How to **** off your sysadmin

Tell them the way they service your branch makes you feel like you work in the cornershop
 
Spill coffee on keyboard and then deny it. When he turns keyboard over and "accidentally" floods your in tray with it pretend you don't have a clue what happened.

Give your laptop to your children to play with and infect over weekends then try turn it into a joke when he has to spend several hours fixing the damned thing.

Not quite sysadmin but also got me a little pissed off.

One of our machine operators decided the laser engraver needed maintenance and decided to DIY.
He took all the reflecting lenses and the front optics off to "clean them".
Comes to me at 4:30pm and tells me I must fix it now, I told him to bugger off I will do it in the morning.
Next morning he comes to me and tells me he tried to fix it himself, in the process he burned a nice hole in his finger and managed to burn a hole in an airpipe.

I was quite concerned about the airpipe, took me 5 minutes to splice it, such a waste of time. the lenses took me half a day as he dropped them in a pile after "cleaning" (scratching) them with toilet paper and each lens has to be in the right place but they look almost identical.
 
Ask him anything while he's busy organising/adding to his media collection.
 
Accidentally send 50 000 faxes to the rightfax system - true story. Glitch in the rightfax font - bought him a beer to apologize.

Copy all your mp3's(20 GB) into the daily backup folder on your desktop and make the entire backup system run 15 hours - PA in the Cape Town office.
 
AstroTurf said:
Spill coffee on keyboard and then deny it. When he turns keyboard over and "accidentally" floods your in tray with it pretend you don't have a clue what happened.

Give your laptop to your children to play with and infect over weekends then try turn it into a joke when he has to spend several hours fixing the damned thing.

Not quite sysadmin but also got me a little pissed off.

One of our machine operators decided the laser engraver needed maintenance and decided to DIY.
He took all the reflecting lenses and the front optics off to "clean them".
Comes to me at 4:30pm and tells me I must fix it now, I told him to bugger off I will do it in the morning.
Next morning he comes to me and tells me he tried to fix it himself, in the process he burned a nice hole in his finger and managed to burn a hole in an airpipe.

I was quite concerned about the airpipe, took me 5 minutes to splice it, such a waste of time. the lenses took me half a day as he dropped them in a pile after "cleaning" (scratching) them with toilet paper and each lens has to be in the right place but they look almost identical.
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I can beat that story.

My laser operator also decided to do some diy maintenance on a laser. He did not attach the mirror above the cutting head properly so whenever the head changed direction the mirror moved and did not give a clean edge to the engraving. So after stuffing up a piece of marble (:mad:) he tightened the belt on the stepper motor to a crazy tension to "fix" it. Doesnt work so he decides to leave the engraving until I get back and starts cutting 10mm ppx. Goes to the can (he says I have no idea where we went) and when he comes back the machine is on fsking fire. The tension on the belt snapped the stepper motor shaft and the head sat in one spot for who knows how long and set the ppx on fire. Cost me R20k and three weeks of downtime to repair it.

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To keep in line with the OP: Go ask him for the administrator password for you pc because you need to install Angry Birds.
 
about 2 or more weeks after your sysadmin fixes something (eg. Internet Browser), go to them claiming that something else just broke (eg. word processor) and that it is their fault as they were the last person to "fix" something on your computer.
 
Madman88 said:
I can beat that story.

My laser operator also decided to do some diy maintenance on a laser. He did not attach the mirror above the cutting head properly so whenever the head changed direction the mirror moved and did not give a clean edge to the engraving. So after stuffing up a piece of marble (:mad:) he tightened the belt on the stepper motor to a crazy tension to "fix" it. Doesnt work so he decides to leave the engraving until I get back and starts cutting 10mm ppx. Goes to the can (he says I have no idea where we went) and when he comes back the machine is on fsking fire. The tension on the belt snapped the stepper motor shaft and the head sat in one spot for who knows how long and set the ppx on fire. Cost me R20k and three weeks of downtime to repair it.

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To keep in line with the OP: Go ask him for the administrator password for you pc because you need to install Angry Birds.
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lol, not sure what he did but my next mission is to fix the bloody metal marker now.

Easiest way to piss me off is by starting a conversation with the words "Won't you just quickly...."
 
Sinbad said:
Highly effective.
I got hauled before HR after some loser told me to do my job.
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Don't forget the old classic

echo "My brother's neighbour's auntie's dog's previous owner is an expert in IT and he said". $insertstatementthatyouaredoingitwronghere;
 
InvisibleJim said:
Don't forget the old classic

echo "My brother's neighbour's auntie's dog's previous owner is an expert in IT and he said". $insertstatementthatyouaredoingitwronghere;
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My fiancee uses that at work daily.
The poor IT bods there don't stand a chance (because she's referring to me, and they ARE wrong.)
 
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