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I can't count the number of people I've tried to talk off the ledge
about an otherwise fabulous job that wouldn't give them a <insert
current in vogue technology here>. I've had people tell me they
were going to pass on a six figure income over a $1k laptop or lack
of multiple monitors or because the company didn't pay for home
internet/cell phone (especially since they weren't required for the
job). I've always been able to find a way to make things work for
me. <br>
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Think about how you react to people who want to go off the rails and
do something against the standards that you've brought
about/developed/put in place/whatever. As an admin, image how you'd
feel if every project came along and wanted to use their own OS
(RHEL, SuSE, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD) and how difficult it would be for
you to have to manage all that. Imagine as a developer, that you've
put together your tool stack and someone wanted to throw in their
own language. Most of us would go absolutely bonkers fighting them
about following the standards to reduce workload, complexity, risk,
and improve service, etc.<br>
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Then, be rational and look at what tools you can use that might
still fit in with the majority of your desires. At my current job,
laptops run Windows and Office. However, our infrastructure
organization is pretty small, so it was no issue for the Unix people
to talk to the VMware admin and (originally) have him provision them
a new VM they loaded Linux on. Then, they used some form of VNC to
attach to that. Eventually, there was enough use that they set up a
machine specifically for VNC. Now, some people log into their
Window laptop, fire up their VNC viewer, full screen it, and very
rarely drop back to their Windows environment. <br>
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The other teams trust me pretty well, so I now have full access to
the VMware environment, have a domain admin account in our Windows
environment, and have local admin on my laptop. I could, if I
really wanted, install Virtual Box or VMware Workstation and spin up
my own VMs on my laptop. But, I find it easier to spin up full VMs
through my Foreman/Satellite server when I need them. I've done so
much clean up of the environment (decom unused VMs, rightsize
overallocated VMs) in the short time I've been there, they wouldn't
even notice the resources I'm using - even if I weren't sharing them
with the rest of the organization to make things even better.<br>
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-spp<br>
PS: There's a possibility I may be able to talk my management into
another Linux/AIX consultant. So, if anyone is looking for a
contract position and is OK working through Teksystems, send me your
resume (first) so I can try to grease the skids.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/17/2016 10:34 AM, Rick Troth
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DO NOT LET the EUC issue keep you from the work you want. <br>
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