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ivrytwr3 said:
That's awesome! Just got one from Amazon, £80 from £120. Charges my lappy twice. What's yours retail at? Linky? Forum discount? lol.
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The max output is 22.5W so not enough for a laptop, this is aimed at those going camping or to a weekend festival with a lot of people to charge phones with. 8-10 charges of a phone from one of these :)
The smaller capacity 30k one is 100W output rated so will do a laptop. The 60k beast is for multiple phone charges primarily :) Genuine 60k capacity too, no faking it.
 
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rypt said:
Interview was surprisingly tough. Some of the questions asked specifically to give examples from previous roles, which is really tough given that I've been in my current role for 7 years!

I was definitely expecting an easier interview since I've worked with all 3 people on the panel for the past 7 years daily. Still, I think it went well overall.
Should know more in a couple of weeks - at this point I just want to know if I have the job and hence need to start planning for the move to US ... or if I don't have that role, then to restart looking for a new external opportunity here in London in order to progress in my career.
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Still waiting to know more.

It's really strange when all 3 managers who were om the interview panel, are acting as if I already have that job in terms of the things they are expecting me to be doing.
To be fair - I've always sort of done that job, ever since the ex, ex guy who has that role.

Still... it would be good to finally know what I'm doing with my life!



In other news, one of the team in the US (who would work for me if I got that job), has taken medical leave due to stress - a week after being told by our overall senior manager that they are not performing at the level as expected.

Unfortunately, that person was also working for me on my current project that I lead, so I'm now a person down - and will basically have to pickup what they were doing fully myself if I want to keep things on track.
Glad to know that I can keep outputing the same amount of work as 4 people :)
 
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So I’ve finished for my 9 1/2 week summer holiday. I just wish it hadn’t finished on such a cliff hanger. Big job coming up in the next year or so that I don’t really want or need, but almost have no choice but to take since my best mate is stepping down and he wants me to take over and I also don’t trust anyone else to do it. It would also require moving that I’m also not really up for, having gotten our current house exactly where I want it. It would be crazy money, that by the end of the contract (10-15 years) I could go part time or retire, but I don’t exactly need the money now anyway.
 
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Hmm interesting chat with the boss - he’s asked I move to disengage the individual from the programme. And for me to… sort the financials out because… they’re still not sorted..
*cracks knuckles*
 
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Hi all

I'm helping a few ex-colleagues trying to find roles, other than LinkedIn, Reed, Totaljobs can anyone recommend good recruitment consultancies in the engineering/infrastructure space?
 
AWS or Azure infra?

Some of the better AWS consultancies I've used:
* Airwalk Reply
* BJSS
* Colibri Digital

They may be interested in staff :)
 
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NickK said:
AWS or Azure infra?

Some of the better AWS consultancies I've used:
* Airwalk Reply
* BJSS
* Colibri Digital

They may be interested in staff :)
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Ah yes I forget this is a computer leaning forum sometimes! :D

Apologies, infrastructure as in civil engineering and the built environment. Homes, tunnels, rail, roads, power, nuclear, cities, towns, airports, motorways, electricity, water etc... :)
 
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rypt said:
Still waiting to know more.

It's really strange when all 3 managers who were om the interview panel, are acting as if I already have that job in terms of the things they are expecting me to be doing.
To be fair - I've always sort of done that job, ever since the ex, ex guy who has that role.

Still... it would be good to finally know what I'm doing with my life!
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Another week, still no news / updates
 
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I don't understand some customers, or how their people get employed in IT.

Them: We need to know exactly how long it takes to move 100 cows from one field to another field.
Us: That depends on many factors, such as how wide the gates are, the size of the fields, how far the fields are apart, the behaviour of the cows, how many staff etc etc. We have data from other customers and it could take between 10 minutes and many hours.
Them: You've done it with other customers, you must produce a document which tells us exactly how long it will take.
Us: ...

Or:
Us: the way you use our software is like mowing a football field with a pair of scissors. Use the product this way and it would be like using 10 sit on mowers.
Them: Okay that sounds good, how do we do it?
Us: Press this check box. *demo of us pressing the check box showing an immediate improvement*
Them (8 months later): We'd like to revisit this check box, can you explain it again and send all the documentation you already have?
Us: Sure, here's the deck/email etc we sent 8 months ago.
Them: Thanks. We prefer scissors. But it's your fault the field takes so long to mow. We're going to escalate this, your company is terrible.

It's absolutely infuriating.
 
ChrisD. said:
I don't understand some customers, or how their people get employed in IT.

Them: We need to know exactly how long it takes to move 100 cows from one field to another field.
Us: That depends on many factors, such as how wide the gates are, the size of the fields, how far the fields are apart, the behaviour of the cows, how many staff etc etc. We have data from other customers and it could take between 10 minutes and many hours.
Them: You've done it with other customers, you must produce a document which tells us exactly how long it will take.
Us: ...

