The 'I work in I.T' thread

[Rob]

How things feel sometimes


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I f**king hate that whenever anyone tries to create a repository for some sort of information it always ends up outdated, unmaintained and just some random silo of information that dies, and you still don’t end up with something that you need.

Heard myself saying on a call the other day ‘oh we need somewhere to put all this info’ and just thought to myself don’t even go there….. (even though it’s actually needed 😂)

The moment people started creating multiple ways to save/share files in windows it all went down hill.

Sharepoint
OneDrive
Teams ‘files’

f**k. Sake.

The worst is when you’ve got a proper job folder setup in sharepoint and some mutant creates a ‘teams site’ for collaboration. Die.

 

[ChrisR]

Or someone starts saving things to a personal OneDrive that you can’t access.

I just hate it all 😂

 

[Advikaz]

Share point is surprisingly s**t i find

Sync issues
Sync delays
File path limits
Site size limits
Native ability to drive map 💩

Meh

 

[Louis]

We still have experimental reports on a onenote that was never transitioned.

 

[Donny_Dog]

 

[botfch]

The American overlords in work have come up with a list of words we can’t use in file names in case they cause offence.

Two of which are “slave” and “master”.

Two weeks ago all the servers, vm’s and file systems got renamed and none of them now work.

They’ve now decided it’s actually ok to offend people as it’s costing money so everything’s been changed back but it still doesn’t work.

 

[KitsonRis]

The American overlords in work have come up with a list of words we can’t use in file names in case they cause offence.

Two of which are “slave” and “master”.

Two weeks ago all the servers, vm’s and file systems got renamed and none of them now work.

They’ve now decided it’s actually ok to offend people as it’s costing money so everything’s been changed back but it still doesn’t work.

I remember having to do this back in 2020 when it all kicked off for all our code base and repositories. Couldn’t have slave, master, black lists, white lists. Still have some of the words kicking about which is apparently ok now.

And in a previous job we were the Image Analysis team so someone thought it was hilarious to shorten all folder names to “AnalImages” in shared directories.

 

[Ray Gin]

The American overlords in work have come up with a list of words we can’t use in file names in case they cause offence.

Two of which are “slave” and “master”.

Two weeks ago all the servers, vm’s and file systems got renamed and none of them now work.

They’ve now decided it’s actually ok to offend people as it’s costing money so everything’s been changed back but it still doesn’t work.

We’re not allowed to call transformers trannies anymore.

I wish i was joking 😂

 

[Krarl]

The American overlords in work have come up with a list of words we can’t use in file names in case they cause offence.

Two of which are “slave” and “master”.

Two weeks ago all the servers, vm’s and file systems got renamed and none of them now work.

They’ve now decided it’s actually ok to offend people as it’s costing money so everything’s been changed back but it still doesn’t work.

Go woke, go broke

Wait until they find out about mongoDb

 

[charltjr]

Ah yes, good old naming conventions.

Had a couple of servers at a previous place of work, ASMAB and ASMAC.

First one was short for “All Senior Managers Are b******s”

You can guess the other one yourself 😂

 

[charltjr]

Having the usual fun at my place.

We were bought about a year ago by a private equity shop and merged with a complimentary company in the same sector. Unusually, they don’t do the exact same stuff as us and the products mesh together nicely which will improve cross-sell. Actually a smart move for once!

That said, We’ve still gone through the usual 12 months of offshoring and cost cutting, and in the last all hands call they announced the grand strategy was to invest in the products to boost sales, and then sell us in 2 to 3 years time.

I know exactly what that means in reality. It means massive cost cutting, probably another wave or two of offshoring, and essentially tarting up the product without fixing any of the underlying issues while trying to cross sell across our new, larger, existing customer base.

It’s not something I want to be involved in. The constant stress of wondering if your neck is next on the chopping block plus the obvious reduction in quality that we’re going to get from having already got rid of almost all of our experienced developers. Also all the UK devs are already gone and they are really struggling to recruit offshore replacements meaning the team is down to only two thirds of the expected headcount. It’s basically been a clusterfuck. What a shock!

