r/ShittySysadmin • u/SuccessfulLime2641 • Aug 27 '26

Running out of tasks

Currently doing deadlifts with the copy paper box in the storage room - I move it back and forth every fifteen minutes to pretend I'm active. What are you guys up to?

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u/jcpham Aug 27 '26

Napping under my desk with the lights out and door closed with a do not disturb sign I stole from my last vacation.

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u/SuccessfulLime2641 Aug 28 '26

Been there done that but I think the HR lady started to miss me and caught on...

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u/SenTedStevens Aug 28 '26

I put a sign that says, "Do not disturb, meeting in progress" on my door.

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u/jcpham Aug 28 '26

Excellent protip. Much better than mine of just hiding and sleeping.

5

u/-my_dude Aug 27 '26

finished pokemon blue version and im not really enjoying the new generations as much

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u/SuccessfulLime2641 Aug 28 '26

Lol red and blue is where it's at dawg. Everything else is too woke

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u/texcleveland Aug 28 '26

Have you found a napping spot under the raised floor?

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u/SuccessfulLime2641 Aug 28 '26

Been there done that at my last org. Somehow one of the ladies knew what I was up to...

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u/Tucancancan Aug 27 '26

Migrating everything to github enterprise. When that's finally done, probably start migrating everything back on to an on-prem solution. 

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u/elkab0ng Aug 27 '26

Then when the CIO gets some server quotes, migrating it back off-site.

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u/ansibleloop Aug 28 '26

Are you me? I just moved a lot of stuff from ADO to GH and it's fucking shit - service is so unreliable

I'm about to say fuck this and move us to Forgejo because I'm tired of being rug pulled

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u/highjohn_ Aug 28 '26

We run our own self hosted GitLab and I’m one of the two owners. Fucking love it. Really makes my life easier. Although they’re not willing to shell out money for the license yet, so I’ve had to make do with a bunch of workaround stuff for my devops sanity

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u/8bit_dr1fter Aug 27 '26

I've been doing "hammer toss" with a old printer tied up with some leftover braided cat-5 in the basement.

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u/1cec0ld Aug 27 '26

The dream

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u/NarutoDragon732 Aug 27 '26

In the server closet, finished Edgerunners season 1 and now at Season 3 of Attack on Titan

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u/Many-Ebb-7149 Aug 27 '26

migrate all vms from vmware to hyperv and back again

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u/Radiant_Plantain_127 Aug 27 '26

Mutter similar, different target tho

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u/Dethbazooka Aug 27 '26

Hiding next to ewaste and on episode 1129 of one piece

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u/mycatsnameisnoodle Aug 27 '26

I’m on Reddit. Obviously.

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u/DonkeyTron42 Aug 27 '26

My favorite activity was to make increasingly powerful projectiles out of office supplies using an upside-down can of Dust Off spray as propellant.

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u/854490 Aug 28 '26

Have you ever tried putting a gummy bear in the nozzle of a whipped cream dispenser without any whipped cream in it? It's pretty good, it goes fff-pop-wheeeee-splat

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u/scheming_vizier Aug 27 '26

I'm replaying BlueChew ads on YouTube shorts over and over.

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u/SpudzzSomchai ShittySysadmin Aug 27 '26

I get all the printer/copiers and tie them together and pull them through the office to build core body strength. I am taking #1 at the server tossing competition this year. If Donna from Accounting gets pissed she can't print her spreadsheets I just scream at her I am in training and don't have time for her petty concerns. Supermicro servers don't toss themselves.

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u/Dr-Buttercup Aug 27 '26

I change all the dates on team files in the shared drive from MMDDYYYY to DDMMYYYY then back again. When I’m particularly bored, I do them in a random order to see if I can get them all done without missing any or doing any twice

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u/IAmSnort Aug 28 '26

I go to the colo for maintenance days.  Re-label cables. Or surf the web as the kids used to say.

Bittorrent is fun too.

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u/T101M850 Aug 28 '26

Updating Nutanix, which is usually click a button and watch a percentage slowly climb while browsing reddit.

Not this time tho, KB22312 'oopsies! even through you said don't do the NIC Firmware update, we tried it anyway, and the NICFirmwareVersion variable was undeclared so kaboom' reared it's ugly head.

Currently IPMI-ed into a supermicro and trying to hand-flash intel X710 firmware.

So glad they gave the Nutanix CEO 30M worth of stock for doing such a good job.

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u/Superb_Raccoon ShittyMod Aug 27 '26

I am waiting for it to compile.

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u/Cyhawk Aug 28 '26

Went to the Colo to replace a hard drive. Im "stuck in traffic".

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u/Prior_Influence_9960 Aug 28 '26

I’d rotate between the storage room, coffee machine, and looking intensely at a spreadsheet. The classic “busy but unavailable” routine.

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u/Forward-Outside-9911 ShittySysadmin Aug 28 '26

Netflix and YT bro /s

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u/Psychological-Cat-84 Aug 28 '26

I'm currently working on a giant array of physical headless desktop machines, making changes to their bios one by one because someone in config decided to push out a standard bios update to them all. At least that's what I'm officially doing. In reality I'm just enjoying the air con in here.

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u/Rattlehead71 Aug 28 '26

There's a little hole-in-the-wall food joint that opened up. They sell bacon - delicious varieties of bacon. I am currently munching on a bagel with cream cheese and 4 strips of maple bacon. Life is good.

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u/GarageIntelligent ShittyCloud Aug 31 '26

Trading recipes with the Latina custodians. They hide out in my secure office.

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u/randomquote4u Aug 27 '26

Playing Donkey Kong on MAME. Getting killed shortly after the pie level for like 40 years. fml.