Always sucks to do this...
Posted by Obvious-Water569@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 8 comments
Having to disable accounts and delegate mailbox access for someone who died on Monday.
I've only had to do this a few times in my career but it always feels icky.
imgettingnerdchills@reddit
An employee in our company is leaving to focus on cancer treatment soon. The guy was ALWAYS extremely kind to everyone and just a great man overall. He went out of his way to make me feel appreciated on a regular basis and build me up to everyone and always loudly proclaimed all the value that I brought to the company and how much I helped all the teams when no one else has/does. When we got a new label marker he opened the box and said 'I know what to do with this!' and made a 'imgettingnerdchills rocks' sticker that I've had on my laptop ever since. I'm going to have to disable his account soon and wipe his computer and its going to be very tough. At least I got a chance to say my goodbyes before he left.
therealRustyZA@reddit
Why do bad things always happen to good people?
It sucks. :(
AverageMuggle99@reddit
I started a job once where the guy I replaced died.
He was a good guy. I had a 2 day hand over with him on the Thursday and Friday, texted on the Monday to say good luck at your new job and ask a question. He died on the Tuesday. I felt him like I was in a dead man’s shoes for a good while after that.
Obvious-Water569@reddit (OP)
Shit, that's rough.
In my first ever IT job, my manager died. He started having some issues with his balance and memory and went off sick. Came in a week or so later to let us know he had a brain tumour the size of an apple and he had about a year to live. His card got punched almost a year to the day after that.
The guy that took his role did the best he could but he wasn't a manager - he was more in-the-trenches sysadmin.
UncleFromTheFarm@reddit
Our EU IT manager which has root password for main ESX hypervisor server with related Bios hardwares died in car accident going home.
That was really bad experience. Becasue he didnt have these password nowhere stored, and it took months to get support from vmware to get through this. We were unable to reboot or apply latest patches as it would cut off whole company infrastructure (there were no redundancy for ESX hosts that ime - 8 years back).
From that time we very strictly worked on security policy and something like black box for every "important man on the deck".
ZAFJB@reddit
Read the room.
brispower@reddit
We had a manager at a site hang himself, it was pretty shocking. Just glad I wasn't the guy to find him. That shit would mess me up.
The reaper comes for all of us.
DapperAstronomer7632@reddit
Yeah, it sucks. Unfortunately as sysadmin you're sometimes one of the first to be handling someones life changing events. Not only death, but also divorce, termination, investigations, etc. Keep your humanity and never get used to it...