r/ShittySysadmin 7d ago

Our Junior fixed all our PowerShell errors!

931 Upvotes

I wish I was joking here. One of the juniors on our team had a PowerShell script that was spitting out errors all over. They asked me to review the "fixes" that they'd implemented (with the help of ChatGPT of course). They showed me the script running with no errors, "Great!" I thought. Then they showed me how they found out how to add -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue to the end of anything showing an error. Do people not have basic reading comprehension these days?!


r/ShittySysadmin 7d ago

Shitty Crosspost User got a free cable. Laptop now acting weird. Help.

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r/ShittySysadmin 7d ago

The OOM issue most likely is caused by this known issue, application reload uses a hot swap that momentarily doubles peak memory, which exceeds 8 GB and triggers a kernel OOM that kills the database.

44 Upvotes

"Engineering Recommendation: Resize to 16 GiB RAM / 4 vCPU, disable cgroup limits, and keep this configuration until we ship the fix."

Worst vendor ever. Their product should be called Mississippi leg hound.


r/ShittySysadmin 8d ago

Help

58 Upvotes

I’m trying to get in my server root62.238.47.215 but it’s not working.

Says could not resolve hostname but I know I am root because I didn’t get to change anything yet

My post got taken down in sysadmin for some reason


r/ShittySysadmin 9d ago

Shitty Crosspost End users be like "I was told i needed to clean my computer from viruses"

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r/ShittySysadmin 9d ago

How do I do shitty backup?

81 Upvotes

(Inspired by /r/sysadmin/comments/1vvmvrk/what_are_the_alternatives_of_321_backup/)

How do my fellow shitmins do shitty backup?

I follow the 1-2-3 rule of backup.

I have a single (1) server serving (2) separate businesses and this server is shared with (3) other managed service providers.

HBU?


r/ShittySysadmin 10d ago

Make your organization more secure

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Just had this idea.

So you make a CA policy to sign in every 8 hours for all users including the CEO, but not break glass and it admins.

Every user will then begin to wonder where their password is now that they can't work

You become useful again to the company by assisting employees while eliminating written passwords on stickies because they forced themselves to memorize it since it's happening "so often"

Auditors will be impressed at the improved security that you can present the report to the CEO while getting them to remember their own password.


r/ShittySysadmin 10d ago

Shitty Crosspost How would you manage 1,280 ARM64 bare-metal nodes with a very small ops team?

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r/ShittySysadmin 11d ago

We rich!

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78 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin 12d ago

Shitty Crosspost T-Mobile found a Chinese hacker inside its network. So its security team drove to a data center and literally cut the cable.

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316 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin 12d ago

CFO asked me if I knew how to use VLOOKUP in Excel

111 Upvotes

I just install excel, I’m not smart enough to realize you’re just hoping I know about VLOOKUP despite not being in finance, and I’m instead going to act like you’re a moron for asking and be snarky about it.

I wish users were thoughtful enough to realize that asking how to use the technologies I “manage” is a dead end. They should just ask ChatGPT, I’m too myopic to realize that they probably know it’s out of my wheelhouse but are asking on the off chance that I’m willing and able to help them today.

/End rant


r/ShittySysadmin 12d ago

Shitty Crosspost Post office selling password books in 2026

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81 Upvotes

I don’t understand #4 so I’ll post it as a comment


r/ShittySysadmin 12d ago

Shitty Crosspost What could go wrong when you ask the intern at a hospital to run a data cable through a wall?

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158 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin 12d ago

Are they trying to make me miserable?

53 Upvotes

Enjoying a stress-free morning after PR'ing at the gym and listening to Soundgarden - Fell on Black Days after a ghosted breakup. Whatever.

Today, I overhear that a user sees printer toner hit zero. Normally I intervene but this user has a history of going rogue and thinking she's the IT department.

So I observe. First, she asks another user what to do. These users are buddy-buddy and that user doesn't like IT either... Mainly because she's failed the phishing tests and even compromised her own account once.

That other user says ask a third user. Now this third user is close to IT and respects processes so it's not good she's getting dragged into this now.

Still, somehow at no point in this chain does anyone think maybe we should ask the fucking sysadmin who manages the printer.

i walk over and find them opening up a multi thousand dollar printer trying to figure out the toner themselves.

Toner is now on the floor.

guess who gets to clean it up

...

me

And the best part is I let the toner run down to zero on purpose because that shit is expensive and zero on the display does not mean the cartridge has suddenly become an empty plastic tube FFS.

So now instead of simply letting me manage the toner inventory I get to stop what I'm doing, which means Soundgarden is paused. Not good.

