System Administration
Posted: Mon 3 July, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism, Geeky, Work-related |4 Comments »Sometimes you really have to wonder about this company.
Two weeks ago, Arsehole Boss sacked the system administrator, basically because the SysAdmin kept on disagreeing with Arsehole Boss. Yes, there was other stuff too, but that’s the basic thrust of it.
So this morning I get a call.
Arsehole Boss : Lyle, we need to find out all the root passwords to the servers.
Me : I’ve no idea what they are – [SysAdmin] never told me. He was the only one who knew them.
Arsehole Boss : But we’ve got to find them out, so he can’t get in to the system.
Me : Well surely we did that before you sacked him?
Arsehole Boss : Well, no.
Me : …
Arsehole Boss : Oh, and we need to find out where all the domain names are registered, and who to, and what the admin passwords are.
Me : [Sysadmin] was in charge of all that. I’ve never had to use the domain admin stuff. But surely we got that before you sacked him, as it’s all company assets, and, if he were being a cunt, he could set all our domains to point to porn sites, for example? And we then couldn’t reset them without the admin passwords which, um, we haven’t got?
Arsehole Boss : Yes. We need to get them before he does anything like that.
Me : Would’ve been easier when he worked for us, really, wouldn’t it?
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
Haha! I’m starting to think there’s a book in this, Lyle. Priceless.
So now you can take all the passwords once you find em out, and do exactly the same thing once u go …. except pointing the websites towards porn sites is a must.
Sheesh.
Mind you, do you really talk to your boss like that?
Yes, Gordon, I do.
Most of the time I try and at least act like he’s my boss, but sometimes (like this occasion) I can’t keep up the pretence, even in my own head, that he’s superior, and my tone kind of betrays that.
On the plus side, I’ve talked like that to several people in the company at some point, so he doesn’t usually take it as being overly insulting. Oh, and sometimes how it’s written isn’t how it’s said – it might come across with a bit more humour, rather than just being sarky and derogatory. I don’t really think that was the case today, though…