Just got fired from my first IT job out of college after working

>>59391978

guess pajeet lied on his CV again and got caught

How did you fuck up this badly?

In my experience, people don't get fired for being incompetent (unless it's absolutely pants on head retarded). They get fired for being faggots and get told it's because of poor performance.

So what happened op?

>>59392024
Manager was a total ass, he didn't like me. They actually told me I was doing great 2 weeks ago and that I just needed to try to troubleshoot by myself a little. So I tried to troubleshoot by myself and this happened

>>59392051
This, a month isn't enough time to fire someone over incompetence, unless op's boss is a total prick and just doesn't like op, or op is actually an asshole.

>>59391978
lol i got fired after 2 weeks didnt even give a reason

then that fuckwhit company burns through people in a couple of weeks/months

Fucking idiots

>>59392078
>tripfag
No surprise here

you do understand you cant put this job on your resume now yes?

>>59392063
yup
just keep going for new jobs until you find one without a cunty manager
hope you're ready because its gonna be a long time until you find a job where you can settle with.

>>59391978
>they fired me without warning for struggling too much with troubleshooting
That was the training. Kids these days.

>>59392107
meh it was over 2 years ago fuck em

Suck me off BlueSkyIT

>>59392078
This one was a hospital, not too high of turn over. Boss was pretty bad. Got mad over any questions I asked even know he promised to train me before hire, even if it was a password I needed to fix a computer. I never would of worked there if I knew it was gonna be so short.

>>59392116
Yes sadly

>>59392116
It was only a month. I think he'll manage to survive.

>>59392150
Damn dude what is your degree in? Sucks you have to start with shit tier IT work. I promise you there are good jobs and good people to work with. I don't know where you live but if there are tech companies there or you are willing to move, go for tech company jobs.

>>59392150
Lucky you lasted a month

>>59392178
I've got an associates in Computer Science and I'm half way done with my Bachelor's in Computer Science now. Not much tech jobs here other than hospital ones.

>>59392150
>not keeping ophrack on a flash drive
You deserved to get fired.

>>59392200
Very true

>>59392214
We couldn't use flash drives at work, it was against policy

>>59392224
yeah in aus they can just shitcan you if your a trainee/apprentice after 2 weeks

>>59392224
>listening to policy
What were you even doing there?

>>59392208
Move if you can when you're done with your degree, it'll be harder and harder to move as you get older. Bay Area, Seattle, Portland, Austin, RTP (North Carolina). Once you've established your career you can get a remote job and move somewhere cheap and live well.

>hospital
>this is the people that would be trusted with our
lives
dreadful to think about

>>59392274
>about to spend 3 weeks in the hospital
Save me /g/

>>59392236
Whatever they told me honestly

>>59392241
Thanks Anon, probably the best move

>>59392150
Did you have a supervisor? Was your supervisor your boss? Somethings fishy in this scenario (not you, your boss). Your Boss was probably hoping that you were more competent than he was, but when he realized you weren't probably went "Oh shit I gotta get someone to do my job for me."
Yea that's weird, sorry bro. What part of the country? Northeast?

>>59392355
Yeah Northeast, Yep supervisor and boss were the same people, I had no co workers either so no one to really work with but myself

>>59391978
>fired me without warning for struggling too much with troubleshooting they said
Sounds like a great place to work. My workplace doesn't know what troubleshooting is, so my coworker has to call me for help any time a machine gets a DNS error because the dumb cunt forgot to put our DNS servers in it.

>>59392051
>In my experience, people don't get fired for being incompetent

which is a damn shame

>>59392051
Basically this. If you show low performance but good attitude, management will want to keep ya because they believe performance can improve with time.
If you're being obnoxious, you're considered irredeemable.

Although it might have been unfair, try harder next time to learn on your own. Don't depend on anybody.

>>59392355
I'm leaning towards this, one month is pretty harsh to cut someone off unless they really don't show the prerequisites. Chances are if he's going to be this much of a dick he probably didn't know it himself and was afraid you knew more than him. Unless he told you do stuff that actually was simple and you spent 5 whole minutes trying to find Device Manager or you didn't know a common command in command prompt or something and had to look it up.

