REDUNDANT SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION

[Lady Fitzgerald]

1 minute ago, aezakmi said:

Wish I had that fucking luck

 

I mean earning probably 20k+ /mo and not knowing anything about the job? where do I apply?

Trust me, you would not like that. Beside the ever present fear you would get caught out, It would eventually come back and bite you where you sit.

[BrinkGG]

7 minutes ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

 

It was worded a bit harshly but it is true. Sadly, too often, I have seen the same scenario where IT Departments hired people (including in management) who didn't know squat about their job. t's one reason, now that I'm retired, I do not miss working for Corporate America (the other being it felt like I was working in a Dilbert cartoon).

In hindsight that was worded fairly harshly, but still I think that people who are hired for this should not be asking for full instructions on how to implement a system. I think if you're out of your depth and need to ask for help on specific questions, that's more acceptable. 

I'll use my own dumb question as an example: 

Was helping a friend out installing some Ubiquiti hardware for a church. He wanted to block outbound email on the guest network, so I went to work setting it up in the firewall settings. Thought I had it configured properly, but I had it in the "GUEST_OUT" Rule set, which doesn't apply to traffic heading from LAN to WAN, so I had to move the rule to WAN out, and set it as data from Guest group to Email Port group is blocked. 

Dumb mistake, but I posted on the ubiquiti forums asking for help on it cause I was lost as it was my first network with Ubiquiti hardware. 

 

I digress. 

I'm all for helping people, but I wanted to make it clear that I don't think this should become normal. 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

21 minutes ago, Brink2Three said:

In hindsight that was worded fairly harshly, but still I think that people who are hired for this should not be asking for full instructions on how to implement a system...

Uh, I was totally agreeing with you (and still do). I just thought you could have said it a bit more gently.

[NunoLava1998]

Here's a very quiet redundant PSU

[Arika]

Is this what you were hired to do or is it something that you want to do? Because if it's the later I can't imagine the company will be happy that a new staff member is asking them to spend a massive amount of money, you might be overstepping your bounds. 

 

If it's the former then..... I mean, it's your job, they hired you for it, you should have already had a plan before you got to this point, you should also have other colleagues who you can talk to, this is not a task acomplishable by a single person