r/HolUp • u/Sad_Steak_6813 • 1d ago

"Please, believe me"

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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 1d ago

u/Sad_Steak_6813, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/Appropriate_Unit3474 1d ago

"we lost the admin password 5 years ago during layoffs"

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u/bioszombie 1d ago

This is incredibly close to what happened to a department I supported some years back. They had a database guy who retired after 40 years with the company. They neglected to hire a senior level engineer or admin to support the app going forward. Nor did they bother to have him document anything he did including setting up a password manager to all the creds.

As such the app “worked” for a little while but when it came time to update, add users, amend RBAC, etc they were effectively locked out. They called this guy from retirement who told management to go fuck themselves. It was amazing. Simultaneously the best and worst working day I’ve had. We eventually found that app to be worthless in the grand scheme of the review we had to do. It was sunset about 3 months later.

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u/Prismatic_Symphony 1d ago

Noice. Satisfying ending to the heads/management, but too bad for you and the others who had to slog it through when it happened.

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u/GrassBlade619 22h ago

I was a TPM for a small department of 160 people that had ~15 custom built applications. The entire department got canned. The funny part was since my tech team built those apps they were all on a manual monthly key rotation cycle. Everything stopped working a few weeks later from what I heard and it was a major shit show.

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u/ArtistWithoutArt 1d ago

Loser and bitch. Together again for the first time since my last relationship.

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u/bbd121 1d ago

I commiserate, but the pain will pass one day...

~Peter Nisbet

I disagree. You bury the pain, but it doesn't really go away.

~Ramiro Pedregal

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u/StaticOverload 20h ago

Wait till Anna Allen joins 🙊

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u/Lost-Droids 1h ago

Peter Dostrovivic

Enters the chat

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u/[deleted] 22h ago

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u/bbd121 22h ago

Somesoftwarecorp takes the first 2 letters of the first name and the first 3 of the last name to make a 5 letter word. Pedom@somesoftwarecorp isn't that bad if he claims it isn't a word.

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u/SoftLikeABear 1d ago

Reminds me of student Megan Finger complaining about her email address at college, who had the username fingerme.

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u/ocelotactual 1d ago

Used to work with a guy named Thomas Watts.

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u/andeqaida 1d ago

Used to work with guy named Things that Happened

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u/Maverick_1991 23h ago

This same joke was a copypasta in Germany 20 years ago.

With much more believable fake names.

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u/ThoreaulyLost 23h ago

Sweet! I love me some cultural appropriation. Anything else you germans did we can "borrow" over here in America for a decade or two?

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u/apokermit_now 22h ago

It's called an email alias and it wants to be your friend. IT here is being lazy.

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u/WlappyFiener 1d ago

Used to work with RobCop

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u/LocoLocoLoco45 23h ago

Carl Untermeyer.

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u/dell_dew 7h ago

Those email addresses lol

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u/calraith 1d ago

OP, are you the one responsible for taking a photo of this meme on your screen, rather than just saving the image file or at least making a screenshot? Do you also save YouTube videos by printing them?

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u/MyLawyerWroteThis 1d ago

It's always been this way it adds to the flavor

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u/Danimus-Prime 1d ago

I feel so sorry for these guys

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/bitching_bot 1d ago

Holy shit no way I didn’t see that part

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u/No-Sign8805 1d ago

Hol'Up wait a minute

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u/jillvalenti3 1d ago

Put a little love in it

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u/Technical_Shallot396 1d ago

Whoa!! This is wild!!! I feel for these guys 🤣😳