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Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM

07/15/2008 03:04:30 PM · #1

San Francisco did, now they're locked out of their brand new network.

karmat

Apple iPhone 7

07/15/2008 03:10:43 PM · #2

The comments are hilarious. Well, some of them are; others are just assinine.

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

07/15/2008 03:42:50 PM · #3

Originally posted by karmat:

The comments are hilarious. Well, some of them are; others are just assinine.

Yes, unbelievable, some of those comments... The whole situation is mind-boggling though.

R.

digitalpins

Canon EOS-60D

Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

07/15/2008 03:49:50 PM · #4

lol what a dumbass, and some of those comments are funny

scalvert

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

07/15/2008 04:41:28 PM · #5

I'll bet something like that happens all the time. I've seen it personally at least twice. One of them was a slimy IT guy who would take company software & manuals home, then call in sick while he made money teaching people how to use it. He would take new computers home and claim we never received them, and set passwords on key systems that only he knew. When the boss demanded passwords, he'd grudgingly comply, then immediately change them to something else. The company owner was chummy with the IT guy and refused to believe it, but this guy's supervisor happened to be a friend of mine, and wasn't going to stand for it. He ordered me to find out the passwords, change them and secretly kill the IT guy's computer. Some days at the office are more satisfying than others. ;-)

hajeka

Canon EOS R5

Canon RF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS USM

07/15/2008 05:07:32 PM · #6

Nice story, but it looks like what we call "een broodje aap". There's no such system that depends on only one password. Perhaps they should just hire another IT guy.

JaimeVinas

Canon EOS-1D Mark IV

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

07/15/2008 05:09:50 PM · #7

Ive met many IT people with Egos with size of elephants. Most are so narrow minded and cannot think outside the box. Those are the types I dont like working with. Too difficult and not worth the time.

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

07/15/2008 05:14:09 PM · #8

When I got laid off from my previous job, there were several specialized data acquisition systems that I had personally built; software and hardware. Since I was the only one who ever used them, I never created manuals, wiring diagrams, maintenance procedures or any other documentation aside from my own scribbles that I made while building the stuff and writing the code.

About two months after getting the boot, I got a phonecall from my old boss asking me to come back and teach everything I knew about the systems to the guy from India who was going to now be doing my job, easily a 2-3 month job. Unfortunately, we couldn't agree on my compensation.

scalvert

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

07/15/2008 05:30:53 PM · #9

Originally posted by Spazmo99:

About two months after getting the boot, I got a phonecall from my old boss asking me to come back and teach everything I knew about the systems to the guy from India who was going to now be doing my job

LOL! Been there, done that many times, loved it. I quit one place where I was constantly fixing problems caused by employee stupidity (in once case, a computer kept spitting out a floppy disk because our anti-virus software detected an infection. Rather than call IT, the genius disabled the anti-virus software to get around it and proceeded to copy the files to our main server). Several months after I left, I heard that the management suspected me of leaving "timed viruses" to screw up their systems. Nope... that was just a natural consequence of not having anyone around to fix problems. :-/

Message edited by author 2008-07-15 17:31:22.

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

07/15/2008 11:34:08 PM · #10

Originally posted by scalvert:

Originally posted by Spazmo99:
About two months after getting the boot, I got a phonecall from my old boss asking me to come back and teach everything I knew about the systems to the guy from India who was going to now be doing my job

LOL! Been there, done that many times, loved it. I quit one place where I was constantly fixing problems caused by employee stupidity (in once case, a computer kept spitting out a floppy disk because our anti-virus software detected an infection. Rather than call IT, the genius disabled the anti-virus software to get around it and proceeded to copy the files to our main server). Several months after I left, I heard that the management suspected me of leaving "timed viruses" to screw up their systems. Nope... that was just a natural consequence of not having anyone around to fix problems. :-/

I did offer to come back and do the work, just not for free like he was hoping. He seemed to think $1000/day was excessive as a consulting fee. I also heard later that they spent 5x what I was asking to get the stuff working and it took them 6 months longer. Corporate Myopia at its finest.

robs

Canon EOS R6 Mk II

07/16/2008 12:52:07 AM · #11

Originally posted by Spazmo99:

I also heard later that they spent 5x what I was asking to get the stuff working and it took them 6 months longer. Corporate Myopia at its finest.

Yup... Been there like most IT people now days.... I don't do the shoot myself in the foot so well :-) Far better to spend a lot more on cheap widgets then one expensive widget :-/