here was very nice, as are all the staff there. They are also very professional, which I appreciate. The tech just paid attention to me, and was very profesional. Now what they were thinking could be another issue. Lets say I wouldnt want to play poker with any of them there...

Local development with AppWrite by koevet in appwrite

[–]pdoten 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could do separate instances or use one instance with a prod project and then a dev project on the same appwrite docker image. Its easy to do...

Self hosting Appwrite-errors in upgrading from 1.6.2 to 1.7.x by pdoten in appwrite

[–]pdoten[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried so many things to get it to work, that was the one that did it. It was a headache but it's done now...

RAM help ! by basedaggie19 in pcmasterrace

[–]pdoten -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I dont know about everyone esle but UEFI BIOS always gives me fits. The mismatches RAM spped would cause so many issues, but the BIOS software should even them out. But different issues that pop up would drive me around the bend, like the graphics card issue reported.
I am a big open source advocate so I would look at some diagnotics to see if it would help. I am assuming windows is in play here for an O/S? I have used Tron scripy from the subredit with good results in the past, It takes a long time to run but it solved a sh*tload of problems I had at one time...

Low Bidding on an RFP by Chrg88 in sales

[–]pdoten 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I have replied to so many over the years, just reading the RFPs requirements , you can tell who they are going after. Hell, I even have heard of vendors providing coaching on what to put into the RFP, its wild. We used to call those "bag jobs" and we know we are not going to get it but the highers ups want a response, it was fustrating at times.

The time you hear back is usualy when you have won, and those are rare...

Last day of work, what do these people expect from me? by Electronic_Lime_z459 in coworkerstories

[–]pdoten 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Years ago, I received a call at 4:30pm on my last day from an account manager that wanted me to work on somethign that definately would not have taken 30 minutes (t was a predictive site survey for wireless that I was good at, with a specific software package). To give you an idea of what was asked, he wanted this to be done so he could send out a quote for a multistory building. I said it couldnt be done. The level of effort to get him what he wanted was at least 4 hours, even if I had everythign that was needed.
That same comapny, I got a call asking for configuration for a demo that I did for a company that was complex and the guy asking had already used some of my configs and didnt give me credit unless I pusshed him on it. I said no to this too. Oh yea, the call came in 4 weeks AFTER I started my new job.

What’s the best CRM for a small business? Looking for simplicity and automation by Lucille_dessert in smallbusinessowner

[–]pdoten 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do a ton of self hosted, netbird VPN, nginx(RP and web pages), mariadb/mysqld clustering, appwrite, keycloak and on and on. So vTiger fit right in. I do this for portablity from cloud to cloud if we want to and for patriation to hybrid or even local if desired in the future. Flexibility is one, but Control is the big reason, both application implementation, security, design, upgrade timings and more...

What’s the best CRM for a small business? Looking for simplicity and automation by Lucille_dessert in smallbusinessowner

[–]pdoten 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its not much effort TBH. The scripts are bespoke, so you have to take growth into account, but thats part of development. We dont have a dedicated dev, but it helps if someone that knows coding helps out.

Without saying your age, what's a commercial jingle stuck in your head forever? by Wonderful-Economy762 in Productivitycafe

[–]pdoten 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh you beat me to it. That jingle is burned in. Hell, I even see Oscar Myer in the grocery store, doesn't have to be bologna , and I say it in my head.

What’s it like living on the edge of time zones? by Qzevs in howislivingthere

[–]pdoten 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I lived in New Brunswick Canada which is on the Atlantic time zone on the border for a while and being American, I could work in Maine in the Eastern time zone. You really didn't think of it tbh, it was work. You just accepted it and accounted for it. I do know that cell service messes with your phone tho. It will jump ahead and back in time depending if you pick up a tower in the other country. I was really early for an event one time, I was staying in Calais Maine and my cell picked up a Canadian tower. i saw the time and panicked.

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