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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MinecraftPissBalzz dijo:
System engineer
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No I mean if you're interviewing with a recruiter.

If it's a SE, prepare yourself for curveball questions. Oh and when you talk about your past project pick the ones relevant to the job description and say exactly what you did.

Oh and bullshit freely; as long as you know the tech and can work with it, you can say "I worked with XY for Z ar AB company" and nobody cares to check.
 
Mad as a Swan dijo:
No I mean if you're interviewing with a recruiter.

If it's a SE, prepare yourself for curveball questions. Oh and when you talk about your past project pick the ones relevant to the job description and say exactly what you did.

Oh and bullshit freely; as long as you know the tech and can work with it, you can say "I worked with XY for Z ar AB company" and nobody cares to check.
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Oh, woops im meeting a recruiter, thank you for the tips
 
MinecraftPissBalzz dijo:
Tomorrow I got an internship interview, bit nervous got any tips fellow IT kiwis
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Sorry, I missed the "Interview part" but the following still applies once you get the internship:

Read the error message before asking a stupid question. Also, read emails completely. Also, assume everyone else is an idiot and will only read the first sentence of your email, so be sure to put anything important there.
 
Just a heads up that rumor has it starting tomorrow a bunch of Fortune 500 companies are having their rate structure for their LLM usage shift from flat/per-user payments, to paying per-token.

It's going to get bad.
 
Betonhaus dijo:
Just a heads up that rumor has it starting tomorrow a bunch of Fortune 500 companies are having their rate structure for their LLM usage shift from flat/per-user payments, to paying per-token.

It's going to get bad.
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How is that bad? This technology is only a few years old. Are we going to fall back in to the dark ages of 2024?
 
When I use commercial AI for personal use I'm using pay by the token, I need it rarely and it helps to realize when I phrase stuff wrong or let it go down a stupid path that it's costing actual money instead of just freezing me out for a period.
 
Gatdam Animal Person dijo:
Had the pleasure to serve a lady on the phone. She had issues with updates for her devices, I asked her to show me the error message in question, she says something akin to:
I DUNNO, TOO COMPLICATED, IM A RETARD WHEN IT COMES TO COMPUTERS.
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I get that regularly.

I had this old lady customer with at least TWENTY DIFFERENT apps of Mahjong installed on her tablet.

You know the old adage: how many monkeys does it takes to screw in a lightbulb? Work with old people or foreigners and you'll understand that said question was way ahead of its time.
 
Betonhaus dijo:
It might also be that she doesn’t know how to find installed apps, so she launches the App Store and clicks on the first mahjong app she sees
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It's from them accidentally tapping ads when using their existing Mahjong app or Facebook or whatever. Tapping the ad accidentally I get. Then proceeding to install the app it directed to you? That I don't get. There's no logic. No rational. Their minds just must literally go blank when an unexpected page pops up on their phone and they tap the biggest button on the screen so they can get back to whatever garbage they were titillating themselves with. It's how they end up with tons and tons of adware from the Google Play store, like those Home UI replacer apps that spam ads at them. I think the most common one pretends to be some kind of bible app, but is just straight up adware. There's also one that pretends to be some kind of heart health monitor.
 
I've always worked for SMEs but the IT/MSP companies are always the most wildwest/"just wing it" companies out there.

At the zoo where I worked meetings where held using a strict agenda and even the owner dropping in complied to it (either file a point as exec or stfu until the questions round), this was all done on paper, I was considered the weirdo for keeping the minutes on a thinkpad with word .

Despite using an AI meeting system with voice recognition minute keeping in the MSP its quite normal for:
  1. The bossman to be 30 mins late for a meeting he called himself about long term plans.
  2. Do the reverse game by asking us about what we planned and how we contributed like it's a group performance review.
  3. Cut the first one off mid-answer and start a 40 minute rant about coffee beans I care nothing about.
  4. Get called away because his wife needs the credit card to purchase new shoes.
Leaving us confused and with more than an hour of lost time.
 
Dreamland dijo:
I've always worked for SMEs but the IT/MSP companies are always the most wildwest/"just wing it" companies out there.

At the zoo where I worked meetings where held using a strict agenda and even the owner dropping in complied to it (either file a point as exec or stfu until the questions round), this was all done on paper, I was considered the weirdo for keeping the minutes on a thinkpad with word .

Despite using an AI meeting system with voice recognition minute keeping in the MSP its quite normal for:
  1. The bossman to be 30 mins late for a meeting he called himself about long term plans.
  2. Do the reverse game by asking us about what we planned and how we contributed like it's a group performance review.
  3. Cut the first one off mid-answer and start a 40 minute rant about coffee beans I care nothing about.
  4. Get called away because his wife needs the credit card to purchase new shoes.
Leaving us confused and with more than an hour of lost time.
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Sounds like the company I worked for that was such a mess that the incoming CFO refused to take signing authority until a full audit was completed.

The owner took two months off in the summer to go on safari in Africa, while he was in the middle of negotiations to buy out another company. He rented a satellite phone on the company dime so he could still call in to meetings for that process. Meanwhile, we got cut off on our accounts for office supplies and our printer supplies, and I overheard the office manager and CFO discussing whether payroll was going to bounce.

The owner’s company car was a Corvette ZR-1, his son’s was a Ford SVT Raptor. Not the current F-150 with that badge, but the $200,000 racing truck. The son’s girlfriend had a vehicle the company was paying for, but there was no record of it in the company books, so that was only discovered when she got a ticket from a red light camera that came in the mail because the office was the registered address.

The owner bought an engraving machine to make serial number plates for the product we made, but wouldn’t buy the soundproof enclosure, and the shop guys refused to learn how to use the engraver software, so me or my manager would have to come in outside of office hours, unpaid, to run that when tags were needed.

When they laid me off due to the company nearly being bankrupt, I actually said “Thank you!”
 
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Samuel Fuller dijo:
Sounds like the company I worked for that was such a mess that the incoming CFO refused to take signing authority until a full audit was completed. (... snip ...) When they laid me off due to the company nearly being bankrupt, I actually said “Thank you!”
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The reminds me of the company I worked at where execs hired to grow the company instead drove away the biggest clients and left it financially insolvent after being given the boot. Despite one of the co-founders insisting the company wasn't bankrupt the day we were all let go, a week or so later, I received a phone call from him saying the company had filed for bankruptcy in response to my request for COBRA coverage. Sadly, it wasn't the first time employees were kept in the dark. When people resigned or got fired, we were told most of the time they were simply on vacation (even when they never returned). I enjoyed the technical experience, but I hated the corporate culture there.
 
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
 
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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Sounds like the course I am taking online to kill time between gigs. The instructor said print queues are an example of CPU scheduling.
 
Samuel Fuller dijo:
Sounds like the course I am taking online to kill time between gigs. The instructor said print queues are an example of CPU scheduling.
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it's not even that, this little chihuahua runt faggot loves spamming me with Teams messages that are "UHM ACKHUALLY" when i don't follow our retarded process verbatim. this is of course after two other supervisors have already told me i've done something wrong, it's the exact scenario from office space.
for some retarded fucking reason instead of escalating tickets to other teams they instead want me to escalate all tickets to some retarded QA group that this T1 fag is part of so they can check it for anything "wrong" before sending it to the appropriate group. so of course every ticket gets delayed an hour or more so some retarded redditbrained zigger can check if it follows our arbitrary process or send you a passive-aggressive teams message if you missed unwritten rule #564. why the fuck do i, as a T2, ever have to run something past a T1 to verify it?
yeah im fucking mad, josh was right just don't fucking bother with IT anymore it's a hellscape from top to bottom
 
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