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- Is it me, or have many IT recruiters morphed into annoying telemarketers?
- I think I'll have to remove my resume from every online job board because the volume of pointless emails and telephone calls is never ending.Case in point:"Hello, my name is and I saw your resume online (where might I ask exactly?)". "Please send me an updated resume and...
- Tags: Why Me Worry?, job, information technology, recruiter, salary, consulting, phone, IT People, sales
- Discussion threads 2007-05-09
- Is cable in Verizon's crosshairs?
- This sounds like a witch-hunt by Verizon to maintain its monopolyAlso, I cannot understand how a jury has found Vonage guilty of patent infringement on a techhnology that was never patented by Verizon to begin with. That's the problem with the legal system today. It gets misinformed jurors...
- Tags: INTERNET, Telephony, VOIP, Network technology, cable, Why Me Worry?, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-13
- New British Lottery Scam targeting random email addresses
- Check out this scam going around the net.BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERYPO Box 1010Liverpool L70 1NL,United Kingdom ================================TICKET NO: 8603775966738REF NO: UK/776090X2/23BATCH NO: 013/06/8394369================================Dear Winner, This is to inform you that we have reviewed and accepted your completed fund release form, based on this your prize money shall be remitted to you...
- Tags: Why Me Worry?, e-mail, courier agency, e-mail address
- Discussion threads 2007-04-10
- HP Surestore DAT 24x6 Autoloader Stuck in Self Test Mode
- I have an HP Surestore DAT 24x6 that I acquired from a company that was disposing of old equipment they no longer needed. Anyhow, when I turn the unit on, all three LEDs' (2 green and one orange) blink in unisen and the LCD display shows "Self Test" indefinitely....
- Tags: Why Me Worry?, HP SureStore, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-06
- More tales of annoying "technical recruiters" who are clueless
- Look at the email conversation I had with this one bottom feeder:Recruiter:I had viewed your resume online and would like to get an opportunity to speak to you. I'm working on a position for a client of mine that looks like it would be a good fit with your background....
- Tags: Why Me Worry?, e-mail, recruiter, Recruiter, job, relocation
- Discussion threads 2007-03-28
- Are companies really that stupid when writing up IT job requirements?
- I just got an email from a recruiter who found an old copy of my resume somewhere online. Anyhow, the company he is representing is looking for an Exchange 2003 engineer with heavy experience. Ok, that's no problem for me, but reading further into the job requirements revealed...
- Tags: E-mail servers, information technology, Why Me Worry?, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
- Discussion threads 2007-03-16
- Microsoft's DST patch for Windows 2000 does not work as advertised
- Early this Monday morning, we have come to the sad realization that Microsoft's supposed tzedit tool did not do what it was supposed on the Windows 2000 server and workstations, thus keeping the time as as it was before DST went into effect. We found a fix, which requires...
- Tags: Servers, Microsoft Windows, Why Me Worry?, Microsoft Corp., DST patch, TZEdit Problem, Microsoft Windows 2000
- Discussion threads 2007-03-12
- What's with the recent rash of dumb questions and postings from India?
- They range from 2 word illegible sentences to dumb technical questions being posted from people in India whose profiles claim they are "Desktop Support" or "Value Added Resellers". Folks, these are perfect examples of the kind of "quality experts"
- Tags: off-topic, Why Me Worry?
- Discussion threads 2007-03-09
- Technical Recuiters Who Don't Fully Read Resumes
- I'm sure this topic has come up time and time again and has been the source of many threads, but here is my 2 cents on this matter. Lately, I've seen an increase in the amount of unsolicited emails from I.T. recruiters...aka...headhunters. I'm personally annoyed at all the...
- Tags: career, e-mail, headhunters, job, recruiter, recruiters, Why Me Worry?
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- Is Microsoft directly responsible for declining salaries in IT?
- I'm no economist or financial analyst, but here is how I link Microsoft to declining salaries in IT:Windows Vista requiring more expensive hardware and a complete desktop application overhaul will require IT departments to stretch their IT budgets thin for new equipment purchases, leaving less money for salary increases of...
