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

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The Last Stand dijo:
I had this old lady customer with at least TWENTY DIFFERENT apps of Mahjong installed on her tablet.
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Being the designated "help with tech guy" for a family of boomers is always like this.

I'm shocked nobody makes a BoomerPhone OS where the ability to install anything is locked down and you're restricted to like 6 apps that someone else needs to approve first. I would be setting up every single boomer I know with one.
 
VargReallyDidNothingWrong dijo:
Being the designated "help with tech guy" for a family of boomers is always like this.

I'm shocked nobody makes a BoomerPhone OS where the ability to install anything is locked down and you're restricted to like 6 apps that someone else needs to approve first. I would be setting up every single boomer I know with one.
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There is a kid mode for Android you can graft onto a lot of phones. The other option is to find an open source MDM platform and make your family members who ask for support agree to be added to it if they ask for help.
 
Samuel Fuller dijo:
There is a kid mode for Android you can graft onto a lot of phones. The other option is to find an open source MDM platform and make your family members who ask for support agree to be added to it if they ask for help.
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The closest thing I found in my cursory looking was Google's Parental WhateverTheFuck system, but that was very complicated to set up and needed a bunch of other shit (like you had to set up a family unit in Google, then manually add users to it and give permissions, whatever it fuckin sucked).

I just want admin privs to the phone to be locked behind a password and privileges to be togglable in that admin menu, what can be done and what can't.

Did you know its also impossible to straight up block and prevent people from writing to you on WhatsApp? Like, even if they're blocked the messages they send go into a separate folder and you still see them.

I hate boomers
 
VargReallyDidNothingWrong dijo:
The closest thing I found in my cursory looking was Google's Parental WhateverTheFuck system, but that was very complicated to set up and needed a bunch of other shit (like you had to set up a family unit in Google, then manually add users to it and give permissions, whatever it fuckin sucked).

I just want admin privs to the phone to be locked behind a password and privileges to be togglable in that admin menu, what can be done and what can't.

Did you know its also impossible to straight up block and prevent people from writing to you on WhatsApp? Like, even if they're blocked the messages they send go into a separate folder and you still see them.

I hate boomers
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MDM is the answer, but I haven't used any non-commercial ones so I am not sure what's out there for your situation, but there has to be something.
 
VargReallyDidNothingWrong dijo:
I'm shocked nobody makes a BoomerPhone OS where the ability to install anything is locked down and you're restricted to like 6 apps that someone else needs to approve first. I would be setting up every single boomer I know with one.
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Something like that exists for iPhones and iPads called Assistive Access. Basically, the device would be limited to a simplified OS for a select amount of apps. A family member or friend would have to set that up.

Personally, I wish that older people would not use technology. It turns into a hassle when you try to help them understand.
 
The Last Stand dijo:
Personally, I wish that older people would not use technology. It turns into a hassle when you try to help them understand.
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I try to tell myself that helping my elderly parents with tech is good for me (and it is). But after I went to the trouble of installing a couple of AI apps for them and giving some basic training, I told my mom that she could ask ChatGPT or Claude the next time she needs help converting Celsius to Fahrenheit for a recipe. “I’d rather ask you,” she said with a smile and absolutely no shame.

I caught a resentment, ngl.
 
Working tickets in the dark corner of the office or worse, your own home, has got to be the most romanticized shit on earth the last three decades. "Dood I get to play games at home, while 'working'!" as if going to your little dedicated workspace with decent coworkers who ask about your weekend isn't why most of us go to work. We can tolerate jobbing enough that we don't need to rant enough about it and are uplifted slightly enough that we can tolerate doing it for a few years before moving on.

Not once have I heard any techies actually enjoy their work, or at least tolerate it. It -immediately- goes to how often they got time off, how much they don't work and how much they get paid. Never how those translate into an engaging life or great hobbies. Just, less work more pay happy wagie. In fact, I'd almost argue those are the most wagie-like people on earth cause it's literally just the pay justifying any and all of it.

And now the pajeets come for them as well. A grand comedy.
 
sodaboard dijo:
i love when lower-level T1s that are below me and get paid less than me but somehow have more power/responsibilities than me give lectures on how everything i do is wrong and my boss is totally ok with it
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You get that with minorities. They all watch out for eachother and you are there until someone of their own ethnicity can replace you.

You are below them because you are not one of them.
 
⋖ cørdion ⋗ dijo:
Working tickets in the dark corner of the office or worse, your own home, has got to be the most romanticized shit on earth the last three decades. "Dood I get to play games at home, while 'working'!" as if going to your little dedicated workspace with decent coworkers who ask about your weekend isn't why most of us go to work. We can tolerate jobbing enough that we don't need to rant enough about it and are uplifted slightly enough that we can tolerate doing it for a few years before moving on.

Not once have I heard any techies actually enjoy their work, or at least tolerate it. It -immediately- goes to how often they got time off, how much they don't work and how much they get paid. Never how those translate into an engaging life or great hobbies. Just, less work more pay happy wagie. In fact, I'd almost argue those are the most wagie-like people on earth cause it's literally just the pay justifying any and all of it.

And now the pajeets come for them as well. A grand comedy.
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I work from home in systems and sometimes it absolutely sucks . I barely have time for goofing around.
 
We're going back to dotcom days with this one-

I was racking up a handful of my Ultras at Equinix on Lundy over a week's period and saw this one guy who just kept going to his private rack, fiddling with his machine, and then leaving. This happened several times over the week there.

I finally asked him what was going on. His response "When I'm at the datacenter, everything works fine. When I leave, it just slows down to absolute shit."

Well, someone decided to turn the 3D GL pipes screensaver on NT 4. I waited for the screensaver to kick in after he left, and I saw the redraw stutter. I mean, actually stutter.

Wonder if he ever figured it out.
 
I work with two other guys that fundamentally don't understand what they are doing.
I have spoken to management about it several times, and they won't do anything about it.

So at my work we have a "development" branch. This is the basically "current development" of the product.
Whenever new code is merged into this branch, an automated deploy is run to the development environment.
Initial internal QA is done on this environment before it starts making its way to customers.
This is the norm at many companies.

All development work is supposed to be done locally.
This again is the norm at many companies.

I had a dev today contact me after I asked him to pick up a ticket. I have 5 tickets that need to be done this week, and I am averaging two a day at the moment.
He sent me an error message indicating that he couldn't deploy something.
I call him up and discover he has been directly deploying from his machine to the development environment.
Potentially invalidating any testing that would have taken place.

I asked him why he was doing this, and he said, "Well, my local doesn't work."
He has left it broken apparently for months and just did everything on dev.
This, of course, invalidates any testing.
Told him he needs to do it locally and fix his local environment and he shouldn't be doing this at all.

He just sent me a message on Teams at 1.00 am telling me he is off tomorrow and I need to do this task for him.

He has done this when it comes to other things as well. So he is responsible for building one part of the particular product.
This part of the particular product didn't have a CI build in place. He had been for several months building manually the binary and essentially emailing it to the QA.
I got annoyed at hearing this for over a month and inquired what the problem was, and they said, "We don't have time."
I had a Friday afternoon off and found and got Claude to set up the workflow for the builds. This took me 2 hours to get everything building in CI.

He has had 9 months to work it out, but I can do it in an afternoon.
 
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When you complain about too many meetings, and they schedule another meeting to talk about it.
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