Questions We Dread to Hear

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wintermute000

#15
August 18, 2018, 11:14:16 PM
Quote from: Nerm on August 18, 2018, 09:04:57 PM
When coming from a Jr member of the team: "All I did was enable the trunk port and immediately lost access to everything"

LOL or the variant
A: 'I just allowed another VLAN on the trunk port'......
B: 'did you use the keyword add'.....
A: 'what are you talking about'
B: 'its ok we've all done it before.... once....'

This is one of those things I have NO IDEA WHY CISCO HAS NOT FIXED IN 10+ YEARS

dlots

#16
August 20, 2018, 08:17:18 AM
Quote from: wintermute000 on August 18, 2018, 11:14:16 PM
Quote from: Nerm on August 18, 2018, 09:04:57 PM
When coming from a Jr member of the team: "All I did was enable the trunk port and immediately lost access to everything"

LOL or the variant
A: 'I just allowed another VLAN on the trunk port'......
B: 'did you use the keyword add'.....
A: 'what are you talking about'
B: 'its ok we've all done it before.... once....'

This is one of those things I have NO IDEA WHY CISCO HAS NOT FIXED IN 10+ YEARS

My favorate storry for that is we had a guy join the network team that had a computer tech background and didn't know networking at all and I was training him.  He knew the basic commands we used to fix stuff, but he didn't understand what they did: so he knew we used "show cdp neighbor", "switchport trunk allowed vlan [ had to be reminded about add alot]  #", "show spanning tree vlan #", etc, but whould say the command while looking at me to see if it was the right one for the issue we were working on.  This wasn't going to make him useful in the long run.  The job had LOTS of construction going on at all times, at that particular time there was a closet that was totally unused due to construction.  I had someone put in a ticket to move a port to another VLAN that wasn't on the switch.  Long story short I let him take down the closet.  His look of panic was great, in about 2 min I told him that the closet wasn't used, but that panic was the best teacher the he could ever have.  He learned what each command did, and eventally left for a job that didn't pay shit.

deanwebb

#17
August 20, 2018, 10:45:15 AM
Yeah, if he was a learner, that panic would have taught him all he needed to know to survive with the big kids.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

config t

#18
September 13, 2018, 04:08:05 AM
"Do you know anything about printers?"
:matrix:

Please don't mistake my experience for intelligence.

SimonV

#19
September 13, 2018, 04:30:27 AM
"you're good with computers, right?"

wintermute000

#20
September 13, 2018, 04:49:01 AM
Quote from: config t on September 13, 2018, 04:08:05 AM
"Do you know anything about printers?"

WINNER <i'm getting PTSD flashbacks already>

LynK

#21
September 13, 2018, 07:50:51 AM
"can you help me with my iphone?"
Sys Admin: "You have a stuck route"
            Me: "You have an incorrect Default Gateway"

deanwebb

#22
September 13, 2018, 09:33:52 AM
^^^ All of the above are making my head spin.

As for printers...

:printer:
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

mmcgurty

#23
September 14, 2018, 10:21:55 AM
"Are you available to work this Sunday's outage?"  Eye twitching!

deanwebb

#24
September 14, 2018, 05:06:16 PM
"I know you don't work in (X) anymore, but can you help the new guy with some questions?"

:curly:
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Dieselboy

#25
September 19, 2018, 09:42:38 PM
In my org "can you help [name here] with [some new thing]". Normally means "can you figure all this stuff out and explain it to [name here]"

config t

#26
September 19, 2018, 11:37:36 PM
Quote from: Dieselboy on September 19, 2018, 09:42:38 PM
In my org "can you help [name here] with [some new thing]". Normally means "can you figure all this stuff out and explain it to [name here]"

Thanks for the flashbacks. I had a job once where my desk was closest to the door in the network control center. Higher ups (or any of his buddies) would often circumvent the helpdesk by calling or emailing the boss about whatever stupid thing they were having a problem with, so he would come over to the office, and guess who was the first person he saw when he walked in the door?
:matrix:

Please don't mistake my experience for intelligence.

deanwebb

#27
September 20, 2018, 08:35:17 AM
Cube/desk placement is critical. You want all the L1/L2 guys near doors and main corridors between cubes. They serve as blockers and early warning alarms for the L3/engineers/architects sitting deeper in the cube farm layout.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

config t

#28
September 20, 2018, 08:04:23 PM
He had to walk past the service desk to get to our office. Nothing stops a man hungry for promotion and willing to kiss some booty.
:matrix:

Please don't mistake my experience for intelligence.

deanwebb

#29
September 20, 2018, 09:06:32 PM
"The last admin we had wasn't very good..."
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.
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