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AlexDeGruven posted:You joke, but xsf421 and I know. As far as I know his plan is to fail upwards to a VP or C-level role in another company in the next 12 months.
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Actuarial Fables posted:I hope this ticket came in Is this the IT equivalent of "what is the sound of one hand clapping" or some such poo poo?
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My current posting is on-site Security Operations for a client. Yesterday and today ALL of the tickets came in. Or at least the third party helpdesk flooded the team's inbox with "Can I get an update on this?" for poo poo I told them was done weeks ago or wasn't ever being done because "gently caress no you can't have tinyurl unblocked ever stop asking".  ETA: fuckit, while I'm all  about it, part of the problem here is that there are at least three different varities of helpdesk in this company, all run by different third parties. None of them want to communicate with each other so everything goes through the SecOps team. This includes whenever deskside support can't be arsed to show someone how to reset their AD password 
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May 2, 2019 00:15
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xsf421 posted:As far as I know his plan is to fail upwards to a VP or C-level role in another company in the next 12 months. C-Level, just loving lol Better sign on with a giant golden parachute 'cuz that place is going down in flames.
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May 2, 2019 01:52
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So, uh. Is that goon that does resume tweaking still around? Asking for a system engineering department.
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May 2, 2019 16:03
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AlexDeGruven posted:So, uh. Is that goon that does resume tweaking still around? He sold his business to someone else who does a lovely job.
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May 2, 2019 16:46
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chin up everything sucks posted:He sold his business to someone else who does a lovely job. If anyone knows a good substitute, 
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May 2, 2019 17:54
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terrenblade posted:If anyone knows a good substitute, is the substitute
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May 2, 2019 18:00
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SharePoint online is down, yay. Of course MS has nothing reported in the service health. They did tweet about it at least.
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May 2, 2019 21:40
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Varkk posted:SharePoint online is down, yay. Of course MS has nothing reported in the service health. They did tweet about it at least. Azure's Status Page is saying something now: Microsoft posted:Azure Services
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May 2, 2019 21:44
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AlexDeGruven posted:So, uh. Is that goon that does resume tweaking still around? Just post it here.
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May 3, 2019 11:12
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Come in first thing in the morning and there's a routing loop out at one of the remote sites. Everyone claims no changes were made last night. Thank god it's Friday.
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May 3, 2019 14:52
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ChubbyThePhat posted:Come in first thing in the morning and there's a routing loop out at one of the remote sites. Everyone claims no changes were made last night. Thank god it's Friday. Ahh yes, the wonderful "I didn't touch anything" outage. "Hey, the load on the db server is over 200 this morning. What changed overnight?" "Nothing!" "Hmm, that's odd. I know I didn't touch the servers last night, but it looks like this one code directory has some new files" "Oh yeah, we pushed code last night, but we didn't change anything"
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May 3, 2019 15:29
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ChubbyThePhat posted:Come in first thing in the morning and there's a routing loop out at one of the remote sites. Everyone claims no changes were made last night. Thank god it's Friday. Turns out there actually were no changes! A connection box from the ISP was vandalized and actually took out a whole section of downtown; oops.
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May 3, 2019 20:38
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ChubbyThePhat posted:vandalized Sounds like a pretty major change
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May 4, 2019 02:37
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Agrikk posted:Sounds like a pretty major change Wonder how that got though CAB.
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May 4, 2019 02:42
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Throwing this out for anyone who might have to deal with Firefox at all - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/firefox-addons-being-disabled-due-to-an-expired-certificate/ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973 tl,dr An expired SSL cert broke extension signing in Firefox, browser defaults to BLOCK ALL, most extensions in Firefox rendered unusable until fixed.
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May 4, 2019 04:42
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I was wondering why all of a sudden my extensions stopped working and the only reason the browser could give me was a help page from 2017.
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May 4, 2019 05:45
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Ghostlight posted:I was wondering why all of a sudden my extensions stopped working and the only reason the browser could give me was a help page from 2017. Yeah it freaked me out initially thinking that I got a virus or malware or some other poo poo got in somehow because why would the browser break so badly all of a sudden ? It's like with the bit ChubbyThePhat posted - I didn't change anything but something completely out of my control changed & broke poo poo.
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May 4, 2019 06:34
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PBS posted:Wonder how that got though CAB. Same way everything else gets through CAB. Without a case, and no one bothered to document the changes.
