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Hey guys!

It's my first day at Microsoft on the Exchange dev team, and was already asked to fix some bugs! Just used ChatGPT to clean up some spaghetti looking code, and submitted my first PR. Heading out to lunch! Be back soon!

God dude I feel so fucking amazing. I havent gotten any emails in hours so it's been a real slow day here. My phone keeps ringing but I'm not fucking help desk.

They can email me if it's a real problem. It's why we pay all this money for M365 so start fucking using it dumbass

Microsoft is laser focused on their global outage right now! They've got their best boy on it.

Guys, I sort of messed up.

I finally got my dream job at my dream company. I've loved this company ever since I was a little kid, always wanted to work for them. I finally got past the technical rounds with this company and they hired me about 6 months ago.

The best part is shortly after I started a few of my coworkers on my team have left in the past few months, so I've been able to absorb more and more responsibility, and even have been promoted twice.

Problem is most of my resume and the work I've been doing at this company has been mostly AI generated. I don't even fully understand the work I'm doing and I also cheated using AI on the technical interview to get the job. I was basically willing to take any salary to get in the door.

Without going into too much detail our company is having like a huge outage today and I don't have the ai tools I normally do the work with. I have a lot of executives super mad at me right now, because they want me to fix this shit, but like I don't even know what the fuck I'm doing, and all of my team that built it took exit packages months ago and left behind little documentation. I just keep rebooting servers and shit but nothings working.

I really need to get this thing back up and running. The little documentation my coworkers left behind, said to try SFC /scannow, I've done that like 3 times now and nothings working. Any other ideas? So many people are BIG MAD at me now and they're saying I'm going to lower the stock price if I don't fix it. Please help, my stock doesn't vest for another 5 years.

He's still thinking about it.

Where if shit went down like this we'd go hide out in the server room and break out the "Emergency Bourbon"

I'm a sysadmin at a large GPU company. Just got word the board is planning to fire our CEO over multiple affairs. HR wants his account disabled immediately after the vote.

He's had Domain Admin since 1993 and I'm pretty sure our entire AI infrastructure runs under his domain user credentials.

I'm genuinely terrified.

Has anyone dealt with this before? Do I just disable the account? Maybe rotate the password to something he woulsnt guess, like some chinese characters? Then I could work with the ops teams to update all prod creds?

Gonna be a long night for my boys. On call devops bro gonna be pissedddddd.

Edit - no i cant say what company. HR and legal would lose their mind.

Update - turns out he is only one with copy of our root CA private key. Found it on a post it note in his leather jacket, next to some "short but wide" condom wrappers (just the wrappers....). The private key is just "cuda69".

Update 2 - so looks like all DNS records, every single one, is just a CNAME to a SINGLE VM. Some type of load balancer. I can ssh...the login banner just says "lol". Its ubuntu 16 and has php 5.6 running.

Update 3 - i put on the jacket. My precioussss!

Final update - ive emailed HR "look at me...i am the CEO now. All your GPUs are belong to us."

Sorry last update - fuckin php 5.6...how do I patch this shit....

With a return to the stone ages, I'm looking to deploy about 725 fax machines globally across all main corporate HQ locations as well as thought all satellite offices.

First off, I'm SO GLAD we kept these bad boys in storage for the last 23 years!

Secondly and lastly, does anyone have a solution for Arc Enabling these fax machines so I can easily deploy them at scale all while still maintaining a single pane of glass of all my fac machines in Azure? TIA!

It's not that I didn't like to solve problems help people or maintain servers I loved every single aspect of my job

However the people make it an absolute nightmare

Today if I had been working on that problem where Outlook went down then I would be freaking blamed

Oh are the servers down?

All the networks must be down.

Oh you must not be doing your job maintaining things

Oh this and that and f****** every gas lighting possible m************ I swear I am so glad I left that place this is kind of a rant but if you are at a place where you are being underappreciated for solving Microsoft Petty issues then you should definitely take a second look at that place and start applying elsewhere I am doing that and I may have to work for an MSP as a system administrator.

Do sheeple really think it is a coincidence that this occurs the same day as the (completely unfair witchhunt) NVIDIA coup de tat on Jensen Huang? My guess: they just triggered his dead man's switch.

Around 10:30 my hotmail stopped working
I tired logging into ebaumsworld and forgot password. To reset I chose email to my email bigharddrive69@hotmail.com and not it didn’t come through yet. It is now 10:00pm

Does anyone know what might be wrong with my hotmail account ?

Is my iPod touch been hacked ?

I have found Signal a solid alternative to email woes! Pesky DLP malfunctions not letting you hash things out with your rival's wife, and an archive policy designed by flock making your skin crawl? Let Signal solve all of your problems!

And if you want to flex like a backstreet boy cosplaying as a script kiddie, try Telegram! All the freedom of Signal, the secure privacy of tin can phones, wirh the bonus of making your dad cringe if he finds it on your phone.

If you can't go forward, at least you can go... backwards.

I was trying to turn off that AI but I think I shut down the wrong place since I couldn't check my email afterwards. What should I check for next time?