Weird and Cringe things you've seen while working in IT - Since everyone is too lazy to make such a thread where IT bros can vent

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Samuel Fuller said:
The Windows 11 rollout for our big retarded client is crawling along so well that my boss sent the owners of that company an email saying ‘We told you what the timeline was for Win 10 EOL, we offered structured deployment of hardware and proper IT inventory and logistics, you penny-pinching cocksuckers said “No” to all of it, so when your insurance company shits fire down your throats, tell them we told you to get your shit together and you fucks refused.”

Sometimes life in the Wild West gives you a chuckle now and then.
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doesn't windows 10 get extended support for businesses or is that only LTSC? I keep getting confused as to what gets extended support or not, as apparently if you use a Microsoft account you get extended support?
 
Betonhaus said:
doesn't windows 10 get extended support for businesses or is that only LTSC? I keep getting confused as to what gets extended support or not, as apparently if you use a Microsoft account you get extended support?
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The price for extended support is way too high for most small to medium businesses, but even if it wasn’t, this client won’t even pay for an InTune license for standardized deployment when they are doing work for clients that require standardized security and identity protection.

This is a client who took account creation and management away from us because they didn’t want to pay us to do it, but paid more in a month of doing it themselves than we billed for the previous year for us to fix where their untrained staff fucked up every account they created.

Microsoft is only offering extended support to make it look like they’re listening to the people pissed about perfectly usable hardware being obsoleted for no reason, while pricing it at a “Fuck Off Estimate” price.
 
Samuel Fuller said:
This is a client who took account creation and management away from us because they didn’t want to pay us to do it, but paid more in a month of doing it themselves than we billed for the previous year for us to fix where their untrained staff fucked up every account they created.
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have you made a chart with a big simple bar graph detailing how it costs them more? If you had done it the year before you could do a comparative cost breakdown using simple diagrams and charts, with this years cost overruns in bright red.
 
Betonhaus said:
have you made a chart with a big simple bar graph detailing how it costs them more? If you had done it the year before you could do a comparative cost breakdown using simple diagrams and charts, with this years cost overruns in bright red.
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We have shown them charts, but the brothers who own the company are economically retarded when it comes to IT. It’s the company I talked about that has a separate, air-gapped network for their finance department and two full PC setups at all desks in that department because they kept getting phished and the manager found a KVM switch too confusing and the owners don’t understand the concept of a VPN.

They pinch pennies while dollars walk out the door.
 
Samuel Fuller said:
We have shown them charts, but the brothers who own the company are economically retarded when it comes to IT. It’s the company I talked about that has a separate, air-gapped network for their finance department and two full PC setups at all desks in that department because they kept getting phished and the manager found a KVM switch too confusing and the owners don’t understand the concept of a VPN.

They pinch pennies while dollars walk out the door.
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Honestly it sounds like if you play your cards right they can become a big cash cow until they wise up. Offer some sort of "a la carte" service where things that were previously covered by a comprehensive program has been broken down to one-time fees that collectively cost more then what they were paying before.

It's not your job to hand hold idiots that refuse to learn.
 
Rungle said:
>Be the only one working a 5 day work week from our skilled servicedesk
>Other colleagues are going to school 1 or 2 days in a week.
>Teamlead that does fuckall and is busy with a booster toward a new function is telling me to deal with it.
>Tell her that I am not cleaning their shit because I am working fulltime.
>"Oh well your not cleaning their shit"
>Dont meet the SLA's
>Get blamed for not tardhandling them enough.
>Tell her this is not my function and I am resigning.
>Gets very "Corporate acceptable" pissy with me.
>"I guess we are not able to give you the structure YOU want." And I politely agree.
>Leaves the room slamming the door.

Her boss wants to speak with me now.
Not sure what they will offer me or if they just tell me I am being difficult and tell me to fuck off.
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Been told I have to go to the company doctor by HR because I called in sick too often.
They believe that people being sick is not due to stress but due to illness spreading constantly in our servicedesk room.

Their idea: Adding a plant.

Thanks HR.
 
Rungle said:
They believe that people being sick is not due to stress but due to illness spreading constantly in our servicedesk room.

Their idea: Adding a plant.
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Atleast they are not making you wear perfumed masks, plague doctor-style.
 
I think I found the stupid jeet of the week:


> Be me
> Help write company documentation on GitHub SAAS use because I was the first serious adopter of a lot of it
> Get recognized as unofficial SME for GitHub because I wrote a lot of the Getting Started docs
> The team maintaining GitHub can't find their ass sitting on the toilet
> To help keep the peace and make myself look good I sometimes help answer questions in various chats, one being the GitHub copilot chat
> notice I said GitHub copilot, the one for devs. This will be important later
> stupid jeet enters copilot users chat
> stupid jeet says he can’t get his ide to log into copilot, is confronted with GitHub username/password screen
> If the jeet read the fucking manual I wrote, he would have known what to do. But he didn’t because he’s a stupid jeet
> a fucking pajeet, indeed
> tell stupid jeet he has to log into GitHub via company identity provider before trying to connect IDEs. You have to be logged in to OAuth your IDE to GitHub
> stupid jeet logs in using chrome
> stupid jeet tries to connect IDE, but it opens edge by default because stupid jeet didn’t change his default browser
> stupid jeet asks why his login session in chrome doesn’t work in edge
> it was here that I realized I fucked up
> remember, this street shitting, subcontinental savant is an “application developer”
> Trump can’t destroy H1B fast enough
> almost tell stupid jeet to do the needful, but I don’t want to get in trouble
> I begin ignoring the stupid jeet
> nobody else helps the stupid jeet either
> I tell all my friends and we laugh at the stupid jeet
> best laugh ive had in a while and all I had to do is type out two sentences
> stupid jeet figures out you have to be logged in in the same browser to complete the OAuth dance after about 20 minutes
> I wonder who he pestered into telling him this basic fact?
> everything turned out ok
 
