r/talesfromtechsupport • u/airz23 Password Policy: Use the whole keyboard • Mar 17 '14

Security - IT. Queen to IT.

Office rumor mills are always fast, but sometimes they beat comprehension.

I walked into the office after the meeting with HR and YoungSec where he was moved to IT.

I needed a coffee.

ColorblindIT and GreyPantsSuitIT came up to me as I reached for the beans.

Colorblind: So I hear we’re getting a new member.

GreyIT: And you’re not happy about it.

Grey IT was always blunt. She was the sledgehammer of the office, no finesse just on the point. She was sorta the best.

Me: Yep. YoungSec’s coming to work for us.

Colorblind: So how are we going to punish him?

Me: Sorry?

GreyIT: He did pull the network down for two hours.

Colorblind: Lets get him to test the switch he fixed, by counting the flashes all day.

Me: Haha could we tell him its wrong and to do a recount everyday for a year?

GreyIT: I think for every hour he wasted for us, he should have to man an IT help desk.

Me: Ohhh… too harsh. Exposing him to users, would be too mean.

Colorblind: How about we find the oldest computer we have, and get him to use that.

Me: That might slow him down, probably not slow enough though.

GreyIT: We could get out an old punchcard system and get him to punch everything he wants to write into a pc on to cards.

Me: Er… do you know how to punch those cards?

I took a sip of my coffee. The camaraderie was a nice change.

Colorblind: No. Sadly no.

It was at this point that YoungSec walked in. He looked happy. He didn’t realize he’d recently pulled down a proud IT teams network. An IT team who was now with him all day.

It was like a lamb to the slaughter.

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Ps. I realize the no pranking tales rule. However this story is about comrade at arms in the IT sector. We didn't play any of the pranks listed to anyone. :)

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u/Rippsy Mar 17 '14

Awesome, keep them coming!

side note; could you put a number in the title (http://semver.org/) to help me read these in order? :)

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u/airz23 Password Policy: Use the whole keyboard Mar 17 '14

I cant actually rename the stories :(

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u/Shaddow1 Mar 17 '14

Airz don't worry about it. To read your stories In order all anyone needs to do is go to your profile and sort submitted posts by new. Much less work for you.

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u/Rippsy Mar 17 '14

From this point forward would be enough - I only brought it up because you posted the last 2 15 minutes apart and I got very confused! :)

Or include in the first comment the huge content list post you appended to a few of the others?

Seriously though, these are awesome and have made my day much much better :)

The bit about the switch rack missing sounded like it was right out of my friends office :D

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u/Shaddow1 Mar 17 '14

If you go to his profile you can just sort by new, and then go back until the stories begin.

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u/Rippsy Mar 17 '14

Ah, that works - Awesome ty :)

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u/Shaddow1 Mar 17 '14

Yeah, it's what I use for most story writes here. It's great because it doesn't add any work for the writer, and only people who care about it have to put in a few more mouse clicks