Dyno Results!!

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Ok...so lack of dyno results rather :mad: I got to RS Motorsports 1/2 hour early, the guys had gone to lunch so I go hang out a Propulshun until they get back (Propulshun is right next door, and the employees are great there, real easy going and informative). @ 3pm (my scheduled time) their door is open again so I walk over and tell them that I am ready to get my car tuned. EVERYONE in the shop looked like deer in the headlights, saying "noone called us and set up an appointment, when did you do this, etc...etc..etc..." I informed them that I called @ 9:15 am on June 21 and that ron had set it up for me. They then look at their calendar and see that I am correct. One problem, the only guy there (Ron) that knows how to tune a UTEC is gone in California until tuesday:eek: . Noone else wants to touch the car because of lack of knowledge on tuning a UTEC. :eek:

To make a long story short, I wasted a weekend in Mpls/St Paul and now have to go back there again next weekend since Ron will be back. On the plus side, I was told that I will DEFINATELY get a big break on my tuning costs, so that kinda helps. On the down side I have to keep driving my "gimped up" WRX for the rest of the week.:mad:

They get one more chance to redeem themselves then its off to Godspeed.

Chuck

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Thats why I'm going to Godspeed. Sorry but I been in the business world far too long, especially big business world. Incidents like that I don't stand for. If they had any decent kind of system/back office setup. They should have you on every outlook/CRM database calender period. When you are a service based company (or a large portion of your gross margin is derived from service) you just don't f*** up like that period, and I won't contribute to a business that performs errors that could be EASILY prevented. If the guy was out of town, it should've been preplanned vacation, or you should have been notified THE EXACT TIME he requested off for the weekend.

Sorry to hear what happened, keep us posted on results and when ya get back I want a run.

[STiSchucky]

so did u win any races down there(street race style)

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2k3WRXND wrote:
Thats why I'm going to Godspeed. Sorry but I been in the business world far too long, especially big business world. Incidents like that I don't stand for. If they had any decent kind of system/back office setup. They should have you on every outlook/CRM database calender period. When you are a service based company (or a large portion of your gross margin is derived from service) you just don't f*** up like that period, and I won't contribute to a business that performs errors that could be EASILY prevented. If the guy was out of town, it should've been preplanned vacation, or you should have been notified THE EXACT TIME he requested off for the weekend.

Sorry to hear what happened, keep us posted on results and when ya get back I want a run.
There is a bit more to the story as well that I didn't post. The reason he wasn't there was because of a family emergency in CA (I gathered that from talking to the employees) 2 days before I was to arrived. He also told his employees that he thought I was bringing my own tuner w/ me to tune so they were just going to let me tune on the dyno by myself, therefore they didn't think it would be a big deal if he was gone. The reason they thought this was because on the schedule he had the guy earlier in the day scheduled as a self tune, it could easily happen to anyone. I too have been in the big business world for long enough to know that sometimes shit happens that shouldn't (I work for SimplexGrinnell, a division of Tyco, sometimes things happen that prevent us from arriving to our service contracts in a reasonable amount of time, for example, an employee had a heart attack that set us back about a month, and messed up some of our scheduled maintenance contracts as well as new installation contracts. Nothing we could have done to prevent that or foresee it happening) I will give anyone a second chance, if they fuck me again, then I will go somewhere else. Should they have called, absolutely. Would I have remembered to call if it were MY family emergency, maybe/maybe not. Its not that big of deal really, and it's still cheaper than me going to MI to have godspeed tune my car. From what I have heard from other shops in the area they do a great job of tuning and Ron was trained by TXS to tune the UTEC, so I have no reason to doubt their abilities. If I were to base one bad experience w/ a company as a reason never to buy from them again, I would NEVER EVER EVER buy microsoft (nor would most of the free world for that matter) products, or Ford, or Chevy, or Dodge, or Honda, or Subaru (from as often as your car is in the shop getting fixed, I'm surprised you still own a subaru actually based on your theory) or any other product for that matter.

It was a mistake, it is being taken care of. End of story.

Chuck

[probe this]

Good luck getting her all tuned up. See you at the track and on the streets.
eric

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Who said I was a big fan of Subaru, and as for my employer Microsoft, well....whether you like them or not we will always be around

Well, if it was that kind of family emergency it is understandable, I just would've expected a phone call. Maybe I should call them and set them up with an automated CRM

[integra_gsr98]

2k3WRXND wrote:
Who said I was a big fan of Subaru, and as for my employer Microsoft, well....whether you like them or not we will always be around

Wait a Minute??? I thought you worked at SEI?

Brett what's the answer to this question?

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yep sure do, SEI IT is my main employer just the microsoft account. We are on a contract basis. We do lead generation for Microsoft Business Solutions including CRM, GP, and Classic products.

