Thoth74

My older coworkers have accepted AI as the source of truth

Posted by randomname945@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 595 comments

Thoth74@reddit

Same here. Until now I had never seen sheep in the rain but the meaning was instantly discernible. I immediately pictured a sheep just standing in the rain, no effort to get out of it, starting blankly. It's hilarious and perfect for the context.

Help us thank our SysAdmin

Posted by Des-troyah@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 207 comments

Thoth74@reddit

But that doesn't change their expectation and the I crease in stress it brings. And honestly, would giving them another stack of messages they have to stop and listen to really be a reward? I get your intention but it would ultimately just be a burden.

How to handle Management consistently wanting 50+ hours a week?

Posted by TheNoWhereMan76@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 172 comments

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This is what kills me. How often employers are willing to cut experienced, expensive workers for cheaper who are willing to take more shit while knowing full god damned well those new people will take a year of experience and jump ship for a better opportunity forcing the company to start the whole process over again and making everything more expensive. Just to save a bit in the short term.

How have you guys managed to address the "I'm just such a deep sleeper I don't hear it" excuse for missing on calls?

Posted by JalapenoPopPoop@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 142 comments

How have you guys managed to address the "I'm just such a deep sleeper I don't hear it" excuse for missing on calls?

Posted by JalapenoPopPoop@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 142 comments

Thoth74@reddit

Wow. So you really are just an asshole. In what fucking universes is a shift a week? "Hey Joe...what shift do you work?" "Oh, I'm on Monday to Sunday this week." Reading through this thread and it is abundantly clear that *you* are the problem here.

How have you guys managed to address the "I'm just such a deep sleeper I don't hear it" excuse for missing on calls?

Posted by JalapenoPopPoop@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 142 comments

How have you guys managed to address the "I'm just such a deep sleeper I don't hear it" excuse for missing on calls?

Posted by JalapenoPopPoop@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 142 comments

Thoth74@reddit

>There's 2-3 calls per shift, usually under 30 minutes of work per call. I So you are saying that they have to put in up to an hour and a half extra, every night they are on call, split into multiple incidents? You are aware, and I assume you are as you are both part of the rotation and a human being, that when a call comes in and you are asleep it takes time to wake up enough to be functional and usually even more time to get back to sleep. Only to the get the next call and start the process over. So now we are looking at let's call it an hour that they are not sleeping *per call* and that happens 2-3 times a night? Now we are up to as much as three hours every night they are on call leaving, and this is being generous, five non-consecutive hours per night that they get to sleep. Hmm.

Whats the one department allowed to bypass the rules? (Minus the Execs)

Posted by bobsmith1010@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 193 comments

Thoth74@reddit

> guess someone(you) forgot that they are the people that know how computers work and also know how to make computers stop working….. Nope. No point to it. If this one dies I get to pull an old laptop from the shelf. We haven't bought new laptops since COVID.

Whats the one department allowed to bypass the rules? (Minus the Execs)

Posted by bobsmith1010@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 193 comments

Thoth74@reddit

I have tried multiple thunderbolt docking stations (correct cables as well) and none support more than a single monitor at 4K from this laptop. As soon as a second monitor is connected both max out at 1080. My personal, and older, laptop with a discrete GPU? No problems.

Whats the one department allowed to bypass the rules? (Minus the Execs)

Posted by bobsmith1010@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 193 comments

Thoth74@reddit

>Yes, with the latest and greatest tech Man, I need to work where you work. I'm running on a six year old laptop with a 14" screen that can't support multiple monitors if any are above FHD resolution. I didn't even get it new.

UN votes to recognise enslavement of Africans as 'gravest crime against humanity'

Posted by Tartan_Samurai@reddit | anime_titties | View on Reddit | 516 comments

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There was nothing in the wording used that would imply they are referencing importance. Explicitly stating "first this, second that" very much says "this is the order in which they occurred". *Could* they have been meaning what you say? Sure. But they also could have been more precise in their wording to avoid any doubt. This is on the presenter, not on their readers.

UN votes to recognise enslavement of Africans as 'gravest crime against humanity'

Posted by Tartan_Samurai@reddit | anime_titties | View on Reddit | 516 comments

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Right? "It's not an ordered list!" and yet it clearly states "first" and then "second" which absolutely makes it an ordered list. Big "listen to what I *mean*, not what I say" energy.

Employee Monitoring Software

Posted by Zealousideal_Bend984@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 506 comments

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100%. I work completely from my home office and I think my cats are trustworthy. That being said, even then if I leave my computer I lock it out of habit. But a lot of my time is spent reading and I don't stare at my monitor for that. I have a tablet that is a lot more comfortable so I put my feet up, get to reading, and can still keep an eye on my screen for anything that crops up. Can't do that if I am stopping to unlock every five minutes because of overzealous "security" policies.

Employee Monitoring Software

Posted by Zealousideal_Bend984@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 506 comments

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>"Is there a way we can see if someone is using a mouse jiggler." >Yes. Their tasks aren't getting done. I use a mouse jiggler *and* my tasks get done. Sometimes what I am doing does not require a mouse or even interacting with my computer at all but I don't want the ridiculous 5 minute company mandated screen saver to kick in.

