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Darjanator
Install in-line power timers to reset them every 24 hours during times of lowest traffic.
streetsy0
Mow grass. Or deliver post. Sunshine. A little exercise. Low responsibility. Sounds like a plan.
snova595
@op My go to non-IT job is whittling shoes
AtsaMattaForMe
areyouelonmusk
Most IT guys feel the same
fpsitv
Are we the same person?!?!
wazeewa
I think IT is one of those universal jobs that is pretty much the same across the board. Some places tout being "a different environment here". Yea no, sorry buddy, its still the same problems. The animal might be different, but in the end, we're still cleaning up shit.
Magus25
I know that feeling. I work in a hospital, so shit needs to be up 24/7. We need emergency change control to reboot anything. If it's down fuck it, reboot time. Personally I want to work in a small Cafe, brewing coffee just right for each customer.
lurkingforeternity
Customers application keeps crashing every 1-2 days, so now there is a script which tries to restart it every minute. Very happy customer.
phuzz00
I was having a problem with customer's printers going unavailable if they dropped off the network for any reason, so I just set a cron to enable them every minute. Recently I upgraded the script to check if it's disabled first.
Seggs
>reboot the actual server >it fucking works
wazeewa
IT Troubleshooting 101: Have you tried turning it off and on again?
ElPerroDeLosCinco
As an IT colleage I say: Yes. Assert your dominance over clients and users. The worse you treat them, the more they respect you. They are happy to have a wild demigod as their IT. They talk and brag about you with their friends.
adiving
Ye no, you're confusing respect and "fear". My boss thinks the same, which is probably why everyone talks very different about him behind his back and they're (his bosses) obviously fishing for reasons to fire him.
beaverusiv
The happiest people in IT I know are now bus drivers or gardeners...
wazeewa
Probably runs Windows.
cyounghmfce
Task failed successfully!
mrthewhitee
Lol reminds me of when I used to work at a cell providers tech support. We had a system that would allow you to force a person's phone to unregister from the network temporarily. Anytime we got burnt out or had a shitty customer we'd go in and hit the button on the caller to end the call without the system registering it as the caller being hung up on by the tech rep.
shmerdaburrdaburr
I remember that one! I did tier 3 at a T-Mobile contractor for a bit and I’d be lying if I said I never intentionally killed a call that way. Plausible deniability and all that.
Cluelessfucker
Holy shit! This is literally me right now at 4:30 in the morning. Only difference is my bosses think I don't do shit.
albester
Well, that is the general curse of a job in IT. If everything works: "What are you paying you for?" -- If something breaks: "What are we paying you for?" ...
wazeewa
Yup, gotta love that. IT is kind of counter-intuitive to management. If we aren't doing work, that's a GOOD thing. I mean we still have stuff to do to keep us busy obviously, but if shit isn't breaking then we aren't running around trying to fix stuff which again, is a GOOD thing.
kowcatchan
Chances are they dont care. It's not like we all havent dealt with an unexpected server reboot before.
NLOVNI
I have CCTV cameras. Gotta reboot them 1-2x a month. DVR 1x/week.
sme2812
So .... what's a client server?
cbale2000
Client = customer in this context. The customer owns a server and he reboots it.
JackalopeElope
You know waiters, bellhops, bartenders and the like.
WhaleMilker420
You may have ADHD and cant leave a job go undone, let alone go undone in a shitty way. Meds and therapy help. Message me if you want to talk.
minoshirokin
Most of the IT guys I meet are similar to my friends dnd characters.
adiving
And then there's me. Bored out of my skull, with hardly anything to do. I'm currently working, and if I'm very lucky I'll have something to do in the next 6 hours. I literally slept through the last 2.
wazeewa
Oh come on, its not *twitch* THAT bad. I sometimes get *twitch* two hours of sleep.
80thousand85
Hell yeah brother! Let start up a lawn care business. We'll call it Bush Trimmers. Slogan can be "We'll trim your bush" or "if there's grass on the field, We'll mow it!"
PrincessWendyB
"We'll make your deck look HUGE!"
ME2BNS12
Or we can become electricians, too. "Let us remove your shorts"
USSBigBooty
You can you rent my goats for extreme green brush clearing.
AskThisGuy
AllTheGoodNamesAreUnavailable
Is your deck a little small?, you got some big bush around it? We can trim that bush and make your deck the center of attention. Your deck is guaranteed to appear 1.5 times larger.
cantevenbewhenicantevenpee
But my mom says my deck is already big enough even tho my wife wishes it was bigger but she’s used to BBD
justfillingthespace
Listen, it's kinda tough to win against a Big Backyard Deck.
