The 'I work in I.T' thread

[Donny_Dog]

I contracted for the nhs for a bit. Their IT estate is astonishingly bad

They don't pay well now tbf.
giving high level I.T jobs to people whose I.T career highlights were facebook group admins.

 

[Rob]

They don't pay well now tbf.
giving high level I.T jobs to people whose I.T career highlights were facebook group admins.

General public sector IT is abysmal. I spent 6 months working in a DEFRA office and other than their graphics/web team, it was like the dark ages.

 

[Advikaz]

Yeah public sector pay is shite! It’s also generally a safe haven for people who are beyond useless at their jobs.

Not as bad if you’re a contractor though.

Standard nhs, put up so much tape nobody can do anything. Circumnavigate the tape you put in by getting consultants in to get s**t done.

 

[Donny_Dog]

We have a vacancy for a network engineer. If anyone knows anyone looking?

Nearest offices either Crawley or Doncaster.
£55k tops, I suspect. Overtime and on call monies available too.+ They'd get to work with me. Which is worth loads.....

Would suit a mid-grade engineer or someone looking to progress to senior. But It's more about the person TBF.

Industry is defence. Massive global organisation.

Drop me a PM if you know anyone who fancies a change! Informal interview etc.

 

[charltjr]

Holy mother of god……

We got very close to having a back door which could arbitrarily inject malicious code into ssh requests as part of the default install of some major Linux distros.

What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world

Malicious updates made to a ubiquitous tool were a few weeks away from going mainstream.

arstechnica.com

That would have been fun!

 

[rctempire]

I contracted for the nhs for a bit. Their IT estate is astonishingly bad

I absolutely agree.

 

[.Joe]

This was not funny to wake up to

 

[rctempire]

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This was not funny to wake up to

Next comment was the best

 

[.Joe]

Next comment was the best
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[YorkshireKyle]

Anyone in need of a job in Dev/SRE/Networking?

We've just been part of a takeover and were looking for more staff to bolster our teams. Drop me your CV and I can forward it onto our recruitment

 

[mace¬]

Anyone in need of a job in Dev/SRE/Networking?

We've just been part of a takeover and were looking for more staff to bolster our teams. Drop me your CV and I can forward it onto our recruitment

What is the referral bonus paying?

Ours do £3k at the moment. £1500 on start date £1500 on 6 months.

 

[YorkshireKyle]

What is the referral bonus paying?

Ours do £3k at the moment. £1500 on start date £1500 on 6 months.

That's something that hasn't been finalised yet

Suppose it depends how good they are. If you're s**t you owe us money for being a c**t and wasting our time

 

[ChrisR]

My last place was $10k referral bonus

 

[boultonn]

That's something that hasn't been finalised yet

Suppose it depends how good they are. If you're s**t you owe us money for being a c**t and wasting our time

I’m going to suggest we adopt this approach

 

[YorkshireKyle]

My last place was $10k referral bonus

Golden handcuff numbers those

GoDaddy only offered £500 and it was only paid when they passed their probation. Tight c***s

 

[ChrisR]

Golden handcuff numbers those

GoDaddy only offered £500 and it was only paid when they passed their probation. Tight c***s

They just hated using external recruiters/agencies and preferred to get people who came recommended from existing staff.

New place is £1200

 

[YorkshireKyle]

They just hated recruiters/agencies and preferred to get people who came recommended.

New place is £1200

Tbh they'd save themselves a tonne in recruitment fees at that

 

[ChrisR]

Yup cost them less overall, and for a startup (still a billion dollar co, but startup none the less) I guess it worked scale wise.

 

[Donny_Dog]

 

[SharkyUK]

 

[boultonn]

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Seeing how people were losing their s**t when it came out that Google was still tracking activity in incognito made me realise people really don't understand how little 'privacy' incognito/private browsing provides.

On a completely different topic:
In a meeting today and one of the other security consultants leans forward and says, with a dead straight face:
"The most secure computer in the world is the one that isn't connected to the internet, that's why we recommend TalkTalk as your ISP"

 

[Advikaz]

Seeing how people were losing their s**t when it came out that Google was still tracking activity in incognito made me realise people really don't understand how little 'privacy' incognito/private browsing provides.

On a completely different topic:
In a meeting today and one of the other security consultants leans forward and says, with a dead straight face:
"The most secure computer in the world is the one that isn't connected to the internet, that's why we recommend TalkTalk as your ISP"

LOL!

 

[rctempire]

Seeing how people were losing their s**t when it came out that Google was still tracking activity in incognito made me realise people really don't understand how little 'privacy' incognito/private browsing provides.

On a completely different topic:
In a meeting today and one of the other security consultants leans forward and says, with a dead straight face:
"The most secure computer in the world is the one that isn't connected to the internet, that's why we recommend TalkTalk as your ISP"

He not wrong. Good luck getting TalkTalk to connect to the internet.

 

[Advikaz]

Do they bring the joys of a 60day installation timescale as well?

I do enjoy that

 

[Donny_Dog]

I've still got a 30 days free AOL Internet CD if anyone is on TalkTalk.

 

[rctempire]

Do they bring the joys of a 60day installation timescale as well?

