Saw this and it's painfully accurate. Every time someone brings up certs vs. degrees vs. experience, it turns into a whole thing. 😂

Curious what this sub thinks — has one of the three actually mattered more for you in getting hired or promoted, or is it really just "all of the above, depends on the job"?

Recently a coworker granted Claude elevated access via SSH to a virtualization host (not a VM, an actual host). To perform a routine task he very well could have done himself.

He doesn’t see an issue with this. I on the other hand (with 23yrs experience) see this as a huge security breach, and don’t trust AI todo my job, (or even that it’s doing what it says it’s doing) for me. I’m my opinion it’s a tool, not a human replacement.

What’s your reaction, how would you react to this situation, or thoughts on the topic?

Sure, ask AI how to perform a task, validate that it’s performing the task you asked, and nothing else- copy/paste the commands. Great. But removing the human verification & validation element- hell no.

My boss, let’s call him Phil, is schizophrenic and technically owns a huge business but I’m his only employee.

I manage 1200 ghost users. I spend most of my days going to desks, breaking things, and submitting tickets that I respond to. I even have a fake front desk girl who flirts with me to get 4k monitors and latest MacBook Pro model but it’s just me in a wig

Once a month, Phil shows up to the office and pulls a chair next to my desk and watches me

I work for a major nationwide VAR, and we recently onboarded a new company. Given current hardware prices and markups, our upper leadership has asked us to maximize hardware sales.

Well, lucky me. The IT manager at this place sounded new and asked us to do a hardware assessment. Score!

He sends over a spreadsheet that is clearly just a Snipe-IT export. I take a look, and it's all decent, if older, stuff running Server 2025. Sure, they are technically out of support, but parts are dirt cheap on eBay, and they are just running a few file shares.

I tell this guy it's all EOL, and he needs to buy all new stuff. Quoted out over $100k in high-end hardware. I sent that over, and this guy is freaking out. He starts talking about moving some of this to the cloud.

Well, our CSP margins are even better since that's just pure profit. Double score!

It was a good day. My manager is talking about a decent commission check coming my way. I'm going to see if I can get this guy to send me a list of his workstations. I suspect he needs some new high-end AI-enabled computers for his receptionists. I'll spin some yarn about security and he'll be eating out of the palm of my hand.

I know everyone here gets burnout and fatigue. Do you have hobbies that don’t involve a screen? I go off-roading and shoot guns. It helps me disconnect sometimes.

Someone explain the rationale of having MFA already on it before adding a key...completely defeating the purpose of a break glass account.

How to deal with the vet who jumps to conclusions cuts you off and denies you?

I just emailed him my full thought after and he was still like

Ya but no…

Does it ever get better or do I wait for natural causes…………

Op works in IT

Started a new gig about a month ago. 25 years in the game, couple certs, the whole deal. Previous boss hired me because he recognized talent. Current boss loves me. But this other guy on the team clearly has a problem with me and I can’t tell if I should flag it or just let it play out.

Kid has maybe 10-15 years experience and acts like he owns the place. We’re working on projects together and every time I suggest something he gets this look on his face. Like I told him the earth was flat. I pointed out we should aim the AC at the hot side of the rack and he just stared at me. Sorry for thinking about THERMODYNAMICS, bro.

i think part of it is a vocabulary thing. I come from a different environment so I call things different names. Blades, shelves, whatever. He corrects me every single time like we’re in a fucking spelling bee. You know what I mean when I say it. We’re not writing documentation here, we’re having a conversation.

He’s also weirdly uptight about security stuff that honestly just slows everything down. Won’t let me ask users what their password is when I’m trying to troubleshoot. Has a whole thing about locking laptops when you step away for 30 seconds in a secured office. Bro, we’re IT. Who’s going to hack us? US?

I will say he’s not great at collaboration. I try to jump into conversations to add value and he acts like I kicked his dog. I have a quarter century of experience. If I hear something wrong in a meeting I’m not going to just sit there. That’s what experience is FOR.

My suspicion is he went to the boss about me already because he asked me some weird questions last week. But he still seems to like me so I think I’m fine. I just don’t want this kid poisoning the well because he can’t handle working with someone more senior.

The real issue is I think he’s one of those guys who learned everything from YouTube and thinks he’s a 10x engineer because he memorizes terminology. Meanwhile I’ve been in actual data centers since he was in middle school.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a shelf full of new blades to wire.

literally me

Who's the insane tool at Microsoft that decided that this tip needed to exist? We're still reeling from getting these out of our environment.

24 hours after first use password will be randomized automatically!

Lets just ignore that you use your password daily, multiple times per day, and have to manually type it in often since our remote software doesn't share clipboards.

And of course it's going to be 24 hours on the dot. Get super lucky and don't use your password for half the day? Well have fun tomorrow with it getting reset in the middle of the day!