Wildly Incompetent Network admin post on reddit

[Udgnim]

I loled at this

7th edit: I once unplugged our Internet T1 line so I could "stay and work on the issue" instead of going to a mandatory meeting with the executives...

 

[Phokus]

4th edit: my boss is actually reading this right now and actually laughed out loud and then dropped a network scanner and broke it. This is shaping up to be a great day

5th edit: acutally after some math i make $17.80/hr

6th edit: actually after considering how much i work, i make about $600/hr

hahahahaha, this is hilarious, i hope this is true

 

[Ksyder]

His boss already knows about it (read the posts, his boss just laughs and lets him keep going). The Upper management will probably never see his post. Fact is, most people outside of the computer world will never see it.

Yeah, there is a good chance that upper management may never see it. However, you never know, word travels fast these days. internet = srs business...:thumbsdown:

 

[Born2bwire]

Nah. No reason to do any better if he can live off it comfortably. $16/hr isn't too bad with 40 hours a week. The guy could probably go to school even with online classes since he doesn't actually do any work. Just do all the homework while at his job. :awe:

Dude, you would think that.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Did everyone miss the part where this guy admitted to stealing anything he can get his hands on. Sounds like a real winner.

 

[Ksyder]

Did everyone miss the part where this guy admitted to stealing anything he can get his hands on. Sounds like a real winner.

Yeah, this made me lose any respect for the guy as well. Sure, the casinos may be thieves in their own right but at least the customers choose to have their money stolen.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

can't believe he admitted to stealing stuff!

this made me laugh like crazy though!

"hrmm...worst disaster...

oh ok, here's one. i changed the network settings on our webserver. now the fucker refreshes to the wrong dns every 5 minutes and the website goes offline and people can't book rooms. I dont know how to fix it, but i learned that if i disable and re/enable the network card it works again..for 5 min. so that went on for a whole week where the website would go offline and i blamed the vendors and then i googled how to make ascript to refresh the nic properties every 30 seconds and that's been running good for nearly 2 years "

 

[dpodblood]

I seriously doubt this is the only guy who is in a position like this. There are lots of mismanaged companies/government positions out there where people are getting paid for doing basically nothing. Sometimes the companies are so bad you couldn't get work done even if you wanted to.

I have to say (other than the stealing) if I were in that position I would do the same thing. Stick with it as long as it affords you a decent quality of life. Use all your spare time to make money on the side, or even study so that one day you can get a job you actually give a shit about.

 

[Hacp]

How can I get a job like this?

 

[Anubis]

I seriously doubt this is the only guy who is in a position like this. There are lots of mismanaged companies/government positions out there where people are getting paid for doing basically nothing. Sometimes the companies are so bad you couldn't get work done even if you wanted to.

I have to say (other than the stealing) if I were in that position I would do the same thing. Stick with it as long as it affords you a decent quality of life. Use all your spare time to make money on the side, or even study so that one day you can get a job you actually give a shit about.

16$ an hour doesn't seem like it would get you much in vegas

 

[dpodblood]

16$ an hour doesn't seem like it would get you much in vegas

Not sure of the cost of living in that area (though I assume it would be high). The employee certainly doesn't seem to be complaining about their salary, or quality of life though.

 

[smoothvirus]

LOL. He would do well here in Washington DC.

Many years ago, I was contracted as a field network admin for a federal agency that demanded I close a minimum of 10 trouble tickets a day. There was a software package I was supposed to install on all 200 workstations at my site. The government customer wanted me to visit each workstation individually and install the software package by hand.

So of course, what I did was write a script that installed the package on the user's PC as soon as they logged in. I had all 200 installs done in about 72 hours. Did I tell the customer this? HELL NO. I needed 10 tickets a day so those 200 installs kept me covered for about two months worth of meeting my quota.

Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Look, Mr. Scott, I'd love to explain everything to you. But the captain wants this spectrographic analysis done by 1300 hours.
Scotty: [thinks about it some time] You mind a little advice? Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way. But the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah. Well, I told the captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour.
Scotty: How long would it really take?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [annoyed] An hour!
Scotty: [looks unbelieving] Oh. You didn't tell him how long it would REALLY take, did you?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Of course I did.
Scotty: Oh, laddie. You've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker.

