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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HahaYes said:
All SANS GIAC certifications "require renewal" every 4 years now too, with a $499 bill just to really twist the knife
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Yeah, FUCK that. And fuck OffSec and fuck all certs at this juncture minus the very reasonably prices HTB certs.. which unfortunately have 0 recognition in the professional world.
 
The most cringe things I've seen has been at the same company.

The first was one of the developers was almost crying about there not being a recycle bin in the office. He had been brainwashed into paranoia about throwing a coke can into the normal bin. This was a 40 year old man. I had to restrain myself from posting a picture of an American rolling coal.

The second was completely ridiculous. A company wide memo went round that after a consultation, that all frog gifs and emotes were to be removed. It went as far as removing Kermit the frog and even Mrs Piggy. The main slack channel blew up with people not understanding why frogs were suddenly verboten.
 
SchizoDaemon said:
The second was completely ridiculous. A company wide memo went round that after a consultation, that all frog gifs and emotes were to be removed. It went as far as removing Kermit the frog and even Mrs Piggy. The main slack channel blew up with people not understanding why frogs were suddenly verboten
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Is this because of Pepe?
 
Yes. The bizarre thing was that nobody was posting Pepe and this was in 2022.

It was things like gifs of a real frog in the rain, sitting on a leaf. People had obviously just seen people posting frog emojis and thought it was fun. Most of the people I was working with were in their early 20s.
 
I think they had some consultant come round and look at what people were posting on slack and they told them that frogs could be misconstrued as racism, then management/HR panicked.

It was all rather bizarre. I had forgotten pepes were even a thing. It was 6-7 years after they were popular.

The funniest thing is one guy wrote some long diatribe about dog whistles that sounded like the sort of crap that you would hear way back in 2015.
 
HiveDull said:
I fucking hate niggers so much. I hate upper management that keeps lazy niggers on the team. Holy shit, it's fucking a clown world.
Two niggers. Fucking TWO.

First: Lazy, drunk, and gets high while on the clock. Says "I'll do better next time" whenever he lets a production environment goes down.
Second: Might as well be a Jeet. Doesn't know shit, but pretends to. First to duck and hide when actual work has to be done. Uses the royal "we" when referring to himself.

I cannot begin to comprehend when the powers that be decided it'll be a good idea to hire these buffoons. Every single day is a test of my patience with these apes.
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They're stealing too. I say that having worked in an environment with some like these. Tech salvage and recycling. Valuable pocket sized parts would vanish regularly. I created a whole inventory system to try and minimize the misplacing of parts. Hahaha. I was young and naive in those days. Parts still kept disappearing but only those valuable pocket sized parts.

So while you make no mention of stuff going missing in your office I promise you they've walked off with company property. And not pens and paperclips. It's just their nature.
 
Organized Derailment said:
I have two CompTIA certs (Sec+ and CySA+) and I'll never have another one. They are entirely superfluous and exceedingly overpriced.. I'm good.

Their Pentest+ is perhaps the most outrageous.. You cannot call yourself a penetration tester because you took one multiple choice exam. I'm not kidding, you can pass that entire course without touching a terminal.
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after a+ net+ and sec+, pentest+ felt completely pointless

notice who these certs are now marketed to nowadays
 
Never Scored said:
These were all engineering technicians with three year civil diplomas in their 20s who I guess are so used to app stores on phones, they thought clicking the "Download Installer" link in a browser would automatically install it and put an icon on their desktop like the app store? Society is cooked.
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I've seen average users do this sort of thing, or assume a computer comes preinstalled with anything you could ever possibly want, but it's just head-shaking :wow: to see 20-something engineers not know what should be a basic concept.

Tom Peters said:
So while you make no mention of stuff going missing in your office I promise you they've walked off with company property. And not pens and paperclips. It's just their nature.
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It's not just IT. Even outside the field, I've worked in places where black employees were suspected of stealing or misusing stuff that had little intrinsic value or made no sense to even swipe in the first place.

The Black Kettle said:
notice who these certs are now marketed to nowadays
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In any given field, certs are only useful if there is some sort of tangible benefit associated with them. The moment they're watered down or marketed to the lowest common denominator, they lose both prestige and credibility. With IT as jeetified as it is now, I wouldn't trust any of them who claim to have certifications.
 
People running windows 11 in general pains me. It's depressing, given that a majority of them simply use a web browser and not much else.
 
