Weird and Cringe things you've seen while working in IT - Since everyone is too lazy to make such a thread where IT bros can vent

[Return of the Freaker]

Really minor, but almost made me scream as I was simultaneously getting messaged about other issues. Also I'd expect this from a boomer. This person is near my age
>Hey Freaker what's the status on my hw request? Also I'm going to need a second pc
>User is @ quality lab, I just gave them another PC so 3 of a certain machine can be connected to it instead of all 6 on one PC
>"Didn't other guy take that PC out there? I finished it and left @ his desk a couple weeks ago"
>No this is for my desk here to connect my laptop
>This person refered to a dock as a PC when she was promoted and assigned her own laptop
>Now I'm even more confused
>"Didn't I give you a dock already?"
>Yeah but I need another PC

It was a monitor. She needed a second monitor

 

[There Is Light At The End]

Really minor, but almost made me scream as I was simultaneously getting messaged about other issues. Also I'd expect this from a boomer. This person is near my age
>Hey Freaker what's the status on my hw request? Also I'm going to need a second pc
>User is @ quality lab, I just gave them another PC so 3 of a certain machine can be connected to it instead of all 6 on one PC
>"Didn't other guy take that PC out there? I finished it and left @ his desk a couple weeks ago"
>No this is for my desk here to connect my laptop
>This person refered to a dock as a PC when she was promoted and assigned her own laptop
>Now I'm even more confused
>"Didn't I give you a dock already?"
>Yeah but I need another PC

It was a monitor. She needed a second monitor

If only you knew how many times I witnessed a user refering to monitors as PC

 

[bliblblblbbllb]

If only you knew how many times I witnessed a user refering to monitors as PC

Once my granddad's cat chewed through the monitor cable.
Somehow Best Buy sold him a 2,000 dollar all-in-one because of his insistence that screen=computer and their willingness to upcharge.

The only question he ever asks is "WILL IT MAKE FACEBOOK FASTER???" and is easily convinced that computers simply do cost a bajillion dollars.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Quite the sight to see the boomer next to me at work ask for their computer to be formatted because it is running slow, and then get mad the I.T. guy didn't get their e-mail and passwords already in working. She is now mad that she can't login when she can't even remember her full e-mail and asks others for what it is, can't remember the password, doesn't know what she had saved where and is mad she lost some work when the IT guy directly asked what she wanted saved from where.and she showed him. Can't even bother to look for things herself needs to get others to come in and look in her own PC.

Glad I made sure to never help and enable her so she never asks me.

 

[Never Scored]

Quite the sight to see the boomer next to me at work ask for their computer to be formatted because it is running slow, and then get mad the I.T. guy didn't get their e-mail and passwords already in working. She is now mad that she can't login when she can't even remember her full e-mail and asks others for what it is, can't remember the password, doesn't know what she had saved where and is mad she lost some work when the IT guy directly asked what she wanted saved from where.and she showed him. Can't even bother to look for things herself needs to get others to come in and look in her own PC.

Glad I made sure to never help and enable her so she never asks me.

The amount of time in my life I have spent resetting passwords and figuring out usernames for people over 60 who for some reason seem unable to write them down is absolutely depressing. Both at home and at work.

 

[Disco Inferno]

An acquaintance of mine passed his Sec+ exam 3 months ago. Which is impressive, it's apparently the hardest certification to achieve.
Now, he's working as a uber driver because he can't find work in the IT field.

Meanwhile, I flunked my A+ exam and managed to get a well paying IT job.

Moral of the story, certs are a waste of time and money.

 

[Never Scored]

An acquaintance of mind passed his Sec+ exam 3 months ago. Which is impressive, it's apparently the hardest certification to achieve.
Now, he's working as a uber driver because he can't find work in the IT field.

Meanwhile, I flunked my A+ exam and managed to get a well paying IT job.

Moral of the story, certs are a waste of time and money.

