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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Kheapathic said:
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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It is often worse than that. Some people use real people and then pay them that person to basically scam via that account.

What often happens is:
  1. Someone asks about networking/connecting/work on a slack group. Think things like "<some reasonably large city> Go Developers".
  2. You respond and they say they will DM you.
  3. They ask some basic questions about your experience and ask to see your LinkedIn.
  4. They don't want you to do the work, what they want to do is hire a number offshore guys and have them work under your identity.
This of course it quite fraudulent and told them as much. If any of their offshore hires did anything iffy, I could end up in court.
Had this happen once or twice.
 
I didn't know it was that bad. I scrubbed my shit because I realized while yes it makes your resume look good, I guess, I also say how all the online left were doxing and getting people fired. Saw that and noped the fuck out of all that extra shit about me. All the mean-girl and cool-kids club shit that goes on doesn't help either. For all people know, it's an abandoned profile.
 
Kheapathic said:
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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Linkedin isn't important to my line of work so I ended up deleting my account because it was awkward realising it listed me as working for a company i haven't been to in years.There's so many fuckign scams these day's it's mental, my online footprint is steadily shrinking.
 
I don't think LinkedIn is important to any line of work, outside of recruiters, HR, or any sort of tech/AI startup that has all the $50 buzzwords. Outside of those, it just feels like a way for a company to get an easy look into the person. All you get is my resume; my LinkedIn looks defunct and my FaceBook hasn't been under my legal name in well over a decade; and I rarely use either, only because FaceBook still has some boomer family members who I can't expect to do other things (I still love them). But yeah, with the way everything has been going, really need to cutdown on your Internet footprint.
 
Kheapathic said:
I didn't know it was that bad. I scrubbed my shit because I realized while yes it makes your resume look good, I guess, I also say how all the online left were doxing and getting people fired. Saw that and noped the fuck out of all that extra shit about me. All the mean-girl and cool-kids club shit that goes on doesn't help either. For all people know, it's an abandoned profile.
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There is other iffy stuff. I was trying to find some the screenshots I sent to a friend. But there are a lot of women on there that I believe to be prostitutes. One woman put up her holiday snaps and she was wearing a see through dress and the lingerie didn't leave much the the imagination. There was a whole bunch of these posts about 2-3 years ago.
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Talking about whores on LinkedIn.
 
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SchizoDaemon said:
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.
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I worked for a company where we had an Old Greg emote in the company Slack.
 
SchizoDaemon said:
It is often worse than that. Some people use real people and then pay them that person to basically scam via that account.

What often happens is:
  1. Someone asks about networking/connecting/work on a slack group. Think things like "<some reasonably large city> Go Developers".
  2. You respond and they say they will DM you.
  3. They ask some basic questions about your experience and ask to see your LinkedIn.
  4. They don't want you to do the work, what they want to do is hire a number offshore guys and have them work under your identity.
This of course it quite fraudulent and told them as much. If any of their offshore hires did anything iffy, I could end up in court.
Had this happen once or twice.
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Isn't this something that gets found from a basic interview with camera?
Am I missing something?
 
Estate said:
Isn't this something that gets found from a basic interview with camera?
Am I missing something?
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Sorry I didn't explain it well.

I think I blocked them and deleted the conversation as I was quite pissed off at the time, because I was looking for real freelance work. This is what I believe is happening from my memory with the conversation with them.

I believe they have a IT Services company where they want to claim that they have a number of top level engineers to another corporation that wants to outsource work. A lot of companies don't like using huge off shoring because it is a massive security risk. So you make it look like you have a bunch of in-shore (not sure if that is the right term) engineers.
 
SchizoDaemon said:
I believe they have a IT Services company where they want to claim that they have a number of top level engineers to another corporation that wants to outsource work. A lot of companies don't like using huge off shoring because it is a massive security risk. So you make it look like you have a bunch of in-shore (not sure if that is the right term) engineers
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But the massive security risk is still there.

Honestly companies might was well not outsource at all
 
Betonhaus said:
But the massive security risk is still there.
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Not so much if it on onshore. The security risk in the case I highlighted occurs because of the pay disparity. You can bribe someone in a poor country for 5 years salary for relatively little and they are more likely to take it as they often have less to lose. The cost of doing similar in the US would be many millions of dollars and less likely to be accepted anyway as people will have much more to lose.
Betonhaus said:
Honestly companies might was well not outsource at all
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Like with anything it is a set of trade offs. If you need a POS system, you could build one in-house (big super markets do this), or you go to someone like SAGE and let them do the installation, maintenance etc.