Just get a job in the new Trump wall-building project

I had something similar OP. Some places are just full of shitbags. The last IT gig i had was at my university. My manager was a grumpy veteran who thought he was hot shit, and everybody else thought he was as well. He was just a sociopath. Muse on your experience and move on, and don't get discouraged, especially if you gave it your all.

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>>59393838
This

>>59391978
Where did you werk?

>>59394327
>POTUS
>zero dignity

Hey /g/, I'm hijacking this into a /job/ thread.

First off, what is god tier IT jobs? Sysadmin? Codemonkey? IT support?

Second, what's a good temp job to work while you look for one in your field? Fuck I think I'd work at maccas at the moment

>>59394807
application support is pretty comfy if you enjoy troubleshooting, desu

>>59391978
goes to college. can't even troubleshoot without someone holding his hand.

>>59391978
I was working as a junior dev for a small company, getting paid low as fuck. There for 6 months with basically no training that I didn't do on my own time because my manager is never even at work because she seems to have more vacation days than work days from working there for 20 years.
Only me and another junior dev most days working on code while the rest of the company did client related work. since he was hired first, he had seniority. This guy couldn't fizzbuzz if he was given the solution. But I had to work with him to maintain a 300000 line legacy code base without any documentation or direction. He gets orders from our manager and then gets me to do all the hard parts while he plays around changing the GUIs and shit like that. The manager would sometimes have private meetings with him and rarely, I would be invited as well. Generally, my work was praised so I didn't really mind it.
6 months in, I was actually starting to get the hang of the codebase and slowly working through the mountains of bugs, a decent number of which were made by the other guy. The last meeting was good and my manager actually seemed to notice all the stuff that I've done and how there were a lot less random errors that was easily fixable.
Then one day, both manager and other guy went on vacation. I just get to work to find everything going to shit. The entire system that the company ran on crashed without notice. The whole company was screaming at me to get it fixed. Couldn't contact manager or other guy. I tried to reboot the system and looked for any errors. Things didn't boot with giving only a generic error. After hours and hours looking through the code, with different people breathing down my neck, I got it online with some trial and error to find all the parts that needed to reboot and reconnect to. Checking with the users, they begrudgingly went back to work but not before commenting about how I wasted their whole day. I let it go to finally have my lunch at 4pm.

>>59395247
After getting back, I checked everything again. Made note of all the thing that I did for myself and checked users to see anything wrong. They were all working furiously trying to catch up on their work. As it was already hours past my shifts end, I went home to relax after a day of bullshit.
The next day I came to work with the hr manager at my desk with my termination letter. Apparently, the delay in the business was unacceptable and because of that, errors were introduced to reports that went out to external clients. The company there and then fired me for something I literally had no control over and solved as best as I could. My manager was called, somehow now easily reachable by phone when the day before, I must have tried 20 times with no avail. I thought she would at least be on my side and let me explain but she wouldn't even let me explain and told me that nothing ever broke before me like this and they always fixed problems before without costing the company's time. She tried to make it sound like it was my fault that things broke and that I failed to read all the code well enough before hand to fix it. I was left with nothing from that work experience. They wouldn't even be a decent reference because they blamed me for everything.
To this day, I wonder if I was just set up to fail so they could have an excuse to file me to gain something in the company's politics or something. It was the most bullshit job I have had but I eventually found work elsewhere that wasn't nearly as bad.

>>59394612
>posts on 4chan
>dignity

>>59392116
Not op but why?

You're a failure OP and you should feel bad
kys

>>59395443
Does saying that make you feel better about your sad achievement lacking life for a moment?

>>59395359
Sounds like a good thing that you got out of there. Always a massive red flag when the codebase has no documentation.

