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Master of Reality

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« on: 18 June 2002, 19:40 »
Mr. ******,

As an employee of an institution of higher education, I have a few very basic expectations.  Chief among these is that my direct superiors have an intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel.  After your consistent and annoying harassment of myself and my co-workers during the commission of our duties, I can only surmise that you are one of the few true genetic wastes of our time.
 
Asking me, a network administrator, to explain every little nuance of everything I do each time you happen to stroll into my office is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of precious oxygen.  I was hired because I know about UNIX, and you were apparently hired to provide amusement to myself and other employees, who watch you vainly attempt to understand the concept of "cut and paste" for the hundredth time.  You will never understand computers.  Something as incredibly simple as "binary" still gives you too many options.
 
You will also never understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it to you, even though I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you what an ISP is.Your shiny new iMac has more personality than you ever will.  You walk around the building all day, shiftlessly looking for fault in others.  You have a sharp dressed, useless look about you that may have worked for you interview, but now that you actually have responsibility, you pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will cover for your glaring ineptitude.  In a world of managerial evolution, you are the blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughs at.  Managers like you are a sad proof of the Dilbert Principle.  Seeing as this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a full frontal lobotomy reversal, I am forced to tender my resignation, however I have a few parting thoughts...

1. When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal to give me a bad recommendation.  The most you can say to hurt me is "I prefer not to comment."  I will have friends randomly call you over the next couple of years to keep you honest, because I know you would be unable to do it on your own.

2. I have all the passwords to every account on the system, and I know every password you have used for the last five years.  If you decide to get cute, I am going to publish your "favorites list", which I conveniently saved when you made me "back up" your useless files.  I do believe that terms like "Lolita" are not usually viewed favorably by the administration.

3. When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your mother's b-day", you neglected to mention that you were going to take pictures of yourself in the mirror nude.  Then you forgot to erase them, like the techno-moron you really are.  Suffice it to say, I have never seen such odd acts with a ketchup bottle, but I assure you that those have been copied and kept in safe places, pending the authoring of a glowing letter of recommendation.  (Try to use a spell check please, I hate having to correct your mistakes.)

Thank you for your time, and I expect the letter of recommendation on my desk by 8:00 tomorrow.  One word of this to anybody, and all of your little twisted, repugnant obsessions will be open to the public. NEVER fuck with your systems administrators, because they know what you do with all your free time.

Sincerely,
**** ******

[ June 18, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

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« Reply #1 on: 18 June 2002, 21:04 »
ROTFLMAO!!!!
I'm SERIOUS about Linux; are you??

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« Reply #2 on: 19 June 2002, 00:30 »
NICE!

Wow.  Wish I had stuff like this for my previous job.

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« Reply #3 on: 19 June 2002, 21:01 »
Incredible!
You know me.... really...

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« Reply #4 on: 19 June 2002, 21:59 »
admins are gods, more proof. by anychance/*now that you have the shit scared out of me*/ can with win2k and novell, can you trace connected systems and the os that they run and log it. and could you log ssh/X connects acrose a network. i know that the ssh connect is secure but my ass could be burned at the stake for it's mere existince/*my laptop should not be on the school network hehehehee it was toooo easy*/
x86: a hack on a hack of a hackway
alpha, hewlett packed it A-way
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mips: the graphical way
sparc: the sunny way
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« Reply #5 on: 19 June 2002, 10:46 »
Of course you can with third party apps.  The best place to catch that stuff though is at the firewall.  But depending on your school and how smart your IT staff is, you probably don't have a lot to worry about (especially if they only run Windows, they've probably had the full frontal).
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« Reply #6 on: 19 June 2002, 11:47 »
Where did you find that m0r?

Master of Reality

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« Reply #7 on: 20 June 2002, 03:39 »
quote:
Originally posted by BOB X11:
Where did you find that m0r?

I cannot tell you.
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« Reply #8 on: 20 June 2002, 11:30 »
quote:
Originally posted by Master of Reality / Bob:

I cannot tell you.


Hmmmmmmmm, Crime i sence... Should we talk about it privatly???

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« Reply #9 on: 25 June 2002, 05:28 »
the more people i have working under me, the more important it makes me look

the more important i look, the more money they pay me

it's as if there were a conspiracy to hire hordes of incompetant employees

edit:
WHO LOVES THE MOVIE "OFFICE SPACE"
if you haven't seen it, do so immediately

[ June 24, 2002: Message edited by: sporkme / bob ]

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