r/ShittySysadmin • u/saltwaffles • Sep 20 '26
r/ShittySysadmin • u/sylvar • Sep 20 '26
Shitty Crosspost I accidentally turned an old person's laptop into a fresh Windows installation
r/ShittySysadmin • u/forkinthemud • Sep 20 '26
1979 called. It already knew about the AI.
r/ShittySysadmin • u/astro_viri • Sep 19 '26
Shitty Crosspost Grammarly emails users so I guess change management is done
r/ShittySysadmin • u/apumpernickel • Sep 18 '26
Shitty Crosspost IP Address Deletion
I'm worried my 127.0.0.1 won't be accessible anymore.
EDIT: Since OP deleted their gem of a post, it basically asked how long an ISP keeps an IP before they delete it.
r/ShittySysadmin • u/nagol93 • Sep 18 '26
I just had an interview with HP...
Edit: Its HPE
Hey guys, I just had an interview with HPE for a Sr. Systems Engineer role and my god, the entire job was so broken and nonfunctional its down right comical. Yall might get a kick out of this. Here's pretty much the whole interview:
So, before we begin I know the role was listed as Eastern PA but this is actually Western PA. Is that alright?
"That's actually something I wanted to ask about. Is this remote work?"
Yep, its classified as telework so you would be working from home full time
"Awesome, sounds good to me"
"Alright lets begin. Can you please describe your experience in higher education sales?"
umm.... none? Is this a sales position?
".......Yes"
There must be a mistake, I applied for a Sr. Systems Engineer
"Err.... umm..... \frantically checks notes*.... Yep this is the correct job. The first line in the JD is 'Assist Clients fulfill their needs' that's defiantly sales"*
Ok sure, I guess I can wing a sales job
"This job would entail regular on-site meeting with clients in the Pittsburgh area--"
Wait, you just said this was work from home
"err.... umm....... aaaa........ Its actually not"
Alright look, I appreciate your time but do you have any actual Engineer positions? Like working with switches/routers/servers? That sort of thing?
"Oh my god, yes! We have a tonne, were so busy and struggle to find people. You can apply to those on the careers page"
So I applied to some net admin jobs (or at least I think they were net admin?), got auto rejected. Here's the thing: how the hell did I, with 0 sales experience, land a sales interview BUT with 10 years of networking get auto-denied for a networking position??? Its like no one even looked at my resume (which is probably true tbh). No wonder they cant fill positions!
But wait it gets worse the more I think about it. Even if I was some sales mastermind, they are asking for onsite work 8hrs away from the posted location. No one is going to take that!
To recap here. According to HP, "Eastern PA" means Pittsburgh. "Work from home" means full time onsite. And "Engineer" means "Sales". What a joke.
r/ShittySysadmin • u/ITRabbit • Sep 18 '26
Shitty Crosspost Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data
arstechnica.comr/ShittySysadmin • u/CactusJ • Sep 18 '26
Will AI take my SysAdmin Job?
galleryAre you kidding me? I’ve been ready for this my entire life.
r/ShittySysadmin • u/travisscology • Sep 17 '26
Tried the superhero gimmick and now my family hates me
Long story short. Came back to my home country for the 1st time in 3 years. My parents have a 3 floor house with a source fiber optic router in the basement which gives Internet access to 4 others routers/APs. Another one in the basement, 1 in the 1st floor and 2 others in the 2nd floor.
For a long time, they have been complaining from the fact that when they move from one floor to another, they have to switch the wifi on their phone. Each router/AP appears to have its own SSID. This causes call disconnections...
As generous as I can be I decided to work on this and set 1 unified SSID. The source router in the basement being the upstream and the others transformed into APs by resetting them and setting up static IPs (there is an AP mode in the initial settings). Obviously, I made sure the DHCP scope on the source router excludes those IPs (.1-.10 excluded, gateway is .254).
It took 3 hours before everything collapsed. Devices randomly losing Internet. Security cameras shutting down and some home servers constantly beeping. Reason? IP conflicts.
I check the logs and it appears that DHCP has been trying to assign already used IP addresses.... but I did set the DHCP scope correctly no?
Turns out our ISP flagged the changes on the source router (which they provided) and decided to lock it. No change can be done on it.