- Tags: career, hardware, information technology, Microsoft Corp., salary, senior guy, software, tool, Why Me Worry?, windows
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- Desktop Support Staff Should Not Assume That All Users Are Stupid
- My wife works for a large international management consulting firm, whose name I won't disclose for legal reasons and as not to embarrass the company due to the unprofessional behavior of some of its desktop support staff. Anyhow, my wife's company issued laptop was acting up and causing her...
- Tags: desktop, Why Me Worry?, it management, hardware, desktop support, laptop computer, help desk
- Discussion threads 2007-02-13
- Stop this Vista Hype and Insanity! I'm still working on my W2K3 MCSE
- Sheeeeeeesh! I don't see companies throwing out the baby with the bathwater and dumping their XP Pro workstations or Windows 2003 servers in favor of Vista. Vista is a repeat of what happened with Windows XP when it first came out. When XP was first released, companies...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Why Me Worry?, xp, software, hardware, windows vista, Microsoft Windows XP, server
- Discussion threads 2007-02-08
- Do you use a seperate PC or create a virtual machine to run P2P software?
- I created a separate virtual machine using VMWare to run peer to peer file sharing software. The unfortunate thing with many end users is that they don't realize that P2P software like Limewire and Morpheuus is loaded with adware, spyware, and all sorts of nasty junk that one would...
- Tags: P2P, P2P software, Why Me Worry?, vmware, windows, software, hardware, p2p file sharing, PC, virtual machine
- Discussion threads 2007-02-06
- Are ISPs' doing enough to combat the fight against online predators?
- Seeing a few episodes on NBC regarding the topic of online predators who troll the chat rooms looking to have sexual relations with minors, that got me thinking about what the responsibilites are of the ISPs' who run these chat rooms. Usually, it would require teams of people from...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, monitor, off-topic, online predators, Why Me Worry?
- Discussion threads 2006-09-26
- As an independent contractor, would you ever take a W2 job again?
- There are both pros' and cons' of being an independent contractor or a salaried employee, but in my personal opinion, I'd rather be an independent contractor due to my unpleasant experiences working as a salaried employee and being subjected to stupid corporate politics and incompetent managers. As an independent...
- Tags: career, consulting, corporate politic, independent contractor, job, politics, Why Me Worry?
- Discussion threads 2006-09-26
- CiscoWorks LMS 2.5 doesn't recognize 6504E switches
- I saw this problem with RME Resource Manager Essentials4.0.3 and upgraded to version 4.0.4. All other Cisco routers and switches are detected fine via SNMP and show up properly under device management, but the 6504E layer 3 switches show up as unknown devices. I contacted Cisco about it...
- Tags: Network administration, NETWORKING, Cisco Systems Inc., CiscoWorks
- Discussion threads 2006-09-20
- Should providers of unsecure Wi-Fi hotspots be fined?
- I'm sure we have all seen groups of college students, business people, teenagers, even senior citizens all using their laptops to surf the web using the wireless networks available in places like Starbucks, public libraries, shopping malls, and other retail stores. These wireless networks employ no encryption or security...
- Tags: laptop computer, security, Why Me Worry?, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi hotspot, wireless, wireless network security
- Discussion threads 2006-09-20
- Consulting Assignment from Hell!
- 1. Spent first month without a PC to use, and I couldn't use my own laptop because of their "corporate policy".2. To use my own laptop, they would require me to have it "sanitized" by their "security team" and install God only knows what on it. No thanks!...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2006-09-18
- IT Executives who make exhorbitant promises to corporate stake holders
- Having worked over 4 years in a large international law firm, I have seen my share of corporate politics and BS to last me a lifetime. One of my biggest annoyances and frustrations were with IT managers, directors, and executives who simply could not say "no" to a managing...
- Tags: IT Executives
- Discussion threads 2006-09-14
- Ethnic Discrimination in Consulting Job in NYC
- Ethnic Discrimination in Consulting Job in NYCI was recently emailed about a contracting assignment for a bank that is looking to upgrade/migrate their existing NT network to AD and Windows 2003. One of their requirement is that the candidate be fluent in Mandarin Chinese. WTF?? If a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, job discrimination, CHINESE, Mandarin Chinese, Why Me Worry?, career, discrimination, ethnic discrimination, Microsoft Windows NT, Chinese Mandarin, consulting, English Language
- Discussion threads 2006-07-28
