Posts by Ozmosis 6 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Aug 2019
Yup, we had that at a DC I worked in. Red, yellow and green buttons all side by side. Green did the door, red shut off the power, and I genuinely can't remember what the yellow did. Once the power to the DC got killed a couple of times, the button was moved and covered with a shroud.Professional DC designers were paid to come up with this sh*t....
I was nearly TUPEd over to TCS several years back, as part of a "re-structure of IT". Thankfully I was able to find another job and avoided that, but my colleagues weren't so lucky. All bar one left soon after, and the one bloke who is left is there waiting to retire, and lets them get on with whatever they are doing.
Only TCS staff has Domain Admin accounts so there is no visibility of what they are doing from within the company. It has been a complete car crash, and most systems have been taken offline during working hours, sometimes for days. Projects are stupidly behind agreed timescales and, most infuriatingly for company staff, complaints to IT Senior Management are met with replies of "you need to take this up with our IT provider".
They are cheap because they employ under qualified staff, and that is apparent in everything they do.
I found this out in my very early years in IT. As sole tech support for a small department, I used to carry a can of lighter fluid and cotton buds - 30 seconds with them and sticky balls/rollers weren't a problem any more. Security kept giving me cr*p for carrying the lighter fluid, but my boss backed me up...
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