How to **** off your sysadmin

ShaunCro said:
I had a call logged to urgently replace the toilet paper in the mens bathroom once. I put a page from the newspaper in each stall and said "Temporary work around implemented. Suggest getting 3rd party supplier involved to resolve issue permanently!"
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Haha nice one! Get back from a client the one day to find a new toilet seat for the ladies bathroom on my desk. Um... Do I look like a freakin plumber to you??

Can also relate to the fluorescent tube stories. Like anything that switches on or off is now my problem.
 
send emails in CAPS. I think that is the fastest way to make me go insane.

CC the world in on emails to me when you think you are right, apologize using just my email address when you are wrong

Promise the world in the sales or boardroom meeting, dont consult me at all until the day of the deadline. Then tell me its "urgent"

Use the words "you run with it" in a project meeting, especially when it has nothing to do with me, my job role or my department.
Continually email afterwards asking for updates and feedback

i could go on for hours
 
A pet peeve of mine.
Agree to do something in a meeting, then lean over to me and whisper - 'We can do this, right?'
9 months on-site at a mine because Marketing said yes when the client asked if the new navigation system also has collision avoidance.
6 months working with a Software Rep and a (luckily) aborted 2 week training course in Abu Dhabi - because the Account Manager told the client the new software can replace 3 other software packages, where it can only emulate the functionality of two of them.

Last time someone did that - I interrupted him, apologized to the client and corrected him in front of everyone. Took lead for the rest of the meeting. Then raised the issue with his and my manager - stating that he was jeapordising a multimillion rand service contract. 'Oh, I'm sorry. did I hurt your feelings? I take it back then. Un**** you.'
 
Thanks for all the ideas in this thread, my sysadmin is going to kaaaaak from now on. :twisted:
 
lol, just got bitched at by the person who is responsible for clearing payments because some new hardware has not arrived yet.
Payment has not been cleared...
 
AstroTurf said:
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.
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Ours would never spend more than a few minutes before they take it away to be formatted.

They don't have a clue how to fix their next cup of coffee from the coffee machine.

I cringe every time I have to ask them for help.

:(
 
McT said:
Ours would never spend more than a few minutes before they take it away to be formatted.

They don't have a clue how to fix their next cup of coffee from the coffee machine.

I cringe every time I have to ask them for help.

:(
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Sometimes it is just easier to plug in a network cable and let the image load from scratch than to waste hours uninstalling toolbars/games/crapware.
 
I just thought of one, plug a network cable into two wall jacks. If your company is running crappy switches and you find well hidden jacks it'll take them ages to figure out what's going on.
 
grim said:
I just thought of one, plug a network cable into two wall jacks. If your company is running crappy switches and you find well hidden jacks it'll take them ages to figure out what's going on.
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Lol, saw that a few years ago. Company was down for almost a day.
 
grim said:
Bad admin, no user should require admin rights to their PC. They normally get it because something doesn't work and the easiest workaround is to just give them admin rights instead of providing a proper solution.

I don't even have admin rights on my laptop with my normal account, we have separate admin accounts that we use for admin tasks.



That's really ****ty, should be a way around it though. Only assigning the needed rights to the users.

I don't look after any environments where they use Pastel, but you can execute programs with different credentials than the currently logged in user. You can save the credentials to the credential manager so the user won't have the password to the account.
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Dude admin rights on pcs are 90% of the time because of office politics and when you work in outsourced environments you don't have much say
 
Neo_X said:
recently discovered this gem
Linky

had me laughing for a while :D
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Sigh. Had a extremely mean client in the company. Mean as in she'd used her divorce settlement money to get a boob job. She stuck those damn things in your face every time she had a chance. And that was normally just after complaining or bad-mouthing IT to management.
One day she waltzes in with her home pc and demands that technical fix some issues with it. Now this is the woman who once escalated a support call to the CEO Before actually logging it and then told the head of IT that was irrelevant.
Technical just agrees to take it. She won't even tell them what is wrong with it 'Just fix it', Boobs and out the door.
So they give it to the most junior guy (Last in, first out if it hits the fan)
He doesn't find much wrong with it, some mallware and spyware, and almost no free drive space. Because of her massive collection of extremely hardcore B&D and S&M porn. Now everyone knows she lives alone, her last boyfriend had dumped her and moved to Cape Town - as she complained to everyone.
Oops. The stupid tech accidentally shared that drive with the entire network...
Word quickly got out.
Some people did not take kindly to such material on the company network. The meeting with HR and the CEO must have been something else.
Afterwards company policy on bring-your-own-hardware became much more strict. As well as access to IT.
She kept her job - but meetings with her became much more bearable after that.
 
McT said:
Ours would never spend more than a few minutes before they take it away to be formatted.

They don't have a clue how to fix their next cup of coffee from the coffee machine.

I cringe every time I have to ask them for help.

:(
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I prefer to repair when possible.
Format and reload for every issue is overkill and then I end up spending hours explaining how to use the computer again because the icons are not where they were or some other bull****.
 
When a server crash, bombard his email, cell, desk and home numbers with "When will X be back up" Oh and for special points get half the company to go ask him in person as well... every 2 minutes.
 
AlphaJohn said:
When a server crash, bombard his email, cell, desk and home numbers with "When will X be back up" Oh and for special points get half the company to go ask him in person as well... every 2 minutes.
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:o
I used to get that from users, they know better now.
 
AlphaJohn said:
When a server crash, bombard his email, cell, desk and home numbers with "When will X be back up" Oh and for special points get half the company to go ask him in person as well... every 2 minutes.
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Extra brownie points for deciding this is the best time to saunter up and have a chat about the VLOOKUP spaghetti in the monster Excel spreadsheet from hell that you have been concocting.
 
InvisibleJim said:
Extra brownie points for deciding this is the best time to saunter up and have a chat about the VLOOKUP spaghetti in the monster Excel spreadsheet from hell that you have been concocting.
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That is how to piss off your BA, Systems Analyst and Senior Developers.
Have them design a whole new system, develop it and test it, then admit that a large section your process happens in a spreadsheet your brother-in-law set up for you. Oh, and the spreadsheet won't open anymore, something about it being 800mb in size. Can they fix it, tomorrow is month-end?
 
Compton_effect said:
That is how to piss off your BA, Systems Analyst and Senior Developers.
Have them design a whole new system, develop it and test it, then admit that a large section your process happens in a spreadsheet your brother-in-law set up for you. Oh, and the spreadsheet won't open anymore, something about it being 800mb in size. Can they fix it, tomorrow is month-end?
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I sat in a conference a few years ago. The quote by one of the presenters stuck in my head: Companies need to get rid of Excel and Outlook in companies. They only cause problems. I concur
 
Start the conversation with the words "Since you were last here...".
When Sysadmin recommends running a scanpst/virus/diagnostics scan say I don't have time right now, I need to do X, just make the computer run faster immediately.
Ask sysadmin for the latest series/games/whatever. Ignore the fact that sysadmin has repetitively said no.
 
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