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And tomorrow's going to be my 4th day this week going into the office. To help set up the new office. I was working on the conference rooms today. I hate setting up and supporting conference rooms.

And there's issues with email. Like sometimes stuff doesn't do through. My brehs, we use Google and it was set up before I got here. How is it misconfigured? How??

I haven't figured out what's causing it yet. And then there's another issue. The company founders email group is skipping the inbox and got straight to archive.

There's other stupid stuff. Like cyber insurance forms I had to help fill out. And yesterday I had to help the building facilities guy mount the conference room TVs.

I took the job because I wanted experience with MDM and in depth SSO/IAM stuff.

There's cool projects, like switching to the new MDM. But there's never time to work on it. Like even when I come home from work, there's still other stuff to work on.

There's talk of bringing in a contractor for the mdm project, but that was like what I joined the company to do. But maybe it

And there was this Gitlab pipeline which was cool to work on. But then I didn't get it working. My manager had me work with an engineer on it and she doesn't know what's wrong either. So I haven't touched it in days. Because I've been so busy.

Tomorrow I'm meeting with the new HR head to go over how he wants to set up the new hire onboarding workflow in Jira. Then I meet with the video conferencing vendors to setup the Zoom rooms, but I think I'm already done that on my own. And then I'm meeting with Okta to talk about potentially switching from Azure.

Have you checked your MX records to make sure they're pointing to Google mail servers? You can use MXToolbox to make sure your mail directed to your domain is pointing to Google.

If your company is using a third-party spam filter, your MX records should be pointing to the spam filter's servers. If you have a third-party spam filter but your MX records are still pointing to Google, you may end up with your email being "double-filtered".

I don't know much about Google's spam filter. But I know Microsoft's spam filter cannot be disabled. So if you're using a third-party spam filter, you have to make their IP addresses a trusted source so that any email forwarded to Microsoft 365 doesn't get stuck in a second spam filter.

I would also check if the guy has any rules to filter his email.

Create rules to filter your emails - Gmail Help (google.com)

MX Lookup Tool - Check your DNS MX Records online - MxToolbox
 

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Have you checked your MX records to make sure they're pointing to Google mail servers? You can use MXToolbox to make sure your mail directed to your domain is pointing to Google.

If your company is using a third-party spam filter, your MX records should be pointing to the spam filter's servers. If you have a third-party spam filter but your MX records are still pointing to Google, you may end up with your email being "double-filtered".

I don't know much about Google's spam filter. But I know Microsoft's spam filter cannot be disabled. So if you're using a third-party spam filter, you have to make their IP addresses a trusted source so that any email forwarded to Microsoft 365 doesn't get stuck in a second spam filter.

I would also check if the guy has any rules to filter his email.

Create rules to filter your emails - Gmail Help (google.com)

MX Lookup Tool - Check your DNS MX Records online - MxToolbox
DMARC and DKIM aren't setup. We use Google Workspace for our email, but I'm not sure if they're if the domain provider. I'm not seeing where I would edit the DNS records. Nobody documented this stuff.
 

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What books are you reading/listening to now?

Mine right now:

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I just started a technical sales / solutions engineering role so it's a good book on negotiation and a good book to enhance your communication skills.

Some impact full one I've read though not necessarily business:
- How To Win Friends & Influence People
- The Tipping Point
- Emotional Intelligence
- 7 Habits
- Think and Grow Rich

In my queue:
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Mastering Technical Sales
 

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What books are you reading/listening to now?

Mine right now:

fQrSBjJ.jpg


I just started a technical sales / solutions engineering role so it's a good book on negotiation and a good book to enhance your communication skills.

Some impact full one I've read though not necessarily business:
- How To Win Friends & Influence People
- The Tipping Point
- Emotional Intelligence
- 7 Habits
- Think and Grow Rich

In my queue:
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Mastering Technical Sales
I actually read through that a couple months back. I thought it was a good read.
 

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How y’all feeling over there? I know it’s early but what does this mean for unvested comp? I assume vested shares get cashed out?
Bewilderment for most folks, I'm kinda like....meh.

It will take a while to for the deal to be completed, and then no changes to comp programs for a year after the company goes private. RSUs gonna get converted to cash at $54.20 and keep same vesting schedule. Money wise, I'll be fine for a year.

Probably gonna be an exodus of folks. I plan on sticking around cuz there's still important work to be done and I'd like at least a year plus of experience in tech industry on my resume.
 
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working from a place with strong SJW energy can be annoying from time to time...especially when a bunch of white guilt emails from a higher up are sent out talking about the history of the workplace's role in slavery..on some we must not forget :stopitslime:
It's the pronoun stuff for me. Every app asks me about my preferred pronouns smh
 

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It's the pronoun stuff for me. Every app asks me about my preferred pronouns smh

shyt i actually got a question/request from a senior director on an operations team to look into seeing if one of the apps i manage can or will accommodate the addition of a preferred pronoun field to sync from another app that already stores the info :gucci:..its lowkey disgusting to me
 

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Today marks the 365th day of earning 6 figures and I’m in my late 30’s. I just wanted to show appreciation to everyone here :mjcry:

It’s been a long ass road brehs :mjcry:

Over the last year with a 6 figure salary we were able to buy a 2nd house triple the size of the first house, start an llc and become land lords over the starter home, buy a Tesla, live life comfortably and see my babies grow up all working from the comfort of my home :mjcry:
 

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Today marks the 365th day of earning 6 figures and I’m in my late 30’s. I just wanted to show appreciation to everyone here :mjcry:

It’s been a long ass road brehs :mjcry:

Over the last year with a 6 figure salary we were able to buy a 2nd house triple the size of the first house, start an llc and become land lords over the starter home, buy a Tesla, live life comfortably and see my babies grow up all working from the comfort of my home :mjcry:

It's a good life! At a certain point you only need so much money for your own sake and well-being. How many "things" do you need to own?

The real power of money is being able to do stuff for your family and loved ones. You deserve it ALL breh. :wow:
 
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