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On the other hand, it can be quite a handful to walk into a job cold, and learn the network from the ground up with nobody to help you out.
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I hear that. Prevoius job, walked in on my first day at 8:00 AM, expecting to do the HR paperwork thing and meeting the other workers.
No, the HR Manager walks out as says "The server (running ERP) is crashed and nobody can work". "Here's the admin password, there's the server room, CYA"
Staring at a blue screen and absolutley no idea what is running on any of the servers is not a fun way to get started.
Especially if the network is constantly plagued with problems.
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Yes, it was so bad that while everyone else took a four day weekend for Thanksgiving, I spent the time rebuilding the whole system from scratch.
Seems the previous guy had installed Nutscrape, Norton Utilities, AIM, Yahoo, PCA9 and a bunch of other crap on all the servers [>(] The only way to clean up his mess was a clean format.
Well, now its three years later and all of them are still running like a top. A reboot every six months is all that is needed.
Anyone who says that NT is an unreliable OS just doesn't know how to set it up properly.