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May 4, 2019 07:27
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Alright, which one of you is this https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/bkbdnq/security_crisis_company_owner_wants_all_passwords/ quote:Greetings everyone and thank you in advance for any advice/suggestions
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May 4, 2019 08:50
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lol the answer to that is to get another job
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May 4, 2019 12:03
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Moatman posted:Alright, which one of you is this Even in an unregulated industry, I'm pretty sure thats illegal levels of negligence.
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May 4, 2019 12:10
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That is one of those times where you not only resign, but go above the dude's head to resign.
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May 4, 2019 13:25
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Arquinsiel posted:That is one of those times where you not only resign, but go above the dude's head to resign. quote:Security Crisis: Company Owner wants ALL passwords removed from company computers. Pretty sure this is one of those things even a bad C-level would nuke from orbit on general principle and ask hard questions about what the gently caress they're thinking.
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May 4, 2019 14:11
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This sounds like a fairly small organization, one where this dude won't have anyone else at his level to say boo to him. And plus he's literally only doing this because he wants to wander around after hours and snoop on people's computers for porn. Reiterating, time for another job, and get real good at telling this story in interviews.
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May 4, 2019 14:29
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One month later and Owner is in the news blaming his IT person for covering Owners tracks and why the cops can't tell who destroyed the evidence.
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May 4, 2019 17:58
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Moatman posted:Alright, which one of you is this The best part of this thread was the now-deleted comment guessing that the owner wears a MAGA hat at work, and the OP confirming that he does.
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May 4, 2019 19:18
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Reddit users can't help themselves when it comes to defending the really stupid white male. I'm making a couple of assumptions here but... Well pattern recognition is a thing.
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May 4, 2019 20:11
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Why does being white have anything to do with that person bring an idiot? The suggestion that he’s dying to get more control over his extortion makes the most sense.
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Bigass Moth posted:Why does being white have anything to do with that person bring an idiot? The suggestion that he’s dying to get more control over his extortion makes the most sense. The Venn Diagram for this kind of stupidity is consistently a near-perfect circle of "Old white male". The only exception I've seen in this thread is with family-run businesses where it's their wife getting involved as well to double down on everything.
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Last week we had two different vendors out on different days to install different pieces of some infrastructure. Of course the infrastructure didn’t work right away, and so I’m stuck in the middle of these two babies trying to pass the buck. The truly annoying thing is since the vendors own the equipment, I can’t touch it to fix it my drat self. So I need to put on an aura of ignorant appreciation to manipulate these guys into a conference call to figure it out. I wish I could just say “Guys just make it work” but I think that would get messy because the contracts we signed don’t have anything on them that says that the two dependent aspects of the infrastructure need to be configured to work /together/, just that they have to be installed. Dealing with computers is so much easier than dealing with people. This is why I’m just an engineer and not a manager.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Pretty sure this is one of those things even a bad C-level would nuke from orbit on general principle and ask hard questions about what the gently caress they're thinking. Yup. Time to document and blow a whistle.
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vas0line posted:Last week we had two different vendors out on different days to install different pieces of some infrastructure. Of course the infrastructure didn’t work right away, and so I’m stuck in the middle of these two babies trying to pass the buck. I hate black box systems. If it's not user serviceable, I don't want it in my environment. Not that I have any say in the matter. I don't technically miss being the head of IT (the downside being, everything that goes wrong, it's your fault), but I do miss being the decision maker when it came to vendors and products. vas0line posted:Dealing with computers is so much easier than dealing with people. This is why I’m just an engineer and not a manager. 
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I don't technically miss being the head of IT (the downside being, everything that goes wrong, it's your fault), You clearly didn't master an essential management skill, it's called "delegating."
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Che Delilas posted:You clearly didn't master an essential management skill, it's called "delegating." Company wasn't big enough for there to be anyone else in the IT department 
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May 7, 2019 06:55
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Then you're just the sysadmin.
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May 7, 2019 07:25
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One weird trick to becoming your own boss!
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May 7, 2019 11:08
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A vendor solicitation e-mail came in: From Vinny at Trifecta Networks. Offering to buy and sell pre-owned equipment. His headshot in the e-mail signature was on point as well.
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The Fool posted:A vendor solicitation e-mail came in: This guy? 
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