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Rungle said:
Been told I have to go to the company doctor by HR because I called in sick too often.
They believe that people being sick is not due to stress but due to illness spreading constantly in our servicedesk room.

Their idea: Adding a plant.

Thanks HR.
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Officially have been told by my boss they cannot offer me anything anymore.
They took the side of my teamlead and the jeet in my company was talking shit that I was not doing anything like helping him or picking up his tickets.

I am aiming once I go to the doctor to get a burnout diagnosis so they are unable to fire me and eventually settle with them for 4 months my pay.
Shit gets rough for the company due to dutch law basically saying they have to do anything to help me recover, including giving me full pay with even small mistakes being considered malicious intent.

I am going to try and bleed these fucks dry.
 
Rungle said:
They believe that people being sick is not due to stress
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Your HR department CLEARLY has never had a stressful situation in their entire lifetime.

Pro-Tip: Take a multivitamin cocktail. Specifically B-Complex. It's no miracle cure, but it will most definitely loosen up whatever stress you got stuck inside you and give you the energy to be motivated to do things again.
 
Update.

Company doc said they overworked me to shit.
Awaiting a plan right now, they advised me to find new work.
I have heard its rare for such cases to get out of hand.
Atleast I can relax for a while now knowing the gov is behind me.
 
Update on that.

The doc has not send the info yet to my Boss.
I told my boss my condition over the app.
The HR lady called me angry, said I did not officially do this via a call or her shitty HR tool.
Threatens to not pay me today.

I am getting legal involved.

Tip: Dont work at a company that advertises their a "Family" They hire looneys on nepotism basis.
 
Rungle said:
Tip: Dont work at a company that advertises their a "Family" They hire looneys on nepotism basis.
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Companies that say "we are a family" usually means the company was started up by a family and said family still has some ties to the company in some form or another. It's also a subtle hint that it's one giant clique and unless you fondle the right pair of balls, you ain't getting in. This is mostly common in small office jobs that don't have a bajillion branches all over the place. The only time a new hire will quickly rise to the ranks is if it's a "oh, I know and/or am friends with so-and-so that is related to the family!" situation. Otherwise, you can cross your "T"s and dot your "I"s everyday, but if people don't like you, they are going to make it fairly obvious.

These are the same people that will have MANDATORY company meetings in luxury hotels while they announce giving all the higher-ups promotions and sucking each other off while the commoner plebs are forced to watch it like some sick fetish cult or something.
 
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Celebrate Nite said:
Companies that say "we are a family" usually means the company was started up by a family and said family still has some ties to the company in some form or another. It's also a subtle hint that it's one giant clique and unless you fondle the right pair of balls, you ain't getting in. This is mostly common in small office jobs that don't have a bajillion branches all over the place. The only time a new hire will quickly rise to the ranks is if it's a "oh, I know and/or am friends with so-and-so that is related to the family!" situation. Otherwise, you can cross your "T"s and dot your "I"s everyday, but if people don't like you, they are going to make it fairly obvious.

These are the same people that will have MANDATORY company meetings in luxury hotels while they announce giving all the higher-ups promotions and sucking each other off while the commoner plebs are forced to watch it like some sick fetish cult or something.
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Might wanna mention the "Great Place to work Award" they usually bring up as well.
 
It uh, kinda blew up in my face.
Decided not to show for two days till they could confirm that my work is going to be lessend.
Got rightfully angry at me, I really don't care at this point.
The claim they could have fired me, talked to some free juridical number, they cannot do shit.
Going to the office tommorow, put out some applications already.

Anyone got a cool wacky job for me, hit me up nigga.
 
Had a fun chat with a high-ranked admin at the nightmare client this morning about the Win11 transition and how it has basically gone nowhere.

I told her the lack of buy-in and total lack of push from management has resulted in a total stall-out on the project, and she said "Yeah, nobody at the top will care until they get hacked again, then it'll be priority 1."

I knew that was the situation, but having someone on the inside come out and say it was kinda liberating and disheartening at the same time.
 
As always, Indian coworkers.

"Hey, did you change something? I'm hitting (service) and getting a 500. Says it can't reach the database."
"Yes I think it is not able to connect to the database"

ADUHHHHHHHHH.
 
SouthernBitchBob said:
As always, Indian coworkers.

"Hey, did you change something? I'm hitting (service) and getting a 500. Says it can't reach the database."
"Yes I think it is not able to connect to the database"

ADUHHHHHHHHH.
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Personal question I had from a thread: would you rather deal with a disgruntled Black woman or a run of the mill Indian in IT?
 
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