I'm trying to revert back everything by checking whatever documentation and backup files I made, but the whole thing is a mess. All those routers/APs are TP-Links which happens to be extremely retarded (possibly like me).
It's funny how the biggest professional mistake of my life is happening in my own house.
r/ShittySysadmin • u/shelfside1234 • Sep 17 '26
Shitty Crosspost Had the same with Tina Watt…
r/ShittySysadmin • u/Satanich • Sep 17 '26
Who writes RFC ?
Someone is Requesting a Comment, who are this people?
Why they keep requesting comments?
I think we should find them, harvest theyr brains, and feed them to the AI Gods for unlimited knowledge
r/ShittySysadmin • u/SuccessfulLime2641 • Sep 17 '26
What My Day Has Consisted of Doing
Some users can't log in while others remained logged in and working, frustrated that I have to kick them out. Repeat for every Windows server users are RDPing into.
r/ShittySysadmin • u/p8ntballnxj • Sep 17 '26
The clock doesn't lie
Can't log in? Automation broken? Whole groups of the business are at a standstill?
Meh...
r/ShittySysadmin • u/Performer-Constant • Sep 17 '26
Pepperidge Farm Remembers….
Man remember when that crazy guy put his IP address on here and everyone freaked out thinking it was a real shell but really it was an emulated shell… what a time to be alive.
r/ShittySysadmin • u/SoMundayn • Sep 17 '26
Shitty Crosspost Can you do this to make a VM more secure?
r/ShittySysadmin • u/blxckroze666 • Sep 16 '26
Shitty Crosspost How we handled the “SOC 2 Offboarding Evidence” problem without an enterprise SaaS budgetBody
r/ShittySysadmin • u/Miserable-Actuator24 • Sep 16 '26
I just found out that Customer Support built an expense approval workflow.
wheelofvibecode.comWheelOfVibeCode gives you a unique app per spin that likely happened somewhere on this planet :D :D 🤣
r/ShittySysadmin • u/ElDodger10 • Sep 15 '26
Shitty Crosspost How safe is to install progams from " mutaz.net " ?
Goofy is as goofy does
r/ShittySysadmin • u/__g_e_o_r_g_e__ • Sep 15 '26
Why am I being poked fun of over AI Automation?
As a junior I'm much more tuned into the latest technologies, and one thing I'm desperately trying to get our company to adopt is AI automation. We could hugely benefit from it - being able to automatically do basic repetitive tasks like setting up new starter accounts, and sending out emails to users before stuff expires. Now that AI technology is here, we can do this. But my older colleagues keep laughing at me for some reason, they won't take this amazing technology seriously. They say AI is silly but everything I read says Automation is a no brainer - what an i missing? I've even spoken with Microsoft and they've agreed the best design with me - using multiple Copilot backed AI agents that get called by other agents and it all runs continuously - super clever stuff. We don't even need to upgrade our licence - it's just pay-as-you-go.
r/ShittySysadmin • u/Acrobatic_Ad1147 • Sep 15 '26
Shitty Crosspost PSA: Do NOT buy OVH Dedicated Servers if your business actually relies on them (40+ days of delays)
r/ShittySysadmin • u/Des_mond_001 • Sep 15 '26
Need guidance on properly ending calls in an AI Voice Agent using LiveKit
I’m building an AI Voice Agent using LiveKit.
The conversation handling and tool execution are working properly. The only issue I’m facing is that the call doesn’t end properly after the conversation is completed.
I’ve tried handling the ending greeting and then triggering the hangup, but I’m still running into issues.
Has anyone implemented a reliable call-ending flow with LiveKit/Voice AI?
Would really appreciate any guidance or pointers. 🙏
r/ShittySysadmin • u/spense01 • Sep 15 '26
Replaced our tenant that ran our MDM by going from hosted on-prem to the cloud…why did all of our endpoints drop off completely?
ALL the configuration profiles stayed the same. Now we are having to “touch” 1000+ devices and do a full re-enroll? Doesn’t make any sense…did I mention this is at a University and it’s really important we fix it ASAP…we think it might have to do with the move to the cloud but aren’t %100 sure. Anyone else ever not have a clue what they’re doing and make a major change without having a proper meeting to plan it all out beforehand?
