@Lettuceeatlettuce such a sad story! I'm assuming you're finding new work? I hope you're able to take your Linux/FOSS skills somewhere they'll be appreciated
Looking actively. I haven't lost my job (yet) I cut my teeth in IT on supporting Microsoft products, so I still have relevant skills for the new corpo's IT, but it already stinks of the big corporate style.
Super inefficient processes, stuck in their ways, everything has to get bumped around to 3-4 different departments before getting approved, etc.
And cLoWd EvErYtHiNg! So we are hardcore vendor locked with Microsoft, there isn't a chance of me getting them to try using anything FOSS as an alternative.
At least my home lab is 100% Linux and FOSS, same with all my personal computers. I'm having even more fun than usual going home after work and playing with my tech.
And one small upside is they are giving me all the old computers from my current company, so I have a huge pile of towers that I can referb and sell, or use for more home lab testing.
@Lettuceeatlettuce okay, glad you still have a job at least. Sick that they're giving you those towers! It'd be a field day for me, I hope you enjoy it!
For sure! 🫶
I feel you so much on this. Bet your work was really cool.
What cool FOSS things would you do first if this take-over company allowed you to?
Good question. I was in the process of testing out DokuWiki for internal documentation, that was really cool.
But probably using Tailscale to phase out our janky ipsec VPN solution. Super high speed and bandwidth aren't a concern at my current place, so Tailscale would be a great solution to fix the current setup we have and make remote work much easier for end users.
I was looking at a Grafana/Prometheus stack for active monitoring and metrics too, which would have been really cool.
I was also talking to the former owner about developing an in-house piece of software that used machine learning and OCR to pull relevant data out of huge construction PDFs, convert it to CSV formatted data, and import that directly into our estimating software, saving our estimators massive amounts of time having to manually parse those documents and input the data line by line, cell by cell.
Wow. You have some really cool quick-improvenent ideas alongside major improvements. OCR would have applications in so many other situations too!
It definitely sounds like you will be under-appreciated under the new owners, you have so much skill and knowledge that are kinda going to waste with them.
But based on your other comments here, you know this too. Best wishes and good luck in your search.
That last thing. Can you do it under an Open License and put on git?
Seems like an improvement for all.
Thank you for your service 🫡
It's natural to feel sad seeing your work undone. Start searching for a new gig and do the best you can to not have an emotional response to the stuff you dislike; that'll only make you exhausted and burned out.
I'm sorry your job got worse. Try to find where you can be happy again.
Thank you 🤜🤛
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