SEI also does contracting for NUMEROUS other groups including their main one which is McDonalds, they support over 50% of the POS/Backoffice systems of the McDonalds franchise stores. They also support Sonic, IAAA, Jiffy Lube, Intelinex (an investment banking/accounting solution)

Microsoft is the 2nd largest account SEI currently holds recurring ROUGHLY $5.5 million a year in a contractual basis (now looking at more $7.2 Million as Microsoft has excluded 2 out of the 4 other vendors and gave permission to almost double our staffing) McDonalds remains our "cash cow" and will probally remain that way for sometime.

So if Microsoft stops paying the check, we lose our jobs simple as that. This job will have to suffice until I complete my degree, speaking of which Nick you ever plan on doing that? You've already had a lot of experience, but in today's world experience just isn't enough. If you don't have a piece of paper PROVEN FACT that 75% employers will toss your resume into the garbage.

I specialize in the classic OS Server products specifically ISA Server Firewall, and active directory implementation. Fun stuff right?

Brett, you use to be on the MS Account correct? You with McDonalds now or what? Always was confused on where you are currently standing.

[Dangler]

2k3WRXND wrote:
Brett, you use to be on the MS Account correct? You with McDonalds now or what? Always was confused on where you are currently standing.

I'm standing at Eide Bailly's technology company now (Techwise) - glad to be out of SEI

[integra_gsr98]

2k3WRXND wrote:
So if Microsoft stops paying the check, we lose our jobs simple as that. This job will have to suffice until I complete my degree, speaking of which Nick you ever plan on doing that? You've already had a lot of experience, but in today's world experience just isn't enough. If you don't have a piece of paper PROVEN FACT that 75% employers will toss your resume into the garbage.

No not really. Being employed, having a resume with a list of experience on it long enough to get me a job just about anywhere suits me fine.

I don't have a degree, probably wont get a degree, and I will continue to get jobs without a degree. If people want degrees so bad, I must just be lucky having worked where I have and where I do for not having a piece of paper saying I studied CS. I studied CS in the real world, and have implemented networks and systems that have worked for years, and will continue to work for years. I dont want anything to do with businesses, I am the guy in the colo facility that makes it work. Not the monkey that tries to tell people what software they need and why they need it.

And my consulting business is starting to get off the ground as well, so hopefully it will be to the point I'm self employed anyways. But I guess my not having a degree is going to keep companies from paying me to do rather large projects for them as a consultant as well...

But what do I know, I've only been doing work for large companies for about 6 years now.

[Guest]

Been doing my own "partnership" for sometime. I implemented a backoffice solution for Royal Jewlers and now creating an E-Commerce/XML based web service for them. Which is recurring a large amount of revenue for me. There's a big difference between administrating networks and implementing/designing networks. I would never EVER EVER want to administer a network. I see no future for MCSA's/network administrators 5 years from now. ESPECIALLY after our new SQL is launched. The future is in ".NET application development" which I'm learning currently on my own and will be in school this fall. ".NET" is going to expand the future by far, imagine being able to develop, code, and write, ancient legacy programs to completely integrate with numerous solutions such as CRM, Great Plains, and even non MS based products. Companies who have relied off programs written 30 years ago and pay high maint. fees on upkeeping these solutions with high HR costs (IT staffing) can eliminate numerous positions and reduce overhead by introducing new solutions that are more efficient. That's my career goal, partnership with emphasis on development. There will always be a need for development period.

[Jim]

Nick and I had this discussion a while back, there are THOUSANDS of fucking morons with degree's that can't get around on a computer. Moreover, they PAY for what WE teach ourselves.

Not saying that getting a degree is a waste of time, but recentley, I've run in to many computer "experts"... that really aren't too keen.

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Dangler wrote:
I'm standing at Eide Bailly's technology company now (Techwise) - glad to be out of SEI

You left SEI!? Damn never knew. Well good luck to you and your new job! Eide Bailey is the company my folks use to go through financial investment, but they left them for personal reasons. Don't know specifics but you can take a look on our last account. Greenhills Inc/Clayton Drake industries. What are you doing for them now?

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Jim wrote:
Nick and I had this discussion a while back, there are THOUSANDS of fucking morons with degree's that can't get around on a computer. Moreover, they PAY for what WE teach ourselves.

Not saying that getting a degree is a waste of time, but recentley, I've run in to many computer "experts"... that really aren't too keen.

Your absolutely right. Its the just the fact that you WILL BE denied a job if you do not have a degree. Statistically people with degrees are paid more period. There's no arguing it. People have made their own businesses and prospered without a college degree, my folks are living examples. But in today's world that's not a chance I'm willing to take. If you have a degree you always have something to fall back on. Everyone should want to be in business for themselves, in today's capitalistic environment, it pay's to know that you should always be on top. But, in order to succeed in today's environment having a degree is key as it shows commitmment and dedication to the pursuit of higher education. If you can argue the fact that people with college degrees ARE NOT paid more then people with high school education, then I will shut my trap. But I guarentee you'll find more statistics that state otherwise. Alien technology is landing now, and hopefully I'll be lined up there as I have a "shoe in" from my project work at NDSU and a professor of mine. But nothing is stone....good company....but they'll only look at people with degrees (with the exception of line assemb.) Like I stated earlier, if you have a passion to make your own business, more power to you. I just find that its worth my time and money for that little piece of paper, even though I've learned from my own self teachings then NDSU has offered to me in real life situations. But as stated over and over again, I don't like to play against statistics

