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Snapped in a postmortem this morning and now nobody's putting me on the followup invites

Posted by Prize-Mycologist4340@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 122 comments

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Or use neutral, passive language when laying out all rhe breadcrumbs to inception that blame into uiur listeners minds. I use neutral, passive language a lot. To describe others' fuckups. And my own. Things happen.

Snapped in a postmortem this morning and now nobody's putting me on the followup invites

Posted by Prize-Mycologist4340@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 122 comments

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Outburst FTW.

Our CTO almost dropped the prod DB

Posted by relived_greats12@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 129 comments

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Better if he'd succeeded.

Left a job where I was undervalued, navigated three competing offers, now my manager is making my exit difficult. How do I make the right call?

Posted by thenetsecguy24@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 194 comments

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You're still at the same university, and your boss still has hooks in you. That boss is almost guaranteed to request/require your assistance after you start the new gig at the same university. And they may know people to facilitate placjng emphasis on such a request. "We're all just one big university family. Go ahead and help your old team!" GET OUT !!

Why is reading the logs and the manual so hard

Posted by Titanium125@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 166 comments

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They're personable, golf, play fantasy football, and bring bagels once a month. That goes a hella ways further than competence in my experience.

Are system admins just help desk now?

Posted by ic3cold@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 274 comments

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Or both.

What is your favourite go-to response when a user states "but I'm not tech savvy"?

Posted by FluffyMumbles@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 317 comments

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Sounds like the Help Desk.

Implement more AI so we don't have to hire people all while we stack the C suite

Posted by american-soundtrack@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 156 comments

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Great. Enough money now available to hire two new Executive Assistants to write prompts for your C Suiters.

Implement more AI so we don't have to hire people all while we stack the C suite

Posted by american-soundtrack@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 156 comments

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Wilhoit’s Law

Leadership wants a full formal SITREP for every ticket, and a full AAR and RCA report after every single one is closed.

Posted by friendandfriends2@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 128 comments

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Quit ot with that "leadership" nonsense. They're management. Leadership is just a word they use to trick you into believing their bullshit.

Cancelling RingCentral Took Over an Hour and Felt Deliberately Designed to Exhaust Customers

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"The quality of these methods of terminating service has downgraded across a whole ton of sectors not only including IT." For the companies involved, they've been upgraded. This is deliberate.

Are we watching the beginning of Microsoft’s decline?

Posted by Vivid-Run-3248@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 179 comments

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They suck-diddly-uck.

Had an interview yesterday. . .

Posted by dogcmp6@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 270 comments

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Pretty simple. Have AI do it all. Profit!

Insight needed: Teacher trying to build "house points" system and district CTO hostility

Posted by NewConfusion9480@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 91 comments

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In an ISD? Lol. No. But they may have somebody willing to incur the responsibilities of being a DBA for the pay of a janitor.

Insight needed: Teacher trying to build "house points" system and district CTO hostility

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A lot of folks fall into this trap. They let all the compliments and accolades blind them to getting two jobs for the pay of one.

Non billable time tracking

Posted by AniBMagal@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 166 comments

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Same. I judged it. The numbers were all bullshit. Fuck micromanagement. When I get micromanaged, I get stupid and difficult and slow. Fuck 'em.

magnetic tape has a physical expiry date, and most retention policies don't mention it

Posted by EasternCellist8141@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 66 comments

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I misread 'prom' the first time through.

magnetic tape has a physical expiry date, and most retention policies don't mention it

Posted by EasternCellist8141@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 66 comments

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CDRs especially. Those don't last as long as tape sometimes.

When do I stop feeling like a failure?

Posted by InfamousStrategy9539@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 185 comments

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"There's always something more to learn or something we miss." IT is very broad. I know far kess than a thousandth of a percent of what there is to know. As a sysadmin, I have some very common skills and knowledge, but I don't know jack. I'm a SME at work in a few areas, but that just means that others are fluent in other areas. (Or know-it-all tryhards who allow their overconfidence to stifle their learning.) I just try to be good at learning what I have to learn and try to be good at getting by in areas I just need to be literate (but not expert) in.

Filling in for our departed network guy - I need some help with methodology of wifi troubleshooting

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Tell everybody to move around until they find a good spot and call it a day.

Ticketing system plan

Posted by MisterPuffyNipples@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 39 comments

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I would stop dialing a number that didn't answer.

What’s Your Most Controversial IT Opinion?

