Ah right, it's cheaper for you to kill them, you'll be expected in.

On a AWS sys admin course paid for by work. Its amazing to consider that 20 years ago Amazon were a online book seller and are now the worlds no1 cloud services provider.

Still the course is giving me a headache and food for thought. To myself i'm thinking "is it worth going through all the training and studying (of which there is feck loads) to get myself AWS certified then jump into the world of contracting?". The day rates for AWS certified people are nuts anywhere from £450 - 750 a day depending on what AWS area your certified for i.e. Sys Admin / Architect etc.

Rocksteady are recruiting! Time for me to get my hopes up then sorely dashed...

I’ve decided that at the end of November i’m leaving this dumb bar job.

That’s only... 6 more shifts, but i’d rather not get treated like shit for 6 hours every week for £40, life’s too short.

WorKid wrote:

For their Batman game? Man that would be awesome.

Not clear what the project is. I'm massively under qualified regardless. But have sent my CV for shits and giggles...

Your first act as H&S manager should be to replace all mugs with sippy cups.

EvilRedEye wrote:

Day one of my fancy new role managing, among other things, health and safety and I managed to, like, genuinely burn myself sloshing hot coffee over the side of my mug. Great start.

I hope you filled out an incident report.

Doesn't sound like it's a good fit. Management doesn't suit everyone and it might be better to stay in the role you are in if you enjoy it. Increase in pay is great but not if you end up hating your job.

Definitely. Although it largely depends on what you're on at the moment - if you're on a comfortable wage now and absolutely love what you do, I vote stick with it.

@dino I say go for it, you can always get through the process and say no.

You are right, your team your way, and that should be made clear.
I also assume it's a few quid extra in your pension and one step closer to other promotions if you want them.

No harm seeing the process through.

cockbeard wrote:

Looking for work at the moment and finding out I may have undervalued myself massively, or the agencies are being bellends. As for the management position, I've also always been averse to taking myself away from the technical work. I consider myself a problem solver not an administrator, but at the end of the day it seems a lot of places want to see that experience on your cv, especially if (as happened to me) yo seem to hit a ceiling in day rate. So a few years on various salaries then hopefully when I go back to self employment that ceiling will have been removed

Coco time to get some AWS DB training behind you? They have alot of material online and do offer a years worth of free AWS usage (albeit with tiny vm's). There seems to be alot of demand for AWS skills outhere.

As usual nobody follows up and nobody is talking to anyone else. Main thing is there is a paper/email trail, and you've done every reasonable thing to arrange it. Keep haranguing the person who can actually effect change until you get a straight answer, it's unlikely to be a priority for them.

Pretty clear case of mixed messages and you being stuck in the middle of it. Not sure of the timescale of all the messages/emails but if you've emailed the Head of Faculty yesterday/today, then I wouldn't be too concerned by the lack of reply as they might have been teaching all day. Their reaction is a bit surprising though and not particularly helpful. You obviously don't want to get off on the wrong foot but at the same time, your uni is restricting your ability to meet the provider's requirements. Is this the first time the uni have use them? Is there not a mentor's handbook that spells out the arrangements? Does seem rather farcical. 

As Skerret said - paper trail. Just try and be as positive about the placement as you can be - in your next email to the Head of Faculty ask for access to their staff intranet and any online resources they use, i.e Google Education stuff etc. 

Ostensibly, the dispute should be resolved between the uni and the school. Personally, I'd wait on the Head of Faculty's response and then reply, cc'ing the relevant uni folks so that they can support/advise/reply on your behalf. As much as the providers I use are useless at times from an admin perspective, they do tend to jump when I ask them to. If your Head of Faculty is so insistent on you attending in uni time then they need to make this clear directly, not via you as the placement student.

Dinostar77 wrote:

Coco time to get some AWS DB training behind you? They have alot of material online and do offer a years worth of free AWS usage (albeit with tiny vm's). There seems to be alot of demand for AWS skills outhere.

I had a little dabble a year or so back, am setting up a postgres sandbox at the moment to get myself more in depth with PHP. Was using python a bit with the Digital Media stuff as Google have all the advertising stats. So hoping to pin that down a little first but yeah AWS is definitely useful,. and lots of folk are asking about it. I do notice though that in my (limited) experience most guys are so used to the MS stack that they are just paying for Azure instead. Yes it's more expensive but requires less upskilling of existing staff, and the scarcity of AWS dev (which is why the rates yo umentioned were so good) is maybe putting many firms off migrating in case they can't backfill the skillset after natural wastage. Definitely a string I want to add to my bow, I just see it as a luxury at the moment, but that's maybe as I'm looking at two places that seem keen on me who are both using postgres so I'm focusing there at the moment

Hang in there temps!!! Fuck a round of dealing with shitty admin. You have my sympathies.

I don't think you'll get disciplined, as Dr. Skez said, you've got a paper trail showing you're doing your best to get an answer out of the people involved.