Pygmaelion

I worked at an MSP. \+A client had Buildings A and B, which had service, and they wanted to get similar access at Building C. \+The "official team" didn't have the budget to run fiber, get a separate service, or extend an existing network. They bought cost-effective Unifi Wifi bridges on the internet, and put a pair between A and C, and for redundancy between B and C. This would ensure that if either A or B were up, C had a path to the network. This created a "loop" for one subnet which occasionally would down Building C, and either A or B. \+This was discovered when the architect called to say that A and B were intermittently down at random times, and the MSP needed to find out what was going wrong. The problem maker had no idea that A connected to B over any VLAN at all, and that they could flood out their network by doing this.

I'd be interested to see what DNS these pcs are using. Of course, that's harder to know when the login doesn't work, and you'd have to snoop on the traffic somehow (Wireshark, AP Packet capture with Meraki/Unifi)

There are people across all generations who are like this, and if they can't save their password in a browser, they will write it down and leave it out. There is never any agency to stop this, because "they are doing their jobs" is always more important than "they are endangering the security of our org". I wish I could tell you that anyone outside of the I.T. cadre understood or cared, but seemingly we are the champions of this lost cause. When these workers invariably create a gap in security, we will be the ones who have to clean up after them. They face no consequences for their actions.

The right thing to do is for the helpdesk to reset your password to a temporary one, and have you create a new one when they are done. You are correct that I.T. shouldn't be asking for anyone to relay their password in email, on a post it, via a phone call, or even in person. If the end user can't be there to type it, you reset it. "Nice Guy" I.T. engages in shared passwords so that users don't have to change. They act like it's a favor, when it's more like handing out cigarettes and blindfolds.

OP: Good on you for asking here. We should be looking out for one another in this subreddit. Who downvoted this post can go fuck themselves. I'll walk myself to the penalty box.

I was working at a stellar MSP, and five years later it got bought out by a competitor. Same office, same co workers, same clients. It became an entirely different company with a change of leadership. Co-workers got handed their pink slips, benefits packages got chiseled away, the asks from the C-deck got unreasonable (Hey, there are 4 people who handle networking, all of you become CCIEs so we can get a price break. And have that done in 6 months). I'm glad you're good where you are at, keep learning, but know that one day things will change, and you'll change with them, or change jobs.

We purchased one d-100 Duo Hardware Token for each user in our O365 instance that had an email address. We have a DUO instance which synchronizes external users from 1-or-more groups on our O365 tenant. Those user accounts are assigned one of the hardware tokens. We then told DUO to set up an application: [Microsoft Entra ID: External Authentication Methods](https://admin-901ea612.duosecurity.com/applications/DI2QTBOA1NRIHS3S7VHO) and told entra to

Find a rival card shop run by a greedier, less moral owner. Start some "well they said" shit between them. These nerds are relentless. They'll undercut one another until one or both go under.

You'll always wonder if you made the right call by leaving. If you stayed, you would have accumulated more and more loose ends until you couldn't hold any of them. Better to leave with the experience you had than to collapse under the apathy of leadership. You made the right move.

Is there some other form of vehicle you can ride uninsured? A moped or electric bike? An ultralight aircraft? It seems like your automotive fate is pretty well sealed, so you might have to paraglide/snowmobile/ride horseback for a year.

Are you new at this, or do your just have really good users and good pay and a good budget and get included in company decision making, and get supported when you suggest initiatives and process? Or is it some kind of pills perhaps? Send us some of the water you've been drinking.

I lie, I'm doing this the hard way. Go to a funeral home, dress nice. Dip in and quietly pay your respects to whoever is laid out there on that Saturday, and grab a prayer card for the deceased. There's a way higher likelihood there will be printed materials in that setting for that specific event, and not for "the month of March" or whatever. You can then search up the deceased and find the official calling hours. All it takes is subjecting yourself to mourning strangers to get a much more surefire excuse.

Someone on my cruise clued me in that they had smuggled their gummies in a deodorant stick container. Something about the density of the gummy material being "about right" to approximate gel underarm schmoo. I can confirm they were feeling pretty good when they told me, so I don't doubt their story.

Raiser's Edge means not-for-profit... and you will also not profit.

