I think one if the more stressful shit i saw was a bad driver update that made a specific model laptop completely unable to boot, unless you could get into BIOS to disable audio, then fully purge the audio driver (it was a hidden driver) and do a clean install.
This, with a 5 digit userbase in one location, with most of them having that specific model laptop, while working desktop support. It was practically an IT drive thru at one point.
DoD IT, hell of a way to start out with large scale xD
“gotta see shit to know shit” someone once said to me
It pops into my head semi-regularly
pops into my head semi-regularly
Isn’t that called “trauma”?
Post Traumatic Shit Disorder, to be precise.
Shit sounds about right
For real.
I joined this team two years ago and at 46 was the oldest with our PO. The tech lead had to leave after my first year. Then the PO jumped ship after 19 years at the company. Now our N+2, who’s mostly responsible for our PO leaving, is off dying in some hospital. The tech lead he finally got us, a mate of his, has done exactly 4 tickets in four months (I did 50 in my first four) and with good reason since he knows exactly none of the tech stack we use. At all. He’s ready to quit, just hasn’t found somewhere else.
The N+3, who joined at the same time as him, and knew the shit he was getting in, admitted to me this morning that he’s having a tough time honestly. The guys around me, all in their twenties and with one or two jobs under their belt have never seen shit like this and are all on the verge of ragequitting. Only thing keeping them is the difficulty of finding a job here as we’re in the arse end of France.
The (paid) students are kinda all taking it in mouth agape.Meanwhile I’m just like “eh, sure it’s not perfect but it ain’t so bad. You should see the last place I was at!”.
And I still have to swallow twenty odd years of this shit?
Fuck me.I can’t wait to meet the two people who just did a round of interview…
Si tu veux te barrer, dm ton CV. Je te présenterais bien l’entreprise mais au point où t’en es je sais que tu t’en fous donc c’est toi qui voit
Ma remarque finale c’est pour le fait que c’est comme ça partout, en vrai. L’enfer c’est les autres. Y’a toujours du drama peu importe où tu vas (j’ai bossé dans plusieurs régions et pas mal à l’étranger). Le truc c’est de se mettre bien avec les gens autour de soi, de se plaire à son poste, et le reste en /ignore.
hon hon hon
This fits. I denied an applicant recently because he had not yet acquired the level of fear necessary to succeed in the role. Lack of fear means stupid mistakes. I’ll take the battle-hardened veteran any day.
How would you describe the level of trust you have for IT systems, and IT security in general?
Basically, I’m the guy from the meme that keeps a loaded gun next to his printer. I also keep my media backed up in a fire-safe, offsite.
Any major tech upgrade or software investment can be canceled on a whim; i no longer get emotionally attached to projects.
You’re hired!
This is how my tech interview went this week. For every question the panel had I returned a battle story. They were laughing and serious at the same time. Bagged it!
But… HR stuck their nose in and wants their guy interviewed. So now I have to wait a week for them to (hopefully) say, “Thanks but we’re going with Shalafi71.”
Was recently ejected from a job along with a whole lot of other ship subsystems. Something about “downsizing operations in engineering”? Starfleet meatbags can never make up their minds.
Anyway, “has seen some shit” could easily sum up huge swaths of my CV.
More like “is the shit others have seen”. You’re the catalyst to making Scotty, Scotty you diabolical bastard.
