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Originally Posted by Mayo
How the **** could a tech cert EVER be "for life", anyway? Tech changes! And the CompTIA tests are already out of date when they're written. Fun fact: If you took A+ tomorrow, all your questions would be about Windows ****ing XP.
Their tests are completely bogus. EVIDENCE: The Air Force mandates Sec+ for its new network technicians, so they gave us all a two week cram course before we graduated tech school. We all passed the test despite having no ideas and no experience with any actual practical security ****. The test demonstrates absolutely nothing.
And they just gouge the **** out of their customers. The test itself is like $200, I think. (IDK exactly. The gummint paid mine.) And then they make you (or, in my case, the Air Force) pay them money every year to renew the cert you already have, even though they don't actually make you verify your abilities in any way. Once you have a cert, it's basically "Pay us $X/year, and we'll continue to tell people that you're a qualified security technician even though we don't actually know that since it's been three years since you passed our bull**** test that was already antiquated even then."
The whole goddamn company is a scam, and I have no idea why anyone in IT (especially government IT) values their certs at all. **** CompTIA.
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Originally Posted by Mayo
Also, they gave out a gazillion of those certs "for life," and then years later tried to charge people renewal fees or make them retest on those "for life" certs. It took a massive chorus of the Low Keys of the world calling out "fuuuuuuuuccckkkk yoooooooooooooouuuuuu" to get them to back off of that ****.
FUN FACT: I got my Sec+ like six months after the "for life" program ended, so now I'm supposed to jump through all the ****ing hoops to recertify and have the government pay my dues. But my Sec+ expires like three weeks before I separate from the Air Force, so I simply do not give a flying ****.
Eat ****, CompTIA.
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Originally Posted by Mayo
Another FUN FACT: When I took the test, they gave me nothin'. The screen said "you passed!" and I was told to leave. I never got the printout saying that I passed or what my login for their ******ed-ass online cert website was. Then they insisted FOR LITERALLY TWO YEARS that I never took the test. Eventually I found out it was because they would not believe that "Keesler AFB, MS" and "Biloxi, MS" were actually the same place, and I kept answering the wrong one when they asked me what city I took the test in every time I called them at their phone number where no one ever answered and actually somehow got to talk to a human being.
**** off and die, CompTIA.
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Originally Posted by Mayo
You are way low-balling these prices. If you charge $20+$5, no one will care about your cert. But if you charge $600+$150, then people will think your cert is amazing and you'll be able to sell a whole bunch of 'em.
I am not even kidding.
Reported.
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Originally Posted by Da33le
The food was meh the company was meh but I had the steak and it was free so can't complain.
WHERE ARE THE GODDAMN PICS
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Originally Posted by There Is A Light
I''ve got drunk home alone drinking whiskey and listening to Rodriguez. and it's early. Is going to the bar alone with the sole intention of trying to pull (trying to 'hook up' for you yanks) in bad taste? Considering it.
That is quite literally THE reason to go to the bar.
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Originally Posted by -Insert Witty SN-
IT MEANS THE ****ING FISA COURT APPROVED 20,000+ REQUESTS FOR SURVEILLANCE AND REJECTED ONLY 10 OF THEM JESUS UCKING CHRIST
ya ok elrey stick w ur iphone cuz its hip ill be over here with my superior Android technology
Ya, but they have to jump thru so many hoops just to make a request to the FISA court that they're selected only to be legit request ... or so the gubbment says