What was the biggest IT fuckup at your place of employment?

Outsourcing 70% of our headcount to Wipro and HCL.

No offense but that's a super rare problem (if the reboot was the source of it) and if the settings were super important you should have said so. Not having backups is not entirely your fault, however.

She just heard that IT is the best place to make a buck. She already got plenty of doe.

>splatter animal guts all over the room
genius

Y u no post Carlos pic?

*clears voice*
*takes an indian accent*
Hi dear.....

Fine
This guy. This fucking guy.

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does this fucking meme not get old to you?

We don't have a ground wire in the whole building. Well, it's there in the sockets but it's not connected to anything. We had one the power plugs burn a little due to sparking and the live wire was shorted with the ground wire. Our network rack became a live wire and so did every computer. 20 people were working that.

Hiring this guy

You missed it.
IT guy:
>unplugged monitor data cable as part of shutdown
>replugged 2 data cables
>didn't realise "failed boot" was 2nd desktop being displayed on primary (only) monitor
There was nothing wrong with Windows. He reformatted it for no reason.

cringe and bluepilled

rage and astroglidepilled

None. But I also go around fixing everyone else's mistakes while they presumably are just sitting around surfing the net.

That I know of?
Aside from the fact that using windows could potentially be considered an ITAR violation by an uppity prosecutor, contracting the guys we did to build our website has resulted in the thing being a broken clusterfuck.

Im the only member of the department amd I'm an intern.

Based electrocutedpilled

Why were you using Windows? This sounds like bullshit

indian contractors
fucking everywhere

>Company outsourced IT back in 2013-2014
>Microsoft changes office and the geniuses in IT > decided we need the latest and greatest and >the breaks out vendor specific plugins for excel
>Vendor won't fix it, IT won't allow Engineering to >have domain admins to apply different solutions >and patches
>Nothing works, somehow nobody is to blame
>Me no longer caring\just apply for other >positions
>40 plants worldwide are effected

>Haven't green texted or Tri forced in years.
>Super old Faggg

Well, that's edgy, must admit.

IT guy lost a almost all the hardware dongles for critical software during a move. Manage to fudge one into working. Software vendors have now switched to gay "cloud" licensing.
Wish opensource CAM wasn't so ass, otherwise I'd just take it as an opportunity to switch to tool chains that aren't constantly ass fucking you.

Accidentally ran an incorrect database insert on the memo table for 600,000 records. Our database is a multivalue db, not SQL, so removing it was pretty much impossible, except manually, one by one. I ended up applying another insert saying "the previous note was entered in error, please disregard," but people were not happy my garbage was in every almost every account in our system.

>Engineering needs Domain Admin permission to apply fixes to programs
Good. Nobody in engineering should ever get Domain Admin

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Imagining the average Engineer running around here with full access is beyond horrifying.

indeed

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What kind of a horse is that?

it's actually a forest donkey

That is entirely 100% on the company. If your system is that retarded and you give some random idiot the full correct access data without having a proper, tested, working backup strategy, then you only got what you deserved. Nothing more nothing less.
What the fuck were they thinking?
>hurr durr durr durr just let the new employe set themselves up, why have that set up before they arrive like a normal company should and would
>durr let's give him documentation with the full working details for our main db that has no backups whatsoever
>oh no how could our database get lost
>hurr durr better get legal involved so they too can tell me what absolute retard I am
I honestly hope they went bankrupt.

And what kind of retarded fucking system is that that stores the local dev environment in the same fucking db as the fucking production database without any safeguards? OR WORKING FUCKING BACKUPS.

>A brand new employee has write/read access on the first day
>Said brand new employee can access a production database out of a startup guide
>Senior devs can't restore because they probably haven't been backing up properly for a while (and more than one way to backup/snapshot)

Company deserves to go bankrupt. Based employee.

Brand new employee can access production db with full read write permissions from the document handed to him by the company no less. Even if he copied parts of the production db why full read AND write permissions?
The company deserves to burn and the IT team deserves to never get a job in the industry again.

cringe

Everything, potentially resulting in the full disclosure of the private data, addresses, health etc of thousands of children, constantly under active attack with very spotty and unreliable claims of repulsing EW assailants.