No more hard drives?

Posted by attathomeguy@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 292 comments

Does a viable Veeam competitor exist?

Posted by Plateau9@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 324 comments

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Wow. Jumping right to the insults. OP: Any good Veeam alternatives for the following setup? That guy (possibly your alt given how butthurt you clearly are by this): CommVault, but it's expensive. Also that guy: I never suggested CommVault would work for OP. CommVault was offered as a direct answer to "what alternatives are there for my setup" with a warning that it is more expensive. Either it is an answer to OP with a caveat or it is an unsuitable response and should have been skipped altogether. Seriously, think about it. What kind of answer is "this but it probably won't work for you". How does that help anyone? Also, don't be a dick.

Does a viable Veeam competitor exist?

Posted by Plateau9@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 324 comments

The dumbest requests

Posted by Demented-Alpaca@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 294 comments

Thoth74@reddit

>On the other hand though, I've had 2 people complaining about the company set background on all laptops because it apparently instantly ruins their mood as soon as they open them. The background is just a darker shade of blue with a small company logo on it. Every time I have had someone complain about their desktop wallpaper I immediately wonder to myself, "why are you spending so much time looking at it? Shouldn't you be, you know, doing some sort of work?" It's very confusing.

When did we as a profession loose our backbone.

Posted by MrKixs@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 703 comments

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>Computers are my job. Daycare is HRs job. If only this was true but we aren't in the 90s anymore. For decades now IT *has* been the babysitter. Keeping their shit running isn't enough anymore. We have to be sure they are happy about it, too. You have to be the nicest, most accommodating person on earth but even then you still run into one of these toddlers who is just having a bad day and now they're complaining to your boss or HR about how mean you were. And they accept it.

I Feel Like Nobody Knows Anything Anymore

Posted by applebappu@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 420 comments

People in IT should be required to take a computer literacy course or something

Posted by Hellboy632789@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 303 comments

Thoth74@reddit

>Even offering a 3% max raise is hardly going to make people do extra - to be blunt 3% is shit Yup. If factoring in inflation these days,a 3% pay raise is actually a pay cut.

Cleaning up a decade of user-level ACL chaos… I ended up building a tool to survive it

Posted by PerspectiveUpper7423@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 35 comments

Cleaning up a decade of user-level ACL chaos… I ended up building a tool to survive it

Posted by PerspectiveUpper7423@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 35 comments

Thoth74@reddit

True. But then you run into the problem of "John is working with finance so needs access to some of their resources" getting the response of "just add him to the finance group" which then gives him access to *all* of that group's resources. But I guess that is more of a management problem than a structural problem and those are unavoidable.

Cleaning up a decade of user-level ACL chaos… I ended up building a tool to survive it

Posted by PerspectiveUpper7423@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 35 comments

Thoth74@reddit

My preferred approach is to tie the group to the resource instead of the users. So in your example I would have three groups, FolderAUsers, FolderBUsers, and CanPrintOnColorLaserPrinter. It may mean more groups but at least you know explicitly what each group is for. And we all know it is virtually guaranteed that eventually you are going to get a user who needs to print on the color laser printer but is not allowed to access either folder A or B or vice versa.

I can't take it anymore guys

Posted by AnalTwister@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 270 comments

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Maybe that's its rationale but is the setting the problem or the act? Violence in a fictional setting is still violence, no? Dream like or not, the dude's still pouring gasoline.

I can't take it anymore guys

Posted by AnalTwister@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 270 comments

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"A glowing, otherworldly liquid..." out of a container labeled *gasoline*. Holy shit. I wish ChatGPT had been this compliant when I asked for an image of a lion beating the shit out of a pirate. It just said "I can't do violent stuff" and dropped it.

What's the most ridiculous request you've received?

Posted by lordhaw@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 340 comments

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>I mean I'm getting paid either way after all. Problem is, I my experience anyway, they expect you to do the not-your-job shit during your regular hours and then after hours they pull the "you have to stay late and finish your regular tasks and since you are salaried/exempt you will do it for free".

Tier 2 Technician - $50/hr?

Posted by blackshore_analytics@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 54 comments

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Tampa. Been here for a little over a decade, started as sysadmin and promoted to sr. a few years ago. Funny enough I also started at about $32.

Tier 2 Technician - $50/hr?

Posted by blackshore_analytics@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 54 comments

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>I work more on the infra side and am at $56 so this doesn’t sound too unusual for tier 2. Whereabouts are you? I'm a Sr. Sysadmin making about the same.

Microsoft finally gave us what we've been asking for!

Posted by cbl_lbc@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 321 comments

Microsoft finally gave us what we've been asking for!

Posted by cbl_lbc@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 321 comments

If you could start all over again, would you be a SysAdmin again, work another discipline in IT, or some other career pathway altogether?

