I’m in our daily standup and it’s turned into exchanging fucked up sysadmin redundancy tales.
One place I worked lost a machine room. They’d fired people so fast that nobody remembered where the boxes were any more.
I knew, but they didn’t ask me. Oh well!
The cycle of IT binge and purge is eternal. Post your tales here.
mine’s … not corp flavoured, and please excuse the vagueposting (bc reasons)
the investor behind the company flew me out to their private game farm, in a particular place that had specific kinds of legal import, to do some things. the listed tasks themselves were nonsense, and the entire plan for the trip was a razzle-dazzle “wow”, combined with some attempts to get me pliably drunk and milk me for information (which I deduced was to be used in a “making redundant” play)
the plan was flawed in multiple respects, but the one that’s most entertaining to me was the attempt to get me drunk. they picked (by chance) one of my regular things, and because I’m not a moron I made sure to make them drink at my pace. they very lost on that mark, and the next day had 'em remarkably chill
That started out positively sinister, glad it came out alright!
it … it’s really wild
the vagueposting obscures a lot of detail
“there is currently an ongoing murder case, soon to go to trial” is, well. yeah. that’s a thing.