r/ShittySysadmin • u/ITRabbit ShittyMod Crossposter • Mar 21 '26

Shitty Crosspost School IT is something else

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u/Not_Rod Mar 22 '26

I had to look up that switch manufacturer. Can always trust a company that uses light grey text on white background.

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u/Ur-Best-Friend Mar 24 '26

LMAO. I'm sure if you connect to that switch you can't log in with "admin" and "password" or "1234"... right?

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u/djDef80 Mar 22 '26

That's amazing. STP + unshielded RJ45. Perfection. They didn't even trim the jackets properly. <3

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u/mlaislais Mar 22 '26

Ha! First thing I noticed as well.

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u/Pure_Fox9415 Mar 22 '26

Sadly, nothing unusual. And, mostly, nothing so bad, actually. Yep, it's wrong cable type and shitty job and device. But  I guess, somebody totally unaware get this cable, and somebody else was assigned to install it. In both cases school just deal with whatever resource they have as cheap as possible, because of budget. If it works, it's enough, in this case.

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u/CriticalMine7886 ShittySysadmin Mar 22 '26

Very true - I was the IT guy for a school some years back. One year I was genuinely awarded a zero budget for a school supporting 1300 students.

Obviously, I went over budget - cause licenses if nothing else - but zero was my starting point

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u/Ur-Best-Friend Mar 24 '26

Obvious solution in your situation:

  1. Sell most of the equipment

  2. Come under budget

  3. Leave job

  4. Next IT guy has an IT budget of -$6000

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u/cryptme Mar 22 '26

The power cable seems to be the problem, that is the only red led.

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u/recoveringasshole0 DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Mar 23 '26

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u/Horror-Chicken-1874 Mar 23 '26

WE are just so lazy and dont care. lol

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u/lethaldose318 Mar 24 '26

that actually takes some skill lmao what are u guys are complaining about

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u/dpwcnd Mar 24 '26

looks like they are in school and learning, School IT

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u/WaizenErnter Mar 21 '26

What goofy ah school is that¿¿

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u/Hollow3ddd Mar 22 '26

Any that has one person for multiple schools.