[integra_gsr98]

2k3WRXND wrote:
Been doing my own "partnership" for sometime. I implemented a backoffice solution for Royal Jewlers and now creating an E-Commerce/XML based web service for them. Which is recurring a large amount of revenue for me. There's a big difference between administrating networks and implementing/designing networks. I would never EVER EVER want to administer a network. I see no future for MCSA's/network administrators 5 years from now. ESPECIALLY after our new SQL is launched. The future is in ".NET application development" which I'm learning currently on my own and will be in school this fall. ".NET" is going to expand the future by far, imagine being able to develop, code, and write, ancient legacy programs to completely integrate with numerous solutions such as CRM, Great Plains, and even non MS based products. Companies who have relied off programs written 30 years ago and pay high maint. fees on upkeeping these solutions with high HR costs (IT staffing) can eliminate numerous positions and reduce overhead by introducing new solutions that are more efficient. That's my career goal, partnership with emphasis on development. There will always be a need for development period.

A big difference between administering networks and implementing and designing networks? This coming from someone who has obviously never done either.

Do you realize what it takes to implement and design a network? A knowledge of how it works, what usage is going to be like once it goes live, and 6 months, 1 year, etc down the road. What about security? How is this network going to be more secure than the last one? What about scalability? How am I going to be able to support double or even triple the usage without downtime or having to replace equipment?

It's funny to me that you live in a Microsoft world. You clearly have no idea of how most of the backend stuff works. The internet does not revolve around Microsoft products, although I guess when you cold call businesses and try to sell them software it does. How does being a telemarketer make you feel?

You reading that post straight from your cold call notes or what? When you understand what it takes to make things work just go ahead and let us know. But until then, please spare us the MS Marketing speech. And one other thing the difference between what you perceive as a network administrator (monkey that makes sure users have MS word installed) and what I do are completely different.

[Dangler]

2k3WRXND wrote:
Been doing my own "partnership" for sometime. I implemented a backoffice solution for Royal Jewlers and now creating an E-Commerce/XML based web service for them.

That's interesting - their technology re-work has been going on for over 5 years now, its legendary in Fargo and the Great Plains community as a complete *&&^%#%@@. I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole (and yes, I've done more complex implementations than most people have even heard of)

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Stack your resume against mine Nick, I guarentee I have more documented completed work that's worth mentioning then yourself. I also GUARENTEE with my education completed I have more of a worthwhile asset to any organization period. I'm not doubting that you've implemented networks period. I have setup BEOS, Linux/Apache/ various other kernels since I was 13 years old with Fargocity.com, Red River Net, and PCHertz. I know you have experience with Novell, but thats not gonna get you ANYWHERE. Where is Novell now? Oh yah thats what I thought, gone. Is Microsoft the end all be all solution to networking/backoffice absolutely not. How many Oracle/SAP & Citrix servers have you set up? Can you document them? I would like to see your resume quite frankly. Anyone can start their own business, but If I'm a client I wouldn't TRUST ANYONE without any kind of formal education. Any kid can read their own self help book, tinker around, and start their own business. They are a dime a friggin dozen. Go to a god damn LAN party. If I had a dime for every kid with "their own business" I'd be rich. Like I said, it's that little piece of paper that seperates most people. I plan on being one with that

Speaking of which Nick, do you have ANY certifications? I mean if you don't want to go to school fine. But it'd be in your best interest to recieve some certifications, they are worth the time and money if your at all dedicated to this field. CCNA? MCSE/MCSA? A+ even?

If your looking for books on MCSE/MCSA (including step by step 7 test guide for MCSA) I have them for sale. A+ as well, no documents on CCNA as I am registered for a 6 month crash course at the NTC while I attend NDSU this fall.
Experience helps, but anything to build a resume I'm definately down for, you should think that too.

[mym6]

Companies who have relied off programs written 30 years ago and pay high maint. fees on upkeeping these solutions with high HR costs (IT staffing) can eliminate numerous positions and reduce overhead by introducing new solutions that are more efficient.

I have to step in and call BS to this claim. We currently are running software written in the early 80's and it costs us very little in terms of yearly support fees and the amount of time I spend a year tending to it. Because support is ending on the product soon we're looking for software that can replace it and in all cases, support fees are at least double what we're paying now not to mention the additional cost in server hardware. Yearly support fees for one software solution we found would have cost us more than double, DOUBLE, my yearly salary. But whatever software is chosen, support fees will be higher, cost of supporting hardware and licensing fees will be higher and I'll still need to be here to support it.

I do agree to an extent that system and network administrators will themselves become "legacy" but not completely. Software runs somewhere and it used by someone, there will always be a need for someone to support end-users, patch servers , replace NICs or what have you. To say software will replace a system/network administrator is wishful thinking.

Lastly, .NET is today what the Pentium was in '93, it too will become irrelevant when something else comes along.

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[SmitEvo]

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