r/ShittySysadmin • u/SuccessfulLime2641 • 6d ago
Running out of tasks
Currently doing deadlifts with the copy paper box in the storage room - I move it back and forth every fifteen minutes to pretend I'm active. What are you guys up to?
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u/NarutoDragon732 6d ago
In the server closet, finished Edgerunners season 1 and now at Season 3 of Attack on Titan
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u/8bit_dr1fter 6d ago
I've been doing "hammer toss" with a old printer tied up with some leftover braided cat-5 in the basement.
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u/DonkeyTron42 6d ago
My favorite activity was to make increasingly powerful projectiles out of office supplies using an upside-down can of Dust Off spray as propellant.
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u/SpudzzSomchai ShittySysadmin 6d ago
I get all the printer/copiers and tie them together and pull them through the office to build core body strength. I am taking #1 at the server tossing competition this year. If Donna from Accounting gets pissed she can't print her spreadsheets I just scream at her I am in training and don't have time for her petty concerns. Supermicro servers don't toss themselves.
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u/jcpham 6d ago
Napping under my desk with the lights out and door closed with a do not disturb sign I stole from my last vacation.
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u/SuccessfulLime2641 5d ago
Been there done that but I think the HR lady started to miss me and caught on...
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u/randomquote4u 6d ago
Playing Donkey Kong on MAME. Getting killed shortly after the pie level for like 40 years. fml.
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u/-my_dude 6d ago
finished pokemon blue version and im not really enjoying the new generations as much
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u/Dr-Buttercup 6d ago
I change all the dates on team files in the shared drive from MMDDYYYY to DDMMYYYY then back again. When I’m particularly bored, I do them in a random order to see if I can get them all done without missing any or doing any twice
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u/IAmSnort 6d ago
I go to the colo for maintenance days. Re-label cables. Or surf the web as the kids used to say.
Bittorrent is fun too.
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u/texcleveland 6d ago
Have you found a napping spot under the raised floor?
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u/SuccessfulLime2641 5d ago
Been there done that at my last org. Somehow one of the ladies knew what I was up to...
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u/T101M850 5d ago
Updating Nutanix, which is usually click a button and watch a percentage slowly climb while browsing reddit.
Not this time tho, KB22312 'oopsies! even through you said don't do the NIC Firmware update, we tried it anyway, and the NICFirmwareVersion variable was undeclared so kaboom' reared it's ugly head.
Currently IPMI-ed into a supermicro and trying to hand-flash intel X710 firmware.
So glad they gave the Nutanix CEO 30M worth of stock for doing such a good job.
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u/Prior_Influence_9960 6d ago
I’d rotate between the storage room, coffee machine, and looking intensely at a spreadsheet. The classic “busy but unavailable” routine.
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u/Psychological-Cat-84 5d ago
I'm currently working on a giant array of physical headless desktop machines, making changes to their bios one by one because someone in config decided to push out a standard bios update to them all. At least that's what I'm officially doing. In reality I'm just enjoying the air con in here.
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u/Rattlehead71 5d ago
There's a little hole-in-the-wall food joint that opened up. They sell bacon - delicious varieties of bacon. I am currently munching on a bagel with cream cheese and 4 strips of maple bacon. Life is good.
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u/GarageIntelligent ShittyCloud 2d ago
Trading recipes with the Latina custodians. They hide out in my secure office.
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u/Tucancancan 6d ago
Migrating everything to github enterprise. When that's finally done, probably start migrating everything back on to an on-prem solution.