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by Frank » Sat Feb 04, 2017 8:25 am

darksideby182 wrote:It seems like a lot of people on GRcade work in IT would be nice to know what most people do.

Myself I'm an Electrician.


I'm a CAD Engineer. I design bits for cars. Trying to convince work to get a Tesla Model X in so we can "benchmark" it :shifty:

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by Errkal » Sat Feb 04, 2017 9:07 am

I'm an IT consultanty,engineery,architechty,developery type thingy.

I dont really fix things there are others for that (service desk), I dont do boring repeatable tasks there are others for that (service desk), but I do make stuff in various products to automate process or generally make customers job easier. Recently that has meant doing Java and JSP stuff which makes me want to not live.

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by Lagamorph » Sat Feb 04, 2017 9:14 am

I'm in IT and my official job is third line server support, but I spend most of my time working in various projects and occasionally working on SCCM server builds, along with maintaining a legacy MDT setup. And writing the odd Powershell script to at least partially automate tasks some of the other server guys do.

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by Errkal » Sat Feb 04, 2017 9:33 am

Mdt :dread:

Used to have an environment at NHS that was used across Sussex, hate that software. Was well happy when we moved to ENGL. Made all the customisation much more manageable and let me do loads of new wizzy gooseberry fool.

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by Lagamorph » Sat Feb 04, 2017 9:42 am

Yeah it's....not great, especially as it's been customised to hell and back by previous people. All I'm really doing with it is keeping it ticking over and slotting in new versions of software when absolutely necessary.
For Server 2016 at least we're keeping it strictly to SCCM and vCAC.

Never used ENGL though.

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by Errkal » Sat Feb 04, 2017 9:45 am

Engl is cool, especially used with Novell / MicroFocus Zenworks. It has its own program language (Zim) that you can do load s of stuff and then because Zen stores "stuff" with the MBR you can write stuff their to be used in the windows side as system variables.

It means you only need 1 project per OS and can do near enough anything using the variables and things to pass information and stuff.

Very very flexible.

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by Green Gecko » Sat Feb 04, 2017 10:06 am

I like how you put that :lol:

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by darksideby182 » Sat Feb 04, 2017 10:12 am

Frank wrote:
darksideby182 wrote:It seems like a lot of people on GRcade work in IT would be nice to know what most people do.

Myself I'm an Electrician.


I'm a CAD Engineer. I design bits for cars. Trying to convince work to get a Tesla Model X in so we can "benchmark" it :shifty:

That's sounds pretty cool I've noticed driving into London there is a new Tesla garage on the A4 Chiswick area.

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by darksideby182 » Sat Feb 04, 2017 10:16 am

Should probably expand my job experience I worked for a major construction company where I did an apprenticeship ( heating and ventilation/electrical) but just over 3 years ago left them to work for a small company that does specialist electrical installations.
I mainly work in London but can be anywhere across the country so if you see a tower crane in London there will be a good chance I may be working on that construction site.

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by Rocsteady » Sat Feb 04, 2017 11:09 am

I'm an English teacher/freelance copywriter, although I've received a lot of praise from major organisations for my full-time work I'm ironically gooseberry fool at marketing myself so think I might try a new path soon.

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by Rhubarb » Sat Feb 04, 2017 12:24 pm

I think my official title is Business Analyst, but basically I just do a load of work figuring out how an undocumented and horrible mess of a legacy system calculates risk for a bank. It's really really shitty work but I'm a contractor and get paid alright for it :toot: :cry:

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by That's not a growth » Tue Feb 07, 2017 12:39 pm

I'm looking for a little advice for something that might happen soon.

Basically, I work in a office/call centre in customer service, and over my time here I've slowly been accumulating more tasks and more responsibility, to the extent I'm now also the secondary for a head of department, and secondary for certain important tasks for another. I don't get paid extra for this, and I know from the experience of others asking for a pay rise won't work in my current circumstance. Also, things in general have been pretty quiet on the department due to other departments getting more efficient meaning we have less we need to fix.

A couple of weeks ago a manager came to mine asking to borrow someone for an important task since we're so quiet. I was offered up, and said it'd be something to do.

This department is in the process of rolling out to about 70 locations for a client, and they've fallen behind due to someone letting them down outside of the company.

I've taken over a good proportion of job of organising everything, getting all the info we need from the locations so we're fully prepared for the installs.

Last week the manager speak to me and let's me know him and the guy he works with are at a trade show all this week, so I'm basically running that part of things.

I have a feeling they planned to get me all along, rather that opening up the offer to anyone in the department like it seemed at the time. The manager has mentioned a couple of times he expects great things from me since he's heard from multiple people how good I was at helping them.

