Sysadmins Laugh at Departing Tech's Pranks
15 posts across 6 communities in the last 60 days; 60% from r/sysadmin.
“ah the good ol days!My funniest BBS story: Got in to a flame war with the cosysop of a local board after uploading some text files. IIRC it was a big text file of jokes and he didn't like some of the jokes bc they were kinda racist (hey, it was the 90s) -- its not like I wrote…”
“At least he admitted it. I knew a sergeant in the army who made a 4 star general hold the Ethernet cable while he swapped the PC “so the packets didn’t fall out.” He did this several times in his years. No one ever came forward after. Either too embarrassed to admit they were…”
“I had an "IT Manager" who exported passwords from our password manager into a non paid chatgpt session and their prompt was, " What would you do for next moves? ". That's fun. Luckily, they only had access to vendor accounts and they've all been rotated..”
Several sysadmin posts describe humorous antics from departing employees, with users sharing reactions and amusement. One mentions a named soundcloud account being linked, while another references 'Misny' making someone pay.
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“ah the good ol days!My funniest BBS story: Got in to a flame war with the cosysop of a local board after uploading some text files. IIRC it was a big text file of jokes and he didn't like some of the jokes bc they…”
“At least he admitted it. I knew a sergeant in the army who made a 4 star general hold the Ethernet cable while he swapped the PC “so the packets didn’t fall out.” He did this several times in his years. No one ever came forward after. Either too embarrassed to admit they were fooled… or never actually learned that you don’t lose packets that way.”
“I had an "IT Manager" who exported passwords from our password manager into a non paid chatgpt session and their prompt was, " What would you do for next moves? ". That's fun. Luckily, they only had access to vendor accounts and they've all been rotated..”
“got called to the legal department. was told the user's printer wasn't working. pressed the power button. magical it started working”
“https://youtu.be/IZSRPD6p16A Don’t know if this has been posted here but I’ve been told you guys would probably enjoy it. The second one is just as funny if not more so. submitted by /u/Greedyfox7 [link] [comments]”
“That's a new one... I'd be very tempted to get in touch with the other company's IT just to see if their link flagged our domain lol.”
“The tech that gave me the most shit ended up being both my most knowledgeable tech and best resource. She will come around. Don’t let her get to you.”
“I was laughing too hard to ask which songs specifically he was playing. submitted by /u/onebadmofo [link] [comments]”
“This sounds like a place you work that gives you the fun stories for when you have a real IT job. no offense intended for anyone working under these conditions our your own suffering you have to deal with. At minimum I would be getting a properly clustered system. It doesn't need to be rack mounted if they're being cheap asses; but even a triple set of refurbed (and under extended warranty!) Dell precision tower with 4x HDDs and ideally enough RAM for a Ceph cluster if you want that leve”
“I been working in IT for 20-ish years so this actually isn't that wild for me but I'm sure the younger folks will find this amusing. I work for an MSP. One of the heads of the departments at one of our customers calls me a few weeks ago to do a forensic audit because they had reason to believe they and 1 other person were being spied on somehow. I found nothing in any access logs, even device and cam checked the ceiling tiles because a maintenance person had just done something unknown t”
“OP - I gotta ask - what are you going to do now in your new role, and why did you leave your current role?”
“I've experienced techs refusing to hand over passwords & the actions of the owner / main tech are almost similar to my own experiences.”
“So in theory, if OldGuy REALLY stands his ground, like is ready to go to jail over this "fuck you, you're not getting the passwords" do you feel like you'd be able to get root access (with physical access obviously)?”
“Are the servers running locally in the customer's facilities or in the old guy's garage? If the former, clever firewalling would maybe slow down things if he tries to cosplay as ransomware man. Also if the systems are riddled with technical debt, it should be pretty doable to get admin access where needed even with public PoCs for exploits.”
“Misny makes them pay, or so three billboards told me on my way to work this morning.”
“Disclaimer: This has all happened in the last week. It is still happening and will continue to be happening probably for some amount of time. Details in the story have been changed or censored to protect both the innocent and the guilty. My lawyers advised me not to share this story without a disclaimer. This story is 100% made up and everything that follows this is a complete fabrication, it is full of hearsay and rampant speculation : This story is 100% true. My group was hired to take over a”
“Disclaimer: This has all happened in the last week. It is still happening and will continue to be happening probably for some amount of time. Details in the story have been changed or censored to protect both the innocent and the guilty. My lawyers advised me not to share this story without a disclaimer. This story is 100% made up and everything that follows this is a complete fabrication : This story is 100% true. My group was hired to take over a medical practice with about 100 workstations th”