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^ah, fuck. not that guy.^
This is funny and all, but eerily possible. The thing that angers me is that it is sort of normal that “the boss” can behave like an angry 6 year old without being told off, it happens overseas too but I have the impression it’s a very American thing.
It’s also a very Indian thing. And a very nepotism thing.
Yes it sounds extremely Indian. India seems to have this work culture thing where if management are not been a pain in the backside they feel like they’re not doing their jobs properly. The contract ends in march (because apparently outsourcing the jobs to India hasn’t resulted in the expected savings, gee, I wonder why) and I cannot wait to no longer have to deal with them.
Me: -submits ticket- “our recycle bins don’t work anymore. What happened?”
IT: “we scripted them to disable every time you guys log in from now on.”
Me: “……why?”
IT: “don’t know, but you won’t be getting recycle bins back until the upgraded computers roll out.”
Me: “okay, when will that be?”
IT: “dunno. We have to do the entire company and we can only do about 4 a week.”
Me: “dude, set up a fucking FOG server, throw all the interns at hooking the new machines up to a cheap switch, and multicast out an image. Bang this out in a few weeks.”
IT: “nope, open source doesn’t have support so we don’t use it.”
Me: “and who is “supporting” you at a rate of 4 pcs a week?”
IT: “……is there anything else I can help you with?”
Me: “gave us back our recycle bins.”
IT: “no”
Fucking Christ these guys are dumb.
That’s what happens when you subcontract out your IT.
Yeah, a big part of my job is helping deploy thousands of systems with in one customer case a contractural commitment to be able to redeploy all 3,000 of their systems in 30 minutes…
But when it comes to my own system, I am mandated by company policy to let our IT handle it, who does it by hand from a USB stick… So when the time comes they want to reimage my system for whatever reason, II turn in my laptop for a few days, get it back and put my second m.2 disk back in to boot back into the OS I maintain after letting them do what they wanted to my alleged ‘primary’ OS.
“Open source doesn’t have support”
My brother in christ you are EMPLOYED to be the SUPPORT
No, they employed to contract out the support endlessly and fingerpoint when they can’t figure it out. Yay Microsoft!
If they’re talking about active directory then in fairness they do have a point. Linux doesn’t have anything anywhere close to the utility of AD. It’s got some of the functionality but it’s nowhere near the full solution that Microsoft offers.
At some point Microsoft are probably going to realise there’s an entire aspect of their operating system they haven’t erroneously stuck AI in and ruined it. But until then for managing large networks you can’t beat AD. It’s just unfortunate that the operating system on the other end is so crap.
If only we had a word for a glass wall.
A window isn’t the same as a glass wall.
“And then everyone clapped”
Nothing ever happens
No manager is ever incompetent and doesn’t listen to their underlings…
