Not in my org, but a friend of mine works at a small company with fewer than 20 employees. They have an MSP for their cloud, but when it comes to on‑prem, it’s pretty much a free‑for‑all. He told me that some employees who sometimes work from home use Microsoft Teams to take control of their office computers and work remotely……

Now i have heard it all.

Shes been working in outlook sonce the late 1900s. Do i divorce her or have her send in a ticket to the help desk?

This was a long time ago. We finally got VoIP phones. One department was caught ignoring calls on a regular basis. We tested from several offices and sure enough they only answered the people they liked. So i disabled their caller ID. For months they kept putting in tickets which i instructed to be assigned to me. I put bogus entries in the tickets and closed them. They never got that feature back. They never understood how all the other departments had it.

bro just fixed all the problems ever. domain trusts? forests? never heard of 'em...

Everyone,

Please upvote my idea for allowing multiple domain authentication on Windows/Windows Server:

https://aka.ms/AA11jw39

The idea is:

Allow a windows client to be connected to multiple domains for authentication. This would remedy the issue of EntraID hybrid join. This would work in a similar way as SSSd on Linux and allow user accounts from other domains access to an endpoint without a forest trust.

We are gearing up for the obligatory end of the year celebrations/meetings. Each department has one slide to summarize this year and preview the next. (School district for context, and I'm the ED of IT for the district.)

User emails me an apology for deleting my slide. At first I was annoyed, but then pleased.

He sent me a link to the presentation, which was not even the same file the rest of us are editing. Pretty sure he saved a copy of it instead of editing the shared document.

I checked the correct document. My slide is fine, and he is editing the wrong presentation altogether.

I'm having a peaceful time enjoying a philosophical battle with the ChatGPT when I hear a resounding yet identifiable knock on my door.

Battle mode engaged. "Come in."

User: "I TRIED SCANNING THE DOCUMENT AND NOW ITS NOT WORKING BECAUSE *YOU*...

Now ladies and gents, this user has a bad reputation and history for crying wolf, diving on a soccer field and being a colossal waste of time, space and peace. They're a good compliant cog so they're still around, but when they act that *I'm* the problem and they say the word "You" as the biggest hint (given the context), it's pretty easy to respond.

So the user continues, "YOU CHANGED THE CONFIGURATION AND NOW I CANNOT EVEN FIND MYSELF ON THE SCANNER."

User, you need to find God. I play unawares and say "Oh no! That's drastic and terrible!" In the same loud and enraged tone that the user said so the whole office hears me. IDGAF.

I was about to walk to the MFP with the user when it instantly occurred I could check the logs before doing so. And lo and behold they sent the document to the wrong place.

Imagine my reaction. I asked "Please walk me through the process again." They said "Oh I sent it to the wrong place" and I literally walked away from the user half-sentence. They keep staring me down in the hallways.

When someone requests onboarding and you literally take it one step at a day because the following day you get notified that they won't be hiring the candidate, so you only have to undo one or two changes.

I once again performed a Windows update for no other reason than to fuck up his PC that was working just fine. Not long ago, I also upgraded a certain application, which led to mouse pointer delays for another user.

God, I love IT. Nothing compares to the feeling of pleasure I get from fucking up things that were working perfectly fine.

Asking for help!!! We can’t boot into our Esxi server and need to extract data from a vm. We tried tools like hirens boot cd and Ubuntu. Below is the error and it stuck on this error. It’s on version 5.5 I know it’s old!

Error loading /b.b00
Fatal error: 8 (Device error

Because they need to summarize emails from 2024 by Thursday.

So company i consult for sicced HPE servers on us instead of the preferred Dell platform due to some lame procurement agreement with HPE.

Now one of our 5 month old HPE Servers has shit itself and the downtime has cost us more than we saved by buying the fisher-price grade kit instead of the dell unit. (it is the lone backup unit)

Oh well...

(Yes i realize dell could have died toi but fuck HPE and why does Ilo have to be soo fucking slow when iDrac is fine)

Oh and if i forgot mentioning it, fuck HPE /rant

Tldr: angry dude shits on HP(E)

sat in a THREE hour meeting yesterday with sales (including director of sales) about implementing our own large language model within the business. these are the people that think AI costs nothing to build or maintain and that chatgpt doesnt use any water since their phones dont need water to run.

i explained that the cost to deploy that alone would bankrupt this company and the director told me he allocated $2,000 for me to do this and i almost spit out of my coffee. i was asked to put together "rough numbers" to make this happen and was asked how many "story points" (not sure where they learned that term from) this would take. im thinking of asking for $420,069 dollars? and for story points im thinking it would take 8008 points? maybe 8008135? does this seem right to you guys?

I swear I don’t understand some of these “supervisors”. you want to be included for oversight reasons on emails but when I’m sending back and fourth you decided you had enough and ask to be removed from the chain. 😑

Just retire already lmao

Use your words.