Shitposting at work

So I work in IT with one other guy who's the department manager. I honestly don't always have huge amounts to do - in my eyes, it's a job where you're paid to be there, but he's one of those who thinks you should always be doing something.

Useless fucker FINALLY after a decade has found out what a transparent proxy is. So I can no longer just fire up incognito and browse around without being busted.

Internetting from a phone is too obvious as you're hunched over prodding at something in your hand.

Maybe a VPN would be the key! But he seems to also check the amount of bandwidth consumed, it's only a matter of time before there's deeper analysis.

What do? Actual work? D:

Have you considered seppuku.exe?

Oh, I... I don't know, user.. that seems a little drastic..

I find it ironic how you call him a useless fucker, but you're the one trying to not do your job.

Being "busy", such as making up work just for the sake of it, doesn't necessarily equate to being useful. In fact sometimes quite the opposite, as it can generate work for other people

Having worked in IT for a few years myself, there's always something that needs to be done. If nothing needs to be fixed, then the job is to make things work more efficiently. You're just a lazy fuck.

This. OP please kill yourself you worthless sack of shit.

play dwarf fortress or abandonware.

he's IT not the sysadmin
go fuck yourself sperglord

if you weren't shit at your job you wouldn't have to fiddle with shit all day to get it running efficiently.

you sound as useless as op's boss who's only just now beginning to learn how to monitor network traffic

>implying there isn't always room for improvement

Plus, your bosses will like you for saving money for them.

>implying there isn't always room for improvement
there isn't, actually. that's not how computers work, they aren't infinitely granular and there is a minimum mean time to error that you always hit if you do things the correct way.

Find a different job.

Laptop using your phone's internet

Use a 2nd browser that uses your phone's Internet

If you can access your phone over WiFi ,use SSH forwarding to get a local SOCKS5 proxy
Configure that proxy in your 2nd browser

or just add a USB 4G modem to the PC
setup a virtual machine for all private stuff
forward USB modem to VM
the VM should be on a zip disquette that you take home

The best solution would be to use a laptop and tunnel to your house.

If he's actually watching per-host bandwidth, normal shitposting shouldn't cause problems, but streaming media could raise some flags.
Honestly, being micro-managed to that degree is actually pretty disgusting, you should consider looking for other jobs.

SSH into your home computer and shitpost there.

His job needs to be outsourced to geeksquad then.

Spoken like someone who's never had a real job

I VPN back to my home network, RDP into my home PC, and shitpost from there.

user never spent the time to get any marketable skills though cuz he was shitposting on Sup Forums the whole time he could have been working.

I spend about 1-2 hours a day watching training videos.

I work in a similar situation.

I place my phone on a stand on my desk, tucked up under my monitor, at an angle where you have to be inside my cube and sitting in my chair to see it. I plug it in, connect earbuds and a Bluetooth mouse, and watch YouTube videos and anime and listen to audiobooks all day. I'm on level 650 of candy crush soda saga.

look for another job
never stay in the same place more than 2 years

>implying IT is a "real" job

if you didn't get into this business to save up money to get a real degree and a real job making a real contribution to society... wew lad.

you're deluding yourself if you think you're better than OP. you're the corporate equivalent of the courtesy clerk. you're the fucking tech janitor and your head is so far up your ass you don't even know it lmao.

stay mad.

>throws a fucking spergfit and tells others they're mad
holy shit this is gold

> pay more for outsourcing
My company outsourced to a group for Tier 2 and 3 tech support and it run them over $300k a year. They finally told them to fuck off and hired two new ICT Officers, of which I am one, and now everything except T3 is done in-house, at a significant saving.

lol i worked with a guy who downloaded porn on his computer at work and saved it. got instafired because everyone hated him for being a lazy sack of shit, and the director/upper mgmt had plenty of complaints on file on top of the serious violation of porn.

you're toast

If it's not your business and you're not the sysadmin your job ends when the support tickets stop coming or you've done what you've been asked and are awaiting more instructions.

