support monkey

[oscarose]

I am refering to your comment 'My point is everything under a system architect is considered a talented helpdesk monkey'. What a crock of utter tulip.

WHS

[pmeswani]

Says in 1 line what took me paragraphs... sorry.



16GB is crap, try 32gb on i7 3820 -- oooo yeah... 2xESX in HA , With dual Netapp NAS's , 16 virtual machines, including HA Exchange, Client PC's, NLB Forefront TMG, Edge Transport, Symantec Backup Exec, AD, --- MSDN Subscription (expenses of course) + VMWare FTW!

I can go up to 32GB on my system, but don't plan to build a Data Centre just yet.

[Scoobos]

Heh yeah.

Seriously though, I must get better at spotting time wasters. I took ages to post my "advice" but it was pointless when the OP is just a negative no hoper with no initiative.

Seriously saying its dead because the technology has moved on is just daft! So if its virtualised, then move from the OS to the technology.

Its like saying messaging specialists are a dead end because Novell GroupWise.lost out to exchange.

hopefully someone will find it useful.... Grrr

[unemployed]

not sure why i get banned for telling the truth !

over a 5 year period i can recall 3 occasions agencies would ask me what is the lowest i would take.

why would i lie ?

[jmo21]

not sure why i get banned for telling the truth !

over a 5 year period i can recall 3 occasions agencies would ask me what is the lowest i would take.

why would i lie ?

To be fair to this guy, as a contractor, I've had a number of agents ask me this in the past too. They get short shrift of course.

[unemployed]

To be fair to this guy, as a contractor, I've had a number of agents ask me this in the past too. They get short shrift of course.

Thanks , and why do they ask this ?

because support is support regardless of skillset.

[nomadd]

To be fair to this guy, as a contractor, I've had a number of agents ask me this in the past too. They get short shrift of course.

This^

I'd say on average these days, 25% of the agents who call me ask this "What is the lowest rate you will accept?" question. All they seem to want is the cheapest body on-site who can make them the most commission. As you say, they get short-shrift.

[nomadd]

Thanks , and why do they ask this ?

See my reply above this one.

because support is support regardless of skillset.

Not just support. It's across the board these days (I know, as I never do support type roles.)

[jmo21]

Not just support. It's across the board these days (I know, as I never do support type roles.)

Yep, should have said, I'm a developer.

I suppose manager types will say that's just a step above support. (well, 2 steps, testers in the middle :-)

[NotAllThere]

not sure why i get banned for telling the truth !.

Oh dear - another poor victim of moderator oppression.

You were not banned for telling the truth - you were banned for inappropriate posting in the professional forums. I.e. behaving like an idiot. If you continue making such posts then you will be banned permanently. Behave yourself. If you want to muck about - take it to General.