"Ex Military Intelligence" Expects Internet Without Power

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    Font - r/talesfromtechsupport u/Shaggy1007 • 13h + Join "Ex Military Intelligence" Can't figure out why she doesn't have internet. Medium So, I'm not trained as an IT guy. I just apparently have a stronger computer background than most people at my place of employment. We got a new HR lady about 2 years ago. Our last guy moved on to bigger and better things. This woman comes in, and cannot go more than 4 sentences without naming something from the military or the Navy. Thats cool, you served. I
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    Font - Prime example, the security system guy shows up one day. Old POS windows XP machine runs everything. I let the guy in. He pokes around. The tech goes "Oh. The bios clock is wrong. Whats the time?" I say "2:30pm" HR lady: "It's 14:30" Tech and I blank stare HR: "Yup I was in the military" Fast forward to Christmas time. I finally am able to take a day off. Or so I think. About 7:00 am the phone rings. Wakes me up. It's one of our shop guys. Tells me the battery backups on the hypervisors a
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    Font - Awesome. I tell him thanks for the heads up. Let me know when power is restored. I'll log in and check on everything. While we're on the phone he tells me we lost all phases and now it's pitch black in the building. Great. About an hour goes by. My boss text's me: Boss: Hey! Who's in the network room? Me: Uh, I don't know. I took today off. You're the boss. Why don't you check it out? Boss: ..
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    Font - A couple minutes pass. Boss calls me laughing. Says he goes in the network room. There's HR standing there all condescending. There's an AT&T tech with a flash light on the fiber hub. Looks at HR. Looks at my boss. Says "Do you know why you don't have any fcking internet? Because you don't have any fcking power! God!" Yup. HR called AT&T because she couldn't get online. My boss told me she was sitting in a pitch black office huddled around the laptop. Complaining she couldn't connect to h
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    Font - I'm the emergency contact for the AT&T account. So whenever the connection goes down I get a call. Usually from some pleasant person out of India. Before I could drift off back to sleep, my phone rings. I answer. In a very thick accent the man asks me if l'm "Karen' I grin. Just say "Sure buddy." (I'm a dude) AT&T Rep: How was your service from your visit today Karen? Me: It was great buddy. Keep up the good work over there. No need to call back. Thankfully. She quit about 8 months later.
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    Font - emmjaybeeyoukay • 10h How did your HR staff and a 3rd party A&T engineer get into the Network Room without a member of the IT staff admitting them? G Reply 388 Shaggy1007 OP • 10h Ohhh she had a key! This place was/is a nightmare with security. It only took a few entitled engineers going in there to route patch panels to their projects and causing the whole network to come down...repeatedly....before they locked it 411 ...
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    Rectangle - they_are_out_there · 11h But... but... when the power it out at my house, I still have service on my rotary phone! What do you mean I need power for my phones at work? Phones are phones, just make my WiFi work, ugh! G Reply 4 295 3
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    Font - ObbyDrWan · 10h Do you know how you can tell if someone was NOT in Military Intelligence? They say they were in Military Intelligence. Nobody in that field says that they were. G Reply * 78 3 ...

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