Posted by Malactis@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 154 comments

4 years in IT and I still can’t believe some of the requests I get from management

Posted by Revolutionary-Toe72@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 491 comments

4 years in IT and I still can’t believe some of the requests I get from management

Posted by Revolutionary-Toe72@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 491 comments

4 years in IT and I still can’t believe some of the requests I get from management

Posted by Revolutionary-Toe72@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 491 comments

Thoth74@reddit

>management generally thinks in terms of solutions, but software is generally actually more of a tool. Certainly doesn't help that the software is all too often marketed or straight up named as a solution.

Seriously?

Posted by MissionAd9965@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 165 comments

How can I learn pbx and cctv and fortigate, hpe server raid, esxi etc

Posted by Sad-Bed-6713@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 15 comments

Thoth74@reddit

The response could just as easily have been a couple of quick recommendations. Or to just ignore it altogether. All too often here there is a vibe of "it was hard for me so it has to be hard for you".

How can I learn pbx and cctv and fortigate, hpe server raid, esxi etc

Posted by Sad-Bed-6713@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 15 comments

Thoth74@reddit

This is a really dismissive response. Asking a community of sysadmins for recommendations on where to learn these things *is part of the fucking research*.

The quintessential Microsoft ticket experience

Posted by requiemofthesoul@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 103 comments

Disdain for training new people, same money, “More experience”, But damn useless…

Posted by InvestigatorMuch6837@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 72 comments

Thoth74@reddit

Yeah, that bit screams "I had to suffer so you should too." Part of the job is sharing knowledge with other people. And the "it will be easier to just do it myself than to teach someone else" makes no sense if it is something that will ever be done again. Show them once and then every time it comes up in the future they are capable instead of doing it yourself repeatedly. Send a very short-sighted perspective.

Really hate troubleshooting with people who dont follow directions

Posted by shinra1111@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 77 comments

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>"At this point, you're asking me to build something that doesn't need your interaction at all, which would just be an automation that takes your job. If you'd like me to do that, please put it in writing to your boss, and I'll get right on it." You beat me to it. I was thinking "So you're telling me you are the problem and you want me to fix that problem? I mean if you are going to insist then ok, I guess..."

IT needs a union

Posted by Powerful-Excuse-4817@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 926 comments

Does this sound normal/typical for a Helpdesk Technician role?

Posted by Dry_Bones_God@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 74 comments

Thoth74@reddit

For a non-exempt person it may depend on what the actual expectations are (response times, etc.), ie "waiting to be engaged" vs "engaged to wait".

How would you deal with an organization that started rejecting the concept of submitting issues as tickets, including the head of IT?

Posted by Physical-Modeler@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 463 comments

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>make all the level two and three techs do level one stuff. Years ago our helpdesk person had such a shit attitude that people would call the admins directly so as to bypass her. It got to the point where nearly every call I got was either an external sales cold call or a user needing some basic as shit problem resolved. It's why to this day I just flat out don't answer my phone anymore. If it's an important call they'll leave a message which will get emailed to me.

How would you deal with an organization that started rejecting the concept of submitting issues as tickets, including the head of IT?

Posted by Physical-Modeler@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 463 comments

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>Don't work more, don't work late, don't have a bad attitude, just work requests as they are made. This coupled with the users wanting 1-on-1 meetings with their "preferred IT team member"? "Sure...I can schedule a meeting to go over this. My next opening is in mid-2028. How is that for you?"

Pope Leo XIV says family is ‘between a man and a woman’ and asserts the dignity of the unborn

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Just a reminder that this is a sys admin sub and not help desk

Posted by Majestic_Option7115@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 440 comments

Thoth74@reddit

>I said "kid" because I'm old enough to be the dad of a zoomer Hey! So am I! I'm not here to be offensive but you calling me "kid" when I am likely as old or older than you is condescending as all hell and isn't teaching me anything other than to avoid you. And what you did wasn't use hyperbole to illustrate a point, it was a straw man argument to support a bad take. People come here to ask questions. If you don't want to answer them, move on. If you truly think they don't belong, downvote them and move on. But don't shit on people looking for help because you don't think they did enough work.

Fake helpdesk

Posted by MakeUrBed@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 145 comments

Just a reminder that this is a sys admin sub and not help desk

Posted by Majestic_Option7115@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 440 comments

Thoth74@reddit

"kid". All it took was getting to that point to know it would be safe stopping and just telling you to fuck off. But you're so clever! "I'm going to make up two imaginary arguments, both the farthest opposing examples of what could happen, and then be all condescending with them." So yeah...fuck off.

Just a reminder that this is a sys admin sub and not help desk

Posted by Majestic_Option7115@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 440 comments

Thoth74@reddit

Yeah, I don't get a lot of the hate. "Why are you asking a question here, of people who are potentially knowledgeable of what you are asking, instead of doing your own research?" I'd like to take a moment to point out that asking questions of people who know *is part of the fucking research.* I often ask questions and then while waiting for a reply continue looking at other sources of information. Part of being a good sysadmin is using *all* of the tools available to you and people who yell you to ignore an incredibly valuable one just come across as gatekeeping pricks.