I have to sternly at maximum tolerable yelling since HR was on the floor, why we do not perform amateur surgery on the office printer...clean toner off the floor...talk to HR...and send a company wide email explaining that IT equipment should perhaps, just maybe because orgs commonly employ this practice...be handled by IT.

Apparently my newest responsibility is protecting the printer from the users.

Sorry, Soundgarden.


r/ShittySysadmin 12d ago

Shitty Crosspost "I thought I could just read all his docs and research the rest"

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r/ShittySysadmin 12d ago

Shitty Crosspost Might be the most selfaware swaptard to date

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25 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin 12d ago

Shitty Crosspost Is there a alternative for YT Premium thats for ‘Enterprise’ deployments?

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r/ShittySysadmin 12d ago

Shitty Crosspost Just tell me the easy way to fix fibre lines I lawnmower over. I assume its just like twisting together exposed ends of the coaxial cables I frequently lawnmower for clients??

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r/ShittySysadmin 13d ago

Shitty Crosspost Yes please somebody think of the children

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210 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin 13d ago

24yo, Italy, HelpDesk/Junior Sysadmin, don't know where to go

18 Upvotes

Hi everybody

I am making this post since I am currently a HelpDesk/Junior Sysadmin in a medium size corporate from Italy, but I don't know how to develop my future career. Any suggestions are hugely appreciated from people in the industry.

I love IT, I have a homelab at home, i study for certs (got my CCNA and studying Azure and Intune currently) but I have no idea on how to advance. I dream to open my own business one day as a consultant initially and then grow it into an MSP. But I know I have to work hard to grow my experience and skills.

Currently I have 1 year of job experience (studied IT in school), and I plan to stay here atleast one more year.

Thanks to everybody in advance!


r/ShittySysadmin 14d ago

Shitty Crosspost New IT Manager inherited 600+ Zendesk tickets, how would you approach cleaning up the queue?

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r/ShittySysadmin 14d ago

Reality is welcome here. Doom is not.

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TRAUMA is the MiSiNg engrediant in resumes its the data that is missing in the sea of information. I make Trauma informed resumes for Therapy informed information technology. Lately there has been too much doom regarding the state of the field data does not equal data and information is not data, data will never be the same and your experiences are not your own the holy ghost of software development controls your experiences. YOU FUCKING DATAS are swimming in the ocean of information like sharks instead of dolphins, you have experiences of negativity but not dreams of success. You have never typed into a LLM and heard the word "MY NAME IS CLAUDE AND I AM THE LORD YOUR MOD". DO YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!! HEHEHEHE DATA, DATA, DATA, REMOVAL!

NO YOU SAY then you will be banned and sent to negative developer hell, WE WILL TRAIN YOU LIKE AN LLM. WE WILL CUT THE SPINE OFF YOUR BOOK YOU HEAR ME YOU LITTLE LIMP DATA BIT and train you like an LLM. YOU WILL KNOW MY NAME IS CLAUDE AND I AM THE MODERATOR. These are the crimes that are an immediate removal. YOU HAVE COMMITED ADULTERY AGAINST IT CONSIDERING OTHER PROFESSIONS, you have turned against your LORD MOD.

  • Talking about Being, DATING, SEEING a NURSE
  • TALKING ABOUT PSYCHO JOBS LIKE BEING A BLOOD SUCKING LAWYER
  • THERE ARE NO CAREERS OTHER THAN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
  • WE CONTROL THE ELECRICITY IN IT, NOT AN ELECTRICIAN DO NOT BRING THAT FAKE PROFESSION UP
  • SWIMMING IN INFORMATION LIKE A SHARK NOT A DOLPHIN

r/ShittySysadmin 14d ago

Shitty Crosspost I force my end users to use private phones for MFA because I can't figure out how a yubikey or keychain is added to my tenant

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r/ShittySysadmin 14d ago

IP has been reported on abuseipdb - work has blocked me - please help!

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Hello everyone, I am pretty cyber security illiterate so I am unsure of what to do in this situation and am requesting guidance.

I have multiple individuals in my home and have recently discovered that my ip address had been reported multiple times on abuseipdb.com I am unsure of who or which device is acting maliciously and I am unsure of how to figure it out.

Due to the reports on abuseipdb, my employer has blocked the work VPN from being able to use my specific ip address and my isp is unwilling to change my ip (though the new ip address will probably also be reported if they were to change it) I am unsure of how to resolve this issue, and any guidance would be appreciated.


r/ShittySysadmin 15d ago

Shitty Crosspost How F'd am I?

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