AllTheGoodNamesAreUnavailable
oh take your upvote
FallenJester
Do you also just install Acrobat Reader on everyone's PC when they submit a ticket? Any of you nerds have that copy pasta saved anywhere? So good
GabbyJayYay
you mean Google Ultron?
phuzz00
Fuck Adobe, go for one of the free PDF readers like SumatraPDF
nanyatenyaa
I would seriously question why its not just part of imagining process for computers being given to employees. If your IT department isn't installing the like 5 or 6 pieces of software 90% of people need on computers before handing them out, they need smackems. Across the face.
FallenJester
Adobe is just browser based anymore, don't need an app. I be converting file types all day just in their browser program
PewDiePiesEvictionNotice
I love this greentext story. /gallery/Ewq0q
WhereIsMyAppleQuava
Never got a continuation. Why you link to make my heart break?
TotallyNotGLaDOS
I got rebooted once and ended up in a potato.
Madderrs
Doing Science and Still Alive!
JestersWing
Wait a minute, that's something that happened to GLaDOS. You're totally not TotallyNotGLaDOS!
lackadaisycull
Was there cake?
cantevenbewhenicantevenpee
And that kids was how I met your mother boom fixed the ending for y’all
HandoB4Javert
PandaWaffleking
Nidiahk
Making a note here ... huge success!
kwayzu
How'd you get out of the imgur servers?
theschizneck
totally didn’t read that in her voice
nclu
Nor did I read your comment as her
justatinyduck
I got rebooted once. I am runnung way better now. The dampening world wonder for my knees.
InfocalypseRising
“So how are you holding up? Because I’m a potato.” *clap* *clap* *clap* “Oh good. My slow-clap processor made it into this thing.”
TotallyNotGLaDOS
tater1337
Well you were kind of a dick
TotallyNotGLaDOS
Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.
pareidoliaperson
And seller asked you to take it out?
Potatokil1er
Hello there
CosplayComet
This comment is a triumph.
ChromaticPassingTone
Making a note here.
NerdyPegger
Huge. Success.
Burgundee
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction with this comment chain.
Freak0zoid
But did you die?
Odb718
pretty sure she's still alive.
Nidiahk
Thanks I giggled at that
Hurglederp
Wrong colors, I think
cbale2000
He's basically saying he wants to get fired but his boss views what he's doing as a good thing instead, thus being counterproductive to his goal. Red is Rad, Blue is Bad.
TheGrubinator
FIRRIB.
Macy2fast
Yaaaa, as a IT guy. Nope those are the right colors lol
UsernamesAreStupidAnyways
Both readings actually kinda work...
CogentMoment
Kinda depends on your outlook
lackadaisycull
Right? Imagine finally being to celebrate a lack of fuck-giving only for THAT to get recognition. For me, it’d be an FML moment.
zFUBARz
I angrily sent off an email to my directors after a knee jerk reaction during a meeting where we were looking at making something way more complicated than it needed to be for a problem that didn't really exist. Now I'm on the planning committee to actually help decide the changes because they think I have good insight into the matter.... Fuck me, I just didn't want to make work harder for no reason. So now it's harder only for me I guess.
Illiasa
LOL that's hilarious. I've definitely phoned some shit in as well at times. I'm with you on the burn-out... I'm currently trying to pivot to something else. I'm hoping I can find a programming job rather than an engineering job... but pretty much all tech jobs sound and feel the same.
warriorofdiscord
Look for solutions and consulting companies, rather than generic IT jobs. I'm a junior full-stack developer basically fresh out of college and write software full-time, no IT support bullshit or server maintenance or anything like that. More senior employees will do the consulting and solutions building for custom software solutions, but we just build apps. It's a pretty great gig, I got a 9% pay raise after my first year. Make almost 80k, living in Des Moines, Iowa. Cost of living is damn cheap
Xannacor
If you don't mind me asking what's your job title exactly?
warriorofdiscord
"Junior Full Stack Software Developer" but internally just a "Software Developer".
justareallylongemailaddress
No, I'm not a hot linkedin "recruiter". Where are you located?
nanyatenyaa
I recently got a job where I do nothing for a company that makes software x. Now I have recruiters begging me to come manage their company's software x. Recruiters.... have destroyed the tech industry. Whats worse is they get all self righteous about filling jobs, as if jobs can't be filled without a third party recruiter, when really all they want is the commission off recruiting a person.
