I mean, you can hit 10/15K on a single server spec out really really easy

If you need to build out a whole rack, you can easily top 60-70k+

And that’s not even factoring fancy dancy AI hardware either lmao

That’s Mr Cloud to us!

He’s saying he works on enterprise gear. It’s different. In networking, a lot of similar but other than rebooting shit, there isnt much to do.

And managing servers, services, using terraform or Jenkins, docker, podman, kubernetes or any other enterprise tool isn’t the same as fixing your computer not printing.

Totally different skills

Things running in a datacenter might not be quite analogous to consumer equipment.

Is how I would interpret their comment.

I think the point he’s trying to make is that he works on specialized network gear for enterprises and really isn’t the right person to go for IT support for your home internet issue. Not that you’re beneath him.

I kinda understand too, I have spent a lot of time in highly specialized technical domains and people often then ask me for tech support for things like their printer or whatnot that I am ignorant of.

Never get near one unless you’re getting in it to use it.

If you can frame every guess so that it can only ever have a binary A/B answer, troubleshooting and guessing are pretty much identical.

I work on a small farm and am treated well but my understanding is that the big farms that supply the grocery stores employ almost exclusively underpaid temporary foreign workers (TFW). A lot of the farms that sell at farmers markers also employ underpaid TFWs or idealistic young people who will work for food, a room to sleep in, and a $50 a week allowance.

This may sound weird

We should absolutely normalise thanking those who work to produce our food.

It’s usually family business, and they have a lot of write offs, so it prevents abuse of the system, but it also applies to non-arms length employees since farms trade work all the time.

I chose to do it. I like it. I have a good boss who pays well and gives me a lot of freedom and flexibility. The vast majority of farm workers aren’t as lucky.

Engineers are much the same. If you look on that site, under engineers it lists every single bullet point from agriculture workers except for the 3 hour rule.

However, despite not being entitled to it, it is typical to expect. It’s just wild to not be legally entitled to it.

You’re right.

I worked with a guy who whenever he’d drop anything it would go in the deep frier for five seconds to disinfect then off to the customer.

Who would want to lose an uptime streak like that?!

Excellent point about government sponsored anti corruption measures, too. Here in the US our government contracts award “points” to businesses which are minority or woman- owned.

In practice, the same construction companies simply institute shell companies, and make their wives/daughters/sisters the owners of these shell companies, charge a premium, and have the “owner” subcontract the work back to the same old company, effectively making themselves an extra 20 percent…

Small businesses (which may be minority or woman owned, but they don’t play golf with the government buyers) are still totally forgotten.

Yes, another tragedy is when sales guy from company A talks to sales guy from company B.

You want a submarine to also fly into space? Oh yeah, we can do that! Our engineers are really smart, shouldn’t be a problem. We’ll have that design over to you in 2 weeks!

Later, when talking to the engineering team…

Well, I don’t see what’s so hard about it. We’ve had submarines and planes in WW2, you’re telling me we can’t innovative and combine those ideas? Well, this is an opportunity for you guys to really show off the engineering ability of the company… And I can’t move the promise date now, I already talked to him on the phone and I’m about to go on my cruise. Call me if you need anything!