Wow, "my Dr told me".. jesus mate, if your that sick that you could die at any minute, I suggest you get yourself to a hospital and stay there.
Otherwise that's just trolling.. could have died in the night, turn it up!
I also live in Australia and work in tech and respectfully disagree. Just this week I had 69 applications for a Level 2 role. I phone interviewed five and only 1 had English skills passable enough to formally in person interview.
The influx of cheap labour into Australia IS an issue, but I don't see it as one in tech. If you are good at what you do, keep your skills up to date and are passionate about the work and type of company you work for, you will always have a job.
The 300-400K influx of Indian/Middle Eastern/Chinese immigrants with poor English language skills, degrees from "strange" Universities and problem-solving skills that would sink a ship are not a threat to skilled IT workers. Sure they might be a problem if your driving Uber, work in retail or manufacturing, but I don't see the relationship between immigrants and threat to skilled work - IT or any other industry.
Lastly, we have a minimum wage ( I think its ~$24p/hour ) and that isn't going anyway. It's not like Australia is full of poor people who can't work or beggers. We have 5.5% unemployment and a very high standard of living. We can afford as a country to allow more immigrants in, where we have enough work for them to do (and they integrate).
Fun fact: the US military was going full-on for the invasion of the Japanese home islands. The atom bomb was top-secret, remember? Casualty estimates were huge for both sides. The Japanese had a defense plan, and it was a good one. They had correctly predicted what the Americans were going to do. It would have been a bloodbath. When the Japanese surrendered it was a huge relief to both sides.
August 5, 1963
Dear Kup:
I appreciated most highly your column of July 30th, a copy of which you sent me.
I have been rather careful not to comment on the articles that have been written on the dropping of the bomb for the simple reason that the dropping of the bomb was completely and thoroughly explained in my Memoirs, and it was done to save 125,000 youngsters on the American side and 125,000 on the Japanese side from getting killed and that is what it did. It probably also saved a half million youngsters on both sides from being maimed for life.
You must always remember that people forget, as you said in your column, that the bombing of Pearl Harbor was done while we were at peace with Japan and trying our best to negotiate a treaty with them.
All you have to do is to go out and stand on the keel of the Battleship in Pearl Harbor with the 3,000 youngsters underneath it who had no chance whatever of saving their lives. That is true of two or three other battleships that were sunk in Pearl Harbor. Altogether, there were between 3,000 and 6,000 youngsters killed at that time without any declaration of war. It was plain murder.
I knew what I was doing when I stopped the war that would have killed a half a million youngsters on both sides if those bombs had not been dropped. I have no regrets and, under the same circumstances, I would do it again -- and this letter is not confidential
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Sincerely yours,
Harry S. Truman
Truman quote here from your comment " Altogether, there were between 3,000 and 6,000 youngsters killed at that time without any declaration of war. It was plain murder."
The USA dont even declare war these days, they kill, invade wherever they like.
Strange to think how much it has changed in 60 years..
Primarily, you'll want to build an honest rapport with the other person. Get inside their head a little and allow them to brag A LOT. Ask how they found the place and what they did to change it. You'll want to breeze through all of the high level and important documentation first so you'll have a baseline. Take as much notes as you can. Ask what websites/resources they use to make it easier to follow in their tracks. Explain your situation to them. It will humanize yourself in their mind and you might be able to engage their compassion for you. Perhaps they would be available to answer questions after they leave! Is there budget money for them to be used as a compensated resource? Hopefully they like the idea of helping others and putting some scratch in their pocket.
Bon chance!
Steve
Whilst this might sound rudimentary, when taking notes, do you advise to wiki/blog this sort of stuff, or just notepad it first up and write it up later?
He's leaving on a good note, which is helping fantastically.
As for system layout and node trees, would you recommend something like Visio to diagram all the data, or do you have tools you have used yourself that you think are just as good?
Given it's mostly a Windows shop, they have agents on some managed systems that look after auditing etc, however licenses don't permit these to be installed on everything. Do you think (given enough time), that rolling out nagios or something similar might be an option?
Also, RT is installed but not used heavily yet, perhaps there's an opportunity here to get some knowledge transfer into RT and get RT more up to scratch for production at the same time?
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Wow, "my Dr told me".. jesus mate, if your that sick that you could die at any minute, I suggest you get yourself to a hospital and stay there. Otherwise that's just trolling.. could have died in the night, turn it up!
I also live in Australia and work in tech and respectfully disagree. Just this week I had 69 applications for a Level 2 role. I phone interviewed five and only 1 had English skills passable enough to formally in person interview. The influx of cheap labour into Australia IS an issue, but I don't see it as one in tech. If you are good at what you do, keep your skills up to date and are passionate about the work and type of company you work for, you will always have a job. The 300-400K influx of Indian/Middle Eastern/Chinese immigrants with poor English language skills, degrees from "strange" Universities and problem-solving skills that would sink a ship are not a threat to skilled IT workers. Sure they might be a problem if your driving Uber, work in retail or manufacturing, but I don't see the relationship between immigrants and threat to skilled work - IT or any other industry. Lastly, we have a minimum wage ( I think its ~$24p/hour ) and that isn't going anyway. It's not like Australia is full of poor people who can't work or beggers. We have 5.5% unemployment and a very high standard of living. We can afford as a country to allow more immigrants in, where we have enough work for them to do (and they integrate).
Fun fact: the US military was going full-on for the invasion of the Japanese home islands. The atom bomb was top-secret, remember? Casualty estimates were huge for both sides. The Japanese had a defense plan, and it was a good one. They had correctly predicted what the Americans were going to do. It would have been a bloodbath. When the Japanese surrendered it was a huge relief to both sides.
Truman quote here from your comment " Altogether, there were between 3,000 and 6,000 youngsters killed at that time without any declaration of war. It was plain murder." The USA dont even declare war these days, they kill, invade wherever they like. Strange to think how much it has changed in 60 years..
Primarily, you'll want to build an honest rapport with the other person. Get inside their head a little and allow them to brag A LOT. Ask how they found the place and what they did to change it. You'll want to breeze through all of the high level and important documentation first so you'll have a baseline. Take as much notes as you can. Ask what websites/resources they use to make it easier to follow in their tracks. Explain your situation to them. It will humanize yourself in their mind and you might be able to engage their compassion for you. Perhaps they would be available to answer questions after they leave! Is there budget money for them to be used as a compensated resource? Hopefully they like the idea of helping others and putting some scratch in their pocket.
Bon chance!
Steve
Whilst this might sound rudimentary, when taking notes, do you advise to wiki/blog this sort of stuff, or just notepad it first up and write it up later?
He's moving to Dubai and he's volunteered to be contacting after his appointment finishes. I'll ask more WHY questions during the week, thanks.
He's leaving on a good note, which is helping fantastically. As for system layout and node trees, would you recommend something like Visio to diagram all the data, or do you have tools you have used yourself that you think are just as good? Given it's mostly a Windows shop, they have agents on some managed systems that look after auditing etc, however licenses don't permit these to be installed on everything. Do you think (given enough time), that rolling out nagios or something similar might be an option? Also, RT is installed but not used heavily yet, perhaps there's an opportunity here to get some knowledge transfer into RT and get RT more up to scratch for production at the same time?