 

[Anghang]

marked for later

 

[kami333]

lol, I was just reading about the Relics episode.


I learned that lesson early in my career. Double what I think it should take, then add another 20% for safety.

 

[Cogman]

LOL. He would do well here in Washington DC.

Many years ago, I was contracted as a field network admin for a federal agency that demanded I close a minimum of 10 trouble tickets a day. There was a software package I was supposed to install on all 200 workstations at my site. The government customer wanted me to visit each workstation individually and install the software package by hand.

So of course, what I did was write a script that installed the package on the user's PC as soon as they logged in. I had all 200 installs done in about 72 hours. Did I tell the customer this? HELL NO. I needed 10 tickets a day so those 200 installs kept me covered for about two months worth of meeting my quota.

Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Look, Mr. Scott, I'd love to explain everything to you. But the captain wants this spectrographic analysis done by 1300 hours.
Scotty: [thinks about it some time] You mind a little advice? Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way. But the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah. Well, I told the captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour.
Scotty: How long would it really take?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [annoyed] An hour!
Scotty: [looks unbelieving] Oh. You didn't tell him how long it would REALLY take, did you?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Of course I did.
Scotty: Oh, laddie. You've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker.

Lol, I love that startrek scene. Good ole stupid quotas, corporate america trying to control what it can't.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

ive spent the last 2 days remoting into machines and upgrading them from office 2000 to office 2003. talk about getting old...i was at work for an hour this morning and wanted to shoot myself.

they have 3 of us doing this, 2400 machines...
/wrists

You are just NOW going to Office 2003? WTF?!?!?

You can use the Office Admin Kit in conjunction with scripts or SMS to push it out really easily. We rolled out Office 2007 here a few years ago and I scripted the whole thing and used SMS to do the installation. Our Office install is more complicated than the standard office config as well because we have voicemail plug-ins, email archiving plugs, fax plugins, etc. It was all a breeze with SMS.

 

[Albatross]

This AMA will bite him in the ass,stealing and shit...
Probably one of the most popular AMAs in years.

 

[kalrith]

Did everyone miss the part where this guy admitted to stealing anything he can get his hands on. Sounds like a real winner.

Other than this, his work life is very much like mine. I don't steal anything, but there are some weeks when I'd say I work 1-2 hours per week. Unfortunately I always have to look like I'm working, so I can't play games. I do get to do a lot of research on fitness, electronics, and other things.

I'm thinking about doing some odd jobs on the side (at work) or teaching myself programming or something like that.

Anyone have suggestions?

Edit: I probably do more like 1-2 hours of work per day and know how to do my job well, unlike the guy on that website.

 

[Anubis]

You are just NOW going to Office 2003? WTF?!?!?

we just rolled out Windows XP SP3 last week
also on office 2k3, which i imagine we will be for life, we tried 2007 but all the engineers hated the ribbon so much we reverted back

 

[kalrith]

You are just NOW going to Office 2003? WTF?!?!?

My office still uses Office '97. :shudders:

 

[IndyColtsFan]

My office still uses Office '97. :shudders:

I know my organization is pretty cutting edge when it comes to software versions, but DAMN -- Office 97 is TERRIBLE compared to later versions in terms of stability.

 

[kalrith]

I know my organization is pretty cutting edge when it comes to software versions, but DAMN -- Office 97 is TERRIBLE compared to later versions in terms of stability.

I know. We've had a ton of problems with it, especially when people email us documents from later versions. Our IT budget is typically $0 unless something breaks, or we're forced to upgrade by our insurance companies.

We were still on Windows '98 until 2006, and still had some 1999 computers with a Celeron 733 processor at that time!

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I know. We've had a ton of problems with it, especially when people email us documents from later versions. Our IT budget is typically $0 unless something breaks, or we're forced to upgrade by our insurance companies.

We were still on Windows '98 until 2006, and still had some 1999 computers with a Celeron 733 processor at that time!

And I thought it was bad because at my last company, when we were still on NT4 on the standard workstations until we started rolling to XP in 2004.

 

[bfdd]

Amusing, but it's sad that someone has so incredibly little motivation in life.

I have little motivation in life to move above my current status. I'm not like this guy, but I'm pretty content with my place in life.

 

[alkemyst]

wow...trolls getting trolled and betterthanthou's being put in place.

win thread is win.