IT doesn't get paid enough to do anything they aren't told to do. This is like expecting fast food workers to give a fuck about what's wrong with your food.

Assuming there is no software on the PC to keep the traffic saved until later, you can just do USB tethering from a phone. This completely takes you off their network altogether and the phone can be hidden behind the PC. Only problem is that in this case you are off your network and can't use the printers/local resources until you get back on so if he was trying to work with you, it would be quickly obvious what was going on. Again would also not have to have local software on the PC to keep the traffic for later.

With that out of the way you are a meme employee and even if you did "real work" you are going to be terminated soon. Get ahead of the curve and kill yourself

kek

>he's one of those who thinks you should always be doing something.

I hate this mindset so much. I once had a manager who kept telling me that even if there isn't any work to do, give yourself work to do like cleaning your screen or keyboard.

Also worked in IT for a few years and there were situations in which all clients were very happy and there was nothing else that could be done, but the person above me was a piece of shit and insisted we needed to meet an hours quota per week. As you said, in my case I automated the fix for one of our biggest clients in several ways so after that was implemented our call volume went down by almost 40%. I had to quit less than a month after that change.

IT is shit, even if you own your own company it's shit.

You are so ignorant yet arrogant, it's actually pretty funny.

I don't believe you, my wife works for a company that has no IT department (150 employees) and the service fee they pay for onsite support is 20k a year.

Unless your wife works for a ditch digging company where all their business is conducted over a few laptops, that's not an accurate price.

Labor to maintain basic infrastructure + services + 150 machines would amount to way over 20k, that's about at the edge of what one person could handle on their own.

Guarantee you the difference is proprietary software. Literally 90% of the calls I got were for shitty 10 year old software targeted towards this business that they could probably just use excel (or fucking notepad) and in extreme cases we actually had an agreement with them that we would learn the common problems of it for so they didn't keep getting charged out the ass at the company that makes it. Problem is that if this software doesn't work, they really don't have any use for the computers anyway. So when it would really fuck up we'd get the same threat to drop our contract on a daily basis. One of the reasons why even if you own your own IT company, it's still a fucking shit field. Even if you have their signature, every day it's just "we'll drop you if you don't support our turbo shitware"

Haha holy shit, user, 1 desktop support tech can handle over 300 desktops.

> I don't believe you
I don't care. That included project ''''support'''' as well.

IT should be a maximum of 3% of your workforce, if you do nothing and you are the only tech, your company is less than 100 people.

I think it's about 120, and it's a team of five in-house. But we're spread over the entire state, which if you know anything about Australian states, if a big fucking area.

His company is probably sucking on Microsoft's tit, which is the only way to explain such an enormous sum of their budget looking like pork barrel money.

>people actually "work hard" and don't put in the absolute bare minimum of effort at work if they're making less than $80k/year
What the fuck is wrong with you?

>australian

Found the problem.

You have 30% more IT people than you need and you also have a service agreement with another firm? Fucking trash.

What the fuck are you guys doing? Like what the fuck is so tough that you need 1 tech and 4 others?

We're MITM'ing your https traffic.
When we choose to blackmail you, you'll know you fucked up

Sincerely,
Your boss

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Seriously, don't do it.

Notice how I didn't say "desktop support"?

A company with 300 employees and 1 IT person is not going to have a good time.

>implying I make less than 80k a year

They never heard of the Russian saying, "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work."

a company of 300 should have 9 IT people, one of which desktop support.

>go to work
>boot from liveCD
>shitpost
>if boss comes in open terminal and do some random bullshit saying I'm debugging an issue
>boss leaves
>keep shitposting

Government work, friend.

And again, it's easier to post three people at 8 hour intervals from each other to help four sites each, rather than have one person be responsible for all 12 sites - where most sites have 4 meg links or less - and be 16 hours away from the northernmost site, if they're at the southernmost.

I handle two companies of 90 employees and 10 employees.
I literally sit on my ass most of the time, and rarely, I have like 1 task at a time that can last most of a day.

My original response was about the company that supposedly has no IT department and a $20k support contract.

