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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I have a guy that tries to use me like his personal chatgpt, I started to catch on and see that he doesn't even try to troubleshoot anything; he'll stare at an error message and never google it, or worse just close it immediately without reading.

I just started saying "I don't know" to whatever dumbass question he has, and now he's trying to educate me whenever he finds the answer. I'm going to lose my fucking mind if I get jeetsplained on basic sysadmin stuff again.
 
Palmer Bangs said:
I have a guy that tries to use me like his personal chatgpt, I started to catch on and see that he doesn't even try to troubleshoot anything; he'll stare at an error message and never google it, or worse just close it immediately without reading.

I just started saying "I don't know" to whatever dumbass question he has, and now he's trying to educate me whenever he finds the answer. I'm going to lose my fucking mind if I get jeetsplained on basic sysadmin stuff again.
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Gift him a rubber duck
 
Palmer Bangs said:
I have a guy that tries to use me like his personal chatgpt, I started to catch on and see that he doesn't even try to troubleshoot anything; he'll stare at an error message and never google it, or worse just close it immediately without reading.

I just started saying "I don't know" to whatever dumbass question he has, and now he's trying to educate me whenever he finds the answer. I'm going to lose my fucking mind if I get jeetsplained on basic sysadmin stuff again.
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Is there a corp-speak way of saying "you should know this figure it out yourself"
 
74164978231 said:
I know people whose work flow is opening a single browser window with literally 30-40 tabs. They leave them open all day going through them as needed.
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Yeah?
That's what vertical tabs are for. Recently found out Firefox added them, so I'm no longer on Edge. Just open the stuff I want, loosely categorise stuff I'm going to leave open, and it just works.
 
Taught the higher-ups at the office something extremely basic about the software we use literally every day. Saved them from pulling some dumb shit that could have been solved with a single click. I love being Gen-Z!
 
Palmer Bangs said:
I have a guy that tries to use me like his personal chatgpt, I started to catch on and see that he doesn't even try to troubleshoot anything; he'll stare at an error message and never google it, or worse just close it immediately without reading.

I just started saying "I don't know" to whatever dumbass question he has, and now he's trying to educate me whenever he finds the answer. I'm going to lose my fucking mind if I get jeetsplained on basic sysadmin stuff again.
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Indian? They tend to do that. Nothing makes a pajeet happier than getting someone else to do his job for him (except for maybe shitting in the street, sexually harassing women or successfully scamming Grandma).

Just ignore him. He’ll find somebody else to leech off of in a few minutes.
 
SouthernBitchBob said:
"Are you available right now for quick call"

What is with Indians and needing to drag you into a voice meeting for minor tasks they can do themfuckingselves.
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Oh they do this on purpose to not leave a paper trail of their fuck ups and to easily blame you. So when shit hits the fan they can quickly blame you and say you told them through the call.

I worked at a major bank. I was assigned to work with a jeet. On a call I told him he was using the wrong dataset. Arrogant Jeet said it didn't matter. Next meeting manager Jeet upset why we used the wrong dataset as everything got messed up. Jeet starts to blame me for giving him the wrong dataset.

They are truly vile people.
 
last whitey in Toronto said:
Oh they do this on purpose to not leave a paper trail of their fuck ups and to easily blame you. So when shit hits the fan they can quickly blame you and say you told them through the call.

I worked at a major bank. I was assigned to work with a jeet. On a call I told him he was using the wrong dataset. Arrogant Jeet said it didn't matter. Next meeting manager Jeet upset why we used the wrong dataset as everything got messed up. Jeet starts to blame me for giving him the wrong dataset.

They are truly vile people.
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A major bank would have the ability to record meetings. Hitting the magic button makes the jeets behave a lot better.
 
Susanna said:
Yeah?
That's what vertical tabs are for. Recently found out Firefox added them, so I'm no longer on Edge. Just open the stuff I want, loosely categorise stuff I'm going to leave open, and it just works.
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My thumb rule is that if there are enough tabs open that I would need to scroll them back and forth to use various sites (like this one), then that means there are typically too many. I have a "Revisit Later" category in my Firefox bookmarks.
 
Belisarius Cawl said:
My thumb rule is that if there are enough tabs open that I would need to scroll them back and forth to use various sites (like this one), then that means there are typically too many. I have a "Revisit Later" category in my Firefox bookmarks.
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I get you, but making and updating bookmarks is a lot more work than just pulling one old tab onto another, naming the resulting folder, and dragging some other tabs into it. Like I've got one group named Comics for a bunch of webcomics I like, one named YouTube for videos I'm going to watch eventually, and one named WoW containing mostly Wowhead tabs for stuff I'm going to get around to collecting whenever I can be bothered. Clicking on a folder will minimise it, so my six Wowhead tabs only take up a single tab. And vertical tabs lets me switch between 25 tabs or folders without scrolling.
 
"Hello saars. So vat is Kuberrrnetes? I asked ChatGPT to explain so I can tell you simply."

If you cannot explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough to teach.
 
SouthernBitchBob said:
"Hello saars. So vat is Kuberrrnetes? I asked ChatGPT to explain so I can tell you simply."

If you cannot explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough to teach.
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Oh god. There’s nothing worse than a pajeet trying to explain k8s.

It’s sort of funny, the teams at my company that maintain kubernetes clusters are the whitest tech teams in the company. This is not an accident.

Edit: actually, there is something worse than a pajeet trying to explain kubernetes. It’s explaining kubernetes to a pajeet.
 
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Disdainer of the Plebs said:
Oh god. There’s nothing worse than a pajeet trying to explain k8s.

It’s sort of funny, the teams at my company that maintain kubernetes clusters are the whitest tech teams in the company. This is not an accident.

Edit: actually there is something worse than a pajeet trying to explain kubernetes. It’s explaining kubernetes to a pajeet.
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I would expect that to efficiently use K8s you need to write all your code from scratch and not just copy and paste from StackHub
 
Betonhaus said:
I would expect that to efficiently use K8s you need to write all your code from scratch and not just copy and paste from StackHub
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You can get away with quite a bit in the app code, but it still has to actually run and not crash. (See my anecdote from a few weeks back. ) 25 replicas of your app is actually very good insurance, no matter how big of a pile of shit the code is.

Kubernetes gives you a lot of flexibility in disentangling applications from hardware, but it is very complex. It’s really good at maintaining app replicas, self-healing and autoscaling. Taking full advantage of this requires people who are legitimately intelligent, because dynamic autoscaling makes it very easy to blow out the rest of your architecture in adverse production conditions. Being able to predict second and third order effects of decisions means the difference between whether you work 5 days a week or 7. Test thoroughly before production release.

Pretty much every engineer I’ve ever talked to that maintained k8s clusters said the main thrust of their jobs was to hide that complexity from pajeet app devs who will fuck it up and then blame you if you let them define their own manifests. Shit, they still do that even if you don’t allow direct access to resources. At least 20% of every k8s role I did was tard wrangling, and 30% was designing things so that pajeet can’t fuck it up.

P.S. - Argocd and helm are your friends, if you’re not using them, you are wrong.
 
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Peaches the Wonder Cat said:
Excuse me sir, we vibe code everything with Cursor. Now how do we take this app that the AI wrote and deploy it at scale using Kubernetes? Anyone know a good prompt for that?
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Please run this shell script as root on your production servers saar it will do the needful.
 
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