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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Microsoft reckons its forthcoming Azure Stack on-premises cloud needs a special breed of sysadmin to keep it humming.
The company describes that worthy as a " Azure Stack Operator" and says they will be "Responsible for operating Azure Stack infrastructure end-to-end – planning, deployment and integration, packaging and offering cloud resources and requested services on the infrastructure."
[...] True to form, Microsoft will try to monetize these roles: it's flagged a new five-day course titled "Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Stack" that will debut on September 18th. When, presumably, we'll also learn what it costs to become an Azure Stack Operator and how quickly the certification will expire. ®
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday August 17 2017, @11:40PM (11 children)
I met some guy at the Blanchet House Of Hospitality who had just gotten fired by Microsoft.
His fatal mistake?
He was a Windows 7 MCSE. Microsoft had just shipped Windows 8.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @11:47PM (9 children)
Explain how a guy "who had just gotten fired by Microsoft" was immediately homeless. Was he an unpaid intern? Not collecting a paycheck? Incapable of saving any money? Formerly living in the break room at Microsoft?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday August 18 2017, @12:00AM
Cocaine is a helluva drug, and many old sysadmins are still stuck in the seventies and eighties.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @12:02AM (5 children)
I believe he is using the word homeless tongue in cheek. Pretty sure you can safely assume he meant jobless.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @12:47AM (1 child)
No I'm not going to assume he meant jobless when he said homeless and he said he met the guy at a homeless shelter.
I'm not going to put up with Michael David Crawford's bullshit is what I'm not going to do. He spins a fucking yarn about Blanchet House conveniently located at NW Flanders Street in Portland [duckduckgo.com]. I say MDC is a Grifty McGrift [memegenerator.net] who wrote the blog on flim flamming [warplife.com].
(Score: 3, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday August 18 2017, @05:12AM
Their food was better than the Portland rescue mission's.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday August 18 2017, @05:11AM (2 children)
later that day he planned to take a bus to Seattle so he could live with his sister.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @10:03AM (1 child)
One does not simply take a bus into Mordor! What? You can? Cheaper than the train? Well, who knew! But how can you afford a place to live when you get there, what with all the Amazon and Google and Micro(wait for it!)$oft yuppies buying up all the housing and pushing rents to non-sustainable levels? Huh?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday August 19 2017, @05:46AM
I'd much rather live in Portland but Portland has twice the rents as Vancouver.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday August 18 2017, @12:29AM
but even so I never saved a penny of it. I always had more debt than my pay would cover.
Here's how to deal with a collection agent:
"I'm homeless. The only reason I get to eat is soup kitchens."
They never called again.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday August 18 2017, @08:32AM
He took all those mind numbing Microsoft Courses. He was unfit for any IT job.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Friday August 18 2017, @06:23PM
It's been a while since I worked on any Microsoft certs, but from what I remember, MCSE is a server certification not a desktop certification (i.e., he would be certified MCSE on Windows server 2008, or 2012, or whatever)
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