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Well, I thought I grabbed a great job, pay is decent for the area, above average.
- The interview. Went great. One interview, however, one person in the interview which would be my Boss, smarted off and basically got upset over me answering the one question he asked honestly, I wasn't experienced in that area of clustering. I thought that was odd, and his boss asked him you don't have any other questions, and he responded like he didn't care and was like no, i'm done. (I should've taken this as a warning).
- Next, they offered me the job. HR didn't get me an offer letter till 2 days before I started. Crazy. 2 weeks went by and had no definite. And they hit me that same day with all the paperwork they needed which took half a day to do and scan.
- I started the job. They gave me an office, computer and all. However, this is when all hell broke loose. No one wanted to train me. Show me policies or how things went. I had to ask, and ask all the time to figure out things on my own. When they assign tasks, they never gave me advice, or who to talk too, or anything. It was always like pulling teeth. They had no documentation to follow for how they like stuff. I made my own for the team.
- Finally after being here 3 months, I made it past their probation period. The guy that was my boss, got demoted once during that time. I heard he got demoted before I was there. So he was no longer my boss. He was a Principal team member. However, he still acted like our boss, and wouldn't stop the attitude he had. They seem to keep him as he's been there 15 years.
- He sent me a request to replace some certificates on a server. Wildcard certs. I did it the proper and normal method. Verifying with the lead team player if this is the way they prefer, and he said yes. Got it done. A week later, on Monday, I get basically yelled at in email, with every manager CC'd, that I did it wrong, and we don't do it that way. It will need to be redone his way. Mind you, his way is against what Digicert says in their documentation to NOT do. I told him why we did it the way we did, and explained the reasons, and he said, we been doing it for 5 years, and won't change that. The lead tech got into it with him as well, and he refuses to listen. I told him, if you want it done a certain way, start showing me the way you want it and don't expect me to know what that is. He still has not shown that to me. So I turned my resignation in that afternoon.
- Any recommendation we give him to help improve the company technology, he refuses to listen. He rather do it the old way, and not do it the newer way which is still 10 years newer than what he wants. He rather run old physical servers instead of VMs for a lot of stuff that doesn't need it because he said VMs have performance issues. DCs are all physical. Updating servers manually instead of SCCM. Anytime there is a firmware update for servers, he wants it done immediately, instead of once a month at least. Even if it's not critical. He also wants to keep all servers in mainstream support and not extended support. So, he wants us to upgrade everything to 2019 and soon 2022. I told his boss when I turned in my resignation, he is crazy. I said, 2019 ends mainstream support Jan. 2024. So that is every server. You can't possibly expect that to happen. That is why extended support is there, to allow businesses time to upgrade. Not be rushed.
With that, no job is worth the stress and bs this one guy will put you through. The guy I replaced only stayed 6 months. He also left due to him. I'll be searching for a new job again, which sucks, but at least I have some buffer funds to keep me ok for 6 months to a year.
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