Semi_Hemi_Demigod 186 points 2 years ago

When things go right: "WHAT ARE WE PAYING YOU FOR?!?"

When things go wrong: "WHAT ARE WE PAYING YOU FOR?!?"

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jballs 125 points 2 years ago

The secret to a healthy career in IT is to let things break just a little every once in a while. Nothing so bad as to cause serious problems. But just enough to remind people that you exist and their world would come crumbling down without you.

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Unforeseen 80 points 2 years ago

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Anticorp 49 points 2 years ago

I get really fucking tired of justifying work. Like, I have delivered every single project I've ever been given ahead of schedule. But every time a new project comes up, higher level managers want all these update meetings to check up on the status, discuss risk factors that might prevent it from being delivered, and a bunch of other bullshit. You're the risk factor, motherfucker, you and your meetings. Get the fuck out of my way and I'll deliver it ahead of schedule just like literally every other project I've ever been in charge of. Quit feeling that you need to be involved! You don't. You're a road block that provides no value. Ugh!

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jkrtn 26 points 2 years ago

Big mood. It is fucking exhausting explaining basic tech concepts to stakeholders over and over.

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HappycamperNZ 4 points 2 years ago

If you're ignoring all the risk factors, got no contingency plans or measurements against projected time and budget you have delivered everything on time and budget by luck.

If you already have those, those meetings should absolutely be a 30 min weekend meeting to check on status and what else you may need to keep delivering.

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Anticorp 21 points 2 years ago

I know they should be 30 minutes per week. But they're not, and that's the frustration. A weekend meeting though? I have a feeling that we may perceive work-life balance differently.

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Kalkaline 13 points 2 years ago

Acting like the user won't just break things for you, welcome to IT, you must be new.

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whotookkarl 8 points 2 years ago

Where I'm from we call that Laissez-faire IT

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SkyezOpen 2 points 2 years ago

And also install Adobe reader.

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Mikufan 117 points 2 years ago

When you work in security and your department gets cut because "there haven't been any attacks in 5 years"

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stardustsystem 35 points 2 years ago

Sounds like it's time to give a little insider info on the company network to hacking groups.

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sukhmel 48 points 2 years ago

It's not even necessary, they will find everything on their own

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Mikufan 12 points 2 years ago

Just turn down the firewall for 30s and they find a way in...

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Cornelius_Wangenheim 7 points 2 years ago

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jkrtn 103 points 2 years ago

Would be a fun series to watch, wizards trying to run a functioning castle under a king who doesn't understand the importance of anything magical.

Well, fun for me. Might be some high blood pressure and early heart attacks for IT folks who have to live it.

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jubilationtcornpone 65 points 2 years ago

"A dragon has never attacked the castle. Why do we even have a wizard?"

"A dragon is attacking the castle. Why do we even have a wizard?"

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Akuchimoya 26 points 2 years ago

BBC series Merlin was a little like this. King Uther hated magic, Prince Arthur was kinda against it because he was told it was dangerous, but didn't exactly hate it himself. Meanwhile Merlin took a job as a servant, doing magic-y things to protect him. Wasn't a great series (writing), but it had enjoyable aspects.

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KairuByte 8 points 2 years ago

I mean, it got 5 full seasons. It wasn’t terrible by any means.

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Alexstarfire 11 points 2 years ago

Having a lot of seasons means it was popular enough to warrant them. Not that it's quality. One would hope they correlate but IDK how well it actually does. You've got plenty of people who say the Big Bang Theory is shit and it ran for 11 seasons. As someone who watched it I'd say it was no better than average.

I say this as someone who knows little more about this show other than it exists.

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Potatos_are_not_friends 86 points 2 years ago

In 2017, I jumped ship to a new job as they were transitioning to cloud server everything. The genius CTO (who was the owners wife) pushed for it, quoting they can save a lot of money.

Then she fired half the IT staff.

Two years later and a few major security hacks/ransomware events, they had to hire even more IT folks to unfuck their cloud setup.

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Naz 37 points 2 years ago

I had something like this happen at a corp I once worked at. The CTO said they were going to outsource their entire datacenter and support staff to India.

I literally laughed in his face and obviously, got fired (always have 6-8 months of salary as an emergency fund, ahem-).

