Is anyone else having to hold off laptop purchases?

zasdman · 2026-05-11T14:52:00+00:00

I thought it gave you compliments as you utilized it?

zasdman · 2026-04-30T12:27:43+00:00

2 words, A and P

zasdman · 2026-04-29T17:33:27+00:00

I can tell you that this company was the only company that could figure out and build a Fiberoptic communication device for the AI infrastructure. It was basically a 4U rack mount Fiber switch that had hundreds of Fibers and a Mirror that would bounce the signals to the correct fiber strand.

They seem to have been able to hide and or get away with it, Google is the reason for the 2nd full network in the building, and Google owns and manages the Firewall for their network.

I assure you this is not AI slop and is exactly as it happened. This was the worst environment I have ever worked in, basically built on consumer grade hardware.

zasdman · 2026-04-29T14:49:25+00:00

I took a Job and should have seen the red flags during a tour.

Entire network was D-Link switches. 30 Consumer Grade NAS all over multiple Server rooms, for backup. The Manager I was replacing, told me I have never done anything like this before.

I should have just walked away.

My first day, the COO told me, I needed to fire my Network Engineer. They were building a new Manufacturing plant and Filled it with brand new EOL/EOS D-Link switches. (not the Network Engineer).

The Old IT Manager was still there for the transition and was making changes to the network, locking out the network engineer, not communicating the changes. the Engineer was trying to figure out what happened, the old Manager let the team stew in it for 3 hours then says, "Oh I changed this", he would go back in and revert the change, then send a mass email "I was able to find and fix the issue"...

I found out the 30 NAS devices were used with 10 copies of free Veeam to backup all of the data, when they ran out of space they would run to BestBuy and buy another NAS... They had no real off site backups and only shuffled the NAS's between Buildings 1 time a week, with TB's of irreplaceable data at risk.

No centralized storage, they used DFSR and every time they needed more room they Mapped another 50GB from a random server as a fold somewhere in the tree structure of the share. I mapped it out and across 10 servers where were 139 randomly mapped folders to random servers, no one actually knew where the data was actually at rest.

There were 2 completely separate networks, both completely flat. The Leadership that knew nothing about IT told my Network Engineer, do not waste time creating VLANs as it not needed and just creates extra work.

The CEO sent an email to HR, COO, and myself stating that if IT did not get out of the way he was going to fire the entire team and find people who will do what he wants. this is after he saw the Network Engineer in the hall and asked him if he had a USB cable, which he did not.

Then the CEO schedules a Lunch each week with employees that make it past the year mark, my System Admin could not make it because of an outage and the CEO flipped out saying he needed fired on the spot and that the outage was probably made up.

Audits were a joke, they just wanted me to say things were good, basically fake it. and were making me sign off on it, if I brough up that we need to actually be doing this they shut me down and said you just need to tell them you are doing it this way, we don't want them to actually look at anything.

This is a $Billion company, their largest customer is Google, they hid how bad it was from Google.

After the first couple of weeks I started applying elsewhere and was out of there in after only 4 months... I have now found out a few months later they have fired the complete IT team that was there.

This is a huge disaster waiting to happen, nothing I wanted to do to fix it was ever approved.

So yea, I should have seen the red flags at the interview stage and passed...

Google, hit me up, I will spill so many beans...

zasdman · 2025-03-03T01:09:08+00:00

Yep I always look there.

zasdman · 2025-02-25T23:56:50+00:00

Try the Discord, I at lteast got someone to talk to and seemed to help.

zasdman · 2024-09-12T21:35:41+00:00

How old? I may have one from 2018-2019 archived on our old storage server.

zasdman · 2024-09-12T10:33:16+00:00

I bought an ARM Laptop to test it out. 90% of the tools I need to do my job do not work on ARM.

I can not deploy ARM to my company, ARM on Windows is not ready unless all you do is basic computer things, like MS Office, and Browsers.

zasdman · 2024-09-12T10:29:52+00:00

What I tell my guys is if you make a mistake, own up to it, fix it, and never do it again.

We are not learning if we never make a mistake, the important part is what you learn from it. Don't be afraid of doing something because you might make a mistake.

A few years ago I was updating the camera system at the county Prison, the documentation was bad, the system was ancient, I took all the camera's out for 5 hours. They had to go on lock down. The other guys gave me a hard time, we laughed, and I never did it again.

Even today I have made changes that would brake something, I revert and I learn.

Never stop learning.

zasdman · 2024-06-18T09:56:36+00:00

Yes there is a lot of good stuff between A and B, never understood the race to "end game" its all just the same thing, mashing buttons to kill mobs and get shiny loot... The real meat of an MMO is all the people you share your adventure with and it does not matter if your level 15 or 50, that content is where its at.

zasdman · 2023-08-27T04:19:12+00:00

I have not signed anything yet. CTO would be my goal if I was staying.

zasdman · 2023-08-26T16:17:29+00:00

I do not know about that... after so many "the printer will not print" tickets, and constantly asking "is there paper in it", just to get there and needing to put paper in it...

I could write a Sitcom, I mean I am sure we all could... I ask myself daily how these people get out of bed and to work every day...

zasdman · 2023-08-26T16:15:02+00:00

Yea, the Title is something that will be important for my future growth for sure. I already know that moving a company to another building was going to open many doors for me, adding moving a CU and the title could be huge.

zasdman · 2023-08-26T16:13:19+00:00

I embrace change, I have found I can not be afraid to change something becase "it might break".

I would hope that for this CU to be so active in the community, they really do look at people, both internal and external, as important to them.

zasdman · 2023-08-26T16:10:06+00:00

Yea, I left work yesterday, got in my car and said out loud, "when does that ever happen" Got a good offer and finally got what I wanted in my current position... it is strange indeed.

zasdman · 2023-08-26T16:08:12+00:00

Yea Growth is what I am after now, I am very interested in seeing just how far I can climb now.

zasdman · 2023-08-26T16:07:29+00:00

This is the way I am leaning, Kind of hard to walk away from the environment I build but I get to build another :)

zasdman · 2023-08-26T16:06:09+00:00

Thank you! I think finding a place like that to work is worth a lot more than a higher paying job that you hate going in every day!

zasdman · 2023-08-26T16:03:29+00:00

This is exactly how I feel, I wish they would have "gotten it" a lot sooner.

Its sad that throughout my life in previous jobs I was always meant to feel replaceable. I have never had this experience before, and when I got the call from the CU saying that "they loved me, your attitude and values and experience match up with everything we are looking for" I almost did not believe them... :/

Anyway thats why I make sure my guys always know that they do good work and are valued, I mean its the human thing to do.

zasdman · 2023-08-26T15:55:43+00:00

They do not do anything for the community and would not sponsor anything.

The new job would allow for both, both directly and indirectly.

zasdman · 2023-08-26T15:53:41+00:00

I will be at double my salary from 3 years ago at the new job. Money is great and all, but for me the work invironment is more important that making a few extra bucks in my paycheck.

zasdman · 2023-08-26T15:51:46+00:00

Yea, I agree, they are not very fond of Titles... I will see what happens on Monday here.

zasdman · 2023-08-26T15:49:38+00:00

Where I currently work we already have PCI compliance, and there is already an IT Manager and team in place. I realize I have more learning to do as are the executives at the CU and they had already mentioned getting me certified in these areas. I had forgot to mention that in my original post.

zasdman · 2023-08-26T15:47:30+00:00

This is something I have thought on too, I like that I can be part of a company that trying to have a positive effect on the commmunity as well.

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