Topics regarding Inverted Pyramids Of Doom
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@Dashrender said:
They think they did, but they clearly didn't bump into the known problems articles when choosing RAID 5 - I didn't even think RAID 5E was real - apparently it was just killed before I started working on servers.
Yeah, they have a "requirement" that doesn't even exist in a product. How the heck are they looking at all of those products which don't even offer that. Then NetApp's rep from SW pops in and says that the OP "did his homework" ignoring the fact that his own requirements are nonsensical, impossible and specifically rule out the product that she is there to sell.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
They think they did, but they clearly didn't bump into the known problems articles when choosing RAID 5 - I didn't even think RAID 5E was real - apparently it was just killed before I started working on servers.
Yeah, they have a "requirement" that doesn't even exist in a product. How the heck are they looking at all of those products which don't even offer that. Then NetApp's rep from SW pops in and says that the OP "did his homework" ignoring the fact that his own requirements are nonsensical, impossible and specifically rule out the product that she is there to sell.
that Netapp person though, as you've educated me, isn't real - they are just some chickity who is there to respond with kind words and make people feel good about their posts.
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True, but isn't doing a good job of promoting the product, especially when NetApp has a reputation for being out of touch and inept already. Just adding to it by posting nonsense.
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@scottalanmiller said:
True, but isn't doing a good job of promoting the product, especially when NetApp has a reputation for being out of touch and inept already. Just adding to it by posting nonsense.
Sounds like she's doing a great job then... at being totally inept.
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Speaking of which, I haven't seen Chelsea posting in forever. I wonder how many of those people just quit versus how many change their online identities in the community once they make big enough faux pas.
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Honestly, I bet they have a massive turnover rate just from their entry level staff getting married and not working any more. The "went to college to find a spouse, didn't, and am now just working an entry level job so that I can meet people and get married and stop working" demographic is strong and the general business-preparedness suggests that that is the common goal.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Honestly, I bet they have a massive turnover rate just from their entry level staff getting married and not working any more. The "went to college to find a spouse, didn't, and am now just working an entry level job so that I can meet people and get married and stop working" demographic is strong and the general business-preparedness suggests that that is the common goal.
Is that really a thing? I've only met one person like that before.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Honestly, I bet they have a massive turnover rate just from their entry level staff getting married and not working any more. The "went to college to find a spouse, didn't, and am now just working an entry level job so that I can meet people and get married and stop working" demographic is strong and the general business-preparedness suggests that that is the common goal.
Is that really a thing? I've only met one person like that before.
Hoping I can avoid it, but might be looking for another job soon. Wouldn't mind finding a place like that...... I may be becoming the creepy old widower tho.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Honestly, I bet they have a massive turnover rate just from their entry level staff getting married and not working any more. The "went to college to find a spouse, didn't, and am now just working an entry level job so that I can meet people and get married and stop working" demographic is strong and the general business-preparedness suggests that that is the common goal.
Is that really a thing? I've only met one person like that before.
Really a thing. "Normal" businesses have little means to employ people with that mindset in any quantity so you tend not to see it. Businesses that do hire that tend to be full of it and little else, I would guess, so lots of them are in the same place. For example, they have a large number over there, whole departments that are mostly that way. It works fine if you have the structure and a workload that can easily use a constantly turning over, untrained and generally disinterested workforce. It's not that they aren't hard workers and not smart, its just that the business is of no interest to them. That's why most people over there literally don't know that they have a community, are unclear of their own product and are totally surprised at things like the conference when there are people there expecting them to be aware of who we all are.
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@travisdh1 said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Honestly, I bet they have a massive turnover rate just from their entry level staff getting married and not working any more. The "went to college to find a spouse, didn't, and am now just working an entry level job so that I can meet people and get married and stop working" demographic is strong and the general business-preparedness suggests that that is the common goal.
Is that really a thing? I've only met one person like that before.
Hoping I can avoid it, but might be looking for another job soon. Wouldn't mind finding a place like that...... I may be becoming the creepy old widower tho.
Well I know where you can find one and most of them are very nice and quite cute. UT is famous for being a collective of that. Not a school known outside of Texas and inside of Texas is only known for sports, not academics, so you can guess what kind of students they tend to collect. It's why UT is definitely a "don't hire" red flag on a resume for many people.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Honestly, I bet they have a massive turnover rate just from their entry level staff getting married and not working any more. The "went to college to find a spouse, didn't, and am now just working an entry level job so that I can meet people and get married and stop working" demographic is strong and the general business-preparedness suggests that that is the common goal.
Is that really a thing? I've only met one person like that before.
Hoping I can avoid it, but might be looking for another job soon. Wouldn't mind finding a place like that...... I may be becoming the creepy old widower tho.
