How to **** off your sysadmin

ChocolateBadger said:
Not when their are fully built PC's for the business. The fault usually lies with the git who ordered or the git who delivered. We ordered i7's for our designers and had Celerons delivered. Never heard a guy so angry on the phone before especially after I pointed it out after they were set up.
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Yea, I don't buy fully built pc's.
 
Ol' Mean Bastid said:
phone the guy up and tell him your file folders were looking a bit cluttered so you used format to rearrange them, now you've just got a black screen and nothing happens (happened in the good old DOS days)
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Ah yes. 'My friend's boyfriend's brother told me to press start, go to the command widow thingy and type 'format c:' to clean my pc. Now it can't connect to the network and the screen is black.' - From the MD's PA one monday afternoon.
I asked her to log it with technical, but to include the friend's boyfriend's brother's number in the call for them.
I think they pooled money and posted a ad for a male escort with the number. :twisted:
 
- Enter wrong network passwords and lock out your AD account.
- Put DVD upside down in laptop and say its not working properly.
- Email the sysadmin, just to say "Thanks" with the IT help desk in BCc field so it automatically re-opens the closed case.
 
Wait until the admin heads off to make coffee, sneak up to his desk and hide the cattle prod away...
 
Sinbad said:
If you believe your users before you believe your monitoring system, then you need a better monitoring system or you have uncannily canny users. ;)
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I installed a screen that users can look at which shows the status of systems, when they come up to my desk to ask me something I stare blankly at them until they look at the screen. Users are the bane of my existence.
 
Random lady at work: "My son is studying computers, you know. Here's his number if you ever need to ask him anything. He won't mind."
Me: "What's he studying? BSc?"
Lady: "A+. It's a very advanced computer course."
Me: "Yes, I know. Pure hell."
 
"I need a computer for home, Can you build me one from spares you have lying around?"
 
AstroTurf said:
"I need a computer for home, Can you build me one from spares you have lying around?"
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I have a canned response for that "Die in a fire"
It normally results in someone standing there awkwardly for a while before walking away.
 
Compton_effect said:
Ah yes. 'My friend's boyfriend's brother told me to press start, go to the command widow thingy and type 'format c:' to clean my pc. Now it can't connect to the network and the screen is black.' - From the MD's PA one monday afternoon.
I asked her to log it with technical, but to include the friend's boyfriend's brother's number in the call for them.
I think they pooled money and posted a ad for a male escort with the number. :twisted:
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Why does the user have the rights to do this?

This goes for similar posts in this thread as well.

How *****ty of an admin are you that you give users rights to do most of these things?
 
Post SysOpsBorat twitter posts...

@SysOpsBorat Are you have any PRISM invite?
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@SysOpsBorat
Test backup strategy is always better test before the SAN has cascading failure. Word of wise.
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@SysOpsBorat
When is Friday, is law something will break before weekend. SysOps is more of lifestyle than job.
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@SysOpsBorat
You can have antivirus all day, but still not fix the user. When we have the user, can always make the virus great success.
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AfricanTech said:
Sigh!

The MD's PA always has admin rights to her PC.

Fact of life.
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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.

waynehooper said:
Probably uses Pastel Accounting. ****ty program needs the local user to have admin rights...
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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.
 
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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You'll be surprised how many applications (especially bespoke ones) require admin rights on the local PC

Bad developers - sysadmins suffer
 
If you have a wireless antenna:

Tell the sysadmin that the hadedas are nesting on the antenna!
 
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