I’m a gigantic asshole. Working previously on O&G sites for almost a decade and having to deal with tons of bullshit from other people with abrasive personalities have made me a huge asshole when people cut corners/don’t do their jobs. It’s always been a hurdle when I work corporate jobs because I was always able to take care of it by sticking my finger in someone’s face and telling them to handle their shit and now I have to do nicely worded emails and not curse.
Oh and it’s crazy because the company was had a massive hack the year before I started and they’ve implemented tons of anti-phishing programs that they test and everything.
No I’m not in charge and have no power whatsoever to get any of this resolved other than cc’ing my boss and asking nicely for the IT guy to fix it. It’s infuriating.
I’ve worked in the corporate setting as well for years but it’s seriously a huge issue for me to not flip out over things like this. I go from 0-100 real quick when someone messes up stuff due to them trying to be as lazy as possible. Because now he’s going to have to do all the stuff he should have done for our new hire for me and it puts a project that should be done now because of me being off the past couple of days due to being sick but I have to let the client know it’s going to take longer due to this. I’m still sick af too so that’s not helping but I couldn’t stay off work any longer and came back today to get things done
This is probably where you begin CC’ing the IT guy’s boss to make him aware he is distributing employee credentials.
I don’t know who his boss is. He’s the only IT person that physically works for our office. All the other stuff is outsourced to 3rd party.
Yeah, that is at the very least a disciplinary action. Sounds like the dude just really doesn’t want to be there anymore.
Were these credentials corporate ones given to you already or you created the creds and it was a personal password. The latter would be a huge issue as IT staff should not have access to these passwords at all because they should be encrypted. If it is the former, that is a really lazy thing to do, but feel like you won't be able to get much teeth behind the punishment except for the delay it caused your customer.
The new job I’m starting on Monday is with a firm that does various financial and insurance products. One arm of the business (where I’ll be) is a value-add/net loss service that exists to bolster the overall portfolio by providing this service free or at a lower-than-market rate. They recently licensed the platform for which I used to work directly. One of my roles there was training these brokers that run and operate the platform. Basically, I’m coming into this role with a much more advanced knowledge of every aspect of this job that my peers and bosses. I didn’t find out those details until pretty late in the process (final interview). The software is excellent, but the organization was super toxic. The new firm is excellent to work for, and this should give me a lot of credit from the jump to work how I want to work and make good career moves within the organization.
just imagining that this IT guy doesn't have a boss. he just wanders aimlessly and doesn't report to anyone. secretly, he runs this shitshow.
The lone on-site IT guy at a satellite office is often unaccountable to anyone. His “boss” either don’t know, won’t show, or don’t care what’s going on in the hood.
wtf? you have to hope to the gods in this type of situation that you have someone who is a go-getter and is trustworthy as hell. otherwise, thats a disaster.
I was in no way, shape, or form saying what happens is a good thing. I’m just saying it does happen and it happens far too often.
One thing that really sucks about smaller companies (I’m assuming Hoss Bonaventure works for a relatively small company based on context clues) is that you often reach a point where individual contributors report to a boss who has zero idea about that work, it’s just the least wrong place to roll that role up to.
This a reason I love how we have things set up at my company. Every dept it’s a discipline of service and each office. So everyone is responsible for their own shit in the end. There isn’t really a no nothing boss that lords over anything.
Corporate ones. Nothing personal only they were the ones assigned to me and given to another person. It wasn’t any personal info just my licensing information for software access. Just really lazy as he most likely didn’t want to go through getting new ones for the new hire so just gave them mine but now has to actually go and get news ones for me so just caused himself more of a headache than if he would have done the right thing the first time. That’s what infuriates me. She doesn’t even really need them right now because she’s in training and won’t have her own projects for at least a month, so plenty of time to get it for her instead of taking the lazy way out.
Update, he called me and fixed it all. I’m assuming he did what I said above and just took my stuff back from the new hire realizing she’s not going to be using it anytime soon (it’s like her second day at the company) and I’m going to have to help train her while needing it at present. Always calls. He will never reply to an email especially when I cc my boss but will just call and say “it’s fixed, have a good day” and hang up. Dick
I work for the largest company in our industry. We’re the first and foremost in our field. Each office is like a separate company on its own though if that makes sense. We have 4 offices in Houston alone, but since I’m based out of one I have to deal with this dickweed. The other offices have their own IT person. I’ve always had to direct everything through him but the other offices would go through their IT person and they handle it, or pass it onto the 3rd party group
I was talking to my coworker who had the same thing happen to him and he said “yeah I don’t know what’s wrong with “IT Guy” but he’s the worst and needs to get his shit together.” So it’s not like he’s just doing this to me.
I don’t think he has a direct boss. He’s a director and prob reports to a VP so yeah he can do whatever he wants because it’s just him. The only time I’ve been to our office to pick up my equipment from him and he has a gigantic nice office to himself while all the rest was cubicles. As I said I have no real power to do anything but play nice and keep asking politely. It’s frustrating
Still catching up but I don’t get on here on my company computer. I’ve never used any non company website other than the main MSN homepage that opens automatically when I get on Edge. I don’t shit post where I eat.
Anyone have one of these? It’s the company equipment I received with my laptop and monitors. I’m concerned my beard is going to cause issues. I’m 100% remote.
I have one exactly like that but just came with the USB and headset. I’ve never used it and just use my PS over ear headset whenever I have to be on a teams call but I too have a long beard and could see it hitting the mic.
This should prob go in the Random Thoughts thread, but I’d really like someone to make an AI bot that makes inspirational LinkedIn posts
I shit my pants as to not dirty up company toilets or take time to go to the restroom on company time. That’s how efficient of an employee I am.
Ok this time I’m the cringey one, and I need to know if it’s as bad as I’m making it out to be in my head. First day, new company, one other new hire. Turns out that we both worked for another company, I left 3 years ago, this person just left. We overlapped by about a year, same department, but a lot of faces. Different teams. Kind of a know the name, but didn’t really cross paths situation. I was a leader and managed a team of the role this person was in, but not their specific team. Anyway, we get to chatting on teams and I was asking what had become of the department blah blah. Who was your leader when you left? “Mary [who had reported to me there and was kind of my right hand/manager in waiting for a future opening. We were active working on getting ready for that as her next move], she was amazing, best leader I’ve ever had!” Me - and here it comes - Oh, that’s great to hear. I was thinking Mary was going to take over that team when I left, but I heard from other people that maybe that didn’t happen like I had imagined it would. I’ll totally take credit for her being so awesome… jk Now, that’s bad-joke-cringe in itself. What’s bothering me, is that both involved are black women. I meant nothing but being genuinely glad that she got the role she deserved and had worked for. But I feel like I came off like a condescending dope. She laugh emoji reacted to that message and that was the end of the chat for the day.