Just remembered that I have a couple more of my own stories about my wonderful interactions with our lovely 'South Asian' friends. Not super-spicy though, and their endings leave a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth.
PL1 - Handover
>This was during my time in an MSP
>Both myself and Jeet-1 have planned leave soon, known well ahead of time
>Jeet-1 has just left and I'll be on leave in about a week.
>We have 0 overlap in customers, so lmao not my problem.
>Get a call from my useless (non-Jeet) manager.
>"I need you to take over one of Jeet-1's accounts"
>"Why? Isn't Jeet-2 the backup?"
>"He doesn't have access to his account, and its an emergency."
>lol fugg
>Test my accounts for this customer, and I
also don't have access to this account. Also never talked to this customer in my life.
>
No worries, I'll talk to the contact, and get it sorted in like 30 mins.
>Got it sorted with the contact after 30 minutes.
>
Wait, why couldn't Jeet-2 do the exact same thing I did? I had the exact same issue on my end.
>I think the answer why doesn't need to be said.
>Get access to the customer, "What's the emergency?"
>Customer purchased insufficient network bandwidth, so when monthly Windows updates hit enforced deadlines, it floods the network, and causes major disruptivity issues.
>Has been going for ages at this point.
>No worries, apparently Jeet-1 has been communicating to the customer regarding a fix, and the customer is completely onboard regarding the fix.
>Look up Jeet-1's plans.
>haha jk, he did not actually do
anything in preparation for this, just talked about the idea with the customer and said this it
will be implemented this month. There are no plans, changes, SRs, emails, tech conversations, documentation, no
anything.
>Note that his leave 'happened' to overlap at the same time when this was expected to be implemented, and that failure to do so would brick the environment again.
>Found out that there actually was a handover email sent to Jeet-2 + Manager regarding this customer.
>All it is was a unformatted wall of text, sent at 6pm at his last day which contained irrelevant info, and says to Jeet-2 'Just give it to
@Idiot doing idiot things if its too hard'. Fucker.
>When's the next deadline before this long-standing issue re-occurs? In 3 business days time. Lovely.
>This issue is actually super easy to fix (if you know anything about the subject manner, that not unexpected).
>The fix for this issue; while simple; will revamp the entire process for updates which this customer has done for years.
>However, as mentioned before, there was no changes, approvals, or anything set up ahead of time.
>For a customer who is notoriously a pain to approve
anything.
>And I'm the backup-backup who has never touched this environment.
>Spend the next 2 days creating new documentation, changes etc, with the support of the (non-Jeet) contact, customer and techs.
>Actioned fix, crisis averted, and customer is
not bricked when the deadline hits.
>There are
so many fucking retarded problems in the environment due to Jeet-1's incompetence, but I have no time to address them.
>Made sure that my Manager was at least in the know about this.
>Whatever, did my job, time for leave.
>Back from leave, catching up on my customers.
>Notice group chat with Jeet-1 and this customer.
>Jeet-1 never thanked me for my work, and did not provide any credit to anyone for the work I was able to do to resolve this emergency while he was gone. (Note: Pajeets never actually say thanks for anything done for them)
>What Jeet-1 actually did is completely delete my solution and replaced it with his own.
>Also communicated with basically everyone involved that "
@Idiot doing idiot things is an idiot, his solution is shit and it doesn't do anything", with an explanation why.
>The issue is that his reasoning is completely fundamentally flawed and clearly shows he doesn't actually understand what I did and why.
>I looked into his solution, and he basically re-created my solution, rubber-stamped his name on it, and made it
far worse for no reason.
>Notice looking through the chat that I was quietly added to this group
after he shat on my solution, by the customer's contact.
>Not much more I can do at this point, so I did the only thing I could do. Explain
why I did it the way I did, and gently detailrf why Jeet-1's solution is fundamentally shit, and will cause security issues.
>There is no good ending, as this is the ending
PL2 - Taxi
>At a Christmas Dinner organized by my previous employer.
>Got absolutely shitfaced, however that's okay.
>Work is comping the taxi home, and can be used wherever, so my plan is to pre-drink at the dinner, pay for a taxi to the city to go clubbing , and then comp the taxi home, which work was fine with.
>Went to the city without issue, and after some funny hijinks (including the cops at one point), its time to go home.
>I'm absolutely gone at this point.
>Caught a taxi. Jeet driver of course.
>Asked him to take me home, and then blacked out.
>All I remember is that when I arrived back home, I paid for the taxi fare via EFTPOS, instead of with the comp card because drunk.
>Next work day, I became the story of the office + factory as I was more shitfaced than I thought. Actually made a really good impression with everyone.
>Also had lost my crappy personal phone, and no one at work had it.
>Went to Finance, and joked to the hot finance woman about how I'm an idiot, and forgot to actually use the comp card as I paid for it myself.
>"What are you talking about, you
did use your comp card you idiot"
>"What?"
>I got the payment details from my bank and the comp card, which clearly shows I was charged on both.
>Called the taxi company, and told them that "Your driver double charged me and I can prove it. Also he likely stole my phone."
>Was actually able to get a refund for the charge to my bank account, after some trouble.
>Never recovered my phone.
>At least he didn't get to steal my 60 bucks.