A zero-day backdoor for an entire city.

Every. Single. Person.

IT head got let go and now collects a massive pension, but even so. Even so.

>stupidly specific drivers that only work with windows xp
>not internet connected so it doesn't matter

>be me, just out of college
>get hired by hospital
>third day on job
>"hey user there's a new backup script that I need you to deploy, it's on the department drive, just add the cron job"
>review script quickly, make sure it doesn't fuck shit up
looksgood.png
>schedule cron job for 3am every day
>go home
>next day
everythingonfire.mp4

the sysadmin who wrote the backup script fucked up bad

>Script erased the entire backup directory, and the database directories for helpdesk, internal message board, and everything else.
>he gets fired
>I don't even get blamed

>get into new position at work
>got a new upgrade just as I started to the frontend customer website
>Helping out with getting it ready, very very limited as to what we can do since it's all preset shit given to us by an external company that provides our systems
>Some weird bug happens where the entire website just fucks up big time
>nothing I do fixes the issue, should be working
>Check libraries being used
>JQuery from 2015
>You know that period of time that had all those XSS issues
>every other library hasn't been updated asides and most have medium-high severity, some from as far back as 2010
>uhhhhhhhhhh
>report it to manager
>get told we basically can't do anything about it and that we have to submit a ticket to the company and wait

It's been 4 months now and still waiting, also did some more digging and the server we're hosting client records on has a ftp RCE up on shodan for the world to see, which also hosts about 20 other sites, potentially close to 1m records.

please end me

>tfw huntin' down modbois

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Holy shit you should've gotten fired.

What for? not my fault

>most of our data backed up to LTO-6
>engineers buy new LTO-8 drives, discard all LTO-6 drives
>"LTO drives can read two gens back"
>LTO-8 can not read LTO-6

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>Let it roam around and fuck more shit up and possible other people
Genius

Yep, very good idea. Instead of leaving it alone so it would at least calm down then calling Animal Control, I'd rather take things upon my own hands, give myself a hard time cornering a frightened critter all over the crampspace, take aim and pray the gunpowder smoke won't fuck things up more (and the bullets, in case I miss) and when I finally capped the fucker, brace for more collateral damage as it runs and kicks around until it finally collapses. Very good idea indeed.

based anime poster retarded answer

Super rare problem? Nigga all he had to do was make sure his fucking monitors were plugged in correctly, literally 12 year old tier problem solving. I unironically do this like once a week cuz I’m a fucking retard, sending video to the wrong monitor and having a fucking heart attack because I think my shit isn’t booting. But then I remember I’m not retarded and I turn the fucking monitor on instead of formatting my entire system for no good fucking reason

Why not have a wallpaper of both screens to avoid this kind of fuck up?

If you don’t back up production, you deserve to have it deleted. Seriously how can autistic chans be out here running full recovery systems with immaculate maintenance just to hoard trap and furry porn, while people who’s lives depend on their database couldn’t give a fuck. Outstanding

>missing at point blank range
>thinking one bullet will do more damage than letting the animal continue rampaging
Imagine being this much of a pussy. Also gunpowder has been smokeless for about a century or so retard.

Sometimes having the second monitor on is distracting.

You're both wrong, he should have captured her for use later.

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This happened like 20 years ago. The details aren't all that clear now but think this was it roughly:

RAID array. Flash tech at the time. Monkey wanted to show us all how you could hotswap the drives. So he pulled out one of the disks live, lets call slot A. Replaces it with a blank disk and the array starts rebuilding. Goes to swap it back but accidentally pulls out the disk in slot B. Puts old slot A into slot B. RAID array crashes, we go down for days scrambling to recover from tape. A few days of data that wasn't committed to tape was lost, including some business critical information. Monkey was fired.

You shoot it anywhere but the heart and it'll pour a couple gallons of blood all over the server room

Whats even the point of having an AD domain if your going to give everyone full privileges lmao

Yea. The sysadmin whom I worked with created a backup script for the mail server. Worked great. Until I found he added it to run every minute in cron.

System was completely unresponsive had to shutdown as OOM process killer couldn't even deal with it at that point.

