You can break me, but you can't break my spirit. OW! My spirit!

[russianswinga.livejournal.com]

Dear law group with ~20 associates that bill $200/hr... You're to cheap to buy them computers??? So you have them on thin clients with a single terminal sever serving up their desktops? OK. But you ran that terminal server naked (no antivirus, no firewall), someone was naughty and downloaded something they shouldn't have. Oh yeah, all the users are Domain Admins. Now the server is f*cked. And so is everyone using it. As in 100% down. Can't log in. So now you have 20 $200/hr associates twiddling thumbs. 

We can fix it. And it will cost you. Way more than $200/hr. Maybe next time you'll buy antivirus.

Comments

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Heh. "So this downtime is costing you thirty-forty grand a day? You know, I could get you back up and running by tomorrow for one day's pay - or you could spend three to twelve days tracking down and validating an alternative who wouldn't permanently screw up your systems. When would you like me to start?"

[mix-hyenataur.livejournal.com]

They're prolly trying to litigate with the virus.

[mouser.livejournal.com]

"You what would be a years salary for me on an appliance that would filter your people's web traffic so they would actually, you know... WORK, as well as shape traffic for all 20 sites... AND YOU WON'T LET ME TURN IT ON???!? Please, starve in a fire."

[spaz-own-joo.livejournal.com]

starve in a fire


this is incredible.

[4bit4.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's just classic. Could someone set that up and more wrong?

[jecook]

O.O

Holy shit.

And revoke their domain admin privledges, too- Jeebus, we don't even give our users "Power Users" on their workstations, and they still manage to fuck them up...

[berkeleyfarm.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. Classic FAIL.

I bet someone threw a fit that the AV was making it "too slow" and the FW prevented him/her doing something fun.

[klytus.livejournal.com]

Forgive me for having no sympathy for these folks. Not even a little.

This is even worse than an End-Luser throwing a fit because we are not able to recover utterly critical files from their crashed hard drive; and the only reason this is such an uber-crisis is because the aforementioned End-Luser does.not.have.any.backups! Not one.

Why yes - I did have to deal with that very issue earlier this week. Does it show?

Twits.

[tuba-man.livejournal.com]

Or that *one* person in every organization who INSISTS on storing every last email in their Deleted Items folder. :/

[red-scully.livejournal.com]

Oh godddd, WHY do people do this?! "I've got a whole fiiiiiiling system in there, you can't delete it!" Apparently "would you keep your papers in the rubbish bin?" isn't a good enough argument. For the love of fuck, people.

[techkitsune.livejournal.com]

......

And people wonder why I left IT/Repair for a career in optoelectronics and horticulture.

This is why.

Seriously. I would headdesk so hard, so often, that I would go home with light bruises on my forehead. I kept explaining it off as dirt kicked up crossing the warehouse floor to the engineering section.

Just like one needs a license to operate a vehicle, I really think one should have a license to operate a computer.