Or:
Us: the way you use our software is like mowing a football field with a pair of scissors. Use the product this way and it would be like using 10 sit on mowers.
Them: Okay that sounds good, how do we do it?
Us: Press this check box. *demo of us pressing the check box showing an immediate improvement*
Them (8 months later): We'd like to revisit this check box, can you explain it again and send all the documentation you already have?
Us: Sure, here's the deck/email etc we sent 8 months ago.
Them: Thanks. We prefer scissors. But it's your fault the field takes so long to mow. We're going to escalate this, your company is terrible.

It's absolutely infuriating.
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The delay in #2 is usually due to trying to do too many things at once, without enough people.

It has taken me 2 years before to sort some non-urgent but nice to have requests due to getting distracted by other important things.


The "forgetting" what the solution is ... that's due to people who don't genuinely enjoy their work.
I've never forgotten a project I've worked on - but that's because I like what I do
 
Thing is, we press all the time. And it's pretty important stuff, without divulging too much information they have particular targets to meet with really expensive penalties if they don't. We're trying everything we can to help them but it's like puling teeth, they just ignore us and find any excuse to blame us when they don't meet the targets.
 
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Thing is, we press all the time. And it's pretty important stuff, without divulging too much information they have particular targets to meet with really expensive penalties if they don't. We're trying everything we can to help them but it's like puling teeth, they just ignore us and find any excuse to blame us when they don't meet the targets.
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Sounds like my work... are you sure we aren't a customer of yours? (j/k)
 
ChrisD. said:
I don't understand some customers, or how their people get employed in IT.

Them: We need to know exactly how long it takes to move 100 cows from one field to another field.
Us: That depends on many factors, such as how wide the gates are, the size of the fields, how far the fields are apart, the behaviour of the cows, how many staff etc etc. We have data from other customers and it could take between 10 minutes and many hours.
Them: You've done it with other customers, you must produce a document which tells us exactly how long it will take.
Us: ...

Or:
Us: the way you use our software is like mowing a football field with a pair of scissors. Use the product this way and it would be like using 10 sit on mowers.
Them: Okay that sounds good, how do we do it?
Us: Press this check box. *demo of us pressing the check box showing an immediate improvement*
Them (8 months later): We'd like to revisit this check box, can you explain it again and send all the documentation you already have?
Us: Sure, here's the deck/email etc we sent 8 months ago.
Them: Thanks. We prefer scissors. But it's your fault the field takes so long to mow. We're going to escalate this, your company is terrible.

It's absolutely infuriating.
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To be fair (not sure if you're still at VMware) but the cost of those sit on mowers has gone up significantly so the scissors are cheaper :D
 
ChrisD. said:
The mowers are free, they're a feature of the software they already have installed and licensed.
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I'm going to out on a limb and say based on that your customer doesn't understand something like DRS :D - I was thinking HCX initially, or SRM but think that still costs additional, but I'm behind on all the licensing stuff now.
 
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I'm going to out on a limb and say based on that your customer doesn't understand something like DRS :D - I was thinking HCX initially, or SRM but think that still costs additional, but I'm behind on all the licensing stuff now.
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I'm not going to go into any more details than I already have mate, but it really is something as simple as a check box to hugely improve their experience. We're talking at least a 100% performance improvement for extremely little risk.
 
ChrisD. said:
I'm not going to go into any more details than I already have mate, but it really is something as simple as a check box to hugely improve their experience. We're talking at least a 100% performance improvement for extremely little risk.
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That's fair mate, we have similar issues at the moment - much performance improvements could be had, but certain people aren't willing to play ball. Three years of arguing on my part has kind of given up :D
 
LOL sort of forgot I wasn't on an online forum and nearly added a relevant anecdotal comment on to a fraud investigation at work :s
 
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So now the portfolio of 41 services I look after is now restructured into 3rd party teams, more organisation chaos as people have been moved to other operating companies with the HR messing up implying there was a shopping list, there’s unannounced org changes and the CTO getting a stiff q&a resulting in having to arrange a followup meeting with answers. There is no clear structure communicated - at my level anyway. I get the feeling two levels up there’s some visibility but everyone is simply stabilising their areas to weather the storm and not impact paying customers.

So my role is accountable but it’a little more than a figurehead role as portfolio owner. However into the organisational noise I’m now being asked to plaster tue hole of a role that the delays of finance lost all the candidates.

Mid year reviews are here and there’s such a mess there’s no organisational objectives so we’re now listing what we’ve achieved.
I have achieved stuff but the org chaos and late financing has basically has **** on all that. i could say i’ve kept the **** together whilst the board argue, but that’s bot what I see as a good thing.
The company has a reporting line and a org level - it seems there’s a channel of comma based on level and not comms, which is like comms in the old boys club and rumour and not via the org chart. It leads to absolute chaotic comms.

Meanwhile we’ve gone someone playing re-arch the org in a slide but has split the “products” without products being answerable in term of value propositions, having a cohesive business model.
In short in one post to an assemble set of members of product they’ve basically shown that there intent is “product” has nothing todo with “product”.
I’m not sure if that was designed to make members of the prosuct organisation leave or not.
 
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