A guy once stood up for me in college; I was taking a bus and throughout the ride, a bunch of non-students kept staring at me. When I got off, they followed me, surrounded me, and started shoving. A witness to this came up and broke it up before anything serious happened, but I honestly think he saved my life.
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Kaila Hale-Stern
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I wonder if they’ll focus on Obama’s unwillingness to move to sentencing in this case as it would be a stain on his administration.
Starting out, I am in IT. Network Admin. That being said, it has taken me three or four tries to write anything without going into a rage over being trapped between the owners/managers group and the end user group. I try to help whenever i can, but when trying to follow company policies it can be a bit frustrating....… Read more
Our infrastructure manager once took over my work station and IM’d my resignation to my manager. :(
Another one that I just realized today: I used to also work for a IT contractor; you know, one of those “we bill hourly” companies that seem to exclusively work for law offices and small mom and pop shops. Anyway. My boss / the owner was a (supposed) MCSE engineer with decades of running the company (a small shop of… Read more
Working for a University, i have a new intern every semester, with the good ones coming back (or being welcomed back) as student workers. This past semester was my most challenging intern... He seemed to have a lot of book smarts but zero common sense. I manage all of the OS X and iOS devices for our campus and one… Read more
Worked for a small IT consulting firm in an East European country. It was ok for a while and, even though I didn’t get compensated for overtime, I was happy with the job. One day, the manager came to me to ask why I only had clocked in about half the time on the previous month. It didn’t mattered to him that I took… Read more
My very first job in IT was as an IT Tech in a little office of 50 people, and I was basically supporting the IT guy there. I had been doing troubleshooting in Windows for years at past jobs “on the side” (as in “instead of paying a real tech 75$+/h, we’ll ask the guy we pay 10$/h to do it”) and been doing it at home… Read more
While working as an intern at my first real company, I got tasked with everything and I mean everything since I was their first intern ever. So of course since I was the youngest at the company this means I know enough about computers to deal with the outsourced IT company and all our computer internal issues. Read more
About 10 years ago, I was in undergrad, with only my second cell phone evah! Little gray flip phone, I think it was LG, with the little antenna that you pulled out? Ah, those were the days. Read more
I was an interim manager of a team that had employees who flexed between teams a lot (it was the recession and our company was getting creative with our inability to afford employees). One of my employees had recently transferred out to a location in the suburbs doing a totally different job. The manager of that team… Read more
In the early 90s when web-based porn primarily consisted of photos on listservs I worked for a state agency in a western state. The network was run by one guy and two assistants. The assistants were complete idiots. They would come around and try to fix things and usually the head guy would have to intervene. The… Read more
This won’t make the cut, but I just have to say it. Read more
I was responsible for facilitating the installation of some new project specific software for my workgroup. The vendor required static IPs for everyone’s workstations, so the request was submitted to IT. We were assigned 5 IPs that were right in the middle of the office’s subnet. Three days later, all the workstations… Read more
We put in a database system that cost $3 million and 18 months to implement. The IT guy in charge refused to allow any one to access the database to mine it, in his words “because I am the one who is in charge of this and I will be the one one held responsible for its security”. Read more
When I started working at my current job as a network admin, the “data processing” manager (seriously, he insisted on calling himself that) had already completely checked out. He was of the opinion that less is more so I discovered an aging and severely dilapidated infrastructure on the verge of collapse. Apparently… Read more
On a somewhat related IT story, I have a dumbass colleague that refers to all his excel spreadsheets as “cubes” because it sounds cool. This same guy also loves telling everyone in the office he is qualified to take the CPA exam (“qualified”, not actually taken and/or passed) and is proficient in SQL because he took a… Read more
Not exactly a “fellow-worker”, but a guy I came in after: I took over a 1-tech shop for this retail company and the Dude Who Came Before left the place in an absolute wreck. Hard drives, both bad and good, all mixed together and just thrown everywhere; ram sitting out all over the desk, a 3-ft diameter ball of AC… Read more
Hey! I still have that HP keyboard (from the first image)! You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to get drivers for it these days...