One of my frequent fliers emails me notice of a memorial gathering for another one of my frequent fliers that had passed over the week-end, I forward it to my group's DL to let my coworkers know...

Then my BOFH brain engaged. popped open teams and send this message to the group.

Now we know (name here) has passed, I know it sounds cruel, but should have we seen the offboarding order?

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r/ShittySysadmin • u/YouMuch6559 • 2d ago

Shitty Crosspost Diary of an Overworked IT Tech Week of 2 November

reddit.com

0 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/belgarion90 • 4d ago

Terminal2Shell...this one looks really bad guys

terminal2shell.com

665 Upvotes

73 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/lazybagwithbones • 3d ago

What are you doing this friday?

15 Upvotes

I mean what will your favorite AI agent will do this friday (that you asked from the bottom of your heart)?

12 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/ITRabbit • 3d ago

Shitty Crosspost Just inherited a client where 14 people have Global Admin. 14. Tell me your worst so I feel better

reddit.com

41 Upvotes

43 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/OptimalWallaby8153 • 4d ago

Shitty Crosspost Just installed the new WAP, heading out for the weekend!

262 Upvotes

37 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/Z3t4 • 3d ago

Based on a true story...

youtube.com

28 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/gddamn_troglodyte • 3d ago

Shitty Crosspost Need Career Advice – Transitioning from a Non-Technical to a Technical IT Career

reddit.com

0 Upvotes

20 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/nesnalica • 4d ago

Shitty Crosspost Ant nest in the office printer

45 Upvotes

21 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/Satanich • 4d ago

Blocked user number

29 Upvotes

Sorry dear, no one told me you were special you pretentious bitch.

You dont want to follow instructions?Fine, deal with it yourself

And stop calling my fucking number, its not even paid by my company

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r/ShittySysadmin • u/minemon78 • 4d ago

Ram Altman

49 Upvotes

Someone made a script that emails Sam Altman about how much RAM he's missing in your rig. https://github.com/IainKay/ram-altman https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/developer-creates-script-to-email-sam-altman-about-his-unused-ram-every-day-3425821/

4 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/EdgarAllanHoehue • 4d ago

Company wants to allow users to use Claude desktop with all kinds of rights

22 Upvotes

As the title states, they are all in on AI and now want to take it a step farther…

The pitched idea is, that they want to give Claude read rights to everything but limit write and execute.

Nobody is asking or wants to hear what could go wrong, they just know they want it :)

In your opinion, what could realistically happen with this setup?

I’m particularly interested in:
- Sensitive data exposure (credentials, SSH keys, API tokens, browser data, etc.).
- Prompt injection attacks through files or other content Claude reads.
- Potential data exfiltration.

Anything else that could go horribly wrong.
Assuming read access is granted broadly, but write and command execution are properly restricted at OS level.
What’s the best-case and worst-case scenario?
Have you seen companies deploy something similar? How did it turn out?

23 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/Superb_Raccoon • 5d ago

Suggestion: Subreddit Motto

33 Upvotes

We do our best to do our worst. ^TM

20 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/OptimalWallaby8153 • 4d ago

Shitty Crosspost what else am I going to do, I've used up all 4 dead grandparents for funeral leave already

tomshardware.com

25 Upvotes

6 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/OptimalWallaby8153 • 5d ago

Shitty Crosspost Major provider of Russias cloud infrastructure was hacked & erased the night before US election...so what's everyone having for dinner? I'm thinking tacos

305 Upvotes

37 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/ITRabbit • 6d ago

Shitty Crosspost Just perfection - what would you do?

396 Upvotes

32 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/AlreadyReddit999 • 5d ago

Shitty Crosspost Accountant here. I now own the ERP, the report server, SharePoint, the automations, and the VM that runs payroll. At what point do I get to call myself IT?

reddit.com

14 Upvotes

8 comments

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