>head
>lungs
>anywhere on the spine from shoulders on up
Take your pick user. He’s five feet away. you could kill it with a hard punch in the face for fucks sake it’s a deer not a mountain lion

idk why all "IT helpdesk" people just format the pc the first thing they do

back when i was 10, i fucked around with the computer at home disassembling it and shit. naturally not knowing shit it wouldn't boot, so my dad yelled at me and we took it to the store. i told the fuckers no format, but they did of course. they formatted the device first, after realizing it still wouldn't boot THEN they opened the panel to check: turns out i didn't seat the ram properly

FUCK tech support/mechanics, literally to avoid interacting with low life blue collar idiots i learned so much about shit i probably don't even need to know

Came here to post this. Fuck fpbp

>idk why all "IT helpdesk" people just format the pc the first thing they do
if they fucked it up so much where they need help with it, there's probably 10 more ticking timebombs
it's standard operating procedure for a reason, figuring out what the user did isn't as important as resolving the issue

still though, if the pc doesnt POST you dont format it retard, not passing post means something is fucked on the hardware level

I've been in several businesses where this happens. It's basically a case of owners that pander to everyone. As soon as one person says "I want all the access to everything" they become a Domain Admin, and suddenly everyone else has to have it and god forbid you ever say no to anyone.

They signed a contract with this shitcase company to roll out their fantastic enterprise products.

>2019
>Planning a brand new Windows 2008 R2 deployment because it's the latest OS their software runs on
>Must disable Windows Firewall
>Must be on a physical server
>A person will actually randomly RDP to the server and conduct spot checks that it's not virtualised

Fucking hell they paid half a million dollars for this bullshit

If you think fixing some software issue on your desktop requires "domain admin" you're too incompetent to ever have those permissions

>accidentally wiping all the data of a FTP server.
Good thing it was backed up.

you really think some help desk employee should waste hours trying to fix someone's computer when they'll just end up formatting it

i know my shit so i'm good for a while, i haven't had an issue where i felt compelled to throw my issues at someone (thank god for google tho)

but karen at the front desk fucks up? idgaf, i was mad pissed though

>production lines' pc's need usb access, have zero protection
>someone uses them to spread a Conficker worm
I was part of the extra personnel that got hired to clean up the mess. DNS was fubar'd on every single computer, they had to put the entire network on lockdown to prevent it from spreading to the child companies' networks. Now every usb drive goes under tight scrutiny before being allowed (they liked my work enough to move to one of the child companies as junior sysadmin)

Did someone just hate working there and wanted to burn it down Office Space style? Or was it just dumb fuck Karen using a USB at work she used at home to download Pinterest pictures of cats and cooking recipes

Could you guys explain to a brainlet like me what happened?

I never understood why "worms through USB" is apparently still a big deal in 2019. You're far, far more likely to download an exe and run it, even if "ran something on a USB key from the car park" does still happen.

Sometimes when I get mad at people at my uni for being retarded I’ll load up USB drives with ransomware and leave them in the library and whatnot. Not to extort them or anything. Just to spread some unhappiness.

If the system doesn't post how the fuck did they format it? I call BS.
You expect me to believe they took the HDD out and reinstalled from another machine?

a new hire basically had access to a database that holds real actual data that the company works with and depends on and he deleted it all because he was going through a tutorial which was meant to be practiced on a test database instead
basically the company is fucking retarded and I kinda hope that it's true so the brainlets suffer

New employee tutorial is given to new employee.

Said tutorial is supposed to familiarize the new employee with the way the company works.

Tutorial is supposed to guide user through setting up a dummy version of the companies work that the new employee can fuck around with.

However, the tutorial's examples included directions that made new employees fucking around actually affect the REAL company work instead of the DUMMY work.

The new employee wasn't paying careful attention, the company had very stupid instructions, and so the guy lost his job and the company lost all its work.

>NIST deprecates 3DES
>Disables 3DES on servers coz nobody use it right?
>A user complains his Outlook for Mac no longer connected to Exchange server
>I said fuck off, just use windoze, we don't support mac here
>The user turned out to be COO
>CIO bowed down to him, bought him the latest, fastest, shiniest elitebook
>Got hours of lecture on behaviour and communication
>Keep my job because I'm the guy who keeps everything running well

It's standard procedure for some lazy fucks to just rip all the harddrives out and drop a master sysprep image onto them for fast deployment.
IT at the school I worked at did that to all the hundreds of computers in the multiple labs once an year to "clean off the gunk and update shit".

