I work in a University where I support around 200 users plus Undergraduate and Master students. I am the IT manager and have an IT assistant.

He joined the department in a different role but was abandoned by his supervisor quickly, so I too him under my wing and trained him up from zero IT knowledge to a useful IT support technician over the past 7 years.

We recently had 2 lab technicians leave mainly due to another technician. While I was on holiday, my assistant was told he was being pulled from my team and was now working in the labs (these aren't IT labs), be managed by the technician that caused others to leave and I've now to support the whole department by myself. Previously when I was by myself I didn't take more than 4 days off for over a year due to the amount of work needed but I've been told I need to manage it myself as the labs need the support.

Fast forward TWO whole days and my assistant has sent an email to management saying he's not coming in tomorrow citing stress as he's been thrown into this situation with no support or communication. Meanwhile my jobs are piling up without someone to do the small tasks for me.

It's been almost 15 years but maybe it's time to move on since IT is considered to be so expendable.

Sorry for the rant :)

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Context: I work for a local MSP. This is from a man who is well past retirement age and knows nothing about his workflow outside of the setup that we did. Recently, we changed around some things as they have two companies in the same building. We moved a couple of server VMs to the other company and changed some VLANs, leaving this side with just a file server. Ever since we did this, whenever he has a problem with something, he blames us and these changes. Whenever a ticket from him comes in, none of us want to take it because we don't want to deal with him. On the other hand, if we don't, he'll keep getting more upset. Some people should just retire.

It never works, I don’t even work with big Exchange servers and Azure orgs, I just work with home users, and I have seen absolutely INEXPLICABLE bugs and glitches that make me look like an idiot. The worst part of outlook is how Microsoft has a habit of DRASTICALLY changing the UI whenever they feel like it. “New” outlook (fantastic fucking name Microsoft) isn’t terrible (putting the settings menu under the “view” tab is certainly an interesting, decision, but I digress) but the problem is that people get used to the way things work, and when they suddenly don’t work the way they always did, people get pissed.

Then again, this is the same company that got rid of the start menu.

I thought about writing to this company to tell them how ridiculous this listing is but instead decided to post it to reddit. i pity the poor dude with an ee or compsci degree who has to consider this

300mw

Is it just me or does it feel like apple is positioning AI to be synonymous with apple intelligence? As though AI has always been an apple product/service

We all know what is going on here. You need to remain relevant and not be let go because "What is it that your team is doing here again?"

If I have to field one more god damned call for a user who opens up something like PayPal, and the entire user interface has been "improved"...

All developers are doing is creating problems that they can fix (read "patch") themselves and create issues to "improve" at a later date in an "update."

GTFO of here with that shit! Just fucking leave it the hell ALONNNNNNE. It worked, and it worked well. NO ONE asked you for "improvements." Stop it.