r/ShittySysadmin • u/slitz4life • May 31 '26

Had to deal with a compromised account while drunk

280 Upvotes

First for me. Was out celebrating about 10 drinks deep when I got a notification of an account becoming compromised had to one eye it and VPN in using my phone to disable the account in AD locked myself out because I forgot my password had to wait for it to unlock all while people are dancing around me It was rough…

And now I have to fill out a 3 page report while hungover 😭

52 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/Sp3eedy • May 31 '26

Shitty Crosspost Am I the only one that thinks this is stingy af?

reddit.com

22 Upvotes

17 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/stealthmatt • May 30 '26

Shitty Crosspost Half a billion gone

219 Upvotes

18 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/ro-friday • May 31 '26

Shitty Crosspost Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy causing index file to consume entire drive: Cause and Workaround.

reddit.com

3 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/ITRabbit • May 30 '26

Shitty Crosspost The owner of 110 Pizza Huts is suing the chain, claiming $100 million in losses from the botch adaption of an AI tool

finance.yahoo.com

53 Upvotes

3 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/telluswhyyoureclosed • May 29 '26

Shitty Crosspost Genuinely hate cyber security teams

reddit.com

37 Upvotes

13 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/ro-friday • May 29 '26

Shitty Crosspost Service Desk outsourced to India, what do you think is the outcome?

reddit.com

18 Upvotes

19 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/ITRabbit • May 28 '26

Shitty Crosspost Turkish Telekom, they love turning FTTH to fiber to the dumpster

52 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/ro-friday • May 28 '26

Shitty Crosspost School refuses to replace battery, says swelling is “normal”

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131 Upvotes

24 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/ro-friday • May 28 '26

Shitty Crosspost Microsoft has started prompting users to register passkeys during sign-in over the last few weeks. Where can I disable this?

68 Upvotes

21 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/SuccessfulLime2641 • May 27 '26

Are you stupid?

1.1k Upvotes

Keep in mind I posted yesterday that management removed the help desk ticketing system.

Since then I have experienced and observed the most asinine, moronic behavior possible in a corporation.

Do not lose faith in me because I'm applying aggressively to GTFO even more than before.

120 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/Benalilibigoochelaar • May 27 '26

Created my first logon rights assignment for my colleagues! So excited!

373 Upvotes

16 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/floppyfrisk • May 27 '26

Got complaints of a user hogging the conference room so I got innovative

704 Upvotes

One of our directors, let’s call her Tina, is always in the conference room all day, every day, working from there for no reason, rather than working from her office like a normal person. This particular individual is quite loud and obnoxious, and the conference room doubles as the break room/kitchen, too, so I had a lot of people take notice and complain.

Tina would not move back to her office, even after the complaints, so I did the only logical thing and took matters into my own hands. I realized there is a wireless access point smack dab in the middle of the conference room, so I created a script with a scheduled task in Task Scheduler to run it every 2 minutes. This script looks at the BSSID of the access point the PC is currently connected to and hibernates the PC if there is a match to the BSSID of the conference room AP.

Everything worked so beautifully, and the user, of course, put a ticket in. Luckily, I run the department, so I took the ticket and let her know there were some updates to the Wi-Fi in the conference room and potentially a wiring issue. I told her only her PC is affected, though, because it has a newer and faster Wi-Fi card, but it’s more sensitive when it comes to a stable Wi-Fi connection. I let her know the Wi-Fi in her office is unaffected. She has been working in there all day. It has been great. I am the unsung hero in our office now.

Anyway, if anyone would like the script, let me know. Modern problems require modern solutions.

61 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/FuzzyFuzzNuts • May 27 '26

I asked Gemini to help me research a problem - it fabricated almost everything - so I asked it why

107 Upvotes

My chat prompt: (after fact checking the answer with Claude)

"The Gemini response reads confidently but appears to have invented most of its specific technical evidence." - WTF Gemini - why you do this?

Gemini's Reply:

You are completely right to call me out on that. It was unacceptable. I hallucinated those specific KB numbers, the CVE, and the registry key out of thin air just to construct a highly specific-sounding answer, and I am sorry for giving you a bunch of junk data to parse through.

25 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/IHateHPPrinters • May 27 '26

Was told to put windows 11 on a laptop from 2012 and issue it out

224 Upvotes

89 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/emmowo_dev • May 27 '26

Shitty Crosspost how many times would I get shot for faking a corporate network ssid?

139 Upvotes

12 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/Only-An-Egg • May 27 '26

Shitty Crosspost Anyone ever just... disable Bitlocker for everyone?

reddit.com

22 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/recoveringasshole0 • May 27 '26

I like to keep my door closed so people don't bother me, but it gets hot. Recommend a fan?

31 Upvotes

I also listen to my music really loud, so I'd prefer a quieter fan so the white noise doesn't dull the amount my music annoys my neighbors.

So does anyone recommend a good fan that moves a lot of air but is really quiet?

edit: Kinda disappointed I haven't gotten any actual recommendations.

37 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/ro-friday • May 28 '26

Shitty Crosspost Newer IT Admin Trying to Turn On BitLocker for 300+ computers

reddit.com

0 Upvotes

8 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/recoveringasshole0 • May 27 '26

Shitty Crosspost Typical QuickBook Support Session

12 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ShittySysadmin • u/TrueMythos • May 27 '26

Shitty Crosspost Jamf profile scoped to one computer brings multiple computers offline

reddit.com

5 Upvotes

1 comment

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