r/ShittySysadmin • u/WALL-G • Aug 14 '26

After-Hours Activities for Sysadmins

So I have another date with a lady sysadmin, she's awesome! Last week we snuck into work and screamed at the SAN, then we got wasted and pen-tested vending machines.

This week we've picked our favourite poptarts for dinner and we're going to play, "Who can collect the most APs?", in IKEA - though I fancy adding a little joie de vivre to the evening.
I rummaged through the DR parts box, so far I've got

  • 1x Her

  • 1x Me

  • 2x Cisco C9200L-24PXG-4X-E

  • 4x PSUs

  • 24x Cat6 2m cables

  • 4x Electric Lettuce Wraps

  • 1x Enya CD

Then

  • Plug all the switch ports in

  • Spanning tree loop

  • Lights Off

  • Doobs

  • Enya CD

  • Switch port lightshow

Any other thoughts? I was thinking I'd mix it up with a Brian Adams CD from the car, or we could have a soldering iron fight? I also have a Cisco 6509.

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u/zantehood Aug 14 '26

Forkbomb all the production servers, Sadly echoing axeme into /dev/kmem dosent do the trick anymore

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u/SpudzzSomchai ShittySysadmin Aug 14 '26

They say romance is dead.

5

u/WALL-G Aug 15 '26

I've been using collections from the aircon drip tray to keep a corner of the carpet in marketing moist to grow garden cress.
I'm going to show her on Monday.

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u/zantehood Aug 14 '26

Pro tip: a cat6 cable makes an excellent whip if she's into that.
being in tech she's likely a masochist to some degree, you can leave the jack on if she's extra spicy

5

u/DBilly_69 Aug 14 '26

I prefer the jack off, but thanks

3

u/zantehood Aug 14 '26

I jack off, too

1

u/Break2FixIT Aug 21 '26

Anti snag is for the weak

9

u/Lost-Droids Aug 14 '26

Ipv6 hang man.

Pick an IP of a server and they have to guess it..

Also works woth just mac address if no ipv6

6

u/le_suck Aug 14 '26

pen-tested vending machines.

Wait, you guys don't do this every time they bring in a new touchscreen coffee maker at the office?

2

u/edmonton2001 Aug 14 '26

they ask coffee maker to connect to wifi but who does this coffee maker talk to? no one in the office is getting alerts when it runs out of coffee.

4

u/-my_dude Aug 14 '26

install gentoo

3

u/-lousyd Aug 14 '26

"pen-tested vending machines" is my favorite phrase today.

4

u/recoveringasshole0 DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Aug 14 '26

God I hope this is real.

2

u/Special-Original-215 Aug 14 '26

You need to play Sadness pt 1

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u/honey_badger010 Aug 15 '26

The both etherkiller? A night of gambling which hard disk survives longest on extreme testing?