So while I was looking for something entirely unrelated and came across the screenshots of the "far right frogs". I've redacted the name of people to protect the guilty.
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People who IM you "Good morning" solely to ask you a question after you respond and not because (s)he wants to wish you a good morning are horrible. Pure niggerhell.
If you want to ask me a question, ask it.
I'm at the point where I just don't respond to smalltalk over IMs anymore.
 
Jotch said:
People who IM you "Good morning" solely to ask you a question after you respond and not because (s)he wants to wish you a good morning are horrible. Pure niggerhell.
If you want to ask me a question, ask it.
I'm at the point where I just don't respond to smalltalk over IMs anymore.
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I used to get angry about this and even considered putting nohello.net in my status in order to deter people from behaving this way. I no longer care after a simple and yet not all that obvious realization: it's these people who want something from me and not the other way around. So it's on them to make the communication as clear and as straightforward as possible. If they insist of making it harder for themselves then so be it.
 
Real call I got 10 minutes ago:
Me: Hello, this is *my name* thank you for choosing *my job* how can I help you?
Customer: Yes, my *thing* isn't working and I don't know what to do. I tried hitting the mo fucker like 7 or 8 times but it still ain't working.
Me: Wait I'm sorry, you're HITTING the *thing*?
Customer: Yeah.
Me: What did you hit it with?
Customer: Well I hit it with my shoe like 4 or 5 times and the mo fucker still wasn't working, so I hit it with a hammer like twice, but it still ain't working.
Me: Ok, I'm going to need you to unplug *thing* and I'm going to send somebody out with a replacement. Next time please call us and do not hit the *thing* when it's not working. It's a complicated thing that has a lot of parts in it.
Customer: Aw shit nigguh, my bad.
I love this fucking job :story: I cannot wait until he gets his next bill and calls up complaining because I'm charging him for a new *thing* because it's company policy.
 
Kheapathic said:
I don't think LinkedIn is important to any line of work
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Agreed. Companies, especially hiring agencies, have been making the job-applying process more and more asinine, and LinkedIn is one of those asinine things.

Before it used to be easy... you apply to a job posting, you get replied back, you MAY have to re-apply again so the info is stored on their shitty system instead of whatever job board you're using, but otherwise it was somewhat streamlined where they would contact you back via email/phone

Now it's like they try to get you to set up an account for the latest/newest thing that you will most likely only use once in your entire lifetime. It's not enough that you agreed in writing/typing/verbal that you have a scheduled interview appointment, now you have to click on their fucking calendar web program to set it on their end all the while you're getting tracked via your web browser (because blocker apps COMPLETELY break the links they tell you to go to). They fucking freeze if you tell them you don't have program x/y/z as if it's a foreign concept to them so they try to get you to set it up and act like it's a benefit for you for doing so (in reality, it benefits THEM because they are totally getting something out of it if they are willing to shill it that fucking hard and act more like a salesperson rather than a recruiter). "Oh you don't have ZOOM? Why not? We ABSOLUTELY CAN NOT do the interview any other way! Hey, why isn't your camera turned on, you won't get hired if it's a voice-only conversation!"
 
Jotch said:
People who IM you "Good morning" solely to ask you a question after you respond and not because (s)he wants to wish you a good morning are horrible. Pure niggerhell.
If you want to ask me a question, ask it.
I'm at the point where I just don't respond to smalltalk over IMs anymore.
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I hate it when friends/mutuals on social media do something similar when they're involved with a side hustle or MLM scheme. I had one say they had a business question for me, so I naively thought they needed genuine professional assistance with something. It turned out they wanted to lure me into selling whatever health supplement was popular at the time as one of their downline connections. I politely noped out and I learned never to interact with them via DM ever again.

I hate the larger trend where people pussyfoot around and don't get to the point. All it does is waste my time and theirs.

Jotch said:
HP and Dell can burn in hell
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HP for sure. When I was shipped the wrong memory sticks and called HP, the Jeet on the other end insisted they were compatible and told me to install them and boot up. He had no answer for me when I did that and smelled the smoke that meant the motherboard got fried. I never bought another HP home computer since then and I also feel that way about their printers with all the shifty stuff they do regarding ink.
 
Apparently adding new cronjobs is considered hacking and touching crontab is a last resort hail mary.
 
Had the pleasure to serve a lady on the phone. She had issues with updates for her devices, I asked her to show me the error message in question, she says something akin to:
I DUNNO, TOO COMPLICATED, IM A RETARD WHEN IT COMES TO COMPUTERS.
Same lady seemed to have a pecular flag on her desktop: a ring antifa LGBTQIA+ logo in the middle of her screen. No shit she's retarded.

I also managed to call out that stupid nigger who doesn't do his job. After 2-3 calls of unproductive, passive-agressive work, I just dropped the passiveness and cut straight through the bullcrap. I'm baffled that the problem was solved after that!
 
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