I work for a 16,000 person government entity, the IT department is 400 people.

If you have a desktop PC do the following:

1. Buy a cheapo wifi card.
2. Make your phone into a mobile hotspot and on the list of allowed devices put your work PC as an allowed device and limit the amount of allowed devices to 1.
3. Connect to the wifi access point made by your phone.
4. If possible, disconnect yourself from the work internet.

Or you can just set up an SSH tunnel.

it's true, I witnessed it. the assistant executive director is responsible for the technology. If you have a simple enough system, you don't need a massive IT department, this is the whole point of cloud services.

Not him but I never underestimate my bosses. I'll only ever check the weather for non-work related stuff on my computer. Everything else is done on my phone.

i browse porn on my twitter for like 3 hours every day at work

Cool, I guess? I dunno, I sort of lucked my way into this job and I'm doing my best not to fall flat on my face. To be fair, one of the IT team is the manager who doesn't actually do that much IT stuff any more, and another is just a co-ordinator who organises myself and the other two ICT officers.

You mean obsolete yourself? lmao

Yeah but even if my boss wasn't a fucktard he'd still have to get around my VPN.

>We silently fired a few people throughout the years for fucking about on social media more than a few seconds a week.
Yeah that sounds like a great place to work.

Why the fuck do you have 3 IT people who don't do any IT shit?

I worked at a 200 person company that had 5 IT people, the IT director who reported directly to the CEO, was essentially the head sysadmin.

This. If you figure out a way to increase the efficiency of something by, say, 35%, you increase it by 2%, and tell your boss you might be able to make it better, but you'll need a LOT more time. Then, for the next six months, if you don't have anything else to do and your boss comes in, you just tell him you're working on those upgrades. Then bump it up by another 2%. By the time you get up to full efficiency, hopefully you'll either be in another job, or everything has advanced so much you can just go back to step 1.

I like the way you think, Mr. Squidward.

> three people who don't do IT shit
There is the Manager of ICT. He really, REALLY knows his shit, but because he's been bumped up to management, he doesn't do a lot of hands-on stuff on a day to day basis anymore. He handles the department budget, decides on projects going forward, all that kind of stuff.

The ICT coordinator is basically the escalation point for the ICT Officers. If there's something we can't do, we go to her and she either moves it up the chain or suggests something else.

Then finally there's me and two other blokes, who are the ICT officers. We're the ones doing the normal T1 and T2 support on a day to day basis - going out on site, taking service desk calls, following up on tickets, that sort of thing.

If I figured out how to make something 35% more efficient I'd just tell my boss to give me a raise if he wants me to do it, then I would do it in 2% increments.

How do I get a IT job? Degree better than certs?

What's to fucking manage with such a small IT group and such a small orginization?

Or he'll just fire you and find someone else who will actually do it, now that he knows that it can be done and you're just holding out on him.

certs are only good in the following scenarios:
Low level certs if you have no/little experience
Advanced certs if you have that exact experience

Degree is good to get past the HR goons.

The thing with writing scrips and stuff to automate your job:

They're not a replacement for you. You can't fire a sysadmin and replace him with a collection of scripts, they need tweaking and editing all the time.
It's like firing the shepherd and replacing him with a border collie.

Yeah he might but I'm not going to make anything better without getting paid more.

Well, it's tertiary education, so beyond all the staff, there are also a few thousand students.

But like at the moment we're doing a rollout of new tech, so all the staff are getting new laptops, ,iPhones, desk phones, the whole shebang. It needs to be done before the start of term, and it would take for fucking ever for one guy to get to each site and get everything sorted, because, again, Australia-sized states.

And even if at the end of the day everyone's like 'lmao you're not even needed at your job haha', I genuinely don't care, because my previous job was a 10-hours-a-week Domino's delivery driver, so this is a fucking godsend.

If you fartass around while pretending to do upgrades, you're essentially getting paid to shitpost, and that's almost as good.

I'd prefer getting paid to shitpost over getting fired, honestly, but your mileage may vary.