I have an arts degree and I've spent my entire working life jumping between IT and accounting departments. Getting an opportunity to prove yourself is 110% more useful than those certificates.

 

[Disco Inferno]

I have an arts degree and I've spent my entire working life jumping between IT and accounting departments. Getting an opportunity to prove yourself is 110% more useful than those certificates.

Agreed.

If you're looking to get into IT, learn how to us an active directory. Especially 365.
It also helpful to know basic commands and parameters. Like ping, ipconfig, and nslookup, etc.

 

[HahaYes]

Moral of the story, certs are a waste of time and money.

Yeah all the cert chasers I've dealt with at work are as useful in technical roles as a wet fucking rag.

Certs are a bare minimum baseline of what you crammed in your head the day before your exam and they mean absolutely nothing to anybody outside of HR, especially in jobs above entry level. The amount of people coming into a role that requires (at times extensive) industry experience with 1-2 certs or a shitty diploma/bachelor and nothing else who either shuffle to somewhere less demanding or straight up quit after 6 months is absurd.

In part I blame the shilling with BS lines like "oooo get these and you'll have 6 figures overnight with no further effort goyam" for the rise of both shills for and pricing of certs. If it isn't something that has you doing practical work or some form of real world simulation to pass it's just not worth even giving a second glance, you can learn far more by setting up/messing with your own server and working your way up from help desk or similar support roles.

 

[Disco Inferno]

Yeah all the cert chasers I've dealt with at work are as useful in technical roles as a wet fucking rag.

Certs are a bare minimum baseline of what you crammed in your head the day before your exam and they mean absolutely nothing to anybody outside of HR, especially in jobs above entry level. The amount of people coming into a role that requires (at times extensive) industry experience with 1-2 certs or a shitty diploma/bachelor and nothing else who either shuffle to somewhere less demanding or straight up quit after 6 months is absurd.

In part I blame the shilling with BS lines like "oooo get these and you'll have 6 figures overnight with no further effort goyam" for the rise of both shills for and pricing of certs. If it isn't something that has you doing practical work or some form of real world simulation to pass it's just not worth even giving a second glance, you can learn far more by setting up/messing with your own server and working your way up from help desk or similar support roles.

Yup. @Gender: Xenomorph brought it up ITT.

I tried to apply what I learned from A+ when I installed a brand new printer. The exam didn't teach me that I have to deal with a DHCP server, how to remotely log into the printer to run firmware/driver updates, how to add the printer to the AD etc.

That leads to cringe story - Some retard went rogue and tried to update the drivers for a scanner + flatbed combo. They looked at me like I was the retarded one because it took an hour to fix their mistake.

 

[Never Scored]

I actually maintain an A+ certificate in case anybody ever asks for it, and I've been fixing people's shit since like 2005 at this point and nobody ever has.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Certhunters seem like bsers to me. Oh cool your portobello is 100s of exercises of copied from udemy code. What a good use of your time. Can you do that without udemy?

IT seems like a dud in our time. Want to join as a junior? Nobody hires. Everyone expects you to have 3yrs in their proprietary tech and archaic code before you begin. Sure you can't teach computer illiterate people in 3 months but a it junior?

Want to start your own company? The only way to jumpstart a company if you're one of the dudebros in SF landing a angel investor. Otherwise you're gonna get outcompeted by a chinesium/meta app who trends out of nowhere with 10bn views.

Just wait for the 100 or so it "seniors" to retire and companies like meta and apple will collapse under the weight of their own pajeetcode and outdated code,and no bandage fix will prevent that.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

IT seems like a dud in our time. Want to join as a junior? Nobody hires. Everyone expects you to have 3yrs in their proprietary tech and archaic code before you begin

Even when you get your foot in the door and have had experience with past IT jobs, getting back in is just as much a hassle.

