TechOps and James Hoffman are shuddering at the thought of this Danā¦
I canāt really speak to the Ikea furniture names as I donāt speak Swedish but if I was going to select a Welsh word for an Ikea item it would be āDraenogā which means Hedgehog and it would probably be some sort of vaguely hedgehog shaped itemā¦ Maybe a bread-bin.
We donāt get to see a lot of the devices here before repair as most of them are remote and I wouldnāt want to name and shame as my definition of good condition is MUCH higher than some folks hahaha. I think in my entire career the worst one Iāve ever seen involved an iMac, sizzled slugs and a very upset power supply.
This is why we canāt have nice thingsā¦
Our dynamic duo are closing their AMA today, get your questions in before they need to go back to fixing Monzonaut issues!
Do you think someone has ever had twins, lets call them Bill & Bob, and then at some point during their early lives, because lets face it, all babies look the same, starting thinking Bill was Bob and Bob was Bill and then they spend the rest of their lives being the other sibling?
Side idea - Branding for twins. Like you do with cows.
If someone wanted to upskill to the uber levels of Monzo TechOps utilising all of the cool new tech, cloud, open source, devops and other buzz words they have only heard on reddit but have only had IT helpdesk experience in a windows environment.
What upskill path and/or words of motivation would you give them.
Happy for both to answer as they may differ.
Having watched a good chunk of the video that @Ross_TechOps posted - extremely good by the way - the thought occurs to me: isnāt it expensive buying brand new Macs for every new starter? What happens if somebody doesnāt pass their probation period? What happens to ex-employee machines? Are they kept as spare stock in case of hardware swaps?
In one of my old jobs, we were given a clunker of a machine for the duration of the probation period after which we could buy any machine we liked up to a certain value. We had āoldā spares, but at least it saved a bit of cash while a machine went in for repair, or until it was time to refresh an employeeās computer after 3 years.