People in my department seem to think this will potentially progress to me joining that department, but I wouldn't want to do it unless I was paid more. I'm concerned they could try to make the transition gradual to make it more difficult for me to make this demand, and I'm also concerned if I say I wanted to stay in my current job they would bring up how there's no work for me to do there.

I think they covers what I want to say.

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by Qikz » Tue Feb 07, 2017 1:08 pm

That's not a growth wrote:I'm looking for a little advice for something that might happen soon.

Basically, I work in a office/call centre in customer service, and over my time here I've slowly been accumulating more tasks and more responsibility, to the extent I'm now also the secondary for a head of department, and secondary for certain important tasks for another. I don't get paid extra for this, and I know from the experience of others asking for a pay rise won't work in my current circumstance. Also, things in general have been pretty quiet on the department due to other departments getting more efficient meaning we have less we need to fix.

A couple of weeks ago a manager came to mine asking to borrow someone for an important task since we're so quiet. I was offered up, and said it'd be something to do.

This department is in the process of rolling out to about 70 locations for a client, and they've fallen behind due to someone letting them down outside of the company.

I've taken over a good proportion of job of organising everything, getting all the info we need from the locations so we're fully prepared for the installs.

Last week the manager speak to me and let's me know him and the guy he works with are at a trade show all this week, so I'm basically running that part of things.

I have a feeling they planned to get me all along, rather that opening up the offer to anyone in the department like it seemed at the time. The manager has mentioned a couple of times he expects great things from me since he's heard from multiple people how good I was at helping them.

People in my department seem to think this will potentially progress to me joining that department, but I wouldn't want to do it unless I was paid more. I'm concerned they could try to make the transition gradual to make it more difficult for me to make this demand, and I'm also concerned if I say I wanted to stay in my current job they would bring up how there's no work for me to do there.

I think they covers what I want to say.


I've not been in work long (only a year and a half) but honestly I think the only thing you can do is mention it to your bosses. If you feel that strongly about it, you need to talk to them.

Perhaps it's different to me as I work in a smaller company, but if you don't feel your getting paid enough for what you do, either speak to your bosses or look for a job elsewhere. They're not going to up your money if they think you're perfectly happy doing everything for them for what you're already on. It seems you either have to threaten to leave and try and get bargaining or actually just leave in bigger companies to ever think about getting a raise.

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by Red » Tue Feb 07, 2017 1:13 pm

I'm an editor, currently a desk editor but moving into commissioning in a couple of weeks.

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by That » Tue Feb 07, 2017 1:18 pm

darksideby182 wrote:It seems like a lot of people on GRcade work in IT would be nice to know what most people do.


Cool idea, it's interesting seeing what everyone's job is.

I'm a researcher in computational biochemistry -- I split my time between software development, and then using that software to generate or analyse scientific data predicting or cataloguing how different chemicals affect the human body on a subcellular level.

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by Moggy » Tue Feb 07, 2017 1:20 pm

I work in pension administration. And a little bit of me dies every time I admit that to somebody.

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by Rax » Tue Feb 07, 2017 1:20 pm

Im quality lead for an engineering team focused on cloud computing services.

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by Drumstick » Tue Feb 07, 2017 1:20 pm

@TNAG

Tough one. From experience, I've known a couple of people in our contact centre that have been made unofficial supervisors with the promise of it becoming a permanent gig, only for it to fall through and later learning that they had been intentionally misled for 18 months without earning a single penny on top of their existing wage.

You say you've been doing work on these installs for a couple of weeks. How much longer are the people in charge of the installs likely to need your services for?

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by Drumstick » Tue Feb 07, 2017 1:23 pm

I am a data and reporting analyst. I dick around in Excel most of the day.

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by That's not a growth » Tue Feb 07, 2017 2:47 pm

Drumstick wrote:@TNAG

Tough one. From experience, I've known a couple of people in our contact centre that have been made unofficial supervisors with the promise of it becoming a permanent gig, only for it to fall through and later learning that they had been intentionally misled for 18 months without earning a single penny on top of their existing wage.

You say you've been doing work on these installs for a couple of weeks. How much longer are the people in charge of the installs likely to need your services for?


That's a worry for me, which is why I've been thinking about this.

There's been no talk about time. It was just presented as "we need a little help on this" and I asked my manager if this was a one time thing which at the time she said yes. They haven't mentioned about needing me during the time of installs, everything we've talked about has basically been information gathering, so in theory that's a good line for me to draw. It would depend on how they approach me about it, though.


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