"oh, you know active directory, exchange, all the 365 software, hardware/printer knowledge and some extra shit we don't use? Cool, you're not what we're looking for though. Come back when you have a network+ cert because we've moved over to a cloud-based system. No we won't teach you how to use it, build your own server and play around with it yourself"

That last part isn't even a joke, i was told to go buy a server to get network experience for a job I most likely wasn't going to even get in the first place.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Even when you get your foot in the door and have had experience with past IT jobs, getting back in is just as much a hassle.

"oh, you know active directory, exchange, all the 365 software, hardware/printer knowledge and some extra shit we don't use? Cool, you're not what we're looking for though. Come back when you have a network+ cert because we've moved over to a cloud-based system. No we won't teach you how to use it, build your own server and play around with it yourself"

That last part isn't even a joke, i was told to go buy a server to get network experience for a job I most likely wasn't going to even get in the first place.

Hahaha, yea. You need to know that, most big cloud companies (Amazon, Google, etc) are easy to run; you don't need to know server engineering or upkeep to work with these. Chances are, if you know how to use a fork without poking your eyes out, you can learn it within a week, master it within a month.

So my advice would be, just bs about this stuff. Application says needs A and B cloud? Just say in your last job you used A for 1yr then switched to B. I'm pretty sure if you set up your own server you can figure out how to store data on whateverSQL quick enough.

You will stand out among other bsers by actually having the knowledge and hands-on experience, instead of 100 useless certs.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

An acquaintance of mine passed his Sec+ exam 3 months ago. Which is impressive, it's apparently the hardest certification to achieve.
Now, he's working as a uber driver because he can't find work in the IT field.

Meanwhile, I flunked my A+ exam and managed to get a well paying IT job.

Moral of the story, certs are a waste of time and money.

Shit, I was gonna do this.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

For my brothas

 

[Tims]

Not to powerlevel but I work a "multi skilled" IT role for a software development company that literally develops the software that keeps the lights on for the entire country. The role is basically a do everything role, support the software, run the servicedesk, perform software releases, tard wrangle devs into looking at problems and keeping their fucking queues up to date. Not only that I run the internal company network and perform all the infrastructure work on our 25+ VM hosts along with hardware installs, new user work, building servers and test environments the fucking works.

I've asked for some help and I just get told to go fuck myself basically and that it's "not that much work" bear in mind I work hours of unpaid overtime most days. Oh did I forget to mention one day a week of on call (no cut off so waking up at 03:00 is an option to then roll up to work at 08:00) and one in every five weekends...

I'm pretty fucking sick of it at this point what would you guys do? Look for another job? Bear in mind I'm not at management level and for the work I'm doing the pays shite.

 

[DavidS877]

I'm pretty fucking sick of it at this point what would you guys do? Look for another job? Bear in mind I'm not at management level and for the work I'm doing the pays shite.

You're in an organization which seems like you wouldn't have any upward mobility as they're not going to make you management as they'd have to replace you and I assume there are no more senior roles or they wouldn't move you, because they'd have to replace you.

So, yes, in small companies it's very often the case that the only move is to go somewhere else.

 

[Tims]

You're in an organization which seems like you wouldn't have any upward mobility as they're not going to make you management as they'd have to replace you and I assume there are no more senior roles or they wouldn't move you, because they'd have to replace you.

So, yes, in small companies it's very often the case that the only move is to go somewhere else.

Yeah it's a really small company 25 people or so there literally isn't anywhere to go as my manager is the IT manager who is also the project manager and on the IT side of things he couldn't give a single solitary fuck... Might be time to head somewhere thats a bit bigger.

 

[HahaYes]

Might be time to head somewhere thats a bit bigger.

You'd definitely be better off shifting to a different company by the sounds of things at this point. Maybe look for a position at a decent sized MSP either on clients or get on their internal team and try find an area you want to specialize in. Given you've been doing a good mix of things across different areas of IT at your current role, if you found something you enjoy more than other tasks potentially pursue that. It's not worth being beaten down by a company who don't appreciate how much you bust your chops to keep the place going fren