Also never work at an MSP. Just shady companies overall. I barely lasted a year at one MSP. After they kept promising shyt to customers they couldn't deliver.@Rhyme n Tekniq
That's crazy.
You definitely dodged a bullet there. When a company is on some b.s. from the jump its always better to just count your losses and bounce.
Despite any initial embarrassment and frustration, it saves a lot of headache in the long run. If they're like that not even 5 minutes after you start you can only imagine what it would be like later down the line. This is why I'm never in a rush to update my LinkedIn profile until I know for sure its gonna work out. You don't want potential employers asking about that job. Its like telling everyone you got a new girlfriend only for her to switch on you so bad that you gotta bush her and now you got egg on your face having to explain why shyt didn't work out lol.
This is why I always read reviews on glassdoor and look at the company profile pictures to see if there's anybody that looks like me working there. Nothing is guaranteed but the more research you do, the better. I've flat out refused some roles when I get anyvibes or i just don't like the energy.
Remoting to your laptop alone is reason enough to walk out. I would have resigned on the spot for that bullshyt. These companies think people don't have options or something.
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Does this mean the help desk role and gettin A+ can be skipped?
I wouldn't pay for the A+ not worth the money. You can learn that material without having to pay for the cert.
And as for helpdesk roles once you get one it's almost impossible to move up. Always skip over the helpdesk roles whenever possible.
GollyImGully
Too many wavy women, gotta log outta IG
So about that MSP gig I took
Lasted all of 9 days before I was let go. Never got a chance to work. Never officially started my training period either.
My 1st week I was doing so-called training for Fortigate firewalls; spent most of that time being waterboarded with 84 hours of tedious,
soul-sucking powerpoint slides bad, voice acting, and multiple choice questions that were either static pages that didnt work 70% of the time or the
"correct Answers" bank of choices being mismatched because somebody rushed the programming of this shyt or something. Even with switching browsers,
I basically was trading one issue for the other or the same issues persisted. Also , the shyt was unskippable....
Then their was the ConnectWise training which was like 336 hoursof (Powerpoint slides, you guessed it) That I never got to finish because ....obviously
Let me just pause to say fukk Connectwise; That's all. Kudos to anyone who uses that shyt. Looks like it'll be a nightmare.
My first day of "work" all the red flags come pouring on. On top of the shytty training, The manager was objectively all around, your typical boomer cac;
insufferable dikk with a healthy dose of Dunning-Kruger effect. and he knew it too. That's why he kept going on and on about being a Type A personality who likes to "get'er done".
Here we go with this shyt.
I can never reach him for any questions I had, but he was always pestering me every 30min - 1 Hour with "what are you working on" Messages in Teams.
I got to the point I had to point out to him how long this training shyt was and that it was bugged. wasn't trying to hear that shyt.
His reasoning for his short patience is because he wants me to hurry up so that I can begin shadowing another tech via Teams invite,
Despite the fact that they were already flying me out to their hick town HQ to shadow in person because in his own words "online shadowing and training is inefficient and problematic"
So which one is it?
bytch ass just wanted to hit me with some busy-work; the truth is he wanted that senior tech to shadow me and babysit me.
I still got 4 weeks worth of fukking Partner training prequisutes to finish and this dude is OD nuthugging and badgering me about dumb shyt and contradicting himself in the process.
So my second to last day, he hits me up on teams to discuss my "performance". Mind you I havent officialy started to train yet much more work tickets. It's all pure conjecture on is part.
He thought he could use this opportunity to start talking spicy and I just cut him short and stood my ground.
Set his ass straight as professionally as I could. Just straight facts and flipping his own words against him. Cac tried to act like he had another meeting so he can evade the verbal assault I was putting on his ass.
He wouldnt acknowledge the facts I was dropping, just repeating the same talking points before jumping off like Piers Morgan or some shyt
The next morning. I get into the all-hands meeting at the last minute because he forgot to send me the link, the same one he's been saying he was going to properly introduce me to the team for like a whole week.
I've only been on for less than 10 secs and he's already pressing me about "turning my camera on". Nobody else outside of him, his other cac buddies and higher ups has theirs on, so that's like 6 people total.