I won't name the company but when half the Internet went down and a few major services? Yeah, it was that asshat driving and running between the datacenters realizing people in Bangladesh can't do shit for you physically.

It's like that graph: "Say we want to fuck around at a level 8, we follow this axis, and we're going to find out at around a level 7 or 8"

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dudinax 22 points 2 years ago

I visited a company that outsourced its IT to India. We were delayed 24 hours because the guy who could whitelist our computer on their network was asleep. It was the middle of the night where he lived.

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luciferofastora 23 points 2 years ago

Two years
A few major events

My god, they must've really fucked up their shit

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Ephera 23 points 2 years ago

Not a difficult task to not secure a cloud setup. And if it's publicly reachable, you will quickly find yourself involuntarily participating in an automated vulnerability scan.

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LostXOR 11 points 2 years ago

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JJROKCZ 14 points 2 years ago

Not really, it’s really amazing how fast things to go shit if you just stop patching or don’t follow best practices

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Potatos_are_not_friends 3 points 2 years ago

Ah actually that's a typo. I meant to say "A few years.." implying around 2020-2021. Sorry about that.

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0x0 6 points 2 years ago

Digital karma.

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KLISHDFSDF 70 points 2 years ago

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Shareni 33 points 2 years ago

When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

Damn you, the photo didn't load and I thought I'd be the first one. Time to start my own comment chain, with blackjack and hookers.

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KazuyaDarklight 69 points 2 years ago

That's a common reporting problem, there have been no "successful" attacks, you show value/work by making sure to note all the unsuccessful ones.

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Shareni 37 points 2 years ago

Prints a 10m scroll daily containing automated probes and attacks

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KazuyaDarklight 17 points 2 years ago

Weekly report that says XXXX attempted/failed attacks of X type, of y type, etc. and the ability to produce the 70m scroll and generally talk about the stuff on request.

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Riven 12 points 2 years ago

Unironically it might work. Have a filing cabinet with all the attacks that you can point too.

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Miaou 34 points 2 years ago

My current company's IT team does not know what CAMM RAM is, does not recognise an nvme ssd inside a laptop, and still talk to us like we're idiots. I hope you guys here are better than them!

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Linkerbaan 33 points 2 years ago

CAMM RAM is nowhere near mainstream yet so that's understandable. NVME should be known though.

Don't forget to praise them every day for your company not spontaneously combusting.

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lud 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah, its specification was finalised only 6 months ago.

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ryannathans 6 points 2 years ago

I don't even think there's a laptop that uses it yet

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akakunai 8 points 2 years ago

Hell, even Dell who came up with the standard chose to switch to soldered memory on the brand new XPS laptops instead of using their own CAMM standard ^because ^money.

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Miaou 1 point 2 years ago

My laptop and I are very real! At least my laptop, from last year (a dell as someone mentioned). I even got to know how you screw one in and out since my IT basically told me to go fuck myself when I had to upgrade my laptop.

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Miaou 9 points 2 years ago

Oh but it did burn down too! Turns out that installing Microsoft product on everything does not protect you from cyber attacks (rather the opposite).

But now I'm protected from the very dangerous UDP packets the machines we sell send, much safer.

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lqdrchrd 18 points 2 years ago

The worst. Our IT is outsourced to some bottom-of-the-barrel garbage company, and they both have no idea what they are doing and work in a different timezone, so you have to wait a working day for responses like ‘did you try turning it off and on again?’. Everyone just emails the head of IT with their issues, which defeats the whole point of the system.

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Ephera 11 points 2 years ago

Same. At some point, I learned that the bottom-of-the-barrel garbage company, that does our IT support, is apparently one of the most successful IT support companies on the planet.

I guess, the way to get there, is to not actually provide IT support. You just have to get paid for it.

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lightnsfw 3 points 2 years ago

Yea, hire a bunch of underpaid undertrained peons to take support calls from the rest of your underpaid untrained peons. If an exec has a problem they get to bypass the helpdesk and go straight to someone that knows what they're doing so they never see how bad things are. $$$

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0x0 22 points 2 years ago

I'd say that's a day in the life of a sysadmin, no?

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MacedWindow 15 points 2 years ago

!wizardposting@kbin.social

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ture 11 points 2 years ago

Same thing with why do I need to pay someone to do maintenance my car, kitchen, AC, whatever works perfectly well.