I would never ever work in a company were the boss (of the IT) is watching logs. Holy shit. This is so dumb.

Certs combined with experience are the best way to really break into the IT world without a degree.

Ideal career path:
>Get A+, start at geeksquad or some shit
>Get Net+, some Microsoft stuff, some linux certs, get on as a Jr. Sysadmin

or

>CCNA, try to get a networking job

From there on, it's good to pursue certs, but experience and learning will be more important.
You'll eventually want a degree if you want to break into the operations/management side of things.

>'lmao you're not even needed at your job haha
As long as that paycheck keeps getting deposited, I'll sit there and shitpost all day.

Geeksquad is a giant red flag, just start working as a desktop support contractor.

I know right? That's the security teams job.

I wouldn't know, for my first IT job I literally just got straight up hired by my high school after I graduated.

Yeah, but if I have the chance to be paid more I'd go for it.

Describe this first job.

That's pretty much it, hey. After three months of like $190/week from Domino's, the 2.5g for a fortnight's work was a fucking godsend.
> inb4 'wow only 2.5g lmao look at the poorfag haha goml'

That's no ones job, you shithead.
It's the ITs job to have a secured log server for possible legal cases, but no one should give a fuckin shit which websites you browse. People should just only have a point in their contract that they are responsible for what they browse on and shit like that.

I worked for the government for over 4 years in the IT and no one gave a shit about on what websites all those over 400 employees were browsing

It depends on the risk vs reward, I guess. If you know your boss is a hardass and is more likely to find someone more willing, I probably wouldn't attempt it. Cause then if you try to go for like wrongful dismissal they can just go "He said he could do the thing, we asked him to, he refused to do his job, so we went and found someone who would'

I used to SSH to my private server and shitpost from lynx.

You can also VPN-over-SSH but that's more conspicuous since it will draw greater bandwidth.

For the first two months or so, I shadowed the sysadmin around and helped him with stuff. Also helped the AV/Infrastructure guy too.

Once they saw that I was competent, they slowly gave me more responsibilities, up to basically purchasing for and executing projects.
I liked it a lot because I got a ton of experience in stuff, both in and out of IT. Servers, routers, switches, cabling, projector repair (lol), metal fabrication, light construction, etc.
Too bad it only paid $10/hr, ended up leaving for the military to do IT for them sweet bennies.

>60k

That's a solid check man, way more than I'm making in a military position.

Live CD / Linux or any OS will not save you if the packet/traffic monitoring is on the network hardware level. If you use VPN/Proxy they won't know where exactly you've been but they will still see traffic to those sites. Only way to do this is to get off the network completely via usb tethering.

It's a touch under $60k, something like 56 or so. Still not bad for a 22yo with no prior corporate experience or education. Plus the usual company phone, laptop, use of pool cars, the whole shebang. I really lucked out.

Ah the ultra rare IT assistant position. This was also my first job, paid $13 an hour, but after 6 months I got promoted to desktop support tech and was making 20 bucks an hour.

I make 92k 6 years later.

What kind of company, and how'd you get the job, if you don't mind me asking?

That's how old I'll be when my enlistment is up, and I'd really like to move into a position like that.

>I want to fuck off at work but my boss won't let me!
I hope you get fired

At most they black list sites that:
are known for malware
are known for drama (facebook, etc)
are known time wasters (ebay)

Yeah they didn't have anywhere to promote me to, so I had to move on.

That's a pretty hefty sum, what do you do now?

The only sites which were blocked at my old work were obviously porn and ebay (and maybe some really fucked up malware sites, dont even know that one though).
As long as peeps did their work everything was fine

Systems analyst

Booting to a liveCD will help you get around screen monitoring garbage.
Connecting to a VPN would only let them see that you're connecting to a VPN. It's not going to save you if someone actually looks at the logs regularly, but it will get around blocks.

Worried at my job that I am able to shit-post so much. We recently switched over to Microsoft's off-site Hosted O365/Exchange and there's just less shit to maintain.