Time has come full circle
Funny how things seem to run in cycles.
My first professional IT job was at a local hospital. One of the major projects I did there was to evaluate, purchase, install, and maintain an anti-virus solution for the hospital's systems. Back then you had your choice of McAfee or Norton.
My new job is working for one of the major hospital conglomerates in the Chicago area. The group I work for supports all of the out-patient centers and a couple of the hospitals. I started on Tuesday and what's the first project I've been assigned? Evaluate, purchase, install, and maintain an anti-virus solution for the group's systems.
They currently run Symantec Endpoint Protection, which I know from my last job is a dog. Boss has already told me the Symantec contract ends soon and he'd just as well not renew it. McAfee is already out of the question because they played a licensing game with them several years ago. I'm currently looking hard at NOD32 or Kaspersky.
They also run a bunch of Sonicwall firewalls. I worked with Sonicwall for about five years at my job-before-last. They're also a strictly HP shop which I've worked with forever. Talk about walking into a familiar environment, at least technology-wise.
First impressions of the people are pretty good. Everyone seems friendly enough. At least no one has walked up to me yet and told me they hate me for taking so-and-so's job like at my last company. The guy in the cube next to me is a goofball from Dallas. I'd forgotten how good it was to be able to laugh at work.
Heard back from the guy that started with me at the last job. He says the place went to hell after I left. They promoted the worthless helpdesk guy into my position and they already had to bring in a temp to help him. My friend called in sick yesterday and they already had 200 email pages by the time I talked to him at noon for issues that weren't being responded to.
My first professional IT job was at a local hospital. One of the major projects I did there was to evaluate, purchase, install, and maintain an anti-virus solution for the hospital's systems. Back then you had your choice of McAfee or Norton.
My new job is working for one of the major hospital conglomerates in the Chicago area. The group I work for supports all of the out-patient centers and a couple of the hospitals. I started on Tuesday and what's the first project I've been assigned? Evaluate, purchase, install, and maintain an anti-virus solution for the group's systems.
They currently run Symantec Endpoint Protection, which I know from my last job is a dog. Boss has already told me the Symantec contract ends soon and he'd just as well not renew it. McAfee is already out of the question because they played a licensing game with them several years ago. I'm currently looking hard at NOD32 or Kaspersky.
They also run a bunch of Sonicwall firewalls. I worked with Sonicwall for about five years at my job-before-last. They're also a strictly HP shop which I've worked with forever. Talk about walking into a familiar environment, at least technology-wise.
First impressions of the people are pretty good. Everyone seems friendly enough. At least no one has walked up to me yet and told me they hate me for taking so-and-so's job like at my last company. The guy in the cube next to me is a goofball from Dallas. I'd forgotten how good it was to be able to laugh at work.
Heard back from the guy that started with me at the last job. He says the place went to hell after I left. They promoted the worthless helpdesk guy into my position and they already had to bring in a temp to help him. My friend called in sick yesterday and they already had 200 email pages by the time I talked to him at noon for issues that weren't being responded to.