unfunking real....

[rahvin]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Today is my last day of work with the company I've worked for the last five years.

I'm actually not even in the office today because I worked 60 hours last week when I was supposed to be on vacation...I'm 2.5 hours from the office...

anyway....

This morning at 8:30 I get a call from the office in Iowa...internet is down. Reset the router. Reset the firewall. Nothing. Call up the ISP. Big piece of networking in equipment in Chicago blew up and knocked out all the broadband circuits in the midwest.

Yay.

Nothing I can do.

Fastwork 15 minutes. Get another call from the IA office. All the power in the office is out. Utility company just severed all power lines running to the office.

UPS's are squeeling...machines are powering off...users are freaking out ect...have them shut everything down and just wait for the power company get out and get things fixed.

15 minutes later....

My Arizona office calls....

Office got broke into this weekend. Stole my application/Active Directory server. Stole a handful of laptops and some 17" LCD's and docking stations.

I do a weekly offline backup down there on data and lost that weeks worth of data on the file server and through the week I just write to a seperate array on the server. So I lost all the online backups for the week and have to pull from last weeks offline. I've got to set up a new application server so we can function for next week and I'm 2000 miles away.

What a fscking way to end your employement.

If you have another job lined up I'm not sure it would be your problem, it would be your replacements problem.

 

[rh71]

When it rains, it pours... the life of an IT'er.

Until someone comes up with a problem, they're paying me to sit here! ... the life of an IT'er.

 

[Blieb]

yeah good luck with all that

 

[Lifted]

Originally posted by: rh71
When it rains, it pours... the life of an IT'er.

Until someone comes up with a problem, they're paying me to prevent them! ... the life of an IT'er.

fixed.

 

[vi edit]

This office is in a business park with about 40 other offices. 3 or 4 other offices got broke into that night. Not a single sign of tampering/foul play.

We're thinking this was an inside job done by the cleaning crew. They hand picked around the Hyundai LCD's and went for the Dell's. They also didn't touch the little poweredge 400 I had sitting just on the floor running as a terminal server box. They took the effort and pulled the Poweredge 2650 I had pretty locked down to the rack out and hauled it out. That's a box that runs nearly 100 pounds.

They didn't touch my $5000 Nortel system or any of my other networking components. Wen't right for the Dell stuff.

There's a contracted cleaning crew that has access to all of the offices each night. I'm guessing they made a list of all equipment and gave it to their theiving friends along with access codes/copies of keys.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Lifted

Originally posted by: rh71
When it rains, it pours... the life of an IT'er.

Until someone comes up with a problem, they're paying me to prevent them! ... the life of an IT'er.

fixed.

depends how long you want to have your job for.

 

[kranky]

Night cleaning crews are notorious for stealing. A while ago I got two brand-new golf shirts and I accidentally left them on my desk when I left for the day. The next day they were gone, but in their place was a feather duster. Obviously the cleaning person laid it down in order to take the shirts then forgot to come back for it.

When I reported it, the facility manager said there was nothing he could do since I had no proof. So I stayed late the next night and confronted the person myself. He got so ridiculously over-the-top defensive there was no doubt he did it. I just told him that since I know he's a thief, anything that turns up missing in our wing of the building is going to be blamed on him, so he better hope his friends on the crew don't take anything. That seemed to work.

In the past, people have had calculators and loose change taken from their desks, but nothing that was too big to fit down someone's baggy pants.

 

[zixxer]

Originally posted by: kranky
Night cleaning crews are notorious for stealing. A while ago I got two brand-new golf shirts and I accidentally left them on my desk when I left for the day. The next day they were gone, but in their place was a feather duster. Obviously the cleaning person laid it down in order to take the shirts then forgot to come back for it.

When I reported it, the facility manager said there was nothing he could do since I had no proof. So I stayed late the next night and confronted the person myself. He got so ridiculously over-the-top defensive there was no doubt he did it. I just told him that since I know he's a thief, anything that turns up missing in our wing of the building is going to be blamed on him, so he better hope his friends on the crew don't take anything. That seemed to work.

In the past, people have had calculators and loose change taken from their desks, but nothing that was too big to fit down someone's baggy pants.

set up a webcam. that's what I did when a user complained of repeated missing items. caught the cleaning girl looking through drawers

 

[skyking]

that 2650 is going up for sale somewhere. It can be found with luck.

 

[Yossarian]

The proper response to these problems is "We're sorry, vi_edit can't come to the phone right now. If you'd like to leave a message he will get back to you soon."

 

[DBL]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
This office is in a business park with about 40 other offices. 3 or 4 other offices got broke into that night. Not a single sign of tampering/foul play.

We're thinking this was an inside job done by the cleaning crew. They hand picked around the Hyundai LCD's and went for the Dell's. They also didn't touch the little poweredge 400 I had sitting just on the floor running as a terminal server box. They took the effort and pulled the Poweredge 2650 I had pretty locked down to the rack out and hauled it out. That's a box that runs nearly 100 pounds.

They didn't touch my $5000 Nortel system or any of my other networking components. Wen't right for the Dell stuff.

There's a contracted cleaning crew that has access to all of the offices each night. I'm guessing they made a list of all equipment and gave it to their theiving friends along with access codes/copies of keys.

I have to wonder why a night cleaning crew has access to a server room. Can't the server room be swept and mopped while occupied by trusted employees?

At my job, the server room is probably the one place no-one is allowed in w/o a trusted member of the IT staff.

 

[vi edit]

I have to wonder why a night cleaning crew has access to a server room. Can't the server room be swept and mopped while occupied by trusted employees?

Unfortunately, most business suites aren't ever set up with IT equipment in mind. As is that case in most situations, IT stuff is lost in the shuffle and usually just an afterthought.

There is no true operations/server room in these environments. In our case, we just selected the office furthest away from the front door and that did not have exposure to any windows or outside traffic. It was the last accessible office in the suite and could be accessed with the keys issued to the cleaning crew.

I was down there on Tuesday of last week and told everyone that I wanted a deadbolt on the door that only someone within our company had the keys too.

Too little, too late.