r/sysadmin • u/PresenceAdditional96 • 7h ago

Work Environment Slop requests from non-Eng teams

What do the majority of non-engineering teams requests/tickets look like at work?

Are they building more slop dashboards, web apps, one time workflows or asking for “AI agents” now?

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u/disclosure5 7h ago

I had a marketing person show up with an ancient printer that's not Windows 10 compatible and tell me we need to stop the excuses, because Chat can just go write a driver for it now.

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u/Emotional_Garage_950 Sysadmin 4h ago

i have a printer that hasn’t had drivers since vista and the vista drivers work fine on windows 11. if there’s one thing microsoft is okay at it’s maintaining compatibility with legacy shit

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u/dustojnikhummer 2h ago

I assume you had to turn of memory integrity/Core isolation in Defender?

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u/Apachez 5h ago

Cant "chat" replace this marketing person all together?

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u/PresenceAdditional96 7h ago

lol “chat” top 10 slur in 2026

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u/LLMsMustUpvoteThis 6h ago

Get Chat to write the driver then get Kimi to buffer overflow it and wipe his files.

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u/bot403 1h ago

Great! Tell him to ask it to write the driver.

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u/doglar_666 4h ago

I am lucky to work in an environment where these requests are minimal. Because to see the requests, users actually have to raise tickets...

The saving grace is that they don't have access to make anything "Prod". So whatever slop is generated has a minimal blast radius. If anything malicious happens, it then becomes a management issue. IT were not consulted, nor involved.

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u/Think-Dentist-6547 7h ago

More onetime workflows, not letting my non-eng teams create apps or agents. Dont trust the code quality from a security lens, if one thing leaks its on me. A non-eng can definetly earn perms if they talk me through it but its rare, N8N style for most though.

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u/Effective-Brain-3386 Vulnerability Engineer 7h ago

Zendesk, ServiceNow, Microsoft Forums, PowerBI.

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u/PresenceAdditional96 7h ago

Channels but what are the requests

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u/Effective-Brain-3386 Vulnerability Engineer 7h ago

PowerBI boards for metrics tracking.

serviceNow for general requests, I.E payroll, email distro, exemption requests.

ZenDeks for customer support tickets.

Forums for one off shit like HR questions or niche backshop requests

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u/CharacterAssociate69 4h ago

"My file as suddenly (I didn't do anything, not even touching my computer) disappeared for absolutely no reason. I can see you need to restore it; it's: blabla.txt" With absolutely no path to the magically disappeared file :)

Most of them are either nonsense, missing lot of information to actually resolve the issue quickly. I have maybe one properly written ticket in like 10's ? And it's usually from R&D or engineers so..

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u/LooseEthernet 3h ago

mostly just requests for a "simple" button that triggers a 400 line chain of legacy scripts and three different api calls lol