its like swimming with sharks out there in the cut throat world of IT contractors. a few weeks ago i wrote this post, fuckers, where a friend of mine tried to fuck me over for a job that he was going for. in it i said that "if he ends up getting the job in a few weeks time it will confirm that he was behind all the shit"
well, i got a mail from him yesterday saying it looked like he had landed that contract. i asked him how he fared in the technical test and he said it was ok but he missed out all the exchange and citrix sections, which is similar to me, although i did answer 2 out of the 5 questions on the exchange section correctly, whereas he missed them altogether because he has never done any messaging.
i am pretty sure i did better than him overall on the test so it would be appear that the pissing in the ear of the manager there has worked and i have been fucked.
he once mentioned in a conversation about another interview that they had asked him obscure cisco routing and switching questions and when i asked what kind, he mentioned that he had been asked to explain what a class A,B,C address was, why they were organised like that, subnetting, and what the broadcast and network addresses were of various network subnets. jesus wept, that is basic TCP/IP. fuck me backwards that is IT 101. christ , i thought they were going to ask you how you would enable spanning tree on some switches or configure EIGRP on a router. thats cisco shit. what you were asked is basic IP.
i might not be able to list off the top of my head what the difference is between Exchange 2007 and 2010 (because i have never used 2007) or the difference between Win2008 and 2008R2 (because i always used to patch and update win2008 to the latest level and when r2 came out, the latest iteration would always be used whether it was specified or not by anyone, but TCP/IP and subnetting is the basis of all connected computers in every network.
who cares really that its iis7 in 2008 and 7.5 in r2 or that its hyper v1 in 2008 and v2 in r2. you use the latest one. i never get asked to install windows 2003 anywhere. always use the latest. its got the latest patches and the latest updates and is most secure. no one would choose an older OS.
its also a little galling seeing as i helped him get into his current contract when he was out of work and i briefed him on what the interview would be like, after going through it myself, and turning down the offer from that bank because i had already accepted another contract elsewhere at the time.
a lesson has been learned. dont trust contractors. they would sell their mothers for money and would fuck over anyone, even people that help them get jobs. one of the very few exceptions is Edward Snowdon.
at some point in recent history popular music became bland and safe. there are very few bands doing anything original that are getting exposure on tv or mainstream radio. the airwaves are full of middle of the road generic bands like mumford and sons, foo fighters, kings of leon, beady eye, miles kane, jake bugg, etc, but it was not always like this. there was a time when there were songs getting into the charts that had lyrics that were a social commentary on slumlords profiteering by exploiting vulnerable people and even name dropping nazi war criminals. this is carter the unstoppable sex machine - sherrif fatman.
well, i got a mail from him yesterday saying it looked like he had landed that contract. i asked him how he fared in the technical test and he said it was ok but he missed out all the exchange and citrix sections, which is similar to me, although i did answer 2 out of the 5 questions on the exchange section correctly, whereas he missed them altogether because he has never done any messaging.
i am pretty sure i did better than him overall on the test so it would be appear that the pissing in the ear of the manager there has worked and i have been fucked.
he once mentioned in a conversation about another interview that they had asked him obscure cisco routing and switching questions and when i asked what kind, he mentioned that he had been asked to explain what a class A,B,C address was, why they were organised like that, subnetting, and what the broadcast and network addresses were of various network subnets. jesus wept, that is basic TCP/IP. fuck me backwards that is IT 101. christ , i thought they were going to ask you how you would enable spanning tree on some switches or configure EIGRP on a router. thats cisco shit. what you were asked is basic IP.
i might not be able to list off the top of my head what the difference is between Exchange 2007 and 2010 (because i have never used 2007) or the difference between Win2008 and 2008R2 (because i always used to patch and update win2008 to the latest level and when r2 came out, the latest iteration would always be used whether it was specified or not by anyone, but TCP/IP and subnetting is the basis of all connected computers in every network.
who cares really that its iis7 in 2008 and 7.5 in r2 or that its hyper v1 in 2008 and v2 in r2. you use the latest one. i never get asked to install windows 2003 anywhere. always use the latest. its got the latest patches and the latest updates and is most secure. no one would choose an older OS.
its also a little galling seeing as i helped him get into his current contract when he was out of work and i briefed him on what the interview would be like, after going through it myself, and turning down the offer from that bank because i had already accepted another contract elsewhere at the time.
a lesson has been learned. dont trust contractors. they would sell their mothers for money and would fuck over anyone, even people that help them get jobs. one of the very few exceptions is Edward Snowdon.
at some point in recent history popular music became bland and safe. there are very few bands doing anything original that are getting exposure on tv or mainstream radio. the airwaves are full of middle of the road generic bands like mumford and sons, foo fighters, kings of leon, beady eye, miles kane, jake bugg, etc, but it was not always like this. there was a time when there were songs getting into the charts that had lyrics that were a social commentary on slumlords profiteering by exploiting vulnerable people and even name dropping nazi war criminals. this is carter the unstoppable sex machine - sherrif fatman.
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