SpaceTeam is a good way to figure out everyone's style of communication under stress. Unfortunately it isnt a teaching tool so of your team has one each fight/flee/freeze/fornicate up then you will find out why they don't work well together.

https://youtu.be/MNll1BaskLA?si=ito6PDNwqLOpvQKx You are in the valley of informed pessimism. IT seemed pretty good, and now you are finding out that it's bullshit. Yep, so is everything else. Keep grinding, change your skillset to do aomething that has less phone time and more process. If you start over doing any other thing after 3 years you will be right here again. Doesn't matter if it's bulldozer therapist or muffin research test subject.

Chances are the password you have is for an Active Directory account. It won't necessarily get you access to grades done on a separate system (a web based one) unless they use the same password everyplace. It will leave a log behind of what machine logged in from which IP and when it occurred. That will make it pretty easy for an administrator to figure out whodunnit based on other logged in locations, and by process of elimination, who could have been there to do it. Let's pretend for a minute that your school's admins have nothing better to do but to chase down who messed with Ms. Kerbopolis's files... That should annoy the crap out of the admins, and the principal, and whatever other I.T. people there are, but Ms. K won't give a shit. The grunts will restore her files from back up, and she'll have to go to a 'why passwords are important' training which is effectively a day off. Maybe you'll feel like you "got 'em", but I assure you, this only brings down the wrath of staff on you, and does very little to vindicate you against someone you will never see again after . If you're thinking "Hey! Where's my unethical pro-tip?!" Look up the security guidelines for pass phrases (instead of passwords) and Multi-Factor Authentication, learn about it, figure out what the guidelines are for implementation in your area, and become a huge pain in the ass about implementing that. Teachers hate change even if it makes sense. You'll rankle the whole school while being on the side of security.

Why are you teying to throw seeds? Get a blowgun and let pneumatic pressure do the work.

Or wait for the Pilot to start blasting Timmy Trumpet over the P.A. That'll cover the aound.

Turns out that all the greatest medical care is administered while half dressed like porky pig.

You must have something she likes if that guy is going to take her clubbing but you are going to show her parks and beaches. I don't know you, but 6'3" and fit? Hell, I'd lose to that and I'm not sure I'd even question it. You've got height on your side so unless this other dude dunks from a seated position, I'd stop worrying about him and let her figure out how to function in a world with more than one possible male friend.

This is only a zero sum game if one of the involved parties makes it one.

It's You, me, all my co workers, vendors, and clients. The downloads page is complicated, sorted in a way that requires arcane knowlegde of their concussed product line and naming or numbering scheme, frequently can't figure out what product you have based on labels they put on the damned unit themselves, and when you do find what you are looking for, you'll have to sign in, sign off, agree to a licensing scheme, discern which of 40 versions and 5 sub flavors you want. Then and only then will the downloads page stub it's toe and you have to try again in 3 other browsers to get what you were looking for an hour ago. Still, at least it's switches and not printers.

Nobody learned how to use the last toolset properly and it is terrible. Changing to this new toolset gives coverage for that incompetence while planting seeds for the next bout of incompetence.

Cisco has been banging the drum for "link up through your smart license to a cloud dash board so you can administer and gain insights into -froths at mouth collapses into a heap of marketting wankery-" recently.

It also helps ethernet cowboys to not run cables through the middle of the rack, instead sticking to the gap between the rails and the sides Source: YeeHaw!

It's hard to take vacation when you know you will be coming back to a ham-slapping, clown shoes, monkey-football romantic drama. You were out for a week? No problem, all your tickets are waiting, along with the newly assigned ones that are now 5 days old with nobody else having taken so much as a peek at them. While you're trying to get a grip, everyone's questions from the prior week are "just a minute of your time" and "when you get a chance" in 4 different methods of comms. It really erases any benefit the vacation was supposed to grant anyway. But hey, at least you can accumulate 25 days to roll over to next year, not that you get that many in a year anyway. Maybe if you make it 15 years in the company, you might, but let's face it, you'll be sold before that can happen. Nobody will ever let you forget you about the blockout month and the rollover, because that's the emphasis. Here's your freedom we are selling back to you, be sure to save it up because we have a rolling schedule of projects for you to constantly be involved with. So, y'know. Good times.