Posted by OrdinaryJust9594@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 986 comments

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There's always that one person on my team who goes the extra mile, changing expectations of the entire team. Going above and beyond have negative repercussions for your coworkers and your manager. Don't do it.

Would it be worth it to leave a long term stable position for a fairly substantial raise?

Posted by sys_admin321@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 173 comments

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No. No. No. No.

What would you say to users

Posted by OkLifeguard9851@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 172 comments

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I stopped dojng this in 1999. No respect. I'm not uour pin cushion, lady.

What’s Your Most Controversial IT Opinion?

Posted by OrdinaryJust9594@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 986 comments

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I've made this point a hundred times. Automation is not the solution to a clusterfuck. Automating a clusterfuck does not solve the clusterfuck.

Venting about vendors who don't want to give any info without dragging me in to hours of meetings...

Posted by computerlove87@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 48 comments

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"This probably isn't a new phenomenon" It is not.

Microsoft's obsessive need for feedback

Posted by Apprehensive-Loss316@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 73 comments

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No joke. That is often the truth. Customer dissatisfaction is a measure of engagement.

Microsoft's obsessive need for feedback

Posted by Apprehensive-Loss316@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 73 comments

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You are entitled to yours, as well. I'm not holding my breath.

Microsoft's obsessive need for feedback

Posted by Apprehensive-Loss316@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 73 comments

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I simply do not believe this. They may say this. But that's what corporations do. "You spoke; we listened" has been an empty PR mantra for decades.

Curious about US wages

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"the US Dollar is worth less than the CAD" It is not. You have it backwards.

Curious about US wages

Posted by LForbesIam@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 51 comments

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$23/hr on 40 hour weeks is over $47k USD. Not great, Bob. But not $34k. You seem to have the CAD conversion upside down.

Microsoft's obsessive need for feedback

Posted by Apprehensive-Loss316@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 73 comments

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Pretty sure they ignore it all.

It's begun, users suggesting (basically telling you how to do your job) solutions to SME's based on "information" they looked up in an AI tool

Posted by sys_admin321@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 197 comments

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Listen, lady. You're not my supervisor. I don't take suggestions. You want to implement X in the organization? Take it to your supervisor and let the system work it out. If the higher it's decide I need to respond or test or pilot, I'll respond or test or pilot.

Chrome Pushing AI Model Files

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Despite many reporting this issue in a way yhat makes it seem new recently, it isn't a new Chrome behavior. https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1jslb22/optguideondevicemodel_folder_taking_up_3gb_have/

IIS Crypto - still the way to go?

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It's useful freeware GUI tool for confusing registry configurations.

IIS Crypto - still the way to go?

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Been ignoring most schannel errors for decades.

How do you handle postmortems at 2am when everyone's waiting on Slack?

Posted by Capable-Morning-9518@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 24 comments

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I don't. I'm first shift.

Our cybersec team are getting onto us about all our servers having web browsers installed.

Posted by stone500@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 594 comments

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They didn't read it.

Our cybersec team are getting onto us about all our servers having web browsers installed.

Posted by stone500@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 594 comments

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"cyber security analyst- who isn't technical' , that is typical.

Has anyone been getting repeated Oracle Java “compliance” emails lately?

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It's basically sales. They suck. You could block the domajn as spam. Oops.

Is documentation debt a real problem or just something engineers complain about?

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Yup. Tired if this crap. If I see "I built an app that..." one more time...

The rollout of AI in our org made me realize how few people actually value effort and competence

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People are stupid and lazy. AI validates their stupidity and laziness.

YOU are responsible for security. And you need to be diligent about it.

Posted by Calm_House8714@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 212 comments

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We have CISOs who think every network is a /24 and use this networking knowledge in an attempt to appear smart.

YOU are responsible for security. And you need to be diligent about it.

Posted by Calm_House8714@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 212 comments

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I work with these people. Bollards and knobs, the lot of them.

YOU are responsible for security. And you need to be diligent about it.

Posted by Calm_House8714@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 212 comments

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They run Nessus on default settings, ignorant of what bindings and ports are, generate tickets for DotNetNuke vulnerabilities on Linux servers, repeatedly, stand around in their fucking ballpit with their standing desks and their unlocked cpmputers, telling Rick and Morty jokes ad nauseum, go into meetings thinking they're hot shit. As long as other teams are complaining about how much they suck, they must be doing their job right. People just hate security. The system works. Fuck those guys.