Illiasa
I've never taken a recruiter job. I did get contacted by an internal recruiter at a company and took the contract but I got the advertised salary, they just got tiny bonus. That said, at this point I kinda wish I could trust my job search to someone, job hunting is soul-crushing for me, even when I am employed. In the end I just downsized my life so I could accept a wider range of offers.
itsallaboutthecones
I recently learned it's not uncommon to be 20% of first years salary! I would be pretty pushy about that too!
wilysubterfuge
This is me. At least programming is something creative and therefore somewhat satisfying. Scripting is the only part I enjoy currently. That's got to count for something. Engineering is like you're always the bad guy.
cbale2000
Programming/scripting for a hobby is one thing, but there's FAR less creativity involved when you have a client that has specific requirements you need to meet in a business setting. Plus you're then often expected to support your work when you're done.
nanyatenyaa
I thought I'd enjoy scripting, but 90% of scripting ends up being explaining to people why all their data is shitty and inconsistent and they need to fix it. I love scripting, I hate scripting for any size business... Corporate IT has this magical thing where it turns a 1 hour job into a 5 month ordeal. Last year I asked for an API key so I can automate tickets and security said "You need to test that first." Test what? Making a fucking account? Making an API call? Test the ACL? WHAT DAMN YOU!?!
Illiasa
feltbut scripting and, in my past, backend systems programming is one of the things that has kept me sane.
nanyatenyaa
The more backend I see in my career the sadder I get. One of our applications that integrates with sharepoint, cannot accept spaces in the URL field. Because god forbid, some one put a space in a sharepoint folder name. Like that never happens. The setting field is hardcoded to reject it. Can't even slap in a good ol %20 to make it work. Seeing enterprise software code kills the young curious IT person I once was.
Illiasa
True story... the schlock can pile high. my first development job was in the dinosaur ages and I was working on data bridges in C++ -- between OS390, AS400 databases, SQL (running on Solaris and AIX), and integrating early directory stuff with X.500 stuff. I actually worked on the early development of OpenLDAP and Samba as a community programmer. In-house, big corporation, the code set was millions of lines, multiple systems, and a variety of total crap and awesome. Legacy code was a big problem
sixtimesseven
Lol I just wrote a bat file on one for that exact reason. I had an old ass one I I put a smart outlet on that pinged the server then power cycled it if it didn't ping for 3 minutes.
ChewyTheWookie
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Kayveman
I did this with a raspberry pi running uptime-kuma and a Wyze plug with IFTTT. Works well and kept my aging IP camera infrastructure at my house working fairly well. Anybody wants instructions, let me know :P
shakefu
What in the jiminy fucking cricket
ticktockbent
I do this for my router. I have the gateway router on a smart plug that will reset if you send a specific request to its IP. I ping two different public DNS every 45 seconds and if it fails 3 consecutive pings it resets the smart plug.
Bibidibop
I need to do that for my setup. That’s really smart.
Eldibs
Are you me? Because I did this exact thing for my Linux server. I also set it up to wait three minutes on booting, and if it can't access the network share, to reboot and try again.
Manse84
I need to do this for my media vault. It's a crappy desktop that I repurposed with OpenMediaVault for totally legal storage, but there's a memory leak and it craps out about every other day
EricPisch
Our door control system PC is like this, they won’t pay to replace it … so I set a scheduled task to reboot it at 1am every night
Eldibs
The product you're looking for is the ezOutlet5, you can usually get them for $80, and they have a workable web-based interface, no fancy drivers or anything needed.
cbale2000
If it's every other day and not every day, just preemptively reboot it every night at like 4am or something. I have a Windows-based NAS I built and it was as easy as making a scheduled task that runs every night.
DorkJedi
eh, just schedule a reboot chron job every night at a dead time in its use.
Manse84
I did that, but it seems to occasionally hang before the reboot check happens. It's weird, but not weird enough to actually fix when I can just flip the switch and be done
offroadguy56
I ended up using unRAID with Plex docker container. Though my requirements were more than just a NAS.
Manse84
I have OMV running socker, with Plex, sabnbz, radar, and sonar. When it's running, it's pretty great
offroadguy56
Only issue I have with unraid, and it might just be the docker container, when my container service stops unexpectedly like in a power cut, my reverse proxy container gets corrupted and it will not renew or make new ssl certificates