>>59395359
>trusting women
hope you learned a lesson about a womans character anon

>>59394807
Networking is pretty low effort for the reward

fresh out of highschool i was making a little over $20/hr essentially watching youtube/playing games and doing like 1 or 2 10-15min trouble shooting calls a night

i now make much more and still don't really do much of anything.

>>59395552
How do I land myself in a job such as this?

>>59395552
test

>>59395594
read the CCNA book
take the CCNA test
email a recruiter and be immediately placed into a contract position
repeat until hired as FTE

once you're full time on a company's payroll it's literally impossible to get fired unless your boss has beef with you so just pal around with the boss man and fuck off.

>>59395629
So aside from taking the test, there's no other requirements?

>>59395359
You should have straight rat fucked that codebase before leaving. I would have opened the entire server to Tor and i2p and randomly redirect users to gay porn sites.

>>59395611
your dubs script works.

>>59395671
nope

you'd need a valid CCNA if you want to take CCNP though

oddly enough for CCIE you don't actually need any prerequisites either.

>>59395629
What other qualifications/experience did you have besides CCNA?
Do you have a home lab?
And is your job mainly surrounding cisco equipment?

>>59395715
i have a couple comptia certs as well, mainly sec+ that i keep valid if for any reason i ever need DoD compliance.

i've recently started using GNS3 since i'm prepping for CCNP in the next couple months, prior to that i've used packet tracer a little.

I currently work for an ISP, in the carrier world we mainly use alcatel-lucent 7750s and juniper's MX series. If it helps you can think of the different platforms being kind of like different programming languages. the big picture concepts stay the same but the syntax for commands change. Also despite most of our equipment being non-cisco cisco certifications are one of the first things they look for in a resume and they even bring in cisco reps to train employees on the certification requirements.

>>59391978
Just wait until "The Employer can demand the Employee to pay all training costs if employment is ended early".

I got fired from my job recently OP.

Well. Semi fired.
They wanted me to sign off on unchecked engineering calculations for a high rise block - 18 stories. I refused until i checked them, they delayed giving me the stuff to check and told me just to sign off and not to worry about it.

Again, i refused, they threatened me with unpaid forced leave. So i quit.

Told my boss to kill himself on the way out. Literally said '' kys my man''.

Love using memes irl.

>>59391978
I hope you had a contract you can take them to shit over.

>>59395893
>kys my man
At least insult him in a way he would understand.

>>59395910
I said '' kill yourself my man''

Why would i say an acronym out loud, you mongoloid?

ok heres a related thread

ive sent in a bunch of applications to intern at various companies (ibm, bhb billiton, google, cisco, macquarie bank) for it/networking during my penultimate year of my degree (these companies had programs specifically for interning as penultimate students)

if i don't get accepted to any of these, should i accept an unpaid 6 month internship? it's very casual 3 days a week and fits into my timetable already but I was wondering if unpaid internships are a scam or a good idea for some work experience

doing network security for these btw but these programs are probably just going to be general it/network configuration

>>59395843

how was the ccna exam? i took a course in uni that was basically ccna just without the exam at the end?

is it online via the retarded cisco networking academy ui or can you take a paper version with labs for packet tracer etc?

>>59395939
personally i would never take an unpaid internship

if you want work experience look for a dick ass second shift tech support position or something, it'll fill out that blank space on your CV just as well as an internship and i don't think i need to explain to you that being paid for work is better than looking like a total beta.

>>59393259
This.

Half the time I have to micromanage my fucking co-workers in order to make sure they don't fuck anything up. It's fucking tiresome and I'm definitely thinking about switching jobs because of it considering I'm not the "team leader".

I took the job straight out of college because I was worried that I wouldn't get any other offers (accepted it in february). Now I know they tried to get people early so that they could play off of those worries and pay less/give less bonuses. Several of my more incompetent classmates who were all "whatever, I'll just breeze through this" didn't even bother applying for jobs until the last week and now they are making more plus have better bonuses than me and it kind of makes me angry since I know how incompetent they are.

>>59395919
You post on 4chan. Such retardation is to be expected.

>>59395552
the company I work for currently is moving businesses to the cloud and being a middle-man between them and microsoft.