The morale in my customer success team is hideous. We’re starting to see people going off sick with stress and overwork, which is inevitably going to lead to people leaving. I just need to stick it out for one more year and I’ll be in a position to pay off the mortgage. I can then take whatever job I want as long as it pays a half decent wage and not worry, so frankly I’m in an extremely fortunate position as long as I can see out the next year while planning for my exit.

Fun times!

 

[Advikaz]

Having the usual fun at my place.

We were bought about a year ago by a private equity shop and merged with a complimentary company in the same sector. Unusually, they don’t do the exact same stuff as us and the products mesh together nicely which will improve cross-sell. Actually a smart move for once!

That said, We’ve still gone through the usual 12 months of offshoring and cost cutting, and in the last all hands call they announced the grand strategy was to invest in the products to boost sales, and then sell us in 2 to 3 years time.

I know exactly what that means in reality. It means massive cost cutting, probably another wave or two of offshoring, and essentially tarting up the product without fixing any of the underlying issues while trying to cross sell across our new, larger, existing customer base.

It’s not something I want to be involved in. The constant stress of wondering if your neck is next on the chopping block plus the obvious reduction in quality that we’re going to get from having already got rid of almost all of our experienced developers. Also all the UK devs are already gone and they are really struggling to recruit offshore replacements meaning the team is down to only two thirds of the expected headcount. It’s basically been a clusterfuck. What a shock!

The morale in my customer success team is hideous. We’re starting to see people going off sick with stress and overwork, which is inevitably going to lead to people leaving. I just need to stick it out for one more year and I’ll be in a position to pay off the mortgage. I can then take whatever job I want as long as it pays a half decent wage and not worry, so frankly I’m in an extremely fortunate position as long as I can see out the next year while planning for my exit.

Fun times!

My situation isn’t dissimilar to this.

Got purchased by a big American firm who’s grown hugely in the last few years. All extremely disjointed.
They didn’t have a ‘my team’ and only made three people redundant across the whole company in the merger.

But we are also owned by a large PE firm and the expectations boggle the mind.

I think we will get sold again in around 2 years or so. I’m not too concerned as I doubt I’ll be there then anyway, and I make the company more than pretty much any other single staff member.

There’s been positives and negatives. Everything is a mess and communication internally is horrific. However wages are improved and ability to ‘move up’ is definitely broader.

I’m not entirely miserable, but not all that happy either. If and when the job market improves, I may consider a move. Probably self employed tbh.

 

[Rob]

We’re not allowed to call transformers trannies anymore.

I wish i was joking 😂

In an attempt to stop you from trying to f**k them?

 

[Ray Gin]

In an attempt to stop you from trying to f**k them?

Probably not mate

 

[Donny_Dog]

You I.T losers worked from home during covid yeah?
You've claimed your £140? got until saturday (I think). Easy enough to do.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/04/covid-tax-relief/

 

[Donny_Dog]

How much are you using AI? Which ones? What for?

I was on the train to London last week and I socially engineered/stalked the woman sat at the table in front. Just by watching through the gap in the seat.
She was "head of process excellence" for a global drinks firm. A big role, I dare say. She spent 25% of her time on ChatGPT helping her construct emails to large audiences. Along with creating an agenda for a workshop.
It was the first time I'd seen someone use it (outside of I.T and mates, just for the laugh).

I find I use it to reaffirm learning. Stuff I've forgotten or partly known about. It cuts my Google time down.
I asked it to play the role of interviewer and provide a score/feedback after a mock interview. It actually helped me prep for a new role (I got it as well). And this really has accelerated my use of it now. It's amazing tbh.


I stick to chat gpt, but fancied giving Grok a try, pre-tarriff nonsense.
Just noticed WhatsApp has meta AI, but we didnt get off to a good start...

 

[charltjr]

It saved me hours today converting some gnarly database views from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Didn’t get everything right because it didn’t know the schemas but when I asked it to correct one example based on the schema it did it. Nothing I couldn’t have done myself with Google and time, but it was a great help.

Also used it to write me answers for the wanky questions on my last appraisal. Fed it the question and the values and behaviours from our mission statement shite and told it to generate me an example response. Perfect business bullshit every time.

 

[Matt Cup]

Our company is developing its own AI system which I presume is using some of Copilots AI tech rather than a ground up build. I won’t be using it though.

I just use Chat GPT for prompts and ideas on my yearly review as I’m not the best at embellishing things.