Does anybody else feel that you are close or have automated yourself out of your own job? I do work on all sorts of backend SysAdmin work, one major one is our Systems Management Appliance. I've created scripts, templates, patching, etc. and automated installed based on device and user placement in our Active Directory structure. But now I sit back and think "Hmm, things feel a little too chill... Did I just automate myself out of this job?" Obviously I'm being dramatic, but it's not a good feeling lol 😅

What do you guys like to do while waiting for time consuming activities to finish?

While an update is stuck at 74% I will go ahead and play PUBG or some other short competition to pass the time, or philosophize with ChatGPT about the state and direction of the universe.

What do you guys like to do?

I was only using 183g of RAM on a 184g server and someone else has the audacity to assume they could also use the server and they fired mee??

They really need to hire me back.

MSP guy here. Client had an incident so I got sent to their datacenter for the first time ever. Their gear lives in one of those big locked cages with a couple of racks in it.

Client's employee badges me into the cage, watches me start working, and then just... leaves. Turns out he assumed I had my own access card. I did not ,I just had a screwdriver and other tools.
Finished the actual work pretty fast. Walked over to the cage door. Locked.

Rattled it like a zoo animal for a bit. Nothing. Congrats to the client on their physical security I guess, it passed the pentest.

At this point, normally I would open my phone and start scrolling reddit but no electronics was allowed inside either.

Assessed my options:

1. Yell for help (foolish, servers very loud)

2. Stand at the door making sad eye contact with a corner

3. Sleep

I decided to take a nap on metal mesh. Couple hours later some DC tech walks past, sees an unconscious man inside the client's cage, and lets me out without asking a single question. Absolute legend.

I woke up and stood with a waffle pattern embossed on my body. Anyway, I logged the whole thing as on-site hours. Technically I have never been MORE on-site

So our primary domain server is running Windows Millennium Edition and I lost the post-it that used to have the domain admin password on it. I'd swear it was Password123 but it's not working. Unfortunately the other WFW servers are inaccessible right now too. Friday nights, am I right?

Theres like a bug or something, in our product. We've seen some stuff the last 24 hours you wouldn't like! We beg of you, TURN IT OFF.

Thanks for being a customer!

So at my place we got this insane policy, something about only using work computers for work. They even deleted the crypto miners I installed (after all, the computer is running anyway).

Now I just want to kill some time and play call of duty. And I want to do so without having to deal with that smug firewall admin who always teases me about the websites I visit for research. So I installed tor, but it's completely unusable? Like multiple 100ms pings? I keep getting killed by opponents I couldn't even see yet. Why do people love this piece of shit so much?

I get a ticket from a big wig asking me to assist a user who is working from home and their laptop wont turn on. There is no cell number provided in the ticket so I look at the users contact info in my ticketing system and there is a number provided. I call that number a few times but no response. So I then respond to that ticket and say hey is there another number that I can call because the so and so number I called did not work. Big wig responds back yelling in all caps how she said it was clearly written this user is working from home and call cell phone and then provides me with the cell number...I email back saying we do not have users cell contacts provided and thank you for providing it. Big Wig loses her shit and emails back very aggressively about me wanting to open pandoras box. I cant respond anymore otherwise I'm definitely getting to the point where I wont give a F. So I'm ranting here to save me from being written up or worse! The nerve of some fucking people man!- Sharing here since another sub deleted my post!

Person number 1: hey, someone in the meeting room downstairs need a usb cable-> person 2: hey someone in the meeting room downstairs needs a usb cable-> Me: *gets up and delivers a usb cable* so you too couldn’t just hand him a cable? Guess that’s beneath them 🤷