I make around 60000$ a year starting which is fine fresh out of college. Plus the business is making me take a bunch of certs and shit too (on their bill).

It's alright, especially once you've done one project and can just re-use documentation.

>>59395950
if you've already taken a class on it i would recommend picking up a cert guide, taking all the quizzes in it and using the results to figure out what topics you know and which ones you need to know, then follow up by reading those chapters and working through some practical implementations in GNS3 or packet tracer.

The one thing you might want to pay attention to, especially if you took the class more than a about a year ago is that a new exam comes out every few years so make sure that if pick up the cert guide that it is for the most recent tests

200-125 is the composite CCNA (one test for CCNA)

100-105 is the ICND1/CCENT test

if you have the CCENT from 100-105 you can take 200-105 which has less content than 200-125 for the CCNA as well.

all the tests are proctored by pearson, who operate test centers in most trade schools and colleges, they'll basically make you empty your pockets into a locker and sit you down at a computer to take the test.

the test is mostly multiple choice with a handful of simulated lab questions

>>59391978

> work 4 years as a developer
> apply to new job
> they give me 48h exploding offer like Im some kid
> push back, ask for a week
> VP wants to talk to me
> says its a once in a lifetime thing, this startup will get big, next facebook
> get the fuck out of there, some fucking weird SF cult

>>59396139

awesome thanks, i already have a ICND 100-101 cert guide which covers CCENT/CCNA and also the full CCNP cert library.


Is it a long exam?

>>59396194
i think they're all ~90 minutes and ~60 questions.

you can also look into adtran certs, i've taken a couple tests and they're really easy but the adtran CLI is nearly identical to cisco and they'll give you free shit for taking their free certification tests.

i have no idea what their motives behind this are but it's a free practice test and if you pass you can get a free coffee mug or t shirt or something in addition to resume fodder.

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I guess looking at windows event logs was just too hard for the OP.

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>get student software dev job(.net)
>don't like all the webshit but yay, I might finally learn how to properly program
>spend 5 months doing absolutely nothing other than reading some documentation and trying out some tools which I'm never going to use, so that I wouldn't be bored
>mentor is a guy who hasn't programmed in over 10 years
>all actual developers are scattered across 3 cities

Lol at getting fired
You people are huge fucking fqilures

>>59395919
because you literally said ' Literally said "kys my man." ' That literally means you literally pronounced acronym

>>59397194
Literally kys yourself my man.

>>59395427
>says here you worked at this company
>we're gonna call them and ask about you
>they told us you're a cunt
>sorry bro no job for you

1st IT job: left for 2nd IT job
2nd IT job: made redundant after 2 years, not the only person either.
3rd IT job: still here, comfy as all heck

>>59392078
let me quess, they also didn't pay you well or nothign at all?

some companies literally do this to outjew ppl even tho it hurts them more

>>59397897
lol yep pay was shit i was gonna walk after the 2 weeks anyway

>>59397922
>>59397897
They just use those 2 weeks to jew you out of payment. Almost free workforce, laddie!

>>59397698
>>we're gonna call them and ask about you
do they really do that?

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>>59391978
At least you had a job, even for a brief time.
Can't find any job where I live, not even a single internship.

Life sucks.

>>59398310
are you from brazil?

>>59398310
Enjoy the downfall of your nation.

>>59398177
American companies won't say shit about you for fear of lawsuits. They will confirm your dates of employment but that's it.

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>>59398370
Yes.

>>59398383
I guess we kinda deserve it after all...

>>59397572
Literally ATM teller machine my man.
Literally LCD crystal display my man.
Literally RAS acronym syndrome my man.

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>>59394612
You seem triggered

Jesus, my first IT job out of college i was given a crippled department with a massive project due in 3 weeks. Total sink or swim placement. Fortunately I wasn't a complete fucking moron like you, OP. I actually exceeded expectations to the point that they gave the old manager the shitcan and i took over his position as IT Director for the next 5 years.

>>59392150
>would of