Life in IT Support

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ArithonUK

April 04, 2011, 05:01:09 PM Last Edit: April 04, 2011, 05:14:32 PM by ArithonUK
Today we had a support call from one of our customers who had a dying SQL server.

We have remote access, so we dialled in (VPN) to see what the problem was - this turned out to be disk space. Someone living in a 19th century unix bubble had partitioned the disk about 12 times into many small and useless drives. Anyway, that wasn't the funny part.

One of the workers in the office there was using the server console to use the web for non-work-related purposes. Unfortunately for him we logged in at JUST the wrong moment and got an eye-full of what he was doing. Signing up for a dating website, using the admin login in the server room to hide his identity. Trouble was, he was paying with HIS paypal account at JUST that moment, so we could see WHO it was!!!


Ooops!

Anyway, a quick browser history check shows Ross loves to gamble, watch Russian porn and is looking for a female companion; One who is "up for it" aparently...

T-Bag

#1
April 04, 2011, 06:49:05 PM
If you spring for platinum are they even more "up for it"?
Juggling Hard Disks over concrete floors ends in tears 5% of the time.

TeaLeaf

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April 05, 2011, 11:30:37 AM
Quote from: T-Bag;322679If you spring for platinum are they even more "up for it"?
Prefer strawberry blonde tbh.
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

Tutonic

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April 05, 2011, 11:53:54 AM
He was doing that from a server? Good grief...
Hero of the Battle Of Chalkeia
"Don\'t worry, none of this blood is mine"


TeaLeaf

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April 08, 2011, 05:04:35 PM
Question is, does he still have his job?
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

ArithonUK

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April 08, 2011, 06:09:31 PM
When I know, you'll know. Trust me!

Niel

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April 08, 2011, 11:38:29 PM
I had a similar laugh at work........
 
Was handed back a laptop that we used to run demo equipment that someone had been using at home for a project. Turned it on and it came up with "System Restore Failed" ( which raised my curiosity somewhat ..."what could he be hiding" ). Laptop rebooted back to the screen as he left it when he started the restore.........and up popped several windows, one of which was a chat window where he had been having quite an "in depth" chat with a lady who was most defintely not his wife........they had been having long chat. I did tell him that he should be more careful as he'd contravened company IT policy in so many ways it was daft.......for some reason he went a nice shade of crimson.
 
Moral of the story - never ever start a system restore to cover your dirty tracks with all the incriminating evidence windows still open...hehehe
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