I turned the cam on and the cacs all froze mid convo, jaws tightening up, gettin all awkward and shyt. I felt like I just walkked in on some shyt they didnt want me to hear.
HEAVY
The manager was clearly upset talking about something that happened and ended with "that's all I got to say about that" constantly blinking and turning red and shyt. More than likely he was talking about me
because 10 minutes after that meeting ended, He calls me via Teams to fire me talking all that "this aint gonna work out shyt with some other cac spectating the whole thing.
I knew it was coming because I felt like he had been trying to instigate a situation that would give him an excuse to. I didnt even break stride.
Just told'em to send me the return labels for equipement they shipped to me and told'em to get fukked.
a few others things,
- The muthafukker would just randomly remote into my work laptop unnannounced. The mouse cursor would move on it's own when I would try do that shytty ass training sometimes and he didnt think I would notice.
- work laptop they sent me wasnt anywhere near properly configured, VPN didnt work either
- Also, I suspect there was some kind of keystroke monitoring software or something running on the laptop because every 10 minutes
a flicker or dimming of the screen would happen as if my desktop was being captured or snapshotted. (Always on queue, and very weird)
- The flight I was booked for was canceled; My seat was vacant. and this happened 3 days before I was actually let go and that was before we had words with each other. He had this shyt in the works all alone.
bytch ass MF
I just dodged a bullet, but at least I got a check out of these MF. On to the next one.
Moral of the story; Never stop putting out feelers or applying to jobs just because you accept an offer. Some fukk shyt can and likely will happen, and it's better to have something lined up just in case.
damn breh which company was this? so we all can know to avoid this fukkerysounds awful smh. you really dodged a bullet
What’s the entry position for cyber security and other shyt above help desk role?
SOC Analyst is usually entry level for cybersecurity. While not as bad as helpdesk not far from it either. These positions are high turnover and quick burnout. So companies will try and keep you in those positions for as long as possible until they find another sucker.
Desktop support is the sweetspot because you're above helpdesk. And can move up to Systems Administration or Networking eventually.
Thanks breh
Rhyme n Tekniq
Superstar
Update:
Just found out the the other new hire I was suppose to fly out to training with got let go as well.
went and looked at the flight information and sure enough His seat is vacant now.
They seem to enjoy hiring and firing people in less than 10 days
fukk kinda time these MF on?
Just found out the the other new hire I was suppose to fly out to training with got let go as well.
went and looked at the flight information and sure enough His seat is vacant now.
They seem to enjoy hiring and firing people in less than 10 days
fukk kinda time these MF on?
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Rhyme n Tekniq
Superstar
Is he a breh?
Regardless, those people are some weirdos.
Last name sounds mexican
They seem to have a team of nothing but late 40's to late 50's cac males.
I guess go figure lol.
DaRealness
I think very deeply
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I'd start applying elsewhere from now then if I worked for them. fukk that. 
This is why it's always important to keep your skill set up to date and have options.
I guess these companies don't really give a shyt about "climate change" like they pretend either. Sounds more like control issues if anything. FOH.
@Rhyme n Tekniq
Yahoo is now a part of Verizon Media
Google and Amazon shun remote working and tell staff to get back in the office
Google has told staff they must get formal permission to work remotely for more than 14 days a year after the pandemic ends if they want to work internationally, in a sign that major employers are losing faith in the policy.
The internet titan has asked US workers to consider voluntarily returning to the office within weeks. Its 4,400 staff in London will be expected to do the same depending on how Government restrictions are lifted and other cities will follow depending on local laws.
Google now wants its 200,000 global employees back at their desks for an initial minimum of three days a week by September 1, meaning some employees would have been working from home for almost 18 months. In future they will have to apply if they want to work remotely for more than 14 days a year. This would apply to employees who have relocated to different countries or states in the US.
The company was one of the first firms to send staff home when the crisis hit last year, part of a wave of tech companies that were quick to abandon offices.
In an email to workers, head of people operations Fiona Cicconi said that “the thought of returning to the office might inspire different emotions” and that workspaces "won't look exactly the way you remember them" but meals and snacks will be provided where possible".