Well I know where you can find one and most of them are very nice and quite cute. UT is famous for being a collective of that. Not a school known outside of Texas and inside of Texas is only known for sports, not academics, so you can guess what kind of students they tend to collect. It's why UT is definitely a "don't hire" red flag on a resume for many people.
I can confirm this...
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Honestly, I bet they have a massive turnover rate just from their entry level staff getting married and not working any more. The "went to college to find a spouse, didn't, and am now just working an entry level job so that I can meet people and get married and stop working" demographic is strong and the general business-preparedness suggests that that is the common goal.
Is that really a thing? I've only met one person like that before.
Hoping I can avoid it, but might be looking for another job soon. Wouldn't mind finding a place like that...... I may be becoming the creepy old widower tho.
Well I know where you can find one and most of them are very nice and quite cute. UT is famous for being a collective of that. Not a school known outside of Texas and inside of Texas is only known for sports, not academics, so you can guess what kind of students they tend to collect. It's why UT is definitely a "don't hire" red flag on a resume for many people.
I can confirm this...
You have been declined jobs because you went to UT ? or you've declined to hire someone because they went to UT?
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@DustinB3403 said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Honestly, I bet they have a massive turnover rate just from their entry level staff getting married and not working any more. The "went to college to find a spouse, didn't, and am now just working an entry level job so that I can meet people and get married and stop working" demographic is strong and the general business-preparedness suggests that that is the common goal.
Is that really a thing? I've only met one person like that before.
Hoping I can avoid it, but might be looking for another job soon. Wouldn't mind finding a place like that...... I may be becoming the creepy old widower tho.
Well I know where you can find one and most of them are very nice and quite cute. UT is famous for being a collective of that. Not a school known outside of Texas and inside of Texas is only known for sports, not academics, so you can guess what kind of students they tend to collect. It's why UT is definitely a "don't hire" red flag on a resume for many people.
I can confirm this...
You have been declined jobs because you went to UT ? or you've declined to hire someone because they went to UT?
Should have clarified... I can confirm that UT is only known for sports, not academics.
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LOL, did you go there? Or you can confirm that you don't hire people from there?
When I used to be part of the Dallas country club scene, people would talk about UT and I'd be like "You do realize that I'm from NY and even worked in academia and in the northeast, while people assume that Texas has universities, no one knows of any. UT is completely unheard of." They were all dumbfounded that A&E is at least known for its horrendous fire hazards and being a party school for engineers and SMU is famous as one of the top grad schools in the south. But other than SMU, no Texas school has a reputation outside of Texas at all.
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I would say Texas A&M is worst than UT, mostly because there is a strange cult-like allegiance between there graduates. I've known people that would only hire other Texas A&M graduates.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
I would say Texas A&M is worst than UT, mostly because there is a strange cult-like allegiance between there graduates. I've known people that would only hire other Texas A&M graduates.
I didn't suggest that it had a good reputation outside of Texas, only that it had one and at least people in engineering circles know its name. Texas, just as a region, has an educational reputation similar to Alabama and Mississippi. At least forty states would see any Texas education, no matter where it was from, as bad without further research. Texas' secondary school education reputation is so bad (even though it might be better now than places like NY) that most of the country just assumes that any college there would just have to be doing what the rest of the country does for high school. And, from what I've seen at both levels, this seems very likely to be true.
These days Texas has improved their education a lot and the rest of the country has dropped a lot, especially places like NY that used to shine, so they are likely all on parity. But from a reputation standpoint, it's not good and will likely last for a long time yet.
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When I was looking at grad schools for musicology, I seriously was looking at SMU in Dallas as a top contender.
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I just have a dislike of all secondary education for the most part... It is not accomplishing what it needs to, enormously expensive, and putting alot of people deeply in debt.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
I just have a dislike of all secondary education for the most part... It is not accomplishing what it needs to, enormously expensive, and putting alot of people deeply in debt.
Although, the more people that do it, the better the comparative benefits for the rest of us. So while it hurts them, it is purely voluntary and benefits everyone else. So while it is generally evil and bad for the people doing it it is a lot like the lotto. It's obviously and clear and no one is hiding the fact that it is bad (almost no one) and it is only promoted based on obvious fallacies that cannot possibly be true. And no one is forced to go, it is completely at the discretion of the students. So that it is bad for them is no one's problem but their own. They are adults and responsible for their choices just like everyone else. That university and the lotto both such money from those that use them and funnel it to those that don't is fine, because no one is forced into it. Just another tax on those that like to gamble against the odds.
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There is alot of US education that needs to changed. Everything the school districts do is to get money from the state. They don't provide a real education anymore, they just teach to tests that you have to pass, beyond that the school districts don't care if you learn anything else except that you can't be successful if you don't go to college. That was rammed down my throat since 3rd grade.