I do enjoy that

60 days? Lucky if you get that.

Had an opportunity to move a client from Talktalk to better ISP, jumped at it and now talktalk have asked (98 days) for their kit back, good luck mate, they moved out of there 90 days ago.

 

[Advikaz]

Had an absolute corker.

Over the weekend prtg pinged an alert for an issue at one of our clients site... engineer turns up and lets himself in. Finds the COO getting railed over a desk by some dude

I've been in italy this week so only just found out. Absolutely amazing haha

 

[Advikaz]

Actually, this is a good opportunity to discuss the funniest stuff we've seen in our IT Careers. I've had a few this year alone.

- Client had a leaver that had been with the business for years and had left to retire (they never told us). They let her keep her laptop. Someone from our place was doing a hardware audit in RMM and logged in to this device (RMM shows the last shown webpage). This little cute old lady, like 75 years old, the most polite person you'd ever meet, was watching BBC gang bang p**n on her old laptop

- Had a US client accidently switch on their webcam in a Teams meeting with 20 people in it, totally stark naked. Balls n'all.

- Had a CFO watching p**n during work hours on his machine.

- Had a clients security compromised due to a number of users signing up to p**n sites with their work emails.

 

[Gray]

I've had a few funnies...

- Senior manager on a call, forgot to mute himself at one point... Soon realised he was on the toilet, dropping his arse out - Full on pebble dash of the porcelain.

- Once walked into a colo DC, found a technician with trousers round his ankles, leant against a rack knocking one out, watching p**n on his phone... Must've been a quiet shift.

- A properly weird engineer I worked with years ago (Still lived at home in his mid-40's), visited site occasionally on weekends for OOH work... Security collared me on Monday, by chance they had to review CCTV footage for an unrelated incident, turns out they found him in the boardroom Sunday morning, wearing a leather trench coat and nothing else. Dropped the coat, started sliding and grinding the chairs and sliding his naked body across the table. Turns out he's been doing stuff like this for months, when reviewing CCTV back...

- Years ago, when I worked in support... Doing a client back-up / restore, he had 10Gb+ of p**n on his desktop, buried in a few layers of folders. Claimed it wasn't his and unsure how it appeared.

Glad I work at home now days, but do miss the funny s**t sometimes.

 

[boultonn]

Had an absolute corker.

Over the weekend prtg pinged an alert for an issue at one of our clients site... engineer turns up and lets himself in. Finds the COO getting railed over a desk by some dude

I've been in italy this week so only just found out. Absolutely amazing haha

Please confirm gender of COO so I can prepare correct response.

 

[Advikaz]

Please confirm gender of COO so I can prepare correct response.

Female. Was probably hot 10 years ago. You still would though

 

[YorkshireKyle]

Customer

"Hi all, my site is having non loading issues"

"We'll have a look for you"

*Opens up Spanish website selling elaborate sex robots with all kinds of personalisation down to what shade of labia it had*

 

[boultonn]

We have adopted the doughnut culture whereby the simple mantra is "f**k up, buy doughnuts (and not s**t ones)".

It's weird how the prospect of some tasty doughnuts has you praying for the network intern to unmount the production SAN on a Friday (this happened at least 3 times).

 

[Advikaz]

One of our younger engineers got sent down to the data centre to decom a stack.

Decommed the wrong stack despite having clear instructions and somehow managed to decomm the stack that was still switched on… not the one that was switched off and marked for decomm.

Plunging a client in to the dark ages

 

[Advikaz]

We enrolled a new client in to Intune.

Again.. one of the younger engineers… wiped someone’s personal device (with no backups)

 

[Advikaz]

Worked for a company about 4 years ago as an IT Manager.

Got a call from the finance director… laptop isn’t working. It isn’t switching on..

Me: “is it charged David?”
David: “yes”.
David: “can you remote on and sort ?!”
………….
………….
Me: “well, no, not if it won’t switch on.:::”
Me: “I’ll video call you”
** ring ring…. **

Me: “humour me, plug the power adapter in”

laptop fires up




The same guy, went out one night on the piss and woke up the following morning to find his company car missing. He reported it stolen.. whole company aware etc…

Car was round the corner from his house. He forgot where he parked it.

 

[YorkshireKyle]

We have adopted the doughnut culture whereby the simple mantra is "f**k up, buy doughnuts (and not s**t ones)".

It's weird how the prospect of some tasty doughnuts has you praying for the network intern to unmount the production SAN on a Friday (this happened at least 3 times).

You must work with people I have worked with in the past

If you f**k up/it's your birthday you buy 2 trays of Krispy Kreme

 

[boultonn]

You must work with people I have worked with in the past

If you f**k up/it's your birthday you buy 2 trays of Krispy Kreme

As far as I can tell, DevOps is just a byword for doing things quickly, badly and without thinking about the consequences.

 

[YorkshireKyle]

As far as I can tell, DevOps is just a byword for doing things quickly, badly and without thinking about the consequences.

"Push it to prod on Friday afternoon"

*DC OPS stares in disgust*

 

[.Joe]

Why it’s a bad idea to had all the discs from the same batch, all dead slap bang on 40000 hours, I do not miss on prem hardware at all