Scrum is the devil. Agile development "methodologies" are just thinly veiled excuses for total command and control over every bit of minutia on a project, plus a forced speedup and a series of two-week death marches with demands for fast "productivity" at the expense of quality and sanity.
... People who think they're really good communicators are often the ones who wander around the office or shout over cubicle walls, disturbing everyone within earshot.
This.
I hate noisy offices. I can't hear myself think, and answering stupid questions that can be looked up on google demolishes my productivity for the day.
The worst is open plan noise pits and "benching". It reminds me of the photos we see coming out of third world sweatshops, with monitors and keyboards instead of piecework on the tables.
I often communicate better over IRC/Jabber/Slack because I can actually type stuff out, and don't have to struggle to understand 50 different accents.
Give me a door or let me work from home
Link or it is just more right wing fake news
Terrible management if that happens. No doubt that's the case here.
Any big network has a dedicated monitoring system with all sorts of plug-ins. Certificate monitoring is just another plug-in. You (if competent) write the plug-in once, and the notification is just the normal for the whole system. You (if good) write a system to auto-renew all your certs based on these scans and notifications, and alarm if the auto-renew fails for long enough..
We had a team that did that where I work. It was particularly amusing when that team's certs all expired - they had chosen to leave themselves out of their own system, for some reason.
I've written plugins like that.
What gets bad is the alert goes off, and says you have 90 days to renew. Having no power to spend money, you dutifully route a request for a renewal to be paid for. It goes back and forth to accounting for a couple months asking for justifications for the (trivial) expense because no one will give the operations people a p-card or budget. Finally, if you are lucky, a P.O. is issued (for a trivial amount), and you can buy a new certificate before the old one expires. If not, it expires, everyone bitches and calls you incompetent, and all you can do is point to the three month old purchase request and say "We tried to do the needful". Then you are first in the next round of layoffs because of "incompetence" and having embarrassed the bean counters.
The contract to support the network is sent out for rebid and the winning contractor sees the position responsible for managing certificates as a cost-savings "opportunity" and eliminates the position or combines it with another task and now no one is responsible for the task or the guy that knew how/when the certificates needed to be renewed got too expensive so the position was filled with a newbie with no experience.
Yep. That happens all too often in accountant managed companies.
Half of the real reason that tech outfit like to hire young RCGs and recent immigrants is that they cost much less than anyone with even 5 years of experience, much less 25 years. This is why most software sucks.
On the systems I administer, we have an alert that checks the certificate expiration once a day, and alerts it plenty of time to get it renewed.
But a lot of people don't do that, they just mark it on a calendar somewhere, or expect the certificate issuer to notify them. For the latter, often the contact email is to a person no longer with the organization, or in a different role, so it is ignored. That's why my current $Employer insists that certificate emails go to an email list for a group, rather than just to one person.
It wouldn't be quite as funny if it wasn't so very common.
... Trump's mistake was in retroactively invalidating visas and green cards which had already been approved. If he had limited it to freezing new applications like Obama's "ban" did (to use what the media's terminology), then I think the judges would be deciding in his favor.
Actually, if he had just frozen new applications, I would have shrugged. So would most of the people who protested, IMO.
But we do have a principal of fairness in this country of not suddenly denying what had previously been granted.
"Hey, you can come work here! We have a job for you! H1b!"
Person sells stuff, quits current job, moves out of apartment, boards airplane
"Oh, no, we changed our minds. Psych! Go home!"
head|desk
Person comes here, has job, home, pets, etc. Lives and works here for years.
Gets green card, is no longer indentured to a company.
Goes to for a visit to family in former country. Tries to come back.
"Oh, no, your kind aren't allowed here. Go home"
"But my apartment and job are here in the US! I have a green card"
"Nope. Go away. You lose everything."
I have no love for the H1b visa program, it screws both US workers and the indentured foreigners who labor under it.
But I am not interested in screwing people already here out of everything they have worked for.
... And yet here we are, two weeks in, and it's just been one mismanaged episode after another. Someone in the White House is leaking transcripts, Trump won't stop tweeting, Conway and Spicer just go from one absurdity to another,...
(Emphasis mine)
I remember when they told Obama that he had to give up his Blackberry and hand over his twitter account to official press people. It was not secure and trackable, IIRC. He was an adult and gave up tweeting for himself for the duration.
Trump tweets when he should be sleeping. It's either insomnia or sleep tweeting. My guess is the latter.
Google and other "top tier" companies are not hiring only PhD RCGs. They are hiring bodies from places like Tata with BS resumes as well.
The *average* is $81K, not $130K. He didn't say "average for PhDs", he just said "average". So it includes people with bogus degrees and crap certificates.
I've worked with H1b's - Some are brilliant, most are below average.
The ones hired through body shops are the worst. They drill them on buzzwords to pass the interviews, and they have no ability to learn on their own - you have to spoon feed them everything. They can't read simple documentation, much less an actual man page.
Example: A network "engineer" should know WTF "traceroute" is. But I encountered one that honestly didn't, but who bragged about how he was a senior engineer.
Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter.