Lots of computer repair shops I've been to have some sort of custom image from shit like Norton fucking Ghost that they load on to everything that gets brought in.

>Start work at small ISP helldesk
>Company's main product are e-commerce websites
>A month or so in fuckup sysadmin deletes all the product images
>No backup
>All other helpdesk operators decide to take next day off.
>Whole day our customers ring up and have emotional breakdowns about having their sites fucked.

Not the best day ever.

No one knows who or why. All they could do was track it down to the source pc, which is used by 30+ people (it was from one of the production lines' machinery). Now every usb drive is whitelisted at hardware id level only after we manually check it.
Well it was back in 2014, but yeah, those pc's had no protection at all, which was worsened by the machine's software requiring an admin login to function (yes, running it as admin isn't enough).

a lot of scientific shit only runs on windows, or the vendor/people who install it only support windows. i am not saying this is a good thing, either, it is a bad thing.

is this space X server plant ?
did Elon put the deer in here ?

>Until I found he added it to run every minute in cron.
how the fuck do you fuck that one up?

crontab.guru/

I've changed my PC's IP Address to our DNS Server by accident and the server got BSOD instead.

>IT doesn’t do anything
>they just keep shit alive
>which is their entire fucking job but nah they don’t do nuffin

Staff don’t get paid enough to give a shit. People who are C level get paid to deal with the fallout when shit happens.

Windows 10 has massive problems with handling multiple displays. I have to reset everything after reconnecting my work laptop to the dock.

>fresh job as a sysdadmin in a highschool
>the previous sysadmin left without telling the password or anything to anyone
>no network drawings, no history etc.
>the guy has cut and mixed up lots of cables, made some ass firewall rules to piss of people
>disabled all wifi devices etc.
>messed up all the vlans for the lulz
>had tons of ports open, had a hidden RPi behind the server
>had tons of pictures of the schoolgirls saved on his drive
>some girls who got to know me told me that the guy was creepy and kept trying to flirt with them
>I had to fix everything myself, it took me about 2 months
>Now I have nothing to do so I just chat with the students and shitpost all day long
>no legal actions taken against the previous sysadmin because the director is a pussy

>idk why all "IT helpdesk" people just format the pc the first thing they do
Well, in our organisation, it's because it's not their job to do anything else.

I'm a SOE developer. It's my job to make a working WDS/MDT image that works across the enterprise.

If a machine isn't working, it's almost always a hardware failure. Our contract with the OEM requires we ensure it isn't a software fault. So we have to try reimage first. We are aware it is often futile. After that'd been tried, we call out the OEM and they replace the device.

If it was unseated RAM - We don't care. That's out of our responsibility and it's on the OEM to come out and fix it. That's how large enterprises do it.

If it's a software issue like a bad driver, it's going to be affecting more than one machine because the same driver is pushed out across the entire enterprise and we've only got a couple different models.

It's not the IT helpdesk person's job to work out the problem. It's my problem to make sure the drivers work. I'll get alerted to problems because a large number of servicenow incidents will be open for the same thing.

Some people just don't get division of responsibilities. Helpdesk people are not there to do everything.

>update drivers
>disconnect laptop display from display settings
If it still doesn't work after doing these then you were never meant to operate a computer.

These are hard shots to land, the point is you are firing a live gun in a small, very valuable room at a quick, small, frightened, MOVING target. Best course of action is to tranq and release. Bullets are scary but ricocheting material is terrifying.

for some reason my company gives everyone in software engineering the root password so everyone is always logged in as root. Much fuckery has occurred. to name a few, once someone shutdown a sever by trying to run: "ls -halt" but the connection was shitty and all the sever saw was "halt". whoops. another one was the office fuck up/retard that somehow keeps fucking up but they won't fire , accidentally ran " mv / /someotherdirectory/oof" and all of root was moved somewhere else...the client was told the drive failed and they bought it afaik. another time someone truncated the wrong SQL table making the server useless since backups we're disabled...again "mysterious drive failure".