Staff's dogs - which the company insists on calling “Dooglers” - will also be welcomed back.
The move comes after Google's finance chief Ruth Porat said in November that the company had no plans to open the offices sooner than June because “working from home is working”. She added: "There is a productivity lift from not needing to come into the office".
Google is advising employees to get vaccinated, but said this will not be mandatory.
It comes amid growing debate in big business about whether the traditional office is still needed after millions of people worked from their spare rooms and studies without major disruption.
Earlier this week PwC told staff they will be free to split their time between work and home in future, and major banks such as Lloyds and HSBC have slashed office space in anticipation of long-term changes.
On the other side of the argument, Goldman Sachs boss David Solomon earlier this year dismissed home working as an "aberration" and said he wants staff back in.
Amazon, another of the world’s largest employers, told its white collar workers this week that they will be back at their desks after the summer, having said they can work from home until July.
A memo shared with workers said: “Our plan is to return to an office-centric culture as our baseline. We believe it enables us to invent, collaborate, and learn together most effectively.”
Other technology companies such as Facebook and Twitter said earlier in the pandemic that employees can work from home indefinitely, and that they did not expect more than half of the workforce to come into an office everyday.
Rental prices in San Francisco - home to many large technology companies which have championed remote working - plummeted roughly 24pc last year. A flurry of younger workers left the city for cheaper, or more exotic places from where they could use a laptop to work.
This is why it's always important to keep your skill set up to date and have options.I guess these companies don't really give a shyt about "climate change" like they pretend either. Sounds more like control issues if anything. FOH.
@Rhyme n Tekniq
Yahoo is now a part of Verizon Media
Google and Amazon shun remote working and tell staff to get back in the office
Google has told staff they must get formal permission to work remotely for more than 14 days a year after the pandemic ends if they want to work internationally, in a sign that major employers are losing faith in the policy.
The internet titan has asked US workers to consider voluntarily returning to the office within weeks. Its 4,400 staff in London will be expected to do the same depending on how Government restrictions are lifted and other cities will follow depending on local laws.
Google now wants its 200,000 global employees back at their desks for an initial minimum of three days a week by September 1, meaning some employees would have been working from home for almost 18 months. In future they will have to apply if they want to work remotely for more than 14 days a year. This would apply to employees who have relocated to different countries or states in the US.
The company was one of the first firms to send staff home when the crisis hit last year, part of a wave of tech companies that were quick to abandon offices.
In an email to workers, head of people operations Fiona Cicconi said that “the thought of returning to the office might inspire different emotions” and that workspaces "won't look exactly the way you remember them" but meals and snacks will be provided where possible".
Staff's dogs - which the company insists on calling “Dooglers” - will also be welcomed back.
The move comes after Google's finance chief Ruth Porat said in November that the company had no plans to open the offices sooner than June because “working from home is working”. She added: "There is a productivity lift from not needing to come into the office".
Google is advising employees to get vaccinated, but said this will not be mandatory.
It comes amid growing debate in big business about whether the traditional office is still needed after millions of people worked from their spare rooms and studies without major disruption.
Earlier this week PwC told staff they will be free to split their time between work and home in future, and major banks such as Lloyds and HSBC have slashed office space in anticipation of long-term changes.
On the other side of the argument, Goldman Sachs boss David Solomon earlier this year dismissed home working as an "aberration" and said he wants staff back in.
Amazon, another of the world’s largest employers, told its white collar workers this week that they will be back at their desks after the summer, having said they can work from home until July.
A memo shared with workers said: “Our plan is to return to an office-centric culture as our baseline. We believe it enables us to invent, collaborate, and learn together most effectively.”
Other technology companies such as Facebook and Twitter said earlier in the pandemic that employees can work from home indefinitely, and that they did not expect more than half of the workforce to come into an office everyday.
Rental prices in San Francisco - home to many large technology companies which have championed remote working - plummeted roughly 24pc last year. A flurry of younger workers left the city for cheaper, or more exotic places from where they could use a laptop to work.
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