Kiwi Lime Pie said:
I've seen average users do this sort of thing, or assume a computer comes preinstalled with anything you could ever possibly want, but it's just head-shaking :wow: to see 20-something engineers not know what should be a basic concept.


It's not just IT. Even outside the field, I've worked in places where black employees were suspected of stealing or misusing stuff that had little intrinsic value or made no sense to even swipe in the first place.


In any given field, certs are only useful if there is some sort of tangible benefit associated with them. The moment they're watered down or marketed to the lowest common denominator, they lose both prestige and credibility. With IT as jeetified as it is now, I wouldn't trust any of them who claim to have certifications.
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I am not renewing my comptia’s next year.

I have to block so many grifters on linkedin too, there’s very few real authentic people with things to say in tech or cybersecurity. Lots of Women in STEM types (and the subsequent ‘nonprofit’ orgs that goes with) constantly going to networking conventions, getting free entry-level sans and comptia certs, but you check their profile and they have no tech experience or are a founder of some ai-based startup. There is a huge trend of governance/compliance jobs suddenly being needed in the industry, and those orgs and colleges are pushing people to pursue them over helpdesk / cyber / coding / anything else. I have yet to see proof of jobs like this existing for entry level people. Most of those guys are old dudes with 20+ years of tech under their belt. New ones …. women/dei types.

I’ve had to give IT support to the IT support person at a managed client. The brain drain never ends.
 
The Black Kettle said:
linkedin
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I dumped that completely almost a year ago. It's nothing but recruiters offering permie positions (in London no less) when I very clearly state I'm contract only, mixed in with hustle-culture wannabes and obvious AI spam. Pointless, reduced to mere social media slop.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Big companies with "fuck you" money. Someone calls me in, $120 an hour, to fix their problem. What is the task, Outlook/Exchange shit the bed again because someone keeps a 30GB inbox or do they need someone that signed the NDAs to take instructions from qualified people to repair the printer? Turns out the mouse ran out of batteries, diagnosed in five seconds, client will be charged for the whole hour while they take a 45 minute break so their computer can be fixed. It was a good source of income but it was fucking stupid and things like that happened so often. Women in the workplace was a mistake.
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This one's from years past, but it fits so damn well. I had someone call me in to move a printer 6 inches on their desk. Needless to say, their boss's boss was there for some reason, and he did it himself and said to never call out for something so inane again.

The Black Kettle said:
I’ve had to give IT support to the IT support person at a managed client. The brain drain never ends.
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Today I had to explain to a provider that one can't trust their HAProxy subservice because their heartbeat monitor was sending an HTTP/1.1 request without a Host header. In 2026.
 
Speaking of expensive but worthless certs, about 25 years ago my company would spend thousands of pounds — not counting train, hotel, meals etc. in London — to send people on multi-day Documentum courses. Why? So they could learn to update copy and post news stories on the corporate website.

While people are bitching about Windows, I have to chime in about how scammy and worthless OneDrive is. As much as I hate tablets in general, my elderly parents get themselves in much less trouble with software and scams when they’re using iPads rather than their Windows laptops.
 
this is one from my college days:

I needed some extra money so i signed up to work part-time IT at my college and one day the entire local network was running sluggish. Now I have some experience with security stuff, so I do some probing while just fixing random issues like people who cant get into email. And I figured out that someone turned one of the computer labs into a botnet. However, the kicker is that instead of all that power being used for nefarious purposes, it was instead being used to download and seed 30 TB worth of fucking hentai.

Needless to say people got expelled, and we had to perform a massive cleanup operation.
 
The Black Kettle said:
I have to block so many grifters on linkedin too, there’s very few real authentic people with things to say in tech or cybersecurity. Lots of Women in STEM types (and the subsequent ‘nonprofit’ orgs that goes with) constantly going to networking conventions, getting free entry-level sans and comptia certs, but you check their profile and they have no tech experience or are a founder of some ai-based startup.
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I scrubbed my LinkedIn of almost everything. I never had a picture, but scrubbed everything except my government name and certs I hold. I still log in and check, because despite all the damage they've done to their search function, shit still gets posted there. But when I login and browse the timeline; just endless jeets/women/minorities talking about how Cybersecurity isn't an entry level, and posting some retarded fucking infograph, or talking about how women are just as capable. LinkedIn is also an interesting study case, because the idea behind unmasking everyone on The Internet would lead to better behavior is disproven by the social media platform directly linked to your actual name and professional experience. Lots of mean-girl office politics go on there, up to some sort of making fun of people who put the green "looking for work" thing on their profile.
 
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